It is still mandatory for EE students, 2nd year we did the basics, 3rd year we did the in depth analysis and got to implement similar stuff on a Spartan 3e, and 4th year we had an optional subject where the major project was implementing an entire microprocessor on a Spartan 3e i am still trying to catch up on my sleep from that one! And i know that a few of my mates from other universities like UNSW and USyd also did similar stuff in there EE and Mechatronics Courses.
My sister does this actually, she has recorded her last 4 albums in small studios, and then sells her music through itunes and at live gigs, she isn't rich but she actually makes a decent living. After factoring in the cost of printing the cd's and recording plus putting money asside for her next recording she ends up with about $16AU pure profit left over from the cd sales. Which isn't bad at all seeming she does about 2 - 3 gigs a week and will ussually sell about 20 - 40 cd's at each gig ontop of the door fee. I am envious of her actually even though she earns much less than me she gets to spend her weeks chilling out with diffrent people writing music and playing in there gigs for fun etc.
Also on the note of impedance matching, most modern amplifiers have extremly low output impedances (less than 0.1 Ohms) Where as a normal household speaker might be 8 Ohm, becuase there is such a large difference you dont get voltage reflections etc, only old tube amps which had higher output impedances required parts to be impedance matched.
With Audiophiles there really are two groups, one group is the people with too much money who will buy whatever they think is best, and the other group that are just music lovers. Most people seem to lump them all into one group but that is really unfair, i would classify myself as an Audiophile i can play, Clarinet, Alto Sax, Piano and Guitar all reasonably well and have since i was a young kid, but i wouldn't go out and spend a ridiculous amount of money on useless equipment. Another example i went along to my sisters recording night and the guy that ran the studio one of her best friends was defiantly a real audiophile he was able to pickup the slightest timing errors just using his ears that i defiantly would have missed! So don't mix up the people with too much money and the people who just love music and understand the difference because not all Audiophiles deserve the bad wrap they seem to get.
I remember my favourite lecturer was my Physics Lecture he looked like the Doc from back to the future, and we would all come in and to quite us down he would play a Pink Floyd or Metallica video clip full volume on the projector. He would then do the whole class on the black board with heaps of cool demonstrations (such as blowing up a bin with liquid nitrogen to show the expansion of gases or making a ball bearing gun to show inertia). And at the end he would have a 15 minute open discussion and just fire off questions into the audience. This is probably one of the few classes where i can remember almost all the lectures clearly all these years later!
Yes but many of the early developments (50's/60's) where done by the mathematician that grew up during WWII, Boomers happened to be there just as the first wave of technology started to pick up, generation X happened to be there for the next wave (late 80's) networking etc.
I am from neither of these generations but looking at the history people from all demographics helped solve these problems, starting from the code breakers etc from WWII up to the first transistor technology and development of personal computing. Crediting the PC to one generation is a bit pig headed in my opinion.
Wrong country was middle of the night here. Secondly dicking around is fine but it has to be put in perspective, like sometimes i will go visit a site even when i dont need to just so i can chat to the operators etc and see how they feel about the upgrade im doing. In the process they might warn me or give me a hint on what to watch out for, after all they are their all day and have the practical experience.
A good example of dicking around was when i was 17 i worked in a shop that did small onsite work for Buisnesses, and boy could those guys dick around (not that i complained at the time) probably the biggest thing they dicked around with was not informing clients of what is happening becuase they were only dealing with small repairs quite often i would see guys cover up stuffups etc.
I am not an IT person but an electrical engineer and all I can say is why would you care about beanbags and pinball machines? It is more about the attitude of the people you are working with as well as the company. I would rather work hard, enjoy my work and come off with some sense of achievement than dick around all day.
Who upgrades just their processor anymore anyways, most of the time its just not worth it. Ussually easier to just upgrade everything at once. If your going to be running a bleeding edge processor why would you want to run it with an old video card and only 1 gig of ram that probably isn't the right speed for it.
You make some good points just though i would point out a few mistakes. Light is still an electromagnetic wave just like your 50 or 60Hz power system as such it still suffers from:
2) Resistance: fiber has none
Fiber has resistance
3) Skin effect: fiber has none
If you make the cable thin enough it would in fact have a skin effect, although cables we currently use don't suffer from this.
4) Capacitance: fiber has none
7) Inductance: fiber has none
Have you heard of refractive index
The main difference is that the bandwidth that is available in a fiber optic cable can easily carry the information in a 1080p signal, so it wont reach its limit and suffer from ISI or other problems.
Ok, wasn't sure how it operated in Canada exactly i spose i was assuming it operates similar to in Australia, which is a fully deregulated market that runs on the 5 minute spot price per area.
Im pretty sure canada uses spot pricing for electricity, so the generators sell their electricity into the grid, at a spot price with available loads updated every 5 mins. Then power retails buy up the power etc think of it like a big stockmarket.
Im with an Australian ISP that states everything upfront, works pretty well. They say that they may throttle you to 50% if you are over 32gb and in the top leechers. And the throttling is only between 12am-12pm.
They state it in big letters when i signed up, which funnily enough makes me trust them more as a company. they did a similar thing with their mobile plans etc.
I don't know the stats for Australian universities but, in high school english for our final years the students don't study grammar but instead how to analyse film, book and newspapers. So while it means allot of Australians have only average grammar it would certainly benefit critical thinking.
I know a whole pile from the mid ninties used the motorola 68HC11 chips from memory they operate at about 14.1 Mhz with an 8 bit bus. I have one sitting on my desk at the moment actually =p
One of the things you need to remember when naming a product is consumers remember the brandname better if the product name is not affiliated with what the product does. So for instance if you had a spray and called it "superclean" or soemthing similar when people think of it they think of not just your product but all the brands. Where as if it was called "Jiffy" then when someone mentions that name people immediatly associate with your product.
What is silly is that often all that is needed is a simple piece of circuitry which detects when the electric company sends the 1050Hz signal down the line to activate your offpeak meters becuase they are often not always at the same time e.g. not always 3am etc.
I watched cartoons untill i was about 10, got a computer and have never watched tv since, thought im only 20 now so much easier to ditch tv when it can be replaced by something more interactive.
Seeming they were the only company to not loose money on there consoles from the previous generation and sold very well in europe and japan, as well as owning a large proportion of the game sales rather than 3rd party vendors, i wouldn't be suprised if they made more money on the consoles than sony or ms.
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Although it would store 50% less energy it would only take a fraction of the time to charge.
It is still mandatory for EE students, 2nd year we did the basics, 3rd year we did the in depth analysis and got to implement similar stuff on a Spartan 3e, and 4th year we had an optional subject where the major project was implementing an entire microprocessor on a Spartan 3e i am still trying to catch up on my sleep from that one! And i know that a few of my mates from other universities like UNSW and USyd also did similar stuff in there EE and Mechatronics Courses.
He was SAS, so when they say he died "on patrol" that isn't what he was actually doing...
My sister does this actually, she has recorded her last 4 albums in small studios, and then sells her music through itunes and at live gigs, she isn't rich but she actually makes a decent living. After factoring in the cost of printing the cd's and recording plus putting money asside for her next recording she ends up with about $16AU pure profit left over from the cd sales. Which isn't bad at all seeming she does about 2 - 3 gigs a week and will ussually sell about 20 - 40 cd's at each gig ontop of the door fee. I am envious of her actually even though she earns much less than me she gets to spend her weeks chilling out with diffrent people writing music and playing in there gigs for fun etc.
Also on the note of impedance matching, most modern amplifiers have extremly low output impedances (less than 0.1 Ohms) Where as a normal household speaker might be 8 Ohm, becuase there is such a large difference you dont get voltage reflections etc, only old tube amps which had higher output impedances required parts to be impedance matched.
With Audiophiles there really are two groups, one group is the people with too much money who will buy whatever they think is best, and the other group that are just music lovers. Most people seem to lump them all into one group but that is really unfair, i would classify myself as an Audiophile i can play, Clarinet, Alto Sax, Piano and Guitar all reasonably well and have since i was a young kid, but i wouldn't go out and spend a ridiculous amount of money on useless equipment. Another example i went along to my sisters recording night and the guy that ran the studio one of her best friends was defiantly a real audiophile he was able to pickup the slightest timing errors just using his ears that i defiantly would have missed! So don't mix up the people with too much money and the people who just love music and understand the difference because not all Audiophiles deserve the bad wrap they seem to get.
I remember my favourite lecturer was my Physics Lecture he looked like the Doc from back to the future, and we would all come in and to quite us down he would play a Pink Floyd or Metallica video clip full volume on the projector. He would then do the whole class on the black board with heaps of cool demonstrations (such as blowing up a bin with liquid nitrogen to show the expansion of gases or making a ball bearing gun to show inertia). And at the end he would have a 15 minute open discussion and just fire off questions into the audience. This is probably one of the few classes where i can remember almost all the lectures clearly all these years later!
Yes but many of the early developments (50's/60's) where done by the mathematician that grew up during WWII, Boomers happened to be there just as the first wave of technology started to pick up, generation X happened to be there for the next wave (late 80's) networking etc. I am from neither of these generations but looking at the history people from all demographics helped solve these problems, starting from the code breakers etc from WWII up to the first transistor technology and development of personal computing. Crediting the PC to one generation is a bit pig headed in my opinion.
Wrong country was middle of the night here. Secondly dicking around is fine but it has to be put in perspective, like sometimes i will go visit a site even when i dont need to just so i can chat to the operators etc and see how they feel about the upgrade im doing. In the process they might warn me or give me a hint on what to watch out for, after all they are their all day and have the practical experience. A good example of dicking around was when i was 17 i worked in a shop that did small onsite work for Buisnesses, and boy could those guys dick around (not that i complained at the time) probably the biggest thing they dicked around with was not informing clients of what is happening becuase they were only dealing with small repairs quite often i would see guys cover up stuffups etc.
I am not an IT person but an electrical engineer and all I can say is why would you care about beanbags and pinball machines? It is more about the attitude of the people you are working with as well as the company. I would rather work hard, enjoy my work and come off with some sense of achievement than dick around all day.
Who upgrades just their processor anymore anyways, most of the time its just not worth it. Ussually easier to just upgrade everything at once. If your going to be running a bleeding edge processor why would you want to run it with an old video card and only 1 gig of ram that probably isn't the right speed for it.
Besides without modern computers how would i compile my latex document every 20 seconds out of paranoia :p
You make some good points just though i would point out a few mistakes. Light is still an electromagnetic wave just like your 50 or 60Hz power system as such it still suffers from: 2) Resistance: fiber has none Fiber has resistance 3) Skin effect: fiber has none If you make the cable thin enough it would in fact have a skin effect, although cables we currently use don't suffer from this. 4) Capacitance: fiber has none 7) Inductance: fiber has none Have you heard of refractive index The main difference is that the bandwidth that is available in a fiber optic cable can easily carry the information in a 1080p signal, so it wont reach its limit and suffer from ISI or other problems.
Ok, wasn't sure how it operated in Canada exactly i spose i was assuming it operates similar to in Australia, which is a fully deregulated market that runs on the 5 minute spot price per area.
Im pretty sure canada uses spot pricing for electricity, so the generators sell their electricity into the grid, at a spot price with available loads updated every 5 mins. Then power retails buy up the power etc think of it like a big stockmarket.
Did anyone read Western hemisphere and think WTF?
Im with an Australian ISP that states everything upfront, works pretty well. They say that they may throttle you to 50% if you are over 32gb and in the top leechers. And the throttling is only between 12am-12pm. They state it in big letters when i signed up, which funnily enough makes me trust them more as a company. they did a similar thing with their mobile plans etc.
I don't know the stats for Australian universities but, in high school english for our final years the students don't study grammar but instead how to analyse film, book and newspapers. So while it means allot of Australians have only average grammar it would certainly benefit critical thinking.
I know a whole pile from the mid ninties used the motorola 68HC11 chips from memory they operate at about 14.1 Mhz with an 8 bit bus. I have one sitting on my desk at the moment actually =p
Excuse me does this smell like chloroform?
They haxored my laptop while it was turned off with the battery removed in my backpack!!!11one
One of the things you need to remember when naming a product is consumers remember the brandname better if the product name is not affiliated with what the product does. So for instance if you had a spray and called it "superclean" or soemthing similar when people think of it they think of not just your product but all the brands. Where as if it was called "Jiffy" then when someone mentions that name people immediatly associate with your product.
What is silly is that often all that is needed is a simple piece of circuitry which detects when the electric company sends the 1050Hz signal down the line to activate your offpeak meters becuase they are often not always at the same time e.g. not always 3am etc.
I watched cartoons untill i was about 10, got a computer and have never watched tv since, thought im only 20 now so much easier to ditch tv when it can be replaced by something more interactive.
Seeming they were the only company to not loose money on there consoles from the previous generation and sold very well in europe and japan, as well as owning a large proportion of the game sales rather than 3rd party vendors, i wouldn't be suprised if they made more money on the consoles than sony or ms.