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jschen
02-23-06, 11:24 AM
Siu Blue Wind, well aware of that, but thanks for checking. :)

jyossarian
02-23-06, 11:27 AM
JSC, if you go the salvage route, I could use the side view mirrors (both of them), since mine are being held on by duct tape right now. Damn Ford for not making them w/ hinges so I can swing them out of the way of overzealous garbage truck drivers with poor spatial abilities!
jschen
02-23-06, 11:28 AM
My coworker wants to make the airport run at 4 PM, so I have to plan to finish at 3:30 since lab work isn't always very predictable. Only 5 hours to go, including a lunch break. :)

Siu Blue Wind
02-23-06, 11:29 AM
Sorry if it seems as if I'm into your business, I'm just trying to help out, okay? :o
TexasGuy
02-23-06, 11:31 AM
I saw DJ Tiesto on one of your windows. He's usually pretty good. If that's the Gay Station, it might be trance or ambient that's playing now.
Tiesto was on the Dance channel, but yeah this is trancish / ambient. It's actually got more listenable music then the Dance station. I'm actually a bit surpised. And Yeah Tiesto usually has some decent stuff though I prefer other artists. I have a friend who is a big, big Tiesto fan. He probably has some 13gb of his stuff :roflmao:
jschen
02-23-06, 11:34 AM
jyossarian, if I end up trying to salvage parts, the mirrors are yours. (They're power mirrors, but if you don't have power mirrors, I suppose you could just not hook up the motors to anything.) I don't think it's likely, though, as I have nowhere to deal with the car as I strip it for parts. If the car were in the Los Angeles area, I'd probably consider it.
jschen
02-23-06, 11:36 AM
Sorry if it seems as if I'm into your business, I'm just trying to help out, okay? :o
I really do appreciate it. Just being terse since I'm trying to get work done at the same time.
jschen
02-23-06, 11:47 AM
We wine and dine (okay, beer/margarita and fajita) them on Thursday night (grad students only), wine (usually pretty good wine, at that) and dine them on Friday night (grad students, post-docs, and faculty present), and hold a party (kegs and all) for them Saturday night (grad students only). All paid for by the graduate program in hopes of atttracting the prospective students.
By the way, this is typical of top schools, though usually not quite as drawn out an affair as at Scripps. So peregrine, when it comes time to apply, make sure to apply to a decent list of schools so that you can fly around the country and party at their expense. ;) It's not unusual for people to apply to perhaps a dozen places and visit perhaps half a dozen of them in this fashion.
TexasGuy
02-23-06, 12:07 PM
heh. wish i was smart enough to get into college and do that.

I'm stuck between going from my virtual pc and browsing or responding to IMS cause every time the virutal pc loses focus it loses cpu affiniity and takes forever to do anything and usually updates or installations will fail because of this. :(
jschen
02-23-06, 12:18 PM
You can turn VPC's willingness to hog processor cycles up if you need it to keep operating well in the background. (You may have already done so.) On VPC for Mac, I have the background CPU usage turned all the way up. Doesn't matter when the virtual machine is sitting idle, and I've successfully run installations and updates with VPC running in the background this way.

Just come visit on a Friday/Saturday some future recruiting season when I'm still in grad school. I can sneak you in, and no one would know the difference since there's plenty of people who choose to not talk about science at these gatherings.
TexasGuy
02-23-06, 12:22 PM
Ohhhhhhhhhh
welll bugger me
I had gone looking for those options but i was thinking it would be a per PC setting. I didnt even think of looking inthe options options thing. I wonder if that setting has always been there and I just noticed it now or if its new to VPC 2004.


Sweeet. it works.
man I wish i would have known about this earlier
EJ123
02-23-06, 12:27 PM
I got back from a half day at school 30 minutes ago:D

Whew earlier today was bad.. i left one of the two chemistry sheets for homework at home and a spanish sheet we needed also. Oh well Im going to Arlington today so im in the process of getting ready:P
Siu Blue Wind
02-23-06, 12:28 PM
EJ? (in a big sister tone of voice) Why aren't you reading? Hmmmmmm?
jschen
02-23-06, 12:34 PM
Ohhhhhhhhhh
welll bugger me
I had gone looking for those options but i was thinking it would be a per PC setting. I didnt even think of looking inthe options options thing. I wonder if that setting has always been there and I just noticed it now or if its new to VPC 2004.


Sweeet. it works.
man I wish i would have known about this earlier
It has been there in some form ever since I first ran across a beta version of VPC 1.0 for Mac back in 1995 or so. The controls are a bit finer-grained now, but work essentially the same way. I assume with VPC for Windows being a much later product, it's always been there in the Windows versions, too.

EJ? (big brother tone of voice) Listen to Siu. Go read! :p
ChAnMaN
02-23-06, 12:38 PM
Im in english class right now..... The teacher is looking at me as a i type this. she thinks im doing my vocab :)
EJ123
02-23-06, 12:38 PM
lol its hard reading 3 chapters, when I wake up extra early:D
EJ123
02-23-06, 12:39 PM
Im in english class right now..... The teacher is looking at me as a i type this. she thinks im doing my vocab :)

Do yall get laptops there?
Siu Blue Wind
02-23-06, 12:40 PM
Im in english class right now..... The teacher is looking at me as a i type this. she thinks im doing my vocab :)


Smile and wave to her.

Ask her what it means to be MERTON-ized. Wouldn't that be funny if she knew who Merton was? :D
TexasGuy
02-23-06, 12:41 PM
It has been there in some form ever since I first ran across a beta version of VPC 1.0 for Mac back in 1995 or so. The controls are a bit finer-grained now, but work essentially the same way. I assume with VPC for Windows being a much later product, it's always been there in the Windows versions, too.

EJ? (big brother tone of voice) Listen to Siu. Go read! :p
stop trying to make me look bad :( :p
ChAnMaN
02-23-06, 12:44 PM
Smile and wave to her.

Ask her what it means to be MERTON-ized. Wouldn't that be funny if she knew who Merton was? :D

Actualy that would be scary. Wouldnt if be funnyer (well im in english class so i should say more funny) if she was MERTON?

gosh bikeforums is seriously responsable for my C in english right now.
jschen
02-23-06, 12:47 PM
Hey, at least you're smart and running VPC on a PC. I'm stuck running it on a Mac. Need to translate Intel code to PPC code, and with the PPC G5 only running in big endian mode, it's quite a translation. (Previous PPC chips could be forced into little endian mode, which made the translation a bit smoother.) And we don't get graphics card support, so my processor also has to emulate the graphics card on the side.

Once there's a decent virtual PC program (VPC or otherwise) proven to work in a stable fashion on the new Intel Macs and certain key programs like MS Office are redone to run natively on the Intel Macs, I'll probably be making the switch to an Intel Mac. With a much smaller emulation penalty, I could then run MacOS, Windows, and anything else I desire side by side with all operating systems running at essentially native speed.
TexasGuy
02-23-06, 12:48 PM
I remember there was a big bugabo when the G5 chip came out about how VPC wouldn't run on it. Did they finally come out with a version that does run on it then?
jschen
02-23-06, 12:56 PM
VPC 6 wouldn't run on the G5 because of the endian issue. (Aside from not being able to be forced into little endian mode, a G5 can run any G4 code. Since the G5 is a fully 64-bit processor, the converse is not true.) VPC 7 works fine. It came out a few months after the G5 computers. The other main stated feature goal for VPC 7, native graphics card support, didn't make the cut, though. :( Thanks to the G5's much enhanced capabilities, it runs VPC quite a bit faster than a G4 does despite having to deal with the endian issue. Thanks to its very high power usage, it also meant a lack of meaningful performance evolution for Apple laptops in the last two years, which is why I'm lugging around an iMac G5 instead of a PowerBook.
Siu Blue Wind
02-23-06, 12:58 PM
Actualy that would be scary. Wouldnt if be funnyer (well im in english class so i should say more funny) if she was MERTON?

gosh bikeforums is seriously responsable for my C in english right now.


Sooooo... is it good because we have increased your writing skills or bad because you're on BF now and not doing your work?

Dude. You made heck of mistakes on your last post! :p So I guess it's the bad one, huh? :D
BeeTL
02-23-06, 01:00 PM
By the way, this is typical of top schools, though usually not quite as drawn out an affair as at Scripps. [...]
Scripps is building a research facility in South Florida. Will you have anything to do with that?
TexasGuy
02-23-06, 01:08 PM
Sooooo... is it good because we have increased your writing skills or bad because you're on BF now and not doing your work?

Dude. You made heck of mistakes on your last post! :p So I guess it's the bad one, huh? :D
:roflmao: yeah i was going to point out some of the mistakes in his post, but I thought better.
jschen
02-23-06, 01:10 PM
Scripps is building a research facility in South Florida. Will you have anything to do with that?
Yup, we're very excited about that ongoing expansion. My work won't have me doing anything with that site, except perhaps as a long-distance TA if my professor ever has me be a TA again. (With so little teaching at our institute, I doubt it since other people need the chance to get some teaching experience in, too.)
ChAnMaN
02-23-06, 01:17 PM
Sooooo... is it good because we have increased your writing skills or bad because you're on BF now and not doing your work?

Dude. You made heck of mistakes on your last post! :p So I guess it's the bad one, huh? :D


bad..trust me bf has not helped my grammer skills, as you can very well see.

anyway class is over in about 3 minutes, off to shop class!
jschen
02-23-06, 01:40 PM
Finishing up lunch.

An internal e-mail from the company I consult for that came in a little while ago: "Because of the short month we are postponing ice cream until next week. We'll be back on track to the end of the month in March." They have monthly ice cream now? Man, I'm working in the wrong place. Lunch on Friday. Wednesday night is movie night (with food) for those who have nothing better to do. Accomplishments are routinely celebrated with champagne. Except recently, milestones related to closing a major deal were celebrated with a bunch of scotch.

I sometimes think I should try to bill them for some champagne and scotch when they hold those celebrations. Why should I be left out just because I'm on the wrong coast? Of course, the CEO would probably just reiterate his suggestion that I quit school and work with them. Not a great long-term move for me, though, seeing as I'm not exactly hoping to spend my career in the software industry.
ChAnMaN
02-23-06, 02:12 PM
well im just finishing up shop class now....off to precal
TexasGuy
02-23-06, 02:18 PM
Finishing up lunch.

An internal e-mail from the company I consult for that came in a little while ago: "Because of the short month we are postponing ice cream until next week. We'll be back on track to the end of the month in March." They have monthly ice cream now? Man, I'm working in the wrong place. Lunch on Friday. Wednesday night is movie night (with food) for those who have nothing better to do. Accomplishments are routinely celebrated with champagne. Except recently, milestones related to closing a major deal were celebrated with a bunch of scotch.

I sometimes think I should try to bill them for some champagne and scotch when they hold those celebrations. Why should I be left out just because I'm on the wrong coast? Of course, the CEO would probably just reiterate his suggestion that I quit school and work with them. Not a great long-term move for me, though, seeing as I'm not exactly hoping to spend my career in the software industry.
Yeah, I've been doing this for too long.

If i had the money I'd go to college or if I could i think i'd try to get into something related to construction. I thought about becoming a personal trainer but that seems to be one of those things where one really needs a good mentor.
jyossarian
02-23-06, 02:32 PM
well im just finishing up shop class now....off to precal
they got computers in shop class now? are they cad/cam computers?
peregrine
02-23-06, 02:37 PM
What I'm doing right now is wondering why did I come to work so early since there's hardly anything to do lab-wise, when all I wonted to do this morning was sleep some more :rolleyes: I'm also wondering just how behind am I as regards to computers since I don't understand half of what jschen and TexasGuy are posting about :(
jschen
02-23-06, 03:21 PM
So why not just run off to the library to "read" and nap a bit?


I'm also wondering just how behind am I as regards to computers since I don't understand half of what jschen and TexasGuy are posting about :(

Don't worry... we were just discussing esoteric details of certain Intel and PowerPC processors. Intel chips use "little endian" bit ordering, meaning that the least significant bits (0's and 1's) come first. PowerPC chips by default use "big endian" bit ordering, meaning that the most significant bits come first. However, most PowerPC chips (aside from the PowerPC 950, aka the G5) can be forced to run in little endian mode when it's convenient to do so. One of the few times it's actually useful to do so is when trying to emulate an Intel PC since running in little endian mode (the mode Intel chips run in) means not having to swap the order of bits over and over and over in translation back and forth between the Intel and PowerPC bit ordering.

Yes, I am a geek. :p What did you expect?
jschen
02-23-06, 04:11 PM
Taking a short break and enjoying a soda. I have about 10 minutes' worth of lab work left to do, and 50 minutes to do it. Then the oh so hard work of entertaining prospective graduate students starts. :)
peregrine
02-23-06, 04:24 PM
..Don't worry... we were just discussing esoteric details of certain Intel and PowerPC processors. Intel chips use "little endian" bit ordering, meaning that the least significant bits (0's and 1's) come first. PowerPC chips by default use "big endian" bit ordering, meaning that the most significant bits come first. However, most PowerPC chips (aside from the PowerPC 950, aka the G5) can be forced to run in little endian mode when it's convenient to do so. One of the few times it's actually useful to do so is when trying to emulate an Intel PC since running in little endian mode (the mode Intel chips run in) means not having to swap the order of bits over and over and over in translation back and forth between the Intel and PowerPC bit ordering.

Yes, I am a geek. :p What did you expect?

What do you mean when you say that the least / or most significant bits come first? ... ...God, I'm almost convinced that I'm more ******** than I thought I was :eek:
jschen
02-23-06, 04:38 PM
A correction first: It's an arrangement of bytes (8 bits), not bits, that varies in the two systems.

Consider an example in base 10 computing instead of base 256 (an 8-bit byte) (just to make it easier to relate to the day-to-day). We in our daily language use big endian mode. 325 means 3*10^2 + 2*10 + 5. However, that's simply a matter of convention. We could just as easily (with some training) go around representing numbers in little endian mode, where the same number would be written 523, ie 5 + 2*10 + 3*10^2. You can readily see that two people discussing the same math problem, but one speaking in one mode and another speaking in another mode, would spend quite a bit of time needlessly translating back and forth if they can't manage to agree on one mode or the other.
EJ123
02-23-06, 04:41 PM
hey jschen do you think you might ever become a chemistry teacher or math one?
jyossarian
02-23-06, 04:51 PM
Back on topic, I'm doing a crossword puzzle. What's an 8 letter word for plastic? _ _ _ _L I T _
jschen
02-23-06, 04:55 PM
Finished with labwork for the day.

EJ123, I don't know. I can imagine becoming a chemistry professor. (Probably not a math teacher, though I'd be capable of becoming a math teacher at a pre-college level.) I'm also considering some other career possibilities that at this point I'm not going to divulge.
jyossarian
02-23-06, 05:14 PM
L O P - V A _ _ _ dog. What's the last 3 letters?
BeeTL
02-23-06, 05:17 PM
Back on topic, I'm doing a crossword puzzle. What's an 8 letter word for plastic? _ _ _ _L I T _
Bakelite.
jyossarian
02-23-06, 05:22 PM
Thanks Beetl!
sunninho
02-23-06, 05:38 PM
Hmmm, what's this thread about? :rolleyes:
ChAnMaN
02-23-06, 05:47 PM
they got computers in shop class now? are they cad/cam computers?


The class rooms in the Ag facility all have computers. When we arent in the shop we have to do projects and powerpoints, record books ect.
peregrine
02-23-06, 06:12 PM
A correction first: It's an arrangement of bytes (8 bits), not bits, that varies in the two systems.

Consider an example in base 10 computing instead of base 256 (an 8-bit byte) (just to make it easier to relate to the day-to-day). We in our daily language use big endian mode. 325 means 3*10^2 + 2*10 + 5. However, that's simply a matter of convention. We could just as easily (with some training) go around representing numbers in little endian mode, where the same number would be written 523, ie 5 + 2*10 + 3*10^2. You can readily see that two people discussing the same math problem, but one speaking in one mode and another speaking in another mode, would spend quite a bit of time needlessly translating back and forth if they can't manage to agree on one mode or the other.

Ok, that makes sense. Thanks, jschen :)


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I just got the sweetest thing in the mail today from my sister... .... aw God, I miss that kid so much :(
Taerom
02-23-06, 06:27 PM
I just finished my computer science homework project. It actually was a lot simpler that I thought it was going to be. After I finished it and left the lab, the Mission Impossible 2 theme song started playing on my mp3 player. Haha, I walked around campus feeling like I was on top of the world! Now, I'm drinkin' a Dew and surfin' bikeforums. What a night, Booyah!
hi565
02-23-06, 06:29 PM
mmmm pizza...
EJ123
02-23-06, 06:51 PM
its not delivery
jyossarian
02-23-06, 07:16 PM
Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie - 2 for $6! Yeah boyeeee!