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[Adam Lofton]

I live in a van and play bass guitar

I almost woke the neighbors with my laughter. Well played indeed.

Is that your mating call, that those ugly triplets know to come over?

You mean the ones you asked for more and more pictures of on AIM? 

It was like a car crash, I couldn't look away.

Was that before or after you tried to start cybering me? 

[Joseph Davis]

I live in a van and play bass guitar

I almost woke the neighbors with my laughter. Well played indeed.

Is that your mating call, that those ugly triplets know to come over?

You mean the ones you asked for more and more pictures of on AIM? 

It was like a car crash, I couldn't look away.

Was that before or after you tried to start cybering me? 

You're black.  By now you should be used to everyone wanting to fuck you in private, then treating you like a second class citizen in public.

[97Econobox]

I paid money for a 2 year degree to be a damn PC monkey.  I do shit in AD and with the whole Microsoft SMS suite, i get to watch folks who went to work right out of HS at the Shipyard here make like 10K more a year than me.  Its awesome.

Im surrounded by military so if i don't have either sec clearance, or prior Military experience then i lose.  Hard to move out of entry level here unless you got a couple grand to dump into certs all at once.  Pains me that i have to waste money on Sec+ and shit to get my foot in.  such is life.

[enikolayev]

BS in CE in progress at CSUS. Expected Spring '11

EIT certified 2 yrs into the program 

[Feona]

LOL I have a Bachelors in Business from UW. Now I'm a Radiological Control Tech at a nuke plant. So far, that pretty degree has been worthless. I kinda figured it would be, even as I was getting it. But I got lucky with this job, so I shouldn't complain. I shouldn't...but I will anyways.

I'm not ENTIRELY sure that any college degree is all that useful. I donno.

[Robb]

LOL I have a Bachelors in Business from UW. Now I'm a Radiological Control Tech at a nuke plant. So far, that pretty degree has been worthless. I kinda figured it would be, even as I was getting it. But I got lucky with this job, so I shouldn't complain. I shouldn't...but I will anyways.

I'm not ENTIRELY sure that any college degree is all that useful. I donno.

Like I said in the other thread, your a dude.  Prove me wrong. 

[DmC]

I'm gonna go back to school next year I'm thinking about electrical engineering. My only real goal is to be smarter than Dave a Joseph put together though.

[DmC]

I'm gonna go back to school next year I'm thinking about electrical engineering. My only real goal is to be smarter than Dave a Joseph put together though.

Oh yeah and nail the chick that Feona dude is pretending to be.

[Feona]

I'm gonna go back to school next year I'm thinking about electrical engineering. My only real goal is to be smarter than Dave a Joseph put together though.

Oh yeah and nail the chick that Feona dude is pretending to be.

LOL.

[Joseph Davis]

LOL I have a Bachelors in Business from UW. Now I'm a Radiological Control Tech at a nuke plant. So far, that pretty degree has been worthless. I kinda figured it would be, even as I was getting it. But I got lucky with this job, so I shouldn't complain. I shouldn't...but I will anyways.

I'm not ENTIRELY sure that any college degree is all that useful. I donno.

Like I said in the other thread, your a dude.  Prove me wrong. 

Uh, that's a Liberal Arts graduate's opinion that Feona expressed, Rob.  If Feona is a dude then he smokes more pole than rawr and Yuriy put together.

[Adam Lofton]

LOL I have a Bachelors in Business from UW. Now I'm a Radiological Control Tech at a nuke plant. So far, that pretty degree has been worthless. I kinda figured it would be, even as I was getting it. But I got lucky with this job, so I shouldn't complain. I shouldn't...but I will anyways.

I'm not ENTIRELY sure that any college degree is all that useful. I donno.

Like I said in the other thread, your a dude.  Prove me wrong. 

Uh, that's a Liberal Arts graduate's opinion that Feona expressed, Rob.  If Feona is a dude then he smokes more pole than rawr and Yuriy put together.

I don't think Feona is a dude, there are valid points there. I have a "degree" to diagnose, service, repair, and modify motorcycles watercraft and ATV's. I currently work from home under-cutting dealership labor rates, am behind on rent, and have an EBT card in my wallet. (Thanks Johnny!  )

[bense]

I'm an ME major as well, graduate in May. I hated my stats class too more than anything.

edit: Statics? That shit is easy. You better make sure you understand it, because almost every other course you take will build upon it.

Wait for Johnny to chime in and call you a liberal faggot for going to college.

why is it that every senior in ME thinks statics is statistics? 

After getting my mind raped by Beer & Johnston's Vector Mechanics for Engineers : Statics and Dynamics 8th edition, I will never, ever mistake those words.   

[WPPF]

LOL I have a Bachelors in Business from UW. Now I'm a Radiological Control Tech at a nuke plant. So far, that pretty degree has been worthless. I kinda figured it would be, even as I was getting it. But I got lucky with this job, so I shouldn't complain. I shouldn't...but I will anyways.

I'm not ENTIRELY sure that any college degree is all that useful. I donno.

Like I said in the other thread, your a dude.  Prove me wrong. 

Uh, that's a Liberal Arts graduate's opinion that Feona expressed, Rob.  If Feona is a dude then he smokes more pole than rawr and Yuriy put together.

Ha! How novel.

[92CXyD]

I'm an ME major as well, graduate in May. I hated my stats class too more than anything.

edit: Statics? That shit is easy. You better make sure you understand it, because almost every other course you take will build upon it.

Wait for Johnny to chime in and call you a liberal faggot for going to college.

why is it that every senior in ME thinks statics is statistics? 

After getting my mind raped by Beer & Johnston's Vector Mechanics for Engineers : Statics and Dynamics 8th edition, I will never, ever mistake those words.   

I have use the 5th edition '92, 7th edition for '06 Statics, 8th edition for '07 Dynamics. I keep all my Engineering books.

[mandrel-bends]

We had a PLC programmer guy out here the other day who supposedly specializes in siemens s5/step5 stuff. Guy told me he had an art degree from old miss and learned to do this stuff on his own. Needless to say, after watching him bumble around for an hour accomplishing nothing I sent him home. Where have all the good EE's gone?

[jagojon3]

We just had a lab programming a PLC for an automatic car wash a few weeks ago, kind of a pain but it was actually fun 

[BoostedSchemes]

fago arent you in you a little old to be in school

[jagojon3]

No way I don't think you're supposed to graduate until you're 35 or something

[92CXyD]

No way I don't think you're supposed to graduate until you're 35 or something

Yeah I graduated at 35.   ;D

[Whitey]

I used PLC's on two machines I built and right now I'm retrofitting a machine that has an AB PLC and panelview touchscreen that I need to reprogram. 

PLC programming is a good skill to know

[Joseph Davis]

We had a PLC programmer guy out here the other day who supposedly specializes in siemens s5/step5 stuff. Guy told me he had an art degree from old miss and learned to do this stuff on his own. Needless to say, after watching him bumble around for an hour accomplishing nothing I sent him home. Where have all the good EE's gone?

You need to be an EE to program a PLC?  Must be the D student ones who specialize in that as it's brutally simple logic.  Admittedly I haven't dealt with anything super high end, but I trained on some recent low and mid end Allen Bradley gear, as well as some jap stuff that escapes me at the moment.  It's simple ladder logic; power, ground, switches, coils, timers, lights, and other mundane crap.

JD is old and still hasn't gradiated

I'm not 40 yet.  Jago clearly said you're not supposed to graduate until 40.

[Whitey]

You need to be an EE to program a PLC?  Must be the D student ones who specialize in that as it's brutally simple logic.  Admittedly I haven't dealt with anything super high end, but I trained on some recent low and mid end Allen Bradley gear, as well as some jap stuff that escapes me at the moment.  It's simple ladder logic; power, ground, switches, coils, timers, lights, and other mundane crap.

RLL is simple and will eventually be obsolete.  PAC's are the new hotness. 

[mandrel-bends]

It's not rocket science for sure, but some of these machine controls can be pretty sophisticated - especially when they are european. In this case, our adige ts-71 cnc automatic sawing line (30,000lb - 1/2 a million dollar paper weight currently), has a ridiculously cluster fucked coded plc/hmi that even the best engineer's I've hired to work on it scratch their head at half the time. I actually just hired an engineering firm in washington to completely gut the beast and build new controls from the ground up. You wouldn't think an 8 year old saw would already be obsolete according to it's manufacturer, but it is.

[Joseph Davis]

FPGAs are both easy and fiendishly complex.  I'm halfway through a primer on Verilog ATM, it's cake.  Beating your head against a medium or higher complexity design through a couple of bench tests and then successful prototyping runs before bringing a board to market is a LOT of drudgery and a certain amount of technical mojo. 

Frankly, being good with FPGAs is about as difficult as being a good tuner.  Keep in mind that FPGA knowledge is much more fluent so you are trading off a lot of the "fumbling in the dark" nature of learning for a huge stack of whitepapers.   There's more shit to it, but everything's better laid out.

I bought a Saxo development board from KNJN recently, the business arm of fpga4fun.com, and some of the stuff available is freaking sweet.  The higher end Saxo/Xylo boards have built in DDS (Direct Digital Synthesis) chips, I plan on using one as a cheap signal generator aka learning tool..

[Joseph Davis]

While Xilinx and Altera have similar products, I'm directly in the Altera camp.  The free version of their Quartus II software has a built in logic analyzer, and the pay-for subscriptions for either are $$$

[bluebomber]

Automotive Engineering Tech and Civil Eng majors

[Eggylshatch]

THIS THREAD IS FULL OF NERDS. 

[snm95ls]

THIS THREAD IS FULL OF NERDS. 

So.

I watched about 4 hours worth of physics lectures from MIT last night.

lol.

[jagojon3]

Physics is a fun subject.

[snm95ls]

Physics is a fun subject.

The concepts are fascinating, but the math involved is a bit hairy at times.

It amazes me how a single person can have such an in dept knowledge of a subject as vast as physics.