Emmjaykay

"The women are gorgeous and fit."

Way to enforce the stereo type, bro

Like, kernels?

I wanted to go work for them someday. :`(

But maybe it'll be like how the TellMe deal went. They're still more or less independent.

Asking a corporation to be "good" or moral is like asking a car to be good or moral.

Yeah, ebay + skype seemed silly at the time. Right now it is like $3 a month for me. Even if it was $20 - $30 I still would like it. :)

I dunno. I like my Skype account. Good for calling home. At the office we use it to communicate with our offices in Europe.

I transfered from a technical/engineering school (1,500 students) to a more general state university (20,000) where computer science was not an important and the average student's ability was lower.

The real important difference was the curriculum. The state school had a language requirement (14 credit hours) tacked right on; CS is located in the Arts&Science school. It meant I couldn't take more technical electives.

The most important thing about undergrad years is what you can do when you leave, whether it came from a class or hours spent in self-directed study, as I did.

It meant a lot to potential employers when I could say that I have submitted (small) patches to the linux kernel, or wrote my own mini-kernel or compiler. Try writing a thread library or a nifty little VM, or something that is unusual and will stand out.

Neat. How did you do it? I have a pet project in mind and I want to use LISP.

I lof the OCW! Thanks!

Hurray for lots of of links!

I tinkered with FPGAs in college as part of my digital logic class. I remember reading about Hugo De Garis's work with them and they sound neat.

The hands on approach definitely appeals to me. I've thought about a local community college but the hours are not compatible with work.

I guess I could n ot worry about details but part of me is genuinely curious about how that stuff works. :)

I didn't realize that the Hill/Horowitz book also has a companion lab manual. It looks something like I would like to have. Some of the books in the ARRL store look neat, too. Thanks!

This seems like a neat way to break it down. Thanks for your suggestions!

The Arudino looks neat. I will definitely keep it in mind. I have taken digital electronics while in college and do remember k-maps and so forth, so it should hopefully not be too far ahead of me. :) Thanks again!

I've seen the BoeBot and it is quite adorable. I was wanting to put my software skills to a real test, though and I don't know if there is enough space on a BasicStamp chip. But it does seem like a good place to start! Even, still, I need to be aware of how components come together if I want to do something fancy on the bread board (don't want to short stuff out,e tc).