This is how I have mine set up. It's pretty sweet, especially if you like doing board and circuit design from scratch:

• Heavy bench with vice press
• Large desk-mounted magnifying glass with built-in lighting (for assembling small parts)
• Soldering bench area with a multi-arm alligator clip apparatus
• Fume hood
• Acid etching tank
• Drill press (I use a set that converts a Dremel tool into a press, fun fun)
• Dremel tool (even if you have a "proper" drill press, the cutting and sanding attachments are helpful; don't forget various sizes of collets or just get a chuck)
• Mini beer fridge
• Emergency sink
• Concrete floor (the garage/basement area is ideal so you can install a drain in the floor)
• Tool set (wire strippers, tweezers, cutters)

This setup lets me basically mass produce home-made circuit boards in a safe and comfortable setting. I also have a really old TV (think it's from the 80's) which I keep on life support and have a TON of adapters connected to it so that it gets cable. Just kind of like that retro radioactive glare :)

Then stop! Not only does it make you go blind, but gawd kills a kitten every time you do it too!

No, sir/mme, you are dead WRONG!

If the student takes a sincere interest in the subject matter, and came from a background where he/she knows that working hard will help avoid:
1) A low paying career
2) A meaningless job
3) A lifetime of misery

Then that student either forces his or her own self to either show a committed interest in the field, or finds one where he or she can naturally develop such an interest.

You seem to be of the impression that lectures should instill a DESIRE in students. My background is that excellent teachers challenge students, and expect them to know the practical aspects of a career instead of just the theoretical and the simple facts needed to pass a test. Real profs provide students that know more than the rest. Sadly, in North America, no child left behind means no child gets ahead.

Background info: I've been pulling in $100k+ per year since 24, but went into my undergrad on a basic scholarship from poverty. Now working with my biomed/computer B.Eng. and M.Eng. systems engineering degrees, and making more than my profs since I was IN my undergrad. So no marketing/handout/BS comments are applicable here.

I'm still surprised that there are /.'ers cannot distinguish between the degree/career mappings that be. At least in Canada and the USA

IT:
-Learn: Active directory, Windows or UNIX servers, user management, e-mail server management, virus removal, setting up routers and VPN
-Jobs: IT help desk, corporate IT, call centres


Comp Sci:
-Learn: Discrete math, basic programming, databases and DB theory, algorithm design, basic physics,
-Jobs: University/academia, entry-level programming jobs


Engineering (Electrical and Computer):
-Learn: Calculus, discrete math, electrical circuits, electronics, materials, advanced physics, chemistry, economics
-Jobs: advanced programming/development jobs, embedded dev, chip fabrication, academia


Most IT programs in Canada are 2-year full-time/accelerated programs, while CS is a full-time 4 year program, and engineering is a 4-5 year double-full-time program. I still laugh when people are surprised that comp-sci majors know shit about removing viruses from PCs, while the engineering and IT students have been removing and even MAKING viruses since elementary school (ie: before they were 13 years old).

It is very difficult for the average worker when employers collude to artificially lower wages and keep dissenters unemployed:

http://apple.slashdot.org/story/12/01/20/1433231/doj-investigates-google-apple-and-others-for-no-poaching-agreement

Perhaps because it requires extreme competence and a grasp of programming languages as a whole, including operating systems, Boolean logic, and chip fab (to a limited degree) in order to be a capable programmer at the minimum?

For the record, it took me all of a single weekend to master C++, Java, and C# by the time I was 25 years of age.

Maybe it helps to learn things from the ground-up the first time rather than bitching about how difficult it is years later.

Negative. Stop this "dreaming" immediately or we will be forced to take action.

"Love", "dream", "Mom", and "screen door" are (C) 3003 MomCorp.

Rather apt i'd say considering so many of the athletes are chemically buffed themselves.

FTFY :)

Pretty much. I don't think I've used my mouse in the past week.

Probably standard procedure to run a set of automated scans. Also, if the data was hidden via steganography in plaintext as opposed to encrypting it to look like (ie: Gaussian) noise in an audio/video file, then it sticks out like a sore thumb. You can just do local noise and autocorrelation estimates in small locales, and will be well on your way to figuring it out in no time. It's not that different from detecting how people have photoshopped an image, in the simpler cases.

http://www.errorlevelanalysis.com/

Hope you find it informative and interesting. :)

I agree with the parent poster.

Sacrifices must be made, skills must be kept current, etc. Big surprise?

The directors of the firm hired to continue the credits after the other people had been sacked, wish it to be known that they have just been sacked.

This is to prevent a new ice age. We simply mine big chunks of ice off of Halley's comet and drop it into the ocean every 75.3 years. That should keep us going until 3003.

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Drunken+Abbotsford+wash+themselves+wash+without/6410075/story.html

A few guys in a city not too far from Vancouver got off with a warning. In the US, you get stomped, arrested, thrown into a dozen different lists that make day-to-day life humiliating, unbearable, etc. Why do people in the US hate their own bodies so much?

I see what you did there.