Recent content by qwex

well, my school is supposed to be one of the better ones for bme (top 10 according to US news rankings, not ranked at all for comp-e/EE/comp sci though, but I try nott to pay attention to rankings). I don't know if this means the courses are better, or harder...in any case, time to contact some...

I'm thinking along the same lines, do comp-e undergrad, and since I'll probably get a masters anyway (seems like almost necessary to be competitive in today's economy) I can always tailor it to biotech. if a bachelor's in bme isn't all that useful by itself, then I most likely won't pursue it -...

emailing the department is a good idea, one I've been putting off for too long...but I'll get on it, I still kind of need to choose what classes I'm taking, and I can't do that without a major

with sophomore year about to begin, it's time to pick a major. I'm probably the most undecided engineering student in the school right now, but lately I've been thinking computer engineering, for a few reasons: easier than EE (less analog/low level circuitry stuff); has more comp sci, so seems...

it's not 15mb for $1/year. now I'm mad I paid $3.90/year earlier. hopefully they'll start offering domains for $1/year soon too... :)

just found out about this deal, and it's extremely tempting. I have an original 32mb DDR radeon, and this would be a nice upgrade. but I'm wondering if the rest of my system will be a bottleneck - 900mhz athlon tbird and 256mb plain old pc133 ram. will this hold me back from getting a big...

yeah, MX isn't really worth it. also, if this is a price mistake, they must have mistakenly priced it too high - GF4 MX 440 cards are regularly under $100 (newegg has them starting at $95 w/shipping)

using a separate card reader also saves battery power since you don't need the camera on to transfer files

I think I'm far less knowledgeable about photography than I thought, for one thing. what constitutes low lighting? the pictures do look much much better with the flash, but they still have soft, fuzzy, overcompressed jpeg look (though it's on 1600x1200 superfine). I'm going to mess around with...

my S330 came today...so it's good my S200 was cancelled on me. I can't say I'm excited anymore though, because I took a few pictures - the quality is horrible. the colors are off, images are fuzzy, looking closely at the image shows blotches of red/green (is this image noise?)...what's the deal...

well, my S200 order was cancelled today, apparently "upon my request" which must be how dell interprets my calling them a week ago and telling 2 CSRs that I want to wait for the order. in any case, my S330 is still "being processed" so I won't call up and complain yet...maybe I'll get lucky...

I hope picking free 2nd day shipping doesn't end actually delaying my order...we'll see

for those of you that ordered a $310 S330, and got it already, I'm guessing your estimated ship date was 5/29...what does your order status page say now that you've gotten it? specifically, does it say that it's shipped, or was it never updated? I'm asking because mine now has the S330 under...

credit card info? they don't ask for that

I have 2 orders in now: S200 order date: 3/30/02 estimated ship date: "delayed call for ETA" but I got a delay email saying 4/29/02 I ordered from chicagoland area, IL S330 order date: 4/16/02 estimated ship date: 5/29/02!!! BUT: I just checked my order status page, and today it changed! it...