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RTPE broken again?

Hmm, two weeks and its still down... that's pretty bad. Is it going to be up for Black Friday?
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- Post #9
- Nov 14, 2007
- Forum: Forum Issues and Feedback
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Poll: Do you need a degree to be an official engineer?

My quick little rule for what makes a "real" engineer. Is the field you work in commonly taught in the engineering school of most universities? If its not, you're not. If it is, its possible to claim it, if you have enough experience to roughly equal what you can get out of one of those...
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- Post #87
- Jan 27, 2007
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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So I bought a flash drive in China...

I was recently in China and, foolishly, bought a flash drive from some con artist. Yeah, I know the rule: "If it's too good to be true...", but in my defense, it was late and I wasn't thinking right. Anyway I've got this flash drive that thinks its a 16GB drive. The actual capacity is...
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- Thread
- Dec 11, 2006
- Replies: 11
- Forum: Peripherals & Components
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The most interesting math problem I've seen in a long time

So I think this is a lame programmer joke on mathematicians. The problem: e^z = 0 Everyone's been reading this as: "The constant 'e' raised to the zth power equals zero" which of course has no solution. Instead if we read the problem as: 0xE^z = 0 or "The hex number "e" XORed...
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- Post #183
- Feb 13, 2006
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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anyone ever scrape lead-based paint from walls?

I prefer to lick it off.
- brjames
- Post #11
- Feb 11, 2006
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Would you support a bill

Is that not allowed now? I would think that they already have the right, but nobody demands breathalyzer tests because if its necessary you have more serious problems at work.
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- Post #39
- Feb 11, 2006
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Here's irony for you...

All both of them!
- brjames
- Post #39
- Jan 31, 2006
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Hanzi - Chinese Characters in Western Culture used incorrectly

Mmmm... I'm pretty sure that website is a fake news site... sort of like the Onion.
- brjames
- Post #28
- Jan 31, 2006
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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I just received my 3" memory foam topper from Overstock.com

Gah... i got one of those from sams club. The liner was infested with beetles or cockroaches.
- brjames
- Post #16
- Jan 28, 2006
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Don't you hate it when a mechanical engineer tells you that computer programming is NOT engineering?

I see a lot of CivE's and ME's posting how you need to have a certification to be a REAL engineer. Let me just state my opinion that a certification is only necessary to the extent that your field is mature. CivE is the oldest engineering discipline (how long have roads and building been...
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- Post #163
- Jan 21, 2006
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Bought my first house!!!

Cool, another Raytheon employee... where do you work? Mckinney?
- brjames
- Post #17
- Dec 17, 2005
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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did your college major help you get your current job?

hey hey hey... don't forget Raytheon! But yes, ECE in college, now an Electrical Engineer 02 at my company
- brjames
- Post #22
- Dec 12, 2005
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Do Not Call Registry, do you think it really works?

It works for people trying to sell you stuff. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear to have done a thing for those damned charity folks. No I don't want to help cure cancer!
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- Post #7
- Nov 11, 2005
- Forum: OT Discussion Club
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Trying to find a program i see everyone using

superkaramba ;)
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- Post #14
- Oct 1, 2005
- Forum: Windows
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Astros are dying...

STFU!!! :| They'll pull through... of course they will... they'll do it...
- brjames
- Post #5
- Oct 1, 2005
- Forum: OT Discussion Club

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