Child of Flame

oh no... not at all. technical drawings exist, certainly, but that's only part of the picture. autocad is more of a mechanical designer job, usually related to a 2 year technician type degree. metallurgy has it's own degree (metalurgical, aka "no-sweat-met") and welding is, well, a trade (union). mechanical engineers tend to do a lot of load analysis which involves extensive finite element mathematics. HVAC is another major field as well as airframes, etc. ceramic engineers exist in a similar world as chemical engineers (and even some metalurgical engineers) with the study of complex material interactions (i have a friend that designs the glass beads they use in reflective highway paints and signs). civil engineers design roadways and bridges and stuff. they're also involved with building designs. electrical is unbelievably diverse... computer engineering, software engineering (most are EEs), signal processing/communications (my field), analog circuit design, digital circuit design, radio frequency circuit design, antenna design, micro-chip design (analog and digital), control systems design (the systems that control large automated plants, etc. among other things), power design which could be power systems for a satellite or large power transmission systems for cities and towns... i could go on forever. the six major areas are dsp/comm, digital, analog, power, controls and computers. since you already have a math degree, EE is actually a natural step. my particular interests, btw, revolve around orthonormal bases for various reasons. my theses (MS) was on a subject regarding wavelets, an orthonormal basis alternative to the fourier series providing simultaneous time and frequency analysis capabilities (fourier is only frequency). the theory was advanced primarily by a woman named ingrid daubechies at rutgers, a mathemetician. my work is primarily detection theory (in a nutshell) for which reference #1 is Thomas Bayes, a statistician. his famous work "Essay towards solving a problem in the doctrine of chances" was published in 1764 (posthumously) and is the foundation for Bayesian statistics... my upcoming classwork (phd) includes complex variables and algebraic coding theory, both math classes and both semi-required (at my advisor's behest). if you want a smattering of theory that i live in, do a search on the following: Fourier, Laplace, Hertz, Marconi, Swerling, Central Limit Theorem, Bayes, Nyquist, Claude Shannon, Heaviside, Viterbi (qualcomm founder)... and on it goes. taks <{POST_SNAPBACK}> My brain hurts.

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<thinks about C.S. Lewis' Space Trilogy*> *Read the customer reviews if you aren't familiar with these books.

<tries to figure out how a lower back butterfly is more original than Celtic knotwork that quite possibly translates into something> Anyhow, my Fuzzy tattoo is gonna be more original than any of yours....except perhaps for Sirius' hand-drawn one, and Mith's T Sigil.

Except, what data there is on the Aurora leads me to believe that it's supposed to be a successor to the SR-71, which means it's a spy plane, heavy on stealth. I would imagine that they'd have to do some sort of field training to see if they're able to lose a tail if spotted. <shrugs> Doesn't really matter anyway.

This is some fansite, nothing official. This guy probably composed list of most powerful knights acc to his own personal taste (Fisto sucks BTW). And as I know there wasn't any midichlorian chart by now. Faster Fearless I don't have all day to wait for your arguments. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Especially since according to his list Chewbacca should have been considered for Jedi training and not Solo....WTF?!! As many times as Solo cheated death (including before he even met up with Chewie), he has to have something going for him forcewise.

I wasn't, everyone else was.

Well, I guess it depends where you live. Entry-level salary (from Game Developer Magazine) for a designer is 33-40k a year. In Puget Sound maybe you can support your wife on that. In Southern or Northern California that's practically impossible. And considering, that most people starting out needing to show "tangible" evidence of skill. They are probably going to need to put in 6 months of work doing something else, interning, mod development for free, or QA. QA is interesting because it tends to be hourly and if you are smart with your money you can make alot with overtime. But personally, I like sleep <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Maybe in Southern California, but in a large part of Northern California, $35k is more than enough for a family of five to live 'comfortably'. My family did it for years; on a four acre piece of property, and a four bedroom/two bathroom house. It's all about budgeting your money, and not spending more than you make. 90% of the people in debt these days aren't in debt because they're poor, but because they spend money they don't have on crap they don't need.

So I guess Game programming doesn't fall into the realm of computer science? Because from what I've read of the courses at Digipen, they're just about as math intensive as any physics course I've ever read about, quantum physics excluded.

Give him time to develop his flame warrior skills. After all, he said it was the first time he'd done it.

I know that, Svosh's mod was that with some alterations. The color looked slightly darker though.

::Pantomimes MCA after reading this post::: MCA: They're onto us, quick, spread some false story propaganda!!! MCA Lackey: At once my liege.

Banned? Ha! You should see how many PM's I've gotten from Phosphor and Adria. I am popular. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Actually, I imagine those were warnings....because they're being NICE to you. Bog only knows it's in the name of fairness. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Agreed.

I wasn't really trying to be mean, and I'm sorry if you took it that way. I'm glad to hear that's your attitude as that's the kind you need in the field you're going in to. If you would like to do something you love, that also makes good money (nothing wrong with that now, that's what I'm doing); computer science is just about the most lucrative science major I can think of right now.

I watched the second episode last Wednesday....not much more in the way of theories though. Still okay though, and not the ripoff I expected.

Was that recently? Because I've always wondered what he's doing nowadays.. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> He's sober and is now an Emo/Alternative rocker. And he totally sucks too.

This has already been posted, in much more detail, along with several different theories as to what the 'monster' is by ME HERE.

No.....it......wouldn't. It would be like Thing on the Addams Family....only.....different.

Did you perhaps draw inspiration for KotOR2 from any of the mods the community at Lucasforums made? The reason I'm asking, is because the masks on teh guy in this screenshot: Look almost identical to Svosh's Fuel of Hate mod.

Eh, maybe, maybe not. Upgrades..... :ph34r:

Actually, I've read the article since then, and it could quite possibly have been the Aurora spyplane I mentioned in my post earlier.

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Well, not all of them in the conspiracy theories. The Greys are supposed to do most of the dirty work and actual contact with humans, while the Reptiloids are overlords to the Greys just as much so to humans. The Greys are supposed to like humans though, and think we're extremely beautiful, as well as coddling us like children because of their immense knowledge. See why this stuff is as fun to read as a science fiction novel. :D

I've tried it on my parents, which admittedly uses a different ISP, and it worked. I'm using Earthlink on mine though, and try as I might, it won't. This problem only set in since you guys customized the board, and I'm sure that it had something to do with the changes you made to the original Invision coding, as I've changed it on multiple fora using the original Invision code and it works just fine. Basically, I'll try to get to the 'Edit your Signature' option under the My Controls thingy, and I just get a 404 Error. Just plain won't display. Just about everything else on the internet works just fine, even every single other feature ON THESE BOARDS. But I can't change my signature, and it's very, very frustrating.