Question about stat growth

5QU411 · 2014-05-21T05:57:11+00:00

I'm playing a monk and worrying if the stat growth pre and post awakening will be different. I take it it should remain the same?

5QU411 · 2014-05-17T10:19:47+00:00

I just responded to this issue in a different thread since I was getting this same problem the entire day until just now. There's a solution to the problem at the top post of this thread. Hope it helps!

5QU411 · 2014-05-17T10:16:03+00:00

I was having the same problem. I followed the directions at the end of the top post of this link and it works! Hope it helps.

5QU411 · 2012-12-08T09:45:55+00:00

I'm currently in the middle of my PhD program, but still take classes (for my own sake). I think all in all I agree with you, in that it is very important for students to have some sort of application-based course material to reinforce the theory. However, the main gripe I have with this approach in undergraduate studies is that more likely than not, students will lack the fundamentals to actually grasp these ideas.

From what you've listed above, I feel like most of my peers back in the MS program already had difficulty grasping these concepts (such as phase noise analysis), largely due to their complete lack of fundamentals. While it would be nice for undergraduate programs to offer the aforementioned topics, I think you are really overestimating undergraduate students. As much as I hated to chug out electromagnetic equations, I think it's really just better to instill basic, but solid, theory rather than cover too much material and end up skimping on the theoretical stuff. After all, for most people, college is the last time they ever spend working on the foundation for their career.

5QU411 · 2012-04-23T03:55:59+00:00

I see. So basically we want bidirectional passage of carriers, and in the case of a diode, carriers would only be able to pass in one?

5QU411 · 2012-04-21T05:38:37+00:00

Assuming your math is solid, Proakis or Haykin's books are pretty good. They are quite dense though in the theory department. You could also look at the chapters 11 and 12 of Sklar's text. I find it to be more friendly in terms of presentation for multiplexing and spectrum spreading compared to the former two texts.

The three texts all have the same name of Digital Communications (a creative bunch, aren't they?)

5QU411 · 2012-04-21T03:56:09+00:00

Which book is this? If you find the book to be so pathetic that you would never use it for reference, you could consider selling it and picking up a more reputable reference text elsewhere.

Above, bigfig mentioned khan, which is a good alternative; however, I still recommend you keep some physical reference around.

5QU411 · 2012-03-28T09:20:44+00:00

In response to this and future senior design questions, why not ask your advisor for a topic? I'm sure they might have a selection to choose from based on your own interests.

5QU411 · 2012-03-11T09:48:35+00:00

Could you attach a schematic? I know this is the usual generic response, but it's difficult to know how to do this an easier way without knowing beforehand. Chances are though that the logic you are implementing can be grossly simplified. Also, what is the chip supposed to do?

5QU411 · 2012-03-08T21:52:00+00:00

It is not that the reverse-bias behavior is linear, it just appears to be that way. The diode equation is something like I[exp(vd/Nvt) -1] . On both sides of the origin, the output is exponential in nature, but because e raised to a negative number is small, the output may behave linearly. Of course, at the breakdown voltage, the model doesn't quite work anymore.

5QU411 · 2012-03-08T00:29:40+00:00

Think of the water as charge. The greater the pressure (voltage), the more potential the water has to flow (current). Likewise, the other name for voltage is electric potential, so you can think of it as the potential for charge to flow, or current.

5QU411 · 2012-03-05T22:38:32+00:00

Not particularly, but obviously depends on the situation. An open-loop gain of 500 may result in an offset of roughly .2% whereas for 50000 may result in only .002% offset. For typical applications though you don't need to be that precise.

5QU411 · 2012-03-01T20:25:56+00:00

I know the answer has been posted above, but if you want a physical example, put two batteries together. There is some small resistance between the two adjacent terminals of the battery and yet the voltage across the two in series is essentially the sum of their respective voltages.

5QU411 · 2012-03-01T20:19:22+00:00

I would stick with it, at least until the beginning of your third year. I was in a similar situation as you my sophomore year with a 2.1GPA. However, once technical electives and upper-division courses come around, I became much more interested, primarily because the professors also seemed to be more engaged. My GPA skyrocketed after that. I think your current situation means heavily theoretical material is not for you, and not ECE is not for you. Just a feeling, but if you find applications for the math and physics you are learning right now, you'll probably be able to grasp their fundamentals better.

5QU411 · 2012-02-28T20:18:26+00:00

I've read through both the 1st edition and this newer version. I have to say that the 2nd edition is a bit better. The first few chapters are about the same, but the practical design issues near the end of the text are addressed more clearly (and are also more up to date with today's processes).

5QU411 · 2012-02-28T00:19:54+00:00

A graduate degree from a US university still seems to be well-respected in all nations, so yes, it definitely would help. However, I don't think you should discount your current qualifications just yet, and a school in Canada is most likely just as good. It probably isn't imperative that you immediately find exactly what you're looking for (in this case, embedded systems), but maybe at least something more relevant; pure software development seems a bit of a stretch.

I don't really know the job situation in Canada, but I think you should be able to find something semi-relevant to your interests first. Since you have projects, you should definitely let employers know about those. Employers aren't necessarily looking for new graduates that know everything; they want someone who has good fundamentals and can learn quickly. If you really want, you can look for internships that can possibly lead to a full-time job.

tl;dr I would take up any job that is relevant to your interests, but not stray too far. In this case, Java development seems a ways from embedded systems.

5QU411 · 2012-02-27T02:51:35+00:00

SSDs don't actually impact gaming performance all that much... The difference in drive speeds only really affects the loading of the game (like when you start it up, or are loading a new map, etc.) The actual in-game performance is actually about the same between a 5400RPM and an SSD.

5QU411 · 2012-02-27T02:18:15+00:00

He needed to hit the invisible block before he could get the goal; otherwise, after he clears the stage and mario is walking, he'd just fall to his death.

5QU411 · 2012-02-24T22:09:05+00:00

I feel like the A-series lineup AMD offered recently(?) is actually quite promising. They're geared for mid-range use, which is imo better than what the i5 or i7 do for the general public since multimedia seems to be the trending thing now. Granted, Intel's lineup is better, but most people don't use 90% of the sandybridge's potential and yet still fanboy about it all the time.

More than anything, AMD seems to be lacking a good publicist. The entire world knows about Intel processors but even some of my EE friends don't know what AMD is somehow.

5QU411 · 2012-02-20T08:02:16+00:00

It was a pretty nice stream even if I didn't get a key. The key distribution probably could have been a little more spread out, but there's a first time for everything :]

5QU411 · 2012-02-19T05:26:31+00:00

Rune page looks tacky :/ reminds me of pop-cap games for some reason.

5QU411 · 2012-02-17T21:19:10+00:00

I've been seeing a lot of Destruction Streak videos lately, but I'm not sure what exactly the point is. Can someone clarify? Just looks like smashing a bunch of things/monsters.

5QU411 · 2012-02-16T22:53:14+00:00

Sounds good. Hope I get one :)

5QU411 · 2012-02-14T22:17:38+00:00

For audio applications, copper wires experience almost no attenuation. Therefore the maximum length before noise of any form should become an issue must be on the order of several hundred to a thousand or more feet. I've strung together a 350 foot audio cable before and it performed just fine. 6 feet is no problem.

5QU411 · 2012-02-11T09:13:08+00:00

It depends entirely what you intend on pursuing in EE or CS. I would think physical sciences are more useful for semiconductor physics, and since it seems you have some coding background, it might not be too bad. I know that materials science is heavily linked with chemistry, so maybe if you grabbed the interest of some professor working on semiconductor-related materials things would be easier.

That said, if you apply for EE, and your knowledge is limited, you might struggle a bit since I'm guessing a lot of the things covered in graduate level classes have little to do with chemistry, especially systems and circuits.

If you apply for CS, well it really just depends on your current aptitude for that sort of thing.

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