Durka-Durka-Muhammed-Jihad!!
Up early this morning cause I...well, just happened to wake up early.
Tackled some 'honey dos' and am trying to get up the courage to tackle a lab assignment using MATLAB. I say 'get up the courage' cause I've never used MATLAB before and it seems to be the preferred engineering software tool of most professors in the Jacobs School of Engineering.
I decided to just go out and buy the freakin software package because:
Watched the debate last night and IMO President Bush got 'medieval on Kerry's buttocks'[/Forrest Gump]. Bush was in his element with the Town Hall format and dispite the *cough* moderator forgetting that Bush was allowed to a quick rebuttal a couple of times (he's from ABC News - no surprise there), Bush dominated the night.
The one thing that boggled me was this: where did they find all the lispers in the audience? It seemed that half of the people asking their questions seemed to be drooling excessively and/or were keeping marbles in their mouths. Maybe there was a Sylvester the Cat Impersonation Contest in St. Louis...?
The reason I need MATLAB is that this is a Signals & Systems class and this particular lab involv
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The Pirate said:
I used Matlab 1 semester and it was in a obscure unstaffed lab too. But never used it again, cou
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Mad Mikey said:
If I recall correctly from googling, there's a tutorial at/on MITs website.
Thanks
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The Other Mike S said:
I thought the "getting medieval" phrase was from Pulp Fiction after Bruce Willis and Vin What's-H
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jaws said:
Matlab! I remember MATLAB! I was basically told to use it w/o being formally taught how to. It
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scroff said:
"forgetting that Bush was allowed to a quick rebuttal a couple of times"
According to the
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I thought Bush looked like Yosemite Sam having a temper tantrum.
|| Posted by ruthie, October 9, 2004 11:08 AM ||"forgetting that Bush was allowed to a quick rebuttal a couple of times"
According to the rules, the candidate to whom the question is addressed has two minutes to answer, his opponent then has 90 seconds to rebut. The moderator may then, at his discretion, allow an extended discussion of thirty seconds each. No candidate is "allowed" a second rebuttal other than at the moderator's discretion, when he allows an extension of discussion.
There were two notable times when Bush went ahead and started into his thirty second rebuttal without receiving the go-ahead from Gibson. The first was after the first question, directed to Bush. Bush had two minutes, Kerry had 90 seconds. Gibson was going to allow an extended discussion but Bush started in before he could.
The second time was after a question directed to Bush. He had two minutes, Kerry had 90 seconds, Gibson wanted to extend and clarify the statements made by both men, especially Kerry's assertion of a "back door draft", but Bush talked over him and interrupted him and disregarded his clarification, and, IMNSHO, lost an opportunity to address Kerry's allegation. Bush went on a rant, frothing...
"You tell Tony Blair we're going alone. Tell Tony Blair we're going alone. Tell Silvio Berlusconi we're going alone. Tell Aleksander Kwasniewski of Poland we're going alone." Poland, btw, is pulling out.
Keep in mind that the 1 minute extension is at the moderator's discretion, which he can use to further address the question at hand. Bush ignored him and did what he wanted to. But it was fortunate for Kerry, as he was then allowed 30 seconds, during which time he pointed out that countries are leaving the coalition, and that if Missouri were a country, considering the number of people from Missouri who are in Iraq, it would be the third largest contributor to the "coalition".
I agree Bush was medieval, in the Dark Ages. ;)
Oh, BTW, Bush does own 50% interest in LSTF, LLC, "a limited-liability company organized "for the purpose of the production of trees for commercial sales"" and he is considered a "small busiiness". Oops. Caught in another lie... yea I know, he forgot.
|| Posted by scroff, October 9, 2004 12:38 PM ||Matlab! I remember MATLAB! I was basically told to use it w/o being formally taught how to. It was daunting.
If I recall correctly from googling, there's a tutorial at/on MITs website.
|| Posted by jaws, October 9, 2004 02:28 PM ||I thought the "getting medieval" phrase was from Pulp Fiction after Bruce Willis and Vin What's-His-Name were "abused" in the dungeon.
|| Posted by The Other Mike S, October 9, 2004 04:30 PM ||If I recall correctly from googling, there's a tutorial at/on MITs website.
Thanks! I'll poke around there....
TOMS: It is - I was thinking of the 'Mad TV' spoof called 'Gump Fiction' when I wrote that.
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, October 9, 2004 04:56 PM ||I used Matlab 1 semester and it was in a obscure unstaffed lab too. But never used it again, could do all my civil work in excel and write macros in visual basic.
|| Posted by The Pirate, October 11, 2004 06:46 AM ||The reason I need MATLAB is that this is a Signals & Systems class and this particular lab involves sound files.
|| Posted by Mad Mikey, October 11, 2004 07:45 AM ||