Stress@Imperial

i actually did paste it into word this time and para it but then when re pasting to TSR it went to a huge block again sorry. i would punctuate etc but i actually type with pens wedged inbetween fingers most of the time lol its a technique to cope with RSI. means i dont use fingers to type hence much much better but it makes punctuation really annoying. i dont expect to come up with anything major like a crazy theorem but i have atleast twice had fully formed ideas and businesses ideas before someone else turned them into a reality. one is going to completely change the world and the other will be a killer ap. wont change the world in an amazing way but will be absudly profitable. i may as well mention em since you cant steal the ideas now lol. one is a new system for using credit cards. my idea was that your mobile or some peripheral have a scanner on it to read the card and you must activate the card biometricaly before use. you can then lock it whenevr you want and when a transaction occurs o someone attempts to use the card you are notified by email or text or whatever. there is now such a device in development with an interesting extra, a safety finger for if you are forced to activate the card. if you use the safety finger the police will be notified and a locating algorithm started but everything else will be normal so attacker will not know whats happening!awesome idea. anyway it was that and a new method of farming. cba to explain that one but its been cleared for construction in toronto and will make a lot of money very fast. so iv had a few good ideas and i just cant wait to be surrounded by intelligent people and conferences to attend and discuss things with.

The problem is many of these ideas are seen as "obvious" by those in the industry, it just takes a very long time to get the standards written or get the technology to support it. Many things being implemented now have been in academia for several decades.

Anyway you can't protect your idea unless you patent it, and you'll find that most things to do with software are extremely hard to patent. Same with farming, you cant actually stop people using your method. If your degree is anything like mine you'll get a mini course on what is patentable and what isnt

Anyway entrepreneurship is encouraged, however comming up with the idea is only 10% of the story. If you want something to work on, work on your interpersonal and networking skills and presentation skills as much as you can. That is the most important thing that will take your idea and make you money from it. Just the idea on its own is pretty useless, unless you can protect it, find someone interested in it, present them the idea so they're sure they'll make money from it, help them find a way of implementing your idea etc etc.

Anyway talking of RSI, try buying a power ball. They're pretty good at relieving it I hear.

Niccccccccce. I like how you add the 'we think', sounds like a bit of doubt in your mind. Haha. I bet they do count it against you. OR they keep a tally, the lecturer with the most sleeping students wins!

I wanna do medicine though, so I think that's slightly different. Kinda life or death if i didn't pay attention

"What the **** do you mean you left a bug in the code that made the nuclear bomb fall on the wrong country???"

"****, HOW COULD YOU LET THAT CASH MACHINE GIVE OUT DOUBLE WHAT PEOPLE ASKED FROM IT" (this one is actually a true story lol).

"Madam, I'm afraid our X-Ray machine has given you radiation poisoning because our programmer didnt pay attention in his lectures". The X-Ray story is true as well, killed quite a few people

imagine what a cock up by a E eng, programmer or physicist at CERN or torus would do lol. "what? wrong polarity?no big deal.. oh singularity....OH!!! SINGULARITY!!!" or "well done. you've created a star"

I believe thats EXACTLY what they're trying to do haha

I believe thats EXACTLY what they're trying to do haha

I know this is an old thread, but I just wanted to say I've already started sleeping in lectures . Especially in hardware on friday..

A lot of you wonder about the amount of stress and the workload at Imperial. To illustrate this, I call my only witness: the internet.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22exam+stress%22&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

Oh the irony.


Also, for those of you applying for Computing, this will be your life:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYfIiYLA5QA

Heck, a lot of people were talking about having fallen asleep during Friday's hardware lecture... :-|

Indeed, it's always a snoozefest. Is it still taught by dfg and alessio (legend heh)?

They still make you come to tutorials for marks too?