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The nice thing about Mindstorms is that you can also use a C-Like language called RobotC (www.robotc.net), Java (lejos.sourceforge.net), NXT (comes with the robot made by National Instruments) and/or LabView (grown up version of the NXT language, www.nationalinstruments.com)

If you are really ambitious take on the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC, www.usfirst.org) and setup a robotics program.

Being able to get the immediate feedback from a robot after programming it is a good motivator for the students. It also adds a dimension for those students who are more mechanically inclined.

If you are interested in more info about this program take a look at Texas Institute of Educational Robotics, Northwest Vista College, San Antonio, TX.

http://www.accd.edu/nvc/programs/tier/default.htm

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I find that most Wikipedia articles suffer from the reverse: poor writing style and trivia make them much larger than needed. Concise, cruftless articles would probably be a better way of reducing the disk/archive needs of Wikipedia.

In addition to St. Mary's University, you left out the other 4 I could remember.

University of the Incarnate Word

Our Lady of the Lake University

Trinity University

Wayland Baptist University

The rest I remember are members of the Alamo Community College District or University of Texas.

I'm not sure which institute of higher learning would like to take credit for this, but you never know. I keep having to remember to toss logic out the window at work, why not with these places as well.

More than any other liberty, Americans probably exercise their right to freedom of expression the most. But this right cannot be used to justify saying any thing, at any time, in any place. The Supreme Court has established some reasonable restrictions on free speech. The clear and present danger test from Schenck v. U.S. (1919) restricted speech that provokes a "clear and present danger" to public order. The bad-tendency rule from Gitlow v. N.Y. (1925) limited speech that might lead to some evil.

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So, even though they don't need to pay it, as most business accounts usually get at least NET 30 for billing and I am sure no one would ever tell Microsoft that they must pay in full on any order, it still exists as money owed to someone else. Far as I know that is the very basic definition of debt. By why take my word for it.

Debt

n.

1. Something owed, such as money, goods, or services.
2. 1. An obligation or liability to pay or render something to someone else.
   2. The condition of owing: a young family always in debt.
3. An offense requiring forgiveness or reparation; a trespass.

I know we are basically arguing semantics here, but most people I know would think you are out of your mind for saying Microsoft is a debt free company. Just becuase they have enough money to pay off all their debts (or do they? ;) ) does not equate to being actually debt free.

Short term unearned revenue 5.9 B Other 2.5 B - Don't know what these are, but they aren't debt.

From here we learn that...

Unearned Revenue:

This is where the business receives a cash payment for services or goods before the goods or services are provided to the customer. The payment is shown as a liability until the goods or services are provided to the customer. Once they have been provided they are transferred from the Unearned Revenue account to the normal Revenue account for the business. The Revenue account credited depends on what was provided to the client. If a service was provided, then it would be called Service Revenue. But you could also have accounts titled Rent Revenue, Subscriptions Revenue, Tuition Revenue (as in the case of this college), etc..

So unearned revenue is not a debt of cash but of product and/or service, which it is why it shows up as a liability rather than in revenue

2.5 B in other is just darn scary. I wish I had that much lying arround that I could just call other expense. Think about it. That's almost half their unearned revenue, and double their accounts payable. Weird.

But that's just my opinion. I may be wrong. (stolen from Dennis Miller)

After reading the guidelines to the contest, I figured I'd offer the following models/design specs for those interested in participating:

• Understanding how the Brain works
• When will computer hardware match the human brain?
• How your Brain Works
• How the Human Brain Developed and How the Human Mind Works
• Theory of Sequentially Timed Learning
• If your toaster had a brain
• neuroinformatics (please don't confuse with clam-baking)
• Brain Implants Control Computers