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I think another important distinction is rape. Slaves could not say no to sex. Indentured servants were not expected to submit to their masters sexually, although I'm sure there were many instances of rape there a well.

Shameless plug time!

I'm a student at Bowdoin College, and the current lead developer of the motion engine we run on our Naos to compete in the RoboCup Standard Platform League. The idea of the SPL league is that all teams use the same hardware (the Nao) so that the entire competition is about the software. My team, the Northern Bites has written our own omni-directional motion engine, vision system and behavior stack (the latter two in C++/ASM, the behaviors in Python). We recently hosted the US Open up at Bowdoin, and we're headed to Istanbul in early July for the world championships.

The Aldebaran guys rock, and the Nao is an extremely cool platform for bipedal research (it runs a stripped down version of Debian).

If you're interested, here's our public GitHub and YouTube

Not sure if this will help but FWIW:

http://learn.bowdoin.edu/computer-science/tablets/index.shtml

> Round Table Project Executive Summary

> For the Round Table Project, Professors Adriana Palacio and Stephen Majercik re-designed the introductory-level computer science course to become an interactive, problem-based learning class. By making use of HP Tablet PCs and Dyknow software, the instructors increased the engagement of students with a wide range of knowledge and skills. The primary goal of Round Table was to facilitate a positive learning experience for students, who have varying degrees of exposure to computer science, in order to encourage prolonged study and interest in computer science.

Low power? Green machine?

Try an abacus, the most environmentally friendly calculation device (and avoid the ones that use lead-based paint).

Or did you mean an environmental friendly computer?

My good friend Tim Aron and Josh Rady built a water adder at Bowdoin in 1994, capable of adding 2 8-bit values.

http://academic.bowdoin.edu/computer-science/proje cts/html/wateradder2.shtml

"And killing infant girls really isn't pervasive in modern China, even in rural areas, regardless of whatever uninformed drivel Microsoft-NBC is spewing today."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story Id=3499024
http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/sociology/000 040.shtml

"China's demographics don't add up, according to a new study. The country's 2000 census indicates 120 boys are born for every 100 girls, the highest ratio ever recorded in human history (in average populations, the sex ratio is 105 to 100)."

Can you locate a study suggesting a biological cause for this anomaly? Are you suggesting this is just a coincidence?

Yahoo! wants to be cross platform???!

Oh, when that happens pigs will fly. They notoriously are not only single platform but actually do really stupid things.

Their music service, launched oh... in the last few months!!! tells Macintosh users that they must use Netscape 4.7 in order to use Yahoo! Music Limited!

Check this out:
http://rino.bowdoin.edu/wordpress/archives/2005/06 /yahoo-music-unlimited

Yep, CRAY has already made a massively parallel 3D computer.

I tell you this move is hideous.

I just tried to install the Microsoft anti-spyware beta. (how could one resist with this dorky picture?? http://rino.bowdoin.edu/img/dork.jpg)

Well have you tried? You are taken to the biggest of big brother pages, the About Genuine Microsoft Software screeds!!! What a pant-load. You can't download the anti-spyware until you allow an active-x control to do something on your computer to verify that indeed, you are running Windows (well ok a valid purchased copy of windows).

It's sick and they just keep getting sicker.

It's a finite state machine, but still a very cool little project.

Wouldn't it be just as easy to immunize everyone with nanobots to defend against the attacking nanobots?

No, it would not. There is a fundamental inequality in the progress rates of offensive and defensive technologies. Essentially, when technology increases to double its previous power, the ability to defend also doubles, but the ability to attack quadruples.

We can easily build stronger guns, but can't make much tougher armor. Or consider atomic bombs. Several fairly small countries have the ability to use them to attack, but even the leading scientists in the USA haven't created a working missile-defense system yet.

There are billions more ways to kill a human than to leave him alive.

Another way to look at it is as maintenannce costs. One missed chance for attack = try again tommorrow. Missed chance to defend = you're dead!

I'm having a hard time understanding the difficulty. Libraries around the country can do it, why can't yours?

At my University I had to sign something to alow my parents to receive my grades, even though they paid the tuition. It had soemthing to do with FERPA.

several years ago -- spring '95

a water adder capable of adding 2 8 bit values

LINK

a friend of mine in college (Aron) made a water adder capable of adding two 8-bit values -- all with water streams.

LINK

Hi. I go to Bowdoin College, and we have one of these that i manage. It works pretty well - almost scary. Using sliding TCP windows sizes & delayed acks to do its magic...pretty neat stuff. Strangely enough, the new version of Kazaa gets through the Shaper quite nicely, as it likes to port hop to port 80 - and the Packeteer people cant fix it yet due to memory leak issues. Its a neat little box.

So get off your high horse, it makes *perfect* sense to talk about this being "very unique".

You are simply wrong and here's the evidence to prove it:

Common Errors in English Usage
Some Common Grammar and Usage Mistakes in Undergraduate Philosophy Papers
Bowdoin College -- A Style Guide
The Dirty Dozen
Additional Writing Hints (first entry)
Unique and Other Absolute Modifiers
See Curmudgeon's Corner...our soapbox where we vent our spleen regarding abuses of the English language.

I am a published writer and experienced editor, so you can stop making a fool of yourself and let this drop. Or you can amuse me further by trying to come up with some explanation of why you believe that you are right.

IMDB is actually 12 years old. Read this for more information.

Thanks for the link. That's a couple of years longer than I thought.
It still isn't very long when compared with the history of film though.

IMDB is actually 12 years old. Read this for more information.

Here at Bowdoin, we get to keep our real address after we graduate. for example, if my username was msmiles while I was enrolled, my email for like is msmiles@bowdion.edu. We dont even tack on a @alum.bowdoin.edu. Plus, because we are small, we often allow people that get married to add a new alias for their new name. One of the advatages of a small scool. Of course this policy leads to people having addressing like asmith14...but..... .matt

Sounds like you're misinformed.

Can I quote you when I next talk to the folks planning this? ;)

Some quick, publicly-available mentions of the plans (note the recurrent references to Lake Vostok, the Antarctic lake with miles-thick ice cover, which is our present best model for the Europa ocean):

From Wired ; search for "Engelhardt", near the end. He's the CalTech glaciologist who invented the "hot water drill."

BBC's Online talks about this, too: the article is about the parallels between Antarctia's Lake Vostok and Europa. Search for "melt," it's the third occurance of the word. Frank Carsey, who's talking, is with the Polar Oceanography Group at JPL (and is mentioned in the Wired link, too).

A website on Europa's oceans, which mentions the "melting" plan. Papers are cited, and the bibliography's here.

JPL's website also mentions it; search for "hydrobots". Also check the Europa Orbiter Fact Sheet link (to a PDF) on that same page.

And finally, a Michigan State University honors course page which talks about the proposed Odysseus Mission, which is looking at an ice-melting "drill".

I'm not misinformed -- I think you haven't thought it through. Yeah, drilling that deep on Earth is incredibly hard, if not impossible. But Europa (and Lake Vostok, for that matter) are covered with miles of ice, not rock... a very different problem, with a very different solution.

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Sounds like you're misinformed.

Can I quote you when I next talk to the folks planning this? ;)

Some quick, publicly-available mentions of the plans (note the recurrent references to Lake Vostok, the Antarctic lake with miles-thick ice cover, which is our present best model for the Europa ocean):

From Wired ; search for "Engelhardt", near the end. He's the CalTech glaciologist who invented the "hot water drill."

BBC's Online talks about this, too: the article is about the parallels between Antarctia's Lake Vostok and Europa. Search for "melt," it's the third occurance of the word. Frank Carsey, who's talking, is with the Polar Oceanography Group at JPL (and is mentioned in the Wired link, too).

A website on Europa's oceans, which mentions the "melting" plan. Papers are cited, and the bibliography's here.

JPL's website also mentions it; search for "hydrobots". Also check the Europa Orbiter Fact Sheet link (to a PDF) on that same page.

And finally, a Michigan State University honors course page which talks about the proposed Odysseus Mission, which is looking at an ice-melting "drill".

I'm not misinformed -- I think you haven't thought it through. Yeah, drilling that deep on Earth is incredibly hard, if not impossible. But Europa (and Lake Vostok, for that matter) are covered with miles of ice, not rock... a very different problem, with a very different solution.

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