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In case anyone wants to see the pics of that really cool guy in the glasses, I've mirrored all the pics on my uni account.

http://www.msstate.edu/~ajl3/cache/003mid.jpg
http://www.msstate.edu/~ajl3/cache/004mid.jpg
http://www.msstate.edu/~ajl3/cache/013mid.jpg
http://www.msstate.edu/~ajl3/cache/P0000381.gif
http://www.msstate.edu/~ajl3/cache/P0000387.jpg
http://www.msstate.edu/~ajl3/cache/bonifaciy.jpg

Oh yeah...the pics of that chick are there too, but I know none of you care about that...

In case anyone wants to see the pics of that really cool guy in the glasses, I've mirrored all the pics on my uni account.

http://www.msstate.edu/~ajl3/cache/003mid.jpg
http://www.msstate.edu/~ajl3/cache/004mid.jpg
http://www.msstate.edu/~ajl3/cache/013mid.jpg
http://www.msstate.edu/~ajl3/cache/P0000381.gif
http://www.msstate.edu/~ajl3/cache/P0000387.jpg
http://www.msstate.edu/~ajl3/cache/bonifaciy.jpg

Oh yeah...the pics of that chick are there too, but I know none of you care about that...

In case anyone wants to see the pics of that really cool guy in the glasses, I've mirrored all the pics on my uni account.

http://www.msstate.edu/~ajl3/cache/003mid.jpg
http://www.msstate.edu/~ajl3/cache/004mid.jpg
http://www.msstate.edu/~ajl3/cache/013mid.jpg
http://www.msstate.edu/~ajl3/cache/P0000381.gif
http://www.msstate.edu/~ajl3/cache/P0000387.jpg
http://www.msstate.edu/~ajl3/cache/bonifaciy.jpg

Oh yeah...the pics of that chick are there too, but I know none of you care about that...

In case anyone wants to see the pics of that really cool guy in the glasses, I've mirrored all the pics on my uni account.

http://www.msstate.edu/~ajl3/cache/003mid.jpg
http://www.msstate.edu/~ajl3/cache/004mid.jpg
http://www.msstate.edu/~ajl3/cache/013mid.jpg
http://www.msstate.edu/~ajl3/cache/P0000381.gif
http://www.msstate.edu/~ajl3/cache/P0000387.jpg
http://www.msstate.edu/~ajl3/cache/bonifaciy.jpg

Oh yeah...the pics of that chick are there too, but I know none of you care about that...

On one hand, suing spammers; on the other, forcing providers to disclose customer activity. It's dancing with the devil.

-sig. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

Mirror of sites that are blocked is up at http://ra.msstate.edu/~naw4/chinafire.html sans graphics.

My old art teacher ("Stelarc) in high school was doing this kind of stuff in the late 1970's. here is a photo of him with it. This arm would fully duplicate whatever one of his own arms was doing.

1000 km/h, while quite "fast" to us, is still a mere fraction of the speed of light. Relativistic effects, like time dialation, don't begin to occur at what most people would consider "significant" levels until more like 10% of c (light speed). For reference, 1000 km/h is .28 m/s, or so. Light moves at 300,000,000 m/s, making 1000 km/h less than a billionth of the speed of light.

Time dialation is better explained by other sites, but the math involved might be annoying for some. There is an applet for simulation, if you wish, which may or may not work for you; there is also a tutorial in special relativity.

here

Can you still be a karma whore even when you're at the cap?

Wouldn't it be cool to see how many pre-industrial flying machine designs would or wouldn't work on Mars?

A Leonardo da Vinci design that you can get a kit for.

Or how about one of these things?

'Course, there might be a shortage of lumber on Mars, what with the lack of trees and all. We'd have to be sure to bring lots of supplies.

This is ridiculous. At my school the honor code is shoved down our throat. And I mean shoved. Every class I take the professor takes a whole class meeting to tell everyone that even if you 'see' someones code, for a minute, you are cheating.

Look, I don't like it when one guy does the work and everyone else cheats either. Guess what though, that's how the world works. I'm sorry, but we pay these professors quite a good deal, and a lot of them give me little to no direction, and I am going to talk with my classmates as much as possible. No, I am not going to *copy* their code, but I see absolutely no problem with cooperation.

And then there is groups, this is perfect. Yeah, there is always some guy who does all the work. I say too bad for that guy, because if he let's everyone do the work now, he'll be doing all the work for the rest of his life. Go talk to the teacher and tell him/her what's going on, then leave it up to the teacher to mediate. THIS IS HOW THE REAL WORLD WORKS.

I'm one of those 'too old to be in college' guys, so I've seen both sides. In the real world, you almost always work in groups. You have to learn how to manage them, and how to be a part of them.

Let student's cooperate and enforce more tracking on who is contributing how much, moderated by the teacher.

Maybe he's right. It could be that a combination of the running and the boost from well-trained 'pot-grunting' could get him into this time range.

There must be a big difference between being a pilot and qualifying for AFROTC. The Cadets only have to run 2 miles in between 12:30 and 18:00. I guess you can run faster as a commissioned officer.
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the link is interesting though misspelled. Correct would be:
http://www.isip.msstate.edu/projects/speech/softwa re/legacy/fir_echo_canceller/

I haven't tried it myself (I obviously know very little about the matter altogether), but it seems to fit the description of the original problem pretty well. Doesn't look like quite a finished product yet, but, nevertheless, very interesting.

This is a good start. Note that the perl script linked to above only provides raw data to the ec.exe binary, but the source code is linked to on that page. Also, there is more information and the source code at http://www.isip.msstate.edu/projects/speech/softwa re/legacy/fir_echo_canceller/. Nevertheless, consider:

* In running the echo canceller on sparcs (ss20, SPARCserver-1000), it takes between 3 and 4 times realtime to operate.


Now a Pentium III 800 will probably run it in a fraction of the time for an SS20, say 1/2 realtime to 1/4 realtime. But if it is for a mixing project, there will be several streams to process. I wonder if the cost of having to use a dedicated computer for software processing will outweigh the cost of dedicated DSP hardware?

I've posted this same issue before on slashdot. At my university (Mississippi State) they practically cram the academic honesty policy down our throats. What they have said to me, in very clear terms, is this.

If your code is seen by another, that person must cite you as a reference.

If you look at anothers code, that is (point blank) plagiarism.

Discussing an assigment is OK, provided you do not talk about actual implementation. Which, IMHO, is the major POINT of CS, but who am I to say)

This is wrong for a number of reasons. First of which is that the university should encourage cooperation, not discourage it. In the workforce, you're expected to work in a team, not alone. We have a couple of classes which *force* us to work in teams, but wouldn't be nice if we could actually come up with our own?

I don't have time for more details, but I think this whole policy is detrimental to the CS field in general. I'm pretty certain that I've "plagiarized" a number of times no matter how hard I tried not to. There is a common feeling among student that this is just some form of big joke. No one takes it seriously because of the scope of the specification.

I've posted this same issue before on slashdot. At my university (Mississippi State) they practically cram the academic honesty policy down our throats. What they have said to me, in very clear terms, is this.

If your code is seen by another, that person must cite you as a reference.

If you look at anothers code, that is (point blank) plagiarism.

Discussing an assigment is OK, provided you do not talk about actual implementation. Which, IMHO, is the major POINT of CS, but who am I to say)

This is wrong for a number of reasons. First of which is that the university should encourage cooperation, not discourage it. In the workforce, you're expected to work in a team, not alone. We have a couple of classes which *force* us to work in teams, but wouldn't be nice if we could actually come up with our own?

I don't have time for more details, but I think this whole policy is detrimental to the CS field in general. I'm pretty certain that I've "plagiarized" a number of times no matter how hard I tried not to. There is a common feeling among student that this is just some form of big joke. No one takes it seriously because of the scope of the specification.

It doesn't matter if it's cars or computers man.
It still gets me going ;)

We have the security emphasis program in my school at Mississippi State Computer Science I don't know if they have information up about it or not, but your allowed to apply for it as a JUNIOR and it pays for two years of undergraduate if you want. Perhaps it's just different in other places though..

This must only apply to CS students, because I am a computer engineering student and I get more than my fair share... I suppose have a nymph for a girlfriend helps, too. :-P

Seriously, though, I sit and laugh at MS's attempts to infiltrate into the last vestiges where they don't currently have a foothold. I attend MS State and yesterday our Computer Security Research Head, Dr. Vaughn said that he sees Microsoft losing their foothold to Apple and *NIX due to their track record with security alone. But, even Apple and *NIX aren't invulnerable to security issues.

To quote him "if people don't trust them when all of the sensitive data is on one machine, what makes them think that people will trust them when their sensitive data is floating around the internet."

Two things are hindering distributed computing the way MS envisions it: deployment of sufficient broadband and TRUST. People don't trust Microsoft anymore. Even if they were to magically fix every bug in every product and release a patch for it tomorrow, people would not trust them because of their history of neglecting their consumers.

Apple is kind of in the same boat, as is Linux. People distrust Apple because Apple is notoriously narciccistic and people distrust Linux because their is no *one* entity to hold responsible for failure.

Personally, I think that this entire distributed computing push is simply a techno-fad. Sure, we will see some terrific apps emerge which can really take advantage of being interconnected via the web. But, I believe the OS and most productivity apps (like Office, Money, etc.) are at home on the client desktop. I feel that in the end, we will see a compromise be reached. Apps stored on the client with all of our custom content like our documents and such stored in a central location. Then, we can still access our work from any interconnected place, but we are not pushing an entire operating system onto the client terminal.

Sure, you lose some of the customization you may be used to having on your native box, but there's a point to that. We're talking about TERMINALS, not our WORKSTATION. The nature of terminals is that they are temporary works spaces. Let all of our custom prefs sit on our normal workstation and give us a generic "get the work done" environ on the terminals.

But, that's just my opinion...

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This pisses me off, actually. I go to Miss. State University(Dept. of Computer Engineering). Our computer engineering dept. is one of the top ten in the nation and we were denied our copy of this license. Yet, Southern Miss., who doesnt even have a computer engineering research dept. got one. How messed up is that?

ISIP has a pretty good speech to text system that should work on most Linux/Unix boxes.

Takes a little intelligence to set up though.

I love these comments about Mississippi. They make me laugh at the ignorance of the posters.

For what it's worth, Mississippi is ranked THIRD in the US in computing power (behind New Mexico and California) and would rank something like #8 in the world compared to other countries total power.

40% of the US Department of Defense's computing power is in the state.

This is a pretty amazing fact that most people don't realize. So, chances are that you are living in a state or country that has less computer resources than the one that you are making fun of.

For more info I found a couple of sites talking about the state's computing power, clusters, and supercomputers:
MSU's ERC cluster and the rest of the research center.

I thought this info might be interesting for some of those on /. wanting to find out new information about some really cool facilities.

Bias warning: I worked at the ERC for many years on visualization and virtual reality (they have a CAVE).

I love these comments about Mississippi. They make me laugh at the ignorance of the posters.

For what it's worth, Mississippi is ranked THIRD in the US in computing power (behind New Mexico and California) and would rank something like #8 in the world compared to other countries total power.

40% of the US Department of Defense's computing power is in the state.

This is a pretty amazing fact that most people don't realize. So, chances are that you are living in a state or country that has less computer resources than the one that you are making fun of.

For more info I found a couple of sites talking about the state's computing power, clusters, and supercomputers:
MSU's ERC cluster and the rest of the research center.

I thought this info might be interesting for some of those on /. wanting to find out new information about some really cool facilities.

Bias warning: I worked at the ERC for many years on visualization and virtual reality (they have a CAVE).

I love these comments about Mississippi. They make me laugh at the ignorance of the posters.

For what it's worth, Mississippi is ranked THIRD in the US in computing power (behind New Mexico and California) and would rank something like #8 in the world compared to other countries total power.

40% of the US Department of Defense's computing power is in the state.

This is a pretty amazing fact that most people don't realize. So, chances are that you are living in a state or country that has less computer resources than the one that you are making fun of.

For more info I found a couple of sites talking about the state's computing power, clusters, and supercomputers:
MSU's ERC cluster and the rest of the research center.

I thought this info might be interesting for some of those on /. wanting to find out new information about some really cool facilities.

Bias warning: I worked at the ERC for many years on visualization and virtual reality (they have a CAVE).

Here at MSU, laptops are required for engineering students in certain classes (the first of which is thermodynamics, usually taken sophomore year). And if I'm not mistaken, I think next year entering freshman engineering students will be required to have a laptop.

Some of the stuff teachers do with the machines is pretty neat. And I suppose for the non-computer literate engineering students - particularly those who have never owned a computer - they probably learn a good bit. But most of the time people are on Napster, playing video games, or talking to people.

I never really did think the integration of computers in the educational process was done the right way. It might work in mid to upper-level college courses (e.g. using Maple for calculus), but my former high school once considered requiring students to have laptops. Bad idea, I'm glad it never became a reality. We need to emphasize the traditional way of doing things now and let students explore other ways of doing them on their own (perhaps by a trip to the school computer lab).

I would like to read the essay you have written, yet you left no email address. If you manage to read this, would you send it to me: here.

I would not have a problem with services like campuspipeline.com if it were an 'opt-in' type system....
I attend MSU, and we do not have it here, however I remember when I was @ Leon High School in the 9th grade that we had AOL cd's in the computer lab... Perhaps this service would be better if when everyone went and got their books it would be in the bags, or maybe there would be a cd already in your dorm when you got there...
Making the system closed like that is no good... And what OS's does it support? Linux (doubt it), MacOS? (maybe), Win 9x and latest versions of NT? of course, 3,1 (doubt it), BeOS (yah right).
Please..... I am a compsci major,.... If my university required me to run windoze exclusively to access the internet and worldwide web i'd drop out......however i did just think of an idea of what students stuck with this system could do (fortunately we don't have it at Mississippi State I know that with things like bluelight from AOL and with FreeAV from altavista, which are dialup free internet providers the service requires you to click in the box every so many minutes or you disconnect or at least you have to use the computer.... ping programs won't work....
If it's an 'always on' type deal, set up a cheap box as a router... then everyone behind the router would not have to view the ads... hehehehe...anyway.. just an idea..
Look for the TEKMOBL, the chevy with an onboard INTEL chip

Language will evolve and with any-to-any communication will merge into a fabric of langauges. Kinda like taxilinga out of Snow Crash.

"They said it was based on English but not one word in a hundred was recognizable...Taxilinga is melliflous babble with a few harsh foreign sounds, like butter spiced with broken glass."

Well lets see... take a peek at kvoicecontrol for KDE, compliments of Daniel Kiecza.
I haven't checked in a while (may a bit outdated), but heres some linux speech apps
For those that really wanna play, check out IS IP 's ASR project.
For those that are interested in aquiring speech corpa (training data) check out The LDC-online. Get the free guest account, use your perl skills and your imagination, and suddenly the TIMIT corpus is yours :) Granted for non profit use only...

Email me if you're interested in this kinda stuff (or want my timitgrab.pl script)... its not my primary address, but I check it from time to time.

You`d probably be interested in kvoicecontrol for your particular demands.
Oh yeah for my email, the 00 in r00t is two zeros.

Email me if you're interested in this kinda stuff (or want my timitgrab.pl script)... its not my primary address, but I check it from time to time.

As co-maintainer of the comp.ai FAQ, I've come across a number of different open-source speech-recognition products.

The ISIS group at Mississippi State have a DARPA grant to create a fully public domain speech recognition system. A pre-alpha version of the software is available from: this site.

A student in Quebec is also working on a speech recognition system, although it seems as if only some basic signal processing stuff is done at this point. Follow this link for more information.

...is what I want to know. Must not have much to do with who your local political pull. In MS, the only two schools with I2 are Southern Miss and Msstate. Olemiss, alma mater of Trent Lott and countless other tenured politicians doesn't have it, according to the I2 website. Makes sense, though. USM and MSU have the more well developed CS departments. Glad to see that southern pork barrel politics hasn't yet tainted this area of computing.

quick quiz: from memory, tell me what these HN prefixes mean (answers here. no peaking, and no searching msdn)

1. i (ok, thats really easy...)
2. p (hrm, not to hard either...)
3. ch
4. f
5. mps (could be easy, could be hard, depending)

anyway, im sure i could dredge up more examples. one can verify my answers by whipping out msdn, searching for "Hungarian Notation", and reading the handful of docs that come up.

have fun