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Or you can look at another radiation lab, which says:

For radiation protection purposes it is assumed that any dose above zero can increase the risk of radiation-induced cancer (i.e., that there is no threshold). Epidemiologic studies have found that the estimated lifetime risk of dying from cancer is greater by about 0.004% per mSv (0.04% per rem) of radiation dose to the whole body (NRC, 1990)

But hey, don't let mere science get in the way of your political point scoring.

That is the beauty of the one time pad. you can never be sure that you have recovered the correct message. At best you recover all possible plain texts (provided it is a message smaller than the 140 character limit of a tweet). For things like block ciphers (symmetric or asymmetric key) it is easy because you are usually after the key so if all blocks decrypt to something non gibberish it is highly likely that you have the correct key or key that also works. This assumes that a Message Authentication Code (MAC) wasn't also used, if one was then it becomes easy to verify that you have successfully decrypted the message.

To use your example, which is not too dissimilar to what VeraCrypt (and previously TrueCrypt) did. When someone is attempting to break a cipher they will focus on just one of them at a time and figure out how to break just that one. Once they have broken each one separately then they go and just try them in all combinations until they find one that works produces non gibberish output. If you roll your own crypto, and it isn't a one time pad with a proper true random source, you will likely screw it up and it will fall to simple stasticial analysis. Even things like wheel ciphers and reuse of a one time pad can quickly be broken through some neat little tricks where you try to find the length of the block used to encrypt.

If you are interested in some of these things a good place to start might be by reading Applied Cryptography by Bruch Schneier (if you don't want to buy the book you can easily find a PDF version online but I do suggest supporting Bruce as he seems to be a big advocate of freedom and does do a lot of good work). For a simple introduction to modern cryptanalysis you can check this guy's page out. for a more detailed explanation of linear and differential cryptanalysis you can read this paper. Those should provide a good starting point if one wants to learn about making and breaking crypto.

Nothing happened to those workers.

They had a worse incident where they were carrying uranium in a bucket and it went super-critical in 1999. That was a level 4. 2 people died of multiple organ failure.

http://www.mun.ca/biology/scarr/4241_Tokaimura_Accident.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaimura_nuclear_accident

The three operators' doses were far above permissible limits at 3,000, 10,000, and 17,000 mSv; the two receiving the higher doses died several months later.[4] The most severely exposed worker had his body draped over the tank when it went critical. He suffered serious burns to most of his body, experienced severe damage to his internal organs, and had a near-zero white blood cell count.[4]

The cause of the accident was said to be "human error and serious breaches of safety principles", according to the International Atomic Energy Agency.[5]

Which is why we have two systems: Conventional Current and Electron Flow. What you describe is electron flow.

Either can be used. Neither is superior to the other. Both work consistently, AS LONG AS YOU DON'T MIX THEM.

You will find conventional flow notation followed by most electrical engineers, and illustrated in most engineering textbooks. Electron flow is most often seen in introductory textbooks (this one included) and in the writings of professional scientists, especially solid-state physicists who are concerned with the actual motion of electrons in substances. These preferences are cultural, in the sense that certain groups of people have found it advantageous to envision electric current motion in certain ways.

http://www.allaboutcircuits.com/vol_1/chpt_1/7.htmlConventional current tends to be an electrical engineering convention. Electron flow current is a physics conventional preference. Unsurprisingly, partisans of one often complain the other is wrong. This is fanboi-ism, no less than Apple partisans complaining that Windows is wrong.

1. "Not everybody has a computer" - while still somewhat true, it's becoming pretty much a non-issue, when countries like India are putting linux-based tablets into every students hands by subsidizing them so that they only cost $30. (No, not XO-based devices - the XO is overpriced in comparison).

1.a - if you don't have access to a computer outside of school hours, you won't be able to do the rapid code/test/modify loop that is most conductive to learning anyway. The days of painstakingly figuring out what you want to do with flow-charts, writing it all down on 3x5 index cards, going through your card deck to make sure you had no bugs, then committing it to punch tape so you can run it and take the ensuing green-bar print-out to the cafeteria and pore over it to find your errors are long gone.

2. People learn by example, so cut-n-paste solutions definitely have their place. You can take a page to describe the difference between a function declaration and a function definition, and still leave someone scratching their head, or just SHOW them by example.

int foo(int a); // declaration - does nothing except declare that somewhere, we will sit down and define a function called foo();

int foo(int a) { // definition - it defines what foo actually does.
return a*42;
}

3. As for future "real-world" practicality, whatever you teach them today is probably going to be obsolete in 20 years anyway, unless you're teaching them c/c++ (which you don't want to do as a first language if they're kids).

Let them get the basics of reading, writing, math, biology, chemistry, and physics first. The schools are already failing at this, as evidenced by how half of all universities having to give remedial english and math courses. Lest you thing the US is better, 2/3 of students entering college are not ready for it, and only 1/3 actually take remedial classes to help fix the problem and only 3.4% of those tested were suited for taking college-level courses without a remedial course first, of which a large percentage rejected help (which helps explain the drop-out rate)..

Computer courses don't fix these basic problems in reading, writing, and arithmetic. No wonder that in one study 26% of all accountants who graduated failed the simple task of writing a 2-page memo ... and why it's become an increasingly ingrained problem over the years.

Forgot to mention:
here's the site for the avr-libc (erm.. as stdlib is to gcc, this is to avr-gcc).
link

Bunch of examples about how to use the library for ADC, UART, STDIO, SPI, I2C, standard LCD displays, etc.

AVRfreaks is a great resource too, forums, plenty of projects posted, AVR chip comparison area, etc.

The Living Languages Institute is just the latest of a number of organizations devoted to the study and/or maintenance and revitalization of endangered languages. Here are some other organizations and sources of information:

• Canadian Linguistic Association Committee on Aboriginal Languages
• Endangered Languages Fund
• European Minority Languages
• First Nations Languages of British Columbia
• Foundation For Endangered Languages
• Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project
• Indigenous Language Institute (formerly IPOLA)
• International Clearing House for Endangered Languages
• Linguistic Society of America
• Native Languages of the Americas
• The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire
• Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas
• Terralingua
• Volkswagen Foundation Documentation of Endangered Languages Project

Basically The Treaty mentioned gives Earth Governments total power and control over the entire Universe!

It's a ridiculous and worthless piece of paper written by arrogant power hungry and greedy humans who have the gumption to think that they have sovereign power and control who can go where and when and with whom. Then they tell everyone that they are "free" and we buy it.

Do as the fictional Astronaut Farmer did, ignore them. He tried it there way and they just tried to protect their interest of control over power and freedom of movement. Then he just went.

Ignore the Treaty, it's worthless. Go to the moon. Do it now. Go to Mars. Do it now.

What will they do? Shoot you down after you launch? There's a good chance of that, but, na, the worst they'll try to do is give you a ticket or want you to slap their silly NASA logo onto YOUR ship. Meanwhile the rest of the world will be cheering you all the way.

Freedom. True Freedom is freedom from the control of others. True Freedom and Power. Of course, with power comes responsibility... as Ben Parker says... and which current world governments and those with power fail to heed.

Do we really want our Sol Solar System run and controlled by the likes of those in power (pick any country in the world)? Not on your life. Most governments on Earth are anti-peace through their actions of killing people via their state sponsored terrorism.

"Even the most vile serial killers have nothing on the deadliest organizations on Earth - governments that encourage war and genocide." - Elliott Leyton.

See the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's excellent two part documentary series "The Man Who Studies Murder", part two is on State sponsored Murder - the largest killer of humans on the planet:
http://www.arts.mun.ca/anthropology/people/scau/leytonE.php
http://www.nfb.ca/collection/films/fiche/?id=51458
http://www.cbc.ca/news/yourinterview/2007/04/anthropologist_and_author_elli.html
http://www.google.ca/search?num=100&hl=en&newwindow=1&safe=off&q=+%22the+man+who+studies+murder%22&btnG=Search&meta=

"The Man Who Studies Murder, Part 2: The Anthropology of Murder looks at the culture of killing and why some countries produce more killers than others. The murder rate in Canada is 1 in 100,000 while in the United States it is a remarkable 10 murders per 100,000, the highest rate of any western, developed nation. Leyton argues, using Newfoundland as an example, that this can be explained by cultural differences. Killing is rare in that province because the people there developed a peaceful means of preventing conflict and violence using ostracism, gossip and ridicule. In the United States, on the other hand, violence was instrumental in the creation of the country, and, as a result, became socially acceptable. It is an American's constitutional right to bear arms, and the United States is the only western nation to still use capital punishment."

"Leyton also argues that governments are the real serial killers by ordering their soldiers to go to war. While the politicians try to justify wars and make them legitimate with propaganda, they are still murder. Government complicity in mass murder is highlighted using the examples of genocide in Rwanda and the holocaust in Nazi Germany. The tape does not explain the cultural causes of those tragedies."
http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol11/no11/themanwhostudiesmurder.html

One can also point to Iraq

> It may cause pain now, but increase your chance for cancer, much like sunburn.
Sunburn causes cancer because the frequency of UV light is extremely high, approximately 10^17Hz. The energy available in a photon is directly related to frequency by Planck's constant, so the higher the frequency the more energy one photon has. Right around the frequency of UV light, electromagnetic radiation becomes ionizing radiation, which means that there is enough energy to knock electrons off important things (like your DNA), and cause mutations, which lead to cancer, as Dr. Tyrell explained to us in Bladerunner.

You think that's bad? Imagine this without the labels or blood vessels. Then imagine drawing it on the chalkboard and only realizing what you'd drawn after giving a 10-minute lecture on the endocrine system with it behind you the whole time.

Tang was created in 1957 or so, and had nothing to do with the space program until they started using it during Gemini.

That aside, the answer to your question is that we don't know what we're going to learn from projects like this. But we do fundamental research like this anyway, for a variety of reasons best expressed by this article.

Ok, so here goes.

Big Freaking Disclaimer, I work for IBM in support...

That being said, I use Linux as my primary desktop both at work(thank you IBM) and at home. Debian on both, though I do have to say, I just built a MythTV box and used Ubuntu(faster updates/multimedia/interface acceptable to the female counterpart) and I am VERY impressed with Fiesty Fawn 7.0.4. I have been running Linux since the pre-1.0 kernels and it has been my desktop of choice since 98 and my ./ account number is 5 digits(as well as my ICN number, yeah who cares). I am also in school working with HPC(High performance computing) building, programming and maintaining beowulf clusters. My point is this, I have more experience with Linux than most.

Being that I work at IBM, I also have alot of experience with AIX. While personally, I hate AIX(any UNIX that cannot be administered via vi is shit in my book, take that any way you like), AIX is EXTREMELY stable, and IBM makes sure of it. I have seen the testing they do to both the hardware and software(OS level at least) and it is centered around stability/reliability first and foremost, followed closely by serviceability(tracing facilities, error reporting/recording), performance and then ease of use. Now, this order is not true of all commercial UNIXs, Solaris is used more in scientific applications/number crunching and tends to focus a bit more on performance over serviceability(surely) and possibly even stability. I have seen more Solaris machines bite it than AIX machines, but this is more likely hardware related that OS related. In either case, they are inherently more stable than Linux.

Yeah, I said it, and its true. While Linux is a WONDERFUL and EXCITING desktop OS, and makes a damn fine department server, the OS itself, and not even so much the OS, the kernel is pretty darn stable(dont believe me, boot up a Linux machine and dont do anything, it will run until something harware/power related dies). It is the surrounding libraries and applications that are not quite up to snuff. We in support see this a number of times. Here is an example:

Currently today, right now, PDKSH that is available on http://web.cs.mun.ca/~michael/pdksh/ is completely broken when it comes to job control. Now most of you have no clue what I mean by that, but a quick explanation is placing jobs into the background with a '&' at the end of the command line. Now programmatically, there are a number of way to do this from the shell and on PDKSH, they are completely broken. I tracked this down back in 2002 and a bug report was submitted to the developer of PDKSH. Every major Linux disribution shipped this binary in 2002, so we actually had to package and ship our own version of pdksh to make things work. Redhat later switched to AT&T's ksh, because pdksh was too broken to fix for the most part. Roll forward to 2004, we ran into a really strange problem with one of the products I support(Tivoli) and worked it for 2 months, tracing calls/checking stack traces/and general debugging and in the end, it worked right back around to this bug in pdksh. The customer had installed our pdksh, but later, had replaced it with SuSE's, which at that time was still broken. A colleague of mine finally sat down, on IBM's dime mind you, and took the time to report this bug to all the major distributions, here is the one from Debian:

http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist@lists .debian.org/msg17434.html

This is just one package. There are a thousand stories out there that are the same. I know we regularly submit libc patches as well because we find stuff that is borked in there.

So all in all, its not really the kernel, so much as it is the rest of the building blocks that one must use within Linux. You could use your own compiler and libraries, but then are you really using

I've been a hard-core programmer for about 15 years and have had no problems (with my wrists/hands, that is). Until a couple of years ago. What happened then is that I had picked up playing drums (again) a few months earlier, and on one occurrance (it never happened again, for obvious reasons), I practiced an obscene amount of single strokes (alternating left-right hand) at high speed and at length. Completely insane, I know. Now. A day or two after this, my problems started... My problems now is quite annoying numbness in pinky and ring fingers and along that "edge" of the hand, both left and right, and the whole length of the ulnar nerve from upper arm to hand is very sensitive. I can trigger the funny bone feeling by simply stroking the inside of my upper arm (for those that do not know, the "funny bone" is actually the ulnar nerve http://www.med.mun.ca/anatomyts/nerve/ulnar1.gif). I can no longer play the drums. It gets significantly worse after about 5-10 minutes and I'm forced to stop. My typing has suffered as well. I can't type as fast as I could before and my pinky fingers feel slow and weak(er). My problems aren't really about pain, but mostly the numbness. It can ache somewhat for short periods if I type for longer periods (which is now only a few hours). The diagnoses I've gotten basically boils down to either back problem or simply "pressure on ulnar nerve" (at the wrist), and none of the people and different kinds of doctors I've talked to, seem to have idea what to do about it. Seeing that the problems started after my little "session" and it not something that has gradually increased over time, I personally doubt that the "classic" reasons for RSI apply in my case. Like, bad posture, bad keyboard etc. Nor do I think the problem is related to back problems (I've never had any significant problems with my back either). I might as well throw a question out there while I'm at it,any suggestions or similar experiences? I read the page on JWZ, some good points there.

I hope this isn't lost at the end of the thread but if anyone wants to leave an imprint on these boobs who think it's that easy to "prove evolution". I have some email addresses you might enjoy.

Links that have emails for the SSHRC members who rejected Alters application:
http://www.english.ucalgary.ca/faculty/s_bennett.h tm
http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~lfelt/oldindex.html
http://www.uottawa.ca/academic/arts/history/prof_h eap.html
http://www.uqac.ca/aemeir/articles.php?lng=fr&pg=6 5
http://www.economie.uqam.ca/fich_profs_html/prof_r _ruth.html

I was tempted to paste the emails directly but I didn't want to get in trouble for that. If you care about this, send them an email and tell them how you feel and if you're Canadian cc your MP, you never know if your MP might get involved. I cc'ed mine, I hope he does something because this just hurts. I'm without words to convey how pissed I am.

Not necessarily. Many sites are set aside and intentionally preserved for future archaeologists to excavate (with more advanced technology). The act of excavating destroys the site, so modern archaeologists will often forego instant gratification in the name of science.

Some light reading for the doubtful/curious:
http://www.usi.edu/extserv/archlgy/whatsarch.html
http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~jerwin/Week2.html

That said, I'd have no issues with digging into a modern christian's tomb. Unfortunately modern man just doesn't have the skeletal robustness of earlier "models," so there wouldn't be much left of him/her to look at.
Possessions on the other hand... :) I wonder how many years an ipod will hang in there...

2005 saw the coldest winter in 70 years in New Delhi, India.

Here's why we do basic research:

http://www.math.mun.ca/~edgar/moody.html

From a molecular biologist's viewpoint:

It's a common misconception that bacteria don't have sex. Many species do transfer genetic material, for example E. coli. This is called conjugation. Some E. coli strains contain the F' plasmid which encodes pili (think submicroscopic hair-like penises) which allows them to transfer the plasmid (or in rare "Hfr" strains, part of the main chromosome) to other recipient strains (you can consider them "male"-like). Very rarely this also appears to transfer to other species, which is one mechanism through which nasty things like antibiotic resistance genes jump the species barrier. Some bacteriophage (bacterial viruses) infect cells with pili so this tends to select against F' containing bacteria.

A link I just found: http://www.mun.ca/biochem/courses/3107/Lectures/To pics/conjugation.html

Skype's development team sends a visual response.

I, for one, welcome our Tenth Planet overlords:

http://www.physics.mun.ca/~sps/serials/dd.html

Sorry, you've commited the fallacy of equivocation, using a key word in an argument with several different meanings. A scientific theory like evolution or global warming doesn't mean idle speculation with no supporting evidence. That's a hypothesis. A scientific theory is a well-tested mathematical model for describing natural events.

In the Doctor Who episode Seeds of Death, Earth stops using rockets..

This news brought to my mind that episode with the second doctor (Patrick Troughton), who gets to the moon in an old rocket (perhaps it was an Atlas!).

To generate the sequence, all the chromosomes were cut into fragments, cloned, then sequenced. Dogs have two copies of each chromosome (and either an XX or XY pair). The DNA sequence of a region of one chromosome may be different than same region of the other chromosome. In this example, one sequence had a cytosine at that position, while the other sequence had a thymine. To make it easier to decsribe that difference, or polymorphism, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) created a nomenclature for describing degenerate sequences. The symbol Y represents either a C or a T at that position. To answer your question, Y (C or T) pairs with R (G or A).

A full listing of IUPAC codes may be found here.

• pdksh is a superb shell
• screen is a first-rate window manager
• nvi is a fine editor
• lynx is a good browser
• snownews is a decent RSS aggregator
• And /usr/bin contains most anything else you might require.

Essentially that's true, I suppose. NOVA was around 100 Terawatts per shot (I've heard it was capable of 100 Kilojoules per shot but I suspect it was actually less). NOVA only had 10 beams though and this ended up creating huge problems. When a pellet was imploded on NOVA the beam/beam instabilities and nonuniformity of the irradiation on target caused very large hydrodynamic instabilities as it imploded (Rayleigh-Taylor instability mostly) which spoiled the fusion reaction before it could really start.

The Omega laser with its 60 beams produces much higher irradiation uniformity and even though it's lower power than NOVA(which was decomissioned in '99) it holds the record for neutron production in a shot at something like 5X10^13 neutrons, indicating a much 'cleaner' convergence and fusion burn. There were several lasers at LLNL before the NOVA laser with various names like Janus, Argus and Shiva, which all used the fundamental frequency of Nd:glass lasers at 1064 nanometers(infrared) and the great contribution in the early '80s to ICF laser fusion by the Omega guys was the idea to convert this IR to its third harmonic at ~351 nanometers in the UV. This greatly increased laser absorption efficiency on target and consequently increased target compression pressures/temperatures accordingly. Allmost all high power Nd:glass lasers use this technique today.

Ic giet gecwedan eald Englisc ge insensitive clod!

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What about the pyramid then? Or are they afraid of disrupting the martian mind-control equipment inside it?

Nah. They just don't want to bother Sutekh.

Where did you go to medical school?

Metabolism and heat production

case statement in /etc/rc to support this behavior, but pdksh does not currently support a case statement.

You, sir, are an idiot. See here.

Oh sorry I didn't explain b/c it wasn't important. I don't know why I mentioned it in the first place. :) MUN just stands for Memorial University of Newfoundland.

Here is a university short course offered by an archaeology dept on forensic investigation.

The School of Conservation Sciences at Bournemouth University offers highly successful postgraduate courses in Forensic Archaeology and Forensic and Biological Anthropology, as well as an undergraduate programme in Archaeology. The Forensic Archaeology course provides valuable expertise in the search, location and recovery of buried victims and materials, and shows how archaeological principles and methods may be applied and adapted within the constraints of the criminal justice system. Forensic anthropology involves the analysis of human skeletal remains using methods developed within biological anthropology and adapting these for application within a judicial context.

-AD

TIA == The Internet Adapter, popular about ten years ago.

so what happens if you don't like the crap they wanna force-feed everyone?

what if your style is industrial, ambient, techno, folk, noise - whatever... stuff that isn't top-40 is most likely going to be ignored completely; and these students will still be forced to pick up the tab

There's a 'field house' here at the university; a nice recreation facility, but there was a HUGE uproar from students who didn't want to foot the 40$ per semester fee to use it whether they'd actually use it or not - i forsee similar outcries about any service which likely would suck for all but the lowest common denominator - pop music is all you'll see, and it's what we're all force-fed right from the start

For a kid interested in the bones of the human body here is an interactie Human Skeleton.

Well, the NF body APEGN did take issue with MUN. They did holdout on its consent on the accrediation process MUN's Engineering programme. I haven't heard much since the October 1999: `The Canadian Council of Professional Engineers and the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Newfoundland have discontinued their lawsuit regarding the use of the term "software engineering" against Memorial University.' MUN Gazette.

Software Engineering is still offered by the Computer Science within the Faculty of Science (and not the Faculty of Engineering). I believe the view here at MUN is that APEGN lost this one.

Well, the NF body APEGN did take issue with MUN. They did holdout on its consent on the accrediation process MUN's Engineering programme. I haven't heard much since the October 1999: `The Canadian Council of Professional Engineers and the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Newfoundland have discontinued their lawsuit regarding the use of the term "software engineering" against Memorial University.' MUN Gazette.

Software Engineering is still offered by the Computer Science within the Faculty of Science (and not the Faculty of Engineering). I believe the view here at MUN is that APEGN lost this one.

While the provincial Professional Engineering acts do not restrict the use of "Engineering", Canadian copyright law does.

"CCPE maintains official marks on the terms engineer, engineering, professional engineer, P.Eng., consulting engineer, ingénieur, ing., ingénieur conseil, génie and ingénierie. This helps CCPE's constituent members to enforce the provisions of the Engineering Act in their jurisdiction, and protect the Canadian public through the regulation of engineering practice."

(see here.)

In fact, the professional engineering body of Newfoundland pulled MUN's accreditation briefly over a "software engineering" program that they offered.

-legolas

Context: I'm in my 4th year of Electrical and Computer Engineering at a Canadian university.

As I am getting towards the end of my degree and I'm getting ready to head out into the big world and work, we've started to be taught several ethics courses. Additionally, I have recently received my iron ring - a symbolic (and secret!) ceremony that affirms my commitment to public safety. Through this, I have been picking up the subtleties of a professional designation.

A Professional Engineer, like a Professional Doctor, Nurse, Lawyer, etc., has a deal of responsibility to the public at large. The privilege of being able to build large buildings, for example, comes at the cost of being responsible that the building doesn't fall. Accordingly, Professionals have professional bodies that they are accountable to above and beyond their responsibilities as a normal citizen. The laws are also much harsher on a professional when they don't act in a professional manner.

My main issue with software developers using the title "Engineer" is that the software development industry at large doesn't seem to adhere to the professional conduct demanded of a professional. Just take a look at the standard EULA as an example - imagine if the designers of bridges did a similar thing? While I have no qualms about the software developer "engineering" in the sense of creating, I wouldn't call a first aider a "doctor", despite the fact they do the same thing.

From my perspective, the ideal solution would be to integrate the software developing business into the Engineering profession. In addition to having a professional title, this would be a healthy step towards maturity of an industry that is plagued by antitrust, among other things. This could help bring respect and dignity to the software developer - in addition to more money - which I believe is what people really want.

Anyways, until such time as this happens, I'm not comfortable with the use of "Engineer" by software developers. In Canada, the term "Engineer" is actually copyrighted to the Canadian Council of Professional Engineers - a few years ago, there was actually a conflict with a University that provided an unaccredited course called "Software Engineering", claiming academic freedom. It resulted in a mess, including the temporary withdrawal of accreditation to the engineering programs at the university.

Which was a bit counter-productive.

-legolas

I'm serious about this. Canadian Engineering schools tend to have funding available to help companies and non-profit organizations to hire coop students for 4 months. Let's just do a little math here. In my school a fair wage, in the current market that is, is 15 dollars an hour. You can get into a SECPAC fund and supplement 5 dollars an hour. So for a 40 hour week for 16 weeks you will only have to pay 10 dollars an hour for a grand total of 6400 dollars.

Now I'm aware there are even more programs in place at other schools that will fund even more than this so you would probably be able to get away with paying aprox. 3000 to have a computer engineering student working on a solution customized specificaly for you. My advice is to check with your local universitys engineering program or CS program and attempt to hire an intern. They will be able to program you something really good in 4-6 months I'm sure.

Talking of Doctor Who, there was a terrific story, created in the late 60s, which was set on the London Underground. Unfortunately, all but the first episode were destroyed in the 70s, but the novel is still around and can be easily obtained. You can find info about the episode here.

I've always been impressed by clock reactions. This time of year, if you can get an orange/black one going for halloween it would be perfect:

http://www.mun.ca/educ/ed4361/virtual_academy/camp us_a/woodlandm/Demo1.html

Of course this one is great, especially this time of year. http://www.mun.ca/educ/ed4361/virtual_academy/camp us_a/woodlandm/Demo1.html.

The public computer labs in my university already do this. They dual boot windows and mandrake, but I see more people who just log into KDE rather than reboot into windows.

pmj

You be the judge . Oops, I'm -terribly- sorry. The site's dude has a little mark for his chin and the eyebrows are thicker. :-) Anyway, here's some info on the series.

Here's an article about the first transatlantic radio transmission from a member of a Newfoundland amateur radio club.

• A little history of the annual commemorations of the first transatlantic wireless transmission. The very bottom of the page has information on recent years.
  Dr. Zedel taught me Ocean Acoustics last semester...
  
• The Instrumentation, Control and Automation lab on the floor below me is organizing a radio-building contest for high-school students.
  
• The Italian site already linked elsewhere in the comments.
  

• A little history of the annual commemorations of the first transatlantic wireless transmission. The very bottom of the page has information on recent years.
  Dr. Zedel taught me Ocean Acoustics last semester...
  
• The Instrumentation, Control and Automation lab on the floor below me is organizing a radio-building contest for high-school students.
  
• The Italian site already linked elsewhere in the comments.
  

• A little history of the annual commemorations of the first transatlantic wireless transmission. The very bottom of the page has information on recent years.
  Dr. Zedel taught me Ocean Acoustics last semester...
  
• The Instrumentation, Control and Automation lab on the floor below me is organizing a radio-building contest for high-school students.
  
• The Italian site already linked elsewhere in the comments.
  

Nice catch!

Now here's a lot more than you needed to know.

The fourth search result is actually quite good. It's related to the math assignment I mentioned in my first post. The course in Engineering 9100 - Numerical Analysis, and joy of joys, we're doing Perturbation methods. The assignment has a dumb cubic polynomial that I'm supposed to solve approximately. I'd rather be anywhere else but in school working on this assignment right now...

Christopher

Sorry about the bad HTML formatting. I guess I can't have separate paragraphs inside a BLOCKQUOTE in a comment posted as Plain Old Text. It formatted fine in preview.

this is what I saw in the comment preview. I'm too lazy to find the proper place to submit bugs to slashcode, hence the horribly off-topic post.