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I had a prof for discrete math that work heavily on linguistice reseach... check out some of his papers and contact him for more info.
  http://www.csc.ncsu.edu/faculty/rodman/

"Question (From an N.C. State staff member): Where in heaven's name did the habit of putting a punctuation mark within a quote become policy? When quoting something that does not especially end with a period it seems unnatural to put a period wit hin the quotation marks just because it ends a sentence. (". . . to take the food away from the cat is not always. . . ." To my way of thinking this is wrong and should be ". . . to take the food away from the cat is not always . . .". But, perhaps, I jus t don't see the logic.

Answer: You're right. American English is consistent in this punctuation policy. You can look for relief in British publications, which follow the rule you find more logical.

You are not alone in objecting to the American convention. A whole group of kindred spirits is lurking on one of the links from the N.C. State Online Writing Lab homepage. The "Frequently Asked Questions" link (on the bulleted list at the bottom of the page or directly at http://www.rt66.com/ telp/styfaq1.htm#q1) puts this question to a vote of copyeditors. The American system wins out, but the British system has surprising support. The analysis covers the reasons for the opinions."

"Finally, there remains the problem of whether to put other punctuation marks inside or outside the quotation marks. There are two schools of thought on this, which I shall call the logical view and the conventional view.

The logical view holds that the only punctuation marks which should be placed inside the quotation marks are those that form part of the quotation, while all others should be placed outside. The conventional view, in contrast, insists on placing most other punctuation marks inside a closing quote, regardless of whether they form part of the quotation. Here are two sentences punctuated according to the logical view:

        "The only thing we have to fear", said Franklin Roosevelt, "is fear itself."
        The Prime Minister condemned what he called "simple-minded solutions".

And here they are punctuated according to the conventional view:

        "The only thing we have to fear," said Franklin Roosevelt, "is fear itself."
        The Prime Minister condemned what he called "simple-minded solutions."

Note the placing of the comma after fear in the first example and of the final full stop in the second. These are not part of their quotations, and so the logical view places them outside the quote marks, while the conventional view places them inside, on the theory that a closing quote should always follow another punctuation mark."

Not to mention, he and his siblings are such geniuses and so above the mass of humanity that his brother is able to easily conquer the world by the sheer power of his intellect. It's heady stuff for a scholastically over-average kid who fancies himself smarter than his peers. That's why Ender's Game is popular, not because it has any value as SF. I wouldn't trust kids to understand the difference between the twisted world of the book and reality.

See this article from John Kessel for more extended criticism among these lines.

It's a decent enough book, and held my attention up until the last few pages (with Ender nursing a bugger from his super-child teat). Unlike most first-time readers, I had the benefit of being older than 20 when first picking it up. Like many other things from childhood (Star Wars, anyone?), the book picks up a gilded nostalgia that prevents an objective look later on. I'm no literary critic, but it's interesting to see other people reach the same conclusion.

Actually, this is not as far-fetched as it sounds. Having read the Ender series, I was left somewhat unsettled by it but I didn't give it enough of my focus to figure out why - and then I read this: "Creating the Innocent Killer: Ender's Game, Intention, and Morality" by John Kessel http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/Killer_000.htm

Given OSC's political views, I think it can pretty safely be said that the guy is basically a fascist sympathesizer or something else equally distasteful.

FWIW, you could check out Wiki on "Ender's Game" here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ender's_game

What's interesting is that there are many parallels between Hitler and Ender, watered down only by the fact that Card carefully constructed the story so as to ameliorate Ender's personal culpability - but when you think about it, the story is so contrived as to make that possibility somewhat implausible even within the context of a rather far out sci-fi story.

One of the images from the page you provide is simply a rotation of the image I linked to: the Myst garden.

• the fake image isn't even anti-aliased...
• in the fake the mountain has blue shadows in contrast to the rest of the scene, implies primitive montage
• the marble texture an the columns--the fake image has a procedural texture that isn't anywhere near marble, it also uses an ugly green-gray color
• the texture on the building--in the fake the texture is too small, also has the ugly green-gray
• the trees in the fake are notheing like the slender trees in the real one, the tree stums have compleatly different textures
• the fake completely lacks the path
• also seems to be missing the builing seen on the right in the real picture, I think it should be seen through the trees the fakes point
• the mountains are nothing alike
• the terrain is nothing alike, especially obvius through the huge bump in front of the camera of the fake that is nowhere to be seen in the real
• the fake has brown spots in the 'grass'
• the building in the real image has more complex geometry
• the columns in the real one aren't cylinders
• in myst you couldn't see clouds
• the sky colour differs
• in the fake the base of the switch has a primitive noise texture

I don't get how my example image was an insult while yours was a compliment.

In any case, story, animation, sound effects, atmospheric music and a whole lot of polish COULD be done - nowhere did I say that we are all Myst artists, only that the EQUIPMENT that the average desktop user has rivals a whole studio from 15 years ago.

See dictionary definition that I provide downthread.

Why don't you go to http://www.econym.demon.co.uk/ and explain to this guy that the sea-shells he makes with a single object and a well-chosen formula are impossible?

And go to this page: http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/pov__eng.htm and tell the guy writing these tutorials that show complex rendered scenes in just a dozen lines of code are impossible?

And your next stop should be here: http://www.povray.org/ and then compare the images you saw in the POVray hall of fame to this scene from Myst classic: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~dwbruhn/Terragen/Myst.jpg and tell me that they would all take the same amount of time?

And then go to hell so the rest of us can have a decent conversation for a change.

Why don't you go to http://www.econym.demon.co.uk/ and explain to this guy that the sea-shells he makes with a single object and a well-chosen formula are impossible? And go to this page: http://www.f-lohmueller.de/pov_tut/pov__eng.htm and tell the guy writing these tutorials that show complex rendered scenes in just a dozen lines of code are impossible? And your next stop should be here: http://www.povray.org/ and then compare the images you saw in the POVray hall of fame to this scene from Myst classic: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~dwbruhn/Terragen/Myst.jpg and tell me that they would all take the same amount of time? The scene from Myst runs to 45 boxes, 37 cylinders, 6 triangular prisms, the tree objects (which look like a cone with a bark texture, about 10 cylinders for the branches, a .png texture with transparency and a leaf fractal rendered in green scattered around it, joined together as a merged object and copy 'n' pasted about 16 times), two height fields (one for the ground and another for the mountain...height fields can just be monochrome bitmaps with a random scattering of noise in them, which, when fed to the ray-tracer, get interpretted as white-high-Y-coordinate, black-low-Y-coordinate, grey in-between), and a sky texture (in POVray, that's the Bozo texture with about 0.7 turbulance and a color-map of four colors, two whites and two blues.)

But hey! You got it, that's impossible!!! Isn't this the same damn crowd that screams Linux is too hard to use (which makes my 8-year-old daughter superior in computer skills to you)? http://liw.iki.fi/liw/texts/linux-anecdotes.html Go tell THAT guy that it's impossible for a 21-year-old who starts out with no computer to write an entire operating system that sees global use.

Go tell a literary scholar that it was impossible for Robert Louis Stephenson to write "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde" in three days: http://www.the-wow-experience.com/resources/NEW_Pu blic_Domain_Products.htm

Go to this page and tell this guy: http://www.quandaryland.com/jsp/dispArticle.jsp?in dex=723 that he's full of hooey when he says:
"Slideshow Adventures are cheaper and easier to make than the 3D equivalent. Hobbyists can do them for fun. Small independent developers can produce reasonable (even excellent) games on a shoe string. They're a way to start for those hoping to make the big-time. For the Adventure genre to thrive it needs a supply of Adventures. If Adventures are limited to productions costing tens of millions of dollars there won't be very many of them."

And then go to hell so the rest of us can have a decent conversation for a change.

I have used Clustal for multiple sequence alignments. There is a gui (ClustalX) and a scriptalbel command line version (ClustalW). Available for all platforms and source included with the download.

Also keep an eye on POY that does direct optimization on sequences. Also available for all platforms with BSD style licence.

For just viewing and manual editing of alignments there is BioEdit. Free, but not open source. Windows only.

For a general sequence assembly/analysis/kitchen sink approach try the Staden Project. Open source and available for Windows, Linux and OSX.

Hope this is useful. I have never worked with protein sequences, but I have done a lot of DNA sequenceing and alignment!

This works a treat. Although RUNT uses USMDOS by default I managed to format a flash drive ext2 and get rid of the DOS emulation. Mine runs sendmail and apache and throws up a static page saying the webserver is broke while it continues to collect mail for my users. Very handy ;-)

Although my machine will boot from a USB device I've found it's a lot faster to put the boot files on a business-card sized CD.

I'm from NC State. Here is the link to the original article at North Carolina State University.(including some pictures) http://www.ncsu.edu/news/press_releases/05_06/133. htm

Please go and nod somewhere else, unless you have something useful to say.

NCSU is listed by kiplinger as the 11th best value for all universities in the country.
http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/colleges/

They may not be MIT but they are pretty darn good for engineering.

For example, their engeneering department has the 11th highest research budget of any school in the US.

The NCSU Centennial Campus is an enormous research center (a second campus) where over 100 companies and government agencies work hand in hand with the university. For example, in addition to their nanotech biomed research, they are also closely involved in NASA work with projects like the space shuttle: http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/news/news_articles/puzzle .html

From the Fine Article:

Although Lucas has absolutely said he is finished with the series, it is inconceivable to me that 20th Century-Fox will willingly abandon the franchise, especially as Lucas has hinted that parts VII, VIII and IX exist at least in his mind. There will be enormous pressure for them to be made, if not by him, then by his deputies.

Yes! Bring on the deputies! And as for the Sheriff...

Freedom came my way one day,
And I started out of town, yeah!
All of a sudden I saw Sheriff George Lucas Brown
Aiming to shoot me down.
So I shot, I shot, I shot him down.

(Of course, Lucas would deflect the shot with his lightsaber)

I'm sorry if my original post sounded arrogant or accusatory. I'm honestly interested in knowing more about this technology. I'm happy to be corrected when I'm wrong, but it really helps to have sources to check.

With regard to flux, as far as I can tell, no one has reported a Fusor-style setup with a flux higher than 1E8 neutrons/second or perhaps 1E10 neutrons/second (example, example). Assuming an operating distance of 1 m, that's less than 1E5 n/(cm^2 s).

By comparison, modern reactor setups achieve 2E15 n/(cm^2 s) flux, and spallation sources can achieve 1E17 n/(cm^2 s) (see Fig 1 here). This is why I characterized a Fusor as "low flux." The flux of a Fusor is useful for some things, but for most applications of neutron beamlines, it is too weak. (Of course, more than flux matters: energy distribution also matters.)

From what I know, Fusors are great for studying some aspects of fusion reactions and maybe conducting experiments on neutron properties. I've also heard of using it for neutron interrogation (example), where you irradiate a sample and see what happens (for instance for characterizing nuclear samples, material identification, bomb detection). So, yes, it is a neutron source. However, it is not competitive with high-flux sources, and is (I think!) too weak for neutron scattering, diffraction, and imaging experiments. This is why I claimed that a fusor was not a general-purpose neutron source.

This is also why no Fusor sources are listed on any "worldwide neutron source" lists, as far as I can tell:
http://neutron.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/links.html
http://www.ncnr.nist.gov/nsources.html
http://www.neutron.anl.gov/facilities.html
http://neutron.neutron-eu.net/n_users/n_where_the_ facilities/n_worldwide
http://www.sciner.com/Neutron/neutron_facilities_w orldwide.htm

With regard to the universities you mentioned, it looks like the PULSTAR at North Carolina State is a reactor. The TRIGA at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is also a reactor. If those were not what you were referring to, then I apologize.

To recap: I relent and agree that a Fusor is indeed a viable neutron source. However, I would like to point out that its flux is much lower than other sources, making it unsuitable for many types of neutron beamline experiments. If I'm wrong about any of this, please correct me.

You think so?

This is the link to the actual news release. (I study at NC State ;-)) http://www.ncsu.edu/news/press_releases/05_03/075. htm

Most Plant genomes are crazy complex. Besides that, polyploidy is often the norm in plant chromosomes. With that much genetic material to work with, i guess you'd be bound to find a 'do-over' someplace.

YESSSS!!!

Jabber offers so much, including:

• Potential for full control of message path using an open and extensible protocol.
• Ability to carry messages over a secure connection (i.e. SSL); this is well supported.
• Flexibility to use different clients and servers, all which interoperate without the worry of a protocol change specifically designed to break 3rd party clients. There is no concept of a 3rd party client.
• Support for cross-communication to those other chat services with those awful EULAs, just as a stop-gap until the world becomes fully enlightened. This does NOT require a multi-protocol client... it is called a "transport", and it lives on a server. One login, full communication... that's easy!

There are a number of freely usable Jabber servers, so you can begin enjoying it right away, without setting up a server yourself. Just because you're using one server doesn't mean you can't talk to users on another. Your Jabber ID is in the form username@server, just like an e-mail address, so this ability is intrinsic to the design of Jabber. This is the beauty of a decentralized model.

An excellent Windows client is Exodus. A popular cross-platform client is Psi (based on Qt). Even the ubiquitous GAIM has support for Jabber. And very soon, iChat in Mac OS X will support Jabber! I've even considered making my own cross-platform Jabber client; isn't it great that we have that option? For more information on Jabber in general, visit jabber.org

The most widely used Jabber server software is jabberd 1.4. It is usable in Linux and Windows. For a concise comparison of open-source servers, click here. For a comprehensive list of Jabber servers (both open and commerial), click here.

NOW HEAR THIS -- Start using Jabber!

I believe using the N word is pretty stupid and bigoted, but it must be free... It MUST be. Plain and simple.

I agree, and, though I'm not a lawyer, it seems to me that it is (and actually I shouldn't have used it in the example; it confuses the issue). I think the law is pretty straightforward. Don't tell people to kill everyone of an identifiable group ("Kill the Jews"), don't preach hate in public and cause a breach of the peace (a la Falwell*), and don't write hate propaganda and distribute it publically--unless it's relevant to public discussion and you believe it's true, or a good faith argument on a religious subject. Falwell can write "God Hates Fags" in brochures and distribute them all he wants, as he is simply an asshole arguing a religious subject and believes it to be true. I'm pretty sure one can even write "The white menace is destroying our society" or "Blacks cause all crime" if one thinks it's true.

*sexual preferences are not even included in the current law, so in theory he could--but would probably be charged with inciting a riot if one broke out.

I understand the "all speech must be free, no matter what" view however, and I respect it and am glad to have it. It's definitely a grey issue. But it's quite annoying to have people screaming "Canada hates freedom of speech!!11eleven" who can't even discuss it (and I mean the first guy, not you).

This I found on the 'net is actually a good short read on the subject and it seems to touch on and explain many of the concerns people have that are for or against the hate propaganda law. The quote at the bottom best represents my view. Though I wouldn't say it in such grandiose terms as "[hate propaganda] is an attack on democracy," I do believe that it has the purpose of actively denying identifiable groups their freedom.

And here is a much longer discussion on the law itself by a lawyer who talks about the law with respect to Internet forums and such (and with good discussion on its interpretation in general).

Come on! A basic stamp? And needs to be serialed to the PC to run? Mine links through TCP/IP and has temperature regulated water, liquid level sensing, and dietary monitoring software!
CAT JUSTICE

I've got RUNT booting from my USB key. Actually, I formatted the USB key under Windows 98, SYS'ed it to make it boot to DOS, and then I set up a menu in config.sys/autoexec.bat to give me the choice of booting RUNT via loadlin or a DOS prompt. You could load pretty much any kernel you need via loadlin from DOS.

Anyone know of a way to format/SYS a USB key with FreeDOS? Please share.

• Here's a list of technical I put together on Bhopal at my site, listed in my sig. These are very deadly chemicals with effects that linger on and on and on and on...you know Union Carbide became the EverReady before Dow bought them...

  New Exportation of Risk: The Case of Bhopal

• New Bhopal Papers V. Ramana Dhara at Emory University is a nice cource of technical papers including health effects, epidemiology, toxicology and respiratory effects.

• New Chemical Accidents, CHEMICAL SAFETY & SECURITY Environmental Health Watch. A comprehensive page of articles on chemical safety, security and implications since the Bhopal tragedy.

• Toxicological Profiles for Key Pollutants in Bhopal

• The Disaster and Its aftermath: The Hiroshima of the Chemical Industry "Indeed those who died may have been the lucky ones......" Ward Morehouse.

• A child is born... Site not recommended for children.

• Growth Patterns Journal of the American Medical Association (pdf format)

• The $195 Million Discrepancy - Where's The Money Gone?

• Bhopal gas tragedy lives on, 20 years later

• Personal Exposure and Long-Term Health Effects in Survivors of the Union Carbide Disaster at Bhopal

• Lessons Learned? Chemical Plant Safety Since Bhopal

• Chemical Process Safety at a Crossroads

You need to install OpenAFS packages to do that actually.
see?

A ScanTron or similar (here's a random pic for those unfamiliar) The scantron would not be a fancy custom printed thing for the election, but the simple, completely generic ones.

For each question, the order of the choices would be different: Example: For president, A) Republican, B) Democrat, C) Libertarian. For Senate: A) Democrat, B) Libertarian, C) Republican.

All the votes would be counted using a normal scantron machine. If the machine cannot figure out which one was bubbled, then the existing system of having humans look at the ballot to determine voter intent would kick in. But, the people looking at the ballot would not be shown the question number on the ballot, only the bubbles themselves. Since the people evaluating voter intent do not know which party corresponds to which bubble, they would not and could not make their decision based on party, but only on how the voter bubbled.

By doing it this way, it eliminates the problem of partisan humans evaluating the ballots. The only problem I can think of is an inconvenience for people who vote the party line.

North Carolina State University

It says the school does not supply web pages. This is bull crap since I've had a website on the school server for over a year. Plus it explains right here on state's own server HOW to set up your web page.

Create your own homepage

Heck, every freshman undergrad is required to take a computer class where they make their own website.

Now down to the bottom, it says the school does not provide multimedia equipment. Again, completely false. Look at this site again on ncsu.edu

Multimedia Reserve

This is why I hate school rankings like these. They are usually very misleading and often contain false information.

North Carolina State University

It says the school does not supply web pages. This is bull crap since I've had a website on the school server for over a year. Plus it explains right here on state's own server HOW to set up your web page.

Create your own homepage

Heck, every freshman undergrad is required to take a computer class where they make their own website.

Now down to the bottom, it says the school does not provide multimedia equipment. Again, completely false. Look at this site again on ncsu.edu

Multimedia Reserve

This is why I hate school rankings like these. They are usually very misleading and often contain false information.

When I was a teenager I once believed that it was possible for a siphon to make water climb to a higher level.

You can if you are willing to sacrifice some of the water.

Also, you can't boot of USB keys...

If that's true, why does BIC TCP exist?

According to their FAQ:

BIC solves the performance problem of TCP in fast long distance networks. In a high bandwidth network beyond 1 Gbps with the network delays in the range of milliseconds (or bandwidth in the range of Mbps, but delays in the range of seconds), TCP severely underutilizes the available bandwidth because of its slow response to available bandwidth. BIC solves this problem by modifying TCP's window increase function.

Yeah, shortcutting around the 20Hz filter seems a little silly. I did a fair amount of work with this EEG business not too long ago, creating an ad-hoc sensor network, indegrating ADC directly on the electrode. (Available here) These ADCs cost less than 20 bucks a channel, (total, with COM and everything) and in even modest quantites could be made for much much cheaper. I think there is simulaneously too much excitement over the possibilites of EEG, and too little work done to further the technology for both medical and nonmedical purposes.

It is based on Apple's XGrid, and uses volunteers from the Mac community here at NCSU, as well as some of the lab macs, and soon we will hopefully have official Linux and Windows clients, maybe even Solaris, to run on more of the computers around campus.

There is even a really nice web interface that shows the active nodes and their status, as well as the aggregate power of the two clusters.

Its really nice, anyone who is part of the grid can just fire up the controller and submit a job, I am a part of the lower power grid since my TiBook is only a 667, but I was able to connect up and do the Mandelbrot Set thing that comes with XGrid at a level equal to around 7 or 8 GHz.

There are some screenshots here

It is based on Apple's XGrid, and uses volunteers from the Mac community here at NCSU, as well as some of the lab macs, and soon we will hopefully have official Linux and Windows clients, maybe even Solaris, to run on more of the computers around campus.

There is even a really nice web interface that shows the active nodes and their status, as well as the aggregate power of the two clusters.

Its really nice, anyone who is part of the grid can just fire up the controller and submit a job, I am a part of the lower power grid since my TiBook is only a 667, but I was able to connect up and do the Mandelbrot Set thing that comes with XGrid at a level equal to around 7 or 8 GHz.

There are some screenshots here

It is based on Apple's XGrid, and uses volunteers from the Mac community here at NCSU, as well as some of the lab macs, and soon we will hopefully have official Linux and Windows clients, maybe even Solaris, to run on more of the computers around campus.

There is even a really nice web interface that shows the active nodes and their status, as well as the aggregate power of the two clusters.

Its really nice, anyone who is part of the grid can just fire up the controller and submit a job, I am a part of the lower power grid since my TiBook is only a 667, but I was able to connect up and do the Mandelbrot Set thing that comes with XGrid at a level equal to around 7 or 8 GHz.

There are some screenshots here

Lead crystal glassware may leach lead. "The crystalware industry has established voluntary lead-leaching limits for crystalware," says Kashtock, "that most foreign and domestic manufacturers follow." As a precaution, children and pregnant women should avoid frequent use of crystal glassware. Lead crystal baby bottles should never be used.

I saw this and I immediately thought of RUNT!

It's an adaptation of ZipSlack designed to run off a USB memory key. Usually it needs the aid of a boot floppy to get things rolling, but theoretically it can be booted off the memory key alone on systems that support it. Few systems support USB booting properly, though, so I think you'll find you need the floppy.

Admittedly, it is designed for testing a machine's network connection more than anything, but it still has a fairly complete set of packages (basically anything ZipSlack has). If you want to customize, you can just trade off some of the packages in RUNT for the ones you want, or you can get ZipSlack and go from scratch. Using RUNT would be easier, though, since it's already properly configured for using the USB key.

So I take it that German copyright law doesn't include the same Right Of First Sale that the U.S. law does? Basically, U.S. law gives us the right to resell, or rent, copyrighted works. The VHS rental market would never have taken off if not for the right of first sale, for example.

I'm no expert on this though, especially not for European laws -- can someone comment on why Germany can get away with this?

So this page is wrong? That page says you can use smtp-resnet.ncsu.edu.

There's nothing wrong with port 25 blocking, as long as the ISP runs its own mail server.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing about Freud. The uncanny effect is brought out, as our brains find it harder to distinguish between objects that are animate, and those that are alive. Why that brings out feelings of erieness, I'm not entirely sure. But essentially our brain maintain a sense of comfort as it builds a map of familiar reality. When you start going off that map, the feeling of uncanniness increases.

Here's a good link to Freud's writing about it: http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/wyrick/debclass/uncan .htm

I go to NC State, and this program is on all of the lovely red iMacs scattered around campus. Basically, it's a full-screen web browser (the user agent string says "AppleWebToolkit," but it predates Safari and looks nothing like it besides, so...a modified OmniWeb?). There are some basic navigation controls but no location bar. The default page has links to the NCSU web site, webmail, and some other useful things for students. It goes back to the default screen when the user hits the pretty Aqua "Done" button in the toolbar or after a certain amount of idle time. I'd occasionally get around the lack of a location bar by going to the NCSU search page (which is powered by Google, so I can enter any arbitrary URL there and get a page like this).

One neat thing about the kiosks is that some of them have a slideshow screen saver setup that shows off different buildings on campus with brief descriptions of what they're for.

Overall, it's a pretty simple program. It doesn't let you do anything else with the computer. That's fine for a kiosk, where people just walk up, check their e-mail or whatever, and walk off, but for a computer lab, I think it's too limited in functionality.

I have never used it. But here is an application to make it into a kiosk. Good Luck.

-Adam

Most of slashdot readers already know that there are a bunch of modified firmwares for the wrt54g such as this one. You should also be aware to realise that they are already backdoored/rootkit version (custom version of teso's adore of the wrt54g which will hide specific clients, processes, mac address and connections. It should also be noted that vulnerable linksys access point are trivial to detect using kismet (runs on linux, *bsd, zaurus, wrt54g) or kismac (runs on Mac OS X).

Well actually, assuming every one of these routers made Cisco $450K in pure profit, and given that they have spent $500M in development, they would only need to sell just over 1,100 of these things to cover costs.

Note that the post states that the routers start at $450K and also note that the router itself must cost something to make apart from the R&D costs, so the number of routers that Cisco must sell in order to make a profit is probably somewhere closer to 2,000 or 3,000. Perhaps they do not plan to make a profit initially, believing that the technology that they have now developed will lead to more optical switching products that will make them mega bucks in the future..

Don't forget that the entire worldwide demand for computers was only ever supposed to be a handful..

I'm sure that we will find something to do with multiple 40Gbps routers..

Multi-player Network video Dance Dance Revolution EXTREME deathmatch anyone?

copyright tutorial

Certainly you can't sell the copies, but it is also against the current interpretation of the spirit of the law to copy material in its entirety.

Tomatoes are poisonous

It's part of the deadly nightshade family. The berries are okay when they're ripe. Don't eat the leaves.

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If you want to see what's REALLY on the news, check out News 14 Carolina whose TV caption system was haxored:

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~smheath/news14.html :-)

Holy shit! He actually put a damn system in there!

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~wlknier/pics/hammy3.jpg

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~wlknier/pics/hammy4.jpg

Holy shit! He actually put a damn system in there!

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~wlknier/pics/hammy3.jpg

http://www4.ncsu.edu/~wlknier/pics/hammy4.jpg

At least in Utah they do. Which is nice, because they're admitting it's a product, not a service, and I can therefore remove the DRM (thanks DVD Jon!) and use it like I do any such product (like CDs) for personal, home use.

Actually, this may be the angle to throw away their terms of service. "You charged me sales tax, right? Must be a sale. By law, you cannot restrict what I do with a product you sell me (see "First Sale Doctrine"))" Would anyone care to step to the plate to test this one?