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Anyway, very cool. I'd also point out (just to everyone else) that based on the readme on the download page, it's licensed under the GPL. Maybe some enterprising person will make a version for systems other than Linux? I could see something like that being a slick feature in an iPhoto-like management app.

I use the great, and free OS X app GPS Photo Linker to automatically link my GPS track to my photos' EXIF data. http://oregonstate.edu/~earlyj/gpsphotolinker/

It is really hard to build new Hydro plants because people are concerned about the environmental impact. When I livedin the northwest, I heard lots of talk about people wanting to get rid of the hydro dams because they believe it would be beneficial to salmon. (This seems NUTS to me.)

I would wager that you are only saying this because you did not hear the entire argument. What the "environmentalists" have proposed is simply breaching some of the lower-river dams. This would not impact electrical output very much, as these dams do not even begin to approach the size of some of the behemoths further upriver.

Taken from Save Our Wild Salmon. (It seems that this group is largely, but not entirely, funded by fishing groups.)

We focus our efforts on the Columbia and Snake River Basins, where in the time of Lewis and Clark up to 16 million wild salmon returned each year. Today, as few as ten thousand salmon return home to the Snake River. Our current priority is an exciting national campaign to restore these endangered salmon and steelhead by partially removing four dams on the lower Snake River, which in turn will restore the Pacific Northwest's wild salmon and free-flowing rivers as vital economic engines for local communities.

It's not like they're going to get rid of Grand Coolee or Chief Joseph.

I did a quick google search, here are some websites that give a little more information on the subject:

Center For Columbia River History

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

Oregon State University

University of Washington

I recognise that environmentalist/ism are politically charged words in the Northwest. I grew up in an area that was absolutely devastated by the whole spotted owl and anti-logging fiasco. I completely understand why people are skeptical. However, this is a very real issue that needs more level-headed public discourse.

• Go get a GPS device (I use Garmin eTrex Vista)
     
• Synchronize your camera time to GPS device
     
• Take GPS with you on photo-shoot (and keep it on)
     
• Come home and use a program like GPSPhotoLinker to synchronize your track with your photos.
  

What about the currents in that area? http://www.coas.oregonstate.edu/CoastalModeling/tr aj_6_12_22_new_cmp.gif

Nice pic here:

http://lug.oregonstate.edu/gallery/firefox-crop-ci rcle/img_5363_1

It's a Super Cub. See this picture:

http://lug.oregonstate.edu/gallery/firefox-crop-ci rcle/dscn1024

Someone else brought a Robinson R22, too:

http://lug.oregonstate.edu/gallery/firefox-crop-ci rcle/mg_5513

It's a Super Cub. See this picture:

http://lug.oregonstate.edu/gallery/firefox-crop-ci rcle/dscn1024

Someone else brought a Robinson R22, too:

http://lug.oregonstate.edu/gallery/firefox-crop-ci rcle/mg_5513

Will all virgins please raise their hands... http://lug.oregonstate.edu/gallery/firefox-crop-ci rcle/img_5374_1

If you dont want to bother looking through all the pics (lots!) - here are the best arial shots: http://lug.oregonstate.edu/gallery/firefox-crop-ci rcle?page=12

man, talk about beating the magic out something - that's a hell of a lot of pictures.

    but I guess sometimes it's just really hard to decide between posting this shot or this one on your website.

man, talk about beating the magic out something - that's a hell of a lot of pictures.

    but I guess sometimes it's just really hard to decide between posting this shot or this one on your website.

Well, this paper seems to think you can parallelize SHA-1 at least to the extent of using vector (SIMD) instructions on it

http://islab.oregonstate.edu/koc/ece679/project/20 03/aciicmez.pdf

Oregon State University has a similar program under the heading "Platforms for Learning." The TekBot program started in ECE disciplines, but it also branching into ME with mechatronics and is probably headed toward replacing Mindstorms in early CS classes.

http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/tekbots

At Oregon State we used robots (tekbots) in many EE and CS classes. In my experience, it was terrible as a freshman, as those of us without prior knowledge in electronics were completely clueless as to how to debug them. The first version we built was very complex, yet was required for the course. The longer your robot didn't work properly, the more your grade would inevitably suffer. The TAs were thrilled with having to debug everyone's robots all the time, too (of course, some 90% of this was bad soldering). Later classes in college, when we started diving into Assembly, we got an updated robot kit. This updated kit included addons to the original robot. If you didn't have an original robot, or it didn't work, welcome back to square one where you had to rebuild it. Oh, and robots are cheap in neither price nor labor. At least at this point in college, we were using the robots to execute assembly; there was an immediately practical use for them. I think robots can be useful as an aid, but really not much moreso than a simulator. They have the coolness factor, but that's about it...at least for basic undergrad education.

http://classes.engr.oregonstate.edu/che/spring2005 /che415/PublicTeam3/proposal.html

here

According to Goran Jovanovic, it seems like production of Bio Diesel in more safe manner than now is just a minor side path of the main area of research. The main area seems to be development of devices that "monitor the environment for potentian human pathogens or toxins."

Or does someone find better articles from the Web written by him or his team mates about building a new safer Biodiesel reactors?

"...a device the size of a small suitcase could produce enough biodiesel to power several farms..."
"...biodiesel could be produced between 10 and 100 times faster..."
"...coating the microchannels with a non-toxic metallic catalyst...would eliminate the need for the chemical catalyst..."

Here is one on the IC:
03-16-06 OSU Creates World's First Transparent Integrated Circuit

Here are some earlier ones:
02-07-06 OSU Licenses New Transparent Electronics to HP
12-20-05 Transparent Electronics Presentation Named In Top Five

Here is one on the IC:
03-16-06 OSU Creates World's First Transparent Integrated Circuit

Here are some earlier ones:
02-07-06 OSU Licenses New Transparent Electronics to HP
12-20-05 Transparent Electronics Presentation Named In Top Five

Here is one on the IC:
03-16-06 OSU Creates World's First Transparent Integrated Circuit

Here are some earlier ones:
02-07-06 OSU Licenses New Transparent Electronics to HP
12-20-05 Transparent Electronics Presentation Named In Top Five

Note that the brains behind the invention was born into a rural, farming community. Young Rick Presley spent more time rearing pigs and goats than building the latest high-tech PC from parts purchased at Fry's Electronics.

Folks, what we have here is a fine example of Yankee ingenuity and the makings of another Jack Kilby. Kilby also grew up in a rural community and attended a modest university. He went on to invent the transistor.

The lesson here is that a quality environment with good people who have a good set of values is much more conducive to creating a 1st-world society than a high-tech environment with very-bright but dishonest people who lack any moral values. Taiwan may be the high-tech capital of the world with the highest density of high-performance notebook computers, but the quality of life in Taiwan is substantially below that in Sweden.

That's interesting, but I didn't see any references which back up the assertion that grape juice does not contain the compound. To the contrary in most of the references. Here's a paper I hunted down:

http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/phytochemica ls/resveratrol/index.html#sources

Since you can drink more grape juice than you can wine without losing its beneficial effects, it appears grape juice is an equally valid choice.

"There are no definitions (for anything) that would both be devoid of circular reasoning and not rely on other, nondefined things."

Proof? This is a bold assertion that requires rather more to back it up than you merely stating that it is so.

Rene Descartes (1595-1650), famous French Mathmatition, philosopher, and scientist.

His "I am thinking therefore I exist." (Latin: Cogito ergo sum) is his effort to find ANYTHING that is not defined in terms of something else.

You can find more information about this research at Podolskiy's web page. It looks like the web site has some good information, including Java applets showing how a superlens should work. Incidently, I am an undergrad physics student at OSU and I talked to Poldolskiy about doing some research for him last summer, but it didn't work out. It's nice to see he got something published on this though - he was explaining it to me last year but I can't remember much of it now.

The actual paper (PDF file): http://www.physics.oregonstate.edu/~vpodolsk/repri nts.pdf/resolut.apl2005.pdf

The actual paper (PDF file): http://www.physics.oregonstate.edu/~vpodolsk/repri nts.pdf/resolut.apl2005.pdf

That would be Émilie du Châtelet.

http://oregonstate.edu/instruct/phl302/philosopher s/chatelet.html

The idea that it's better to take a risk - gamble on god, if you will - and follow a religion rather than not follow a religion and run the risk of damnation is best argued in Pascal's Penseés.

Some of my favorites include:

• 10. People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come into the mind of others
• 127. Condition of man: inconstancy, weariness, unrest.
• 253. Two extremes: to exclude reason, to admit reason only
• 272. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason.

Don't be too quick to judge. Pascal was, after all, a pretty important guy. It's at least worth a glance.

In other news, beer, especially the dark English varieties, can prevent or inhibit the growth of cancer cells.

Italian coffe and English ale, I knew I had it right from the start! ;-)

http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/halsa/story/0,2789,7 30462,00.html
Apologies about the link, it's in Swedish...

Here's one to the institute that discovered it:
http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/newsarch/2005/Oct0 5/beerandcancer.htm

If Google wants to promote OSS, why not support Cal State, which is using OS directly for learning management systems, at CSU San Francisco and CSU Humboldt?

It works, too:-)

I'm just surprised Portland State and Oregon State don't have anything about it on their front pages.

I don't know if Hummingbird can be categorized as a different model of flight but:

http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ncs/newsarch/2005/Jun0 5/hummingbird.htm

They can hover, fly backwards/forwards, or even upsidedown.

Out here in California, prices surged as people bet the price would sky rocket and bought gas no matter what the price. The local 7/11 had people topping off their tanks because their price, usually the highest around, was 10 cents lower than in town. Most of the people buying gas didn't need it but figured the price was going higher so they bought while it was "low" at $2.90.

If the price stays high for the next few years, people will get out of their SUVs and move into more efficient vehicles. The oil markets will respond, just as it did in the 80's, and prices will drop in real terms. Eventually, people will forget and they'll buy gas hogs again. People do that - they forget.

Those of you who are certain that we're running out of oil forget as well. In 1970, it was common knowledge that we'd be out of oil by 1985. Paul Erlich at Stanford made a fortune pitching his dystopian view of the future and we bought it. The futurists who got it right were the economist who argued that the real price of commodities fall over time as producers and consumers become more efficient.

It's worth noting that the shift to SUVs wasn't due to just the cheap price of gas. Congress played a major role as well. Business used to be able to depreciate the price of cars it purchased at an accelerated rate. Small business owners used that to their advantage by buying nicer cars which angered folks who didn't own businesses and hence, couldn't get the same tax write off. Congress responded by eliminating the write off for business-owned cars. The accelerated depreciation schedule remained for trucks which GM and Ford exploited by gussing up what used to be utility trucks for hauling workers around into SUVs. I saw a lot of new SUVs in my neighborhood after my accountant sent out a flyer advising his clients of the tax advantage which was considerable. A very smart friend of mine grumbled that the "I want my children to be safe and so I have to have the biggest car available" crowd just got a tax boost and the only way to retaliate was to drive a Peterbilt to work.

I dunno about coffee and vitamin B levels; but as far as coffee and diabetes is concerned, it's probably a much better idea to be drinking the stuff rather than avoiding it. Throw in a little cinnamon with your drink, and you might even be able to consider it a powerful weapon against diabetes.

I also think coffee's association with heart disease is highly exaggerated.

I should point out that I do work in the industry; but I also drink 4-6 cups of the stuff each day, too.

whoa dude, you are horribly misinformed. First of all, vitamin E does not decrease your lifespan! Vitamin E is an antioxidant that works synergistically with other antioxidants like Vitamin C, selenium, and glutathione to reduce your oxidative stress. Oxidative stress is thought to be one of the main causative factors in aging and antioxidants help to neutralize this stress. Heres some links to catch you up... Linux Pauling Institute: Linus Pauling was a known advocate of Vitamin C and vitamins in general. The site is pretty informative on the role of nutrients, minerals, and vitamins, in our health as well as in our physiology. if your feeling brave then here are some link so some pertinent research aticles. The role of mitochondrial oxidative stress in aging Ive also compiled quite a few relevant articles here I suggest you get to reading! ;) marquis

Instead of Blackboard?

Re-read the article. It was not very well written but it did disclose Dr. Holick's ties to the tanning industry and the fact that his title was stripped by his superior. This was better covered elsewhere (http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/vitamins/vi taminD/drefs.html#ref58) but take it that people besides Dr. Holick have published research in peer-reviewed journals that show a positive correlation between sunlght-induced Vitamin-D and lowered incidence of cancer, where diet-fortified vitamin-d intake did not differ from controls, meaning milk and OJ would not provide anti-cancer benefit. Besides, a civl court in California found that OJ can be lethal.

These days I have my mod_proxy url_rewrite check for HTTP_REFERRER and rewrite to nyud.net URLS

No, 'Apocalypse' will be the MS OS which leads up to that. The release immediately after Billy G. has been declared world dictator for life will be called `Leviathan', named after the ultimate evil.

"My" OSU

I don't know where you got this idea from. I think the problem is that people who haven't heard much about the OSL just can't quite figgure what the OSL is here to do. There are two main goals, contract work for developing open source software (OSU's Maintain for exampe) and hosting for large projects (Gentoo Linux for example). If you are looking for a group to teach people about Linux, check out the OSLUG http://lug.oregonstate.edu/ if you have not already which is a student driven organization and is very open to the public.

This was right after he won the Nobel Prize in Physics and some people credit his time at Caltech as to convince him to move to the US before the Nazi party took over in germany (and I'm supposing he'd have a much harder time leaving with the Nazis in charge).

Admittedly this could be somewhat confusing for someone who doesn't know the history and might help to explain to such a person why the Einstein Papers Project is housed at Caltech, with the backup at Princeton instead of the other way around.

Of course not everyone went there to get a degree, but quite a few prominant scientists have visited from time to time...

For your bemusement, here's an interesting summary of the life and times of Mr. Einstein...

During the summers, I delivered pizzas. This was a hugely valuable lesson: without a college degree, I'd be delivering pizza for a long time. That's when I started to get serious about school. There was no way I wanted to continue in this noble unappreciated profession. This conclusion was echoed by one of my best freinds, who worked in a lumber mill to cover school. He was kind of half-assing it at school until he looked around work one day. He was surrounded by 40-year-old guys named "Lefty" who made $1 an hour more than him. Dude was the only guy in the room with 10 fingers. He decided right there that this was not going to be his future. He buckled down and got serious. 10 years later, based on the success of his startup, he retired.

My point, and I do have one, is that college is valuable time, but not in the way you think. The big big lessons aren't going to be in the classroom and they probably won't be in your major. Sure, you may learn linked lists and binary trees, you may learn the social structure of a Mayan village, but are these really things to base a life on?

While you're in college, take the time. If you're an engineering major, you're already down for a five-year degree. I recommend that you take six years and enjoy yourself a little more. Broaden your horizons. Take a pottery class, learn Russian, hang lights at the theatre, draw. All these things will enrich your life in ways that might not pay off for decades, but they will pay off. College is a time in your life when you have a great deal of freedom and very few responsibilities. Use that time. Waste it wisely.

You want me to put in baser terms? What are you going to DO with those programming languages? The actual applications are outside the Engineering building. Outside is where you learn what needs to be built. It just may be that you figure out that what the world really needs is a cheap open-source application for controlling theatre lights or kiln temperatures. The idea for the billion-dollar startup will come when you're doing something away from the computer.

Baser still? OK, ever notice how many women hang around the arts buildings? Ever notice how few there are in your engineering classes? Do the math, boys.

You can get RPM's and SRPM's for all the EFL stuff (though not quite yet E 0.17 itself) here:

http://caos.oregonstate.edu/cAos-2/ext/autobuilder /

Or at any of our other mirrors.

If that is your view, I hope your chains are not bound too tightly... Maybe you should read Hobbes' Leviathan. In it Hobbs argues that no rational person would ever choose the sort of freedom you seem to be in favour of.

When people voluntarily choose to work together for the common good, it can hardly be considered slavery.

It's really quite simple. Public healthcare is demonstrably cheaper than a private system. Every layer of the private system requires profit and those costs are passed on to the consumer. There is always more demand than there is supply, and the demand curve is quite inelastic. So, there is little or no incentive for the providers to compete based on price.

As a percentage of GDP, the US spends more on healthcare than Canada does. But the quality of that healthcare appears to be lower. The infant mortality rate in the US is much higher than it is in Canada for example.

Yes, I have heard that the HMOs are pretty useless. Even so, there are more people in the US with no healthcare insurance than the entire population of Canada. I'm thinking we have found a better way, and it costs us less as an added bonus.

Care to identify any terrorists who entered the US via Canada?

Oh yes. So tight that no illegal immigrants from Mexico ever reach the US...

Reference? More likely a troll...

It all depends on what the goals of the terrorists are. If they want to bring chaos and anarchy to the entire world, you are right. But if their vendetta is focused against the US, perhaps not.

If they think of us at all, it would only be a means to that end.

That bastion of socialism the United Nations published the Universal Declaration of Human Rights some time ago. Our constitution and laws are interpreted according to our own Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It's pretty straightforward to decide when an issue concerns human rights, since those rights have been clearly documented.

some images of something that happened to a friend of a friend. FYI, air poppers prob won't help out much as they are (obviously) much too slow. - cceddie

O. H. Hinsdale Wave Research Laboratory

Last winter I took 10,000mg every morning after awakening and 10,000mg in the evening. I prefer to take ten of the 1000mg pure unbuffered ascorbic acid pills on an empty stomach. Vitamin C can fix a wide variety of ailments. Check this out:
http://lpi.oregonstate.edu/infocenter/vitamins/vit aminC/
Be sure the problem is not environmental by moving around or staying in another city for a short time. Chemical and biological agents can have similar affects.