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This is possibly the best 'coaster in the entire world.

I mean, 'coasters are all about causing exhilleration though fear induced adrenalin rushes.

The think that always spoils rollercoaster rides for me is the safety. Theres little or no chance of even getting injured on mordern 'coasters so the whole thing seems less scary; whereas this guys creation is a whole different story.

If you take a look at this image you realise that if you really were riding this; you'd have just worked out that there was an even chance of you not living to regret climbing aboard!

What a rush!! ;)

He does have a VRML simulation, but it's not online. See the "Simulation" link on the website, or directly:

http://students.ou.edu/F/Steven.R.Farley-1/kinetic 999/sim.htm

Actually, the wood is specified as pressure-treated southern yellow pine, which turns that color after a year or two of exposure to the elements.

We did this as well at my university.

Ours was a bit longer, and covered openMP as well (umich seems to only care about mpi :)). Link is here, and has both powerpoint slides and html for the microsoft-phobes.

Archie was a protocol to contact search engine for FTP. Realy usefull at the time. Some Archie servers are still online but you need a special client to do your search. In fact, it ressembles something like Kazaa if you replace the P2P thing by standard FTP.

Veronica was a tool to do search in the gopher space.

Jughead stand for "Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation and Display". I don't have a clue of its purpose.

Archie was a protocol to contact search engine for FTP. Realy usefull at the time. Some Archie servers are still online but you need a special client to do your search. In fact, it ressembles something like Kazaa if you replace the P2P thing by standard FTP.

Veronica was a tool to do search in the gopher space.

Jughead stand for "Jonzy's Universal Gopher Hierarchy Excavation and Display". I don't have a clue of its purpose.

The faculty, in some cases, aren't evolving with it. I've had some faculty members that welcomed laptops in the classroom, for example. We have a wireless network, whihch makes it incredibly to take notes, and actually pay attention in class, rather than scribble furiously and pray that you can understand it later.

Some, on the other hand (primarily faculty in the Liberal Arts fields, from my experience), don't want anything to do with the net. We have a couple of online course management solutions that let students track grades, turn in assignents, etc. online. I've had classes where the professor use it to distribute 1 thing: the syllabus.

At OU, we've got a fairly progressive faculty (at least in the College of Engineering), I just feel sorry for those stuck in a place where everything's done by the book. literally.

The faculty, in some cases, aren't evolving with it. I've had some faculty members that welcomed laptops in the classroom, for example. We have a wireless network, whihch makes it incredibly to take notes, and actually pay attention in class, rather than scribble furiously and pray that you can understand it later.

Some, on the other hand (primarily faculty in the Liberal Arts fields, from my experience), don't want anything to do with the net. We have a couple of online course management solutions that let students track grades, turn in assignents, etc. online. I've had classes where the professor use it to distribute 1 thing: the syllabus.

At OU, we've got a fairly progressive faculty (at least in the College of Engineering), I just feel sorry for those stuck in a place where everything's done by the book. literally.

The faculty, in some cases, aren't evolving with it. I've had some faculty members that welcomed laptops in the classroom, for example. We have a wireless network, whihch makes it incredibly to take notes, and actually pay attention in class, rather than scribble furiously and pray that you can understand it later.

Some, on the other hand (primarily faculty in the Liberal Arts fields, from my experience), don't want anything to do with the net. We have a couple of online course management solutions that let students track grades, turn in assignents, etc. online. I've had classes where the professor use it to distribute 1 thing: the syllabus.

At OU, we've got a fairly progressive faculty (at least in the College of Engineering), I just feel sorry for those stuck in a place where everything's done by the book. literally.

An interesting angle on the Barbara Streisand suit:

The photographer claims to have taken his pictures "from a helicopter flying over the Pacific Ocean." This could present a jurisdictional issue.

SCOTUS precedent holds that the federal government has sole jurisdiction to the airspace over the US, as well as to lands off the coast (United States v. State of Texas, 1950, for the latter decision, which was used to support the former as well; a previous case, US v. California, also deals with offshore rights, and was used to support US v. Texas). If the location from which the picures were taken was outside the jurisdiction of California, then California would have no claim; in this case, he may have been twice out of their jurisdiction: once offshore, once in the air. Without jurisdiction, the State of California can blow and go all it wants, but can't bother the photographer. 'Course, he'll probably have to fight in Federal court to establish that, but it's still an interesting position.

You'd think the First Amendment would take care of such things, but it wouldn't be the first Amendment (no pun intended) to be ignored in California....

(IANAL, but I did help write a textbook on Aviation Law; US v. Texas is discussed in Chapter 7.)

Personally, I have no problem whatsoever with a good football program, and other sports as well. Football in particular is a big moneymaker for the school. Consider a school with a decent football team: they probably have a stadium seating around 75,000 (here at OU, we just built an addition to the stadium that will take us to over 100K, but I digress). Figure an average of twenty bucks a ticket (yes, student tickets are cheaper, but non-student tickets are more expensive, and box seats are absurd). Even a light attendance of 50K (remember, a decent team) is a million bucks a game. A sellout game will rake in between $1.5 and $2 million. That covers the cost of the athletic program.

Now, for the profits...donors. Donors like football. One guy I know (actually, the guy whose airplane I fly, including to away games) donates lots of money to the University. Probably at least a quarter million a year, possibly more. That's one donor, and he's small-time (by comparison). I have personally seen Gulfstream V's (yes, plural) come to town just for the game. These are the kind of people who give a million dollars or more every year...money that goes into the Univeristy's General Fund almost without exception.

So, with the football team paying for itself with ticket sales, those donations, many of which are a result of a good football team (don't believe me? Compare the annual donations to the win record...strong positive correlation), and the football team turns quite a tidy profit for the University. Oh, yes, and don't forget the concessions, and the licensed merchandise, and the free publicity (nationally-televised games are great for getting the word out), and football (and other sports) turn out to be a pretty good investment for the school.

Like Oreo cookies? Well, the leftist extremists want to make them illegal wherever kids can buy them, supposedly because of transfatty acids. Now I don't exactly eat mountains of Oreo cookies, but if someone wants to eat them, this is supposed to be a free country! Ban those and the liberals, er, leftist extremists will have opened the door to ban all "unhealthy" foods from places where kids can buy them, which opens the door to ban all "unhealthy" foods from this country for everyone. Now under the excuse of "health," the government will be able to dictate what we eat. This is Big Brother. It doesn't matter if right wing extremists or left wing extremists do it... the legal system is supposed to be the bare minimum, with a good education system teaching people how to think and use common sense, and to suggest how they should eat healthy stuff, be polite to others, not smoke, not drink, not do drugs, etc. But the minute the government can dictate which FACIAL EXPRESSIONS you may employ when talking to someone, or which FOODS you may eat, or where your money, that YOU EARNED is going to go, that is extremism and it is wrong.

I'm very sorry... The liberals/leftist extremists have gained control over the media and the schools. They have screwed up the education system because some people are less intelligent than others, so in order to be fair and to avoid hurting someone's feelings, they have reduced the quality of education in order to level the playing field. And this results in a lot of people being idiots... USEFUL IDIOTS, as Lenin said (see link for references).

I'm working on a project called sinapse that is a PHP/db portal for students. It's in use by Oklahoma University, Oklahoma State University, and I'm currently working on the Baylor University implementation. However, I've been writing a module for it specifically for teachers to be able to cover the same functions as Blackboard. Sinapse is the only education focused software for this usage AFAIK.

My university (OU runs my HOME network, too.

As a dorm resident, internet access is included in my housing contract -- electricity and water are also included. I generally use my electricity and water for personal uses (though I'm sure that showering probably helps the overall academic environment for my classmates that sit near me). I also generally use my internet access for my personal uses. They are both utilities provided to me by a contract.

We do have a (seemingly unautomated) system of discouraging Kaaza users. Once a student has transfered over 500MB of bandwidth within 24 hours, their speed is throttled down to the speed of a 56K modem. When I made the switch to Linux a couple months ago, I downloaded roughly 1.7GB of ISO's -- all in one day. My bandwidth was never reduced, which leads me to believe that they are either not strict about it, or that they actually look to see where the traffic is coming from, and act accordingly.

As for elsewhere on campus, I also pay connectivity fees and technology fees, both charged per credit hour. The internet access purchased by this money (computer labs & wireless internet access in some buildings) ought to only be used for academic reasons, because that is the purpose of those networks.

The theorem is explained here with pictures.

According to Supreme Court decisions extending back to Olmstead v. U.S. and affirmed in such cases as Griswold v Connecticut , the right to privacy emanates from the penumbras of the first, fourth, fifth, and ninth amendments to the Constitution. It is not specifically mentioned but it has been called by the Court (in Brandeis' dissent in 1928, which is now Court precedent as it has been heavily cited) "the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized man." Privacy is protected by the US Constitution, even though you won't find the word in the Bill of Rights.

Saying a consumer has more rights than a producer is the kind of attitude that schackles productivity. This doesn't benefit either producers or consumers.

Benefit of producers or consumers has nothing to do with it. This is about protection of the public interest.

Freedom of speech is important because without it, the government can suppress political speech and introduce political bias into the public sphere with the force of law. The First Amendment was meant to prevent laws like the Sedition Act of 1798, which outlawed criticism of the government, not the Communications Act of 1934, which established public ownership of the airwaves. The amendment was obviously not established to guarantee that a single party should always be free to own all of a community's radio stations (or newspapers) instead of merely most of them. The argument is absurd on its face. And since the airwaves are public property, the point is largely moot for radio anyway. Also, it's fairly obvious that the people who claim that restrictions on media ownership constitute a serious threat to the First Amendment are the same people whose political views are well served by the current state of corporate media monopolization, which has been proven so effective in preventing certain competing political ideas from entering the public sphere.

It's contrail , not "chemtrail". Condensation trail. Just an artificial cloud. Condensed water vapor suspended in the air.

The University of Oklahoma has a nice open-source package availible to do what you've described: SINapse, the PHP backend for the Sooner Information Network. Very effective and freely availible.

Guinea possesses major mineral, hydropower, and agricultural resources, yet remains an underdeveloped nation. Let's ignore the mineral part, and note that agriculture is probably to mainstay of most of the population. Internet access, by supporting better agricultural management, will help improve productivity in this area. For example:

Market and commodity information to assist in export

Botany, the science of plants including pest control, plant breeding, etc.

Etc.

Maybe they don't wire to find out what a Big Mac tastes like, but they may ask about financing export, funds for development projects, scientific information on crop cultivation, etc.

There is more to the Internet than games and pr0n.

The Spirit of Oklahoma electric car can go over 200mph. Granted, it's a formula race car built for speed and definitely can't carry 8 passengers, but it is faster...
Here are it's specs.

I actually used some of these, these and these to build
some of these. They
tried to stop me by using these
and these
but I did not give in!
I know a guy and he helped me to bring these in so we could design and design some more and build some of these and these and fight everyone off and scary the rest.

So finally, I could use more of
these and these and these to get my freakingly cool nuclear powered microprocessor.

I actually used some of these, these and these to build
some of these. They
tried to stop me by using these
and these
but I did not give in!
I know a guy and he helped me to bring these in so we could design and design some more and build some of these and these and fight everyone off and scary the rest.

So finally, I could use more of
these and these and these to get my freakingly cool nuclear powered microprocessor.

I actually used some of these, these and these to build
some of these. They
tried to stop me by using these
and these
but I did not give in!
I know a guy and he helped me to bring these in so we could design and design some more and build some of these and these and fight everyone off and scary the rest.

So finally, I could use more of
these and these and these to get my freakingly cool nuclear powered microprocessor.

Yes, this is, indeed, very cool. I've been following the Eclipse for a couple of years, and I'm very excited at the possibility of a twinjet (a jet, for chrissakes!) selling for less than a million clams. I hope this company takes off (pun intended!); I recall reading about a similar proposition being cancelled recently.

Side note: if anybody from the company is reading this, and you need pilots, please (!) drop me a note. I'm an aviation major at the University of Oklahoma, and desperately seeking a flying job. Check out my resume (presently being updated; if it doesn't work, give it 24 hours).

--Dave

Speaking of meteorological programming, ALL the major atmospheric models are written in FORTRAN. The ETA, AVN, NGM, MM5, WRF, and scores of lesser-known models...all of them written in FORTRAN (most of them FORTRAN-90 now, but some of the older ones are FORTRAN-77). The MM5 & WRF may be found here and here. The source code to several others is readily available as well if you're so inclined, for instance the ETA and the ARPS. Anyone wanting to run them may do so fairly easily on a PC running Linux (any new PC will be able to run a fairly hi-res model real-time); I do so myself.

Likewise, I miss those big-ass keyboards that click when you type. These flimsy, wussy keyboards that come with modern PCs are terrible! My favorite keyboard was an old IBM AT keyboard from 1984.

Check your local university's surplus department. I know here at OU, we have a decent surplus department with lots of old stuff for sale. (Anybody need a VAX? There's one down there.) Among other things, they have a large bin (i.e. large hotel laundry bin) full of keyboards, many of them IBM PS/2 (the computer PS/2, not just the 6-pin mini-DIN connector) models. About eight pounds apiece, nearly indestructable (very handy when you can't find that last bug, get pissed, throw the keyboard across the room...), and great feel. You'd be surprised what turns up at University Surplus.

I am watching the counter go up and up and up and up... at the third link. It's really amazing!

I just wanted to point that out b/c I have learned more than I ever wanted to know about email in an attempt to migrate my email servers from Exchange/Winblows to Qmail/Linux. I would have tried BSD (since that is what it was developed on) but I have more experience with Linux.

Since I really DIDNT want to be an open relay I tested and tried a load of configurations. Sadly I was open for about 1/2 of a day (and of course some jackass sent about 20 messages through my server).

I've found the best way to setup QMail is to combine 3 sources (Life with Qmail, his book (which contains significantly more info and is DEFINATELY worth the price), and reading EVERY PROGRAMS file/man page to see how they are implemented (uscpi, daemontools, checkpassword, qmail, relay-ctrl, ...). If you take it slow the first time it works quite well.

Now just to get Courier/Horde/IMP installed.

My former university is using QMail for their Sooner Information Network On-line Mail. It seems pretty cool.

I just wanted to point that out b/c I have learned more than I ever wanted to know about email in an attempt to migrate my email servers from Exchange/Winblows to Qmail/Linux. I would have tried BSD (since that is what it was developed on) but I have more experience with Linux.

Since I really DIDNT want to be an open relay I tested and tried a load of configurations. Sadly I was open for about 1/2 of a day (and of course some jackass sent about 20 messages through my server).

I've found the best way to setup QMail is to combine 3 sources (Life with Qmail, his book (which contains significantly more info and is DEFINATELY worth the price), and reading EVERY PROGRAMS file/man page to see how they are implemented (uscpi, daemontools, checkpassword, qmail, relay-ctrl, ...). If you take it slow the first time it works quite well.

Now just to get Courier/Horde/IMP installed.

My former university is using QMail for their Sooner Information Network On-line Mail. It seems pretty cool.

Hell they are pulling a Hotmail type job with the Sooner Information Network SIN and after discussing with the lead mail manager how it was setup (my wife works there) I was impressed. Although IRIX is different. I guess if I had 8 SGI Computers lying around I'd find a use for them too.

In fact, here is a link to it. You could have justed asked google, which is what I did. I used "declaration of war germany". It was the first hit.

So if the Chick-fil-A and Gateway cows did team up, would we see ads like this?

Yes. In fact, I love in Norman, Oklahoma, and we have several Crays hard at work on weather prediction and modeling. The National Severe Storms Laboratory houses several, as does Sarkey's Energy Center. Specifically, Sarkey's has a very nice Cray J-90 that I get to play with. ;)

Jouster

Well, this is almost news...I've only been using a Gateway Profile at work for the past two years, and it was there before I was. Yes, they've upgraded it a couple of times, and now they're upgrading it again, but it's the same concept, and it was out long before the current iMac. Actually, they're not bad little systems, at least not for our purposes (public web terminal).

As far as knocking over a tank, I could believe it (despite what the retired military men might say). Look at photos of the damage done by a storm, a 65-ton tank is just more grist for the mill.

These storm chasers are not just endangering their own lives. They are forcing local police and rescue to overextend themselves at an already busy time. They are also in the way of the real storm chasers, the ones from NSSL and CAPS, driving trucks (with doppler radar dishes on the back). (Check these trucks out. They are really cool.) I have heard that people tend to stop in the middle of the road to get some footage, making it difficult for researchers and rescue crew to pass.

I have a message to all would-be storm chasers: If you want a thrill, do something safe, like sky diving. At least there you have a backup plan (the reserve chute). What are you going to do when a piece of wood comes flying at you at speeds in excess of 300 miles per hour?

IANAM (I am not a meteorologist), but...

Civilians film a lot of the tornado footage with their home video cameras. I would suppose that it is more dramatic, considering the majority of these people don't have any training, are terrified, and escape unscathed by chance. Their emotions are in strong contrast to tornado enthusiasts, who, from most peoples' observations, usually appear intrigued, not frightened.

Of course, to capture a tornado, a number of variables must be correct and you must meet several objectives first.

Obviously, there must be light (or you must have nightvision). A great number of tornadoes occur during the night hours and probably aren't captured on film due to this reason.

You must actually locate the area of a storm that is most likely to produce a tornado. The advent of Doppler [sic, it's named after a person] radar has made this task much less difficult. Meteorologists will usually search for the classic "hook and coil" signature that is indicative of a tornado.

Finally, you must arrive at the target location before the tornado activity disippates. They usually last less than 20 minutes.

U of Oklahoma (ou.edu)

I mistakenly took East Asian History from 6 billion BC to 1800 AD. (I think Rick Moranis was my teacher though! Nothing better than a funny man teaching 5000+ years of history in 3 weeks!)

Nowhere in the US Constitution does it state that Congress must declare war.

The powers of Congress over the military and military actions are defined in Article I, Section 8:

The Congress shall have Power to [...]
To Declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
To provide and maintain a Navy;
To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

The Authority of the President as Commander in Chief are defined in Article II, Section 2:

The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States

To summarize the above articles, Congress establishes, maintains, and regulates the military. The President determines how, when, and where will military force be applied.

When the Consitution was written in the 1700's, armed conflicts were rigidly defined, where the the combatants consisted of formally recognized governments. In such an environment a Declaration of War made perfect sense. This system worked fairly well until the Second World War, which was the last time the United States formally declared war..
The tradition context of war was challenged with the rise of the Cold War and modern warfare techniques such as guerrillas, proxy wars, and non-state combatants. As armed conflict evolved, the US government had to address the issue. In 1973 the War Powers Act (WPA) was passed to address these issues. The primary reason for this act was to establish limits on the Commander in Chief's ability to use force without the formal consent of Congress, as exemplified by the Vietnam War. The WPA allows the President to commit military actions without a declaration of war, as long as certain reporting conditions to Congress are met. The heart of the WPA is Section 5 (b), which establishes concrete time limits, and Section 5 (c), which gives Congress the authority to terminate military action.

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None of the words or meaning in the Constitution has changed, either. It still guarantees Justice to All. This includes a fair trial, just as much as it includes the lethal injection as punishment.

The fundamental question here is do we treat acts of terrorism as a crime or as an act of war? The various rights to trial enumerated in Section III and the Bill of Rights apply only to crimes. By history and precedent, acts of war are not treated the same as criminal acts. For example, the Nuremberg Trials were military tribunals with convictions determined by a panel of judges, not juries. Similar tribunals were called for the Japanese military and government, instead of trying them in US criminal courts for the attack on US territory (Pearl Harbor)
The US has been consistent in treating the attacks of September 11th as a military action, not criminal, to include the application of military courts to eventually try Al Qaeda members. This is no different than the application of justice at the end of WWII.

the University of Oklahoma teaches all intro to CS classes in Fortran 77

If you have no idea what I am talking about, start here, or just jump straight to this summary.

My guess would be that Hitler was just fed up with our bogus neutrality, what with Lend / Lease and all that. Yeah, here we go:

The Government of the United States having violated in the most flagrant manner and in ever increasing measure all rules of neutrality in favor of the adversaries of Germany and having continually been guilty of the most severe provocations toward Germany ever since the outbreak of the European war, provoked by the British declaration of war against Germany on September 3, 1939, has finally resorted to open military acts of aggression...

The German Government, consequently, discontinues diplomatic relations with the United States of America and declares that under these circumstances brought about by President Roosevelt Germany too, as from today, considers herself as being in a state of war with the United States of America.

Answer: When war was declared on Japan following the attack on pearl harbor (we never declared war on germany, although the axis pact obligated germany to declare war on the US as a result of our declaration against Hapan, IIRC).

Actually, that is not correct. Japan declared war on Dec 7, 1941 on the U.S. by attacking Pearl Harbor, and the United States Congress responded by declaring war against the Imperial Government of Japan on Dec. 8, 1941. On December 11, 1941, the governments of Germany and Italy, pursuant to the Tri-Axis Pact, declared war on the United States, and the United States Congress responded by declaring war on both Germany and Italy on Dec 11, 1941. (yes, the text on that particular page only contains the declaration against Germany, but see the Avalon Project, which includes some text of the proceedings in Congress, and in particular the votes and motions leading to the passage of all three declarations of war.)

Answer: When war was declared on Japan following the attack on pearl harbor (we never declared war on germany, although the axis pact obligated germany to declare war on the US as a result of our declaration against Hapan, IIRC).

Actually, that is not correct. Japan declared war on Dec 7, 1941 on the U.S. by attacking Pearl Harbor, and the United States Congress responded by declaring war against the Imperial Government of Japan on Dec. 8, 1941. On December 11, 1941, the governments of Germany and Italy, pursuant to the Tri-Axis Pact, declared war on the United States, and the United States Congress responded by declaring war on both Germany and Italy on Dec 11, 1941. (yes, the text on that particular page only contains the declaration against Germany, but see the Avalon Project, which includes some text of the proceedings in Congress, and in particular the votes and motions leading to the passage of all three declarations of war.)

I am currently in the processing of mirroring CNN's website (three cheers for wget). As soon as I have finished, it will be available at http://www.aviation.ou.edu. I am only mirroring their main site (www.cnn.com), not their sub-sites (cnnfn.cnn.com and sportsillustrated.cnn.com), so you will still have to visit their servers to get those stories (and cnnfn does have some stories), but hopefully getting at least some of the Slashdot community off of CNN's servers can help them somewhat. It will probably be slightly behind CNN (possibly as much as 30 minutes, hopefully not that long), so I apologize in advance for any outdated content, as well as for any delay in posting new stories.

Incidentally, I am not certain about the capacity of my server, so if it should get slashdotted under the load (and it would probably be the server, not the network), please send me an e-mail at dbuckles@ou.edu, and I will try to restore it as quickly as possible.
--Dave

I think the reason for the poor code lies more in the shortened development cycle than anything else. The eXtreme camp would say refactor, but usually the conditions that caused the shortened cycle in the first place mean you can't go back. If the conditions are caused by poor project management, that is one thing. Often though, they are brought about as the only means for survival.

Maybe we should just stick with safe languages?

I also take exception with the comp-sci dig =). I think a good comp-sci curricula leads to LESS slipshod code. I've seen too many people reinvent the wheel (poorly) because they didn't understand basic computer science concepts and design. The teaching of which is the goal of the very first class in the curriculum.

As a side note, if you want to check out the different course requirements for CS and MIS majors at OU, check out these PDFs:

MIS Course Requirements

CS Course Requirements

As one of my instructors once joked, "We write the software for MIS majors to use."

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As a side note, if you want to check out the different course requirements for CS and MIS majors at OU, check out these PDFs:

MIS Course Requirements

CS Course Requirements

As one of my instructors once joked, "We write the software for MIS majors to use."

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At the University of Oklahoma, MIS and CS are fairly different. In fact, the MIS people have their own part of the career fair, and the Engineering (CS) have their own. I discovered that Intel, Lucent, and Microsoft were differentiating between the majors. In fact, Microsoft and Intel did not accept CS and CE majors as applicants for jobs or internships. Lucent sent two different sets of managers.

I would say ask a few recruiters from various companies in your region what they think of the two majors.


--
Mike Hollinger

The OU College of Engineering has required laptops for its students for several years. We actually have a (growing) wireless network spreading across campus, where students can access all of our servers and their data files, as well as the WWW. On a nice day, you can walk by Engineers' Court and see students sitting outside by the fountains or under the trees working on projects or just surfing the web.

We use the system for more than e-mail, however. Several courses use a BlackBoard collabaration website to work on projects, turn in and grade daily grades, and supplement the classroom lectures.

If you are interested in learning more, check out The Engineering Computer Network's Website, or our laptop requirements for the past year at this page from the FAQ.

Go Sooners!


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Mike Hollinger