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sprint doesn't have this problem, it is very trivial for anyone with a clue to send new files to their sprint phone. all you need is the pcs vision service.

Seriously, our ECE honors organization has a lounge in the basement of the EE building that sells food and drinks and turns a good profit. We figure that EEs and CompEs aren't very social by nature, so every couple of weeks, we go out to a local resturant, bar, etc. and give everybody who shows up $3 to subsidize their food. The idea is to get people out of the lab and have a good time. Our student organization finance office requires that we get signatures of everybody who shows up to guarantee that we aren't just pocketing the cash. We don't take any personal information, and you don't even have to sign the form legibly. A large number of people won't sign the form to get the free money because they keep waiting for the other foot to drop.

Jokes about EEs being so uncool that you have to pay people to hang out with them aside...

You'll never get students to actually do something later, even if you give them all sorts of free stuff, unless they were going to do it, anyway. Once they get the free stuff, you have no further bargaining capacity, and they have no further incentive to oblige you.

Too much circulation makes the price go down: The more you are seen and heard from, the more common you appear. If you are already established in a group, temporary withdrawal from it will make you more talked about, even more admired. You must learn when to leave. Create value through scarcity.

Seriously, the whole nuke thing is a dead-end. A giant Yucca Mountain size dead end. If you are for nuclear power, also - look me straight in the pixel - and tell me you wouldn't mind a nuclear dump in your back yard. Yeah, that's what I thought.

Point number 2 - security - assuming, as has been blazed on our foreheads that we are so-so-so afraid of the terrorist, well what about nuclear security? Do you trust the same keystone cops who blundered through Katrina to secure our nuclear facilities? For an example, see how inherently insecure this site at the University of Wisconsin is. Also read this fascinating book about the controversy surrounding the construction of a nuclear test reactor at Vallecitos. This was in the '60s, before Americans worried about Osama. Now think about that book from the 9/11 perspective.

And, no, I'm not misinterpeting something. And I found it! Summary here, article here.

They were trying to measure the quantum effects of gravity, and discovered it didn't appear to have any.

Just in case there are any chemical physicists reading this...

Assumedly, if this system is small enough to be backpack-sized, it's not a time-of-flight mass spec... right? The article's short on details on the actual mass spec--they seem to focus on their ionization technique more than on the spectrometer itself. But, then again, I guess that's where they're focusing their research.

I'm not too impressed by this "reactive chemical spray" system, but maybe that's because I'd be more concerned with airborne rather than adsorbed/adhered molecules. It seems needlessly destructive to be spraying corrosives onto a person's luggage, unless we're talking, like, microgram quantities--although if you're just taking off a few molecular layers, and if the reactive components are rarefied in a less reactive gas, maybe it's not a big deal. Still, couldn't the same sort of "wipes" that you see used with modern airport ion mobility spectrometers be used to spare travelers from being exposed to these "reactive" compounds? Too, it seems a bad idea to require that airports keep machines sitting around in terminals with cylinders of reactive gasses. Once again, the quantities one would be dealing with are what concern me.

They mention that their system suffers low selectivity. Selectivity, from what I understand, is pretty important in other fields, like nerve-gas detection, for instance, in order to force down false positives. What's keeping their system at a low rate of false positives as they claim?

I suppose I could read their papers; this article really is just a press release, after all. Being a lasers sort of guy, I guess maybe I'm just biased towards photoionization.

Also, even though this isn't really germane to my post here, I found another press release here is an article from just about a year ago that talks about this same DESI system.

The 48 Laws of Power
by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers
http://www.tech.purdue.edu/Cgt/Courses/cgt411/cove y/48_laws_of_power.htm

Law 1

Never Outshine the Master

Always make those above you feel comfortably superior. In your desire to please or impress them, do not go too far in displaying your talents or you might accomplish the opposite - inspire fear and insecurity. Make your masters appear more brilliant than they are and you will attain the heights of power.

Law 2

Never put too Much Trust in Friends, Learn how to use Enemies

Be wary of friends-they will betray you more quickly, for they are easily aroused to envy. They also become spoiled and tyrannical. But hire a former enemy and he will be more loyal than a friend, because he has more to prove. In fact, you have more to fear from friends than from enemies. If you have no enemies, find a way to make them.

Law 3

Conceal your Intentions

Keep people off-balance and in the dark by never revealing the purpose behind your actions. If they have no clue what you are up to, they cannot prepare a defense. Guide them far enough down the wrong path, envelope them in enough smoke, and by the time they realize your intentions, it will be too late.

Law 4

Always Say Less than Necessary

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.

Law 5

So Much Depends on Reputation - Guard it with your Life

Reputation is the cornerstone of power. Through reputation alone you can intimidate and win; once you slip, however, you are vulnerable, and will be attacked on all sides. Make your reputation unassailable. Always be alert to potential attacks and thwart them before they happen. Meanwhile, learn to destroy your enemies by opening holes in their own reputations. Then stand aside and let public opinion hang them.

Law 6

Court Attention at all Cost

Everything is judged by its appearance; what is unseen counts for nothing. Never let yourself get lost in the crowd, then, or buried in oblivion. Stand out. Be conspicuous, at all cost. Make yourself a magnet of attention by appearing larger, more colorful, more mysterious, than the bland and timid masses.

Law 7

Get others to do the Work for you, but Always Take the Credit

Use the wisdom, knowledge, and legwork of other people to further your own cause. Not only will such assistance save you valuable time and energy, it will give you a godlike aura of efficiency and speed. In the end your helpers will be forgotten and you will be remembered. Never do yourself what others can do for you.

Law 8

Make other People come to you - use Bait if Necessary

When you force the other person to act, you are the one in control. It is always better to make your opponent come to you, abandoning his own plans in the process. Lure him with fabulous gains - then attack. You hold the cards.

Law 9

Win through your Actions, Never through Argument

Any momentary triumph you think gained through argument is really a Pyrrhic victory: The resentment and ill will you stir up is stronger and lasts longer than any momentary change of opinion. It is much more powerful to get others to agree with you through your actions, without saying a word. Demonstrate, do not explicate.

Law 10

Infection: Avoid the Unhappy and Unlucky

You can die from someone else's misery - emotional states are as infectious as disease. You may feel you are helping the drowning man but you are onl

Note to readers: I don't advise taking advice from someone who can't spell "lose".

He claims that the Desktop environment was bloated. The fact of the matter is that the 5.2 state of StarOffice, where everything was integrated, ran like a hare compared to the tortoise that is now OO. Five yrs later and there isn't much that inspires me.. Take a look at, http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~nino/Openoffice/images. html

Hi Charlie,
1. First of all, grab Knoppix, burn it to a CD, and spend a few days (or a few weeks, whatever you feel comfortable with) playing with it. The base CD doesn't install anything to the hard drive, so you can't harm anything. This is a completely safe, non-intimidating way for you to initially get your feet wet.

2. While you're exploring Knoppix, there are a few things to read which will really help you. This will give you a very good introduction to Linux, in terms of a little history of the system, how to begin using it, and how some basic things work. Here is another in-depth document about using Linux, leading on from the previous one.

3. Once you've gone through those two, (take as much time as you need) this, written by the same man as the introduction, will introduce you to the Bash shell, the textual command interpreter where as a sysadmin in particular you'll likely be spending a lot of your time. This will ease you into scripting in what I think will be a very non-intimidating way. You will be able to try out all of these exercises with the Knoppix CD, and again, because the CD doesn't install anything to the hard drive, you needn't worry about destroying your existing system's contents while you learn. This is another book on Bash scripting which to a degree follows on from that one, and will go into somewhat greater depth. Both of these should lead to you feeling very comfortable writing shell scripts and moving around to a degree on the system.

4. Here is where we get to some meat. This document goes into compiling and installing generic Linux/UNIX software, and offers some basic applications and examples. Once you've gone through this, coupled with the material above, you should now have sufficient understanding to be able to compile and install at least a basic application yourself.

5. The Pocket Linux Guide will take you step by step through the process of learning to make a small, bootable Linux system on two floppy disks. Although compiling a basic custom kernel is part of this process, the Guide contains a link to another document which explains very clearly how to do this, and given the background you will have received from the previous documents, this should not be difficult.

6. Once you have completed the Pocket Linux Guide, you will then be ready to proceed to this site, which is the homepage of the Linux From Scratch Project. Here you will be able to read an HTML-formatted book which will give you the necessary information to successfully build an entire base Linux system of your own, and a more pure boot CD than Knoppix to initially build it upon. The Linux From Scratch Project also has a sequel book, Beyond Linux From Scratch, which describes how to install, among other things, a full graphical user interface with the X Windows system.

7. After you have completed all of this, although it is not crucial, I thoroughly recommend reading this book during idle moments. (It's still a good mealtime accompaniment for me) It will give you a detailed knowledge of the history and philosophy behind the UNIX operating system in general, which I am sure you will find enormously useful.

(Slashdot flamers, start your engines. I'm aware I'm likely to get a ton of abuse from corporate droids in particular about how I'm not telling him to find hand-holding tech support/this isn't practical advice, blah blah blah. For anyone considering res

I saw an article earlier that talked about hydrogen pellets but they were using them to recharge laptop batteries. It could be similar technology but this article talks about how it works. http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/2005/0508 28.Varma.fuelcells.html

I don't know if John Locke or any others smoked pot but Thomas Jefferson along with other Founding Fathers grew hemp on thier farms:

Jefferson is credited with several inventions, including the swivel chair, a pedometer, a machine to make fiber from hemp, a letter-copying machine, and the lazy susan.

Cannabis was brought to America during the early colonial period. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were both hemp farmers. During the early period of settlement of the New World, everyone owned or used something made of its fibers. Hemp fibers were known as the toughest durable fibers around. Hemp was even used as currency in some cases (Abel, 1982). But, Cannabis is mainly used as an illegal drug in the United States today.

The Monticello Textile Factory
Jefferson's annual goal was 1,200 yards of cloth woven from purchased cotton and wool and hemp produced on his farms. He never sought to make fine cloth; coarse cloth for the summer and winter allotments for the 130 slaves on the Monticello plantation was his only ambition.

Common Sense by Thomas Paine ...
In almost every article of defence we abound. Hemp flourishes even to rankness, so that we need not want cordage...

Ralph Waldo Emerson would be object to be categorized along with Ayn Rand.

Just as there are democrats who disagree with with each other and there are republican who do also not all libertarians agree on everything include Ayn Rand. I don't know much about Rand but some I agree with and others I disagree with. No it's my sister in my family that knows about her and she was very much a Randian. That is until she learned about Objectivism, as a Christian this turned her off. Fact is is that you don't have to be a Randian to be a libertarian.

Ooh here's something I found of John Locke's that mentions hemp:

To the Right Honorable Sir John Sommers
...
And a Swede will no more sell you his Hemp and Pitch, or a Spaniard his Oyl, for less Silver;

And with his sayings, John Locke wouldn't of liked laws outlawing hemp seeing as how he was very much a man of liberty and such a law abridges liberty.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but to have only the law of nature for his rule.
-- John Locke (1632-1704)

Falcon

Ooh and btw do you know where canvas for painters come from? It got it's name from cannabis. Here's a page listing some of the uses of hemp aka cannabis, Cannabis sativa L.

Affect/effect

The apostrophe is only used to indicate possessives of nouns. See this page for a reference.

For the lazy, I quote: "Apostrophes are NOT used for possessive pronouns or for noun plurals, including acronyms."

On a slightly more pressing issue than grammar, you really should quit your behavior of personal attacks in order to strengthen your ego.

Wouldn't it be nice if everyone adopted the policy of wishing to have correct information, and not simply to be correct regardless of whether or not their information is?

There's no need to call someone names, even if they are wrong!

No, I don't: "The Times" is not plural. Ending in "s" does not change the rule in that regard.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_a post.html

Here is a better explanation.

Oh, and thank you "Captain Obvious" for telling us that:

        these days, one process can host a myriad of threads, each doing their own thing

Guess what I was being? That's right, facetious ! Congratulations.

I only replied because I didn't find your comment very funny, and I don't like people who put pretentious things like "Senior Programmer" in their signature, if I wanted to know what your title at work was, I would ask you; otherwise, I'll judge what I think of you by what you say (though this _is_ Slashdot, and I just don't really care). Also, this rule applies to your comment, haccording to the Purdue University writing lab, Do not use quotation marks for common nicknames, bits of humor, technical terms that readers are likely to know, and trite or well-known expressions. Obviously, you're not a Senior Grammatist.

See here for a nice explanation.

Apparently it is that hard. "Their" is also used in modern American english as a gender neutral singular possessive pronoun. Your continuing failure to grasp this idea is tying you up in knots.

And no, you assume wrong, because despite an EXCEEDINGLY clear explanation of exactly what was ment, an individual member of a group in which each of the members has too much time on their hands (their referring to each, not members), you can't quite wrap your mind around it. This failure to distinguish between a qualitative decription (have too much time on your hands) and a class identification (are a person with too much time on their hands) is a greivous character flaw, and you should seek immediate professional help.

As to the rest of your drivel, define a state. There is 1 State, the United States. There are 50 "states" that have Congressional representation, however there are also a number of United States territories, including Guam, Micronesia, and the Northern Marianas that have had civilian rule, with legislative, executive, and judicial bodies since 1950 (Guam), 1979 (Micronesia), and 1986 (Northern Marianas), so that they too qualify as political states.

But you insist on simplistic answers, so I'm sure that the number 54 will simply piss you off. You should have specified states admitted to the Union.

Anyway, if you don't believe me, then maybe you'll trust the literati at Emory , Purdue, or the writers of the American Heritage Book of English Use.

I pick Purdue.

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_ nonsex.html

"Using the masculine pronouns to refer to an indefinite pronoun (everybody, everyone, anybody, anyone) also has the effect of excluding women. In all but strictly formal uses, plural pronouns have become acceptable substitutes for the masculine singular.

EXAMPLE Anyone who wants to go to the game should bring his money tomorrow.

ALTERNATIVE Anyone who wants to go to the game should bring their money tomorrow."

Wow, an acceptable switch between "his" and "their". I would claim it as a victory except that I am certain that any acknowledgement of "his" is going cause you to renew your rant about "implied pronoun objects" and other smelly crap.

Is this really that hard?

You said yourself that their qualifies person. Person is singluar, their is plural. Therefore, there is no pronoun agreement in number, and the sentence is incorrect. As I pointed out, the sentence could be correct if their refers to some unnamed third party group of people, in which case their doesn't qualify person.

I assume, and I am right (it doesn't take a mind-reader, and no matter how much you insist otherwise, you're not fooling anyone), that you meant that the original poster has too much time on the original poster's hands. In this case, the only wiggle room you could have gotten is if you had argued that the correct sentence is You are a person with too much time on his hands, or to be more gender-neutral, You are a person with too much time on his or her hands. This would agree in number, gender, and person with person in a generic sense of the word. "You are a person with too much time on your hands" is correct because person as an antecedent isn't generic; it refers to a specific person, you, which justifies usage of the second-person possessive pronoun your.

If you had said, "Pedants are people who have too much time on their hands," you would have been right, because their (plural) qualifies people (plural), and indirectly, pedants (plural). Of course, that sentence is semantically different and, as I said, not interchangeable with the corrected original sentence.

you have proven that a tortured rewriting of the sentence can cause the possessive pronoun to change

This is just, for lack of a better term, crazy talk. What are you smoking, anyway? I don't care how tortuously you rewrite a sentence, the possessive pronoun doesn't change unless its antecedent changes. Your hands are your hands, not his hands, not her hands, not their hands, not our hands.

Seriously, call your local high school English teacher. Then again, make it a college English professor, because too many high school teachers are incompetent, and knowing my luck, you'd get one of the stupid ones. True story: I once had a high school teacher who, when I got into an argument with an idiot of a classmate over whether there were 50 or 52 states in the United States, said, "Well, I don't know, really..." To add insult to injury, I was in a history classroom full of textbooks, none of which contained a simple list of the 50 states. The next class, I brought in detailed documentation that I was right, and it was all I could do to keep from commenting on how sad I think it is that someone who educates our children doesn't even know that there are 50—and only 50—states in the Union. Hey, just out of curiousity, how many states do you think are in the Union? That wasn't you by any chance, was it? (Guess number two...)

Anyway, if you don't believe me, then maybe you'll trust the literati at Emory , Purdue, or the writers of the American Heritage Book of English Use . Now please, stop making yourself look so foolish. I wish there were some way to agree on a disinterested third party to hold a large wager in escrow and settle this matter once and for all, because I am 100% certain that you are 100% wrong. Again, on the offhand chance that anyone else is reading this silliness, your grammatic illiteracy doesn't make you an idiot, because we all make stupid mistakes sometimes. Your relentless efforts to justify yourself in the face of obvious wrongness is what makes you an idiot. Hey, wait a minute, you're not George W. Bush, are you? (Guess number three...)

Moron.

If by "moron" you mean

"Time is a measure, therefore they actually do thave the authority to regulate it."

Yeah, but let's make sure this isn't like when the State of Indiana when they tried unsuccessfully to legally solidify Pi as 3.2 in 1897.

Now, if only people got serious about real time reform, and not only disconnected the link between time and the sun, but also did away with DST, Timezones, a Base 12/60 numerical time hybrid, and disconnected the calendar and the moon as well!

Does mine work?

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~pmarks/slashdot-mirror/ Star_Wars_Ep_4.wmv

Purdue University has a farm of web servers that run the webmail service, and it still experiences several complete shutdowns a year because kids refuse to use Outlook, Mail, etc to check their email. both from home and on campus. It may be a general statement, but its true for 95% of our student population, IE is their email client.

Thanks for the links and info! I searched for bromelain fingerprints references and found some info.

Toxicity - Workers who cut up pineapples have their fingerprints almost completely obliterated by pressure and the keratolytic effect of bromelain ... and some papers are referenced.

Ananas comosus Merrill (Pineapple) lists the study (Polunin 1951). verifying your info as well.

HVAC techs aren't the guys that get things to cryogenic temperatures. For that type of extreme you need something other than a plumber and that guy that fixed your air conditioning system.

On the other hand, obtaining liquid nitrogen might not be so difficult. I wonder if LOX is more stringently controlled these days (ref: http://ghg.ecn.purdue.edu/~ghg/).

You are undoubtedly confused and I can't even begin to guess from where you gleaned this information

Well, as I said, I read the article about Casimir force linked to in the original article ( http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/030811.F ischbach.casimir.html) which contains this paragraph:
The Casimir force has to do with the minute pressure that real and virtual photons of light exert when they bump against an object. High quantities of photons are constantly striking you from all directions, emitted by everything from your stovetop to distant stars.

You are undoubtedly confused and I can't even begin to guess from where you gleaned this information

Well, as I said, I read the article about Casimir force linked to in the original article ( http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/030811.F ischbach.casimir.html) which contains this paragraph:
The Casimir force has to do with the minute pressure that real and virtual photons of light exert when they bump against an object. High quantities of photons are constantly striking you from all directions, emitted by everything from your stovetop to distant stars.

Looks like potatos need light as well. Just because the root grows underground doesn't mean the plant as a whole doesn't need light.

Ha ha. Okay. I'll rumble.

Freetibet.org : what did I already say about the Free Tibet people? They are propaganda to the extreme, fighting for a cause they don't fully understand and trying to keep Tibet "pure" from western influences.

RFA.org : So China permitted prayers but didn't send their own envoy to the Pope's funeral. Woo-de-do. China is an offically atheist state. Of course China will never allow direct ties to the Vatican from within the government, they hold their separation of Church and State more highly than the United States does. While this is a holdover from Mao's anti-religion, anti-history campaigns it's one of the old CCP precepts they still hold to today.

Chiesa.espressoline.it : more about China not having a connection to the Pope. Wasn't this about Tibet? Once again, China will never allow a religious influence to come over their government. Not Buddhist, not Catholic, not even Scientology.

Betterworldlinks.org : Ahh, Falon Gong. Still further from Tibet. Well let me summarize the history that you are apparently unfamiliar with. FG started as an extreme religious movement but was tolerated/ignored by the government and mildly interesting to the intellectuals. Then the silent protests started. Groups of hundreds of people standing silently unmoving outside of government buildings. A little weird, but nothing official was done. But then the extremism started, and several FG members (including of their members who happened to be a young girl) set themselves on fire in protest. Then FG lost the support of the intellectuals and the government campaign against it started, and rightly so.

HRW: Talking about the supression of Muslims in China. Still not Tibet and something I am less famliar with, Xinjiang province is outside my field of study. But I wouldn't be surprised that Islam was heavily suppressed given its track history in the region (Indonesia, etc). Hell, this is from 2005 and is about China fighting against a religion-based separatist movement. Next you'll be saying that the US should have peacefully let the south secede.

Amazon.com: Something semi-relevant, but still about religious repression. Remember that I never argued that Tibetian Buddhism wasn't repressed, it certainly was. But that's why many Tibetian Peasants are happier now than they were. Again, read about the history of Tibet and who held the land up until the 1950s. Sure the Buddhist priests have a lot to complain about, but what do you except when their power and autonomy was taken and their land given to the peasantry?

Finally, WorldFuturefund: This is a Chinese government document against Mao written in 1981. Remember at this time the country was just pulling out of the Cultural Revolution and Mao was only five years gone. Deng Xiaopeng and the CCP had to distance themselves from his government (rightly so) and restore public faith in the government lest the country separate into disparate parts as it had in the early 1900s after the fall of the Qing Dynasty. Look how they clearly state that: Cultural Revolution? Mao's fault. Any serious problem? Oh totally Mao's fault. It wasn't us, it was all Mao.

So, yeah. None of those links really talked at all about Tibet. And those that marginally talked about it talk about religious repression, not on what happened to the peasants. Want to actually study something next time? Seriously, take a course. And remember to think twice about anything written on Tibetian History from the Priestly landlord class' point of view, there are a few other sides to the story. Also visit Tibet and talk to the people. The light is very cool there, it's very white and bluer; strange looking but awesome.

As a quick link because I have to start working: Tibetian History. Relevant quoting (emph mine and in bold):

"The situation of Tibet resembled Qianlong's time (1720) of Ching Dynasty. The General of `Tibetan military zone' replaced Tsu Tsan Dachen, the govern

They dubbed it affectionately the "data incident." From a few computers, hackers were able to glean 11,000 (eleven thousand!) staff records, including names, social security numbers, pants sizes, and favorite flavors of ice cream. (OK, so maybe I'm making the last two up.)

Yes, I'm one of the disgruntled staff who must watch his credit for the rest of my life, and I'm pissed off.

http://www.itap.purdue.edu/newsroom/news.cfm?newsI D=436

Only affected about 11,360 current and former employees...joy. They have switched over to a new numbering system, but only a few of the computer systems can handle the new numbers. They tell us to not use the new numbers just yet. Hehe...looks like by the _end_ of 2006 they'll have switched over...

This is effective within a 50 foot radius.

For a slightly higher-tech solution, try this or even this.

From http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_a post.html
Don't use apostrophes for possessive pronouns or for noun plurals.
Apostrophes should not be used with possessive pronouns because possessive pronouns already show possession -- they don't need an apostrophe. His, her, its, my, yours, ours are all possessive pronouns. Here are some examples:
wrong: his' book
correct: his book
wrong: The group made it's decision.
correct: The group made its decision.
(Note: Its and it's are not the same thing. It's is a contraction for "it is" and its is a possesive pronoun meaning "belonging to it." It's raining out= it is raining out. A simple way to remember this rule is the fact that you don't use an apostrophe for the possesives his or hers, so don't do it with its!)
wrong: a friend of yours'
correct: a friend of yours
wrong: She waited for three hours' to get her ticket.
correct: She waited for three hours to get her ticket.

A couple of Purdue students did something really similar to this a few years ago called the BoilerMixer. It was pretty cool, you could select your drink on an LCD from about a hundred different preprogrammed drinks and it would pour you the exact proportions of your choice. It was all microcontroller based. The project info is on this site: http://shay.ecn.purdue.edu/~dsml/ece477/Webs/S03-G rp02/documents/finalPresentationSlides.pdf

From hardcore research to performance art, the Envision Center at Purdue U. is a virtual reality room. It may have 3 or 4 walls (depending on the application). Users of the technology wear special goggles to pop the projections on the walls into a 3D environment.

It looks pretty cool. I keep planning to trek across campus and check it out.

No, I'm sure pudding7 would have gone to school the same place regardless of whether the password in question was 6 or 14 characters long. And comma splices are terrible.

This is a poor misconception. From my experience, most CS students frown on working in IT. They want to work on huge projects or specialized software and cringe at the thought of touching "icky hardware". CS students, at least from here, know very little about hardware, networking, or databases. Many are unable to install basic hardware let alone build a computer. With regards to networking, they look inquisitively when you mention the word OSI model or words like Novell, LDAP, Active Directory, or many other networking technologies and methodologies. They want to be logical and write software soley. I personally know someone who graduated with a CS degree and a good GPA and lives with his mom without any job even though he had offers to interview with companies like Chrysler but refused--he didn't get a degree to work in IT, he wanted to write software. From my experience with internships in IT, a pure programming degree won't get you very far unless you're in a rather specialized field. If you want to have a broader field you should consider differently focused programs like Purdue's Computer Technology program. I admit I'm biased, as I'm on the telecommunications and networking track in this program, but frankly I think learning how to use and create databases like Oracle, some programming such as VB.Net and Java, with a heavy emphasis on computer networking and network management provides a much better basis for which to do well in IT. This kind of knowledge is far more applicable then a pure software degree like CS will get you. Thank you for entertaining my rant.

all I can say is that's some expensive popcorn

The 200-mile limit is a "Exclusive Economic Zone".

Countries may claim a 200-mile territorial limit, but that's not recognized generally - IIRC from my days in the US Navy, most countries claim a 12-mile limit for territorial waters.

And the US Navy regularly drives warships through waters that countries claim as there's but where the US (and other countries with maritime industries) don't recognize the claim. IIRC those are called FON ops (Freedom Of Navigation).

And every now and then, the country whose claim is being rather rudely disputed responds. Somewhere in this html or PPT presentation is an instance where a Soviet ship actually rammed the USS Yorktown as it traversed what they claimed were their territorial waters. Since I was on another Navy ship also in the Mediterranean at that same time (USS Forrestal battle group), I actually got to see the video of that incident.

Although prisoners Internet access is highly restricted...

Although prisoners' Internet access is highly restricted...

i found this as i was poking at the site:
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/mov/2005/rube05localwin ner.mov

it seems to be the long version of the machine. it's 1:01 in length and 3.3megs big. since it's not the opening post and probably wont be modded too high, i don't think there should be any bandwidth problems. but if there is, shoot me a email and i'll mirror it.

http://xadar.noc.purdue.edu/traffic.php?local_grap h_id=480

>Replicators aren't standalone.

Proof by forceful assertion? We've already created simple self-replicating molecules. If you have some magical theory of why such things couldn't form in nature, I'd love to hear it.

Who's to say that neurons operate in the same way as a computer's multiple-add operations?

The structure of the neuron is well known and has been proven by microscopic and chemical analysis. Details can be found here and here

you'll need additional programming to tell the computer how to emulate the communication and interaction between neurons.

From studies of the human brain, two new computational paradigms have been identified this technical report.

Well, a quick Google search led me to these:

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/esl/esliart .html
http://www.englishrules.com/writing/2005/a-versus- an-the.php
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/a.htm l
http://www.rhlschool.com/eng2n26.htm
http://dictionary.reference.com/help/faq/language/ a/a-or-an.html
http://www.english-zone.com/grammar/a-anlessn.html

None of those say a thing about paying attention to the initial sound of the following noun. All of them, however, mention paying attention to the initial sound of the following word.

Wouldn't rotation be easier to implement and use than extension?

Test your apostrophe usage here.

using audio steganography

Geocities never lasts long...

Here is a mirror to the latest updates 2005-03-20a.txt