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We here at school have begun collecting images and video to help out with the bandwidth problem the news sites are having... Here Also feel free to send anything in...

We here at school have begun collecting images and video to help out with the bandwidth problem the news sites are having... Here Also feel free to send anything in...

Here the link with http:// on it so it works:

http://beefdart.csh.rit.edu/index.php

But I think the site might be broken right now?...

Actually, I think this is where you wanted to link.

We here at school have begun collecting images and video to help out with the bandwidth problem the news sites are having... Here Also feel free to send anything in...

We here at school have begun collecting images and video to help out with the bandwidth problem the news sites are having... Here Also feel free to send anything in...

We here at school have begun collecting images and video to help out with the bandwidth problem the news sites are having... Here Also feel free to send anything in...

I put this up on my college computer so it should take the traffic well... Here

I put this up on my college computer so it should take the traffic well... Here

I've seen the same thing at very much subsonic speeds looking out the window of an airliner on final approach on a humid day. All it takes is for the air pressure to drop low enough to cause instant condensation. This happens as the air flows around the wing and accelerates (lowering the pressure, according to Bernoulli's equation).

Condensation is what causes the cloud. Condensation is usually caused by a DROP in pressure, which causes cooling, which lowers the temperature below the dew point. But a sonic boom is a shock wave - which is physically defined as a sudden (step) increase in pressure - which also results in a sudden INCREASE in temperature. This cannot lead to a condensation. What you are seeing is the air thinning back out and cooling down well BEHIND the shock wave, if anything.

Also, please note that a true sonic boom begins at the nose of the airplane, not the middle. As the air first touches the nose a wave forms and propgates away and back at some angle (defined by the speed). It forms a cone around the airplane. That shock wave stays attached to the very nose of the airplane, PERIOD. Secondary shocks also form on different parts of the airplane, depending on speed. As they move away from the airplane, they tend to coalesce into a single shock. This is because the air AFTER the shock is denser, so the rear shock moves faster (sound moves faster thru denser air) and the rear shock catches up to the first one. So at some distance from the airplane there is basically one leading shock. You can also find a second "reverse" shock as the rear of the airplane passes, basically attached to the back of the airplane. You can find a great photo (using the "Schlieren" photography method) here.

I strongly suspect that Yggdrasil is dead, but if they came out with a new release tomorrow, it wouldn't surprise me.

You can never be too sure with a distro named after a Cthulu Elder God.

Bullet and more at http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/exhibit-3.html

I believe that Slashdot had an article on a related subject. There is a link or two about this on the 'net.

According to some of the work done in the field, some of their largest problems have to do with the location of the person, the direction that the person is facing, and the angle that their head is at to properly display WHERE the graphics are going to be put.

Read the links posted above as they describe more effectively that I ever could what is going on.

Ok - my little story does indeed reek of 'urban legend' and just 'sounds' credible (hey, it got +4 here already!) I did a more indepth research and found one Phd who makes a distinction between MRI as a type of NMR, but then again here is another site that repeats my story.

The trademarks were not given approval until 2001-01-23.

Kaim started more then a year before that and Gaim started in 1998.

If a company abandons a trademark for 3 years it is considered lost.

In 1999 AOL sent us a legal letter asking us to remove the aol images and name from our applications, they did not in any way refer to the aim name as one of the things we had to remove. By doing this they showed that they did not have a vested interest in the name which can *void*there trademark application which states that they first started using it back in 97 when it wasn't until recently that they cared about it. Also by not telling us to remove the name then, they were in essence giving us the right to use the name.

Gaim and Kaim can be argued are different enough from the word aim to be ok.

The reason that they sent us the notice of infringement was that they fear that kaim and gaim would "dilute" the aim name, when in fact both of our applications are superior to the official AOL linux client. In that regard you can argue that their clients were diluting the trademark and we would boosting it!

But even with all these things going for us this is a pure case of the big bad company beating up on the loyal fans. Here we had given our sweat and tears making an application to connect with and in the end promoting them. They have made it harder and harder to do this and for me this is the last straw.

As of the next release of Kaim it will have a new name. You can submit name ideas to kaim-developer@lists.sourceforge.net Submit a funny name and a real name. :) For those of you who have been using Kaim we thank you. Kaims current status is very stable. Because of that I will be fixing up the last few bugs and releasing the next version as 1.0 To bad it can't be called Kaim.

The official kde aol client kit is being revamped as a jabber client. The Kaim development team will most likely move over and join the kit team. Kaim has done what Iset out to do. It is a stable aim client with a clean interface. But that was then this is now. Next comes the Jabber client. If you are trying to decide what im server you should go to Iwould recommend jabber. Did you know you can run your own jabber server? Heck jabber is so much better then aim it isn't funny. This probably isn't the end of aol's attack so get out now. Be part of the resistance! Get yourself and others away from aim. Here are two links to jabber sites.

http://www.jabber.org/
http://gabber.sourceforge.net/

Oh and one last thing... Hehe I don't mean to start something, but in a way (not really, but you get what I mean) it is now kinda illegal to have kaim and gaim on your computers. So stick it to the man and where is your mirror?

If you wish to contact me you can do so at icefox@mediaone.net

I don't think it serves the needs of students looking to fully understand the internal workings of a computer, which is in my mind what an AP computer science course should be directed towards.

IMHO, then the course isn't Computer Science anymore, it's computer architecture, or computer engineering.

I remember in High School, my first experience in programming was with a basic program for the mac, then we moved on to Pascal, and we covered the concept of a compiler and an actual program executing. The actual AP course was then in Pascal, and it covered (for the most part) pure programming. Language syntax, construction of a program, debugging, and actual results of the program were what was stressed by the AP course.

When I started college (at RIT) our initial exposure to OOP was Eiffel (and I still think it's a decent teaching language, but not overly practical (read: not used too often). Where did that leave us after our freshman year? Unemployed in our field. Not having any practical language experience (read C++, Java) hurt our chances of finding any summer employment with the skill sets we had.

RIT followed up the first year of Eiffel with one quarter of C++ (10 weeks). That was about it for languages directly taught.

RIT has since switched over to Java. Those of us in the last year of Eiffel were kind of jealous because now the freshmen had marketing skills having 30 weeks of training in a demanded language. (Translation: They were more employable than we were.) By the time the department got around to offering a Java course to the upperclassmen, most were ineligible because of the requirement that students had not taken a Software Engineering course, or other course in Java (which most of the upperclassmen had by that time. Also twice offering only one section of it with 25 seats didn't help matters much).

In all, I think Java is a decent teaching language if you can work around the 1: speed issues, 2: IDE issues, 3: building simplified libraries for students to use until they knew what they were doing.

Speaking as a student that was introduced to OOP through Eiffel, I must say that CS students at my school were very happy when they switched over to Java as the language of choice for introducing freshmen to CS.

I would be interested to see any comments by students from RIT who went through those trials.


---Lane

My home page http://www.csh.rit.edu/~benjamin/ has been entirly copied unto virtuadub's site. If they has ssi on you could see all of it. They must have liked the layout of my site that quite a bit. A wierd sensation wakeing up and seeing my website on some other server.

Fortunatly for us Tron is prepared to take on the MCP and save cyberspace (and realspace as well).

So "making web sites" is easy, but what about maintaining them? Even the most basic sites require occasional updates if you want them to stay relevant and interesting.

Wait... I'm confused...

There is something other than Red Hat?



---Lane

The control system used is built by InnovationFIRST. It consists of three Basic Stamp 2X controllers where one is user programmable. These are remote controlled robots but sensor input can be taken from the robot and used to preform certain tasks (for instance, several robots could "autobalance" on this year's bridge).

For more information on FIRST, the following websites might be of interest.

• FIRST's web site
• Alstom & RIT & Edison Tech - Team 73 - my team
• Chief Delphi - Delphi & Pontiac High School - Team 47 - the web site for team 47 also provides message boards and photo galleries used by many FIRSTers
• FIRST Robotics.net - provides pictures of many robots
• InnovationFIRST - makers of the control system we use

Matt Leese
Team Leader
Team 73

I'm a College Student Mentor for a FIRST Team based out of RIT. My team page can be found here

I just wanted to comment on some of the posts. This is not a battlebots clone. Far from it. The goal is not to disable/destory the other team, and although the game itself changes from season to season, it has been trending towards a cooperative effort.

The messages and encouraged behavior while somewhat idealistic are exatly what today's highschool students need. If anything, (refering to some other posts i skimmed) it will prevent violent behavior by providing kids with afterschool activities. I encourage everyone looking for a way to fill free time to check out www.usfirst.org

I can say personally that FIRST ( this being my first year ) was a great experience and very personally rewarding to feel as if you are making a difference in others' lives.

I think that this web site on MRI imaging is one of the finest examples of web-based multimedia I have seen.

A very well done tutorial.

So, what is a CFPP? It is a processor with a pipeline where data and instructions flow in opposite directions, with the instructions usually thought of as moving "up" and data as moving "down". The functional units (FU) are attached as sidings to the main pipeline. Each FU launches from a single pipeline stage and writes its results to a different stage, further "up" the pipeline. The main goals of this architecture were to make the processor simple and regular enough to create a correctness proof and to achieve purely local control.

If Sun ever produces a processor that is asynchronous, it will likely look similar to this.
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"You can put a man through school,
But you cannot make him think."

Having been accepted into the program for next year, I would appreciate any input regarding this program in comparison to others. Their website is http://www.se.rit.edu/.

I found this link, a paper by a fellow named Michael Richmond entitled "Will a Nearby Supernova Endanger Life on Earth?" published in 1999.

"Conclusion: I suspect that a type II explosion must be within a few parsecs of the Earth, certainly less than 10 pc (33 light years), to pose a danger to life on Earth. I suspect that a type Ia explosion, due to the larger amount of high-energy radiation, could be several times farther away. My guess is that the X-ray and gamma-ray radiation are the most important at large distances. "

Unless we have a testy giant within a hundred LY or so a 30 LY radius should be far enough to move our eggs about to keep them from getting scrambled from any nearby booms. :)

I liked your point about stellar motion -- did you see the recent photo of a white dwarf that appeared to be moving at high speed through the galactic ecliptic? One of those be-bopping through the solar system could certainly ruin one's day. :)

The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has a Software Engineering program that will graduate its first class this May. It is a spin-off of the CS department. (See also here)

The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has a Software Engineering program that will graduate its first class this May. It is a spin-off of the CS department. (See also here)

The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) has a Software Engineering program that will graduate its first class this May. It is a spin-off of the CS department. (See also here)

Ugh! Watts S. Humphrey. (Note: Not "Humphreys", which everyone, including myself until last month, usually says). I recognize some of the things he's brought to the software engineering industry, but I just don't agree with many of his practices. PSP, while a good idea conceptually, is almost never used due to practicality. If I'm writing down everything I've done and in the last hour (including interruptions), then I'm losing time doing the things that I'm sitting there writing about! Not to mention, Watts Humphrey represents everything that I HATE about S/W Engineering. I'm not saying the things he professes are wrong, just that I hate them. I'm currently reading two books by him (Managing the Software Process, An Introduction to the The Team Sofware Process) in my S/W Eng Process class at RIT and I can't stand them. They are so dry and boring and seemingly dated even though one of the books was published just this year! I'm reading his team version of PSP (TSP) and it basically incorporates all of the bad things about PSP into a team-oriented environment, which according to Fred Brooks makes everything all the more inefficient. So I would personally say avoid Watts Humphrey books like the plague. If you want to learn about SW Process, read Fred Brooks.

A lot of comments here reflect a somewhat, uh, uninformed view of color vision. I was going to write up a little summary, but then decided to try my Google skills out.

I came up with this definitive article on Color Vision by Peter Gouras. It's very deep, with a special focus on the neurology of color vision.

Another potentially interesting link is the Color Vision Q&A from Rochester Institute of Technology.

What's especially fascinating to me about color vision is that it still isn't fully understood. The low level parts, such as rods and cones, and even some of the "early vision" parts of the brain, have been studied for a while now. However, there are lots of higher level brain activities that are still quite mysterious. As such, making color photographs "match" across computer screen, print, video, etc., is still a subjective art, claims of rigor in "color management solutions" notwithstanding.

There have been many, many, many variations on chess created in the last century; the reason you've never heard of them is that chess players view them as a curiosity and distraction, but not as anything useful.

No, the reason you've never heard about them is you haven't been listening. First of all, chess itself is a variant. Likely the original "chess" was what we now call Chaturanga, which dates back to 7th century India. This evolved, as variants continually cropped and died out, but occasionally replaced chess itself. Soon Chaturanga became Shatranj, and so on. Rules were changed or added, one by one. Pawns became able to move two spaces instead of one on their first move. En passant was introduced. Castling began as well. The Indian pieces were replaced with European medieval figure representations. And so forth.

But it doesn't stop at historical variants... there are literally thousands of chess variants played regularly around the world. You can find many in the wonderful book The Encyclopedia of Chess Variants or on The Chess Variant Pages. Many variants can be played online at chess servers like The Free Internet Chess Server (telnet freechess.org 5000), The Middle East Wild Internet Server (telnet chess.mds.mdh.se 5555), The Internet Chess Club, etc.

Chess Variants I have played and enjoy:
Standard, Blitz, Lightning, Quantum, Hourglass, Bughouse, 3 Board Bughouse, 4 Board Bughouse, 5 Board Bughouse, Aerial Bughouse, Crazyhouse, Suicide, Atomic, Wild 5, Wild 10, Kriegspiel, Progressive, Magnetic, Fairy Tale, Alice, Fischer Random, Random, Thai, Shogi, Xiangqi, 3 Player Chess, 4 Player Chess, Cylindrical, Infinite, Capablanca's, Mutation, Absorption, Inverse Capture, Rifle, Kamikaze, Extinction, Take-All, Rotation, Marseillais, Stealth, Hostage, Insane, Ultima and Command.

Many of these variants were created by world class chess players to add another dimension to the game. For example, Fischer Random was invented by Bobby Fischer to eliminate opennings from the game. Capablanca created Capablanca's Chess. The list goes on and on.

My all time favorite chess variant is bughouse, wherein you have two boards side by side and a partner who plays the opposite color from you... you pass your partner the pieces you capture and he does likewise, then as your move you may place one of these pieces on the board instead of playing a normal move with the pieces already on the board. It is a very social game and is much more fun than chess itself.

Check out my webpage for more information on variants, chess servers, and other chess stuff: http://www.cs.rit.edu/~cem9314/chess/.

When I started the prjoject Kaim (The Kaim website:http://www.csh.rit.edu/~be nja min/benjamin/works/kaim/.) we didn't create any formal docs on the design, but several weeks were spent deciding what features would go in and what would be left out for 1.0 This of course has changed a tiny bit, but for the most part it has stayed the same.

I would imagine that a lot of other open source applications work this way. They may not have design docs for everything, but they have a list of feature that are wanted for 1.0. The prolems arise when the developers start adding every feature under the sun when they think about them, rather then getting what they have in good shape.

An ode to Freeness from the sultan of source!

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Like This? (exploding grenade photo near bottom of page)

Also interesting are These. (several high-speed photos - playing cards and fruits being shot)

These aren't video though - that would add an extra dimension.

I guess I will sit around and wait for my subpoena.

Good luck. I put a C version up on my page and on Freshmeat over a week and a half ago, and still haven't gotten a letter.

Has anyone gotten a cease-and-desist letter from these clowns after the first wave?

Matt Leese

To go along with that. I am working on the kaim client team (An TOC client for the record). There is currently a $50 reward for who ever can find this leak that continously eats away at the app. You can go here for me info:

http://www.csh.rit.edu/~benjamin/benjamin/works/ kaim/

The reward has been up for a week and so far no one has been able to find it.

-Benjamin Meyer

This is a hot topic because it deals with two of the three most important things in most peoples lives, intelligence, money and ...ya' know..., wink, wink, nudge, nudge. I have had the oportunity to work in government at the MTA, and also in industry at Actiant. Now, I have spent a year RIT. I can honestly say that I have learned a great deal more in school that anywhere else. Is it worth the money? Probably not.

Living in a dorm, drinking beer and joining a frat all while supposedly "growing up" didn't make sense for me.
Hehe, you are aparently misinformed about college life. Please disregard what you see on tv and in movies. As for the stren, cold, set-in-his-ways professor that is put across in the media simply isnt true, they would love for a student to challenge them.

College is great for people who can study and apply what they remember.
I think you just described every healthy human on this planet...

College to me adds biggotry to the soul.
Oooo... Big words from someone living in an evil empire.

Well put! My job is to foment rebellion, not organize it, so your suggested actions are an wonderful complement :)

Here's another one that I'm planning: Send real money to artists. Say you're listening to an Oingo Boingo and decide that, if such a system existed, you'd tip the boys. So write a check for a buck and send it away! Even if they never cash it, if enough artists get enough random bucks flowing in in envelopes, they'll get the clue. They'll realize that, if infrastructure existed, they could sever their ties with the beast.

No, it's not practical and scalable. But it makes a point, and that's what's important.

This voxel acceleration isn't even being pushed for gaming. It's being pushed for Augmented/Virtual Reality surgery and oil drilling types of applications. Sure it'd be nice to have a voxel accelerator so when you blow some guys arm off in a game you can see chuncks fly correctly, but it's more important for other applications. I do research in AR and the fast the accelerator the better. We've already hit walls with $1400 OpenGL accelerators. Sure gaming is nice, but put on a head mounted display and try to make CG things look like they're in the real world and you'll see that acceleration has PLENTY of room to grow.

Links for those interested in AR:
rit.edu
Media Lab
The Navy

There are plenty more out there also. VR stuff looks fine for now, but when you're trying to make CG stuff look like real world stuff and have it line up with real world objects you can use all the acceleration you can get. Untill CG looks real we're not there yet.

Yup... it'll probably go to a "government-friendly" school... like RIT, a school well known for its wonderful ties to the CIA and government agencies...

Yeah... while they're at it, they'll probably plant a couple of FBI spies into the RIT architecture there too. I'll trust them... sure!

Yup... it'll probably go to a "government-friendly" school... like RIT, a school well known for its wonderful ties to the CIA and government agencies...

Yeah... while they're at it, they'll probably plant a couple of FBI spies into the RIT architecture there too. I'll trust them... sure!

Just for those that might not know, Kaim recently was released. Still a developer release, but not bad. You can check it out at:
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~benjamin/benjamin/works/ kaim/.

I had always thought SDMI was a paralell computing term meaning Single Data Multiple Instruction. Which was pretty much useless because any of the instructions could modify that data at any time, making the multiple instuctions operating on it useless...

At least you don't go to the South Henrietta Institute of Technology... err... I mean Rochester Institute of Technology. You figure out the initials ;-)

Here are some OS's that I think are interesting. I'm not sure if these are the official sites or not...but they should be interesting to read about (actually, most of them are REALLY cool)

Interesting FAQ: comp.os.research FAQ
Chorus Distributed OS paper
The Amoeba Distributed OS (check out the papers... I think many of the links are broken
Microsofts Rialto OS

These guys are just down the road from me and they do all kinds of cool work. Including a bunch of restoration of the Dead Sea Scrolls(DSS). There are huge reproductions of the DSS in the hallways in the buildings.

-Rob

First of all, Rochester University does not exist. It's the University of Rochester, or UR. Second of all, Rochester Institute of Technology, or RIT, is a different school, even in a different town. I looked at both, and graduated from UR. We UR people really don't like getting confused with RIT. UR is a science and humanities school. Our Computer Science program is a science program, not a technical one. RIT is a technical school. UR is smaller, but its reputation is much greater, and has been invited at least once to join the Ivy League.