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Yep, it does (at least for some): http://www.csh.rit.edu/~marius/aolinux/

The temptation is ridiculous. A year free trial? Usually I get bored of these games before a year is up. I'd have to reboot, I suppose, anyone know if AO runs under WINE. But a free year... hmmm.

Well I googled and found this: http://www.csh.rit.edu/~marius/aolinux/. Perhaps I will give it a shot...

The CPU is a 16.78 MHz ARM7tdmi RISC processor. It is a 32-bit processor but can be switched to....

http://www.cs.rit.edu/~tjh8300/CowBite/CowBiteSpec Frame.htm

I am, however, a big NBA fan, and couldn't see myself buying a game that didn't have the actual NBA teams and rosters, unless I knew in advance there was an easy way to download NBA rosters with players who looked like themselves and had similar physical and player stats. I'm not a big fan of EA games for sports, the last two basketball games I bought were Sega's (NBA 2k3 and ESPN NBA 2k5 (for $20 less than EA's NBA Live 2005!)), but when I'm ready for the next basketball game (2007, I'd guesstimate), if EA was the only game with NBA rosters, I'd buy that, even if it was $20 more than Sega's version.

Of all the console-based football games or basketball games I've ever played in my life, the only ones that didn't have actual league rosters were Double Dribble and 10 Yard Fight. About the only sport where I could really give a flying f*ck about whether or not they had league rosters would be baseball, as I really lothe baseball. Despite my feelings for the sport, there have been some fun baseball games, such as Baseball Stars 2 (an awesome game), Nintendo's original Baseball (seemed fun enough for an 8 year old), and RBI Baseball (although that may have had actual team names, I can't recall off the top of my head).

Put some boobies on your drivers' licenses!

Professional just means you are paid for doing something. That doesn't condone any level of quality about the work. My brother-in-law is in his last year at RIT for photography, which happens to be a pretty darn good school for photography. He has been paid many times for his work, yet he somehow manages to "scrape by on Photoshop 7". I really don't know _how_ he does it.

Not a frat, in that it's co-ed and doesn't paddle incoming members, but Computer Science House at Rochester Institute of Technology is a house full of geeks: http://www.csh.rit.edu/

Saskia Sassen, professor of Sociology & author of "The Global City" is used as an authority in TFA. This post is not a slam but more of a critique of her as a lecturer.
As a graduate of RIT, it was mandatory to take Senior Seminar which is RIT's attempt to enrich the student with timely lectures from authorities in a field. The topic of Senior Seminar is on globalization, human rights, and citizenship.

You can find all the lectures online at http://www.rit.edu/~gannett/Archived.html (might I add that there are some really great lectures available) and you can specifically you can find Professor Saskia Sassen's lecture from December 13, 2001 Globalization or Denationalization? Economy of Policy in a Digital Global Age. ( .RAM file - Real Player required) Yes I attended this as it was mandatory but I was there with an open mind. We were required to attend and then discuss it at the next class meeting with our fellow students and our Senior Sem. professor.

The class, including the professor, agreeded that she is too far out into the fringes of her studies of sociology and thus is unable to effectivly communicate her thoughts to those in attendance. Our professor, he too a professor in the field of sociology, was both disgusted and outraged in regards to her lecture. Disgusted that she can not reach students and perhaps make them question why & how globalization changes our lives. Outraged that we had to listen to over an hour of uninterpretable socio-politic-economic mishmash of ideas. I came away from that lecture with nothing. I will wholly admit that I am not a peer of hers nor am I well versed in any social science. Perhaps I am way out of my element and all of us students in attendance are not the pinnacle of sociology & research like she is, but I was dumbfounded that I could walk away from a lecture and gain nothing.

Maybe she is a great authority on the topic of globalization, but her delivery on that topic left us feeling ill. Since we suffered through her lecture, I wonder if she really is an authority on globalization since many educated students and some of her peers were unable to discover it for themselves. If Sassen's lecture is measured against Marshall McLuhan's quote "The Medium is the Message", then Sassen's message becomes bunk.

For a critique of her book, see Amazon.com customer reviews.

Saskia Sassen, professor of Sociology & author of "The Global City" is used as an authority in TFA. This post is not a slam but more of a critique of her as a lecturer.
As a graduate of RIT, it was mandatory to take Senior Seminar which is RIT's attempt to enrich the student with timely lectures from authorities in a field. The topic of Senior Seminar is on globalization, human rights, and citizenship.

You can find all the lectures online at http://www.rit.edu/~gannett/Archived.html (might I add that there are some really great lectures available) and you can specifically you can find Professor Saskia Sassen's lecture from December 13, 2001 Globalization or Denationalization? Economy of Policy in a Digital Global Age. ( .RAM file - Real Player required) Yes I attended this as it was mandatory but I was there with an open mind. We were required to attend and then discuss it at the next class meeting with our fellow students and our Senior Sem. professor.

The class, including the professor, agreeded that she is too far out into the fringes of her studies of sociology and thus is unable to effectivly communicate her thoughts to those in attendance. Our professor, he too a professor in the field of sociology, was both disgusted and outraged in regards to her lecture. Disgusted that she can not reach students and perhaps make them question why & how globalization changes our lives. Outraged that we had to listen to over an hour of uninterpretable socio-politic-economic mishmash of ideas. I came away from that lecture with nothing. I will wholly admit that I am not a peer of hers nor am I well versed in any social science. Perhaps I am way out of my element and all of us students in attendance are not the pinnacle of sociology & research like she is, but I was dumbfounded that I could walk away from a lecture and gain nothing.

Maybe she is a great authority on the topic of globalization, but her delivery on that topic left us feeling ill. Since we suffered through her lecture, I wonder if she really is an authority on globalization since many educated students and some of her peers were unable to discover it for themselves. If Sassen's lecture is measured against Marshall McLuhan's quote "The Medium is the Message", then Sassen's message becomes bunk.

For a critique of her book, see Amazon.com customer reviews.

Saskia Sassen, professor of Sociology & author of "The Global City" is used as an authority in TFA. This post is not a slam but more of a critique of her as a lecturer.
As a graduate of RIT, it was mandatory to take Senior Seminar which is RIT's attempt to enrich the student with timely lectures from authorities in a field. The topic of Senior Seminar is on globalization, human rights, and citizenship.

You can find all the lectures online at http://www.rit.edu/~gannett/Archived.html (might I add that there are some really great lectures available) and you can specifically you can find Professor Saskia Sassen's lecture from December 13, 2001 Globalization or Denationalization? Economy of Policy in a Digital Global Age. ( .RAM file - Real Player required) Yes I attended this as it was mandatory but I was there with an open mind. We were required to attend and then discuss it at the next class meeting with our fellow students and our Senior Sem. professor.

The class, including the professor, agreeded that she is too far out into the fringes of her studies of sociology and thus is unable to effectivly communicate her thoughts to those in attendance. Our professor, he too a professor in the field of sociology, was both disgusted and outraged in regards to her lecture. Disgusted that she can not reach students and perhaps make them question why & how globalization changes our lives. Outraged that we had to listen to over an hour of uninterpretable socio-politic-economic mishmash of ideas. I came away from that lecture with nothing. I will wholly admit that I am not a peer of hers nor am I well versed in any social science. Perhaps I am way out of my element and all of us students in attendance are not the pinnacle of sociology & research like she is, but I was dumbfounded that I could walk away from a lecture and gain nothing.

Maybe she is a great authority on the topic of globalization, but her delivery on that topic left us feeling ill. Since we suffered through her lecture, I wonder if she really is an authority on globalization since many educated students and some of her peers were unable to discover it for themselves. If Sassen's lecture is measured against Marshall McLuhan's quote "The Medium is the Message", then Sassen's message becomes bunk.

For a critique of her book, see Amazon.com customer reviews.

Saskia Sassen, professor of Sociology & author of "The Global City" is used as an authority in TFA. This post is not a slam but more of a critique of her as a lecturer.
As a graduate of RIT, it was mandatory to take Senior Seminar which is RIT's attempt to enrich the student with timely lectures from authorities in a field. The topic of Senior Seminar is on globalization, human rights, and citizenship.

You can find all the lectures online at http://www.rit.edu/~gannett/Archived.html (might I add that there are some really great lectures available) and you can specifically you can find Professor Saskia Sassen's lecture from December 13, 2001 Globalization or Denationalization? Economy of Policy in a Digital Global Age. ( .RAM file - Real Player required) Yes I attended this as it was mandatory but I was there with an open mind. We were required to attend and then discuss it at the next class meeting with our fellow students and our Senior Sem. professor.

The class, including the professor, agreeded that she is too far out into the fringes of her studies of sociology and thus is unable to effectivly communicate her thoughts to those in attendance. Our professor, he too a professor in the field of sociology, was both disgusted and outraged in regards to her lecture. Disgusted that she can not reach students and perhaps make them question why & how globalization changes our lives. Outraged that we had to listen to over an hour of uninterpretable socio-politic-economic mishmash of ideas. I came away from that lecture with nothing. I will wholly admit that I am not a peer of hers nor am I well versed in any social science. Perhaps I am way out of my element and all of us students in attendance are not the pinnacle of sociology & research like she is, but I was dumbfounded that I could walk away from a lecture and gain nothing.

Maybe she is a great authority on the topic of globalization, but her delivery on that topic left us feeling ill. Since we suffered through her lecture, I wonder if she really is an authority on globalization since many educated students and some of her peers were unable to discover it for themselves. If Sassen's lecture is measured against Marshall McLuhan's quote "The Medium is the Message", then Sassen's message becomes bunk.

For a critique of her book, see Amazon.com customer reviews.

Saskia Sassen, professor of Sociology & author of "The Global City" is used as an authority in TFA. This post is not a slam but more of a critique of her as a lecturer.
As a graduate of RIT, it was mandatory to take Senior Seminar which is RIT's attempt to enrich the student with timely lectures from authorities in a field. The topic of Senior Seminar is on globalization, human rights, and citizenship.

You can find all the lectures online at http://www.rit.edu/~gannett/Archived.html (might I add that there are some really great lectures available) and you can specifically you can find Professor Saskia Sassen's lecture from December 13, 2001 Globalization or Denationalization? Economy of Policy in a Digital Global Age. ( .RAM file - Real Player required) Yes I attended this as it was mandatory but I was there with an open mind. We were required to attend and then discuss it at the next class meeting with our fellow students and our Senior Sem. professor.

The class, including the professor, agreeded that she is too far out into the fringes of her studies of sociology and thus is unable to effectivly communicate her thoughts to those in attendance. Our professor, he too a professor in the field of sociology, was both disgusted and outraged in regards to her lecture. Disgusted that she can not reach students and perhaps make them question why & how globalization changes our lives. Outraged that we had to listen to over an hour of uninterpretable socio-politic-economic mishmash of ideas. I came away from that lecture with nothing. I will wholly admit that I am not a peer of hers nor am I well versed in any social science. Perhaps I am way out of my element and all of us students in attendance are not the pinnacle of sociology & research like she is, but I was dumbfounded that I could walk away from a lecture and gain nothing.

Maybe she is a great authority on the topic of globalization, but her delivery on that topic left us feeling ill. Since we suffered through her lecture, I wonder if she really is an authority on globalization since many educated students and some of her peers were unable to discover it for themselves. If Sassen's lecture is measured against Marshall McLuhan's quote "The Medium is the Message", then Sassen's message becomes bunk.

For a critique of her book, see Amazon.com customer reviews.

Saskia Sassen, professor of Sociology & author of "The Global City" is used as an authority in TFA. This post is not a slam but more of a critique of her as a lecturer.
As a graduate of RIT, it was mandatory to take Senior Seminar which is RIT's attempt to enrich the student with timely lectures from authorities in a field. The topic of Senior Seminar is on globalization, human rights, and citizenship.

You can find all the lectures online at http://www.rit.edu/~gannett/Archived.html (might I add that there are some really great lectures available) and you can specifically you can find Professor Saskia Sassen's lecture from December 13, 2001 Globalization or Denationalization? Economy of Policy in a Digital Global Age. ( .RAM file - Real Player required) Yes I attended this as it was mandatory but I was there with an open mind. We were required to attend and then discuss it at the next class meeting with our fellow students and our Senior Sem. professor.

The class, including the professor, agreeded that she is too far out into the fringes of her studies of sociology and thus is unable to effectivly communicate her thoughts to those in attendance. Our professor, he too a professor in the field of sociology, was both disgusted and outraged in regards to her lecture. Disgusted that she can not reach students and perhaps make them question why & how globalization changes our lives. Outraged that we had to listen to over an hour of uninterpretable socio-politic-economic mishmash of ideas. I came away from that lecture with nothing. I will wholly admit that I am not a peer of hers nor am I well versed in any social science. Perhaps I am way out of my element and all of us students in attendance are not the pinnacle of sociology & research like she is, but I was dumbfounded that I could walk away from a lecture and gain nothing.

Maybe she is a great authority on the topic of globalization, but her delivery on that topic left us feeling ill. Since we suffered through her lecture, I wonder if she really is an authority on globalization since many educated students and some of her peers were unable to discover it for themselves. If Sassen's lecture is measured against Marshall McLuhan's quote "The Medium is the Message", then Sassen's message becomes bunk.

For a critique of her book, see Amazon.com customer reviews.

In a school lab, we had up to sixteen people playing as various shapes (eyeball, arcade game, taxi, boot, and one other) over an AppleTalk network. The fun was that MazeWars+ had four different levels (each level had an elevator to every other level) , and included four types of robots (one was a TARDIS that you could use to teleport randomly in the same level (much fun to teleport your opponent unexpectly), another was a Shadow Killer (only saw the shadow in the maze), a dummy (immobile target), and a very dumb AI robot)).

A later version of Maze was Super Maze Wars, with color and other features. Apple shipped it with some Macintosh models.

One nifty thing about the software is that it came with a disk label for an "official copy" of the game. Very thoughtful of them.

A French language website has screenshots of MazeWars+, along with other early Macintosh applications.

There are legions of security holes that can be present in any system, unix, windows,whatever. To think that just because something is a Sun its safe is ludicrous. For example, at the RIT cs department a couple years back when i was a student, they had a series of break ins, to the point where for one hour, the password file had been deleted and everyone could have logged in as root. And we were running Solaris!

Computer security only starts with a well designed OS. Every OS is vulnerable, at the very minimum, to a co-opted high level user.

Wow, CMU was backwards enough to use T-1's? Back in 1997 RIT had a T-3 dedicated to resnet access and all of the dorms and student housing units were interconnected through a 100Mbps fibre network. There was another T-3 for the academic network and some other connectivity to the Internet plus the big pipe to Internet2 (or was it called something else back then). The robot is cool, the computer science house never completed their delivery robot for Big Drink.

1. %bandwidth used by Counterstrike & Warez Servers
2. number of students that refer to their 'other' computers as boxxen
3. number of students who let out bloodcurling yells when flashed with a UV lamp
4. %students who respond "html" when asked for a programming language

From the samsung definition, it didn't seem to me that they were individually controlling the values of the sub-pixel colors. by this I mean: the four green pixels are probably still being excited from the same single driving line. What I think is different, is that the four green pixels are affected by their neighbouring pixels, and the hardware automatically does the anti-aliasing...

The article doesn't mention anywhere that they have increased the quality of the digital to analog signal converter precision of the LED drivers. It's using a standard RGB signal feed, so it can't be using a 0-2047 color range for the green.

Sorry, I know that wasn't clear.

http://www.photo.net/photo/edscott/vis00010.htm is a clear description of the eye. http://acept.la.asu.edu/PiN/rdg/color/color.shtml is another page that describes things as I have previously been taught them. I'm not sure which is right. Most literature seems to use a log scale, showing the eye to be less sensitive to blue than red or green. Such as: http://www.4colorvision.com/files/photopiceffic.ht m. I believe that we may be referring to different things. Blue cones are more efficient, and more sensitive to radiation than red or green cones, but red and green cones FAR outnumber blue cones. For this reason, we see blue as being less intense. http://www.cis.rit.edu/people/faculty/montag/vandp lite/pages/chap_9/ch9p1.html

One thing I find really interesting is that the eye is actually sensitive to the near-UV. We can see light below 400nm, as I have frequently experienced while teaching a spectroscopy lab. Students build their own Czerny-Turner spectrometer, and observe the emission bands from a mercury pen lamp. Some of the UV peaks are visible (not to all students), although very dimly due to our poor UV-response.

I recently visited my alma mater RIT which was ranked #12 on the list and was pleased to see what's happened there in the >mumble, mumble< years since I graduated. I asked about the lack of a "must own PC" policy and they feel that while they certainly wouldn't discourage having one, they feel that (especially for computer science majors) they have more than enough lab equipment to go around. (I would be curious to know what the ratio of computer to students involved in likely-to-use computer degrees is as opposed to the ratio of all students, because RIT has a significant number of students in programs where the use of a computer is fairly unlikely, such as the American Crafts degree). Anyway, the professor that I spoke to said that they actually recommended that new students wait a few months after arriving before decide what kind of computer, if any, they need/want.

Of course, as noted in the article, connecting pretty much whatever you get will be easy to do from just about anywhere on campus.

It is worth mentioning that you can play Anarchy Online in Linux using CVS Cedega:

AO Linux

Works great for me! I use Windowmaker and while playing full-screen, desktop switching still works without texture corruption (I get texture corruption switching desktops running in windowed mode).
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Ha ha! You are awesome.

that's a nice lifesaver

yes

its a public torrent, a little poky right now.

It was meant for doing Infrared astronomy, using an experimental IR sensor. (some pics on that link)

The thought was that due to the fact that it's so dry an cold down there, you could do IR astronomy similarly to an IR telescope in space. Results were pretty good too.

All observations were done over the Antarctic Winter, while the airport was colosed, since the sky was colder and there was less water vapor in the sky... and as you know, the less water vapor, the better the IR imaging capability, and the colder, the less background noise.

This function will be taken up by the new SOFIA platform, which we're also working on as well right now. I believe there have been /. articles about it, but in case you forgot, it's a 2.5m telescope in the back of a modified 747... also meant for IR astronomy.(at 40,000 feet up, you're above most of the water vapor in the air) SOFIA can be reconfigured after each landing.

First of all, I attend RIT (but am not deaf myself), with the National Technical Institute for the Deaf right there on campus, so I have interacted with actual deaf people, and do so on a daily basis in one way or another. I did IT work at NTID last summer with a deaf co-worker, and he was one of the most fun people to be around that i've met in a long time.

That said:

Man, I'm truly amazed at the amount of freakin' ignorance there is about the Deaf and Deaf culture.

Then the deaf need to get out and educate the rest of the world, and interact with the rest of us that can hear. Many (but by no means all) deaf people i've seen tend to stick to themselves and not communicate much with the hearing in their daily lives.

One good example would be in many classes where i've had group projects, the deaf/hard-of-hearing students will almost always (unless the professor forces them to split up) stick together instead of dealing with the hassle of communicating with the non-deaf classmates.

because the children were Deaf (which DOESN'T make them stupid!)

I've not run into someone with this attitude for a long, long time, even before I started attending RIT. I'd be interested to hear you expand on where this has been a problem for you.

No... not really. You can put up any form of wireless access point in your dorm/apartment . The only deal is that they will not support it at all in the event problems arise.

That is old news at Rochester Institute of Technology http://www.rit.edu/. ITS doesn't allow us to have our own WAPs either in the dorms or in the apartments and they'll shut off our ethernet if they detect it. Didn't stop me from puttin' in an airport extreme. :)
It's to ensure security of their internal networks, they say - don't need non-students somehow gaining access to sensitive info (and there are some info there that only the RIT community can see, like floor maps of every building on campus).
Visitors can use the campus-wide wireless network for up to a certain time and then they must register their laptops with ITS.

I set up a mirror here, from my "offline reading" copy. Please use the main site when it comes back up.

According to http://stupendous.rit.edu/richmond/answers/snrisks .txt, the kill radius for a supernova is around thirty light years. Beyond that, bad stuff happens, but less as the distance increases, and life would survive. Our satellites would probably all get toasted, though.

We do not capitalize the title/rank/position of a person when it follows the individual's name; when it used with the name of a company, an agency, an office, and the like; or when it is used alone. In other words, a title/rank/position is a common noun or adjective unless it immediately precedes a person's name.

Other presidents are lower case, except for the current President and Vice President of the United States, as in "President Bush;...the President said..."

So to recap; referring to Gore you capitalize and referring to Bush you leave off the "p".

Not to mention the lovely chemicals that have graced the shores of Lake Ontario, down by the ol' Xerox and Kodak Plants near my alma mater. Given what we Americans did to the lake, I think Toronto can be given a little leeway for some warm water.

Luckily, my boss has tasked me with looking for better automating solutions. The product being a J2EE web app, I've found a few useful tools from Apache's Jakarta project:

• Cactus (functional verification of J2EE components)
• JMeter (for performance- based evaluation, more from an HTTP front-end, but you can write Java plugins for it).

Is this the same Rick Wallace that appeared in Pokey the Penguin? Man, that guy's famous even without the blog!

http://www.yellow5.com/pokey
http://www.rit.edu/~flf1754/pokey/pokeyfaq.html

Rock on, Rick Wallace!

I'm pretty certain that the CF card should be fine. They're sensitive to static, but not magnetic fields. Although I'm not sure what'd happen if you put one in an MRI machine, normal magnets (even those from inside a hard drive) should be ok. Unless of course it's a microdrive, in which case there may be a problem. But even in that case there are some pretty strong magnets inside the microdrive.

I'll second that.

MythTV is great and it's extensible - if you want to build your own PVR and you like Linux, then you'll like MythTV. It's not necessarily cheaper than a Tivo up front, but it's more flexible and extensible if you're into that sort of hacking thing ;)

Having just completed a MythTV box that now "owns" my TV, I can say it was more complicated, cost more, and took longer than I expected. I can also say that I'm very happy with what I have and what I can do with it, and the potential to add new features and functionality.

Installing MythTV takes some time. I recommend using one of the distros/guides below. Following these, most clueful people should be able to get MythTV running.

See:

MythTV Homepage
KnoppMyth - bootable MythTV
Jarod's Fedora/MythTV Homepage
Debian MythTV howto
Gentoo MythTV howto

That's what drove me away from being a beer drinker.

I attend RIT in beautiful "sunny" Rochacha NY.

Beer is the big thing up with us lonely tech-school guys, but I stick to my guns and only indulge in good hard stuff, after hearing the following quote one night on my freshman floor:

"Hey, I found an extra $5, let's spring for Pabst"

Decided it was Guinness on tap, or no beer at all.

Still, I'd host a Pabst in my backyard, but only if I could use riot gear on all that attended.

Sorry, it's late in the day for me, I'm bored at work, and in major amounts of pain from stubbing my toe fiercely earlier today.... ignore me, please : )

No
Quote: "It's clearly impossible for an optical telescope on the Earth to resolve any of the Apollo hardware on the Moon, since the best systems, using adaptive optics in the near-infrared, can resolve details of maybe 0.02 arcsec. A lunar lander of width 5 meters, at a distance of 382,000 km, subtends an angle of 0.003 arcsec. The Hubble Space Telescope isn't appreciably closer the Moon, and its best resolution is about 0.03 arcsec in the near-UV. Not good enough."

PHP is a nice language, good for beginners. But it's complete lack of namespaces, half-arsed support for functional constructs (damn I hate having to write callback functions out seperately when they're one liners!), and schizophrenic api are slowly pushing me towards more well thought-out languages like Python.

I completely agree. The standard Python libraries are inconsistent in places, but nowhere near as bad as PHP's. PEAR alleviates this a little, but you might want to check out PiP (Python in PHP). It lets you use objects written in Python from within a PHP script.

Take the linear CCD array from it, add some mechanics, and with some luck you can get nice (in the range of megapixels) images.
These guys did it already: here and here
Better than a webcam, and pretty good for understanding how digital imaging works.

The Astro segment on limb darkening is great! Especially the part about gravitational lensing by a binary star.

I teach physics and astronomy courses at RIT. All my lecture notes are freely available to anyone. Look at

http://spiff.rit.edu/classes/

Enjoy.

I agree with the other posts about internships. My program at RIT requires a year's worth of interships before graduating. That makes a B.S. take about 5 years, but I think it's well worth it to have the real-world job experience (and industry contacts) when you graduate. Tons of students get hired once they graduate by companies they've done internships or senior projects with. Other tech schools have the same idea; I think Northeastern does this as well.

I agree with the other posts about internships. My program at RIT requires a year's worth of interships before graduating. That makes a B.S. take about 5 years, but I think it's well worth it to have the real-world job experience (and industry contacts) when you graduate. Tons of students get hired once they graduate by companies they've done internships or senior projects with. Other tech schools have the same idea; I think Northeastern does this as well.

"I told my wife, unless it is absolutely necessary and unless you are going to a site like our banking site, stay off the Internet right now"

This just shows the guy is a moron..hello...Firefox? Moz?.....Mac?

I bet this company, what's it..NetSec...is a collection of Microsoft <3ing tools. Their name is certainly stupid enough. company logo

Just to let everyone know, what this little camera is, is a scanner on its side. Instead of moving a linear CCD sensor back and forth, this is just a linear sensor mounted around a servo. Really basic stuff here.

Plans please. I wish to build my own. On a side note, I've been drooling at some film cameras that kind of do basicly(not all do 360's) the same thing for some time now. Such as the Globuscope , the Widelux and the Russian Horizon, AND of course the Seitz Roundshot.

Of course some has made his own Panoramic cameras in the past.

This isn't the first such camera. They call this one a bargain because the PanoScan was around $27,000 for its first model.

Other people have made cameras like this for far less at home. You can make a basic one for $50 in parts. All you need is a single line (or 3 colour line) scanner element as found in most scanners, a camera to put it in with a big lens, and a stepper motor to spin it instead of rolling it along the scanner bed.

You can even spin it by hand if you have something measuring how you turn it to expose each scanline right.

Check out this guy who built one on the cheap.

My favourite application was the guy who took pictures of the moon using a single line scanner. He put the scanner into the eyepiece of a fixed telescope. Then, he had the earth rotate, thus passing the scanner over the surface of the moon to record an image.

The reason he could only do the moon is the scanner elements from hand scanners are not that light sensative. They expect a bright light to light up the object.

Of course, 70 megapixels is nothing. I have been doing giant stitched panoramas much bigger than that for a long time though I don't put them that size on the web.

However the first image of burning man on this page is 210 megapixels. You need to see it printed out, which you can if you come to Burning Man.

Nope, I visited the media lab on a campus tour back when I was visiting schools to apply to. Got in but couldn't afford the ~40K/year tuition+room&board. My parent's house cost $42K for god's sake! I ended up going to RIT which was less than half the cost =)

But what I want you to think about is this kid who has the intellectual steadfastness not to cheat, in an environment where it was standard to cheat.

Good for him. The point remains, though, that short of being on a full scholarship you can't afford to give up, or something along those lines - why stay in such an environment when there are so many other quality options for getting an education?

I think you should put yourself in that position and view his environment from that perspective.

I already have. Were I in that same situation, I would get my ass out ASAP and not waste any more of my money.

Might you not be simply viscerally repulsed by your college.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. As I said before, though, I am somewhat "viscerally repulsed" by my college's glorious leader, but I have still had plenty of positive experiences.

And being the kid, how did you respond to highschool.

Again, i'm not sure what you're getting at here. The whole focus of this article and the responses has been college, not high school.

Or your baby boomer parents, who go along to get along.

Yet again, you've lost me. My parents are part of that generation, and they get along very well, thank you.

People who don't like it when others bash college always have the same refrain "you are a know-it-all kid...." I love it when this comes from people who never even went to college themselves or from people who majored in bullshit.

Fine, then you can hear it from someone that has gone to college in an Information Technology program and is about to finish (16 credit-hours left) - generally, people that claim college is a waste of time/boring/etc. are those that think they learned everything they need to know by the end of high school, and sound like damned know-it-alls.

One of the few classes I failed was the result of being the only one in the class who did not blatantly cheat. The professor left the room during exams and it was lets compare answer time.

Professors are almost all part-timers and TA's at most schools and the former get paid about the same rate as a highschool teacher in a poor district and the TA's barely get anything at all.

Sounds like you went to/are going to a pretty shoddy school. Definately reminds one of why research is so important before making a final choice to attend anywhere.

Did you visit the school beforehand, research it online, talk to current students, anything? You sound like you stayed wherever you were for at least a couple years...Why did you hang around and waste money if the conditions were poor like that?

Why is it that everyone who feels they do not like college has to be wrong?

You personally are not the worst example i've seen of such behavior, but usually, it's because people that think college is a waste feel the need to pop into discussions with people that DO think college is useful, and spout as much negativity as possible.

Just because college was not right for you, does not mean it wouldn't be right for the rest of the world as well.

Do you think colleges are run by ancient bearded men in robes who have already thought of everything?

Actually, the president of the university I attend is really not all that popular among the student body, and regularly satired and criticized in campus publications along with other members of the administration. That doesn't stop most people here from getting something out of their time spent, though.

The undergraduate technicians get 7 bucks an hour to drive their own cars around campus at their own expense and fix whiny girl's computers.

Unless you're doing something specialized or at a higher level, I don't see why this is out of the ordinary at all. Not everyone goes to schools near the giant cities that pay their regular student employees $10+ per hour.

I wonder how large the dataset will have to be before you win?

Yes, this really is the crux of it all and I left that out. I participated in a very interesting challenge to generate 10 unique random numbers in a scripting language. The goal was for minimal time. As it turns out, a simple array check of whether or not the number has been included worked the fastest due to the fact that you're generating only 10 numbers. As soon as it got up to 100 or more, the array approach O(n^2) broke down.

So for a small dataset, I'll award you your prize already. :) For a large, random dataset I think I'd win out on that one. Check out this sorting algorithm demo page (uses Java applets). Looks like the Shear sort kicks ass over all of them.

-Benjamin Meyer