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Here ya go, you're all invited... now why don't you print out a bunch of these onto glossy postcards and leave them around your local college campus like all the promoters do at mine?

Vernor Vinge's Hugo-nominated short story, Fast Times at Fairmont High, shows a our society becoming dominated by AR, 25 years in the future. People change their clothes, housing, decor just by updating the shared database. Kids even cover up their zits with AR rather than Clearasil. There are no more computer monitors because you can conjure up a virtual monitor and attach it to any surface or just let it hang in mid-air. It's an astonishing technology in Vinge's hands. (...more on the story's use of AR )

Then take a look at some current work in the field, with videos showing a small CG clock tower superimposed on a piece of cardboard being waved around. It jitters a little but overall it looks pretty good.

Yes, Rochester Institute of Technology currently teaches a course titled 0622-534 Space Tourism Development

2010 comes around ..I look out my window with my telescope .. and all I see on the moon is a bunch of naked Chinese guys dancing to the yatta song.

For anyone who loves computers (not just coding, or any one aspect) and especially all you sysadmins, webmonkeys, and et al... I recommend the Info Tech college at Rochester Institute of Technology. It is a solid program, and improving rapidly. It isn't M.I.S (people with suits who know how to type), it isn't CS, (sitting in a cubicle), SE (designing programs for others to write), CE, (making the circuts to write programs on), or any of the other programs that RIT, and some other schools offer. It is designed for those who love computers.

For anyone who loves computers (not just coding, or any one aspect) and especially all you sysadmins, webmonkeys, and et al... I recommend the Info Tech college at Rochester Institute of Technology. It is a solid program, and improving rapidly. It isn't M.I.S (people with suits who know how to type), it isn't CS, (sitting in a cubicle), SE (designing programs for others to write), CE, (making the circuts to write programs on), or any of the other programs that RIT, and some other schools offer. It is designed for those who love computers.

For anyone who loves computers (not just coding, or any one aspect) and especially all you sysadmins, webmonkeys, and et al... I recommend the Info Tech college at Rochester Institute of Technology. It is a solid program, and improving rapidly. It isn't M.I.S (people with suits who know how to type), it isn't CS, (sitting in a cubicle), SE (designing programs for others to write), CE, (making the circuts to write programs on), or any of the other programs that RIT, and some other schools offer. It is designed for those who love computers.

I was in a similar position a couple of years ago when I was graduating from high school. I decided to go to college for the following reasons:

To get A Degree: Regardless of what degree I came in for... employers like to see a degree of some sort. It shows not just ability but desire to further yourself.

To lean more: I've learned a lot in college that I never even knew I could learn. A lot of this hasn't been from classes (though a lot has) but from people.

College is fun: Lets face it! College is fun! Don't miss the opportunity to go while you are young. Even if you aren't into parties and drinking, there is just a lot of fun to be had when you get a bunch of crazy students together.

The rest of your question was what major should you choose? I attend Rochester Institute of Technology. Much like you, I am interested in network administration/system administration. I don't really like programming, and I definately don't want to do it for a living. RIT has both a CS degree and an IT degree. I finally decided on the CS degree because A) I want to know HOW to program, B) it means more, C) I can minor in IT, and D) I think that I've just learned a whole lot more about computing in general than many of the IT students.

Well, I hope that helps!

There have been people who weld ATX cases together (or AT cases, as the case may be), in order to get more drive bays in front.

You could just as easily turn the top addition around to face the back. That way all the cables going into the drive bay interface will be in the back of the new conglomerate case. The back of the addition (where the other case's power supply would be) would now face the front of the Frankencase, and could be used for ventilation.

The most creative case I've seen was made out of one of those tupperware storage bins you can get at walmart. Holes were cut out for all the connectors as well as intake and exhaust vents.

Take a look!

Go here

Griffin Technologies is a (Tenn. based?) company that manufactures macintosh-related accessories. I bought one of their USB-to-ADB adaptors (just for fun, really). I decided to write a linux driver for it. I emailed the company, and within a *day* I had the complete specs for the protocol. While they didn't write the driver themselves, they were very supportive, and answered all my questions (which is really the most you can hope for, given linux's market share). Anyway, the driver isn't complete yet, but if you want to take a look, here's my web site:
my site

I managed to get in the ftp sites that wasnt slashdotted already and got a copy of it, you can get a copy from: wolf_source.exe

He's also very into creating virtual terrains and raytraced scenes using Macromedia Director - talented fellow, both artistically and in the programming sense.

if its not already blatantly obvious, RIT's website is www.rit.edu but I couldnt find any reference to RIT's video game development if they DO in fact have it or not..

See Gabe getting punched in the head when he's piss drunk right here and here.

See Gabe getting punched in the head when he's piss drunk right here and here.

well if quick and radix sort made it, you should definitely include odd-even and the "shear sort", they are incredibly fast parallel sorting algorithms,

"Odd-Even Transposition Sort is a parallel algorithm, with an worst case time of O(n), running on n processors. Its absolute speed up is O(log n), so its efficiency is O((log n)/n).

Shear Sort is a parallel algorithm, with an worst case time of O(n1/2 log n), running on n processors. Its absolute speed up is O(n1/2), so its efficiency is O(1/n1/2)."
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And this isn't a picture of you, right?
Scott Rubin

And you didn't write this on that page, right?
Email me at slr2777@cs.rit.edu

And these condoms are for your brother, right?

And this isn't a picture of you, right?
Scott Rubin

And you didn't write this on that page, right?
Email me at slr2777@cs.rit.edu

And these condoms are for your brother, right?

You don't ever let your email address be posted anyplace? Not even like on http://www.cs.rit.edu/usr/local/photo_album/slr277 7.html?

I'm not an idiot. .... I don't put my e-mail in public places where spammers would look to pick it up. As far as I'm concerned if you get spammed, it's your fault.

In fact, Apreche is a CS student at Rochester, and has this little website.

The very first link on the home page is News Archive, that leads to a non-existant page. The university's server generates a much-nicer-than-usual 404 error page, which includes among other info Apreche's email address, specifically "slr2777@osfmail.rit.edu" (which wouldn't have been very difficult to guess based on the user-style url for his site).

Also on each interior page is a mailto: link to "apreche@mail.rit.edu", preceeded with the text "Clik here to e-mail me".

Apreche, you really should fix that link... but when someone types http://www.rit.edu/~slr2777/somerandomename, they're gonna see your email address. At least it won't be due to a broken link on your own home page!

I'm not an idiot. .... I don't put my e-mail in public places where spammers would look to pick it up. As far as I'm concerned if you get spammed, it's your fault.

In fact, Apreche is a CS student at Rochester, and has this little website.

The very first link on the home page is News Archive, that leads to a non-existant page. The university's server generates a much-nicer-than-usual 404 error page, which includes among other info Apreche's email address, specifically "slr2777@osfmail.rit.edu" (which wouldn't have been very difficult to guess based on the user-style url for his site).

Also on each interior page is a mailto: link to "apreche@mail.rit.edu", preceeded with the text "Clik here to e-mail me".

Apreche, you really should fix that link... but when someone types http://www.rit.edu/~slr2777/somerandomename, they're gonna see your email address. At least it won't be due to a broken link on your own home page!

The email address where I get the most spam has NEVER been used, and has never been given out. It was, however, a short easy-to-guess name on a fair-sized ISP.

But spamming is wrong even when publishing an address such as slr2777@cs.rit.edu

http://www.rit.edu/~750www/Publications/policies/c ode_of_conduct_rit.shtml That was fun! (You have your website posted :))

Here's an analysis of the risks associated with nearby supernovae. The executive summary is that gamma rays offer the most potential for destruction, and the danger range is within about 100 ly.

I'm an astronomer. I study supernovae. A number of years ago, I crunched the numbers on the various types of hazards posed by nearby supernovae. You can find the work at

http://a188-l009.rit.edu/richmond/answers/snrisks. txt

The bottom line is: no need to worry for anything more than about 50 parsecs = 160 light years away from us. There are zero known stars within that radius which could become supernovae, so there's no need to worry about this right now. In a few tens of millions of years, the Sun might move closer to some possible SN progenitor, but I'm not holding my breath.

Debian servers still have the .deb files and source for bnetd. I've mirrored them here, just in case.

From your description, it sounds like you are converting RGB colors into XYZ using only a linear matrix multiplication. This isn't correct - you also need to take gamma into account. If you want to follow a standard, try the sRGB colorspace. Otherwise, it might be good enough to simply raise the raw RGB values to the power of 2.4 or so before the matrix multiplication.

CIELAB is reasonably accurate for evaluating color differences, but research in color spaces that more accurately reflect perception is ongoing - a good recent paper is this one. Also, the Argyll color management system implements most of the color goodies you might want, including CIECAM97 (which is widely considered to be an improvement over CIELab).

It's amazing to me how little (and poorly) color theory is taught, in spite of color being one of the more universal human experiences. My guess is that this is largely to do with the cross-disciplinary nature of color. It's not merely a branch of physics, psychophysiology, pigment chemistry, math, or art, but overlaps all of them.

Try the gamut changes and see if that helps.

http://www.rit.edu/~jlc6534/rezyndance_hi.wmz

Click the link and watch this video. Someone has too much time on his hands, but this video is GREAT! This is what MMORPG's should _really_ be like!

http://www.cs.rit.edu/~anhinga/

Anhinga is a nice little framework in Java for adhoc network applications currently being researched in conjunction with Sun.

I have that right now with my Zaurus (built in keyboard) and Kinkatta (aim application).

For anyone that was at ces and saw me, I was walking around chatting with folks back in Boston about what I was seeing (confirming that Royal's new pda was nothing more then a plastic prototype)

Best part about the Zaurus for me is that it is based on open source and I can add anything new that I want (as I did with Kinkatta).

I wonder if palm came out with it's keyboard just because of the pressure from the Zaurus?

Also where would you put the keyboard thingy if you wanted to keep you Palm in any sort of case?

-Benjamin Meyer

I don't agree with the implication that only those who major in a broad field such as CS, English or Biology develop problem solving skills, observation skills, etc". I'm currently a Bioinformatics student at RIT, and I don't consider myself unable to solve problems or unobservant, nor do I think that I will become so after I get my diploma.

Many fields such as Biology are becoming so broad that it is impossible to have an undergraduate major that sufficiently covers all of the relevant topics. Many colleges offer degrees in Molecular Biology, Pathology, and Biotechnology for students who have research interests that they want to specialize in, or those who want jobs with pharmaceutical companies. Biotech and pharmaceutical companies would much rather hire someone with lab experience in Molecular Biology and a good foundation of the theory behind it than a Biology major who has their ichthyology down cold but wouldn't know a lysozyme from a solution of granzymes and perforins, much less how to use either. The development of more specific majors most likely arises from the fact that colleges realize that there is only so much that they can do. The students are allowed to specialize in things that their students will actually use in their future careers, and there is nothing that says that a technologically-geared education precludes them from having brains.

The Rochester Institute of Technology (R.I.T.) has a "try" command that compiles, tests, runs, and submits a students coding assignments electronically. I believe the programs are then run through a big hash function to detect similarities between the submitted code and all other submitted code. I don't know how far back their data comparison goes, however.

you must have played the game.

The Tron Arcade Game.

Their DJ functionality is vagly similar to my application Sondra that I made this last summer.

Visit the Sondra website at: http://www.csh.rit.edu/~benjamin/desktop/programs/ sondra/.

Sondra can be downloaded and used right now without buying any hardware.

Sondra will create playlists based upon how good the song is (based upon ranking), # of times played, how new it is. i.e. the better a song is the more it will be played.

And anyone can go and re-compile it for windows if they want.

-Benjamin Meyer

RIT has a mildly nice system... here. Basically, you can look people up on campus by e-mail address. Individual users can change their own listing. I know little about the actual implementation though.

You thought you could hide from me bitch? Well, I'm here now. Lets see some goatse...

Stupid Scott Lloyd Rubin, Someone needs to fill that little mailbox of yours. I just subscribed you to some junk mail to.

Gayboy Rubin
100 Lycett Street
Trumbull, CT 06611

Nice eh?

How about this .. . All homo's call me for sex (203) 371-6187 .. that's ma home.. and horny for sex at (716)-424-8104.

Please send spam to

slr2777@osfmail.rit.edu
apreche@mail.rit.edu

YES.. welcome to America stupid rubin, Leave your privacy at the door.

Yes, it is pretty funny what college students don't know, isn't it?

Yeah. I'm still one. But, though it makes me seem immodest, I'd like to think that, yes, I actually have a clue.

I left a rabidly expensive university to attend a local community college. Why? For $2k a year, I'm now getting thirty times the education I was at the rate of $20+k a year.

Sad, but true. My local community college is stacked with teachers who hold real life jobs. Most large 'big name' schools are filled with people who have been out of the industry for decades.

RIT was funny. Our CS1 professor kept insisting Java was the future, and everyone would be using Java for everything. Now, I dislike Java, but I can see it has uses. But everything?

Right. That's like saying C is the language to use for everything. Or Perl. Or any other language.

C'mon.

Most of my friends who've attended other large schools report the same thing: Their professors are out of touch with reality, and the only thing they do teach is buzzword compliance. That is, "This is the latest thing from X Company! We'll start pushing that, so X Company sends us a big fat check!"

I like my tiny, under-respected community college. Sure, they're teaching us Cobol. They have a clue though - Cobol may be 40+ years old, however, a quick search on dice/monster/the newspaper reveals *hordes* of Cobol positions, ripe for the taking.

Are they doing something wrong? Will we be stuck in dead-end jobs, only to be terminated if/when Cobol is damned to rot?

No, because they're teaching us *technique* first, syntax second.

I didn't get that for $20k a year.

Photo know-how : Infrared 101

Infrared photography

A comparison of infrared films

Infrared photography

It sure did. Not only that, but this alpha functionality was a hard-core part of the original Deluxe Paint in 1986. (man, that program rocked!).

I remember getting really tripped on acid, and using the colour cycling in the program (F8 I think it was...). I'd draw a colour cycled blob on the screen, grab it as a brush. Turn colour cycling on, and then paint all over the screen with it. I swear that my screen melted that evening.

Granted I work for Computer Engineering, not Micro-e so my brain is prob quite fuzzy on this. Of course the fab being right across the hall from my office is pretty damn cool.

Hey guys, after waiting like 2 hours for my download, and then another hour and a half to download it... I threw it up on my server... college is cool. Get it here

There are (I admit, pricey) alternatives to inkjet printing of digital photos.

For example, here at RIT we can crank them out on a Gretag Sphera, which actually puts digital images on true photo paper using a photographic process involving colored lasers. Not only do they last, they don't have the half-tone dots or dithering of inkjet and gravure prints. (Yes, it looks better than the prints in National Geographic)

Or, we can use a Kodak LVT to put digital photos directly onto color negatives at an amazing 2032dpi so they can be archived and printed just like a regular analog photo that you get back from your K1000.

Of course, a single 8x10 print off the Sphera costs $4.50, but that's another story.

We here at school have begun collecting images and video to help out with the bandwidth problem the news sites are having...
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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...

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...