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URL fix by catdevnull · 2002-12-24 03:42 · Score: 1 · on Modding A Paper Shredder

http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~uacs/events/shredder. html

The original post added the "www" ....
...I'm sure most of you already figured that out...

Correct Link Below by mysticalreaper · 2002-12-23 19:00 · Score: 2 · on Modding A Paper Shredder

With more pitful disregard for anything remotely resembling quality journalism, it seems slashdot editors don't even click on links to see if they work now.

CORRECT SHREDDER LINK

Hemos, working as he usually does, repsonds to CmdrTaco's question about the link working. "Of course it works. Why wouldn't it work? No one would send us a broken link. That's impossible. Also, since i'm telepathic now, I don't even need to read the story to know it's front page material. Damn I'm good."

Hemos cliks *post*, grinning smugly, "Congratulations, Hemos, another feather in your cap. Job well done."

Re:Call me a troll, but ... by Anonymous Coward · 2002-12-23 18:38 · Score: 0 · on Modding A Paper Shredder

The server is not down, the link was just incorrect. It should look more like this

UACS up to it's old tricks. by Black+Copter+Control · 2002-12-23 18:18 · Score: 3, Informative · on Modding A Paper Shredder

it's good to see that UACS is up to it's old tricks. Back in my day, we were (among other things) known for our parties, where the beer was only '$.50'/glass. This was supposedly an attempt to burn off the extra money that we got by reselling computer accounts (back in the late '70s early 80's) (we were non profit, so we had to do something creative with the profit). It never really worked that well, so we ended up paying $5000 for a couple of intelligent terminals for the club office.

That they're down to buying cheap paper shredders leaves me worrying that the society is now in dire financial straights -- and they're probably selling beer for $2.00/glass now.

And the proper link is http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~uacs/events/shredder. html (note the lack of a leading 'www').

Re:Already!!?? (bad link) by Black+Copter+Control · 2002-12-23 18:13 · Score: 2 · on Modding A Paper Shredder

The proper link is http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~uacs/events/shredder. html (Note the lack of a leading 'www'). I presume that ugweb stands for undergraduate web pages.

The Water Bottle by Alien54 · 2002-12-23 11:24 · Score: 3, Informative · on Modding A Paper Shredder

They also modded a Water Bottle:

http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~uacs/events/bottle.ht ml

What are they putting in the food up there?

Modded Water Bottle (bottom link) by antdude · 2002-12-23 11:08 · Score: 2 · on Modding A Paper Shredder

Look at the bottom of the Web page and look for modded water bottle. Insane. :)

What I really want for christmas by beaverfever · 2002-12-23 11:03 · Score: 1 · on Modding A Paper Shredder

As nice as that shredder is, this is much more sexy and functional.

oh santa please please please

correct link by rehannan · 2002-12-23 10:49 · Score: 4, Informative · on Modding A Paper Shredder

http://ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca/~uacs/events/shredder. html

I Found A Great Deal of Resources on AI by ekrout · 2002-12-10 07:41 · Score: -1, Informative · on Human vs Computer Intelligence

Please take advantage of the following links. They're worth the read. I have even cached the links just in case.
Artificial Intelligence vs. Human Intelligence
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Re:What if... by Permission+Denied · 2002-12-03 16:59 · Score: 5, Informative · on Finnish Taxi Drivers Must Pay Music Royalties

Now, Ring Around the Rosie is a centuries old nursery rhyme that most know dates back to the time of the Black Death. I won't go into the details, but thats what it is about.

I had never heard this before. To verify, I typed "ring around the rosie" into google, and this is the first hit. here's the third hit from snopes.com, an interesting website which I would be inclined to believe.

Re:Leg work on /. leads to fires of speculation by AstroMage · 2002-11-10 21:31 · Score: 1 · on Large Scale Solid State Memory Storage?

There is a way to protect it from radiation though

Actualy, all solid state memory experiences errors due to cosmic ray particles, against which you CAN'T shield- eventually, some of these high-energy suckers will get through- and the problem gets worse the higher you go.
The chance for a given memory to fail due to this reason is called MTBF- Mean Time between Failures (actually, there's a broader definition, but I'm using the one related specifically to memory).
In addition, the more memory you have, the more errors you will have for the same MTBF- for example, if the MTBF is 1000 years for a single MB of your ultra-shielded memory. For 1000 MB, that means almost certain failure once a year! and you are talking about MUCH larger memory sizes!!
To conclude- in space, no one can hear you scream... ;-)
To Probe further:
Cosmic Rays
An article called "Can Hardware Be Trusted"

Despite everything I said above, there has been research on fault-tolerance in space, which might help you. You can look at the homepage of the Stanford REE project for more details
You might also be interested in these slides (PDF document) of a research project called Fault-Tolerant Computing for Radiation Environments.

Hope this helps :-)
Astromage

As this will asked anyway, from the FAQ by jukal · 2002-11-03 09:09 · Score: 5, Informative · on Most Powerful Computer in Canada - for a Day

"Why didn't they just make a client program for distributed computing so the entire country/world could help out?" (From a Slashdot posting.)

First, we had to keep CISS-1 simple enough for us to manage. Second, the computational chemistry application has significant resource requirements (e.g., large memory, significant disk space, etc.). Third, we are not interested in "cycle stealing" for CISS-1; the machines that we use will be dedicated to the task at hand. The rest of the FAQ is here.

*** and now to the commercials, for the final time, here is an analysis of the Slashdot effect.

Edmonton Controller by Saint+Aardvark · 2002-11-03 09:08 · Score: 2, Funny · on Most Powerful Computer in Canada - for a Day

This is cool...the Edmonton Controller appears to be hovering over Hudson's Bay.

It's not only Canada's most powerful supercomputer, it's the only one controlled from space.

Re:And there's a new song, too by Anonymous Coward · 2002-11-01 07:47 · Score: 0 · on OpenBSD 3.2 Available

81 hours by yamla · 2002-10-29 17:50 · Score: 2 · on Programming Marathons?

My longest stretch is 81 hours. However, I'm kind of cheating here. I went to classes on Friday, didn't hit the lab until about 2 pm after waking up at around 9:00 am. I then coded straight until 5 pm on Monday afternoon. I took bathroom breaks, of course, and occasionally ate but I ate while programming. The assignment was due at 11:59 pm on Monday so I submitted it with lots of time. Still, only about 75 hours of that was spent in front of a computer.

I didn't get the best grade ever on that assignment but still, got a 9 in the course (9 being the top grade you can get). Later, I went back and TA'ed the course, spending a while as head TA while still an undergrad.

There's no way I could do that now. And even back then, I would have been more productive with some sleep. These days, I figure 12 - 14 hours of coding in a day is my limit and I'm not going to be able to keep up that level all that long. Hey, I'm pushing thirty years old now. Heh.

"Normal Accidents" by Nanoda · 2002-10-27 12:43 · Score: 1 · on Examples of Programming Gone Wrong?

In my Computing Ethics class, mention was made of a problem (can't find a source, sorry), where a pipeline had computer controlled valves. There was something like a T-valve, where to switch flow, one valve was closed, and another opened. Since the valves worked slowly, it didn't really matter if you opened one before you closed the other or vice versa. Until the process (which was running as low priority) was interrupted after closing one, and blew out a huge section of pipe.
Also, you might be interested in a book called Normal Accidents that documents similar problems with all sorts of technology. Preventing software problems is good, but preventing entire systems of accidents is better.

Soko [AI vs human enjoyment] by Derwen · 2002-10-25 02:18 · Score: 2 · on Tetris Is Hard: NP-Hard

Analysts at MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, who have been busy translating, rotating and dropping, have demonstrated what the rest of us suspected: Tetris is hard. Technically, it's 'NP-hard,'

Mybe they should be studying the correlation between how challenging problems are to AI, and how enjoyable they are for the human brain.
Obviously loads of people love Tetris. My favourite game is Sokoban, which is beloved of AI researchers as it is P Space complete.
Oh, and it's available for sed, as well as emacs :-)

- Derwen

Soko [AI vs human enjoyment] by Derwen · 2002-10-25 02:18 · Score: 2 · on Tetris Is Hard: NP-Hard

Analysts at MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, who have been busy translating, rotating and dropping, have demonstrated what the rest of us suspected: Tetris is hard. Technically, it's 'NP-hard,'

Mybe they should be studying the correlation between how challenging problems are to AI, and how enjoyable they are for the human brain.
Obviously loads of people love Tetris. My favourite game is Sokoban, which is beloved of AI researchers as it is P Space complete.
Oh, and it's available for sed, as well as emacs :-)

- Derwen

CISS FAQ (was Re:Distributed computing?) by paullu · 2002-10-23 15:11 · Score: 2, Informative · on Canada to Launch Countrywide Virtual SuperComputer

Thanks for the interest in our project. We have composed a http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~ciss/CISS/faq.html. I hope it is useful.

Re:Distributed computing? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-10-23 13:17 · Score: 0 · on Canada to Launch Countrywide Virtual SuperComputer

Thanks for the interest in our project. We've created an FAQ at: http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~ciss/CISS/faq.html More information will come on-line as Nov. 4 gets closer.

Re:Based on SSH by Clover_Kicker · 2002-10-23 01:39 · Score: 3, Informative · on Canada to Launch Countrywide Virtual SuperComputer

>Looks like they based their protocol on ssh.

Heh heh, the U of Alberta hosts the web and ftp space for OpenSSH and OpenBSD.

$ ftp ftp.openbsd.org Connected to openbsd.sunsite.ualberta.ca. 220- 220- Welcome to SunSITE Alberta 220- 220- at the University of Alberta, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada [SNIP]

Also, Bob Beck works at U of A. Bob helped develop the first OpenSSH release, not sure how active he is these days.

For U of A, that all adds up to "premium class" tech support for anything to do with SSH.

Glass is not a liquid. by traphicone · 2002-10-22 03:03 · Score: 2, Informative · on 'Computer-On-Glass' Display

Glass is classified as an amorphous solid. This is to say that glass is, in fact, a solid which does not have a regular or crystalline molecular structure. It is, nevertheless, a solid by classification, and as such can be said not to flow when subjected to everyday forces at everyday temperatures.

More information.

Blondie24 learned checkers via ENN by oncewasclever · 2002-10-18 10:24 · Score: 5, Interesting · on Kramnik and Deep Fritz Draw, Tied Before Final Game

Blondie24 is a PC program that plays checkers (draughts) at an internationally recognised expert level. The clever thing is that Blondie24 taught itself to play via Evolutionary Neural Networks. The programmers just coded in the rules for moving, then unleashed it on itself for six months, selecting the winner of each tournament to breed the next generation. OK, I am simplifying but you can read about it in the book. Because the programmers are such crappy checkers players they tested Blondie24 by playing the program against humans on Microsoft's game site. Blondie24's rating puts the program in the top 5% of players. Note that there is another program, Chinook, that is the current man-machine world champion checkers program, but chinook was programmed using human expert knowledge and plays using brute force. Blondie24 has NO human knowledge about the game programmed in.

depends on what you call perfect by Eric+Seppanen · 2002-09-06 11:12 · Score: 5, Insightful · on Awari Solved

There are lots of games where you can create a "perfect" player that can do as well as possible against other "perfect" players.

The thing that's interesting is making a program that plays as well as possible against imperfect players, as demonstrated by the RoShamBo Programming Competition.

The perfect hacker by pipetoawk · 2002-08-21 03:41 · Score: 1 · on Vi IMproved -- Vim

Would that be a hacker who uses Viper?

Take the Survey! by xintegerx · 2002-08-11 11:38 · Score: 1 · on Toilet Paper Algorithms

Do you "double-dip"?

Are you a "perfectionist" or an "inspector"?

Take the Bathroom Habits Study here

...Also, you can WinToiletPaper.Com

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Re:Obvious complete solution: Don't wipe, wash. by phaxkolumbo · 2002-08-11 10:33 · Score: 2, Informative · on Toilet Paper Algorithms

If i had a toilet like that, i'd never leave the bathroom!

But really, see this for more about washing toilets

And take part in the bathroom behaviour survey to feel normal again.

Intel's Debugger by dew · 2002-07-31 11:50 · Score: 5, Informative · on What Good Linux Debuggers Are There?

[article author] A number of people have thoughtfully suggested trying out Intel's debugger (aka LDB). Unfortunately, from what I found, it looks like LDB has only a subset of gdb functions, and can't even do simple things, like attach to processes. It seems that Intel has given up making their own Linux debugger and has decided to join up with GDB development. That's why I didn't include it. Thanks anyhow to those who did suggest it and thanks to those of you who suggested some other debuggers; I'll take a look at them.

mirrors by country... by neo8750 · 2002-07-22 16:21 · Score: 4, Informative · on Mozilla 1.1 Beta Out And About

lets be nice to the main site! .at

.au

.be

ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/mozilla/

.bg

ftp://ftp.ntrl.net/pub/mirror/mozilla/

.ca

ftp://sunsite.ualberta.ca/pub/Mirror/mozilla/

.ch

ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/mozilla/

.com/.net/.org/.edu

.cz

.de

.dk

.ee

ftp://ftp2.mbp.ee/pub/mozilla/

.es

.fi

ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/ftp.mozilla.org/pub /

.fr

.gr

ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/www/Mozilla/ ftp://ftp.duth.gr/pub/mozilla -->

.hk

.hu

.ie

ftp://ftp.EUnet.ie/mirrors/ftp.mozilla.org/pub/

.il

http://mozilla.fresh.co.il/

.jp

.kr

.no

ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/network/www/mozilla/

.pl

.pt

ftp://ftp.global-one.pt/pub/Packages/Mozilla/

.ru

ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/WWW/mozilla/

.se

.sg

.sk

http://www.mozilla.sk/pub/

.tw

ftp://ftp2.sinica.edu.tw/pub3/www/mozilla/
ftp://ftp.nctu.edu.tw/WWW/mozilla/
rsync://ftp.nctu.edu.tw/ftp/WWW/mozilla

.uk

Marx Generator Story by fdiv(1,0) · 2002-07-11 18:29 · Score: 2, Interesting · on Harvesting Capacitors for Backyard Munitions

Back in high school, a friend and I made a Marx Generator from about 7 of these capacitors. The flash tubes in these cameras make wonderful spark gaps, BTW. It took about 30 seconds to charge up the thing, and the output from it lasted for mere picoseconds, but dang was it cool.

P.S.: Word to the wise: just the task of putting a load across the output terminals can set one of these things off. I was moving one of the terminals with a metal screwdriver and I accidently touched the other contact with my other hand. To this day I do not know how I managed to survive that one.

Re:Fatigue strength? by t · 2002-07-09 04:56 · Score: 2, Interesting · on New Alloy Stronger Than Fe And Ti

This link talks about glass. I was not referring to the technical definition of crystalline vs amorphous. To be a crystalline solid it would need long-range order. That does not mean that glass does not have short-range cyrstalline like fragments. Glass does not have the odd shaped, interlocking fragments to which I was referring to. Graphite would be a better example in that it is structured in the form of sheets, making it very brittle.This link has pictures and explanations.

Re:Or they could build nuclear plants by shepd · 2002-07-03 15:32 · Score: 1 · on Power Plants On Rails for California

>What do you do with the nuclear waste that is generated by nuclear power plants? I suppose this waste is very good for the environment.

No, that's why you use it up in slow-poke reactors.

I wish more environmentalists would come up with pro-active solutions rather that destructive ones. Their demand that there be no more nukes has stunted our ability to rid ourselves of this waste in a safe, and highly useful manner.

well, maybe. by jon_c · 2002-06-26 12:33 · Score: 3, Informative · on Draw!

There are AI competitions http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~darse/rsbpc.html

-Jon

Re:teleportation by tftp · 2002-06-16 15:44 · Score: 2 · on Laser Beam Teleported

Except for your nerve cells

Nerve cells (axons) do regenerate, how else damaged nerves could be reconnected?

Neurons, on the other hand, were believed to not regenerate at all. Recent studies, however, disprove this theory, concluding, in part, that "the human hippocampus retains its ability to generate neurons throughout life".

Make them take responsibility by yamla · 2002-06-12 08:25 · Score: 2 · on Making Users Back Up Important Data?

Send out a document, get everyone to read it and sign it. Show them how to store their data in an area that will be backed up. Let them know that any data they do not store there will NOT be backed up. And let them know that when their hard drives crash, it is THEIR responsibility if they have lost any data.

Of course, you'll need management buy-in for this. I must say, though, that it is kind of a shame that Windows makes this difficult. At the university I attended, all the computing science machines mounted their home directories from one of several file servers. Those file servers were religiously backed up and so the loss of any individual workstation was entirely unimportant.

Re:DoS in Mozilla/X by Kevin+DeGraaf · 2002-06-12 07:36 · Score: 1 · on Mozilla 1.1 Alpha Released

See, this is why I'm keeping with ext2. ;)

Uhh, no. The original poster meant X Font Server, not XFS (the journalled filesystem from SGI).

TDM TLA's! (Too Damned Many Three-Letter Acronyms) ;-)

Re:Fluid plugs? by Anonymous Coward · 2002-06-11 07:35 · Score: 0 · on Hollow Optical Fibres Can Now Process Signals

even though, yes, glass is a liquid technically

This is sort of a myth

Most of the evidence commonly cited to show that glass is a liquid is bogus, but an argument can be made for either case, depending on your definitions.

Checkers is too easy by Froobly · 2002-06-09 11:18 · Score: 1 · on Distributed Chess Computing Project

The branch factor for checkers is too low. Current computers can defeat the strongest players in the world fairly consistently, and in a couple generations, it won't even be a contest.

In other words, Chinook ownz you.

Daniel Egnor's "Iocaine Powder" by po8 · 2002-05-31 04:13 · Score: 4, Interesting · on Google Programming Contest Winner

In a weird coincidence, I just spent a half-hour last night lecturing about Daniel Egnor's Iocaine Powder , winner of the First International RoShamBo Programming Competition. Credit this guy with two award-winning pieces of extreme programming cleverness!

They would not agree with you by sl956 · 2002-05-26 15:33 · Score: 2 · on The Myth of the Lone Inventor

"...the role of the lone inventor is over"
Tell that to Linus Torvalds, Larry Wall, Bram Moolenaar, etc etc...

What would Linus have done without standing on the shoulders of the original inventors of UNIX (a list would be too long) and the GNU project ?
What would Larry have done without standing on the shoulders of Kernighan and Ritchie (for C), Stephen Bourne (for bourne shell) and Bill Joy (for C shell) ?
What would Bram have done without standing on the shoulders of Bill Joy (again, for original vi) ?

Software is the most proeminent example of a field where invention results of an incremental and collaborative process. There are brilliant individuals, but they are definitely not "lone inventors" - letting aside the fact that Kernighan, Ritchie, Bourne and Joy were all working in the Bell Labs... ;-)

I think this is a great idea! by Weaselmancer · 2002-05-24 03:55 · Score: 2, Insightful · on MPAA to Senate: Plug the Analog Hole!

Really everyone, think about the potential here!

Play a copy of Pocahontas out of your car window, and never get another speeding ticket again. You are now invisible to radar.

Plan to hold up a bank? Bring along a portable TV and shut the cameras off. Also works at ATMs.

Worried about being wiretapped? Develop a tolerance for N'Sync. Always play it in the background.

Still want to rip cd/movie/analog data? Replace your a/d chip with a simple resistor tree and bank of opamps as comparitors and you're good to go.

This is a hacker's dream come true.

Weaselmancer

PS: It's a sad, sad world when a frikkin resistor tree is illegal because it's a circumvention device.

PhotoPC by Bryan+Andersen · 2002-05-08 00:46 · Score: 3, Informative · on Portable Digital Timelapse Photography?

The PhotoPC project has both Linux and Windows support and deals with cameras via serial or USB. It is designed with command line options so it should be easier to hack into a PDA setting. I've done some hacking, but I'm not happy with my results yet. I also want to do computer controlled digital time lapse photography. I've dome alot by hand, but one misses the timing every so often.

Re:The Pitch Drop Experiment by doubtless · 2002-05-03 05:39 · Score: 1 · on The Most Beautiful Experiments in Physics

There are a few good links

http://www.ualberta.ca/~bderksen/florin.html
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/General/Glas s/glass.html
http://www.spectrumglass.com/Library/ScoreArticles / itAboutGlass.html

from google to the issue of classification of glass as liquid, solid, or none of the two. I guess I was wrong. Good to learn something from slashdot. hehe

WRONG! glass is NOT a liquid by Sebastopol · 2002-05-03 05:20 · Score: 5, Informative · on The Most Beautiful Experiments in Physics

it is an amorphous solid, refer to this urban legend...

An Urban Legend

The legend usually appears in any of the following forms:

Antique windowpanes are thicker at the bottom, because glass has flowed to the bottom over time.

Glass has no crystalline structure, hence it is NOT a solid.

Glass is a supercooled liquid.

Glass is a liquid that flows very slowly.

Glass is a liquid.
The prolonged survival of this legend, chiefly among English speakers (and particularly among North Americans) is puzzling -- especially when one considers that glass and glassy materials are readily available, and one can easily verify if one can pour a gallon of glass, or drain a pint of obsidian.

I hate you by Anonymous Coward · 2002-05-01 18:59 · Score: 0 · on Mars Exploration Must Consider Contamination

"It seems these days that everyone want's to have their cske [sic] and eat it too"

Every time I see someone say this they use it in this way, and it annoys me just a little more. What the hell is wrong with you. It's like you tried to translate what Mrs. Antoinette really said from french to german to chinese and then to english; then you took the resulting jumble out of context. Once again, I hate you.

To quote the site: "Maybe Marie Antoinette did not say it at all."
Now go hang your head in shame.

(note: this is the culmination of much frustration over this. I realize this is a bit of an over-reaction, and also I need a nap. And yes, I do feel it necessary to point out the sic.)

Re:not here by ph0rk · 2002-05-01 04:21 · Score: 1 · on Playstation 3 In the Works

no, the ps2 does not have a ps1 chip, it is modified.

As I understand it, the original psx was a multi-chip machine anyway, this one chip can handle all of what the old psx did.

Hogwash! by LionKimbro · 2002-04-16 02:08 · Score: 4, Insightful · on R.I.P for D.I.Y Or Long Live Open Source?

Evidently, the something-for-everyone model epitomized by Heathkit and the Amateur Scientist column can't compete anymore. Specialized sources and Internet newsgroups cater to each skill level. But much of the mentoring and serendipity that the diverse community of amateurs offered has been lost. It is hard not to regret its passing.

What an idiot. We have just largely stopped using magazines in light of the Internet.

I've learned almost everything I know about electronics from the Internet.

Look at these books! Look at them! All Free, as in Liberty AND No-Cost. These are some of the very best books I have found on electronics, on-line or off. Forest Mims the Third, eat your heart out.

Do we want to talk about mentoring and serendipity?

It was out of frustration that I compiled Lessons in Electric Circuits from notes and ideas I had been collecting for years. My primary goal was to put readable, high-quality information into the hands of my students, but a secondary goal was to make the book as affordable as possible. Over the years, I had experienced the benefit of receiving free instruction and encouragement in my pursuit of learning electronics from many people, including several teachers of mine in elementary and high school. Their selfless assistance played a key role in my own studies, paving the way for a rewarding career and fascinating hobby. If only I could extend the gift of their help by giving to other people what they gave to me . . .

There you go.

If anything, I'd say that amateur science and learning and construction is more popular now, because it is more accessible.

It just doesn't take the form of magazine articles.

Now what we need is... by po8 · 2002-03-20 21:33 · Score: 4, Interesting · on SedSokoban

Consider the case of Andreas Junghanns, who wrote Rolling Stone, the world's top machine Sokoban solver, in C. I'm sure that even as you read this he is working on rewriting it in the Sokoban-friendly language sed.

Or not.

[OT] Re: total of 5+ days without access by yamla · 2002-03-20 11:37 · Score: 1 · on University Network Policies and Punishment?

Wow. I had heard that Canadians were getting ripped off for tuition compared to all but the most expensive American colleges but I never knew how much!

Assuming your $1000 per semester is a roughly accurate ballpark, we are paying about 25 - 50 percent more than this. And, of course, we are paying in Canadian dollars which are undervalued at the moment. Everyone, at least at the UofA, is paying over $2000 (Canadian) per semester, not counting books, room and board, food, etc. etc.

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