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Kudos to you for giving a darn about the quality of your tutoring, and doing some work on this project.

Do some Googling and see what is happening at writing centers, which provide the same services you will be doing, but for writing instead of math. There are already several centers (like Colorado State and Auburn) who are using chat for writing help online. You might be able to find some general suggestions for tutoring practices which can help you out.

You might also see what folks in electronic library reference are doing, such as the RefeXpress service here at Florida.

If you have a minute, I'd appreciate an email regarding what you find out, how it helps you out, etc. (speaking not only of these suggestions but your research in general).

good luck,
cbd.

An old friend from U Florida built Sister Roboto which can beat the crap out of anything small. MP>> This was years ago. The Chinese have some catching up to do.

uptimes of less than two weeks a pop

And a screenshot of the support page opened when clicking "More info"...

:)
cbd.

And a screenshot of the support page opened when clicking "More info"...

:)
cbd.

November 11, 1994 . . . Prodigy announces plans to provide users with access to the Web.

In the summer of 1994, I worked briefly as a "customer service rep" for Prodigy--actually a non-sales telemarketer calling new members to welcome them to the service and drive them to content they might enjoy.

The two NextBigThings that customers occasionally asked about (and which we could say were "coming soon")?

• The ability to read and compose email offline
• Access to the web

The University of Florida Physics Department has a similar site for demonstrations.

Yes, but not in the way you think. We can use apoptosis to kill harmful cells, like cancer cells. This is a "natural purpose" of apoptosis, and drugs are under development to "encourage" cancer cells (and virally infected cells) to die by this mechanism.

The theory that apoptosis plays a central role in human aging is part-and-parcel of the "free radical" theory of aging, which I think is bullshit.

The basic idea is that reactive oxygen species - these are chemicals that want to take electrons away from biological molecules and can do in such a fashion that the biological molecule is damaged - damage your mitochondria in such a fashion that the mitochondria signal the cell to die. This definitely CAN happen - however, I don't believe that it actually does, or that any of the pathologies we observe in human aging actually depend on this pathway. Btw, I'm a bioinformatician (grad student); when I worked with my Dad, I studied oxidative stress - he still does but he does not think it plays a role in normal aging. Certain conditions - being a chain smoker, being on hemodialysis, whatever - may actually put enough of these reactive oxygen species into your system that this could happen, but I doubt it.

FYI: some people try to sell you antioxidant dietary supplements (or other treatments.) I cannot emphasise enough - these products are snake oil. Even if reactive oxygen species do play a significant role in aging (which I doubt,) taking spills to scavenge them or soak them up is utter malarky.

The opinion of someone with whom I disagree almost completely. More of the same - the summary is fairly accesible.

To sum up - I can't say conclusively that there is no aging-related process that depends on apoptosis, but I don't find the evidence at all convincing. The one that people are fond of at the moment, which is oxidative stress-come-apoptosis, is hogwash.

Aptoptosis serves two functions:
1) Developmental. Developmental Aptoptosis is necesarry to "carve out" your body. For example, when your fingers form, the tissue between what will become the fingers goes aptoptotic and dies. There is no real evidence that this is what happens when you get old.

2) Defensive. Cells which are pre-cancerous, or which have been infected with viruses, can become apoptotic. Certain conditions that some old people get - autoimmune disorders, for example - depend on apoptosis to do harm. However, this is not a part of normal aging.

P.S. Most scientists pronounce it "apo-tosis," the p is silent (like pterodactyl.) On the other hand, by this reasoning, helicopter (which comes from the same root as pterodactyl) would be "heli-coter", so say the p if you want.

Gee... back in the day, we went to see "Debbie Does Dallas in Sensurround" (tm). Talk about making the Earth move!

--JIm

The other end of the spectrum.

We have a few hundred AP's on campus at UF, that cover a fairly large piece of a very large campus. The coverage map (mostly accurate) is online, as well as instructions on connecting.

The nice thing about the network here is that no mac registration is necessary. The wireless network is seperated from campus by filters that can only be broken through via VPN connection to the campus VPN server, or authenticated with their campus 'gatorlink' login. When we first developed the system, no commercial products existed to do what we needed (though today there are many); any web traffic is automatically redirected to the authentication server that allows the users to login with their campus login, and their mac is added to the auth table after a successful login. This makes the service easy to use, transparent, and compatible with just about every platform you can think of. Of course, no encryption by default if people choose to take that route, but that's why we offer the VPN as well.

At UF, we just had a NAVE installed (by students) this past year. Looks just like the one in the picture, except theirs is rounded.

The main difference is that a NAVE is MUCH cheaper to build. The above link has more details.

Q. I am a runner and would like to know whether it is possible to drink too much water?

A. Yes, there is a condition known as "water intoxication." It is usually associated with long distance events like running and cycling. And it's not an unusual problem. For example, water intoxication was reported in 18% of marathon runners and in 29% of the finishers in a Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon in studies published recently in the Annals of Internal Medicine and in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise respectively.

What happens is that as the athlete consumes large amounts of water over the course of the event, blood plasma (the liquid part of blood) increases. As this takes place, the salt content of the blood is diluted. At the same time, the athlete is losing salt by sweating. Consequently, the amount of salt available to the body tissues decreases over time to a point where the loss interferes with brain, heart, and muscle function.

The official name for this condition is hyponatremia. The symptoms generally mirror those of dehydration (apathy, confusion, nausea, and fatigue), although some individuals show no symptoms at all. If untreated, hyponatremia can lead to coma and even death.

They have some footage from one of the camera's and it checking for the horizon here

Australia

ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brisbane)
Austria

ftp://ftp.univie.ac.at/systems/linux/Mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Vienna)

ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Vienna)
Belgium

ftp://ftp.belnet.be/packages/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Costa Rica

ftp://ftp.ucr.ac.cr/pub/Unix/linux/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/
Czech Republic

ftp://ftp.cesnet.cz/OS/Linux/Mandrake/mandrake/8.2 /i586/ (Brno)

ftp://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brno)

ftp://klobouk.fsv.cvut.cz/pub/linux-mandrake/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Prague)

ftp://mandrake.redbox.cz/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://sunsite.mff.cuni.cz/OS/Linux/Dist/Mandrake/m andrake/8.2/i586/ (Prague)

http://ftp.fi.muni.cz/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Brno)
Denmark

ftp://ftp.dkuug.dk/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Koebenhavn)

ftp://ftp.sunsite.dk/mirrors/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Aalborg)
Estonia

ftp://ftp.aso.ee/pub/os/Linux/distributions/mandra ke/8.2/i586/
Finland

ftp://ftp.song.fi/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Espoo)
France

ftp://ftp.ciril.fr/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Nancy)

ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux/distribu tions/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Paris)

ftp://ftp.info.univ-angers.fr/pub/linux/distributi ons/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Angers)

ftp://ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake /8.2/i586/ (Paris)

ftp://ftp.proxad.net/pub/Distributions_Linux/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Paris)

ftp://ftp.u-strasbg.fr/pub/linux/distributions/man drake/8.2/i586/ (Strasbourg)

ftp://linux.ups-tlse.fr/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Toulouse)
Germany

ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Esslingen)

ftp://ftp.de.uu.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.fh-giessen.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (Giessen)

ftp://ftp.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/pub/os/linux/mandrak e/dist/8.2/i586/ (Wolfenbuettel)

ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Goettingen)

ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distribut ions/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Muenster)

ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/os/unix/linux/Mandrake/ Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Munchen)

ftp://ftp.tu-chemnitz.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i5 86/ (Chemnitz)

ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (Clausthal)

ftp://ftp.uasw.edu/pub/os/linux/mandrake/dist/8.2/ i586/ (Wolfenbuettel)

ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (bayreuth)

ftp://ftp.uni-kassel.de/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (Kassel)

ftp://ftp.uni-mannheim.de/systems/linux/mandrake/8 .2/i586/ (Mannheim)

ftp://ftp.vat.tu-dresden.de/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Dresden)

ftp://ramses.wh2.tu-dresden.de/pub/mirrors/mandrak e/8.2/i586/ (Dresden)

ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Linux/ mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Aachen)
Greece

ftp://ftp.duth.gr/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Thrace)

ftp://ftp.ntua.gr/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Athens)
Hong Kong

ftp://ftp.wisr.eie.polyu.edu.hk/linux/mandrake/8.2 /i586/
Hungary

ftp://ftp.linuxforum.hu/mirror/Mandrake/8.2/i586/
Ireland

ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Italy

ftp://bo.mirror.garr.it/mirrors/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Bologna)

ftp://ftp.edisontel.it/pub/Mandrake_Mirror/Mandrak e/8.2/i586/
Latvia

ftp://ftp.latnet.lv/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Netherlands

ftp://ftp.nl.uu.net/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.nluug.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/Man drake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.surfnet.nl/pub/os/Linux/distr/Mandrake/M andrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.wau.nl/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Wageningen)
Poland

ftp://ftp.ps.pl/mirrors/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Szczecin)

ftp://ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Gdansk)
Portugal

ftp://ftp.dei.uc.pt/pub/linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/8. 2/i586/ (Coimbra)

ftp://tux.cprm.net/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/
Russia

ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/Linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Chernogolovka)
Singapore

ftp://ftp.singnet.com.sg/opensource/linux/Mandrake /8.2/i586/
Slovakia

ftp://spirit.profinet.sk/mirrors/Mandrake/8.2/i586 / (Bratislava)
Spain

ftp://ftp.cesga.es/pub/linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Galicia)

ftp://ftp.cica.es/pub/Linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Sevilla)

ftp://ftp.rediris.es/pub/linux/distributions/mandr ake/8.2/i586/
Sweden

ftp://ftp.chello.se/pub/Linux/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://ftp.chl.chalmers.se/pub/Linux/distributions/ Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Gothenburg)

ftp://ftp.du.se/pub/os/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Dalarma)
Switzerland

ftp://ftp.pcds.ch/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Neuhausen)

ftp://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/mirror/mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Zurich)
Taiwan

ftp://linux.cdpa.nsysu.edu.tw/pub/Mandrake/mandrak e/8.2/i586/

ftp://linux.csie.nctu.edu.tw/distributions/mandrak e/Mandrake/8.2/i586/

ftp://mdk.linux.org.tw/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/
Turkey

ftp://ftp.ankara.edu.tr/pub/linux/dagitimlar/Mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (Ankara)
United Kingdom

ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sunsite.uio.no/pub/un ix/Linux/Mandrake/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Canterbury)
United States

ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributi ons/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Georgia)

ftp://ftp.cise.ufl.edu/pub/mirrors/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Florida)

ftp://ftp.cse.buffalo.edu/pub/Linux/Mandrake/mandr ake/8.2/i586/ (NY)

ftp://ftp.nmt.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (New Mexico)

ftp://ftp.orst.edu/pub/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Oregon)

ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/distributions/mandrake/8.2/i 586/ (Virginia)

ftp://ftp.umr.edu/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandrake/8.2/ i586/ (Missouri)

ftp://ftp.uwsg.indiana.edu/linux/mandrake/8.2/i586 / (Indiana)

ftp://linux-cs.tccw.wku.edu/pub/linux/distribution s/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (WKU-Linux, Western Kentucky University)

ftp://mirror.aca.oakland.edu/linux/mandrake/8.2/i5 86/ (Michigan)

ftp://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/Mandrak e/8.2/i586/ (Wisconsin)

ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov/pub/Mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Illinois)

ftp://mirrors.ptd.net/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (Pensylvania)

ftp://mirrors.secsup.org/pub/linux/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/

ftp://uml-pub.ists.dartmouth.edu/mirrors/ftp.mandr akesoft.com/pub/Mandrake/mandrake/8.2/i586/ (New Hampshire)

ftp://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mirrors/mandrake/Mandra ke/8.2/i586/ (Hawaii)

http://mandrake.dsi.internet2.edu/Mandrake/8.2/i58 6/ (For Internet2 academic institutions only)

• ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/browsers/mozilla/sou rces/
• http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/infosys/browsers/mozilla/so urces/

• ftp://mozilla.mirror.pacific.net.au/mozilla/
• http://mozilla.mirror.pacific.net.au/
• ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com.au/pub/mozilla/
• http://planetmirror.com.au/pub/mozilla/

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

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

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

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

• ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/infosystems/WWW /clients/mozilla/
• http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/packages/infosystems/WW W/clients/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/net/mozilla/
• http://www.cise.ufl.edu/ftp/mirrors/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.yggdrasil.com/mirrors/site/ftp.mozilla.o rg/pub/
• ftp://sunsite.utk.edu/pub/netscape-source/
• ftp://archive.progeny.com/mozilla/
• http://archive.progeny.com/mozilla/
• rsync://archive.progeny.com/mozilla/
• http://mirrors.xmission.com/mozilla/
• ftp://mozilla.teleglobe.net/ftp.mozilla.org/pub/

• ftp://ftp.cvut.cz/mozilla/
• http://ftp.cvut.cz/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/ftp.mo zilla.org/pub/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.fh-wolfenbuettel.de/pub/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.uni-bayreuth.de/pub/packages/netscape/mo zilla/
• ftp://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/mirror /ftp.mozilla.org/pub/
• ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/general/infosys/www/bro wsers/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.rhein-zeitung.de/mirrors/mozilla.org/
• ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/mozilla/
• http://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/mirrors/mozilla/

• http://mirrors.sunsite.dk/mozilla/
• ftp://mirrors.sunsite.dk/mozilla/
• rsync://mirrors.sunsite.dk/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp2.mbp.ee/pub/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/mozilla/
• http://ftp.rediris.es/mirror/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.etsimo.uniovi.es/pub/mozilla/
• http://www.etsimo.uniovi.es/pub/mozilla/

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

• ftp://ftp.univ-lille1.fr/pub/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.oleane.net/pub/mozilla/
• http://ftp.oleane.net/pub/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Networking/www/Mozilla
• ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/mozilla/
• http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/mozilla/

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

• ftp://ftp.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/pub/mozilla/
• ftp://sunsite.ust.hk/pub/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.c3.hu/pub/mirrors/mozilla/
• http://mozilla.szentimre.hu/

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

• http://mozilla.fresh.co.il/

• ftp://ftp.cin.nihon-u.ac.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla ftp://his.ktarn.or.jp/pub/mirrors/mozilla/ --->
• ftp://ring.aist.go.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ring.crl.go.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ring.etl.go.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ring.exp.fujixerox.co.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla /
• ftp://ring.nacsis.ac.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ring.so-net.ne.jp/pub/net/www/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/Mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.lab.kdd.co.jp/Mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.kddlabs.co.jp/Mozilla/
• http://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/mozilla/
• ftp://mirror.nucba.ac.jp/mirror/mozilla

• ftp://ftp.hpcnet.ne.kr/pub/Mozilla/
• ftp://linux.sarang.net/mirror/network/client/web/m ozilla/

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

• ftp://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/mozilla/
• http://sunsite.icm.edu.pl/pub/mozilla/
• ftp://ftp.task.gda.pl/pub/mozilla/

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

• ftp://ftp.chg.ru/pub/WWW/mozilla/

• ftp://ftp.sunsite.kth.se/mirrors/ftp.mozilla.org/
• ftp://ftp.fredan.org/mozilla/

• http://mirror.averse.net/pub/mozilla/
• ftp://mirror.averse.net/pub/mozilla/

• http://www.mozilla.sk/pub/

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

• ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.mozilla.org/pub/ ftp://ftp.gbnet.net/pub/mozilla/
• http://www.gbnet.net/public/mozilla/ -->
• ftp://mozilla.teleglobe.net/ftp.mozilla.org/pub/

As has been mentioned before, the real inventor of air conditioning (as well as the basic compression cycle refrigeration we still use today) was Dr. John Gorrie.

here is a rather comprehensive page discribing his life and achievements (including a portrait and photo of a model of his original ice-making machine).

Not according to the RFC

From the cited page...

Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, these DTDs are not subject to copyright protection and are in the public domain.
...
These DTDs can be redistributed and/or modified freely provided that any derivative works bear some notice that they are derived from it, and any modified versions bear some notice that they have been modified.

Sorry, cupcakes, that's not how the public domain works. If you release it into the public domain, you no longer have *any* control whatsoever upon the modification, reuse, or redistribution of the work. The required notice clause listed above in invalid.

Cite, cite (#3), cite.

Kuroth

It's true that people automatically equate "dream home" with "custom home", which refers to slight modifications to a cookie cutter style house plan found in a circular devoted to large collections of cookie cutter homes. These homes are designed to appeal to the lowest common denominator; as a result they don't fulfill anyone. Why do people support the cookie cutter home industry? Reason: it's a lot easier than using ones imagination or simply asking "what do I want in a home".

Thanks for the Mockbee link. He spoke to my design class at UF about five years ago. He was much more interesting than Rem Kookhaus and the other Overpaid Professional Eardrum Masturbators (OPEMs) that UF acquired to indoctrinate us with their postmodernist mumbo-jumbo. Most of these OPEMs exist on a purely intellectual level and are incapable of truly connecting with their clients. Two things can happen as a result: either the potential client will avoid hiring an architect, or the client will feel so intimidated by the architect that the architect will dominate the client, building a home that really means nothing to the client.

Anybody interested in owner building should buy this book and look into Mockbee's work. His studio has built some of the most beautiful and inexpensive works in the South. More importantly, he finds uses for perfectly good materials that would otherwise be destined for the landfill. Funny how a home built for someone with an $8K/year income can feel more homey than a house built for a millionaire. Anybody with a DIY mentality and a little imagination can explore the region around their home site to get a feel for regional material preferences and building styles, analyze their site to understand where the sun will be at certain times of the day throughout the year [the reality factor], find creative sources for materials, think of ways the house can accomodate your hobbies, and build a home as opposed to a house.

I was very happy when Sam spoke at UF. He had just received the MacArthur foundation grant and was very upbeat about the freedom that money gave his whimsy. He even went drinking with us after the speech! Sad to hear that he died though. The world has lost a great architect, but Sam made many more great architects.

gah!!! nedit's my favorite editor, and to think I've been using gub'ment software. :) Well, I still think there's a slight difference, though, because those tools released by labs are written generally by scientists in support of scientific research, as opposed to software written for use by the general public, as the original author suggested. Much of this work is also performed off site through Universties by students. For example, my lab produced a scalable failure detection service called Gossip, and all our funding came from Sandia National Labs

gah!!! nedit's my favorite editor, and to think I've been using gub'ment software. :) Well, I still think there's a slight difference, though, because those tools released by labs are written generally by scientists in support of scientific research, as opposed to software written for use by the general public, as the original author suggested. Much of this work is also performed off site through Universties by students. For example, my lab produced a scalable failure detection service called Gossip, and all our funding came from Sandia National Labs

Like this?

For more information on this system, check out the GatorLink homepage and the GatorLink project page. I just wish all campus services used GatorLink (*ahem* ISIS).

For more information on this system, check out the GatorLink homepage and the GatorLink project page. I just wish all campus services used GatorLink (*ahem* ISIS).

By adulthood, Mendeleev's periodic table of the elements is firmly planted in a typical mind either as a tool for study or proof of mystical forces at work in nature. There are alternative structures: some clever and others using alternate media, extensions to the table providing nuclear structure, fermi surfaces, and line spectra.

Still others are extraordinarily cross-thematic, merging chemistry with comic books, poetry or haiku. But only the grouping-nature of the columns is retained in rejected elements, condiments and beer. Eventually the elements and the periodic qualities have been lost entirely, reducing the periodic table to a design template for topical lists of funk and rock music, comedy and TV shows, famous mathematicians and presidents, even SGI products. Soon a complete breakdown of the scientific aspect yields no similarity to the original, becoming a glorified table, a marketing tool, or hype itself. There is mounting evidence of a conspiracy.

we didn't even get to see a demo...some suit with a black belt in marketing tried to pitch application sharing instead of actually showing us the technology working. it was funny. our professor dr. nemo (http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~nemo/) completely wrecked on it because let's face it. ..what modulation is gonna overcome the 3k filters that were on most phone lines at the time? holy vaporware. this is completely hilarious to read about this a few years later. m. http://www.pataphysics-lab.com

Penguin Computing would have me believe their tech support is great.

1. This guy
2. This guy
3. This guy
4. This guy
5. This gal
6. CowboyNeal!

Before anyone corrects me, I meant the largest insect in that area. The largest insect known is rather drastically larger :).

Not true. I personally know the person who created the Gator1 card system. He invented them at IBM *way* before FSU came up with the idea.

You're trying too hard.

A link that has some good info on the legality of port scanning is: Journal of Technology Law and Policy
If you take the time to read it, there is a bunch of interesting stuff in it. Just do a page search for "port" and you'll get to the cool stuff.

Is that you, John Dvorak?

...seeing as a good portion of the Government Funded stem-cell research in the United States has been halted.

I know of quite a few programs that are occurring without the funding of the government due to the restrictions that have been placed on that kind of funding, for instance some of the research that goes on here.

As usual, there is a more interesting article on the linked-to site.

Legislation doesn't need to be passed anyhow, the courts have set precendents. In California and Washington state, click-wrap licenses are enforcable (see III.6, III.7).

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Technically speaking this isn't quite true - it depends on what your lasing medium consists of. While each colour line emitted will be monochromatic, a single laser is capable of producing multiple lines.

In the case of a Krypton or Helium Neon ion gas laser you will get a single line out (usually, but not necessarily, red for either of these).

However, if I look at an Argon laser with apropriate optics you get primarily Blue and Green (514nm "Green" and 488nm "Blue") lines (with combinations in between). If I put a prism to the output of my little American Laser 60x I can see 7 individual lines - 5 are of such lower power as to be virtually useless, but the primary Green and Blue are strong.

Then if you look at a Copper Vapor laser which works by evaporating copper you get two lines: an emerald green and *gold* (this type of laser was made famous during the Pink Floyd Division Bell tour).

Newer solid state are very much single line. If you ever see a very harsh green beam you are probably looking at a Nd:YAG laser. The new solid state stuff is really looking promising... much more reliable with a much longer lifespan. Now, if they could just get the Blue solid states more powerful reliable we would be laughing. A low to mid powered white-light lasershow that could fit in a briefcase! On the down side though, typically much lower power output than their ion cousins (and the YAG green is, in my opinion, really nasty).

Could almost make me miss lugging 909's around... :)

Of course, there is the question of why this strain would outcompete the resident S. mutans. After a rather infuriating search of the U.FL website I found http://www.dental.ufl.edu/Offices/Oral_bio/Faculty _pages/JHillman.html which includes a list of peer reviewed journal references.(Note: there isn't much more there.)

A quick read of Infection and Immunity, February 2000, p. 543-549, Vol. 68, No. 2 indicates that they created the GM bacteria by deleting almost the entire gene responsible for lactic acid production (lactic dehydrogenase) and make up for the loss by inserting another alcohol dehydrogenase (from Zymomonas mobilis) in the gap. (Which means the other poster was correct - it produces alcohol instead of lactic acid .) The paper also indicates that the bacteria are able to compete with resident mouth bacteria by producing a "Lantibiotic" antibiotic (mutacin 1140). This antibiotic was not introducd by the researchers, but instead is naturally occuring in the (naturally occuring) strain of S. mutans which they selected (because of the antibiotic).

This would be great for GNO/ME, which is a UNIX for the Apple IIGS. There's also a TCP/IP implementation for GNO, called GS/TCP, which has httpd, ftp, ftpd, telnet, telnetd, screen, irc, etc.

It's pretty cool to serve your web page off of your Apple IIGS :-)

Ferengi:Rules of Acquisition::Microborg:Rules of Assimilation [MS eyes only]

We Are Microsoft. Resistance Is Futile. You Will Be Assimilated.

Without a creator deity (let's call him God), you can't explain eternal life. Oops, I forgot, you probably don't believe in that either.

No, I don't, but the questions are quite orthagonal. Creator god(ess)(es/s) still wouldn't explain the continuity of psychology after bodily death, because we still have to explain the existance of the creator.

Saying "X was created by Y" leads to the question "So what created Y?" If your answer is "Y is eternal", why not skip the middleman and asusme that X is eternal in the first place?

And if there is no God and no eternal life, why worry about morals? There would be no right and no wrong? The biggest dog eats the most, might make right, etc.

I don't worry about morals at all. Consult any Zen master or Taoist sage for further enlightenment.

I just try to act compassionately, simply because it suits me to do so - not out of any fear of "eternal damnation" or "the wrath of god(ess)(es/s)", but because my experience is that it leads to less suffering. Metaphysics has nothing to do with it; speculations about some process whereby the fiction "I" call "my self" might continue after this body dies, don't help me figure out how to live this life at all.

The Networked Writing Environment would probably exist without free (freedom or beer) software, but the applications available to students would be very limited. We have 150 seats in five classrooms, using thin clients (SunRays, NCDs, etc) with Solaris servers.

If we spent only $100 per seat on software, that would be $15K -- and I bet replacing StarOffice, The Gimp, our HTML editor, tkMOO-lite, exmh, Xplore, and other applications would cost a lot more than that. Not to mention that Solaris is free (beer) for educational use.

I'm sure there are also cost savings from using the client/server model instead of 150 workstations. We have two system administrators and one half-time graduate student, and a few hangers-on like me who poke stuff around when time allows. :)

The NWE has been around since 1995. With education budget cuts in Florida reaching into the hundreds of millions this year, and maybe more next year, I don't see the Solaris/free software setup being replaced with a non-free model anytime soon.

cbd

Credits: 3
Gen Ed: H I
Gordon Rule: Comm (6000)
Instructor: Gayle Brown
Meeting Time: T 11-E2
Meeting Location: LIT 119
Section Number: 4951

This is an introductory course in philosophy suitable for students with little or no prior exposure to the subject. Used shall be episodes from Star Trek: The Next Generation (and perhaps other science fiction sources as well) as a foil for introducing some of the questions that have puzzled philosophers for centuries--questions including, but not limited to the following.

[1] Is time travel possible? Could I go back in time and kill my own grandfather?

[2] Is artificial intelligence possible? Will computers ever attain consciousness?

[3] Am I one and the same person that I was ten years ago?

[4] If I were cloned, would the clone be me?

[5] Could we be trapped in virtual reality at this very moment and not know it?

Students interested in signing up for the course are encouraged to email the instructor at gbrown@phil.ufl.edu and suggest other topics.

The course will most likely be divided into five or six sections. Each section will correspond to one of the above kinds of questions. We will actually watch the episode relevant to the issue at hand in class, and then spent two or so weeks examining the traditional literature on the subject.

The class will be informal and discussion-oriented. The instructor will do some lecturing, but only enough to enable students to grasp the philosophical problem at hand. Students are expected to attend class regularly, participate in discussions and write three five- to seven-page papers.

Pop corn and soda optional. There will be no mid-term or final exam.

Gayle Brown received her B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy from George Mason University in Virginia. She received both her M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Florida. She was awarded a Graduate Student Teaching Award in 1999.

Credits: 3
Gen Ed: H I
Gordon Rule: Comm (6000)
Instructor: Gayle Brown
Meeting Time: T 11-E2
Meeting Location: LIT 119
Section Number: 4951

This is an introductory course in philosophy suitable for students with little or no prior exposure to the subject. Used shall be episodes from Star Trek: The Next Generation (and perhaps other science fiction sources as well) as a foil for introducing some of the questions that have puzzled philosophers for centuries--questions including, but not limited to the following.

[1] Is time travel possible? Could I go back in time and kill my own grandfather?

[2] Is artificial intelligence possible? Will computers ever attain consciousness?

[3] Am I one and the same person that I was ten years ago?

[4] If I were cloned, would the clone be me?

[5] Could we be trapped in virtual reality at this very moment and not know it?

Students interested in signing up for the course are encouraged to email the instructor at gbrown@phil.ufl.edu and suggest other topics.

The course will most likely be divided into five or six sections. Each section will correspond to one of the above kinds of questions. We will actually watch the episode relevant to the issue at hand in class, and then spent two or so weeks examining the traditional literature on the subject.

The class will be informal and discussion-oriented. The instructor will do some lecturing, but only enough to enable students to grasp the philosophical problem at hand. Students are expected to attend class regularly, participate in discussions and write three five- to seven-page papers.

Pop corn and soda optional. There will be no mid-term or final exam.

Gayle Brown received her B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy from George Mason University in Virginia. She received both her M.A. and Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Florida. She was awarded a Graduate Student Teaching Award in 1999.

The next step is to consider what would serve as an adequate defensive countermeasure to offensive laser weapons systems. Maybe high tech body armor. Albedo suits, anyone? image

You can read about it at: www.griphyn.org

Buried on the web site is the original proposal they made, and it gives you some idea of the amount of data we're working with.

Some approximate statistics from the paper:

SDSS gets data at 8MB/s, 10TB/year.
LIGO will get data at 10MB/s, 250TB/year.
CMS will get data at 100MB/s, 5 Petabytes per year.

Work has already been done with simulated data for CMS, and a demo of virtual data (may be pre-calculated, or calculated on demand) for CMS was shown at the Supercomputing 2001 conference last week. They used Condor clusters from a few different sites. I'm not sure which sites made it into the final demo, but it may have included U. Florida, Argonne, and U. Wisconin.

In 1999, the Ariane 5 launcher exploded a few seconds after leaving the ground. The faulty program, written in type-safe Ada, has been submited to a static program analyzer developped by Alain Deutsch at INRIA in France. The analyzer spotted the error right away! It was a number going out of range after too many iterations and wrapping back to 0.

Both of those indicate a conversion problem from a larger value type to a smaller value type. If that is what happened, then a "type checking engine" should find that. Perhaps indications of the problem were ignored (one of those links suggests that it was possible).

I doubt anyone would suggest that static typing is a panacea. It is not the answer to everyone's problems, but it does help every now and then.

There is supposedly going to be some sort of dance production to promote Internet2 at the SuperComputing 2001 conference in Denver. The performance is going to be done entirely on Internet2, with choregraphers, dancers, and a sypmhony from various locations around the world.

There's an article here. The project site is here.

There is supposedly going to be some sort of dance production to promote Internet2 at the SuperComputing 2001 conference in Denver. The performance is going to be done entirely on Internet2, with choregraphers, dancers, and a sypmhony from various locations around the world.

There's an article here. The project site is here.

Not that I'd exactly knock Cave or anything. The one thing I don't understand, however, is why all Cave environments are automatically assumed to be gateways for video game production. The Digital Worlds Institute at the University of Florida is working on a Nave (Non-expensive Automatic Virtual Environment). I loathe it whenever I hear someone come in and say, "Oh, this would be so cool if you could play Counterstrike" on it. This is Computer Science, not Computer Entertainment. Sheesh...