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I humbly submit that the current online cataloging will never replace the original:

https://digital.library.unt.ed...

We're talking about students that enter the country legally, in comparison to other students that have entered the country legally.

No we're not as the linked study shows. The data was reported by institutions.

- The survey captured 522 valid responses from higher education institutions throughout the United States.

The actual definition of 'international student' varies among institutions but at least one specifically states illegals are in this category and one other that states the opposite. So your statement that only legal residents are included is categorically incorrect.

You hypothesize that maybe the same number want to enter, but are deterred by things that haven't changed and didn't deter their predecessors.

The study states gaining physical presence in the US as the number one issue, along with other factors.

- Survey respondents cite that the key factors contributing to these declines are visa application issues or denials, costs of U.S. higher education, the social and political environment, and the increasingly competitive global market of higher education options. The vast majority of institutions (94.7%) indicate that it is not just one reason, but multiple of these factors that contribute to new student enrollment declines.

You then make up the idea that this is about illegal immigration, which it isn't.

True, it doesn't talk about this and contains no data to support this. However it does show a correlation between international enrolment and admissions selectivity.

It isn't the job of the state to run lotteries. It is essentially a regressive tax. If they are greedy for revenue (paying state employee pensions is a horrible burden) then legalize gambling and tax it. Vegas has a bad reputation, but the house edge on craps and blackjack are ~1.5% with best play. Slots, somewhat worse. The house edge for state lotteries averages 38%, maybe more. This is the disgusting real story.

I've had no contact with the Care Oregon people, but my 20-plus years of contact with State Department of Human Services (DHS) IT management (as a contractor to local governments) has shown me just the opposite. Over that time what I observed was a massive NIH complex that can reasonably be described as arrogant, paired with equally massive incompetence.

Their trail is littered with failed projects. For example, look at Oregon Pathways, with which I was closely involved in its early stages. Pathways spent more than $500k and actually won national awards for excellence--without producing more than a mocked-up demo. Lots of time and money sent swirling down the drain.

Better still, look at a project that actually was built and is in use today: Oregon Access. It was conceived in the 1990's by DHS as a PC-based (Sybase/Powerbuiler) replacement for mainframe systems used to administer Medicare, Medicaid, and other programs. It also was intended to give local governments that do the actual case work extensive 'access' to client data in the system for their own use in management--hence the project name. The first parts of the system were put into production use in the late '90s (I worked on some local-gov installs).

The first casualty occurred early on and it was. ironcally, access. Only one county (Lane) was able to connect to the system before direct database access was eliminated, so that only the inteface devloped by DHS could be used. The mainframes never were replaced, so the poor users had to learn two systems: Windows-based Access and text-based mainframe running in a terminal emulator (later replaced by an IE6-only Web interface).

My view of Access was from the user end. A substantial amount of my business came from developing software for users that filled gaps in Access. For example, Medicaid-funded Adult Protective Services. State management decided that they needed extensive statistics that Access did not provide. Their solution was simple: tell the local offices to generate it themselves. I was engaged by one to develop a database application that would enable them to do that. Plus, we added such obvious things as searching cases by name so they could get a case number--which was the only way to find a case in Access! (When, a few years later, that unit was transferred to the State, they killed the application so that the work had to be done by hand.)

For the user, Oregon Access is a nightmare. Consider this page of case management tools for APD (Aging and People with Disabilites) staff. I particularly like the 191-slide Powerpoint stack that explains the "basics" of using just the client assessment portion of Access. And note the PDF forms that have to be filled out and emailed to Salem.

Better still are the forms (not seen there) that are generated from within Oregon Access using internal data, which are then printed by the case manager and faxed or mailed (USPS) to Salem, where they are processed by someone using Oregon Access. Duh. I can't tell you the hilarity that ensued when the local folks received notice of the State's response to complaints about this lunacy: install a "Print to file" printer and PDF-conversion software, then for each use of a form, go through the many-step process of printing, converting, and attaching it to an email instead of fax or surface mail. Problem solved!

Now, Cover Oregon is a product of the Oregon Health Authority, which was split off from DHS. Bruce Goldberg, OHA director during this mess, was previously director of DHS. The evidence seems to refute the notion that all the incompetence of DHS was left behind when OHA branched off.

My personal view is that this affair is nicely characterized by: "Incompetent Mark Meets Con Artist".

Already been done.

The GP's argument regarded lifting materials out of Earth's gravity well, the replies pointed out that wouldn't be the most efficient approach.

As for your other rambling points. Using electrical current for smelting has been around for over 100+ years http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc12293/m1/58/, but even if you had to resort to some 17th century model of a big crucible and oxygen the idea that there's no oxygen in space is rather odd. Air pressure, elecromagnets and centrifuges are regularly used in smelting, manufacturing and assembly on Earth where there's that annoying extra acceleration to be dealt with. Most robotic assembly systems would work better in zero-g as there's no preferred orientation when moving parts around. Keeping something fixed in space is easy, it's only a problem when you insert humans who have an annoying physiological view of 'up'.

The only thing that we're pretty sure doesn't exist in plentiful abundance outside the Earth are people and food. Those we'd probably have to lift unless you're incredibly patient and don't personally want to go (though I predict a huge market for zero-g veal someday).

Is all of that supply chain trivial or even partially solved, of course not, is it hugely expensive, yep. But your description of the nature of the problem is pretty far off and in any event when (not if) humans build space ships to explore the solar system they won't be lifting the resources off Earth as the GP suggested.

200 pairs of bare hands are proven to work just fine against that obsolete attack, Skaredcrow77. Also, modern locked cockpit doors aren't made out of cardboard; box-cutters are of little use.

Please provide supporting evidence. The only "evidence" I know of was told to us second-hand and the entire plane full of people died anyway.

I overestimated the number of passengers; there were 33 on board who were not crew or hijackers.

The following article briefly describes the events that took place, as well as can be gleaned from CVR data, FDR data, and telephone calls that took place minutes before the passengers rushed the cockpit:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/04/12/moussaoui.trial/

More verbose description of events:

http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/report/911Report_Ch1.htm

Note that in 2001-09, American cockpit doors were not reinforced or securely locked.

Clinton's reinventing government initiative trimmed and streamlined the federal government with measurable results: http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/npr/whoweare/historypart5.html

Osama Bin Laden's organization needed a LOT of money to keep going.

Not really . . . In its best years, Al-Queda raised maybe $30 million . . .

OK. That doesn't begin to compare to the US military budget, for example, but it my books, that is still a LOT of money to be raised by a fringe lunatic group such as this.

Osama Bin Laden's organization needed a LOT of money to keep going.

Not really. The 9/11 attack only cost about $200,000 to execute. Al-Queda was never that big. In recent years it's been more of a loose coordinating group for various militant factions. In its best years, Al-Queda raised maybe $30 million. That decreased as the US found ways to cut off its funding sources.

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/business-brains/new-algorithm-spots-sarcasm-in-customer-testimonials/7192

Also, you might laugh, but one of the Program Committee Chairs at the conference this was accepted at has a bunch of work on computational humor: http://www.cse.unt.edu/~rada/papers.html

EVERYONE should read the Grace Commission report - the Government PUBLICLY ADMITTED that 100% of income tax collected goes to paying the INTEREST on the national debt! Them now trying to tell us anything is is pure BS lies - surprise the government lying to us YET again.

"100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Debt ... all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from government."
-Grace Commission report submitted to President Ronald Reagan - January 15, 1984

References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grace_Commission
http://www.scribd.com/doc/32595026/Grace-Commission-Report-full
http://thetruthnews.info/GraceCommissionReport.pdf
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metacrs9044/
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metacrs9044/m1/1/high_res_d/IP0281G.pdf

EVERYONE should read the Grace Commission report - the Government PUBLICLY ADMITTED that 100% of income tax collected goes to paying the INTEREST on the national debt! Them now trying to tell us anything is is pure BS lies - surprise the government lying to us YET again.

"100% of what is collected is absorbed solely by interest on the Federal Debt ... all individual income tax revenues are gone before one nickel is spent on the services taxpayers expect from government."
-Grace Commission report submitted to President Ronald Reagan - January 15, 1984

References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grace_Commission
http://www.scribd.com/doc/32595026/Grace-Commission-Report-full
http://thetruthnews.info/GraceCommissionReport.pdf
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metacrs9044/
http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metacrs9044/m1/1/high_res_d/IP0281G.pdf

This success is due to Nasa's JPL or Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The successes they have had over the past decade are astounding. I see this as more proof that remote missions are more practical in the short term as opposed to manned missions. Just give JPL some more money and let them do their thing. These are the guys that will discover what we need to know, so as to make manned spaceflight practical.

It's also worth noting that JPL is NASA's only FederallyFunded Research and Development Center (FFRDC), a type of organization which is quite a bit more flexible and competitive than the typical NASA Center. The Aldridge Commission from 2004 suggested that NASA restructure and turn all of its centers into FFRDCs, but this proposal was quickly killed in Congress as it's much more difficult for pork to be guaranteed for FFRDCs:

http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/moontomars/docs/M2MReportScreenFinal.pdf

(b) NASA Centers. A second cluster of organizational tasks is to ensure that NASA's ten Centers
and their related field facilities are deployed appropriately in supporting the exploration vision.
Properly engaged, these facilities and their workforce provide indispensable resources and talent.
Centers are also powerful economic engines at the state and local level that should help meet mission
objectives and help grow a robust space industry.
As currently organized, NASA's Centers are not optimally configured to carry out the nation's space
exploration vision. They have Apollo-era infrastructure that needs substantial modernization. They
lack institutional incentives that continuously align performance with the vision's need. Personnel
practices have too often ossified, placing insufficient priority on innovation, professional growth,
and managerial mobility. In some instances, they support duplicative capabilities that unnecessarily
raise NASA's cost to the taxpayers. The Centers, as with the rest of NASA, must also contend
with the reality that a large portion of the workforce is now or will soon be eligible for retirement.
In short, the Centers must be renewed, empowered, focused, and more effectively leveraged in support
of future space exploration and scientific discovery.
The Commission proposes a new model for the NASA Centers. We feel that NASA should transition
its Centers through an open, competitive process, to become Federally Funded Research and
Development Centers (FFRDCs).
FFRDCs provide a tested, proven management structure in which many of the federal government's
most successful and innovative research, laboratory, technical support, and engineering institutions
thrive. NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab is currently so configured, as are the Department of Energy's/QT

It's deeply shameful that the SEC would use such twisted language in a proposed requirement after they wrote this http://www.sec.gov/pdf/handbook.pdf handbook on how to use Plain English for disclosure documents.

It's more than a shame that there are no "right or benefit enforceable by law against the" SEC idiots who published this proposed rule with language that violates this http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/npr/library/direct/memos/memoeng.html Presidential Memorandum.

When was the last time you ever heard a politician say, "government is inefficient, and here is how we can make it more efficient!"

Clinton did say that, and he did a pretty good job of it, too. Of course, the effort was mocked and obstructed by the Republicans, who promptly undid everything the Clinton administration had accomplished as when Bush took office.

The methods for crafting a usable but false finger for the purpose of spoofing electronic fingerprint imaging systems are well documented, but the fun part comes when you do some additional google searching.
This is a link to Lee Harvey Oswald's ten card
Others are available.

Surprised there haven't been /.ers that mentioned the Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science (www.tams.unt.edu) at The University of North Texas. This program has been around for 20+years as a 2yr early admissions college program for the best students in TX interested in STEM careers. Initially it was the only game in the state for the best of the best students until the mid-90's when a separate liberal arts based program (TALH) was created at Lamar University.

As to the quality of student productivity for 16/17/18 yr olds... not only are they mature enough to succeed at a research intensive university, they compete with the brightest students in the country based on not only being named Intel and Siemens science competition semifinalists/finalists but also Barry Goldwater Scholars. Over the last 10-15yrs that UNT has nominated students, the vast majority have been TAMS students, and the resulting named scholars from TAMS/UNT equal or outweigh in number those from the 'other' larger TX research universities.

In other words, the brightest 16yr olds (however you measure them) can succeed - excel even - at the college level, way beyond what most give them credit for. I'm an old-school TAMS graduate myself and many of my former classmates are like myself, PhDs, MDs, DOs, JDs, etc. providing needed economic growth not only to TX but across the country.

Similar type program is already in place in Texas http://www.tams.unt.edu/

How is this different then TAMS? Get with the times people.

http://www.tams.unt.edu/

Obviously a micro-turbine could be used in a series hybrid fairly easily. A google search turns up a site with a 'prototype', though a combustion turbine and not steam.

Here's a liquid nitrogen powered car:
http://inhouse.unt.edu/index.cfm?commentID=1163

Personally I like MIT's 'millimeter' gas turbine engines:
http://thefutureofthings.com/articles/49/engine-on-a-chip.html

No, no I don't know that they have problems. You have presented little to no proof they have problems. So your suggestion is that they not only wiretap the whole US but also break into every e-mail account they suspect of terrorist activity?

Taking it a bit further, contrary to the claims of "startling" revelations in the simplicity of Al Quaeda counter intelligence techniques it should be of no surprise. And who in the United States intelligence agencies claimed the NSA was not capable of and did not crack these pathetic techniques?

What I'm sure is only a small percentage of the information available in the September 11 Commission report suggests there were bureaucratic blunders rather than outright intelligence failings.

While a wire tap into every phone connected to a super computer for analysis works wonders in a Bat Man movie, somehow I doubt it would be that simple or that effective in real life. I don't recall anyone in Gotham city speaking Arabic or using code words. And more importantly, how many innocent people would have their rights violated not just by the wiretapping but by further investigation and false accusations, and how often would such activity be used for ulterior political motives?

The fact is the now public knowledge of Al Quaeda intelligence techniques tells us nothing of the NSA's capabilities or how much they really knew prior to September 11th and illegally wire-tapping an entire nation is likely no silver bullet that will prevent future attacks and as history has shown will likely be used for political reasons.

A recent staple of science fiction is the story of people optioning their body parts for money while they're still living

you let the tom bombadil chapter stop you? sheesh...

honestly, its one of the most confusing chapters in the book, and quie frankly is quite out of place. you wouldnt be missing anything if you skipped it.

Who is Tom Bombadil?

A few minutes with Google shows clearly that the corporation filed chapter 11, and that those proceedings protected the assets of corporate officers and other significant assets worth at least 900 million dollars, and furthermore the bankruptcy court denied compensation to over a half a million victims who apparently missed a filing deadline.

An apparently well researched and well respected source of information on the corporate fiasco that was the Dalkon Shield is this book:
Bending the Law: The Story of the Dalkon Shield Bankruptcy (by Richard B. Sobol. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1991.)

A review of the book containing enough details to confirm that a simplistic interpretation "AH Robins went out of business" is not sufficiently detailed to be a meaningful contribution to the discussion:
Reviewed by Cary Coglianese, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan

An article from the day that bankruptcy was filed:
Robins, in Bankruptcy Filing, Cites Dalkon Shield Claims

A band named after the fiasco, with MP3 files online:
Dalkon Shield

Please, get a login, use it, and post under your real name. It might help provide you with incentive to read more and mouth off less.

Oh Lord. Only on slashdot would character assassination be labled insightful.

The man's biography isn't that hard to find. (and in europe no less)

BTW For those too lazy to look, but apparently not to bash, UNT is a real place.

source: http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/npr/whoweare/append ixf.html [unt.edu]

pfff... any URL that ends in .edu is too liberal in my book!

• Reduced the size of federal civilian workforce by 426,200 positions between January 1993 and September 2000...The government workforce was for the first time the smallest it had been since the Eisenhower Administration.
• Closed nearly 2,000 obsolete field offices and eliminated 250 programs and agencies, like the Tea-Tasters Board, the Bureau of Mines, and wool and mohair subsidies.
• Procurement reform led to the expanded use of credit cards for small item purchases, saving about $250 million a year in processing costs.

Second, Tom is able with ease to use the ring in ways that were not intended by its maker, for he is able to make the ring itself disappear.

Checking these facts myself as I hate getting it wrong, but I swear it does say, in the book, that he makes it disappear. Further, the great page on Bombadil states the same....

Who is Tom Bombadil?

"The Last as he was the First" (Rings, 1:279)

From Who Is Tom Bombadil

Linked from Glyphweb. Their Arda Encyclopedia is the best source, IMO, for Tolkien:

Note the, "Nothing would be left for him in the world of Sauron,".

I think the point here isn't that Tom would be conquered. He simply would be done with the world and move on. Tom is, indeed, powerful. He is, most assuredly, the most powerful being in ME. Some argue that he is Eru himself....

Few are those who will understand the reference to Tom singing without having read the Hobbit and Tolkien's related works. As is often the sad truth about interpretations of books, sections get omitted for brevity and plot considerations. Unfortunately, this has a tendency to remove some of the depth present in the original work. Such is the case with Tom; this is why his name is unfamiliar whereas Bilbo et al are near universal in recognition.

Here are two rather good sources of information about Tom:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bombadil
http://www.cas.unt.edu/~hargrove/bombadil.html

The business end of a scanning tunneling microscope is often a one-atom tip. Those are made by cutting a wire of some suitable metal (tungsten, or platinum/iridium), hoping to get a sharp tip. Such tips look like this. As you can see, sometimes the break gives you a very sharp one-atom point, but the area around it is ragged.

The technology for making these tips is embarassingly simple.

Electrochemical etching is used to make better-formed STM tips. Electrochemical etching with STM feedback to determine when the best form has been reached does even better.

• The NeHe tutorials are a good place to start, if you want to start with code...
  
• From a theory perspective, books are good, like 3D Math Primer for Graphics and Game Development, and some community sites too, like GameDev's Graphics Theory section.
  
• Realtime Rendering - the website associated with the book of the same name. I never really made it through the book, but the web page has an excellent collection of links to other sources of information....
  
• Forums like GameDev.net and Devmaster are another approach.
  

One of our newest buildings on campus (1998) is the EESAT (Environmental Education, Science and Technology) Building. There is a picture of the building at http://www.ias.unt.edu/about/. It is generally a favorite building on campus to have classes in, with a giant earth population clock, all native plants landscape the facility, and other conservation and science exhibits exist in and around the building.

The mens, can't speak to the womens, have urinals that are the flushless type described and there is a plaque above them indicating that they save water and trap odors. However the contractor went ahead a outfit the urinals with a water pipe in case they didn't work out. It stops short where an L shaped pipe would normally connect to a standard handle flushed or motion activated unit.

They have been there for several years without complaints, and they don't smell, so in this instance they are a success.

http://www.unt.edu/cjus/resources/punctuation.htm# apostrophe

"surname is?"

Perhaps a reconstruction of the sentence would make it clearer.

"I didn't know Jonathan Ive had changed the spelling of his surname!"

P.S. The speeds mentioned in the post are probably switched.
The car switches to an electric motor when its speed reaches 32-40 km/h (20-25 mi/h).
But I guess you figured that one out already... ;-)

Perhaps a dumb question, but is CEMI involved with this project at all? Anyone at the college of music involved? This is the kind of project I would have died to be a part of as an undergrad.

The Entertainment Software Research Group at UNT has an audio only game research project going on.

Something I was recently thining about gettng involved with.

The ad was built on a Pentium...

Well they can get 128K to Mars Deep Space Network
Rus

Everyone's joking and everything, but have you read the books? They're singing half of the time anyways!
Lookie lookie here.

Of course, the musical producers will cut out all the original songs and the whole thing will be 3.5 hours of bad music and worse dwarf-tossing jokes.

In the book, there was Tom Bombadil and right at the beginning of the story at that. Puzzling man!
In the book there was a story about ents' wives, which was sad and moving and give a lot of relief to those tree characters.
In the book there was a sad ending when the heroes go back to their homeland and discover the price they have to pay for their actions.
I'm not seing the movies are bad, they arent.
I'm not saying I'm a terrible fan of the book, I am not, it isnt even one of my favorite books of all time.
I just say I prefered the book because the 3 things I prefered and found emotionnally moving were absent of the movie. Being a coherent man, i didnt go to watch the second and third part.

I'm having a hard time understanding the difficulty. Libraries around the country can do it, why can't yours?

The dirty little secret is that many, many H.S. band kids already have permanent hearing losses due to brass and percussion. UNT is just starting to discover this, but I'll bet if OSHA took SPL readings in the brass section, they would shut down every band in the U.S. How do I know? My son, the "ace" trumpeter in HS and UT, has major hearing loss. So, get your band kids hearing protectors and get them knowledgable about the dangers of loud sounds. Once they loose it, it can never come back.

http://www.cas.unt.edu/~hargrove/bombadil.html

Free Media

Both links found at Creative Commons

I hope these will help. They're just collections of photos licensed under creative commons licesnses which will probably allow you to use them freely.

Also check out the wikipedia page on photography

actually unt has moxy MIT has moxie

LOTR is a story that sold MILLIONS of copies with no special effects other than a nondescript painting on the cover of the book.

A painting which appalled the author, at that:

"I think the cover ugly; but I recognize that a main object of a paperback cover is to attract purchases, and I suppose that you are better judges of what is attractive in [the] USA than I am. I therefore will not enter into a debate about taste--(meaning though I did not say so: horrible colours and foul lettering)--but I must ask this about the vignette: what has it got to do with the story? Where is this place? Why a lion and emus? And what is the thing in the foreground with pink bulbs? I do not understand how anybody who had read the tale (I hope you are one) could think such a picture would please the author."

I have the Coltrane Impulse Years recordings and they're great. My Favorite Things is, of course, a must-have Coltrane album.

Most of the quality jazz music I can talk about intelligently is third-stream avant garde. Attaining the rank of "jazz geek" would have to include the following numbers. Milton Babbit has an interesting tune called All Set, Gunther Schuller makes some interesting use of the style in Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee along with others. And Stravinsky did excellent work in the Ebony Concerto written for Benny Goodman.

And of course, giving a shout to my alma mater, the North Texas One O'Clock Lab Band is the only college jazz band to recieve Grammy nods. (Hey, I played in the Nine O'Clock! :-) My favorite tune: Overture to the Royal Mongolian Suma Foosball Festival on Lab 75.

Who's Tom Bombadil?

Gene Hargrove has one answer, but it will only make sense if you've at least read the Lord of the Rings.