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Steve Mann

One of the more eccentric profs I've encountered. Although his web page serves as no indicator, his brother, Richard, is only slightly less eccentric:

Richard Mann

Funny that both of them are profs at Canadian schools.

Probably what's most significant is that they both do interesting and valuable research.

In general, I think a certain degree of obsessive-compulsive disorder is a requirement for a faculty job. If you're too normal, you don't make for a good candidate.

I have boycotted Lexmark for some time due to their gouging on refills. I am also proud author of an expose on how to use Samsung cartridges in a Lexmark E210 printer, at 2/3 the cost.

I wonder if use of a Philips screwdriver violates the DMCA? The modification involves removing a tab in the printer that matches a slot in the cartridge casting. I suppose this could be considered a digital rights management device.

You may also want to take a look at University of Waterloo. It has an excellent distance program too, and it is also a prestigious institution.

Finally, if UoL and UoW are not on your short list, check out this awesome list of accredited distance education schools.

I was in a situation similar to yours and I didn't want to waste time and money on a bullshit degree. I ultimately went with University of London because of reasonable cost and I'm a good self-studier.

From a page at the University of Waterloo:

A P4-1.7ghz machine will peak (at boot) at 110w. While idling (most of the time) 60w. With powersaving, as little as 35w. I'd expect an old 486 to use considerably less than that, too.

Surely that was John Logie Baird, or is this some revisionist version of history taught only in the UK.

If you look at the article no one appears willing to take the blame for it, from the bank itself to its two subcontractors tasked with verifying that data is indeed gone from hard drives.

I find it appalling that the 'computer security team' sent to this guy's house were told to 'seize' the drives when clearly he was doing them a favour. Though they thanked him later and gave him replacement (presumably blank) drives, fuckups like these should have proper ramifications. Along the lines of dismissals.

Figures it was the Bank of Montreal. Those idiots can't do anything right, from paying their then-CEO too much to stupid online banking to hypocritical ad campaigns in 1996. Losers!

In Googling I came across this, which lists voluntary sector computing activities in Canada supported by the banks. Just think what interesting fundraising activities could have been made possible by this kind of donation...

Handbook of Applied Cryptography

The mathematics faculty at the University of Waterloo is world renowned, and infact, the biggest math faculty in the world. It is so big, that we have several departments within the faculty of mathematics; Combinatorics/Optimization, Statistics and Acturial Science, Pure Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Computer Science used to be part of the Faculty of Mathematics, but has sinced turned into the 'School of Computer Science'. Among those departments, you can get somewhere around 50 different math degrees. Not just 1 math degree, but any degree you want. The flexibility is enormous, and quite impressive. I haven't heard of another University offering this extensive of an undergraduate Mathematics program, with famous Professors to boot.

Engineering wise, MIT may be better. However our engineering is pretty damn good still, we do after all have Electrical, Computer, Chemical, Civil, Systems Design, Geological, Mechantronics, Software, Mechanical and Environmental. Soon there will also be a Nanoengineering. Take your pick!

I don't know about you, but the University of Waterloo is doing a pretty good job considering it only receives a fraction of what MIT receives on a yearly basis. And student wise, UW does make some pretty impressive catches. With most programs having a 90%+ cut off, this is the equivalent to the top 5% of graduating students in high school.

So, I disagree. UW is the 'MIT' of Canada.

A Canadian ranking. Are there any that pit the two countries universities against each other?

Let's hear it for Midnight Sun from Waterloo! From their site:

The Team is currently sitting in first place with two meadia[sic] stops behind them. The car has peformed exceptionally well as the team moved from sixth to first during the first day.

Excellent work guys, and good luck to all the teams!

Newer and more expensive cells (triple junction, GaAs) can manage to extract power even if it's cloudy. Also, solar cars have maximum power point trackers to extract maximum amount of power from the array as well as battery to run the car off from. For instance, during the qualifier a month back at Topeka Kansas, Midnight Sun Solar Car from University of Waterloo qualified for the race running solely off the battery power.

Cloudy days will put a damper on things and will limit the speed at which the solar cars will travel, but it doesn't mean that they'll be dead in the water either.

Seems to be a really popular phrase in non-profit circles (enviro-groups attempting to get something done, or religions groups doing outreach). Behavior modifcation folks also like to use it (speakers promoting life-change or management principles, psychologists, etc.).

Lots of folks just say "age-old saying", etc. Going out on a limb - I'd say it probably has african or indian origins - just because those are the only two places with elephants. (wink)

Bishop Tutu was supposed to have said it to a journalist - so maybe ask him where he heard it. Also heard it rumored to be attributed to PT Barnum, but the Africa connection is more likely.

(bored at work...)

Some basic background: Here

Ever heard of a phong shader? I belive Phong himself was involved in this project at one point. PDF on Phong at Utah

Vox

Based on recent research at the University of Waterloo, you may well be able to treat the bandwidth usage as a risk factor and treat the option to buy more bandwidth as exactly that: an option on a real commodity. You would likely be able, then, to price the value of waiting to invest versus the value of investing now with a given expected return. Basically the cost of holding off on investing would then be quantifiable and you could choose the best time for investment.

There has been some good research done on this lately which you can read up on at the U. Waterloo Scientific Computation Group which did the work in co-operation with telecoms and the Finance department. The math is perhaps a little heavy going, but the results may put you on a firmer footing than doing the same computation with NPV or similar methods.

Disclaimer: I'm currently doing research with this group, though not exactly on this topic.

Based on recent research at the University of Waterloo, you may well be able to treat the bandwidth usage as a risk factor and treat the option to buy more bandwidth as exactly that: an option on a real commodity. You would likely be able, then, to price the value of waiting to invest versus the value of investing now with a given expected return. Basically the cost of holding off on investing would then be quantifiable and you could choose the best time for investment.

There has been some good research done on this lately which you can read up on at the U. Waterloo Scientific Computation Group which did the work in co-operation with telecoms and the Finance department. The math is perhaps a little heavy going, but the results may put you on a firmer footing than doing the same computation with NPV or similar methods.

Disclaimer: I'm currently doing research with this group, though not exactly on this topic.

During Galileo's day, longitude was hard to determine. Ships at sea had no sufficiently good clocks to determine position. Galileo proposed a system using the moons of Jupiter, but it never worked well enough. John Harrison ultimately solved the problem, but I guess "Harrison" does not sound as good as "Galileo." Nova had a good program on the longitude problem. There was also a bestselling book about Harrison and his feat, but I have not read it.

Thanks for the mirror, it was mighty fast =)

I cropped up a wallpaperable version of the image that you can get here (9821 byte PNG). It looks nice on a black desktop.. sure puts things in perspective!

In fact, I do not agree that people have these rights. A right one has, is an obligation that another must fulfil.

Ooops, you are correct. I misused the term "right" in my above statement. Let me rephrase:

The fact is, capitalism works great if we are all brought into the world as healthy, law abiding, and fully educated adults. This is not the case. If you agree that every person should be offered an education paid for by society because they are a burden to society without one, then you must agree that government funded education makes sense.

In Canada, particularly, social services benefit those who administer them far more than the society they are supposed to improve: this creates an incentive to keep the system as inefficient as possible, and thus grow the bureaucracy around it even more.

This claim makes sense until you realize one very important fact about Canadian health care: those who administer health care in Canada must use that very health care system. So must their wives and children. They can't even go to the U.S. for treatment, because the newspapers would be all over it. The fact is, money spent on health care administration in Canada is one third of the amount, per capita, in the U.S. Canadian health care administration is much more lean than its U.S. counterpart.

Now, the administrative costs of, for example, U.S. healthcare, are astronimical, what with the different physician networks, insurers, secondary service providers, etc.: everyone administers things a different way, so if you need surgery, you have to make sure the (a) hospital, (b) labs, (c) primary surgeon, (d) assisting surgeon, (e) anastheseologist, etc. are all "in network" -- often this is not the case and one has to read the fine print on one's health insurance policy. That IS maddening and inefficient.

Ok, I would claim, then, that in the U.S., the reason HMO's are so inefficient and frustrating is precisely because the people who administrate HMO's probably have healthcare plans outside of their own HMO!

What you endorse adds an element of force to coerce those who do not wish to go along.

Wow, that's right out of a Jan Narveson class I took!

Ok, then to truly "opt out" as you suggest, we are talking about returning to a "state of nature", or as it is more commonly referred to, anarchy. Now, you may be an advocate of anarchy, but the thing is, you were born into a social contract, which I realize you are now trying to get out of. I agree that you should have the right to leave that contract, but how is it done?

The social-contract-that-is-Canada controls all Canadian land. It belongs to the country, not to individuals (you only own title, not actual land, whether in Canada or the U.S.), so you would be forced to leave the country. Where would you go on Earth that you wouldn't have to join another similar social contract to reside on their land? The U.S. is clearly no different than Canada in this regard, so you're thinking Afghanistan?

Actually, here are your choices:

1) Become a bum. Homeless people don't pay property or income taxes, and can't receive health care in Ontario because you need a fixed address (AFAIK). You would still be allowed to vote, but you don't have to. You would be free to wander the vast wilderness of Canada, offering your services for cash, and buying only what you need or want. To avoid sales tax, you'd have to do mostly personal (under the table) purchases, but the government won't know, and they really don't care because you're small potatos. Large vendors like Wal-mart have agreed to the social contract, so they will charge you sales tax. Sorry. However, you can't own land if you're a bum, so see #2.

2) Go to a part of Canada that nobody lives on (there's lots), build a fence and declare yoursel

A classic for cryptographers is Handbook of Applied Cryptography by Menzenes, Van Oorschot and Vanstone. Very accessible imho. You can even download it and read it completely before you buy it.

Applied Crypto is certainly a quality, wide-ranging tome on crypto. For years though, there have been a couple very good books with more implementation details. The Handbook of Applied Crypto from Menezes, et al comes immediately to mind. Either of the two books by Neal Koblitz are excellent. I also like to recommend Decrypted Secrets from Bauer. The Handbook of Applied Crypto is available as a free download from the author's site:

• Handbook of Applied Crypto Authors' Site
• Algebraic Aspects of Cryptography by Neal Koblitz
• A Course in Number Theory and Cryptography by Neal Koblitz
• Decrypted Secrets by Bauer

If you're one of the keener nerds that hangs out in POETS or the Orifice all the time. I personally prefer to try to stay the hell away from the eng. buildings when I'm not in class, and get exposure to other faculties, with their much much higher quotient of attractive girls.

If you're one of the keener nerds that hangs out in POETS or the Orifice all the time. I personally prefer to try to stay the hell away from the eng. buildings when I'm not in class, and get exposure to other faculties, with their much much higher quotient of attractive girls.

C/C++ just aren't good languages for implementing state machines in. Languages with support for full coroutines (like uC++) make implementing state machines practically trivial.

The question is though, how does one become a software engineer. I have never heard of here being such a degree or feild. Just programmers calling themselves software engineers.

Actually, there are Software Engineering degrees emerging at many universities. For example, the University of Waterloo has a Bachelor of Software Engineering degree, offered jointly by the Department of Mathematics (which Computer Science is part of) and the Faculty of Engineering. The degree is accredited and leads to the Professional Engineer title and license. There are also many Software Engineering specializations or options that have been developed as part of Computer Science or Computer Engineering degrees, which provide students with a comprehensive understanding of software engineering techniques and practices.

Here in Canada there is definitely a distinction between engineers and non-engineers, as mentioned in some of the above posts. Engineers are liable if their products fail. Software engineering (as opposed to computer engineering) is a relatively new field, and some universities have SE programs which are still in their infancy. At the U of Waterloo, for example, the SE program has only been around for 2 years, and hasn't been accredited yet (won't be till at least 2006, when the first class graduates). The SE students will then be "real" software engineers, who can be held legally responsible for their software. I think that this is an important distinction between engineers and programmers, and that Texas is making a step in the right direction. Now for the other 49 states...

Here in Canada there is definitely a distinction between engineers and non-engineers, as mentioned in some of the above posts. Engineers are liable if their products fail. Software engineering (as opposed to computer engineering) is a relatively new field, and some universities have SE programs which are still in their infancy. At the U of Waterloo, for example, the SE program has only been around for 2 years, and hasn't been accredited yet (won't be till at least 2006, when the first class graduates). The SE students will then be "real" software engineers, who can be held legally responsible for their software. I think that this is an important distinction between engineers and programmers, and that Texas is making a step in the right direction. Now for the other 49 states...

Check out the Bachelor of Software Engineering degree at the University of Waterloo. They also offer a Computer Science degree and a Computer Engineering degree. The page describes the differences between the 3. The Software Engineering degree is accredited and leads to the Professional Engineer (P. Eng.) designation, and the license to legally practise software engineering in Canada.

It's great that Microsoft's advertising claims were shot down in this case for being unjustifiable, but they've still got some other pretty nasty falsehoods floating around out there.

I don't know if this particular campaign is appearing at American schools, but certainly at Canadian universities, Microsoft has launched a fairly heavy ad campaign for academic-priced software (I've seen the ads at Waterloo and Simon Fraser.) The ads feature bold print saying "Getting software for any less would be illegal", and in smaller print, below: "90% off the estimated retail price!". (See a banner ad of it at the University of Waterloo computer store.)

Hmm... given that I've paid less than their listed prices for the software on my computer, I guess they're accusing me of breaking the law. It's too bad that a lot of their competition's software is still cheaper (e.g. I use OpenOffice, myself, but I'm pretty sure I could get a full-priced copy of StarOffice for less than the student-priced Office XP.)

I would love to see Sun start a competing campaign saying "Getting certain other software at these prices would be illegal. Save money and keep yourself out of jail: use StarOffice."

Basically if you use (say) a flame at 2000F to heat a factory at 70F you are wasting a lot of potential energy. You could, for example, run a gas turbine generator at 2000F and then use the 300F waste heat from that to warm the factory instead. This particular example is called 'cogeneration' and is a big way to boost energy efficiency esp. when used between two businesses such as a power plant and a plastics factory that requires moderate-temperature heat supply for chemical processes.

While not strictly thermodynamically correct, one could say that anytime you are using electricity to heat a home you are wasting energy because not only are the power plant and transmission lines not 100% efficient (more like 40% for the whole process, or something) you could have done a lot more useful stuff with the electricity rather than just dumping it thru a resistor.

All this being said, I leave the heat off with my computer running when I go out and the temperature in my apartment doesn't get below 64. Cheep!

A waterloo degree might give you slightly better job prospects, but the education you recieve or the experience you will have there is no where near the top.

Now more than ever a degree at Waterloo may give you more than a slight advantage at a job oprotunity at Microsoft.

For those that don't know, UW's ECE department (includes Computer Science Computer Engineering, and Software Emgineering) is 'owned' by Microsoft.

Microsoft Invests in University Of Waterloo

University of Waterloo's contract with Microsoft

Students there will learn the C# language as opposed to C or C++. C# is a bastardized version of C developed solely by Microsoft which makes use of the .Net platform.

I started my CS degree shortly after the dot-com fallout going to the University of Waterloo, known for it's co-op (internship) program. Since then, I've had 5 successful co-ops, at companies like Corel, Honeywell, Environment Canada (the Canadian Environmental Service), and a university in Finland. All of them were either software development or testing, and they all paid well (enough to cover the semester's housing and tuition).

I don't have high marks, in fact, my average is in the upper 60's.

I'm not finding any shortage of work, and my university has a 97% placement rate for co-ops (all of which are paid).

Granted, my university facilitates all of the leg work in applying to and interviewing with these companies. (I don't have to go out and look for any) Althought many others do find co-ops independently without assistance from the co-op department.

Well I've got an internship at Sun Microsystems... Actually everyone I know has an internship and they're all in CS. Companies like Qualcomm, IBM, Microsoft, man the list goes on and on. Oh yeah. I forgot I go to an "inferior" Canadian university. Sorry. U of Waterloo BTW in Canada intership's are called COOPs. Cheers, Andrew

Tell me about it.

I went to the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. This is one of Microsoft's favourite schools to recruite from, because of the co-op program and because the students are easily moldable. I knew a lot of classmates that went to work at Microsoft for internships and full-time work. After all was said and done, most agreed that Microsoft was exactly as you stated--it's filled with young geeks who don't know what they're missing (and are easily wooed by gadgets), and a bunch of older geeks with no social lives that never leave the Microsoft Campus. They also woo the younger ones by giving them titles like "Project Manager" to make them feel important.

One of my female friends who worked there came back with some real horror stories: the older men there are so desperate they'll throw a tonne of money at any employee with breasts just for a chance at having a date. She said she would never go near that company again.

Is it any wonder where the Microsoft attitude of everything-must-be-Microsoft comes from? The vast majority of employees there never leave the campus and are fed the Microsoft party-line constantly. If you think the Apple "reality distortion field" is bad, try a day on the Microsoft campus.

Blech. At Waterloo we learned that only the pathetic people who were willing to give up their lives for money were the ones who interned at Microsoft. In case you haven't noticed, the whole experience left a bad taste in my mouth. :)

- j

Every day they sit and worship a device invented by John Logie Baird, a Brit.

When i wake up in the morning, I crack open the daily newspapaper and.... wait that's not true. Lets start again. When I wake up in the morning I turn on my computer, and check out... webcomics.

Angst Technology, Ctrl Alt Del, Dilbert, Errant Story, Force Monkeys, Fox Trot, goats, Life of Riley, Mac Hall, Megatokyo, Misfire, Penny Arcade!, Sinfest, Something Positive, and finally Wendy.

Then, after my daily webcomic barage (not to say that these all update on a daily basis. Some are good [ like ctrl alt del, and penny arcade ] and update regularly. others... well...) I frequent other sites, for information.

Slashdot of course (not linking it...)
Gamespot
Games workshop,
and
Unconventional Conformity.

Other than that, I have a few sites i goto every so often. Or ones which i check throughout the day. But they become less important than the comics.
-Gharbad

• Machall - best..webcomic...ever (updates: "tues, thurs, sat" but more like when he gets around to it)
• Penny Arcade - a very popular, and very funny gaming comic (M W F)
• Megatokyo - a well drawn comic with a strong story mangaish (M W F)
• Ctrl-Alt-Del - cut and paste, but always funny (Daily)
• Something Positive - kinda cut and paste, but often very funny (daily)
• Real Life - cut and paste, but still a pretty funny gaming comic (mostly daily)
• Calvin and Hobbes - rereleasing C+H online, 10 years delayed...my personal fav (daily)
• Errant Story - a well drawn, story based modernish fantasy comic (updates every other day or so)
• Angst Technology - a game software firm and their antics (updates almost daily)

• (as if you need the link)Slashdot
• CBC News Canadian news from the CBC
• Debian Planet good debian news
• Footnotes GNOME news
• Ars Technica another tech site, often has interesting projects too...
• Anime News Network exactly what the name implies.
• Unconventional Conformity a blog.
• The Weather Network - for my local weather
• 
  
  And well, thats about it. That I check frequently at least. I do like webcomics and strongly suggest that you check out Machall Megatokyo and Errant Story if you don't already though! And then there's also everything2 but its not news and I can't check it daily (or else I would do nothing all day but read!) its too good at just drawing you in. And the anime turnpike to go browsing through Anime fansites...

Actually, I disagree. I don't think Schneier's book is the best place to start. It's a fine book, no doubt, but it says very little about real cryptology from a theoretical standpoint, or from the point of view of teaching you to develop or break codes.

If you're a math god, start with the Handbook of Applied Cryptography by Menezes, van Oorschot, and Vanstone.

If your math isn't quite as godly, start with Thomas Barr's "Invitation to Cryptology". It's an excellent starter book for anyone with even a little bit of mathematical skill. You really don't need much but some high school math, maybe a bit of first-year algebra and stuff, and a willingness to do the chapter problems.

Anyone else on Slashdot have it?

Well, I am not sure. The description of the symptoms is eerily accurate.

My experience fits: A1, A2, most of B2 (visual control, terror of presence, undecidable presence watching, auditory "hallucination" of breathing, visual "hallucination" of eyes as only distinct feature), and two of B3 (continuity of conscious experience, distortions of body image).

My own explanation after I woke up seems rather reasonable, though. The site on which I slept, meant I looked away from the window, the cat sat before my face (reflecting the dim morning light with its eyes) and woke me during REM sleep.

The feeling of distortion of body image is normal when I wake up during REM sleep, the "hallucinations" are explained by the cat, and the terror is explained by the combination of fear of something watching and sniffing, and the inability to move.

The dread was extreme at that moment, however; even worse than when I woke up from gastroesophageal reflux with stomach acid in my lunges, my body used all air to cough, and I saw the colour of my face go through red and purple to blue.

One of the more interesting phenomena they don't discuss in the article in something called Sleep Paralysis. You wake up fully conscious, but are completely incapable of moving. This is accompanied by a feeling of almost indescribable dread, and in some cases hallucinations of various sorts.

I used to get the non-hallucinatory version every once in a while as a kid, so can testify that this is real. From what I've read online, it isn't a terribly uncommon experience either. Anyone else on Slashdot have it?

These are the final marks for last term for Math 239 at the University of Waterloo Uwaterloo Granted this is one of the tougher courses the faculty offers, the grades are depressing. You man notice that some people did quite well, this is probably because it's their 3rd time taking the course!!!!

Using Linux for academic research is hardly a new idea. In my group alone one of the profs has been publishing papers and giving talks about research using Linux since 2000.

An example of such is http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~migod/papers/evolution.pd f - about the evolution of Linux

People talk about him around here (University of Waterloo), but I'll remember his name forever.. any time you used the web interface to uwdir (used to look up faculty and students) and got a successful hit, you'd see at the bottom below a horizontal rule "(c) 199? Ka-Ping Yee". Since he left the university, they've since changed the copyright notice so I forget the exact year he wrote that particular code.

However, you can get a nice glimpse of his academic career before Berkley by having a look at his old resume. Of particular note is his work at Xerox PARC, which has a rich history all of its own!

There is no also right to rebroadcast TV channels unmodified

YES, there IS.

See also this, which states "as of September 1999, Canadian copyright legislation allowed iCraveTV to retransmit television signals already carried on Canadian cable channels".

Where are your links?

The only reference I can find about it is in this paper The Libraries, The Internet, and the University, the chief librarian is quoted:

The public library in Regina, Saskatchewan actually made available
a "reference kit" containing copies of the Washington Post and
other articles. Ken Jensen, head of the Regina Public Library, told me,
"Removing access to material is not what a library should be all about.
If we're going to err, it's our job to err on the side of intellectual
freedom."

I learned a few things back then. I learned that the internet was a new tool to help keep information free and available. With the net being so much more pervasive than it was 10 years ago, the current publication ban is not going to accomplish much. Even more importantly, I learned that the publication ban created misinformation. The rumours and even some of the "information" I found turned out to be completely incorrect when compared with the offical version that was made available after the trial concluded. The crimes were ghastly and horrible but the details of the crimes floating around during the publication ban were even sicker and probably more damaging than the truth was. I also learned how important a library has always been. Slashdot talks a lot about your rights online and intellectual freedom, but libraries have been there for millenia trying to provide and protect your right to information. I was proud to have worked there.

The only way to be sure a prime is real is attempt to factor it.

That's just not true (and hasn't been for 5 years or so!). Read the Maurer paper or HAC (you can even read the relevant chapter here).

Maurer's algorithm prove's in a mathematical sense if a number is prime or not. It's not probablistic, it's definitive.

I've give you the relevant links to bring you up to date and don't believe that posting further on this topic will provide usefull until you read the links.

God, where to start....

"RSA requires that you have two true primes to generate they key but the problem is there is no known way to generate a 2048 bit true prime that can't be factored in the same about of time it takes to generate it."

Wrong. Entirely wrong in fact. You should read the Handbook of Applied Cryptography (kindly made available online here). See e.g. section 4.3. Proving a 2048-bit number is prime (I think you mean 2x 1,024-bit numbers, but....) should take a minute or two - not excessive for a one-off operation!

"forget it however there are several publications that indicate that the number of solid pseudo-primes that are 512 bits long is about 2^40 so its key strength is about the same as 40 bits."

"Since we are talking about a 4x as many bits, a good guess of the strenght of a 2048 bit pseudo-prime would be about as hard as guessing a 160 bit DES like key".

Hardly - Certicom reckon that a 128-bit symmetric key is equiv. to a 3072-bit RSA key. Don't forget that, with symmetric keys, the strength usually doubles with each added bit of key material - the same isn't true for RSA or DH keys as there is now a sub-exponential algorithm for solving these problems....

The rest of your post doesn't get much better, but I'm off to eat sunday lunch now....Seriously, read HAC - it's good for you.

Tell me about it. At my school (University of Waterloo, in Ontario), we celebrated Halloween by blowing up pumpkins using liquid nitrogen. (Sealed vessels of liquid nitrogen can rupture catastrophically.) Here's a direct link to the video. It's rather low res (the video was captured using a digital camera from a safe(?) distance away) but you get the idea. I like the remark at 1:12: "That went right through our spectator area..."

Speaking of which, that's the last place you think of having cooling problems. Why not put the thing outside a save a few bucks?

Where do you think we got the liquid nitrogen? ;)

Microsoft has been raiding the University of Waterloo for programmers for years now.

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