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mbreitba writes "Sam Barros is at it again, Some may know him for his Railgun research, and some may know him for his homemade cannons. But now he's found a use for all those old CD's you don't need anymore. Personally, I couldn't think of a better use for them."
I think I could get a lot of points from him on my dead-pool list.
Ahh well... I guess I should have RTFA before I posted it to Slashdot :P
beowulf cluster of those. You could take down iraq or something.
Hey, has anyone seen The Turd Report lately? How are his stools?
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Too bad Hitler wanted to make a deal with Mexico to assist them in fighting us you idiot.
For reading the CD, what dot density is needed on a flatbed scanner to capture all the dots on a CD? Let's see... Bit size = 52 micro inches which is about 7,211 per square inch. Let's see.. a quick look finds one Epson scanner with 3200x6400 dpi resolution. Close. Probably need at least 14,822 dpi to get several pixels per bit.
I'd know those dorm rooms anywhere.. and beds, chairs, bouch, heaters, curtains, windows (oh, and desk lamp too -- though I thought those weren't in the rooms. Must be second floor, trash can, a friend had the same table, ...)... He's from MTU! And what's further interesting, he lives in West McNair... hrm. Wonder who he is. I don't remember ever seeing him or anything.. But, had I known him, I'd have killed him if he didn't invite me to that show ;-D
;-) BTW, MTU is Michigan technological University, WestMcNair is the (you guessed it..) West part of one of the three dorms. Overall, the school may be good for Math/Engineering/other stuff, but that chem class sucked ass (test averages -- 56, 60, 44; final: 69 grade in class: A -- the class did that badly(curve-like stuff, in addition to free extra credit (massive amounts of it))). The CS department.. don't go there for that. I didn't meet a single decent instructor while there, and they all simply want to get out of work in any way possible (I wanted to skip a class on the grounds that I knew the material; I went and talked to the instructor. I offered to write all the programs, take the final, do anything he basically asked. He bitched that it was more work for him to grade the final, or grade the programs, and I was providing _NOTHING_ for him to work with. Right. He never had a suggestion of what I could do, however..). In the end, I took the class, skipped half the days, got 100's on the programs, 72 and 69ish on the midterm/final, AB (they don't have A-/B+.. just AB) in the class. Sigh.
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So.. not much more than this. Just figured I'd provide some information, for those who want to barge in on people's lives and spy on them
Also, as is said: it doesn't matter how much you study, you still get the same grade.
Anyway, that's enough of my trolling.. hope the info is of interest to some people, perhaps those going back to MTU next year and want to bug the guy for his dremel for half an hour
-DrkShadow
My gamer tag is jose_chung. I will kill you with the utmost efficiency in either Capcom v. SNK or MechAssault - I leave it to you, after all, its your own death. Choose.
I will choose the Elemental. Pick any Mech you want, I will still have more kills than you at the end of time.
Who wants to die today (on Xbox Live?)
See you in the lobby.