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Freshman MIT Students Automate Dorm Room
Inessa writes "Two freshman MIT students have automated their dorm room, complete with a big red party button which generates an instant party. Their custom-engineered system is called MIDAS, the Multi-Function In Dorm Automation System. According to the MIT News office, "Gone are the light switches and glaring fluorescent lights of a typical dorm room. Zack Anderson and RJ Ryan's room has several lighting schemes, remote web access, voice activation, a security system, electric blinds and more ... With the touch of one red button, their dorm room becomes a rave. The lights go out, the blinds close, the displays read, "feel the energy" as a voice repeats the same phrase over a deep bass beat.""
And I mean that in the good way, not in the bad at sports way.
they couldn't solve the "where do we get chicks from?" problem. or maybe, these oxygen gas bottles are of some use after all..
in other words, how does it scale?"
It is cowardly, and a betrayal of whatever it means to be a Jew, to act as a white man
-James Baldwin
Why is it I get the feeling that there is a reason these guys have that much time on their hands?
Nice work and all that, but most decent parties at college include three staple ingredients
1) Alcohol
2) Women
3) Alcohol
Though alcohol appears twice this is on purpose, once to get you drunk enough to ask, then a woman to ask, the second to get her drunk enough to agree. Now an automated party system that achieved that... the guys would be millionaires by next Wednesday.
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind - Gandhi
I bet their dorm room still smells like dirty laundry.
the party button pushes you!
Build it and they will come... Or was that baseball?
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While they're at it, they'd better install that Korean female robot wearing something slinky - because they'll never get any real women in there... and at least she won't collapse in hysterics when told to "feel the energy"...
Hey, 1989 called, they want their party terms back...
What, MIT is co-ed now? Mortifying.
the "off" button.
Be sarcastic if you must, but their next upgrade is to integrate a chick magnet into the system. Activating 'party mode' by default spawns a Babe-Level Management Routine (BALMER), which controls the Magnet. Preset desired peak and sustained chick levels are set in the Application Data Layer, and MIDAS carefully manages the Chick Magnet to maintain the ambient babeness at the level desired for the activity. When the security cameras, IR sensors, or seismographs determine that levels are exceeded, the Magnet is taken off line or dropped to a lower power level (From "Ferrari" to "Porsche" all the way down to "Ford Fairlane").
It all looks very impressive on paper, but they're having trouble getting enough juice to those magnets, and as yet have been unable to give the BALMER anything but a dry run.
The lights go out, the blinds close, the displays read, "feel the energy" as a voice repeats the same phrase over a deep bass beat."
Appearantly, these "freshmen" haven't been out of their dorm room since the early 90's
Arrogance is Confidence which lacks integrity. -- me
"feel the energy" . . . I'll bet THAT never gets old!
Adherence to the truth is a form of disloyalty.
MIT students don't party, they drink. Alot.
Someone gets in through remote web access and continually makes it party mode.
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I am pretty sure the same button inflates their "girlfriends" as well!
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
we had to keep a little piece of Velveeta frozen on the dorm room window sill
When I went to school, Velveeta hadn't been invented yet. We had to walk in all manner of weather conditions to the vetrinary science buildings, uphill both ways, and steal milk from the cows, which we then had to curdle in the bathroom sink. Only then could a Friday night celebration be had.
paintball
At a single voice command the door swings shut and locks, bars secure the window, the lights dim, room oxygen is reduced by 20% creating a lightheadedness, and the audio system repeats the phrase "Give in, you know you want me".
In MY day, we had to actually get chicks drunk at parties. Now, these kids just have to press a button.
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
It's called drugs and rap music. More fun and more portable!
friends. Although, judging from how they've tricked out their room, they're probably in short supply of those.
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How does one sleep in a shower?
Stick Men
Advice from a mother to her college age, Boston-bound daughter:
"Never go out with an MIT student; they are horrible dates. More than
any other college men, they are only after one thing:
Sleep."
-mkb
"The system is down! The system is down!"
"Hey The Cheat! I told you, no more light switch raves!"
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-jhp
/. -- the Free Republic of technology.
...I'll build my own party button. With blackjack. And hookers.
So you didn't get accepted to MIT, huh?
I'm sure your fall-back school was okay, and now it's just a matter
of demonstrating the ignored brilliance and ability.
Then the grad schools or recruiters or whatever will pay attention.
Forget the party button and the blackjack.
One of the most depressing but yet accurate statements I have every heard came from my SCUBA instructor. This guy was in the Canadian Forces and was the Canadian equivalent of the US Navy Seals.
:-(
After going cavern diving one day he told me:
"Women control half of the money, and all the sex in the world".
I want to slit my wrists
Libertas in infinitum