Oh, before some fat ice cream eating micheal moore's ass kissing life flunky comes out and says something about this not being Hollywood I did misspeak I meant the movie industry in general which in the US we think of as "Hollywood." Sorry for the confusion.
Don't you know hillbilly. You might have sneaked them out but you have to have snuked them in.:-) for real though was this a non english speaker or something?
I think this just prove how truly corrupt Hollywood has become that a person like that could win an award for simply being a fat, hypocritical, low life, scum bag, with a camera. I'm guessing he has about 5 years left on that cholesterol train before his heart explodes like refried beans left in a microwave to long. I can't wait for Mr. Moore to be making those headlines.
It would have been better had you been more specific on your intent. The microcontroler market is vast and to accuratly answer such a broad question is not easy in a forum like this. First figure out what language you want to program in.
If you are worried about programmers for linux look for microcontrolers that support in circuit programming (ICP) via serial bootloaders. The one that jumps to mind is dallas/maxim's 89c4xx series. Building a programmer for this device requires very little and works nice with minicom.
For more high end you can look at network based microcontrolers. Many of these have small RTOSs that allow remote programming and programs execution.
I'm surprised I don't see any mention of one of the greatest book reading platforms I've run across the Toshiba e8xx series.
Cons: price @500-600 bucks depending on how hard you shop. Costs more money for syncing with mac os "Missing Sync". Hard to find a comfortable protective case ala iPaq 3xxx series.
Pros: Great 480x640 screen @ 4 inches. Thumb dial that allows quick page flipping and is very ergonomic in its placement. 128MB internal RAM holds about200 books comfortably while leaving plenty of ram free for other apps.
I finally broke down and bought one after eyeing them from afar for a while. I used an iPaq 3835 for about 3 years before making the purchase due mainly to the added screen real estate for reading and the built in wi-fi and compaq flash card slot. I have problems reading books due to contrast issues with the text and paper. I have found however, that reading on the e805 is easier for me because of the adjustable backlight and true white provided by the screen.
Both you and the AC are speaking in generalities about a University with campuses all over the country and Canada too. I hardly think that you have enough of a scope to speak about anything but the experiences you have had at the particular campus in which you where enrolled.
I think experiences on this can vary due to the fact that DeVry is a for profit organization and I'm sure they fall prey to the ills that plague the work force as well. People often overstate their abilities to "get the job."
I found everything but the administration at the Dallas/Irving campus to be wonderful. I too am very self motivated and I made attempts at degrees from UT, UTA, Richland, TCJC. In the end, I found the program DeVry offered was my speed it allowed for more academic freedom and overall I dealt with less people who thought they knew everything and more time with people who overwhelmingly did. DeVry is the only college I have been to where the question of why this person is teaching was one of wonder and not some disdainful remark uttered in displeasure at the disposition of the instructor/professor.
Here is the short answer if you are looking for big money IPOs and have little interest in computing technologies above and beyond that then don't do it. If you have a real passion for how computers work both hardware and software then the CET degree is for you. Jobs are to be had but employers are wising up to the flakes that have plagued the industry for the past 10+ years.
I'm assuming your talking about the DeVry University program and as they are local I can only tell you my experiences in the Dallas area. They are profit motivated, the recruiters get paid commission (CET/EET/Bio are the most expensive programs), and they have a few teachers who ought to be elsewhere, their registration system blows rhinos. If you read all that and thought so I just want to learn then I would say don't worry any more about it and just go for it you will be glad you did.
Wouldn't it be better if the application was more thoroughly describe or at least the purpose for sending power over that distance? It doesn't take a genius to see that's pretty much what a solar power cell and a flashlight does.
I'm guessing you don't understand anything about the underlying architecture for either language. That's fine I'm perfectly willing to do a benchmark scenario. Just to make it so you can't bitch give me a distro, apache version, python version, and php, version. I will run 3 separate test, script initialization, normal run, and high load. I can almost guarantee right now that PHP will come in way behind python for script initialization but ahead in the other two areas.
Also the test I would like to perform are DB access so if you think it works faster with postgres than mysql let me know now. The other test I will run are a linked list sort of ~100,000 items or more depending on how long it takes. I will run a binary sort, and a bubble sort. Next, I will do some dynamic image creation probably a banner ad type image.
Here is the skinny on what makes python all that and a bag of chips. First you have to look at how society has changed in the face of the technology invasion. There are many stratifications to this stereotype but it fits rather like a glove. People have been rushing for the past 10+ years in droves towards high paying tech jobs. These people found something that was in its infancy and people locked onto it like it was the next boat off the island. During the internet boom many a web programmer was born who didn't know a state machine from a sewing machine and thought an operator is who you got when you dial 0. With this boom grew the popularity of both the terminology and culture of the "geek". The proverbial boat overloaded, it capsized. Now what we have is a large group of people with varying levels of qualifications all identifying themselves with the same basic labels. This has created the need for people to distinguish themselves in order to stand out. We do this in our culture by creating and destroying trends to suit the needs of the various culture/counter culture relationships that occur in all of society. For some social groups it is a 300 dollar purse with the xyz logo on it. For us it is a programming language that like the purse performs the same functions as many others. So what's the difference? This one is a little newer than others and it is easy enough to learn that even the majority who lack technical qualifications can easily pick it up and run just as fast as those who have been coding for ages.
Your post makes my head want to pop. I can understand having strong opinions on subjects but how can you make false statements of a factual nature and mask them under a "IMHO" shield0.
How in the world could you come to the unusual conclusion that python is becoming the defacto scripting language in Linux? Scripting is about getting repetitive things done quick and dirty. How could anyone who has used python claim it applies there? The nature of object-oriented languages of any kind is that their encapsulation while enabling grander levels of robustness offer nothing in the way of quick and dirty.
As for your empty comparison of mod_pythion and php, even if php is running cgi mode the chances that in the real world python is faster than php is almost impossible. Why, because object instantiation eats up more CPU time than straight procedural calls, believe it or not, and in any interpreted language it take up more time. Pythons garbage collection and other threads help to steal CPU time from the process as well. There are optimizations that can be made to this but PHP does a lot of these optimizations as well and the Zend optimizer includes some whacky optimizations that simply don't exist yet for Python.
Python is a fairly easy to use language and it does have its utility. That being said there is no reason to make outlandish blatantly false claims to support a personal opinion.
A raving techie is the kind you see at a late night warehouse partying to music that would otherwise make his head hurt if he wasn't so up on the x trip. I love to see such thinly veiled articles as this that are made to be oh so much more than they really are. Come on I haven't seen a tech rave about software since Virtual Valerie and that's only because it was the first time he had made a woman moan without it being more of a groan of disgust.
I installed on an iMac rev a with a G4 upgrade card and 6MB video upgrade. It wigged out on reboot and sh*t itself all over the screen. I had to pull the plug and reboot. When it came back up everything seems to be working fine. Makes me wonder what happened on the install.
You just made me look in the keyboard in the local lab and all yuk. Now I see were those OCD clean freaks are comming from. I will now have to wash my hands everytime I use the lab.
PHP is a template engine. The great thing about it is that it does not force you into that paradigm. However, if you want to separate business logic and presentation simply follow the flow of parsing input, check for errors && Display errors || (setting up output variables, displaying the HTML).
Due to the nature of the web I have yet to see even a single page were I wanted to force data out before processing was complete. I understand the idea of sending data to the client before it is complete seems attractive because it shows responsiveness but in practice I have never seen it make a difference.
Wait a minute your going to quote the same man who was so worried about cyber -terrorism he allowed the threat of real terrorism to bloom like a flower in springtime as a credible source. How he BSed it through three presidential terms I have no idea but that obviously all he was good at. Do you not blame him for not taking care of the situation after the first trade center attack? Some people blame Clinton I always blamed Clarke and his idiocy that cyber-terrorism was the real threat while real terrorism was not a "real" threat. Or does he get a by on the because he is attacking Bush now?
There are multiple examples of him not having much sense. He did after all make his contributions like with the freedom of information act. Now of course it is being used now by companies to protect themselves from being prosecuted for various offenses. You know the ones who are polluting the atmosphere, dumping into rivers, etc... You can find it listed as his impediment to information sharing.
That aside the fact is they did not need an excuse. The US reserved the right to go back to war with Iraq at any time when they began causing problems for weapons inspectors.
If someone other than Clarke had reported this and there were more parties to collaborate it I would believe it. I wouldn't think much of it though. We did not just immediately bomb Iraq. The president isn't quoted as saying this the secretary of defense is. I think this shows how good of a president Bush is that he listened to the Secretary of Defense tell him this and he went down the right path of going after Al-Quida while using Colon Powel (given the Bush situation with Sadam) as the person to negotiate a peaceful means to reinstating the weapons inspections in Iraq to remove the potential unknown threat they posed.
How could any of this be considered a reason to attack Bush given the facts and not just rhetoric. Sometime it helps to look at what the input was and what the output is instead of trying to use disgruntled accounts of what happened in the middle to undermine the outcome.
Hows about picking one and explaining it rather than touting completely unrelated tidbits of misaligned information.
I'm still not convinced on global warming so how can I condemn another man who also isn't convinced. While we understand a lot more about climatology now than we did 100 years ago it doesn't mean the study of it has been mastered yet. There are as many reasons to question global warming as there are to accept it so to say he is wrong in his opinion on the subject I think shows a great lack of understanding for the position he is in.
The president has to weight in the economic impact of all conservationist type reactions to such perceived threats and determine which outcome is the most likely. The environment is very robust and to take the stand that we as humans could destroy it within the span of 20 years shows a complete lack of understanding of the scale of the earth for one thing.
I love how you just say he lied to a whole nation in order to get support for the war. What did he say or even insinuate that was a lie?
The truth is your the one lying you are the one whose a threat to this nation and innocent Iraqis. Its people like you who murdered more than 400 thousand innocent Iraqi's during the gulf war.
I would love to see you try and explain to these people why the US promised people Sadam would not hurt them in exchange for their support. Take a hard look and realize these are real people too. While you would place the blood of the innocent killed on the hands of the one person who is actually doing the right thing for once in our government. These people were all murdered for believing they might one day live in a world were they didn't have to fear the wrath of Sadam.
But of course innocent civilian lives only count when it suits your agenda. Not that I think you would lose any sleep on it after all the only point you wanted to make was how evil Bush really is. The truth is if people like you don't wake up and realize the world isn't republican vs. democrat then you will continue to be a regurgitator of lies and a threat to all the is just and fair in the world.
This has gone way off topic and I would be glad to give you more on this tangent once something like this becomes a topic on Slashdot as I'm sure others would as well.
So what's your agenda with that comment? True ignorance? Is it simply a contemptuous comment born out of the heart of a truly helpless individual?
I for one am done with people who make unsubstantiated ludicrous comments about our president because they can't find anything truly wrong with him or how he has done as president. It just so happens that people who make statements like that about bush fall into two categories. The first being the ignorant sheeples that just heard it from someone else. The second being the people who hate bush no matter what he does because he was "elected not elected".
In any event the article itself was not worth even being mentioned on slashdot as its only tie in are the avatars in video games and guess what they don't mater. The comment about Bush was just to illustrate the writer is a little out of touch with reality to begin with and as such the story itself is wroth even less because of that.
Is this is what passes for "News for nerds. Stuff that matters." Who cares!!!
While a provocative story for mental midgets who think that the discussion of race, sex, and sexual preference are somehow enlightening. The true enlightenment comes when you realize how freaking boring that is because overall there are no differences.
This story has far less to do with video game avatars as it does to do with justifying homosexuality as a non-deviant lifestyle. How can anyone take writing like this seriously when the commander and chief of the united states of America is referred to as a religious fundamentalist.
But if they did all this though they would not have anything to bitch about.
I am curious as to why you took this as a real post anyway. Anyone that cannot figure out how to solve this problem on their own is not in college. If sufficiently motivated individuals cannot find the solution to such a trivial problem then the problem does not exist.
LCD monitors do this. There are KVMs that do this. Don't forget that two of those signals are simply trigers and not data that must be captured. The other two break very nicley into 3 8 bit streams. They run at about 300Kbytes per frame or 18000Kbytes per second at VGA uncompressed 60hz. Using a microcontroler this data can be piped directly into an mpeg encoder chip like the one Tivo uses form IBM which could compress that down to a manageable size with little effort. The stream should be able to be distributed with relative ease using a microcontroler with a built in ethernet controler like the tini from dallas. The end result would be a very small device that was relativly inexpensive that did the job he was looking for while being very dongle like. It would also have the ability to distribute it via a controler area network if need be.
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Want some ice cream.
Oh, before some fat ice cream eating micheal moore's ass kissing life flunky comes out and says something about this not being Hollywood I did misspeak I meant the movie industry in general which in the US we think of as "Hollywood." Sorry for the confusion.
Don't you know hillbilly. You might have sneaked them out but you have to have snuked them in. :-) for real though was this a non english speaker or something?
I think this just prove how truly corrupt Hollywood has become that a person like that could win an award for simply being a fat, hypocritical, low life, scum bag, with a camera. I'm guessing he has about 5 years left on that cholesterol train before his heart explodes like refried beans left in a microwave to long. I can't wait for Mr. Moore to be making those headlines.
It would have been better had you been more specific on your intent. The microcontroler market is vast and to accuratly answer such a broad question is not easy in a forum like this. First figure out what language you want to program in.
If you are worried about programmers for linux look for microcontrolers that support in circuit programming (ICP) via serial bootloaders. The one that jumps to mind is dallas/maxim's 89c4xx series. Building a programmer for this device requires very little and works nice with minicom.
For more high end you can look at network based microcontrolers. Many of these have small RTOSs that allow remote programming and programs execution.
I'm surprised I don't see any mention of one of the greatest book reading platforms I've run across the Toshiba e8xx series.
Cons: price @500-600 bucks depending on how hard you shop. Costs more money for syncing with mac os "Missing Sync". Hard to find a comfortable protective case ala iPaq 3xxx series.
Pros: Great 480x640 screen @ 4 inches. Thumb dial that allows quick page flipping and is very ergonomic in its placement. 128MB internal RAM holds about200 books comfortably while leaving plenty of ram free for other apps.
I finally broke down and bought one after eyeing them from afar for a while. I used an iPaq 3835 for about 3 years before making the purchase due mainly to the added screen real estate for reading and the built in wi-fi and compaq flash card slot. I have problems reading books due to contrast issues with the text and paper. I have found however, that reading on the e805 is easier for me because of the adjustable backlight and true white provided by the screen.
Both you and the AC are speaking in generalities about a University with campuses all over the country and Canada too. I hardly think that you have enough of a scope to speak about anything but the experiences you have had at the particular campus in which you where enrolled.
I think experiences on this can vary due to the fact that DeVry is a for profit organization and I'm sure they fall prey to the ills that plague the work force as well. People often overstate their abilities to "get the job."
I found everything but the administration at the Dallas/Irving campus to be wonderful. I too am very self motivated and I made attempts at degrees from UT, UTA, Richland, TCJC. In the end, I found the program DeVry offered was my speed it allowed for more academic freedom and overall I dealt with less people who thought they knew everything and more time with people who overwhelmingly did. DeVry is the only college I have been to where the question of why this person is teaching was one of wonder and not some disdainful remark uttered in displeasure at the disposition of the instructor/professor.
Here is the short answer if you are looking for big money IPOs and have little interest in computing technologies above and beyond that then don't do it. If you have a real passion for how computers work both hardware and software then the CET degree is for you. Jobs are to be had but employers are wising up to the flakes that have plagued the industry for the past 10+ years.
I'm assuming your talking about the DeVry University program and as they are local I can only tell you my experiences in the Dallas area. They are profit motivated, the recruiters get paid commission (CET/EET/Bio are the most expensive programs), and they have a few teachers who ought to be elsewhere, their registration system blows rhinos. If you read all that and thought so I just want to learn then I would say don't worry any more about it and just go for it you will be glad you did.
IANAL however, the apprent new american way is to bust out a copy of the ADA and sue, sue, sue.
U TF -8&q=mp3+player+for+the+blind
There is another part of me that also says uhh GOOGLE.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=
Wouldn't it be better if the application was more thoroughly describe or at least the purpose for sending power over that distance? It doesn't take a genius to see that's pretty much what a solar power cell and a flashlight does.
I'm guessing you don't understand anything about the underlying architecture for either language. That's fine I'm perfectly willing to do a benchmark scenario. Just to make it so you can't bitch give me a distro, apache version, python version, and php, version. I will run 3 separate test, script initialization, normal run, and high load. I can almost guarantee right now that PHP will come in way behind python for script initialization but ahead in the other two areas.
Also the test I would like to perform are DB access so if you think it works faster with postgres than mysql let me know now. The other test I will run are a linked list sort of ~100,000 items or more depending on how long it takes. I will run a binary sort, and a bubble sort. Next, I will do some dynamic image creation probably a banner ad type image.
Here is the skinny on what makes python all that and a bag of chips. First you have to look at how society has changed in the face of the technology invasion. There are many stratifications to this stereotype but it fits rather like a glove. People have been rushing for the past 10+ years in droves towards high paying tech jobs. These people found something that was in its infancy and people locked onto it like it was the next boat off the island. During the internet boom many a web programmer was born who didn't know a state machine from a sewing machine and thought an operator is who you got when you dial 0. With this boom grew the popularity of both the terminology and culture of the "geek". The proverbial boat overloaded, it capsized. Now what we have is a large group of people with varying levels of qualifications all identifying themselves with the same basic labels. This has created the need for people to distinguish themselves in order to stand out. We do this in our culture by creating and destroying trends to suit the needs of the various culture/counter culture relationships that occur in all of society. For some social groups it is a 300 dollar purse with the xyz logo on it. For us it is a programming language that like the purse performs the same functions as many others. So what's the difference? This one is a little newer than others and it is easy enough to learn that even the majority who lack technical qualifications can easily pick it up and run just as fast as those who have been coding for ages.
Your post makes my head want to pop. I can understand having strong opinions on subjects but how can you make false statements of a factual nature and mask them under a "IMHO" shield0.
How in the world could you come to the unusual conclusion that python is becoming the defacto scripting language in Linux? Scripting is about getting repetitive things done quick and dirty. How could anyone who has used python claim it applies there? The nature of object-oriented languages of any kind is that their encapsulation while enabling grander levels of robustness offer nothing in the way of quick and dirty.
As for your empty comparison of mod_pythion and php, even if php is running cgi mode the chances that in the real world python is faster than php is almost impossible. Why, because object instantiation eats up more CPU time than straight procedural calls, believe it or not, and in any interpreted language it take up more time. Pythons garbage collection and other threads help to steal CPU time from the process as well. There are optimizations that can be made to this but PHP does a lot of these optimizations as well and the Zend optimizer includes some whacky optimizations that simply don't exist yet for Python.
Python is a fairly easy to use language and it does have its utility. That being said there is no reason to make outlandish blatantly false claims to support a personal opinion.
A raving techie is the kind you see at a late night warehouse partying to music that would otherwise make his head hurt if he wasn't so up on the x trip. I love to see such thinly veiled articles as this that are made to be oh so much more than they really are. Come on I haven't seen a tech rave about software since Virtual Valerie and that's only because it was the first time he had made a woman moan without it being more of a groan of disgust.
I installed on an iMac rev a with a G4 upgrade card and 6MB video upgrade. It wigged out on reboot and sh*t itself all over the screen. I had to pull the plug and reboot. When it came back up everything seems to be working fine. Makes me wonder what happened on the install.
I'm just happy this April fools I haven't been fooled by some stupid goat sex link.
You just made me look in the keyboard in the local lab and all yuk. Now I see were those OCD clean freaks are comming from. I will now have to wash my hands everytime I use the lab.
PHP is a template engine. The great thing about it is that it does not force you into that paradigm. However, if you want to separate business logic and presentation simply follow the flow of parsing input, check for errors && Display errors || (setting up output variables, displaying the HTML).
Due to the nature of the web I have yet to see even a single page were I wanted to force data out before processing was complete. I understand the idea of sending data to the client before it is complete seems attractive because it shows responsiveness but in practice I have never seen it make a difference.
Wait a minute your going to quote the same man who was so worried about cyber -terrorism he allowed the threat of real terrorism to bloom like a flower in springtime as a credible source. How he BSed it through three presidential terms I have no idea but that obviously all he was good at. Do you not blame him for not taking care of the situation after the first trade center attack? Some people blame Clinton I always blamed Clarke and his idiocy that cyber-terrorism was the real threat while real terrorism was not a "real" threat. Or does he get a by on the because he is attacking Bush now?
There are multiple examples of him not having much sense. He did after all make his contributions like with the freedom of information act. Now of course it is being used now by companies to protect themselves from being prosecuted for various offenses. You know the ones who are polluting the atmosphere, dumping into rivers, etc... You can find it listed as his impediment to information sharing.
That aside the fact is they did not need an excuse. The US reserved the right to go back to war with Iraq at any time when they began causing problems for weapons inspectors.
If someone other than Clarke had reported this and there were more parties to collaborate it I would believe it. I wouldn't think much of it though. We did not just immediately bomb Iraq. The president isn't quoted as saying this the secretary of defense is. I think this shows how good of a president Bush is that he listened to the Secretary of Defense tell him this and he went down the right path of going after Al-Quida while using Colon Powel (given the Bush situation with Sadam) as the person to negotiate a peaceful means to reinstating the weapons inspections in Iraq to remove the potential unknown threat they posed.
How could any of this be considered a reason to attack Bush given the facts and not just rhetoric. Sometime it helps to look at what the input was and what the output is instead of trying to use disgruntled accounts of what happened in the middle to undermine the outcome.
Boy you are just full of shit aren't you.
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Hows about picking one and explaining it rather than touting completely unrelated tidbits of misaligned information.
I'm still not convinced on global warming so how can I condemn another man who also isn't convinced. While we understand a lot more about climatology now than we did 100 years ago it doesn't mean the study of it has been mastered yet. There are as many reasons to question global warming as there are to accept it so to say he is wrong in his opinion on the subject I think shows a great lack of understanding for the position he is in.
The president has to weight in the economic impact of all conservationist type reactions to such perceived threats and determine which outcome is the most likely. The environment is very robust and to take the stand that we as humans could destroy it within the span of 20 years shows a complete lack of understanding of the scale of the earth for one thing.
I love how you just say he lied to a whole nation in order to get support for the war. What did he say or even insinuate that was a lie?
The truth is your the one lying you are the one whose a threat to this nation and innocent Iraqis. Its people like you who murdered more than 400 thousand innocent Iraqi's during the gulf war.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,105070,00.htm
http://www.9neesan.com/massgraves/
I would love to see you try and explain to these people why the US promised people Sadam would not hurt them in exchange for their support. Take a hard look and realize these are real people too. While you would place the blood of the innocent killed on the hands of the one person who is actually doing the right thing for once in our government. These people were all murdered for believing they might one day live in a world were they didn't have to fear the wrath of Sadam.
But of course innocent civilian lives only count when it suits your agenda. Not that I think you would lose any sleep on it after all the only point you wanted to make was how evil Bush really is. The truth is if people like you don't wake up and realize the world isn't republican vs. democrat then you will continue to be a regurgitator of lies and a threat to all the is just and fair in the world.
This has gone way off topic and I would be glad to give you more on this tangent once something like this becomes a topic on Slashdot as I'm sure others would as well.
Sorry about your literacy issue you must be one of those arkansian supporters. For your digestion I offer the following.
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So what's your agenda with that comment? True ignorance? Is it simply a contemptuous comment born out of the heart of a truly helpless individual?
I for one am done with people who make unsubstantiated ludicrous comments about our president because they can't find anything truly wrong with him or how he has done as president. It just so happens that people who make statements like that about bush fall into two categories. The first being the ignorant sheeples that just heard it from someone else. The second being the people who hate bush no matter what he does because he was "elected not elected".
In any event the article itself was not worth even being mentioned on slashdot as its only tie in are the avatars in video games and guess what they don't mater. The comment about Bush was just to illustrate the writer is a little out of touch with reality to begin with and as such the story itself is wroth even less because of that.
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Is this is what passes for "News for nerds. Stuff that matters." Who cares!!!
While a provocative story for mental midgets who think that the discussion of race, sex, and sexual preference are somehow enlightening. The true enlightenment comes when you realize how freaking boring that is because overall there are no differences.
This story has far less to do with video game avatars as it does to do with justifying homosexuality as a non-deviant lifestyle. How can anyone take writing like this seriously when the commander and chief of the united states of America is referred to as a religious fundamentalist.
But if they did all this though they would not have anything to bitch about.
I am curious as to why you took this as a real post anyway. Anyone that cannot figure out how to solve this problem on their own is not in college. If sufficiently motivated individuals cannot find the solution to such a trivial problem then the problem does not exist.
LCD monitors do this. There are KVMs that do this. Don't forget that two of those signals are simply trigers and not data that must be captured. The other two break very nicley into 3 8 bit streams. They run at about 300Kbytes per frame or 18000Kbytes per second at VGA uncompressed 60hz. Using a microcontroler this data can be piped directly into an mpeg encoder chip like the one Tivo uses form IBM which could compress that down to a manageable size with little effort. The stream should be able to be distributed with relative ease using a microcontroler with a built in ethernet controler like the tini from dallas. The end result would be a very small device that was relativly inexpensive that did the job he was looking for while being very dongle like. It would also have the ability to distribute it via a controler area network if need be.