This was circulating a couple maillists around school. This is forwarded with permission from the orginal author, Sperry (sperry@mit.edu):
Dear nerdy kids of America,
All of us here at MIT are worried about you guys. We heard from the internet that some kids killed a whole bunch of people in a school in Colorado. Some of the controversy seems to stem from the fact that the kids were sort of "goth." But what we're more worried about is that they also seem to have been nerds. Trenchcoat-wearing open-source-software-propagating social outcasts.
We at MIT are worried about the rest of you nerds. We remember when we were in elementary and high school---boy did it suck. Getting tortured by your "peers" makes you feel homicidal.
First of all, we want to let you know that it gets better in college. You will get laid. You will find a community of real peers. And you will have to work pretty damn hard to be ostracized.
Second, you shouldn't kill people. You may be genetically superior to most of your classmates, but with that superiority comes a responsibility. No matter what they do to you, you can't react violently. Because, foolish and cruel as they can be, these are the people who one day you are going to have to lead and protect.
We encourage you to honor your responsibility to the other 95% of society, and to shamelessly flaunt and revel in your nerdiness.
> a digital signal processor (DSP) translates changes between the images into on-screen movements
Question is, where is the processing done? If in the mouse, that may help explain the price. But my guess is that some processing will be done by the computer its attached to. After all, what if a service pack^H^Hbugfix is needed for it?
This may be the first mouse to require a pentium to use.
Slashdot Mirror
Check out the website. Looks like more of the same.
Todd
This was circulating a couple maillists around school. This is forwarded with permission from the orginal author, Sperry (sperry@mit.edu):
Dear nerdy kids of America,
All of us here at MIT are worried about you guys. We heard from the internet that some kids killed a whole bunch of people in a school in Colorado. Some of the controversy seems to stem from the fact that the kids were sort of "goth." But what we're more worried about is that they also seem to have been nerds. Trenchcoat-wearing open-source-software-propagating social outcasts.
We at MIT are worried about the rest of you nerds. We remember when we were in elementary and high school---boy did it suck. Getting tortured by your "peers" makes you feel homicidal.
First of all, we want to let you know that it gets better in college. You will get laid. You will find a community of real peers. And you will have to work pretty damn hard to be ostracized.
Second, you shouldn't kill people. You may be genetically superior to most of your classmates, but with that superiority comes a responsibility. No matter what they do to you, you can't react
violently. Because, foolish and cruel as they can be, these are the people who one day you are going to have to lead and protect.
We encourage you to honor your responsibility to the other 95% of society, and to shamelessly flaunt and revel in your nerdiness.
Take care of yourselves.
Love,
MIT
> a digital signal processor (DSP) translates changes between the images into on-screen movements
Question is, where is the processing done? If in the mouse, that may help explain the price. But my guess is that some processing will be done by the computer its attached to. After all, what if a service pack^H^Hbugfix is needed for it?
This may be the first mouse to require a pentium to use.
Todd