I was involved in a computer club at the high school (houston TX) I went to back in the dark ages of 3 years ago...
We had a computer club, and a nice one at that. The club met (mostly) every day at lunch, and sometimes on weekends to have coding contests with other local high schools. Setting up a club in a high school is fairly easy, simply sign a few forms ad find a teacher willing to stay in the classroom during lunch and you are set there. The hard part was getting the hardware out of the cluches of the administration that knew nothing of computers. They had rules regarding things that could, and could not be loaded onto computers, and when they learned that we were going to be loading unix onto one of them they had a cow. We got around that problem by having teachers donate their old computers (the school was upgrading their comps. and givng the old ones to the teachers, who were going to throw them away.) to the teacher in charge of the computer club (not to the club itself as they would then fall under the rules of the school regarding computers, and not to the students so that they would not disappear rom the club when we graduated). We then had about 16 P2 boxes and a nice little server that had seen better days. We did a bunch of tweaking, a bunch of installing, and played more starcraft then probably anyone at blizzard ever did...
You may also want to look into a group called the American Computer Science Leauge (ACSL) if you are going to be doing any programming for your club. They have 6 (Im not sure about that number) written programming contests in which students have 72 hours to complete a program, then it is 'tested' with mostly boundary-case data. If the club gets a high enough score then it can be invited to nationals, which is usully someplace cool.
Oh yeah... one other thing... make sure any computers that are owned by the club are clearly labeled as being not school property. The rent-a-cop at our high school had a fit when he saw us carrying 16 computer out of the school on a saturday morning. That was fun;)...
Don't let me be the only one here who has not only used an advertising link from google, but has actually bought something from one.
I find that thse links off to the side actually aren't annoying. They are off to the side. They dont interfear with my search when I'm not looking to spend some money, but when I do search for something to buy they usully come in handy. At the very least, it indicates that the store has some income with which to advertise and is not being run by monkeys. Just my $.02
I know the problem with this law is simply that Joe Blow, can not even spell intellectual property law. (can I?) There is not going to be a major outcry aginst this law from anyone other than professionals. It is definately a good thing that the ivy leaugers are now on the side against it. Having the "hackers" (CNN's definition here) aginst a law is one thing, having a major, respected institution take a stance aginst it's current form is quite another thing entirely.
Is nothing holy? Garage door openers?
So next McDonalds is going to sue Burgerking for decrypting the big mac and selling a replacement? I mean, come on people!
Its finals week in them universities..
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And I can tell that someone just finished writing an essay before posting to slashdot...
saying "spongebob" and "max max" in the same post is somehow morally wrong...
Not only does a cable exec read slashdot.. he also posts a response to the editors when he is flamed? Is slashdot really appealing to cable execs or is he simply keeping tabs on the enemy? I wonder what his user name is?
Of course... this only works when you are at home.... Name a single city (other than tokyo of course) that has wireless net access everywhere.
Even if you coud get wireless everywhere (a.k.a. richochet for us bay area ppl) would you really want to b running something as insecure as remote desktop 24x7? I wouldnt.
I simply got a really freakin fast notebook computer and a cheap palm. For only about $100 more then tha tablet computer I'm running at 2ghz, on standard hardware without havng to worry about iffy mouseing drivers, and when I want to write stuff by hand my palm (which lives in my pocket) is in easy reach. I dont want to pay more money for a 800mhz machine.
Ive got myself a Compaq Evo N610c (not one of those crappy presario machines that radio shack is pushing...)
It runs Quake III and Warcraft 3 just fine.... the only thing it needs is more RAM. While it is true that it does not get 100+fps, the himan eye can only see about 70. Does anyone care of the computer is drawing more frames than you can see?
The only thing my coputer needs is more RAM, the thing only ships with 256mb, and with all the stuff I've got loaded on it it needs about twice that
Ive some expearence with dell'n notebook line in this respect as well... I spent some time working for a part of the government reburbing, among other things, dell notebooks(latitude cpi D300xt). A full 1/3 of them had bad hinges after one year of use. Another 1/3 of them had bad hard drives, but that's hatichi's fault....
Now we have a link to Saddom's e-mail on the front page of slashdot.... His server is crashing and dying.... I wonder if the only ones able to read his e-mail are the hackers....
I wonder what he has in his e-mail now....
... but it's not something entirely new...
All this will/might do in the future is replace thise little pull down screens for projectors and such. If they require liquid nitro to make them work, then I dont see anyone other than maybe advertisers or the milatary who may want to use them. They will not revoutionive laptop screens. Consider the weight of a LCD as compared with a jug of liquid nitro, and a projector. Projectors are big heavy things, and putting one in a notebook, that is intended to run off of batteries for any given amount of time is just crazy. I believe someone tried to make a laptop with a projector built into it a while back, and it didnt work very well. (anyone got a link? I cant find it)
It would be cool to have a portable (pronounced "luggable") very large screen for political presentations, lans, expos whatever though.
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I was involved in a computer club at the high school (houston TX) I went to back in the dark ages of 3 years ago...
;)...
We had a computer club, and a nice one at that. The club met (mostly) every day at lunch, and sometimes on weekends to have coding contests with other local high schools. Setting up a club in a high school is fairly easy, simply sign a few forms ad find a teacher willing to stay in the classroom during lunch and you are set there. The hard part was getting the hardware out of the cluches of the administration that knew nothing of computers. They had rules regarding things that could, and could not be loaded onto computers, and when they learned that we were going to be loading unix onto one of them they had a cow. We got around that problem by having teachers donate their old computers (the school was upgrading their comps. and givng the old ones to the teachers, who were going to throw them away.) to the teacher in charge of the computer club (not to the club itself as they would then fall under the rules of the school regarding computers, and not to the students so that they would not disappear rom the club when we graduated). We then had about 16 P2 boxes and a nice little server that had seen better days. We did a bunch of tweaking, a bunch of installing, and played more starcraft then probably anyone at blizzard ever did...
You may also want to look into a group called the American Computer Science Leauge (ACSL) if you are going to be doing any programming for your club. They have 6 (Im not sure about that number) written programming contests in which students have 72 hours to complete a program, then it is 'tested' with mostly boundary-case data. If the club gets a high enough score then it can be invited to nationals, which is usully someplace cool.
Oh yeah... one other thing... make sure any computers that are owned by the club are clearly labeled as being not school property. The rent-a-cop at our high school had a fit when he saw us carrying 16 computer out of the school on a saturday morning. That was fun
Don't let me be the only one here who has not only used an advertising link from google, but has actually bought something from one.
I find that thse links off to the side actually aren't annoying. They are off to the side. They dont interfear with my search when I'm not looking to spend some money, but when I do search for something to buy they usully come in handy. At the very least, it indicates that the store has some income with which to advertise and is not being run by monkeys. Just my $.02
My Compaq Evo's multibay DVD/CDRW will read both + and - RW's...
not that I have the money to buy either type of drive...
Can we do no better than quoting the screen savers on ZDTV?
Really scary system BTW, I dont want the airlines scanning my credit, thank you very much.
I know the problem with this law is simply that Joe Blow, can not even spell intellectual property law. (can I?) There is not going to be a major outcry aginst this law from anyone other than professionals. It is definately a good thing that the ivy leaugers are now on the side against it. Having the "hackers" (CNN's definition here) aginst a law is one thing, having a major, respected institution take a stance aginst it's current form is quite another thing entirely.
.... In a laundrymat?
Is nothing holy? Garage door openers? So next McDonalds is going to sue Burgerking for decrypting the big mac and selling a replacement? I mean, come on people!
And I can tell that someone just finished writing an essay before posting to slashdot...
saying "spongebob" and "max max" in the same post is somehow morally wrong...
Not only does a cable exec read slashdot.. he also posts a response to the editors when he is flamed? Is slashdot really appealing to cable execs or is he simply keeping tabs on the enemy? I wonder what his user name is?
Only new palms can do audio at all...
Of course... this only works when you are at home.... Name a single city (other than tokyo of course) that has wireless net access everywhere.
Even if you coud get wireless everywhere (a.k.a. richochet for us bay area ppl) would you really want to b running something as insecure as remote desktop 24x7? I wouldnt.
I simply got a really freakin fast notebook computer and a cheap palm. For only about $100 more then tha tablet computer I'm running at 2ghz, on standard hardware without havng to worry about iffy mouseing drivers, and when I want to write stuff by hand my palm (which lives in my pocket) is in easy reach. I dont want to pay more money for a 800mhz machine.
Ive got myself a Compaq Evo N610c (not one of those crappy presario machines that radio shack is pushing...) It runs Quake III and Warcraft 3 just fine.... the only thing it needs is more RAM. While it is true that it does not get 100+fps, the himan eye can only see about 70. Does anyone care of the computer is drawing more frames than you can see? The only thing my coputer needs is more RAM, the thing only ships with 256mb, and with all the stuff I've got loaded on it it needs about twice that
heh....
Ive some expearence with dell'n notebook line in this respect as well... I spent some time working for a part of the government reburbing, among other things, dell notebooks(latitude cpi D300xt). A full 1/3 of them had bad hinges after one year of use. Another 1/3 of them had bad hard drives, but that's hatichi's fault....
go figure.
I forgot it was this week.... =( I would've gone too if I didnt have classes, work, and family obligations....
I'm hungry... I was hoping for some food for the desprate computeist or whatnot.... bla...
Trillian already does this. Besides... who wants AOL/Time Warner/MS/NBC/Y! spyware running on our systems?
Now we have a link to Saddom's e-mail on the front page of slashdot.... His server is crashing and dying.... I wonder if the only ones able to read his e-mail are the hackers.... I wonder what he has in his e-mail now....
That would be why they used them for arcade games.... you cant win. That was the point, you need not prove it.
... but it's not something entirely new... All this will/might do in the future is replace thise little pull down screens for projectors and such. If they require liquid nitro to make them work, then I dont see anyone other than maybe advertisers or the milatary who may want to use them. They will not revoutionive laptop screens. Consider the weight of a LCD as compared with a jug of liquid nitro, and a projector. Projectors are big heavy things, and putting one in a notebook, that is intended to run off of batteries for any given amount of time is just crazy. I believe someone tried to make a laptop with a projector built into it a while back, and it didnt work very well. (anyone got a link? I cant find it) It would be cool to have a portable (pronounced "luggable") very large screen for political presentations, lans, expos whatever though. ~Lack of sig~