I actually think that High School students (myself included) are interested in much more than drugs, sex, and cars. I myself am both a member of the school robotics team and an employee of a local web development firm (http://www.haleypro.com).
My robotics team (team 486, www.team486.com) is always looking for people to help with everything from programming to fundraising. Of course, anything that can get us money is needed. My team itself has an anual budget of at least $40,000. Of course, we struggle to keep it at that and that is low for most teams.
As for other interests, I find that many students want to learn networking, and that the school network here and at many public schools are crap. I think a wonderful way to interact with students is to help them clean up the school network, though I understand that security would be a concern.
Haley Productions (my workplace) allowed me to come on as an intern during my sophmore year. I am now an employee, but we have started to take more students as interns. This could be a good way to involve high school students. It helps both the kid and the company.
There is a non-video results page at http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/chevents.htm. There are four divisions, all with their standings on this page. The playoffs are about to start, though, and I don't know if the playoff results will be on this page.
If you're at the Georgia Dome right now reading this (we get an open wireless network), watch out for team 486, the Positronic Panthers, in the Newton Division. Also, team 217, you might want to secure your private network and put passwords on your administrator accounts.
Testing using a specific program is iffy at best. With many programs writen for the PC (or the other way around) the mac version is a poor copy.
Photoshop is one example. The code is optimized for the mac. My friends P4 2.8ghz is only a little faster than my G4 733. Apple took advantage of this for years and had test results based on photoshop.
Complex software is not a good way to test different platorms because the code and therefor performance is different.
The government has been put BILLIONS of dollars into laser defense systems. This one seems no different except for its mounting point. The ground based models have failed even the military's tests. And they CHEATED to make the laser system successful.
Its just a new twist on an old idea to make the public interested again.
The two issues have nothing in common. CDR are hurting many music companies because most people can make them. The CDR used by the folksong folks has nothing to do with the loss experienced by other music companies. Does this make sence, or am i just missing something?
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I actually think that High School students (myself included) are interested in much more than drugs, sex, and cars. I myself am both a member of the school robotics team and an employee of a local web development firm (http://www.haleypro.com).
My robotics team (team 486, www.team486.com) is always looking for people to help with everything from programming to fundraising. Of course, anything that can get us money is needed. My team itself has an anual budget of at least $40,000. Of course, we struggle to keep it at that and that is low for most teams.
As for other interests, I find that many students want to learn networking, and that the school network here and at many public schools are crap. I think a wonderful way to interact with students is to help them clean up the school network, though I understand that security would be a concern.
Haley Productions (my workplace) allowed me to come on as an intern during my sophmore year. I am now an employee, but we have started to take more students as interns. This could be a good way to involve high school students. It helps both the kid and the company.
You can also get all the recorded matches www.soap108.com.
If you're at the Georgia Dome right now reading this (we get an open wireless network), watch out for team 486, the Positronic Panthers, in the Newton Division. Also, team 217, you might want to secure your private network and put passwords on your administrator accounts.
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Testing using a specific program is iffy at best. With many programs writen for the PC (or the other way around) the mac version is a poor copy.
Photoshop is one example. The code is optimized for the mac. My friends P4 2.8ghz is only a little faster than my G4 733. Apple took advantage of this for years and had test results based on photoshop.
Complex software is not a good way to test different platorms because the code and therefor performance is different.
The government has been put BILLIONS of dollars into laser defense systems. This one seems no different except for its mounting point. The ground based models have failed even the military's tests. And they CHEATED to make the laser system successful. Its just a new twist on an old idea to make the public interested again.
The two issues have nothing in common. CDR are hurting many music companies because most people can make them. The CDR used by the folksong folks has nothing to do with the loss experienced by other music companies. Does this make sence, or am i just missing something?