I had fiber to my dorm room when I started there in 1993. Back then, they provided a loaner card. It sucks that the students are forced to buy a special network card that they'll only ever use at Case, but compared to the $25K a year and the uber-expensive books, it's a small consideration. Case is one of the ultimate hacker geek schools.
Was at case in 93 - 96, definitely not a party school. For us, partying meant stealing stuff from a basement (like the physics building, the really old one) and doing destructive things with the stolen goods. I'd bet the sidewalks in front of the Michelson dorm are still scarred from our exploits. God I miss that place...
Did you even read the web page you link to?
"You're not going to be flying people around on ion propulsion because it takes too long to get where you're going," said Jerry Grey, head of aerospace and science policy at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. "Ion rockets are much too tame. We'll never get up to light speed using ion propulsion."
RTFWP!!!
Heh, one of our digital logic design projects was to design a control circuit for one of these things. Our TA had built it from scratch, but it was the same concept.
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Amen Brother Ben. Stupid fuckers, all of em.
I had fiber to my dorm room when I started there in 1993. Back then, they provided a loaner card. It sucks that the students are forced to buy a special network card that they'll only ever use at Case, but compared to the $25K a year and the uber-expensive books, it's a small consideration. Case is one of the ultimate hacker geek schools.
Was at case in 93 - 96, definitely not a party school. For us, partying meant stealing stuff from a basement (like the physics building, the really old one) and doing destructive things with the stolen goods. I'd bet the sidewalks in front of the Michelson dorm are still scarred from our exploits. God I miss that place...
Did you even read the web page you link to? "You're not going to be flying people around on ion propulsion because it takes too long to get where you're going," said Jerry Grey, head of aerospace and science policy at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. "Ion rockets are much too tame. We'll never get up to light speed using ion propulsion." RTFWP!!!
Heh, one of our digital logic design projects was to design a control circuit for one of these things. Our TA had built it from scratch, but it was the same concept.