I've been involved with the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) program for the past four years as a High School student and now I have been helping my former team as an Alum. FIRST was founded by Dean Kamen, a man whom if you don't know you cannot begin to call yourself a real geek. You call Robot Wars and engineering project...no Robot Wars is nothing more then a bunch of testosterone laden guys going out and beating the crap out of their respective robots. FIRST is an engineering challenge you must use whatever materials you are given to design a robot to compete that particular years game. Games have ranged from putting balls in a goal to hanging innertubes on a christmas tree like goal. I know that there as still many out there who will insist that FIRST doesn't deserve any respect it's just a dinky little high school thing. To that I will simply say that over the past to years I have talked twice to the administrator of NASA Dr. Daniel Goldin....who has been in attendance at FIRST competitions and this year's Kickoff workshop.
You know I am really getting sick of Lucas and his Anti-DVD stance. There are 2 trilogies I would kill for on DVD the Indiana Jones movies and the Star Wars movies. As far as the piracy issue well there isn't one for to simple facts. One is that he will make so much money from the DVDs that realistically the little piracy of a DVD that will occur (given how easy it is to copy DVDs...NOT) won't phase him. Second most of the computer literate world has had TPM on they're hardisks since the day it came out.
How about Rob Zubrin creator of the Mars Direct plan and founder of the Mars Society. When we get to Mars it will be thanks to the work of this man definetly worth the title of geek.
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I've been involved with the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) program for the past four years as a High School student and now I have been helping my former team as an Alum. FIRST was founded by Dean Kamen, a man whom if you don't know you cannot begin to call yourself a real geek. You call Robot Wars and engineering project...no Robot Wars is nothing more then a bunch of testosterone laden guys going out and beating the crap out of their respective robots. FIRST is an engineering challenge you must use whatever materials you are given to design a robot to compete that particular years game. Games have ranged from putting balls in a goal to hanging innertubes on a christmas tree like goal. I know that there as still many out there who will insist that FIRST doesn't deserve any respect it's just a dinky little high school thing. To that I will simply say that over the past to years I have talked twice to the administrator of NASA Dr. Daniel Goldin....who has been in attendance at FIRST competitions and this year's Kickoff workshop.
You know I am really getting sick of Lucas and his Anti-DVD stance. There are 2 trilogies I would kill for on DVD the Indiana Jones movies and the Star Wars movies. As far as the piracy issue well there isn't one for to simple facts. One is that he will make so much money from the DVDs that realistically the little piracy of a DVD that will occur (given how easy it is to copy DVDs...NOT) won't phase him. Second most of the computer literate world has had TPM on they're hardisks since the day it came out.
How about Rob Zubrin creator of the Mars Direct plan and founder of the Mars Society. When we get to Mars it will be thanks to the work of this man definetly worth the title of geek.