Wow, at least Her Highness Shirley Ann Jackson is spending my tuition money on something. You never know, one day we might come up with something cool.
Finding people that know about RPI is tough, but you will find clusters of engineers here and there that hail from the 'tute. However, it's becoming better recognized being a "new ivy" and all. Our undergrad applications doubled this past year. Woohoo.
GO RED!
You would really think some areas of science would just be abandoned after all those science gone wrong books/movies/games. I mean seriously, if I find out that the US government is still trying to open a gate to hell, I'm going to be pissed. There are all of three games and an upcoming movie (although that may not count) that seam to be sending the don't open a gate to hell because it's really, really bad for you message.
Of course, all of these types of advancements can be the gate to hell, but often offer nice and helpful features that subdue the nastier ones. Like the computer. The computer is great, we can do so much good stuff on it. A computer could be chugging through bioinfomatics programs to find a cure for cancer, or it could be sitting their determining the best way to cause human pain and suffering (because I know thats what everybody here does with their computers).
The point is, all technology has a good and bad aspect and we really have to pay attention to ethics and keep people from unleashing a supervirus or destroying earth (for a hyperspace bypass).
I bet it takes forever to compile. Probably is really susceptable to gene buffer overflows too. Why can't anybody dream up a language that's both obscure and secure?
Next project: Port Linux to bacteria!
I started out playing some DOS games. Never really got into computers then. After a while my friends and I got into digital media (a crappy snowboard videos) and me being the nerdiest of the group decided to make a website. I had done stuff before this that was more game related (some really stupid maps). It was the combination of games and web dev. that got me into computers. Ever since then, I have been doing all sorts of stuff, and love learn about computers. My current topic is graphics, I got Quake 2 code and started learning OpenGL + C. I love this crap.
Anyway that wasn't really the question. Just try to connect computer use to whatever kids do. Lego Mindstorms is good, how about music recording, or crappy snowboarding videos? Make it fun.
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Wow, at least Her Highness Shirley Ann Jackson is spending my tuition money on something. You never know, one day we might come up with something cool. Finding people that know about RPI is tough, but you will find clusters of engineers here and there that hail from the 'tute. However, it's becoming better recognized being a "new ivy" and all. Our undergrad applications doubled this past year. Woohoo. GO RED!
Netscape, bastardizing the browser for lazy webmasters. I wonder if the IE engine comes with lots of fun IE security "features" too.
You would really think some areas of science would just be abandoned after all those science gone wrong books/movies/games. I mean seriously, if I find out that the US government is still trying to open a gate to hell, I'm going to be pissed. There are all of three games and an upcoming movie (although that may not count) that seam to be sending the don't open a gate to hell because it's really, really bad for you message.
Of course, all of these types of advancements can be the gate to hell, but often offer nice and helpful features that subdue the nastier ones. Like the computer. The computer is great, we can do so much good stuff on it. A computer could be chugging through bioinfomatics programs to find a cure for cancer, or it could be sitting their determining the best way to cause human pain and suffering (because I know thats what everybody here does with their computers).
The point is, all technology has a good and bad aspect and we really have to pay attention to ethics and keep people from unleashing a supervirus or destroying earth (for a hyperspace bypass).
I bet it takes forever to compile. Probably is really susceptable to gene buffer overflows too. Why can't anybody dream up a language that's both obscure and secure? Next project: Port Linux to bacteria!
Could you use a green house as a big antenna?
Note: Bit by bit (literally) is not the best way to make this introduction.
I started out playing some DOS games. Never really got into computers then. After a while my friends and I got into digital media (a crappy snowboard videos) and me being the nerdiest of the group decided to make a website. I had done stuff before this that was more game related (some really stupid maps). It was the combination of games and web dev. that got me into computers. Ever since then, I have been doing all sorts of stuff, and love learn about computers. My current topic is graphics, I got Quake 2 code and started learning OpenGL + C. I love this crap.
Anyway that wasn't really the question. Just try to connect computer use to whatever kids do. Lego Mindstorms is good, how about music recording, or crappy snowboarding videos? Make it fun.