are you proud to be an american? (7)
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our anonymous submitter lives in a university flat in the u.k. with four other guys. “three of us (myself, an american, and a brit) always take out the garbage and recycling when it’s our turn, but the two other international students seem to think it’s somehow beneath them. there must have been some unpleasantness while i was away for easter break, because i came home to find this note stuck to the kitchen door, courtesy ...
Water-cooled Aquasar supercomputer does math, heats dorm rooms (5)
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Not that we haven't seen this trick pulled before, but there's still something magical about the forthcoming Aquasar. Said supercomputer, which will feature two IBM BladeCenter servers in each rack, should be completed by 2010 and reach a top speed of ten teraflops. Such a number pales in comparison to the likes of IBM's Roadrunner, but it's the energy factor here that makes it a star. If all goes well, this machine will suck down ...
استعفاي دستهجمعي اساتيد دانشگاه تهران در اعتراض به کشتار دانشجويان اين دانشگاه (20)
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در پي حملات شب گذشته به کوي دانشگاه تهران و کشته شدن پنج تن از دانشجويان اين دانشگاه، دکتر جبهدار مارالاني رئيس دانشکده برق و کامپيوتر پرديس دانشکدههاي فني اين دانشگاه از سمت خود استعفا داد. جبهدار مارالاني که چهره ماندگار گرايش الکترونيک دانشکده برق است و پدر مهندسي برق ايران لقب گرفتهاست، عصر امروز از سمت خود کنارهگيري کرد.وی از سال 81 رئیس دانشکده برق بوده است.دانشجویان خواهان استعفای فرهاد رهبر رئیس انتصابی دانشگاه ...
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Rm!ta said:
merci
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Katayoon said:
Is this true? Is this true???....please....I am crying here...
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Farzin said:
م از یکی از استادان شریف شنیدم که استادای شریف اعلام آمادگی کردن برای اینکه در همراهی با دانشجویان استعفا بدن
The College Bubble (10)
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For years, colleges have treated their students as consumers, building ever more elaborate facilities and hiring ever more dazzling star scholars to lure applicants. They did this regardless of how high these investments drove tuition, since easy credit meant families could stretch to cover the costs. But with the credit crisis comes signs that the college bubble is bursting, as "consumers who have questioned whether it is worth spending $1,000 a square foot for a ...
