Only MIT students can challenge Caltech students’ pranking skills (which our
East Coast brethren prefer to call “hacks”) and choosing just one to single out
was a challenge. While affi xing a Halo Spartan helmet and assault rifl e to a
statue of John Harvard in Harvard Yard is something to be celebrated, the myri-
ad ways students have found to decorate MIT’s Great Dome is most impressive
to us. Over the years, the dome has played host to a fi re truck, propeller, police
car, Zelda Triforce symbol, airplane, block of cheese, beanie, and telephone
booth, but being traditionalists, our favorite remains the reincarnation of the
dome as a larger-than-life R2-D2 (complete with instructions addressed to
“Imperial drones” on how to take the droid apart).
DRESSING UP THE DOME
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Which of the following was NOT listed as
one of Maximum PC ’s 100 greatest tech
inventions of all time?
NAND and NOR refer to
The most recent 700MHz auction covers
spectrum previously used by
As of February 1, 2008, which studio’s HD
releases are exclusively in the HD DVD format?
This four-drive RAID confi guration offers
the fastest speeds
GSM stands for
This is an image of
At launch, the highest available clock speed
for Phenom was
RAID 0
RAID 1
RAID 1+0
RAID 5
2.3GHz
2.4GHz
2.5GHz
1.2 jigawatts
HP Laserjet II
Zip drive
Eudora
386 Enhanced mode
Sony
Miramax
Pixar
Paramount
Swami Bird
Master Hu
Woody Owl
Mr. Hoot
Data-mapping methods
External peripheral connectors
Types of video codecs
CPU power-dissipation methods
Short-wave radio
VHF TV frequencies
UHF TV frequencies
Vulcans
Gateway Stabilization Modifi er
Global Standard for Mobile devices
Global System for Mobile communications
Graphical System Macro
Which hardware spec mandates Internet
connectivity?
DisplayPort
WiMax
HD DVD
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