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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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