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IBM's Blue Gene powered by Linux
bigjnsa500 writes "Linux will be the main operating system for IBM's upcoming family of 'Blue Gene' supercomputers--a major endorsement for the operating system and the open-source computing model it represents. Blue Gene/L, the first member of the family, will contain 65,000 processors and 16 trillion bytes of memory. Due in 2004 or 2005, the system will be able to perform 200 trillion calculations per second. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory will use the system for performing nuclear weapons simulations." Blue Gene has been announced for some time, but it's cool to see how it's shaping up.
What is 1st post?
will it run half life 2?
We played dungeons and dragons for 3 hours.....then i was slain by an elf
who cares
When will these things be able to do my math homework for me.
That's what I really want.
Intelligent, high powered math book reading.
Just a college kid's view though.
-hampton.
"I don't want to start a holy war here..."
Lesson 1: The Nominative and Accusative
Salve and welcome to the first of many installments of The Trollaxor Approach to Latin, a quick and easy guide to learning Latin on the Internet. I'll begin very lightly in this lesson with a few simple concepts, but by the end of this article you will be able to translate your first Latin sentence into English, and vice versa!
Before we begin, I've already snuck in two uses of Latin: salve is a Latin expression which was used similarly to our hello back in the time of the Roman Empire, and I'm sure we're all familiar with vice-versa, which idiomatically means "conversely" in both tongues. We'll look at both phrases in future lessons, but for now being introduced to them is more than enough.
In Latin, nouns change their endings to express different kinds of meaning. Here's a simple Latin sentence:
Anna Sullam amat.
Let's examine this sentence word by word before we translate it.
First, we come to Anna. It is the subject, or nominative, which is expressed by an -a ending.
The next word in the sentence, Sullam, ends in -am. This ending denotes a direct object status, or the accusative case, for the noun. A direct object receives the results of a verb. In English, a direct object is expressed by position relative to the noun as opposed to a special suffix.
The last word in our sentence is a verb, amat, which means loves in English. We'll start examining verbs in later lessons.
Keeping in mind that Anna is the subject, that amat means loves, and that Sullam will receive the action of the verb, we get
Anna loves Sulla.
Let's try another:
Serva familiam cedet.
Given that serva means slave,familiam means family, and cedet means kills, can you use the endings on the two nouns in this sentence to correctly translate it into English?
Now that we've examined and translated our first Latin sentences, let's review what we've learned in today's lesson:
* the nominative case in Latin is the subject form of the noun
* the accusative case in Latin is the direct object form of the noun
* the direct object receives the action of the verb
* Latin uses suffixes to denote forms of speech rather than word order, as in English
* vocabulary:
o amat: loves
o cedet: kills
o familiam: family
o salve: hello
o serva: slave, servant
In our next lesson we'll look deeper into the nominative and accusative cases, meet the vocative case, and learn some more Latin vocabulary.
Thank you.
Great... now I have to get one.
It better come with a good graphics accelerator.
[Note: Notice I'm attacking a specific class of a particular race. I could remove the "white" race specifier but that wouldn't be targetting the poster's most probable demographic]
Nothing but truth!