I don't know how you could call "a network of 192 laser beams", 'the world's largest laser'....
It might classify as the world's most intense laser target, but that's entirely different language.
Fusion ignition is also not the goal (or, for that matter, even the primary goal) of the laser cluster.. The intent is apparently nuclear weapons testing and design. Civilian fusion research is simply a pleasand side effect.
Reading the Google article, I figured that they'd like them too, for much the same reasons -- for them, dual core looks far nicer than hyper threading, which is better, in turn than deep pipelines (which are almost useless given the kind of software that google uses in their boxes). Combine that with the lower power consumption (which adds up when multiplied by 15,000 processors), and you've got a nice sales pitch.
In terms of using boards on open trays -- why not? as long as you don't have airflow problems, it saves you the cost of all that (useless) metal.
For me, the main value of a case is minimizing noise and the influx of dust -- neither of which really count in a colo facility.
I was listening to CBC's "Definitely Not The Opera" where they mentioned that almost nobody is opening a film this weekend opposite Revenge of the Sith. One exception is the French documentary March of the Penguins, a French documentary all about - what else - penguins.
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I have fast food meals perhaps once a week, so when I order my pop, I want the sugar filled kind. I can easily afford it, diet wise. Cycling to work at least once a week also helps.
Diet pop is something of a stop-gap. If you really need to go to diet pop, I'd say that that's a sign that your diet is a bit out of wack generally. People ordering a super-sized meal with a diet coke kinda make me think of someone parachuting int Tikrit, Iraq wearing nothing more than an american flag and a really good helmet. i.e. you're missing the larger point.
Just remember: If your company, for some reason, gets raided keep your hand away from the mouse or carpal tunnel syndrome may be the least of your medical problems. Slashdot can safely wait until the cops have gone home.
What you and I see as a challenge, the boss very likely will see as an attack.
He doesn't see it as an attack. He sees it as a threat.
In your example, the fact that you didn't just roll over and take the blame meant that you might just look more closely into what happened -- and then find out that he'd done it. The easiest way to prevent things like that happening is to train you to just roll over and take the blame -- then after N months of taking the blame, you either learn to expertly cover for him, or you get fired for incompetence, and he gets a new admin who gets similarly trained...
I'm guessing that he does a least some of that unconsciously.
As long as the Intel offer was out there, it had a reasonable prospective value of $10K. Part of what makes some collectibles collectible is that people threw most of them out over time (normally as something without any obvious value). It doesn't become a valuable collectible until
there are very few left, and
somebody wants it badly enough that they're willihg to pay big money for it
That's part of the reason why the value of collectibles are so volatile -- People are more willing to pay big money for them when they're in the news, or it's an important anniversary, or the whim strikes them really hard (and they have the money).
If you have a reasonable hope (an intention) of recieving $10,000 for what you're stealing, that's theft over $5,000.
Collectibles are collectibles -- whether it's comic books, baseball cards, baseballs or napkind doodled on by picasso for a free lunch. Their intrinsic value may all be under $5.00, but if you've got a buyer legitimately willing to pay you $10K for it today, that's the fair valye in your market today.
The fact that, with a $10K bounty and very wide publicity in the circles where it was most likely to be found, it still took some number of days for Intell to get their copy seems to indicate to me that the $10K valuation wasn't completely out to lunch.
As I understand it, the issue for sale on Ebay doesn't meet the requirements that Intel spelled out, and also has a reasonably high probability of being a scam (if I had a legitimate copy, I'd be calling Intel, not Ebay).
The issue the month before and after are probably worth nothing, even on a good day.
Try collecting stamps or coins.. That's what makes the nature of a collectible. One (very small) batch of nickles gets printed with the head upside down and make it out of the mint... The coins before and after are worth precisely $.05. The small batch of 'different' ones are worth thousands.
I don't set the price for these things, but if I find one, you can bet your butt that I'd be happy to sell it to the highest bidder (who has far more spare cash than I).
Even if the judge heard the case, you would have to prove that copy is worth more than $5,000. Good luck doing that.
An affidavit from Intel saying that they had offered $10,000 for a good-condition copy, a URL of some of the press about it.
I have a friend who have managed to pay their rent by selling a single comic. Other collectibles have gone for almost $1M. $10K for a famous issue of a small-distribution magazine is completely believable.
Hopefully somebody trying to submit an issue stolen from a library would be turned in and charged with 'theft over $5000'. Placing a note to that effedt (in 8pt text) should be enough to deter most would-be thieves.
"Note: theft over $5000 is punnishible by up to 10 years in jail."
Yeah, but postscript's not open source. I think that Adobe charges royalties (who wouldn't?), so with the price of printers now being less than the cost of the replacement cartridges(!) people seem unwilling to use it in other than the higher end.
I've got a friend who's got a USB printer on Win-XP. It seems like every time they unplug the printer and plug it in, it occurs as a different instance -- which means that the printer needs to be installed yet again. I'm gonna be heading over to his place this weekend to help solve the problem.
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Printers are, generally, a bit of a pain in the ass. There are way too many proprietary drivers and driver styles, and I really don't see the need for it.
Why can't these manufacturers define a standardized, extensible interface format for their printers and end this madness once and for all?
No.. Not so freaky.. but a little bit more stressed than many people. People exhibit stress in different ways. In his case, it affected his voice. I've seen the Landmark Forum affect people physically in many ways. Usually if there's a noticable physical response, it's in a person's face, but I know at least one person who just quietly stopped having ulcers (it was a while before she realized it).
but if you get a cold you can just wait a day or two,
And if you want to buy a cold remedy?... and you're out of town?.... Trying to check into a hotel after your 'code' bloomed on your 12hour flight?
I know one person who was in town for a weekend course. One side effect of the course was that, by Sunday afternoon, he had shed so much stress that his (voice activated) cell phone no longer recognized his commands. If that had been a credit card, he might not have been able to pay his way home. As it was, he was simply reduced to punching buttons to dial his friends and family.
Stemp and coin collections, you ghit. They may be part of an ugly history, but they're history nontheless. I can't see them ever being printed on current production.
The traditional academic journals aren't happy, saying that it's unethical to accept money for publishing.
An easier ethical solution is to take money for a submission, with no promise of publication. This would still cover the costs of peer review, editing, etc., but the journal wouldn't be hurt by refusing to publish a work for lack of quality. (of course, if it gets a reputation for never publishing, this could be a different issue).
I can easily see that one of the costs of the more popular journals may be the costs of vetting all of the submissions they get.
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The RIAA will send you a writ of suit asking $30,000 for violating their copyright.
It might classify as the world's most intense laser target, but that's entirely different language.
Fusion ignition is also not the goal (or, for that matter, even the primary goal) of the laser cluster.. The intent is apparently nuclear weapons testing and design. Civilian fusion research is simply a pleasand side effect.
In terms of using boards on open trays -- why not? as long as you don't have airflow problems, it saves you the cost of all that (useless) metal. For me, the main value of a case is minimizing noise and the influx of dust -- neither of which really count in a colo facility.
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Good luck getting it on the plsne, to begin with. You'd be lucky to get away with a strp-search and a warning.
Diet pop is something of a stop-gap. If you really need to go to diet pop, I'd say that that's a sign that your diet is a bit out of wack generally. People ordering a super-sized meal with a diet coke kinda make me think of someone parachuting int Tikrit, Iraq wearing nothing more than an american flag and a really good helmet . i.e. you're missing the larger point.
Just remember: If your company, for some reason, gets raided keep your hand away from the mouse or carpal tunnel syndrome may be the least of your medical problems. Slashdot can safely wait until the cops have gone home.
He doesn't see it as an attack. He sees it as a threat.
In your example, the fact that you didn't just roll over and take the blame meant that you might just look more closely into what happened -- and then find out that he'd done it. The easiest way to prevent things like that happening is to train you to just roll over and take the blame -- then after N months of taking the blame, you either learn to expertly cover for him, or you get fired for incompetence, and he gets a new admin who gets similarly trained...
I'm guessing that he does a least some of that unconsciously.
What good is an opposition party when the companies that count critical votes in the next election are in the governing party's pocket?
It reminds me of the fire department in Fahrenheit 451 (responsible for burning books, and the houses that they were stored in).
- there are very few left, and
- somebody wants it badly enough that they're willihg to pay big money for it
That's part of the reason why the value of collectibles are so volatile -- People are more willing to pay big money for them when they're in the news, or it's an important anniversary, or the whim strikes them really hard (and they have the money).Collectibles are collectibles -- whether it's comic books, baseball cards, baseballs or napkind doodled on by picasso for a free lunch. Their intrinsic value may all be under $5.00, but if you've got a buyer legitimately willing to pay you $10K for it today, that's the fair valye in your market today.
The fact that, with a $10K bounty and very wide publicity in the circles where it was most likely to be found, it still took some number of days for Intell to get their copy seems to indicate to me that the $10K valuation wasn't completely out to lunch.
As I understand it, the issue for sale on Ebay doesn't meet the requirements that Intel spelled out, and also has a reasonably high probability of being a scam (if I had a legitimate copy, I'd be calling Intel, not Ebay).
Try collecting stamps or coins.. That's what makes the nature of a collectible. One (very small) batch of nickles gets printed with the head upside down and make it out of the mint. .. The coins before and after are worth precisely $.05. The small batch of 'different' ones are worth thousands.
I don't set the price for these things, but if I find one, you can bet your butt that I'd be happy to sell it to the highest bidder (who has far more spare cash than I).
An affidavit from Intel saying that they had offered $10,000 for a good-condition copy, a URL of some of the press about it.
I have a friend who have managed to pay their rent by selling a single comic. Other collectibles have gone for almost $1M. $10K for a famous issue of a small-distribution magazine is completely believable.
Hopefully somebody trying to submit an issue stolen from a library would be turned in and charged with 'theft over $5000'. Placing a note to that effedt (in 8pt text) should be enough to deter most would-be thieves.
"Note: theft over $5000 is punnishible by up to 10 years in jail."
It's a company, not a religion....
Just imagine how long that pink piece of plastic would last in a friggin landfill.
Good point... Unfortunately, lots of companies seem to be a bit scared of using Ghostscript. Now we have to get more companies willing to use.
Yeah, but postscript's not open source. I think that Adobe charges royalties (who wouldn't?), so with the price of printers now being less than the cost of the replacement cartridges(!) people seem unwilling to use it in other than the higher end.
The company's called Landmark Education. I think they have courses in most regions (if not most major cities).
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Printers are, generally, a bit of a pain in the ass. There are way too many proprietary drivers and driver styles, and I really don't see the need for it.
Why can't these manufacturers define a standardized, extensible interface format for their printers and end this madness once and for all?
No.. Not so freaky.. but a little bit more stressed than many people. People exhibit stress in different ways. In his case, it affected his voice. I've seen the Landmark Forum affect people physically in many ways. Usually if there's a noticable physical response, it's in a person's face, but I know at least one person who just quietly stopped having ulcers (it was a while before she realized it).
And if you want to buy a cold remedy? ... and you're out of town? .... Trying to check into a hotel after your 'code' bloomed on your 12hour flight?
I know one person who was in town for a weekend course. One side effect of the course was that, by Sunday afternoon, he had shed so much stress that his (voice activated) cell phone no longer recognized his commands. If that had been a credit card, he might not have been able to pay his way home. As it was, he was simply reduced to punching buttons to dial his friends and family.
Stemp and coin collections, you ghit. They may be part of an ugly history, but they're history nontheless. I can't see them ever being printed on current production.
An easier ethical solution is to take money for a submission, with no promise of publication. This would still cover the costs of peer review, editing, etc., but the journal wouldn't be hurt by refusing to publish a work for lack of quality. (of course, if it gets a reputation for never publishing, this could be a different issue).
I can easily see that one of the costs of the more popular journals may be the costs of vetting all of the submissions they get.