Am I the only Slashdotter who looked at this and thought, "Of course they've never been seen, they haven't even been taken yet." Yes, yes, I know what they meant, but couldn't they have said what they meant instead of something dramatic but wrong?
They are never seen because the only other probe to fly by Mercury, Mariner 10, only mapped about 40-45% of Mercury. MESSENGER will see the parts that have never before been seen. Additionally, Mercury is always too close to the Sun (in angular separation) to point Hubble toward it. So these really are going to be never before seen images. Not just new, crisper images of previously seen terrain.
one of the most greedy states in the Union as well as one of the most powerful.
How are you defining greedy? If it is the ratio of federal spending to taxes paid, then NY is not near the top. New Mexico, Montana, W. Virgina would be the most greedy.
Even then, they live like bachelor slobs in Condos, not even a real house. Everyhting seems set up to help people not develop maturity or responsibility.
I really hope that you are joking here. Where I live (and I moved 2000 miles to here just for this job) houses average > $800,000, condos > $500,000 -- not something your average 27 year old can afford. A $1000/month 500 sq. ft. apartment is the best many of us can do. Living in an apt. or a condo is not something to hold against someone.
The "only" drawback I see is that sometimes when reading certain articles I get some really ugly, pixelated fonts.
when doing dvips using -Ppdf or -Pcmz (if you are using the Computer Modern fonts, to embed outlines in the ps file instead of low resolution bitmaps -- it makes the resulting PDF (from ps2pdf) much better.
I do computational fluid dynamics -- it is quite easy to generate a terabyte of data in a week. A typical 3-d simulation may be 10 terabytes (including restart files). You usually want to keep the whole dataset around for a while so you can analyse it, and probably need it to be easily accessable until you finish writing the paper(s) describing it (which could be 6 months or so).
So, I could fill up several of these right now. All my data is stored on mass storage systems at various supercomputing centers, but it would be nice to have a local copy too. And RAID is not a backup -- I would like a true backup that I could place in a place physically different than my computer.
There's a new GCC Fortran 95 compiler under development ("gfortran") that will be officially released with GCC 4
and an even better, almost working one, g95 -- this is the code base that the gfortran people forked from. gfortran does not work, and is much further behind than g95.
A lot of data probably isn't available simply because the people who create it never think others would be interested in it. Or don't have the time to explain the format in simple terms.
I do computational fluid dynamics and create terabytes of data from my simulations. Even reduced sets of this data would be quite large, so I have no where to put them.
A day doesn't go by when I don't talk to a Fortune 1000 customer from the financial services market, automotives or others that are not looking at dipping their feet into the Linux desktop.
Hmmm... a triple negative. So are they considering Linux or not? I'm confused.
RedHat's CEO said it plainly "... when you go into a bestbuy and buy a digital camera that can sync with linux out of the box, then you know its ready".
I got a Canon Powershot A70 over the holidays, and plugged the USB cable into my laptop, running Fedora Core 1, launched the Digital Camera Tool (gphoto2), from the `hat' menu, and my pictures were there. No software to install at all.
In Iowa, for example, voter party registrations are not allowed to be used in the redistricting, so it is non-partisian. Several states have initiatives to switch over to non-partisan redistricting.
The JWST is an IR instrument. Hubble is visible/UV. Having them both up in orbit simultaneously would allow images of the same sources in all the bands, which would be very useful.
Since yesterday's release at 7.41 Tflop, the G5 cluster has already increased almost a Tflop, and is now ahead of the current #3 MCR Linux cluster, and about 0.5 Tflop behind a new Itanium 2 cluster.
But the deadline for submissions to the Nov. 2003 Top 500 list was Oct. 1, so these improvements should not be counted in this list.
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They are never seen because the only other probe to fly by Mercury, Mariner 10, only mapped about 40-45% of Mercury. MESSENGER will see the parts that have never before been seen. Additionally, Mercury is always too close to the Sun (in angular separation) to point Hubble toward it. So these really are going to be never before seen images. Not just new, crisper images of previously seen terrain.
just got a Thinkpad X60 -- 3 buttons built in.
I lump the voice and keypad menus in the same boat -- I just want to talk to a
person as quick as possible.
How are you defining greedy? If it is the ratio of federal spending to taxes paid, then NY is not near the top. New Mexico, Montana, W. Virgina would be the most greedy.
A more interactive version of PDF already exists in AMRITA:
http://www.amrita-cfd.org/cgi-bin/about
which is designed to make it easier to convey scientific results to the community.
The trouble of course with wiki-hardware is that the system adminstration is left to the community.
I really hope that you are joking here. Where I live (and I moved 2000 miles to here just for this job) houses average > $800,000, condos > $500,000 -- not something your average 27 year old can afford. A $1000/month 500 sq. ft. apartment is the best many of us can do. Living in an apt. or a condo is not something to hold against someone.
does OS X have network transparency?
actually, I think the correct title is GNU/Sin City.
when doing dvips using -Ppdf or -Pcmz (if you are using the Computer Modern fonts, to embed outlines in the ps file instead of low resolution bitmaps -- it makes the resulting PDF (from ps2pdf) much better.
seriously, usenet still is one of the best ways to exchange information with people on a specific subject. Some of the comp.lang ones are quite good.
it was a problem with the mirror -- no lens
I do computational fluid dynamics -- it is quite easy to generate a terabyte of data in a week. A typical 3-d simulation may be 10 terabytes (including restart files). You usually want to keep the whole dataset around for a while so you can analyse it, and probably need it to be easily accessable until you finish writing the paper(s) describing it (which could be 6 months or so).
So, I could fill up several of these right now. All my data is stored on mass storage systems at various supercomputing centers, but it would be nice to have a local copy too. And RAID is not a backup -- I would like a true backup that I could place in a place physically different than my computer.
He said .txt not .tex, as in plain ASCII, not TeX/LaTeX files.
and an even better, almost working one, g95 -- this is the code base that the gfortran people forked from. gfortran does not work, and is much further behind than g95.
Please DON'T -- I'll pay more for a Thinkpad without that stupid key.
A lot of data probably isn't available simply because the people who create it never think others would be interested in it. Or don't have the time to explain the format in simple terms. I do computational fluid dynamics and create terabytes of data from my simulations. Even reduced sets of this data would be quite large, so I have no where to put them.
Sony has had a store on Michigan Ave. in Chicago for over 10 years now. This is not new for them.
They've donated Openoffice.org.
Hmmm... a triple negative. So are they considering Linux or not? I'm confused.
I got a Canon Powershot A70 over the holidays, and plugged the USB cable into my laptop, running Fedora Core 1, launched the Digital Camera Tool (gphoto2), from the `hat' menu, and my pictures were there. No software to install at all.
I thought you unabomber types sworn off technology. Get yourself a good old IBM manual typewriter and write your manifesto.
In Iowa, for example, voter party registrations are not allowed to be used in the redistricting, so it is non-partisian. Several states have initiatives to switch over to non-partisan redistricting.
The JWST is an IR instrument. Hubble is visible/UV. Having them both up in orbit simultaneously would allow images of the same sources in all the bands, which would be very useful.
But the deadline for submissions to the Nov. 2003 Top 500 list was Oct. 1, so these improvements should not be counted in this list.