If anyone was wondering about the rather tortured use of words:
Nova 2 qualifies as the biggest rocket ever created and flown from the UK mainland
It's because Britain used to have a rocket program in the 50s and 60s. All the launches of the large rockets were done from Woomera in the Australian outback. The biggest of these was Blue Streak developed as an ICBM. There are some pictures here
The stinger is at -2 minutes 22 seconds from the end when we are casually informed by the strapline that
Pentagon 09 budget request $750M to fund hypersonic jet."
Pretty much all that exists of the project is this dodgy CGI animation which is not new, this (pdf) programme outline and some preliminary research into the engine The news here is that they want your money to do more research next year. This Fox news piece is to help smooth the way.
Yes I think you are right on all counts but Microsoft dosen't see it as a low margin market. I don't have the latest prices for HPC but from this document
As far as cost goes, Windows CCS 2003 is available via Microsoft's volume license channel for about $469 per node. Customers can qualify for discounts depending on volume purchases and licenses. "This is a onetime charge, whereas many Linux-based HPC clusters are priced on a subscription basis and require acquisition and integration of separate job scheduler, message passing interface (MPI) and other software utilities," a Microsoft spokesperson said. Windows CCS, however, "comes with a job scheduler, MPI and utilities." They are pricing it a $469 per node for the previous version. If the NCSA paid full price that would be $562,800 for this installation. In HPC the support costs to the user and to Microsoft, per node, are also small for obvious reasons so that's good business for Microsoft. Of course big installations would get discounts and I don't think the NCSA will have paid a penny for the software here.
It looks like Microsoft engineers have been working with the NCSA and a beta version of Microsoft HPC server 2008 as part of a Microsoft marketing push for this software. The marketing pdf is here. Microsoft want to increase their foothold in HPC, it's a growing, high margin market.
Low levels of vitamin D have been implicated in the susceptibility and severity of attack in patients who have auto-immune diseases. Multiple Sclerosis and Rheumatoid Arthritis are two of the diseases that seem to show a link. Coversely, patients suffering from Sarcoidosis ( another auto-immune disease ) where the body produces too much vitamin D, may benefit from staying out of the sun and cutting vitamin D out of their diet.
If you think about your videos and pictures in terms of the medium they are stored on you will end up in trouble. E.g. I'll put these 5 1/4" disks in this box with my betamax tapes and tape it up well so they will be in good condition when I read them in 2008.
Even if CDs, DVD or BD last 50 years where is the antique player to play them on ? You need to select the most cost effective option available at the time, probably that is mid size ( 250 - 750 gb ) hard disks at the moment. But that is not the medium that they will be on in twenty or thirty years.
The important thing is the process by which you keep them, not the medium they are on. Make two copies and locate them as far apart as you resonably can, home and work or a relatives house, and probably eventually the internet to guard against flood fire and theft.
Test that they are readable once a year, or more often if you are concerned and the most important part, copy them onto the the most cost effective media again after a few years, make sure the media you have them on is always current and in common use.
In twenty years the space they occupy on the media will seem ridiculously small compared to the relative large size they appear to be now.
A lesser problem is the encoding format ( mpeg 2). My guess is that there will always be software to read legacy formats but it is something else to keep in mind. Try to change formats as little as possible, jpeg and mpeg 2 are lossy formats and converting them to other lossy formats will eventually lead to lower quality images.
I was disapointed to learn that my son, who is 8, is also being taught MS Office applications at school. This shows a real lack of imagination. At home I have avoided introducing them to him as knowing the ins and outs of a particular 14 year old app will be irrelevant by the time he starts work. It seems the school is preparing them to bore each other silly in meetings with dull powerpoint presentations.
Instead I have got him started with scratch which he loves. It's much better for introducing maths, logic and generic programing skills and it's a lot of fun.
He has done several homework projects in it which have been well received but I discovered recently that the teachers need to view his work outside of school because the local education authority firewall has a rule to actively block access to scratch ! I wonder if thay had a powerpoint presentation at couty hall with a slide labeled Scratch - Must stamp out.
Depending on the make/model you usually have to remove the heatsink assembly to do this job. This is the component you need to zap with Mrs vacuum, it's not an electrical component. Air dusters are great for sockets and holes in the case were dust accumulates, you can for instance revive a floppy drive with an airduster. You do have to use them in short bursts as you could easily freeze components if you are not careful. For comedy value, open a case of an old pc in a busy office and give it a good blast with an airduster, then run.
prone to annoying shutdowns..its fan sounds like a 747 taking off It's because your cpu heatsink vanes are clogged with dust. Old Toshibas suffer worst from this. Mr vacuum to the rescue.
It's reasonably easy if the two IT departments get together to establish secure tunnels at the organisation level for transferring mail between them Wow, I really admire your efforts, it sounds like something from "The great escape". Most people are much lazier than you and would just send email through some sort of vpn, good on you though, happy digging !
A piezoelectric earpiece, like the type that used to be supplied with cheap radios, is perfect for this application. It has a very high input impedence and a tiny current draw. You would not be able to detect its use, there would be no drop in volume on the line.
If you are a fan of SUSE with it's rather fat and full distribution and useful YaST tool, you have probably been looking forward to this.
For everyone else the momentum is with Ubuntu or Fedora and their derivatives. Would anyone who is not already a SUSE / openSUSE fan take much notice of this distribution tainted as it is by association with Microsoft.
What they need to do now is spend all the money they saved on the artwork on a really good lawyer. One that can stand up in court and say "A layman might think he sees a superficial resemblance" while keeping a straight face.
A working committee of China's State Intellectual Property Office is investigating whether Microsoft engaged in discriminatory pricing I suspect they already know the answer to this before they asked the question. This is a prelude to across the board demands for cuts in software prices. The investigation is to provide a little legitamacy to the strong arming to come.
A friend of mine grew up in Spain under Franco's regime. By the time she was ready to start work in the local factory, Franco had been dead for six years and Spain had become a democracy. A relative asked her to join the trade union at the factory and help out with the admin work.
You may or may not agree with trade unions just bear with me.
Most of us are lucky enough to live in democracies where we can make these choices and think nothing of it, we have nothing to hide after all. A few weeks after she started work, on the night of 23rd February 1981, fascist elements of the Spanish military attempted a coup and took control of the parliament. She spent the night along with her relative and other union officials burning and burying all the union membership details and correspondence because all of a sudden they did have something to hide, the mass graves of student radicals and trade unionists are still turning up from Franco's time.
Luckily the coup failed and democracy was quickly restored. The point being we can't burn or bury our electronic records, emails, phone logs, forum posts, blogs, journeys logged by electronic numberplate recognition and cellphone records because we don't have control of them. Privacy matters more than ever, the record of what you do now could last forever and you don't know who will use that information and for what purpose.
What happens when you hire Star Wars enthusiasts as the system admins for your data center? What, there is a different type of sysadmin we don't know about ?
I am not an audiophile. I don't know how Denon's equipment is set up. From reading about Denon link I do know it's not being used in a X BASE-T configuration. From the description it is a low voltage differential signalling system like SATA/eSATA or Firewire or ultra2 SCSI, hence the use of shielding. It also is quite high throughput 1.2 or 1.4 Gbps. So I would not be so confident about plugging in a $2 UTP cable, especially as the pinouts could be different and your $10,000 Denon amplifier goes pop, fizz ( in high clarity of course ). You could speculate ( any audiophiles here ) that the Denon system is very low latency with no error checking, error correction or retransmission,( unlikely ) making the quality of the cable more important than in an ethernet application. Still there is no way you can justify $500 for this.
It would allow the Feds to seize hardware that has even one file coming from 'dubious origins,' Every time there is a police investigation here in the UK you see them taking computer equipment as part of the investigation. Even if no charges are brought it can be weeks before people get their kit back. Seeing how reliant everyone is on their computers now, it almost looks like it is a punitive measure in itself.
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Hey, that was only three seconds, I feel cheated.
Yes, unless the "in-person" thief can pocket a couple of CDs with the personal details of almost all the families in the UK on it.
Nova 2 qualifies as the biggest rocket ever created and flown from the UK mainland
It's because Britain used to have a rocket program in the 50s and 60s. All the launches of the large rockets were done from Woomera in the Australian outback. The biggest of these was Blue Streak developed as an ICBM. There are some pictures here
Pentagon 09 budget request $750M to fund hypersonic jet."
Pretty much all that exists of the project is this dodgy CGI animation which is not new, this (pdf) programme outline and some preliminary research into the engine The news here is that they want your money to do more research next year. This Fox news piece is to help smooth the way.
Yes, according to Yahoo news it was a much more credible 1cc ( cubic centimeter ). There, that saved a lot of digging.
It looks like Microsoft engineers have been working with the NCSA and a beta version of Microsoft HPC server 2008 as part of a Microsoft marketing push for this software. The marketing pdf is here. Microsoft want to increase their foothold in HPC, it's a growing, high margin market.
Low levels of vitamin D have been implicated in the susceptibility and severity of attack in patients who have auto-immune diseases. Multiple Sclerosis and Rheumatoid Arthritis are two of the diseases that seem to show a link. Coversely, patients suffering from Sarcoidosis ( another auto-immune disease ) where the body produces too much vitamin D, may benefit from staying out of the sun and cutting vitamin D out of their diet.
Even if CDs, DVD or BD last 50 years where is the antique player to play them on ? You need to select the most cost effective option available at the time, probably that is mid size ( 250 - 750 gb ) hard disks at the moment. But that is not the medium that they will be on in twenty or thirty years.
The important thing is the process by which you keep them, not the medium they are on. Make two copies and locate them as far apart as you resonably can, home and work or a relatives house, and probably eventually the internet to guard against flood fire and theft.
Test that they are readable once a year, or more often if you are concerned and the most important part, copy them onto the the most cost effective media again after a few years, make sure the media you have them on is always current and in common use.
In twenty years the space they occupy on the media will seem ridiculously small compared to the relative large size they appear to be now.
A lesser problem is the encoding format ( mpeg 2). My guess is that there will always be software to read legacy formats but it is something else to keep in mind. Try to change formats as little as possible, jpeg and mpeg 2 are lossy formats and converting them to other lossy formats will eventually lead to lower quality images.
Instead I have got him started with scratch which he loves. It's much better for introducing maths, logic and generic programing skills and it's a lot of fun.
He has done several homework projects in it which have been well received but I discovered recently that the teachers need to view his work outside of school because the local education authority firewall has a rule to actively block access to scratch ! I wonder if thay had a powerpoint presentation at couty hall with a slide labeled Scratch - Must stamp out.
Depending on the make/model you usually have to remove the heatsink assembly to do this job. This is the component you need to zap with Mrs vacuum, it's not an electrical component. Air dusters are great for sockets and holes in the case were dust accumulates, you can for instance revive a floppy drive with an airduster. You do have to use them in short bursts as you could easily freeze components if you are not careful. For comedy value, open a case of an old pc in a busy office and give it a good blast with an airduster, then run.
comprehensive and informative link farm on the net.
Sounds like they need to use some sort of version control system to help speed things up.
A piezoelectric earpiece, like the type that used to be supplied with cheap radios, is perfect for this application. It has a very high input impedence and a tiny current draw. You would not be able to detect its use, there would be no drop in volume on the line.
If you are a fan of SUSE with it's rather fat and full distribution and useful YaST tool, you have probably been looking forward to this.
For everyone else the momentum is with Ubuntu or Fedora and their derivatives. Would anyone who is not already a SUSE / openSUSE fan take much notice of this distribution tainted as it is by association with Microsoft.
What they need to do now is spend all the money they saved on the artwork on a really good lawyer. One that can stand up in court and say "A layman might think he sees a superficial resemblance" while keeping a straight face.
You may or may not agree with trade unions just bear with me.
Most of us are lucky enough to live in democracies where we can make these choices and think nothing of it, we have nothing to hide after all. A few weeks after she started work, on the night of 23rd February 1981, fascist elements of the Spanish military attempted a coup and took control of the parliament. She spent the night along with her relative and other union officials burning and burying all the union membership details and correspondence because all of a sudden they did have something to hide, the mass graves of student radicals and trade unionists are still turning up from Franco's time .
Luckily the coup failed and democracy was quickly restored. The point being we can't burn or bury our electronic records, emails, phone logs, forum posts, blogs, journeys logged by electronic numberplate recognition and cellphone records because we don't have control of them. Privacy matters more than ever, the record of what you do now could last forever and you don't know who will use that information and for what purpose.
What happens when you hire Star Wars enthusiasts as the system admins for your data center? What, there is a different type of sysadmin we don't know about ?
I am not an audiophile. I don't know how Denon's equipment is set up. From reading about Denon link I do know it's not being used in a X BASE-T configuration. From the description it is a low voltage differential signalling system like SATA/eSATA or Firewire or ultra2 SCSI, hence the use of shielding. It also is quite high throughput 1.2 or 1.4 Gbps. So I would not be so confident about plugging in a $2 UTP cable, especially as the pinouts could be different and your $10,000 Denon amplifier goes pop, fizz ( in high clarity of course ). You could speculate ( any audiophiles here ) that the Denon system is very low latency with no error checking, error correction or retransmission,( unlikely ) making the quality of the cable more important than in an ethernet application. Still there is no way you can justify $500 for this.
I was actually referring to our Knight Industries Two Thousand computerised cars which they also seize for evidence.