Due to this huge amount of data scientists had to create new ways of sending large volumes of traffic over conventional networks (by software/hardware).
The probability of finding the Higgs boson in once collision depends on the energy at which the Higgs boson can be created (if it exists). The faster the particles hit each other the higher the energy.
If the scientists are really unlucky, the Higgs boson could have been "discovered" in the experiment some months from now and go unnoticed in the sea of data for years (assuming the Higgs Boson is to be found somewhere at the upper limit of the energies provided and in the last to be checked data).
A vacuum pump and a UV lamp are all you need to perform this experiment on Earth... No rockets required. What lame "research".
You do realize that they do a lot of experiments in this mission (Foton-M3) at once.
The animals are only very small and I can't see them taking much room. Why not put them in if they fit?
Plus, on Earth it is hard to simulate near zero-G effects that you can get with a satellite in orbit around Earth (okay it is not really zero-G because it is still near the Earth, but the trajectory induces similar conditions).
What if they survive but be stronger than ever?
What will you do than?
Don't suggest this. Just don't. If lawyers become the only creatures able to talk in the vacuum of space there will be no shutting them up when they return to Earth.
I'm not impressed. A 10 percent reduction in boot time does not blow my doors off.
Either you have not programmed any part of a kernel, window manager, file system tools, any C/C++ program here, etc; or you you are very good programmer indeed. Here, fast boot up time is essential for peace of mind.
Since that amount of carbon has never been in the atmosphere at once we have no idea what it would be like. It may be enough to tip the atmosphere into a runaway state that would result in a Venus-like atmosphere. But that's beside the point. The question is not whether increased global temperatures would be liveable or comfortable. The question is whether the economic costs of adapting to the new conditions outweigh the costs of try to reduce or prevent the change.
Continuing your theme: that's the stupidest thing I've ever seen moderated to +4. I don't think I would particularly care about the economic position of the country I live in if the atmosphere were to be tipped into a "...runaway state that would result in a Venus-like atmosphere!"
But that's "...beside the point" isn't it? (there goes my karma again)
Have you thought of having a subscription model that degrades service, say per 3 day, based on the average bandwidth usage for the last 2 days and the current day? This way old granny can have a fast internet connection (assuming she is not into P2P all day long).
For a faster connection and slower degrading transfer rates you could charge more to cover more bandwidth on your side. You could allow the customer to choose both the best connection rate and how fast the service degrades.
Also, not all P2P traffic is copyrighted material flowing along the tubes of the internets.
This ad was bound to fail among the linux community no matter what it was, but I didn't think it was gonna be as bad as it was.
I don't know about that.
I've written some small Linux software and use Linux (yes, I know this is just the kernel for some people) at home and at university as a student. I thought the ad was hilarious, especially the "clown card" part.
It is possible to not use Microsoft's products and still appreciate the work Bill Gates has done, not all in software. His talking up promotion of science (although only engineering), for example, makes it difficult for me to write a Microsoft bashing post specifically mentioning Bill Gates. Steve Ballmer though... if they put him on the ad it would be a different story.
I can't find one serious post here that doesn't make a reference to religion. This is ridiculous!
I thought I might list some facts that are missing in some posts (presumably because the posters did not RFTA).
Archaeologists have found four skeleton remains preserved in the underwater cave.
"Eva de Naharon" is dated to be 13,600 years old (preliminary dating, but is in range 11,000 to 14,000 years old from carbon dating of the others).
I was kind of expecting speculative talk about other bones not being discovered because of burial practices, exposure to the elements, the group temporarily living in the cave because they may have been moving around exploring, etc; or the potential impact this discovery has, along with other evidence stated in the article, to unseat the "theory holds that ancient humans first came to North America from northern Asia via a now submerged land bridge across the Bering Sea."
Here's my take as someone who has studied some basic astrophysics (apologies if it is too basic):
The black hole is the core of a very large sun (larger than ours) that went supernovae. It has a huge mass that has collapsed down to a relatively small area. Inside a radius mapping out the event horizon light is not able to escape.
Now, light always travels at the same speed from any viewpoint and the gravitation field warps space time. When light moves in a circle time will have stopped for observers at a greater radius (because the light will never reach them). You could imagine it spiraling many times before it reaches an outside observer. This delay is what causes the difference in perception of time.
Black holes are thought to emit Hawking radiation which ought to eventually release all the stuff inside and dissipate the black hole.
Also, in space there is little friction (no air). So most object falling "towards" the black hole instead follow a very slow spiral path towards the black hole. This force is thought to affect everything in the universe, but decays fast with distance and this orbiting nature due to relative linear motions of things with mass keeps everything separate (plus, maybe the expansion of the universe that may/may not affect dark matter).
From my experience (none) scientists hate infinities because you can't get any information from your data without getting rid of them.
Actually, they like seem to like dealing (read complaining) about infinities a lot. In fact they use them (they are not all the same) just about as much as pure mathematicians do. For example, I think the volume as seen from inside the black hole comes out infinite!
Congratulations - you just set the Slashdot record for the least comprehensible post ever.
Here, I'll translate that for you:
(1.000 times 10^100, swap position of o/l, o -> e) has machine language instructions encoded by a compiler which first ran through a preprocessor from some characters saved in a file in physical memory that a lot for the (opposite of hard) + ware on faster than walking on an operating system that has a penguin as a mascot (not technically because Linux is just the kernel, but I will let that slide). It seems [to the GP poster] like half their (not the penguins) stuff they (result of incontinence) through alcoholic beverage.
The real question is how is he seeing across Europe?
That does however answer the question - do Linux developers these days have big egos? (said half-jokingly as I have also developed some stuff in Linux)
That might be a bit hard, considering this driver doesn't do accelerated 3D...
You didn't read the summary did you.
Harald Welte, VIA's open source representative, states that the next step is to add 3D..."
PS - This is my first post on/. From what I have gathered, you are expected to read the summary, but ignore the article itself. That's right isn't it?:D
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Isn't the real science not happening for like another 11 months?
"It has been estimated that the particle tests will generate approximately 15 petabytes (15 million gigabytes) of measuring data. This amount of data will be decentralized by utilizing data networks into several computation centers all around the world."
Due to this huge amount of data scientists had to create new ways of sending large volumes of traffic over conventional networks (by software/hardware).
The probability of finding the Higgs boson in once collision depends on the energy at which the Higgs boson can be created (if it exists). The faster the particles hit each other the higher the energy.
If the scientists are really unlucky, the Higgs boson could have been "discovered" in the experiment some months from now and go unnoticed in the sea of data for years (assuming the Higgs Boson is to be found somewhere at the upper limit of the energies provided and in the last to be checked data).
A vacuum pump and a UV lamp are all you need to perform this experiment on Earth... No rockets required. What lame "research".
You do realize that they do a lot of experiments in this mission (Foton-M3) at once.
The animals are only very small and I can't see them taking much room. Why not put them in if they fit?
Plus, on Earth it is hard to simulate near zero-G effects that you can get with a satellite in orbit around Earth (okay it is not really zero-G because it is still near the Earth, but the trajectory induces similar conditions).
What if they survive but be stronger than ever? What will you do than?
Don't suggest this. Just don't. If lawyers become the only creatures able to talk in the vacuum of space there will be no shutting them up when they return to Earth.
I'm not impressed. A 10 percent reduction in boot time does not blow my doors off.
Either you have not programmed any part of a kernel, window manager, file system tools, any C/C++ program here, etc; or you you are very good programmer indeed. Here, fast boot up time is essential for peace of mind.
Since that amount of carbon has never been in the atmosphere at once we have no idea what it would be like. It may be enough to tip the atmosphere into a runaway state that would result in a Venus-like atmosphere. But that's beside the point. The question is not whether increased global temperatures would be liveable or comfortable. The question is whether the economic costs of adapting to the new conditions outweigh the costs of try to reduce or prevent the change.
Continuing your theme: that's the stupidest thing I've ever seen moderated to +4. I don't think I would particularly care about the economic position of the country I live in if the atmosphere were to be tipped into a "...runaway state that would result in a Venus-like atmosphere!"
But that's "...beside the point" isn't it? (there goes my karma again)
tv? what's tv? what do you use it for?
The old ones are kind of box-shaped and make great seat. Now you can use it for reading the newspaper or just as a general substitute for a chair.
Interesting post.
Have you thought of having a subscription model that degrades service, say per 3 day, based on the average bandwidth usage for the last 2 days and the current day? This way old granny can have a fast internet connection (assuming she is not into P2P all day long).
For a faster connection and slower degrading transfer rates you could charge more to cover more bandwidth on your side. You could allow the customer to choose both the best connection rate and how fast the service degrades.
Also, not all P2P traffic is copyrighted material flowing along the tubes of the internets.
This ad was bound to fail among the linux community no matter what it was, but I didn't think it was gonna be as bad as it was.
I don't know about that.
I've written some small Linux software and use Linux (yes, I know this is just the kernel for some people) at home and at university as a student. I thought the ad was hilarious, especially the "clown card" part.
It is possible to not use Microsoft's products and still appreciate the work Bill Gates has done, not all in software. His talking up promotion of science (although only engineering), for example, makes it difficult for me to write a Microsoft bashing post specifically mentioning Bill Gates. Steve Ballmer though... if they put him on the ad it would be a different story.
I can't find one serious post here that doesn't make a reference to religion. This is ridiculous!
I thought I might list some facts that are missing in some posts (presumably because the posters did not RFTA).
Archaeologists have found four skeleton remains preserved in the underwater cave.
"Eva de Naharon" is dated to be 13,600 years old (preliminary dating, but is in range 11,000 to 14,000 years old from carbon dating of the others).
I was kind of expecting speculative talk about other bones not being discovered because of burial practices, exposure to the elements, the group temporarily living in the cave because they may have been moving around exploring, etc; or the potential impact this discovery has, along with other evidence stated in the article, to unseat the "theory holds that ancient humans first came to North America from northern Asia via a now submerged land bridge across the Bering Sea."
That sounds mostly right.
Here's my take as someone who has studied some basic astrophysics (apologies if it is too basic):
The black hole is the core of a very large sun (larger than ours) that went supernovae. It has a huge mass that has collapsed down to a relatively small area. Inside a radius mapping out the event horizon light is not able to escape.
Now, light always travels at the same speed from any viewpoint and the gravitation field warps space time. When light moves in a circle time will have stopped for observers at a greater radius (because the light will never reach them). You could imagine it spiraling many times before it reaches an outside observer. This delay is what causes the difference in perception of time.
Black holes are thought to emit Hawking radiation which ought to eventually release all the stuff inside and dissipate the black hole.
Also, in space there is little friction (no air). So most object falling "towards" the black hole instead follow a very slow spiral path towards the black hole. This force is thought to affect everything in the universe, but decays fast with distance and this orbiting nature due to relative linear motions of things with mass keeps everything separate (plus, maybe the expansion of the universe that may/may not affect dark matter).
From my experience (none) scientists hate infinities because you can't get any information from your data without getting rid of them.
Actually, they like seem to like dealing (read complaining) about infinities a lot. In fact they use them (they are not all the same) just about as much as pure mathematicians do. For example, I think the volume as seen from inside the black hole comes out infinite!
Congratulations - you just set the Slashdot record for the least comprehensible post ever.
Here, I'll translate that for you:
(1.000 times 10^100, swap position of o/l, o -> e) has machine language instructions encoded by a compiler which first ran through a preprocessor from some characters saved in a file in physical memory that a lot for the (opposite of hard) + ware on faster than walking on an operating system that has a penguin as a mascot (not technically because Linux is just the kernel, but I will let that slide). It seems [to the GP poster] like half their (not the penguins) stuff they (result of incontinence) through alcoholic beverage.
What I'm seeing across Europe...
The real question is how is he seeing across Europe?
That does however answer the question - do Linux developers these days have big egos? (said half-jokingly as I have also developed some stuff in Linux)
That might be a bit hard, considering this driver doesn't do accelerated 3D...
You didn't read the summary did you.
Harald Welte, VIA's open source representative, states that the next step is to add 3D..."
PS - This is my first post on /. From what I have gathered, you are expected to read the summary, but ignore the article itself. That's right isn't it? :D