home of the School of Mines and Metallurgy. Or is that what you meant by Geology and Geophysics sans Metallurical, Ceramic, Mining, and Petroleum engineering.
For those not familiar with the University of Missouri-Rolla, it was originally the Missouri School of Mines before being "annexed" into the University of Missouri system.
My condolences to the family and friends of
Dr. Robert E. Moore. His enthusiasm introducing the wonders of Ceramic engineering during my "camp-out" at the Jackling Institute the summer between my junior and senior years of high school was instrumental in my decision to attend UMR.
I recommend taking a look at Tradeshop.
There is a wealth of information on their website, and be sure to take a look at their specials. You can also read client letters and see previews of client (who have given permission) custom rings in the making
And, yes, this is who made my wife's engagement and wedding rings and my wedding band (custom platinum and gold celtic design). The customer service was outstanding, there was always a real person to talk to at the other end of the telephone.
There website seems to have had an overhaul since I last visited (more polished). It used to have more of a roll your own flavor with colorful commentary (including spelling mistakes). (update, I just checked, the colorful commentary is still there:)
It is ironic that water in space exhibits properties similiar to what was speculated to derive from the delusional Soviet discovery of polywater in the late 60's. See here and here.
I wonder if there were any Russians scientists on board the ISS who said, "I told you so, comrade, I told you so."
on some of Sir Isaac's theological ramblings while exploring the library stacks in college. It is amazing how someone who is absolutely brilliant in one area can make a complete ass of himself in another.
For those who would like a taste of the wild side, see historicist.com
This is the most enlightening/enlightened question/answer in the whole Peren's interview and goes to the heart of the question of how to make a living off of Free/Open software without compromising the spirit.
Q: Why do companies that use software participate in open-source projects, given that they're contractually required to make public whatever improvements they make to it? A: It works better than consortia. Companies have poured millions into consortia to develop software standards. But they always go down in flames. And open-source projects win over and over again. Why? It's because open-source licensing makes things fair for all the partners. In the consortium projects, there's always the handshake with one hand and a dagger in the other.
Open-source software programmers say they're different from Stallman in one major way: They don't have a problem with people making money off their work--or making money themselves.
Implying that Free Software has a problem with people making money which isn't the case given:
Since "free" refers to freedom, not to price, there is no contradiction between selling copies and free software. In fact, the freedom to sell copies is crucial: collections of free software sold on CD-ROMs are important for the community, and selling them is an important way to raise funds for free software development. Therefore, a program which people are not free to include on these collections is not free software.
MS was able to draw on (and some would say corrupt) the smart work of their research folks and of technologies that they acquired and "MS all over it" until it fit their sales and support model, which is one of the reasons that they could do something like go from "Internet-illiterate" to winning the browser war, practically overnight.
From about Internet Explorer: "Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign." Microsofts "smart work" was assimilating open-sourced non-GPL code to become internet literate. Explains why they dislike the GPL. It puts a damper on their research and innovation.
Also, I'd like to see the Linux press do more evaluations of currently popular laptop brands for Linux compatibility.
We need some covert operatives to take a copy of their favorite Linux LiveCD distro (Knoppix|LNX-BBC|Gentoo) down to their local Staples|Best Buy and then report back here.
Richard Feynman's address to the American Physical Society is a good intro to the physical limitations of miniaturization as it applies to Moore's Law.
Also intersting, is the Law from the Horse's mouth found on this Intel page.
Patents: Limited term, no extension, and it makes "trade secrets" a matter of the public record after 20 (or so) years.
Patents become public record as soon as they are granted. Possibly sooner because I believe you can get access to the patent application now also. See USPTO website. Of course, you can't profit from this information till after the 20 years.
You could check out Daniel Robbins' "Advanced filesystem implementor's guide" over on IBM's developerworks. He covers reiserfs, ext3, and XFS and I believe there is a link to articles on JFS in the Resources section at the bottom of the page.
Re:Physics has always been ethically compromised
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This is a good point. Millikan may have had some undesirable qualities, but I don't think an inclination to fraud was one of them. The whole thing stems from one sentence in his paper, "It is to be remarked, too, that this is not a selected group of drops but represents all of the drops experimented on during 60 consecutive days...", that is arguably taken out of context by those claiming fraud. See this
for an additional recounting in favor of Millikan.
The original sh compatible keychain tool for Linux (and Unix in general) mentioned in the referenced link can be found on the Gentoo Linux website here.
There are links to IBM developerWorks articles describing the concepts behind the keychain scripts as well as how to set it up and use it.
Note the use of the terms "utilizes" and "optional" in the snippage from the DAKOTA website below. I interpret this to mean that they offer optional features (the non-linear kind) that DAKOTA will use if available, but is not a requirement.
****snippage below********
DAKOTA utilizes the following external optimization libraries:
* DOT (nonlinear programming algorithms from Vanderplaats Research and Development; optional extension requiring a separate commercial license)
* NPSOL (nonlinear programming algorithms from Stanford Business Software; optional extension requiring a separate commercial license)
* CONMIN (public domain nonlinear programming algorithms; no license required for inclusion in DAKOTA distribution)
One of Gentoo's many features is profiles, i.e. lists of packages that that describe your installed system. The default profile is a minimal console installation.
You could, if you desired, make a custom profile describing the linux installation of your dreams. (Hint for Gentoo users: the system profile is determined by the symlink/etc/make.profile that by default points to/usr/portage/profiles/default-1.0 )
For example you could have server, workstation, BBC, mosix-cluster, etc profiles. A generous use of the --buildpkg flag for emerge (or the lower level, 'ebuild foo.ebuild package') and you have a collection of binary packages ripe for distribution as a, well, distribution. Hence, the concept of meta-distribution.
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home of the School of Mines and Metallurgy. Or is that what you meant by Geology and Geophysics sans Metallurical, Ceramic, Mining, and Petroleum engineering. For those not familiar with the University of Missouri-Rolla, it was originally the Missouri School of Mines before being "annexed" into the University of Missouri system.
My condolences to the family and friends of Dr. Robert E. Moore. His enthusiasm introducing the wonders of Ceramic engineering during my "camp-out" at the Jackling Institute the summer between my junior and senior years of high school was instrumental in my decision to attend UMR.
UMR class of 1988 (Ceramic Engineering)
JOE MINER!
For physics publications, see the following: REVTex4
You could do it like a real caver (i.e. spelunker). Here are some links: Good summary of technique , Some relevant books, A cave surveying mailing list, Some software to reduce your raw data, Links of links to more of the above and cave equipment suppliers.
I recommend taking a look at Tradeshop. There is a wealth of information on their website, and be sure to take a look at their specials. You can also read client letters and see previews of client (who have given permission) custom rings in the making
And, yes, this is who made my wife's engagement and wedding rings and my wedding band (custom platinum and gold celtic design). The customer service was outstanding, there was always a real person to talk to at the other end of the telephone.
There website seems to have had an overhaul since I last visited (more polished). It used to have more of a roll your own flavor with colorful commentary (including spelling mistakes). (update, I just checked, the colorful commentary is still there :)
I knew debian lagged, but ...
Yes, I know it was a typo, but it still made me giggle.
It is ironic that water in space exhibits properties similiar to what was speculated to derive from the delusional Soviet discovery of polywater in the late 60's. See here and here.
I wonder if there were any Russians scientists on board the ISS who said, "I told you so, comrade, I told you so."
on some of Sir Isaac's theological ramblings while exploring the library stacks in college. It is amazing how someone who is absolutely brilliant in one area can make a complete ass of himself in another.
For those who would like a taste of the wild side, see historicist.com
I'm sticking to the Principia.This is the most enlightening/enlightened question/answer in the whole Peren's interview and goes to the heart of the question of how to make a living off of Free/Open software without compromising the spirit.
Q: Why do companies that use software participate in open-source projects, given that they're contractually required to make public whatever improvements they make to it?
A: It works better than consortia. Companies have poured millions into consortia to develop software standards. But they always go down in flames. And open-source projects win over and over again. Why? It's because open-source licensing makes things fair for all the partners. In the consortium projects, there's always the handshake with one hand and a dagger in the other.
Implying that Free Software has a problem with people making money which isn't the case given:
Since "free" refers to freedom, not to price, there is no contradiction between selling copies and free software. In fact, the freedom to sell copies is crucial: collections of free software sold on CD-ROMs are important for the community, and selling them is an important way to raise funds for free software development. Therefore, a program which people are not free to include on these collections is not free software.
found here.
It might be said that Free Software has a problem with how you go about making money off of software not the fact that you do.From about Internet Explorer: "Based on NCSA Mosaic. NCSA Mosaic(TM); was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign." Microsofts "smart work" was assimilating open-sourced non-GPL code to become internet literate. Explains why they dislike the GPL. It puts a damper on their research and innovation.
Richard Feynman's address to the American Physical Society is a good intro to the physical limitations of miniaturization as it applies to Moore's Law. Also intersting, is the Law from the Horse's mouth found on this Intel page.
Really? From what I read it appears they just changed the command names. But I have to admit that appears to be a first: distribution themes.
You could check out Daniel Robbins' "Advanced filesystem implementor's guide" over on IBM's developerworks. He covers reiserfs, ext3, and XFS and I believe there is a link to articles on JFS in the Resources section at the bottom of the page.
This is a good point. Millikan may have had some undesirable qualities, but I don't think an inclination to fraud was one of them. The whole thing stems from one sentence in his paper, "It is to be remarked, too, that this is not a selected group of drops but represents all of the drops experimented on during 60 consecutive days...", that is arguably taken out of context by those claiming fraud. See this for an additional recounting in favor of Millikan.
are very good, although pricey. A good excuse for a trip to the local public library. Read Amazon's summary and review archives.
can be found here
in Carl Sagan's _Contact_ utilized polarization modulation to encode part of their message. Google cache of a page discusing it is here.
that TNG
episode
where flying around at warp speeds was going to destroy the universe.
The original sh compatible keychain tool for Linux (and Unix in general) mentioned in the referenced link can be found on the Gentoo Linux website here. There are links to IBM developerWorks articles describing the concepts behind the keychain scripts as well as how to set it up and use it.
Note the use of the terms "utilizes" and "optional" in the snippage from the DAKOTA website below. I interpret this to mean that they offer optional features (the non-linear kind) that DAKOTA will use if available, but is not a requirement.
****snippage below********
DAKOTA utilizes the following external optimization libraries:
* DOT (nonlinear programming algorithms from Vanderplaats Research and Development; optional extension requiring a separate commercial license)
* NPSOL (nonlinear programming algorithms from Stanford Business Software; optional extension requiring a separate commercial license)
* CONMIN (public domain nonlinear programming algorithms; no license required for inclusion in DAKOTA distribution)
One of Gentoo's many features is profiles, i.e. lists of packages that that describe your installed system. The default profile is a minimal console installation.
You could, if you desired, make a custom profile describing the linux installation of your dreams. (Hint for Gentoo users: the system profile is determined by the symlink /etc/make.profile that by default points to /usr/portage/profiles/default-1.0 )
For example you could have server, workstation, BBC, mosix-cluster, etc profiles. A generous use of the --buildpkg flag for emerge (or the lower level, 'ebuild foo.ebuild package') and you have a collection of binary packages ripe for distribution as a, well, distribution. Hence, the concept of meta-distribution.