Near the earth-sun Lagrange point one. It changes course for no apperant reason. I geuss that is the beauty of Lagrange points.
It sure would be nice if a mixed composition asteroid decided to park itself in the earth-moon Lagrange one. We could use the kickstart for our space program.
That's my primary dissapointment with their discovery that this is just a peice of junk from the apollo program.
Then again, the thought of a 1 megaton peice of rock aerobraking on our atmosphere doesn't sit well with me.
Warts respond to placibos like nothing else does. Your body's immune system can easily get rid of them. Stress prevents your immune system from removing them. Getting a "cure", any cure, will reduce your stress and your immune system will do its job.
The best placibo should be something ingrained in the mind with the ability to fix anything. Duct tape is an absolutely perfect placibo candidate.
Thank you for insuring that our new game "BMX XXX" becomes the most sought after title to ever hit the market. You see, in our business there is no such thing as bad publicity, which you have provided us in spades. We are now the "Sopranos" of the gaming world. There is nothing like controversy to insure we have an audience.
Again, Thank You.
P.S. We're sorry you are going to miss the sales revenue generated by this sleeper cult classic... On second thought, we could care less about your puritanical revenue model destroyed by a week's loss in imports.
Actually it took only a few seconds. I used key express to record mouse movements and button presses. I tweaked the timing by hand later. There is no point letting a bot play that is not perfect. Perfect timing is one of the few things that computers have when it comes to games. Well, they can also play perfectly for two days straight to compensate for the randomness inherent to the game.... without getting bored.
The golf game was not even reasonably complex. It was just a driver distance game. Five commands: Begin the swing, Wait.975 seconds timed for cut/slice then click again, wait a second and "try again". A high score would inturrupt the macro with a fault, because an "enter you name" dialog box would appear instead of a "try again" button.
It took some coder a week to code and I broke it in a few seconds. Made me feel like an utter piece of crap. It would have been neat to have just one high score up there. But I had all ten, was playing 4 games every second with 12 instances running. What I did was DOS the game out of existance. Inelligant and Ignorant.
There was a flash based golf game that was the rage several years ago. I got tired of playing so I wrote a macro to play for me. After some script tweaking and 2 days of run time I had the top 10 scores sewn up out of over 3 million users.
The game was pulled by the website hosting it.
Using a bot to play a game is pretty lame.
I was working on a CS bot at the time too. It never saw the light of day after I realized just how lame it was.
Play for fun. Hack AI to provide yourself challenge. Do not hack to play.
Sorry, I read this article too long ago to remember it's subject:
"Almost no earthly environment is out of bounds for bacteria, including the atmosphere. And while the clouds aren't exactly teeming with life, air-sampling instruments have trapped bacteria more than 11 kilometers above sea level. Carried aloft by rising currents, some microbes can also drift thousands of kilometers before landing. But scientists thought that, like many long-distance travelers, the bugs were inert during their time in the air.
To test whether atmospheric bacteria were inactive, limnologist Birgit Sattler of the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and colleagues collected cloud water from a site 3100 meters up in the Austrian Alps. They kept the samples frozen and analyzed them back in the lab. Once thawed, the cloud bacteria released carbon and slurped up radioactively labeled amino acids and thymidine, an ingredient of DNA, showing that they were metabolizing and reproducing even when on the verge of freezing. That bacteria straight from clouds were active suggests that cloudborne bacteria are as well, the researchers conclude in the 15 January issue of Geophysical Research Letters."
Terrible error on my part. I hope this clears up the gist of my argument, that air itself carries life.
At least here on earth, life will fill any ecosystem it can. Non-native life will adapt to and fill any ecosystem, even ecosystems hostile to life. There is a common house cat killing penguins in antarctica. Bacteria were found outside the mir space station, eating the glass. Sea lampreys will thrive in a fresh water lake 50 degrees warmer than their normal ocean habitat.
We may have already infected Mars, Venus, the Moon and Jupiter with bacteria. How many bacteria must survive to create a viable breeding population? Just One.
"For life, you need a volume of water, not just tiny droplets."
Yeah, he's right. There is no such thing as airborn viruses....not
This is the comment of an entrenched and threatened scientist.
Plenty of extremephiles can live at 158 degrees. Plenty of viruses can live in the air. I've always thought venus has been too often overlooked. I belive it was because the russians made it there first.
Seems to me the ideal place to send a solar glider made of glass. Better solar power production than Earth. Thicker atmosphere than Mars. Easier to get to than mars. Least explored of our neighbors.
In other news, AMD is expected to release a 2.5 Ghz, x86-64 bit processor.
My other thought on this:
If you want something done right, do it yourself. Apple has not done that since Steve Wozniak left.
Btw, next time you need a monitor, or even a full on computer, let me know. There is no sense in letting your site drop when you have fans that are gearheads.
The national geographic article is fluffy trash drawing conclusions that the scientist involved did not come to.
"We are destroying enviroment before we even know what we are destroying so give us money so we can save the enviroment."
Pethiyagoda hypothosizes the exact opposite. That the destruction of corridors of rainforest created islands of rainforest where the frogs species differentiated. The dry land acted like a natural barrier would.
So, destroy the rainforest but do it in strips so we can artificially create new species to replace the ones we loose in the destruction of the rainforest.
"Technologies that can modified by end users, that is to say Open source are explicitly not allowed in contexts where digital streams are allowed to come into contact with them because you could change them to geek around the restrictions that are being put in by Hollywood. So this is also a proposal to ban open source.
The technology companies, by and large going along with it. And this is why we are here today. We want to find out how it is we can shift the technology companies from a sort of duck and cover perspective to going on the offensive. Because when technologists, who are part of a 600 billion dollar American industry, go on the offensive against Hollywood, a 35 billion dollar American industry, THEY WIN.
"Two really important things you can do, one is you can tell five friends. Cause most people don't know this is going on. Most people don't know that there are three separate onslaughts on the ability of technologists to build any device that they want to. right now, internationally, in congress and in the FCC. Right now, going on, that if they succeed will be the death of their industry. And tell five friends in the technology industry just let them know so they can tell five friends. So we need a burgeoning consciousness of this. We need a million Slashdot readers to actually care about it and not just natalie portman or hot grits. And the last thing you can do is... um.. you can.. Boy! I just blew my buffer. What is the last thing you can do?"
That's my ISP you jerks are slashdotting. I'll be lucky if I can even post this. Of course, locality has it's privlages. The movie is downloading ac 160kb/s
"Datsun was used for passenger cars. However in 1982 the corporate name "Nissan" started being used for all new lines for passenger vehicles too"
"U.S. District Judge Dean D. Pregerson is expected to decide by November whether the coveted Internet addresses go to the automaker or stay with the man who's used his family name on a succession of businesses -- from mobile auto repair to exporting to computers _ since he came to Raleigh two decades ago."
Who started using the name first? I'll bet this guy is more than 20 years old, which is how long Datsun has been using the name Nissan.
If Datsun changed it's name to Nissan after this guy went into business, he could have a case for taking the entire use of the name from them.
You are saying a cluster is not as good as a cluster because a cluster has inherent design limitations relative to a cluster.
Earth Simulator is a cluster using SX-6 as nodes.
Each node has 4 CPUs and uses DDR-SDRAM.
Hardware is hardware. A limitation in one system will be found in another.
ASCI White has almost 8000 Power3 375 MHz processors, it's just old.
ASCI White, if built today, would use Power4 1300 Mhz processors.
Earth Simulator is not so special. You have forgotten when ASCI White was new and was shockingly 5 times as fast as it's closest rival.
Why put anything in a box? Just complicates cooling. The building is the box.
You do not need one nic for each switch. You can use Cisco's 8 Gb Backplane to stack the switches.
I'll accept 50% efficiency if it can be built for 1/100 the cost. I'll build two.
As for cableing, I've wired an 1800 node data center in 2 months with 3 people with fiber, including terminations and 7 errors that took 2 hours to trace and fix. Hardly a nightmare, in fact pretty monotonous and easy, as well as lucrative.
Assemble 15 nodes a day and you could build it yourself in a year.
Myrinet is 245 MBytes/s for large packets only. Latency kills it on small transfers. Visit their website. go ahead and pay 20x the cost for 20% more performance.. the idea of a cluster is huge quantities of commodity hardware.
Put it in Alaska where land and power are cheap and cooling needs are minimal. Maybe $200,000 for ten acres with a warehouse.
Storage is almost under $1000 per terrabyte.
Put the drives in the nodes.
I'll bet this cluster is costing them 100 million.
it measures angles... generally measured in degrees or radians. As another poster commented, they are accurate to about.05 degree.
At $10 a whack, buy ten and take an average of their outputs. That should improve accuracy unless the inacuracy is the result of an inherent design flaw as opposed to chaotic fluctuations.
Good dual amd boards come with gigabit ethernet. With prices as they are, the nodes can be put together for about $350,000. That would leave $150,000 for 512 ports of gigabit switches. Cisco gigabit 48 port switches run $5,000. Double that and add an additional nic to each box and use a flat neighborhood network (.pdf)
That should give each node about 200 MB/s aggregate bandwidth (the best gigabit ethernet runs at 800 Mb/s or 100 MB/s), easily exeeding what can be achieved with much more expensive solutions.
About the cost of a nice house.
Put into perspective, a cluster that could outperform Japan's earth simulator would cost 2 million in hardware costs. Outperforming Seti@home's 3,000,000 users would require $10,000,000.
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When the cost of losing data exeeds the salery that would be paid to a dedicated IT guy
-or-
Backup will be taken seriously right after you loose a good chunk of data.
Then your boss will hire two people. One to do backups and one to replace the guy that cheesed the last one.
Clot capitol of the world...
Somehow that doesn't sound right.
Near the earth-sun Lagrange point one. It changes course for no apperant reason. I geuss that is the beauty of Lagrange points.
It sure would be nice if a mixed composition asteroid decided to park itself in the earth-moon Lagrange one. We could use the kickstart for our space program.
That's my primary dissapointment with their discovery that this is just a peice of junk from the apollo program.
Then again, the thought of a 1 megaton peice of rock aerobraking on our atmosphere doesn't sit well with me.
..will get rid of your warts, will.
Warts respond to placibos like nothing else does. Your body's immune system can easily get rid of them. Stress prevents your immune system from removing them. Getting a "cure", any cure, will reduce your stress and your immune system will do its job.
The best placibo should be something ingrained in the mind with the ability to fix anything. Duct tape is an absolutely perfect placibo candidate.
Dear Walmart,
Thank you for insuring that our new game "BMX XXX" becomes the most sought after title to ever hit the market. You see, in our business there is no such thing as bad publicity, which you have provided us in spades. We are now the "Sopranos" of the gaming world. There is nothing like controversy to insure we have an audience.
Again, Thank You.
P.S. We're sorry you are going to miss the sales revenue generated by this sleeper cult classic... On second thought, we could care less about your puritanical revenue model destroyed by a week's loss in imports.
Actually it took only a few seconds. I used key express to record mouse movements and button presses. I tweaked the timing by hand later. There is no point letting a bot play that is not perfect. Perfect timing is one of the few things that computers have when it comes to games. Well, they can also play perfectly for two days straight to compensate for the randomness inherent to the game.... without getting bored.
.975 seconds timed for cut/slice then click again, wait a second and "try again". A high score would inturrupt the macro with a fault, because an "enter you name" dialog box would appear instead of a "try again" button.
The golf game was not even reasonably complex. It was just a driver distance game. Five commands: Begin the swing, Wait
It took some coder a week to code and I broke it in a few seconds. Made me feel like an utter piece of crap. It would have been neat to have just one high score up there. But I had all ten, was playing 4 games every second with 12 instances running. What I did was DOS the game out of existance. Inelligant and Ignorant.
There was a flash based golf game that was the rage several years ago. I got tired of playing so I wrote a macro to play for me. After some script tweaking and 2 days of run time I had the top 10 scores sewn up out of over 3 million users.
The game was pulled by the website hosting it.
Using a bot to play a game is pretty lame.
I was working on a CS bot at the time too. It never saw the light of day after I realized just how lame it was.
Play for fun. Hack AI to provide yourself challenge. Do not hack to play.
Sorry, I read this article too long ago to remember it's subject:
"Almost no earthly environment is out of bounds for bacteria, including the atmosphere. And while the clouds aren't exactly teeming with life, air-sampling instruments have trapped bacteria more than 11 kilometers above sea level. Carried aloft by rising currents, some microbes can also drift thousands of kilometers before landing. But scientists thought that, like many long-distance travelers, the bugs were inert during their time in the air.
To test whether atmospheric bacteria were inactive, limnologist Birgit Sattler of the University of Innsbruck, Austria, and colleagues collected cloud water from a site 3100 meters up in the Austrian Alps. They kept the samples frozen and analyzed them back in the lab. Once thawed, the cloud bacteria released carbon and slurped up radioactively labeled amino acids and thymidine, an ingredient of DNA, showing that they were metabolizing and reproducing even when on the verge of freezing. That bacteria straight from clouds were active suggests that cloudborne bacteria are as well, the researchers conclude in the 15 January issue of Geophysical Research Letters."
Terrible error on my part. I hope this clears up the gist of my argument, that air itself carries life.
At least here on earth, life will fill any ecosystem it can. Non-native life will adapt to and fill any ecosystem, even ecosystems hostile to life. There is a common house cat killing penguins in antarctica. Bacteria were found outside the mir space station, eating the glass. Sea lampreys will thrive in a fresh water lake 50 degrees warmer than their normal ocean habitat.
We may have already infected Mars, Venus, the Moon and Jupiter with bacteria. How many bacteria must survive to create a viable breeding population? Just One.
"For life, you need a volume of water, not just tiny droplets."
Yeah, he's right. There is no such thing as airborn viruses....not
This is the comment of an entrenched and threatened scientist.
Plenty of extremephiles can live at 158 degrees. Plenty of viruses can live in the air. I've always thought venus has been too often overlooked. I belive it was because the russians made it there first.
Seems to me the ideal place to send a solar glider made of glass. Better solar power production than Earth. Thicker atmosphere than Mars. Easier to get to than mars. Least explored of our neighbors.
Exactly...
In other news, AMD is expected to release a 2.5 Ghz, x86-64 bit processor.
My other thought on this:
If you want something done right, do it yourself. Apple has not done that since Steve Wozniak left.
Btw, next time you need a monitor, or even a full on computer, let me know. There is no sense in letting your site drop when you have fans that are gearheads.
The next step is to combine this with an ability to filter feed on plankton and technology from slugbot for a machine with infinite endurance.
"So what if the movie sucks? What's the worst that'll happen? It's not like the original movie will suddenly become a crappy movie."
Highlander.
I wish I would have never seen the second movie. It absolutely ruined the first movie.
the real story:
Evaluating Sri Lanka's amphibian diversity
The national geographic article is fluffy trash drawing conclusions that the scientist involved did not come to.
"We are destroying enviroment before we even know what we are destroying so give us money so we can save the enviroment."
Pethiyagoda hypothosizes the exact opposite. That the destruction of corridors of rainforest created islands of rainforest where the frogs species differentiated. The dry land acted like a natural barrier would.
So, destroy the rainforest but do it in strips so we can artificially create new species to replace the ones we loose in the destruction of the rainforest.
"Technologies that can modified by end users, that is to say Open source are explicitly not allowed in contexts where digital streams are allowed to come into contact with them because you could change them to geek around the restrictions that are being put in by Hollywood. So this is also a proposal to ban open source.
The technology companies, by and large going along with it. And this is why we are here today. We want to find out how it is we can shift the technology companies from a sort of duck and cover perspective to going on the offensive. Because when technologists, who are part of a 600 billion dollar American industry, go on the offensive against Hollywood, a 35 billion dollar American industry, THEY WIN.
"Two really important things you can do, one is you can tell five friends. Cause most people don't know this is going on. Most people don't know that there are three separate onslaughts on the ability of technologists to build any device that they want to. right now, internationally, in congress and in the FCC. Right now, going on, that if they succeed will be the death of their industry. And tell five friends in the technology industry just let them know so they can tell five friends. So we need a burgeoning consciousness of this. We need a million Slashdot readers to actually care about it and not just natalie portman or hot grits. And the last thing you can do is... um.. you can.. Boy! I just blew my buffer. What is the last thing you can do?"
~ Cory Doctorow, Electronic Frontier Foundation
That's my ISP you jerks are slashdotting. I'll be lucky if I can even post this. Of course, locality has it's privlages. The movie is downloading ac 160kb/s
Goddamn fundamentalist christian baptist bullshit is going send the US back to the stone age.
This is the forbidden stem sell research.
Get those assholes out of the whitehouse and congress.
And don't forget to mod this down you facists.
No longer the choice for freedom.
"Datsun was used for passenger cars. However in 1982 the corporate name "Nissan" started being used for all new lines for passenger vehicles too"
"U.S. District Judge Dean D. Pregerson is expected to decide by November whether the coveted Internet addresses go to the automaker or stay with the man who's used his family name on a succession of businesses -- from mobile auto repair to exporting to computers _ since he came to Raleigh two decades ago."
Who started using the name first? I'll bet this guy is more than 20 years old, which is how long Datsun has been using the name Nissan.
If Datsun changed it's name to Nissan after this guy went into business, he could have a case for taking the entire use of the name from them.
You are saying a cluster is not as good as a cluster because a cluster has inherent design limitations relative to a cluster.
.
Earth Simulator is a cluster using SX-6 as nodes.
Each node has 4 CPUs and uses DDR-SDRAM.
Hardware is hardware. A limitation in one system will be found in another.
ASCI White has almost 8000 Power3 375 MHz processors, it's just old
ASCI White, if built today, would use Power4 1300 Mhz processors.
Earth Simulator is not so special. You have forgotten when ASCI White was new and was shockingly 5 times as fast as it's closest rival.
Why put anything in a box? Just complicates cooling. The building is the box.
You do not need one nic for each switch. You can use Cisco's 8 Gb Backplane to stack the switches.
I'll accept 50% efficiency if it can be built for 1/100 the cost. I'll build two.
As for cableing, I've wired an 1800 node data center in 2 months with 3 people with fiber, including terminations and 7 errors that took 2 hours to trace and fix. Hardly a nightmare, in fact pretty monotonous and easy, as well as lucrative.
Assemble 15 nodes a day and you could build it yourself in a year.
heh.
Myrinet is 245 MBytes/s for large packets only. Latency kills it on small transfers. Visit their website. go ahead and pay 20x the cost for 20% more performance.. the idea of a cluster is huge quantities of commodity hardware.
Put it in Alaska where land and power are cheap and cooling needs are minimal. Maybe $200,000 for ten acres with a warehouse.
Storage is almost under $1000 per terrabyte.
Put the drives in the nodes.
I'll bet this cluster is costing them 100 million.
This is a government contract after all.
it measures angles... generally measured in degrees or radians. As another poster commented, they are accurate to about .05 degree.
At $10 a whack, buy ten and take an average of their outputs. That should improve accuracy unless the inacuracy is the result of an inherent design flaw as opposed to chaotic fluctuations.
Good dual amd boards come with gigabit ethernet. With prices as they are, the nodes can be put together for about $350,000. That would leave $150,000 for 512 ports of gigabit switches. Cisco gigabit 48 port switches run $5,000. Double that and add an additional nic to each box and use a flat neighborhood network (.pdf)
:P
That should give each node about 200 MB/s aggregate bandwidth (the best gigabit ethernet runs at 800 Mb/s or 100 MB/s), easily exeeding what can be achieved with much more expensive solutions.
About the cost of a nice house.
Put into perspective, a cluster that could outperform Japan's earth simulator would cost 2 million in hardware costs. Outperforming Seti@home's 3,000,000 users would require $10,000,000.
I know where my lotto money is going
"The Science Appliance" as it is dubbed will use dual processor AMD based nodes.
Scary part is that this will be one of the top 5 supercomputers in the world.
Scary because you could buy all the hardware off the shelf for about half a million dollars.
On a lighter note:
"The Linux NetworX cluster will be used solely for unclassified computing, including testing on ASCI-relevant unclassified applications."
I think they mean text mode quake.
I guess they got tired of "Global Thermo-Nuclear War"
1 byte = 8 bits.
(228 * 8) / 5 = 365.
When we work internal to a machine, we usually use "bytes".
When we work external, we usually use bits.
firewire is 400 megabits per second or 50 MB/s, slower than SCSI's 160 MB/s, the technology it replaced.
All bets are off when reading benchmarketing.
In a healthy male:
30-60 million sperm per cc of semen.
2-5 cc's of semen.
Up to 228 gigabytes of data in about 5 seconds.
or about 365 gigabits per second.
Men like computers because they are impotent compared to us.
The monthly estrus cycle equates to about 2.5 kb/s
Even a phone modem is faster than a woman.
Um... the NSA has two fabs.
Seti has 550,000 active users average or about 1500 years of cpu time per day
Distributed.net cracked RC5-64 with about 15,000 users average or about 41 years per day.
Each percentage of completion took almost a thousand years of computer time
The average fab can produce about 50 million chips per month.
A single years production from a single fab could crack rc5 in about 17 hours.
Seti@home could crack rc5 in 50 days.
The largest know supercomputer would take about 58 days.
Chips could be optimized to crack rc5 at least 10 times faster than a general purpose chip (think dedicated graphics processor)
The largest supercomputer using optimized chips could crack rc5 in 6 days.
The output of a fab using optimized chips would crack rc5 in 102 minutes.
The output of two fabs would crack rc5 in 51 minutes.
The output of the NSA's fabs for their current lifetimes could crack rc5-64 in 3 minutes.
In 18 months it will take the NSA's hypothetical supercomputer only 90 seconds to crack rc5-64
The NSA's budget exeeds twice NASA's budget.