In the future there will be a slashdot posting about a Javascript script being able to post comments to stories on slashdot from a browser without needing a human to be present at the keyboard. When this happens, there will be remarks made about the change in the quality of comments. Some one will welcome the new Javascript comment posting overlords, etc.
I followed the link for the google test, the host name referenced returns this:
% host ipv6test.google.com ipv6test.google.com is an alias for ipv6test.l.google.com. ipv6test.l.google.com has address 209.85.225.103 ipv6test.l.google.com has address 209.85.225.104 ipv6test.l.google.com has address 209.85.225.105 ipv6test.l.google.com has address 209.85.225.106 ipv6test.l.google.com has address 209.85.225.147 ipv6test.l.google.com has address 209.85.225.99
However, humanity has already tried to make contact with the new planet. During Australia's National Science Week in August 2009, Cosmos magazine partnered with the Australian government, NASA and the CSIRO to run a 13-day campaign to collect goodwill messages from the public to be sent to Gliese 581d.
The initiative, known as Hello From Earth, collected 26,000 messages, which were transmitted by NASA's Tidbinbilla facility. The signal is not due to arrive until January 2030.
At which time it will be returned because we failed to include sufficient postage.
He's obviously qualified to complete projects with the minimum of resources. He should be elected president to trim down the bloated federal government! Probably more qualified than most politicians.
According to the article, part of the cell is composed of cadmium telluride. Both are toxic and various compounds of tellurium stink to high heaven. I wonder what happens if the cells get caught in a fire?
It isn't just businesses that get funded, but groups of interested parties that wish to accomplish a goal. An open source USB analyzer and JS Bach Goldberg Variations score and recording are two that caught my eye. Neither one proposed to found a business on the project.
Looks like some one could sell a safety glasses, sledge and punch kit for half the cost of that machine and a person with reasonable dexterity and strength could do just as good a job, if not better. Heck, you could probably even throw in some kind of jig to hold the parts in proper alignment and keep from accidentally destroying a hand in the process.
Why? It isn't like anyone owns that date. A large majority of people don't care about Minecraft or Skyrim anyway. I'm sure a bunch of numerologists have their own plans for that date.
Villain: Mr. Bond, you will be witness to my transcendent rule over the reshaped universe. I will cause the universe to expand into a fourth spacial dimension.
Bond: How do you plan to accomplish that?
Villain: By cooling the entire universe below the transition temperature.
Bond: But won't that kill everyone?
Villain: No, Mr. Bond, just you.
Bond: One last request, please before I die. I'd like an extra large martini, shaken, not stirred.
Let us speculate: Would Victor use the pieces he captured to modify the sound of his piano by letting them bounce around on the strings? Or would Victor just provide musical accompaniment and commentary while Bobby played another person, perhaps an opera singer?
That assumes they want smart jurors that can reason independently, though that was actually the case when I served on a medical malpractice trial many years ago. For another drunk driving trial, I and several other prospective jurors were eliminated by the defense because we were in jobs that required close attention to details, and it appeared they were possibly trying to argue in some fashion about blood alchohol level limits.
Indeed, even recently published material that you would think would be available in digital format to begin with seems to have OCR style errors in the Kindle edition. Either that or editors and proof readers aren't doing a very good job. Oh wait, that's always been the case for a lot of publishers.
When the data is made public, I'll be setting a competing naming registry. Be sure to send me your $100, you'll get naming rights for the exoplanet of your choice!
Wired's collapse from 100,000 iPad copies in June to 23,000 in November was most dramatic,
If they are like me, they decided more than 1/2 of Wired is crap they are not interested in and gave up. While I find there are usually one or two really interesting feature articles and several shorter pieces in a print copy of Wired, most of the other stuff is uninteresting to me or printed in a font that is so small that I refuse to get up to get a magnifying lens.
I really enjoy games with interesting puzzles and goals, until I get to those damn boss battles at the end of a segment. Who finds that any fun after the second time around? Really, do I need to die 30 times before I manage to hang on long enough to get past it?
Indeed, I find I still prefer my HP48SX to even the newer HP calcs. The HP50G, while a bit more capable, is too d*** wide to hold in the hand. I'm so used to RPN that I get slowed down when it isn't available.
This sounds like having to sit through a sales pitch at a vacation resort to get free lodging for a night. Thank goodness for the 30 second skip on my TiVO.
I do, but unfortunately I wasn't part of the group that managed the Crays, and I didn't think to track down the documentation and distribution media to archive copies to more modern media.
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Very interesting. Thanks for that. Sounds like you worked there. How did the direct to film imaging work? CRT though optics to film?
Yes, I still do work there. The film output did indeed work like you suspect. They were made by Dicomed, and we ran them so hard that our in house electronics maintenance personnel were well acquainted with them. The Dicomeds supported a 4096x4096 vector graphic display, and the usable portion depended on the output format and frame size. Raster output could be performed by displaying each point for the required amount of time to produce the desired exposure. The color versions had a color wheel and required three passes.
Initially the Dicomeds were driven from PDP-11 systems running RSX via DR-11 interfaces. Then we wrote new software (called TAGS - Text and Graphics Server) that ran on Sun 3s with DR-11 equivalents. I wrote a simple X windows based Dicomed simulator so we could test the software drivers without needing to wait for film to be developed. Although there were several developing runs per day depending on the demand.
Later on we also attached video tape recorders to a crude DVR type box (I forget the manufacturer's name) that could record up to 30 seconds at a time to hard disk then the software would start up the VCR to record that portion, then stop it. Needless to say, that was very hard on the VCR mechanisms!
The users could send their graphics (NCAR Graphics, text, raster graphics) to any of the devices by just passing a different destination device on the MASnet command.
The appearance of table top video projectors that attached to computers and cheaper laser printers was the downfall of TAGS and all of the associated output hardware.
The new computing center is still under construction, so no supercomputers are located there yet.:-) Cray 1-A serial number 3 is in the hallway as an exhibit on floor 1B, and if you are near the NCAR Mesa Lab, it is open for self guided tours most days of the year.
Serial number 3 was in active use until its decommissioning in 1989 and ran COS (Cray Operating System). It was connected to the NCAR designed Hyperchannel network known initially as the NCAR Local Network (NLN) and later as the Mainframe and Server Network (MASnet). There were rows of 100 MB and 200 MB "washing machine" disk drives connected to it, and it had access to the NCAR Mass Storage System (MSS) for archival storage. Graphical output could be sent to plotters, large Xerox printers, B&W microfiche or B&W or color 35mm film. For a speed comparison, I once ran a Madelbrot generator to produce a 640x480 image on both the Cray 1-A and a Sun 60 workstation. The vectorized C code on the Cray took just under 8 seconds, the Sun several minutes to produce the image. Alas, we don't have much in the way of documentation anymore nor is there any of the original software.
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In the future there will be a slashdot posting about a Javascript script being able to post comments to stories on slashdot from a browser without needing a human to be present at the keyboard. When this happens, there will be remarks made about the change in the quality of comments. Some one will welcome the new Javascript comment posting overlords, etc.
I followed the link for the google test, the host name referenced returns this:
% host ipv6test.google.com
ipv6test.google.com is an alias for ipv6test.l.google.com.
ipv6test.l.google.com has address 209.85.225.103
ipv6test.l.google.com has address 209.85.225.104
ipv6test.l.google.com has address 209.85.225.105
ipv6test.l.google.com has address 209.85.225.106
ipv6test.l.google.com has address 209.85.225.147
ipv6test.l.google.com has address 209.85.225.99
From TFA:
However, humanity has already tried to make contact with the new planet. During Australia's National Science Week in August 2009, Cosmos magazine partnered with the Australian government, NASA and the CSIRO to run a 13-day campaign to collect goodwill messages from the public to be sent to Gliese 581d.
The initiative, known as Hello From Earth, collected 26,000 messages, which were transmitted by NASA's Tidbinbilla facility. The signal is not due to arrive until January 2030.
At which time it will be returned because we failed to include sufficient postage.
He's obviously qualified to complete projects with the minimum of resources. He should be elected president to trim down the bloated federal government! Probably more qualified than most politicians.
That they could have gotten a better pictogram indicating the function for which the facility is intended to be used. :-)
According to the article, part of the cell is composed of cadmium telluride. Both are toxic and various compounds of tellurium stink to high heaven. I wonder what happens if the cells get caught in a fire?
It isn't just businesses that get funded, but groups of interested parties that wish to accomplish a goal. An open source USB analyzer and JS Bach Goldberg Variations score and recording are two that caught my eye. Neither one proposed to found a business on the project.
When I read the title I thought it was about being forced to use Drupal at all.
With their phone data slurper tools (Michigan State Police Could Search Cell Phones During Traffic Stops), they could get your location database in a couple of minutes.
Looks like some one could sell a safety glasses, sledge and punch kit for half the cost of that machine and a person with reasonable dexterity and strength could do just as good a job, if not better. Heck, you could probably even throw in some kind of jig to hold the parts in proper alignment and keep from accidentally destroying a hand in the process.
Isn't that terribly rude?
Why? It isn't like anyone owns that date. A large majority of people don't care about Minecraft or Skyrim anyway. I'm sure a bunch of numerologists have their own plans for that date.
Villain: Mr. Bond, you will be witness to my transcendent rule over the reshaped universe. I will cause the universe to expand into a fourth spacial dimension.
Bond: How do you plan to accomplish that?
Villain: By cooling the entire universe below the transition temperature.
Bond: But won't that kill everyone?
Villain: No, Mr. Bond, just you.
Bond: One last request, please before I die. I'd like an extra large martini, shaken, not stirred.
Let us speculate:
Would Victor use the pieces he captured to modify the sound of his piano by letting them bounce around on the strings?
Or would Victor just provide musical accompaniment and commentary while Bobby played another person, perhaps an opera singer?
That assumes they want smart jurors that can reason independently, though that was actually the case when I served on a medical malpractice trial many years ago. For another drunk driving trial, I and several other prospective jurors were eliminated by the defense because we were in jobs that required close attention to details, and it appeared they were possibly trying to argue in some fashion about blood alchohol level limits.
Indeed, even recently published material that you would think would be available in digital format to begin with seems to have OCR style errors in the Kindle edition. Either that or editors and proof readers aren't doing a very good job. Oh wait, that's always been the case for a lot of publishers.
When the data is made public, I'll be setting a competing naming registry. Be sure to send me your $100, you'll get naming rights for the exoplanet of your choice!
Wired's collapse from 100,000 iPad copies in June to 23,000 in November was most dramatic,
If they are like me, they decided more than 1/2 of Wired is crap they are not interested in and gave up. While I find there are usually one or two really interesting feature articles and several shorter pieces in a print copy of Wired, most of the other stuff is uninteresting to me or printed in a font that is so small that I refuse to get up to get a magnifying lens.
Clearly they have not seen the research that shows that louder restaurants result in more people buying alcohol.
I believe you have the cause and effect reversed in your statement. :-)
I really enjoy games with interesting puzzles and goals, until I get to those damn boss battles at the end of a segment. Who finds that any fun after the second time around? Really, do I need to die 30 times before I manage to hang on long enough to get past it?
Indeed, I find I still prefer my HP48SX to even the newer HP calcs. The HP50G, while a bit more capable, is too d*** wide to hold in the hand. I'm so used to RPN that I get slowed down when it isn't available.
This sounds like having to sit through a sales pitch at a vacation resort to get free lodging for a night. Thank goodness for the 30 second skip on my TiVO.
do you regret that now?
I do, but unfortunately I wasn't part of the group that managed the Crays, and I didn't think to track down the documentation and distribution media to archive copies to more modern media.
Very interesting. Thanks for that. Sounds like you worked there.
How did the direct to film imaging work? CRT though optics to film?
Yes, I still do work there. The film output did indeed work like you suspect. They were made by Dicomed, and we ran them so hard that our in house electronics maintenance personnel were well acquainted with them. The Dicomeds supported a 4096x4096 vector graphic display, and the usable portion depended on the output format and frame size. Raster output could be performed by displaying each point for the required amount of time to produce the desired exposure. The color versions had a color wheel and required three passes.
Initially the Dicomeds were driven from PDP-11 systems running RSX via DR-11 interfaces. Then we wrote new software (called TAGS - Text and Graphics Server) that ran on Sun 3s with DR-11 equivalents. I wrote a simple X windows based Dicomed simulator so we could test the software drivers without needing to wait for film to be developed. Although there were several developing runs per day depending on the demand.
Later on we also attached video tape recorders to a crude DVR type box (I forget the manufacturer's name) that could record up to 30 seconds at a time to hard disk then the software would start up the VCR to record that portion, then stop it. Needless to say, that was very hard on the VCR mechanisms!
The users could send their graphics (NCAR Graphics, text, raster graphics) to any of the devices by just passing a different destination device on the MASnet command.
The appearance of table top video projectors that attached to computers and cheaper laser printers was the downfall of TAGS and all of the associated output hardware.
See my reply earlier on in this discussion. We didn't keep any of the Cray software, unfortunately.
The new computing center is still under construction, so no supercomputers are located there yet. :-) Cray 1-A serial number 3 is in the hallway as an exhibit on floor 1B, and if you are near the NCAR Mesa Lab, it is open for self guided tours most days of the year.
Serial number 3 was in active use until its decommissioning in 1989 and ran COS (Cray Operating System). It was connected to the NCAR designed Hyperchannel network known initially as the NCAR Local Network (NLN) and later as the Mainframe and Server Network (MASnet). There were rows of 100 MB and 200 MB "washing machine" disk drives connected to it, and it had access to the NCAR Mass Storage System (MSS) for archival storage. Graphical output could be sent to plotters, large Xerox printers, B&W microfiche or B&W or color 35mm film. For a speed comparison, I once ran a Madelbrot generator to produce a 640x480 image on both the Cray 1-A and a Sun 60 workstation. The vectorized C code on the Cray took just under 8 seconds, the Sun several minutes to produce the image. Alas, we don't have much in the way of documentation anymore nor is there any of the original software.