You all sounds like a bunch of computer nazis. How about the rest of us reboot our computers as often as we like, and continue to place importance on this metric.
I know Fedora and Debian both consider it. Does that upset you? Does that clash with your world view?
(posted from a freshly booted computer... it's extra snappy!)
It's the private sector's fault that Freddie & Fanny loosened lending standards. It's also the fault of the private sector that the Fed dropped interest rates to 0%.
By your logic, since society is becoming increasingly "complex" we should have more and more government involvement (tax). I disagree. I don't think government should continue to increase in size. I don't think forcing people to pay for programs "for their own good" is sustainable.
Governments *will* shrink. (See Greece) Do you want to do it the easy way or the hard way?
"The assemblies have passed a series of critical reviews, which include programmable 2-D addressing, life tests, optical contrast tests, and environmental tests, required by the design specifications of JWST."
I don't know how long it lasts, but its daily intensity is being plotted here. From what little I've read, it can be expected to increase like this for ~14 days from the initial explosion
As a fellow believer of the 2nd Amendment, I think talk of "overthrow[ing] this government now" is quite premature and irresponsible.
We are still working through the courts to (re)gain our right to carry outside the home. Once that is gained and exercised by citizens in the North East and California, much of this 4th Amendment violation will simply disappear. It will no longer be practical.
I already had VirtualBox 4.1.0 installed, so I installed the Boinc client, attached to http://boinc01.cern.ch/test4theory and created an account without problem - I haven't done any @home projects since some SETI units about 10 years ago.
The Boinc client spent several minutes downloading a linux virtual machine (boinc_vm) for VirtualBox, which booted automagically. Then boinc_vm started "..fetching input files for job..." for a minute, "started a child process", downloaded some more data, and started burning CPU. The Boinc client takes up ~13M and the VM around 45M. Not bad. The work unit will take 1mil GFLOPS of processing, and my machine does 2.28GFLOP/sec, so it will be about 5 days of CPU time. It updates progress in 1% increments, so I am at 1.000% done.
I went to my webpage account and set my pref to 100% CPU, otherwise the VM pauses a lot.
Well, thanks to a stupid electorate, we put people in power who think the USA should police the world (DOD), have government run medical research (NIH), provide health care, put a few people in space, subsidize industries, give money to UN, etc, etc
The party is over. As one who has worked in medical research, I say good riddance to ripping off the tax payer. Of course, the average person is dumb enough to think these things are free.
I've had the same thing happen to me - oncoming car took a left hand turn on MY green without yielding to me. I slammed on the brakes and put my head down, so my helmet took the force as I broadsided the van.
The stupid driver claimed *I* had a red light.
I was younger and stupider, then. I should have got his license plate, and name.
I understand that there are more PhDs than jobs in this biotech hub.
I don't disagree that universities serve as training grounds, but there are many labs with zero students.
btw, I never said "no value." There can be value in government projects, but there is More Value in letting people keep their own money, and allowing industry to do the work.
I've worked 10 years in biomedical research both in academia (where I got my paycheck from the NIH), and in industry (pharma & diagnostics).
I am ABSOLUTELY in making very deep cuts in the National Institutes of Health budget. It should be cut in half over the next 10 years.
I have witnessed the efficiency and progress in industry, and it make some of the top academic researchers look like true money and time wasters. The amount of truly useful work to come out of academia does not justify stealing from taxpayers.
It is the moral position to support cuts to the NIH, military, NSF, Dept of Ed, etc.
I've been working with some large microarray datasets recently, and so had to double my computer's memory to 8GB.
As I've done for years, I went to Fry's to get some Corsair chips... installed F13 64bit to replace my older 32bit distro... and crash-o-matic began. Mostly from Chrome and Mercurial.
I ran memtester86+ and sure enough, verified my first purchase of faulty memory.
So, I went back to Fry's and exchanged for another pair of Corsair 2GB chips. This time, I ran memtester86+ first thing... ANOTHER bad set, so back it sent to Fry's.
*Third* set of memory was Kingston, and a trip through memtester86+ verified no errors. Yay!
Computer has been stable, too.
With more and more RAM in computers, my next box will have ECC.
Another ignorant gets modded up. Try reading the 14th Amendment
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Maybe it's "just" a MS degree, but I feel that science without controls is complete bunk.
I've worked in industry & academia for 10 years before pursuing the MS degree, so I have some feel for what is good.
I've developed a methodology for my degree, and my Prof doesn't want me to use the methodology on a set of conditions which can be verified... I will *never* be able to understand how that is just a complete waste of anyone's time.
It's not science, it's fantasy that I've created until it has been verified.
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You all sounds like a bunch of computer nazis. How about the rest of us reboot our computers as often as we like, and continue to place importance on this metric.
I know Fedora and Debian both consider it. Does that upset you? Does that clash with your world view?
(posted from a freshly booted computer... it's extra snappy!)
It's like this:
It's the private sector's fault that Freddie & Fanny loosened lending standards. It's also the fault of the private sector that the Fed dropped interest rates to 0%.
That should clear things up.
By your logic, since society is becoming increasingly "complex" we should have more and more government involvement (tax). I disagree. I don't think government should continue to increase in size. I don't think forcing people to pay for programs "for their own good" is sustainable.
Governments *will* shrink. (See Greece) Do you want to do it the easy way or the hard way?
The only reason I keep some email in folders is so that I can delete bunches of them when I am done with a task.
For example, once I am done with a project, and I never have to think about it again, the whole thing gets vaporized.
It is quite satisfactory.
Reading NASA's website, it sounds like the microshutters have already been developed and shipped
http://www.nasa.gov/topics/technology/features/microshutters.html
and
http://spiedigitallibrary.org/proceedings/resource/2/psisdg/7594/1/75940N_1?isAuthorized=no
"The assemblies have passed a series of critical reviews, which include programmable 2-D addressing, life tests, optical contrast tests, and environmental tests, required by the design specifications of JWST."
I don't know how long it lasts, but its daily intensity is being plotted here. From what little I've read, it can be expected to increase like this for ~14 days from the initial explosion
As a fellow believer of the 2nd Amendment, I think talk of "overthrow[ing] this government now" is quite premature and irresponsible.
We are still working through the courts to (re)gain our right to carry outside the home. Once that is gained and exercised by citizens in the North East and California, much of this 4th Amendment violation will simply disappear. It will no longer be practical.
Insurrection is silly.
Here's a link to the actual PDF (arxiv version) and not the pay version
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1106/1106.0847.pdf
I already had VirtualBox 4.1.0 installed, so I installed the Boinc client, attached to http://boinc01.cern.ch/test4theory and created an account without problem - I haven't done any @home projects since some SETI units about 10 years ago.
The Boinc client spent several minutes downloading a linux virtual machine (boinc_vm) for VirtualBox, which booted automagically. Then boinc_vm started "..fetching input files for job..." for a minute, "started a child process", downloaded some more data, and started burning CPU. The Boinc client takes up ~13M and the VM around 45M. Not bad. The work unit will take 1mil GFLOPS of processing, and my machine does 2.28GFLOP/sec, so it will be about 5 days of CPU time. It updates progress in 1% increments, so I am at 1.000% done.
I went to my webpage account and set my pref to 100% CPU, otherwise the VM pauses a lot.
libertarianism != anarchy
Libertarians believe in the rule of law and justice (police & courts). We just want people to freer in their choices.
Not a gamer and the last FPS I played was Doom3 in 2003/4. I will continue buying id games, though, just cuz.
I track my home energy usage for free with Google's PowerMeter (SDG&E)
http://www.google.com/powermeter/site/recent
Well, thanks to a stupid electorate, we put people in power who think the USA should
police the world (DOD),
have government run medical research (NIH),
provide health care,
put a few people in space,
subsidize industries,
give money to UN,
etc, etc
The party is over. As one who has worked in medical research, I say good riddance to ripping off the tax payer.
Of course, the average person is dumb enough to think these things are free.
That Thierry guy is quite a master with a telescope & camera. He's also taken incredible shots of the shuttle traversing in front of the sun.
Just browse his website (assuming /. doesn't kill it).
It still corrupts my desktop background and the Taskbar on my Windows7 laptop.
I have to change the size of the Taskbar to make my computer not look retarded after using FF.
I've had the same thing happen to me - oncoming car took a left hand turn on MY green without yielding to me. I slammed on the brakes and put my head down, so my helmet took the force as I broadsided the van.
The stupid driver claimed *I* had a red light.
I was younger and stupider, then. I should have got his license plate, and name.
You sound a bit defensive. Perhaps it hurts to hear the truth from someone who has worked on the inside?
I have completed all the course work, and am 30 pages into my MS thesis in bioinformatics.
I don't really feel like revealing my locale, and maintain my belief that government funded research is a rip-off to the tax payer.
The university model should be privatized.
haha... I don't understand my own research.
I understand that there are more PhDs than jobs in this biotech hub.
I don't disagree that universities serve as training grounds, but there are many labs with zero students.
btw, I never said "no value." There can be value in government projects, but there is More Value in letting people keep their own money, and allowing industry to do the work.
I've worked 10 years in biomedical research both in academia (where I got my paycheck from the NIH), and in industry (pharma & diagnostics).
I am ABSOLUTELY in making very deep cuts in the National Institutes of Health budget. It should be cut in half over the next 10 years.
I have witnessed the efficiency and progress in industry, and it make some of the top academic researchers look like true money and time wasters. The amount of truly useful work to come out of academia does not justify stealing from taxpayers.
It is the moral position to support cuts to the NIH, military, NSF, Dept of Ed, etc.
I was adding to existing memory, but I tested the 2 old sticks and 2 new sticks separately.
The 2 old sticks were faultless, while the 2 new sticks gave >1000 errors in tests 6 & 7 of memtest86+.
When I tested batch #2, same deal: I left out my previous sticks that I would be adding to, and once again tests 6&7 revealed many errors.
Batch #3 tested well on its own. I haven't run the test with all 4 sticks plugged in at once... perhaps I should.
I've been working with some large microarray datasets recently, and so had to double my computer's memory to 8GB.
As I've done for years, I went to Fry's to get some Corsair chips... installed F13 64bit to replace my older 32bit distro... and crash-o-matic began. Mostly from Chrome and Mercurial.
I ran memtester86+ and sure enough, verified my first purchase of faulty memory.
So, I went back to Fry's and exchanged for another pair of Corsair 2GB chips. This time, I ran memtester86+ first thing... ANOTHER bad set, so back it sent to Fry's.
*Third* set of memory was Kingston, and a trip through memtester86+ verified no errors. Yay!
Computer has been stable, too.
With more and more RAM in computers, my next box will have ECC.
Another ignorant gets modded up. Try reading the 14th Amendment
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
14th Amendment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Now, what were you talking about??
Maybe it's "just" a MS degree, but I feel that science without controls is complete bunk.
I've worked in industry & academia for 10 years before pursuing the MS degree, so I have some feel for what is good.
I've developed a methodology for my degree, and my Prof doesn't want me to use the methodology on a set of conditions which can be verified... I will *never* be able to understand how that is just a complete waste of anyone's time.
It's not science, it's fantasy that I've created until it has been verified.