Actually, all flares bigger than M class are labeled X. The one we had the week before last was a X17.2. The largest flare detected that I know of is X20.0, but there are more estimates that peg that one higher at X22 or X23 due to the limitations of the original detector.
It's the size of these flares that's unusual. Never have astronomers seen 2 Jupiter sized sunspots tranversing the sun at the same time. The number of sunspots is about normal for this time in the 11 year solar cycle. Here's a nice summary page:
http://www.n3kl.org/sun/noaa.html
The article mentions that he has his own distillery for making 90% pure hydrogen peroxide. John Carmack has mentioned he's been having problems procuring H2O2 of higher purities. What's holding him back from making his own?
Take a look at the topcoder.com site. It's a periodic competition with short round matches that take a little over an hour to complete 3 challenges. These challenges are similiar to ACM competitions, but quite a bit easier b/c of the time limitations. The rankings are given in points kind of like chess, and the highest ranked coders are color-coded red. Below that is yellow and so on. Thus the best coders are 'Red coders'.
here at Oklahoma State University, the IT department gave all the RAs in all the dorms and apartments a fix-it CD, all users must run the software on the CD regardless of whether they don't think they have msblast/sobig, etc.
I do have the book with me. So here's the quote from page 428 of the latest paperback edition.
IF THIS WERE A VIRUS
YOU WOULD BE DEAD NOW
FORTUNATELY IT'S NOT
THE METAVERSE IS A DANGEROUS PLACE;
HOW'S YOUR SECURITY?
CALL HIRO PROTAGONIST SECURITY ASSOCIATES
FOR A FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION
crud. lameness filter. adding some more lowercase random crap here so that it will pass the lameness filter. stupid lameness filter.
beowulf cluster of these! No. Seriously. Could you have a impromptu cellular network be put up, perhaps in the Niagara-Mohawk area if power goes out again and the cell-phone tower generators run out of fuel?
$5 billion every year from the consumer
So ah.. Bell takes $5 billion a year from this guy? Gotta be Bill Gates for them to be able to get that kind of money from one guy.
The X Window System protocol, Version 11, was deliberately designed to be extensible, to provide for both anticipated and unanticipated needs. The X11 core did not anticipate that the properties of X server screens might need to change dynamically, as occurs frequently with desktops, laptops and hand held computers not envisioned in the 1980's.
The Resize and Rotate extension (RandR) is a very small set of client and server extensions designed to allow clients to modify the size, accelerated visuals and rotation of an X screen. RandR also has provisions for informing clients when screens have been resized or rotated and it allows clients to discover which visuals have hardware acceleration available.
RandR needs to be discussed in concert with recent developments in X server implementation and the new Render extension to understand the implications of the aggregate. In isolation, RandR seems to provide a limited but useful improvement, but together with the Render extension and reimplementation of the X server rendering code, RandR provides part of a key change in X Window System capabilities.
I found a story *exactly* like this one in the archives: here it is
Oh come on, are you going to mod me down for not trying to be funny? Or should you do the reverse? This is certainly insightful, interesting, and funny, and is not intended as flamebaiting or trolling.
the athlon or pentium computers that operate at gigahertz speeds with 20-30x the 'transistors'?
Oh come on.. this has been done years ago
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Will the signal strength be any good, especially in rural areas, with these disposable phones? I'd expect that with sub-standard components, they might not be able to perform as well. We'll see though.
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Actually, all flares bigger than M class are labeled X. The one we had the week before last was a X17.2. The largest flare detected that I know of is X20.0, but there are more estimates that peg that one higher at X22 or X23 due to the limitations of the original detector.
It's the size of these flares that's unusual. Never have astronomers seen 2 Jupiter sized sunspots tranversing the sun at the same time. The number of sunspots is about normal for this time in the 11 year solar cycle. Here's a nice summary page: http://www.n3kl.org/sun/noaa.html
The article mentions that he has his own distillery for making 90% pure hydrogen peroxide. John Carmack has mentioned he's been having problems procuring H2O2 of higher purities. What's holding him back from making his own?
Anyone have subtitles for fanmatrix (english)? I'd like to be able to understand the dialogue. Thanks.
Take a look at the topcoder.com site. It's a periodic competition with short round matches that take a little over an hour to complete 3 challenges. These challenges are similiar to ACM competitions, but quite a bit easier b/c of the time limitations. The rankings are given in points kind of like chess, and the highest ranked coders are color-coded red. Below that is yellow and so on. Thus the best coders are 'Red coders'.
here at Oklahoma State University, the IT department gave all the RAs in all the dorms and apartments a fix-it CD, all users must run the software on the CD regardless of whether they don't think they have msblast/sobig, etc.
I know this isn't quite what you're looking for, but you can find major feature milestones here: kernel newbies list
I do have the book with me. So here's the quote from page 428 of the latest paperback edition.
IF THIS WERE A VIRUS
YOU WOULD BE DEAD NOW
FORTUNATELY IT'S NOT
THE METAVERSE IS A DANGEROUS PLACE;
HOW'S YOUR SECURITY?
CALL HIRO PROTAGONIST SECURITY ASSOCIATES
FOR A FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION
crud. lameness filter. adding some more lowercase random crap here so that it will pass the lameness filter. stupid lameness filter.
Thanks for the explanations.
1) Cheaper to use fuel
2) Radio would work better in emergenices.
3) Not very good range
beowulf cluster of these! No. Seriously. Could you have a impromptu cellular network be put up, perhaps in the Niagara-Mohawk area if power goes out again and the cell-phone tower generators run out of fuel?
Must we scrap this ship? I'm sure we could lease it to another country such as Britain or Japan or Australia for the next 5 years. Just an idea..
$5 billion every year from the consumer So ah.. Bell takes $5 billion a year from this guy? Gotta be Bill Gates for them to be able to get that kind of money from one guy.
Jupiter's moon, Io
Uranus, Neptune, and moons
A 'picture' they call a picture of Pluto I'd think the detail would be better with such a detailed survey of the sky.
Server is in its death throes... must be all the pervs who are clicking on the X10 ads and getting sent to his page and d/l the videos.
Moral?
videos + x10 + fast and furious RC cars = super slashdotting.
The X Window System protocol, Version 11, was deliberately designed to be extensible, to provide for both anticipated and unanticipated needs. The X11 core did not anticipate that the properties of X server screens might need to change dynamically, as occurs frequently with desktops, laptops and hand held computers not envisioned in the 1980's.
The Resize and Rotate extension (RandR) is a very small set of client and server extensions designed to allow clients to modify the size, accelerated visuals and rotation of an X screen. RandR also has provisions for informing clients when screens have been resized or rotated and it allows clients to discover which visuals have hardware acceleration available.
RandR needs to be discussed in concert with recent developments in X server implementation and the new Render extension to understand the implications of the aggregate. In isolation, RandR seems to provide a limited but useful improvement, but together with the Render extension and reimplementation of the X server rendering code, RandR provides part of a key change in X Window System capabilities.
Why not just call it Randy.. that's what ppl will call it when viruses start infecting linux and randomly changing the window aspects on April 1.
oh man.. look at this bastardization of Tux, the pengiun we all know and love and hate
pic here
I found a story *exactly* like this one in the archives: here it is
Oh come on, are you going to mod me down for not trying to be funny? Or should you do the reverse? This is certainly insightful, interesting, and funny, and is not intended as flamebaiting or trolling.
the athlon or pentium computers that operate at gigahertz speeds with 20-30x the 'transistors'?
Don't you remember? Douglas Adams invented the Babel Fish in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. This is old news guys.. the /. editors are taking the meaning of 'duplicate posts' to another new level! Hahaha.. ha... C'mon laugh. .. or i'll bite your ass
Use GRACE from the earlier article and tell her to manage the computers.. only problem is that she might budge in your CS games.
heh
fp
Will the signal strength be any good, especially in rural areas, with these disposable phones? I'd expect that with sub-standard components, they might not be able to perform as well. We'll see though.
Perhaps it's the inverse?
More attacks on linux could be occuring because it's more likely to succeed?