I was one of the hordes of CS majors who helped setup the super computer (grunt work is fun!). VT is using inifiniband cards w/extremely low latency copper cable (forget the name) which acheives the same bandwidth as fiber optics.
Loads of cisco catalyst switches are involved also.
About a week ago, VT CS (and I assume Comp Eng) majors got an email telling us about it (though the email claimed it was top 10, not 5, in the world). It also invited us to volunteer to help build it. Needless to say, I signed up ASAP.
They're planning on having 3 4-hour shifts each day. They don't really know when they're going to receive the chips, just that they will get 72 hrs of warning before arrival.
The whole point is that they ARE strangers. Do you really think that if there were some debatable issue that they were protesting, that these people would be able to gather this way?
Protests take centralization and common views. When you see them, they're normally not consisting of people who had a few hours to spare. I went to one in D.C. in November, and of the 10 people I met there, less than half were from the VA/MD area (most had flown in).
So it's not that they don't believe in anything, it's that they believe in different things. Everybody enjoys a good laugh, but not everyone is serious in the same way about what needs to change (the one exception, of course, is that the Matrix 2 sucked and everyone agrees).
Texas Hold 'em. As someone who's great at math, poker really appeals to me. I'm not alone either, on the WPT this year alone there have been 2 math professors and an MIT Graduate at the final tables.
They made me pay for anything related to games (though occassionally I got a big xmas present of a new console, or one birthday game). No limit on what type of game.
When you make a kid work for the $50 each time instead of buying it for him/her, they keep a firm foot in reality.
Although a lot of my favorite forgotten movies have already been mentioned (Boondock Saints, Requiem For A Dream, The Hudsucker Proxy), Magnolia has to be by far my favorite.
If you're ever looking for a movie like it, Hard Eight is very similiar (though not nearly as deep a meaning). It even has the same basic cast. The only difference are in the stars. Magnolia's Tom Cruise and Julianne Moore are swapped for Hard Eight's Samuel L. Jackson and Gwenyth Paltrow.
Finland was recently ranked #1 in freedom of speech. http://hawaii.indymedia.org/news/2002/10/3_comment.php
Just goes to show how bad of a job that our world does with freedom of press. I know it hasn't passed yet, but you would think that the #1 country wouldn't even have these crazy laws proposed.
I get all excited, go to the article, see a big space in the middle of the article (I'm on 56k) that's loading. I'm saying "YES! A pic of it!" then what comes up? "Many Cambodian children will not live to be 5 years old" Damnit, who cares, I wanted to see the skeleton!
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"...the military system, which I abhor. That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed. This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism by order, senseless violence, and all the pestilent nonsense that does by the name of patriotism--how I hate them! War seems to me a mean, contempible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business." --Albert Einstein
And you better believe I quote that EVERY time a military recruiter calls me up (the joys of a being a high school senior). It's great to here the responses too: "oh really? uhh well....do you know any friends who might be interested in joining?"
Yeah, last time I listened to something like this, I ended up being chased by a bunch of vogons. Thirty Altairan dollars a day....sure that's what they WANT you to believe.
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There happens to be a UAV conference in Baltimore all week long, with near 1000 vendors...I'm on my way there now actually :)
The challenge, when in front of a computer screen, is to avoid being constantly distracted.
/. comments when I'm at work.
That's not hard at all. I find it fairly easy to focus on reading
According to the article, they only "temporarily" lost IQ points.
So you'll be fine as soon as you stop using the internet...
Does this mean IT people will start getting hazard pay?
I was one of the hordes of CS majors who helped setup the super computer (grunt work is fun!). VT is using inifiniband cards w/extremely low latency copper cable (forget the name) which acheives the same bandwidth as fiber optics.
Loads of cisco catalyst switches are involved also.
I'm just waiting for this damn computer to get a cup of tea right!
About a week ago, VT CS (and I assume Comp Eng) majors got an email telling us about it (though the email claimed it was top 10, not 5, in the world). It also invited us to volunteer to help build it. Needless to say, I signed up ASAP.
They're planning on having 3 4-hour shifts each day. They don't really know when they're going to receive the chips, just that they will get 72 hrs of warning before arrival.
1. Make customers have amensia and forget the game
2. ?
3. Profit!
The whole point is that they ARE strangers. Do you really think that if there were some debatable issue that they were protesting, that these people would be able to gather this way?
Protests take centralization and common views. When you see them, they're normally not consisting of people who had a few hours to spare. I went to one in D.C. in November, and of the 10 people I met there, less than half were from the VA/MD area (most had flown in).
So it's not that they don't believe in anything, it's that they believe in different things. Everybody enjoys a good laugh, but not everyone is serious in the same way about what needs to change (the one exception, of course, is that the Matrix 2 sucked and everyone agrees).
Texas Hold 'em. As someone who's great at math, poker really appeals to me. I'm not alone either, on the WPT this year alone there have been 2 math professors and an MIT Graduate at the final tables.
They made me pay for anything related to games (though occassionally I got a big xmas present of a new console, or one birthday game). No limit on what type of game.
When you make a kid work for the $50 each time instead of buying it for him/her, they keep a firm foot in reality.
Beer...my laptop...beer...my laptop...don't make me choose!
Although a lot of my favorite forgotten movies have already been mentioned (Boondock Saints, Requiem For A Dream, The Hudsucker Proxy), Magnolia has to be by far my favorite.
If you're ever looking for a movie like it, Hard Eight is very similiar (though not nearly as deep a meaning). It even has the same basic cast. The only difference are in the stars. Magnolia's Tom Cruise and Julianne Moore are swapped for Hard Eight's Samuel L. Jackson and Gwenyth Paltrow.
No kidding, when I suggested having linux on the computers for our Cisco class, this is what our network admin told me:
"When you get into the security business, you'll choose windows over linux" and then later on, "you can't hack windows."
At that point, I began to have faith in my getting a job in the IT industry, if she could ($100/hr).
They were ranked #1 in freedom of press, sorry.
Finland was recently ranked #1 in freedom of speech. http://hawaii.indymedia.org/news/2002/10/3_comment .php
Just goes to show how bad of a job that our world does with freedom of press. I know it hasn't passed yet, but you would think that the #1 country wouldn't even have these crazy laws proposed.
I get all excited, go to the article, see a big space in the middle of the article (I'm on 56k) that's loading. I'm saying "YES! A pic of it!" then what comes up? "Many Cambodian children will not live to be 5 years old" Damnit, who cares, I wanted to see the skeleton!
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Biostar Motherboard for AMD Athlon/Athlon XP/Duron Processors, VIA KT400 Model# M7VIT
5 stars from 13 reviews
I've heard good overclocking reviews of it as well.
I just bought one myself a little while ago.
I gave up on Taken after they threw the kid in the bomb shelter and there was a window in it.
From his autobiography, The World As I See It:
"...the military system, which I abhor. That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed. This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism by order, senseless violence, and all the pestilent nonsense that does by the name of patriotism--how I hate them! War seems to me a mean, contempible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business." --Albert Einstein
And you better believe I quote that EVERY time a military recruiter calls me up (the joys of a being a high school senior). It's great to here the responses too: "oh really? uhh well....do you know any friends who might be interested in joining?"
Yeah, last time I listened to something like this, I ended up being chased by a bunch of vogons. Thirty Altairan dollars a day....sure that's what they WANT you to believe.