For an expanded explanation of what the equals sign means, check out Petkovsek, Wilf and Zeilberger's A=B. I remember it as a very enjoyable read from university, in parallel with Concrete Mathematics... (btw, why won't š show in comments?)
If anyone wondered what FRA will be using its fairly new 13728-core, 102 Tflop/s (Rmax) Xeon cluster for, I guess this is it. When it was new on the previous list (November 2007), it held the fifth place. Here is an article about it in Computer Sweden (in Swedish). Maybe now is a good time to upgrade to 2048-bit keys...
x-rays deposit energy in an exponential-decay pattern, so if you're treating a brain tumor with a pencil beam of x-rays, the tissue that gets hit with the most radiation is the skin, followed by the skull, followed by the good parts of the brain, followed by the tumor
Well, no, not really. Electrons deposit energy like you described. Indirectly ionizing radiation, such as high energy gamma radiation have an effect called "build-up", which makes it deposit its maximum amount of energy at a depth. 20 MV bremsstrahlung gamma radiation (in common usage) has its depth-dose maximum about 3 - 4 cm into the tissue -- quite useful for the brain tumours you talk about. Deeper than that (in the charged-particle equilibrium region), they are attenuated pretty much exponentially.
Or they could just use the Unicode facilities for doing just that, as described in the Unicode Standard Annex #15 - Unicode Normalization Forms... I think it's a good question why the IDN committee didn't do that in the first place. Or why registries allows registrations for domains that are approximately equal to already existing ones.
Sure, but as it is stated on the "Old Sjeng (free)", the GPL:ed version is a lot weaker than Deep Sjeng. Presumably, Crafty is stronger than FreeSjeng.
It does not change
the fact that line-by-line SCO IP code is found in Linux.
Are you sure that what SCO claims about its code in Linux is a fact? I most definately am not. Read this article by Warren Toomey from the UNIX Heritage Society on one of their claims, if you haven't.
Oh, but I did come up with it, though I didn't patent it (and I probably couldn't have, since we still have a semi-sensible patent system here in Europe). I've had myfirstname@mylastname.homeip.net as e-mail and http://myfirstname.mylastname.homeip.net as home page for quite some time now, with the same scheme for my sister and my father. How early does prior art have to be in this case?
Are you sure? I have a feeling that a really well-defined crystal would have trouble flowing... On the other hand, feelings are often wrong on weird subjects like this. Do the atoms tunnel to lower energy states, leading to some minuscule degree of flow, or what is the main mechanism for the flow of a crystal?
Does it have to be based on the "From" field? Wouldn't the original "Received" host be a better candidate for signing the message? I think that it would solve the issue you are worried about.
Yes, a 40% drop in volume is kinda shameful, since that translates into less than 12% length shrink. (1.4^(1/3) is about 1.119.) Nicely put, that "are you stupid?" part, by the way.
No, only that the latest release of mplayerosx can't play it. We still have the options of compiling a newer mplayer ourselves, using WMP, RealOne or viewing the Quicktime version posted here somewhere. You know, mplayer under OS X isn't much different from mplayer for linux, apart from the Win32 codec support.
In what way do you consider the fact that particles cannot be expelled faster than the speed of light a "limit"? As (almost) always when relativistic speeds are involved, think in terms of momenta instead of velocities... (the momentum of a particle is unbounded)
It really took me more than 10 s of trying to figure out how you were thinking when you said that IIS is hacker friendly (as in easy to extend, modify and bend to do what you want it to do) before I realised that you were talking about the other type of "hacker".
Probably, you'll rather use lilypond which is an updated version of MusiXTeX. There are a number of GUIs avalable, see GuidForLilyPond for a list. I think the one to use is denemo.
The Electrolux Trilobite has been available in Sweden since 2001. Last year 15000 units were manufactured. For swedish-speaking readers, a page about the Trilobite is available at Svensk Industridesign. It's also a bit cheaper in Sweden, at 11869 SEK (about £920, 1300 euros or $1500). For once, models are tested in Sweden. Even Ericsson hasn't been doing that for quite a while...
Or, design each RAM chip to dump its own data if it doesn't get a fresh charge from the motherboard every so often.
Yes! You've just invented a way of converting insecure, non-volatile RAM into the much more secure , volatile variant. Hurry to the Patent office! Perhaps we could do the same for hard disks? No more sensitive data lying around!
Or for the rest of us who like to do it the free way (and use other OSes than Windows), we can all use the Windows CE VNC client or the EPOC VNC client. Both have been available for quite some time. If you want the encryption, use ssh.
A theoretical possibility is that someone makes, say, a message containing javascript code to measure the time it takes for GPG to decrypt the message... I don't know if this would be possible - the method described requires pretty precise timings and I know absolutely nothing about how good rtc support javascript has, nor if it is possible to embed a script in such a way in a message. It still takes about a million chosen plaintexts, so hopefully it won't work in practise, but if you're this paranoid you probably don't have javascript/html enabled in mail anyway.
I use an old TiBook 400 that doesn't support Quartz Extreme, and line graphics in applets lost that beautiful anti-aliasing they used to have with Java 1.3. Sure, applets are faster now with 1.4.1, but I'd rather have a slower, good looking applet than this...
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For an expanded explanation of what the equals sign means, check out Petkovsek, Wilf and Zeilberger's A=B. I remember it as a very enjoyable read from university, in parallel with Concrete Mathematics... (btw, why won't š show in comments?)
If anyone wondered what FRA will be using its fairly new 13728-core, 102 Tflop/s (Rmax) Xeon cluster for, I guess this is it. When it was new on the previous list (November 2007), it held the fifth place. Here is an article about it in Computer Sweden (in Swedish). Maybe now is a good time to upgrade to 2048-bit keys...
...TFA gives it as http://weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/kittyhawk/kittyhawk.pdf
Well, no, not really. Electrons deposit energy like you described. Indirectly ionizing radiation, such as high energy gamma radiation have an effect called "build-up", which makes it deposit its maximum amount of energy at a depth. 20 MV bremsstrahlung gamma radiation (in common usage) has its depth-dose maximum about 3 - 4 cm into the tissue -- quite useful for the brain tumours you talk about. Deeper than that (in the charged-particle equilibrium region), they are attenuated pretty much exponentially.
Yeah right.
Or they could just use the Unicode facilities for doing just that, as described in the Unicode Standard Annex #15 - Unicode Normalization Forms... I think it's a good question why the IDN committee didn't do that in the first place. Or why registries allows registrations for domains that are approximately equal to already existing ones.
Sure, but as it is stated on the "Old Sjeng (free)", the GPL:ed version is a lot weaker than Deep Sjeng. Presumably, Crafty is stronger than FreeSjeng.
Are you sure that what SCO claims about its code in Linux is a fact? I most definately am not. Read this article by Warren Toomey from the UNIX Heritage Society on one of their claims, if you haven't.
I think Novell just did: Novell Notifies SCO
Oh, but I did come up with it, though I didn't patent it (and I probably couldn't have, since we still have a semi-sensible patent system here in Europe). I've had myfirstname@mylastname.homeip.net as e-mail and http://myfirstname.mylastname.homeip.net as home page for quite some time now, with the same scheme for my sister and my father. How early does prior art have to be in this case?
Are you sure? I have a feeling that a really well-defined crystal would have trouble flowing... On the other hand, feelings are often wrong on weird subjects like this. Do the atoms tunnel to lower energy states, leading to some minuscule degree of flow, or what is the main mechanism for the flow of a crystal?
Does it have to be based on the "From" field? Wouldn't the original "Received" host be a better candidate for signing the message? I think that it would solve the issue you are worried about.
Yes, a 40% drop in volume is kinda shameful, since that translates into less than 12% length shrink. (1.4^(1/3) is about 1.119.) Nicely put, that "are you stupid?" part, by the way.
It's a sea bird, see this article. I have no idea what it's called in english though. Apparently it's also an old word for "wedge".
No, only that the latest release of mplayerosx can't play it. We still have the options of compiling a newer mplayer ourselves, using WMP, RealOne or viewing the Quicktime version posted here somewhere. You know, mplayer under OS X isn't much different from mplayer for linux, apart from the Win32 codec support.
Well, for one because the current mplayerosx can't decode the sound. I tried.
In what way do you consider the fact that particles cannot be expelled faster than the speed of light a "limit"? As (almost) always when relativistic speeds are involved, think in terms of momenta instead of velocities... (the momentum of a particle is unbounded)
It really took me more than 10 s of trying to figure out how you were thinking when you said that IIS is hacker friendly (as in easy to extend, modify and bend to do what you want it to do) before I realised that you were talking about the other type of "hacker".
The quote is taken from a mozillaquest article and the context is quite relevant.
Probably, you'll rather use lilypond which is an updated version of MusiXTeX. There are a number of GUIs avalable, see GuidForLilyPond for a list. I think the one to use is denemo.
The Electrolux Trilobite has been available in Sweden since 2001. Last year 15000 units were manufactured. For swedish-speaking readers, a page about the Trilobite is available at Svensk Industridesign. It's also a bit cheaper in Sweden, at 11869 SEK (about £920, 1300 euros or $1500). For once, models are tested in Sweden. Even Ericsson hasn't been doing that for quite a while...
Yes! You've just invented a way of converting insecure, non-volatile RAM into the much more secure , volatile variant. Hurry to the Patent office! Perhaps we could do the same for hard disks? No more sensitive data lying around!
Or for the rest of us who like to do it the free way (and use other OSes than Windows), we can all use the Windows CE VNC client or the EPOC VNC client. Both have been available for quite some time. If you want the encryption, use ssh.
A theoretical possibility is that someone makes, say, a message containing javascript code to measure the time it takes for GPG to decrypt the message... I don't know if this would be possible - the method described requires pretty precise timings and I know absolutely nothing about how good rtc support javascript has, nor if it is possible to embed a script in such a way in a message. It still takes about a million chosen plaintexts, so hopefully it won't work in practise, but if you're this paranoid you probably don't have javascript/html enabled in mail anyway.
I use an old TiBook 400 that doesn't support Quartz Extreme, and line graphics in applets lost that beautiful anti-aliasing they used to have with Java 1.3. Sure, applets are faster now with 1.4.1, but I'd rather have a slower, good looking applet than this...