If the logic is parallelizable, then the AMD chips could be a good choice. A webserver would be a good example of parallel logic in run-of-the-mill software were it not hampered by all that pesky I/O.
He's a friend of mine. I know him socially through my wife. I'm not on LKML but that was one of the first things that comes up when you Google for Mark Langsdorf. I just thought that tidbit might be 1) interesting to slashdotters and 2) garner him some attention in getting a new job.
How is your general Sprint coverage here? It used to be fairly spotty.
Personally, I miss the old AT&T Wireless TDMA days, as far as voice traffic is concerned. TDMA had the best voice quality. It was super-fantastic. People asked me if I was on a landline all the time, even if I was talking inside the house, in a valley, under enormous trees.
"and was late to react to Apple's entry into the high-end of the market"
The P800, P900, and P910 phones were all very solid in the high end market (the model number is how much they cost...) back in 2003-2004. However, the severely lagging SymbianOS held them back in terms of all the fancy stuff Apple did with the iPhone in 2007. You had to use a stylus with SonyEricsson or the interface would get confused.
For me, being an American, the biggest failure with the P900 was not having 850mhz support from the start. If they had had that and had pushed distribution to offer discounted, locked down versions with a data plan like Apple did, those things would've sold much better.
Well, if it was like the printer industry, the car would refuse to run if the bumper didn't have the right chip in it (though really it'd be like the car only running on a certain fuel with a patented chemical from the car manufacturer in it. I hope I'm not giving them any ideas...).
Bah, people have been saying the same thing about Slashdot since the JonKatz era. Say what you will, but Digg and Redditt cover a far, far larger variety of topics than Slashdot and thus garner more users (and links) by nature. Slashdot has tried to stay a crystallized, topical board and as such its traffic and influence have remained static while the Web has grown around it.
Slashdot's real draw is the discussion system[s]. With great ease, I can restrict an article's comments to a few high-ranked ones and enjoy those nuggets (often from real experts, not just some gushing layperson) and their children and never have to read about hot grits and whatnot.
I know they use MRI already for helping with diagnosing patients in a vegetative state. However, I can see how this would be useful in really fleshing out exactly how unconscious the person is. (Oh, they're dreaming. Not vegetative.)
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/I am not a doctor. If that is the most uninformed statement ever, sorry.:)
It's much more meaningful to talk about invariant mass (also called "rest mass", since it is unambiguously the mass the object has as measured in the frame of reference where it's at rest) in pretty much any context where mass, rather than energy, is relevant.
Minor addition: It also depends on context. Invariant mass includes the masses of atoms, etc. at higher levels. In quantum chromodynamics, the invariant mass (a scalar) must be separated from the binding energy of the quark-gluon plasma. It turns out that the scalar mass is rather small compared to the binding energy.
I think the term "inherent" or "intrinsic" mass is sometimes used. Anyhow, I know we're talking about GR, which is a classical theory, and in general you shouldn't get too quantum with GR or you'll enter "here be dragons" territory. But I thought it might be interesting to other laypeople who like physics.
My 15 year old was charged with speaking profanity in public (he dropped an f-bomb near his friends while waiting for his bus). Had to go to court. He pled no contest and was sentenced to 6 hours of community service. This is on top of the 3 days of in-school suspension.
FOR SAYING "FUCK".
Keep in mind the real reason he was in trouble was that he didn't go with the head principal of the school when she told him to "come here!" because he didn't recognize her. However, that is not a crime, thus, the profanity charge.
Don't get me wrong. Not going with the principal was bad and dropping the f-bomb in public was a bad idea. He should have had some kind of in-school punishment. However, police and court action was completely unwarranted and over the top.
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/His friend gave a girl ibuprofen. She had a reaction and had to go to the hospital. His friend was sentenced to community service, has an 8pm curfew, and has to meet with the equivalent of a parole officer several times a week.
I used to think the Governor's office has no power, but it does have some (c.f., the hay Cheney made with the vice presidency). The biggest power it has is appointments -- especially the kind the Lege can't veto because it's out of session for 1.5yrs (SBOE chairs, Arson board reviewing the Willingham case, etc.). Secondarily, it can veto legislation. What's different from other governors is that Perry also has a technology slush fund. The Convergen scandal deriving from said fund was only the most egregious. There are others. The Trans-Texas Corridor would have been an ideal project for him to reward donors and their businesses but the 1-mile wide boondoggle was set to "eminent domain" a large swath of rural Republican territory.
(During the school finance shuffle, they did redo some of the Robin Hood formulas. But it makes no difference when you're simply unwilling to fund from the state level, constitution be damned.)
You are correct that Texas is a weak governor state. However, Perry has been able to fully utilize his powers since he's been governor for so flippin' long and unfortunately, a lot of it has been for crony capitalism, creationist pandering, and filling boards with yesmen.
One of my favorite fun facts is that Saddam Hussein was telling the truth when he said he had no WMD. Remember that 8000pp report to the UN that was leaked? It was correct. But good luck finding any country or American who believed him at the time.
Of course, he is somewhat to blame for letting people believe he had all of these weapons over the years. He was worried about an Iranian invasion. But the report was accurate and everyone thought the disinformation he had put out diplomatically over the years was correct.
Great, I had to change my config settings just to find out where you live!
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/Texas -- no income tax on individuals. But, the fiscal picture is a mess.
//In 2005, a state judge ruled that Texas had to pay a larger share of education dollars because it was violating the state constitution.
In May 2006, Texas cut the local maximum school property tax by a third and "paid" for about half of that cut with a business margins tax.
Result? Budgetary shenanigans. Robbing Peter to pay Paul (don't get me started on those custom license plate funds that aren't paid to the charities they're supposed to support). Becoming dependent on either federal stimulus dollars to balance the budget (2009) or cutting state services (2011). Using tricks like paying September bills on October 1 of the next fiscal year. IT IS A BLOODY MESS.
All I'm saying is, don't let Governor Perry tell you Texas has any clue how to run a state government. Our budget sucks and it's because our leadership has no cajones. They are beholden to a Tea Party ideology that makes little sense in a state that runs as lean as Texas does. $0.02USD.
And yet, Samuel Clemens both wrote for newspapers and read them regularly. There is value there. But, you have to dig for it and digging takes practice and insight.
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/Yeah, I read the paper. Online. For free. Bite me — it's way better for local news than the local TV stations.
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If the logic is parallelizable, then the AMD chips could be a good choice. A webserver would be a good example of parallel logic in run-of-the-mill software were it not hampered by all that pesky I/O.
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He's a friend of mine. I know him socially through my wife. I'm not on LKML but that was one of the first things that comes up when you Google for Mark Langsdorf. I just thought that tidbit might be 1) interesting to slashdotters and 2) garner him some attention in getting a new job.
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Yeah, the editor (samzenpus, I guess) took the title from a different submission. 1400/12000 = 0.11666666...
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In retrospect, perhaps you meant "did not invent the concept of a search engine" as in the GP.
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Got URL? What are you talking about? The founders of Google wrote the search engine. Is this some sort of weird alternate universe you are proposing?
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How is your general Sprint coverage here? It used to be fairly spotty.
Personally, I miss the old AT&T Wireless TDMA days, as far as voice traffic is concerned. TDMA had the best voice quality. It was super-fantastic. People asked me if I was on a landline all the time, even if I was talking inside the house, in a valley, under enormous trees.
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"and was late to react to Apple's entry into the high-end of the market"
The P800, P900, and P910 phones were all very solid in the high end market (the model number is how much they cost...) back in 2003-2004. However, the severely lagging SymbianOS held them back in terms of all the fancy stuff Apple did with the iPhone in 2007. You had to use a stylus with SonyEricsson or the interface would get confused.
For me, being an American, the biggest failure with the P900 was not having 850mhz support from the start. If they had had that and had pushed distribution to offer discounted, locked down versions with a data plan like Apple did, those things would've sold much better.
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Well, if it was like the printer industry, the car would refuse to run if the bumper didn't have the right chip in it (though really it'd be like the car only running on a certain fuel with a patented chemical from the car manufacturer in it. I hope I'm not giving them any ideas...).
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"focus their energies". Nice.
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A Pokemon joke? Sheesh, it's like everything old is new again. Next we'll be seeing links to Shiny Mudkips...
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OMG, what will we do if the Library of Congress burns down! Or -- traveling backward in time -- all the gold transmutes!
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Bah, people have been saying the same thing about Slashdot since the JonKatz era. Say what you will, but Digg and Redditt cover a far, far larger variety of topics than Slashdot and thus garner more users (and links) by nature. Slashdot has tried to stay a crystallized, topical board and as such its traffic and influence have remained static while the Web has grown around it.
Slashdot's real draw is the discussion system[s]. With great ease, I can restrict an article's comments to a few high-ranked ones and enjoy those nuggets (often from real experts, not just some gushing layperson) and their children and never have to read about hot grits and whatnot.
$0.02USD,
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Let's just hope he doesn't try to paint the future!
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/Heroes
//Season 1 FTW
I know they use MRI already for helping with diagnosing patients in a vegetative state. However, I can see how this would be useful in really fleshing out exactly how unconscious the person is. (Oh, they're dreaming. Not vegetative.)
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/I am not a doctor. If that is the most uninformed statement ever, sorry. :)
Yeah, those rusty old tin cans don't make for much of a pipe, now do they? :)
Now I'm forced to wonder if anyone ever used acoustic modems via tin-cans and string... The answer may surprise you. Or not.
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Looking at those things brings all kinds of weirdness to mind... "Can I jack in to your bikini to charge my iPod?"
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It's much more meaningful to talk about invariant mass (also called "rest mass", since it is unambiguously the mass the object has as measured in the frame of reference where it's at rest) in pretty much any context where mass, rather than energy, is relevant.
Minor addition: It also depends on context. Invariant mass includes the masses of atoms, etc. at higher levels. In quantum chromodynamics, the invariant mass (a scalar) must be separated from the binding energy of the quark-gluon plasma. It turns out that the scalar mass is rather small compared to the binding energy.
I think the term "inherent" or "intrinsic" mass is sometimes used. Anyhow, I know we're talking about GR, which is a classical theory, and in general you shouldn't get too quantum with GR or you'll enter "here be dragons" territory. But I thought it might be interesting to other laypeople who like physics.
Cheers,
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Wow, that's way worse than my story.
My 15 year old was charged with speaking profanity in public (he dropped an f-bomb near his friends while waiting for his bus). Had to go to court. He pled no contest and was sentenced to 6 hours of community service. This is on top of the 3 days of in-school suspension.
FOR SAYING "FUCK".
Keep in mind the real reason he was in trouble was that he didn't go with the head principal of the school when she told him to "come here!" because he didn't recognize her. However, that is not a crime, thus, the profanity charge.
Don't get me wrong. Not going with the principal was bad and dropping the f-bomb in public was a bad idea. He should have had some kind of in-school punishment. However, police and court action was completely unwarranted and over the top.
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/His friend gave a girl ibuprofen. She had a reaction and had to go to the hospital. His friend was sentenced to community service, has an 8pm curfew, and has to meet with the equivalent of a parole officer several times a week.
Suuuuure, you have 2 CPUs, Mr. Guest OS. *wink*wink*
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But then, how would you make Perry's campaign donors happy?????? :)
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I used to think the Governor's office has no power, but it does have some (c.f., the hay Cheney made with the vice presidency). The biggest power it has is appointments -- especially the kind the Lege can't veto because it's out of session for 1.5yrs (SBOE chairs, Arson board reviewing the Willingham case, etc.). Secondarily, it can veto legislation. What's different from other governors is that Perry also has a technology slush fund. The Convergen scandal deriving from said fund was only the most egregious. There are others. The Trans-Texas Corridor would have been an ideal project for him to reward donors and their businesses but the 1-mile wide boondoggle was set to "eminent domain" a large swath of rural Republican territory.
(During the school finance shuffle, they did redo some of the Robin Hood formulas. But it makes no difference when you're simply unwilling to fund from the state level, constitution be damned.)
You are correct that Texas is a weak governor state. However, Perry has been able to fully utilize his powers since he's been governor for so flippin' long and unfortunately, a lot of it has been for crony capitalism, creationist pandering, and filling boards with yesmen.
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One of my favorite fun facts is that Saddam Hussein was telling the truth when he said he had no WMD. Remember that 8000pp report to the UN that was leaked? It was correct. But good luck finding any country or American who believed him at the time.
Of course, he is somewhat to blame for letting people believe he had all of these weapons over the years. He was worried about an Iranian invasion. But the report was accurate and everyone thought the disinformation he had put out diplomatically over the years was correct.
Anyways, good luck, Iraq. You need it.
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Great, I had to change my config settings just to find out where you live!
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/Texas -- no income tax on individuals. But, the fiscal picture is a mess.
//In 2005, a state judge ruled that Texas had to pay a larger share of education dollars because it was violating the state constitution.
In May 2006, Texas cut the local maximum school property tax by a third and "paid" for about half of that cut with a business margins tax.
Result? Budgetary shenanigans. Robbing Peter to pay Paul (don't get me started on those custom license plate funds that aren't paid to the charities they're supposed to support). Becoming dependent on either federal stimulus dollars to balance the budget (2009) or cutting state services (2011). Using tricks like paying September bills on October 1 of the next fiscal year. IT IS A BLOODY MESS.
All I'm saying is, don't let Governor Perry tell you Texas has any clue how to run a state government. Our budget sucks and it's because our leadership has no cajones. They are beholden to a Tea Party ideology that makes little sense in a state that runs as lean as Texas does. $0.02USD.
Thanks for mentioning the Huygens/Cassini bit... I was about to say the same thing! The Huygens fiasco was even posted on Slashdot back in 2004.
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And yet, Samuel Clemens both wrote for newspapers and read them regularly. There is value there. But, you have to dig for it and digging takes practice and insight.
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/Yeah, I read the paper. Online. For free. Bite me — it's way better for local news than the local TV stations.