Their budget has been slashed almost in half. After all, low quality bombs are far more important than high quality science. In fact, spending on basic research is dropping at an alarming rate through all the national laboratories. This does not bode well for our future.
This isn't quite true. DOE's funding for High Energy Physics Programs (basically, Fermilab and SLAC) is down 3.1%, or $22.5 million, from $736.4 million to $713.9 million. (I couldn't find out exactly how much Fermilab lost from those cuts, but I recall seeing a figure of about a 4% decrease w/inflation, which is pretty consistent over the past 5 years) Furthermore, run times of the accelerators would be increased over FY 2005 levels at the Fermilab Tevatron (6% more operating hours) and SLAC (54% more hours).
Along with the budget cuts, the BTeV project at Fermilab was canceled. With HEP experiments at SLAC and Brookhaven going offline in a couple of years, Fermilab will soon be the only HEP lab in the nation. Currently the CDF/D0 experiments (the two main detectors) on the Tevatron are scheduled to run until 2009 or 2010. And MINOS/NuMI will run at least that long as well.
Fermilab is going through a 5% workforce reduction, voluntary at first... The saving grace for Fermilab right now will come in the form of the International Linear Collider, the Next Big Thing(tm) in HEP. More info at http://www.interactions.org/linearcollider/ and http://ilc.fnal.gov
But much like the scams used with reprogramming gift cards, a valid attack can be launched by reprogramming a different ID that (presumably) still has credits.
Say I get a bus pas with ID 1000. I use it up, then reprogram it to ID 1500. Hopefully someone buys ID 1500, activates it, and I can drain their credits with my pass.
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SEXTON! Er, I mean Saxton!
Whats up man? Haven't talked to you in a while and saw this/. post... good stuff:)
The impactor will disintegrate instantly when it hits, as will its small payload, a compact disc containing more than 500,000 names of people who wanted to vicariously tag along.
Most SGI machines (Indy, Indigo2) use 13w3 monitor cables and sync-on-green monitors. While you can find some PC monitors that work (they must be multisync or sync on green), it can still be hit or miss.
Typically if you wait long enough, you can find one of these old SGI monitors for sale around your town. They're quite nice: they're rebranded Sony 20" Trinitrons in most cases. Be sure to find one that still has the remote, and if you must buy it off eBay, don't ship UPS! They smashed my first GDM20d11 monitor, but luckily the Indigo2 made it!
I just pulled SP2 down from MS's site at a steady 1060 KB/sec. Yes, those are correct units. No, that is not an extra zero. 4m18s total download time
Connections at government research facilities are amazing;). I think there is a limit put on a per-IP basis.. but as you can see, that limit is quite high.
Absolutely. We have to get rid of this mob democracy myth; it dangerous, and hurts our Good Bushian Overlords Control over us, our locations, and our minds.
I know it was a troll, but I'll bite. Mob democracy? What the hell are you talking about? Having 500 people log on to a private business's site(Amazon), and ABUSE their system leaving bad reviews (without reading the book, no less) is completely detached from democracy.
These people clearly broke the terms of the site (reviewing without reading, focusing on topics besides the book [i.e. the litigation]). So what did Amazon do? they did things Slashdot style... moderation! But instead of marking -1, Flaimbait, the deleted the crapflood because unlike slashbots, Amazon is smart enough to to deal with trolls.
A couple months ago some journalist made some disparaging remarks about Phish and Phish fans (phans). Those "phans" with internet connections found the journalist's book on Amazon (a cookbook I believe) and did the same thing they are doing to Katie T.'s book.
It's a shame people do this... becuase actions like these don't gain any ground, and just end up leaving a bad taste in everyone's mouth.
The Democratic convention will use a standard wired network rather than WiFi. But according to Maggio, this won't provide any extra security. That's because many visitors who'll plug into the network will have computers with built-in WiFi capability. The WiFi feature is automatically switched on when the computer is running. In effect, the laptop can connect to a wired and a wireless network at the same time.
So... let me get this straight... they are going to connect to my laptop's wireless NIC, and then piggyback onto the wired connection? Riiiiight... This would be tough to accomplish... even in Windows.
Maggio said that an attacker with a high-powered WiFi access point could set up shop outside the FleetCenter, and communicate with WiFi laptops on the inside. If these laptops haven't been protected with the latest security patches, a skilled intruder will be able to gain access to the laptop. He could then leapfrog onto the Democrats' network, allowing him to steal information or vandalize computers. ''By being on both networks at the same time," said Maggio, ''that can compromise the entire network security."
I hate to nitpick your game, but if I was offered the chance to buy a 1 in 3 chance for $1M for $100k, I would (assuming I could buy infinitedly many).
Anyone who has ever taken a math class beyond junior high will tell you that is a winning bet ("house" will lose in the long run), as the more tickets you buy the more you will win. And in this (poor) example, the cost:earnings ratio is extremely disproportionate.
You can bable on all you want about chaos theory and the fact that there is no 100% guarantee that even if I bought 10000 tickets in the aforementioned lottery scenario that a single one of them would win, but Law of Averages says otherwise.
Dynamic languages the future? Unlikely. The future of programming is more likely in code that isn't written, but rather "drawn"
Many people haven't heard of LabView, even though it has been around since the late 80s. It runs on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. The premise behind LabView is there is no such thing as written code. Instead of code, applications are literally drawn by dragging variables (controls, indicators) onto the block diagram and wiring them together. For instance, if I wanted to add 1 and 2, I would create two integer objects with respective values, find the addition function, and wire them together to an output (indicator - think text box). I have written entire graphical application suites/analysis tools in a matter of days and weeks instead of months (had I written them in, say, C or Java or $your_texT_based_language_of_choice).
The only issue many will have with LabView is that it is expensive. It is also closed source, but hey, so is Java. Anyone interested in rapid application prototyping/development or digital/analog instrumentation should check out LabView.
Using matrices for decision making is nothing new. For instance, take the elementary "pie game":
There is a pie
Player 1 gets to cut the pie
Player 2 chooses a piece.
Assuming both of these players are rational (rationality = wanting the biggest piece), we can represent all possible outcomes of the game in a matrix. The payoff for Player 1 is always going to be 1-n, where n is the percentage of the pie he cut. Since this stupid example is a zero sum game, it is easy to see that Player 1 will always get the smaller of two pieces, making it not hard to conclude that the best cut is an equal, 50/50 cut.
Obviously, the concept of payoff matrices can be extrapolated for more players and variables, but doing this quickly approached the limits of solving linear systems.
You mean like what various *nix groups have been doing all along? Lets face it, any camp can be found guilty of having accused another company/organization/platform of stealing features. Remember last week's Dashboard/Konflabulator debacle?
With 6800 acres of buffalo, trails, and lakes, not to mention a swimming pool, basketball and tennis courts, a rec center and bar (the alcoholic type) its a wonder we ever get any work done around here:)
Unfortunately, your new poptart-coke creation, while tasty, isn't quite the same.
The SELEX experiment (which, incidentally ended in 1997 and this discovery resulted from a reanalysis of data) measures the results of protons colliding with solid targets of copper and diamond.
Of course, we all know what protons and other subatomic particles are(and they we are made up of them). But, we don't know what they are made up of. Enter the quarks, mesons, and gluons.
So, essentially they *do* exist in nature, but not in isolated form.
Heisenberg's theory is less related than you think. Basically, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle says that you cannot simultaneously know both the position and the momentum of a given object to arbitrary(infinite) precision.
From what (little) I understand of this new discovery, it seems to have more to do with quark interaction and symmetry than precise measurements of position and momentum.
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Their budget has been slashed almost in half. After all, low quality bombs are far more important than high quality science. In fact, spending on basic research is dropping at an alarming rate through all the national laboratories. This does not bode well for our future.
This isn't quite true. DOE's funding for High Energy Physics Programs (basically, Fermilab and SLAC) is down 3.1%, or $22.5 million, from $736.4 million to $713.9 million. (I couldn't find out exactly how much Fermilab lost from those cuts, but I recall seeing a figure of about a 4% decrease w/inflation, which is pretty consistent over the past 5 years) Furthermore, run times of the accelerators would be increased over FY 2005 levels at the Fermilab Tevatron (6% more operating hours) and SLAC (54% more hours).
Along with the budget cuts, the BTeV project at Fermilab was canceled. With HEP experiments at SLAC and Brookhaven going offline in a couple of years, Fermilab will soon be the only HEP lab in the nation. Currently the CDF/D0 experiments (the two main detectors) on the Tevatron are scheduled to run until 2009 or 2010. And MINOS/NuMI will run at least that long as well.
Fermilab is going through a 5% workforce reduction, voluntary at first... The saving grace for Fermilab right now will come in the form of the International Linear Collider, the Next Big Thing(tm) in HEP. More info at http://www.interactions.org/linearcollider/ and http://ilc.fnal.gov
More insider info upon request, heh.
But much like the scams used with reprogramming gift cards, a valid attack can be launched by reprogramming a different ID that (presumably) still has credits.
Say I get a bus pas with ID 1000. I use it up, then reprogram it to ID 1500. Hopefully someone buys ID 1500, activates it, and I can drain their credits with my pass.
SEXTON! Er, I mean Saxton!
/. post... good stuff :)
Whats up man? Haven't talked to you in a while and saw this
The impactor will disintegrate instantly when it hits, as will its small payload, a compact disc containing more than 500,000 names of people who wanted to vicariously tag along.
Man, I want to be on that CD!
Most SGI machines (Indy, Indigo2) use 13w3 monitor cables and sync-on-green monitors. While you can find some PC monitors that work (they must be multisync or sync on green), it can still be hit or miss.
Typically if you wait long enough, you can find one of these old SGI monitors for sale around your town. They're quite nice: they're rebranded Sony 20" Trinitrons in most cases. Be sure to find one that still has the remote, and if you must buy it off eBay, don't ship UPS! They smashed my first GDM20d11 monitor, but luckily the Indigo2 made it!
Hey! I have this great thing, but you can't see, use, or otherwise evaluate it on your own. But it will be great when it's done!
Does wide availability of high quality, low cost software harm or help the world's economy?
High quality? Have you looked on Freshmeat lately?
I just pulled SP2 down from MS's site at a steady 1060 KB/sec. Yes, those are correct units. No, that is not an extra zero. 4m18s total download time
;). I think there is a limit put on a per-IP basis.. but as you can see, that limit is quite high.
Connections at government research facilities are amazing
Absolutely. We have to get rid of this mob democracy myth; it dangerous, and hurts our Good Bushian Overlords Control over us, our locations, and our minds.
I know it was a troll, but I'll bite. Mob democracy? What the hell are you talking about? Having 500 people log on to a private business's site(Amazon), and ABUSE their system leaving bad reviews (without reading the book, no less) is completely detached from democracy.
These people clearly broke the terms of the site (reviewing without reading, focusing on topics besides the book [i.e. the litigation]). So what did Amazon do? they did things Slashdot style... moderation! But instead of marking -1, Flaimbait, the deleted the crapflood because unlike slashbots, Amazon is smart enough to to deal with trolls.
A couple months ago some journalist made some disparaging remarks about Phish and Phish fans (phans). Those "phans" with internet connections found the journalist's book on Amazon (a cookbook I believe) and did the same thing they are doing to Katie T.'s book.
It's a shame people do this... becuase actions like these don't gain any ground, and just end up leaving a bad taste in everyone's mouth.
It's just like OSX's Aqua, rendering the GUI in the graphics card and all...?
Good innovation.
p.s. fp? is about 100 characters shorter than your worthless depressed rant. Get some prozac, loser.
But if the summary is right, the let me be the first to say BULLSHIT!
No way in hell I'd trade my 4 megapixel camera for a shit 320x240 phone picture JPEG'd to hell.
Well, maybe this is true for the PDA part.. but most PDA users have gadget fetishes anyways.
p.s. fp?
The Democratic convention will use a standard wired network rather than WiFi. But according to Maggio, this won't provide any extra security. That's because many visitors who'll plug into the network will have computers with built-in WiFi capability. The WiFi feature is automatically switched on when the computer is running. In effect, the laptop can connect to a wired and a wireless network at the same time.
So... let me get this straight... they are going to connect to my laptop's wireless NIC, and then piggyback onto the wired connection? Riiiiight... This would be tough to accomplish... even in Windows.
Maggio said that an attacker with a high-powered WiFi access point could set up shop outside the FleetCenter, and communicate with WiFi laptops on the inside. If these laptops haven't been protected with the latest security patches, a skilled intruder will be able to gain access to the laptop. He could then leapfrog onto the Democrats' network, allowing him to steal information or vandalize computers. ''By being on both networks at the same time," said Maggio, ''that can compromise the entire network security."
Odds are, these laptops have already been 0wn3d..
I posted a back-link to this slashdot article on his obituary thread at the Lexus owner's club... it was promptly delted. You all should do the same.
I bet if you (and everyone else) bought the games too, you (and everyone else) would never have this problem
:)
copied the original speller's word and only fixed the one letter
Sesequepedalianism? That's not even in most dictionaries!
That's because it is spelled Sesequipedalianism, and dictionaries tend to spell things correctly.
I hate to nitpick your game, but if I was offered the chance to buy a 1 in 3 chance for $1M for $100k, I would (assuming I could buy infinitedly many).
Anyone who has ever taken a math class beyond junior high will tell you that is a winning bet ("house" will lose in the long run), as the more tickets you buy the more you will win. And in this (poor) example, the cost:earnings ratio is extremely disproportionate.
You can bable on all you want about chaos theory and the fact that there is no 100% guarantee that even if I bought 10000 tickets in the aforementioned lottery scenario that a single one of them would win, but Law of Averages says otherwise.
derek
Dynamic languages the future? Unlikely. The future of programming is more likely in code that isn't written, but rather "drawn"
Many people haven't heard of LabView, even though it has been around since the late 80s. It runs on Windows, Mac OS, and Linux. The premise behind LabView is there is no such thing as written code. Instead of code, applications are literally drawn by dragging variables (controls, indicators) onto the block diagram and wiring them together. For instance, if I wanted to add 1 and 2, I would create two integer objects with respective values, find the addition function, and wire them together to an output (indicator - think text box). I have written entire graphical application suites/analysis tools in a matter of days and weeks instead of months (had I written them in, say, C or Java or $your_texT_based_language_of_choice).
The only issue many will have with LabView is that it is expensive. It is also closed source, but hey, so is Java. Anyone interested in rapid application prototyping/development or digital/analog instrumentation should check out LabView.
There is a pie
Player 1 gets to cut the pie
Player 2 chooses a piece.
Assuming both of these players are rational (rationality = wanting the biggest piece), we can represent all possible outcomes of the game in a matrix. The payoff for Player 1 is always going to be 1-n, where n is the percentage of the pie he cut. Since this stupid example is a zero sum game, it is easy to see that Player 1 will always get the smaller of two pieces, making it not hard to conclude that the best cut is an equal, 50/50 cut.
Obviously, the concept of payoff matrices can be extrapolated for more players and variables, but doing this quickly approached the limits of solving linear systems.
derek
You mean like what various *nix groups have been doing all along? Lets face it, any camp can be found guilty of having accused another company/organization/platform of stealing features. Remember last week's Dashboard/Konflabulator debacle?
It's a wonder they got any work done that day...
:)
With 6800 acres of buffalo, trails, and lakes, not to mention a swimming pool, basketball and tennis courts, a rec center and bar (the alcoholic type) its a wonder we ever get any work done around here
Unfortunately, your new poptart-coke creation, while tasty, isn't quite the same.
The SELEX experiment (which, incidentally ended in 1997 and this discovery resulted from a reanalysis of data) measures the results of protons colliding with solid targets of copper and diamond.
Of course, we all know what protons and other subatomic particles are(and they we are made up of them). But, we don't know what they are made up of. Enter the quarks, mesons, and gluons.
So, essentially they *do* exist in nature, but not in isolated form.
Heisenberg's theory is less related than you think. Basically, Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle says that you cannot simultaneously know both the position and the momentum of a given object to arbitrary(infinite) precision.
From what (little) I understand of this new discovery, it seems to have more to do with quark interaction and symmetry than precise measurements of position and momentum.