Some of the latest F1s carry flywheels to store kinetic energy while braking around corners. I think that's gonna make for some interesting explosions (think shards a high way up or drums bouncing through the closest city at high speed).
So basically this is not the complete LHC user's manual, but just some technical notes about TOTEM wich is part of CMS which is one of the 3 main detectors (with ALICE and ATLAS) and not even _part_ of the accelerator ring itself. 1600 pages is nothing for a project like that. The full documentation is available on an EDMS system that several orders of magnitude more.
Argh, Heliconia... I hate it when they present a book a shitty fantasy as science fiction. Wasted my time and there's only 5 pages out of 2000 that can be called SF in it.
I did like the Baroque cycle a lot, although something escapes me entirely in the dynamics between the 3 main characters. Shaftoe/Eliza relationship is a complex impossible love story, but it makes sense. But I don't understand why those two seem to be friend with Waterhouse the few times they meet him (something like 3 times) while everything should oppose them. And the denouement, albeit satisfying, is... weird.
These researchers is *propagada* as hell and *shame* on the editors that even allowed posting of this crap
Why do you say that? When a dicey argument / poorly researched subject / controversial subject gets posted on slashdot it usually gets shredded pretty fast one way or another and in many more original ways than I can think of myself, so it's good to see (some of) them here.
However, in other countries books are expensive and often space is at a premium.
Exactly. I give away all my books after reading them because I have no space to store them. Add this to the fact that I read in english in a non-english speaking country, it adds up in terms of postage stamps to get them shipped here. I've been waiting for years for a good e-ink device. I have high hopes for the next version of the Kindle...
The Pantheon, in Rome [wikipedia.org], was built as a temple to the Roman gods, but was taken over by the Catholic church in 609 AD. It's time to return it to its original purpose, and restore the statutes of Mars, Venus, Apollo, Jupiter, and Diana.
Except that it was later taken by the republic as a burial ground for its great men. It is an amazing building (one of the 2 or 3 oldest building still standing with its original roof). Kudos to the original architect, he can be proud of his work. And right in front of it is one of Rome's best ice-cream shop, which certainly makes the visit worthwhile.
How did that old joke go ? "Why did Australia got all the convicts while America got all the religious nutcases ?" Because Australia got first pick... or something like that.
I've asked this question to a colleague and he said 'yes', but I still have my doubts. I want to get Linux on my main desktop, but there are a few Windows things I depend on, among them some specific USB hardware that Linux cannot deal with (proprietary crap).
So I'm looking for a virtualizer that can pass on the USB to the target OS, even though the host doesn't know how to deal with it. Can Sun's solution do that ? Because WMware sure as hell could not the last time I tried.
Heck, we mathies ought to count our lucky stars that Knuth ever took the time to design TeX in the first place
And we compies are crying our hearts out that he never got to finish his promised Art of computer programming. Where are my volumes 4 to 8 ?!? Get cracking. Now !!!
Funny, I just read this morning a paper about the perception of fuel use by cars being different in the US and the rest of the world. The main element, according to the article, is that while the rest of the world uses litres per 100km, the US uses miles per gallon. The article implies that when you compare two cars that do 5l/100km and 4.5l/100km, it has more psychological impact than comparing 47mil/gal and 52mil/gal because of the inverse relationship.
I'm not sure I'm following their logic but they give examples. Sorry, I don't have the reference for the article with me.
I already flamed someone for suggesting C++, and indeed I have ambivalent attitudes about PHP. It's easy to get started, it allows for efficient web pages (which may interest a kid so he can show his skills to friends "look at my cool webpage"), but I agree that it certainly corrupts the mind like Basic did.
Having now read more messages in this thread, I think too few people are mentioning specialized description languages like PovRay or even game description languages. Probably a lot more fun than trying to do a fractal in basic nowadays...
I don't usually write flaming posts, but C++ as a teaching language ?!? You are smoking crack. It has the worst and most complex syntax of any language ever invented. Even Brainf*ck has a cleaner syntax than C++.
Wanna teach a language, then take one that's both interpreted and compiled like Python, Lua, Ruby. Take something that is radically efficient like Erlang or OCaml. Take something that is meant for teaching like Logo.
I did use gentoo for a few years at home, but for professional reasons I now have to use an rpm-based distro (lots of paid-for software coming in rpm and being a bitch to install on deb or source distros). That sucks.
The bicycle production uses the same amount of energy to produce as driving the car how far?
I'd say it takes the same amount of energy to produce one hundred 15kg bikes as it does to produce a single 1.5 ton SUV. And that's before we consider a single fucking km driven. Asshat.
Today for the first time I noticed a car with blinking tail lamps. When I say blinking, I mean it was blinking as fast as a CRT monitor, but the problem is that I can see it. I'm one of those people who has never been able to stand CRT monitors at less than 100 or 120Hz. I also have a hard time with some fluorescent lighting. I suspect what I saw was the lousy application of LEDs on the backside of a car.
So, suck it up, I hear you say. Right, except that each blink leaves an annoying remanent patch on my retina that lasts for a few seconds. Imagine driving at night in a city, 10 cars in your field of vision, look left, right and suddenly you have 200 spots in your field of vision. Awesome to know what's going on, right ?
I loathed the xenon high beams when they first came out a few years ago. You know, those tiny very concentrated blue lights ? Leaves a retina trail that lasts for 20 seconds. I'm so glad that they are gone now. I've never heard if they were made illegal or if they just went out of fashion, but I hope LEDs (which are a good technology) are applied in a good way...
Of course, linked to that is the really annoying challenge to "Just fix it yourself! You've got the source!" That's an absurd claim.
Yup. I write, among other things, device drivers under Linux for a living. But each time I take a Linux graphical app and try to make some changes to it, it fails. Wrong compiler setup. Wrong libraries. Wrong rpm. Wrong system config. Wrong wrongness.
It's to the point that there are only 3 types of Linux progs that work: the one that comes with the system (and its updates), the simple "./configure; make; make install" and the kind I write myself. Any of that "fix it yourself" is crap.
And you can also use it to burn dirty actinids by modulating the beam. And YES, it runs Linux ! I'm not kidding, I just booted the reactor I'm working on for the first time this afternoon !!! Of course there's no Uranium in it while I debug the bootloader, but it will, it will...
You can use buildroot to make your own Linux Distro, I use it for embedded devices. A 300MHz board boots in exactly 4 seconds for the kernel part (including network). Add a few seconds for the bootloader and the applications and it's less than 10 seconds. Of course it's pretty minimalistic, no X-windows !
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Some of the latest F1s carry flywheels to store kinetic energy while braking around corners. I think that's gonna make for some interesting explosions (think shards a high way up or drums bouncing through the closest city at high speed).
So basically this is not the complete LHC user's manual, but just some technical notes about TOTEM wich is part of CMS which is one of the 3 main detectors (with ALICE and ATLAS) and not even _part_ of the accelerator ring itself. 1600 pages is nothing for a project like that. The full documentation is available on an EDMS system that several orders of magnitude more.
The LHC will generate several PB of data per year, as will the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope [lsst.org]. These projects aren't all that uncommon.
Shit, I'm working on those 2 projects. I'd better ask for a bigger hard drive to management...
Argh, Heliconia... I hate it when they present a book a shitty fantasy as science fiction. Wasted my time and there's only 5 pages out of 2000 that can be called SF in it.
I did like the Baroque cycle a lot, although something escapes me entirely in the dynamics between the 3 main characters. Shaftoe/Eliza relationship is a complex impossible love story, but it makes sense. But I don't understand why those two seem to be friend with Waterhouse the few times they meet him (something like 3 times) while everything should oppose them. And the denouement, albeit satisfying, is... weird.
It just delays the age at which a guy can marry. Of course it all hinges on whether or not widows can remarry easily.
These researchers is *propagada* as hell and *shame* on the editors that even allowed posting of this crap
Why do you say that? When a dicey argument / poorly researched subject / controversial subject gets posted on slashdot it usually gets shredded pretty fast one way or another and in many more original ways than I can think of myself, so it's good to see (some of) them here.
for each man with two wives, there is one with none
Bzzt, wrong. If old reach guy marries young women and then dies after some years, it still leaves room for them to remarry later.
There's a 40 year old woman swimming for the american team this year.
...and a 50 year old french biker with 1000 trophies and 7 olympiads under her belt.
Whenever you think of a clever programming trick: forget it !
However, in other countries books are expensive and often space is at a premium.
Exactly. I give away all my books after reading them because I have no space to store them. Add this to the fact that I read in english in a non-english speaking country, it adds up in terms of postage stamps to get them shipped here. I've been waiting for years for a good e-ink device. I have high hopes for the next version of the Kindle...
The Pantheon, in Rome [wikipedia.org], was built as a temple to the Roman gods, but was taken over by the Catholic church in 609 AD. It's time to return it to its original purpose, and restore the statutes of Mars, Venus, Apollo, Jupiter, and Diana.
Except that it was later taken by the republic as a burial ground for its great men. It is an amazing building (one of the 2 or 3 oldest building still standing with its original roof). Kudos to the original architect, he can be proud of his work. And right in front of it is one of Rome's best ice-cream shop, which certainly makes the visit worthwhile.
How did that old joke go ? "Why did Australia got all the convicts while America got all the religious nutcases ?" Because Australia got first pick... or something like that.
So I'm looking for a virtualizer that can pass on the USB to the target OS, even though the host doesn't know how to deal with it. Can Sun's solution do that ? Because WMware sure as hell could not the last time I tried.
Heck, we mathies ought to count our lucky stars that Knuth ever took the time to design TeX in the first place
And we compies are crying our hearts out that he never got to finish his promised Art of computer programming. Where are my volumes 4 to 8 ?!? Get cracking. Now !!!
I'm not sure I'm following their logic but they give examples. Sorry, I don't have the reference for the article with me.
Having now read more messages in this thread, I think too few people are mentioning specialized description languages like PovRay or even game description languages. Probably a lot more fun than trying to do a fractal in basic nowadays...
Wanna teach a language, then take one that's both interpreted and compiled like Python, Lua, Ruby. Take something that is radically efficient like Erlang or OCaml. Take something that is meant for teaching like Logo.
But C++ ?!? Hah, why not Perl, then !
I musta missed the sarcasm tag then... C:-P
I did use gentoo for a few years at home, but for professional reasons I now have to use an rpm-based distro (lots of paid-for software coming in rpm and being a bitch to install on deb or source distros). That sucks.
The bicycle production uses the same amount of energy to produce as driving the car how far?
I'd say it takes the same amount of energy to produce one hundred 15kg bikes as it does to produce a single 1.5 ton SUV. And that's before we consider a single fucking km driven. Asshat.
So, suck it up, I hear you say. Right, except that each blink leaves an annoying remanent patch on my retina that lasts for a few seconds. Imagine driving at night in a city, 10 cars in your field of vision, look left, right and suddenly you have 200 spots in your field of vision. Awesome to know what's going on, right ?
I loathed the xenon high beams when they first came out a few years ago. You know, those tiny very concentrated blue lights ? Leaves a retina trail that lasts for 20 seconds. I'm so glad that they are gone now. I've never heard if they were made illegal or if they just went out of fashion, but I hope LEDs (which are a good technology) are applied in a good way...
Of course, linked to that is the really annoying challenge to "Just fix it yourself! You've got the source!" That's an absurd claim.
Yup. I write, among other things, device drivers under Linux for a living. But each time I take a Linux graphical app and try to make some changes to it, it fails. Wrong compiler setup. Wrong libraries. Wrong rpm. Wrong system config. Wrong wrongness.
It's to the point that there are only 3 types of Linux progs that work: the one that comes with the system (and its updates), the simple "./configure; make; make install" and the kind I write myself. Any of that "fix it yourself" is crap.
accelerator driven subcritical reactors
And you can also use it to burn dirty actinids by modulating the beam. And YES, it runs Linux ! I'm not kidding, I just booted the reactor I'm working on for the first time this afternoon !!! Of course there's no Uranium in it while I debug the bootloader, but it will, it will...
You can use buildroot to make your own Linux Distro, I use it for embedded devices. A 300MHz board boots in exactly 4 seconds for the kernel part (including network). Add a few seconds for the bootloader and the applications and it's less than 10 seconds. Of course it's pretty minimalistic, no X-windows !