The solution: elect people into office that don't want to be there. Make public positions a "job" instead of a "career." Even this is not likely to happen.
In the time between the Air Force's founding (1947) and NASA's founding (1958), the Air Force was the primary location of space research in the US government.
Yes. Looking back, my comment didn't have enough obvious sarcasm. I dread the day where Adobe "extends" the PDF spec and enables Macromedia-derived content in them.
...embedding Flash "things" in PDF files. It would be cool to have a motherboard manual with an interactive Flash diagram of the board. While not exactly useful, it would be neat.
I interned at ARL inside of Aberdeen Proving Grounds this past summer and when touring the supercomputer room (more like cluster room these days), the guide said they used one of the computers in the room to simulate the airflow in that room so they could align the systems for better cooling. How geeky is that!
Darn...forgot the newlines.
"Granted, it is more difficult to program something (from the ground up) that runs distributed, than it is to program something that runs on a giant 2048-way box."
Not quite. You don't use threads on Crays. I've done some work at the AHPCRC and the parallel programming done there is some combination of the following: MPI, UPC, Co-Array Fortran, OpenMP. Writing an MPI app for 2 processors is as easy as writing one for 4096.
"Granted, it is more difficult to program something (from the ground up) that runs distributed, than it is to program something that runs on a giant 2048-way box."
Not quite. You don't use threads on Crays. I've done some work at the AHPCRC and the parallel programming done there is some combination of the following: MPI, UPC, Co-Array Fortran, OpenMP.
Writing an MPI app for 2 processors is as easy as writing one for 4096.
Back around 1995, when I was in middle school, they had us do laps around the gym for no reason other than to tire us out in the name of exercise.
I joked about how there was a huge treadmill underneath the floor that stored the energy we exerted because the school's budget was declining and they had to resort to this in order to save money on power.
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The Caribou near my house is completely free WiFi. No sign-ins, time-outs, etc. Other Caribous do require sign-ins and time-outs.
100% correct, sir.
The solution: elect people into office that don't want to be there. Make public positions a "job" instead of a "career." Even this is not likely to happen.
Is defending one's boss in the job description or contract?
It'd be nice if they dumped QuickTime non-Pro and put all non-Pro QuickTime functions in iTunes.
This worked on my version of Firefox. I happen to have IE View and IETab Lite installed, but not enabled for that page.
When will Slashdot hit their 1 Billionth Dupe?
Does it drink beer?
I thought the United States is a Federation. One central/federal government with a bunch of smaller, local/sub governments of States.
In the time between the Air Force's founding (1947) and NASA's founding (1958), the Air Force was the primary location of space research in the US government.
I'll get -1 Troll for this, but who cares.
What's next, Slashdot linking articles from The Onion and thinking they are real? Better yet, BBSpot contains real news!
Yes. Looking back, my comment didn't have enough obvious sarcasm. I dread the day where Adobe "extends" the PDF spec and enables Macromedia-derived content in them.
...embedding Flash "things" in PDF files. It would be cool to have a motherboard manual with an interactive Flash diagram of the board. While not exactly useful, it would be neat.
I interned at ARL inside of Aberdeen Proving Grounds this past summer and when touring the supercomputer room (more like cluster room these days), the guide said they used one of the computers in the room to simulate the airflow in that room so they could align the systems for better cooling. How geeky is that!
What? No obvious Skynet reference?
NO! Copying files is __not stealing__. Please, understand there is no transfer of an "only copy" when duplicating bits.
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...and the Cray 2 made a good bartender turret.
I've sat on the very first Cray 1 (in a small computer museum in Chippewa Falls, WI). They aren't very padded after all those years.
The Cray employee who gave us the tour, Bruce Serling (I think), told us he used to sleep on the first Cray 1 after a long day of work.
Well, Red Bull did advertise in Wipeout XL for PS1. There are "flying" cars in that game.
Darn...forgot the newlines. "Granted, it is more difficult to program something (from the ground up) that runs distributed, than it is to program something that runs on a giant 2048-way box."
Not quite. You don't use threads on Crays. I've done some work at the AHPCRC and the parallel programming done there is some combination of the following: MPI, UPC, Co-Array Fortran, OpenMP. Writing an MPI app for 2 processors is as easy as writing one for 4096.
FWIW, the AHPCRC's Cray X1 is 152 in the Top 500.
"Granted, it is more difficult to program something (from the ground up) that runs distributed, than it is to program something that runs on a giant 2048-way box." Not quite. You don't use threads on Crays. I've done some work at the AHPCRC and the parallel programming done there is some combination of the following: MPI, UPC, Co-Array Fortran, OpenMP. Writing an MPI app for 2 processors is as easy as writing one for 4096.
Back around 1995, when I was in middle school, they had us do laps around the gym for no reason other than to tire us out in the name of exercise. I joked about how there was a huge treadmill underneath the floor that stored the energy we exerted because the school's budget was declining and they had to resort to this in order to save money on power.
I bet someone started playing an Einstuerzende Neubauten album.
That would be yoo-hoo.
Here's a thread at Ars' OpenForum giving their predictions. whiprush's initial post is very insightful.