I don't have any concept of scale when it comes to price for these things. Is this a big contract as far as supercomputing contracts go? The biggest? Average?
Will this thing be cooled with that cool nonconductive liquid goo stuff that it all just bathes in?
I forgot to mention... it was known then as "Nintendo" and not "NES" or "Nintendo Entertainment System"... in fact pretty much "Nintendo" meant the exact same thing as "video games" and was almost becoming a generic term like "Kleenex" for tissues.
If you grew up in the 80s, chances were you'd at least heard of the Nintendo Entertainment System.
Are you kidding me? I don't think there was anyone then who had only heard of the NES. At least for people born around 1979-1981. No one had just heard of it... you had heard of it, seen the commercials, marveled at it at your friends house, begged your parents, seen the shows, talked about it at school, read comics, played with demos at the Captron World of Nintendo store in your local mall...
The NES was everywhere. It was *THE* toy of my generation.
I will agree about it being huge... for some reason it didn't click in my mind when I saw the dimensions listed on Dell's website. I had to clear some serious space on the floor for it. I'm happy with it so far. I usually find myself rushing to print something off right before I run to school or somewhere, and honestly I don't have 20 minutes to spare on the HP Deskjet.
As a long time Windows user who has used Mac OS X as a primary OS the past 2 years, I can say that the entering the password thing never seems to get in the way for me. To me it's just like graphically doing sudo in a shell in Linux (or sudo in the bash shell in Mac OS X, for that matter). It doesn't prompt for the password unnecessarily or at odd times... just at the right times for good security.
I really think Apple did it right.
From what I've read about this user access control in Vista though... it sounds like a lot of people are finding it pops up at all the wrong times and unnecessarily.
They're not the last at all... try listening to Al Franken or some of the other people on Air America Radio.
And unlike Colbert or Stewart, Al Franken actually may run for Senator of Minnesota in 2008 (he's already moved his show from NYC to Mpls), and who knows what then afterwards.
It'd make me happy to see him in politics for sure... listening to his interviews and insights is pretty amazing.
The physics and chem guys were all taking math courses that had some applicability to their fields... Intermediate Calculus is all about proofs and theory... definitely only of interest to math majors.
It's the same reason I guess that the CIS majors don't ever take theoretical computer science classes, which is for CS/CSE.
Well this was Intermediate Calculus.... which was all about proofs mainly and was pretty tough. Keep in mind this course is MAT371 at ASU and you take it after you've taken Calc 1, Calc 2, Calc 3, Discrete Math, Linear Algebra, etc...
For a lot of the math majors in my class, this was the last course they needed to graduate, and they had been putting it off until the last minute. For others, they had already tried to take this class before, and were re-taking it, and this was the only class they were registered for that semester.
I took an Intermediate Calculus course this Spring as an elective, and I was the only non-Math major in the room (I'm Computer Science)... I asked around and I'd say 99% of the people in that class planned on getting a teaching certificate to become grade school math teachers.
I suppose the other 1% goes on to get a Masters and PhD in Math and stays at the University forever.
Does this mean that they can't fine minors for buying stuff like Playboy because of free speech?
I agree that individual stores should have the right to refuse to sell whatever they want to minors: it's their call... but it's not right to have stuff be mandatory unavailable to minors under threat of breaking the law.
Yeah, I personally have a Mac Mini that I love. It has Windows on it too, but I find (surprisingly) that I really never boot into it. And my old PC is Linux/Windows but soon to be converted to FreeBSD only.
I sort of have to deal with the machine she currently has now though, which is an Athlon 64 system.
I think I may chance to install Linux on it and see if most of what she uses will work with WINE... or else do a VMWare installation of Windows. I just don't know how the performance will be. But at least this way I can be sure that the whole system won't get taken down. And I haven't used VMWare before, only VirtualPC, but I assume I can make a backup of the whole guest operating system once I have it set up. That would at least make starting over pretty fast if things get messed up again.
I know that my sister won't accept not having admin rights... and I already was doing the best I could with getting her to use Mozilla Seamonkey and I also had AVG Anti-Virus installed from day one.
I wish I could mod you down right now for thinking about something that most people probably thought about either a) back in 5th grade, or b) while high.
Hardly a revolutionary or impressive thought, anyway.
Not to mention the fact that there is plenty of science to suggest why this is wrong... such as what we know about the physics of small scales and energies (think quantum mechanics, and how at some point you can't get into finer detail). And the fact that a being that large would not be able to do anything because of the speed at which information could travel over such large distances is limited by the speed of light and other things... Imagine your brain trying to send a signal to your foot, telling it to take a step... but by the time the signal reaches your foot, your brain has already succumbed to the ravages of entropy and no longer exists.
Shouldn't the large regions of gas (they say some bigger than the Andromeda Galaxy in dimensions) collapse under gravity and make stars, galaxies, other things? Unless I guess the gas is super hot and full of energy already.
Then again for how far away this is, maybe it already has and we won't be able to see it for a long time. The article doesn't say how far away this is in relation to us... but it does say it's 200 million light years across.
I thought that they don't go earlier than one Planck unit of time because before then, we have no understanding of the physics at all... certain forces unify or something? Or maybe at those scales quantum mechanics can't describe anything? I didn't think it was to avoid dealing with singularities at all.
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what?
oh... i said... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, OLD MAN!!!
did you hear me THAT time??
sometimes i forget to speak into the horn.
I don't have any concept of scale when it comes to price for these things. Is this a big contract as far as supercomputing contracts go? The biggest? Average?
Will this thing be cooled with that cool nonconductive liquid goo stuff that it all just bathes in?
Big Etna? BIG ETNA? You sound like a broken record. Why are you so afraid of that pathetic tub of lard?
oh right... it's a volcano.
...
Eliza.
Irony doesn't go over my head, don't worry.
How do you feel about your bit too... canned, short. Sentences. To be. Real?
Fool me once, uhhh... shame on you... uhhh.... fool me twice uhhh.... well, don't get fooled again!
I forgot to mention... it was known then as "Nintendo" and not "NES" or "Nintendo Entertainment System"... in fact pretty much "Nintendo" meant the exact same thing as "video games" and was almost becoming a generic term like "Kleenex" for tissues.
Hey, do you want to play Nintendo?
Are you kidding me? I don't think there was anyone then who had only heard of the NES. At least for people born around 1979-1981. No one had just heard of it... you had heard of it, seen the commercials, marveled at it at your friends house, begged your parents, seen the shows, talked about it at school, read comics, played with demos at the Captron World of Nintendo store in your local mall...
The NES was everywhere. It was *THE* toy of my generation.
I will agree about it being huge... for some reason it didn't click in my mind when I saw the dimensions listed on Dell's website. I had to clear some serious space on the floor for it. I'm happy with it so far. I usually find myself rushing to print something off right before I run to school or somewhere, and honestly I don't have 20 minutes to spare on the HP Deskjet.
I just bought a Dell 3100cn color laser printer for about $320 through dell.com, and all the reviews I could find ranked it higher than this HP model.
It is fully networkable and has PCL and PS support... it's great because now I can finally print from just about ANY operating system using LPD.
It also comes set with toner cartridges that should be good for 4000 prints.
As a long time Windows user who has used Mac OS X as a primary OS the past 2 years, I can say that the entering the password thing never seems to get in the way for me. To me it's just like graphically doing sudo in a shell in Linux (or sudo in the bash shell in Mac OS X, for that matter). It doesn't prompt for the password unnecessarily or at odd times... just at the right times for good security.
I really think Apple did it right.
From what I've read about this user access control in Vista though... it sounds like a lot of people are finding it pops up at all the wrong times and unnecessarily.
Look up the prices of the Pioneer LaserActive and its various modules for Genesis and TurboGrafx-16 (and karaoke?).
They're not the last at all... try listening to Al Franken or some of the other people on Air America Radio.
And unlike Colbert or Stewart, Al Franken actually may run for Senator of Minnesota in 2008 (he's already moved his show from NYC to Mpls), and who knows what then afterwards.
It'd make me happy to see him in politics for sure... listening to his interviews and insights is pretty amazing.
The physics and chem guys were all taking math courses that had some applicability to their fields... Intermediate Calculus is all about proofs and theory... definitely only of interest to math majors.
It's the same reason I guess that the CIS majors don't ever take theoretical computer science classes, which is for CS/CSE.
Well this was Intermediate Calculus.... which was all about proofs mainly and was pretty tough. Keep in mind this course is MAT371 at ASU and you take it after you've taken Calc 1, Calc 2, Calc 3, Discrete Math, Linear Algebra, etc...
For a lot of the math majors in my class, this was the last course they needed to graduate, and they had been putting it off until the last minute. For others, they had already tried to take this class before, and were re-taking it, and this was the only class they were registered for that semester.
I took an Intermediate Calculus course this Spring as an elective, and I was the only non-Math major in the room (I'm Computer Science)... I asked around and I'd say 99% of the people in that class planned on getting a teaching certificate to become grade school math teachers.
I suppose the other 1% goes on to get a Masters and PhD in Math and stays at the University forever.
I have a math major friend who is also a religion major... hope this gets some good responses cuz maybe he needs something to fall back on someday...
Does this mean that they can't fine minors for buying stuff like Playboy because of free speech?
I agree that individual stores should have the right to refuse to sell whatever they want to minors: it's their call... but it's not right to have stuff be mandatory unavailable to minors under threat of breaking the law.
Yeah, I personally have a Mac Mini that I love. It has Windows on it too, but I find (surprisingly) that I really never boot into it. And my old PC is Linux/Windows but soon to be converted to FreeBSD only.
I sort of have to deal with the machine she currently has now though, which is an Athlon 64 system.
I think I may chance to install Linux on it and see if most of what she uses will work with WINE... or else do a VMWare installation of Windows. I just don't know how the performance will be. But at least this way I can be sure that the whole system won't get taken down. And I haven't used VMWare before, only VirtualPC, but I assume I can make a backup of the whole guest operating system once I have it set up. That would at least make starting over pretty fast if things get messed up again.
I know that my sister won't accept not having admin rights... and I already was doing the best I could with getting her to use Mozilla Seamonkey and I also had AVG Anti-Virus installed from day one.
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I wish I could mod you down right now for thinking about something that most people probably thought about either a) back in 5th grade, or b) while high.
Hardly a revolutionary or impressive thought, anyway.
Not to mention the fact that there is plenty of science to suggest why this is wrong... such as what we know about the physics of small scales and energies (think quantum mechanics, and how at some point you can't get into finer detail). And the fact that a being that large would not be able to do anything because of the speed at which information could travel over such large distances is limited by the speed of light and other things... Imagine your brain trying to send a signal to your foot, telling it to take a step... but by the time the signal reaches your foot, your brain has already succumbed to the ravages of entropy and no longer exists.
Shouldn't the large regions of gas (they say some bigger than the Andromeda Galaxy in dimensions) collapse under gravity and make stars, galaxies, other things? Unless I guess the gas is super hot and full of energy already.
Then again for how far away this is, maybe it already has and we won't be able to see it for a long time. The article doesn't say how far away this is in relation to us... but it does say it's 200 million light years across.
I thought that they don't go earlier than one Planck unit of time because before then, we have no understanding of the physics at all... certain forces unify or something? Or maybe at those scales quantum mechanics can't describe anything? I didn't think it was to avoid dealing with singularities at all.
That only has the first place winner... if you want to see the story as well as the other winners and runners up....
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