1. Ease of use/reading, so much easier from paper than from a screen, better detail, no power problems, etc. etc.
2. Owning vs licensing. When the book-equivalent of RIAA makes us pay for each use.
3. Finally, in this day of $8+ mass market paperbacks, $20+ (or 2X that for "technical"
works) trade paperbacks and $30+ for hardbound...
why do E-books cost so much? Why doesn't an E-book not cost a $1-2 instead of $8..$10..$15?
Run II is actually divided into 2 parts, a and b with a shutdown for upgrades between the two parts. The entire run is supposed to last 3 (or 5?) years and have an integrated luminosity of 10 fb-1. Each experiment (D0 and CDF) is expected to take somewhere between 1 and a few petabytes of data (yes, that's PB = 1000 TB = 1000000 GB plus or minus 1000 vesus 1024 or so). It is expected that this dataset will contains 1000's of top quark events and a few 100 Higgs events (assuming that the Higgs mass is low and in the Tevatron energy range).
Check out us, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Our main Web site is http://www.fnal.gov/ with a subpage linked with current employment openings so there must also be something about summer openings on the site also. Have a look around.
Like other things happening in our society, I lay the blame at there being too many lawyers. Particularly too many very, very greedy lawyers. DCMA is a law written by lawyers for the benefit of lawyers at the expense of all the rest of us.
I recently started with Babylon 5 names. So far its just Garibaldi for my old 2-CPU Micron desktop system. Then I got a new IBM ThinkPad to replace the desktop box. Its small, its black, the *only* logical name was...
Yeah right. Just another way to reach into my pocket and give it to someone else. They've already pissed me off with my most recent phone bill. The total was for over $30 but I only used some $3 of local phone calls. 90% of the bill was taxes and "overhead". Including an assinine minimum usage long distance charge (AT&T) on top of the "FCC-mandated Universal Access Charge" to put more mone in the hands of the government and Ma Bell. I wish I could eliminate my long distance service altogether.
High Energy Physics experiments use vast quantities of computer time to analyze results from Terabytes (now, soon Petabytes) of data and even vaster quantities in Monte Carlo programs to generate events to under detector biases and data backgrounds. In both cases, data is discrete events. Fermilab was one of the pioneers of production farm computing - a loosely coupled multiprocessor system. The canonical farm consists of a horde of low-cost systems (workstations or PCs running Linux) that are the worker nodes plus a small number of systems which act as overall managers of the process and which parcel out the data to worker nodes. In the past the I/O nodes read the input tapes, gave a single event to each worker node, collected the results and wrote the output tape(s). Modern implementations have the worker nodes acting on a file containing 1 to a few thousand events.
I've wondered if the Monte Carlo processing (in particular) would be ameanable to SETI@home-like distributed processing. One possible problem is that the analysis and Monte Carlo generation programs are often quite large and have largish memory requirements.
See also Aironet for these as well (PC Cards, PCI/ISA cards and Access Points). Note that the 802.11 standard only defines 1 and 2 Mbit/sec at this time. The 11 Mbit standard is still in draft form as far as I know.
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My 3 beefs with E-books are:
1. Ease of use/reading, so much easier from paper than from a screen, better detail, no power problems, etc. etc.
2. Owning vs licensing. When the book-equivalent of RIAA makes us pay for each use.
3. Finally, in this day of $8+ mass market paperbacks, $20+ (or 2X that for "technical"
works) trade paperbacks and $30+ for hardbound...
why do E-books cost so much? Why doesn't an E-book not cost a $1-2 instead of $8..$10..$15?
Run II is actually divided into 2 parts, a and b with a shutdown for upgrades between the two parts. The entire run is supposed to last 3 (or 5?) years and have an integrated luminosity of 10 fb-1. Each experiment (D0 and CDF) is expected to take somewhere between 1 and a few petabytes of data (yes, that's PB = 1000 TB = 1000000 GB plus or minus 1000 vesus 1024 or so). It is expected that this dataset will contains 1000's of top quark events and a few 100 Higgs events (assuming that the Higgs mass is low and in the Tevatron energy range).
Check out us, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Our main Web site is http://www.fnal.gov/ with a subpage linked with current employment openings so there must also be something about summer openings on the site also. Have a look around.
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Why are e-books so expensive in light of the great cost reductions in materials and distribution?
Like other things happening in our society, I lay the blame at there being too many lawyers. Particularly too many very, very greedy lawyers.
DCMA is a law written by lawyers for the benefit of lawyers at the expense of all the rest of us.
A 3000+ Word document! *Shudder*
Have you ever considered using something like
TeX for stuff like that? That's what is the
choice around here for scientific papers.
I recently started with Babylon 5 names. ...
So far its just Garibaldi for my old
2-CPU Micron desktop system. Then I got
a new IBM ThinkPad to replace the desktop
box. Its small, its black, the *only*
logical name was
Bester
Yeah right. Just another way to reach into my pocket and give it to someone else. They've already pissed me off with my most recent phone bill. The total was for over $30 but I only used some $3 of local phone calls. 90% of the bill was taxes and "overhead". Including an assinine minimum usage long distance charge (AT&T) on top of the "FCC-mandated Universal Access Charge" to put more mone in the hands of the government and Ma Bell. I wish I could eliminate my long distance service altogether.
High Energy Physics experiments use vast quantities of computer time to analyze results from Terabytes (now, soon Petabytes) of data and even vaster quantities in Monte Carlo programs to generate events to under detector biases and data backgrounds. In both cases, data is discrete events. Fermilab was one of the pioneers of production farm computing - a loosely coupled multiprocessor system. The canonical farm consists of a horde of low-cost systems (workstations or PCs running Linux) that are the worker nodes plus a small number of systems which act as overall managers of the process and which parcel out the data to worker nodes. In the past the I/O nodes read the input tapes, gave a single event to each worker node, collected the results and wrote the output tape(s). Modern implementations have the worker nodes acting on a file containing 1 to a few thousand events.
I've wondered if the Monte Carlo processing (in particular) would be ameanable to SETI@home-like distributed processing. One possible problem is that the analysis and Monte Carlo generation programs are often quite large and have largish memory requirements.
See also Aironet for these as well (PC Cards,
PCI/ISA cards and Access Points). Note that
the 802.11 standard only defines 1 and 2 Mbit/sec
at this time. The 11 Mbit standard is still
in draft form as far as I know.
Also, Aironet has Linux drivers for these.