This week, the New Jersey Institute of Technology banned the use of file-sharing software on its campus, citing the danger of lawsuits, according to The Chronicle of Higher Education...
Couldn't this be caused due to a helium flash? I know for a short period stars which have masses high enough to burn helium undergo a very short and energetic outburst.
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Maybe SETI needs to take a closer look at these bursts?
Only small problem with that is the Arecibo Telescope is designed to receive radio waves... a far cry away from gamma rays in the electromagnetic spectrum.
...In other news, officials at The Pacific Nuclear Research Facility have denied the rumor that the case of missing plutonium was in fact stolen from their vault two weeks ago. A Libyan terrorist group had claimed responsibility for the alleged theft, however, the officials now infer the crepency to a simple clerical error. The FBI...
Naaaa.... The hairspray-ignition combo is only for newbies. The *real* fun come from pneumatic spudguns. Just remember to let the PVC glue set for 24 hrs before firing!!:)...or you might end up like my project almost did.;)
Then again the ignition ones do make more noise...hmm. noise=good. Except for when the cops are near.
If this is what they think they will get away with, then someone needs to hax0r them again... Maybe set it up as a cronjob or something?:) Sure it's childish, but it's damn funny.
It's difficult to estimate, because the human brain is incredibly fast at some things (recognizing a face/voice, processing multiple sounds/images simultaneously, etc...) that would take a computer much longer to do, but on the other hand, it's rather slow at performing specific calculations (How long does it take you to add 100 integers together?).
Even so, the human brain is rated somewhere at millions of gigaflops. Quite interesting. Here are some articles (google for some more):
Speaking of IBM drives... I thought my UltraStar drive (DDYS-T18350N) was running fine (over a year old)... however bad sectors just appeared on it suddenly and now it has been RMA'd.
I never had *any* problem with it, and suddenly this pops up. Cooling isn't an issue, my Antec case has a nice fan blowing right over it. This is probably the first time I've ever had a decent drive fail on me, excluding ancient crap IDE's and a Cheetah that came DOA (or at least on it's way there). Just goes to show me you can never be too careful about backing up! Good thing I was able to extract all my data without a hitch.
Believe you me, I am no advocate of purely-closed source development. However in this situation, does the licence of the software really matter much when it comes to a simple application such as GAIM/Trillian? Personally, I don't Trillian at all (I've used it before, and its a beast)... But if someone turned it down just because it is closed source, I think that would be a bit narrowminded.
I'm not implying anything here, just giving my $0.02
Oops... accidently hit the submit button... Anyway here's the rest:
One of my friends got a Archos at the same time as I recieved my Intel (Dec 2001). After being skeptical of having a hard drive in a portable device, I asked him to give it a good shake test. He did so vigoursly for about 10 seconds and crashed the drive... had to return it. After seeing that, I was glad I had my Intel.
Can't comment about Linux support either unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be one of the more popular MP3 players out there so I doubt it.
Yeah, I've got one too. The thing is awesome. Granted it's only 128MB but I've had next to no problems with it and the sound quality is superb. I bought the docking station as well and even thought it's a bit pricey, still think it's one the best one's out there.
One of my friends got a Archos at the same time as I recieved my Intel (Dec 2001). After being skeptical of having a hard drive in a portable device, I asked him to give it a good shake test. He did so vigoursly for about 1
Just in case anyone is too lazy to go read it, here's the content of the article:
The people who ensure that electric power is supplied constantly and consistently to the New York City subway get very little attention.
Track work somehow seems more honest -- the hoisting of heavy rails and traversing of dark tunnels. Water work seems more daring -- inflatable skiffs and scuba gear dispatched to save the system from sure inundation. Even motormen and conductors are figures of stoic romance, captaining their 400-ton trains above and below the city.
Try as you might, it is just not as easy to summon that kind of interest in a guy with a pair of alligator clips and an ohmmeter, poring over a schematic of a circuit breaker.
Then again, if it were not for that guy and the 650 volts of direct current that he knows how to dispatch through the third rail, miles of tracks and yards full of subway trains would amount to nothing more than ornamented chunks of steel.
So when an invitation was extended recently to visit a secluded stretch of land along Jamaica Bay, for a peek at what was described as "this incredible new gadget that the power guys are working on," a visit was dutifully paid.
The subway rarely conjures up images of high technology. But in a cinder-block barn near the jet path of Kennedy International Airport, the subway's chief electricians were presiding over something that looked like some kind of miniature mission control, much more rocket science than railroading.
On a desk sat a flat-panel computer screen, covered with numbers and graph patterns and colored lines. In front of the computer sat 10 whirring metal boxes slightly larger than refrigerators, a ping-pong ball levitating mysteriously in an updraft of air above one of them.
At the desk sat Robert W. Lobenstein -- Loby to his friends -- with a radio in his hand and a look of excitement on his face that only someone with an engineering degree can have.
"Five . . . four . . . three . . . two . . . one," he called into his radio. "Full acceleration southbound!"
Despite the distant roar, Mr. Lobenstein, the general superintendent of power operations for the subway, was not launching a shuttle. He was launching a train -- one of the brand-new models starting to appear now on the L line -- along a 10,000-foot test track just outside the barn.
The train and the big metal boxes inside the barn were conspiring to do something that had never been done regularly in the subway. Since the subway first opened, trains have had a one-way relationship with the third rail: they take power from it. (During peak demand, in fact, subways and commuter trains use 600 million watts, enough energy to supply all the homes in Birmingham, Ala.)
But now, harnessing the mass and momentum of the new train cars, the subway's electricians are trying to strike up a better relationship between train and rail. In theory, it works like this: A moving train consumes power. When it stops, however, it can use its motor as a generator and pump some of that power back into the third rail, to be consumed by other trains around it.
The only problem is that when the power goes back into the rail, it is quickly eaten up by the resistance of the metal. So if other trains are not close by, to scoop up the power, the extra electricity dissipates like so many ripples in a pool.
Last summer, transit electricians and officials at the New York Power Authority, which supplies the third-rail, figured out a way to fix that. It was not a radically new idea, nor did it employ especially new technology. But finding anything to fix a problem in a place as huge as the subway is always a big job.
The solution: a battery.
A very, very big battery. Or, to be more accurate, 10 of them, each weighing as much as a Volkswagen Bug and together able to store up to a million watts of power.
A chemical battery, even the biggest around, could not handle this job. So the electricians harnessed a different kind, called a flywheel, which takes electrical energy and converts it to mechanical energy, using a rotating magnetic mass that spins up to 36,000 revolutions per minute.
For the last several weeks, through countless countdowns and test runs, the flywheels have been working like sponges, successfully absorbing the extra energy put out by a braking train. Or, as Robert Schmitt, another transit electrical official, put it, excitedly: "They're sitting here, saying: `Give it to me! Give it to me! Give it to me!' "
And after taking, they have also been giving -- sensing that a train is accelerating and releasing the extra power to help it speed up.
Now, instead of a ragged green line on the computer screen, showing power dips and spikes, the lines have begun to smoothe out nicely. This makes electricians very happy.
Should the batteries be expanded to the whole subway system, they could also make accountants very happy, saving up to $20 million a year in electricity costs.
Before the visit ended the other day, a final question had to be asked: What is the purpose of the floating ping-pong ball?
"Oh, that?" Mr. Lobenstein smiled like a child. "That's just to amuse us. Sometimes, we got bored."
Yes, you may be right but you also have to remember that the earth moves 30,000 something km/s through space so if the predicted asteroid path is off by 10 million km, the earth would be well out of it's way by then.
That would be unadvisable. Depending upon the mass and orbital distance, it could wreak havoc on the Earth's tides along with the possibility of changing it's orbit.
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Maybe they will figure out why the drier always eats my socks!
Hey... is it just me or can't we redirect all e-waste to /dev/null? Seems like the simplest/most cost effective way to me.
Don't forget the all-time favorite BitchX!
I wonder what the mean clock speed of those ::with pinky to chin:: 1 billion chips is?
You forgot the token Earthquake Pills
AMEN. It's about time someone finally stands up to them.
...f*ck the RIAA.
They've been pissing everyone off entirely too much.
Couldn't this be caused due to a helium flash? I know for a short period stars which have masses high enough to burn helium undergo a very short and energetic outburst.
...In other news, officials at The Pacific Nuclear Research Facility have denied the rumor that the case of missing plutonium was in fact stolen from their vault two weeks ago. A Libyan terrorist group had claimed responsibility for the alleged theft, however, the officials now infer the crepency to a simple clerical error. The FBI...
Naaaa.... The hairspray-ignition combo is only for newbies. The *real* fun come from pneumatic spudguns. Just remember to let the PVC glue set for 24 hrs before firing!! :) ...or you might end up like my project almost did. ;)
Then again the ignition ones do make more noise...hmm. noise=good. Except for when the cops are near.
haha. this still won't stop them from being hacked. :)
Most definately.
:) Sure it's childish, but it's damn funny.
If this is what they think they will get away with, then someone needs to hax0r them again... Maybe set it up as a cronjob or something?
A slime draws near...
Yeah... I thought the DW series was the *best* RPG series for the NES. I fondly recall countless hours of playing DW4, among others.
I wish they had released more of them into the US... although I'm a bit eager to try DW7, a bit difficult without a PSX.
It's difficult to estimate, because the human brain is incredibly fast at some things (recognizing a face/voice, processing multiple sounds/images simultaneously, etc...) that would take a computer much longer to do, but on the other hand, it's rather slow at performing specific calculations (How long does it take you to add 100 integers together?).
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Even so, the human brain is rated somewhere at millions of gigaflops. Quite interesting. Here are some articles (google for some more):
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/speeches/j
http://zinos.com/cool/zinos/scan/se=AR002649/sp=v
Speaking of IBM drives... I thought my UltraStar drive (DDYS-T18350N) was running fine (over a year old)... however bad sectors just appeared on it suddenly and now it has been RMA'd.
I never had *any* problem with it, and suddenly this pops up. Cooling isn't an issue, my Antec case has a nice fan blowing right over it. This is probably the first time I've ever had a decent drive fail on me, excluding ancient crap IDE's and a Cheetah that came DOA (or at least on it's way there). Just goes to show me you can never be too careful about backing up! Good thing I was able to extract all my data without a hitch.
Believe you me, I am no advocate of purely-closed source development. However in this situation, does the licence of the software really matter much when it comes to a simple application such as GAIM/Trillian? Personally, I don't Trillian at all (I've used it before, and its a beast)... But if someone turned it down just because it is closed source, I think that would be a bit narrowminded.
I'm not implying anything here, just giving my $0.02
Oops... accidently hit the submit button... Anyway here's the rest:
One of my friends got a Archos at the same time as I recieved my Intel (Dec 2001). After being skeptical of having a hard drive in a portable device, I asked him to give it a good shake test. He did so vigoursly for about 10 seconds and crashed the drive... had to return it. After seeing that, I was glad I had my Intel.
Can't comment about Linux support either unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be one of the more popular MP3 players out there so I doubt it.
Yeah, I've got one too. The thing is awesome. Granted it's only 128MB but I've had next to no problems with it and the sound quality is superb. I bought the docking station as well and even thought it's a bit pricey, still think it's one the best one's out there.
One of my friends got a Archos at the same time as I recieved my Intel (Dec 2001). After being skeptical of having a hard drive in a portable device, I asked him to give it a good shake test. He did so vigoursly for about 1
LOL. I live in Newark... and I take offense. :-p. Just kidding... a price to pay to go to the best comp sci school in the area. :)
My dad is moving to Lindenwold and he hasnt heard about it yet...
My guess is it's one of those Weird NJ things...
...Yeah, how else am I supposed to code my 3l33t asm bootloaders without floppies? :-p
/mbr' gets tiring after awhile...
'fdisk
Just in case anyone is too lazy to go read it, here's the content of the article:
The people who ensure that electric power is supplied constantly and consistently to the New York City subway get very little attention.
Track work somehow seems more honest -- the hoisting of heavy rails and traversing of dark tunnels. Water work seems more daring -- inflatable skiffs and scuba gear dispatched to save the system from sure inundation. Even motormen and conductors are figures of stoic romance, captaining their 400-ton trains above and below the city.
Try as you might, it is just not as easy to summon that kind of interest in a guy with a pair of alligator clips and an ohmmeter, poring over a schematic of a circuit breaker.
Then again, if it were not for that guy and the 650 volts of direct current that he knows how to dispatch through the third rail, miles of tracks and yards full of subway trains would amount to nothing more than ornamented chunks of steel.
So when an invitation was extended recently to visit a secluded stretch of land along Jamaica Bay, for a peek at what was described as "this incredible new gadget that the power guys are working on," a visit was dutifully paid.
The subway rarely conjures up images of high technology. But in a cinder-block barn near the jet path of Kennedy International Airport, the subway's chief electricians were presiding over something that looked like some kind of miniature mission control, much more rocket science than railroading.
On a desk sat a flat-panel computer screen, covered with numbers and graph patterns and colored lines. In front of the computer sat 10 whirring metal boxes slightly larger than refrigerators, a ping-pong ball levitating mysteriously in an updraft of air above one of them.
At the desk sat Robert W. Lobenstein -- Loby to his friends -- with a radio in his hand and a look of excitement on his face that only someone with an engineering degree can have.
"Five . . . four . . . three . . . two . . . one," he called into his radio. "Full acceleration southbound!"
Despite the distant roar, Mr. Lobenstein, the general superintendent of power operations for the subway, was not launching a shuttle. He was launching a train -- one of the brand-new models starting to appear now on the L line -- along a 10,000-foot test track just outside the barn.
The train and the big metal boxes inside the barn were conspiring to do something that had never been done regularly in the subway. Since the subway first opened, trains have had a one-way relationship with the third rail: they take power from it. (During peak demand, in fact, subways and commuter trains use 600 million watts, enough energy to supply all the homes in Birmingham, Ala.)
But now, harnessing the mass and momentum of the new train cars, the subway's electricians are trying to strike up a better relationship between train and rail. In theory, it works like this: A moving train consumes power. When it stops, however, it can use its motor as a generator and pump some of that power back into the third rail, to be consumed by other trains around it.
The only problem is that when the power goes back into the rail, it is quickly eaten up by the resistance of the metal. So if other trains are not close by, to scoop up the power, the extra electricity dissipates like so many ripples in a pool.
Last summer, transit electricians and officials at the New York Power Authority, which supplies the third-rail, figured out a way to fix that. It was not a radically new idea, nor did it employ especially new technology. But finding anything to fix a problem in a place as huge as the subway is always a big job.
The solution: a battery.
A very, very big battery. Or, to be more accurate, 10 of them, each weighing as much as a Volkswagen Bug and together able to store up to a million watts of power.
A chemical battery, even the biggest around, could not handle this job. So the electricians harnessed a different kind, called a flywheel, which takes electrical energy and converts it to mechanical energy, using a rotating magnetic mass that spins up to 36,000 revolutions per minute.
For the last several weeks, through countless countdowns and test runs, the flywheels have been working like sponges, successfully absorbing the extra energy put out by a braking train. Or, as Robert Schmitt, another transit electrical official, put it, excitedly: "They're sitting here, saying: `Give it to me! Give it to me! Give it to me!' "
And after taking, they have also been giving -- sensing that a train is accelerating and releasing the extra power to help it speed up.
Now, instead of a ragged green line on the computer screen, showing power dips and spikes, the lines have begun to smoothe out nicely. This makes electricians very happy.
Should the batteries be expanded to the whole subway system, they could also make accountants very happy, saving up to $20 million a year in electricity costs.
Before the visit ended the other day, a final question had to be asked: What is the purpose of the floating ping-pong ball?
"Oh, that?" Mr. Lobenstein smiled like a child. "That's just to amuse us. Sometimes, we got bored."
Yes, you may be right but you also have to remember that the earth moves 30,000 something km/s through space so if the predicted asteroid path is off by 10 million km, the earth would be well out of it's way by then.
That would be unadvisable. Depending upon the mass and orbital distance, it could wreak havoc on the Earth's tides along with the possibility of changing it's orbit.