I got the following email the other day: Virginia Tech is in the process of building a Terascale Computing Cluster
which will be housed in the Andrews Information Systems Building
(AISB). For those who are interested in learning more about this project,
we will host an information session on Thursday, September 4th from 11
a.m. to noon in the Donaldson Brown Hotel and Conference Center auditorium.
We look forward to seeing you there
Terry Herdman Director of Research Computing.
I'll try to remember to take notes on this and let you all know if there's anything interesting...
A moon colony is doable, arguably more doable than a space station, you can use local material Well, it's a little more complex than that. Entirely new technologies would have to be developed for manufacturing processing in zero/low-G. You'd be surprised at how much of our materials processing and refining capabilities are dependent on bouyancy, a gravity driven effect. For example, fire does weird things in low-G because it's affected by bouyancy. NASA used to have a fun page up on the subject but I can't seem to find it, so you'll have to be content with the dumbed down Scientific American. Spinning things may offer a different approach, but developing the centrifuge technology to completely replace gravity for the scale of processing you'd have to do to mine ore, smelt, refine, extrude, and finally construct a structure out of the finished product is insane. Build the space station. It's cheaper.
Yes I have read it. As an engineer, I can tell you that this guy has some pretty crazy ideas. Most of the author's ideas are based off of having many generators that use the temperature difference of the surface waters of the tropics and the water 40 feet below it. From this he proposes floating cities be created around the generators. While the generators are possible, he gives no thought to the havoc this will create with the weather patters or the life in the oceans themselves. To colonize space but destroy the Earth in the process really isn't something that I'd like to see done in the near future...
Even so, if we ever need a name for a new month, I nominate "Hexidecember". It has a nice ring to it, and my trademark registration has already been filed.
Unfortunately, a paralegal at SCO has just discovered that they own the copyrights to "Hexidecember.";-)
Actually, there's a news release on the Vector website that states that mice who smoked the cigs have fewer tumors than the mice who smoke Camels.
Ok, actually it's some kind of topical skin application test, but smoking mice would be cool. Why can't they engineer those?
Text of the news release follows:
06.27.2002
Study Shows That OMNI(TM) Causes Significantly Fewer Tumors in Mice Than Leading Cigarette Brand
New York, June 27, 2002 - Vector Group Ltd. (NYSE: VGR) announced today that its reduced carcinogen cigarette, Omni, produced significantly fewer skin tumors in laboratory mice than the leading national brand in the Dermal Tumor Induction (or "Skin Painting") test, according to preliminary results. The skin painting test was the first test to demonstrate the link between cigarette "tar" and cancer and is among the tests currently relied on by watchdog government agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to determine the carcinogenic potential of substances in the environment like tobacco smoke.
The test, currently being conducted by a nationally recognized independent laboratory, treated 40 mice with the smoke condensate of Omni and 40 mice with the smoke condensate of the leading national brand. The latest test results show that 68% of the mice treated with the smoke condensate of the leading brand developed tumors compared to 20% of the Omni group mice - a 70% reduction.
"We're absolutely thrilled with these test results. Although more research is required, we believe these results demonstrate that production of a proven, reduced risk cigarette is quite realistic," said Bennett S. LeBow, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Vector Group. "To date, we have refrained from claiming any health benefit from smoking Vector's Omni cigarettes. However, it is ultimately our hope to market a product that is represented to be less hazardous than the most commonly smoked cigarettes on the market today. While we agree with the public health community that abstinence is the only safe alternative to smoking, we believe that something must be done for the 50 million Americans, and hundreds of millions worldwide, who do smoke. Given this exciting scientific finding and potential breakthrough, we implore the public health community to provide immediate support to our efforts to further develop a less hazardous smoking alternative."
Dr. Tony Albino, Vice-President for Public Health Affairs, stated, "The results of the skin painting test are highly encouraging and lend support to our contention that reducing carcinogens in tobacco smoke is a viable approach toward reducing cigarettes' potential to cause cancer. The skin painting test is considered fundamentally important by the scientific community in determining whether an inhaled substance, like tobacco smoke, is likely to cause cancer in humans. And, despite the fact that the direct relationship between tumor formation in mouse skin and in human lung is not yet completely understood, this test has been used by scientists at the EPA to assign relative human lung cancer risks to a wide range of carcinogens including cigarette smoke."
Dr. Albino added, "We believe that these preliminary results show that our technology is on the right track."
Vector Tobacco has developed a proprietary process in which regular tobacco is treated with a complex catalytic system, thereby significantly reducing the levels of certain carcinogens and other toxins. Additionally, Omni employs the use of an innovative carbon filter, which reduces harmful organic compounds in smoke, yet has no impact on premium taste. Vector Tobacco is committed to continuing its research to find new, innovative ways to further reduce carcinogens and other substances as well. For more information on Omni cigarettes please visit www.omnicigs.com or call 1-866-639-OMNI.
Vector Group is a holding company that indirectly owns Liggett Group Inc., Vector Tobacco Inc., and a controlling interest in New Valley Corporation.
Since they can't remove the explosives from the bomb, why not lob it at Saddam for the fun of it?(it's pretty much useless as it is)
Because it's French, that's why. It can't be lobbed, fired, launched, or even targeted. It can, however, be "given up" or "surrendered" to Iraq.
So, depending on the size of this wonder, and any power requirements, I might actually be able to realize a unit that I can take with me in places other than my car. I like to have a handheld TV at sports events to watch replays and analysis as it's broadcast, especially since I often get stuck with crappy endzone seating (no, I won't pay for better). So once the price on this comes down a bit, it shouldn't be too hard to wire it up some of my existing gear and make a unit. All that's needed are my Sony Glasstrons, my DirecTV boards (repackaged in slim form), this antenna, and a power supply that can last 3 hours. I can't wait! Don't worry, once I build the thing I'll blog it up and submit it, and CmdrTaco won't post it. But you'll get to see it eventually.
This is different. It's a phased-array non-directional antenna. It shouldn't suffer from the problems of previous low-level technologies that you might have used before.
They seemed to have a lot of information that they could not back up with respect to how evolution would take place, and why for certain species and not others.
Dude, what's with this "no evidence for evolution" slant? God's going to do it. After all, the bible mentions floods and drought, but no ice. God's got to be itching to try that one next. Have faith.;-)
You'll find when you grow up and finally finish puberty that dating becomes more than just getting laid. It's about friendship, common interests, trust, and enjoying the person whom you're with (I leave the gender open for you, but the species implied is human). If you have the opportunity to talk with a woman who's not chewing you out for exposing yourself to underage girls online, talk with her, and I'm sure she'll reitterate that which I have stated here.
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but if you're going to use the net to search for info on anyone, I'd suggest using other things than just Google. For example, I used free memberships to a couple of online dating sites to not only find out more about my date, but I had naked pic's of her before we even decided on where to go to dinner! Now that's using the net to find useful information!
Yeah, it was nice to see that the british accent is genetic, because obviously growing up in the dilithium mines of Remus didn't affect that in the least. What a good villian and great writing... for me to poop on.
Intel has made lots of money off of computer processors, but to say that they can release a substandard chip and not care about it is wrong. It's the same way with Nemesis. I've sworn off seeing these Treks in the theaters anymore. After Insurection and now this turkey of a movie, I've decided it just isn't worth it. I'll wait until someone else buys the DVD, or I'll download it from Kazaa. If you take into account that I saw the STII:TWOK in the theater three times and STIV:TVH twice, I think it's safe to say that Paramount stands to lose money from bad movies.
I think the first thing I will do is write a mod to remove the Dewbacks and have a large Ewok celebration everytime I blow up a deathstar. Some things you just shouldn't touch. Long live the original trilogy, the way it should be.
Ok, so it sounds like from this article the guy listed his system on eBay, but then sold it to a guy who "saw his ad" on eBay, but didn't actually bid on the item. This is 1. Against eBay rules for selling, and 2. Stupid. There's no way to get any kind of verification on who it was he was talking with (as he found out), no way to check out the guy's prior habits (via feedback), and no way to get back at the guy without a lot of effort. Every sale on eBay is insured up to a certain amount, with fraud protection offered through PayPal and through credit cards, COD is also the worst way to go. I tell everyone who contacts me in this manner to bid on my auctions. Period. There's a reason eBay has these rules, and this is one of them. But, no one ever said Mac users were the shiniest apples in the barrel.
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Don't you mean "Jeffries Tubes?"
Can the Big Mac play games like the WOPR?
How about a nice game of chess?
Funny, the same thing has been up on /. before...5 7&mode=thread&tid=129
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/01/09/00462
I got the following email the other day:
Virginia Tech is in the process of building a Terascale Computing Cluster which will be housed in the Andrews Information Systems Building (AISB). For those who are interested in learning more about this project, we will host an information session on Thursday, September 4th from 11 a.m. to noon in the Donaldson Brown Hotel and Conference Center auditorium.
We look forward to seeing you there
Terry Herdman Director of Research Computing.
I'll try to remember to take notes on this and let you all know if there's anything interesting...
A moon colony is doable, arguably more doable than a space station, you can use local material
Well, it's a little more complex than that. Entirely new technologies would have to be developed for manufacturing processing in zero/low-G. You'd be surprised at how much of our materials processing and refining capabilities are dependent on bouyancy, a gravity driven effect. For example, fire does weird things in low-G because it's affected by bouyancy. NASA used to have a fun page up on the subject but I can't seem to find it, so you'll have to be content with the dumbed down Scientific American.
Spinning things may offer a different approach, but developing the centrifuge technology to completely replace gravity for the scale of processing you'd have to do to mine ore, smelt, refine, extrude, and finally construct a structure out of the finished product is insane.
Build the space station. It's cheaper.
Yes I have read it. As an engineer, I can tell you that this guy has some pretty crazy ideas. Most of the author's ideas are based off of having many generators that use the temperature difference of the surface waters of the tropics and the water 40 feet below it. From this he proposes floating cities be created around the generators. While the generators are possible, he gives no thought to the havoc this will create with the weather patters or the life in the oceans themselves. To colonize space but destroy the Earth in the process really isn't something that I'd like to see done in the near future...
Even so, if we ever need a name for a new month, I nominate "Hexidecember". It has a nice ring to it, and my trademark registration has already been filed. ;-)
Unfortunately, a paralegal at SCO has just discovered that they own the copyrights to "Hexidecember."
Ah, you manage put into words the sentiments that my heart feels but that I can only dream of expressing... :-) You are my hero.
God I love April Fool's Day. Keep on posting dupes, it makes the page more fun to read.
Actually, there's a news release on the Vector website that states that mice who smoked the cigs have fewer tumors than the mice who smoke Camels. Ok, actually it's some kind of topical skin application test, but smoking mice would be cool. Why can't they engineer those? Text of the news release follows: 06.27.2002 Study Shows That OMNI(TM) Causes Significantly Fewer Tumors in Mice Than Leading Cigarette Brand New York, June 27, 2002 - Vector Group Ltd. (NYSE: VGR) announced today that its reduced carcinogen cigarette, Omni, produced significantly fewer skin tumors in laboratory mice than the leading national brand in the Dermal Tumor Induction (or "Skin Painting") test, according to preliminary results. The skin painting test was the first test to demonstrate the link between cigarette "tar" and cancer and is among the tests currently relied on by watchdog government agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to determine the carcinogenic potential of substances in the environment like tobacco smoke. The test, currently being conducted by a nationally recognized independent laboratory, treated 40 mice with the smoke condensate of Omni and 40 mice with the smoke condensate of the leading national brand. The latest test results show that 68% of the mice treated with the smoke condensate of the leading brand developed tumors compared to 20% of the Omni group mice - a 70% reduction. "We're absolutely thrilled with these test results. Although more research is required, we believe these results demonstrate that production of a proven, reduced risk cigarette is quite realistic," said Bennett S. LeBow, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Vector Group. "To date, we have refrained from claiming any health benefit from smoking Vector's Omni cigarettes. However, it is ultimately our hope to market a product that is represented to be less hazardous than the most commonly smoked cigarettes on the market today. While we agree with the public health community that abstinence is the only safe alternative to smoking, we believe that something must be done for the 50 million Americans, and hundreds of millions worldwide, who do smoke. Given this exciting scientific finding and potential breakthrough, we implore the public health community to provide immediate support to our efforts to further develop a less hazardous smoking alternative." Dr. Tony Albino, Vice-President for Public Health Affairs, stated, "The results of the skin painting test are highly encouraging and lend support to our contention that reducing carcinogens in tobacco smoke is a viable approach toward reducing cigarettes' potential to cause cancer. The skin painting test is considered fundamentally important by the scientific community in determining whether an inhaled substance, like tobacco smoke, is likely to cause cancer in humans. And, despite the fact that the direct relationship between tumor formation in mouse skin and in human lung is not yet completely understood, this test has been used by scientists at the EPA to assign relative human lung cancer risks to a wide range of carcinogens including cigarette smoke." Dr. Albino added, "We believe that these preliminary results show that our technology is on the right track." Vector Tobacco has developed a proprietary process in which regular tobacco is treated with a complex catalytic system, thereby significantly reducing the levels of certain carcinogens and other toxins. Additionally, Omni employs the use of an innovative carbon filter, which reduces harmful organic compounds in smoke, yet has no impact on premium taste. Vector Tobacco is committed to continuing its research to find new, innovative ways to further reduce carcinogens and other substances as well. For more information on Omni cigarettes please visit www.omnicigs.com or call 1-866-639-OMNI. Vector Group is a holding company that indirectly owns Liggett Group Inc., Vector Tobacco Inc., and a controlling interest in New Valley Corporation.
Since they can't remove the explosives from the bomb, why not lob it at Saddam for the fun of it?(it's pretty much useless as it is)
Because it's French, that's why. It can't be lobbed, fired, launched, or even targeted.
It can , however, be "given up" or "surrendered" to Iraq.
Indeed. The antenna receives, but it transmits to the vehicle's entertainment system. Chain of command syntax is a bitch.
So, depending on the size of this wonder, and any power requirements, I might actually be able to realize a unit that I can take with me in places other than my car.
I like to have a handheld TV at sports events to watch replays and analysis as it's broadcast, especially since I often get stuck with crappy endzone seating (no, I won't pay for better). So once the price on this comes down a bit, it shouldn't be too hard to wire it up some of my existing gear and make a unit.
All that's needed are my Sony Glasstrons, my DirecTV boards (repackaged in slim form), this antenna, and a power supply that can last 3 hours. I can't wait! Don't worry, once I build the thing I'll blog it up and submit it, and CmdrTaco won't post it. But you'll get to see it eventually.
This is different. It's a phased-array non-directional antenna. It shouldn't suffer from the problems of previous low-level technologies that you might have used before.
They seemed to have a lot of information that they could not back up with respect to how evolution would take place, and why for certain species and not others. ;-)
Dude, what's with this "no evidence for evolution" slant? God's going to do it. After all, the bible mentions floods and drought, but no ice. God's got to be itching to try that one next. Have faith.
You'll find when you grow up and finally finish puberty that dating becomes more than just getting laid. It's about friendship, common interests, trust, and enjoying the person whom you're with (I leave the gender open for you, but the species implied is human). If you have the opportunity to talk with a woman who's not chewing you out for exposing yourself to underage girls online, talk with her, and I'm sure she'll reitterate that which I have stated here.
Ha! Wish I had though of that before I paid for the dinner!
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but if you're going to use the net to search for info on anyone, I'd suggest using other things than just Google. For example, I used free memberships to a couple of online dating sites to not only find out more about my date, but I had naked pic's of her before we even decided on where to go to dinner! Now that's using the net to find useful information!
Last year I got laid off for Christmas.
Yeah, it was nice to see that the british accent is genetic, because obviously growing up in the dilithium mines of Remus didn't affect that in the least. What a good villian and great writing... for me to poop on.
Intel has made lots of money off of computer processors, but to say that they can release a substandard chip and not care about it is wrong.
It's the same way with Nemesis. I've sworn off seeing these Treks in the theaters anymore. After Insurection and now this turkey of a movie, I've decided it just isn't worth it. I'll wait until someone else buys the DVD, or I'll download it from Kazaa. If you take into account that I saw the STII:TWOK in the theater three times and STIV:TVH twice, I think it's safe to say that Paramount stands to lose money from bad movies.
I think the first thing I will do is write a mod to remove the Dewbacks and have a large Ewok celebration everytime I blow up a deathstar. Some things you just shouldn't touch.
Long live the original trilogy, the way it should be.
Ah yes, but if you read the article, he clearly states that the Buy it Now option was not used.
Reading is fundamental.
Ok, so it sounds like from this article the guy listed his system on eBay, but then sold it to a guy who "saw his ad" on eBay, but didn't actually bid on the item. This is 1. Against eBay rules for selling, and 2. Stupid. There's no way to get any kind of verification on who it was he was talking with (as he found out), no way to check out the guy's prior habits (via feedback), and no way to get back at the guy without a lot of effort. Every sale on eBay is insured up to a certain amount, with fraud protection offered through PayPal and through credit cards, COD is also the worst way to go.
I tell everyone who contacts me in this manner to bid on my auctions. Period. There's a reason eBay has these rules, and this is one of them.
But, no one ever said Mac users were the shiniest apples in the barrel.
There's a manual? ;-)
Yes, but it's in French.