I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Actor Ricardo Montalban was found dead in his Los Angeles home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Actor Ricardo Montalban was found dead in his Los Angeles home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
If you know anything about the application of random numbers to Monte Carlo simulations, you would know that physically random numbers are unacceptable, unless you wish to never have a chance at reproducing your simulations.
This is why only pseudorandom number generators are used. LCGs and MT are reproducible.
In that case, pardon my misunderstanding in thinking that his post was at all related to the posted article.
His title, "Used for open science...", was a quotation from the summary specifically about the ORNL computer. His rant about "much bigger computers around" was plausibly interpreted as the biggest one, the new ORNL cluster. I certainly must have been misled.
LANL, LLNL, and SNL are all weapons labs. ORNL is primarily a science lab.
I myself have worked at three of these labs and held an account on an earlier iteration of Jaguar as well as some of LANL's other supercomputing clusters, so I ought to know.
ORNL's Jaguar cluster, although parts of it are I think "controlled" rather than open so that it can run export-controlled code, is not at all classified. It's used for biology, astronomy, physics, CFD, etc.
Also, if you knew the first thing about classified security you would realize that disallowing FTP access on a *classified* (Red network) machine to the outside internet is a necessity. To my knowledge, they don't allow *any* interconnection between classified systems and unclassified.
The radiocarbon dating you're talking about, and most of the posters are thinking of, is with the radioactive isotope Carbon-14 against the stable Carbon-12. This is what's used to date more recent carbon-based life.
This is not what this article is talking about. The method in question is using two stable isotopes and apparently wrongly assuming a correlation between the 13/12 ratio in the plants and the atmosphere.
This is a myth that's been going around for quite some time. A more heavily muscled person doesn't burn any more calories at rest. The person can burn more calories while exercising due to the ability to lift/carry/etc against more resistance, thus using more energy, but there's absolutely no basis for claiming that a well muscled person burns more calories when sitting on the couch.
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It's not a question of things that need electricity: the problem is how to get electricity from the wind turbines to places that can use it.
I work for a newspaper company. My department has lost almost 70% of it's staff in the last 3 years.
Well, with apostrophe errors like that, it's no surprise to me!
Now if only it would say, "Thanks for standing still, wanker."
Hey, well they did have to press buttons on a "soda" machine to get access to Dr. Kleiner's lab. It would be trivial to slap a Coca-Cola logo over it!
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Actor Ricardo Montalban was found dead in his Los Angeles home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
I just heard some sad news on talk radio - Actor Ricardo Montalban was found dead in his Los Angeles home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his work, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an American icon.
Give credit where credit is due:
http://xkcd.com/527/
I would give you mod points if I had them.
The internet is serious business.
Also,
http://qwantz.com/archive/001377.html
Wouldn't decimating them mean having to leave 90% of the logins?
If you know anything about the application of random numbers to Monte Carlo simulations, you would know that physically random numbers are unacceptable, unless you wish to never have a chance at reproducing your simulations.
This is why only pseudorandom number generators are used. LCGs and MT are reproducible.
Tagged "oheditors."
Tagged "oheditors"
The editors of Slashdot are almost by definition a public embarrassment.
You're totally neglecting all the efficiency losses in power transmission, AC->DC conversion, battery recharging, etc.
It wasn't my bluff, and he gave a serious answer (thus the +5).
However, the subtlety of the troll in its near-legitimacy is what makes it great.
YHBT. HAND.
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22My+Linux+Annoyances+as+a+Hardended+Windows+user%22&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hs=sfM&filter=0
In that case, pardon my misunderstanding in thinking that his post was at all related to the posted article.
His title, "Used for open science...", was a quotation from the summary specifically about the ORNL computer. His rant about "much bigger computers around" was plausibly interpreted as the biggest one, the new ORNL cluster. I certainly must have been misled.
You, sir, are an idiot.
LANL, LLNL, and SNL are all weapons labs. ORNL is primarily a science lab.
I myself have worked at three of these labs and held an account on an earlier iteration of Jaguar as well as some of LANL's other supercomputing clusters, so I ought to know.
ORNL's Jaguar cluster, although parts of it are I think "controlled" rather than open so that it can run export-controlled code, is not at all classified. It's used for biology, astronomy, physics, CFD, etc.
Also, if you knew the first thing about classified security you would realize that disallowing FTP access on a *classified* (Red network) machine to the outside internet is a necessity. To my knowledge, they don't allow *any* interconnection between classified systems and unclassified.
Anyone knows the only doomsday device worth talking about is Cobalt Thorium G.
The radiocarbon dating you're talking about, and most of the posters are thinking of, is with the radioactive isotope Carbon-14 against the stable Carbon-12. This is what's used to date more recent carbon-based life.
This is not what this article is talking about. The method in question is using two stable isotopes and apparently wrongly assuming a correlation between the 13/12 ratio in the plants and the atmosphere.
Thanks, but I'll stick with my car that doesn't use 20 pounds of cadmium and which cost only $6000 used.
Also, I'll walk and bike when possible.
And I'm never, ever going to buy a hybrid unless it has a manual transmission.
You forgot that email is for old South Koreans.
This is a myth that's been going around for quite some time. A more heavily muscled person doesn't burn any more calories at rest. The person can burn more calories while exercising due to the ability to lift/carry/etc against more resistance, thus using more energy, but there's absolutely no basis for claiming that a well muscled person burns more calories when sitting on the couch.
[citation needed]
Troll? Why isn't this modded funny? It's hilarious.