I wish more minds in Europe were actually open and thinking objectively, rather than actively seeking a reason to lash out at the U.S.
Has it occurred to you that the Europeans might indeed be open and thinking objectively? And that the conclusion that they've come to is that -- with the USA being the largest producer of CO2 emissions on the face of the planet -- the USA should be held to account over this?
Just some crazy ideas, now go back to writing off Old Yurp as a bunch of America haters -- it's much easier that way to enjoy your SUV...
To capture a colour image using CCD arrays, there are the cheap, the expensive and economic ways. The cheap way (consumer cameras) is to place itty-bitty colour filters over the entire CCD array. In this way each cell captures either red,green,blue or white.
The expensive way is to have separate CCD chips for every wavelength of light you want to capture.
For X-rays, there is an even better method. In a typical exposure of astronomical sources at X-ray wavelengths, there will be at most one photon hitting each pixel during the exposure (X-rays are pretty scarce things). Now, the charge on a CCD pixel is proportional to the energy deposited in the pixel. If you know (or can assume) that the energy deposited comes from a single photon, then you know immediately from the pixel charge what the energy of the photon was. And, via de Broglie's relation, you therefore know the wavelength of the photon.
This principle is use in the ACIS camera onboard the Chandra X-ray space telescope. ACIS imagas contain not only spatial information, but also spectral information, albeit at low resolution. Which is pretty neat!
Unfortunately, the same principle won't work for visible light, unless you can get the exposure times (including CCD readout time) to be short enough so that each pixel is hit by at most one photon. Which ain't going to happen soon.
For MANY people with top end single core systems currently, the move to dual cores will not immediately present what would be considered a smooth computing experience.
Agreed, the example given in the post was pretty inappropriate.
However, that's not to say that the advent of dual-core CPUs isn't an exciting. In my case, I've just got a $5k grant to buy a computer, with which I intend to perform magnetohydrodynamical simulations of magnetic stars. I've already decided on a multi-CPU Opteron system, but with current CPU prices I am limited to a dual-processor system. Why? Because such a system can be built using the Opteron 2xx series chips. A quad-processor system would require 8xx series chips, which are far more expensive, on account of having more memory controllers.
In principle, a quad-processor system based on 4xx series Opterons would be ideal; but AMD doesn't make such chips, only the crazily-priced 8xx chips. This is where dual core comes in: projected prices for dual-core 2xx chips are not that much above current single-core levels. Accordingly, it should be possible to build a quad-processor system using 2 dual-core 2xx Opterons, within my 5 grand budget. So I'm excited!
Indeed. On the cover of "Numerical Methods that Work", by Acton, the word 'Usually' is faintly embossed (but not inked in) between 'that' and 'Work'. Superb!
Because he also holds The Times, my favourite quality broadsheet, oft voted Newspaper of the Year? If I remember correctly, they came out for Labour, not the Conservatives, last General Election.
Explain this one to me, then: every single paper owned by Murdoch, worldwide, came out in favour of the Iraq war. If you think he doesn't tell them what to print, then you've got your head firmly planted up your arse.
And there are many non-native english speakers, ignorant one.
I disagree with your perspective. The misuse of apostrophes (in particular, the "oh shit, there is an 's' approaching, best put in an apostrophe to warn the reader") to be a crime almost exclusively committed by native English speakers.
Fortran didn't have dynamic memory allocation before F90, so GTK bindings are probably impossible until GCC 4.0.
What, and Fortran 90 has been around for *how* long? The fact that gcc does not support Fortran 90/95/2003 is no reason why bindings could not have been created for *other* vendors' compilers.
Bah, no bindings for Fortran. It would be nice to see a decent open-source GUI toolkit for Fortran; a front end does wonders for the ability of PHBs to appreciate a piece of code.
What? I was under the impression that international students and post-docs are here primarily on F1 visas.
Well, F-1 visas are for students, but postdocs (quite rightly) count as employees rather than students. Therefore, they must be on either an H1-B (work) or J-1 (exchange visitor) visa. Most of our postdocs are on H1-Bs.
Immigration is the only chance for the USA to keep its leading position in the world in all domains including IT.
Indeed. I work in the Physics & Astronomy department at a large (c. 20,000 students) university. Most of the grad students are foreign. All of the postdocs are foreign, either on H1-B visas or on J-1 visas. If it wasn't for all of these foreigners, the department would have no active research program whatsoever.
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Was the old opt-in copyright law in some way broken?
Of course! It impeded corporations' God-given right to squeeze every last dollar out of citizens/customers/consumers! So it obviously had to go....
Note: When I say "I think your Ben Franklin/Founding Fathers 'fact' is specious" what I really mean is that I think you're full of shit.
See Legends, Lies & Cherised Myths of American History by Richard Shenkman; p. 116 contains the relevant details.
If you like, you can pick up a copy off Amazon. But I imagine you'll be too busy wiping the egg off your face.
I wish more minds in Europe were actually open and thinking objectively, rather than actively seeking a reason to lash out at the U.S.
Has it occurred to you that the Europeans might indeed be open and thinking objectively? And that the conclusion that they've come to is that -- with the USA being the largest producer of CO2 emissions on the face of the planet -- the USA should be held to account over this?
Just some crazy ideas, now go back to writing off Old Yurp as a bunch of America haters -- it's much easier that way to enjoy your SUV...
Humour, meet batemanm. Batemanm, humour.
Care to provide a citation for this?
Although particular to the North American Indians, you should check out this page here.
I believe Benjamin Franklin preffered to hunt his injuns with bull mastiff dogs. Wonderful people, those Founding Fathers.
To capture a colour image using CCD arrays, there are the cheap, the expensive and economic ways. The cheap way (consumer cameras) is to place itty-bitty colour filters over the entire CCD array. In this way each cell captures either red,green,blue or white. The expensive way is to have separate CCD chips for every wavelength of light you want to capture.
For X-rays, there is an even better method. In a typical exposure of astronomical sources at X-ray wavelengths, there will be at most one photon hitting each pixel during the exposure (X-rays are pretty scarce things). Now, the charge on a CCD pixel is proportional to the energy deposited in the pixel. If you know (or can assume) that the energy deposited comes from a single photon, then you know immediately from the pixel charge what the energy of the photon was. And, via de Broglie's relation, you therefore know the wavelength of the photon.
This principle is use in the ACIS camera onboard the Chandra X-ray space telescope. ACIS imagas contain not only spatial information, but also spectral information, albeit at low resolution. Which is pretty neat!
Unfortunately, the same principle won't work for visible light, unless you can get the exposure times (including CCD readout time) to be short enough so that each pixel is hit by at most one photon. Which ain't going to happen soon.
I really loved that game. But in my opinion they committed such an atrocity that I couldn't play it any longer. They censored the word "camping".
Of course they did. You know the US Army.... don't ask.... don't tell....
wink wink
Heh...did you read about your $3/month increase yet?
Nope -- you're kidding me, right?
$40 Bucks a month? I could have a 2nd line (with a virtual London area code), and a separate fax line from Vonage for the same price.
Word, bro'. For Comcast cable TV & internet, I pay $90 a month. They're not getting any more from me, the wankers.
Well, according to the ever reliable Netcraft:
Ever reliable my arse! I'm still waiting for closure on the death of a certain OS.
....There's More Than One Way To Do It!
For MANY people with top end single core systems currently, the move to dual cores will not immediately present what would be considered a smooth computing experience.
Agreed, the example given in the post was pretty inappropriate.
However, that's not to say that the advent of dual-core CPUs isn't an exciting. In my case, I've just got a $5k grant to buy a computer, with which I intend to perform magnetohydrodynamical simulations of magnetic stars. I've already decided on a multi-CPU Opteron system, but with current CPU prices I am limited to a dual-processor system. Why? Because such a system can be built using the Opteron 2xx series chips. A quad-processor system would require 8xx series chips, which are far more expensive, on account of having more memory controllers.
In principle, a quad-processor system based on 4xx series Opterons would be ideal; but AMD doesn't make such chips, only the crazily-priced 8xx chips. This is where dual core comes in: projected prices for dual-core 2xx chips are not that much above current single-core levels. Accordingly, it should be possible to build a quad-processor system using 2 dual-core 2xx Opterons, within my 5 grand budget. So I'm excited!
Is this true? Can you link to a source?
Sure, have a look here.
Hitler's atheistic Nazis killed another 11,000,000.
Bollocks, the Nazis were Christians. Why do you think the Catholic church helped them get rid of the Jews?
The best jokes are always the subtle ones.
Indeed. On the cover of "Numerical Methods that Work", by Acton, the word 'Usually' is faintly embossed (but not inked in) between 'that' and 'Work'. Superb!
Guess what - in Latin, and most Romance languages (like French and Spanish) the order is noun adjective.
Not always. There are a number of adjectives in French that always appear before the noun -- "beau" is one example.
I have no idea about what other languages, but it makes the most logical sense to place the adjective after the noun.
Why? An adjective is a unary operator, and should therefore appear before its operand.
Because he also holds The Times, my favourite quality broadsheet, oft voted Newspaper of the Year? If I remember correctly, they came out for Labour, not the Conservatives, last General Election.
Explain this one to me, then: every single paper owned by Murdoch, worldwide, came out in favour of the Iraq war. If you think he doesn't tell them what to print, then you've got your head firmly planted up your arse.
So I guess now we have the question if what is really meant by misuse.
English != Dutch. End of question.
And there are many non-native english speakers, ignorant one.
I disagree with your perspective. The misuse of apostrophes (in particular, the "oh shit, there is an 's' approaching, best put in an apostrophe to warn the reader") to be a crime almost exclusively committed by native English speakers.
Fucking philestines!
he island is called Los Gigantos, the one that Mt Teide is located on.
Mt Teide is on Tenerife. However, the faultline actually runs through La Palma, a totally-different island.
HAL 9000 sent an astronaout out to help repair the antenna azimuth control board.
Unfortunately, the astronaut (one 'Dave') wasn't able to comply, because HAL refused to open the pod-bay door.
Fortran didn't have dynamic memory allocation before F90, so GTK bindings are probably impossible until GCC 4.0.
What, and Fortran 90 has been around for *how* long? The fact that gcc does not support Fortran 90/95/2003 is no reason why bindings could not have been created for *other* vendors' compilers.
Bah, no bindings for Fortran. It would be nice to see a decent open-source GUI toolkit for Fortran; a front end does wonders for the ability of PHBs to appreciate a piece of code.
What? I was under the impression that international students and post-docs are here primarily on F1 visas.
Well, F-1 visas are for students, but postdocs (quite rightly) count as employees rather than students. Therefore, they must be on either an H1-B (work) or J-1 (exchange visitor) visa. Most of our postdocs are on H1-Bs.
Immigration is the only chance for the USA to keep its leading position in the world in all domains including IT.
Indeed. I work in the Physics & Astronomy department at a large (c. 20,000 students) university. Most of the grad students are foreign. All of the postdocs are foreign, either on H1-B visas or on J-1 visas. If it wasn't for all of these foreigners, the department would have no active research program whatsoever.