Almost all high performance computing environments, as well as a great deal of scientific computing in general, is handled on Unix platforms, almost all of which are Linux or Mac OS X. If your daughter is interested in a career in science, she is sure to encounter Linux as part of her education in the sciences.
I also do extensive technical support for a not-for-profit. We recently switched most of our communication including mail, documents, calendar, and other communications and a significant part of our web presence to the Google Apps for Domain suite. We are really happy with this solution and are saving a ton of money. As a 501(c)(3), we are eligible for and have received this at no cost.
In terms of CRM, we see that Salesforce has what appears to be extremely good integration with Google Apps. We haven't tried this yet, and are somewhat concerned about costs, but may go that direction also as our usage of the Google Apps suite matures.
By the way, the new scripting tools for spreadsheets recently announced for early trial look very good, and may replace any need we have for other products.
Let me get this straight - you'll be traveling all over the world, exposed to who knows what networking and virus-prone environments, and don't already know that the Mac is your best starting point?
A Macbook Pro for anyone doing real work (viewing dailies, making storyboard or layout suggestions, doing any ancillary work actually associated with the film); smaller Macbooks for carrying around the set to do story work, check e-mail, etc., and a few minis should give you everything you need in the field. ANyone who needs to run another OS can do it via Parallels or VMWare, etc. (even VirtualBox for free if you want to). Film and Macs go together and this will produce the most comfortable, secure and performant working environment. (Plus, people will actually LIKE their machines and using them!)
f you want to spend your time debugging viruses picked up from hotel networks and doing IT support for obscure Windows problems while you should be working, that of course is your business...
By all accounts, he is an able administrator and a brilliant scientist. He also has experience doing excellent science in a university-based setting with direct applicability, and in the complications of running a very large multi-disciplinary lab.
I hope this signals, as it would seem to, a clear shift towards science-based solutions for climate change, energy production and other important problems of our time. I also hope the solutions being pursued will bring an end to the layoffs, non-paid furloughs and other severe cutbacks in our science community that have been going on steadily over the last eight years, arguably contributing to the decline in innovation that led to the current economic weakness.
During the Bush administration, there were stories of people running through the halls in the White House because they were late to their Bible study meetings; meanwhile scientists were persecuted, cut off from the press, and hounded for simply expressing accurately the results of their work on global warming and climate studies. Almost every area of science was affected, almost uniformly in a negative way. I am not opposed to religion (I am a person of quiet faith myself), but the interference with and poor funding of science, engineering and innovation over the past several years were unconscionable. High time for a change, and this looks to be a change in a good direction.
The author of this article equates "fair use" with "no protection and ignores the successful integration of easy access, CD burnability for fair use, and copy protection TO PROTECT THE AUTHORS of the music that has made Apple's model successful with both consumers and musicians. Apple has been on the forefront of protecting consumers from the subscription model (I don't want to pay continuously for access to music I already own) and music studios that want to raise the cost of songs. This iNYT piece s a stupid article that should be removed from Slashdot.
As was covered in a recent excellent Physics Today article (http://www.physicstoday.org/pt/vol-58/iss-5/conte nts.html -- unfortunately contents are subscriber-only, but you can read the summary on the contents page; I read the whole article), high energy cosmic rays can play a role in the initiation of lightning strikes. Thus it seems very reasonable to expect the presence of neutrons in the consequent cosmic ray shower, and their presence does not imply anything at all about fusion!
Unlikely. The article you quote cites no source, and the explanation they give ("when seen from the right angle") does not seem to have any physical basis for the claim.
Most of the mistakes, commentary, etc. have been captured by previous posters (see notes on APOD picture, Sky and Telescope explaining their mistake that led to the popularization of the mistaken "two full moons in a month" idea, etc. But one problem with the original article remains to be fixed:
Atmospheric scattering tends to make light from the Sun, moon etc. red not blue, if due to macroscopic particles, or just to wash out the sky color if due to water vapor, etc. The sky is blue under good conditions because you are viewing the off-angle scattering AWAY from the original light direction, strongly related to why sunsets are red (the blue light has been scattered out, most noticeable when the object shining the light is at the horizon and the light thus traverses the most atmosphere to reach you).
Sigh...
... which is bluish due to reflected light from the earth, according to the caption, NOT due to scattering from particles etc.... scattering tends to make light from the Sun, moon etc. RED not blue...
Oh for a physicist when you really need one (line now!).
Mega = capital M = 10**6
milli = small m = 10**-6
But what's 12 orders of magnitude among friends? Should matter, does matter.
(Andre Linde was once quoted as saying that the size of the universe was a number on the order of 10**100, and when asked "In what units?" he reportedly replied, "When the number is that big, the units do not matter!")
First of all, it is not possible to log into any service at Fermilab without a Kerberos principal. ftp and telnet are not permitted, and there is an active security eam that scans ports on a continuous basis and will shut down any offending machine. There is no firewall because all traffic must be either outgoing web and data services or kerberized if incoming.
I have personally seen Windows machines shut down within minutes and their wireless cards confiscated when brought onto the site if a virus is detected. These scans are not optional to the user and are automatically performed. The fact that this user was caught and security tightened to prevent recurrences is proof that there is good security there. The comments above are almost all completely uneducated.
Finally, as noted above by some (few) intelligent readers, the story is old and is really about sentencing. there has been no recent compromise.
Troll-prevention note and disclaimer: For those who think the above or the story itself is an invitation to hack, I can point out that several such attempts occur per day, keeping the security team busy and alert, but that essentially all of them fail and the rare successful ones earn the attention of the FBI.
Can anyone say "videoconferencing?" The competition is wide open for any of you dot-com victims with a little moxie left. Case in point: Polycom's competitive offering in this category goes for $11K!
How about a Linux laptop, dual-screens with OpenH323 and a whiteboard on the side to take this down to the $1K - $2K range?
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Almost all high performance computing environments, as well as a great deal of scientific computing in general, is handled on Unix platforms, almost all of which are Linux or Mac OS X. If your daughter is interested in a career in science, she is sure to encounter Linux as part of her education in the sciences.
I also do extensive technical support for a not-for-profit. We recently switched most of our communication including mail, documents, calendar, and other communications and a significant part of our web presence to the Google Apps for Domain suite. We are really happy with this solution and are saving a ton of money. As a 501(c)(3), we are eligible for and have received this at no cost.
In terms of CRM, we see that Salesforce has what appears to be extremely good integration with Google Apps. We haven't tried this yet, and are somewhat concerned about costs, but may go that direction also as our usage of the Google Apps suite matures.
By the way, the new scripting tools for spreadsheets recently announced for early trial look very good, and may replace any need we have for other products.
Let me get this straight - you'll be traveling all over the world, exposed to who knows what networking and virus-prone environments, and don't already know that the Mac is your best starting point?
A Macbook Pro for anyone doing real work (viewing dailies, making storyboard or layout suggestions, doing any ancillary work actually associated with the film); smaller Macbooks for carrying around the set to do story work, check e-mail, etc., and a few minis should give you everything you need in the field. ANyone who needs to run another OS can do it via Parallels or VMWare, etc. (even VirtualBox for free if you want to). Film and Macs go together and this will produce the most comfortable, secure and performant working environment. (Plus, people will actually LIKE their machines and using them!)
f you want to spend your time debugging viruses picked up from hotel networks and doing IT support for obscure Windows problems while you should be working, that of course is your business...
By all accounts, he is an able administrator and a brilliant scientist. He also has experience doing excellent science in a university-based setting with direct applicability, and in the complications of running a very large multi-disciplinary lab.
I hope this signals, as it would seem to, a clear shift towards science-based solutions for climate change, energy production and other important problems of our time. I also hope the solutions being pursued will bring an end to the layoffs, non-paid furloughs and other severe cutbacks in our science community that have been going on steadily over the last eight years, arguably contributing to the decline in innovation that led to the current economic weakness.
During the Bush administration, there were stories of people running through the halls in the White House because they were late to their Bible study meetings; meanwhile scientists were persecuted, cut off from the press, and hounded for simply expressing accurately the results of their work on global warming and climate studies. Almost every area of science was affected, almost uniformly in a negative way. I am not opposed to religion (I am a person of quiet faith myself), but the interference with and poor funding of science, engineering and innovation over the past several years were unconscionable. High time for a change, and this looks to be a change in a good direction.
The author of this article equates "fair use" with "no protection and ignores the successful integration of easy access, CD burnability for fair use, and copy protection TO PROTECT THE AUTHORS of the music that has made Apple's model successful with both consumers and musicians. Apple has been on the forefront of protecting consumers from the subscription model (I don't want to pay continuously for access to music I already own) and music studios that want to raise the cost of songs. This iNYT piece s a stupid article that should be removed from Slashdot.
As was covered in a recent excellent Physics Today article (http://www.physicstoday.org/pt/vol-58/iss-5/conte nts.html -- unfortunately contents are subscriber-only, but you can read the summary on the contents page; I read the whole article), high energy cosmic rays can play a role in the initiation of lightning strikes. Thus it seems very reasonable to expect the presence of neutrons in the consequent cosmic ray shower, and their presence does not imply anything at all about fusion!
Unlikely. The article you quote cites no source, and the explanation they give ("when seen from the right angle") does not seem to have any physical basis for the claim.
Clearly an early prototype of the Luxor Jr. iMac here...
Most of the mistakes, commentary, etc. have been captured by previous posters (see notes on APOD picture, Sky and Telescope explaining their mistake that led to the popularization of the mistaken "two full moons in a month" idea, etc. But one problem with the original article remains to be fixed: Atmospheric scattering tends to make light from the Sun, moon etc. red not blue, if due to macroscopic particles, or just to wash out the sky color if due to water vapor, etc. The sky is blue under good conditions because you are viewing the off-angle scattering AWAY from the original light direction, strongly related to why sunsets are red (the blue light has been scattered out, most noticeable when the object shining the light is at the horizon and the light thus traverses the most atmosphere to reach you). Sigh...
... which is bluish due to reflected light from the earth, according to the caption, NOT due to scattering from particles etc. ... scattering tends to make light from the Sun, moon etc. RED not blue...
Oh for a physicist when you really need one (line now!).
*sigh* of course. milli=-10**-3. Posting too late...
Mega = capital M = 10**6 milli = small m = 10**-6 But what's 12 orders of magnitude among friends? Should matter, does matter. (Andre Linde was once quoted as saying that the size of the universe was a number on the order of 10**100, and when asked "In what units?" he reportedly replied, "When the number is that big, the units do not matter!")
First of all, it is not possible to log into any service at Fermilab without a Kerberos principal. ftp and telnet are not permitted, and there is an active security eam that scans ports on a continuous basis and will shut down any offending machine. There is no firewall because all traffic must be either outgoing web and data services or kerberized if incoming.
I have personally seen Windows machines shut down within minutes and their wireless cards confiscated when brought onto the site if a virus is detected. These scans are not optional to the user and are automatically performed. The fact that this user was caught and security tightened to prevent recurrences is proof that there is good security there. The comments above are almost all completely uneducated.
Finally, as noted above by some (few) intelligent readers, the story is old and is really about sentencing. there has been no recent compromise.
Troll-prevention note and disclaimer: For those who think the above or the story itself is an invitation to hack, I can point out that several such attempts occur per day, keeping the security team busy and alert, but that essentially all of them fail and the rare successful ones earn the attention of the FBI.
Can anyone say "videoconferencing?" The competition is wide open for any of you dot-com victims with a little moxie left. Case in point: Polycom's competitive offering in this category goes for $11K! How about a Linux laptop, dual-screens with OpenH323 and a whiteboard on the side to take this down to the $1K - $2K range?