It's called 'Physics Handbook' (well, in spanish:P), from MIR Editors. The notation was a little different than the usual, but if you have one of Landau's books, you should have no problem. The funny thing is that the books were available to us under the right-wing dictatorship we lived at that time ("they're SOVIET books, it's just communist propaganda"), and they were unbelieveably cheap (it is more expensive to photocopy the book). Dover books seem expensive in comparison.
I don't know if there was such a thing as a copyright in Soviet Russia (can somebody shed some light on this?), but I agree with the parent poster: it would be a really Good Thing(TM) to have these books around again: maybe reedited in dead-tree form by some editor, maybe an online version...
Maybe I'm getting blind (it's a way too small graph), but it seems that the Mozillas (along with IE6) are the only browsers in the graph with a positive trend... that's a start, in spite of the cruel reality.
I use Jabber via Miranda-IM. I find it specially useful whenever MSN's servers are down. But I have a question, related to the topic of the article: does any Jabber based client supports some kind of videoconferencing and/or voice chat? I'm too lazy right now to lookup for this (I'm not asking for cross-platform videochat -- even if such a thing exists).
Just look at these pictures. They were taken by the Swedish Solar Telescope.
Too bad I couldn't see the transit from my place. Maybe in 2012 I can be in the right location. Does any Hawaiian, Japanese or Polinesian slashdotter have a room for rent in June 2012?:)
The francmasons usually use *very long* abbreviations (just look at obituaries -- altough I don't think masons are *that* public in many countries). This happened in England, so I won't be suprised if it turns out that this monument has some significance for francmasonry, and that D.O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.M. is some kind of message for them.
Here in Chile we use full-blown metric system: m, km/h... Yet the de facto standard paper is LETTER!! And for legal documents the paper size is 8.5 x 13 inches. Yes, inches. I don't know when in history a transition happened, if it happened (maybe after WWII --just speculating).
50 trillion of calculations per second. Is that a synonym of flop (floating-point operation)?...
How does this computer compares with the BlueGene/L (131,072 cpus, 0.5 Petaflops -estimated)? Don't be mislead by the name (*Gene)... this will be a computer for classified simulations (it will have a 1-2 year long "science run", for testing purposes with non-classified simulations).
Even in the server market, cutting on power consumption is getting more and more important. If you have a park of 1000+ machines in a data center, power consumption matters.
Altough not Pentium related, just imagine the efforts needed to power and cool down the BlueGene/L at L.Livermore. They have to cool down 131,072 CPUs! IIRC, BlueGene will use 1.5 MW, and should work at 0.5 Petaflops (as one guy from LLNL told me).
I thought the Lense-Thirring effect was already measured (abstract of the Science article here)... but it seems that GP-B is designed to do exactly that. I'm trying to RTFA anyway.
This swedish model seems to be the largest one, with a 1:20 million scale (Pluto - Sun distance is about 300 km). However, the british model will be even larger.
In a world where a TCP protocol is faster than DSL (or, for an analogy, a car is faster than a racetrack), the fact that dial-up is a form of virus protection makes perfect sense...
That quote reminded me of a radiation accident in Brazil, where IIRC a machine for cancer treatment was left abandoned in a rural road. The machine had not-so-small amounts of some radioactive isotope... maybe cobalt, maybe cesium...
Well, the tragedy began when, at night, locals were atracted by the eerie, funny looking powder, which was glowing with THAT blue color (Cerenkov radiation?). People, specially children, picked-up some of the powder and they put it onto their skins, like talc powder, just to play and glow in the dark. I don't really know how many people died. Tens... hundreds are still sick (cancer, burns).
... before its nearest approach. I remember last year, when an object near-misses Earth (I think it was bigger than our 667 friend). It was really close, in fact at that time, it was the one which was closer, about 120000 km (which didn't hit our planet). I don't remember the code, but that fact (the short distance of the fly-by) will help at finding out.
The problem: It was spotted TWO DAYS AFTER the nearest approach. Some scopes are needed in the southern hemisphere.
until OpenOffice can write a file that's 100% compatible with its Office equivalent, it won't make any headway.
Mod me -1 Redundant (or -1 Martyr for assuming I'll be getting a -1):
Even MS Office CANNOT write a file that is 100% compatible with MS Office.
Proof: Two Word files I received yesterday. Word complained because of hyphenation and other stuff. OpenOffice opened the files flawlessly. I know it's not always the case. My point is, as for my experiences, OO is as good* (or as bad) as MS Office. And MS knows it.
Cheers...
*I'm not talking about speed. Yes, OO is slow to start, but I don't start OO 20 times a day. I just leave it open if I know I'll use it later, as with any other software.
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It's called 'Physics Handbook' (well, in spanish :P), from MIR Editors. The notation was a little different than the usual, but if you have one of Landau's books, you should have no problem. The funny thing is that the books were available to us under the right-wing dictatorship we lived at that time ("they're SOVIET books, it's just communist propaganda"), and they were unbelieveably cheap (it is more expensive to photocopy the book). Dover books seem expensive in comparison.
I don't know if there was such a thing as a copyright in Soviet Russia (can somebody shed some light on this?), but I agree with the parent poster: it would be a really Good Thing(TM) to have these books around again: maybe reedited in dead-tree form by some editor, maybe an online version...
Maybe I'm getting blind (it's a way too small graph), but it seems that the Mozillas (along with IE6) are the only browsers in the graph with a positive trend... that's a start, in spite of the cruel reality.
I use Jabber via Miranda-IM. I find it specially useful whenever MSN's servers are down. But I have a question, related to the topic of the article: does any Jabber based client supports some kind of videoconferencing and/or voice chat? I'm too lazy right now to lookup for this (I'm not asking for cross-platform videochat -- even if such a thing exists).
Just look at these pictures. They were taken by the Swedish Solar Telescope.
:)
Too bad I couldn't see the transit from my place. Maybe in 2012 I can be in the right location. Does any Hawaiian, Japanese or Polinesian slashdotter have a room for rent in June 2012?
Even Cygwin moved to X.org ... there is practically no confusion now.
It has currently made observations of Comet C/2002 T7, or Comet Linear.
It's not THE Comet Linear, it's just another comet found with the LINEAR research program.
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The francmasons usually use *very long* abbreviations (just look at obituaries -- altough I don't think masons are *that* public in many countries). This happened in England, so I won't be suprised if it turns out that this monument has some significance for francmasonry, and that D.O.U.O.S.V.A.V.V.M. is some kind of message for them.
Here in Chile we use full-blown metric system: m, km/h... Yet the de facto standard paper is LETTER!! And for legal documents the paper size is 8.5 x 13 inches. Yes, inches. I don't know when in history a transition happened, if it happened (maybe after WWII --just speculating).
60.960,00 metres in Germany and Spain
;)
Bzzt! Wrong.
60.960,00 metros in Spain
50 trillion of calculations per second. Is that a synonym of flop (floating-point operation)? ...
How does this computer compares with the BlueGene/L (131,072 cpus, 0.5 Petaflops -estimated)? Don't be mislead by the name (*Gene)... this will be a computer for classified simulations (it will have a 1-2 year long "science run", for testing purposes with non-classified simulations).
Cheers...
Even in the server market, cutting on power consumption is getting more and more important. If you have a park of 1000+ machines in a data center, power consumption matters.
Altough not Pentium related, just imagine the efforts needed to power and cool down the BlueGene/L at L.Livermore. They have to cool down 131,072 CPUs! IIRC, BlueGene will use 1.5 MW, and should work at 0.5 Petaflops (as one guy from LLNL told me).
Now if they only make a Google Messenger, we're all set!
:)
This is Slashdot. We are all set if and only if that IM is Jabber based and the client can run on *IX, GNU/Linux, *BSD...
I thought the Lense-Thirring effect was already measured (abstract of the Science article here)... but it seems that GP-B is designed to do exactly that. I'm trying to RTFA anyway.
Guess why the last meeting (march) of the American Physical Society (APS) was held in Montreal...
Also, guess why the APS have in their website a section related to visa information.
This swedish model seems to be the largest one, with a 1:20 million scale (Pluto - Sun distance is about 300 km). However, the british model will be even larger.
I don't know where you live, but all the fish I eat has TWO eyes. And that's fucking^H^H^H^H^Hf****n normal!
(Profanity self-censorship applied, FCC style)
In a world where a TCP protocol is faster than DSL (or, for an analogy, a car is faster than a racetrack), the fact that dial-up is a form of virus protection makes perfect sense...
That quote reminded me of a radiation accident in Brazil, where IIRC a machine for cancer treatment was left abandoned in a rural road. The machine had not-so-small amounts of some radioactive isotope... maybe cobalt, maybe cesium...
Well, the tragedy began when, at night, locals were atracted by the eerie, funny looking powder, which was glowing with THAT blue color (Cerenkov radiation?). People, specially children, picked-up some of the powder and they put it onto their skins, like talc powder, just to play and glow in the dark. I don't really know how many people died. Tens... hundreds are still sick (cancer, burns).
Hey, the Pope lives in Vatican City, and BTW they use Tru64, i.e. Alpha!!! wow! I knew this pope was cool!
... before its nearest approach. I remember last year, when an object near-misses Earth (I think it was bigger than our 667 friend). It was really close, in fact at that time, it was the one which was closer, about 120000 km (which didn't hit our planet). I don't remember the code, but that fact (the short distance of the fly-by) will help at finding out.
The problem: It was spotted TWO DAYS AFTER the nearest approach. Some scopes are needed in the southern hemisphere.
until OpenOffice can write a file that's 100% compatible with its Office equivalent, it won't make any headway.
Mod me -1 Redundant (or -1 Martyr for assuming I'll be getting a -1):
Even MS Office CANNOT write a file that is 100% compatible with MS Office.
Proof: Two Word files I received yesterday. Word complained because of hyphenation and other stuff. OpenOffice opened the files flawlessly. I know it's not always the case. My point is, as for my experiences, OO is as good* (or as bad) as MS Office. And MS knows it.
Cheers...
*I'm not talking about speed. Yes, OO is slow to start, but I don't start OO 20 times a day. I just leave it open if I know I'll use it later, as with any other software.
Microsoft is dying.
I can see how Darl wants to smack the pingu! :)
(hey, it's a joke...)
Cheers...
Clarity and modesty: ...Perhaps I might avoid some criticism by a greater display of modesty, but the cost would be a drastic reduction in clarity.
eeewww... So much for today, back to thesis writing. MAYBE I will have some time in the future to read the book and have some informed opinion.
Cheers.