So, as a long time Windows user, I was put off by the "application can be open but have no windows" thing... But now I see that I can a) keep Mail open without having a window cluttering my desktop and still get a notification when a new email comes in, and b) keep iTunes open and control it from the Dashboard widget while the main window remains closed. I think this enhances the user interface. It's certainly not "dreadfully incompetent."
I also found rather quickly that I could resize the dock to make it smaller. It really doesn't take up much room at all on my 23" Cinema HD display.:)
You've used a portion of my name as your own. I've clearly been using it longer than anyone else on slashdot, and I demand that you cease and desist as I have reason to believe that your use of my name has caused me great harm.
This includes, but is not limited to: not being able to get a certain song out of my head for several minutes now; for that reason and also due to my being forced to type this message, not being able to give my work the attention I'm assured it deserves; and on a related topic, damage to my reputation due to what my colleagues are referring to as a case of extreme flatulence.
The constituent particles are quarks, gluons, and leptons (not mesons). Protons and neutrons are made of quarks and gluons. Leptons are basic particles; electrons are leptons, for instance.
Mesons, though, are quark-antiquark pairs. Some mesons occur naturally, such as Pi mesons (pions) that are produced by cosmic radiation. Thus, mesons do exist in nature in their isolated form, whatever that means in this context. But they generally don't stick around very long.
Sorry but the Large Hadron Collider is being built at CERN in Europe. It is not at Fermilab, and even if it were the "controls" for it would not be on the same network as the experiments, each of which would have its own authentication hosts, etc. anyway.
The momentous laws of induction between currents and between currents and magnets were discovered by Michael Faraday in 1831-32. Faraday was asked: "What is the use of this discovery?" He answered: "What is the use of a child--it grows to be a man." Faraday's child has grown to be a man and is now the basis of all the modern applications of electricity.
-- Alfred North Whitehead, English Mathematician/Philospher (1861-1947)
I've also heard that Faraday had answered that his discovery would someday be of use to governments because they would tax it. In any case, either answer is true.
I have never understood why people are so blind to the fact that the many technologies we take advantage of today only exist because of the tireless works of discovery of physicists. Examples: electronics, medical imaging, semiconductors, acoustics, and so on...
People argue that neutrinos are not useful because they aren't seen in nature. First of all, that isn't true. Neutrinos show up in cosmic rays and other interactions that occur without the aid of expensive particle accelerators -- just not nearly as reliably.
Secondly, I would argue that before the work in the last century or two it was certainly possible for electricity to travel through copper wires, but it almost certainly did not occur "naturally" very frequently. We made it happen by discovering how to apply voltages to electrical loops. We can make neutrinos, and quite possibly some day somebody will discover how to use them. Or maybe nobody will... but would you bet all of today's precious technology that none of the physical discoveries of today will be useful in years to come?!
I'd have liked to ask one guy who got Linus' autograph on his Linux CD. "WHAT ARE YOU THINKING?" T-Shirts I can see. Books I can see. Signed Tux dolls, I can see. But a CD?
I went up to shake his hand and said that I didn't have anything for him to sign. He said, "thank you, good man" (for not asking him to sign anything) and shook my hand. What a guy!
Actually, I've met Dan and talked to him once or twice, and he's really not a "dick" at all. There is clearly a lot of interest from non-Fermilab people to attend this talk tonight, and he's obviously concerned - with good reason - that more than the intended audience will attend.
FWIW, after I posted a couple of comments earlier my Fermilab web site nearly got/.'d, so I wouldn't underestimate the public interest in this talk...
Fermilab is also using clusters of Linux PCs (farms) for data analysis and reconstruction in the upcoming Run II,and, for instance, for the CDF experiment's Level 3 trigger system.
You might have noticed that I was refuting what the other guy had said. Fermilab's gates close at 5:00pm, and the talk begins at 5:30pm, so for someone who doesn't work there to be there at that time would be outside of Fermilab's "open to the public" policy.
Now, since I do work there I might know a little more than you about whether that room would be accessable to the public or not.
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So, as a long time Windows user, I was put off by the "application can be open but have no windows" thing... But now I see that I can a) keep Mail open without having a window cluttering my desktop and still get a notification when a new email comes in, and b) keep iTunes open and control it from the Dashboard widget while the main window remains closed. I think this enhances the user interface. It's certainly not "dreadfully incompetent."
:)
I also found rather quickly that I could resize the dock to make it smaller. It really doesn't take up much room at all on my 23" Cinema HD display.
You've used a portion of my name as your own. I've clearly been using it longer than anyone else on slashdot, and I demand that you cease and desist as I have reason to believe that your use of my name has caused me great harm.
This includes, but is not limited to: not being able to get a certain song out of my head for several minutes now; for that reason and also due to my being forced to type this message, not being able to give my work the attention I'm assured it deserves; and on a related topic, damage to my reputation due to what my colleagues are referring to as a case of extreme flatulence.
Gee, the food sucked when I worked there. You could have your burger either under-cooked or over-cooked, but it wasn't necessarily your choice which.
The constituent particles are quarks, gluons, and leptons (not mesons). Protons and neutrons are made of quarks and gluons. Leptons are basic particles; electrons are leptons, for instance.
Mesons, though, are quark-antiquark pairs. Some mesons occur naturally, such as Pi mesons (pions) that are produced by cosmic radiation. Thus, mesons do exist in nature in their isolated form, whatever that means in this context. But they generally don't stick around very long.
Sorry but the Large Hadron Collider is being built at CERN in Europe. It is not at Fermilab, and even if it were the "controls" for it would not be on the same network as the experiments, each of which would have its own authentication hosts, etc. anyway.
I've also heard that Faraday had answered that his discovery would someday be of use to governments because they would tax it. In any case, either answer is true.
I have never understood why people are so blind to the fact that the many technologies we take advantage of today only exist because of the tireless works of discovery of physicists. Examples: electronics, medical imaging, semiconductors, acoustics, and so on...
People argue that neutrinos are not useful because they aren't seen in nature. First of all, that isn't true. Neutrinos show up in cosmic rays and other interactions that occur without the aid of expensive particle accelerators -- just not nearly as reliably.
Secondly, I would argue that before the work in the last century or two it was certainly possible for electricity to travel through copper wires, but it almost certainly did not occur "naturally" very frequently. We made it happen by discovering how to apply voltages to electrical loops. We can make neutrinos, and quite possibly some day somebody will discover how to use them. Or maybe nobody will... but would you bet all of today's precious technology that none of the physical discoveries of today will be useful in years to come?!
On a touchtone phone it's also called an "octothorp". So we should pronounce this "cock-toe-thorp."
It's $75 until July 14 (see their price list ). I'm buying it!
I went up to shake his hand and said that I didn't have anything for him to sign. He said, "thank you, good man" (for not asking him to sign anything) and shook my hand. What a guy!
FWIW, after I posted a couple of comments earlier my Fermilab web site nearly got /.'d, so I wouldn't underestimate the public interest in this talk...
Fermilab is also using clusters of Linux PCs (farms) for data analysis and reconstruction in the upcoming Run II,and, for instance, for the CDF experiment's Level 3 trigger system.
Now, since I do work there I might know a little more than you about whether that room would be accessable to the public or not.
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/visitor_info.html
Well, I'm going... Jealous?!
I missed that one since I was giving my talk in a different session at the same time. Oh well.
I believe they meant a millionth of a millionth of a second or 10^-12 seconds. But I agree that it wasn't totally clear.
I wasn't paying attention, and I posted a reply to the wrong story. Sorry folks...
I missed that one since I was giving my talk in a different session at the same time. Oh well.
I noticed the same thing, but never fear - there is a source RPM of initscripts-3.96-4.
I think the shipping address might give them a pretty big clue...
Can you guess my favorite TMBG song?
Signed,
Particle Man