"For instance, on NASA's previous supercomputers, simulations showing five years worth of changes in ocean temperatures and sea levels were taking a year to model. But using a single SGI Altix system, scientists can simulate decades of ocean circulation in just days, while producing simulations in greater detail than ever before. And the time required to assess flight characteristics of an aircraft design, which involves thousands of complex calculations, dropped from years to a single day."
Being the NASA fanboy I am, I have to wonder if this massive computational step up doesn't share a large number of similiarities between the punch card computing age versus the modern programming age. Because of a quantum leap or five in time reduction for the bottleneck in computation time, more experiments, more radical theories, more wild stuff can be done because it won't be tying up the supercomputer for the next year... just the week. For all the wild science articles that make us salivate here... is this not the harbinger of a new era?
to SPIRO MULTIMAX 3000... can't you see it? First you make it into an acronym, so you've got SM30... and then.. and then... well, it's obvious to any genius software engineer how SM ~= VX.
The world would be a better place if all City of Heroes players - no, all MMO* subscribers - up and cancelled their subscriptions, instead giving their money to the Red Cross / $charity and devoting every waking moment to becoming/being a research scientist dedicated to curing $ailment.
Continuing this line, is your internet connection necessary for the embetterment of your fellow humans? I think someone is just a little misguided, if you ask me. You could cancel your internet access (are you curing cancer with your career in IT?), and instead... see above.
Alternatively, we can recognize that we're all very selfish and celebrate those few hiccups in our atavistic souls that vaguely resemble charity. Like a bunch of MMO* subscribers wearing red capes as a tribute to their ubermensch.
As an aside, just so this potshot is known to not be from the entirely cheap seats, I donate more than my City of Heroes subscription fee in terms of my own time to charity monthly. Sure, I'm not curing cancer, but I think I earn a free pass on wearing my red cape this week in honor of him.
Links isn't HTML 2.0 compliant (let alone 3.*, 4.*).
You can't lament not being a supported browser when it doesn't render correctly. (Sorry I can't cite the specific example, but I believe it was SPAN or HEAD that was giving it trouble)
If you are designing a pixel perfect website, you're misusing HTML to begin with. It is a text markup language, not a graphic specification - perhaps what you were looking for is PDF?
CSS is a standard, at least in the common sense of the word. http://w3.org/TR/CSS1 states that it is only a Recommendation using the W3's nominclature, but you know what? So is HTML.
That things don't look properly on all browsers is, on the most common levels (this means you, Internet Explorer) a question of noncompliant implementation. If a style is specified for an element, and you have a child element, that style should inherit down. The number of arbitrary exceptions to that boggles the mind in, for example, IE. Another common failing is custom RGB values for color words, like "green".
Anyway, if you have clients who aren't using the better-about-these-common-complaints Mozilla, they obviously enjoy reformating and viral infections on a weekly basis, and you can easily keep yourself busy with that work instead of designing something that will look right for them the one day of the month they're able to actually go online without some hijacking redirector showing them p0rn first.
My favorite part of such arguments is that Republicans, as a whole, seem to be completely oblivious to both the inertia of policy (so you made it easier for Joe Sixpack to start a business and gainfully employ five fellow Americans... that's nice, but until Joe knows about this, and has started his business, you still have six unemployed Americans, let alone lead in time for the bill to become enforced, printed, funded...) and to the fact that there seems to "just be" a cycle of recession and growth that's more or less every ten years (which yes, 'good policy' can moderate, but has yet to eliminate) until wow, it's in a Republican candidate's best interest to acknowledge them.
I'm not saying Democrats are saints, but wow... when they were handing out whoppers, this is almost as good as the whole "flip flopper" as a perjorative. As if the bill was unchanged, or as if a single bill is about a single issue. As if any elected person has ever been infallible! Sheesh. I'd rather have a politican who at least said, "Mea culpa" on a weekly basis than one who didn't - at least the former realized the mistake and can fix it, the latter, however, must maintain the illusion by sometimes massive amounts of ignorance.
Rumour is that after ten rounds of the "not-it" game (where a task is assigned to the last person to touch their nose with pointer finger and say, "Not it.") ending in a three way tie between ABC, NBC, and FOX, with CBS automatically ruled out because the event which involves vast quantities of technology would likely terrify their viewers to death, NBC finally caved in and said, "Well, we have Bravo..."
Access controls? There is probably a firewall, or the signal may be weak. Or users may have bandwidth quotas on the official university system, but no such quota from their commercial high speed providers? Alternatively (and highly unlikely in all honesty), as a form of free speech.
He can't change his opinion on supporting GWB. Then he'd be a FLIP FLOPPER, which apparently is a horrible example of duckspeak. Not doubleplusgood, to say the least.
I'm just confused as to how pretending to be infallible came to be viewed as a virtue.
I'm half tempted to attach every piece of peer student writing I come across for the next week to prove how ridiculous your assertation is.
WHILE MANY PEOPLE FIND PEDANTS WHO CORRECT POSTZ LIK THIS R LIK OMG WUT I AM JUST RITING QUICKLY I RIT GOODER FOR REALZ N R ANNOYING... it is one thing to occaisonally use "there," in place of "their," and to be lax with sentence structure (for example, I am always guilty of the horrible run-on sentence), and it is something altogether different the *active* ignorance, antipathy, and even hatred of proper rules that the average *college graduate* has.
You just work with a presumption - that people pass and are therefore competitent - which is hardly relevent (if not even a part of the author's argument!). If the goal is to produce drones who are "educated," but not learned, then of course there are millions of graduates, and of course they do fine. Think about programming, an example near and dear to most Slashdot readers (if not in reality, in image). The vast majority of code generated does not need to be "good". It hurts those of us for whom it is a craft, but the premium on skill is not on parity with the premium of computational "person-hours," so most problems are cheaper to throw another computer at than a better programmer.
The vast majority of work that "needs" doing does not require a craftsman in any field, so the field talented individuals who slip through and are excellent at their field, hurray. But they are expensive, and a premium to be avoided, if not actively discouraged. If natural curiosity of the masses were encouraged, the cost would go up for "basic" labour, as it would be indistinguishable from premium labour.
Have you sat in a classroom recently? When's the last time a student asked an insightful question? Not a "please give me attendance credit" - ATTENDANCE CREDIT?! - but an actual, insightful question? I'll tell you this - I've been in three classes where I was thrown out and yelled at by the professor because they thought I was trying to make them look incompetitent. Yeah, "self-evidently moronic" my big toe.
Slashdot culture. Now I'm keeping up with the Natalie Portmans of this world, covered as they may be in hot grits, you insensitive clod. PS, *Portman is dying! Latest Netcraft survey...
I don't understand what's so hot about this whole 'sound synthesis' process you kids are talking about. Me, I put in my vinyl, and then output the pits and grooves as text on the screen with C/PMamp... 010100000101010111010101... oh, yes, that's the really soothing introduction to Beethoveen's 3rd.
Slashdot Mirror
I have three pillars for you too..
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and the Truth is a Lie.
Alive, all dead, and mostly dead... "There's only one thing you can do if they're mostly dead [...] check their pockets for loose change."
As I'm RTFA...
"For instance, on NASA's previous supercomputers, simulations showing five years worth of changes in ocean temperatures and sea levels were taking a year to model. But using a single SGI Altix system, scientists can simulate decades of ocean circulation in just days, while producing simulations in greater detail than ever before. And the time required to assess flight characteristics of an aircraft design, which involves thousands of complex calculations, dropped from years to a single day."
Being the NASA fanboy I am, I have to wonder if this massive computational step up doesn't share a large number of similiarities between the punch card computing age versus the modern programming age. Because of a quantum leap or five in time reduction for the bottleneck in computation time, more experiments, more radical theories, more wild stuff can be done because it won't be tying up the supercomputer for the next year... just the week. For all the wild science articles that make us salivate here... is this not the harbinger of a new era?
This follows exactly with how people act. Excellent pile of roleplayers ATITD has. Next there will be a lynching.
Is that the RIAA/MPAA branded version of the classic Trivial Pursuit?
to SPIRO MULTIMAX 3000... can't you see it? First you make it into an acronym, so you've got SM30... and then.. and then... well, it's obvious to any genius software engineer how SM ~= VX.
I've never been a politician. I guess I have no basis to criticize them either.
The world would be a better place if all City of Heroes players - no, all MMO* subscribers - up and cancelled their subscriptions, instead giving their money to the Red Cross / $charity and devoting every waking moment to becoming/being a research scientist dedicated to curing $ailment.
Continuing this line, is your internet connection necessary for the embetterment of your fellow humans? I think someone is just a little misguided, if you ask me. You could cancel your internet access (are you curing cancer with your career in IT?), and instead... see above.
Alternatively, we can recognize that we're all very selfish and celebrate those few hiccups in our atavistic souls that vaguely resemble charity. Like a bunch of MMO* subscribers wearing red capes as a tribute to their ubermensch.
As an aside, just so this potshot is known to not be from the entirely cheap seats, I donate more than my City of Heroes subscription fee in terms of my own time to charity monthly. Sure, I'm not curing cancer, but I think I earn a free pass on wearing my red cape this week in honor of him.
Links isn't HTML 2.0 compliant (let alone 3.*, 4.*). You can't lament not being a supported browser when it doesn't render correctly. (Sorry I can't cite the specific example, but I believe it was SPAN or HEAD that was giving it trouble)
If you are designing a pixel perfect website, you're misusing HTML to begin with. It is a text markup language, not a graphic specification - perhaps what you were looking for is PDF?
CSS is a standard, at least in the common sense of the word. http://w3.org/TR/CSS1 states that it is only a Recommendation using the W3's nominclature, but you know what? So is HTML.
That things don't look properly on all browsers is, on the most common levels (this means you, Internet Explorer) a question of noncompliant implementation. If a style is specified for an element, and you have a child element, that style should inherit down. The number of arbitrary exceptions to that boggles the mind in, for example, IE. Another common failing is custom RGB values for color words, like "green".
Anyway, if you have clients who aren't using the better-about-these-common-complaints Mozilla, they obviously enjoy reformating and viral infections on a weekly basis, and you can easily keep yourself busy with that work instead of designing something that will look right for them the one day of the month they're able to actually go online without some hijacking redirector showing them p0rn first.
Didn't I see this story with a Carrie Fisher title like, two days ago?
WARNING! Killer run-on sentence follows.
My favorite part of such arguments is that Republicans, as a whole, seem to be completely oblivious to both the inertia of policy (so you made it easier for Joe Sixpack to start a business and gainfully employ five fellow Americans... that's nice, but until Joe knows about this, and has started his business, you still have six unemployed Americans, let alone lead in time for the bill to become enforced, printed, funded...) and to the fact that there seems to "just be" a cycle of recession and growth that's more or less every ten years (which yes, 'good policy' can moderate, but has yet to eliminate) until wow, it's in a Republican candidate's best interest to acknowledge them.
I'm not saying Democrats are saints, but wow... when they were handing out whoppers, this is almost as good as the whole "flip flopper" as a perjorative. As if the bill was unchanged, or as if a single bill is about a single issue. As if any elected person has ever been infallible! Sheesh. I'd rather have a politican who at least said, "Mea culpa" on a weekly basis than one who didn't - at least the former realized the mistake and can fix it, the latter, however, must maintain the illusion by sometimes massive amounts of ignorance.
Oops. Running OT...
Obviously in 18 months Firefox will surpass one million downloads in two days, and with half the bandwidth...
-grossly missapplying key concepts
Rumour is that after ten rounds of the "not-it" game (where a task is assigned to the last person to touch their nose with pointer finger and say, "Not it.") ending in a three way tie between ABC, NBC, and FOX, with CBS automatically ruled out because the event which involves vast quantities of technology would likely terrify their viewers to death, NBC finally caved in and said, "Well, we have Bravo..."
And that's why we now call them 'freedom' fries instead of 'french' fries.
Bean bag turret.
Access controls? There is probably a firewall, or the signal may be weak. Or users may have bandwidth quotas on the official university system, but no such quota from their commercial high speed providers? Alternatively (and highly unlikely in all honesty), as a form of free speech.
He can't change his opinion on supporting GWB. Then he'd be a FLIP FLOPPER, which apparently is a horrible example of duckspeak. Not
doubleplusgood, to say the least.
I'm just confused as to how pretending to be infallible came to be viewed as a virtue.
I'm half tempted to attach every piece of peer student writing I come across for the next week to prove how ridiculous your assertation is.
WHILE MANY PEOPLE FIND PEDANTS WHO CORRECT POSTZ LIK THIS R LIK OMG WUT I AM JUST RITING QUICKLY I RIT GOODER FOR REALZ N R ANNOYING... it is one thing to occaisonally use "there," in place of "their," and to be lax with sentence structure (for example, I am always guilty of the horrible run-on sentence), and it is something altogether different the *active* ignorance, antipathy, and even hatred of proper rules that the average *college graduate* has.
You just work with a presumption - that people pass and are therefore competitent - which is hardly relevent (if not even a part of the author's argument!). If the goal is to produce drones who are "educated," but not learned, then of course there are millions of graduates, and of course they do fine. Think about programming, an example near and dear to most Slashdot readers (if not in reality, in image). The vast majority of code generated does not need to be "good". It hurts those of us for whom it is a craft, but the premium on skill is not on parity with the premium of computational "person-hours," so most problems are cheaper to throw another computer at than a better programmer.
The vast majority of work that "needs" doing does not require a craftsman in any field, so the field talented individuals who slip through and are excellent at their field, hurray. But they are expensive, and a premium to be avoided, if not actively discouraged. If natural curiosity of the masses were encouraged, the cost would go up for "basic" labour, as it would be indistinguishable from premium labour.
Have you sat in a classroom recently? When's the last time a student asked an insightful question? Not a "please give me attendance credit" - ATTENDANCE CREDIT?! - but an actual, insightful question? I'll tell you this - I've been in three classes where I was thrown out and yelled at by the professor because they thought I was trying to make them look incompetitent. Yeah, "self-evidently moronic" my big toe.
Slashdot culture. Now I'm keeping up with the Natalie Portmans of this world, covered as they may be in hot grits, you insensitive clod. PS, *Portman is dying! Latest Netcraft survey...
Sounds like "stock options" WOO...
"We expect our stock to valuate at $50 per share in two years, so we'll pay you until then in stock shares..."
"We expect our lawsuit to end favorably in two years, so we'll pay you until then..."
lollergates. Like lollerskates, but cost more money than the second to seventh richest people evar!111! have put together.
Half the features:
Will support displaying an image
Will not support cycling it.
I don't understand what's so hot about this whole 'sound synthesis' process you kids are talking about. Me, I put in my vinyl, and then output the pits and grooves as text on the screen with C/PMamp... 010100000101010111010101... oh, yes, that's the really soothing introduction to Beethoveen's 3rd.
Notice how SANDY the residue was? I'm thinking it's (essentially) a dehydration gun. That's right, preserved human and sabation, just add water!
and as another poster said.. he was turned into a statue before. NBD.