I should correct myself here, Bodman (current DoE secretary) is a former MIT professor of chemical engineering. So there's a precident here for putting high-ranking academics in that position.
Also, she apparently played a pivotal role in the development of soft-serve ice-cream. In a world with runaway global warming, soft-serve would not be necessary. She was just protecting her time investment in that work.
Certainly, there's a whole lot of skills there that he's not necessairly got. However he's not just some Nobel-winning basement-dweller as one might assume, he's got some serious credentials when it comes to organising and funding research efforts, which is a pretty substantial proportion of the DoE's work. I'm surprised there hasn't been a scientist of any kind in that position before.
He's director of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, a 4000-staff, 1000-student (ish) research facility with a half-billion dollar budget. I'd say he's got the "administrator" part down.
You have to wonder whether Nintendo's all one company or a fragmentary band communicating by carrier pigeon. The DSi is about to come out and NoE decide to publish a collection of public domain books on cartridge? Wouldn't it be more sensible to charge some nominal fee for an ebook reader program on the DSi store and then let people "beam" books from the intertrons? Come to think of it, the DSi has a browser built in which will merrily read the contents of Project Gutenberg.
I'd argue that something's gravitational effects on stars are as viable a form of observation as something's radiative effects on eyes or telescopes. Anything else is electromagnetic chauvanism!;)
Actually, what occurs when two black holes meet is pretty well-understood, from a theoretical standpoint at least. A huge amount of energy is released, particularly in the form of gravity waves, which should be detectable over intergalactic distances. (I visisted LIGO Hanford over the summer and they're still waiting for the upgrades that'll bring them up to being able to confirm this experimentally.)
Their IP in this case is the reader software itself. If somebody knocked that off (God knows why they would, look at the awful 6-line-per-screen font) then they'd be in bother. As for "what sort of DRM" I believe the DS cartridge had some sort of DRM baked into it by design, but it was trivially cracked a long time ago, and essentially doesn't exist as far as the end user is concerned these days.
I'm convinced that the array names are an in-joke at this stagelike the Severe Gravitas Shortfall and the like in Iain M. Banks' work. I believe that the next European super-telescope was to be called the "Preposterously Large Array" or similar.
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"Pain, suffering, and scourge"
You mean miserable old slashdotters like you?:p
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What was amazing wasn't just that he unveiled the mouse, but pretty much launched the concept of personal computing as we know it today, including many of the metaphors we take for granted in the modern graphical OS, as well as video communications, email, hypertext... amazing scenes.
You could work around that compatability issue easily, just set up the browser so it runs inside a preset virtual machine or emulator on the host, so that you can just write x86 code for that virtual machine/emulator rather than executing it directly.* (I heard you like programs, so I put a machine in your machine so you can execute while you execute.)
Even more interestingly, it's a type of colour bistable display, so combined with the roll-to-roll process it really is electronic paper. If it's as hardy as they say, I guess we can look forward to a "real" e-ink cover in Esquire in five to ten years.
Either by coincidence, or because it acted as inspiration for the radio show, Phil Plait (of "Bad Astronomy" fame) recently published Death From The Skies!, a book which is basically a big catalogue of astronomical doomsday scenarios and how plausible and likely they are. Probably worth looking at. I'd recommend it, but I'm not allowed it in the house for reasons too complex to go into.
"Echoes" evokes the idea that the light from the star first reaches us directly, then a delayed reflection of that light reaches us afterwards. "Reflections" are colloquially assumed to be instantaneous. I think it's a neat bit of semantics, really.
Also bear in mind that watercooling or other liquid cooling just allows you to have your radiator remote from the components, granting you better-designed airflow, a single cooler for multiple components, or simply a larger cooler than could be used otherwise (especially if "remote" means "outside the case"). It doesn't magically remove heat on its own. Given that most laptops already use heat-pipes to attain exactly that goal (my own cheapo HP cools most of its components off a single blower on the chassis edge), liquid cooling would only grant an improvement by degrees, not the game-changing design shift people seem to be expecting.
BS. There's still plenty of kids out there who want to be good scientists, or engineers, or whatever. What's scary about this news is that they can achieve the best possible grades and be left with a half-assed education. The system's not just making it easier for students, it's failing them.
On an outer-space adventure, they were hit by cosmic rays. Those spiders were changed forever, in most fantastic ways! Here come the two! The fantastic two!
Spider one can spin elastic! Two can hide from sight! Spiderone got the crap end of the deal, so it murdered the other one in the night! Here come to the two! The fantastic two!
I doubt that the games industry has much against second-hand games in general. However
big-name game retailers have turned second-hand sales into a hideous profit engine. The big ones in the UK, Game and Gamestation (now one corporate entity), buy preowned titles from gamers for about 25% of the retail price, then resell them at about 75% of the retail price. The margins are so much higher on pre-owned stock that they really push it, offering bundles of pre-owned rather than new software with consoles, staff try to sell you a used rather than new copy when you enquire about a new game, etc. etc. and that cash goes straight into Game Group's pockets. None of it reaches the publisher or the developer, and gamers are given a shitty deal whether they're trading in or buying pre-owned titles, so they don't see the benefit either. I mean, £30 for a dog-eared, scratched, second-hand copy of MGS4? Seriously? Retail is the one part of gaming that pulls a profit in good times and bad. Do yourself, and gaming, a favour: buy your second-hand software anywhere but the big chains.
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That's just a deranged fantasy. Now, if you were talking about DC-10s...
I should correct myself here, Bodman (current DoE secretary) is a former MIT professor of chemical engineering. So there's a precident here for putting high-ranking academics in that position.
Also, she apparently played a pivotal role in the development of soft-serve ice-cream. In a world with runaway global warming, soft-serve would not be necessary. She was just protecting her time investment in that work.
Certainly, there's a whole lot of skills there that he's not necessairly got. However he's not just some Nobel-winning basement-dweller as one might assume, he's got some serious credentials when it comes to organising and funding research efforts, which is a pretty substantial proportion of the DoE's work. I'm surprised there hasn't been a scientist of any kind in that position before.
I think it's the physical improbability of fulfilling his request that does it. And the username.
He's director of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, a 4000-staff, 1000-student (ish) research facility with a half-billion dollar budget. I'd say he's got the "administrator" part down.
You have to wonder whether Nintendo's all one company or a fragmentary band communicating by carrier pigeon. The DSi is about to come out and NoE decide to publish a collection of public domain books on cartridge? Wouldn't it be more sensible to charge some nominal fee for an ebook reader program on the DSi store and then let people "beam" books from the intertrons? Come to think of it, the DSi has a browser built in which will merrily read the contents of Project Gutenberg.
I'd argue that something's gravitational effects on stars are as viable a form of observation as something's radiative effects on eyes or telescopes. Anything else is electromagnetic chauvanism! ;)
Actually, what occurs when two black holes meet is pretty well-understood, from a theoretical standpoint at least. A huge amount of energy is released, particularly in the form of gravity waves, which should be detectable over intergalactic distances. (I visisted LIGO Hanford over the summer and they're still waiting for the upgrades that'll bring them up to being able to confirm this experimentally.)
Their IP in this case is the reader software itself. If somebody knocked that off (God knows why they would, look at the awful 6-line-per-screen font) then they'd be in bother. As for "what sort of DRM" I believe the DS cartridge had some sort of DRM baked into it by design, but it was trivially cracked a long time ago, and essentially doesn't exist as far as the end user is concerned these days.
I'm convinced that the array names are an in-joke at this stagelike the Severe Gravitas Shortfall and the like in Iain M. Banks' work. I believe that the next European super-telescope was to be called the "Preposterously Large Array" or similar.
"Pain, suffering, and scourge"
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You mean miserable old slashdotters like you?
What was amazing wasn't just that he unveiled the mouse, but pretty much launched the concept of personal computing as we know it today, including many of the metaphors we take for granted in the modern graphical OS, as well as video communications, email, hypertext... amazing scenes.
You could work around that compatability issue easily, just set up the browser so it runs inside a preset virtual machine or emulator on the host, so that you can just write x86 code for that virtual machine/emulator rather than executing it directly.* (I heard you like programs, so I put a machine in your machine so you can execute while you execute.)
*Someone may have thought of this already.
Yes, the real news is that it's supposed to be the best of class, but even the press release calls it "one of many small steps forward".
Even more interestingly, it's a type of colour bistable display, so combined with the roll-to-roll process it really is electronic paper. If it's as hardy as they say, I guess we can look forward to a "real" e-ink cover in Esquire in five to ten years.
Either by coincidence, or because it acted as inspiration for the radio show, Phil Plait (of "Bad Astronomy" fame) recently published Death From The Skies!, a book which is basically a big catalogue of astronomical doomsday scenarios and how plausible and likely they are. Probably worth looking at. I'd recommend it, but I'm not allowed it in the house for reasons too complex to go into.
"Echoes" evokes the idea that the light from the star first reaches us directly, then a delayed reflection of that light reaches us afterwards. "Reflections" are colloquially assumed to be instantaneous. I think it's a neat bit of semantics, really.
The summary mentions a pump.
Also bear in mind that watercooling or other liquid cooling just allows you to have your radiator remote from the components, granting you better-designed airflow, a single cooler for multiple components, or simply a larger cooler than could be used otherwise (especially if "remote" means "outside the case"). It doesn't magically remove heat on its own. Given that most laptops already use heat-pipes to attain exactly that goal (my own cheapo HP cools most of its components off a single blower on the chassis edge), liquid cooling would only grant an improvement by degrees, not the game-changing design shift people seem to be expecting.
No, I didn't write this whole post for tha pun.
BS. There's still plenty of kids out there who want to be good scientists, or engineers, or whatever. What's scary about this news is that they can achieve the best possible grades and be left with a half-assed education. The system's not just making it easier for students, it's failing them.
On an outer-space adventure, they were hit by cosmic rays. Those spiders were changed forever, in most fantastic ways! Here come the two! The fantastic two!
Spider one can spin elastic! Two can hide from sight! Spiderone got the crap end of the deal, so it murdered the other one in the night! Here come to the two! The fantastic two!
It looks like our victim is...
...stone dead.
(sunglasses)
(exit)
Yeaaaaaaah!
Wind turbines do not work that way.
I doubt that the games industry has much against second-hand games in general. However big-name game retailers have turned second-hand sales into a hideous profit engine. The big ones in the UK, Game and Gamestation (now one corporate entity), buy preowned titles from gamers for about 25% of the retail price, then resell them at about 75% of the retail price. The margins are so much higher on pre-owned stock that they really push it, offering bundles of pre-owned rather than new software with consoles, staff try to sell you a used rather than new copy when you enquire about a new game, etc. etc. and that cash goes straight into Game Group's pockets. None of it reaches the publisher or the developer, and gamers are given a shitty deal whether they're trading in or buying pre-owned titles, so they don't see the benefit either. I mean, £30 for a dog-eared, scratched, second-hand copy of MGS4? Seriously? Retail is the one part of gaming that pulls a profit in good times and bad. Do yourself, and gaming, a favour: buy your second-hand software anywhere but the big chains.