A single timestep took around an hour and took up around 60 nodes on a Origin 2000 system (I think thats what it was at the time). He did his processing at the MSC (Minnesota Supercomputing Institute). But with faster computers doing more calculations, research takes less time and money basically.
At a news conference here today, the company plans to announce new fiber-to-the-premises (FTTP) deployment to homes and businesses in Virginia as well as in parts of Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania -- bringing to nine the total number of states where work is under way. The company had previously announced FTTP deployment in California, Florida and Texas as part its plan to pass some 1 million homes and businesses with the new technology this year. Verizon plans to pass some 2 million additional homes and businesses with the new technology next year.
I've been using the DI624 for quite a while now, and I can safely say it is the best wireless router I've used. Its stable, and provides an excellent array of features, all of which I've been using successfully to run a server.
The only complaints: It doesn't support IPv6 and it doesn't support 256 bit WEP encryption, although it provides support for WPA and WPA-PSK. The 624 is the 108 mbps version, so if you use a D-Link or Netgear card to complement it, you can get a speed rivaling 100mbps CAT5.
Finally, the server I'm running successfully runs a server on a limited connection (blocked server ports, forwarded and changed with router). I run the web server on port 81 outside, but inside the LAN its port 80. Same concept for POP and IMAP. I've seen this thing block a DDoS while still running too. The router is very nice, and I highly recommend it.
Thats actually a good idea, with RIAA complaining that file sharing hurts the music industry by letting people get songs for free, this may promote people buying CDs again. (You hear 30 seconds of a song, you like it, you buy the CD, etc.)
I'd suspect it would have something to do with it not being able to focus that close. Just like if you point a camera at something 5 cm in front of the lens, it wouldn't be able to focus on it, and you'd get a really fuzzy picture.
Why don't they just spend a single sum of around $10 mil to build another Hubble, but better. The Hubble's old now, and they're spending tons of money to build better ground ones, but the ones in space have infinitely better headroom because theres not air in space...
Au contraire. Global warming is the effect of the increase in greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. If you decrease the amount of greenhouse gasses, the heat radiates more readily from the Earth.
When you said electricity releases the heat back into the atmosphere, thats somewhat true, but heat naturally radiates from Earth at a pretty high rate. Greenhouse gasses are the important factors in global warming, not energy. When we say we're taking energy from the wind instead of coal or oil, we mean we're not producing the greenhouse gas byproducts.
Unfortunately, this would kill out some of the already endangered animals such as polar bears.
Just because we CAN trash this planet doesn't mean we should.
Common sense? Huh? What's that?:P
We all know that common sense doesn't really exist for us/.ers, cuz that would mean we wouldn't be here right now... we'd be doing something productive (ahhhh!)
Ehhh, I'm still waiting for them to support CSS2 first... I mean, IE doesn't even support position: fixed yet, damn them. Seriously, supporting CSS2 would make my life so much easier.
I thought arrows are supposed to be launched from a bow. I demand a refund! This arrow doesn't launch from a bow, and part of it breaks off and floats down... 0.o
I'd have to say that this true in the business world, almost everyone that I've talked to who uses a computer at work for word processing, etc is totally afraid of linux and think it is this scary beast. Until people can work with linux and not be afraid to try things, ms will win.
Also, its not just people thinking Linux is a scary beast, its the whole change of environment idea. People don't like changing because it takes time to get used to the changes. Because MS took control of the markets earlier, they have the advantage of familiarality (i think thats the word). Its the same idea behind why names are copyrighted, such as Pepsi, Disney, etc. If you're used to using products from a certain brand you're biased to buy their products.
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Can't wait for Microsoft to buy out DoubleClick and TAKE OVER THE WORLD! :P
Don't forget that mod_gzip is not fully supported in Apache 2.X.
Also, has anyone else noticed that slashdot itself is still 1.3.29?
Predicting weather, analysis of objects in conditions where hundreds and thousands of variables are present, etc.
I remember my dad worked on the Grand Challenge project.
A single timestep took around an hour and took up around 60 nodes on a Origin 2000 system (I think thats what it was at the time). He did his processing at the MSC (Minnesota Supercomputing Institute). But with faster computers doing more calculations, research takes less time and money basically.
Sorry for replying to my own post, found the official press release from Verizon.
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http://newscenter.verizon.com/proactive/newsroom/
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2004/Oct/1085658.ht
A quote:
I've been using the DI624 for quite a while now, and I can safely say it is the best wireless router I've used. Its stable, and provides an excellent array of features, all of which I've been using successfully to run a server.
The only complaints: It doesn't support IPv6 and it doesn't support 256 bit WEP encryption, although it provides support for WPA and WPA-PSK.
The 624 is the 108 mbps version, so if you use a D-Link or Netgear card to complement it, you can get a speed rivaling 100mbps CAT5.
Finally, the server I'm running successfully runs a server on a limited connection (blocked server ports, forwarded and changed with router). I run the web server on port 81 outside, but inside the LAN its port 80. Same concept for POP and IMAP. I've seen this thing block a DDoS while still running too. The router is very nice, and I highly recommend it.
MPAA is Motion Picture Association of America, has nothing to do with music, I believe.
Thats actually a good idea, with RIAA complaining that file sharing hurts the music industry by letting people get songs for free, this may promote people buying CDs again. (You hear 30 seconds of a song, you like it, you buy the CD, etc.)
Google has almost everything now, why don't they make their own Anti-Spam domainkey type service?
I'd suspect it would have something to do with it not being able to focus that close. Just like if you point a camera at something 5 cm in front of the lens, it wouldn't be able to focus on it, and you'd get a really fuzzy picture.
*cough*$10 billion*cough*
Why don't they just spend a single sum of around $10 mil to build another Hubble, but better. The Hubble's old now, and they're spending tons of money to build better ground ones, but the ones in space have infinitely better headroom because theres not air in space...
The infamous RocketDrive RocketDrive.
Or you can use Flash drives, less expensive but a bit slower.
What I don't get is why the FBI/EU would want to take down the Indymedia servers in the first place.
How much you wanna bet they'll claim its on basis of reasonable evidence of access by Al Qaeda or something like that?
You're talking about the pebble bed modular reactor, the one that China is planning to build tons of by 2030 or something.t he_pbmr.htm
https://www.pbmr.com/2_about_the_pbmr/2_2what_is_
Au contraire. Global warming is the effect of the increase in greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere. If you decrease the amount of greenhouse gasses, the heat radiates more readily from the Earth.
When you said electricity releases the heat back into the atmosphere, thats somewhat true, but heat naturally radiates from Earth at a pretty high rate. Greenhouse gasses are the important factors in global warming, not energy. When we say we're taking energy from the wind instead of coal or oil, we mean we're not producing the greenhouse gas byproducts.
So does pollution.
Only if we still HAVE an environment at that time :P
Unfortunately, this would kill out some of the already endangered animals such as polar bears. Just because we CAN trash this planet doesn't mean we should.
Common sense? Huh? What's that? :P
We all know that common sense doesn't really exist for us /.ers, cuz that would mean we wouldn't be here right now... we'd be doing something productive (ahhhh!)
Ehhh, I'm still waiting for them to support CSS2 first... I mean, IE doesn't even support position: fixed yet, damn them. Seriously, supporting CSS2 would make my life so much easier.
Oh god, so ironic.. Under the /. article is an ad for Google's adsense service... I'd take a screenshot but I'm afraid of getting /.ed. :P
I thought arrows are supposed to be launched from a bow. I demand a refund! This arrow doesn't launch from a bow, and part of it breaks off and floats down... 0.o