While the new IBM Blue Gene/P system is impressive, I'm more curious to see what sort of new supercomputer Andreas Bechtolsheim of Sun Microsystems has put together.
Here's an interesting quote about Bechtolsheim from the article:
'He's a perfectionist,' said Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive, who worked with Mr. Bechtolsheim beginning in 1983 at Sun. 'He works 18 hours a day and he's very disciplined. Every computer he has built has been the fastest of its generation.'
In Japan, it's acceptable and perfectly legal to walk into Tsutaya (i.e. the Japanese "Blockbuster"), rent an armful of CDs, rip to your heart's desire, and then return them the next day.
I bet the government built the fake Disney as a way to avoid further international embarrasment related to overcrowding at the real China Disney in Hong Kong.
In all seriousness, at least Sen. Patrick Leahy is smart enough to know that emails are not easily erased.
Quoting Leahy: "You can't erase e-mails, not today. They've gone through too many servers," said Leahy, D-Vt. "Those e-mails are there, they just don't want to produce them. We'll subpoena them if necessary."
If each U.S. citizen could live in an area of 5 square meters (roughly 54 square feet), then all 300 million of us could live happily in the city of Houston, with room to spare.
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I don't expect to have this dirty-finger problem.
You see, I live in Minnesota, so I wear gloves 10 months out of the year!
(On a serious note, can you use these things with gloves on? Inquiring minds want to know.)
While the new IBM Blue Gene/P system is impressive, I'm more curious to see what sort of new supercomputer Andreas Bechtolsheim of Sun Microsystems has put together.
Here's an interesting quote about Bechtolsheim from the article: 'He's a perfectionist,' said Eric Schmidt, Google's chief executive, who worked with Mr. Bechtolsheim beginning in 1983 at Sun. 'He works 18 hours a day and he's very disciplined. Every computer he has built has been the fastest of its generation.'
I don't know, but it seems to have become a little bit smaller recently.
Apple uses big-handed model to "shrink" iPhone
CEA actually stands for 'Can't Explain Acronyms', which is a common occurrence on Slashdot.
Wow, I will never figure out Japan.
In Japan, it's acceptable and perfectly legal to walk into Tsutaya (i.e. the Japanese "Blockbuster"), rent an armful of CDs, rip to your heart's desire, and then return them the next day.
This reminds me of the time last year when, in the name of safety, the Japanese government tried to make it illegal to sell used electronic items.
Here's why OS/2 should come before FORTRAN.
http://www.monster.com/
"OS/2" Search --> Results 1-36 of 36
"Fortran" Search --> Results 1-50 of 210
Yeah! Does that mean that my FORTRAN programming skills are still marketable?
"What will the language of the year 2000 look like? Nobody knows, but it will be called FORTRAN." John W. Backus
Is this the same collective responsible for releasing Spiderman 3 on the streets of Shanghai a week before the release of the movie?
Why is this discovery so shocking if there is a 20-year-old theory that explains the observations?
Usually the most shocking discoveries are the ones not described by any theories.
I bet the government built the fake Disney as a way to avoid further international embarrasment related to overcrowding at the real China Disney in Hong Kong.
The crowds swelled beyond belief during the Chinese New Year in 2006. Parents were so distraught that they started throwing their kids over the entry gates. There were some hilarious videos of this floating around out there. Can anyone find a link?
Let's demand fingerprint-activated guns!
More food for thought...
When I told my wife of the incident a few hours ago, her initial reaction was "I didn't know that handguns had that many bullets."
There is now speculation that the gunman had high capacity ammo clips. High capacity clips just recently became legal when the former Republically-controlled Congress allowed the assault gun ban to expire.
In all seriousness, at least Sen. Patrick Leahy is smart enough to know that emails are not easily erased.
Quoting Leahy:
"You can't erase e-mails, not today. They've gone through too many servers," said Leahy, D-Vt. "Those e-mails are there, they just don't want to produce them. We'll subpoena them if necessary."
Moving to Canada, an offshore rig or Timbuktu is not a solution.
Let's stop this madness.
Write your Congressional representative.
Save the Streams.
Not only is the story a dupe, but so is your post!
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U.S. Government prepares for Vista ...
... by asking the Department of Homeland Security to raise the National Threat Advisory to level orange.
Food for thought
If each U.S. citizen could live in an area of 5 square meters (roughly 54 square feet), then all 300 million of us could live happily in the city of Houston, with room to spare.
Interesting. But, ...
I wonder why the Taipei, Inchon and Japan stations, which are also quite close, don't show any seismic activity.
Also, the seismographs for the Pakistan test in 1998 look different than the Guangduong station data.
Anyone want to explain why the seismic station at Inchon, South Korea appears to be quiet at the time of the blast (1:35 UTC)?
Here's the raw seismic data at Inchon.
I see an event at Inchon at about 14:30 UTC on Sunday, but it's 11 hours earlier than the reported blast.
Unless I'm reading it incorrectly, the times don't seem to match.
The data recorded at Inchon shows an event on Sun 10/08/06 at about 14:30 UTC.
This site gives a time of Mon 10/09/06 at 01:35:27 UTC.
Did this test really happen?
The USGS indicates a 4.2 magnitude event that occured at 01:35:27 UTC.
However, this event doesn't show up on any of the raw seismic data displayed on the live seismic server.
Pay particular attention to the Inchon, Korea and Matsushiro, Japan stations. Those stations seem to be reliable, and they're very quiet at 01:35 UTC.
No digital wallets? What geek would be without one?
I bought an Ironic Cooling system for my PC awhile back.
With a power rating of 500 Watts, I found that the Ironic Cooler actually heated up my PC, so I'm not using it anymore.
Jerry C. is spending too much time on CL!
The article is technically correct.
Some of the moves can move two rings at once, so it depends on whether you count these as two moves or one.
There's a good discussion of this point for the 7-ring system here.
Cheers.