"Leaving aside whether such an extremely hypersonic unaerodynamic object could even survive passage through the lower atmosphere, it appears impossible for it to retain much of its initial velocity while passing through the atmosphere. A ground launched hypersonic projectile has the same problem with maintaining its velocity that an incoming meteor has."
Got to say, UCSD is getting a very strong group in networking. Savage and Voelker and Snoeren, plus the folks at SDSC, plus CalIT2 (Larry Smarr's latest deal). Watch that space...
How can you say that the Bush administration is retreating from knowledge when he:
a) DOUBLED the budget for the National Science Foundation.
For one thing, the doubling was supposed to happen over 5 years. It certainly hasn't doubled yet, and in fact it certainly won't.
Quite the contrary. The FY 2005 NSF budget for research and related activities is being cut by.7% from its FY 2004 level, the first such cut in many years. The other main part of the NSF budget, that devoted to education, is being cut even more. The "doubling" bill is now very much no longer operative.
The rational conclusion is that Bush just isn't serious about this.
The Hubble Space Telescope imaged it last year. They ran an internet poll to pick a target for the Hubble to observe, and the Horsehead won (Cowboy Neal was second, maybe). The Hubble Heritage Project published the result (it's a composite with some ground-based images filling in the edges) and it is better than the VLT picture, IMHO. You can see it here , along with lots of information about how it was made, and high-res versions.
A Koolance system produces discernibly less noise than a regular heat sink & case fan setup, even with its three dual ball-bearing 80mm cooling fans. Normally operating at 45% power (and even cranked to 100%), the system should certainly put to shame that dusty old 6-fan server tower
In other words, it's quieter than a 6-fan server tower, about 58dB in "cooling mode 3".
Too bad we aren't learning from the British and Soviet mistakes.
How do you know we (U.S.) haven't learned?
After all, we haven't done anything terribly rash and stupid in Afghanistan in the last 10 days.
Colin Powell was in Vietnam, and learned a thing or two, and remembers. Bush of course was not, but he seems (so far) to have the sense to listen to his betters.
According to this article, retired CBS news anchorman Walter Cronkite has called for the immediate appointment of a censorship board to monitor the strict secrecy that Ashcroft has announced. Cronkite said that secrecy is necessary in the war against terrorism, but that the government should immediately appoint a board of journalists and historians that will be aware of all the government's plans and actions. Secrecy must not be used to protect political decisions or government failures, but only for military purposes, Cronkite said.
An interesting proposal. And I haven't heard a word breathed about it, except briefly at the end of that LATimes article.
the he fact that someone like this can get published on such a major site shows that something is wrong with America
I wish you hadn't put it that way...
Having a diversity of published opinions at a time like this shows that something is right with America. First amendment, and all that.
That an idiot like Ann Coulter has an appreciative readership of significant size does indeed suggest that something is pathetically wrong, I'll grant you that.
That's why you want Java instead of C#, not why you want Java instead of GNU software. The scenario you describe here you could do even more easily with GPL (just make the change and publish the source to the patch).
I'm still missing what's the advantage of Sun's license over that nasty GPL that no company will touch...
The GPL trouble more often than not because most companies won't get within miles of it for fear of legally contaminating their sources.
Tell me: What companies will get within miles of Sun's JDK source code, with * This software is the proprietary information of Sun Microsystems plastered all over it? I mean, what can you actually be sure you can go ahead and USE that source code for, in a commercial context?
Katz are you trying to say President Bush is a coward and is not in control? I don't know what Katz is trying to say, but it seems pretty obvious all around that Bush is way over his head on this. Editorials even in mainstream press like the NYT are saying as much.
And the great thing is, it doesn't even make a differnece that he is emotionally and intellectually unprepared for the situation. Cheney and Powell and any number of others are. The presidency is a symbol, and its content doesn't really matter at times like this.
At the same time, we recognize that we aren't "supposed" to say this.
I agree, though Katz seems to talk like the online, interactive vs. offline worlds are distinct, whereas one of the most interesting things about the online one is all its links to the offline one. Slashdot took me to all manner of "traditional" newsstreams, besides providing a deeply valuable interactive human community.
But you are right. The tenor of the web has been radically different from the tenor of the mainstream media; much more diverse and reflective and thoughtful. A wonderful combination of the freedom of the press, and the right of the people peacably to assemble.
Of course, the existence of a channel that is not amenable to opinion management is viewed as a quite dangerous thing in some quarters.
Hmmm, that's not the way I interpret the point of the editorial. It seems to me the sentiment is a hope that the US will, because of a new awareness of its own vulnerability, no longer feel as free to cause suffering to innocents abroad as it historically has been. Anyway, apart from whether or not that's a reasonable hope, that's what I thought the author was focusing on, not a celebration in increased suffering overall.
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The best estimate I've seen recently is reported here: http://uclue.com/index.php?xq=724
(Doesn't include energy for manufacture or decommission; just operation.)
Result: Roughly 10% of total energy consumption is due to computation.
Except probably not:
"Leaving aside whether such an extremely hypersonic unaerodynamic object could even survive passage through the lower atmosphere, it appears impossible for it to retain much of its initial velocity while passing through the atmosphere. A ground launched hypersonic projectile has the same problem with maintaining its velocity that an incoming meteor has."
This way they are guaranteed too be right half the time! One out of to isn't bad!
Around where I live (coastal California) I don't think there are any other kinds of ants anymore.
--Seen
Got to say, UCSD is getting a very strong group in networking. Savage and Voelker and Snoeren, plus the folks at SDSC, plus CalIT2 (Larry Smarr's latest deal). Watch that space...
--Seen
For one thing, the doubling was supposed to happen over 5 years. It certainly hasn't doubled yet, and in fact it certainly won't.
Quite the contrary. The FY 2005 NSF budget for research and related activities is being cut by .7% from its FY 2004 level, the first such cut in many years. The other main part of the NSF budget, that devoted to education, is being cut even more. The "doubling" bill is now very much no longer operative.
The rational conclusion is that Bush just isn't serious about this.
Shrill? You want shrill? Check out ShrillBlog.
--Seen
"... a bright orange star in the east called Arcturus."
Um, Arcturus is in the west.
Academically boring? No research?
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As just one example that made its way into the popular press see this
Geez.
--Seen
The Hubble Space Telescope imaged it last year. They ran an internet poll to pick a target for the Hubble to observe, and the Horsehead won (Cowboy Neal was second, maybe). The Hubble Heritage Project published the result (it's a composite with some ground-based images filling in the edges) and it is better than the VLT picture, IMHO. You can see it here , along with lots of information about how it was made, and high-res versions.
--Seen
Read the specs, http://koolance.com/specs/.
To quote:
A Koolance system produces discernibly less noise than a regular heat sink & case fan setup, even with its three dual ball-bearing 80mm cooling fans. Normally operating at 45% power (and even cranked to 100%), the system should certainly put to shame that dusty old 6-fan server tower
In other words, it's quieter than a 6-fan server tower, about 58dB in "cooling mode 3".
--Seen
Too bad we aren't learning from the British and Soviet mistakes.
How do you know we (U.S.) haven't learned?
After all, we haven't done anything terribly rash and stupid in Afghanistan in the last 10 days.
Colin Powell was in Vietnam, and learned a thing or two, and remembers. Bush of course was not, but he seems (so far) to have the sense to listen to his betters.
--S
According to this article, retired CBS news anchorman Walter Cronkite has called for the immediate appointment of a censorship board to monitor the strict secrecy that Ashcroft has announced. Cronkite said that secrecy is necessary in the war against terrorism, but that the government should immediately appoint a board of journalists and historians that will be aware of all the government's plans and actions. Secrecy must not be used to protect political decisions or government failures, but only for military purposes, Cronkite said.
An interesting proposal. And I haven't heard a word breathed about it, except briefly at the end of that LATimes article.
--S
An Heirloom fruit or vegetable is one that breeds true from seed and self-pollinates, as opposed to a hybrid.
t ml.
That's the definition of open-pollinating, which is only one of the criteria for being an heirloom varienty. See http://davesgarden.com/showthread/heirloom/1988.h
--S
the he fact that someone like this can get published on such a major site shows that something is wrong with America
I wish you hadn't put it that way...
Having a diversity of published opinions at a time like this shows that something is right with America. First amendment, and all that.
That an idiot like Ann Coulter has an appreciative readership of significant size does indeed suggest that something is pathetically wrong, I'll grant you that.
--Seen
That's why you want Java instead of C#, not why you want Java instead of GNU software. The scenario you describe here you could do even more easily with GPL (just make the change and publish the source to the patch).
I'm still missing what's the advantage of Sun's license over that nasty GPL that no company will touch...
--Seen
The GPL trouble more often than not because most companies won't get within miles of it for fear of legally contaminating their sources.
Tell me: What companies will get within miles of Sun's JDK source code, with * This software is the proprietary information of Sun Microsystems plastered all over it? I mean, what can you actually be sure you can go ahead and USE that source code for, in a commercial context?
--Seen
but it could be said to sound like the use of nuclear weapons has not been ruled out.
t ml
That is correct.
I know the United States has a long-standing 'no first use' policy
No the US has not, compared for example to the PRC's policy. See http://www.nuclearfiles.org/docs/1995/950406-p5.h
--Seen
Katz are you trying to say President Bush is a coward and is not in control?
I don't know what Katz is trying to say, but it seems pretty obvious all around that Bush is way over his head on this. Editorials even in mainstream press like the NYT are saying as much.
And the great thing is, it doesn't even make a differnece that he is emotionally and intellectually unprepared for the situation. Cheney and Powell and any number of others are. The presidency is a symbol, and its content doesn't really matter at times like this.
At the same time, we recognize that we aren't "supposed" to say this.
--Seen
I agree, though Katz seems to talk like the online, interactive vs. offline worlds are distinct, whereas one of the most interesting things about the online one is all its links to the offline one. Slashdot took me to all manner of "traditional" newsstreams, besides providing a deeply valuable interactive human community.
But you are right. The tenor of the web has been radically different from the tenor of the mainstream media; much more diverse and reflective and thoughtful. A wonderful combination of the freedom of the press, and the right of the people peacably to assemble.
Of course, the existence of a channel that is not amenable to opinion management is viewed as a quite dangerous thing in some quarters.
Best wishes
--Seen
Hmmm, that's not the way I interpret the point of the editorial. It seems to me the sentiment is a hope that the US will, because of a new awareness of its own vulnerability, no longer feel as free to cause suffering to innocents abroad as it historically has been. Anyway, apart from whether or not that's a reasonable hope, that's what I thought the author was focusing on, not a celebration in increased suffering overall.
"Molsen" is the plural.
There must be troll in what I write. -- Henrik Ibsen
From the script:
Miller: See? The more you drive, the less intelligent you are.
For the full script, see http://users.erols.com/bobcan/repo/script.html . One of the better Alan Cox films, by the way. Oops, I mean Alex Cox.
--Seen
Spending too much time writing to actually do any reading, I guess? For a pretty well documented account of how this happens, start here.
cluck his tounge
the copy gets worked over by the same editors
At least the editors know how to spell, I hope.
--Seen
Pretty impressive stuff being done with off-the-shelf equipement these days.
--Seen