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Proton Beams Sent Around the LHC 115

Posted by kdawson on Friday November 20, 2009 @05:40PM from the going-in-circles dept.

feldhaus writes "The BBC reports that the first beams for over one year have been successfully sent around the complete circumference of the Large Hadron Collider. Engineers do not yet have a stable circulating beam but they hope to by 0600 GMT on Saturday."

Comment Re:sigh (Score 1) 341

by Natetheinfamous on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @05:41PM (#29889741) Attached to: Internet Probably Couldn't Handle a Flu Pandemic

or the FCC, FAA, USPTO... etc. etc. -leave it to the government to take all the fun out of science.

Comment Re:1 semester of "Linux" is a required course (Score 2) 835

by Natetheinfamous on Tuesday September 08, 2009 @06:00PM (#29358161) Attached to: Does Your College Or University Support Linux?

when was that? I took their OS course in 2003 and the coding assignments was almost entirely linux based.

Comment Re:Sure, it can blast huge amounts of data (Score 1) 203

by Natetheinfamous on Thursday August 20, 2009 @11:41AM (#29133647) Attached to: NASA Probe Blasts 461 Gigabytes of Moon Data Daily

Only if it joins with The Creator.

Comment Re:Quick advice (Score 2, Funny) 324

by Natetheinfamous on Thursday July 02, 2009 @02:40PM (#28561751) Attached to: What Are the Best First Steps For Becoming a Game Designer?

On the downside... everyone I've met from Digipen was crazy. I used to play Capture the flag (in real life) with some of them.

Comment Re:Quick advice (Score 1) 324

by Natetheinfamous on Thursday July 02, 2009 @02:26PM (#28561491) Attached to: What Are the Best First Steps For Becoming a Game Designer?

Or perfect your bowhunting skills, I hear pigeon tastes like a milder form of duck!

Comment Re:Shucks... (Score 1) 42

by Natetheinfamous on Tuesday June 09, 2009 @02:29PM (#28269309) Attached to: Pleo Robot Dinosaur Back From Extinction

the way to candy mountain!

Comment Re:Now If We Could Just Get ... (Score 1) 485

by Natetheinfamous on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @09:56AM (#28011035) Attached to: Dell Indicates Windows 7 Pricing Will Be Higher

or just make their own LiveCD with an automated installer... not that hard to do really... Way easier than in windows anyhow.

Comment Re:Hah, you wish (Score 0, Redundant) 158

by Natetheinfamous on Friday May 15, 2009 @04:43PM (#27972339) Attached to: Turn Your iPhone Into a Web Server

Awesome... that's the benefit, pure, unadulterated awesome.

Comment Re:Take your pick (Score 1) 393

by Natetheinfamous on Tuesday May 12, 2009 @01:59PM (#27924953) Attached to: How To Store Internal Hard Drives?

I remember the first time my parents got a car with automatic windows... confused the heck out of me for weeks when I would reach for the crank and it wasn't there! Sadly, my children will probably never get to experience the same pleasure.

Comment Re:Or they're terrified (Score 1) 921

by Natetheinfamous on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @05:16PM (#27247773) Attached to: Study Finds the Pious Fight Death Hardest

Or maybe those who are Pious (using the common (correct or not) definition: have lived a "good" life) Have more to live for?

Comment Re:why use botnet (Score 1) 457

by Natetheinfamous on Thursday March 12, 2009 @02:44PM (#27170837) Attached to: BBC Hijacks 22,000 PCs In Botnet Demonstration

I felt a great disturbance in the 'Nets, it's as if a million voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced...

...DDoS???

Comment Re:The More You Read the Uglier It Gets (Score 1) 417

by Natetheinfamous on Thursday March 12, 2009 @10:05AM (#27166205) Attached to: How Office Depot Pushes Service Plans On Customers

Kind of like the Brewster sisters in "Arsenic and Old Lace"...

Only more evil

Comment Re:At Least It's Humorous (Score 1) 169

by Natetheinfamous on Wednesday March 04, 2009 @01:46PM (#27066719) Attached to: Star Trek Fragrances

Yeah, but they didn't make enough fragrances for every situation (I.E.) Kobayashi Maru: because there's no such thing as a no-win situation Ferengi funk: smells almost as good as the Latinum you bought it with or better yet (and this one just speaks for itself: Khan

Comment Re:Summary and blogspam link laughably incorrect (Score 1) 271

by Natetheinfamous on Tuesday March 03, 2009 @03:22PM (#27054889) Attached to: "Authors Guild" Skims Half of Google Book-Rights Settlement

Ironically, I once bought a copy of a book I'd read previously on Project Gutenberg, Only to find that the "illustrations" in the book were EXACT COPIES of the crappy ASCII ART presented in the Project Gutenberg version. Talk about a waste of $10.

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