Comment: Re:Hmmm. (Score 1) 12
I also moved to Multiply when it stopped letting me comment in journals ( "Slow down, cowboy" ). Most of the circle is still doing fine over there.
Comment: Why not (Score 1) 990
It worked so well with the Metric system conversion.
Comment: Great Idea (Score 1) 8
I totally have a Fluid Dynamics guy working for me right now ... he does Perl programming. :-D
Comment: Re:So... (Score 1) 45
I am, and always have been, a supporter of butts. That's not to say that I ignore boobs or legs. Boobs, for example, are far less awkward to pay close attention to in intimate situations. There's no comfortable way, for example, to kiss a butt while staring into her eyes. Yet, I am an assman.
Speed up processing at both the client and server->
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BlueVoodoo writes "This article provides more techniques for UNIX-based programmers who want to enhance their network throughput. Learn how to speed up processing at both the client and server using mmap, gathering scattered I/O, and other methods."
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A Two-Time Universe?
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johanwanderer writes "A Two-Time Universe? Physicist Explores How Second Dimension of Time Could Unify Physics Laws...
For a long time, Itzhak Bars has been studying time. More than a decade ago, the USC College physicist began pondering the role time plays in the basic laws of physics the equations describing matter, gravity and the other forces of nature.
PhysOrg reports on how a second time dimension could solve the problems with current theories."
France to Google: help us promote our culture->
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njondet writes "It now seems long gone are the days when France saw Google as an instrument of American cultural imperialism which needed to be challenged by European governments. Earlier this month,
the French Culture Minister officially asked Google for recommendations on how to promote the online presence of French culture . This constitutes a remarkable change of heart for France which, under the Chirac presidency, had planned the launch of European projects, such as the Quaero search engine, in order to challenge Google's technological dominance and protect France's cultural independence in the digital world. France now appears to consider that its culture and Google can thrive together. This u-turn can be explained by the pragmatic realization that anti-Google projects would fail as they have done in the past. A realization that France was all the more willing to make under its new president, Nicolas Sarkozy, a self-proclaimed pro-American eager to break with the policies of Chirac, his predecessor, former mentor and bitter rival. The reconciliation with the Californian company was also assisted by the reassurances given by Google to the Culture minister that its new filtering technology for YouTube would help secure the copyrights, and thus the revenues and future, of the French cultural industry."
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Lunar probe Chang'e I completes 1st orbital transf->
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miaobaby writes "China's first lunar orbiter, Chang'e I, blasts off from its launch pad in the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Southwest China's Sichuan Province, at about 6:05 pm October 24, 2007."
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NEC Markets Fastest Supercomputer->
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eldavojohn writes "So what's the fastest vector supercomputer you can buy out there? Well, NEC claims its SX-9 machine is capable of calculating 839 teraflops."
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Computer failure leads to man's execution->
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aethelferth writes "Reuters reports that a complaint was filed against a Texas judge who let a man be executed rather than keep the court clerk's office open for 20 minutes past closing time to allow an appeal to be filed on the basis of the Supreme Court's decision that day to consider the constitutionality of lethal injection. The reason that the appeal was late coming in? The attorneys had a computer failure. The nature of the failure was not described. So, if you ever find yourself on death row, you may be betting your life on your attorneys' IT infrastructure. How many attorneys who use something other than MS-Windows and x86 hardware?"
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