Comment: Re:Why stop there? (Score 1) 200
Why not just force every citizen to post a continuous blog of their every activity at every moment of every day for all time?
Isn't this called Facebook?
Comment: Re:Oh, the Horseshit You Will Print! (Score 1) 552
I predict that in 100 years, fusion will only be 50 more years out from being in practical use.
Comment: Re:"These observations should dispel..." (Score 1, Insightful) 458
No, there really is a consensus among climatologists. 0ver 97% of climatologists who are actively publishing on climate change and over 85% of climatologists in general agree that human influences are responsible for most of the global warming we are seeing
And the 3% that don't agree, don't get funding, tenure or publishing. Quite the incentive to toe the Religious line. Also, 97% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
Comment: Re:An apology to the international community (Score 2) 119
I sadly have to agree with this post. I too was wrong. DNS needs to be removed from US control.
Comment: Re:A linear induction motor is not a railgun. (Score 2) 314
Slight correction. G-force is 6.4184332 My prior answer used 32feet/sec^2 instead of g = 32.174 ft/s^2
Comment: Re:A linear induction motor is not a railgun. (Score 1) 314
I did it in English units, but my answers match yours. Assuming constant acceleration with zero velocity at start. 240 mph terminal velocity over 300 feet. Time = 1.7045455 seconds, and acceleration is 206.50667 feet/sec^2 which works out to a gforce of 6.4533333
This was a nice opportunity to use the Scilab 5.3 that I just installed this morning.
This was a nice opportunity to use the Scilab 5.3 that I just installed this morning.
Comment: Re:It'll never work (Score 1) 147
They can't be serious. Leading experts agree they must first build a SpaceshipFactoryProvider.
Your JavaFoo is weak.
They need a SpaceshipFactoryFactory
Comment: Re:Just do a comparison (Score 1) 347
My favorite is Florida Orange Blossom honey. You used to have to buy it in Florida but now I can get it in Ohio at some of the upscale Grocery stores.
Comment: Re:To compute what? (Score 1) 238
Here is what you can do with the second fastest super computer.
turbulent flow, shocks, complex fluids, plasmas, particle transport, seismic modeling, radiation hydrodynamics, astrophysics, nuclear data, fission, radchem, radiation detector design, nuclear forensics, thermonuclear burn, nuclear energy, nuclear reactor fuels, plasticity, ejecta, friction, the equation of state (from SciDAC)
Here is what you can do with the third fastest supercomputer.
turbulent flow, shocks, complex fluids, plasmas, particle transport, seismic modeling, radiation hydrodynamics, astrophysics, nuclear data, fission, radchem, radiation detector design, nuclear forensics, thermonuclear burn, nuclear energy, nuclear reactor fuels, plasticity, ejecta, friction, the equation of state (from SciDAC)
Do you sense a pattern here?
Comment: Re:Virtual center (Score 1) 183
This was fixed in ESX 3.5 somewhere around update 2 or just after. I can't remember off the top of my head which update fixed it. We are using 2 VCPU and 4 VCPU vm's in Vsphere 4 Update 1 and they work quite nicely.