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[spin1978]

1.) My spectrometer is being repaired and no one mentioned it to me. (Well, it's actually the shared user facility's instrument, but as no one really seems to use it except my group historically, but that's a minor detail

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[if0x]

Sucks about the spectrometer - I hope it's not offline for too long.

On the other hand, if 'no one really seems to use it except [your] group', then, um - how do I phrase this delicately - who broke it?

You are the second person to make a superluminal reference on my flist this morning :-)

[spin1978]

Well, the point is that one of the extremely rare times other people might have used it could have caused the problem. ;)

As it turns out, the facility director did get back to me - apparently the cooling fans for some of the power supply units finally gave out after years of service, and he was just replacing them.

I'm sure there's enough material for at least another week of superluminal physics jokes - well, maybe 6.8 days' worth. Heh.

[sarahblack]

Ooh, look at you with your fancy-pants snow leopard. Leaving us mere leopard users in the dust. Tuh.

Idek about what Google is doing. Sounds kind of crazy to me.

The bit about the gamers helping scientists seems like kind of a brilliant solution to me. I mean, who else but gamers have all the time in the world to spend on obsessive mouse clicking?

[spin1978]

I haven't actually noticed any substantive difference between Leopard and Snow Leopard outside of one or two minor changes. Going to hold off on Mac OS X Lion until I make sure there won't be any problems with any of the software I have or plan on getting shortly.

That was actually just my obligatory joke about the faster-than-light neutrino results announced the other week and Facebook always changing up its website. ;)

And the gamers were even (collectively) co-authors on said paper. But yes, outsourcing those kinds of optimization processes to gamers might just be a bit more efficient than just burning up CPU time.