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  1. Re: Who would have thunk? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Battlefield 5's Poor Sales Numbers Have Become a Disaster For Electronic Arts (seekingalpha.com)

    There *were* females in the regular army, perhaps not as regular minefield storming over the top infantry as such, but as snipers, tank crews, fighter pilots (the Air force was part of the army, I think, don't remember) etc. The Germans even had a name for them, "Flintenweiber", "Flint (as in flint stone) women", and there were over 800 000 of them. They were particularly infamous for their treatment of any German soldier who were unfortunate to fall into their hands. (N. B, not saying that the reverse was any better.)

    You mention your Grandma walking along the Soviet army, which would indicate that you're Russian. This is probably why you've never heard of these, since their existence for some political reason has been suppressed after the war. Here's a picture of some of them, if you're Russian perhaps you can tell from their uniforms what their branch was.

  2. Re:Capitalism will find a way by dunkelfalke · · Score: 1 · on Is Programming a Lucrative Profession?

    Are you bullshitting me?

    "During the past ten years, quality of life improved [b]in the former German Democratic
    Republic (GDR)[/b], but such came with some self-inflicted problems."

    If you really want hard facts, here they are:
    http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/sozialreformen/downloads/Hauser-Handout.pdf

    In 1993 only 12% of the population were below poverty line. 10 Years later, 13.5% are. This kind of makes you look even more stupid.

  3. Re:From a phsychological point of view... by Fulcrum+of+Evil · · Score: 1 · on Not Enough Women In Computing, Or Too Many Men?

    Here's something kind of biased with cites. Here's something more scholarly. and another one here.

  4. More visual intrigue by wombatmobile · · Score: 2, Interesting · on The Goggles, They Do Nothing

    .

    Ramachandran's optical illusions

    Johansson's point-light walker (Flash animation)
  5. Re:Re-entry by CheeseburgerBlue · · Score: 1 · on Starshine 3 is Toast

    Yes, but more in the informal sense of "polished off" than other definitions of polish.

    You mean other definitions of "polish" like this?

  6. What do they expect? by dubiousmike · · Score: 2 · on Microsoft: No Xbox for You!

    Australia was originally a prison colony.


    cute kola bears and kangaroos. (pictures)


    Even perverted kangaroos (1, 2)


    Of course, if it weren't for Autralia, we wouldn't have nightmares about Yahoo Serious.

  7. That damn algorithm by the_pooh_experience · · Score: 1 · on Google's Search Results Degraded?

    What do you expect when Google's technology is based on the spatial orientation of pigeons as outlined in Google's own white pages!

  8. Re:Gravenreuth by Antity · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Preliminary Injunction Against SuSE

    Interesting. Do you have anything to back this up?

    Here is a scan (German) from 1992 that is supposed to be one of the letters that this "Girl" wrote to cluesless people to convince them to copy games and trade them with her (which resulted in aforementioned law company to contact you if you responded).

    Yes, back in 1992. Looks like there are always ways to make money by frightening people.

  9. Re:Linux networking stack by mce · · Score: 3 · on A Roundtable On BSD, Security, And Quality
    Yes, I remember that post from Alan (some 2 or 3 months ago, IIRC). I just did a Google search, but can't find it archived right now. However, here's an equivalent quote from the January 16, 1996 version (yes, this whole confusion is that old already) of the Linux NET-2/3-HOWTO:

    2. Disclaimer.

    The Linux networking code is a brand new implementation of kernel
    based tcp/ip networking. It has been developed from scratch and is not
    a port of any existing kernel networking code.
    ...
    NOTE: While its name may appear similar to the Berkeley Software
    Distribution NET-2 release, the Linux network code actually has
    nothing at all to do with it. Please don't confuse them.

    --

  10. WSGopher! by Craig+Davison · · Score: 1 · on Bring Back Gopher Campaign
    Gopher client for Win32:

    http://aic.hygiene.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Software/Gop her/

  11. Re:Voxel, for those that don't know.. by undecided · · Score: 1 · on Voxel/Polygon Accelerator
    "The basic unit of visual perception is NOT a 2D sinewave."

    You're right, it's not the basic unit, but there's evidence that one of the basic elements of visual perception is a 2D sine wave. The receptive fields of some neurons in the human visual cortex can be modeled using Gabor functions, which consist of a plane wave and a Gaussian function. This model is useful in describing and modeling patern perception and edge detection.

  12. Re:Compression by GigaGoogle · · Score: 1 · on Download The Human Genome
    Of course, people actually downloading the whole human genome probable wouldn't worry about this, but couldn't they use a better compression format than .zip? I bet using bzip2 or rar would shave a couple of hundred MBs off of that 753MB file. Also, the differences in compression techniques would be interesting to see on a large group of files mainly consisting of G, A, C, and T. -- demiurge You find a file that appears important and obliterate it from memory!!! Score one for the downtrodden hacker!
    Huffman would better compression algorithm in my opinion. Huffman uses a tree to determine which encodings to use for each symbol. The encodings might be similar to this:

    This would only work for the .fa files, but .fa files can contain "N"s also. If you just want to browse the Genome, look through the pieces directory. .

  13. NNO by jefferson · · Score: 1 · on Usable Neural Network Libraries?
    Take a look at Neural network objects by Johannes Steffens. It's a C++ class library that supports both supervised and unsupervised learning networks including ordinary backpropagation (or MLP, multi-layer perceptron) nets, as well as Kohonen feature maps (KFM, aka SOM) and learning vector quantization.

    It also supports several growing network architectures developed by Bernd Fritzke et al. There's also a Java demo of growing networks, with code available. It's fun to change the input probability distribution and watch the nets adapt on the fly!

    J.

  14. NNO by jefferson · · Score: 1 · on Usable Neural Network Libraries?
    Take a look at Neural network objects by Johannes Steffens. It's a C++ class library that supports both supervised and unsupervised learning networks including ordinary backpropagation (or MLP, multi-layer perceptron) nets, as well as Kohonen feature maps (KFM, aka SOM) and learning vector quantization.

    It also supports several growing network architectures developed by Bernd Fritzke et al. There's also a Java demo of growing networks, with code available. It's fun to change the input probability distribution and watch the nets adapt on the fly!

    J.

  15. Re:arg! -- Whoops! by Nate+Eldredge · · Score: 4 · on Jargon File 4.2.0 Out
    There is a decent mirror at http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/. From there I've fetched the complete list of mirrors, which follows.

    List of Jargon Resources Mirror Sites USA:

    Australia:

    Austria: http://www.snafu.priv.at/jargon/

    Czechoslovakia: ttp://www.instinct.org/texts/jargon-file/

    Finland: http://zone.pspt.fi/jargon/

    Germany:

    Gret Britain: http://jargon.strugglers.net

    Greece: http://www.hack.gr/jargon

    Italy: http://beatles.cselt.stet.it/mirrors/jargon

    Japan: http://www.vacia.is.tohoku.ac.jp/jargon/

    Norway: http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/misc/jargon/ Poland: http://www.uci.agh.edu.pl/jargon/

    Spain: http://www.undersec.com/jargon

    Sweden: http://ftp.sunet.se/jargon/

    U.K.:

  16. DNA, RNA and BBC by jw3 · · Score: 4 · on DNA as Construction Equipment
    1. There is a saying in polish, which seems apriopriate in this case. You could say, BBC "discovered America". This usage of DNA they describe isn't anything new at all - DNA as a "velcro" to attach molecules has been used in mol. biol. since many years. DNA pairing is not an issue. They completly missed the point regarding Kiedrowskis research.
    2. Kiedrowski is one of the guys who's research led to the discovery of rybozymes - self-modifying, RNA-based molecules, which can even in a certain way replicate themselves. RNA research is much more promissing at this point than DNA research - RNA molecules tend to have a much more complicated structure and sometimes carry enzymatic activities. It is now a widely accepted view that the life started with self-replicating and self-encoding RNA molecules. For the difference between DNA and RNA molecules only one oxygene atom is responsible, lacking in DNA (therefore, deoxyribonucleic acid). He re is an abstract of an article by Kiedrowski about self-replicating molecules.
    3. Both DNA and RNA are prone to enzymes called nucleases. RNA is especially fragile - it is enough to touch the cap of a propylene tube containing RNA sample with a bare finger - and there goes a week of your research, because there are plenty of RNases (enzymes digesting RNA) on your fingers. DNA is much more stable, but still you have to store it in -20 in a buffer containing EDTA, a chemical which binds to metall iones, which are necessary for DNases to work (RNases are very hard to get rid off: boiling, cleaning with ethanol doesn't help).
    4. This is an abstract of the research report written by Kiedrowski himself. English translation is lower down the page.
    5. As for "velcro" properties of DNA for constructing nanobots, I have a better proposition - there is a type of synthetic molecules, which are called "peptide-nucleic acids" (PNAs). In this molecules, instead of the riboze (which is a sugar) and phosphoric acid residues, the "spine" of a moleucle consists of a pseudopeptide. In fact, PNAs are not acidic - and this is very important. When two single strand DNA molecules bind, they have to overcome the negative charge they bear. In fact, to make them do it, you have to provide sufficient salt concentration in the solution where the binding (hybridization) takes place. PNAs are not acidic => have no charge at all => can even bind in water. And they are much more stable than other nucleic acids. On this page you can find many sources of information about PNAs.
    6. There are much better sources of easy-to-read, but scientifically sound articles about current research in biology and other fields - Nature Science Update - a very good site for a start, updated daily.

    Regards,

    January

    P.S. When /. posts a reference to an article about computers, it is usually worth reading. When /. posts a reference to an article about biotech, don't bother.