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Longhorn Drops 'My' Prefixes
ryanjm writes "Microsoft has decided to drop the "my" prefixes for Longhorn. Instead of "My Computer," it will be just just plain simple "Computer". "
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http://www.hypography.com/article.cfm?id=34220
;) turns out the only math the used was in calculating how tumours grow, and how they prevent immune responses, so they figured out an immune system response they can trigger that will cause the cells that cause tumours to grow to become a 'target' of the patients immune system. no math equasion used to 'cure' it at all, just a little deductive reasoning and science...
the blog entry that they linked to was kinda vauge on details
Now fighting cancer is easy as pi!
1. Confuse the tumours with complex calculus.
2. When they're not expecting it, nab 'em!
From what I read in the article, they were just able to simulate something resembling real tumours using a linear growth model. But then the article itself says in the discussion that no one has ever observed non-linear exponential growth in real tumors anyways so people (with the possible exception of other modelers) have obviously taken this into account. Not clear to me whether any of the results from their model are novel nor are their assertions about the nutrient dependence of tumor growth convincing without some real experiments.
As a computational biologist, I'm not knocking the usefulness of these types of mathematical approaches - and what they seem to have is a nice and maybe even a correct tumorigensis model, but let's keep it real - this is far from a cure for cancer...
If I hire you as a sub-contractor, what you write isn't your property, it's mine. If, OTOH, you are an open-source programer, then what you write is shared by you and me. And if, as is normally the case, the code is made publicly available, it could be considered a charitable contribution, just as if you requested that some or all of your paychecks be sent to UNICEF or something.
Admittedly, current accounting practices aren't set up to handle these types of values transfers, but that doesn't mean that they aren't occurring./p
LOL, you hate the software and avoid it, because it crashed for you 3 years before? How pathetic.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!!
I hate the software and avoid it because it crashed the first time I used it. And again. And again. It crashed whenever I wanted to change the typeface in a document. In other words, I had to conciously try to avoid the problem area every time I used the damn thing and it *still* crashed.
That was a pretty fundamental bug to have slipped through testing. What did it say about the rest of the product? Not something I'd want to have to rely on.
It was the equivalent of coming to a job interview with ketchup stains all over your shirt. You can change the shirt if it affects your ability to do the job, but the fact you didn't bother in the first place gives a bad overall impression of your attitude/abilities.
You know something? If I had a good reason to, I'd probably have given it another go by now. But I have OOo, MS Word and LaTeX, and I can't be bothered. Yeah, I'm human; KWord failed me repeatedly when I didn't have time to waste, and unless there's a compelling reason to give it another go, I'm not wasting time with it.
He already did.
Yeah. I distinctly remember one boring night while watching "Deep Space Nine" I was browsing a SMB share on a machine in a dorm room at UNC. To make a long story short, the idiot had taken videos of his (really cute, mind you) girlfriend posing in her high school cheerleading uniform and frigging herself. So of course, like any geek, I promptly downloaded the videos. Then I kept browsing, and came across his address book and email, which had the girlfriend's email address in it. So, like any geek, what did I do? Snapshooted jpegs off of them and emailed them back to the girl with "greetings from California." Not only was he a bastard to globally post the things in the first place, he was a bastard to not appreciate a hot girlfriend. Poor Melissa. Then again, I doubt their relationship lasted much longer either. :)