I loved gopher... some university, I think San Diego, had a bunch of 80s music stored as 8kHz au files. I remember listening to The Safety Dance alot. Wait a minute... that explains what made me the way I am today! Damn you Men Without Hats!!!!
Hmm... let's check out developers.slashdot.org to see what the latest developer news is. Hmm... COBOL... COBOL again, I really should check out this COBOL language. Maybe my FORTRAN just isn't cutting it anymore.
I'm not sure what sort of image processing software NASA has. Astronomers are mostly using packages that are publically available, but not maintained by NASA. For the Magellan mission, Peter Ford at MIT made a great package called GIPS to reduce all the data. IPAC tends to make the image reduction pipelines for several missions as well as some ground based observatories, and they have some public domain software. The space telescope science institute has made their analysis software, built for hubble, publically available. They even contribute to open source numerical python libraries.
I completely agree. Other companies have produced optimized compilers which have had better performance that gcc, such as The Portland Group and Kai (which is now part of intel... go figure) and they have not shut down gcc. Gcc is a good, free compiler. The rest may be faster, but not worth the price for most of us.
There are lots of feeds available from newsisfree.com. They have a comprehensive list of feeds either created by the news providers or generated by newsisfree.
Unfortunately I do not think that withholding the grant wont really put pressure on the Federal government. Elected officials are more interested in how the majority of the public perceives them than in how scientists and academics see them. I think that the majority of politicians are relieved with Bush's decision because it seems like a compromise, and americans were divided on the issue. I also think that Bush wont change his mind, not so much because he may one day discover that he made a stupid choice, but because he doesn't want to be perceived by the public as a waivering on an issue, especially one he took an obscene amount of time considering.
So, will congress legalize unrestricted stem cell research? I doubt it. Even though it will cost our academic institutions both this grant and possibly lead to a defection of scientists to countries which have a more progressive stance on this issue, they don't care enough. It's not worth risking another term over. If they can get away with not coming down strong on either side of the issue, then they'll escape judgement from their constituents. Unfortunately I think this case highlights several negatives of American politics these days. It's become a huge popularity contest, where politicians don't enter into a thoughtful debate over issues, but wrap the issues in simple soundbites which can be presented within the 5 minutes television news allocates for national news. Our democracy depends on informed citizens, but citizens are no longer informed as a whole, and elect people based on party names, or vague notions of who looks better on television.
OK... I'm just ranting now, so I'll stop. To sum up, this withholding of funds only puts pressure on the scientists who are working to develop remarkable cures to illness. It does not pressure politicians, who are trying to get re-elected.
Yeah, my threshold seems to go up by 1 every year. These days it's hard to stick with the moderating guideline to try to moderate comments up. I spend all my mod points moderating down off-topic posts.
AT&T used to have a clause prohibiting servers, but they removed it in a later version of the service agreement. I do not know if it was on purpose, or just an oversight.
I think people are unwilling to pay for content for two reasons:
Scientists traditionally used the internet to freely exchange ideas, others who followed saw this open flow of information and followed suit. People are now used to free content and resist change.
Home users of the internet are paying monthly for internet access already. Many of these users probably feel like they should have a little quality content for their buck and not just a Jesus they can dress on their browser.
The real scary thing about this is that patent offices are letting people patent anything they find. The patent system was not designed to protect discoveries, discoveries were meant to be published and copyrighted in journals.
The jikes compiler is another java compiler written in C++ and is open source. Go to theJikes Project page for more information, and to download the compiler. It's 10 times faster than javac... or at least it was the last time I checked.
I saw a prototype Honda walking robot in a documentary last year, this one looks a little smaller and lighter. Also didn't slashdot already write and article on Honda's walking robot? Maybe something new would be more interesting.
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I loved gopher... some university, I think San Diego, had a bunch of 80s music stored as 8kHz au files. I remember listening to The Safety Dance alot. Wait a minute... that explains what made me the way I am today! Damn you Men Without Hats!!!!
How about Cern and Tim Berners-Lee? The initial Netscape release was basically the same as NCSA Mosaic which came before it.
Crap! Who put that wireless card in this heart lung machine? Oh no! I've been slashdotted...
Offtopic? No sense of humor.
Hmm... let's check out developers.slashdot.org to see what the latest developer news is. Hmm... COBOL... COBOL again, I really should check out this COBOL language. Maybe my FORTRAN just isn't cutting it anymore.
I'm not sure what sort of image processing software NASA has. Astronomers are mostly using packages that are publically available, but not maintained by NASA. For the Magellan mission, Peter Ford at MIT made a great package called GIPS to reduce all the data. IPAC tends to make the image reduction pipelines for several missions as well as some ground based observatories, and they have some public domain software. The space telescope science institute has made their analysis software, built for hubble, publically available. They even contribute to open source numerical python libraries.
And by 70's, I mean 80's.
Finally the rpms I need to rebuild my redhat 4.2 distro.
It's like the Cleveland Freenet is rising again.
-ae506
There are other parties interested in Kerberos?
Would you rather we comare it to nice lovable Volkswagen bugs or massive and scary unimogs?
The preprint of their article is available here if anyone wants to take a look.
I completely agree. Other companies have produced optimized compilers which have had better performance that gcc, such as The Portland Group and Kai (which is now part of intel... go figure) and they have not shut down gcc. Gcc is a good, free compiler. The rest may be faster, but not worth the price for most of us.
For more information about the research that Daniel Wang and his group are doing at UMass amherst you can visit his website.
Their demos worked on netscape 4.76 with the latest flash plugin under linux. I just saw them.
There are lots of feeds available from newsisfree.com. They have a comprehensive list of feeds either created by the news providers or generated by newsisfree.
Unfortunately I do not think that withholding the grant wont really put pressure on the Federal government. Elected officials are more interested in how the majority of the public perceives them than in how scientists and academics see them. I think that the majority of politicians are relieved with Bush's decision because it seems like a compromise, and americans were divided on the issue. I also think that Bush wont change his mind, not so much because he may one day discover that he made a stupid choice, but because he doesn't want to be perceived by the public as a waivering on an issue, especially one he took an obscene amount of time considering.
So, will congress legalize unrestricted stem cell research? I doubt it. Even though it will cost our academic institutions both this grant and possibly lead to a defection of scientists to countries which have a more progressive stance on this issue, they don't care enough. It's not worth risking another term over. If they can get away with not coming down strong on either side of the issue, then they'll escape judgement from their constituents. Unfortunately I think this case highlights several negatives of American politics these days. It's become a huge popularity contest, where politicians don't enter into a thoughtful debate over issues, but wrap the issues in simple soundbites which can be presented within the 5 minutes television news allocates for national news. Our democracy depends on informed citizens, but citizens are no longer informed as a whole, and elect people based on party names, or vague notions of who looks better on television.
OK... I'm just ranting now, so I'll stop. To sum up, this withholding of funds only puts pressure on the scientists who are working to develop remarkable cures to illness. It does not pressure politicians, who are trying to get re-elected.
Yeah, my threshold seems to go up by 1 every year. These days it's hard to stick with the moderating guideline to try to moderate comments up. I spend all my mod points moderating down off-topic posts.
I knew the comments were getting more useless as time went on, but the majority of the first 9 posts are not only off topic, but offensive as well.
AT&T used to have a clause prohibiting servers, but they removed it in a later version of the service agreement. I do not know if it was on purpose, or just an oversight.
I think people are unwilling to pay for content for two reasons:
The real scary thing about this is that patent offices are letting people patent anything they find. The patent system was not designed to protect discoveries, discoveries were meant to be published and copyrighted in journals.
The jikes compiler is another java compiler written in C++ and is open source. Go to theJikes Project page for more information, and to download the compiler. It's 10 times faster than javac... or at least it was the last time I checked.
I saw a prototype Honda walking robot in a documentary last year, this one looks a little smaller and lighter. Also didn't slashdot already write and article on Honda's walking robot? Maybe something new would be more interesting.
How much money do they have to lose before they get shut down? These satellites are polluting our view of OH masers in the galaxy.