Any real scientist knows this, since each Nobel gold medal is made from a part of an ancient Egyptian magical amulet that confers long life to the wearer. These guys should have correlated the amount of magical gold used in each medal with life expectancy. Duh!
A better tool than GraphViz for this application is Cytoscape - http://cytoscape.org/ It was originally designed for biological applications, but is a general network visualizer with a very simple input format e.g.
ModelA-Charlie dependsOn ModelQ ModelQ requires Java etc.
You can visualize, interact with and edit the resulting network and even do some advanced analyses, such as network clustering which would tell you which families of projects you have.
Can't you see that CmdrTaco is just bothering you guys?! Didn't you ever have a kid brother or sister? Rule #1 about being an older brother: when kid sibling complains that they don't like something you do, find every conceivable imaginative way to keep doing it. This usually provides you with untold hours of fun - that is until your kid sibling grows up and realizes what's going on. The only problem here is that there's no mommy to go cry to, so the only way to actually deal with it is to ignore it. No reaction = no fun for older brother.
Drug companies (large pharma) are not biotech companies. Drugs like Vioxx are the result of outdated drug finding technology. Biotech provides a much needed replacement. Biotech tries to understand the biological system it is trying to fix and use this knowledge for new therapies (e.g. protein/antibody therapies, gene therapy, stem cell therapy), where large drug companies have traditionally just screened large libraries of small molecules to find new drugs - a process that is getting progressively more expensive as the low hanging fruit is gone. Through biotech research, we will be able to find better and more personalized therapies with less side-effects, many of which won't be small molecule drugs.
Did anyone see the massive protests against Bush in Ireland on his recent visit? While I'm not saying that Ireland represents the rest of the world, people in countries in Europe and a number of other places really despise Bush. This is obviously not good for the reputation of America on the world stage. Many of these people are willing to give America the benefit of the doubt for electing Bush the first time, but if he gets elected again...
Actually, IQ is usually split into 3 parts these days: 1. Analytical - usually thought of as all of traditional IQ 2. Social or political - dealing with people (politicians have high scores here) 3. Practical - building things and reading maps
These have been shown to be independent. Someone could have very little 1, but lots of 2, for instance.
A fancy OpenGL version of the screensaver is available for Windows and the coolest ASCII art screensaver ever is available for every other platform you could shake a stick at... Actually, just:
Linux 2.x and higher (Redhat 6.2) (gcc)
Linux 2.x and higher (Redhat 7.1) (Intel compiler)
FreeBSD 4.5 and higher (Intel CPU)
IRIX 6.x (64-bit)
Solaris 2.8 and higher (64-bit)
Macintosh PowerPC-Linux 2.x
Macintosh PowerPC Darwin/OSX
Compaq-Alpha-Tru64
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Someone I know tried to pay money to get VA Linux to come and set up Sourceforge at his company. Even after repeated telephone calls, VA Linux never replied and finally a consulting firm (not VA Linux) offered to get paid to do the work. My friend gladly accepted. I've actually heard this kind of thing more than a few times with VA. Is it just me or is VA notoriously bad at customer service. Is it that hard to return phone messages and e-mail?
Basically what I'm saying is no wonder they're losing money, people try to throw cash at them and they don't catch it.
1. Sudbury, Ontario, Canada was used by NASA in the 60s to test lunar vehicles because it closely resembles the moon. They also have a giant nickel there. Canadians like to make fun of both of those things.
2. Speaking of global warming, I think it's good for Canada. Think about it, Toronto becomes tropical and the tundra up North becomes habitable and good for farms while most of the rest of the world becomes an arid, lifeless desert. Secretly, the Canadian federal government is undermining the Kyoto agreement. (Oh great, now I'm on file at CSIS):)
This is not the only recent security problem in the financial services industry. Check the "E*TRADE Usernames and Passwords Remotely Recoverable" problem on Bugtraq at www.securityfocus.com.
Lucky for me, I keep all my cash stashed in a tin can under my mattress. I also have a sock for a safety deposit box.
...were revolutions? Revolution implies sudden and radical change. How much time did it take to give everyone in the U.S. hot running water? True, electricity, hot running water, new medical technologies and the Internet are revolutionary for some people in the world, but there are billions of people who don't have access these "revolutions".
I recently visited South Africa, which is a weird mix of the 1st world and 3rd world. This visit really made me think about the way we live in developed countries. Many people in South Africa have jumped on the Internet bandwagon. You see billboards advertising MySAP.co.za, etc. on the highway. Keep driving on the same highway and you'll pass numerous townships where people live in shacks made with scavenged sheet metal and wood materials. There, people don't have electricity, hot running water and don't have much access to current medical technologies.
I guess the only way you can say the Internet is revolutionary, just yet, is in idea.
(BTW, how is medical progress (change over time) a revolution?!)
The "bionic chip" is basically improving on an older technique commonly used in molecular biology called electroporation. Basically, a cell is shocked with electricity and pores open up in the cell membrane. This is usually done to allow large biomolecules to enter the cell, such as engineered DNA. The problem with this approach is that it is usually done quite crudely with not much fine-grain control. This new chip gives us this computerized fine control.
The way I see it, the "bionic chip" technology will be useful mainly in gene therapy, not as much in genetic engineering (there are already easy enough ways to engineer genes). For a patient with a genetic disorder, like cystic fibrosis for example, a sample of lung tissue cells could be taken and a working copy of the CFTR chloride channel protein gene could be introduced. The cells would hopefully start producing proper protein and would then be re-introduced to the lung, where it would hopefully have a positive effect.
Cable TV started out in around the early 50's when people got the idea of building a big antenna that would receive stations from far away and sharing the signals with their neighbors. Eventually, people started charging for this and the companies became larger and larger. Back then, these early cable companies didn't pay for their signals. Why should iCraveTV pay for content when all it is doing is re-broadcasting signals taken from a TV antenna, signals that are free for anyone to receive.
The people who are angry at iCraveTV should realize that they represent a paradigm shift in cable/broadcasting and should help it along. As we all know, advertising is the real player behind TV today and one goal of ads is to get to as many people as possible. Why blow against the wind?
I've tried iCraveTV and I've found the quality to be pretty good. Since I have a TV next to my computer, I don't really need it and I realized that the iCraveTV feed is about 22 seconds delayed.:)
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Any real scientist knows this, since each Nobel gold medal is made from a part of an ancient Egyptian magical amulet that confers long life to the wearer. These guys should have correlated the amount of magical gold used in each medal with life expectancy. Duh!
A better tool than GraphViz for this application is Cytoscape - http://cytoscape.org/ It was originally designed for biological applications, but is a general network visualizer with a very simple input format e.g.
ModelA-Charlie dependsOn ModelQ
ModelQ requires Java
etc.
You can visualize, interact with and edit the resulting network and even do some advanced analyses, such as network clustering which would tell you which families of projects you have.
It is written in Java and is LGPL.
Can't you see that CmdrTaco is just bothering you guys?! Didn't you ever have a kid brother or sister? Rule #1 about being an older brother: when kid sibling complains that they don't like something you do, find every conceivable imaginative way to keep doing it. This usually provides you with untold hours of fun - that is until your kid sibling grows up and realizes what's going on. The only problem here is that there's no mommy to go cry to, so the only way to actually deal with it is to ignore it. No reaction = no fun for older brother.
Drug companies (large pharma) are not biotech companies. Drugs like Vioxx are the result of outdated drug finding technology. Biotech provides a much needed replacement. Biotech tries to understand the biological system it is trying to fix and use this knowledge for new therapies (e.g. protein/antibody therapies, gene therapy, stem cell therapy), where large drug companies have traditionally just screened large libraries of small molecules to find new drugs - a process that is getting progressively more expensive as the low hanging fruit is gone. Through biotech research, we will be able to find better and more personalized therapies with less side-effects, many of which won't be small molecule drugs.
Did anyone see the massive protests against Bush in Ireland on his recent visit? While I'm not saying that Ireland represents the rest of the world, people in countries in Europe and a number of other places really despise Bush. This is obviously not good for the reputation of America on the world stage. Many of these people are willing to give America the benefit of the doubt for electing Bush the first time, but if he gets elected again...
Actually, IQ is usually split into 3 parts these days:
1. Analytical - usually thought of as all of traditional IQ
2. Social or political - dealing with people (politicians have high scores here)
3. Practical - building things and reading maps
These have been shown to be independent. Someone could have very little 1, but lots of 2, for instance.
A fancy OpenGL version of the screensaver is available for Windows and the coolest ASCII art screensaver ever is available for every other platform you could shake a stick at... Actually, just:
Basically what I'm saying is no wonder they're losing money, people try to throw cash at them and they don't catch it.
Check out http://bioinfo.mshri.on.ca/people/feldman/vgmuseum /index.html for a neat computer game museum with nice hi-res pictures of the various games. Mostly stuff from the 70's and 80's
1. Sudbury, Ontario, Canada was used by NASA in the 60s to test lunar vehicles because it closely resembles the moon. They also have a giant nickel there. Canadians like to make fun of both of those things.
2. Speaking of global warming, I think it's good for Canada. Think about it, Toronto becomes tropical and the tundra up North becomes habitable and good for farms while most of the rest of the world becomes an arid, lifeless desert. Secretly, the Canadian federal government is undermining the Kyoto agreement. (Oh great, now I'm on file at CSIS) :)
Lucky for me, I keep all my cash stashed in a tin can under my mattress. I also have a sock for a safety deposit box.
In metric it's spelled tonne!
I recently visited South Africa, which is a weird mix of the 1st world and 3rd world. This visit really made me think about the way we live in developed countries. Many people in South Africa have jumped on the Internet bandwagon. You see billboards advertising MySAP.co.za, etc. on the highway. Keep driving on the same highway and you'll pass numerous townships where people live in shacks made with scavenged sheet metal and wood materials. There, people don't have electricity, hot running water and don't have much access to current medical technologies.
I guess the only way you can say the Internet is revolutionary, just yet, is in idea.
(BTW, how is medical progress (change over time) a revolution?!)
The way I see it, the "bionic chip" technology will be useful mainly in gene therapy, not as much in genetic engineering (there are already easy enough ways to engineer genes). For a patient with a genetic disorder, like cystic fibrosis for example, a sample of lung tissue cells could be taken and a working copy of the CFTR chloride channel protein gene could be introduced. The cells would hopefully start producing proper protein and would then be re-introduced to the lung, where it would hopefully have a positive effect.
The people who are angry at iCraveTV should realize that they represent a paradigm shift in cable/broadcasting and should help it along. As we all know, advertising is the real player behind TV today and one goal of ads is to get to as many people as possible. Why blow against the wind?
I've tried iCraveTV and I've found the quality to be pretty good. Since I have a TV next to my computer, I don't really need it and I realized that the iCraveTV feed is about 22 seconds delayed. :)