I know you meant it tongue-in-cheek, but I wanted to point out that the specs you point out are more than sufficient to perform analyses of the human genome (I used to do quite a lot of such analyses on my laptop, which is an older Core2), and are significantly more powerful than the cluster that was initially used to piece the genome sequence together.
What exactly are they talking about? I've never heard of anyone taking such a test to choose their career in the US, with the exception of the SAT to determine college suitability.
Thus I must disagree with the premise of their importance.
Definitely NOT universally true. I also got a student bank account and debit card, without parental involvement, at 14. However, I had friends who had trouble doing so (they got an account, but no debit card). I suspect it is more of a bank policy thing than a state/federal law thing.
No, I'm thinking of C14. Which is produced when all the excess neutrons from a nuclear blast smash into atmospheric nitrogen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon-14
There is a trick that can be used to date things from the 2nd half of the 20th century. Nuclear bomb testing caused a spike in atmospheric C14, which is rapidly decreasing as it equilibrates with the oceans (among other things). The actual radioactive decay is insignificant on this timescale, and so we can get a pretty good idea if the grapes used to make the wine were plucked after nuclear testing began, and if so what year they were harvested. This technique has also been used in biology to date the "birth" of cells in human tissues.
So in otherwords the TSA check TWICE a piece of easy to fake information and NEVER check your ruddy passport.
As much as I enjoy bashing the government, when is the last time you've boarded a plane in the US? Every time I've flown in the last two years (I never flew much before), I have been required to present a state-issued ID as well as a boarding pass to even start moving through security. I've even seen one woman not allowed through because her driver's license was expired.
I suspect that they may have revised the procedure when they realized how silly it was.
The boarding pass though is still very fakeable (as are some state's IDs).
Where'd you get that from? I knew many international students as an undergrad who had trouble getting financial aid because many of the grants and loans are specifically for US permananent residents. When It came to applying to grad school, they had trouble because some government-funded programs (such as many MD-PhD programs) only cover US residents.
Also, isn't the majority of non-loan financial aid from private sources? I know it was at my school.
Really? Grad school's been a pretty good deal for me as far as loans go. I just called up my lenders, and got all my student loans deferred (with no interest) until i complete my PhD. And considering that I get paid to do grad school, I plan to pay off those loans as soon as I graduate. I think the answer is to stop whining, save money, and if you couldn't afford the school in the first place, perhaps choose a cheaper option?
MIT not only supports Linux (duh), but all the labs use an Ubuntu variant.
UPenn is also very linux friendly, and you should be able to get support if you know who to ask (they also have several SUSE computer labs in engineering).
Widener university is downright hostile to Linux. I never managed to connect my computer to their netweork. They are so restrictive, that you can't even get a windows PC onto their network without an "approved" antivirus program, as judged by their spyware-esque.exe that must be run before connecting (the only options are symantec and mcaffee).
those are the schools i have experience with. I think based on the posts here, someone could compile a nice webpage with "linux-friendliness" ratings for a bunch of schools.
I haven't dual booted because in the end, I'm a geek, and I like the challenge. I'm also pretty cheap, so i don't want to pay for windows. I don't think most users would have that kind of patience with their technology.
As an amusing side note, the old webcam which I got working on linux actually causes frequent BSODs on windows XP and Vista (the reason that i bought the new webcam actually).
I can't recall where i found this (in a forum somewhere), but this is the entirety of the "script" i use to launch skype (it would be easy enough from command line, but i like a desktop icon to click):
Fortunately webcam support is very good these days and I've never heard of a webcam that didn't work.
HAHAHAHAHA!
I spent ~3 months trying to get my philips webcam working in Ubuntu 9.04. By the end of it, I had only managed to get it to show an image that looks like the output of an infrared camera, and a blank screen in skype. In the end I had to go back to my older webcam, which still requires me to run skype with a script to preload some v4l component.
The webcam support is getting better, but it sure as hell needs work.
Lets not even start on the hell i went through this last week getting my tv tuner working, which was "supported" according to linuxtv.org.
I still prefer linux, but every time i go through something like this, a part of me wishes I had gone for dual-booting with windows.
These are the kinds of things I think people will want to do more and more with their computers in the future, and if the linux setup experience is not easy, people won't want to deal with it and retailers sure as hell won't want to deal with all the complaints and tech support.
While you are technically correct, you missed the point entirely.
If you read TFA (not the news piece, the actual one), then you will see that they sequenced cDNA, which means that they have the RNA sequence, but NOT the DNA sequence, and therefore cannot tell whether the changes occurred at the DNA or RNA level (such changes occurring at the RNA is old news). The GP did not quite express this clearly, but is correct in spirit.
What I cannot fathom, is why they did not simply sequence the DNA of their gene of interest (really just the area around the mutation(s)) for a few patients. This would be really straightforward (can be done in a week), and i woud have thought any reasonable peer reviewer would request it. Overall, there is not enough evidence to support the hype in the news piece, as far as I'm concerned, which explains why it's not published in a high-end journal.
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Thus I must disagree with the premise of their importance.
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Definitely NOT universally true. I also got a student bank account and debit card, without parental involvement, at 14. However, I had friends who had trouble doing so (they got an account, but no debit card). I suspect it is more of a bank policy thing than a state/federal law thing.
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It needs to be below ~8k (from the article abstract) . Not even liquid nitrogen is enough, need liquid helium.
here's the biology reference: http://www.pnas.org/content/103/33/12564.long
these guys pioneered the tech for use in biology, but then it was popularly applied to wines.
There is a trick that can be used to date things from the 2nd half of the 20th century. Nuclear bomb testing caused a spike in atmospheric C14, which is rapidly decreasing as it equilibrates with the oceans (among other things). The actual radioactive decay is insignificant on this timescale, and so we can get a pretty good idea if the grapes used to make the wine were plucked after nuclear testing began, and if so what year they were harvested. This technique has also been used in biology to date the "birth" of cells in human tissues.
How can you possibly totally avoid doing business with 3M? Where do they get post-it notes, and the million other little things the company makes?
How would they own her period? That seems even less tangible than her name. They'll want her boogers next.
So in otherwords the TSA check TWICE a piece of easy to fake information and NEVER check your ruddy passport.
As much as I enjoy bashing the government, when is the last time you've boarded a plane in the US? Every time I've flown in the last two years (I never flew much before), I have been required to present a state-issued ID as well as a boarding pass to even start moving through security. I've even seen one woman not allowed through because her driver's license was expired.
I suspect that they may have revised the procedure when they realized how silly it was. The boarding pass though is still very fakeable (as are some state's IDs).
or: http://dymovskiy.ru/video/1.avi
http://dymovskiy.ru/video/2.avi
Wow, with this font rn really looks like m
Who needs a science education to scavenge rats for supper?
My rat trap is better than yours, sucker!
As soon as it stops crashing on every use.
Also, isn't the majority of non-loan financial aid from private sources? I know it was at my school.
Really? Grad school's been a pretty good deal for me as far as loans go. I just called up my lenders, and got all my student loans deferred (with no interest) until i complete my PhD. And considering that I get paid to do grad school, I plan to pay off those loans as soon as I graduate. I think the answer is to stop whining, save money, and if you couldn't afford the school in the first place, perhaps choose a cheaper option?
I could remove your eyes, spleen, appendix, and much much more, and you'd still be viable. Doesn't make it junk.
UPenn is also very linux friendly, and you should be able to get support if you know who to ask (they also have several SUSE computer labs in engineering).
Widener university is downright hostile to Linux. I never managed to connect my computer to their netweork. They are so restrictive, that you can't even get a windows PC onto their network without an "approved" antivirus program, as judged by their spyware-esque .exe that must be run before connecting (the only options are symantec and mcaffee).
those are the schools i have experience with. I think based on the posts here, someone could compile a nice webpage with "linux-friendliness" ratings for a bunch of schools.
Tuner: Hauppage WinTV-HVR 950q
New Webcam: Philips SPC230NC
Old Webcam: Ezonics EZcam III
I haven't dual booted because in the end, I'm a geek, and I like the challenge. I'm also pretty cheap, so i don't want to pay for windows. I don't think most users would have that kind of patience with their technology.
As an amusing side note, the old webcam which I got working on linux actually causes frequent BSODs on windows XP and Vista (the reason that i bought the new webcam actually).
#! /bin/sh
LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype
this is the only way I can get skype to work right, and it does the job for my cheapo EZonics III webcam.
Fortunately webcam support is very good these days and I've never heard of a webcam that didn't work.
HAHAHAHAHA!
I spent ~3 months trying to get my philips webcam working in Ubuntu 9.04. By the end of it, I had only managed to get it to show an image that looks like the output of an infrared camera, and a blank screen in skype. In the end I had to go back to my older webcam, which still requires me to run skype with a script to preload some v4l component.
The webcam support is getting better, but it sure as hell needs work.
Lets not even start on the hell i went through this last week getting my tv tuner working, which was "supported" according to linuxtv.org.
I still prefer linux, but every time i go through something like this, a part of me wishes I had gone for dual-booting with windows.
These are the kinds of things I think people will want to do more and more with their computers in the future, and if the linux setup experience is not easy, people won't want to deal with it and retailers sure as hell won't want to deal with all the complaints and tech support.
I think the YRO section always has the red border, just like games always has the blue/purple border.
I just scraped the ink off the "made for windows Vista" sticker on my laptop, and drew in an Ubuntu logo.
If you read TFA (not the news piece, the actual one), then you will see that they sequenced cDNA, which means that they have the RNA sequence, but NOT the DNA sequence, and therefore cannot tell whether the changes occurred at the DNA or RNA level (such changes occurring at the RNA is old news). The GP did not quite express this clearly, but is correct in spirit.
What I cannot fathom, is why they did not simply sequence the DNA of their gene of interest (really just the area around the mutation(s)) for a few patients. This would be really straightforward (can be done in a week), and i woud have thought any reasonable peer reviewer would request it. Overall, there is not enough evidence to support the hype in the news piece, as far as I'm concerned, which explains why it's not published in a high-end journal.