on my Evo 4G, Flash is actually very usable. It defaults to blocking flash on sites (flashblock style), so you have to click on an element for the Flash content to load. Otherwise, the internet would be unusuable with all the Flash ads that would load up. It will slow down other aspects of the phone a bit and it sucks battery (at least watching a Flash video will), but I'd still much rather have it for those inevitable sites that are Flash only...
I second this. With Sprint, if you tell them you get no service at your house, and that you would like to keep them as your carrier, they will not only waive the monthly fee but sometimes will even give you the device for free.
I'm also a Linux user and have been using Chromium for a while now. I switch back and forth between it and Firefox, but I'm starting to stay in Chrome more often. Now only if they could add printing, it would be feature complete compared to the Windows version...
I was sending 2000 a month in high school back before I even had a phone with an actual keyboard. Now, 6-7 years later, I still average 2000-3000/month. However, I usually use less than 100 minutes per month on my phone. Thankfully I've always had an unlimited SMS plan...
My parents each now use 500+ texts per month, whereas at first they didn't understand the appeal of it (neither is tech savvy at all) and thought it was dumb to send a text instead of just calling the person. For casual conversations in a lot of circles, texting has almost completely replaced phone calls. Actual phone calls are only useful anymore when something is time critical or the conversation would have a lot of back and forth discussion or details.
This would be really nice on a phone like the Palm Pre, which has the hardware to do OpenGL ES 2.0 (the same as the iPhone 3GS actually), but apps can't really use it. Its entire UI is basically a browser, right down to the phone and messaging apps. The biggest complaint for potential developers is that games aren't really possible since you don't have access to hardware acceleration. This would fix that problem.
OpenVPN wouldn't be affected by this. Unlike a browser, it doesn't go fetch a certificate and verify it against the domain name of the server; instead, the client already has the certificate and compares it to the server's certificate. In other words, OpenVPN's certificates aren't based on domain names. I'm pretty sure other SSL based VPNs are the same.
http://3liz.org/geolocation/ supposedly works. However, I'm in Pittsburgh and it put me in a LARGE circle with NYC as the center (Pittsburgh is not even in the circle). Using Comcast as my ISP. Plenty of wireless APs around me (upwards of 10). Maybe others have better luck with it?
I actually had a startup doing direct to consumer (DTC) genetic testing for a mutation that gave resistance/immunity to HIV. For many reasons, we aren't around anymore, but the reasons included regulatory changes, a rapidly changing market, and ethics. I now feel it's morally wrong to offer these tests to consumers who have no idea how to interpret them and what they mean; at least genetic counseling should be offered with the test. Someone should not make life altering decisions without the consultation of someone trained in the area. For example, suppose someone gets a BRCA 1/2 test, which tests for predisposition to breast cancer. Suppose 60% of those with the BRCA mutation get breast cancer (don't quote me on that figure, but it's in that range). Many women may then decide to get a mastectomy, however, the actual likelihood is much lower than 60% (see Bayes Theorem). Without consultation, they may make a terrible choice, and unfortunately many doctors are not trained in genetics yet.
I've since become involved with a doctor in the Connecticut/New York area who has started a practice centered on genetics. I'm now convinced that this is the only way to go, and that direct to consumer tests are simply a passing phase. 23andme and Navigenics even say that their tests are not medically useful.
I have a blog devoted to this topic if anyone is interested: http://www.thinkgene.com/ and the doctor at that practice also has a blog: http://thegenesherpa.blogspot.com/
In fact, if anyone wants a free genetic test that's better than the one offered by 23andme and Navigenics, and you happen to be in the New Jersey area, Coriell is giving them away (http://www.thinkgene.com/i-spit-at-coriell), and this is where the future of genetics is going.
Will Amarok 1.4 work with the Pre?
I would love to have a Smart Phone that works well with Linux.
I would imagine it would. It simply shows up as a mass media device, where you can just copy MP3s over to it and they show up in the media library. This is the same way a lot of other MP3 players work, so it should be trivial to get Amarok support
It's also really helpful on Linux or OS X, where Flash performance is less than exceptional... Simple flash animations on these machines will use an absurd amount of CPU. If you have a few tabs open, each with a flash ad or other flash content, your computer quickly gets to 100% CPU usage. Flashblock keeps my system fast
I'll second this. Science evolved out of philosophy, especially in the case of biology, which used to be called natural philosophy. In fact, all of what we now consider science was once natural philosophy. Charles Darwin considered himself a philosopher and greatly admired Aristotle. Throughout the Origin of Species and his other works, Darwin often makes Aristotelian references. It was in adhering to Aristotle's focus on teleology that lead Darwin to figure out natural selection. Teleology is still found in modern scientific literature, so science has not lost its roots in philosophy.
When looking at the subset of philosophy called philosophy of science, it becomes more apparently that science really is still just a subset of philosophy. Philosophy is not just people making random guesses about how they feel the world is, but rather it is about using evidence to try to prove one's point. Science is about gathering the data, and then using that data to draw conclusions is philosophy. Science cannot exist without philosophy.
I'm a molecular biology major, and many of my classmates were pre-med. Doctors should have to take biochemistry, of which organic chemistry is usually a pre-requisite. While many doctors do not do research, they still need to understand how basic chemistry in the body takes place.
It's unfortunate that organic chemistry is required for biochemistry though, because much of organic chemistry is memorizing pointless non-biological reactions. The important aspects for bio molecules certainly can be taught in a 2 semester biochemistry class though.
Paypal hasn't been Safari friendly for a while. I once was using paypal "buy it now" links on a website. After a few months, I got emails from a user asking how to buy the product because there was no link. Apparently Safari doesn't show the "buy now" image because it's in a form. I guess Safari doesn't support that feature, but I would think Paypal would do something about it.
The latest nightly is significantly better than beta2. I recommend just installing Minefield and let it update every day. Or you can just disable automatic updates and only update it when you're going to restart the browser anyway.
While it would technically be considered a different species (though perhaps in the same genus as the parent species), I wouldn't consider it artificial life. All they did was repeatedly remove genes and see if the organism was viable. They still have no idea how most of the genes and regulation actually work. Simply modifying an organism doesn't constitute artificial life unless you consider dog breeds or other things we've created by breeding. By the same notion, it's not considered artificial life when a new custom chromosome (called a plasmid) is inserted into a bacteria or eukaryotic cell. It's done all the time and has been since the 80s.
All they did was get rid of "extraneous" genes that they don't deem necessary. They're trying to make a designer organism to synthesize/produce compounds. This is one step in achieving that, though it was arguably unnecessary. The hard part is creating genes/proteins to make it do what you actually want. This involves creating a new biochemical pathway (or modifying an existing one), probably creating new enzymes to recognize your intermediates, designing ER and golgi receptors to recognize their finished product and target it for excretion from the cell, creating proper regulation of this pathway, etc, etc. As you can see, it's very complicated. No one has successfully created their own enzyme or protein yet, let alone an entire biochemical pathway of them.
Could he win this on grounds similar to pleading the 5th Amendment? He could argue that he deleted the files because they could be self-incrimination. However, since IANAL, I do not know if this would hold up in court.
I can attest to the enforcement of the distributing of TV shows. I got the following lovely notice about a year ago from our friends at the RIAA- after getting a Star Trek Enterprise episode off of bittorrent:
From the RIAA? Really? Hmm, last I checked they did music not TV shows or movies...interesting... You sure you actually got this letter from them?
Oddly enough this is the same argument KaZaa and other P2Pers use on regular broadband. The "Yeh Ol Because I can" argument. Here's a clue spunky. It's not the job of illegal P2Pers to test the network. Any more than it's the job of speeders to test the high-speed capabilities of the highway. You want to do illegal P2P speed tests, then get your own network, and get off the network I'm paying for.
I'm not saying it is their job. I am saying that the traffic is all routed over the Internet2 anyway. The universities do this because they want this bandwidth they paid for used.
Second of all, this is not the same argument as consumer broadband. That DOES hurt other people using the network, and has been shown to do so. Your argument is not parellel, especially the comparison to the highway speed tests. Speeding on a highway causes deaths. I do not believe many people have died from downloading the latest version of Ubuntu, which, btw, is a LEGAL use for i2hub...
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on my Evo 4G, Flash is actually very usable. It defaults to blocking flash on sites (flashblock style), so you have to click on an element for the Flash content to load. Otherwise, the internet would be unusuable with all the Flash ads that would load up. It will slow down other aspects of the phone a bit and it sucks battery (at least watching a Flash video will), but I'd still much rather have it for those inevitable sites that are Flash only...
I second this. With Sprint, if you tell them you get no service at your house, and that you would like to keep them as your carrier, they will not only waive the monthly fee but sometimes will even give you the device for free.
Chrome on Linux supports pretty much any codec that ffmpeg supports, so it's not just limited to H.264 and Ogg.
You could always go with the Palm Pre (or Pixi...but that doesn't have wifi and has a smaller screen).
I'm also a Linux user and have been using Chromium for a while now. I switch back and forth between it and Firefox, but I'm starting to stay in Chrome more often. Now only if they could add printing, it would be feature complete compared to the Windows version...
I was sending 2000 a month in high school back before I even had a phone with an actual keyboard. Now, 6-7 years later, I still average 2000-3000/month. However, I usually use less than 100 minutes per month on my phone. Thankfully I've always had an unlimited SMS plan...
My parents each now use 500+ texts per month, whereas at first they didn't understand the appeal of it (neither is tech savvy at all) and thought it was dumb to send a text instead of just calling the person. For casual conversations in a lot of circles, texting has almost completely replaced phone calls. Actual phone calls are only useful anymore when something is time critical or the conversation would have a lot of back and forth discussion or details.
This would be really nice on a phone like the Palm Pre, which has the hardware to do OpenGL ES 2.0 (the same as the iPhone 3GS actually), but apps can't really use it. Its entire UI is basically a browser, right down to the phone and messaging apps. The biggest complaint for potential developers is that games aren't really possible since you don't have access to hardware acceleration. This would fix that problem.
OpenVPN wouldn't be affected by this. Unlike a browser, it doesn't go fetch a certificate and verify it against the domain name of the server; instead, the client already has the certificate and compares it to the server's certificate. In other words, OpenVPN's certificates aren't based on domain names. I'm pretty sure other SSL based VPNs are the same.
http://3liz.org/geolocation/ supposedly works. However, I'm in Pittsburgh and it put me in a LARGE circle with NYC as the center (Pittsburgh is not even in the circle). Using Comcast as my ISP. Plenty of wireless APs around me (upwards of 10). Maybe others have better luck with it?
I actually had a startup doing direct to consumer (DTC) genetic testing for a mutation that gave resistance/immunity to HIV. For many reasons, we aren't around anymore, but the reasons included regulatory changes, a rapidly changing market, and ethics. I now feel it's morally wrong to offer these tests to consumers who have no idea how to interpret them and what they mean; at least genetic counseling should be offered with the test. Someone should not make life altering decisions without the consultation of someone trained in the area. For example, suppose someone gets a BRCA 1/2 test, which tests for predisposition to breast cancer. Suppose 60% of those with the BRCA mutation get breast cancer (don't quote me on that figure, but it's in that range). Many women may then decide to get a mastectomy, however, the actual likelihood is much lower than 60% (see Bayes Theorem). Without consultation, they may make a terrible choice, and unfortunately many doctors are not trained in genetics yet. I've since become involved with a doctor in the Connecticut/New York area who has started a practice centered on genetics. I'm now convinced that this is the only way to go, and that direct to consumer tests are simply a passing phase. 23andme and Navigenics even say that their tests are not medically useful. I have a blog devoted to this topic if anyone is interested: http://www.thinkgene.com/ and the doctor at that practice also has a blog: http://thegenesherpa.blogspot.com/ In fact, if anyone wants a free genetic test that's better than the one offered by 23andme and Navigenics, and you happen to be in the New Jersey area, Coriell is giving them away (http://www.thinkgene.com/i-spit-at-coriell), and this is where the future of genetics is going.
Will Amarok 1.4 work with the Pre? I would love to have a Smart Phone that works well with Linux.
I would imagine it would. It simply shows up as a mass media device, where you can just copy MP3s over to it and they show up in the media library. This is the same way a lot of other MP3 players work, so it should be trivial to get Amarok support
It's also really helpful on Linux or OS X, where Flash performance is less than exceptional... Simple flash animations on these machines will use an absurd amount of CPU. If you have a few tabs open, each with a flash ad or other flash content, your computer quickly gets to 100% CPU usage. Flashblock keeps my system fast
I'll second this. Science evolved out of philosophy, especially in the case of biology, which used to be called natural philosophy. In fact, all of what we now consider science was once natural philosophy. Charles Darwin considered himself a philosopher and greatly admired Aristotle. Throughout the Origin of Species and his other works, Darwin often makes Aristotelian references. It was in adhering to Aristotle's focus on teleology that lead Darwin to figure out natural selection. Teleology is still found in modern scientific literature, so science has not lost its roots in philosophy.
When looking at the subset of philosophy called philosophy of science, it becomes more apparently that science really is still just a subset of philosophy. Philosophy is not just people making random guesses about how they feel the world is, but rather it is about using evidence to try to prove one's point. Science is about gathering the data, and then using that data to draw conclusions is philosophy. Science cannot exist without philosophy.
I'm a molecular biology major, and many of my classmates were pre-med. Doctors should have to take biochemistry, of which organic chemistry is usually a pre-requisite. While many doctors do not do research, they still need to understand how basic chemistry in the body takes place. It's unfortunate that organic chemistry is required for biochemistry though, because much of organic chemistry is memorizing pointless non-biological reactions. The important aspects for bio molecules certainly can be taught in a 2 semester biochemistry class though.
Paypal hasn't been Safari friendly for a while. I once was using paypal "buy it now" links on a website. After a few months, I got emails from a user asking how to buy the product because there was no link. Apparently Safari doesn't show the "buy now" image because it's in a form. I guess Safari doesn't support that feature, but I would think Paypal would do something about it.
I'm optimistic that our electoral process would work and pass effective legislation to prevent genetic discrimination.
The latest nightly is significantly better than beta2. I recommend just installing Minefield and let it update every day. Or you can just disable automatic updates and only update it when you're going to restart the browser anyway.
While it would technically be considered a different species (though perhaps in the same genus as the parent species), I wouldn't consider it artificial life. All they did was repeatedly remove genes and see if the organism was viable. They still have no idea how most of the genes and regulation actually work. Simply modifying an organism doesn't constitute artificial life unless you consider dog breeds or other things we've created by breeding. By the same notion, it's not considered artificial life when a new custom chromosome (called a plasmid) is inserted into a bacteria or eukaryotic cell. It's done all the time and has been since the 80s. All they did was get rid of "extraneous" genes that they don't deem necessary. They're trying to make a designer organism to synthesize/produce compounds. This is one step in achieving that, though it was arguably unnecessary. The hard part is creating genes/proteins to make it do what you actually want. This involves creating a new biochemical pathway (or modifying an existing one), probably creating new enzymes to recognize your intermediates, designing ER and golgi receptors to recognize their finished product and target it for excretion from the cell, creating proper regulation of this pathway, etc, etc. As you can see, it's very complicated. No one has successfully created their own enzyme or protein yet, let alone an entire biochemical pathway of them.
No, mod this down. At least speedtest.net doesn't make me wait 12195 seconds to do the test and doesn't crash Firefox.
In fact, I just had to manually remove it because the old version of the driver was already installed, and the new version of it couldn't override it.
Really? I just installed it over version 1.2a, and it upgraded fine without any problems.
Could he win this on grounds similar to pleading the 5th Amendment? He could argue that he deleted the files because they could be self-incrimination. However, since IANAL, I do not know if this would hold up in court.
The torrent link is dead now. Why would they remove a link to a torrent file that is saving them bandwidth??
If you need help getting linux working send me an email, I'd be glad to help.
I can attest to the enforcement of the distributing of TV shows. I got the following lovely notice about a year ago from our friends at the RIAA- after getting a Star Trek Enterprise episode off of bittorrent:
From the RIAA? Really? Hmm, last I checked they did music not TV shows or movies...interesting... You sure you actually got this letter from them?
Oddly enough this is the same argument KaZaa and other P2Pers use on regular broadband. The "Yeh Ol Because I can" argument. Here's a clue spunky. It's not the job of illegal P2Pers to test the network. Any more than it's the job of speeders to test the high-speed capabilities of the highway. You want to do illegal P2P speed tests, then get your own network, and get off the network I'm paying for.
I'm not saying it is their job. I am saying that the traffic is all routed over the Internet2 anyway. The universities do this because they want this bandwidth they paid for used.
Second of all, this is not the same argument as consumer broadband. That DOES hurt other people using the network, and has been shown to do so. Your argument is not parellel, especially the comparison to the highway speed tests. Speeding on a highway causes deaths. I do not believe many people have died from downloading the latest version of Ubuntu, which, btw, is a LEGAL use for i2hub...