"And I've always thought Applets were underrated and under-utilized."
I agree. We deploy all of our code as applets AND applications, which is not extra effort at all really. We mainly do this so that people can try it out with installing it. The only pain is maintaining a Verisign certificate, so people can actually trust us. Self-signed certificates just don't cut it, really.
I'm not talking trivial applets either, we've implemented a Semantic Web browser for scientists with some pretty fancy interface controls as an applet, and although you might be able to do the equivalent with AJAX/etc., I know I'd spend a lot more time maintaining the code, ensuring it works in different browsers, etc. with the non-Java approach. And it couldn't be used outside the browser, like our applets can.
I agree completely. Additionally, if (heaven forbid), your paper is rejected by a journal, modifying the style for resubmission to another journal is way simpler in LaTeX than in Word. Also, in my experience, the time "in press" (i.e. between acceptance and publication) is usually shorter for LaTeX submissions, because the journal's typesetter has a lot less manual work to do.
You're hitting on the fact that left/right is not a valid distinction, because economics and rights are orthogonal issues. There's a neat site called the Political Compass, which plots you in a Cartesian space (left/right & libertarian/authoritarian), rather than on a left/right spectrum...
The fact that the quoted source says the following
Moreover, actions taken thus far to reduce emissions have already had negative consequences without improving our ability to adapt to climate change. An emphasis on ethanol, for instance, has led to angry protests against corn-price increases in Mexico
is enough to question its thoroughness. Ethanol production itself is not the reason corn prices are going up, but rather it is largely due to the heavy subsidization of the U.S. ethanol industry, and the 50 cent/gallon import tax on foreign ethanol (e.g. from Brazil, where it comes from a much more viable source: sugar cane). This is American free market economics at its finest [cough], and shouldn't be used as an argument against taking effective actions.
According to The Economist, the sugar beet industry in Europe only survives because of EU regulations. Sugar is more expensive in Europe because the EU buys quotas of sugar from the West Indies at inflated prices, keeping the semblance of competitiveness for the European beet farmers.
The key problem though is regulatory approval. No generic drug manufacturer is going to pony up the cash for the extensive FDA drug trials required, if another generic can copy them as soon as it is approved. The only real solution for these potential drugs is funding by the government (unlikely), or disease-specific charities (e.g. the Cancer Foundation paying for the trials). Charity-based funding is happening now for some rarer diseases that aren't worth the big Pharma's time.
Duh, of course we can. We simply set up a "control" earth (on the other side of the Sun) in which we maintain the current levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (using boring cloned versions of ourselves to run the planet). We then proceed to party here and burn as much carbon as we like here and see if we get hotter than they do.
AFAIK, you wouldn't be able to call it Java, unless it passed all of the gazillion (estimate) tests the JRE comes with. Sun still owns the copyright on the name. If the forked version passed all the tests, it should be functionally transparent to the user which version they are using (except the speed up, or whatever the fork was meant to achieve)...
I was just going to say this myself! It is engrained in America's social values that making more money leads to happiness.
I correspond every day with friends who live in Sweden and Norway. They all love it, but it's only a good place to live; not to make money.
This means you value money over happiness! Some wires got crossed along the line.
FYI, the US government spends as much as Canada, per capita (according to The Economist) on public healthcare, but doesn't even have a universal public system (it's just to cover Medicare & Medicaid). Even given as a percentage of GDP, Amercians spends 1.5x as much overall on healthcare. All of these anecdotal stories about having to go to the U.S for treatment, are, well, anecdotal. If you have an urgent condition, you get treated right away (my 60 year old father-in-law got a quadruple bypass the day after they discovered how blocked up he was). There is a problem of waiting lists for painful, but not critical surgeries, such as knee and hip replacements...
It's a question of costs: displacing people, abandoning low lying structures, etc. It's enormous... in the trillions depending on how much sea level rises.
With regards to this post, and the following post about 98 % coverage.
The quality (i.e. the error rate) must be 0.01%, which is the convention adopted as the Bermuda Standard back when large scale sequencing was becoming mainstream, and the first genomes (of bacteria) were being produced. The coverage must be 98%. Usually, the last 2% are virtually impossible to elucidate because they are so repetitive (e.g. around centromeres) that you cannot tell how many copies of the repeats there are. The repeat regions are much larger than the contiguous sequences of about ~1000 bases you get from the sequencing machine "reads", so unambiguously assembling the overlapping reads becomes impossible. Luckily, the most useful data is in the 98% percent that is easier to sequence.
With regards to the 6GB, the human genome project has sequenced much, much more than 3GB. What you end up with is an assembly of the sequence into 3GB based on the consensus of the genomic DNA used (they did not do just one individual). The differences between the individuals are also recorded, largely as Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs). These SNPs form the majority of the differences between the 2 copies of chromosomes (23*2) we all have.
On a technical note, all of the new techniques that are being commercialized for very high throughput sequencing (e.g. 454) rely VERY heavily on computer power to assemble the results into meaningful, long sequences. If you though assembling the Human Genome Project would be a lot of work with its 1000 base reads, try assembling data from the new techniques, with their 100 or 25 base reads (depending on the technology you use). The less overlap you have between reads, the harder it is to resolve the assembly unambiguously...
It shows Canada steady, then declining, at about 1 Mb/day. The Canadian petroleum producers estimate it will increase to 4.8 Mb/day by 2020. It's all oil sands, so there's nothing hard about finding and extracting it (it's just expensive to do). Even the original paper the graph is from says it will increase to 2.8 by 2020, so the graph must be showing something else?
> > > 2. An X is an X. A dash is not an X > > Other markings invalidate the ballot. > The entire ballot, or just that one choice?
There is a separate ballot for each election question. That being said, we don't have as many questions as you. Usually just one or two. And an X is two independent lines that intersect somewhere inside the circle, and don't in any of the other circles. Here's an example ballot. All ballots, municipal, provincial and federal look like this, every time.
I swear there is a conspiracy, liberals are abducting all of the funny conservatives and sticking them in a cave somewhere. Who was the last funny conservative you saw? Dennis Miller is so-so, but other than that...
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"And I've always thought Applets were underrated and under-utilized."
I agree. We deploy all of our code as applets AND applications, which is not extra effort at all really. We mainly do this so that people can try it out with installing it. The only pain is maintaining a Verisign certificate, so people can actually trust us. Self-signed certificates just don't cut it, really.
I'm not talking trivial applets either, we've implemented a Semantic Web browser for scientists with some pretty fancy interface controls as an applet, and although you might be able to do the equivalent with AJAX/etc., I know I'd spend a lot more time maintaining the code, ensuring it works in different browsers, etc. with the non-Java approach. And it couldn't be used outside the browser, like our applets can.
I agree completely. Additionally, if (heaven forbid), your paper is rejected by a journal, modifying the style for resubmission to another journal is way simpler in LaTeX than in Word. Also, in my experience, the time "in press" (i.e. between acceptance and publication) is usually shorter for LaTeX submissions, because the journal's typesetter has a lot less manual work to do.
You're hitting on the fact that left/right is not a valid distinction, because economics and rights are orthogonal issues. There's a neat site called the Political Compass, which plots you in a Cartesian space (left/right & libertarian/authoritarian), rather than on a left/right spectrum...
Well, I must say this is a milestone day for "tags", because this microsoft FUD article actually got tagged as "fud" on Slashdot...
is enough to question its thoroughness. Ethanol production itself is not the reason corn prices are going up, but rather it is largely due to the heavy subsidization of the U.S. ethanol industry, and the 50 cent/gallon import tax on foreign ethanol (e.g. from Brazil, where it comes from a much more viable source: sugar cane). This is American free market economics at its finest [cough], and shouldn't be used as an argument against taking effective actions.
What are you talking about? PowerPoint is awesome! Lincoln should have used it for the Gettysburg address!
To load the games, will you still need to do
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LOAD "*",8,1
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Indee, Conrad Black had to give up his Canadian citizenship in order to accept his knighthood.
According to The Economist, the sugar beet industry in Europe only survives because of EU regulations. Sugar is more expensive in Europe because the EU buys quotas of sugar from the West Indies at inflated prices, keeping the semblance of competitiveness for the European beet farmers.
The key problem though is regulatory approval. No generic drug manufacturer is going to pony up the cash for the extensive FDA drug trials required, if another generic can copy them as soon as it is approved. The only real solution for these potential drugs is funding by the government (unlikely), or disease-specific charities (e.g. the Cancer Foundation paying for the trials). Charity-based funding is happening now for some rarer diseases that aren't worth the big Pharma's time.
Duh, of course we can. We simply set up a "control" earth (on the other side of the Sun) in which we maintain the current levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (using boring cloned versions of ourselves to run the planet). We then proceed to party here and burn as much carbon as we like here and see if we get hotter than they do.
What exactly was dismissive about my note? It's just a statement of fact, any interpretation is your own.
Also, more precisely, he was a statistics professor in the Political Science department.
Just for clarification, Lomborg has a PhD in Political Science from 1994.
Speaking of GridBagLayout, this is the funniest animation I have ever seen...
http://madbean.com/anim/totallygridbag
AFAIK, you wouldn't be able to call it Java, unless it passed all of the gazillion (estimate) tests the JRE comes with. Sun still owns the copyright on the name. If the forked version passed all the tests, it should be functionally transparent to the user which version they are using (except the speed up, or whatever the fork was meant to achieve)...
Chalk up one more reason to wear a headscarf/burka/etc., even if I am a guy:-)
This means you value money over happiness! Some wires got crossed along the line.
FYI, the US government spends as much as Canada, per capita (according to The Economist) on public healthcare, but doesn't even have a universal public system (it's just to cover Medicare & Medicaid). Even given as a percentage of GDP, Amercians spends 1.5x as much overall on healthcare. All of these anecdotal stories about having to go to the U.S for treatment, are, well, anecdotal. If you have an urgent condition, you get treated right away (my 60 year old father-in-law got a quadruple bypass the day after they discovered how blocked up he was). There is a problem of waiting lists for painful, but not critical surgeries, such as knee and hip replacements...
It's a question of costs: displacing people, abandoning low lying structures, etc. It's enormous... in the trillions depending on how much sea level rises.
So this begs the question: when are the natural gas powered computers coming out? :-)
With regards to this post, and the following post about 98 % coverage.
The quality (i.e. the error rate) must be 0.01%, which is the convention adopted as the Bermuda Standard back when large scale sequencing was becoming mainstream, and the first genomes (of bacteria) were being produced. The coverage must be 98%. Usually, the last 2% are virtually impossible to elucidate because they are so repetitive (e.g. around centromeres) that you cannot tell how many copies of the repeats there are. The repeat regions are much larger than the contiguous sequences of about ~1000 bases you get from the sequencing machine "reads", so unambiguously assembling the overlapping reads becomes impossible. Luckily, the most useful data is in the 98% percent that is easier to sequence.
With regards to the 6GB, the human genome project has sequenced much, much more than 3GB. What you end up with is an assembly of the sequence into 3GB based on the consensus of the genomic DNA used (they did not do just one individual). The differences between the individuals are also recorded, largely as Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs). These SNPs form the majority of the differences between the 2 copies of chromosomes (23*2) we all have.
On a technical note, all of the new techniques that are being commercialized for very high throughput sequencing (e.g. 454) rely VERY heavily on computer power to assemble the results into meaningful, long sequences. If you though assembling the Human Genome Project would be a lot of work with its 1000 base reads, try assembling data from the new techniques, with their 100 or 25 base reads (depending on the technology you use). The less overlap you have between reads, the harder it is to resolve the assembly unambiguously...
So then the graph does not describe Peak Oil at all I guess...
It shows Canada steady, then declining, at about 1 Mb/day. The Canadian petroleum producers estimate it will increase to 4.8 Mb/day by 2020. It's all oil sands, so there's nothing hard about finding and extracting it (it's just expensive to do). Even the original paper the graph is from says it will increase to 2.8 by 2020, so the graph must be showing something else?
> > > 2. An X is an X. A dash is not an X
> > Other markings invalidate the ballot.
> The entire ballot, or just that one choice?
There is a separate ballot for each election question. That being said, we don't have as many questions as you. Usually just one or two. And an X is two independent lines that intersect somewhere inside the circle, and don't in any of the other circles. Here's an example ballot. All ballots, municipal, provincial and federal look like this, every time.
I swear there is a conspiracy, liberals are abducting all of the funny conservatives and sticking them in a cave somewhere. Who was the last funny conservative you saw? Dennis Miller is so-so, but other than that...
java -Xbootclasspath/p::>
Prepends the given libraries in front of bootstrap class path