True. But the thought was that every human would have a core microbime, at least in the gut. Even if there were variances between people, and within the same person over time. But it appears to be that there is no set of core species.
Actually, if you look at the Human Gut Microbiome Initiative, there are core set of species that seem to be very important. Bacteriodes thetaiotaomicron is a very big player in must everybody's gut.
The real thrust of the research is how the ratios between the different species is different for everyone. These ratios are measured by targeted 16s RNA reading (it's part of the mechanism that turns RNA into Amino acid chains, so essential to life). This data can infer species. But it has no real linkage to the actual function characteristics of a microbe, its just one gene.
But because of all the gene swapping (either by lateral transfer of phages moving random genes with their own replication mechanism) what is really going on in a particular cell may be quite different then previously catalogued members of that species.
For me, one of the things that would move Linux from being a great development machine to a great desktop machine is the inclusion OpenGL based windowing system. The smooth window animation, the ability to shrink all the window to thumbnails for a quick overview, snappy transparency built into every window... These things aren't necessary, but they provide some nice touches that make a user interface feel like home. What is current plan for AIGLX? Is there going to be more collaboration with XGL? Are you working with NVIDIA to get the needed extensions in their driver so it will work with AIGLX? Do you expect that AMD's purchase of ATI will result in better Linux drivers, that can be used for this project? By what Fedora Core version would you expect to be including AIGLX by default, able to be enabled with the click of a button?
That makes the assumption that the users at the other end of the transfer were downloading the file illegally. What if they also owned a copy of the movie? They are not the ones on trial. IANAL, but I would think we would have to presume innocence on those other people who have not even had the opportunity to defend themselves in a court of law. The other downloaders are not on trial, just this one guy. And thus, because we must presume their innocence. If they were legally downloading the file, we cannot condemn his actions of uploading the file.
Of course that all assumes that downloading a file to make a backup of something you own is actually legal. I have no idea about the status of that one.
I would suggest you look at the Cell BE SDK from IBM. Cell isn't completely impossible to code for. From what I understand, you just write a small app, you get your arguments from main(), and there are a few functions to interface back with the main program. There are a few caviots about instructions, but for the most part it's just like writing in C.
I'm into Bioinformatics, and I would love to see if I could get each of the individual SPE doing dynamic programming on short sequences. A database search could be sped up 8 fold (or 7 fold on the PS3).
I thought the whole point of the opening on Tattooine was that Luke was bored to tears on his home planet, and that his whole life up until this point was a choice between tendin' to the vaporators and picking up power converters at Tosche Station.
Maybe they could frame it like 'that 70's show'. You know, for Luke as the 'Eric Foreman' character, hanging out in tattooine (probably as boring as Wisconson). They he could have a wacky set of freinds that come over after working on vaporators. Have that one crazy driod/alien with a weird accent, that hot chick from the farm next door, the rebelious kid (who wants to join the rebelion). Then fill it with retro jokes about about how their parents used to go pod racing in corn fields.
It would be very simple to control indie game developement. Remeber, the Nvidia drivers (i think that's what PS3 will run) are closed source, even for regular x86 based systems. All they have to do is make sure that the 3D acceleration portion of the NVidia driver can only be activated by registered programs that run on the PS3. If you don't have good 3D support, you can't do much for good indie games. So short of the nv module (open source nvidia driver) gaining 3D support, they can still control game licences.
That said, the environment is considerably different now, and just as AMTRAK has a monopoly on passenger rail but hemmorages money
Just a thought, but maybe it would be in AMTRAKS interest to actually fund some competition. Competition forces inovation, and if you have no compitition, all you are doing is just trying to survive. Maybe some company that could make it cool to ride the train again (free wifi, on train McDonalds, web tracking with GPS locations of trains, entertainment room with Plasma TV), kind of like a Jet Blue for trains.
But that's HDCP - a totally different animal to the SPDC/AACS security specified for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray.
That's what I was talking about. It's the weak link. SPDC/AACS is in between the disk and player, HDCP is inbetween the player and the TV. When attacking a crypto system, always go for the weak link. I know it doesn't give the actual content, but it does give you a direct look at the stream.
Wanna bet the HD-DVD & Blu-Ray consortium have learnt something from this?
Nope. (I'm on campus, so I hope people off campus can still download the PDF)
Long story short, algorithm can be implemented in chip with less then 10,000 gates. The 'master' secret key that generates all key pairs can be obtained by breaking 40 key pairs. This means, after breaking 40 key pairs, you can start generating your own signitures (or decrypt all other existing signitures).
IBM has opened the spec for their blade chassis design. Does anybody know if somebody is trying to make a 'desktop' blade chassis? Rather then buying a huge box that holds 14 blades, something that might only hold two. This doesn't mean make a desktop out of a blade, because as I understand it, so far the JS20s (IBMs PPC 970 blade) don't even have video cards. You have to set them up over the serial port, and run them over the network. But does anybody have a development sized unit you don't need a server rack and new power circuits for?
And why do you think that OSX will be able to run windows binaries better than WINE and/or Cedega considering that the people at WINE etc. have been trying to reverse engineer the windows libraries for many years now.
One word: Money.
Apple has lots of it. They can through gobs of money at the problem, and that will always move things faster then a grass roots problem. Just imagine 150 engineers working full time on Wine. They've previously gotten MacOS9 programs to run in MacOSX, so they probably already have a pool of engineers with the needed talents.
Given that MacOSX is based off of BSD Unix, and they've already plugged a great deal of work into the KHTML rendering engine, it's not completely insane to suggest that Apple could pick up Wine, through a large number of engineers at it, and get it to the point were it can run Office and DirectX 9 games.
It's Media Player 9, (not 10). And it is probably the worst peice of crap exuse for a media player I have ever seen. I don't think I've ever been able to see a lag free movie with both video and audio (most often it just plays the audio with a frozen image on the screen). That and it can't handle modern DMR that microsort produces, so it's only good for playing unencrypted media.
I buy Macs. They work fine. They don't come with tons of crapware.
Yes, but this discussion was originally about being able to play games. That's not something you can do on a Mac.
I kid!! I kid!!!
Actually, typing this on a dual G5. And I'm hoping that the one positive side of the Intel transition for Apple will be that someone will port Wine to MacOSX intel. That with some improved DirectX implementation in wine would open up the windows game market on the mac. Now that would be a serious killer app.
When will IBM be pimping these out in blade format? They already have JS20's, which are dual PPC 970 based systems running at 2.2GHz. These new chips are running 3 3.2GHZ cores on the same CPU. That means that with the JS20 form factor, you could get 6 cores altogether (assuming you don't melt the thing first). A rack of 14 of these would mean that you would have a 84 CPU cluster in single Chassis, and IBM puts 6 chassis on a rack, so that would be 504 CPUs on a single rack. It makes their current PPC blade option look kind of weak...
Either format is going to some sort of DRM. But at this point, I'm thinking Sony will be the lesser of two evils. Because as we've seen, they are pretty incompetent when it comes to these sorts of things. I expect BlueRay video encryption to be hacked within a day and a half.
Are we sure that they writer of this worm was a neo-nazi? Because otherwise, it is probably a coincidence. I mean, if you look at the whole of human history, every day could probably be the anniversary of some terrible tragedy. We could end up saying things like "Oh no, this worm attack date coincides with the 193rd anniversary of the start of the war of 1812"
They are crashing. Microsoft will now start to release patches (probably over Live) that correct this bug or that. The paying public will accept this and install them. People who buy XBox 360s down the road will expect the patches to be installed before they buy the system- but they'll still expect to have to install more at some point.
I'm curious how Microsoft plans to patch the systems without hard drives. Aside from updates to the BIOS, how can changes to the video games be saved?
So they are attempting to crack encryption of a device that contain copyright'ed material (if this guy saved his email, then anything he wrote should be automatically copyrighted). Isn't this a violation of the DMCA? I know I'm probably missing some technicality, but it's a fun thought argument.
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True. But the thought was that every human would have a core microbime, at least in the gut. Even if there were variances between people, and within the same person over time. But it appears to be that there is no set of core species.
Actually, if you look at the Human Gut Microbiome Initiative, there are core set of species that seem to be very important. Bacteriodes thetaiotaomicron is a very big player in must everybody's gut.
The real thrust of the research is how the ratios between the different species is different for everyone. These ratios are measured by targeted 16s RNA reading (it's part of the mechanism that turns RNA into Amino acid chains, so essential to life). This data can infer species. But it has no real linkage to the actual function characteristics of a microbe, its just one gene.
But because of all the gene swapping (either by lateral transfer of phages moving random genes with their own replication mechanism) what is really going on in a particular cell may be quite different then previously catalogued members of that species.
Something doesn't make sense:
There are ten times more bacterial cells in our body than our own cells. Most of them are located in our guts
That means that over 50% of 90% of our body mass in in our guts? Well, the researchers are Americans...
It's because microbial cells are much smaller then eukaryote cells. Imagine a bunch of basket balls surrounded by BBs.
By mass its probably about two pounds.
Actually both HD-DVD and Blu-Ray use the same DRM system, AACS, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AACS
For me, one of the things that would move Linux from being a great development machine to a great desktop machine is the inclusion OpenGL based windowing system. The smooth window animation, the ability to shrink all the window to thumbnails for a quick overview, snappy transparency built into every window... These things aren't necessary, but they provide some nice touches that make a user interface feel like home.
What is current plan for AIGLX? Is there going to be more collaboration with XGL? Are you working with NVIDIA to get the needed extensions in their driver so it will work with AIGLX? Do you expect that AMD's purchase of ATI will result in better Linux drivers, that can be used for this project? By what Fedora Core version would you expect to be including AIGLX by default, able to be enabled with the click of a button?
That makes the assumption that the users at the other end of the transfer were downloading the file illegally. What if they also owned a copy of the movie? They are not the ones on trial. IANAL, but I would think we would have to presume innocence on those other people who have not even had the opportunity to defend themselves in a court of law. The other downloaders are not on trial, just this one guy. And thus, because we must presume their innocence. If they were legally downloading the file, we cannot condemn his actions of uploading the file.
Of course that all assumes that downloading a file to make a backup of something you own is actually legal. I have no idea about the status of that one.
I would suggest you look at the Cell BE SDK from IBM. Cell isn't completely impossible to code for. From what I understand, you just write a small app, you get your arguments from main(), and there are a few functions to interface back with the main program. There are a few caviots about instructions, but for the most part it's just like writing in C.
I'm into Bioinformatics, and I would love to see if I could get each of the individual SPE doing dynamic programming on short sequences. A database search could be sped up 8 fold (or 7 fold on the PS3).
I thought the whole point of the opening on Tattooine was that Luke was bored to tears on his home planet, and that his whole life up until this point was a choice between tendin' to the vaporators and picking up power converters at Tosche Station.
Maybe they could frame it like 'that 70's show'. You know, for Luke as the 'Eric Foreman' character, hanging out in tattooine (probably as boring as Wisconson). They he could have a wacky set of freinds that come over after working on vaporators. Have that one crazy driod/alien with a weird accent, that hot chick from the farm next door, the rebelious kid (who wants to join the rebelion). Then fill it with retro jokes about about how their parents used to go pod racing in corn fields.
See, it can always be so much worse.
It would be very simple to control indie game developement. Remeber, the Nvidia drivers (i think that's what PS3 will run) are closed source, even for regular x86 based systems. All they have to do is make sure that the 3D acceleration portion of the NVidia driver can only be activated by registered programs that run on the PS3.
If you don't have good 3D support, you can't do much for good indie games.
So short of the nv module (open source nvidia driver) gaining 3D support, they can still control game licences.
That said, the environment is considerably different now, and just as AMTRAK has a monopoly on passenger rail but hemmorages money
Just a thought, but maybe it would be in AMTRAKS interest to actually fund some competition. Competition forces inovation, and if you have no compitition, all you are doing is just trying to survive. Maybe some company that could make it cool to ride the train again (free wifi, on train McDonalds, web tracking with GPS locations of trains, entertainment room with Plasma TV), kind of like a Jet Blue for trains.
But that's HDCP - a totally different animal to the SPDC/AACS security specified for HD-DVD and Blu-Ray.
That's what I was talking about. It's the weak link. SPDC/AACS is in between the disk and player, HDCP is inbetween the player and the TV. When attacking a crypto system, always go for the weak link. I know it doesn't give the actual content, but it does give you a direct look at the stream.
Wanna bet the HD-DVD & Blu-Ray consortium have learnt something from this?
Nope. (I'm on campus, so I hope people off campus can still download the PDF)
Long story short, algorithm can be implemented in chip with less then 10,000 gates. The 'master' secret key that generates all key pairs can be obtained by breaking 40 key pairs. This means, after breaking 40 key pairs, you can start generating your own signitures (or decrypt all other existing signitures).
They cost about three times what you'd pay for a standard rackmount production model.
;-) Or maybe mod a ATX case to handle a blade.
Well, that's not usefull...
I guess it's time to start a blade chassis case mod
IBM has opened the spec for their blade chassis design. Does anybody know if somebody is trying to make a 'desktop' blade chassis? Rather then buying a huge box that holds 14 blades, something that might only hold two.
This doesn't mean make a desktop out of a blade, because as I understand it, so far the JS20s (IBMs PPC 970 blade) don't even have video cards. You have to set them up over the serial port, and run them over the network.
But does anybody have a development sized unit you don't need a server rack and new power circuits for?
I am obligated to point out that the character you are quoting to back up your argument is a lunatic.
;-)
That's just your opinion
Are you an MBA or something?
Hey, no need to get off color here. I mean wow, that is an incredibly insulting thing to say...
And why do you think that OSX will be able to run windows binaries better than WINE and/or Cedega considering that the people at WINE etc. have been trying to reverse engineer the windows libraries for many years now.
One word: Money.
Apple has lots of it. They can through gobs of money at the problem, and that will always move things faster then a grass roots problem. Just imagine 150 engineers working full time on Wine. They've previously gotten MacOS9 programs to run in MacOSX, so they probably already have a pool of engineers with the needed talents.
Given that MacOSX is based off of BSD Unix, and they've already plugged a great deal of work into the KHTML rendering engine, it's not completely insane to suggest that Apple could pick up Wine, through a large number of engineers at it, and get it to the point were it can run Office and DirectX 9 games.
*Official* Microsoft Windows Media Player for Mac
It's Media Player 9, (not 10). And it is probably the worst peice of crap exuse for a media player I have ever seen. I don't think I've ever been able to see a lag free movie with both video and audio (most often it just plays the audio with a frozen image on the screen). That and it can't handle modern DMR that microsort produces, so it's only good for playing unencrypted media.
I buy Macs. They work fine. They don't come with tons of crapware.
Yes, but this discussion was originally about being able to play games. That's not something you can do on a Mac.
I kid!! I kid!!!
Actually, typing this on a dual G5. And I'm hoping that the one positive side of the Intel transition for Apple will be that someone will port Wine to MacOSX intel. That with some improved DirectX implementation in wine would open up the windows game market on the mac. Now that would be a serious killer app.
When will IBM be pimping these out in blade format? They already have JS20's, which are dual PPC 970 based systems running at 2.2GHz. These new chips are running 3 3.2GHZ cores on the same CPU. That means that with the JS20 form factor, you could get 6 cores altogether (assuming you don't melt the thing first). A rack of 14 of these would mean that you would have a 84 CPU cluster in single Chassis, and IBM puts 6 chassis on a rack, so that would be 504 CPUs on a single rack.
It makes their current PPC blade option look kind of weak...
Either format is going to some sort of DRM. But at this point, I'm thinking Sony will be the lesser of two evils. Because as we've seen, they are pretty incompetent when it comes to these sorts of things. I expect BlueRay video encryption to be hacked within a day and a half.
Given his use of the worm to spread neo-nazi-type propaganda in the past
I don't have a Windows desktop, so I tend to ignore these news items. Is there a long history with this virus writer/group?
Are we sure that they writer of this worm was a neo-nazi? Because otherwise, it is probably a coincidence. I mean, if you look at the whole of human history, every day could probably be the anniversary of some terrible tragedy. We could end up saying things like "Oh no, this worm attack date coincides with the 193rd anniversary of the start of the war of 1812"
They are crashing. Microsoft will now start to release patches (probably over Live) that correct this bug or that. The paying public will accept this and install them. People who buy XBox 360s down the road will expect the patches to be installed before they buy the system- but they'll still expect to have to install more at some point.
I'm curious how Microsoft plans to patch the systems without hard drives. Aside from updates to the BIOS, how can changes to the video games be saved?
Worst. Apology. Ever...
Sorry, couldn't resist.
So they are attempting to crack encryption of a device that contain copyright'ed material (if this guy saved his email, then anything he wrote should be automatically copyrighted). Isn't this a violation of the DMCA?
I know I'm probably missing some technicality, but it's a fun thought argument.