Slashdot has kept me up to date with the geek world for many many years, through college, my first job, and grad school. Appreciate it, and best of luck with your future plans.
If you have a real interest in bioinformatics, I cannot stress enough that you should learn Perl. Even if you are a biologist by background, Perl is not like Java or C, and stresses more on getting things done rather than on abstract computer science concepts.
Once you learn Perl, using something like BioJava will give you all you need to handle sequence data. For instance, you could build a data pipeline that you use on all of your sequences of interest, instead of a graphical tool which pretty much forces you to do alignments and such one at a time.
Now there are some tasks that will require a graphical tool (editing alignments is an example), and one free tool you could use is JaMBW. There is also a list of open bioinformatics software for Linux (generally will be Java or Perl, occasionally C) hosted at Bioinformatics.org.
Three other trials using gene therapy to cure the same disease were shut down by the FDA just last week. Apparently, the "harmless virus" used in a French trial ended up causing cancer in two patients. TFA does not seem to mention these other trials.
Three other trials using genetherapy to cure the same disease were shut down by the FDA just last week.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/04/tech/mai n678164.shtml
Apparently, the "harmless virus" used in a French trial ended up causing cancer in two patients. TFA does not seem to mention these other trials.
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=117228&c id=9914322
What part of that comment did you not understand?!?!
Talk about an even more misleading headline. Would it be so hard to add "in testing"?
XUL is an interface building language (much like GTK+ and Qt), and so "should we build interfaces in XUL?" is valid and does not violate the principle you mention. Apps with XUL interfaces would need a runtime, and this is no different from the GTK libs or the Qt libs being loaded when applications based on those frameworks are run.
That said, I am not sure what the limitations of XUL are. How does it compare to Microsoft's XAML, for instance in terms of functionality?
Even looking at the big picture, the Indian population is 5 times that of the US (and that's just one country). Do you know how fast Coke/Pepsi/Ford et al are growing in India as a result of the economic boom there?
Now no tech company is making millions in India yet, but at the consumer goods level, countries like India and China are the "emerging markets" we hear about , and after all include greater than two-fifths of the world population.
So your argument may be valid for a Microsoft, Oracle or IBM, but definitely not for McDonalds, whose global sales are an important component of their success.
Yes, he is simply porting the open source wrapper for the Linux binary module to the BSD kernel, as he mentions in the article. Reverse engineering the supplied binary module is prohibited by the license under which it is supplied.
At this point, we have no idea what chip is used in the NForce2 ethernet. Possible suspects such as AMD8111e and pcnet32 have been tried without success.
I assume that Nvidia has some kind of licensing agreement that prevents them from releasing specs; otherwise, why in the world would you guard the specs for a damn ethernet card?
It's on RedHat Network, so you can use up2date. I did "up2date -u", which updated openssh, openssh-askpass, openssh-askpass-gnome, openssh-clients and openssh-server. You still have to do step 5 above, restarting the ssh server.
Except that when you talk about science fiction, anything is possible.
Very few people read science fiction for the science -- it is mostly hokey anyway. The interesting aspect of most sci-fi stories is the sociopolitical questions that technology raises, rather than the technology itself, at least beyond the initial "Wow" factor. The best sci-fi writers are those that do not use technology to solve the crises in their stories -- see Asimov for some good examples. We do not need any more of "let's just up this engine to warp speed" -- I get more of a kick out of the latest Doom 3/Half-Life 2 trailer.
And although (as you rightly argue) most space technology themes are getting a bit old, there are other themes worth considering. Biotechnology is one, if only writers like Crichton and Cook would give us a non-alarmist story once in a while.
Last but not least, I think the popularity of fantasy right now can be attributed to the mainstream media, which is pumping out Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter movies every year.
happens that for some reason X doesn't detect working agp when a Radeon 8500LE in inserted in my kt266 based mobo. even with agpgart and radeon modules loaded.
The different chipset-specific AGP routines are now in their own modules. So you have to do "modprobe via-agp" or something similar before AGP is actually up and running.
I would like to see the RIAA blow up someone's PC and burn their house down as an "unintended consequence". The person should then turn out to have ISOs of some Redhat version codenamed aguilera, and no real copyrighted material. Then we'll see who sues whom....
Most schools do not require the GRE computer science test. I am currently in a graduate CS program and did not take the computer science GRE, only the general test.
Of course, taking the test can only help your application, unless you make a terrible mess of it.
The term species is defined quite subjectively, but in this context, "species" are probably defined as groups that have been sexually isolated from one another. So the three groups cannot (maybe the sperm from one species cannot fertilize the egg of another properly) or do not (they dont like each others smell, for instance) reproduce with each other. Isolation thus need not be geographical. Over the years after the isolation event, their DNA becomes less and less alike.
These researchers sequences certain DNA sequences in all these elephants and clustered the seqeunces. They found that the seqeunces clustered into 3 main groups, i.e. the sequences within the groups showed more similarity than the sequences in the other two groups. Two of these obviously corresponded to the existing known species, but the third probably looked just like one of the others, and yet was isolated sexually some time ago.
In case you want to write software to help with the "online lab" part of courses or perhaps simply illustrate certain ideas in a graphical fashion, take a look at Physlets. These are open-source Java libraries for writing physics-related Java programs/applets. Award winning, no less.
Huh? Slower framerates isn't a performance hit? Sounds like you're a little biased.
Ah my friend you misunderstand.
Overall, the Parhelia is slower than the 9700. However, the relative performance drop when 16xFSAA is enabled is less for the Parhelia than for the 9700, i.e. the 9700 may lose 50% of its framerates when 16xFSAA is enabled, while the Parhelia may lose only 20%.
Note that these numbers are merely to illustrate the point and do not refer to actual performance.
Main important change would be the IDE updates from the -ac kernels which are in 2.4.19. These should support the new large disks and ATA133, AFAIK. Also, the Changelog is accurate: those were the patches from 2.4.18 to 2.4.19.
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Slashdot has kept me up to date with the geek world for many many years, through college, my first job, and grad school. Appreciate it, and best of luck with your future plans.
<nitpick>According to the link you posted, it's Firefox, not FireFox.</nitpick>
If you have a real interest in bioinformatics, I cannot stress enough that you should learn Perl. Even if you are a biologist by background, Perl is not like Java or C, and stresses more on getting things done rather than on abstract computer science concepts.
Once you learn Perl, using something like BioJava will give you all you need to handle sequence data. For instance, you could build a data pipeline that you use on all of your sequences of interest, instead of a graphical tool which pretty much forces you to do alignments and such one at a time.
Now there are some tasks that will require a graphical tool (editing alignments is an example), and one free tool you could use is JaMBW. There is also a list of open bioinformatics software for Linux (generally will be Java or Perl, occasionally C) hosted at Bioinformatics.org.
Three other trials using gene therapy to cure the same disease were shut down by the FDA just last week. Apparently, the "harmless virus" used in a French trial ended up causing cancer in two patients. TFA does not seem to mention these other trials.
Three other trials using genetherapy to cure the same disease were shut down by the FDA just last week. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/04/tech/mai n678164.shtml
Apparently, the "harmless virus" used in a French trial ended up causing cancer in two patients. TFA does not seem to mention these other trials.
http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=117228&c id=9914322
What part of that comment did you not understand?!?!
Talk about an even more misleading headline. Would it be so hard to add "in testing"?
XUL is an interface building language (much like GTK+ and Qt), and so "should we build interfaces in XUL?" is valid and does not violate the principle you mention. Apps with XUL interfaces would need a runtime, and this is no different from the GTK libs or the Qt libs being loaded when applications based on those frameworks are run.
That said, I am not sure what the limitations of XUL are. How does it compare to Microsoft's XAML, for instance in terms of functionality?
Even looking at the big picture, the Indian population is 5 times that of the US (and that's just one country). Do you know how fast Coke/Pepsi/Ford et al are growing in India as a result of the economic boom there?
Now no tech company is making millions in India yet, but at the consumer goods level, countries like India and China are the "emerging markets" we hear about , and after all include greater than two-fifths of the world population.
So your argument may be valid for a Microsoft, Oracle or IBM, but definitely not for McDonalds, whose global sales are an important component of their success.
Yes, he is simply porting the open source wrapper for the Linux binary module to the BSD kernel, as he mentions in the article. Reverse engineering the supplied binary module is prohibited by the license under which it is supplied.
At this point, we have no idea what chip is used in the NForce2 ethernet. Possible suspects such as AMD8111e and pcnet32 have been tried without success.
I assume that Nvidia has some kind of licensing agreement that prevents them from releasing specs; otherwise, why in the world would you guard the specs for a damn ethernet card?
Oops, pot kettle black. The UP number should be more like 1017, but the point still stands.
Yes, the number for dual is not 1017, but more like 1545.
Here are the actual numbers for 2.6.0-test5 and the compute workload:
1 - 992.06 - 100%
2 - 1545.03 - 155%
4 - 5175.28 - 521%
Now for why the 4 processor case is actually 5 times better than the single CPU case, I do not know enough about the benchmarks to comment.
It's on RedHat Network, so you can use up2date. I did "up2date -u", which updated openssh, openssh-askpass, openssh-askpass-gnome, openssh-clients and openssh-server. You still have to do step 5 above, restarting the ssh server.
Except that when you talk about science fiction, anything is possible.
Very few people read science fiction for the science -- it is mostly hokey anyway. The interesting aspect of most sci-fi stories is the sociopolitical questions that technology raises, rather than the technology itself, at least beyond the initial "Wow" factor. The best sci-fi writers are those that do not use technology to solve the crises in their stories -- see Asimov for some good examples. We do not need any more of "let's just up this engine to warp speed" -- I get more of a kick out of the latest Doom 3/Half-Life 2 trailer.
And although (as you rightly argue) most space technology themes are getting a bit old, there are other themes worth considering. Biotechnology is one, if only writers like Crichton and Cook would give us a non-alarmist story once in a while.
Last but not least, I think the popularity of fantasy right now can be attributed to the mainstream media, which is pumping out Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter movies every year.
--Rahul
You said:
and:
Indeed.
The different chipset-specific AGP routines are now in their own modules. So you have to do "modprobe via-agp" or something similar before AGP is actually up and running.
That is not a good sign, unless they are planning to release specs to the community for 3D driver development.
I would like to see the RIAA blow up someone's PC and burn their house down as an "unintended consequence". The person should then turn out to have ISOs of some Redhat version codenamed aguilera, and no real copyrighted material. Then we'll see who sues whom....
First pee!!!
An example of such duplication can be seen at this leading news site.
Most schools do not require the GRE computer science test. I am currently in a graduate CS program and did not take the computer science GRE, only the general test.
Of course, taking the test can only help your application, unless you make a terrible mess of it.
The term species is defined quite subjectively, but in this context, "species" are probably defined as groups that have been sexually isolated from one another. So the three groups cannot (maybe the sperm from one species cannot fertilize the egg of another properly) or do not (they dont like each others smell, for instance) reproduce with each other. Isolation thus need not be geographical. Over the years after the isolation event, their DNA becomes less and less alike.
These researchers sequences certain DNA sequences in all these elephants and clustered the seqeunces. They found that the seqeunces clustered into 3 main groups, i.e. the sequences within the groups showed more similarity than the sequences in the other two groups. Two of these obviously corresponded to the existing known species, but the third probably looked just like one of the others, and yet was isolated sexually some time ago.
More details are in the abstract of the paper.
-RahulIn case you want to write software to help with the "online lab" part of courses or perhaps simply illustrate certain ideas in a graphical fashion, take a look at Physlets. These are open-source Java libraries for writing physics-related Java programs/applets. Award winning, no less.
-Rahul
Ah my friend you misunderstand.
Overall, the Parhelia is slower than the 9700. However, the relative performance drop when 16xFSAA is enabled is less for the Parhelia than for the 9700, i.e. the 9700 may lose 50% of its framerates when 16xFSAA is enabled, while the Parhelia may lose only 20%.
Note that these numbers are merely to illustrate the point and do not refer to actual performance.
-RahulMain important change would be the IDE updates from the -ac kernels which are in 2.4.19. These should support the new large disks and ATA133, AFAIK. Also, the Changelog is accurate: those were the patches from 2.4.18 to 2.4.19.
-Rahul
From the pictures, it looks like one rule was left out.