If you want to somewhat expose your students to what a scientist can be, I suggest you make them read "Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman!" and "What do you care what other people think?" by R.P. Feynman, and "Disturbing the Universe" by F. Dyson.
Another nice book is "Who Got Einstein's Office?: Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study" from Ed Regis.
These are books that are not science books, but books on science (and/or scientists lifes). Most people seems to think that science is boring, and that doing science, that is, being a researcher is even more boring. These books shows that that's not always true, and that science can be interseting, intriguing and fun.
Figure 3 is a rendering of a model of b12. The BBC article "They have published an atomic-level image in Nature showing the antibody, b12, attacking part of a protein on surface of the virus." seems to imply that the image really shows b12 attacking the surface protein.
I'm not downplaying the results, I'm criticizing the way BBC reported the fact. Simpel as that.
I'm reading the Nature article right now, and nowhere the presumed "atomic-level image [..] showing the antibody b12" is to be found.
Therefore, I tend to accept the BBC report with a grain of salt. It's much more interesting to say "oooh! they published an image of the antibody!" than to say "well, they published an article full of biomedical details in which we don't understand anything, with a huge table full of numbers (yes! numbers!) and a couple of strange colored picture we don't know how they made"...
One word : journalists. Bah.:)
That said, the article is indeed interesting, but it's not the first time the gp120 glycoprotein is being targeted with some kind of drug. And they're still at the in-vitro phase, not even at the ex-vivo trial phase...
Do you think IE7 will ever be available for Win 2k ? Given the huge users base (especially in offices), wouldn't the unavailability of IE7 under Win2k mean a way slower adoption and a slower push toward standards coding (CSS) ?
Given the horrible CSS support in IE6, not to mention the fact that it is a big security hole, do you plan to "force" the upgrade to IE7 via Windows Update, or do you plan to let the users choose ? Wouldn't this be a sensible way to push web developers towards standards (CSS) ?
The pressure is around 100 times greater then at the surface.
Around 100 atm.
That said, there is at least another thing to consider. At 1000 m deep, light is completely absent. So you have to be able to light what you want to record on camera. The light drop-off at those depth and pressures is much more than that in air, or in shallow water. So it's not an easily tackable problem. Not to mention water turbidity...
Please, someone with mod points, mod the parent up insightful.
For the grandparent : repeat after me : "a bunch of loosely connected c.o.t.s. boxes used for running a bunch of (sequential) jobs is not a supercomputer". Supercomputers (with or without virtual shared memory, NUMA or not) are a completely different thing. They may be, in some cases, similar on a hardware level, but they're two worlds apart from a software standpoint.
The first two points can be skipped if you 1) are already logged in as root (bad), and 2) you already know the name of the xmms-mp3 package (oh, wait, I just told you...;))...
Let's face it, LotR won't probably get more than 2 or 3 Oscars.
The problem here is that LotR isn't the average movie, and moreover it's a fantasy one. Fantasy and SciFi movies never did well at the Oscars. Sure, they can get best special effect, or best music, but they'll prolly never get a best movie, or best actor, or best photography.
7.1 No marketing communication should mislead, or be likely to mislead, by inaccuracy, ambiguity, exaggeration, omission or otherwise.
5 cents. Now tell me based on what? It's misleading, probably inaccurate and altogether prolly false.
Mind you, I'm not saying that Apple statement is true. I'm only saying that it's by no way the only false (or, maybe, open to interpretation/confutation) one.
HotHardware, where they test pro graphics card with games... cool...
Now, for the ones who want a quite better review of the FireGL X1, QuadroFX 2000, FireGL Z1, compared to 6 others pro boards (including 3DLabs Wildcat VP970), Tom's Hardware has a nice one, dated March, 21st (so not only HW has an all but complete review, it is much late, too):
Even software, like FreeBSD and Mozilla, which is completely redundant, mediocre, and unpopular, can survive in a lingering, unending living death regardless of whether anyone actually uses it or not.
First, calling Mozilla and FreeBSD "redundant, mediocre, and unpopular" is simply silly (and trollish).
Second, OS programs maybe cannot be "killed" like their proprietary counterparts, but they can nonetheless being put aside and left die by "starvation". Lots of good OS software has been killed this way.
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For stories/novels/writing in general, I'd suggest Medium. Check it out ;)
If you want to somewhat expose your students to what a scientist can be, I suggest you make them read "Surely you're joking Mr. Feynman!" and "What do you care what other people think?" by R.P. Feynman, and "Disturbing the Universe" by F. Dyson.
Another nice book is "Who Got Einstein's Office?: Eccentricity and Genius at the Institute for Advanced Study" from Ed Regis.
These are books that are not science books, but books on science (and/or scientists lifes). Most people seems to think that science is boring, and that doing science, that is, being a researcher is even more boring. These books shows that that's not always true, and that science can be interseting, intriguing and fun.
Figure 3 is a rendering of a model of b12. The BBC article "They have published an atomic-level image in Nature showing the antibody, b12, attacking part of a protein on surface of the virus." seems to imply that the image really shows b12 attacking the surface protein.
I'm not downplaying the results, I'm criticizing the way BBC reported the fact. Simpel as that.
I'm reading the Nature article right now, and nowhere the presumed "atomic-level image [..] showing the antibody b12" is to be found.
:)
Therefore, I tend to accept the BBC report with a grain of salt. It's much more interesting to say "oooh! they published an image of the antibody!" than to say "well, they published an article full of biomedical details in which we don't understand anything, with a huge table full of numbers (yes! numbers!) and a couple of strange colored picture we don't know how they made"...
One word : journalists. Bah.
That said, the article is indeed interesting, but it's not the first time the gp120 glycoprotein is being targeted with some kind of drug. And they're still at the in-vitro phase, not even at the ex-vivo trial phase...
Do you think IE7 will ever be available for Win 2k ? Given the huge users base (especially in offices), wouldn't the unavailability of IE7 under Win2k mean a way slower adoption and a slower push toward standards coding (CSS) ?
Given the horrible CSS support in IE6, not to mention the fact that it is a big security hole, do you plan to "force" the upgrade to IE7 via Windows Update, or do you plan to let the users choose ? Wouldn't this be a sensible way to push web developers towards standards (CSS) ?
... for a used C64.
:
There are quite a number of those wonderful things called emulators
http://frodo.cebix.net/
http://www.computerbrains.com/ccs64/
http://www.viceteam.org/
and even a Java one (in fact, it's an applet) : http://www.dreamfabric.com/c64/
The pressure is around 100 times greater then at the surface.
Around 100 atm.
That said, there is at least another thing to consider. At 1000 m deep, light is completely absent. So you have to be able to light what you want to record on camera. The light drop-off at those depth and pressures is much more than that in air, or in shallow water. So it's not an easily tackable problem. Not to mention water turbidity...
troll ?
Hmm. Nice to see how many morons there are out there... Bah. Well, it looks like the old saying "Ignorance is bliss" is once again sadly true...
... it's "eminent scientist", not "imminent" ;)
/. puts in thoroughly cheking the submitted stories... ;)
From m-w.com :
Main Entry: imminent
: ready to take place; especially : hanging threateningly over one's head
Main Entry: eminent
3 : exhibiting eminence especially in standing above others in some quality or position : PROMINENT
It's always nice to see how much attention
It's about 1 month that Intel Cores are available, and they've been announced even earlier. Welcome to yesterday, slashdot.
Please, someone with mod points, mod the parent up insightful.
For the grandparent : repeat after me : "a bunch of loosely connected c.o.t.s. boxes used for running a bunch of (sequential) jobs is not a supercomputer". Supercomputers (with or without virtual shared memory, NUMA or not) are a completely different thing. They may be, in some cases, similar on a hardware level, but they're two worlds apart from a software standpoint.
Who the hell modded the parent "interesting" ?!?!?!
;)
Jesus! Have you ever heard of something called sarcasm ?
That should've read :
;)
"No need to come up with fascists, when you have a more than good term for what you're describing."
Sorry for the typo, the 'flu's driving me numb
The Chinese government is a reactionary, dictatorial bunch of non-democratic fascists.
That's called communism.
No need to come up with fascists, when you have a more then good term for what your describing.
Launch your preferred shell, then
Is it really so hard ?
Mine becomes a floppy after 2 minutes.
... :D
Man, you've got some serious problem
Cool. It's the SysAdm appreciation day.
;)) appreciation by my lusers... :D
And obviously it's the only damn day this week that I ain't at work!!!
It looks like I'll have to wait another year to get some (overly due
I wonder how much time will it takes for someone to come up with a S+ATA interface. ;)
Nah. I don't really think so.
Let's face it, LotR won't probably get more than 2 or 3 Oscars.
The problem here is that LotR isn't the average movie, and moreover it's a fantasy one. Fantasy and SciFi movies never did well at the Oscars. Sure, they can get best special effect, or best music, but they'll prolly never get a best movie, or best actor, or best photography.
I hope things will prove me wrong, but...
TRUTHFULNESS
7.1 No marketing communication should mislead, or be likely to mislead, by inaccuracy, ambiguity, exaggeration, omission or otherwise.
5 cents. Now tell me based on what? It's misleading, probably inaccurate and altogether prolly false.
Mind you, I'm not saying that Apple statement is true. I'm only saying that it's by no way the only false (or, maybe, open to interpretation/confutation) one.
They are normally more careful though.
5 cents a transaction ? More careful ? Please.
"the world's fastest, most powerful personal computer."
Before writing, be sure to have the brain connected.
HotHardware, where they test pro graphics card with games... cool...
:
Now, for the ones who want a quite better review of the FireGL X1, QuadroFX 2000, FireGL Z1, compared to 6 others pro boards (including 3DLabs Wildcat VP970), Tom's Hardware has a nice one, dated March, 21st (so not only HW has an all but complete review, it is much late, too)
Tom's Hardware FireGL X1 vs QuadroFX 2000 Review
Have fun...
Even software, like FreeBSD and Mozilla, which is completely redundant, mediocre, and unpopular, can survive in a lingering, unending living death regardless of whether anyone actually uses it or not.
First, calling Mozilla and FreeBSD "redundant, mediocre, and unpopular" is simply silly (and trollish).
Second, OS programs maybe cannot be "killed" like their proprietary counterparts, but they can nonetheless being put aside and left die by "starvation". Lots of good OS software has been killed this way.