Where does bionic come in? I presumed bionic was an electronic or electromechanical supplement to an individual or being. Not an environment.
That said, these are pretty cool digs and I agree completely with this statement from the article: Hey, this is my job; this is where I spend my days; it's my time away from my friends and family. It better be nice.
I have a couple of windows I can look down on the city in the valley from my workstation. It's pretty nice to get natural light and to be able to focus on something farther away than the computer screen or the lab bench from time to time. Looking out over the valley, I've seen U2's flying up the valley, I saw the space shuttle on the back of its 747 take off from the airport on the other side of the valley and I've seen a cool tornado.
The spam eventually has to track back to a sender or company paying for the spam. Indeed, there are means already in place to track down spammers, and in fact most high volume spammers are already known and their identities are posted on the Internet. So, if an agency wants to go to the trouble to track the spammer down for any spams received after this law goes into effect, this law provides the legal means with which to go after them.
where Ogg Vorbis performed quite well, scoring significantly better than WMA, RealAudio and QuickTime AAC, and kept pace with MP3Pro and HE-AAC (AAC with the SBR extensions that MP3Pro uses)
But from the article: QuickTime 6.3 AAC LC 64kbps, Best Quality
Jeez, the server is slow already with only one comment. You'd think Harvard could afford a little better given the current tuition.
At any rate, from the article: "People who are serious about getting the job done on time and under budget will use tools such as Visual Basic (controlled all the machines that decoded the human genome)."
This is all fine and good, but the machines that "decoded" the human genome were performing a simple task really and did not require much in the way of alternative paths or any complex programming. For simple tasks or projects, yes VB is pretty handy. For other tasks, or requirements that may need a bit more complex programming, VB will not cut it.
The words "Macintosh" and "open source" couldn't possibly be in one scentence..
au contraire mon frere. There are many components to Apple's technologies that are indeed, open source. Darwin (the core OS of OS X), Quicktime streaming server, Rendezvous, and others.
So, while this is interesting, from an illustrative standpoint (how much info can be retrieved from receipts and such), the site seems superficial and a little voyeuristic. I was hoping for some insight into the problem such as how to fight TIA, or from a CS perspective, even how to deal with disparate data from medical records to dinner transactions.
However, this site should illustrate to us that one should realize that because of TIA, once these databases are created, they never really go away. They will be mined eventually by corporations looking to expand market share by tracking individuals shopping or lifestyle decisions. In fact, there is already precedence for this in recent history. And they will be used for alternative governmental purposes other than that originally intended. There is again precedence for this as well already.
Finally, perhaps its the medical training but every time I see TIA, I think of transient ischemic attack which conceptually I suppose, total information awareness could induce in some folks.:-)
So, I have recieved a number of these (thank goodness I am running OS X) and it appears that the "notification" also contains html. So, examining the html, it appears that it actually references microsoft.com.
If I were microsoft, it appears there is a simple way to defeat this by inserting html in the referenced source that warns recipients of this sort of thing.
Of course running your own server has its advantages. However, most of the folks with their own servers are not the people that use the PTP services. The folks relying on PTP are often fairly unsophisticated computer users who are looking for the latest song for free and are unknowingly relying on a infrastructure to find their songs. They don't know how it works, they just click and the song comes through for free. Hosting your own server requires a little more work which the vast majority of people are not capable of performing. (Although Apple is lowering the requirements for hosting your own Apache server significantly. One click and you are live.)
Well, you could bitch and moan about it, or you could just use....
O.K., by that logic, let's just let all of our news sources report on news items without citing sources or references. What would that leave us with eh? Fox news is what. My point is simply that a news article should cite sources and references so we can establish within reason the credibility of the story without having to go poking around in search of references for topical news items. Posting news items without sources is simply shoddy reporting and we should hold the editors to a higher standard, particularly if Slashdot is wanting to sell subscriptions.
So, do we have a link? A reference? How can we confirm this? Who posted this? This sort of news item sucks. Very little information and no links to reference the news item.
Well, Apple has lead the world in case design going back to that Blue and White G3 they produced where the side of the system dropped open with full access to all the internals, many of them right on the door. (I might argue that the old 8600 and 9600 designs are still better than any other Wintel case I've worked with).
However, this G5 I am looking at again establishes Apple as the premiere company for case design. The case itself is aluminum for efficient transfer of heat and the multiple zone design with multiple low speed fans is absolutely the way to go until optical computing hits it's stride. All bits of the case are easy to access and they are absolutely quiet.
Looking at the BTX cases, I see nothing impressive when it comes to cooling or quiet other than perhaps the cool circular heat sink.
The new version of Microsoft's MSN Internet service, available this winter, will include a tool for retrieving digital photos based on images in the pictures
Hmmm. Interesting. I have seen a number of new MS bots trolling all over our lab site for the past two months grabbing every image they can.
Well, I might suggest faster hard drives.......:-) Seriously though, going from ATA to Ultra 320 drives made my G4 box pretty snappy on all disk related activities, including boot times.
He's said that a G5 powerbook is "an issue of good, solid engineering" and that "a few years ago, nobody thought it would be possible to get a G4 processor in a PowerBook".
Well, yeah! Have any of you seen the heat sinks in the G5? They are absolutely huge making it very difficult to get enough cooling into a tiny space with the current chips. Furthermore, the heat sink size is combined with a rather clever cooling arrangment in the G5 case making for a quiet environment. Even going back to the original G4's the heat sinks were nowhere near the size of the G5's, so we are going to need a G5 chip with much lower heat and power requirements if portable configurations are going to be possible. Dual G4's in laptops though are not out of the question.....
Post-doc'ing has devolved from a training ground for future tenure-track academics to being slave labor with a possible carrot dangled years in your future.
This, unfortunately is true. However, speaking as someone who is starting their post-doc, I can tell you that the money is significantly better than it is as a grad-student. As for the budgetary constraints, yeah, unless you are in defense right now, funding is not going to be as easy at least until W. is voted out of office.
On the positive side, if you can find a post-doc where they will let you run your own show (i.e. you go into a post-doc with your own ideas, rather than simply serving as someone elses labor fodder), then things can be rather different. Additionally, the NIH post doctoral funding does not preclude you from getting additional funding or $$'s from consulting or from your own business. (VC funding is starting to look up for biotech).
As for the hours, yeah. Science is hard dude, what were you expecting? So I guess you need to ask yourself why you are interested? There are other intangibles, but if you are simply interested in making money, go sell cars or something. I will tell you though, that making money and science are not mutually exclusive. I was able to make out quite nicely with a couple of small inexpensive databases, a couple of SGI's and a hired computational chemist for one years investment and I know of a number of individuals who are doing quite nicely. My neighbor is a VP at a biotech company (Ph.D.) and he is doing quite well, two of the Ph.D's at his company are driving Ferrari's, one of my dissertation committee members has co-founded a biotech company and is making wine in his spare time, my Ph.D. mentor has his own biotech company, etc...etc...etc... It just takes some (harder) work, a little insight, some luck, a focus on what you want to do and a really good idea of your target market.
I found CNET News.com to be rather biased towards Microsoft early on by running stories favorable towards the company. (often ignoring news critical of Microsoft) Given that they were really sorta a pop news internet publication (and still kinda are), I suppose that label would be appropriate. I assumed that Microsoft was underwriting them at the time. However, recently they appear to have moved more towards an unbiased coverage. They are still kinda superficial in their news coverage, but I have found the editorial changes and news changes in the last couple of years to be more palatable.
From the article:"No, I mean what are you going to do about replacing my book?"
"Why would we replace your book?"
"BECAUSE YOU LOST IT????"
This is exactly why I use Fed Ex or UPS when ordering things. They can track your packages and they take responsibility when they screw up. Perhaps the Postal Service could take a lesson?
To make a long story short, the guy went to prison and I had to notify all agencies where I had any type of id or credit/bank card to put a watch on them for the next six months.
Good to hear this person actually went to jail. I should add that the other thing you should do is check your credit history and cancel all old credit cards that you may not even know are still active. A friend of mine had someone get access to three old credit cards that he had cut up, but had not actually cancelled the accounts. A couple of years later he was surprised to find the companies were telling him he owed $30k worth of charges.
They're not complaining about the product. They're complaining about the company's leverage of their desktop OS near-monopoly to eliminate competition in other markets (web servers *NOT* among them).
Forgive me. I should have stated more clearly: they are running the product of the company whose business practices they are complaining about or serving as a source of information for those who are complaining about the companies practices? Sheesh, you guys are so literal. Although, I guess that is the mode of thought in legal circles.
Well, looking at the site.....it appears it's running on.....wait for it......Windows 2000! Yeaaaaay. Oh, wait......
Seriously though, what does that say about your position when you are adopting and running the product of which you are complaining about? Although, I suppose that might only back up their case.
Aren't those the ones that allow you to replace the trackball with a billiards ball, because the sizes are the same?
I've never been drunk enough (or selfish enough) to steal a ball from the pool hall to find out, but I saw an 8-ball in a Turbo mouse 2.0 hooked up to one of my undergraduate professors Macs once. I don't know if it was a genuine pool ball, but it was pretty cool.
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Where does bionic come in? I presumed bionic was an electronic or electromechanical supplement to an individual or being. Not an environment.
That said, these are pretty cool digs and I agree completely with this statement from the article: Hey, this is my job; this is where I spend my days; it's my time away from my friends and family. It better be nice.
I have a couple of windows I can look down on the city in the valley from my workstation. It's pretty nice to get natural light and to be able to focus on something farther away than the computer screen or the lab bench from time to time. Looking out over the valley, I've seen U2's flying up the valley, I saw the space shuttle on the back of its 747 take off from the airport on the other side of the valley and I've seen a cool tornado.
The spam eventually has to track back to a sender or company paying for the spam. Indeed, there are means already in place to track down spammers, and in fact most high volume spammers are already known and their identities are posted on the Internet. So, if an agency wants to go to the trouble to track the spammer down for any spams received after this law goes into effect, this law provides the legal means with which to go after them.
Ahhh shoot. Sorry about that. These were parameters. Disregard previous post.
where Ogg Vorbis performed quite well, scoring significantly better than WMA, RealAudio and QuickTime AAC, and kept pace with MP3Pro and HE-AAC (AAC with the SBR extensions that MP3Pro uses)
But from the article: QuickTime 6.3 AAC LC 64kbps, Best Quality
So, what gives?
Jeez, the server is slow already with only one comment. You'd think Harvard could afford a little better given the current tuition.
At any rate, from the article: "People who are serious about getting the job done on time and under budget will use tools such as Visual Basic (controlled all the machines that decoded the human genome)."
This is all fine and good, but the machines that "decoded" the human genome were performing a simple task really and did not require much in the way of alternative paths or any complex programming. For simple tasks or projects, yes VB is pretty handy. For other tasks, or requirements that may need a bit more complex programming, VB will not cut it.
The words "Macintosh" and "open source" couldn't possibly be in one scentence..
au contraire mon frere. There are many components to Apple's technologies that are indeed, open source. Darwin (the core OS of OS X), Quicktime streaming server, Rendezvous, and others.
But Grandad, didn't you try to fight them?
Yes, son. I bought a Macintosh, embraced opensource and fought the good fight.
So, while this is interesting, from an illustrative standpoint (how much info can be retrieved from receipts and such), the site seems superficial and a little voyeuristic. I was hoping for some insight into the problem such as how to fight TIA, or from a CS perspective, even how to deal with disparate data from medical records to dinner transactions.
:-)
However, this site should illustrate to us that one should realize that because of TIA, once these databases are created, they never really go away. They will be mined eventually by corporations looking to expand market share by tracking individuals shopping or lifestyle decisions. In fact, there is already precedence for this in recent history. And they will be used for alternative governmental purposes other than that originally intended. There is again precedence for this as well already.
Finally, perhaps its the medical training but every time I see TIA, I think of transient ischemic attack which conceptually I suppose, total information awareness could induce in some folks.
So, I have recieved a number of these (thank goodness I am running OS X) and it appears that the "notification" also contains html. So, examining the html, it appears that it actually references microsoft.com.
If I were microsoft, it appears there is a simple way to defeat this by inserting html in the referenced source that warns recipients of this sort of thing.
Of course running your own server has its advantages. However, most of the folks with their own servers are not the people that use the PTP services. The folks relying on PTP are often fairly unsophisticated computer users who are looking for the latest song for free and are unknowingly relying on a infrastructure to find their songs. They don't know how it works, they just click and the song comes through for free. Hosting your own server requires a little more work which the vast majority of people are not capable of performing. (Although Apple is lowering the requirements for hosting your own Apache server significantly. One click and you are live.)
Well, you could bitch and moan about it, or you could just use....
O.K., by that logic, let's just let all of our news sources report on news items without citing sources or references. What would that leave us with eh? Fox news is what. My point is simply that a news article should cite sources and references so we can establish within reason the credibility of the story without having to go poking around in search of references for topical news items. Posting news items without sources is simply shoddy reporting and we should hold the editors to a higher standard, particularly if Slashdot is wanting to sell subscriptions.
So, do we have a link? A reference? How can we confirm this? Who posted this? This sort of news item sucks. Very little information and no links to reference the news item.
Well, Apple has lead the world in case design going back to that Blue and White G3 they produced where the side of the system dropped open with full access to all the internals, many of them right on the door. (I might argue that the old 8600 and 9600 designs are still better than any other Wintel case I've worked with).
However, this G5 I am looking at again establishes Apple as the premiere company for case design. The case itself is aluminum for efficient transfer of heat and the multiple zone design with multiple low speed fans is absolutely the way to go until optical computing hits it's stride. All bits of the case are easy to access and they are absolutely quiet.
Looking at the BTX cases, I see nothing impressive when it comes to cooling or quiet other than perhaps the cool circular heat sink.
The new version of Microsoft's MSN Internet service, available this winter, will include a tool for retrieving digital photos based on images in the pictures
Hmmm. Interesting. I have seen a number of new MS bots trolling all over our lab site for the past two months grabbing every image they can.
how to decrease boot times for your Linux box
:-) Seriously though, going from ATA to Ultra 320 drives made my G4 box pretty snappy on all disk related activities, including boot times.
Well, I might suggest faster hard drives.......
He's said that a G5 powerbook is "an issue of good, solid engineering" and that "a few years ago, nobody thought it would be possible to get a G4 processor in a PowerBook".
Well, yeah! Have any of you seen the heat sinks in the G5? They are absolutely huge making it very difficult to get enough cooling into a tiny space with the current chips. Furthermore, the heat sink size is combined with a rather clever cooling arrangment in the G5 case making for a quiet environment. Even going back to the original G4's the heat sinks were nowhere near the size of the G5's, so we are going to need a G5 chip with much lower heat and power requirements if portable configurations are going to be possible. Dual G4's in laptops though are not out of the question.....
Post-doc'ing has devolved from a training ground for future tenure-track academics to being slave labor with a possible carrot dangled years in your future.
This, unfortunately is true. However, speaking as someone who is starting their post-doc, I can tell you that the money is significantly better than it is as a grad-student. As for the budgetary constraints, yeah, unless you are in defense right now, funding is not going to be as easy at least until W. is voted out of office.
On the positive side, if you can find a post-doc where they will let you run your own show (i.e. you go into a post-doc with your own ideas, rather than simply serving as someone elses labor fodder), then things can be rather different. Additionally, the NIH post doctoral funding does not preclude you from getting additional funding or $$'s from consulting or from your own business. (VC funding is starting to look up for biotech).
As for the hours, yeah. Science is hard dude, what were you expecting? So I guess you need to ask yourself why you are interested? There are other intangibles, but if you are simply interested in making money, go sell cars or something. I will tell you though, that making money and science are not mutually exclusive. I was able to make out quite nicely with a couple of small inexpensive databases, a couple of SGI's and a hired computational chemist for one years investment and I know of a number of individuals who are doing quite nicely. My neighbor is a VP at a biotech company (Ph.D.) and he is doing quite well, two of the Ph.D's at his company are driving Ferrari's, one of my dissertation committee members has co-founded a biotech company and is making wine in his spare time, my Ph.D. mentor has his own biotech company, etc...etc...etc... It just takes some (harder) work, a little insight, some luck, a focus on what you want to do and a really good idea of your target market.
Maybe this guy will help get rid of all those nasty worms on the intarweb
They would need to start by getting rid of Windows, which they apparently have standardized on. Not a good start.
I found CNET News.com to be rather biased towards Microsoft early on by running stories favorable towards the company. (often ignoring news critical of Microsoft) Given that they were really sorta a pop news internet publication (and still kinda are), I suppose that label would be appropriate. I assumed that Microsoft was underwriting them at the time. However, recently they appear to have moved more towards an unbiased coverage. They are still kinda superficial in their news coverage, but I have found the editorial changes and news changes in the last couple of years to be more palatable.
From the article:"No, I mean what are you going to do about replacing my book?"
"Why would we replace your book?"
"BECAUSE YOU LOST IT????"
This is exactly why I use Fed Ex or UPS when ordering things. They can track your packages and they take responsibility when they screw up. Perhaps the Postal Service could take a lesson?
To make a long story short, the guy went to prison and I had to notify all agencies where I had any type of id or credit/bank card to put a watch on them for the next six months.
Good to hear this person actually went to jail. I should add that the other thing you should do is check your credit history and cancel all old credit cards that you may not even know are still active. A friend of mine had someone get access to three old credit cards that he had cut up, but had not actually cancelled the accounts. A couple of years later he was surprised to find the companies were telling him he owed $30k worth of charges.
Consider how many negative Microsoft comments are made here on /. from Windows machines...thats what I consider ironic (but thats just me).
:-)
The parent post, as this one, are being written from an OS X workstation.
They're not complaining about the product. They're complaining about the company's leverage of their desktop OS near-monopoly to eliminate competition in other markets (web servers *NOT* among them).
Forgive me. I should have stated more clearly: they are running the product of the company whose business practices they are complaining about or serving as a source of information for those who are complaining about the companies practices? Sheesh, you guys are so literal. Although, I guess that is the mode of thought in legal circles.
Well, looking at the site.....it appears it's running on.....wait for it......Windows 2000! Yeaaaaay. Oh, wait......
Seriously though, what does that say about your position when you are adopting and running the product of which you are complaining about? Although, I suppose that might only back up their case.
Aren't those the ones that allow you to replace the trackball with a billiards ball, because the sizes are the same?
I've never been drunk enough (or selfish enough) to steal a ball from the pool hall to find out, but I saw an 8-ball in a Turbo mouse 2.0 hooked up to one of my undergraduate professors Macs once. I don't know if it was a genuine pool ball, but it was pretty cool.