I'd have to say that was my experience as well, although I graduated 16 years earlier. As best I could tell, the major difference between "advanced" and "average" classes in my high school was the amount of homework, busy work, and repetition. Unfortunately, more and more schools seem to be dropping this distinction.
He wants children and teenagers to read Science Fiction because it makes science and math interesting, which in turn, turns more of our youth to those fields of study.
But if we do that, children might start using their imagination.
They may even start having ideas of their own.
OK, I'm sure I'll be oversimplifying, and partly repeating a previous post. It doesn't sound like the eye doctor was complaining too much about the upfront $10k cost of the software, but rather that the office would have to pay the same again to replace the XP box and run under Win 7.
It seems to me like whoever wrote this software could have easily made it not be XP specific but just didn't really care to and probably did the cheapest, laziest implementation possible. Not knowing all the features in the software, you have some possible combination of billing and/or patient records (some sort of database), xrays (image viewing/processing), backups, etc. While I'm sure there are various Windows libraries/APIs required, I don't see why any of these should be XP only.
You're about half right. Carried interest itself isn't an entitlement, it's compensation agreed upon. The special tax treatment that doesn't consider carried interest to be compensation, however, IS an entitlement, available solely to those rich and/or connected enough.
Having read that page a while ago, what bothers me even more than the special treatment of carried interest is the rationale behind it. Apparently, those who manage hedge funds are too stupid to keep track of their personal shares of the fund separately from the shares they're given as compensation and from the fund as a whole. Exactly the type I want taking care of my money.
Or perhaps your friends are from out of town, are visiting at the end of their trip before going home, and were either staying with you or couldn't/didn't print the boarding pass at their hotel. IIRC, the airlines don't let you print a boarding pass more than 24 hours prior to scheduled departure.
A liberal arts college (in the US) generally offers most of the same undergraduate majors that the larger universities do. They have the same or in some cases more stringent requirements to get that major. In almost all cases, liberal arts colleges are smaller schools that offer few if any advanced degrees. One advantage (in most cases) is that all classes are taught by actual professors and those professors are usually hired to teach first and do research second. They have actual office hours, and unless you're in a large intro level course, you can usually get one on one time with a professor.
Aside from size, just about all liberal arts colleges require that in addition to courses required for your major, you also take a number of courses in various other departments to round out your education and thinking. The exact requirements vary widely, but usually there are requirements for humanities (literature, history), hard sciences, softer sciences, etc. Many require writing and/or language courses.
One possible downside is that since these schools are smaller, they may not have quite the same resources as a large research university. On the other hand, the students in general are better prepared for higher education. They also often have stronger alumni networks.
As a final note, don't confuse a liberal arts college with a "liberal arts" major at large state universities. These are usually (with a few exceptions) just a renaming of "general studies" that sounds better and is offered for the less intelligent athletes on scholarship; no offense to any athletes who actually have a brain.
It really depends on what you mean by "understand". By my reading, your definition of the term is somewhere around a BS degree in genetics or molecular biology.
I'm pretty certain that most high school students and even reasonably intelligent middle schoolers can come to an understanding of concepts like AT, CG pairs, that DNA gets packaged in chromosomes and gets copied when cells divide, central dogma (DNA -> mRNA -> protein), etc.
I have to disagree to a point. We shouldn't take the money and spend it on stupid stuff.
However, right now we can borrow money as a nation at less than the cost of inflation, i.e. anything we spend on now will cost less than it will in the future. So it really is a prime time to do things like fixing roads and bridges, upgrading/modernizing the electric grid, etc. with that terrible side effect of actually putting some of the unemployed to work. Most of whom will turn around and spend a lot of what they make, and will pay taxes on it, which will make the true cost of doing these things $X * (1 - $TAXRATE).
Of course, I'm sure instead of doing it right the feds would award the work as a no bid contract to Halliburton or similar.
In reality, some secretary or equivalent orders an entire case of thousands of the things from Bayer Healthcare, costing more like $0.10 each without the supermarket markup, and has Fedex deliver them for about $10 for the entire order. Same goes for the acetaminophen mentioned above, bringing the per tablet cost WAY under $0.01 (possibly less than $0 if it has the Tylenol logo easily visible to the patient).
Then of course they tack an extra $17.90 on to the cost of the strip and claim it's not (nearly) pure profit. Yes, there's some validity to paying for physical plant and the salaries of everyone who handled that strip or pill, but anything more than a 100% markup is pure, unadulterated greed.
Anymore, sadly, no. If they did, the major shareholders would sue the corp for depriving them of their $DEITY guaranteed profits in the form of dividends.
Or until you're collaborating on a document and both you and the recipient need to be able to edit it. PDF is a (mostly) great format for print/reproduction, but a horrendously bad format for editing.
It really depends on how large of a cap and what type and how it's used. Some will store quite a significant charge, some will hold on to a charge for a very long time, some do both. On our equipment, we have RF amplifiers that put out hundreds of watts and contain caps that could easily hurt or possibly kill you, but these have power supplies in them that are just a tad larger than a standard PC.
Totally agreed about packing properly!
However, I've had certain high value items delivered that had a second shockwatch somewhere inside the package, so we could tell if the package was truly damaged - falls and knocks do happen. OTOH, if I were a supervisor and saw a handler deliberately setting the sticker off, thereby potentially exposing the company to a damage claim, that person would be looking for other employment.
What's worse, they're using our tax dollars, that were supposed to upgrade their systems, to lobby against us (or at least whatever portion of those tax dollars they didn't give their C level execs).
Fair enough, they're not automatically released. You can either let RCSB release the structure, or you can withdraw the entry and start the process over again. In the last few years, the 1 year deadline has become somewhat firm. Direct quote from the email I received ~6 weeks before the one year deadline:
"We request you to confirm release or withdrawal of your entry..."
100% correct. I've released software I've written, as have others in labs I've been in. I've never been in a CS lab, and none of us are/were professional coders. Once it's out there, it's out there, but as you say, there's no obligation to support. I've answered the occasional emailed question, had semi-useful feedback, but that's about it. Generally, this is all software that was written to solve one specific problem (or type of problem). I try to write clean code with useful comments and even will put together a brief how to guide to release with it. But:
All software I've ever been involved with is distributed with a "license" that says you're free to use it, you're pretty much on your own. The only requirement is to acknowledge where the software came from if you use it in a publication, and we'd like to hear about any improvements or changes you make although that's more a suggestion than a requirement.
In order to publish a paper that includes a structure in any reasonably reputable journal, you have to provide the accession code (PDB ID) along with your manuscript. The only way you get that code is to deposit the structure in the PDB. You may also have to deposit diffraction or NMR data, depending on how the structure was solved.
When you submit the structure to PDB, you can indeed elect to have the coordinates held for publication. However, there is a maximum delay of one year. Normally not a problem, but in the most recent paper I'm an author on, the reviewers decided they wanted significant additional biological data that took longer than that. So although the paper itself just came out in the last week, the structure has been available at the PDB for over 6 months.
This is one of the most important things anyone approaching any programming or scripting language need to grok, at least if you want anyone (including yourself) to be able to figure out what your code does several years down the line.
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I'd have to say that was my experience as well, although I graduated 16 years earlier. As best I could tell, the major difference between "advanced" and "average" classes in my high school was the amount of homework, busy work, and repetition. Unfortunately, more and more schools seem to be dropping this distinction.
He wants children and teenagers to read Science Fiction because it makes science and math interesting, which in turn, turns more of our youth to those fields of study.
But if we do that, children might start using their imagination. They may even start having ideas of their own.
The HORROR!
OK, I'm sure I'll be oversimplifying, and partly repeating a previous post. It doesn't sound like the eye doctor was complaining too much about the upfront $10k cost of the software, but rather that the office would have to pay the same again to replace the XP box and run under Win 7.
It seems to me like whoever wrote this software could have easily made it not be XP specific but just didn't really care to and probably did the cheapest, laziest implementation possible. Not knowing all the features in the software, you have some possible combination of billing and/or patient records (some sort of database), xrays (image viewing/processing), backups, etc. While I'm sure there are various Windows libraries/APIs required, I don't see why any of these should be XP only.
This sounds right on the money to me.
Also, if Intel were to make use of Mesa, just think of the outcry on /. over a for-profit company getting some benefit from using free code.
You're about half right. Carried interest itself isn't an entitlement, it's compensation agreed upon. The special tax treatment that doesn't consider carried interest to be compensation, however, IS an entitlement, available solely to those rich and/or connected enough.
Having read that page a while ago, what bothers me even more than the special treatment of carried interest is the rationale behind it. Apparently, those who manage hedge funds are too stupid to keep track of their personal shares of the fund separately from the shares they're given as compensation and from the fund as a whole. Exactly the type I want taking care of my money.
Or perhaps your friends are from out of town, are visiting at the end of their trip before going home, and were either staying with you or couldn't/didn't print the boarding pass at their hotel. IIRC, the airlines don't let you print a boarding pass more than 24 hours prior to scheduled departure.
How best to explain this?
A liberal arts college (in the US) generally offers most of the same undergraduate majors that the larger universities do. They have the same or in some cases more stringent requirements to get that major. In almost all cases, liberal arts colleges are smaller schools that offer few if any advanced degrees. One advantage (in most cases) is that all classes are taught by actual professors and those professors are usually hired to teach first and do research second. They have actual office hours, and unless you're in a large intro level course, you can usually get one on one time with a professor.
Aside from size, just about all liberal arts colleges require that in addition to courses required for your major, you also take a number of courses in various other departments to round out your education and thinking. The exact requirements vary widely, but usually there are requirements for humanities (literature, history), hard sciences, softer sciences, etc. Many require writing and/or language courses.
One possible downside is that since these schools are smaller, they may not have quite the same resources as a large research university. On the other hand, the students in general are better prepared for higher education. They also often have stronger alumni networks.
As a final note, don't confuse a liberal arts college with a "liberal arts" major at large state universities. These are usually (with a few exceptions) just a renaming of "general studies" that sounds better and is offered for the less intelligent athletes on scholarship; no offense to any athletes who actually have a brain.
It really depends on what you mean by "understand". By my reading, your definition of the term is somewhere around a BS degree in genetics or molecular biology.
I'm pretty certain that most high school students and even reasonably intelligent middle schoolers can come to an understanding of concepts like AT, CG pairs, that DNA gets packaged in chromosomes and gets copied when cells divide, central dogma (DNA -> mRNA -> protein), etc.
But it's obviously a novel approach, he added doing it "on a computer". In the US, it might even be given a methods patent.
I have to disagree to a point. We shouldn't take the money and spend it on stupid stuff.
However, right now we can borrow money as a nation at less than the cost of inflation, i.e. anything we spend on now will cost less than it will in the future. So it really is a prime time to do things like fixing roads and bridges, upgrading/modernizing the electric grid, etc. with that terrible side effect of actually putting some of the unemployed to work. Most of whom will turn around and spend a lot of what they make, and will pay taxes on it, which will make the true cost of doing these things $X * (1 - $TAXRATE).
Of course, I'm sure instead of doing it right the feds would award the work as a no bid contract to Halliburton or similar.
I hope you don't truly believe that.
In reality, some secretary or equivalent orders an entire case of thousands of the things from Bayer Healthcare, costing more like $0.10 each without the supermarket markup, and has Fedex deliver them for about $10 for the entire order. Same goes for the acetaminophen mentioned above, bringing the per tablet cost WAY under $0.01 (possibly less than $0 if it has the Tylenol logo easily visible to the patient).
Then of course they tack an extra $17.90 on to the cost of the strip and claim it's not (nearly) pure profit. Yes, there's some validity to paying for physical plant and the salaries of everyone who handled that strip or pill, but anything more than a 100% markup is pure, unadulterated greed.
Something like Bell Labs will never again exist.
Or until you're collaborating on a document and both you and the recipient need to be able to edit it. PDF is a (mostly) great format for print/reproduction, but a horrendously bad format for editing.
It really depends on how large of a cap and what type and how it's used. Some will store quite a significant charge, some will hold on to a charge for a very long time, some do both. On our equipment, we have RF amplifiers that put out hundreds of watts and contain caps that could easily hurt or possibly kill you, but these have power supplies in them that are just a tad larger than a standard PC.
What does it mean that when I think of legacy Sun systems I think of the original SparcStation (Sparc 1)?
Totally agreed about packing properly! However, I've had certain high value items delivered that had a second shockwatch somewhere inside the package, so we could tell if the package was truly damaged - falls and knocks do happen. OTOH, if I were a supervisor and saw a handler deliberately setting the sticker off, thereby potentially exposing the company to a damage claim, that person would be looking for other employment.
And where, pray tell me, can I get this mythical unlimited 3g service for $10/month. Most certainly nowhere in the US.
What's worse, they're using our tax dollars, that were supposed to upgrade their systems, to lobby against us (or at least whatever portion of those tax dollars they didn't give their C level execs).
"We request you to confirm release or withdrawal of your entry..."
All software I've ever been involved with is distributed with a "license" that says you're free to use it, you're pretty much on your own. The only requirement is to acknowledge where the software came from if you use it in a publication, and we'd like to hear about any improvements or changes you make although that's more a suggestion than a requirement.
In order to publish a paper that includes a structure in any reasonably reputable journal, you have to provide the accession code (PDB ID) along with your manuscript. The only way you get that code is to deposit the structure in the PDB. You may also have to deposit diffraction or NMR data, depending on how the structure was solved.
When you submit the structure to PDB, you can indeed elect to have the coordinates held for publication. However, there is a maximum delay of one year. Normally not a problem, but in the most recent paper I'm an author on, the reviewers decided they wanted significant additional biological data that took longer than that. So although the paper itself just came out in the last week, the structure has been available at the PDB for over 6 months.
Perl 5 was accepted quickly because it mostly fixed some issues and added features to Perl 4. Perl 6 changes everything.
Have you seen the kind of HTML that MS products produce? *shudder*
Thanks, I just learned something useful on /.
This is one of the most important things anyone approaching any programming or scripting language need to grok, at least if you want anyone (including yourself) to be able to figure out what your code does several years down the line.