As an "Engineer" (rather an EIT, Engineer in training), I grew up using legos. I nevery really liked the erector set style of things. I don't think it hurt my science at all. Lego has changed a bit from when I was a child, with more custom blocks, but they now have "Mindstorms" http://mindstorms.lego.com/with programmable robotic pieces. Although not purely engineering, they are really good and a great thinking toy. (we only had a black brick with a motor that could go forward and backward....)
They also have some "technical" legos with motors and gears, or at least they used to.
To blame the downfall of British engineering on toys is wrong. British engineering is facing increased competition form abroad. To generalize, which is always dangerous, British engineering has been fairly innovative (box bridges, those reflective things on highways.....) but sometimes not as thorough and reliable. Look at the former British car companies for an example to see this problem is far from new..
In general though, through out the world engineers are under paid and under appreciated. (software "engineers" being an exception..)
Thats so true. I rember when I was very young making space ships from the red angular roof tiles, then they came out with "Space Legos" with al sorts of fancy custom pieces, and little people.....
This is interesting to see bioinformatics in the spotlight.. I used to work at a place trying to do "meaning based search" in the medical field. They were working on among other things ontology based search and a search for protein-gene relationships for quicker drug discovery.
We also had a doctor on board before the money started to run out.. It helps because the biology terms are very foreign to Computer types (assay, gene clips etc....)
There was a paper in the office of some proffesor who used a brill learning algorithn with existing genes and then had it try to guess what a ramdom genes did. It did very well in the test despite the "primitive" ai.
3rdmill and spotfire/labbook and a host of others are working on this stuff to sell to pharama companys to do better search and allow quicker more accurate drug creation. The thinking is that if you can make a parma discover drugs faster than the rest you can charge a boatload of money for the software. Discovering new drugs while keeping the side effects minimal is non-trivial.
There is a lot of computing power in the life sciences field,and a lot of data created with gene-clips and assay data. People can't sort it all out anymore some computer analysis makes everything faster. Look at the human genome. Computers made it happen.
This is interesting. I used to work at a place trying to do "meaning based search" in the medical field. They were working on among other things ontology based search and a search for protein-gene relationships.
There was a paper in the office of some proffesor who used a brill learning algorithn with existing genes and then had it try to guess what a ramdom genes did. It did very well in the test despite the "primitive" ai.
3rdmill and spotfire/labbook and a host of others are working on this stuff to sell to pharama companys to do better search and allow quicker more accurate drug creation.
There is a lot of computing power in the life sciences field,and a lot of data created with gene-clips and assay data. People can't sort it all out anymore some computer analysis makes everything faster. Look at the human genome.
I took the 2 week boot camp this year (they didn't seem to offer longer ones anymore). It was free and although they didn't "teach" much per-say, you learned alot and there were people floating around to ask questions. All the material for the courses is on the web.
The problem is that most people dropped out after the first week with only 7 or so continuing. The equipment used was excellent, flat panels, aerochairs.
They also have an open source version of the ACS which is the product that allows them to put together web sites quickly using reusable components. The problem is that ACS is written in TCL which is easy enough to learn but with CPAN and PHP-PEAR others have already built reusable components so it seems Ars doesn't have
the advantage that it had before. I notice they were porting there product to servlets/JSP on there web site.
With the general slowdown on the internet, they don't stand to make as much money as expected. A lot of times when companies underperform they get sued. I don't know the details so I won't comment except that investors used to know investing involed risk, not mater what people predicted for the company...
Try oingo.com. They claim to be able to search semantically using an ontology.. Its not quite google yet..
Fun searches are "chips" "jaguar" and any other vauge term...
I work for a company trying to do the same in medical field.
I was under the understanding that micro kernels were very very good with multiprocessor machines, and since apple has cpu speed problems this kernel would make sence.
Silberschatz (bell labs) has posted and excellent older chapeter (pdf) on Mach at
http://www.bell-labs.com/topic/books/os-book/mach- dir/mach.pdf ---->or here if your trusting
I hace a dsl line with a fixed ip address. Cable didn't offer that in my area. I could have used a dyn/dns program and provider to get to my server at home, but the fixed ip makes it easier.
Progress, definetly better than os 9.....
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I haven't actually tried OS-X yet, but I'm looking forward to someday getting it. I'm waiting till version 10.x.. so bugs will be squashed etc. Apple had to ship, even if its not completely done to get developers aboard. Name one OS thats "Done" and doesn't need more work.
Being a mac user at home. I've had no problems with it and have to say they make everything really easy (adding ram/ upgrading the processor and adding a 2nd video card all went flawlessly and took about 15 minutes...) I have to say I'm looking forward to a more stable system, although I have MacOS running pretty stable right now. Also it will be nice to get Unix underneith, but I don't think I'll be giving up on linuxppc right away, especially since it runs well on older hardware.
I think it will be nice to have a unix box with gnu tools that runs photoshop and apache..
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OS X has a classic mode that will allow the user to run ma OS8/9 applications like Word/Excell etc.
I think you'll need alot of memory as to boot into classic mode means to be having 2 OSs in memory at once (at least 192 megs...)
I think the performance would be fine once you're in classic mode.
If you can wait OS-X native office is supposed to be comming in the fall..
Think about it, new music comes out all the time. And music like photographs are always copyright by the owner. If an artists wants their music to be distributed freely thats his/her perogative.
Its like this, if you want your code to be public you GPL it, if you want it encrypted you compile it.
The add says it includes a "low power" chip.. This could be an oversight or they could be being honest about both power consumption and chip performance...
I'm an engineer, but I couldn't code.
I wrote some programs to do analysis and so did some of my peers. We could never get the computer to do exactly what we wanted quickly and easily. It was hard (The internet was in its infancy so as a reference we had to use books which we had very few of....)
I went back to school to get a MS degree in CS. I look back at some of the old programs I wrote. They were awfull. I think the CS background helps you understand things that a pure scientist would not:
-. What you options are (language wise)
-. How to design a program
-. Data structures
-. Database design
A lot of my EE friends in school jumped right in to programming after graduation. You can learn all this stuff at work.
Now I have the opposite problem, finding scientific programming positions is hard.
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What made napster so popular (INHO) is that it was one centralized server for everything, so you were more likely to find what you wanted.
So in a way the RIAA has won.
MP3 swapping happened before napster and it will happen after this. Making it harder is a deturent
If it take 3 hours to hunt down 3 tracks is it worth it to those with too little time already?
I'm an actual engineer (eit really as I didn't get my PE..). Having switched careers and gotten a masters in software engineering and working in software I can say the feild is definitely less structured and diciplined than that of Civil engineering. In Civil engineering plans are looked at by a least 2 people and can only be built if signed and stamped by a PE (Profession licenced Engineer). If something goes wrong they go see the PE.
Software can be built and deployed by anyone (this is a good thing though.)
Of course bad software hasn't killed many people yet, and Civil enginneering disasters have caused fatalities, but as more and more systems depend on computers more peoples lives will depend on code.
I don't think its a bad as the article made it out tobe. The industry seems to be maturing and more design/engineering is being used . Thats because those "CS" types have "discovered" a lot of building blocks, structures that can be put together into an "Engineered" system.
scientific AMERICAN has the story...
"Two years ago the world's only magnetically levitated train in commercial service shut down. It had carried riders for a 90-second trip between the airport in Birmingham, England, and a conventional rail line 600 meters"
Slashdot Mirror
They also have some "technical" legos with motors and gears, or at least they used to.
To blame the downfall of British engineering on toys is wrong. British engineering is facing increased competition form abroad. To generalize, which is always dangerous, British engineering has been fairly innovative (box bridges, those reflective things on highways.....) but sometimes not as thorough and reliable. Look at the former British car companies for an example to see this problem is far from new..
In general though, through out the world engineers are under paid and under appreciated. (software "engineers" being an exception..)
Thats so true. I rember when I was very young making space ships from the red angular roof tiles, then they came out with "Space Legos" with al sorts of fancy custom pieces, and little people.....
I wonder what the odds are of geting linux/mac support on this... Probably not to good....
This is interesting to see bioinformatics in the spotlight.. I used to work at a place trying to do "meaning based search" in the medical field. They were working on among other things ontology based search and a search for protein-gene relationships for quicker drug discovery.
/labbook and a host of others are working on this stuff to sell to pharama companys to do better search and allow quicker more accurate drug creation. The thinking is that if you can make a parma discover drugs faster than the rest you can charge a boatload of money for the software. Discovering new drugs while keeping the side effects minimal is non-trivial.
We also had a doctor on board before the money started to run out.. It helps because the biology terms are very foreign to Computer types (assay, gene clips etc....)
There was a paper in the office of some proffesor who used a brill learning algorithn with existing genes and then had it try to guess what a ramdom genes did. It did very well in the test despite the "primitive" ai.
3rdmill and spotfire
There is a lot of computing power in the life sciences field,and a lot of data created with gene-clips and assay data. People can't sort it all out anymore some computer analysis makes everything faster. Look at the human genome. Computers made it happen.
"Sit back and enjoy the chaos" -Unknown
This is interesting. I used to work at a place trying to do "meaning based search" in the medical field. They were working on among other things ontology based search and a search for protein-gene relationships.
/labbook and a host of others are working on this stuff to sell to pharama companys to do better search and allow quicker more accurate drug creation.
There was a paper in the office of some proffesor who used a brill learning algorithn with existing genes and then had it try to guess what a ramdom genes did. It did very well in the test despite the "primitive" ai.
3rdmill and spotfire
There is a lot of computing power in the life sciences field,and a lot of data created with gene-clips and assay data. People can't sort it all out anymore some computer analysis makes everything faster. Look at the human genome.
I will not but one, because although 300 cds weigh a little bit, if someone steals you stereo they have all your music.
I took the 2 week boot camp this year (they didn't seem to offer longer ones anymore). It was free and although they didn't "teach" much per-say, you learned alot and there were people floating around to ask questions. All the material for the courses is on the web.
The problem is that most people dropped out after the first week with only 7 or so continuing. The equipment used was excellent, flat panels, aerochairs.
They also have an open source version of the ACS which is the product that allows them to put together web sites quickly using reusable components. The problem is that ACS is written in TCL which is easy enough to learn but with CPAN and PHP-PEAR others have already built reusable components so it seems Ars doesn't have
the advantage that it had before. I notice they were porting there product to servlets/JSP on there web site.
With the general slowdown on the internet, they don't stand to make as much money as expected. A lot of times when companies underperform they get sued. I don't know the details so I won't comment except that investors used to know investing involed risk, not mater what people predicted for the company...
I wish Philip and crew the best of luck.
Try oingo.com. They claim to be able to search semantically using an ontology.. Its not quite google yet..
Fun searches are "chips" "jaguar" and any other vauge term...
I work for a company trying to do the same in medical field.
Silberschatz (bell labs) has posted and excellent older chapeter (pdf) on Mach at
http://www.bell-labs.com/topic/books/os-book/mach- dir/mach.pdf ---->or here if your trusting
I hace a dsl line with a fixed ip address. Cable didn't offer that in my area. I could have used a dyn/dns program and provider to get to my server at home, but the fixed ip makes it easier.
I haven't actually tried OS-X yet, but I'm looking forward to someday getting it. I'm waiting till version 10.x.. so bugs will be squashed etc. Apple had to ship, even if its not completely done to get developers aboard. Name one OS thats "Done" and doesn't need more work.
Being a mac user at home. I've had no problems with it and have to say they make everything really easy (adding ram/ upgrading the processor and adding a 2nd video card all went flawlessly and took about 15 minutes...) I have to say I'm looking forward to a more stable system, although I have MacOS running pretty stable right now. Also it will be nice to get Unix underneith, but I don't think I'll be giving up on linuxppc right away, especially since it runs well on older hardware.
I think it will be nice to have a unix box with gnu tools that runs photoshop and apache..
OS X has a classic mode that will allow the user to run ma OS8/9 applications like Word/Excell etc.
I think you'll need alot of memory as to boot into classic mode means to be having 2 OSs in memory at once (at least 192 megs...)
I think the performance would be fine once you're in classic mode.
If you can wait OS-X native office is supposed to be comming in the fall..
I think the OPENiL people should be able to keep the name, but they should have:
1) Avoided the use of an oval logo (similar to openGL)
2) Not even talk about open GL which they do in the about page.
If you are familiar with OpenGL, you basically already know how to use OpenIL. Here is a sample code snippet that uses OpenIL:
So basically the command structure is the same the name is similar and you didn't expect SGI to notice?
Think about it, new music comes out all the time. And music like photographs are always copyright by the owner. If an artists wants their music to be distributed freely thats his/her perogative.
Its like this, if you want your code to be public you GPL it, if you want it encrypted you compile it.
There is no right to free music in this country..
The add says it includes a "low power" chip.. This could be an oversight or they could be being honest about both power consumption and chip performance...
Amen.
I'm have a engineering and a computer science degree. I think the broad background helps alot.
I'm an engineer, but I couldn't code.
I wrote some programs to do analysis and so did some of my peers. We could never get the computer to do exactly what we wanted quickly and easily. It was hard (The internet was in its infancy so as a reference we had to use books which we had very few of....)
I went back to school to get a MS degree in CS. I look back at some of the old programs I wrote. They were awfull. I think the CS background helps you understand things that a pure scientist would not:
-. What you options are (language wise)
-. How to design a program
-. Data structures
-. Database design
A lot of my EE friends in school jumped right in to programming after graduation. You can learn all this stuff at work.
Now I have the opposite problem, finding scientific programming positions is hard.
Its only 40 feet by 40 feet so odds aren't good... But I'm hopeful. Hey free is free even if it is only a taco..
This thing is laid out almost exactly the same as the ill fated sega game gear..
Looks killer though
What made napster so popular (INHO) is that it was one centralized server for everything, so you were more likely to find what you wanted.
So in a way the RIAA has won.
MP3 swapping happened before napster and it will happen after this. Making it harder is a deturent
If it take 3 hours to hunt down 3 tracks is it worth it to those with too little time already?
I'm an actual engineer (eit really as I didn't get my PE..). Having switched careers and gotten a masters in software engineering and working in software I can say the feild is definitely less structured and diciplined than that of Civil engineering. In Civil engineering plans are looked at by a least 2 people and can only be built if signed and stamped by a PE (Profession licenced Engineer). If something goes wrong they go see the PE.
Software can be built and deployed by anyone (this is a good thing though.)
Of course bad software hasn't killed many people yet, and Civil enginneering disasters have caused fatalities, but as more and more systems depend on computers more peoples lives will depend on code.
I don't think its a bad as the article made it out tobe. The industry seems to be maturing and more design/engineering is being used . Thats because those "CS" types have "discovered" a lot of building blocks, structures that can be put together into an "Engineered" system.
In 1980 You couldn't find any CD's...
With MDLP mode player and recordrs. These use the same discs as the regular player so the cost is about the same.
Most new players have MDLP. Although the 296 minute mode is a little rough its no worse than 128 kpbs mp3s.
Is that what your saying...You want to be rewarded for giving away music someone else created and recorded ..
Thats worse than giving it away for free to others.
How about paying the artists directly for each download?
Pretty soon the whole world will be paid sallaries in the forms of tips on "paypal"..
You must be on some Strong stuff.
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scientific AMERICAN has the story... "Two years ago the world's only magnetically levitated train in commercial service shut down. It had carried riders for a 90-second trip between the airport in Birmingham, England, and a conventional rail line 600 meters"
see the link http://www.sciam.com/1097issue/1097stix_maglev.htm l