This would be quite the job. Indeed, there are some efforts that could help in this direction, but there's masses of conversion problems all over the place. Never tried tranmslating an ASP page into PHP automagically, have you? And that would be just the beginning.
If these guys are so full of being open source, why don't they, for example, open up their chyper-phunk-slanged version of mcbeth for us to read, enjoy, alter if needed. That would be a good sign of giving an open performance.
What's new about this idea? I've seen elder people riding bikes just like this one, because they're no longer fit enough to ride the bike themselves. It's been around for decades. It's not really the add-on kit for your bike, but you can buy these things in bike shops (at least in Belgium you can). So what is this doing on slashdot?
Too bad we don't have this in Europe
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We're used to build houses out of brick back here in Europe. As a result, we're not as crafted as the americans of building wooden structures, and we're missing out on the experience of how to build a house, or a tree house out of wood; I don't see myself building a tree house out of bricks in my back yard:(
If you look at biology and biochemistry, and study it extensively, you would get convenced that any other type of life (based on something else than H, C, O, N,...) wouldn't be as simple as you suggest. It would probably be possible, but *very* hard. That's why biologists think of water and carbon as important factors for life. (My opinion on this changed from yours to this one during my last two years of doing research as a computer scientist at a biomedical faculty)
I'm a researcher at our bio medical faculty, working on bioinformatics problems. So we're facing all kinds of mathematical problems that need to be solved, in order to get sounder biological results. We use all kinds of thermodynamical simulations, over markov chain analysis and eigenvector determination up to heuristic optimization among many others, many of whose are implemented in a parallel biowulf environment. And for solving each of these problems a different computational approach needs to be designed and worked out.
When starting on a problem, it's usually our intuition trying to solve and prototype the solution in languages like Matlab. But as soon as these prototypes become slow or otherwise limited, the problem and our strategy to try to solve it is implemented in standard programming language to process our data, such as Python as a steering mechanism for parallel processes, C/C++ for CPU intensive tasks, Mathematica for symbolic problems, and so on.
I think intuition and experience with all these languages and their pros and cons are fairly important factors in choosing what language you will use for solving a particular problem.
So I guess there is no simple answer to the question "what language should i use?" You should start using as many distinct as possible, and use the one that you think is most suited for solving this or that problem, just as the choice of language is important in solving any other non-research problem.
Most of the talks at fosdem this year lack originality and all sound familiar to the talks that have been held at both previous fosdems. So, I'm not going back this year. Sorry.
As I'm looking at the images of the ant experiment, it seems to be failing now, or the hypothesis of the experimenters is wrong. The control group of ants, which are on the ground, don't seem to be digging any tunnels, where the ants up in space have already built their set of tunnels. If the hypothesis states that the ants on the ground will be more active, then I think that, given this experiment, the hypothesis can be rejected. (Note that this is statistically incorrect, since there is only one experiment running, both in space and on the ground, so any results coming out of the ants experiment should be taken with quite some salt anyway)
I hope they share the information on how and why their server trashed this time one of their stories appeared on slashdot. That would give us both success and failure, excellent edutainment!
It is not simply true that triploidal plants and animals have to replicate asexual. Cultivated bananas indeed do have 3 chromosomes of each of the 11 different chromosomes available. During meiosis, when two possible parent plants are creating gametes (think of sperm and eggs) by splitting cells with 3 chromosomes of each type into cells with either 1 or 2 of the 3 chromomes.
In the next step, such gametes need to be fertilized, i.e., 2 cells, just like a sperm cell and egg cell, need to be fertilized and merged together. If this results in a cell with 3 chromosomes of each chromosome type, a new banana child can grow from this. But since gametes contain 1 or 2 of each type of chromosome, and they have 11 such types, there is only a 1/2^11 change that this sexual reproduction is succesful.
Note that this only applies to the cultivated banana, as we know it from the super market. And you've probably never eaten a banana with pits in it. Bananas with pits exist, but there's only one in about 2048. These bananas can be used to create new banana trees, and they're different from their not-succesful bananas in that they are a lot smaller, and not edible, if compared to common cultivated bananas.
If you don't get your timing right, and you're off by one minute one a certain day, the sun has shifted position a bit to the east or west, which gives you your wiggle.
I'm pretty fond of my organized hierarchy of projects and work documents. And I'd like to keep it that way, most of the time. Most documents indeed fit into the structure. I'm doing code and latex most of the time, so it would be useless throwing these in random directories, so you can't process them through compilers.
But when I'm trying to put down some misc ideas, and I'd like to store them, there's no way it fits in my perfectly organized structure (try to find the contradiction in this sentence). For these little ideas, newdocms would pretty useful, but I'd like to be able to switch between both systems.
So, what I'd like to propose is that you shouldn't just overwrite open/save widgets in any random desktop environment, but you should offer newdocms as an alternative next to HFS, so any user can pick whatever organizational style he prefers, whether it is HFS or a newdocms-styled system.
> Could someone explain what the EU has power to do?
Note that Europe is growing bigger than the US every minute, not only in population, which will soon be over 500 million (200million more than the US, IIRC), but also economically. Europe isn't some small kid the US can wack down! It's insane to think that Europe doesn't have any power and pretty US-narrow-minded.
All living systems that employ diploidy (having a pair of chromosomes, and therefore a pair of alleles for each gene) apply dominance relation changes to do this trick.
Am I the only one to think that Red Hat's style for KDE looks reeally nice, giving us a good desktop when sharing KDE and Gnome apps (I personally use Mozilla and Evolution in a KDE desktop, which I think is the best choice amongst all similar apps). So for now, if Red Hat removes the hat from the "start button," and when they did not mess around with any of the about boxes, I would be very pleased to switch to Red Hat null.
Please note that this story is not about "learning to fly" but about "evolving flying techniques" which is quite different, and can't be compared to how a young bird learns to fly, since the topic studied here is completely different.
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This would be quite the job. Indeed, there are some efforts that could help in this direction, but there's masses of conversion problems all over the place. Never tried tranmslating an ASP page into PHP automagically, have you? And that would be just the beginning.
the gap is just way too wide.
We'll put it up for you in the next few days. :-)
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Which license would you suggest?
I think the artistic license would be something for you artists
The url says
http://www.redhat.com/mktg/rh9iso/
Which makes me believe it's a marketing (what else could "mktg" stand for?) stunt.
So these guys are gonna need 2000 indians to slap together some open sourced software in a sun environment. That'll be tough.
If these guys are so full of being open source, why don't they, for example, open up their chyper-phunk-slanged version of mcbeth for us to read, enjoy, alter if needed. That would be a good sign of giving an open performance.
That's great about google - it works, and they seem to be able to survive because of revenues from google-related products.
Many non-computer-scientist family members of me actually think that google is the internet. I say that's good for them if it works fro them.
And it does.
What's new about this idea? I've seen elder people riding bikes just like this one, because they're no longer fit enough to ride the bike themselves. It's been around for decades. It's not really the add-on kit for your bike, but you can buy these things in bike shops (at least in Belgium you can). So what is this doing on slashdot?
We're used to build houses out of brick back here in Europe. As a result, we're not as crafted as the americans of building wooden structures, and we're missing out on the experience of how to build a house, or a tree house out of wood; I don't see myself building a tree house out of bricks in my back yard :(
If you look at biology and biochemistry, and study it extensively, you would get convenced that any other type of life (based on something else than H, C, O, N, ...) wouldn't be as simple as you suggest. It would probably be possible, but *very* hard. That's why biologists think of water and carbon as important factors for life. (My opinion on this changed from yours to this one during my last two years of doing research as a computer scientist at a biomedical faculty)
Hi,
I'm a researcher at our bio medical faculty, working on bioinformatics problems. So we're facing all kinds of mathematical problems that need to be solved, in order to get sounder biological results. We use all kinds of thermodynamical simulations, over markov chain analysis and eigenvector determination up to heuristic optimization among many others, many of whose are implemented in a parallel biowulf environment. And for solving each of these problems a different computational approach needs to be designed and worked out.
When starting on a problem, it's usually our intuition trying to solve and prototype the solution in languages like Matlab. But as soon as these prototypes become slow or otherwise limited, the problem and our strategy to try to solve it is implemented in standard programming language to process our data, such as Python as a steering mechanism for parallel processes, C/C++ for CPU intensive tasks, Mathematica for symbolic problems, and so on.
I think intuition and experience with all these languages and their pros and cons are fairly important factors in choosing what language you will use for solving a particular problem.
So I guess there is no simple answer to the question "what language should i use?" You should start using as many distinct as possible, and use the one that you think is most suited for solving this or that problem, just as the choice of language is important in solving any other non-research problem.
Most of the talks at fosdem this year lack originality and all sound familiar to the talks that have been held at both previous fosdems. So, I'm not going back this year. Sorry.
As I'm looking at the images of the ant experiment, it seems to be failing now, or the hypothesis of the experimenters is wrong. The control group of ants, which are on the ground, don't seem to be digging any tunnels, where the ants up in space have already built their set of tunnels. If the hypothesis states that the ants on the ground will be more active, then I think that, given this experiment, the hypothesis can be rejected. (Note that this is statistically incorrect, since there is only one experiment running, both in space and on the ground, so any results coming out of the ants experiment should be taken with quite some salt anyway)
I hope they share the information on how and why their server trashed this time one of their stories appeared on slashdot. That would give us both success and failure, excellent edutainment!
That should be "seeds", not "pits". Probably my dutch influence there.
It is not simply true that triploidal plants and animals have to replicate asexual. Cultivated bananas indeed do have 3 chromosomes of each of the 11 different chromosomes available. During meiosis, when two possible parent plants are creating gametes (think of sperm and eggs) by splitting cells with 3 chromosomes of each type into cells with either 1 or 2 of the 3 chromomes.
In the next step, such gametes need to be fertilized, i.e., 2 cells, just like a sperm cell and egg cell, need to be fertilized and merged together. If this results in a cell with 3 chromosomes of each chromosome type, a new banana child can grow from this. But since gametes contain 1 or 2 of each type of chromosome, and they have 11 such types, there is only a 1/2^11 change that this sexual reproduction is succesful.
Note that this only applies to the cultivated banana, as we know it from the super market. And you've probably never eaten a banana with pits in it. Bananas with pits exist, but there's only one in about 2048. These bananas can be used to create new banana trees, and they're different from their not-succesful bananas in that they are a lot smaller, and not edible, if compared to common cultivated bananas.
Pity this guy never heard of open source. He could have taken and plugged in his mysterious bright idea.
Maybe he found some compiler options that quadrupled the rendering speed of <somebrowser/>.
Maybe he is just a fraud, and could sneak into the competition after creating a nice looking theme for <somebrowser/>.
Maybe I'm just guessing and typing whatever comes to mind in <somebrowser/>.
If you don't get your timing right, and you're off by one minute one a certain day, the sun has shifted position a bit to the east or west, which gives you your wiggle.
If this is a single film photo, then there are a couple of things disturbingly wrong:
1. The shadow on the parthenon is no in line with the suns
2. the suns look like frightingly stupid white circles
3. the cloud in the lower left corner can only be on the picture if that particular cloud is there every time the film is exposed
I'm pretty fond of my organized hierarchy of projects and work documents. And I'd like to keep it that way, most of the time. Most documents indeed fit into the structure. I'm doing code and latex most of the time, so it would be useless throwing these in random directories, so you can't process them through compilers.
But when I'm trying to put down some misc ideas, and I'd like to store them, there's no way it fits in my perfectly organized structure (try to find the contradiction in this sentence). For these little ideas, newdocms would pretty useful, but I'd like to be able to switch between both systems.
So, what I'd like to propose is that you shouldn't just overwrite open/save widgets in any random desktop environment, but you should offer newdocms as an alternative next to HFS, so any user can pick whatever organizational style he prefers, whether it is HFS or a newdocms-styled system.
One of his logos is a big eared-mickey-mouse-like, euhm, thing, which can be found here. No problem counter sueing him...
> Could someone explain what the EU has power to do?
Note that Europe is growing bigger than the US every minute, not only in population, which will soon be over 500 million (200million more than the US, IIRC), but also economically. Europe isn't some small kid the US can wack down! It's insane to think that Europe doesn't have any power and pretty US-narrow-minded.
All living systems that employ diploidy (having a pair of chromosomes, and therefore a pair of alleles for each gene) apply dominance relation changes to do this trick.
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Am I the only one to think that Red Hat's style for KDE looks reeally nice, giving us a good desktop when sharing KDE and Gnome apps (I personally use Mozilla and Evolution in a KDE desktop, which I think is the best choice amongst all similar apps). So for now, if Red Hat removes the hat from the "start button," and when they did not mess around with any of the about boxes, I would be very pleased to switch to Red Hat null.
Please note that this story is not about "learning to fly" but about "evolving flying techniques" which is quite different, and can't be compared to how a young bird learns to fly, since the topic studied here is completely different.