I'm currently working as a PhD student at my university. We are doing parallel computation projects inside the BioMedical Engineering faculty (involves simulations of heart, bone, molecular simulations and gene analysis). All of our students (we attract CS and BioMedical Engineering students) have to use (mostly) Linux on their projects, since, in our opinion, *n?x platforms offer the best opportunities for scientific work.
This involves experimentation (especially in our case, since we are doing parallel computations on beowulf clusters), result analysis and report/paper writing.
But the student's work is not only limited to working in a *n?x environment, we also ask them to write clean code, so we can bring their code and work back into the open source community, giving their projects an even better boost.
I couldn't imagine students working on scientific projects in our department without *n?x based platforms.
After Microsoft's incredible implementation of the recursive crash (anyone remember the crash recovery that crashed?), this module now gives them a chance to have the superpositioned crash: your computer is both crashing and still alive.
Aluminium isn't transparent and it's quite hard to change a metal's transparency property (I think it involved some time space continua). so forget about that.
I'm just wondering what anyone could be doing with a set of DNA without knowing how to feed it and give it the right environment to make it grow or even live. Those aliens can have my DNA, nothing special with it, and I certainly don't expect thjem to make a million copies of me, so I won't be ruling the universe if these commercial nuts don't get the setting right.
If you add some food and eggs along with the DNA, then you can count me in!
Please include a shaving device into my mobile phone too! Or something that spreads perfume for the ladies (those who don't need to shave) is also a possibility...
Remember that musicians publish because they want to earn money from it, where scientists publish for quotes of their publications, not for money.
There's a big difference to why and how researchers publish papers and why and how musicians publish music tracks, so it's pretty unfair to compare these two.
(the fact that we learn fast is of course not difficult to understand:)
This piece of software is pretty good. It's currently installing a whole bunch of security updates for my RH6.2 installation, and it's been updating other things pretty well for now.
A couple of days ago, KDE people told us that they're also planning on creating their own installer, but since this red carpet is so good, maybe they can become one of the channels on the red carpet installer.
One of the bigger scandals I find in that article is that Corel should've told Microsoft they're developing Linux software, and that Microsoft is now trying to ban linux development from Corel's activities list.
Makes you wonder which company in the linux business M$ is gonna try to acquire next.
M$: "We have bought your company so stop your linux stuff that we don't want" VA: "Ok"
If you're interested in open science (that's what you're referring to) visit www.openscience.org.
I'm working on a project to promote "open source" in the academic field of Artificial Life. You can find our (preliminary) web site at http://open.alife.org. We also have a mailing list, open@alife.org, in which we discuss possibilities for introducing and promoting open source in academia.
An excerpt from our mission: "We all know that good science must be verifiable (or falsifiable or testable). Science in Artificial Life is mainly based on computational experiments that were executed to find the results for scientific publication. If the source code of these experiments are not available for the public, the experiments are not verifiable. Therefore, source code of the experiments should be made publicly available, and that's what the "Open ALife community" wants to achieve."
Currently, our main goal is to influence the peer-reviewing process of conference proceedings. If peer reviewers see a paper in which software has been used, the peer reviewer has to ask the author to include a reference to his source code along with his paper.
We have been thinking of using GPL for these publications but we're not sure whether the GPL offers us the things we need (for example - if someone uses your software in his own publication - does he have to refer to the GPL'ed software?)
Artificial Life is the science of modelling biological phenomena in artificial media such as computers. Two years ago, on our biannual european conference in brighton, there was a discussion on how to conduct experiments on computers.
It was agreed, that if someone wants to redo an experiment, that the source code of the original experiment should be available, therefore open source.
Since we're mostly dealing with models of phenomena that are studied, it is pretty logical that these experiments have to go opensource. Other programs that can be used as regular lab programs, but are not needed to conduct one or another experiment, may go opensource, but are not needed by the scientific community as opensource packages.
There are a couple of things one might want to know about the cruelty one has to go through while installing a Linux box: Linux is hard to install since it has got a huge pile of things that can be configured. I don't think Windows will take advantage of all the details of my box, I can only configure them the right way with the Linux kernel. If Linux was easy to install, a lot of dumb users would try to go with Linux. Newsgroups would drown in newbie questions, qll these dumb users will have the "What do I do now I have this Linux installed" problem, Linux will be commercialized, goodbye free software and open source. I don't think we want that. It's a good thing Linux stays for underground only.
I just hacked into their FTP and send them some logs. I'm not as fake hacker and didn't harm them. Instead, I send them those logs, on which they called in their PhotoShop anti-hack personnel But it was Hacked MoobY knows
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Even better,it should talk about automata instead of automatons (sorry about this)
Please note that the book is about cellullar automatons, not cellullar automations, as the reviewer repeatedly insinuates.
[root@nerdhero /root]# uptime
4:53pm up 307 days, 23:05, 18 users, load average: 0.21, 0.26, 0.27
I'm currently working as a PhD student at my university. We are doing parallel computation projects inside the BioMedical Engineering faculty (involves simulations of heart, bone, molecular simulations and gene analysis). All of our students (we attract CS and BioMedical Engineering students) have to use (mostly) Linux on their projects, since, in our opinion, *n?x platforms offer the best opportunities for scientific work.
This involves experimentation (especially in our case, since we are doing parallel computations on beowulf clusters), result analysis and report/paper writing.
But the student's work is not only limited to working in a *n?x environment, we also ask them to write clean code, so we can bring their code and work back into the open source community, giving their projects an even better boost.
I couldn't imagine students working on scientific projects in our department without *n?x based platforms.
After Microsoft's incredible implementation of the recursive crash (anyone remember the crash recovery that crashed?), this module now gives them a chance to have the superpositioned crash: your computer is both crashing and still alive.
If you want to know more about artificial living creatures (either robots, within computers or art, ...), visit Artificial Life Online.
Aluminium isn't transparent and it's quite hard to change a metal's transparency property (I think it involved some time space continua). so forget about that.
... the web page that says "cut the red chord and the sensor is out of bussiness"
If you add some food and eggs along with the DNA, then you can count me in!
Please include a shaving device into my mobile phone too! Or something that spreads perfume for the ladies (those who don't need to shave) is also a possibility...
There's a big difference to why and how researchers publish papers and why and how musicians publish music tracks, so it's pretty unfair to compare these two.
(the fact that we learn fast is of course not difficult to understand :)
A couple of days ago, KDE people told us that they're also planning on creating their own installer, but since this red carpet is so good, maybe they can become one of the channels on the red carpet installer.
Makes you wonder which company in the linux business M$ is gonna try to acquire next.
M$: "We have bought your company so stop your linux stuff that we don't want"
VA: "Ok"
horrible...
I'm working on a project to promote "open source" in the academic field of Artificial Life. You can find our (preliminary) web site at http://open.alife.org. We also have a mailing list, open@alife.org, in which we discuss possibilities for introducing and promoting open source in academia.
An excerpt from our mission: "We all know that good science must be verifiable (or falsifiable or testable). Science in Artificial Life is mainly based on computational experiments that were executed to find the results for scientific publication. If the source code of these experiments are not available for the public, the experiments are not verifiable. Therefore, source code of the experiments should be made publicly available, and that's what the "Open ALife community" wants to achieve."
Currently, our main goal is to influence the peer-reviewing process of conference proceedings. If peer reviewers see a paper in which software has been used, the peer reviewer has to ask the author to include a reference to his source code along with his paper.
We have been thinking of using GPL for these publications but we're not sure whether the GPL offers us the things we need (for example - if someone uses your software in his own publication - does he have to refer to the GPL'ed software?)
They play with the lottery all the time
It was agreed, that if someone wants to redo an experiment, that the source code of the original experiment should be available, therefore open source.
Since we're mostly dealing with models of phenomena that are studied, it is pretty logical that these experiments have to go opensource. Other programs that can be used as regular lab programs, but are not needed to conduct one or another experiment, may go opensource, but are not needed by the scientific community as opensource packages.
I think it's the nerds' bible
There are a couple of things one might want to know about the cruelty one has to go through while installing a Linux box: Linux is hard to install since it has got a huge pile of things that can be configured. I don't think Windows will take advantage of all the details of my box, I can only configure them the right way with the Linux kernel. If Linux was easy to install, a lot of dumb users would try to go with Linux. Newsgroups would drown in newbie questions, qll these dumb users will have the "What do I do now I have this Linux installed" problem, Linux will be commercialized, goodbye free software and open source. I don't think we want that. It's a good thing Linux stays for underground only.
cool - let's just start with a april fools month
Planetinternet didn't do any of the hacking, their kipling's ISP, you dumbass.
It was hacked - MoobY knows
It was hacked - I did hack their ftp site and send them some of my logs - It was hacked, MoobY knows
MoobY knows - I did a ftp hack and send them some of my logs to prove I got in, that's when they called in their photoshop guys.
But it's hacked, MoobY knows
MoobY knows - Total World Domination, NOW!
Thx for the hat, greg :]
I just hacked into their FTP and send them some logs. I'm not as fake hacker and didn't harm them. Instead, I send them those logs, on which they called in their PhotoShop anti-hack personnel But it was Hacked MoobY knows