Do a degree in Biology and make shit loads of money in the Pharma industry as a bioinformatician.
With all the genetic information now available now which we know very little about yet, there is a very high need for people with knowledge in CS and Biology to analyse this data -- incidentally, students most likely to take CS have historically looked down on the natural sciences and natural science students have historically been afraid of the quantitative sciences including CS.
I know a few physicists and mathematicians who have learned a bit of biology and scored big in Bioinformatics, the reverse is also true but fewer biologists have learned CS to become bioinformaticians.
"We're finding...cases where there is line-by-line code in the Linux kernel that is matching up to our UnixWare code," McBride said in an interview.
"In an e-mail discussion that took place 24 and 25 April, SCO-Caldera Senior Vice President Chris Sontag told MozillaQuest Magazine that there is SCO-owned code in Red Hat and SuSE Linux distributions. He also told MozillaQuest Magazine that the tainted code is not in the Linux kernel that Linus [Torvalds] and others have helped develop. We're talking about what's on the periphery of the Linux kernel.
The electricity company in Cameroon, Nigeria's eastern neighbour is owned by an American company. Yet things are not any better wrt power failures.
Your assessment of the problem in Africa is insulting, or fallacious at best. Colonialism is the root of the problem. However, the problem is not because Africans can't cope with modernity, or don't understand it, but because of lack of accountable governments, which were put in place by the colonialists when they left. It's been almost half a century and most of the governments are still in place. It is very difficult to replace such governments. Most people fail to realise that African countries are not poor. Power failures are not due to lack of enough electricity. All the problems can be traced to lack of accountability of the government. The electric company does not care about maintaining hardware because there is nobody to hold them acountable for it. All these problems gradually disappear in a true democracy. Show me a true democracy in central/west Africa and I'll show you a functioning society.
I'm an African, and I'm currently in Sweden where I work as a Sysadmin. Where I work nobody knows shit about computers. I don't expect them to understand what routers are, so you should expect to explain technical details to your client in understandable language irrespective of wether they are african or not.
I refuse to believe that all offices in Nigeria are built to the specification the parent poster cited. It's not every house in the US or Europe that would be free from flood or fire or any other disaster. Just because the poster has encountered a bad case does not justify generalising in that manner. Just because the poster claims to be in Nigeria does not make him an authority on nigerian affairs either!
Anybody who claims they can do this in a decate (if at all) is either very naive or not thinking straight.
We don't even know 0.1 % of how viruses function let alone cells. It's really laughable to hear things like these.
One fundermental question that is still far from being solved and will benefit mankind more is the 'folding problem' --- That is, given an unknown DNA sequence (gene), what is the 3D structure of the protein it produces?
Once we know that, the next problem is the 'function problem' --- Given the 3D-structure of an unknown protein, what is its function?
Current attempts at solutions to these problems are merely AdHoc devices which are far from suitable in unique situations.
Sounds like the Bottle Imp story. SCO has the imp. The only problem is they are trying to sell it for more than it's worth to IBM which is forbidden so the Tao says SCO must DIE!
Software patents should be abolished. If you have discovered a cool algorithm that enables your programs to run 100x faster than a competitors, keep it secret and benefit from it alone (Closed Source). Most companies do that already. What really gets to me is the fact that they try to prevent others from making use of an independently developed but similar technique. Just because you thought of it first does not give you the right to reduce the dimensions of everyone else's thought.
The only benefit you get should be the time-advantage you have in thinking about it first. Publishing it (Open Source) means you accept to forego the advantage, for common good.
Most people who believe in software patents, do so because of a complex. They can't stand the fact that most people are as intelligent or more so than they are. Since they know that someone else will have that idea, they try to prevent that by patenting it. They preach how patents are required for innovation -- bullsh*t!
-- If cars were open sourced, there would be at least five steering wheels in the cockpit, each operating differently -- but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo.
What about engineering and scientific applications. Those are almost always absent from benchmarks. I wonder why. And the SPEC results are not always easy to compare. A few molecular dynamics or quantum chemical calculations should really stress the CPUs. That is where the higher cache will most likely be beneficial. Most of the code is free so there is no reason they can't include one of these: GROMACS, GAMESS-UK
--- If cars were open sourced, there would be at least five steering wheels in the cockpit, each operating differently -- but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo.
The Anandtech Benchmarks really show that the PR ratings have always been in comparison to previous AMD CPUs rather than Intel's. The CPU scaling plots show a steady increase in performance with respect to PR number for AMD, but you get bumps in the plot of performance vs MHz for the Pentium 4.
It's pretty clear which one is a better measure of relative performance. Although Toms' Hardware would not admit it for some reason.
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If cars were open sourced, there would be at least five steering wheels in the cockpit, each operating differently -- but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo.
What about giving us a machine that boots in 2 seconds instead. Somehow the time from power-on to OS boot of PC's has increased over the years as processors got faster.
Anyone with an ASUS A7V-266 board knows how anoying it is to bootup especially if you're using ATA-1xx.
Could somebody explain to me why this has not been done?
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Do a degree in Biology and make shit loads of money in the Pharma industry as a bioinformatician.
With all the genetic information now available now which we know very little about yet, there is a very high need for people with knowledge in CS and Biology to analyse this data -- incidentally, students most likely to take CS have historically looked down on the natural sciences and natural science students have historically been afraid of the quantitative sciences including CS.
I know a few physicists and mathematicians who have learned a bit of biology and scored big in Bioinformatics, the reverse is also true but fewer biologists have learned CS to become bioinformaticians.
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"In an e-mail discussion that took place 24 and 25 April, SCO-Caldera Senior Vice President Chris Sontag told MozillaQuest Magazine that there is SCO-owned code in Red Hat and SuSE Linux distributions. He also told MozillaQuest Magazine that the tainted code is not in the Linux kernel that Linus [Torvalds] and others have helped develop. We're talking about what's on the periphery of the Linux kernel.
He sounds like the Iraqi information minister to me
The electricity company in Cameroon, Nigeria's eastern neighbour is owned by an American company. Yet things are not any better wrt power failures.
Your assessment of the problem in Africa is insulting, or fallacious at best. Colonialism is the root of the problem. However, the problem is not because Africans can't cope with modernity, or don't understand it, but because of lack of accountable governments, which were put in place by the colonialists when they left. It's been almost half a century and most of the governments are still in place. It is very difficult to replace such governments. Most people fail to realise that African countries are not poor. Power failures are not due to lack of enough electricity. All the problems can be traced to lack of accountability of the government. The electric company does not care about maintaining hardware because there is nobody to hold them acountable for it. All these problems gradually disappear in a true democracy. Show me a true democracy in central/west Africa and I'll show you a functioning society.
I'm an African, and I'm currently in Sweden where I work as a Sysadmin. Where I work nobody knows shit about computers. I don't expect them to understand what routers are, so you should expect to explain technical details to your client in understandable language irrespective of wether they are african or not.
I refuse to believe that all offices in Nigeria are built to the specification the parent poster cited. It's not every house in the US or Europe that would be free from flood or fire or any other disaster. Just because the poster has encountered a bad case does not justify generalising in that manner. Just because the poster claims to be in Nigeria does not make him an authority on nigerian affairs either!
That is so logical, I wonder why it's not the norm.
I'm yet to see a graphics card with better 2D quality than Matrox G400.
Its a mess and still straightforward !?! I don't seem to see your point exactly.
Afterall it was meant for teaching programming.
Anybody who claims they can do this in a decate (if at all) is either very naive or not thinking straight.
We don't even know 0.1 % of how viruses function let alone cells. It's really laughable to hear things like these.
One fundermental question that is still far from being solved and will benefit mankind more is the 'folding problem' --- That is, given an unknown DNA sequence (gene), what is the 3D structure of the protein it produces?
Once we know that, the next problem is the 'function problem' --- Given the 3D-structure of an unknown protein, what is its function?
Current attempts at solutions to these problems are merely AdHoc devices which are far from suitable in unique situations.
How is this insightful, isn Windows 2000 advanced Server also a desktop OS?
Toshiba, Compaq/HP, Acer, Siemens, have all been selling AMD laptops for ages. I have a Toshiba K6-2+ 600MHz laptop from 1998.
Sounds like the Bottle Imp story. SCO has the imp. The only problem is they are trying to sell it for more than it's worth to IBM which is forbidden so the Tao says SCO must DIE!
They have an anonymous web survey at:
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http://websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/9929/websatisfac
Software patents should be abolished. If you have discovered a cool algorithm that enables your programs to run 100x faster than a competitors, keep it secret and benefit from it alone (Closed Source). Most companies do that already. What really gets to me is the fact that they try to prevent others from making use of an independently developed but similar technique. Just because you thought of it first does not give you the right to reduce the dimensions of everyone else's thought.
The only benefit you get should be the time-advantage you have in thinking about it first. Publishing it (Open Source) means you accept to forego the advantage, for common good.
Most people who believe in software patents, do so because of a complex. They can't stand the fact that most people are as intelligent or more so than they are. Since they know that someone else will have that idea, they try to prevent that by patenting it. They preach how patents are required for innovation -- bullsh*t!
That is what destroys inovation IMHO.
So I guess midgard is not alone in dead-games country
This is much better. http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.html?i=1783
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If cars were open sourced, there would be at least five steering wheels in the cockpit, each operating differently -- but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo.
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If cars were open sourced, there would be at least five steering wheels in the cockpit, each operating differently -- but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo.
It's pretty clear which one is a better measure of relative performance. Although Toms' Hardware would not admit it for some reason.
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If cars were open sourced, there would be at least five steering wheels in the cockpit, each operating differently -- but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo.
Anyone with an ASUS A7V-266 board knows how anoying it is to bootup especially if you're using ATA-1xx.
Could somebody explain to me why this has not been done?
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.0/foot.png
Could you stop beating this dead horse already! ?
>Most of the ones that died had sucky products that stopped progressing (WordPerfect,...
Can you substantiate this statement by namming one area in which the current MSWord
better than the current WordPerfect!
I will thank them for that and while including it, afix a GPL license to it. Any body that complains should ask the judge.
BMW has takes a different approach and their option is of higher performance.
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http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_38/b3699304