The idea is to sequence each portion of the genome many times over. With enough redundancy you can detect these errors, so your final annotated copy would have a much higher accuracy.
I'm not 100% sure but I believe at this point "it works" means that antibodies to the HIV virus are being produced by the body. The efficacy of the vaccine ie. whether or not those antibodies do what we hope they do, remains to be seen
I read an interview with Adam a while ago in which he addressed the fact that what we see on TV doesn't alway look very scientifically rigorous. You pointed out that it's not possible to cover all the experiments you perform on a 1-hour episode and claimed that more experiments and testing were actually done. Could you go into more detail on that point? ie. For those episodes that people have particular problems with (probably all mentioned in the comments of this thread) can you describe what steps you took that never made it to TV.
Is this "football", as in American football with pigskins and tackling, etc. Or do the Canucks refer to soccer as "football"? I am ignorant. Please help.
American football mostly.
Canadian Football has only 3 downs instead of 4, the field is considerably bigger, and lots of other little rule differences. And of course, the best-paid CFL QB makes a fraction of what the lowliest NFL benchwarmer makes.
This is honestly like almost any other phenomenon... If we do something enough, we start thinking of the world in those terms
Yep, on more than one ocassion, while studying my notes as an undergrad, my hand would be halfway to my mouse before I remembered that there is no way to increase the font size on a piece of paper.
I've got an even better one: GM housecats to look like tigers, cheetas and leopoards. How much would you pay for a housecat that looked exactly like a bengal tiger?
Actually you can already get pets like this through traditional breeding. There's a wild cat species called the Serval, which is considerably larger (and smarter) than a house cat but much smaller than the big cats. In the last few years, they have successfully bred Servals with housecats to produce what they call a Savannah cat. The Savannah cats are much larger and smarter than a housecat, have a leopoard-like fur pattern, and several other very exotic characteristics. IMHO they're a gorgeous animal and are supposed to make great pets (if you can proof your home/yard to an animal with the curiousity of a cat coupled with greatly increased intelligence and size:) ). Of course they cost a fortune right now, expecially for a first generation cross, but maybe in a few years.
There's also a fairly recent hybrid between housecats and another wild cat species, but I can't remember what it's called, a small relative of the leopard I think.
eg. say we remove some substance from trees to make them easier to process but that gene provides disease resistance etc. If that crosses into wild populations then we end up with sick forests etc).
Genes generally don't just "cross" into wild populations, so if the GM trees have unforeseen problems it won't affect any natural forests.
In the more general case, yes of course there is a lot of room for screw-ups with GM plants but there is also a staggering potential for good, just like any new technology. Frankly I think the potential for curing diseases, providing food to third-world countries, and getting all manner of cheaper, better materials is worth the risk. Just like a new drug or medical treatment, there's always a chance it's going to have long-term ill-effects, but the benefits of modern medicine are undeniably superior to the risks.
hmm, If you're not using Xfree 4.4 or later I would think about upgrading as the 2D acceleration for TNT cards was greatly improved as compared to older versions. I'm not 100% sure but I could've sworn I had a TNT2 playing fullscreen video.
But in any case, when I said a cheap card I didn't really mean TNT2 cheap. Even in the TNT2 really can't do it with the nv driver, older GeForce's shouldn't have a problem (or ATI from the same era).
If you want good 3D support and you don't want a binary driver, then you're simply out of luck. The best open-source drivers available for even the fastest of cards, is still completely incapable of keeping up with the closed-source binaries.
If you don't care about 3D support then, it doesn't matter much which card you get. Basically any card from a major vendor will do just fine playing movies, displaying your desktop apps, etc. I recommend just buying something nice and cheap.
"A highly-componentized system is great for flexibility, but a nightmare for usability and developers."
Which is why I believe the "desktop Linux" is doomed to fail, ultimately.
But that's exactly why we have custom distro's to handle these things. Mandrake/Suse/Gentoo/etc. simply write wrappers (RPMs/ebuilds/etc.) around apps that handle the problem of tweaking each app to fit their particular distro.
Admittedly, they don't always do a fantastic job of this, particularly when close-source drivers are involved, but I don't think this is an insurmountable problem that is going to destroy Linux's shot at the desktop
Of course, if you actually want to use your shiny new 6600-series card, you're gonna need to dish out the cash for a new PCI-E motherboard too. That or wait a few (more) months for an AGP version to show up.
Don't get me wrong, I'm delighted that Nvidia is releasing a good quality card at a reasonable price, I realize that PCI-E allows for the very cool SLI technology, and I intend to buy one eventually, but seriously why not come out with AGP cards at the same time, my copy of DOOM3 is already starting to dusty while I wait:(
Last time I had to reboot my PC whenever I wanted to run a new program was... 1983 or so with my Apple II. This is an awful idea.
I dunno, while it would awfully tedious to reboot into this thing every single time you want to play Go, I don't think that's really the point.
This seems like it would be great for a Go beginner to be able to get up and running with tons of Go utilities and resources with a minimum of fuss. Once you get things figured out, then install the programs on your regular OS, no big deal.
And while this doesn't apply to this CD in particular, there can be other reasons to use a boot CD for a game. The Gentoo folk (and probably others) have made LiveCDs for popular graphics and CPU-intensive games. The enitre mini-distro is optimized solely for this game, right down to kernel tweaks and patches. For those of us who don't have outrageously expensive gaming hardware, this can squeeze a considerable bit of performance out of a box.
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but until you have a real, live, flesh-and-blood human partner you're just not getting the full effect and are never going to be truly good.
probably true, but many of the tools on the CD are designed to connect you to real-live human Go players. Sure it might be nicer to sit down with someone face-to-face, but not everybody has the advantage of living in a part of the world or a city big enough to have Go clubs or other Go players at all.
What is this game? Is it any fun? That sounds pretty cool. There's a link in the submission to a site that will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about Go. If you're really too lazy to go back it's here.
Actually, at least some of the slashdot rendering is supposedly fixed in one of the mozilla branches, but I'm not sure when we'll see that in an actual release. http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/bigger-pictu re.html
They've been showing pictures of the project on Space (the Canadian equivalent of Sc-Fi Channel) for months, and I've always gotten the impression that there's gonna be a lot of wreckage strewn over the Alberta countryside.
Considering that it's launcing from Saskatchewan, not Alberta I rather doubt it
With ATI cards at least, I'm sure the GNU/Linux performance will be considerably worse than Windows, since the best drivers available are based on the FireGL series, not the Catalyst series. I'm not sure how things stand with Nvidia, but again I strongly suspect the drivers won't be as good.
While I mostly agree with your statements about sites like HardOCP in general, did you RTFA? They keep stressing over and over again that Doom3 plays fine on remarkably low-end systems, and that there is no real need to upgrade from the several-years-old systems that many of us have.
Actually, does anyone know if ID is planning an OSX release like they did with Quake 3? Yes, but not for a while yet. They said the linux release would be "soon", but OSX was still a ways down the road.
Reading through the (many,many) comments on the HardOCP thread about this, the HardOCP staff member who did the reviews has stated that they are doing and in fact have completed benchmarks with many other, lower-end configurations, and the results will be posted as soon as they're available.
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The idea is to sequence each portion of the genome many times over. With enough redundancy you can detect these errors, so your final annotated copy would have a much higher accuracy.
This is a new feature in the soon to be released Gimp 2.4, check the release notes at:
http://next.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.4.html
I'm not 100% sure but I believe at this point "it works" means that antibodies to the HIV virus are being produced by the body. The efficacy of the vaccine ie. whether or not those antibodies do what we hope they do, remains to be seen
I read an interview with Adam a while ago in which he addressed the fact that what we see on TV doesn't alway look very scientifically rigorous. You pointed out that it's not possible to cover all the experiments you perform on a 1-hour episode and claimed that more experiments and testing were actually done. Could you go into more detail on that point? ie. For those episodes that people have particular problems with (probably all mentioned in the comments of this thread) can you describe what steps you took that never made it to TV.
Is this "football", as in American football with pigskins and tackling, etc. Or do the Canucks refer to soccer as "football"? I am ignorant. Please help.
American football mostly.
Canadian Football has only 3 downs instead of 4, the field is considerably bigger, and lots of other little rule differences. And of course, the best-paid CFL QB makes a fraction of what the lowliest NFL benchwarmer makes.
This is honestly like almost any other phenomenon... If we do something enough, we start thinking of the world in those terms
Yep, on more than one ocassion, while studying my notes as an undergrad, my hand would be halfway to my mouse before I remembered that there is no way to increase the font size on a piece of paper.
I've got an even better one: GM housecats to look like tigers, cheetas and leopoards. How much would you pay for a housecat that looked exactly like a bengal tiger?
:) ). Of course they cost a fortune right now, expecially for a first generation cross, but maybe in a few years.
Actually you can already get pets like this through traditional breeding. There's a wild cat species called the Serval, which is considerably larger (and smarter) than a house cat but much smaller than the big cats. In the last few years, they have successfully bred Servals with housecats to produce what they call a Savannah cat. The Savannah cats are much larger and smarter than a housecat, have a leopoard-like fur pattern, and several other very exotic characteristics. IMHO they're a gorgeous animal and are supposed to make great pets (if you can proof your home/yard to an animal with the curiousity of a cat coupled with greatly increased intelligence and size
There's also a fairly recent hybrid between housecats and another wild cat species, but I can't remember what it's called, a small relative of the leopard I think.
eg. say we remove some substance from trees to make them easier to process but that gene provides disease resistance etc. If that crosses into wild populations then we end up with sick forests etc).
Genes generally don't just "cross" into wild populations, so if the GM trees have unforeseen problems it won't affect any natural forests.
In the more general case, yes of course there is a lot of room for screw-ups with GM plants but there is also a staggering potential for good, just like any new technology. Frankly I think the potential for curing diseases, providing food to third-world countries, and getting all manner of cheaper, better materials is worth the risk. Just like a new drug or medical treatment, there's always a chance it's going to have long-term ill-effects, but the benefits of modern medicine are undeniably superior to the risks.
hmm, If you're not using Xfree 4.4 or later I would think about upgrading as the 2D acceleration for TNT cards was greatly improved as compared to older versions. I'm not 100% sure but I could've sworn I had a TNT2 playing fullscreen video.
But in any case, when I said a cheap card I didn't really mean TNT2 cheap. Even in the TNT2 really can't do it with the nv driver, older GeForce's shouldn't have a problem (or ATI from the same era).
If you want good 3D support and you don't want a binary driver, then you're simply out of luck. The best open-source drivers available for even the fastest of cards, is still completely incapable of keeping up with the closed-source binaries.
If you don't care about 3D support then, it doesn't matter much which card you get. Basically any card from a major vendor will do just fine playing movies, displaying your desktop apps, etc. I recommend just buying something nice and cheap.
"A highly-componentized system is great for flexibility, but a nightmare for usability and developers."
Which is why I believe the "desktop Linux" is doomed to fail, ultimately.
But that's exactly why we have custom distro's to handle these things. Mandrake/Suse/Gentoo/etc. simply write wrappers (RPMs/ebuilds/etc.) around apps that handle the problem of tweaking each app to fit their particular distro.
Admittedly, they don't always do a fantastic job of this, particularly when close-source drivers are involved, but I don't think this is an insurmountable problem that is going to destroy Linux's shot at the desktop
Of course, if you actually want to use your shiny new 6600-series card, you're gonna need to dish out the cash for a new PCI-E motherboard too. That or wait a few (more) months for an AGP version to show up.
:(
Don't get me wrong, I'm delighted that Nvidia is releasing a good quality card at a reasonable price, I realize that PCI-E allows for the very cool SLI technology, and I intend to buy one eventually, but seriously why not come out with AGP cards at the same time, my copy of DOOM3 is already starting to dusty while I wait
Last time I had to reboot my PC whenever I wanted to run a new program was... 1983 or so with my Apple II. This is an awful idea.
I dunno, while it would awfully tedious to reboot into this thing every single time you want to play Go, I don't think that's really the point.
This seems like it would be great for a Go beginner to be able to get up and running with tons of Go utilities and resources with a minimum of fuss. Once you get things figured out, then install the programs on your regular OS, no big deal.
And while this doesn't apply to this CD in particular, there can be other reasons to use a boot CD for a game. The Gentoo folk (and probably others) have made LiveCDs for popular graphics and CPU-intensive games. The enitre mini-distro is optimized solely for this game, right down to kernel tweaks and patches. For those of us who don't have outrageously expensive gaming hardware, this can squeeze a considerable bit of performance out of a box.
but until you have a real, live, flesh-and-blood human partner you're just not getting the full effect and are never going to be truly good.
probably true, but many of the tools on the CD are designed to connect you to real-live human Go players. Sure it might be nicer to sit down with someone face-to-face, but not everybody has the advantage of living in a part of the world or a city big enough to have Go clubs or other Go players at all.
What is this game? Is it any fun? That sounds pretty cool.
There's a link in the submission to a site that will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about Go. If you're really too lazy to go back it's here.
Actually, at least some of the slashdot rendering is supposedly fixed in one of the mozilla branches, but I'm not sure when we'll see that in an actual release. http://www.squarefree.com/burningedge/bigger-pictu re.html
They've been showing pictures of the project on Space (the Canadian equivalent of Sc-Fi Channel) for months, and I've always gotten the impression that there's gonna be a lot of wreckage strewn over the Alberta countryside.
Considering that it's launcing from Saskatchewan, not Alberta I rather doubt it
With ATI cards at least, I'm sure the GNU/Linux performance will be considerably worse than Windows, since the best drivers available are based on the FireGL series, not the Catalyst series. I'm not sure how things stand with Nvidia, but again I strongly suspect the drivers won't be as good.
Don't we have a mod for "+1, Efficiently Sidesteps Sarcasm?"
sorry, but the things some people think...
While I mostly agree with your statements about sites like HardOCP in general, did you RTFA? They keep stressing over and over again that Doom3 plays fine on remarkably low-end systems, and that there is no real need to upgrade from the several-years-old systems that many of us have.
Actually, does anyone know if ID is planning an OSX release like they did with Quake 3?
Yes, but not for a while yet. They said the linux release would be "soon", but OSX was still a ways down the road.
Now I know my TNT2 card will do just fine.
I doubt it. The TNT2 is considerably lower than the lowest card they review.
I know that it's illegal in Quebec, but I thought most (all?) of the other provinces allowed it.
Writing XHTML manually is more difficult that writing HTML manually, but the average joe can always use a pointy-clicky front-end to write XHTML.
Reading through the (many,many) comments on the HardOCP thread about this, the HardOCP staff member who did the reviews has stated that they are doing and in fact have completed benchmarks with many other, lower-end configurations, and the results will be posted as soon as they're available.