This has certainly been the case for the DNA Sequencer I've been doing "technology development" on. It's been almost impossible to get people to treat it like a useful, serious sequencing device.
Just wait until people start kitting out their drones with high powered lasers (so they can be seen from the ground), and having a laser light show from a few drones flying in formation at night. I'm sure the aviation authorities would love that.
If you're so disinterested in doing your own research on this, and believe SSDs still have this problem, no amount of explanation is going to convince you otherwise. I'm going to put you into the same basket as people who argue that Linux is not ready for regular users, and just ignore you. There's no point in arguing with someone who has such a rigid mindset. It's like trying to break concrete with a spoon.
Conveniently, the algorithm has been tweaked so that none of these predicted time periods are in the past. Now all we have to do is wait 4 years to see if any of the theories are true!
But if everyone populated and used curated public databases, then there would be no need for the army of PhD and Masters students employed by IPA/IVA to read papers and feed their proprietary knowledge base. What would people do with all the money that's currently spent on propping up the Qiagen army?
I've recently installed Mint 17.2 on an old (2007-era) 32-bit laptop. Everything works fine... except for the audio. I'm hoping that 17.3 will fix that.
I don't see how that would help, he'd surely get into trouble again if he tried to bring a Hellfire missile to school, even if he has all of the paperwork for it.
Because people do the minimum required to get publications (and/or money), and cleaning up source code (so it can be exposed to the world) is a lot of work. This is especially the case if the code depends on other libraries with various different software licenses.
One of the ways to help fix this problem is to place restrictions on publication, so that open source licences are required for software. F1000 Research has just changed their policy to do this:
We recently strengthened our stance on software availability to better align with our Open Science principles. Now, the source code underlying any newly presented software must be made publicly available and assigned an open license. We strongly encourage the use of an OSS approved licence, but will accept other open licenses including Creative Commons. Software papers describing non-open software, code and/or web tools will be rejected.
The current situation demonstrates that forcing these licenses is required in order to get people to use them. BMC Evolutionary Biology already had a recommendation for open source licenses in its policy:
BMC Evolutionary Biology recommends, but does not require, that the source code of the software should be made available under a suitable open-source license that will entitle other researchers to further develop and extend the software if they wish to do so. Typically, an archive of the source code of the current version of the software should be included with the submitted manuscript as a supplementary file. Since it is likely that the software will continue to be developed following publication, the manuscript should also include a link to the home page for the software project. For open source projects, we recommend that authors host their project with a recognized open-source repository such as bioinformatics.org or sourceforge.net
That's about a kiloton of coal every four months to just replace the current carbon that's being lost. To actually make a dent in the planet's carbon supply, it would be necessary to add more than that. Good luck finding the fuel to transport that, and the people who would be happy to see so much carbon leave Earth.
We have already observed recent mitochondrial evolution in the human population, with a few mutations specific to Polynesian populations that must have arisen during radiative settlement a few hundred years ago:
What, exactly, is useful about memorizing facts, in a world where any fact you want is at your fingertips on demand?
When you're talking to someone in a professional setting, saying "hang on, I'll just check up on that" multiple times is a very good way to encourage them to leave and not participate in an exchange of goods or services.
When I go to fast food restaurants, I would like cashiers to be able to instantly tell me the answer to allergy questions (e.g. are your chips fried in peanut oil).
If I'm presenting to biologists about a differential expression analysis on samples they've been working on, I need to be able to tell them what a particular statistic means so that they can better understand the results.
I've mentioned this before, but I might as well say it again. Our nervous system is designed to learn how to control random systems, so putting a "specialised processor" in between the nervous system and a control system is probably not going to improve things, and may make them worse. Just provide the most basic interface possible to the control system via the nervous system, and let the brain (or any other limb) do the training.
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SoylentNews has a "Touché" moderation. Is that good enough?
This has certainly been the case for the DNA Sequencer I've been doing "technology development" on. It's been almost impossible to get people to treat it like a useful, serious sequencing device.
More punny title: Valve Loses Steam in Australian Court Battle
Just wait until people start kitting out their drones with high powered lasers (so they can be seen from the ground), and having a laser light show from a few drones flying in formation at night. I'm sure the aviation authorities would love that.
Indeed, smartphones shouldn't be black boxes. The source code should be available to all, especially the people who actually own the phones.
Considering that you refer to their God as a "magical sky fairy"
Their Allah
If you're so disinterested in doing your own research on this, and believe SSDs still have this problem, no amount of explanation is going to convince you otherwise. I'm going to put you into the same basket as people who argue that Linux is not ready for regular users, and just ignore you. There's no point in arguing with someone who has such a rigid mindset. It's like trying to break concrete with a spoon.
Have SSD's reached a point where they have a lifespan comparable to HDD's in the most extreme applications, though?
Yes.
would a current-technology SSD last as long before it ran out of write cycles in the flash memory?
Yes.
Males can't pass along the mitochondrial DNA that is altered in the procedure
Well, they can, it's just that sperm mitochondria usually get swamped out by egg mitochondria.
Conveniently, the algorithm has been tweaked so that none of these predicted time periods are in the past. Now all we have to do is wait 4 years to see if any of the theories are true!
You can print stainless steel (mixed with PLA) on an extrusion printer now:
https://www.lulzbot.com/store/...
Or perhaps the Dutch have more courage?
Yeah, but it's only Dutch courage.
But if everyone populated and used curated public databases, then there would be no need for the army of PhD and Masters students employed by IPA/IVA to read papers and feed their proprietary knowledge base. What would people do with all the money that's currently spent on propping up the Qiagen army?
It wasn't particularly difficult to predict that this would happen, because they've done it before:
http://slashdot.org/comments.p...
FWIW, Wikipedia does the same sort of thing.
I've recently installed Mint 17.2 on an old (2007-era) 32-bit laptop. Everything works fine... except for the audio. I'm hoping that 17.3 will fix that.
She says many within Mozilla want to see it support community-managed projects
So people within Mozilla want to spend money on things that are not Mozilla. That sounds suspiciously like wasting money.
I don't see how that would help, he'd surely get into trouble again if he tried to bring a Hellfire missile to school, even if he has all of the paperwork for it.
Ah, the old slashdot switcheroo.
why is key academic software not open source?
Because people do the minimum required to get publications (and/or money), and cleaning up source code (so it can be exposed to the world) is a lot of work. This is especially the case if the code depends on other libraries with various different software licenses.
One of the ways to help fix this problem is to place restrictions on publication, so that open source licences are required for software. F1000 Research has just changed their policy to do this:
http://blog.f1000research.com/...
We recently strengthened our stance on software availability to better align with our Open Science principles. Now, the source code underlying any newly presented software must be made publicly available and assigned an open license. We strongly encourage the use of an OSS approved licence, but will accept other open licenses including Creative Commons. Software papers describing non-open software, code and/or web tools will be rejected.
The current situation demonstrates that forcing these licenses is required in order to get people to use them. BMC Evolutionary Biology already had a recommendation for open source licenses in its policy:
BMC Evolutionary Biology recommends , but does not require, that the source code of the software should be made available under a suitable open-source license that will entitle other researchers to further develop and extend the software if they wish to do so. Typically, an archive of the source code of the current version of the software should be included with the submitted manuscript as a supplementary file. Since it is likely that the software will continue to be developed following publication, the manuscript should also include a link to the home page for the software project. For open source projects, we recommend that authors host their project with a recognized open-source repository such as bioinformatics.org or sourceforge.net
That's about a kiloton of coal every four months to just replace the current carbon that's being lost. To actually make a dent in the planet's carbon supply, it would be necessary to add more than that. Good luck finding the fuel to transport that, and the people who would be happy to see so much carbon leave Earth.
As TFA says though, we don't have to worry about that since if we put a good atmosphere on it by terraforming, it would last several million years.
Great idea. Where are you going to get the carbon from to replace all the CO2 that has blown away?
Table-top role-playing games are fine. No harm there. It's all in the head, after all.
But computer games? Whoa! Hold on there. That's far too violent.
We have already observed recent mitochondrial evolution in the human population, with a few mutations specific to Polynesian populations that must have arisen during radiative settlement a few hundred years ago:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/jour...
What, exactly, is useful about memorizing facts, in a world where any fact you want is at your fingertips on demand?
When you're talking to someone in a professional setting, saying "hang on, I'll just check up on that" multiple times is a very good way to encourage them to leave and not participate in an exchange of goods or services.
When I go to fast food restaurants, I would like cashiers to be able to instantly tell me the answer to allergy questions (e.g. are your chips fried in peanut oil).
If I'm presenting to biologists about a differential expression analysis on samples they've been working on, I need to be able to tell them what a particular statistic means so that they can better understand the results.
i.e. some way to detect and interpret the nervous system's behaviour.
Detect and react to the nervous system's behaviour. Let the nerves do the interpretation.
I've mentioned this before, but I might as well say it again. Our nervous system is designed to learn how to control random systems, so putting a "specialised processor" in between the nervous system and a control system is probably not going to improve things, and may make them worse. Just provide the most basic interface possible to the control system via the nervous system, and let the brain (or any other limb) do the training.