While I agree whole-heartedly with open science/open access, most public research in California is federally funded, not state funded. Although some institutes, like the NIH, require publication to journals, the journals themselves can and do have commercial policies. This is where real battle is currently being waged.
Bioinformatics has been very happily open source and Linux friendly for my entire career to date (14 years). Only the last two and a half of those 14 years have been whithin acedamia, but open source is an especially easy sell here.
As anyone supporting nextgen sequencing will know, researchers will claim that they simply must have the raw data. My dissuading answer: OK, then THIS is how much it is going to cost you. Payment due in full before data acquisition.
One great advantage in using insect cell lines is that they do not require serum to grow, which is both costly and open to the risk of transmitting zoonotic pathogens. Insect cells can also be more robust than mammalian cells in large scale fermentation conditions.
I designed a parallel PCR detection system for that is definitive, more sensitive, faster, and a hell of a lot cheaper. I'll bet a lot of other people have, too. If higher resolution is needed, then you could simply couple it with a pyrosequencer. There are many ways to skin this cat.
I had a boring job at a contract lab in Switzerland. It was the middle of winter in 1998. I installed slackware on a laptop and learned C and Perl. I moved back to California to another boring job, but kept up. After two years and a lot of work, I became the head of bioinformatics at a startup biotech company. I taught Perl and bioinformatics courses at the local universities, but have stayed in industry ever since. I picked up a lot of skills along the way, from building HPC pipelines on clusters, RDBMS (postgres), serving up information through LAMP, and building novel pattern recognition and visualization systems. Linux is now second nature and my whole family uses it for computing and on various devices around the house. I can't imagine going without it
What?! Are the anti-academics claiming that the university curriculum is liberal or fascist? You can't possibly be claiming both, because that would be ignorant. Oh, right. Never mind.
...it just smells funny. My "old" analog medium and large format cameras and lenses cost far less and offer better resolution. You'll have to pry them from by cold, silver-stained fingers you digital whipper-snappers!
I still use my little Sharp Actius PC-MM10 for travel. It's certainly underpowered with a 1GHz transmeta chip, fixed 256MB of RAM, and a 15GB hard drive. I net installed the basic Ubuntu 7.10 and then added xorg and fluxbox. I would not call it snappy, but it does everything I need it to do. It is smaller than an Apple Air. Here is a photo.
Kitware was the company founded to support the Visualization Toolkit (VTK), an open source software system for data visualization. VTK has a huge C++ library as well as hooks for scripting for very rapid development. Who wouldn't want to build custom 3D views of their data?
I've got a Sharp Actius PC-MM10 with a 1GHz transmeta chip, 256MB ram, and a 15GB hard drive. It is certainly under powered by today's standard, but it is smaller and lighter than an Apple Air. No optical drive meant I had to do a network install to upgrade the OS to the current Ubuntu release. To keep things light, I only did the base install and then added fluxbox as a lighter windows manager.
The difference is that few if any would claim that either frat-boys or geeks are "noble heroes of freedom". I have worked side by side with soldiers, frat-boys, and geeks. As a group, I have found that geeks harbor the most obnoxious defenenders of freedom. Soldiers were generally more likeable. I have nothing redeeming to say about frat-boys.
After the initial fit of programming hardware configuration (and re-configuration) with my oldest child, ours sat on the shelf for many months. I just took it down to see if my younger daughter (7) would have any interest. She does, so off we go again.
What a surprise. A recent leak about US satellites being blinded by Chinese lasers and now a more military flavor to the US space program.
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I am a parent of a 10 year old boy and 7 year old girl. My son and I coded our first BASIC stamp robot (Parallax Boe-Bot) last year. He has since taken an interest in his 300-in-1 electronics kit, and modifying the games he plays on his Knoppix for Kids distribution (he often runs that over the Fedora and Ubuntu distros also available in the house). A few days ago he asked me how a web site works, so I am going to teach him a little html this weekend.
My daughter plays the piano and has access to a MIDI keyboard. She and I have had a couple conversations about MIDI and was fascinated by the paper pipe organ we built. I just started designing a small, networked, pipe organ with the hope of demonstrating some programming and networking concepts to her.
We have also built rockets, a trebuchet, and even kept bees together. I plan on dusting off my homebrew equipment soon.
Children are never bored by the possibilities of technology. They need only to be exposed to something more than closed and highly polished consumer products. Even THAT is a wonderful lesson in repurposing if there is a hack around who cares to show them.
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While I agree whole-heartedly with open science/open access, most public research in California is federally funded, not state funded. Although some institutes, like the NIH, require publication to journals, the journals themselves can and do have commercial policies. This is where real battle is currently being waged.
Bioinformatics has been very happily open source and Linux friendly for my entire career to date (14 years). Only the last two and a half of those 14 years have been whithin acedamia, but open source is an especially easy sell here.
As anyone supporting nextgen sequencing will know, researchers will claim that they simply must have the raw data. My dissuading answer: OK, then THIS is how much it is going to cost you. Payment due in full before data acquisition.
Bzzt. Please review the difference between mass and density and the relationship between density and buoyancy.
A myrmecologist's dream.
I agree completely.
One great advantage in using insect cell lines is that they do not require serum to grow, which is both costly and open to the risk of transmitting zoonotic pathogens. Insect cells can also be more robust than mammalian cells in large scale fermentation conditions.
Whistler: Anybody want to crash a couple of passenger jets?
I designed a parallel PCR detection system for that is definitive, more sensitive, faster, and a hell of a lot cheaper. I'll bet a lot of other people have, too. If higher resolution is needed, then you could simply couple it with a pyrosequencer. There are many ways to skin this cat.
I had a boring job at a contract lab in Switzerland. It was the middle of winter in 1998. I installed slackware on a laptop and learned C and Perl. I moved back to California to another boring job, but kept up. After two years and a lot of work, I became the head of bioinformatics at a startup biotech company. I taught Perl and bioinformatics courses at the local universities, but have stayed in industry ever since. I picked up a lot of skills along the way, from building HPC pipelines on clusters, RDBMS (postgres), serving up information through LAMP, and building novel pattern recognition and visualization systems.
Linux is now second nature and my whole family uses it for computing and on various devices around the house. I can't imagine going without it
AND he used ssh for remote logins. Burn him!
What?! Are the anti-academics claiming that the university curriculum is liberal or fascist? You can't possibly be claiming both, because that would be ignorant. Oh, right. Never mind.
...it just smells funny.
My "old" analog medium and large format cameras and lenses cost far less and offer better resolution. You'll have to pry them from by cold, silver-stained fingers you digital whipper-snappers!
Do you think that a toddler would have an easier time understanding GPL or that she is likely to violate GPL or Microsoft Terms of Use?
I still use my little Sharp Actius PC-MM10 for travel. It's certainly underpowered with a 1GHz transmeta chip, fixed 256MB of RAM, and a 15GB hard drive. I net installed the basic Ubuntu 7.10 and then added xorg and fluxbox. I would not call it snappy, but it does everything I need it to do. It is smaller than an Apple Air. Here is a photo.
Kitware was the company founded to support the Visualization Toolkit (VTK), an open source software system for data visualization. VTK has a huge C++ library as well as hooks for scripting for very rapid development. Who wouldn't want to build custom 3D views of their data?
I've got a Sharp Actius PC-MM10 with a 1GHz transmeta chip, 256MB ram, and a 15GB hard drive. It is certainly under powered by today's standard, but it is smaller and lighter than an Apple Air. No optical drive meant I had to do a network install to upgrade the OS to the current Ubuntu release. To keep things light, I only did the base install and then added fluxbox as a lighter windows manager.
Cool hack, but the guitar player in me cringes.
I was in a hurry getting out the door and wrote that without logging in. People do hack guitars. The Flying V is mine.
The difference is that few if any would claim that either frat-boys or geeks are "noble heroes of freedom". I have worked side by side with soldiers, frat-boys, and geeks. As a group, I have found that geeks harbor the most obnoxious defenenders of freedom. Soldiers were generally more likeable. I have nothing redeeming to say about frat-boys.
I like the flickr bug that let's anyone see the original size images even though the photographer has elected not to share it. I use it allthe time.
After the initial fit of programming hardware configuration (and re-configuration) with my oldest child, ours sat on the shelf for many months. I just took it down to see if my younger daughter (7) would have any interest. She does, so off we go again.
The Parallax Boe-Bot kit and included book is a good kit for the beginner. The kit is about $150 USD.
What a surprise. A recent leak about US satellites being blinded by Chinese lasers and now a more military flavor to the US space program.
I am a parent of a 10 year old boy and 7 year old girl. My son and I coded our first BASIC stamp robot (Parallax Boe-Bot) last year. He has since taken an interest in his 300-in-1 electronics kit, and modifying the games he plays on his Knoppix for Kids distribution (he often runs that over the Fedora and Ubuntu distros also available in the house). A few days ago he asked me how a web site works, so I am going to teach him a little html this weekend.
My daughter plays the piano and has access to a MIDI keyboard. She and I have had a couple conversations about MIDI and was fascinated by the paper pipe organ we built. I just started designing a small, networked, pipe organ with the hope of demonstrating some programming and networking concepts to her.
We have also built rockets, a trebuchet, and even kept bees together. I plan on dusting off my homebrew equipment soon.
Children are never bored by the possibilities of technology. They need only to be exposed to something more than closed and highly polished consumer products. Even THAT is a wonderful lesson in repurposing if there is a hack around who cares to show them.