No, this longer piece http://www.forskning.no/artikler/2014/januar/379474 in Norwegian seems to be the source (by Ida Kvittingen). Oddly the photo credit links there.
Lior didn't think much of two recent articles in Nature Biotechnology and attempted the traditional reply route, but the journal declined to publish it - so he blogged it:
I was going to suggest a UK layout where the ' and # keys are next to each other, but in fact your guess was right. The OP confirmed he was using a German keyboard layout where the ' and # are on the same key, and he didn't press shift.
I'm behind you on this - if the setting was per keyboard it would let you deal with things like a MacBook with an external windows-style keyboard.
Mind you I have other gripes about using a Mac with a Windows keyboard, in particular a Mac's idea of a GB layout doesn't match the mainstream IBM PC/Windows GB layout. This means @ and " are switched, # is not shift+3, but alt+3. But also important keys like the slashes and tilde are also in the wrong place.
In Biology and Chemistry at least, the supervisor or project leader is often named last, while the student/researcher who did the bulk to the grunt work is named first. Of course, it wasn't always this way.
Reading their FAQ, it sounds like there are lot of niggles to fix yet - including assumptions in other parts of Mac OS. All in all it sounds like ZFS isn't ready for general use on the Mac just yet. Maybe Mac OS X 10.6 will ship with this by default?
...Contrast that to the Wii, where a point equals a penny, which the aforementioned 800 points would be a much more quickly to see $8. Sony does one better and just has you pay in actual currency.
Hang on a minute! 800 pennies is 8 pounds sterling (GBP), which is currently about 16.34 dollars (USD). I guess you meant 800 cents?
But seriously, your whole argument doesn't take into account a global sales plan where it is impossible to have all the local currencies mapping to the same "points scheme" using nice integer maths. Especially not if you want to track the currency exchange rates.
The first things this made me think of was the classic TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, with the annoying robot Twiki that makes a noise rather like biddy biddy biddy.
I was rather dubious about some of those graphs too - both for the missing error bars, and three figures with integer values (plus a point zero zero!). These both suggest they did no repeats on the experiment.
So as you say, at best its a "pilot study" which seems to show that there have been no major changes in power usage by the different Ubuntu releases (on this hardware).
Does anyone know if Ubuntu actually have machines hooked up to measure this kind of thing in house, looking for regressions in power usage? I gather the OLPC project has thing kind of thing as part of their build system (driven off the code repository), but they are naturally particularly concerned about battery life.
I was under the impression that was only true in Belgium; for most of Europe some phone companies DO give out locked phones, which you can usually get unlocked unofficially...
You're preaching to the quire That would be choir (quire?!?), as in the group of indoctrinated youngsters who sing in a church, and are therefore always there ready and willing to listen to the priest doing his preaching.
Is that figure of 60% of kids have eye deficiencies and require glasses to read for the USA, the developed world, or global? I strongly suspect its not that bad in the rural africa where kids on balance spend more time outdoors, less time reading, and almost no time watching TV.
I agree that this a big fuss over nothing - the slashdot title doesn't help either.
If you read the footer of the "quick quote" page (cropped in the article screen shot), it even tells you that the quote is for commerial use, and that because this is an open access CC article it doesn't need to be licenced for non-commerial use.
The third party www.copyright.com site could be a lot more up front about this of course!
Citation: Holliday et al. (2007) MACiE (Mechanism, Annotation and Classification in Enzymes): novel tools for searching catalytic mechanisms. Nucleic Acids Research, 35, Database issue D515-D520.
DOI link
He's right that clicking on the right and getting a quick quote for reproducing the entire article as part of a course pack (print and/or electric) is non zero... BUT, producing a course pack doesn't allways equate to non-commerial in my mind.
It might part of university course, in which case Peter Murray-Rust seems justified in taking calling this non-commerial (and therefore free under the CC licence used).
However, the course-pack could be part of a commercial training course for members of the pharma industry - in which case the end user would have to pay the copyright holders.
The bottom of the quick quote page even EXPLAINS this (cropped in his screen shot):
If the item you are seeking permission to re-use is labeled OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE then please note that non-commercial reuse of it is according to the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons license. Permission only needs to be obtained for commercial use and can be done via Rightslink. If you have any queries about re-use of content published as part of the Oxford Open program, please contact journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.
This guy's work required about 3GB for the compressed Wikipedia data dump (split up into compressed chunks using bzip2recover), plus python, perl, a little database library (xapian) and a web server (Django). He seems to be working in English only, and doesn't seem to provide a "why" or who this might be useful to.
Moulin has a concrete aim in mind, they are starting with the much smaller French version of Wikipedia, and have built a CD-ROM sized offline viewer for released in West Africa. They've also been working on other languages including left-to-right support for Farsi and Arabic. It sounds like they plan to have the English language version of Wikipedia as an offline DVD, but the techinical details seem a little thin on the ground on their webpage (but there is source code). http://moulinwiki.org/l/en/
According to the article, there are no known copies of Linux 0.02 and 0.03, probably because Linus deleted his when they were superceded. If you know of anyone else with a copy do let him know!
Its a shame, but at the time this was "little hack" project for him so full version control would have been overkill.
you want to learn a new keyboard layout for every program you use?
I think you missed the point - it would let you doing things like have a "normal" layout which changes when control is pressed to show the icons associated with control shortcuts.
Or the bank of ten keys on the left could dynamically change depending on the currently active application.
Another nice example (but going off topic) is switching languages - e.g. Japanese or russion keys are very different to the wester layouts.
personally, I feel comfort with the notches on the F and J keys...
Actually the Optimus Maximus keyboard does still have the raised bumps on the F and J keys.
...but what i would like to see is a self reconfiguraing keyboard (maybe just a big oled/lcd touch display) that rearrages its layout for the application at hand...
Wants to go back to the 'good old days' where you'd have to tab 20 times to get to the text box you want (enevitably you'd press it 21 times and have to start over),...
What was wrong with using SHIFT+TAB to go back one step?
A well laid you screen (with a sensible tab order) can make tasks like data entry very easy. I cringe when watching people typing in one box, stopping, moving their mouse to the next form, click, and then go back to their keyboard! I'm sitting there shouting Just press tab! to myself.
A soldered battery means that it will almost NEVER pop out accidentally in your pocket or in your backpack. Thank you Apple for this great innovation!! I'm going to buy an iPhone right now!!!!
I know you were joking, but seriously one of the most annoying "features" of my Sony Ericsson w810i is it frequently turns itself off due to a loose battery connection. Wedging the battery in with a bit of paper helps a bit. This wouldn't be any issue with an iPhone;)
Slashdot Mirror
No, this longer piece http://www.forskning.no/artikler/2014/januar/379474 in Norwegian seems to be the source (by Ida Kvittingen). Oddly the photo credit links there.
Lior didn't think much of two recent articles in Nature Biotechnology and attempted the traditional reply route, but the journal declined to publish it - so he blogged it:
http://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/02/10/the-network-nonsense-of-albert-laszlo-barabasi/
http://liorpachter.wordpress.com/2014/02/11/the-network-nonsense-of-manolis-kellis/
I know you may have been joking, but instead of this:
>>> print "Hello, world!"
for Python 3.0+ you must do this:
>>> print("Hello, world!")
It makes sense in the long run. Anyway, see the very start of the "What's New" page, "Print Is A Function":
http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html
I was going to suggest a UK layout where the ' and # keys are next to each other, but in fact your guess was right. The OP confirmed he was using a German keyboard layout where the ' and # are on the same key, and he didn't press shift.
I'm behind you on this - if the setting was per keyboard it would let you deal with things like a MacBook with an external windows-style keyboard.
Mind you I have other gripes about using a Mac with a Windows keyboard, in particular a Mac's idea of a GB layout doesn't match the mainstream IBM PC/Windows GB layout. This means @ and " are switched, # is not shift+3, but alt+3. But also important keys like the slashes and tilde are also in the wrong place.
rsn = real soon now
i.e. very soon
The blood-types thing in Japan is a bit like astrology in the west, you can assign personality types to the different blood groups.
In Biology and Chemistry at least, the supervisor or project leader is often named last, while the student/researcher who did the bulk to the grunt work is named first. Of course, it wasn't always this way.
What field are you talking about.
Reading their FAQ, it sounds like there are lot of niggles to fix yet - including assumptions in other parts of Mac OS. All in all it sounds like ZFS isn't ready for general use on the Mac just yet. Maybe Mac OS X 10.6 will ship with this by default?
...Contrast that to the Wii, where a point equals a penny, which the aforementioned 800 points would be a much more quickly to see $8. Sony does one better and just has you pay in actual currency.
Hang on a minute! 800 pennies is 8 pounds sterling (GBP), which is currently about 16.34 dollars (USD). I guess you meant 800 cents?
But seriously, your whole argument doesn't take into account a global sales plan where it is impossible to have all the local currencies mapping to the same "points scheme" using nice integer maths. Especially not if you want to track the currency exchange rates.
The first things this made me think of was the classic TV series Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, with the annoying robot Twiki that makes a noise rather like biddy biddy biddy.
I was rather dubious about some of those graphs too - both for the missing error bars, and three figures with integer values (plus a point zero zero!). These both suggest they did no repeats on the experiment.
So as you say, at best its a "pilot study" which seems to show that there have been no major changes in power usage by the different Ubuntu releases (on this hardware).
Does anyone know if Ubuntu actually have machines hooked up to measure this kind of thing in house, looking for regressions in power usage? I gather the OLPC project has thing kind of thing as part of their build system (driven off the code repository), but they are naturally particularly concerned about battery life.
I was under the impression that was only true in Belgium; for most of Europe some phone companies DO give out locked phones, which you can usually get unlocked unofficially...
You're preaching to the quire
That would be choir (quire?!?), as in the group of indoctrinated youngsters who sing in a church, and are therefore always there ready and willing to listen to the priest doing his preaching.
Is that figure of 60% of kids have eye deficiencies and require glasses to read for the USA, the developed world, or global? I strongly suspect its not that bad in the rural africa where kids on balance spend more time outdoors, less time reading, and almost no time watching TV.
I agree that this a big fuss over nothing - the slashdot title doesn't help either.
If you read the footer of the "quick quote" page (cropped in the article screen shot), it even tells you that the quote is for commerial use, and that because this is an open access CC article it doesn't need to be licenced for non-commerial use.
The third party www.copyright.com site could be a lot more up front about this of course!
Citation:
Holliday et al. (2007) MACiE (Mechanism, Annotation and Classification in Enzymes): novel tools for searching catalytic mechanisms. Nucleic Acids Research, 35, Database issue D515-D520. DOI link
He's right that clicking on the right and getting a quick quote for reproducing the entire article as part of a course pack (print and/or electric) is non zero... BUT, producing a course pack doesn't allways equate to non-commerial in my mind.
It might part of university course, in which case Peter Murray-Rust seems justified in taking calling this non-commerial (and therefore free under the CC licence used).
However, the course-pack could be part of a commercial training course for members of the pharma industry - in which case the end user would have to pay the copyright holders.
The bottom of the quick quote page even EXPLAINS this (cropped in his screen shot):
If the item you are seeking permission to re-use is labeled OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE then please note that non-commercial reuse of it is according to the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons license. Permission only needs to be obtained for commercial use and can be done via Rightslink. If you have any queries about re-use of content published as part of the Oxford Open program, please contact journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.
What's the big fuss about?
This guy's work required about 3GB for the compressed Wikipedia data dump (split up into compressed chunks using bzip2recover), plus python, perl, a little database library (xapian) and a web server (Django). He seems to be working in English only, and doesn't seem to provide a "why" or who this might be useful to.
Moulin has a concrete aim in mind, they are starting with the much smaller French version of Wikipedia, and have built a CD-ROM sized offline viewer for released in West Africa. They've also been working on other languages including left-to-right support for Farsi and Arabic. It sounds like they plan to have the English language version of Wikipedia as an offline DVD, but the techinical details seem a little thin on the ground on their webpage (but there is source code).
http://moulinwiki.org/l/en/
How is this different to moulin which is a fully interactive, offline version of the entire Wikipedia (without pictures) on a CD-ROM:
http://moulinwiki.org/l/en/
According to the article, there are no known copies of Linux 0.02 and 0.03, probably because Linus deleted his when they were superceded. If you know of anyone else with a copy do let him know!
Its a shame, but at the time this was "little hack" project for him so full version control would have been overkill.
I think you missed the point - it would let you doing things like have a "normal" layout which changes when control is pressed to show the icons associated with control shortcuts.
Or the bank of ten keys on the left could dynamically change depending on the currently active application.
Another nice example (but going off topic) is switching languages - e.g. Japanese or russion keys are very different to the wester layouts.
Actually the Optimus Maximus keyboard does still have the raised bumps on the F and J keys.
...but what i would like to see is a self reconfiguraing keyboard (maybe just a big oled/lcd touch display) that rearrages its layout for the application at hand...
You mean like this, Optimus Maximus keyboard?:
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/
Of course, for maximum benefit it needs the software to aware of it...
What was wrong with using SHIFT+TAB to go back one step?
A well laid you screen (with a sensible tab order) can make tasks like data entry very easy. I cringe when watching people typing in one box, stopping, moving their mouse to the next form, click, and then go back to their keyboard! I'm sitting there shouting Just press tab! to myself.
I know you were joking, but seriously one of the most annoying "features" of my Sony Ericsson w810i is it frequently turns itself off due to a loose battery connection. Wedging the battery in with a bit of paper helps a bit. This wouldn't be any issue with an iPhone