I just sent this article to my IT director and asked if she contributed to this article. This is basically what happened to me and they did put me to work, with an extra salary (albeit a small one since i'm only 10% IT)
Because some people (like myself) run multiple copies of the different browsers for testing purposes. and I wouldn't want my bookmarks overwritten every time I installed a new copy. and it sould have to ask which mozilla profile to copy as well.
not that it shouldn't be an option, but it shouldn't be the default.
Not every scientist and engineer can work on Cancer and Aids.. Some of us do, but not everyone can!
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Well one (mozilla) is a suite of applications (browser, mail, composer, chat, etc.) all in one. and firebird is just the browser for those who, like me, just want a fast browser that does what it's told (standards complaince).
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random mutations may be engineered when looking at a protein, but there is very little that is done in a random fashion with genetic engineering. they know what a section of DNA does they then replace that with the dna that does something different.
it's supposed to be back after the new year in a new timeslot. I don't have the orginal fox press release, but there is a quote from it on ACIN in the comments of thier article concerign firefly in drydock.
I have been thinking about a similar problem for quite some time now. I'm about to finish my Ph.D. (in org Chem) and am faced with what to do next. pure research positions are not where I see myself being and have focused on either infometrics or teaching.
Seems from some of the postings here in the field of infometrics, that I will have a hard time getting in since I'm a fully trained chemist, yet lack the resume power of a CS degree as well.
I might not be the best at plain vanilla coding, but that's cause I only code when I have to solve a problem and work on learning the language I need to know based on the requirements of the project (one day it might be a qbasic program to control a really old instrument the next it might be a set of php/sql scripts to control lab chemical inventory).
I've always had a love for computers, but never made it my "day job" cause that was chemistry. of course it seems people hire PhD's and expect a complete ready to do exactly what they want package. But in reality if you already trained in one way of doing things based on a class taken in undergrad, does it really make you that much more able to solve a new research project, or would someone who knows the science side and has a will to code whatever it takes to solve the problem (of course coding standards need to be applied and can always be learned) be better suited?
I know this doesn't seem to help the orginal poster, but it does show that there are scientists out there who want to work in the computers side of science, are just unsure how to pursue it as our advisors are typically full research scientists and in my case they barely can use word and a drawing program let alone know much about the infometrics side of things
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I just sent this article to my IT director and asked if she contributed to this article. This is basically what happened to me and they did put me to work, with an extra salary (albeit a small one since i'm only 10% IT)
Because some people (like myself) run multiple copies of the different browsers for testing purposes. and I wouldn't want my bookmarks overwritten every time I installed a new copy. and it sould have to ask which mozilla profile to copy as well.
not that it shouldn't be an option, but it shouldn't be the default.
Question here:
/. record every page I click on, my orginating IP address and any searches I perform?
But all this info IP address, variable values, and sites on which the user clicked....
isn't that all just from most standard web server log?
Technically doesn't
Not every scientist and engineer can work on Cancer and Aids.. Some of us do, but not everyone can!
Well one (mozilla) is a suite of applications (browser, mail, composer, chat, etc.) all in one. and firebird is just the browser for those who, like me, just want a fast browser that does what it's told (standards complaince).
random mutations may be engineered when looking at a protein, but there is very little that is done in a random fashion with genetic engineering. they know what a section of DNA does they then replace that with the dna that does something different.
It's hardly random.
it's supposed to be back after the new year in a new timeslot.
I don't have the orginal fox press release, but there is a quote from it on ACIN in the comments of thier article concerign firefly in drydock.
and did you pack it or did they?
I have been thinking about a similar problem for quite some time now. I'm about to finish my Ph.D. (in org Chem) and am faced with what to do next. pure research positions are not where I see myself being and have focused on either infometrics or teaching.
Seems from some of the postings here in the field of infometrics, that I will have a hard time getting in since I'm a fully trained chemist, yet lack the resume power of a CS degree as well.
I might not be the best at plain vanilla coding, but that's cause I only code when I have to solve a problem and work on learning the language I need to know based on the requirements of the project (one day it might be a qbasic program to control a really old instrument the next it might be a set of php/sql scripts to control lab chemical inventory).
I've always had a love for computers, but never made it my "day job" cause that was chemistry. of course it seems people hire PhD's and expect a complete ready to do exactly what they want package. But in reality if you already trained in one way of doing things based on a class taken in undergrad, does it really make you that much more able to solve a new research project, or would someone who knows the science side and has a will to code whatever it takes to solve the problem (of course coding standards need to be applied and can always be learned) be better suited?
I know this doesn't seem to help the orginal poster, but it does show that there are scientists out there who want to work in the computers side of science, are just unsure how to pursue it as our advisors are typically full research scientists and in my case they barely can use word and a drawing program let alone know much about the infometrics side of things