Does this look rural to you? See any problems? I will help you out. It's next to a building, blacktop, and HUGE air conditioners. This totally violates the guidelines for locating a station.
So here we have a bad (they think it's good?) "rural" station that is likely/possibly/who knows? used to adjust the Phoenix/Tucson temps.
Now, smart guy, follow your own link and _show_ me how this "rural" station was/wasn't used to correct the Phoenix and Tucson urban temps. You can't, because the detail on exactly what individual adjustments were made is not there. Go ahead, prove me wrong!
-SlashNut
P.S. The mod system SUCKS here at Slashdot. The parent should NOT be a 5. Just pointing people at a dump of lots of INCOMPLETE data doesn't prove your point. Replies that point this out are modded 0 or 1.
"They have come a long way from even just a year ago." Makes it sound like that test didn't go well. It did. The failure was at 154% Sounds great to me.
Speeding up Blast (Smith/Waterman) genetic database searches. There is a commercial product (FPGA + Software) that sells for $30k that does this. You get a 50x-100x speedup (NOT PERCENT!).
Symantec (Norton) was a good company in the DOS days. They had some powerful, useful tools. When Windows came along, they fell in love with eye candy. They started coming out with useless junk, and started churning versions.
I got fed up when they came out with PCAnywhere 9 (should have been 8.3) that claimed to have a faster file manager. It wasn't faster. The darn thing would re-sort the whole file list as it added each file in the directory. Even local file lists were slow as a result. Did it get better with 9.2, 10, 11? No. File transfers where also prone to crash. I replaced PCAnywhere with Ultra VNC, and Ultra VNC SingleClick (Free GoToMyPC anyone?).
Shall I start in on Norton Antivirus? Oh what the heck... How about a program that can bring some machines to their knees and not others? When a user says to me: Man, my machine is slow! The first question that pops into my head is NOT "Do they have spyware?", it's "Do they have Norton Antivirus?". How 'bout a program that trashes your machine when you install another version over it, Leaves TONS of junk in your registry after an uninstall, and has no clue about new viruses (no heuristics)? I replaced Norton Antivirus with NOD32.
How about support for products they bought? Powerquest made some dandy products like Partition Magic, and Drive Image. I owned both. I tried several times to find anything on the Symantec web site about Drive Image. Nope. The only thing was a press release saying they had bought Powerquest. No upgrade path, nothing. I tried recently to reinstall Partition Magic. There is a web registration/unlock required before you can use it. Guess what? The registering company does not recognize anything about Powerquest anymore. I had to toss Partition Magic in the trash. I replaced Partition Magic with Acronis Disk Director, and replaced Drive Image with Acronis True Image (You don't think I would buy Ghost do you?).
I always thought that this is what the NSA was for. I have always assumed that any call or transmission that ends outside the U.S. is possibly being monitored. This includes within other countries, and between U.S. and other countries. What's the big deal here? This is just business as usual to protect the U.S. If that's not enough, we are at war (it doesn't matter if you don't like the war, it doesn't make it disappear).
Do you think the islamists only started hating the free world when W. got into office? Do you think that he just made up Sept. 11? The amount of hatred and paranoia is amazing to see. Grab your tinfoil hats and pitch forks! Run!
at a developers conference last year. He talked about how important passwords were, and how he often changed his. He then attempted to log in and do the rest of his talk...and could not remember his password. We all laughed at him.
The problem for Red Hat is they have now subjected their enterprise product to duplication efforts, thus endangering their shiny new business model.
In the past, people said: "If I don't need/want to pay for a phone/email support contract, and have the expertise, I'll buy or download RHL, and support it myself. The RHEL 2.x product is for enterprise users. I don't need that."
Now people say: "I need something stable like RHL (mostly) was. Fedora doesn't fill this niche. I feel abandoned by Red Hat. No way am I going to agree to a draconian license and be FORCED into buying a support contract. I guess I will just have to copy RHEL."
Oops, bad move dude.
-- Slashdot's mod system really stinks these days. Mod this up!
Some tools are freely available including source code. Example: Blast (ugly and difficult code, but you can look at it if you like).
Other tools are written by academics and tightly controlled. They freely license these tools for academic use, but redistribution is not allowed and source code is not available, Examples: Phred, Phrap, Cross-match (there are many others). These academics make a career out of writing papers about, and maintaining this software (they do need to make a living somehow). Let me tell you, I would love to get my hands on cross_match and make it run more efficiently, but I can't. The system is broken. We need a way that these authors can get credit (recognition and $), and at the same time there should be a time limit of a certain number of years that they can keep the source code secret. Maybe the NSF or USDA could just pay select authors to release their code.
The third kind of tool is one written by a commercial company, and isn't free in any way. Some of these packages don't have good free equivalents. Example: GeneSpring is used to analyze micro-array data, and is very expensive
Is RHEL covered by the GPL or not? If so, is there any legal reason why someone could not re-distribute RHEL ISOs or binary updates: 1. For Free, 2. For a fee?
My partner is my twin brother. We often code as a pair when the project is particularly difficult. The second person just watches and points out errors etc. You would be suprised at how many errors the second person catches as they are being made. We don't do it every day but there have been some horrendous projects that would have been impossible to complete without two brains. Also note that a good quality/good sized monitor is very important for this.
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I followed your links. If you note here: http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/station_data/sta tion_list.txt
e mId=1610
Wickenburg is listed as a "rural" station (It's near Phoenix):
---ID---- Legend: R/S/U=rural/sm.town/urban A/B/C=dark/dim/bright cc=country-code brightness-index
722780090 WICKENBURG lat,lon (.1deg) 340 -1127 R3C cc=425 16
Here are some nice photos of the "rural" Wickenburg station:
http://gallery.surfacestations.org/main.php?g2_it
Does this look rural to you? See any problems? I will help you out. It's next to a building, blacktop, and HUGE air conditioners. This totally violates the guidelines for locating a station.
So here we have a bad (they think it's good?) "rural" station that is likely/possibly/who knows? used to adjust the Phoenix/Tucson temps.
Now, smart guy, follow your own link and _show_ me how this "rural" station was/wasn't used to correct the Phoenix and Tucson urban temps. You can't, because the detail on exactly what individual adjustments were made is not there. Go ahead, prove me wrong!
-SlashNut
P.S.
The mod system SUCKS here at Slashdot. The parent should NOT be a 5. Just pointing people at a dump of lots of INCOMPLETE data doesn't prove your point. Replies that point this out are modded 0 or 1.
"They have come a long way from even just a year ago."
Makes it sound like that test didn't go well. It did. The failure was at 154% Sounds great to me.
Speeding up Blast (Smith/Waterman) genetic database searches. There is a commercial product (FPGA + Software) that sells for $30k that does this. You get a 50x-100x speedup (NOT PERCENT!).
That's what we really need after Eps 1-3. Something darker. Yeah.
Symantec (Norton) was a good company in the DOS days. They had some powerful, useful tools. When Windows came along, they fell in love with eye candy. They started coming out with useless junk, and started churning versions.
I got fed up when they came out with PCAnywhere 9 (should have been 8.3) that claimed to have a faster file manager. It wasn't faster. The darn thing would re-sort the whole file list as it added each file in the directory. Even local file lists were slow as a result. Did it get better with 9.2, 10, 11? No. File transfers where also prone to crash. I replaced PCAnywhere with Ultra VNC, and Ultra VNC SingleClick (Free GoToMyPC anyone?).
Shall I start in on Norton Antivirus? Oh what the heck... How about a program that can bring some machines to their knees and not others? When a user says to me: Man, my machine is slow! The first question that pops into my head is NOT "Do they have spyware?", it's "Do they have Norton Antivirus?". How 'bout a program that trashes your machine when you install another version over it, Leaves TONS of junk in your registry after an uninstall, and has no clue about new viruses (no heuristics)? I replaced Norton Antivirus with NOD32.
How about support for products they bought?
Powerquest made some dandy products like Partition Magic, and Drive Image. I owned both. I tried several times to find anything on the Symantec web site about Drive Image. Nope. The only thing was a press release saying they had bought Powerquest. No upgrade path, nothing. I tried recently to reinstall Partition Magic. There is a web registration/unlock required before you can use it. Guess what? The registering company does not recognize anything about Powerquest anymore. I had to toss Partition Magic in the trash. I replaced Partition Magic with Acronis Disk Director, and replaced Drive Image with Acronis True Image (You don't think I would buy Ghost do you?).
Symantec? Dont trust 'em. Good riddance.
I always thought that this is what the NSA was for. I have always assumed that any call or transmission that ends outside the U.S. is possibly being monitored. This includes within other countries, and between U.S. and other countries. What's the big deal here? This is just business as usual to protect the U.S. If that's not enough, we are at war (it doesn't matter if you don't like the war, it doesn't make it disappear).
Do you think the islamists only started hating the free world when W. got into office? Do you think that he just made up Sept. 11? The amount of hatred and paranoia is amazing to see. Grab your tinfoil hats and pitch forks! Run!
Those extra vertical pixels come in very handy when you are trying to remote-control a 1600x1200 screen (VNC/Remote desktop), so don't whine too much.
at a developers conference last year. He talked about how important passwords were, and how he often changed his. He then attempted to log in and do the rest of his talk...and could not remember his password. We all laughed at him.
7. Secret Prescott testing facility. :)
Add 2 GB RAM, 80GB hard drive, emergency edition processor, and OUCH!
The problem for Red Hat is they have now subjected their enterprise product to duplication efforts, thus endangering their shiny new business model.
In the past, people said:
"If I don't need/want to pay for a phone/email support contract, and have the expertise, I'll buy or download RHL, and support it myself. The RHEL 2.x product is for enterprise users. I don't need that."
Now people say:
"I need something stable like RHL (mostly) was. Fedora doesn't fill this niche. I feel abandoned by Red Hat. No way am I going to agree to a draconian license and be FORCED into buying a support contract. I guess I will just have to copy RHEL."
Oops, bad move dude.
-- Slashdot's mod system really stinks these days. Mod this up!
Some tools are freely available including source code. Example: Blast (ugly and difficult code, but you can look at it if you like).
Other tools are written by academics and tightly controlled. They freely license these tools for academic use, but redistribution is not allowed and source code is not available, Examples: Phred, Phrap, Cross-match (there are many others). These academics make a career out of writing papers about, and maintaining this software (they do need to make a living somehow). Let me tell you, I would love to get my hands on cross_match and make it run more efficiently, but I can't. The system is broken. We need a way that these authors can get credit (recognition and $), and at the same time there should be a time limit of a certain number of years that they can keep the source code secret. Maybe the NSF or USDA could just pay select authors to release their code.
The third kind of tool is one written by a commercial company, and isn't free in any way. Some of these packages don't have good free equivalents. Example: GeneSpring is used to analyze micro-array data, and is very expensive
Still waiting...
Is RHEL covered by the GPL or not? If so, is there any legal reason why someone could not re-distribute RHEL ISOs or binary updates: 1. For Free, 2. For a fee?
Gotta have those peril-sensitive sunglasses too.
My partner is my twin brother. We often code as a pair when the project is particularly difficult. The second person just watches and points out errors etc. You would be suprised at how many errors the second person catches as they are being made. We don't do it every day but there have been some horrendous projects that would have been impossible to complete without two brains. Also note that a good quality/good sized monitor is very important for this.