There are all sorts of great reasons to learn foreign languages (travel, business, enjoyment, meeting college requirements). But for doing it for your research isn't a good reason, unless you're interested in doing a research stint abroad (which well you might if you're interested in supercomputing or botnets).
Do the people that make laws have absolutely ANY idea how the internet works and is used?
Yes, they do. They're not interested in enforcing this in general, but if you pull a stupid, nasty stunt that turns out worse than you'd imagined and they're under public pressure to do something to you (as is the case here), they have something in their pockets with which to charge you.
The paper is here, and is certainly a reviewed article. You seem so worked up about this, I hesitate to note that there's a second DNA synthesis paper in the same issue...
I'm going read the in-press papers about the total synthesis of snow flea antifreeze protein instead, though.
The community will still need to work on this, if a true competitor to twitter is to be had. It is lacking APIs, and SMS integration.
I've never used Twitter so could be completely wrong about this, but: isn't SMS integration the entire freaking point of Twitter? And aren't APIs also kind of important, even more so than imposing a Creative Commons license on all traffic? (I know, I know, Shakespeare could never have written his plays if the Twitter traffic from previous generations hadn't been available for him to adapt.)
Anyway, if I'm wrong, at least I'm still less useless than all the goofballs who know nothing about Twitter except that stupid Penny Arcade cartoon but still feel compelled to repeatedly reference that stupid Penny Arcade cartoon.
I read a study once that said that yellow text on a blue background was easiest on the eyes, and I've been using this for text-only frames in PowerPoints ever since.
My wife used to use that because she was in a department at UCLA that required the use of the school colors in public presentations. Personally I found it garish, but at least she wasn't at USC or Oregon State.
In fairness, the blurb here comes straight from the godawful UPenn press release, which refers to "minute, naturally occurring proteins called zinc fingers". The "minute" is also odd.
How long this will last is really up in the air though, HIV and all other RNA viruses evolve very quickly.
That doesn't seem to be a problem with the naturally-occurring CCR5 variant, though.
The author is grateful to J.-P. Gabardo, L. de Branges, J. Vaaler, B. Conrey, and D. Cardon who have obtained academic positions in that order for him during his difficult times of finding a job.
Sounds about par for the course for academic hiring, and it sounds like he's still pretty traumatized from it. I hope this works out for him and he can go around flipping off all the hiring committees who turned him down.
Also, database work needs a somewhat different thought process than programming, and people who have trouble with one often do much better with the other. (Which isn't to say that there aren't plenty of people who are good at both, or at neither.)
I'm not sure why anyone would mod this Insightful when it's nothing of the sort and may be just a troll...
1) You're assuming that all or almost all of Red Hat's support revenue is for desktops, which is not in my experience anywhere near true. (I'd welcome numbers if you have them, though.)
2) Linspire and Xandros are both consumer oriented, which has nothing to do with where Red Hat makes what desktop support revenue they do have.
You mean to tell me that Amazon.com and iTunes Store would be more successful if they only carried the most popular 1% of their stock?
I'm not sure where you got 1% from. The claim is that they'd be more successful with the top 10% than the bottom 90%. (Assuming customers would go elsewhere for the top 10% or just not buy at all, instead of switching.)
It sounds like the Internet and other technologies that support globalization and scale favor the mega-retailers on the one hand and the mini-niches on the other, and that both are gaining ground at the expense of the folks in the middle, with the megas grabbing more than the minis.
Seems reasonable to me. I get all my CDs either from CDBaby or artists own sites, or from Amazon. It's been at least a decade since I set foot in a "record store" with bongs under the counter and some pompous indie snob behind it.
Mitch Kapor, founder of the Lotus Corporation, has a different view: 'Claims by Microsoft that people were buying the software because it was good are pretty self-serving. I'd like to smoke what he's smoking.
I'd be afraid to smoke what they apparently put in the crack pipes at Lotus, at least in the Notes division.
Since I can't read the article, I'll speculate wildly. I've often wondered why chlorophyll isn't black for maximum sunlight absorption.
I'd imagine that the range of structures that can produce chlorophyll-like function is constrained, and that such structures with broader absorption either aren't possible or aren't evolutionarily reachable.
I don't install things or the whole OS often enough for it to make a difference.
No, but speed of checking for updates certainly matters to me (I have dial-up at home, so can't just script it) and the extreme slowness of yum (which may well have been fixed by now) was one of the things that drove me off CentOS.
As a bicycle commuter, my experience has been exactly what's reported here: lousy driving is a function of the quantity and vehemence of bumper stickers, not of the precise content.
The Hummer covered in American flags and ribbon magnets for every armed service (because, y'know, the driver was in the Army, Marines and Air Force simultaneously) and the Forester with the "SMASH FAITH-BASED FASCISM" and "HOW MANY IRAQIS PER GALLON" stickers (because, y'know, Subarus burn rage, not gasoline like those awful SUVs) are equally likely to make a right turn through the bike lane without looking.
The combination of the metric system and labeling papers by mass per area makes this unfairly easy! I won't frighten you with the details of how to make that calculation for paper sized in inches, counted in reams and labeled in units of pounds per 500 pages of the parent sheet...
Anyway, I'd looked in our copy room and seen that we use 75 g/m^2 (aka "20 lb") which is why your A4 count seemed low. What Amazon uses, I have no idea. Maybe theodp can look into it!
I think your estimate is a little low for A4, but this is US legal-sized so it cancels out. By my numbers, it's 7-8 reams of paper, so ~3800 pages, not even close to a full carton of paper.
That's a whole lot of paper to wade through, especially if it's in legalese rather than English.
Go down to Legal and ask them if they think that's "burying" the recipient, particularly in a defense of your company's key patent. Believe me, if CmdrTaco ran a story every time a company submitted a legal filing OMG! THOUSANDS!!!! of pages long, there wouldn't be much space left for news about new Nvidia cards.
1) Even 200 kg of documents isn't that much, in a case like this.
2) If you look at the "pledge" link, Bezos raises some ideas for patent reform and notes that if implemented it would cut the workload at the Patent Office. There's no "pledge" to send fewer boxes of paper in a reexamination. I don't usually notice who says what, but this "theodp" guy sticks in my head because all his (frequent) submissions are like this: obsessive complaining about Amazon, with multiple links that have little or nothing to do with he's claiming they're about.
Incidentally, it seems like the June 2nd submission that prompts this round is 15 lousy pages long, no?
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I can't stand the use (utilization) of "utilize" instead of the simpler, more correct "use".
Why wait for them? Just start a blog and report it as "unconfirmed but well sourced"! You can throw in John Deere and Boeing while you're at it.
There are all sorts of great reasons to learn foreign languages (travel, business, enjoyment, meeting college requirements). But for doing it for your research isn't a good reason, unless you're interested in doing a research stint abroad (which well you might if you're interested in supercomputing or botnets).
Agreed. I wasn't defending this prosecution, just explaining it.
Yes, they do. They're not interested in enforcing this in general, but if you pull a stupid, nasty stunt that turns out worse than you'd imagined and they're under public pressure to do something to you (as is the case here), they have something in their pockets with which to charge you.
I'm going read the in-press papers about the total synthesis of snow flea antifreeze protein instead, though.
Given the journal it's in, there must be something notable about this work. I had the same reaction as you, though.
I've never used Twitter so could be completely wrong about this, but: isn't SMS integration the entire freaking point of Twitter? And aren't APIs also kind of important, even more so than imposing a Creative Commons license on all traffic? (I know, I know, Shakespeare could never have written his plays if the Twitter traffic from previous generations hadn't been available for him to adapt.)
Anyway, if I'm wrong, at least I'm still less useless than all the goofballs who know nothing about Twitter except that stupid Penny Arcade cartoon but still feel compelled to repeatedly reference that stupid Penny Arcade cartoon.
My wife used to use that because she was in a department at UCLA that required the use of the school colors in public presentations. Personally I found it garish, but at least she wasn't at USC or Oregon State.
How long this will last is really up in the air though, HIV and all other RNA viruses evolve very quickly.
That doesn't seem to be a problem with the naturally-occurring CCR5 variant, though.
Sounds about par for the course for academic hiring, and it sounds like he's still pretty traumatized from it. I hope this works out for him and he can go around flipping off all the hiring committees who turned him down.
Hey, someone succeeded in getting you to use the at-least-as-awful "mashup"!
Also, database work needs a somewhat different thought process than programming, and people who have trouble with one often do much better with the other. (Which isn't to say that there aren't plenty of people who are good at both, or at neither.)
1) You're assuming that all or almost all of Red Hat's support revenue is for desktops, which is not in my experience anywhere near true. (I'd welcome numbers if you have them, though.)
2) Linspire and Xandros are both consumer oriented, which has nothing to do with where Red Hat makes what desktop support revenue they do have.
I'm not sure where you got 1% from. The claim is that they'd be more successful with the top 10% than the bottom 90%. (Assuming customers would go elsewhere for the top 10% or just not buy at all, instead of switching.)
Seems reasonable to me. I get all my CDs either from CDBaby or artists own sites, or from Amazon. It's been at least a decade since I set foot in a "record store" with bongs under the counter and some pompous indie snob behind it.
In fact, the article specifically states:
I agree with you: imbecilic story, even if the conclusion is actually true.I'd be afraid to smoke what they apparently put in the crack pipes at Lotus, at least in the Notes division.
I'd imagine that the range of structures that can produce chlorophyll-like function is constrained, and that such structures with broader absorption either aren't possible or aren't evolutionarily reachable.
No, but speed of checking for updates certainly matters to me (I have dial-up at home, so can't just script it) and the extreme slowness of yum (which may well have been fixed by now) was one of the things that drove me off CentOS.
Even more to the point, the "data" here are a handful of self-selected, self-reported anonymous reports, and therefore completely meaningless.
The Hummer covered in American flags and ribbon magnets for every armed service (because, y'know, the driver was in the Army, Marines and Air Force simultaneously) and the Forester with the "SMASH FAITH-BASED FASCISM" and "HOW MANY IRAQIS PER GALLON" stickers (because, y'know, Subarus burn rage, not gasoline like those awful SUVs) are equally likely to make a right turn through the bike lane without looking.
Anyway, I'd looked in our copy room and seen that we use 75 g/m^2 (aka "20 lb") which is why your A4 count seemed low. What Amazon uses, I have no idea. Maybe theodp can look into it!
That's a whole lot of paper to wade through, especially if it's in legalese rather than English.
Go down to Legal and ask them if they think that's "burying" the recipient, particularly in a defense of your company's key patent. Believe me, if CmdrTaco ran a story every time a company submitted a legal filing OMG! THOUSANDS!!!! of pages long, there wouldn't be much space left for news about new Nvidia cards.
2) If you look at the "pledge" link, Bezos raises some ideas for patent reform and notes that if implemented it would cut the workload at the Patent Office. There's no "pledge" to send fewer boxes of paper in a reexamination. I don't usually notice who says what, but this "theodp" guy sticks in my head because all his (frequent) submissions are like this: obsessive complaining about Amazon, with multiple links that have little or nothing to do with he's claiming they're about.
Incidentally, it seems like the June 2nd submission that prompts this round is 15 lousy pages long, no?