Don't listen to advice about wasting money on a new laptop that you will only need for one time...Get a lawyer to look your employment terms, and if he saids OK for you to do whatever you want, then do whatever you want.
Now the OP just needs to find a lawyer who charges less than the price of a cheap laptop for giving any sort of legal opinion!
Furthermore, the dreams of the past have proven dead. The hopes of the atomic age and space age have turned out to be far more difficult to achieve in reality. Instead, it now looks like the world of the future is going to be far weirder and harder to understand than than we dreamed of.
As a keen photographer myself - to me these disused areas of the city are areas of public interest - particularly the old closed down underground stations. Rather than slapping down ASBOs on people - London Transport should wake up to the potential of their sites - and turn them into museums or at least offer guided tours of these sites - open them up to the curious public to view the sites in a safe manner
They actually did this a couple of months ago in the same station the 'explorers' were arrested in:
- and let photographers take the pictures they want to take. Just stop treating photographers as potential terrorist - because that is the last thing we are!
'The Museum is also exploring the possibility of holding a photography day at the end of the year at the station. "This would be for a much smaller group of people who could use digital SLRs and other equipment. The smaller group will be much easier to manage and allow visitors to get the photographs they want whilst being able to safely get up and down the spiral staircase."'
1. However 2. Moreover 3. Furthermore 4. Indeed 5. Subsequently 6. Utilized 7. Methodology 8. Data not shown 9. Further research is warranted 10. Vajazzle
They should probably have a 'hackability' score - e.g., the tiny current version of the Apple TV is a very nice piece of hardware that's capable of much more than Apple's lockdown allows out of the box. Hack it and most of the limitations (lack of a web browser, limited media compatibility, access to non-iTunes network shares) go away:
From a reply by the author in the extremetech comments:
'In my interview with Silber, I asked her specifically about releasing the software to 3rd party developers like Cyanogenmod to include in builds of Android. Silber replied that while Ubuntu is open-source, the implementation of the platform in this way isn't. I will certainly forward your question on to them and see if there is some clarification.'
'So, Oxford has unveiled an amazing pair of sequencers. Not one which completely clears the field of everyone else, but one which will offer a host of new opportunities for genomics. Now it is up to Oxford to deliver the instruments to the field, and for Oxford and its early access sites to start pumping out data for all to evaluate. '
'Why a USB stick? "The form factor is determined by the requirements" - as there are no fluidics you don't need a big machine. There are no fluidics. "Your fluidics is a Gilson [pipette]", said [Oxford Nanopore CTO] Brown. The prototype version has an ugly battery pack attached to it but it will eventually use USB power. The USB stick is disposable. "Why do you need an instrument?" he says. We wander into the realms of sci-fi at this point. DNA molecules pass through the nanopore and nucleotide sequence is detected by the electronics. Bases are streamed - live - to your laptop as FASTQ (bases with qualities). This is where the "run until" makes sense, if you are interested in a particular gene just wait until the sequence comes out and shut it down to preserve the circuitry."
tl;dr?:
- This technology has enormous potential and looks like it could fundamentally change the way sequencing is used. Features like the long read length and lack of infrastructure required are hugely attractive.
- It isn't going to make genomes dramatically cheaper initially, promising only to be 'competitive' with existing technology (which is already down to the $3000-$5000 range per genome, and quite possibly $1000 by next year).
That may be so, but at least one highly respected technology news source is reporting that the 'browser-neutral' web may 'soon become a thing of the past', and there's a serious risk that 'the standards-compliant Web, as we know it, will die' Can this be prevented?
What ticks me off about it is the abuse of history. Fawkes (and others; Fawkes was largely the fall guy) was attempting to kill the Protestant King James I so they could install a Catholic on the throne. And an underaged Catholic at that; they would make themselves the regent, tied to the king of Spain.
Moore knows the history perfectly well. The book isn't about Guy Fawkes, it's about an anarchist who uses powerful symbols associated with Fawkes in a dystopia set centuries later, which owes much more to the politics of Britain under Margaret Thatcher than it does to historical plots against James I. By the time Moore was growing up, Guy Fawkes had become an ambiguous figure in the popular imagination; still burnt in effigy, but somehow 'remembered' with a degree of respect or even affection (especially if you weren't a fan of the government of the day). FTA:
"Jump forward 300 years, though, to the battered post-war England of the 1950s, and the saturnine insurrectionary had taken on more ambiguous connotations...When parents explained to their offspring about Guy Fawkes and his attempt to blow up Parliament, there always seemed to be an undertone of admiration in their voices, or at least there did in Northampton...While that era's children perhaps didn't see Fawkes as a hero, they certainly didn't see him as the villainous scapegoat he'd originally been intended as."
I can understand that it works that way and yet, at the same time, what prevents people from renaming the file or putting it elsewhere in order to keep a copy and yet sell it at the same time? (I'm sure the record companies made this argument)
Nothing, really. Their solution, for all the smoke and mirrors about 'revolutionary patent pending technology', sounds like it would make cheating a bit inconvenient, but far from difficult. However sophisticated their 'policing' software is, there'd be nothing to stop a user (e.g.) manually backing up their iPod to a second computer before each sale. The tracks will supposedly be wiped from the first (policed) computer, and from the iPod when it re-syncs, but not from the backup location.
If this were to come out for the ebook industry, it could help sales.
Harder to do this 'legally' for ebooks, which are still mostly DRMd, allowing the publishers to invoke laws like the DMCA to crack down on this type of service.
Of course, that brings in a lot of dependencies and extra apps that you would then need to remove manually. It's not as bad when doing this with Xfce or LXDE because they don't provide a lot of extras by themself, but KDE does.
It's much more flexible than that - e.g., if you start with the mini.iso you can choose a basic text-mode minimal installation. You can then add one of several alternative KDE bundles with a single sudo apt-get install command. The 'kde-plasma-desktop' system is pretty minimal. No Gnome, no Unity, no Kubuntu, just basic KDE on an Ubuntu base. The 'kde-standard' and 'kde-full' packages give you progressively larger standard installations, but still without the Kubuntu stuff (which is available in the 'kubuntu-desktop' package if you ever want it).
Kubuntu is not Ubuntu with KDE pasted on top.
Well, exactly. But you can have a plain Ubuntu/KDE if you prefer.
Kubuntu is not the only way to get KDE on Ubuntu. There are also full, standard and minimal KDE packages available to any Ubuntu variant from the standard repositories. Just like the equivalent Debian packages, you get a standard desktop without all the Kubuntu customisations. The same applies to Xfce and LXDE, which are also available in vanilla forms without the Xubuntu or Lubuntu tweaks or alternative packages.
The guy who successfully campaigned for the UK government to issue an official apology about the treatment of Turing (rather than a pardon) comments about this here:
"I could get behind a petition for a pardon for all those people, especially since living people are still hurt by that law, but not just for Turing. Pardoning him doesn't help the living...But even that's unnecessary...Chapter 4 of the [Protection of Freedoms Bill 2010-12 - legislation in progress and close to completion] specifically allows for the disregarding of convictions under the old law that was used against Turing. Once disregarded the law causes their convictions to be deleted. It's not quite the same thing as a pardon, but its effect is to lift the burden of a criminal record from these living men."
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Don't listen to advice about wasting money on a new laptop that you will only need for one time...Get a lawyer to look your employment terms, and if he saids OK for you to do whatever you want, then do whatever you want.
Now the OP just needs to find a lawyer who charges less than the price of a cheap laptop for giving any sort of legal opinion!
An anonymous reader writes "ESR, one of the finest engineers behind the open source movement...
ESR, is that you? /runs for cover (literally, he's a gun nut don't you know)
And also, according to his letter, 'a well-known philosopher/elder of the tribe'. I always wondered who the Elders of the Internet were:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7vf8c_it-crowd-the-internet_fun
Furthermore, the dreams of the past have proven dead. The hopes of the atomic age and space age have turned out to be far more difficult to achieve in reality. Instead, it now looks like the world of the future is going to be far weirder and harder to understand than than we dreamed of.
Sounds like a good subject for an SF story:
http://web.archive.org/web/20100526022103/http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/it/1988/1/1988_1_34.shtml
Please note that ARC is only available for iPad or Kindle...Thank you to TRSF, with ePub and Kindle formats.
Compatibility problems generally go away if you have Calibre and the appropriate DRM-stripping plugins...
But if you'd rather deal with an SF magazine that doesn't impose DRM in the first place, check out Interzone:
http://ttapress.com/interzone/
You can get it in the usual formats from Smashwords or Fictionwise:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/132535
http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/b129717/Interzone-Science-Fiction-and-Fantasy-Magazine-235/TTA-Press-Authors/?si=0
and there's a free sample issue:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/60013
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/74316
As a keen photographer myself - to me these disused areas of the city are areas of public interest - particularly the old closed down underground stations. Rather than slapping down ASBOs on people - London Transport should wake up to the potential of their sites - and turn them into museums or at least offer guided tours of these sites - open them up to the curious public to view the sites in a safe manner
They actually did this a couple of months ago in the same station the 'explorers' were arrested in:
http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2011/11/01/your-chance-to-visit-an-abandoned-tube-station/
- and let photographers take the pictures they want to take. Just stop treating photographers as potential terrorist - because that is the last thing we are!
This, it seems, is a step too far for them!:
http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/DSLRs_banned_from_Aldwych_tube_station_news_310663.html
AP and the BJP made a fuss, which has at least got TfL thinking:
http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2136431/london-underground-apologises-dslr-ban-blunder
'The Museum is also exploring the possibility of holding a photography day at the end of the year at the station. "This would be for a much smaller group of people who could use digital SLRs and other equipment. The smaller group will be much easier to manage and allow visitors to get the photographs they want whilst being able to safely get up and down the spiral staircase."'
1. However
2. Moreover
3. Furthermore
4. Indeed
5. Subsequently
6. Utilized
7. Methodology
8. Data not shown
9. Further research is warranted
10. Vajazzle
They should probably have a 'hackability' score - e.g., the tiny current version of the Apple TV is a very nice piece of hardware that's capable of much more than Apple's lockdown allows out of the box. Hack it and most of the limitations (lack of a web browser, limited media compatibility, access to non-iTunes network shares) go away:
http://www.appletvhacks.net/
From a reply by the author in the extremetech comments:
'In my interview with Silber, I asked her specifically about releasing the software to 3rd party developers like Cyanogenmod to include in builds of Android. Silber replied that while Ubuntu is open-source, the implementation of the platform in this way isn't. I will certainly forward your question on to them and see if there is some clarification.'
So the plot, apparently, thickens.
...and for balance, here's a slightly more sceptical take on the announcement:
http://www.omespeak.com/blog/?p=507
'Until ONT demonstrates actual sequencing of a more complicated genome (a microbial one at minimum), there will be a healthy degree of skepticism,'
See also:
http://omicsomics.blogspot.com/2012/02/oxford-nanopore-doesnt-disappoint.html
'So, Oxford has unveiled an amazing pair of sequencers. Not one which completely clears the field of everyone else, but one which will offer a host of new opportunities for genomics. Now it is up to Oxford to deliver the instruments to the field, and for Oxford and its early access sites to start pumping out data for all to evaluate. '
and:
http://www.bio-itworld.com/news/02/17/12/Oxford-strikes-first-in-DNA-sequencing-nanopore-wars.html
'...he nanopore war is about to start.'
For some commentary with a bit more substance than 'gizmag', see:
http://pathogenomics.bham.ac.uk/blog/2012/02/oxford-nanopore-megaton-announcement-why-do-you-need-a-machine-exclusive-interview-for-this-blog/
e.g:
'Why a USB stick? "The form factor is determined by the requirements" - as there are no fluidics you don't need a big machine. There are no fluidics. "Your fluidics is a Gilson [pipette]", said [Oxford Nanopore CTO] Brown. The prototype version has an ugly battery pack attached to it but it will eventually use USB power. The USB stick is disposable. "Why do you need an instrument?" he says. We wander into the realms of sci-fi at this point. DNA molecules pass through the nanopore and nucleotide sequence is detected by the electronics. Bases are streamed - live - to your laptop as FASTQ (bases with qualities). This is where the "run until" makes sense, if you are interested in a particular gene just wait until the sequence comes out and shut it down to preserve the circuitry."
tl;dr?:
- This technology has enormous potential and looks like it could fundamentally change the way sequencing is used. Features like the long read length and lack of infrastructure required are hugely attractive.
- It isn't going to make genomes dramatically cheaper initially, promising only to be 'competitive' with existing technology (which is already down to the $3000-$5000 range per genome, and quite possibly $1000 by next year).
Sadly, I'm afraid it happened. For example, the web is now so fragmented that many browsers, including yours, do not correctly parse the tag.
The InfoWorld article is just sensationalism.
That may be so, but at least one highly respected technology news source is reporting that the 'browser-neutral' web may 'soon become a thing of the past', and there's a serious risk that 'the standards-compliant Web, as we know it, will die' Can this be prevented?
This quite cool: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haidinger's_brush
...the post also revealed that the iPad 3 will be approximately 1 mm thicker than its predecessor to house Apple's upgraded components
They'd never have got that one past Steve.
Life may have many definitions but no meaning at all.
I think Sartre and George Lucas said it best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-uQWNd540I
What ticks me off about it is the abuse of history. Fawkes (and others; Fawkes was largely the fall guy) was attempting to kill the Protestant King James I so they could install a Catholic on the throne. And an underaged Catholic at that; they would make themselves the regent, tied to the king of Spain.
Moore knows the history perfectly well. The book isn't about Guy Fawkes, it's about an anarchist who uses powerful symbols associated with Fawkes in a dystopia set centuries later, which owes much more to the politics of Britain under Margaret Thatcher than it does to historical plots against James I. By the time Moore was growing up, Guy Fawkes had become an ambiguous figure in the popular imagination; still burnt in effigy, but somehow 'remembered' with a degree of respect or even affection (especially if you weren't a fan of the government of the day). FTA:
"Jump forward 300 years, though, to the battered post-war England of the 1950s, and the saturnine insurrectionary had taken on more ambiguous connotations...When parents explained to their offspring about Guy Fawkes and his attempt to blow up Parliament, there always seemed to be an undertone of admiration in their voices, or at least there did in Northampton...While that era's children perhaps didn't see Fawkes as a hero, they certainly didn't see him as the villainous scapegoat he'd originally been intended as."
I can understand that it works that way and yet, at the same time, what prevents people from renaming the file or putting it elsewhere in order to keep a copy and yet sell it at the same time? (I'm sure the record companies made this argument)
Nothing, really. Their solution, for all the smoke and mirrors about 'revolutionary patent pending technology', sounds like it would make cheating a bit inconvenient, but far from difficult. However sophisticated their 'policing' software is, there'd be nothing to stop a user (e.g.) manually backing up their iPod to a second computer before each sale. The tracks will supposedly be wiped from the first (policed) computer, and from the iPod when it re-syncs, but not from the backup location.
If this were to come out for the ebook industry, it could help sales.
Harder to do this 'legally' for ebooks, which are still mostly DRMd, allowing the publishers to invoke laws like the DMCA to crack down on this type of service.
Of course, that brings in a lot of dependencies and extra apps that you would then need to remove manually. It's not as bad when doing this with Xfce or LXDE because they don't provide a lot of extras by themself, but KDE does.
It's much more flexible than that - e.g., if you start with the mini.iso you can choose a basic text-mode minimal installation. You can then add one of several alternative KDE bundles with a single sudo apt-get install command. The 'kde-plasma-desktop' system is pretty minimal. No Gnome, no Unity, no Kubuntu, just basic KDE on an Ubuntu base. The 'kde-standard' and 'kde-full' packages give you progressively larger standard installations, but still without the Kubuntu stuff (which is available in the 'kubuntu-desktop' package if you ever want it).
Kubuntu is not Ubuntu with KDE pasted on top.
Well, exactly. But you can have a plain Ubuntu/KDE if you prefer.
But I don't like Unity. How do I get Ubuntu with the original Desktop?
http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/download#ubuntu
http://mate-desktop.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAT%C3%89_(desktop_environment)
You could use debian.
You could use Ubuntu.
Kubuntu is not the only way to get KDE on Ubuntu. There are also full, standard and minimal KDE packages available to any Ubuntu variant from the standard repositories. Just like the equivalent Debian packages, you get a standard desktop without all the Kubuntu customisations. The same applies to Xfce and LXDE, which are also available in vanilla forms without the Xubuntu or Lubuntu tweaks or alternative packages.
The guy who successfully campaigned for the UK government to issue an official apology about the treatment of Turing (rather than a pardon) comments about this here:
http://blog.jgc.org/2011/11/why-im-not-supporting-campaign-for.html
"I could get behind a petition for a pardon for all those people, especially since living people are still hurt by that law, but not just for Turing. Pardoning him doesn't help the living...But even that's unnecessary...Chapter 4 of the [Protection of Freedoms Bill 2010-12 - legislation in progress and close to completion] specifically allows for the disregarding of convictions under the old law that was used against Turing. Once disregarded the law causes their convictions to be deleted. It's not quite the same thing as a pardon, but its effect is to lift the burden of a criminal record from these living men."
Free? That's a clear violation of Edison's EULA!:
http://boingboing.net/2009/01/13/thomas-edisons-crapp.html
But has there really been that much real effort in the PERL community?
Yes:
http://www.modernperlbooks.com/
http://perl-begin.org/tutorials/modern-perl/
Call Dustin Hoffman and tell him Gary Sinese is immune
It's the supporting cast you have to worry about. From the Washington Post article:
"Fears of bad actors spreading a mutant, highly transmissible virus suffuse the three-page note published by the board."
So what the hell does "Slackware, still the best after all these years" tells me? Nothing at all. Why is it best? What do I gain by using Slackware?
You get Slack. Sounds like you could use some.