Email is not a store for information - it's a means of communication. I admit that I also archive email (well since Gmail opened anyway) but if someone emails me a phone number - it goes in the address book, if I get emailed a solution to a problem, it goes in a wiki. Email has not been easily tagged/searchable till recently - most clients are still terrible!
I do not understand this mentality of people who use email as a 'to do list' or 'archive of information'. It excels at neither of these.
OS X is the 'tough love' that Linux needs. I use Linux on the server (although I have a rack of Xserves too) and there's a reason I am happy with it there (unlike OS X).
On the desktop? Well I use a Mac. And I don't think I will ever go back (in the interests of fairness this is being posted from my 'Games and things' XP laptop).
I love the fact Linux is dynamic, and open source. I really do. I don't like the fact that it doesn't seem to 'evolve'. The fragementation of WM's, distro's etc. never actually seems to weed things out. What we never end up with is a 'de facto' solution.
People argue that choice is good. I'm sure it is. But the reason that Windows and OS X still beat Linux on the desktop experience is because they are standardised - there just aren't alternatives. And OS X is a better 'desktop Unix', so as a person who wants that, where else am I meant to go? If nothing else KDE 4 would drive me away... yuck.
I did use Linux on the desktop. For several years. I only tried OS X on a whim.
I don't hate Linux, but I don't think I'm alone. Go to a confernce these days (I'm an academic) and I used to see people booting into myriad versions of Linux as they opened their laptops. These people are now in a minority, as the Apple logo is raised in unison at the beginning of any talk.
um... neither of those are viruses? VRE and MRSA are bacterial infections. And yes bacteria can survive by various mechanisms in places. Virsuses, less so.
Seeing this is largely unverified by anyone outside of an Italian economics magazine, I think nit picking is quite frankly the proper and correct thing to do.
World changing snakeoil^H^H^H^H^H^H^H experiment indeed.
Yes it was Slackware that dragged me away from Yggdrasil Linux, before I decided that Red Hat was the way to go. Then after Fedora was released I jumped to Debian, where my heart lay for several years until I decided Ubuntu was the way forward:)
Guess I'm a bit of a distro whore:) Tried Mandrake and SUSE along the way too, but never got along with them. I guess Slackware is one of the most venerable surviving distributions?
I think it's about time people got over the semantics of the word 'hacker'. Given that 'crackers' don't call themselves 'crackers' they call themselves 'hackers' and they call what they do 'hacking', the word has *CHANGED ITS MEANING*. This is not uncommon for languages. Really. Just look at words like 'gay' for instance or even 'computer'. Go and find the original definition of that one!
Get over the semantic drift already, we're not all mired in some rose-spectacled view of the technoutopia where you have to have hacked solenoids under a model railway at MIT in order to qualify for the term.
Without you having any idea of what his dataset is, how can you suggest that he doesn't need that amount of RAM? I have a machine in one of my racks with 32GB RAM set aside for when the machines with 8GB RAM and however many GB of swap just don't hack it anymore with our datasets in MATLAB. I'm a bioinformatician/computational biologist, and compared to some of the sciences I don't think our datasets are 'large' but they sometimes certainly require large amounts of memory to process.
They give you a "Gene Explorer" that allows you to do a search in your genome to find out if you have a certain gene (e.g., you just heard on the news that Gene XYZ has been linked to Alzheimer's Disease)."
If this is your approach genetic diagnostics, then you're pretty much going to find out that you have every 'disease gene' going..
My girlfriend just said 'When we win the lottery, we're having that in our house'. She would take NO convinving at all! Mind you she's also ticking off the days until Star Trek: Online starts too..
This article was junk, as you point out the state of play 10 years ago was already way ahead of this.
I always assumed lack of progress was caused by the kiddies discovering that a large install base of Windows machines was more profitable than the odd *nix machine that took a bit of work to get into.
Look, you just cited 2 unscientific sources there - the BBC and the Guardian, who themselves are quoting from an unpublished study. What I cited were a range of published scientific reports (I'm sure you know what peer review is, so if you think these are discredited you should be able to provide me of evidence to this).
1 of those was from 2004 and another was 2006. This is not out of date information here, you've just focused on the 1 study. It's also maybe not occurred to you that NAS is is always going to use any 'higher prevalence' figure they can lay their hands on to support their cause.
"This little gem" you quote doesn't support your figures. Neither do the NAS figures.
They're listing on the NAS page prevalences of 77-116:10000 for ALL autistic spectrum disorders (of which Asperger's is a subset). The only figure I took umbrage with was your Asperger's prevalence figure which was ridiculously high, even by the sources you now quote. I'm not sure you appreciate the difference between the prevalence of Asperger's and that of Autistic Spectrum Disorders, which is what both NAS and The Guardian are talking about.
You can be annoyed all you like, but it wont make you correct.
I don't think you need to jail them. A fine should do, deducted from whatever your PAYE equivalent is. Or removed directly from your benefits.
I used to not vote due to apathy. A lot of people had a go at me with the 'if you don't vote you can't complain' line. I still have no truck with that, I will complain when I like;)
I vote now, even though my vote is always against the mainstream, even though my vote means nothing and does nothing to change my local or national democracy. But I vote to make sure that when the returns come in, there's another person registered and voted to show they are desperately unhappy with how things are run.
Practically everyone I know is running Beryl as their WM. I'm staring at it right now as I type. I couldn't however for a moment, and nor would any of my colleagues, suggest that it is 'stable'.
Yes it 'works' for sure but please don't consider 'stable' to mean 'I don't have any trouble with it'.
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I like the fact you think we might not already have considered that possibility:
http://www.genesynthesisconsor...
Altavista was that bad? I mean I grew up with Veronica and WAIS. I do appreciate that Google came out on top, but Altavista rocked for a while :)
"But Google solutions tend to at least support established open standards."
Oh really?. You must have a new definition of 'standards'.
Email, you're doing it wrong.
Email is not a store for information - it's a means of communication. I admit that I also archive email (well since Gmail opened anyway) but if someone emails me a phone number - it goes in the address book, if I get emailed a solution to a problem, it goes in a wiki. Email has not been easily tagged/searchable till recently - most clients are still terrible!
I do not understand this mentality of people who use email as a 'to do list' or 'archive of information'. It excels at neither of these.
OS X is the 'tough love' that Linux needs. I use Linux on the server (although I have a rack of Xserves too) and there's a reason I am happy with it there (unlike OS X).
On the desktop? Well I use a Mac. And I don't think I will ever go back (in the interests of fairness this is being posted from my 'Games and things' XP laptop).
I love the fact Linux is dynamic, and open source. I really do. I don't like the fact that it doesn't seem to 'evolve'. The fragementation of WM's, distro's etc. never actually seems to weed things out. What we never end up with is a 'de facto' solution.
People argue that choice is good. I'm sure it is. But the reason that Windows and OS X still beat Linux on the desktop experience is because they are standardised - there just aren't alternatives. And OS X is a better 'desktop Unix', so as a person who wants that, where else am I meant to go? If nothing else KDE 4 would drive me away... yuck.
I did use Linux on the desktop. For several years. I only tried OS X on a whim.
I don't hate Linux, but I don't think I'm alone. Go to a confernce these days (I'm an academic) and I used to see people booting into myriad versions of Linux as they opened their laptops. These people are now in a minority, as the Apple logo is raised in unison at the beginning of any talk.
Fanboy? Maybe.
um... neither of those are viruses? VRE and MRSA are bacterial infections. And yes bacteria can survive by various mechanisms in places. Virsuses, less so.
Seeing this is largely unverified by anyone outside of an Italian economics magazine, I think nit picking is quite frankly the proper and correct thing to do.
World changing snakeoil^H^H^H^H^H^H^H experiment indeed.
Yes it was Slackware that dragged me away from Yggdrasil Linux, before I decided that Red Hat was the way to go. Then after Fedora was released I jumped to Debian, where my heart lay for several years until I decided Ubuntu was the way forward :)
:) Tried Mandrake and SUSE along the way too, but never got along with them. I guess Slackware is one of the most venerable surviving distributions?
Guess I'm a bit of a distro whore
I think it's about time people got over the semantics of the word 'hacker'. Given that 'crackers' don't call themselves 'crackers' they call themselves 'hackers' and they call what they do 'hacking', the word has *CHANGED ITS MEANING*. This is not uncommon for languages. Really. Just look at words like 'gay' for instance or even 'computer'. Go and find the original definition of that one!
Get over the semantic drift already, we're not all mired in some rose-spectacled view of the technoutopia where you have to have hacked solenoids under a model railway at MIT in order to qualify for the term.
Without you having any idea of what his dataset is, how can you suggest that he doesn't need that amount of RAM? I have a machine in one of my racks with 32GB RAM set aside for when the machines with 8GB RAM and however many GB of swap just don't hack it anymore with our datasets in MATLAB. I'm a bioinformatician/computational biologist, and compared to some of the sciences I don't think our datasets are 'large' but they sometimes certainly require large amounts of memory to process.
Wasn't toad.com one of the machines that Mitnick used to haxx0r up Tsutomu Shimomura?
Certainly rings a bell anyway..
They give you a "Gene Explorer" that allows you to do a search in your genome to find out if you have a certain gene (e.g., you just heard on the news that Gene XYZ has been linked to Alzheimer's Disease)."
If this is your approach genetic diagnostics, then you're pretty much going to find out that you have every 'disease gene' going..
My girlfriend just said 'When we win the lottery, we're having that in our house'. She would take NO convinving at all! Mind you she's also ticking off the days until Star Trek: Online starts too..
You are teh late my friend :)
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This article was junk, as you point out the state of play 10 years ago was already way ahead of this.
I always assumed lack of progress was caused by the kiddies discovering that a large install base of Windows machines was more profitable than the odd *nix machine that took a bit of work to get into.
feh.
Jolly good read sir, excellent post.
"sudo make me a sandwich" I think you mean :)
Look, you just cited 2 unscientific sources there - the BBC and the Guardian, who themselves are quoting from an unpublished study. What I cited were a range of published scientific reports (I'm sure you know what peer review is, so if you think these are discredited you should be able to provide me of evidence to this).
1 of those was from 2004 and another was 2006. This is not out of date information here, you've just focused on the 1 study. It's also maybe not occurred to you that NAS is is always going to use any 'higher prevalence' figure they can lay their hands on to support their cause.
"This little gem" you quote doesn't support your figures. Neither do the NAS figures.
They're listing on the NAS page prevalences of 77-116:10000 for ALL autistic spectrum disorders (of which Asperger's is a subset). The only figure I took umbrage with was your Asperger's prevalence figure which was ridiculously high, even by the sources you now quote. I'm not sure you appreciate the difference between the prevalence of Asperger's and that of Autistic Spectrum Disorders, which is what both NAS and The Guardian are talking about.
You can be annoyed all you like, but it wont make you correct.
1 in 56?
Don't be ridiculous. Where have you got this figure from?
Gillberg et al 9:10000
Lauritsen et al 4.7:10000
Ehlers et al 36:10000
They are European figures (mostly Scandinavian)
In the UK?
57:10000 and that's Autistic Spectrum disorders *including* Asperger's.
Even the National Autistic Society figures only suggest 36:10000
So I'd love to know where your 'reported' figure comes from.
Dan
(NT partner of AS girlfriend)
Nematodes are bacteria?
I must have slipped into an universe with an alternate taxonomy...
Amen to that.
;)
I don't think you need to jail them. A fine should do, deducted from whatever your PAYE equivalent is. Or removed directly from your benefits.
I used to not vote due to apathy. A lot of people had a go at me with the 'if you don't vote you can't complain' line. I still have no truck with that, I will complain when I like
I vote now, even though my vote is always against the mainstream, even though my vote means nothing and does nothing to change my local or national democracy. But I vote to make sure that when the returns come in, there's another person registered and voted to show they are desperately unhappy with how things are run.
Practically everyone I know is running Beryl as their WM. I'm staring at it right now as I type. I couldn't however for a moment, and nor would any of my colleagues, suggest that it is 'stable'.
Yes it 'works' for sure but please don't consider 'stable' to mean 'I don't have any trouble with it'.
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:)
has served me well many times that one
Unresponsive for a couple of minutes whilst it loads and subsequently displays.
And that's on my G4 Powerbook with 1Gb of RAM. My system is fine.. nice troll!
Really, that is *not* a helpful analogy ;)