Yeah right, that doesn't distract you from driving at all. Idiot. I hope you stop this practice before you smear some poor pedestrian over your windscreen. People like you make me sick.
I'm not normally one to rag on Slashdot, hell I spend enough of my time here, but this is article is just a waste of everyones time. Overly long, completely uninteresting. There's levels of geek I'm prepared to admire, and levels of obsession about minute details that I find repugnant.
A few points - why the hell would you want a kb that can't be used in certain positions? A triumph of what over what here? Money over common sense springs to mind..
I still don't get bluetooth equipment let alone RF to be honest. I'd really hate to be at a LAN party and watch as my mouse and/or keyboard goes down due to a lack of batteries.
People buying these things have been suckered, big time. For the price of a lack of cable you pay extra and then pay for extras on top? You're the capitalist dream.. seriously.
The point about wireless, really, is wireless connectivity. It's nice to be able to open my laptop all around my campus and log into the wireless network and not worry about where the nearest ethernet jack is. But why do I ever want to use my keyboard or mouse anywhere other than in the immediate proximity of my bloody PC? If I'm going to be that obsessed with no wires I'd just use the laptop *all the time*. No wires here. Oh except the power cord. Make that wireless and I will be impressed.
And yes the immediate slew of 'well it's useful for my media centre' posts that defend this kind of technology - just stand up for once in your sofa ridden lives to press a button. It won't kill you.
I cut down on the wiring I needed. It's called a KVM switch.
God now I feel I'm getting old, getting dissolusioned with the state of technology today...
I do believe that is the first comment I've read on Slashdot in years that actually made me laugh out loud. Since I have no mod points all I can say is Slashcrap++ and thanks;)
They say that if you put a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will leap out right away to escape the danger. But, if you put a frog in a kettle that is filled with water that is cool and pleasant, and then you gradually heat the kettle until it starts boiling, the frog will not become aware of the threat until it is too late. The frog's survival instincts are geared towards detecting sudden changes.
Err from TFS - "Thirty billion base pairs from the sequences of humans, mice, and rats that were available". So it's 3 organisms not 1. So that's lets say 9 billion for good measure. Lets say they also deposit their reads, contigs etc. independently they could well be hitting 30 billion base pairs couldn't they?
well, one of the few times on/. I wish I had some mod points to give rather than my usual tactic of weeding out trolls in a new topic.
I guess I've learned the lessons above, but the hard way. Even this week I lost email in a botched pop3->imap changeover, and had to go back to the source for an email (10MB of attachments and all) to get back to where I was.
Email is a great tool, but dreadful for those of us who prevaricate. I've spent the day firefighting my inbox (well to be honest a day and a half). There's a definite point where more responsibilty means more email and blocking out time to answer them is far more productive than sitting there watching the new mail icon and answering email whilst youre in the middle of something else.
Your post is still one of the most informative I've seen on slashdot. This may seem trivial to those who have been brought up in the business world, but I'm a scientist whose role has changed.. no one bothered to tell me my working practices had to as well..
Which techinical backwater do you live in? If you think landline technology hasn't changed since Bell, you haven't been near an exchange in many a long year;)
I'm still not sure how this would be any more high throughput than RFLP, SSCP, microarray or Taqman assay (or even straight sequencing!) for SNPs/mutation screening.. I mean you'd have the problem of separating out the fragments of DNA first to get exactly the one you wanted in order to weigh it individually, make sure it was completely uncontaminated with protein.. that doesn't appear to me to lend itself to high-throughput techniques.
There are of course loads of biological uses for this kind of technology. Also this story was run yesterday on Technocrat, which has a link to the BBC coverage
"Yes you can use input (we googled stuff), when you enter a textbox and press X the PSP pops up the Keyboard API (remember there's alot of API to be taken advantage of with the PSP). After that its as simple as any other input on the PSP."
And I'd love it if you could post a link to the source you used to get the KDC running - this is my current cause of woe. And I thought my DNS setup was correct (after much fiddling:)). I've tried the "bring it up by hand" route, but not one that has worked for me yet!
It's currently driving me nuts. I have a 18 node OS X Server cluster. My background is Solaris and Linux, and this GUI driven stuff drives me nuts with OS X server. I'm sure it's just a "getting to know you" phase with the OS, but I haven't been able to hit the ground running with it. Major issue so far? DNS information leaking off the DHCP server on a cluster facing interface to the LAN facing interface and promptly bringing all the Windows clients on the network to a grinding halt that request a DNS server allocation via DHCP. That got me disconnected from the network as you can expect;)
I might get this book it sounds just what I need. OpenDirectory is not as simple as it likes to make out...
NCBI's taxonomy is widely regarded to be.. well suspect by people working in the taxonomy field. In fact there is NO common taxonomy system, contrary to popular belief. Like many other areas of science it is beset with individuals who *talk* co-operation and fail to do it.
I have seen taxonmy comparisons from various sources and NCBI's is by no means definitive.
You wont get funding for non-UK citizens from UK Research Councils (at least not the ones I'm familiar with). We can't even give our Irish PhD student a stipend, let alone an Indian one..
Thanks for the reminder why I don't bother reading peoples blogs. That nerdling magazines was awful too. I got 4 pages into one of the issues about a "tour of Europe" to realise that this Tania, is just another self-obsessed, self-promoting, intellectually challenged blogger.
With regards to the concurrently running poll - "What will kill the internet?" it's a shame "Blogging" isn't one of the options.
Mod me troll, I really do have karma to burn, but this article really isn't news for nerds. And yes I did even bother to RTFA. The bits which weren't simply filled with comments like "woo"
Slashdot Mirror
oh dear oh dear, who better eat there hat now! :)
Yeah right, that doesn't distract you from driving at all. Idiot. I hope you stop this practice before you smear some poor pedestrian over your windscreen. People like you make me sick.
I'm not normally one to rag on Slashdot, hell I spend enough of my time here, but this is article is just a waste of everyones time. Overly long, completely uninteresting. There's levels of geek I'm prepared to admire, and levels of obsession about minute details that I find repugnant.
A few points - why the hell would you want a kb that can't be used in certain positions? A triumph of what over what here? Money over common sense springs to mind..
I still don't get bluetooth equipment let alone RF to be honest. I'd really hate to be at a LAN party and watch as my mouse and/or keyboard goes down due to a lack of batteries.
People buying these things have been suckered, big time. For the price of a lack of cable you pay extra and then pay for extras on top? You're the capitalist dream.. seriously.
The point about wireless, really, is wireless connectivity. It's nice to be able to open my laptop all around my campus and log into the wireless network and not worry about where the nearest ethernet jack is. But why do I ever want to use my keyboard or mouse anywhere other than in the immediate proximity of my bloody PC? If I'm going to be that obsessed with no wires I'd just use the laptop *all the time*. No wires here. Oh except the power cord. Make that wireless and I will be impressed.
And yes the immediate slew of 'well it's useful for my media centre' posts that defend this kind of technology - just stand up for once in your sofa ridden lives to press a button. It won't kill you.
I cut down on the wiring I needed. It's called a KVM switch.
God now I feel I'm getting old, getting dissolusioned with the state of technology today...
I do believe that is the first comment I've read on Slashdot in years that actually made me laugh out loud. Since I have no mod points all I can say is Slashcrap++ and thanks ;)
Hot air?
Ah.. enlightenment :
They say that if you put a frog into a pot of boiling water, it will leap out right away to escape the danger.
But, if you put a frog in a kettle that is filled with water that is cool and pleasant, and then you gradually heat the kettle until it starts boiling, the frog will not become aware of the threat until it is too late.
The frog's survival instincts are geared towards detecting sudden changes.
As a Limey myself I have to admit I hadn't the faintest idea what that referred to, Google is similarly unhelpful on this topic.
Err from TFS - "Thirty billion base pairs from the sequences of humans, mice, and rats that were available". So it's 3 organisms not 1. So that's lets say 9 billion for good measure. Lets say they also deposit their reads, contigs etc. independently they could well be hitting 30 billion base pairs couldn't they?
Bionerd indeed.
well, one of the few times on /. I wish I had some mod points to give rather than my usual tactic of weeding out trolls in a new topic.
I guess I've learned the lessons above, but the hard way. Even this week I lost email in a botched pop3->imap changeover, and had to go back to the source for an email (10MB of attachments and all) to get back to where I was.
Email is a great tool, but dreadful for those of us who prevaricate. I've spent the day firefighting my inbox (well to be honest a day and a half). There's a definite point where more responsibilty means more email and blocking out time to answer them is far more productive than sitting there watching the new mail icon and answering email whilst youre in the middle of something else.
Your post is still one of the most informative I've seen on slashdot. This may seem trivial to those who have been brought up in the business world, but I'm a scientist whose role has changed.. no one bothered to tell me my working practices had to as well..
Which techinical backwater do you live in? If you think landline technology hasn't changed since Bell, you haven't been near an exchange in many a long year ;)
medics will have a hard time diagnosing Parkinsons..
I love the way the counter on Gmails home page is slowly crawling towards 2000Mb. Every time I log into Gmail my % use is dropping today!
I'm still not sure how this would be any more high throughput than RFLP, SSCP, microarray or Taqman assay (or even straight sequencing!) for SNPs/mutation screening.. I mean you'd have the problem of separating out the fragments of DNA first to get exactly the one you wanted in order to weigh it individually, make sure it was completely uncontaminated with protein.. that doesn't appear to me to lend itself to high-throughput techniques.
There are of course loads of biological uses for this kind of technology. Also this story was run yesterday on Technocrat, which has a link to the BBC coverage
I think you misread "bots" for "dots"... if indeed you even RTFA ;)
From TFA
"Yes you can use input (we googled stuff), when you enter a textbox and press X the PSP pops up the Keyboard API (remember there's alot of API to be taken advantage of with the PSP). After that its as simple as any other input on the PSP."
I'm not sure I'd hire anyone who lists Slashdot articles they've written in the same breath as their Masters thesis ;)
And I'd love it if you could post a link to the source you used to get the KDC running - this is my current cause of woe. And I thought my DNS setup was correct (after much fiddling :)). I've tried the "bring it up by hand" route, but not one that has worked for me yet!
It's currently driving me nuts. I have a 18 node OS X Server cluster. My background is Solaris and Linux, and this GUI driven stuff drives me nuts with OS X server. I'm sure it's just a "getting to know you" phase with the OS, but I haven't been able to hit the ground running with it. Major issue so far? DNS information leaking off the DHCP server on a cluster facing interface to the LAN facing interface and promptly bringing all the Windows clients on the network to a grinding halt that request a DNS server allocation via DHCP. That got me disconnected from the network as you can expect ;)
I might get this book it sounds just what I need. OpenDirectory is not as simple as it likes to make out...
Congratulations to the stupid Euro government!
We don't have a European government. We have a European Parliament.
NCBI's taxonomy is widely regarded to be.. well suspect by people working in the taxonomy field. In fact there is NO common taxonomy system, contrary to popular belief. Like many other areas of science it is beset with individuals who *talk* co-operation and fail to do it.
I have seen taxonmy comparisons from various sources and NCBI's is by no means definitive.
You wont get funding for non-UK citizens from UK Research Councils (at least not the ones I'm familiar with). We can't even give our Irish PhD student a stipend, let alone an Indian one..
Or The Inquirer! :)
No, you just offered me the highest traffic linkbacks...
Thanks for the reminder why I don't bother reading peoples blogs. That nerdling magazines was awful too. I got 4 pages into one of the issues about a "tour of Europe" to realise that this Tania, is just another self-obsessed, self-promoting, intellectually challenged blogger.
With regards to the concurrently running poll - "What will kill the internet?" it's a shame "Blogging" isn't one of the options.
Mod me troll, I really do have karma to burn, but this article really isn't news for nerds. And yes I did even bother to RTFA. The bits which weren't simply filled with comments like "woo"
Not "Radio-durans" but "radiodurans", or to give them their full name Deinococcus radiodurans...