You are missing the point: Yes, it is about meta data, but what these terms (folksonomies, mob indexing) are describing is the phenomenon of attaching meta data without a prior defined tag vocabulary. It is an evolving tagging system and apparently well worth studying.
Several posters seem to assume that the main objective of having the chicken genome available is to make better and cheaper food products. There is of course some truth to that, but there are also other advantages.
Through domestication and long time (traditional) breeding, the farm chicken has become quite frail and there are several genetic dispositions for problematic conditions for chickens. Knowing its genome could help breeding (both traditional and more modern directed) generate a healthier bird. It is worth noting the man's best fried, the dog, also has these problems due to breeding.
The sequenced genome is actually from the wild Red Jungle fowl, and not the domestic chicken, so there will be plenty of "healthy genome" to learn from.
For scientists, finally having a bird genome is also great. It is further away from chimp, mouse, rat, dog, and other "close" genomes, while closer than, say, fly and nematode. It lands somewhere between us and fish, of which we today have something like three genomes (zebrafish, fugu, and tetraodon). A goal for choosing species to sequence today is having a good and even species sampling to make what is called comparative genomics better materials for comparisons. A nice resource for genomics of higher organisms is Ensembl, where you can get a glimpse of some of the more interesting animal genomes available.
I am not sure if you are simply joking or are just curiously amused. But the name is quite on-the-mark describing what it is, and also follows a naming "tradition": The natural name variants have been used for at least human, mouse, rat, chimp, malaria, fugu, and a slew of more pathetic lifeforms.
No, they seem to have far more content than CiteSeer! In contrast to CiteSeer, Google has indexed stuff that is not available on the web. They seem to have worked with the publishers here, because they seem to know citations of articles. The publically available PubMed (AKA Medline) can be downloaded for analysis by virtually anyone, but PubMed doesn't have citation information which apparently Google has acquired.
What I believe will be killed here is the commercial scientific indexing system ISI Web of Knowledge. Their interface is a real pain, and while they probably contain more data than Google Scholar at the moment, they are up for some really tough competition!
On the contrary! Why look at your home? I know my neighbourhood pretty well, and while it woudld be fun to try the technology on familiar places, the technology's utility is to view places you haven't been to. Perhaps for planning a trip or deciding where to meet.
At least in my humble opinion.
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If you look at the comments accompanying the report, you will notice that it is not only the governmental control over media they measure, but rather the freedom from pressures all together. This includes threats from extremists on the left and right and wherever. This is why for instance Spain gets a low ranking, because of attacks on journalists from ETA.
I think this makes sense. I would not like to work as a reporter in a place where I would risk being murdered or abused simply because of a article, no matter who actually committed the crime.
I agree with you to some extent, but I think you are forgetting/ignoring the oceans: Researchers seem to agree that there are many exiting species to discover down in the depths!
Of course, this brings to mind, is this data available in some open format we can all d/l and run scripts on to try and find a buffer overflow in the human genome (that sounded worryingly plausible since many tools are being used now to find such cases in binay and source code).
Yes. If you look again you'll notice that their download section if easy to reach from several different views. I think most data format are somewhat self-explanatory too, at least if you have a tiny bit of an idea of what you are working with.
Ensembl.org also has a tool called ensmart, which is kind of GUI on a structured database. It is not at all as general as the underlying DBMS of course, but you can pretty easily filter out what you want and download it. For this tool, you probably need to actually know what kind of data you know, in contrast to the simple "download and run scripts" mode of work.
Are you saying that the investment in a wind power plant is paid off within 8 years? That sounds really good. Nuclear power plants need something like 20 years to pay for themself as far as I can recall.
There was an argument in a report I read recently that as the internet becomes more prevaliant that studying as a whole will become less important as information will be avialable at your finger tips. The skills that will become more useful are the ability to search effeciently and work out which sources you can trust.
Yeah, sure, studying as in "learn information", but not studying as in "understanding difficult concepts". And to decide what to trust and not is not in itself an easy subject. Even an encyclopedia should be read critically.
Information at your fingertips will just make studying and working more efficient and, guess what, you are more efficient the more you know, understand, and remember.
why should I remeber PI to 8 decimial places when I can look it up quicker?
You need a better school if someone asks you to memorize that. But actually, I found to my own surprise that I do have 8 digits memorized, and remembering them took much less time than finding them on the net. (I guess I proved to be a real nerd.)
I am a bit disappointed with the article since it doesn't provide much information on how they found the site and what makes them think it is the library. I mean, how can they know it is not the largest stable found so far...? How can an archeological finding be presented without pictures in this day and age?
Maybe I am too eager, but does anyone know what conference this was presented at and/or if the archeological team has a webpage? I see that Zahi Hawass has a webpage, but, being a "president of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities", he may not be the actual researcher behind the finding.
Also, people seem to hit "reply" button on one message and then write about something totally different. Maybe there should be a way to add or move messages from one "conversation" to another.
I really dislike that behaviour because I want to have informative subjects and/or be able to find or dismiss messages based on subject. This Gmail feature may actually promote the "right" behaviour so it is a Good Thing!
Huh? It is not like these people are movie or art critics getting recognition! What do you think they are awarded for? "Insightful utterings in front of the 9-o'clock news"?
These people are actively working on changing things in society (primarily US). They are actually putting their reputation at risk, spending a lot of time and effort, and are trying hard to make things better! To spearhead change must not be confused with deconstructionism.
I have incidentally been fortunate enough to chat with Kim Alexander and her husband on an airplane trip (Hi guys, I know you are reading this), and it is clear to me that Kim is spending her career on trying to ensure that things like the Florida debacle does not happen again, that democracy will be guaranteed, and restore people's faith in elections. Kim and the others are definately good role models and creative people! Who would you like to reward if you want to highlight electronic voting? The creators of the Diebold machines perhaps?
Looks like a decent replacement for lego for my kids now they are a bit old (7) for technic.
What?! They have at least five more years before they will give up Lego Technic, if they have the interest for mechanics (and computerization with Mindstorms). Remember, there are lots of grownups building with Technic!
Just make sure they don't think that you can be too old to build with Lego...
People like this announcement of Google's because they push the state-of-the-art forward. And it is quite a leap. What is there preventing Yahoo and MS/Hotmail from answering to this with similar improvements? It is not like offering 1GB of email storage is a patented idea. I am sure using google to search my email is a great idea, but I don't see why their competitors would be able offer similar searches using their search engines.
I don't see how this will make Google a monopoly. Instead, they are actually threatening the duopoly ruling the webmail business right now. And I don't think it will be easy for Google, even though they might be able to offer superior service, simply because it is really difficult to change user's habits and email adresses.
I think you are underestimating the/. community. (Wow, has this ever been said before?!)
Note that using the Habeas Headers to filter out such mail may be a copyright infringement, too.
I never remember what I read about copyright laws (too boring!), but wouldn't the copyright only come into play if you are publishing the haiku? Using the haiku for filtering should be equivalent to mumbling it to yourself, and surely that is not illegal (yet)?
Saying "top posting is bad" is like saying "EMACS is better than vi." A matter of opinion ONLY.
Yeah, but how many users do you think actually has an opinion on this? 99.99 % of the bottom-quoted email I get is there because their email program encourages it, not because they think it is convenient.
Bottom-posting is more useful to outsiders to the discussion, since they can follow the temporal flow of response and reply.
I don't think bottom-quoting help with the temporal flow at all! You have to start at the bottom and guess at what people are referring to. With the top-quoted emails it is much more common to people actually breaking the quotations up and responding to the sentences/paragraphs that actually matters. At least in my circles: I guess it varies with your community.
I also think that there is a larger risk with bottom-quoting that inappropriate information gets passed on. I don't have an anecdote or so, but I have long been curious about what insults and copmany secrets that have been forwarded this way!
What it really comes down to is that there is not much support for quotations in most email programs. The only app I know about where your MTA actually gives you a little bit of control is in Emacs, both VM and Gnus, where there is an add-on called SuperCite. Really nifty utility.
I'd like to see a edit mode where you can move parts of quotations in and out of emails as units. Mozilla Mail has some help in marking what is a quote, but it is all text based in the end. I would like to see the quotes as little widgets.
If you go to Lugnet and hang out a bit, for instance in their Dear Lego newsgroup, you'll notice that they actually have people to communicate with the Adult Fans of Lego (AFOL) community. And they claim they are comitted to open up a bit more. I don't remember what they have said about their software (there might be other parties involved), but they will release 3D models of their bricks to the community. There are various other things they do right. Most importantly, they have not even tried to limit access to Mindstorm hardware.
Hey, I don't like Dubya as much as the next guy, but big projects finansed from public budget fuel all the economy. Just look at what Iraq war did to American economy.
Huh? I don't live in the US, so maybe my take on this is uninformed, but I do know that the US dollar has been falling ever since the start of the war and the deficit is sky rocketing, largely because of the war in combination with tax cuts. Are you actually implying that the US economy is healthier now than before the war?
"Nu" means "now" in Swedish too, and here it has actually taken off somewhat. It is not at all uncommon to find commercial sites on.nu. It is mostly used by upstarts rather than well known companies though.
I don't think ebay is the right place for used lego. Too many legomaniacs seems to be there, or at least too many with deep pockets from what I can tell. Yard sales and other second hand outlets is the way to go. You can definately find very good deals on old lego.
I have two children, 6 and 7.5 years old, and they have a pretty decent lego collection. A lot of that was bought used, otherwise we wouldn't have afforded it. And you should always look for clearances of course!
The researchers have found that pheromones activate the mouse olfactory system which is used for detecting smells. Humans has a very similar system, so suggesting that we also can detect pheromones isn't such a big stretch.
Like it or not, there are many things we have in common with mice. And bacteria etc for that matter.
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You are missing the point: Yes, it is about meta data, but what these terms (folksonomies, mob indexing) are describing is the phenomenon of attaching meta data without a prior defined tag vocabulary. It is an evolving tagging system and apparently well worth studying.
Through domestication and long time (traditional) breeding, the farm chicken has become quite frail and there are several genetic dispositions for problematic conditions for chickens. Knowing its genome could help breeding (both traditional and more modern directed) generate a healthier bird. It is worth noting the man's best fried, the dog, also has these problems due to breeding.
The sequenced genome is actually from the wild Red Jungle fowl, and not the domestic chicken, so there will be plenty of "healthy genome" to learn from.
For scientists, finally having a bird genome is also great. It is further away from chimp, mouse, rat, dog, and other "close" genomes, while closer than, say, fly and nematode. It lands somewhere between us and fish, of which we today have something like three genomes (zebrafish, fugu, and tetraodon). A goal for choosing species to sequence today is having a good and even species sampling to make what is called comparative genomics better materials for comparisons. A nice resource for genomics of higher organisms is Ensembl, where you can get a glimpse of some of the more interesting animal genomes available.
I am not sure if you are simply joking or are just curiously amused. But the name is quite on-the-mark describing what it is, and also follows a naming "tradition": The natural name variants have been used for at least human, mouse, rat, chimp, malaria, fugu, and a slew of more pathetic lifeforms.
What I believe will be killed here is the commercial scientific indexing system ISI Web of Knowledge. Their interface is a real pain, and while they probably contain more data than Google Scholar at the moment, they are up for some really tough competition!
It is about time.
At least in my humble opinion.
I think this makes sense. I would not like to work as a reporter in a place where I would risk being murdered or abused simply because of a article, no matter who actually committed the crime.
I agree with you to some extent, but I think you are forgetting/ignoring the oceans: Researchers seem to agree that there are many exiting species to discover down in the depths!
Yes. If you look again you'll notice that their download section if easy to reach from several different views. I think most data format are somewhat self-explanatory too, at least if you have a tiny bit of an idea of what you are working with.
Ensembl.org also has a tool called ensmart, which is kind of GUI on a structured database. It is not at all as general as the underlying DBMS of course, but you can pretty easily filter out what you want and download it. For this tool, you probably need to actually know what kind of data you know, in contrast to the simple "download and run scripts" mode of work.
Ensembl.org is an excellent site!
Are you saying that the investment in a wind power plant is paid off within 8 years? That sounds really good. Nuclear power plants need something like 20 years to pay for themself as far as I can recall.
Hey, this is the internet. FAQs have been created without question having been asked at all at least since time() == 0.
Yeah, sure, studying as in "learn information", but not studying as in "understanding difficult concepts". And to decide what to trust and not is not in itself an easy subject. Even an encyclopedia should be read critically.
Information at your fingertips will just make studying and working more efficient and, guess what, you are more efficient the more you know, understand, and remember.
why should I remeber PI to 8 decimial places when I can look it up quicker?
You need a better school if someone asks you to memorize that. But actually, I found to my own surprise that I do have 8 digits memorized, and remembering them took much less time than finding them on the net. (I guess I proved to be a real nerd.)
No! No more than throwing rotten tomatos on someone speaking to people in an open-air meeting.
Would you like your candidate silenced?
Maybe I am too eager, but does anyone know what conference this was presented at and/or if the archeological team has a webpage? I see that Zahi Hawass has a webpage, but, being a "president of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities", he may not be the actual researcher behind the finding.
I really dislike that behaviour because I want to have informative subjects and/or be able to find or dismiss messages based on subject. This Gmail feature may actually promote the "right" behaviour so it is a Good Thing!
These people are actively working on changing things in society (primarily US). They are actually putting their reputation at risk, spending a lot of time and effort, and are trying hard to make things better! To spearhead change must not be confused with deconstructionism.
I have incidentally been fortunate enough to chat with Kim Alexander and her husband on an airplane trip (Hi guys, I know you are reading this), and it is clear to me that Kim is spending her career on trying to ensure that things like the Florida debacle does not happen again, that democracy will be guaranteed, and restore people's faith in elections. Kim and the others are definately good role models and creative people! Who would you like to reward if you want to highlight electronic voting? The creators of the Diebold machines perhaps?
What?! They have at least five more years before they will give up Lego Technic, if they have the interest for mechanics (and computerization with Mindstorms). Remember, there are lots of grownups building with Technic!
Just make sure they don't think that you can be too old to build with Lego...
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People like this announcement of Google's because they push the state-of-the-art forward. And it is quite a leap. What is there preventing Yahoo and MS/Hotmail from answering to this with similar improvements? It is not like offering 1GB of email storage is a patented idea. I am sure using google to search my email is a great idea, but I don't see why their competitors would be able offer similar searches using their search engines.
/. community. (Wow, has this ever been said before?!)
I don't see how this will make Google a monopoly. Instead, they are actually threatening the duopoly ruling the webmail business right now. And I don't think it will be easy for Google, even though they might be able to offer superior service, simply because it is really difficult to change user's habits and email adresses.
I think you are underestimating the
Anyway, Asok says "hi".
I never remember what I read about copyright laws (too boring!), but wouldn't the copyright only come into play if you are publishing the haiku? Using the haiku for filtering should be equivalent to mumbling it to yourself, and surely that is not illegal (yet)?
Yeah, but how many users do you think actually has an opinion on this? 99.99 % of the bottom-quoted email I get is there because their email program encourages it, not because they think it is convenient.
Bottom-posting is more useful to outsiders to the discussion, since they can follow the temporal flow of response and reply.
I don't think bottom-quoting help with the temporal flow at all! You have to start at the bottom and guess at what people are referring to. With the top-quoted emails it is much more common to people actually breaking the quotations up and responding to the sentences/paragraphs that actually matters. At least in my circles: I guess it varies with your community.
I also think that there is a larger risk with bottom-quoting that inappropriate information gets passed on. I don't have an anecdote or so, but I have long been curious about what insults and copmany secrets that have been forwarded this way!
What it really comes down to is that there is not much support for quotations in most email programs. The only app I know about where your MTA actually gives you a little bit of control is in Emacs, both VM and Gnus, where there is an add-on called SuperCite. Really nifty utility.
I'd like to see a edit mode where you can move parts of quotations in and out of emails as units. Mozilla Mail has some help in marking what is a quote, but it is all text based in the end. I would like to see the quotes as little widgets.
If you go to Lugnet and hang out a bit, for instance in their Dear Lego newsgroup, you'll notice that they actually have people to communicate with the Adult Fans of Lego (AFOL) community. And they claim they are comitted to open up a bit more. I don't remember what they have said about their software (there might be other parties involved), but they will release 3D models of their bricks to the community. There are various other things they do right. Most importantly, they have not even tried to limit access to Mindstorm hardware.
Huh? I don't live in the US, so maybe my take on this is uninformed, but I do know that the US dollar has been falling ever since the start of the war and the deficit is sky rocketing, largely because of the war in combination with tax cuts. Are you actually implying that the US economy is healthier now than before the war?
"Nu" means "now" in Swedish too, and here it has actually taken off somewhat. It is not at all uncommon to find commercial sites on .nu. It is mostly used by upstarts rather than well known companies though.
I don't think ebay is the right place for used lego. Too many legomaniacs seems to be there, or at least too many with deep pockets from what I can tell. Yard sales and other second hand outlets is the way to go. You can definately find very good deals on old lego. I have two children, 6 and 7.5 years old, and they have a pretty decent lego collection. A lot of that was bought used, otherwise we wouldn't have afforded it. And you should always look for clearances of course!
Like it or not, there are many things we have in common with mice. And bacteria etc for that matter.