Last time I checked, hotmail didn't let mozilla in, but if you set it to identify as IE it worked just fine. So I guess they can't say that Mozilla supports it, even if it does. At least that was my limited experience (I don't normally use hotmail) - anyone else?
Hey cool, I get quoted now. I don't care what you say, all caps DOES make a difference!
Re:What I'd like to see in "New Kernel" announceme
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see that's what the discussion is for! that's why you go and read what people who know what they are talking about have to say about the new kernel, without actually having to install it (ok, most of them don't either, and don't know what they are talking about, but you get the idea); of course most of that is buried under whining, and whining about whining (I do that), and whining about whining about whining (that's starting to be a new thing apparently), but that's why we have this great moderation system - it all makes sense in the end, really!
I really doubt that one person could compress all the relevant information about a new patch release into one paragraph, especially immediately after the announcement and if that person does other things too; besides you'd only get what JonKatz (for example) thinks of the new kernel release then, which may not always be as informative as you think.
while the ones to tell these people to fuck off are "insightful"
Yeah, weird, isn't it? I can't say I agree with my bitching being insightful enough for a 4, but then again, I am not moderating. I think we just need new moderation options, like "Venting" and "Fuck Yeah!"
Waaah!!! it's a kernel patch Waaaahhh!!!
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Slashdot shouldn't be announcing these! Whine whine whine, bitch bitch bitch... This doesn't belong here!! Waaaahhh!!! This just shows how much slashdot has come down in quality. I hate JonKatz. I don't know how not to click on a link.
(italics just seemed whinier for some reason)
Not interested? DON'T CLICK ON THE FUCKING STORY AND DON'T POST TO THE FUCKING DISCUSSION. Get a life. Go outside and play.
I for one don't check kernel.org daily, I do want to know when the new patches come out, I do check/. daily - is the overwhelming sense of something logical and useful dawning on you yet?
and we are using a mere fraction for our DNA info storing needs (which I am sure has been said a hundred times already). DNA sequences themselves are tiny (comparatively) it's the annotations that take up the space, but even that is under a TB for most needs.
I can't remember exactly right now, but Celera's storage was something like 100TB, wasn't it? Of course when you are actually doing the sequencing and annotation of the whole damn thing, you need more space. (of course they weren't using nearly all of it, and it also included stuff to service their "subscription" clients, each one of which would of course get a significant chunk to store their stuff...)
Lego was nothing but red, square, identical blocks. You could connect them together to build larger red, square blocks. That's the real man's Lego, damnit!
I think I was a bit too general in what I said - yes many widespread "standard" bioinf tools are not Perl (I can' remember what GCG is written in, at the moment, but it's probably a mix of C and Perl) - but "on the job" day-to-day work is still mostly done in Perl. You usually don't see too much GUI stuff (and therefor java/swing) because bioinf is still a very command line oriented world (probably because of things like BLAST, mview and so forth). When we did things in java to fit in with everything else at the company, the bulk of work was being done by
org.apache.oro.text.perl:)
I've worked in bioinformatics for the last few years, and I can say that there's a bit of a difference between bioinf and perl, and engeneering and fortran - perl is suited for bioinformatics far, FAR better than any other language. And so far the benefits of modern languages just can't seem to outweigh this innate suitability.
Traditionally almost all bioinformatics tools have been done in perl, and they continue to be so, for one very simple reason - bioinformatics, when it comes down to it, is just plain text processing.
Anyway, about the book itself - it's nice for biologists who want to learn something about programming, but I neither learned much about biology from it, nor am I afraid I will lose my job because all the bio people are gonna start doing their own programming:)
yep, BioPerl is good, I've used it extensively in the past.
Also check out BioJava - same concept (probably mostly the same people), for those times when you can't use the bioinformatics language of choice (e.g. if you want someone to maintain your code at some point;) )
How in bloody hell is this off topic??? It's about the damn article, it even has a bleeding quote from the damn article! Or are you the one who decides which parts of the article we are supposed to talk about? Because no one told me.
(Need to find a way to burn off some Karma - I've just reached the cap, and all sense of accomplishment and satisfaction has vanished from my life)
Re:So, wait a second...Yeah Right!
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It's not really the background noise that I am worried about - it's the being a jackass who constantly walks around seemingly talking to himself. And people will only be getting more and more hand-held devices of various sorts.
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"damn it, I am a preemptible patch, not a miracle!"
Well yeah, I don't see what else the damn things are good for!
come up with an innovative idea worth patenting
Am I the only one who remembers the good old days when "inventions" and "devices" were patentable, rather than ideas (at least ostensibly)?
Last time I checked, hotmail didn't let mozilla in, but if you set it to identify as IE it worked just fine. So I guess they can't say that Mozilla supports it, even if it does. At least that was my limited experience (I don't normally use hotmail) - anyone else?
Where do I sign up?
On second thought, forget the first question.
Now that's just funny.
Hey cool, I get quoted now. I don't care what you say, all caps DOES make a difference!
I really doubt that one person could compress all the relevant information about a new patch release into one paragraph, especially immediately after the announcement and if that person does other things too; besides you'd only get what JonKatz (for example) thinks of the new kernel release then, which may not always be as informative as you think.
damn, you did NOT just answer that seriously!!!
Yeah, weird, isn't it? I can't say I agree with my bitching being insightful enough for a 4, but then again, I am not moderating. I think we just need new moderation options, like "Venting" and "Fuck Yeah!"
I thought Marcelo went back to Rik's VM with 2.4.something-before-17? Ah, what do I know about kernels...
So that 2.6 isn't "beta" when it's released ;)
(italics just seemed whinier for some reason)
Not interested? DON'T CLICK ON THE FUCKING STORY AND DON'T POST TO THE FUCKING DISCUSSION. Get a life. Go outside and play.
I for one don't check kernel.org daily, I do want to know when the new patches come out, I do check /. daily - is the overwhelming sense of something logical and useful dawning on you yet?
is there also hot Neve Campbell on Denise Richards TCP/IP action? then it really might be time to switch...
I can't remember exactly right now, but Celera's storage was something like 100TB, wasn't it? Of course when you are actually doing the sequencing and annotation of the whole damn thing, you need more space. (of course they weren't using nearly all of it, and it also included stuff to service their "subscription" clients, each one of which would of course get a significant chunk to store their stuff...)
any one have more recent (or more exact) info?
Lego was nothing but red, square, identical blocks. You could connect them together to build larger red, square blocks. That's the real man's Lego, damnit!
If the Americans have all these freedoms, why can't they see tits on the tele?
I think I was a bit too general in what I said - yes many widespread "standard" bioinf tools are not Perl (I can' remember what GCG is written in, at the moment, but it's probably a mix of C and Perl) - but "on the job" day-to-day work is still mostly done in Perl. You usually don't see too much GUI stuff (and therefor java/swing) because bioinf is still a very command line oriented world (probably because of things like BLAST, mview and so forth). When we did things in java to fit in with everything else at the company, the bulk of work was being done by org.apache.oro.text.perl :)
I've worked in bioinformatics for the last few years, and I can say that there's a bit of a difference between bioinf and perl, and engeneering and fortran - perl is suited for bioinformatics far, FAR better than any other language. And so far the benefits of modern languages just can't seem to outweigh this innate suitability.
Traditionally almost all bioinformatics tools have been done in perl, and they continue to be so, for one very simple reason - bioinformatics, when it comes down to it, is just plain text processing.
Anyway, about the book itself - it's nice for biologists who want to learn something about programming, but I neither learned much about biology from it, nor am I afraid I will lose my job because all the bio people are gonna start doing their own programming :)
Also check out BioJava - same concept (probably mostly the same people), for those times when you can't use the bioinformatics language of choice (e.g. if you want someone to maintain your code at some point ;) )
I haven't seen the previews, but I just assumed it was gay pr0n...
(Need to find a way to burn off some Karma - I've just reached the cap, and all sense of accomplishment and satisfaction has vanished from my life)
I've used Miva - it is a sack of shit.
heh, come to think of it, this is /. - we are home!
It's not really the background noise that I am worried about - it's the being a jackass who constantly walks around seemingly talking to himself. And people will only be getting more and more hand-held devices of various sorts.