Don't they just call that the Slashdot front page? (swish)
Seriously though, affect/effect is just about the best known common error - how hard is it to pay attention when you post? What's next, confusing then and than?
That same year, a tree fell on power lines outside Cleveland, resulting in a blackout for much of the Northeast. Doomsday can be understated.
And this year, a car ran over a cat.
Since when does "doomsday" mean "mild inconvenience"? Don't you need, like, at least one dead person before you can start putting it on the List of Things That Will Destroy the Earth?
Why should us fathers be excluded from taking an active part in our child's upbringing?
So what would you want the ladies to do? Earn an income? What's next, voting?
Don't be ridiculous. You are starting to sound like you want to question the gender roles indocrinated by the patriarchy over the last 8 thousand years - surely that's pure madness.
Thanks for the advise, hopefully it will have some real affect. Its no wander we see allot of these errors - people are loosing all respect for they're own language.
I guess people view these games somewhat differently. I used to always play RPGs (single player) with female characters, not for some odd roleplaying value, but because the games are just mildly interactive story telling devices, so it becomes an extension of the "ass-kicking babes" genre that us geeks are so fond of.
Stopped doing that in any games that involve voice chat, simply because I'd feel really stupid. Don't think there's anything wrong with playing a character that's a different gender than you (isn't that the whole point of roleplaying?), but with voice it's just kinda silly.
Yeah, screw Neverwinter! That "maybe you should talk to one of our male employees" line in the brothel thing was just bullshit! It's not like I was lost; freakin' close minded faux medieval sword-and-sorcery epics...
They are all hosted at SourceForge, have identical googlified home pages, but don't look to be "owned" by Google (and why would Google host their own projects at SF, anyway?).
What gives? Are they community projects of some kind that have Google's blessing and branding?
All true. I am in no way putting him down for what he has, or has not, done since.
Just saying that even if he was part of the single most important breakthrough in computer gaming (which, a case can be made for), still doesn't mean that most people's hearts start racing when they see him on the street (well, maybe on account of the hair).
There has been no new breakthroughs since.
That's a bit pessimistic. They were the first to network a couple of computers and have little guys run around in a 3D space. Sure everything since flows from those humble beginnings, but just because you can't necessarily point to specific points in time for most of the later innovation, doesn't mean it's not together more important than the first step.
Hell, I'll take whoever invented actual gameplay (beyond holding down Run + Fire and running around for a few hours), as one of the most influential people in gaming.
Not to put down their accompllishments, but proportionally the first breakthrough is always the biggest, they are starting from nothing after all.
The summary is wrong. It's not misleading, or sensationalist, or vague - just plain wrong.
It's wrong in such a way that it causes half the comments to be explanations of why it's wrong (the other half are about how the poster dumped Debian long ago, and no one cool uses it anyway, and how they love Ubuntu/Gentoo/Vista/MacOS 9 etc., and besides Debian is teh sux).
You act like the left hasn't demonized the term "neocon" to death.
Wasn't aware that I was, just saying that the Republican party (notice, the particular party, not a movement or an ideology) is doing a hell of a lot better at it. I mean, for gods sakes, the concept of "liberty" is a bad thing now.
If liberals don't want to be "dirty words" then perhaps they ought to stop associating themselves with ideologies more akin to Marxist/Communist thinking.
"Oh noes! That ideology shares concepts with what Cold War era propaganda taught me was teh devil!"
I'm sorry, which bias is this? The bias against putting innocent people on government watchlists to fill a quota?
It's probably posted because people here seem to care about civil rights and, in particular, about how they apply to domestic government surveilance. What's wrong with that?
this whole site slides further and further to the left every day
So? If the concept of civil liberty offends you, then I guess this isn't the site for you. Problem solved. (I love how 'left' and 'liberal' are dirty words now, say what you want about the Republican party, but their PR is top notch)
Ok, the guy is more or less well known, for something he did 13 years ago, but does that really qualify as "fame"? All this talk about how his "fame" doesn't go to his head has a distinct "protesting too much" feel to it.
The media personification of John Romero is not who John Romero is.
Don't tell me, John Romero is a series of... of nevermind.
The first example with proteins: how similar are two proteins? If two shapes are similar (and please, how many proteins where being graphed there? One, two, five?), then you might be able to recognize it.
I think you missed the whole point of this.
From the TFA: "This network maps protein function by connecting proteins that share sequence similarity. Each of the 30,727 vertices represents a protein, and each of the 1,206,654 connections represents a similarity in amino acid sequence."
So the point of the exercise is to visualize (potentially) functionally related groups of proteins, based on sequence similarity. I would guess that the color has something to do with the strength of the similarities. I'm actually surprised how unconnected the graph is, they must be using fairly strict criteria.
This still isn't very useful in itself (they talk about locating proteins with unknown function on the graph - it seems much easier just to provide the data related to that particular protein in that case), but can have many great uses. For example, if you used the color to represent known, experimentally determined functional relationships, you would get a sense of how well sequence homology tends to predict function - exactly the goal of this, summarizing a massive amount of data to show understandable patterns. (Actually, this would probably work better the other way around: graph the known relationships and color by homology).
The best thing I've gotten out of this article is the LGL tool itself. Seems to work pretty well, and I've been looking for something like this for a long time.
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Lets see: cheaper housing + cheaper food/necessities + NOTHING ELSE TO SPEND MONEY ON = lower cost of living.
Sad as it is, the expensive places to live are often expensive for a reason - people want to live there.
Regular expressions are only for regular languages.
Not true - Perl is an awesome language.
Never thought my geek card would be in danger, but what's the significance of 3/1/4?
It's a list of common errors in English.
Don't they just call that the Slashdot front page? (swish)
Seriously though, affect/effect is just about the best known common error - how hard is it to pay attention when you post? What's next, confusing then and than?
That same year, a tree fell on power lines outside Cleveland, resulting in a blackout for much of the Northeast. Doomsday can be understated.
And this year, a car ran over a cat.
Since when does "doomsday" mean "mild inconvenience"? Don't you need, like, at least one dead person before you can start putting it on the List of Things That Will Destroy the Earth?
Dark Ages was helped started by an exceptionally bad plague
Had to look this one up - "Plague of Justinian"? Do you have any good sources that show it to be an impetus for the Dark Ages?
Why should us fathers be excluded from taking an active part in our child's upbringing?
So what would you want the ladies to do? Earn an income? What's next, voting?
Don't be ridiculous. You are starting to sound like you want to question the gender roles indocrinated by the patriarchy over the last 8 thousand years - surely that's pure madness.
Seriously, I don't think it needs any help whatsoever.
Thanks for the advise, hopefully it will have some real affect. Its no wander we see allot of these errors - people are loosing all respect for they're own language.
I guess people view these games somewhat differently. I used to always play RPGs (single player) with female characters, not for some odd roleplaying value, but because the games are just mildly interactive story telling devices, so it becomes an extension of the "ass-kicking babes" genre that us geeks are so fond of.
Stopped doing that in any games that involve voice chat, simply because I'd feel really stupid. Don't think there's anything wrong with playing a character that's a different gender than you (isn't that the whole point of roleplaying?), but with voice it's just kinda silly.
Yeah, screw Neverwinter! That "maybe you should talk to one of our male employees" line in the brothel thing was just bullshit! It's not like I was lost; freakin' close minded faux medieval sword-and-sorcery epics...
But I think the Department is really onto something with that suggestion.
What exactly is the relationship between the projects at http://code.google.com/projects.html, SourceForge, and Google?
They are all hosted at SourceForge, have identical googlified home pages, but don't look to be "owned" by Google (and why would Google host their own projects at SF, anyway?).
What gives? Are they community projects of some kind that have Google's blessing and branding?
All true. I am in no way putting him down for what he has, or has not, done since.
Just saying that even if he was part of the single most important breakthrough in computer gaming (which, a case can be made for), still doesn't mean that most people's hearts start racing when they see him on the street (well, maybe on account of the hair).
There has been no new breakthroughs since.
That's a bit pessimistic. They were the first to network a couple of computers and have little guys run around in a 3D space. Sure everything since flows from those humble beginnings, but just because you can't necessarily point to specific points in time for most of the later innovation, doesn't mean it's not together more important than the first step.
Hell, I'll take whoever invented actual gameplay (beyond holding down Run + Fire and running around for a few hours), as one of the most influential people in gaming.
Not to put down their accompllishments, but proportionally the first breakthrough is always the biggest, they are starting from nothing after all.
The summary is wrong. It's not misleading, or sensationalist, or vague - just plain wrong.
It's wrong in such a way that it causes half the comments to be explanations of why it's wrong (the other half are about how the poster dumped Debian long ago, and no one cool uses it anyway, and how they love Ubuntu/Gentoo/Vista/MacOS 9 etc., and besides Debian is teh sux).
I mean, what the fuck, ScuttleMonkey?
Honestly, I am not sure if you are being facetious or not.
You act like the left hasn't demonized the term "neocon" to death.
Wasn't aware that I was, just saying that the Republican party (notice, the particular party, not a movement or an ideology) is doing a hell of a lot better at it. I mean, for gods sakes, the concept of "liberty" is a bad thing now.
If liberals don't want to be "dirty words" then perhaps they ought to stop associating themselves with ideologies more akin to Marxist/Communist thinking.
"Oh noes! That ideology shares concepts with what Cold War era propaganda taught me was teh devil!"
Just how freakin' black and white is your world?
I'm sorry, which bias is this? The bias against putting innocent people on government watchlists to fill a quota?
It's probably posted because people here seem to care about civil rights and, in particular, about how they apply to domestic government surveilance. What's wrong with that?
this whole site slides further and further to the left every day
So? If the concept of civil liberty offends you, then I guess this isn't the site for you. Problem solved.
(I love how 'left' and 'liberal' are dirty words now, say what you want about the Republican party, but their PR is top notch)
Ok, the guy is more or less well known, for something he did 13 years ago, but does that really qualify as "fame"? All this talk about how his "fame" doesn't go to his head has a distinct "protesting too much" feel to it.
The media personification of John Romero is not who John Romero is.
Don't tell me, John Romero is a series of... of nevermind.
some kind of new meta-dupe?
Yeah, here's how these gene homology/orthology maps tend to look:s .cfm?id=143&index=15&domain=Biology
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/project_detail
(I know the actual graph shows something different - just a visual example)
The first example with proteins: how similar are two proteins? If two shapes are similar (and please, how many proteins where being graphed there? One, two, five?), then you might be able to recognize it.
I think you missed the whole point of this.
From the TFA: "This network maps protein function by connecting proteins that share sequence similarity. Each of the 30,727 vertices represents a protein, and each of the 1,206,654 connections represents a similarity in amino acid sequence."
So the point of the exercise is to visualize (potentially) functionally related groups of proteins, based on sequence similarity. I would guess that the color has something to do with the strength of the similarities. I'm actually surprised how unconnected the graph is, they must be using fairly strict criteria.
This still isn't very useful in itself (they talk about locating proteins with unknown function on the graph - it seems much easier just to provide the data related to that particular protein in that case), but can have many great uses. For example, if you used the color to represent known, experimentally determined functional relationships, you would get a sense of how well sequence homology tends to predict function - exactly the goal of this, summarizing a massive amount of data to show understandable patterns. (Actually, this would probably work better the other way around: graph the known relationships and color by homology).
The best thing I've gotten out of this article is the LGL tool itself. Seems to work pretty well, and I've been looking for something like this for a long time.
Reviews provide information about the content of the book beyond the sequence of chapters. The above is called a Table of Contents.
The internet is NOT the existing cell phone network.
Well, duh! It is a series of tubes.
does vista break ghost then?
Doubtful, seeing how vista isn't even out yet, and Ghost has been broken for many years.
(couldn't resist)