I agree with Ender's Game - Excellent read, Some SF Recommendations...
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Even after 100+ years a great book which I read at age 9. Decently paced, and one of the foundations of much of the SF written today.
The Time Machine - relatively short, interesting, and thought provoking, Precursor to one of the best TV Shows out there - Doctor Who.
Dune - Well written, kinda long, but worth the effort.
On the Fantasy front....
The Belgariad/Mallorean - By David Eddings, one of my favorites, I discovered Eddings shortly after discovering Tolkein and have reread these books several times, Bonus point is that there are 12 books in the series, It helped me to keep focus when I was first reading them at age 13, and provided reading material for a long time.
The Riftwar Saga - by Raymod Feist - The first trilogy - Magician, Silverthorn and A Darkness at Sethanon were easy to relate to as a teenager due to the protagonists being teenagers and being forced to overcome many trials and tribbulations throughout the course of the trilogy.
The Mithgar series - By Dennis McKiernan - Tolkienesque, Early books are fairly short and easy reads, lots of action, and humour to keep it intersting, Books have a central theme which carries all of the way through the trilogy but isn't explicitly stated unti lthe last book.
and Finally - The Dragonlance novels - By Margaret Weis and Tracey Hickman - Excellent - Action Packed, Good Vs. Evil - Some shades of gray, younger characters to relate to.
Hope these provide a decent smattering for you, Several of the trilogies I mentioned are also available in an omnibus with all or most of the indovidual books bound together.
I have a friend whom I have known since High School days, who is Schizophrenic. She developed symptoms in her early twenties, She also suffers from Bipolar disorder. When she takes her medication she realises something is wrong and has described the effect as "Slowing down my thoughts" She says when she is symptomatic, she believes the unbelievable and disbelieves the believable, she has a fuzzy perception of realty, and feels that she can or cannot change something that is happening to her, e.g. She says her feet talk to her while she walks and say bad things about her, This she cannot change, but sometimes she says she can seperate herself from things happening to her and be unemotional about things which would normally elicit an emotional response. On the Bipolar side she hates the mania, however when she is manic she feels good, does not realise anything is wrong, and feels as if she could keep going for days and days, and is proud of all she can accomplish while manic. Hoowever she feels the mania is worse then the depression in relation to the Bipolar, Because she is dillusional, The Schizophrenia is freightening to her because she has no control over what she can and cannot believe...some self doubt, but she has also described it as being taken out of her body and observing her life a if it were a "B" Movie...The emotional detatchment has probably been the most trying for her friends and family, especially the ones who knew her before she became symptomatic, When she is unmedicated it is as if she is a different person. If you are concerned I would strongly advise talking to a professional, there are several non-profit suport groups such a NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) which can provide assistance to both the patient and family members on what to expect. I hope this has been of some assistance to you
I Have never owned one, I have had several CDRW's over the years, including a Yamaha SCSI 6/6/24 which lasted 4 years burning approx. 5-10 disks per week, That drive was a real workhorse. Recently I was at a vend-duh's open house and won an Acer 40x CDRW, I Havn't seen much about the Acer drives so I figured, "what the hell, It's free(as in beer)" Not a bad drive, I have had it for three months and burn on average 5-10 CD's per week, The speed is nice, alot faster then what I have previously had access to, I'm surprised that what I always considered a "low-end" hardware manufacture has produced a good quality high speed CDRW... I wish I could find a review of that drive just to see if other people have had as good of luck with the Acer as I have...
Ok, I will give you Madison and Wilson, however to quote from the linked Lincoln Biography...
" Lincoln won re-election in 1864, as Union military triumphs heralded an end to the war. In his planning for peace, the President was flexible and generous, encouraging Southerners to lay down their arms and join speedily in reunion."
The Civil War was effectively over by the time Lincoln was re-elected.
Truman, Ok, technically, yes he was elected President for the first time following WWII, however he was elected VP in 1944 and served what amounted to a 3 year term (upon the death of FDR in 1945) So he was a sitting Pesident during a War who was elected after a war.
Also, the intent of the post was not to be "Snooty" but to point out the errors in the original post. If the tone was taken as snooty, I apologise...
Um, wrong, do your research...
James Madison Pres. from 1809-1817 Won re-election after the war of 1812..
or how about
Abraham Lincoln Pres. from 1861-1865 Who won re-election after the Civil War...
or even
William McKinley Pres. from 1897-1901 Who was re-elected after the Spanish-American War (1898)
How about
Woodrow Wilson Pres. from 1913-1921 Who was re-elected after a little skirmish which they called "The Great War" and which now refer to as WWI
Hmmmmmm Even Ole
"Give 'Em Hell" Harry Pres. From 1945 - 1953
Won an election after a war, WWII to be precise. Your statement is blatently untrue, and should have been researched. A friendly hint, when making generalisations make sure you KNOW the generalisations to be factual, if one says "No X has ever done Y" one must be damn sure that not a single X has ever done Y, just one X doing Y disprooves your statement.
Just my $.02 worth
Keith
"Rush's uncle, Stephen N. Limbaugh, Sr. is a federal judge appointed by Ronald Reagan and his first cousin, Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. sits on the Missouri Supreme Court." The Judge in this article is Stephen Limbaugh Sr.
Now all I need to do is change my name to Bob Adass, go to Law school, pass the Bar, Get hired by this law firm and I could be badass@mofo.com
Sounds like a plan
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Back in 1998, The Hospital I was working in got one of these, They used it to transport specimens from the OR, or ER to the various labs, and Between the various labs. It worked quite well, If i remember correctly it had what amounted to a low-end Pentium Machine (P133 or so) attached to it, and ran on Solaris(I remember it interfaced with our Sun boxes), and the baritone voice wasn't quite as deep as James Earl Jones, but more like Peter Jennings, I was working Field Support for IS, and remember the first time I heard the thing come into a lab where I was fixing a PC problem, It would enter, Beep and Announce "Please remove Specimen" if it was making a delivery, and then would ask if there was anything for it to transport, the Lab Techs would then type in (I think they later got a barcode reader) the info on the specimen and the destination. I always thought this was a neat Idea from a couple of different standpoints, It helped with the transportation of Biohazardous material (Blood Samples, Tissue Samples, etc.) and cut down on the amount of time it took to get samples to the various labs. Never thought of the Pharmacy applications but it makes sense that these could be used for such a task.
Themed Naming conventions have been popular at a couple of places I've worked, with one using Astronomical names (Pleiades, Rigel, Betelguese, etc.) and one using Hawaiian Names (Kahuna, Leilaiekki, Kona, etc) But I have also seen Geographical/Purpose Conventions used eg. GWWEST01 = Primary Groupwise server for West region, MBH01 = Primary Domain Controller for MBH location, MBHWEB02 = Secondary Web server for MBH location. This could be adapted to an eighgt character schema with few problems, It is a bit cryptic at first, but once people start using the names the will come up with there own pronunciations for these cryptic names (eg. Washington University in St. Louis is abbreviated wustl, (Pronounced as Woostle))
Just went to the site to read the article straight from the horse's Ar... Mouth, Imagine my pleasure when greeted with a Sybase ad in the center of the page proclaiming "Don't Believe the Lies" Nice job kudos to the appropriate positioning of that ad...
worked fine for us, the CD tower had 5 Plextor SCSI CDRW drives (Can't remember the model #'s offhand) external scsi connectors to an adaptec scsi card in a PC next to it, placed cd to be copied in the CDROM drive of the PC and up to five blanks in the tower, used Nero 5 software, Disk Juggler if I remember correctly would also work, I'll see if I can dig up more detailed specs if you need them. The PC was a Windows NT 4.0 Machine, with very little loaded onto it.
I just finished reading "The Forge of God" and "Anvil of the Stars" by Greg Bear, both of which deal with this issue. Should we on Earth broadcast radio signals like a baby crying in the woods, when we don't even know if there are any wolves loking for a quick snack? The best example I can think of from human history is th Hawaiians who were technological inferior defeating Cook who was technologically superior to them.
I bought the first B-5 DVD back before Christmas, which contained "In The Begining" and "The Gathering", Picked up the 2nd DVD Saturday Jan. 12, 2002 at Borders in St. Louis MO it contains, "Midnight on the Firing Line" and "Soul Hunter" pamphlet inside says new episodes to follow in march of 2002.
I agree, not that big of a deal, Several other countries handle Driver's Licenses in this way. In Missouri, if one moves into the State, one must take and pass both a written and practical driving test( much like a teenager getting their license for the first time), However once you have a Missouri DL you do not have to take the tests again unless you fail to renew the license within six months of it's expiration. If this goes through, presumably it would make moving to new state a litle easier, Police depts. would have an easier time getting info on persons from a different state, The state Govt's will probably hate this though (Centralising power, and infringing upon States rights) The more things change, the more they stay the same...sounds like some of the problems in the 1800's....
I agree, I believe the Vulcans put it quite succinctly, "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations" One need only to look at the Burgess Shale (See Link Below)
http://tabla.geo.ucalgary.ca/~macrae/Burgess_Sha le /
To see that Life on Earth has not always fit into the forms we easily recognise as "Life"
Water, albeit essential to life on THIS planet may NOT be esential for "life" elsewhere.
Even discounting the variety of fossilised life in the Burgess Shale one need only look at the diversity of "life" on Earth to recognise that "Life" comes in many forms.
The only ones I can remember off the top of my head are by Sean Russell, a "Duology" "The Initiate Brother" and "Gatherer of Clouds" both are still available AFAIK, On the Sci-Fi end of the spectrum the "Chung Kuo" Series forget the author are also based in "Eastern" Philosophy....Hope this helps
Actually much of "Western" Fantasy parallels the Judeo-Christian worldview, just as "Eastern" Fantasy parallels Buddhism, or Taoism or Hinduism. This in no way should detract from the overt pleasure of reading these tales. My Anthropology Prof. as an Undergrad was a huge Tolkien fan and as such integrated elements of LOTR into his lectures to provide a "Neutral" example of some cultural traits i.e. the Hobbits as English Peasantry, the Elves as the Romantic ideal of Nobility, etc. An important point which my Anthro professor made was that Tolkien was writing to an audience with a Judeo-Christian background, he WANTED to have his audience draw parallels between Biblical stories and his stories, I feel he was much more subtle about it then C.S. Lewis but the parallels are there and make sense when Tolkiens background is taken into account.
I would be interested in reading decent Fantasy novels written from a non-Judeo-Christian perspective as well if anyone knows of any and could post titles.
It's getting there, I work as a System Admin. for a DNA Sequencing company and we recently hired another Bioinformatics guy, we recieved more resumes qualified for the position then I thought we would. As to sources for Bioinformatics Info, unfortunatly I have run into the same issue Most of what I have found has been gleaned from sitting down at my local College library with a good index and weeding out the 98% of the articles which I don't care about to get to the pearls which I want. A good online source although not as extensive as a good college library is:
http://search.ebi.ac.uk:8888/compass
Which has a decent online journal link collection.
Keith
Slashdot Mirror
I agree with Ender's Game - Excellent read, Some SF Recommendations...
Journey to the Center of the Earth - Even after 100+ years a great book which I read at age 9. Decently paced, and one of the foundations of much of the SF written today.
The Time Machine - relatively short, interesting, and thought provoking, Precursor to one of the best TV Shows out there - Doctor Who.
Dune - Well written, kinda long, but worth the effort.
On the Fantasy front....
The Belgariad/Mallorean - By David Eddings, one of my favorites, I discovered Eddings shortly after discovering Tolkein and have reread these books several times, Bonus point is that there are 12 books in the series, It helped me to keep focus when I was first reading them at age 13, and provided reading material for a long time.
The Riftwar Saga - by Raymod Feist - The first trilogy - Magician, Silverthorn and A Darkness at Sethanon were easy to relate to as a teenager due to the protagonists being teenagers and being forced to overcome many trials and tribbulations throughout the course of the trilogy.
The Mithgar series - By Dennis McKiernan - Tolkienesque, Early books are fairly short and easy reads, lots of action, and humour to keep it intersting, Books have a central theme which carries all of the way through the trilogy but isn't explicitly stated unti lthe last book.
and Finally - The Dragonlance novels - By Margaret Weis and Tracey Hickman - Excellent - Action Packed, Good Vs. Evil - Some shades of gray, younger characters to relate to.
Hope these provide a decent smattering for you, Several of the trilogies I mentioned are also available in an omnibus with all or most of the indovidual books bound together.
I have a friend whom I have known since High School days, who is Schizophrenic. She developed symptoms in her early twenties, She also suffers from Bipolar disorder. When she takes her medication she realises something is wrong and has described the effect as "Slowing down my thoughts" She says when she is symptomatic, she believes the unbelievable and disbelieves the believable, she has a fuzzy perception of realty, and feels that she can or cannot change something that is happening to her, e.g. She says her feet talk to her while she walks and say bad things about her, This she cannot change, but sometimes she says she can seperate herself from things happening to her and be unemotional about things which would normally elicit an emotional response. On the Bipolar side she hates the mania, however when she is manic she feels good, does not realise anything is wrong, and feels as if she could keep going for days and days, and is proud of all she can accomplish while manic. Hoowever she feels the mania is worse then the depression in relation to the Bipolar, Because she is dillusional, The Schizophrenia is freightening to her because she has no control over what she can and cannot believe...some self doubt, but she has also described it as being taken out of her body and observing her life a if it were a "B" Movie...The emotional detatchment has probably been the most trying for her friends and family, especially the ones who knew her before she became symptomatic, When she is unmedicated it is as if she is a different person. If you are concerned I would strongly advise talking to a professional, there are several non-profit suport groups such a NAMI (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) which can provide assistance to both the patient and family members on what to expect. I hope this has been of some assistance to you
Keith
I Have never owned one, I have had several CDRW's over the years, including a Yamaha SCSI 6/6/24 which lasted 4 years burning approx. 5-10 disks per week, That drive was a real workhorse. Recently I was at a vend-duh's open house and won an Acer 40x CDRW, I Havn't seen much about the Acer drives so I figured, "what the hell, It's free(as in beer)" Not a bad drive, I have had it for three months and burn on average 5-10 CD's per week, The speed is nice, alot faster then what I have previously had access to, I'm surprised that what I always considered a "low-end" hardware manufacture has produced a good quality high speed CDRW... I wish I could find a review of that drive just to see if other people have had as good of luck with the Acer as I have...
Just My $.02 worth
Keith
Ok, I will give you Madison and Wilson, however to quote from the linked Lincoln Biography...
" Lincoln won re-election in 1864, as Union military triumphs heralded an end to the war. In his planning for peace, the President was flexible and generous, encouraging Southerners to lay down their arms and join speedily in reunion."
The Civil War was effectively over by the time Lincoln was re-elected.
Truman, Ok, technically, yes he was elected President for the first time following WWII, however he was elected VP in 1944 and served what amounted to a 3 year term (upon the death of FDR in 1945) So he was a sitting Pesident during a War who was elected after a war.
Also, the intent of the post was not to be "Snooty" but to point out the errors in the original post. If the tone was taken as snooty, I apologise...
Keith
Um, wrong, do your research... James Madison Pres. from 1809-1817 Won re-election after the war of 1812.. or how about Abraham Lincoln Pres. from 1861-1865 Who won re-election after the Civil War... or even William McKinley Pres. from 1897-1901 Who was re-elected after the Spanish-American War (1898) How about Woodrow Wilson Pres. from 1913-1921 Who was re-elected after a little skirmish which they called "The Great War" and which now refer to as WWI Hmmmmmm Even Ole "Give 'Em Hell" Harry Pres. From 1945 - 1953 Won an election after a war, WWII to be precise. Your statement is blatently untrue, and should have been researched. A friendly hint, when making generalisations make sure you KNOW the generalisations to be factual, if one says "No X has ever done Y" one must be damn sure that not a single X has ever done Y, just one X doing Y disprooves your statement. Just my $.02 worth Keith
No Actually Stephen, Rush's uncle
http://rosecity.net/rush/rushtour.html#briefs
And to quote from the above website...
"Rush's uncle, Stephen N. Limbaugh, Sr. is a federal judge appointed by Ronald Reagan and his first cousin, Stephen N. Limbaugh, Jr. sits on the Missouri Supreme Court."
The Judge in this article is Stephen Limbaugh Sr.
Now all I need to do is change my name to Bob Adass,
go to Law school, pass the Bar, Get hired by this law firm and I could be badass@mofo.com
Sounds like a plan
Back in 1998, The Hospital I was working in got one of these, They used it to transport specimens from the OR, or ER to the various labs, and Between the various labs. It worked quite well, If i remember correctly it had what amounted to a low-end Pentium Machine (P133 or so) attached to it, and ran on Solaris(I remember it interfaced with our Sun boxes), and the baritone voice wasn't quite as deep as James Earl Jones, but more like Peter Jennings, I was working Field Support for IS, and remember the first time I heard the thing come into a lab where I was fixing a PC problem, It would enter, Beep and Announce "Please remove Specimen" if it was making a delivery, and then would ask if there was anything for it to transport, the Lab Techs would then type in (I think they later got a barcode reader) the info on the specimen and the destination. I always thought this was a neat Idea from a couple of different standpoints, It helped with the transportation of Biohazardous material (Blood Samples, Tissue Samples, etc.) and cut down on the amount of time it took to get samples to the various labs. Never thought of the Pharmacy applications but it makes sense that these could be used for such a task.
Keith
Themed Naming conventions have been popular at a couple of places I've worked, with one using Astronomical names (Pleiades, Rigel, Betelguese, etc.) and one using Hawaiian Names (Kahuna, Leilaiekki, Kona, etc) But I have also seen Geographical/Purpose Conventions used eg. GWWEST01 = Primary Groupwise server for West region, MBH01 = Primary Domain Controller for MBH location, MBHWEB02 = Secondary Web server for MBH location. This could be adapted to an eighgt character schema with few problems, It is a bit cryptic at first, but once people start using the names the will come up with there own pronunciations for these cryptic names (eg. Washington University in St. Louis is abbreviated wustl, (Pronounced as Woostle))
Hope this helps
Keith
Just went to the site to read the article straight from the horse's Ar... Mouth, Imagine my pleasure when greeted with a Sybase ad in the center of the page proclaiming "Don't Believe the Lies" Nice job kudos to the appropriate positioning of that ad...
worked fine for us, the CD tower had 5 Plextor SCSI CDRW drives (Can't remember the model #'s offhand) external scsi connectors to an adaptec scsi card in a PC next to it, placed cd to be copied in the CDROM drive of the PC and up to five blanks in the tower, used Nero 5 software, Disk Juggler if I remember correctly would also work, I'll see if I can dig up more detailed specs if you need them. The PC was a Windows NT 4.0 Machine, with very little loaded onto it.
Keith
I just finished reading "The Forge of God" and "Anvil of the Stars" by Greg Bear, both of which deal with this issue. Should we on Earth broadcast radio signals like a baby crying in the woods, when we don't even know if there are any wolves loking for a quick snack? The best example I can think of from human history is th Hawaiians who were technological inferior defeating Cook who was technologically superior to them.
just my $.02 worth...
Keith
I bought the first B-5 DVD back before Christmas, which contained "In The Begining" and "The Gathering", Picked up the 2nd DVD Saturday Jan. 12, 2002 at Borders in St. Louis MO it contains, "Midnight on the Firing Line" and "Soul Hunter" pamphlet inside says new episodes to follow in march of 2002.
Hope this Helps
Keith
I agree, not that big of a deal, Several other countries handle Driver's Licenses in this way. In Missouri, if one moves into the State, one must take and pass both a written and practical driving test( much like a teenager getting their license for the first time), However once you have a Missouri DL you do not have to take the tests again unless you fail to renew the license within six months of it's expiration. If this goes through, presumably it would make moving to new state a litle easier, Police depts. would have an easier time getting info on persons from a different state, The state Govt's will probably hate this though (Centralising power, and infringing upon States rights) The more things change, the more they stay the same...sounds like some of the problems in the 1800's....
Keith
I agree, I believe the Vulcans put it quite succinctly, "Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations" One need only to look at the Burgess Shale (See Link Below)
a le /
http://tabla.geo.ucalgary.ca/~macrae/Burgess_Sh
To see that Life on Earth has not always fit into the forms we easily recognise as "Life"
Water, albeit essential to life on THIS planet may NOT be esential for "life" elsewhere.
Even discounting the variety of fossilised life in the Burgess Shale one need only look at the diversity of "life" on Earth to recognise that "Life" comes in many forms.
Just my $0.000000002 worth
Keith
You may send them here
n is h
http://www.linuxdoc.org/links/nenglish.html#spa
Which is from The Linux Documentation Project it lists several sources for Linux info in Espanol
As far as distro's Slackware is good as is Red Hat, I found Red Hat to be the most useful for me in my business.
Good Luck
Keith
The only ones I can remember off the top of my head are by Sean Russell, a "Duology" "The Initiate Brother" and "Gatherer of Clouds" both are still available AFAIK, On the Sci-Fi end of the spectrum the "Chung Kuo" Series forget the author are also based in "Eastern" Philosophy....Hope this helps
Keith
Actually much of "Western" Fantasy parallels the Judeo-Christian worldview, just as "Eastern" Fantasy parallels Buddhism, or Taoism or Hinduism. This in no way should detract from the overt pleasure of reading these tales. My Anthropology Prof. as an Undergrad was a huge Tolkien fan and as such integrated elements of LOTR into his lectures to provide a "Neutral" example of some cultural traits i.e. the Hobbits as English Peasantry, the Elves as the Romantic ideal of Nobility, etc. An important point which my Anthro professor made was that Tolkien was writing to an audience with a Judeo-Christian background, he WANTED to have his audience draw parallels between Biblical stories and his stories, I feel he was much more subtle about it then C.S. Lewis but the parallels are there and make sense when Tolkiens background is taken into account.
I would be interested in reading decent Fantasy novels written from a non-Judeo-Christian perspective as well if anyone knows of any and could post titles.
Just my $.02 worth
Keith
It's getting there, I work as a System Admin. for a DNA Sequencing company and we recently hired another Bioinformatics guy, we recieved more resumes qualified for the position then I thought we would. As to sources for Bioinformatics Info, unfortunatly I have run into the same issue Most of what I have found has been gleaned from sitting down at my local College library with a good index and weeding out the 98% of the articles which I don't care about to get to the pearls which I want. A good online source although not as extensive as a good college library is: http://search.ebi.ac.uk:8888/compass Which has a decent online journal link collection. Keith