thats a great idea. presumably a 3-5 second delay in retrieval of a search result could be translated into less available cores for processing. and based on all the data they capture it should be fairly straightforward to calculate this. so peak energy utilization hits, shut down cores, customers have a bit of delay and voila. they likely do this already but to a degree that is probably unnoticeable to most people.
great comment. I would add that another benefit of being "longterm" in a company is that you can also start to think longterm. for example, planning large (or even being part of) projects that take years to build and that see impact for much longer. there is some satisfaction in knowing you helped play a part to build something big and useful. of course, it goes without saying that as an employee one always has to think about themselves and not be taken advantage of, but what i'm saying is that it is not all bad. related: the longer you are at a company, if you are good performer, people start to trust you and your opinion on important matters. it doesn't matter what your position is in the food chain.
good luck!
check out this provision in the TPP:
http://www.international.gc.ca...
Prevents governments in TPP countries from demanding access to an enterprise’s software source code.
try looking at jobs in the medical profession or medical research. i'm pretty sure our director does 100hrs a week easily. mind you he once told me that because his wife didn't book dinner reservations on a saturday night that meant he could work instead (and that made him happy). more relevant: a game company i worked at people ate and slept sometimes for weeks on end at work. personally i didn't last long on that schedule but that's me. it's not a great life but that's IMO. lots of people do this type of work week. some seem to not be the worst for wear for it either.
1. i didnt say it was, that's why it is in quotes. of course it isn't autonomous, its totally blind, but the metaphor usually works. evolutionary literature abounds with anthropomorphic language, but most people get that because its a useful way to communicate. anyways, we humans, we do make decisions, and what right do we have to introduce or delete species at will? I would argue that it is something that should be discussed more before we do not this mindless bs jurassic park stunt . this is an example of: "we can" therefore "we should". I don't think the first predicates the second.
2. i agree with you. we are probably in the midst of a massive extinction event right now (the 6th major one to occur), there was a good article on this in Nature in the last couple months. as gould has said, we could nuke the planet and nature wouldn't care ("care": thats a metaphor), life would go on. we'd be dead of course, but thats inconsequential to the machination that is nature and evolution.
3. this is a wooly mammoth we are talking about, not a recently killed off species.why waste time to resurrect a wooly mammoth? how about trying to preserve the biodiversity that we have now instead of wasting time on recreating the bloody Flinstones! at the very least if we restored a carrier pigeon that would have a bit more merit. my guess is this just a massive advertisement for some other business plan they have, like cloning your dog or cat. but again, it doesn't seem to make sense to me to. If we are able to recreate species going extinct and then introduce them back into their environment why wouldn't they just go extinct again? shouldn't we just fix the problem?
i don't think we disagree here!
it's unethical because we are bringing back an animal that has gone extinct. What purpose is there in doing this? what gives us the right to "override a decision" that nature made many thousands of years ago? It isn't even a "real" mammoth, because contextually it will not be brought up nor living in the same environment in which it went extinct. if they splice in bits of extant elephants for missing genomic bits its even less a mammoth, although superficially it may still look like one. Its just a circus sideshow. and if the "scientific" point to doing this were to reintroduce mammoths into the wild, how would that upset ecosystems if it were successful? my cynical scientist hat says this is just headlining grantsmanship.
People! Japan is not as expensive as you think. I have a 2 bedroom and dining room kitchen (6 jo, 6 jo, 12 jo) apartment. Very nice and new. The cost is around 600$. Ok, its not in central tokyo, but then i wanted a garden and a parking spot so i deal with the commute. You can rent whole houses in parts of Tokyo (Nippori for eg) for just over a grand. If you wanna be a playah and live in Aoyama, then sure, shell out lots of money, but Japans prices have really come down since the bubble economy burst.
Also, food isn't expensive here if you know where to shop. Beer, wine, liquor is cheap. Dining out is reasonable and no bloody tipping on top of that.
Ok, i'm sounding like an ad for 'living in japan' but i just thought i'd put my 2 cents in and dispense with some of the myths. I think these misconceptions partially arise from conditions here 10 years ago and the fact that most people who have these ideas maybe only visited Japan (which IS expensive for tourists). Everything but bandwidth is NOT expensive here!
I agree. I hate it when people speculate about the Japanese young people. Yeah, maybe you see some dorky salaryman driving around in Hybrid. But if it's a young cool guy who likes cars, they'll be driving some monster classic from the US (slightly rare but not uncommon) or a heavily modded, suped up domestic car. Lots of Van type things with wings (?!). Lots of big station wagony cars. Lots of flashing lights. To insinuate that the dudes in these cars have to be Yakuza is fucking pointless. I have a good friend (Japanese) who loves classic american cars and has a huge old 69 Chevy.
While i have to say that i agree mostly that the anti-GM people are too alarmist, what bothers me in a lot of posts are the people with the opposite opinion hiding behind "science" in an equally silly fashion.
Let's take a comment i've heard here about the ecological impacts to start with. Well, no, ecological communities are not binary yes-no systems. But THEY ARE complex webs with nonlinear properties sustaining a particular balance of species. Disrupting that balance in one area will have repercussions that are wholly unpredictable except in the most obvious of cases. Take the cod fishery off the NA east coast. It collapsed due to heavy overfishing. Will it recover? Possibly never. Why? Because one theory (and there are multiple theories within scientific circles on this as well as on GM food and GE organisms, so don't pretend there is only one current "truth") has it that the system has reached a new stable point, with previously small number species now in higher abundance. Some of these species are only remotely connected to cod (ie-cod eat them, or they eat cod would be a direct connection) in the food web. So will a GM organism drive an NE to extinction? I don't know. But neither do you. And neither does Monsanto. Now, i think there's a pro's and cons here we have to look at, which is better food production for the benefit of humanity, drug delivery to third world countries etc, but this is entirely a different reason and justification than 'it looks cute'.
Second point. GE organism makes a new toxin. why is this unbelievable? Is the insertion point of the gene always in the same point? In a recent study in France on an inherited immune system defect, a number of the children developed cancer because the inserted gene was being put into an area, and disrupting the activity of genes which have important cell growth properties (or it might have been apoptosis related, can't remember-just do a search on Pubmed, the article was in Nature if you're curious). Ok, it's good to be doing these studies and there is going to be trouble and bugs to work out. But the benefits potentially outweigh the costs for this kind of work. But glowing fish? Ok, it's cute right. I agree. But really, has there been a serious study of the effects of this gene insertion (toxic by products etc) and mock up environmental impact studies for the 'one that gets away', which will invariably happen? At the very least they should have made them 100% sterile to prevent cross breeding in case of accidental release. It will happen! It's just statistics as to the probability of when.
So my point: Don't all you arm chair scientist start waving books you've never read or papers you don't understand and realize that this is an emerging age of new science. Keyword: emerging. There are multiple view points within the scientific community on these very issues and it's not as cut and dry as you might think. However, GM people, listen up too. The cat is out of the bag and there's no stopping it now. Get educated on these issues too and decide for yourself what is good and bad and realize there are grey areas in this field with some areas worthy of examination.
And hey, if you can assure me that inserting a bioluminesence gene is not gonna cause any nasty side effects or be included in my sperm production cells, i'll be the first to get one that is locationally activated. What a way to impress your girl!
I have used the IMSL libraries extensively in the past (only the fortran ones though). They are very efficient, fast, and easy to interface with and stick into your code. These libraries are quite robust as well, having been developed over a couple of decades. As a matter of fact, the original versions of IMSL included all the source code! Sadly, I don't think that is the case anymore....
Recently I switched to a new company and was unable to use IMSL, and had to scour archives looking for routines that would do the same thing. I finally found what I was looking for, but it took ages and was a bit cludgy. IMSL is definetly worth the money if you can afford it!
It's no myth. I've lived in Japan for a number of years and dated a Korean-Japanese girl for some time who told me all about this (she had family in the business). Most of the Korean Japanese think it's quite funny that the Japanese are giving them so much money. Especially considering how crappy the Japanese gov't treats them...
The only debate though is whether this money is going to North or South Korea. I think the truth is that the money is going to both places depending on the family.
What's interesting is that gambling is technically ILLEGAL in Japan. They get around it by giving you little 'prizes' for your pachinko balls (1 box of balls is about 10000 yen worth). You then must physically leave the building and take these 'prizes' to a place which will 'buy' them back for money. Actually, one can get quite good at Pachinko. I knew somebody who was a Pachinko professional (pachipro) and who told me the trick, nowadays at least, is to have a good eye for the placement of the pins on the board in deciding which machine to sit at.
And oh yeah, if you've seen any pachinko machines recently you'll know they are almost like video games, with little screens in the center showing graphics and extra games you can play.
Sorry to disappoint you, but it's not just 'big evil pharmies' out there that have been trying to stake claims in this area. A quick look through some of the patent databases shows a number of universities also making these dubious claims.
You're right though, it is ALL about money, but the truth is that it is a very complicated issue and that there are points on both sides. My personal opinion is that patents on a proven use should be granted. Patents with dubious claims on a particular gene being a panacea for all that ails mankind (and these do exist-hilarious reading material!) should be dropped in the trash bin.
Here where i work we have 2 KGT SCSI RAID controllers. Unfortunately, one of the problems we have with them is the serious costs when break downs occur. If a hard-drive goes down, and needs to be replaced, this is typically in the 500-1000$ range for a single SCSI drive of only 50GB capacity. The reason is because the hard drives are specially modified. So they aren't off the shelf parts and need to be purchased directly from the manufacturer.
Now, last week we had one of these machines go down because of a faulty controller. The cost to replace the controller board is up in the 5 grand range and they can't guarantee recovery of the data. Luckily, i back everything up that's important weekly, so nothing was lost. I'm basically telling them to get stuffed then and looking to upgrade to something in the terabyte range. The data on this box was only in the 300 GB range so i've just thrown a bunch of IDE's into a linux box and mounted them as a Samba share temporarily.
Does anybody know anything about the SCSI-IDE boxes (SCSI controller, IDE disks internal)? Any recommendations on companies with good reputations? I'm thinking moving to IDE with 8mb cache WD disks is a pretty good way to get away from the expenses of SCSI in case of breakage while not sacrificing much for speed. Of course, you're still stuffed if the controller breaks and you have to get a repair!!
Internal card RAIDs are neat, but we have massive amounts of data and this just doesn't cut it.
I am also in Japan and work in a technically related sector. There is lots of free-software related stuff around here and if anything, it's at least on par with what's in the west. Most people I work with are pretty aware of Linux and there are a scattering of machines around the network, just like it was back home. In my own case, I use it primarily as an internal web and samba server for my department.
Just walk into any book store and there's at least 3 good quality Japanese linux/unix magazines. Huge sections in all the book shops on linux. There's lots of linux and unix only shops in Akihabara. Sure, you see lots of Microsoft propaganda and the BSA stuff occasionally but it's hardly huge. I mean, come on, last week one of my trains was ALL (as in 100% of the space) Apple advertising and the next one was all GAP advertisements. I've yet to see the same from MS or the BSA (though i might have been lucky and not hopped on that train).
Anyways, that being said, the big problem in getting it adopted wide scale here is going to be the same as anywhere else: lack of ease of use on the desktop, compatability with office or the other Japanese Word Processors, etc etc. And it probably won't be as cheap as we'd like to believe. This being Japan i'm sure the company contracted out to install all these systems in the government will charge a fortune in service and support fees. Trust me, having been involved in negotiating several major software contracts here, nothing comes cheap, even if it is something being run on OSS backbones. Hey, maybe that's what this is all about! Some corrupt politician is probably doing this to get money from one of his sidelines so he can afford to go the more expensive snack bars...
You're absolutely right. There's one sure fire method of losing weight (and getting in shape): burn more calories than you intake. It's such a simple formula, but you know what, it works. And it doesn't mean you have to stop eating good and healthy foods (and junk food too sometimes, though you find the more you exercise the less you desire it). Just make sure you burn more kCal on the treadmill, lifting weights, rowing, whatever if you enjoy eating. as i do!
c
what's the matter with you? I checked your link about cats. don't know why cause i figured it was a troll. but then 'boss is a cunt' comes flashing on my screen. at work. maybe you should get a clue. it's people who do shit like this that need a serious facial readjustment.
You should check out the Pioneer CDj-1000 (http://www.pioneerprodj.com/index2.mv)
It has a big vinyl size plate so you can do scratching, beatmixing, and almost all the other tricks of vinyl. The scratching sounds just like the real thing and is totally easy to convert to from playing out vinyl. Plus it has some other really cool features, like reverse play, digital link to pioneer cross faders on their mixers, seamless looping, and much more. Of all the cd dj machines out there this has got to be the best. Unfortunately they don't play mp3's at the moment so you have to burn proper cd's. They're a little pricey too, but hey, they have nice blue lights.
carl
Try this book:
Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis
by David W. Mount
It's a good introduction to the field.
A little more in depth, but one that everyone should have:
Biological Sequence Analysis : Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids
by Richard Durbin (Editor), S. Eddy, A. Krogh, G. Mitchison
Hope this helps!
carl
Slashdot Mirror
thats a great idea. presumably a 3-5 second delay in retrieval of a search result could be translated into less available cores for processing. and based on all the data they capture it should be fairly straightforward to calculate this. so peak energy utilization hits, shut down cores, customers have a bit of delay and voila. they likely do this already but to a degree that is probably unnoticeable to most people.
great comment. I would add that another benefit of being "longterm" in a company is that you can also start to think longterm. for example, planning large (or even being part of) projects that take years to build and that see impact for much longer. there is some satisfaction in knowing you helped play a part to build something big and useful. of course, it goes without saying that as an employee one always has to think about themselves and not be taken advantage of, but what i'm saying is that it is not all bad. related: the longer you are at a company, if you are good performer, people start to trust you and your opinion on important matters. it doesn't matter what your position is in the food chain.
good luck! check out this provision in the TPP: http://www.international.gc.ca... Prevents governments in TPP countries from demanding access to an enterprise’s software source code.
try looking at jobs in the medical profession or medical research. i'm pretty sure our director does 100hrs a week easily. mind you he once told me that because his wife didn't book dinner reservations on a saturday night that meant he could work instead (and that made him happy). more relevant: a game company i worked at people ate and slept sometimes for weeks on end at work. personally i didn't last long on that schedule but that's me. it's not a great life but that's IMO. lots of people do this type of work week. some seem to not be the worst for wear for it either.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/1... The article this abc story is based on.
1. i didnt say it was, that's why it is in quotes. of course it isn't autonomous, its totally blind, but the metaphor usually works. evolutionary literature abounds with anthropomorphic language, but most people get that because its a useful way to communicate. anyways, we humans, we do make decisions, and what right do we have to introduce or delete species at will? I would argue that it is something that should be discussed more before we do not this mindless bs jurassic park stunt . this is an example of: "we can" therefore "we should". I don't think the first predicates the second. 2. i agree with you. we are probably in the midst of a massive extinction event right now (the 6th major one to occur), there was a good article on this in Nature in the last couple months. as gould has said, we could nuke the planet and nature wouldn't care ("care": thats a metaphor), life would go on. we'd be dead of course, but thats inconsequential to the machination that is nature and evolution. 3. this is a wooly mammoth we are talking about, not a recently killed off species.why waste time to resurrect a wooly mammoth? how about trying to preserve the biodiversity that we have now instead of wasting time on recreating the bloody Flinstones! at the very least if we restored a carrier pigeon that would have a bit more merit. my guess is this just a massive advertisement for some other business plan they have, like cloning your dog or cat. but again, it doesn't seem to make sense to me to. If we are able to recreate species going extinct and then introduce them back into their environment why wouldn't they just go extinct again? shouldn't we just fix the problem? i don't think we disagree here!
it's unethical because we are bringing back an animal that has gone extinct. What purpose is there in doing this? what gives us the right to "override a decision" that nature made many thousands of years ago? It isn't even a "real" mammoth, because contextually it will not be brought up nor living in the same environment in which it went extinct. if they splice in bits of extant elephants for missing genomic bits its even less a mammoth, although superficially it may still look like one. Its just a circus sideshow. and if the "scientific" point to doing this were to reintroduce mammoths into the wild, how would that upset ecosystems if it were successful? my cynical scientist hat says this is just headlining grantsmanship.
People! Japan is not as expensive as you think. I have a 2 bedroom and dining room kitchen (6 jo, 6 jo, 12 jo) apartment. Very nice and new. The cost is around 600$. Ok, its not in central tokyo, but then i wanted a garden and a parking spot so i deal with the commute. You can rent whole houses in parts of Tokyo (Nippori for eg) for just over a grand. If you wanna be a playah and live in Aoyama, then sure, shell out lots of money, but Japans prices have really come down since the bubble economy burst.
Also, food isn't expensive here if you know where to shop. Beer, wine, liquor is cheap. Dining out is reasonable and no bloody tipping on top of that.
Ok, i'm sounding like an ad for 'living in japan' but i just thought i'd put my 2 cents in and dispense with some of the myths. I think these misconceptions partially arise from conditions here 10 years ago and the fact that most people who have these ideas maybe only visited Japan (which IS expensive for tourists). Everything but bandwidth is NOT expensive here!
c
I agree. I hate it when people speculate about the Japanese young people. Yeah, maybe you see some dorky salaryman driving around in Hybrid. But if it's a young cool guy who likes cars, they'll be driving some monster classic from the US (slightly rare but not uncommon) or a heavily modded, suped up domestic car. Lots of Van type things with wings (?!). Lots of big station wagony cars. Lots of flashing lights. To insinuate that the dudes in these cars have to be Yakuza is fucking pointless. I have a good friend (Japanese) who loves classic american cars and has a huge old 69 Chevy.
While i have to say that i agree mostly that the anti-GM people are too alarmist, what bothers me in a lot of posts are the people with the opposite opinion hiding behind "science" in an equally silly fashion.
Let's take a comment i've heard here about the ecological impacts to start with. Well, no, ecological communities are not binary yes-no systems. But THEY ARE complex webs with nonlinear properties sustaining a particular balance of species. Disrupting that balance in one area will have repercussions that are wholly unpredictable except in the most obvious of cases. Take the cod fishery off the NA east coast. It collapsed due to heavy overfishing. Will it recover? Possibly never. Why? Because one theory (and there are multiple theories within scientific circles on this as well as on GM food and GE organisms, so don't pretend there is only one current "truth") has it that the system has reached a new stable point, with previously small number species now in higher abundance. Some of these species are only remotely connected to cod (ie-cod eat them, or they eat cod would be a direct connection) in the food web. So will a GM organism drive an NE to extinction? I don't know. But neither do you. And neither does Monsanto. Now, i think there's a pro's and cons here we have to look at, which is better food production for the benefit of humanity, drug delivery to third world countries etc, but this is entirely a different reason and justification than 'it looks cute'.
Second point. GE organism makes a new toxin. why is this unbelievable? Is the insertion point of the gene always in the same point? In a recent study in France on an inherited immune system defect, a number of the children developed cancer because the inserted gene was being put into an area, and disrupting the activity of genes which have important cell growth properties (or it might have been apoptosis related, can't remember-just do a search on Pubmed, the article was in Nature if you're curious). Ok, it's good to be doing these studies and there is going to be trouble and bugs to work out. But the benefits potentially outweigh the costs for this kind of work. But glowing fish? Ok, it's cute right. I agree. But really, has there been a serious study of the effects of this gene insertion (toxic by products etc) and mock up environmental impact studies for the 'one that gets away', which will invariably happen? At the very least they should have made them 100% sterile to prevent cross breeding in case of accidental release. It will happen! It's just statistics as to the probability of when.
So my point: Don't all you arm chair scientist start waving books you've never read or papers you don't understand and realize that this is an emerging age of new science. Keyword: emerging. There are multiple view points within the scientific community on these very issues and it's not as cut and dry as you might think. However, GM people, listen up too. The cat is out of the bag and there's no stopping it now. Get educated on these issues too and decide for yourself what is good and bad and realize there are grey areas in this field with some areas worthy of examination.
And hey, if you can assure me that inserting a bioluminesence gene is not gonna cause any nasty side effects or be included in my sperm production cells, i'll be the first to get one that is locationally activated. What a way to impress your girl!
c
Don't you mean details at Chapter 11?
I have used the IMSL libraries extensively in the past (only the fortran ones though). They are very efficient, fast, and easy to interface with and stick into your code. These libraries are quite robust as well, having been developed over a couple of decades. As a matter of fact, the original versions of IMSL included all the source code! Sadly, I don't think that is the case anymore....
Recently I switched to a new company and was unable to use IMSL, and had to scour archives looking for routines that would do the same thing. I finally found what I was looking for, but it took ages and was a bit cludgy. IMSL is definetly worth the money if you can afford it!
c
It's no myth. I've lived in Japan for a number of years and dated a Korean-Japanese girl for some time who told me all about this (she had family in the business). Most of the Korean Japanese think it's quite funny that the Japanese are giving them so much money. Especially considering how crappy the Japanese gov't treats them...
The only debate though is whether this money is going to North or South Korea. I think the truth is that the money is going to both places depending on the family.
What's interesting is that gambling is technically ILLEGAL in Japan. They get around it by giving you little 'prizes' for your pachinko balls (1 box of balls is about 10000 yen worth). You then must physically leave the building and take these 'prizes' to a place which will 'buy' them back for money. Actually, one can get quite good at Pachinko. I knew somebody who was a Pachinko professional (pachipro) and who told me the trick, nowadays at least, is to have a good eye for the placement of the pins on the board in deciding which machine to sit at.
And oh yeah, if you've seen any pachinko machines recently you'll know they are almost like video games, with little screens in the center showing graphics and extra games you can play.
c
Sorry to disappoint you, but it's not just 'big evil pharmies' out there that have been trying to stake claims in this area. A quick look through some of the patent databases shows a number of universities also making these dubious claims.
You're right though, it is ALL about money, but the truth is that it is a very complicated issue and that there are points on both sides. My personal opinion is that patents on a proven use should be granted. Patents with dubious claims on a particular gene being a panacea for all that ails mankind (and these do exist-hilarious reading material!) should be dropped in the trash bin.
c
What about stand alone RAID controllers?
Here where i work we have 2 KGT SCSI RAID controllers. Unfortunately, one of the problems we have with them is the serious costs when break downs occur. If a hard-drive goes down, and needs to be replaced, this is typically in the 500-1000$ range for a single SCSI drive of only 50GB capacity. The reason is because the hard drives are specially modified. So they aren't off the shelf parts and need to be purchased directly from the manufacturer.
Now, last week we had one of these machines go down because of a faulty controller. The cost to replace the controller board is up in the 5 grand range and they can't guarantee recovery of the data. Luckily, i back everything up that's important weekly, so nothing was lost. I'm basically telling them to get stuffed then and looking to upgrade to something in the terabyte range. The data on this box was only in the 300 GB range so i've just thrown a bunch of IDE's into a linux box and mounted them as a Samba share temporarily.
Does anybody know anything about the SCSI-IDE boxes (SCSI controller, IDE disks internal)? Any recommendations on companies with good reputations? I'm thinking moving to IDE with 8mb cache WD disks is a pretty good way to get away from the expenses of SCSI in case of breakage while not sacrificing much for speed. Of course, you're still stuffed if the controller breaks and you have to get a repair!!
Internal card RAIDs are neat, but we have massive amounts of data and this just doesn't cut it.
pao93
I am also in Japan and work in a technically related sector. There is lots of free-software related stuff around here and if anything, it's at least on par with what's in the west. Most people I work with are pretty aware of Linux and there are a scattering of machines around the network, just like it was back home. In my own case, I use it primarily as an internal web and samba server for my department. Just walk into any book store and there's at least 3 good quality Japanese linux/unix magazines. Huge sections in all the book shops on linux. There's lots of linux and unix only shops in Akihabara. Sure, you see lots of Microsoft propaganda and the BSA stuff occasionally but it's hardly huge. I mean, come on, last week one of my trains was ALL (as in 100% of the space) Apple advertising and the next one was all GAP advertisements. I've yet to see the same from MS or the BSA (though i might have been lucky and not hopped on that train). Anyways, that being said, the big problem in getting it adopted wide scale here is going to be the same as anywhere else: lack of ease of use on the desktop, compatability with office or the other Japanese Word Processors, etc etc. And it probably won't be as cheap as we'd like to believe. This being Japan i'm sure the company contracted out to install all these systems in the government will charge a fortune in service and support fees. Trust me, having been involved in negotiating several major software contracts here, nothing comes cheap, even if it is something being run on OSS backbones. Hey, maybe that's what this is all about! Some corrupt politician is probably doing this to get money from one of his sidelines so he can afford to go the more expensive snack bars...
You're absolutely right. There's one sure fire method of losing weight (and getting in shape): burn more calories than you intake. It's such a simple formula, but you know what, it works. And it doesn't mean you have to stop eating good and healthy foods (and junk food too sometimes, though you find the more you exercise the less you desire it). Just make sure you burn more kCal on the treadmill, lifting weights, rowing, whatever if you enjoy eating. as i do! c
what's the matter with you? I checked your link about cats. don't know why cause i figured it was a troll. but then 'boss is a cunt' comes flashing on my screen. at work. maybe you should get a clue. it's people who do shit like this that need a serious facial readjustment.
You should check out the Pioneer CDj-1000 (http://www.pioneerprodj.com/index2.mv) It has a big vinyl size plate so you can do scratching, beatmixing, and almost all the other tricks of vinyl. The scratching sounds just like the real thing and is totally easy to convert to from playing out vinyl. Plus it has some other really cool features, like reverse play, digital link to pioneer cross faders on their mixers, seamless looping, and much more. Of all the cd dj machines out there this has got to be the best. Unfortunately they don't play mp3's at the moment so you have to burn proper cd's. They're a little pricey too, but hey, they have nice blue lights. carl
Try this book: Bioinformatics: Sequence and Genome Analysis by David W. Mount It's a good introduction to the field. A little more in depth, but one that everyone should have: Biological Sequence Analysis : Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acids by Richard Durbin (Editor), S. Eddy, A. Krogh, G. Mitchison Hope this helps! carl