I am routinely foiled by 00s 32,000 limit and my version of excel's 64,000 row limit. In bioinformatics, I frequently see files that exceed 64,000 rows. For any real analysis, of course you use other tools but you need spreadsheets if you want to quickly look at a large tab delimited text file to see what's what. I look forward to the increase and hope the OO people will at least go to 128K.
No. Most often, scientific papers cite other papers to back up an assertion in the manuscript. Simply stating that protein X is involved in pathway Y is not always enough. You have to back it up with a citation of an accepted manuscript that shows data supporting that assertion. You don't really see directly quoted material.
You ever hear of a one sample t-test? You can prove whether or not something is significant with only one sample! You don't even need something to compare it to! Oh, wait - no you can't. That's not what a one sample t-test is at all. Either way, you can do some amazing shit with statistics. Especially if you don't understand what you are doing.
In my field (bioinformatics) data generation is far outpacing desktop computer power. I work with microarrays and in the last 5 years feature sets have increased over 1000 times with the prices moving almost as quickly in the opposite direction. We've been struggling for a while. It will soon take mainframes to process this sort of data.
And how much would it cost to monitor, analyze and store the data from the tracking of even a small percentage of their 10,169,726 users and communities?
They are already doing that. Any site with any traffic that generates revenue monitors this very closely. It's the blood of the net.
Would it be worth going out of their way to shut down any of the users they found in violation, particularly in the eyes of the advertisers?
For sites of that magnitude, changing click-through ratios by just a few percentage points can mean millions in revenue - lost or gained.
Is it really still true that Biologists have no idea about programming?
To make a sweeping generalization: They usually gain just enough knowledge to make them dangereous as the saying goes. They are not going to build apps with design and usabiltiy in mind. They want something that solves their problem. They don't really care how they get there as long as they get there. And they usually don't care if the road to the answer is paved with bugs and work-arounds.
Programmers have no idea of context. Biologists have no idea about programming. It is very hard to mix the two. You can be the shit-hottest dba in the world but if you have no relevant (deep) biology background you are guaranteed to produce crap. Almost every piece of biological software is a POS because of this.
Maybe how slashdot does it, with the "You can automatically log in by clicking This Link and bookmarking the resulting page. This is totally insecure, but very convenient."
No, it doesn't. For one, click that link and bookmark the resulting page, log out and use the bookmark. It won't log you back in because the link redirects you to index.pl. You can right click the link and bookmark the actual link and that will work. However, if you turn of cookies it will not work. In fact, you cannot log in to slashdot with cookies turned off. Slashdot deposits about 15 cookies on your machine when you log in (probably mostly your preferences since it doesn't want to hit the database everytime you click a link). You can still post under a username if you are not logged in, but you have to enter your username and password. If you do a preview, you will appear to be logged in, but once you post you will not be logged in.
One of the only real alternatives to not using cookies but being able to log in and stay logged in under a user name is to use Apache's user authentication. The downside is, that ugly box pops up and you can be either a user and be logged in, or you can't view the site at all. Plus, Apache's authentication does not provide a "log out" method other than completely quiting the browser.
Cookies and javascript make the web go round. Flash, well the only thing I really like flash for is embedded movies. It's absolutely the most crossplatform method to view video online. Other than that, it should be banned.
By the way, I shut cookies off to post this. Try it, it's a pain in the ass if you do a few previews.
At the very, very least, you need javascript for simple form error checking. Sure you could send all the data back to your server, error check it there and rerender the page with a warning stuck in the right place. Why wouldn't you use javascript to do something like alert("You did not enter an email address"). And other than checking server-side, how would you suggest doing it without javascript?
Do you login to Slashdot everytime you post or visit? I kind of like not having to. How would you do that with cookies?
I agree about flash though. Its use should be minimized and not used as the primary environment.
Actually, I think it is you who is wrong and that you only get to be pendantic like that in an acedemic setting. In an academic setting you might be discussing individual bacteriUM, but in the case of this discussion it is being used in the sense of "a type of bacteria" not an individual cell. As for your loci remark, yes, it would be stupid to say that. But outside of acedemic environments, how many people use the word locus (science fiction geeks aside)?
Thanks, I know it is. Because if you go there and search for 'ticket', there are more than a dozen high activity ticket tracking projects in the first 20 results.
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...am glad I have absolutely no idea what that summary means.
What, is he afraid that India will turn into a country where everyone has a really muscular right arm?
I think I sent someone $5 in 1994...no wait, I didn't.
You just got thrown into the fire. That's the absolute best place to learn.
Won't work, they'll tap you at the first hop (the cable company's router) if they have to.
I am routinely foiled by 00s 32,000 limit and my version of excel's 64,000 row limit. In bioinformatics, I frequently see files that exceed 64,000 rows. For any real analysis, of course you use other tools but you need spreadsheets if you want to quickly look at a large tab delimited text file to see what's what. I look forward to the increase and hope the OO people will at least go to 128K.
No. Most often, scientific papers cite other papers to back up an assertion in the manuscript. Simply stating that protein X is involved in pathway Y is not always enough. You have to back it up with a citation of an accepted manuscript that shows data supporting that assertion. You don't really see directly quoted material.
You ever hear of a one sample t-test? You can prove whether or not something is significant with only one sample! You don't even need something to compare it to! Oh, wait - no you can't. That's not what a one sample t-test is at all. Either way, you can do some amazing shit with statistics. Especially if you don't understand what you are doing.
In my field (bioinformatics) data generation is far outpacing desktop computer power. I work with microarrays and in the last 5 years feature sets have increased over 1000 times with the prices moving almost as quickly in the opposite direction. We've been struggling for a while. It will soon take mainframes to process this sort of data.
What's so new about JavaScript?
Haven't you heard? Javascript is the new....uh Javascript.
And how much would it cost to monitor, analyze and store the data from the tracking of even a small percentage of their 10,169,726 users and communities?
They are already doing that. Any site with any traffic that generates revenue monitors this very closely. It's the blood of the net.
Would it be worth going out of their way to shut down any of the users they found in violation, particularly in the eyes of the advertisers?
For sites of that magnitude, changing click-through ratios by just a few percentage points can mean millions in revenue - lost or gained.
That is actually my biggest fear. I hope I make it, I'm sorry you did not.
I'm on track to retire at 45. So why don't you put that in your $5000 TV and smoke it.
This article makes me uneasy. How can people spend money like that?
Provides two levels of plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:
What are you? A spy or something?
Hmmm, why don't the developers and biologists...gasp!....work together to design something?
We'll for starters, you get developers convincing the biologists that they need Oracle...and it only goes downhill from there.
I'm not saying that it can't happen, only in my experience (15+ years worth) it usually doesn't.
Is it really still true that Biologists have no idea about programming?
To make a sweeping generalization: They usually gain just enough knowledge to make them dangereous as the saying goes. They are not going to build apps with design and usabiltiy in mind. They want something that solves their problem. They don't really care how they get there as long as they get there. And they usually don't care if the road to the answer is paved with bugs and work-arounds.
Programmers have no idea of context. Biologists have no idea about programming. It is very hard to mix the two. You can be the shit-hottest dba in the world but if you have no relevant (deep) biology background you are guaranteed to produce crap. Almost every piece of biological software is a POS because of this.
I'm surprised we made it to 2006 without thinking of this.
Maybe how slashdot does it, with the "You can automatically log in by clicking This Link and bookmarking the resulting page. This is totally insecure, but very convenient."
No, it doesn't. For one, click that link and bookmark the resulting page, log out and use the bookmark. It won't log you back in because the link redirects you to index.pl. You can right click the link and bookmark the actual link and that will work. However, if you turn of cookies it will not work. In fact, you cannot log in to slashdot with cookies turned off. Slashdot deposits about 15 cookies on your machine when you log in (probably mostly your preferences since it doesn't want to hit the database everytime you click a link). You can still post under a username if you are not logged in, but you have to enter your username and password. If you do a preview, you will appear to be logged in, but once you post you will not be logged in.
One of the only real alternatives to not using cookies but being able to log in and stay logged in under a user name is to use Apache's user authentication. The downside is, that ugly box pops up and you can be either a user and be logged in, or you can't view the site at all. Plus, Apache's authentication does not provide a "log out" method other than completely quiting the browser.
Cookies and javascript make the web go round. Flash, well the only thing I really like flash for is embedded movies. It's absolutely the most crossplatform method to view video online. Other than that, it should be banned.
By the way, I shut cookies off to post this. Try it, it's a pain in the ass if you do a few previews.
At the very, very least, you need javascript for simple form error checking. Sure you could send all the data back to your server, error check it there and rerender the page with a warning stuck in the right place. Why wouldn't you use javascript to do something like alert("You did not enter an email address"). And other than checking server-side, how would you suggest doing it without javascript?
Do you login to Slashdot everytime you post or visit? I kind of like not having to. How would you do that with cookies?
I agree about flash though. Its use should be minimized and not used as the primary environment.
Actually, I think it is you who is wrong and that you only get to be pendantic like that in an acedemic setting. In an academic setting you might be discussing individual bacteriUM, but in the case of this discussion it is being used in the sense of "a type of bacteria" not an individual cell. As for your loci remark, yes, it would be stupid to say that. But outside of acedemic environments, how many people use the word locus (science fiction geeks aside)?
Saying a spirocheate is not a bacteria is like saying a human is not a mammal.
Syphilis is neither that dangerous nor a bacteria.
It's not? Then what is it? Oh, wait, it is a bacteria.
Thanks, I know it is. Because if you go there and search for 'ticket', there are more than a dozen high activity ticket tracking projects in the first 20 results.