Exactly. Ship date is a feature. It will have lower priority than some features, and higher priority than some other features.
I've never seen a team that could estimate, months in advance, when a particular feature set would ship.
I've been part of great teams that regularly review progress and have the power to adjust priorities.
Shipdate was the feature dropped in Duke Nukem Forever.. So it ships with all features..
Microarrays are expensive. The technology requires quite a few steps, so affymetrix chips are amazingly cheap all things considered.
This technology is a glass sieve.. modern technology can do this cheaply at scale.
The awesome factor is that a raman spectrometer could probably be used to nail down some of the ambiguities for similar sized proteins. As a thin glass layer will be transparent, and the samples are in predefined locations. Since youve got to optically scan the sample anyway, why not get a raman read in the process.
And the data analysis is much more straightforward.. with a genechip, you look for a specific pattern, which may be weird if you have viruses in a sample. Where size sorting gets single on-off data points which indicate a virus of size-x which will correspond to one (possibly more) viruses.. it narrows the search pretty fast if you have yes-no answers. Plus you can do a targeted microarray when you have a narrow search field. But most of the time - sorting cold from flu from ebola and hiv is enough.
I kinda suspect that this might be pretty quick to run, as the virus only needs to move a minute (.005-.5mm-ish id supose) amount, and an ultracentrifuge can make short work of sorting much larger samples that need to separate proteins by a few millimeters. But hey, what do I know?
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Yes, the nerdy grail of gaming, escaping the dungeon with the amulet of Yendor.
Without the help of a search engine.
That is no hollow achievement, a total waste of perfectly good time, granted. But boom, dead from food poisoning after getting the amulet. Fifteen years later and I'm still bitter.
I'm sorry, but math education is an abomination. Most people I've met are innumerate to a degree that is frightening. Not just kids, full on trig teachers in high school, knowing just enough to get their job done-- he explained that pi was calculated by averaging measurements of circles.
The level of math that we let HS students graduate with is comical. Our schools self adjust to measuring math achievement based how far they managed to get in the past.
But the distance that is gone in math isn't the real problem. The problem is that people have no clue as to how to apply math in real life. When numbers get big people stop thinking, if someone has an 8 megapixel camera, people dont have a clue what the resolution is going to be, unless through experience. If you mention a 24 megapixel camera, knowing the resolution of the 8 mp might be a clue, but only if prodded.
You cant teach math in a vacuum, it will bore the students to tears and they'll let the skill atrophy, If your just teaching Writing and math, they are writing and calculating NOTHING. These skills need to be taught, but used in a broader framework where science, history and the arts are used in concert to bring these skills to fruition, so that a person can grasp just how bad the science is in bad sci-fi.
cuz for me it's only about getting some good sci-fi..
The cert is to get past the HR people who dont know any better. Or for managers to show that their techs aren't a bunch of monkeys who are fooling with the boxes till they work (even when it is the case).
The cert is a hoop to jump through, not an achievement to be flaunted, dont even bring it up during an interview. Ok the CCIE is an exception, as the lab exam story is interesting to most network interviewers.
as far as humans getting genes from viruses and bacteria.. it is small change relative to recombination, mutation and gene duplication. Germline cells are really resistant to alterations in general. Bacteria and viruses could make some changes here and there, but they need to hit a cell that will create offspring, and not leave it (said offspring) jacked up.
The much more common event is gene duplication and neofunctionilization, A normally occuring protien gets duplicated, and is no longer under pressure to work, eventually they get "fired" or go feral, doing something new that provides an advantage to a creature. Eventually causing their new job to be selected for.
So bacteria giving us proteins is rare in the here and now. Though hyper sanitary conditions do leave people with some real problems, as we didnt evolve into cleanness.
I'll give the modern IDE some credit.. context help, collapse, and breakpoints are nice.
But command mode in vim makes some things awesome. searching with a regex t find something that your not sure is there... like search for a for loop with a x=? instead of x==? for your control statement where you dont know the x or the ?.
Now I'm not sure how I would do that in a "modern IDE" but I'm not convinced that it's missing either.. Ive just burned too many neurons to quit vim..
We ignore people in general that seem to be doing no harm to society..
So we ignore the ramblings of Joel Osteen, and he is seen as mainstream and acceptable. I'm not a fan, but I really have no issue with him.
Ignoring the issue provides Pat an air of mainstream thought, that his ideas arent b@t$h!t insane. This makes people comfortable agreeing with his point of view. This makes people OK with making choices based on his jacked up view of the world. Leading to abhorrent behavior due to some crazy interpretation of the will of God. Quite a few people have a fine moral compass with different ideas of ultimate truth. But to allow Pat to speak uncontested is to endorse his views as reasonable.
So I say that a being who punishes those whom had no say in a decision is morally corrupt.
Nope.. All we need is a big balloon with large negative mass.. and a bunch of regular balloons to hold the ribbon in place. like a big ladder,, perhaps a stairway to heaven..
Well I thought the regular balloon thing was clever till I realized the length of the ribbon.
If we took the (trade deficit to china) minus (value of the copyright infrined media) I might be able to pay that with the money between my couch cushions.
Overall I'm kinda happy that keyboards seem to be converging on a pretty normal layout. Back in the eighties, I hated how much the keyboards varied.
Yea, I kinda wish that the "Big Enter" would have survived natural selection. Sure it moves the |\ to the bottom, but that seems fine. Amputating the large backspace for the big enter makes me cranky
The windows key still makes me cranky, as playing quake eventually leads to a menu popup at some inopportune moment.
I'm a keyboard snob. I'm behind the thing far too many hours to not care. I like the DAS keyboard, but it isnt the same as typing behind a unicomp keyboard. Though gaming on a super clicky unicomp isnt quite the same. The unicomp is the heaviest keyboard I've owned, I suspect that it can handle some real abuse.
You can set it to where friends can see it, but the friends can share it, or comment on it, then the security model blows so much that anyone who can see that pic can see the whole album . They dont let the genie back in the bottle. It's bad form. The applications allow all sorts of horrible holes in security. Unveil the users number, and you can go trouncing through all sorts of FB apps that dont protect security.
The problem is that they pretend to be securing you, when the reality is that it's a bathroom door level of security. A reasonably nerdy middle school kid can burn through facebook security. facebook didnt build a good security foundation, now they're paying for it.
If we let these companies sell off small chunks all over the place, you have routing weirdness;
as companies will need to aggregate a bunch of small chunks. Then you have all of these small addresses that need their own entries in routing tables where a large address range would make the routing easier. And changing the routing tables becomes more of a mess, and the protocols (ala RIP, OSPF) need to work harder, causing more overhead.
If properly implemented, IPV6 would prevent these kind of issues, as the address space is huge (nearly uncomprehensable).
My guess is that the block cipher is selectable (in a manner similar to SCP), and I'm betting that it defaults to AES.
The new Intel proc's rock at AES encrypt/decrypt. Which will likely make it the speed king over blowfish.
ok. while malware blows.. That's not enough to make a system stable. The number of times I've had "explorer.exe has stopped working" alone make me cringe. or machine locks. This isnt one poor machine. It pervades computers. sandboxing is a nice step to reduce full system crashing.. but is so far from the full monty..
ok.. ALL current Major OS's have huge gaping issues..
If you go all Linux nerd on me.., I've been a Unix admin since 1995.. with a few years doing other stuff.. But this isnt about specific OS's it is about the whole way things work.
It's broken..
yea.. people can work in these environments.. and be productive.
But the foundations of how these systems work is too narrow for the power that an OS could have.
Imagine 3 people all playing a first person shooters from the same box, with a fourth working a spreadsheet.. or torrenting from a second isp connection. The hardware is there, but the OS isnt.
Programs can become unresponsive.. thats inexcusable. But it strikes all of the OS's.
The OS area has been a stagnant pile of goo. Plenty of window dressing but, you cant polish a turd.
Sandboxing is long overdue. It's a primitive step in the right direction, but it's needed to take the whole host of steps that can make a stable system. There is a freakload of work that needs to be done to get past the mess that exists in current operating systems. But instead of making a really innovative system, we keep getting more of the same: incremental improvement to the desktop system.
Sandboxing is a decade late, we should be so much further by now.. dang.
if I want to change all of the X to - in an amino acid sequence line I type:s/X/\-/g
yea.. I'm sure that emacs can do it too.. But once all that brainpower is invested, theres no way I'd bother with emacs.. It's like a secretary changing to dvorak after she's hit 200wpm
vim is fast, powerful, user friendly, and quite picky about it's friends.
I've run a crew to take care of a couple thousand boxes. For four years.
When I started, we has 2 crews (17 people) both working overtime, on a horrible mix of hardware, with a bunch of in house applications. And quite a few poor decisions by my predecessor left us with a static ip address nightmare. We had 5 applications installs a week to perform on subsets of the machines.
Anyway it took a whole bunch of work, we inventoried all the hardware, and made groups of 20 that were identical. Then we said NO to any application that broke the current applications in the slightest. We said no when they wanted to move to the area by the window, where all the misfit machines sat on the desks. (All the rare parts in one unused pod).. It became required to use it when there was no other place to use.. By that point we were down to 1 crew of 7, who were having problems trying to look busy enough not to be downsized.
After getting in new boxes with matching hardware, we were down to four people who were less busy than the security guards. One of the crew built an impressive counterstrike map of the building.
Our boss got awesome at quake. I practiced coding, and built scripts to inventory all of the software/hardware remotely, (the manual busy work she (our boss) gave our crew too often).
Anyway for 900 boxes 3 could be plenty, or horribly understaffed.
cheers
First guess, someone in the help desk is coming in a little to dirty or smelly. And as the saying goes, if everyone else smells fine...
Second guess, mental laziness. They want to be able to do a hey you, without remembering who you are. it's like being able to locate the janitor because of their attire. To most people your a service, not a person. But then again so are cops, paramedics, and ER doctors.
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even Voldemort draws the line at advanced coding in perl.
Some things are not meant to be.
Shipdate was the feature dropped in Duke Nukem Forever.. So it ships with all features..
Microarrays are expensive. The technology requires quite a few steps, so affymetrix chips are amazingly cheap all things considered.
This technology is a glass sieve.. modern technology can do this cheaply at scale.
The awesome factor is that a raman spectrometer could probably be used to nail down some of the ambiguities for similar sized proteins. As a thin glass layer will be transparent, and the samples are in predefined locations. Since youve got to optically scan the sample anyway, why not get a raman read in the process.
And the data analysis is much more straightforward.. with a genechip, you look for a specific pattern, which may be weird if you have viruses in a sample. Where size sorting gets single on-off data points which indicate a virus of size-x which will correspond to one (possibly more) viruses.. it narrows the search pretty fast if you have yes-no answers. Plus you can do a targeted microarray when you have a narrow search field. But most of the time - sorting cold from flu from ebola and hiv is enough.
I kinda suspect that this might be pretty quick to run, as the virus only needs to move a minute (.005-.5mm-ish id supose) amount, and an ultracentrifuge can make short work of sorting much larger samples that need to separate proteins by a few millimeters. But hey, what do I know?
Storm
That is no hollow achievement, a total waste of perfectly good time, granted. But boom, dead from food poisoning after getting the amulet. Fifteen years later and I'm still bitter.
Storm
The level of math that we let HS students graduate with is comical. Our schools self adjust to measuring math achievement based how far they managed to get in the past.
But the distance that is gone in math isn't the real problem. The problem is that people have no clue as to how to apply math in real life. When numbers get big people stop thinking, if someone has an 8 megapixel camera, people dont have a clue what the resolution is going to be, unless through experience. If you mention a 24 megapixel camera, knowing the resolution of the 8 mp might be a clue, but only if prodded.
You cant teach math in a vacuum, it will bore the students to tears and they'll let the skill atrophy, If your just teaching Writing and math, they are writing and calculating NOTHING. These skills need to be taught, but used in a broader framework where science, history and the arts are used in concert to bring these skills to fruition, so that a person can grasp just how bad the science is in bad sci-fi.
cuz for me it's only about getting some good sci-fi..
Storm
The cert is a hoop to jump through, not an achievement to be flaunted, dont even bring it up during an interview.
Ok the CCIE is an exception, as the lab exam story is interesting to most network interviewers.
Storm
The much more common event is gene duplication and neofunctionilization, A normally occuring protien gets duplicated, and is no longer under pressure to work, eventually they get "fired" or go feral, doing something new that provides an advantage to a creature. Eventually causing their new job to be selected for.
So bacteria giving us proteins is rare in the here and now. Though hyper sanitary conditions do leave people with some real problems, as we didnt evolve into cleanness.
Now I'm not sure how I would do that in a "modern IDE" but I'm not convinced that it's missing either.. Ive just burned too many neurons to quit vim..
Storm
:wq
So we ignore the ramblings of Joel Osteen, and he is seen as mainstream and acceptable. I'm not a fan, but I really have no issue with him.
Ignoring the issue provides Pat an air of mainstream thought, that his ideas arent b@t$h!t insane. This makes people comfortable agreeing with his point of view. This makes people OK with making choices based on his jacked up view of the world. Leading to abhorrent behavior due to some crazy interpretation of the will of God. Quite a few people have a fine moral compass with different ideas of ultimate truth. But to allow Pat to speak uncontested is to endorse his views as reasonable.
So I say that a being who punishes those whom had no say in a decision is morally corrupt.
Storm
Well I thought the regular balloon thing was clever till I realized the length of the ribbon.
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Yea, I kinda wish that the "Big Enter" would have survived natural selection. Sure it moves the |\ to the bottom, but that seems fine. Amputating the large backspace for the big enter makes me cranky
The windows key still makes me cranky, as playing quake eventually leads to a menu popup at some inopportune moment.
I'm a keyboard snob. I'm behind the thing far too many hours to not care. I like the DAS keyboard, but it isnt the same as typing behind a unicomp keyboard. Though gaming on a super clicky unicomp isnt quite the same. The unicomp is the heaviest keyboard I've owned, I suspect that it can handle some real abuse.
Thankfully I'm in biology where UDP can't be confused with computer TLA's ;)
Is this the SAME Alice and Bob that send encrypted messages?
The problem is that they pretend to be securing you, when the reality is that it's a bathroom door level of security. A reasonably nerdy middle school kid can burn through facebook security.
facebook didnt build a good security foundation, now they're paying for it.
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The new Intel proc's rock at AES encrypt/decrypt. Which will likely make it the speed king over blowfish.
Storm
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If you go all Linux nerd on me.., I've been a Unix admin since 1995.. with a few years doing other stuff.. But this isnt about specific OS's it is about the whole way things work.
It's broken..
yea.. people can work in these environments.. and be productive.
But the foundations of how these systems work is too narrow for the power that an OS could have.
Imagine 3 people all playing a first person shooters from the same box, with a fourth working a spreadsheet.. or torrenting from a second isp connection. The hardware is there, but the OS isnt.
Programs can become unresponsive.. thats inexcusable. But it strikes all of the OS's.
The OS area has been a stagnant pile of goo. Plenty of window dressing but, you cant polish a turd.
Storm
Sandboxing is a decade late, we should be so much further by now.. dang.
Storm
if I want to change all of the X to - in an amino acid sequence line I type :s/X/\-/g
yea.. I'm sure that emacs can do it too.. But once all that brainpower is invested, theres no way I'd bother with emacs.. It's like a secretary changing to dvorak after she's hit 200wpm
vim is fast, powerful, user friendly, and quite picky about it's friends.
Storm
oops a b not a br big diff... must learn to click preview
Anyway it took a whole bunch of work, we inventoried all the hardware, and made groups of 20 that were identical. Then we said NO to any application that broke the current applications in the slightest. We said no when they wanted to move to the area by the window, where all the misfit machines sat on the desks. (All the rare parts in one unused pod).. It became required to use it when there was no other place to use.. By that point we were down to 1 crew of 7, who were having problems trying to look busy enough not to be downsized. /hardware remotely, (the manual busy work she (our boss) gave our crew too often).
After getting in new boxes with matching hardware, we were down to four people who were less busy than the security guards. One of the crew built an impressive counterstrike map of the building. Our boss got awesome at quake. I practiced coding, and built scripts to inventory all of the software
Anyway for 900 boxes 3 could be plenty, or horribly understaffed.
cheers
brilliant
Storm
Second guess, mental laziness. They want to be able to do a hey you, without remembering who you are. it's like being able to locate the janitor because of their attire. To most people your a service, not a person. But then again so are cops, paramedics, and ER doctors.
Storm