well i'm sure it's intended for everyone, but i imagine it'll mostly be useful for the press. and btw, those ticket prices reflect face-value on playoff (NLDS, NLCS) tickets, but the reg season at pac bell park is about 1/2 that.
why do people say pr0n? do you mean porn, or is that something else? wtf is pr0n? forgive my ignorance, and perhaps keep it out of the forum... iono i'm just curious.
Just wondering then... I use gaim on linux so maybe it's different. My sister sets her font to dark purple on black (very hard to read) and I can't figure out how to override her settings with an easier to read font in Gaim. It's there, right? I use iChat on my laptop and that's one of the things I like about it.
I wouldda played it. I like the Mario games a lot. Games have become really violent (GTA, Max Payne, etc) in recent years. I like games where the majority of the effort into producing the game went into making a fun-to-play game, rather than producing a cool-looking game. The early mario games are really easy, but I like them anyway. And I really like seing them ported to the GBA... giving games like Yoshi's Island a second chance. I guess the next Super Mario Advance could be something new... if so, maybe they'll finish this game. What I want most is another Wario game... but I'm still working on Yoshi's Island.
So is the group's main purpose to boost female numbers? Why is that important? I knew women in CS in college. They went to class, did homework, took tests, just like me. Perhaps not everyone looks at undergraduate CS the way I did: go to school, pass classes, get the degree... who cares who else is in the class. Women or not, all they are are classmates. Is there some sort of stigma attached to women in CS, that women want to avoid?
What's the typical agenda for a Women in CS meeting anyway?
1. Complain about women-hating professors.
2. Complain about women-hating classmates.
3. Discuss how to deal with weirdo classmates.
4. Complain about homework designed for men.
5. Paint each others' nails.
6. Give each other the latest Hello Kitty desktop background.
7. Plan a trip to go shopping.
8. Discuss how to get more women.
9. Discuss how to get that women-only funding. 10. Discuss jobs or grad/professional school.
What's closest to the truth? I have no idea.
I know a guy who got a degree in interior design. Many of his classes were all women. Did he complain? Hell no. Imagine: late nights in the drafting room....
Also, in June 2000 when President Clinton had the big party for the genome, and then in early 2001 when the genome paper was published, the genome then was in a crudely complete state. That's why they called it a "draft sequence". The reason for the big celebration was that it was finally actually usable for scientists so it was made available to them.
Scientists don't usually crave anything but discovery and new science. Not press releases. The reason there is an announcement now, is because years ago there was a meeting of leaders of the mighty sequencing centers: Sanger, Wash-U, etc. and also prominent scientists involved. Francis Collins mentioned "Hey wouldn't it be cool if we had this done in April 2003. 50 years after the Watson/Crick DNA structure paper was published in Nature." James Watson was in the room apparently, and loved the idea. So hence a deadline was set. Finish your chromosomes guys! So I guess there is still something like 34 megabases of gaps. Maybe that's in telomeres/centromeres. I don't know.
As for Venter's DNA: Celera used his DNA in their whole-genome-shotgun sequencing project. The identities of the people used in public sequencing project (the subject of the recent announcement) are unknown. They are all male. That's all that's known.
Well there are plenty of nasty virii sequenced and deposited for all to see in genbank. For every 1 scientist using information for evil, there are 5,000 using the information for good.
-Andy
The article reads like it's such a surprise E. coli. of all things is what they're using. E. coli is the most common prokaryotic model organism scientists study e.g. Watson & Crick, Kornberg, etc. The article is decent, but I think I'll just look in PNAS myself.
That's pretty weak. What is so bad about calculus? It's the basics. "Network Computing"? Is that an art major or something? How could it not require calculus? Any engineer who has a college degree and doesn't know calculus is a joke. Calculus isn't just manipulating a few equations, etc. -- math. It's problem solving. A lot of networking problems are solved using optimization theory, which is typically implemented using linear computing, which can't be understood without linear algebra, which can't be understood properly without calculus. Calculus may be difficult at first at times, and it is definately dry material, but guess what: college is hard; suck it up.
I'm sure the content is quite useful, and I'll probably take advantage of the Python site at some point, but goodness. Don't people still care about aesthetics? The font size/colors are just awful.
Budweiser, etc? Ummmm. I know I shouldn't criticize something as subjective as taste, but Budweiser is poor quality. Every brewery/winery on the planet that offers tours has free alcohol. Don't go to budweiser for that reason alone. My recommendation: any brewery that doesn't produce "light" or non-alcoholic beer. Also, if the brewery makes both ales and lagers, you can witness different styles of fermentation. And if the brewer is known to have a huge variety of styles e.g. stout/porter, pales, scottish, belgianish, brown, wheat/hefeweizen, alt, bock, whatever, then all the better. Might as well learn something. My dad went to Rogue Brewery in Oregon and he said it was stellar. Plus the attached bar had like 25 different Rogue beers on tap; many of which weren't available in stores.
To be fair to Budweiser though, I suppose touring their brewery (factory) would be somewhat interesting for seeing good old american mega-mass-production at work.
Were when AOL came on floppies (and I still used floppies). I'd just place a new label on top of the AOL label, erase its contents, and voila! An empty disk! I think I had at least half a dozen of them. They must have been worth at least a dollar combined. I felt like I was really ripping them off.
"Genetic code" refers to the mapping of codons to amino acids in the process of translation. mRNA -> proteins. This is a fairly universal code which was discovered in the 1960s. Mouse and human share the same code, but evolutionarily distant things like bacteria growing in weird climates may have some alternate mappings of codons
Also. The mouse genome is still a draft stage. You can browse it here.
The big news is the enormous mouse issue of Nature is about to hit the newsstands. This is a similar situation to the human genome. The Nature paper was published a few years ago, but the actual finished sequence isn't due until April, 2003.
There's a few reasons for this.
Standard shotgun sequencing uses bacterial or yeast plasmids, cosmids. Whatever. The problem is that sometimes the sequenced DNA can get contaminated with bacterial and then show up in the assembled sequence.
Sequencing telomeres and centromeres of chromosomes is more difficult.
As the level of coverage goes up in each draft (how many times a contiguous region of a chromosome has been sequenced "covered") the likelihood that that region is correct goes up. I think what they want is 4X coverage usually genome-wide, so in the mean time they still have a "draft" good enough to work with.
In any case, it is still exciting news. In many ways the mouse genome is more valuable than human, because ethics aren't really put into question when genetically engineering mice or throwing them into a blender.
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well i'm sure it's intended for everyone, but i imagine it'll mostly be useful for the press. and btw, those ticket prices reflect face-value on playoff (NLDS, NLCS) tickets, but the reg season at pac bell park is about 1/2 that.
why do people say pr0n? do you mean porn, or is that something else? wtf is pr0n? forgive my ignorance, and perhaps keep it out of the forum... iono i'm just curious.
What I really need is a 1080i capable 2 inch HDTV.
Just wondering then... I use gaim on linux so maybe it's different. My sister sets her font to dark purple on black (very hard to read) and I can't figure out how to override her settings with an easier to read font in Gaim. It's there, right? I use iChat on my laptop and that's one of the things I like about it.
Andy
Yeah but even their hip-hop/R&B content is only skin deep. For that, it's just better to watch BET.
Andy
Hopefully it'll be a little more successful than the "port" to film.
Andy
I guess Sonic the Hedgehog will be on the sidelines in Madden 2005! I'll buy it.
AP
My favorite crackers are those little fish ones. Parmesan, that's my flavor.
-AP
It's not a turtle dude... it's a koopa. So no it aint violent.
I wouldda played it. I like the Mario games a lot. Games have become really violent (GTA, Max Payne, etc) in recent years. I like games where the majority of the effort into producing the game went into making a fun-to-play game, rather than producing a cool-looking game. The early mario games are really easy, but I like them anyway. And I really like seing them ported to the GBA... giving games like Yoshi's Island a second chance. I guess the next Super Mario Advance could be something new... if so, maybe they'll finish this game. What I want most is another Wario game... but I'm still working on Yoshi's Island.
Andy
The DIY a-bomb, DIY chemical weapons, DIY bioweapons? Maybe they can have kids build these in schools! Let's all kill each other!
Sorry. But I don't know what it stands for. Something to do with video?
-Andy
So is the group's main purpose to boost female numbers? Why is that important? I knew women in CS in college. They went to class, did homework, took tests, just like me. Perhaps not everyone looks at undergraduate CS the way I did: go to school, pass classes, get the degree... who cares who else is in the class. Women or not, all they are are classmates. Is there some sort of stigma attached to women in CS, that women want to avoid?
What's the typical agenda for a Women in CS meeting anyway?
1. Complain about women-hating professors.
2. Complain about women-hating classmates.
3. Discuss how to deal with weirdo classmates.
4. Complain about homework designed for men.
5. Paint each others' nails.
6. Give each other the latest Hello Kitty desktop background.
7. Plan a trip to go shopping.
8. Discuss how to get more women.
9. Discuss how to get that women-only funding.
10. Discuss jobs or grad/professional school.
What's closest to the truth? I have no idea.
I know a guy who got a degree in interior design. Many of his classes were all women. Did he complain? Hell no. Imagine: late nights in the drafting room....
-Andy
Also, in June 2000 when President Clinton had the big party for the genome, and then in early 2001 when the genome paper was published, the genome then was in a crudely complete state. That's why they called it a "draft sequence". The reason for the big celebration was that it was finally actually usable for scientists so it was made available to them.
Andy
Scientists don't usually crave anything but discovery and new science. Not press releases. The reason there is an announcement now, is because years ago there was a meeting of leaders of the mighty sequencing centers: Sanger, Wash-U, etc. and also prominent scientists involved. Francis Collins mentioned "Hey wouldn't it be cool if we had this done in April 2003. 50 years after the Watson/Crick DNA structure paper was published in Nature." James Watson was in the room apparently, and loved the idea. So hence a deadline was set. Finish your chromosomes guys! So I guess there is still something like 34 megabases of gaps. Maybe that's in telomeres/centromeres. I don't know.
As for Venter's DNA: Celera used his DNA in their whole-genome-shotgun sequencing project. The identities of the people used in public sequencing project (the subject of the recent announcement) are unknown. They are all male. That's all that's known.
Well there are plenty of nasty virii sequenced and deposited for all to see in genbank. For every 1 scientist using information for evil, there are 5,000 using the information for good. -Andy
Games. There's a lot of games made for windows.
The article reads like it's such a surprise E. coli. of all things is what they're using. E. coli is the most common prokaryotic model organism scientists study e.g. Watson & Crick, Kornberg, etc. The article is decent, but I think I'll just look in PNAS myself.
Andy
What is pr0n?
That's pretty weak. What is so bad about calculus? It's the basics. "Network Computing"? Is that an art major or something? How could it not require calculus? Any engineer who has a college degree and doesn't know calculus is a joke. Calculus isn't just manipulating a few equations, etc. -- math. It's problem solving. A lot of networking problems are solved using optimization theory, which is typically implemented using linear computing, which can't be understood without linear algebra, which can't be understood properly without calculus. Calculus may be difficult at first at times, and it is definately dry material, but guess what: college is hard; suck it up.
Andy
Maybe it's just the frontpage I find a little obnoxious. Clicking past it goes to pages laid out differently.
I'm sure the content is quite useful, and I'll probably take advantage of the Python site at some point, but goodness. Don't people still care about aesthetics? The font size/colors are just awful.
Andy
Budweiser, etc? Ummmm. I know I shouldn't criticize something as subjective as taste, but Budweiser is poor quality. Every brewery/winery on the planet that offers tours has free alcohol. Don't go to budweiser for that reason alone. My recommendation: any brewery that doesn't produce "light" or non-alcoholic beer. Also, if the brewery makes both ales and lagers, you can witness different styles of fermentation. And if the brewer is known to have a huge variety of styles e.g. stout/porter, pales, scottish, belgianish, brown, wheat/hefeweizen, alt, bock, whatever, then all the better. Might as well learn something. My dad went to Rogue Brewery in Oregon and he said it was stellar. Plus the attached bar had like 25 different Rogue beers on tap; many of which weren't available in stores.
To be fair to Budweiser though, I suppose touring their brewery (factory) would be somewhat interesting for seeing good old american mega-mass-production at work.
Andy
Were when AOL came on floppies (and I still used floppies). I'd just place a new label on top of the AOL label, erase its contents, and voila! An empty disk! I think I had at least half a dozen of them. They must have been worth at least a dollar combined. I felt like I was really ripping them off.
Andy
Also. The mouse genome is still a draft stage. You can browse it here. The big news is the enormous mouse issue of Nature is about to hit the newsstands. This is a similar situation to the human genome. The Nature paper was published a few years ago, but the actual finished sequence isn't due until April, 2003.
There's a few reasons for this.
In any case, it is still exciting news. In many ways the mouse genome is more valuable than human, because ethics aren't really put into question when genetically engineering mice or throwing them into a blender.
Andy