I say one of the first registered names should be:
icann.xxx
or alternately:
icann.su.xxx
Seriously, a lot of companies register.net and.org domains not because people get confused, but that people don't "hijack" the secondary level domain name.
Will CNN have to register for cnn.xxx just to make sure everyone isn't seeing doctored nude Wolf Blitzer photos? (Please, CNN, spend the $60 and spare us all)
Children actually do better when raised in extended families: families that include the active participation of grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc... living in close proximity. These additional family members take a lot of the burden off of the parents, especially in the early years and provide a wealth of expirience to help said parents deal with problems that come up.
Tell me about it. My wife and I have raised our kids with almost no help from parents or relatives, and it takes an enormous toll.
Add to this that the level of trust is so low, that the only acceptable babysitter these days is Grandma (babysitters are either too young and can't be trusted, or too old and would rather work for minimum wage), it adds up to a lot of stress.
Add to this that many consider hetero/homosexuality to be a black and white issue when it really isn't
Kinsey spent a life's work researching human sexuality and came up with the Kinsey Scale which suggests that heterosexuality and homosexuality are on a 0-6 scale, with many people falling in between the extremes. (Kinsey himself was a very controversial figure, but you can't deny he was able to shatter many stereotypes about human sexuality).
The matter of "choice" is a very controversial one. Some Kinsey 6's (people who are exclusively homosexual) take great offense to the concept that sexual orientation is considered a choice, and get angry at bisexuals for going against their mold of what it means to be gay.
The truth of the matter is that nobody has a choice about their orientation, only about who their partners are. Bisexuals don't choose to be straight or gay, they just choose to be with a guy or a girl at that point in time...
Quite possibly a great many of us fall in the middle of Kinsey's spectrum, with society or culture or religion forcing us to "choose sides".
Unfortunately, (and if I recall correctly) Sid's solution to different complexity levels was simply to change the number of shields required for the AI to build units and buildings. At the lowest levels the human had the advantage 14/10, where the highest had something like a 6/10 ratio.
I did manage to beat Civ 1 at Emperor level ONCE. I've not yet duplicated the feat on Civ 3.
Degree in Mathmatics. Worked in the IT industry for 9 years.
Two daughters. No sons.
Amusingly enough, the slashdot pre-article makes **NO** mention if the people involved in these professions are male or female. I know we all assume that they're talking about the fathers in these professions and not female engineers or mathematicians who become mothers, but shouldn't that be made more explicit?
The Wendy's finger is a fake, as pointed out by other users. This however, got me thinking: What if someone were to invent a universal artifical biometric finger?
We could all buy one for a couple of bucks, then stamp all our DVDs and players with the same biometric stamp, and then loan DVDs to our friends like we always have.
It sounds as if the.torrent files still need to be downloaded or stored somewhere. It's just the middle step of the tracker that can (optionally) be eliminated.
Actually considering that most spam isn't opt-in, wouldn't legal spammers *need* this list of do-not-spam email addresses to make sure that they don't mail people on it? Wouldn't the list need to be public to make sure you wouldn't be comitting an offense?
Actually I'd argue that the third movie, directed by Alfonso Cuarón was vastly superior to the previous two, which came across as long and a bit dry.
When asked to do the fourth movie, Alfonso said no, we wanted to spend the time to get the third one right in post-production. The result? An excellent 3rd movie, but I'm worried that the 4th won't be anywhere near as good.
I don't even mind having to download the entire application again from scratch.
What really gets me is the checkbox at the end of the install process "Use Firefox as my default homepage". What if I actually *like* the homepage I've already set up?!
Perhaps I've fallen into the "Next > Next > Next > Finish" trap, but I'd like to see this checkbox turned off by default, especially if I need to reinstall the software every few weeks.
from the downtime-of-my-very-own dept. Adam writes "If you've ever wanted to create your own Slashdot effect or just to see how one works, check out this tutorial. The article talks about how a Slashdotting works and gives a guided example through an exploit to help you on your way. Definitely worth checking out." From the article: "Every now and again we all hear about an exploit that takes place thanks to the Slashdot effect, but what is the Slashdot effect? By definition it is when a website attempts to service more users than it was intended to hold, thus returning an error message from the server. To show how this is actually done, I'll explain how to do a simple attack on a fairly small Slashdot post."
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Y'know, the dupe thing is getting so repetative that having all of April 1st stories be cleverly rewritten versions of all the March 31st stories would actually be *funny*.
I remember such overheating problems with the old Commodore 64's 1541 drive that I had a flat, 6 inch diameter house "big clip on" style fan that I simply placed face down over the cooling holes at the rear (as you can see in the picture).
It was the only thing that could keep the drive cool enough for extended sessions of Mail Order Monsters. Otherwise the drive would go out of alignment *again* and it was time to go crying to Dad to get it fixed at the repair shop.
Because rarely is the AC ever plugged into the UPS (takes too much power) and most server rooms die during a power failure not due to the UPS running out of power, but because the room overheats and the servers all shut down.
Server rooms can turn into tropical saunas pretty fast. During a power failure we have to get into the office in 40 minutes to start powering down less important servers (try telling management that *all* the servers aren't mission critical, or worse yet, getting them to fork out $$$$$ for a bigger UPS)
I have about 3 upper division statistics courses as part of my honours math major. I'd likely have to pick up a bit more. And brush up... it's been years.
This all seems so much more realistic if I was 20 instead of 30 though...:) I'm being inspired by Slashdot though, what a sad life I must lead...:)
Agreed on commercial vs kacky stuff. I've seen a number of books on Perl and Bioinformatics. They've got a good "hacky" feel to them. Also I'd have to agree with the Computer Science vs Life Science. There's a reason why it's "Applied Science", I've often found Comp Sci students at the 3rd year university level struggling with basic high school math.
Hmm... Just posted a question about this in another thread. How about a Mathematics/Physics background?
I'm thinking I'm looking at about 2 years of further undergraduate to bring my basic biology/biochemistry/molecular biology knowledge up to snuff, and pretty much a lifetime career change. I'd wished I'd had a chance to consider this when I decided on my degree over 10 years ago!
I'm a Math major, Comp Sci/Physics minor out of university, been working with computer programming and database administration in the past 9 years, but have strongly been looking at changing careers and moving into bioinformatics.
Perhaps it's the DB admin that getting to me, but I've enjoyed being able to work with enormous data sets and putting puzzle pieces together.
It's a big leap. I'm 30. I only have first year chemistry under my belt (no university level biology) and having kids, a mortgage and my own health and sanity to take into account, it seems an enormous career change.
I've started to look into the field by checking out about a couple dozen books on the subject from my university library. (I've since whittled the pile down to just a few books!) I'm plodding along and what I've read to date is really intriguing, even if I'm taking a bizzare Math approach to understanding genetics.
I'm concerned that I have a niave approach to the field: looking at genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics as the biggest and coolest LEGO puzzle ever devised. Yet most books (especially the "Programming for Bioinformatics" types) seem to focus solely on data storage and not actually *using* the data.
Has anyone else here moved from Computing or Mathematics into Bioinformatics? Was the experience what you expected?
Slashdot Mirror
I say one of the first registered names should be:
.net and .org domains not because people get confused, but that people don't "hijack" the secondary level domain name.
icann.xxx
or alternately:
icann.su.xxx
Seriously, a lot of companies register
Will CNN have to register for cnn.xxx just to make sure everyone isn't seeing doctored nude Wolf Blitzer photos? (Please, CNN, spend the $60 and spare us all)
Children actually do better when raised in extended families: families that include the active participation of grandparents, aunts, uncles, etc... living in close proximity. These additional family members take a lot of the burden off of the parents, especially in the early years and provide a wealth of expirience to help said parents deal with problems that come up.
;)
Tell me about it. My wife and I have raised our kids with almost no help from parents or relatives, and it takes an enormous toll.
Add to this that the level of trust is so low, that the only acceptable babysitter these days is Grandma (babysitters are either too young and can't be trusted, or too old and would rather work for minimum wage), it adds up to a lot of stress.
Just venting, is all...
Add to this that many consider hetero/homosexuality to be a black and white issue when it really isn't
Kinsey spent a life's work researching human sexuality and came up with the Kinsey Scale which suggests that heterosexuality and homosexuality are on a 0-6 scale, with many people falling in between the extremes. (Kinsey himself was a very controversial figure, but you can't deny he was able to shatter many stereotypes about human sexuality).
The matter of "choice" is a very controversial one. Some Kinsey 6's (people who are exclusively homosexual) take great offense to the concept that sexual orientation is considered a choice, and get angry at bisexuals for going against their mold of what it means to be gay.
The truth of the matter is that nobody has a choice about their orientation, only about who their partners are. Bisexuals don't choose to be straight or gay, they just choose to be with a guy or a girl at that point in time...
Quite possibly a great many of us fall in the middle of Kinsey's spectrum, with society or culture or religion forcing us to "choose sides".
(Bravely posts unanonymously)
Unfortunately, (and if I recall correctly) Sid's solution to different complexity levels was simply to change the number of shields required for the AI to build units and buildings. At the lowest levels the human had the advantage 14/10, where the highest had something like a 6/10 ratio.
I did manage to beat Civ 1 at Emperor level ONCE. I've not yet duplicated the feat on Civ 3.
True, but a couple of weeks ago he came out with this gem that makes his blog (ocassionally) worthwhile.
Degree in Mathmatics. Worked in the IT industry for 9 years.
Two daughters. No sons.
Amusingly enough, the slashdot pre-article makes **NO** mention if the people involved in these professions are male or female. I know we all assume that they're talking about the fathers in these professions and not female engineers or mathematicians who become mothers, but shouldn't that be made more explicit?
The Wendy's finger is a fake, as pointed out by other users. This however, got me thinking: What if someone were to invent a universal artifical biometric finger?
We could all buy one for a couple of bucks, then stamp all our DVDs and players with the same biometric stamp, and then loan DVDs to our friends like we always have.
THe finger could of course be a middle finger.
It sounds as if the .torrent files still need to be downloaded or stored somewhere. It's just the middle step of the tracker that can (optionally) be eliminated.
Actually considering that most spam isn't opt-in, wouldn't legal spammers *need* this list of do-not-spam email addresses to make sure that they don't mail people on it? Wouldn't the list need to be public to make sure you wouldn't be comitting an offense?
Actually I'd argue that the third movie, directed by Alfonso Cuarón was vastly superior to the previous two, which came across as long and a bit dry.
When asked to do the fourth movie, Alfonso said no, we wanted to spend the time to get the third one right in post-production. The result? An excellent 3rd movie, but I'm worried that the 4th won't be anywhere near as good.
I don't mind the freqent updates.
I don't even mind having to download the entire application again from scratch.
What really gets me is the checkbox at the end of the install process "Use Firefox as my default homepage". What if I actually *like* the homepage I've already set up?!
Perhaps I've fallen into the "Next > Next > Next > Finish" trap, but I'd like to see this checkbox turned off by default, especially if I need to reinstall the software every few weeks.
I for one welcome our new German Robotic Canine masters.
They claim it provides a smooth ride but from the video it looks like it could use some oil
Hmm I guess this elevator really sucks then...
Thanks, I'm here until Wednesday, try the veal!
Your papers, please.
from the downtime-of-my-very-own dept.
Adam writes "If you've ever wanted to create your own Slashdot effect or just to see how one works, check out this tutorial. The article talks about how a Slashdotting works and gives a guided example through an exploit to help you on your way. Definitely worth checking out." From the article: "Every now and again we all hear about an exploit that takes place thanks to the Slashdot effect, but what is the Slashdot effect? By definition it is when a website attempts to service more users than it was intended to hold, thus returning an error message from the server. To show how this is actually done, I'll explain how to do a simple attack on a fairly small Slashdot post."
nano-ATX where the *hell* are you?
Mini-ITX: 6.75" inches square
http://www.mini-itx.com/hardware/intro.asp
Thinking about getting one of these as a MythTV head...
Y'know, the dupe thing is getting so repetative that having all of April 1st stories be cleverly rewritten versions of all the March 31st stories would actually be *funny*.
Ahh, you young whippersnappers (and yes, I'm 30).
I remember such overheating problems with the old Commodore 64's 1541 drive that I had a flat, 6 inch diameter house "big clip on" style fan that I simply placed face down over the cooling holes at the rear (as you can see in the picture).
It was the only thing that could keep the drive cool enough for extended sessions of Mail Order Monsters. Otherwise the drive would go out of alignment *again* and it was time to go crying to Dad to get it fixed at the repair shop.
My thought upon watching the trailer..
Now with 240% MORE LIGHTSABERS!
I sense a Michael Crighton novel coming on...
Technically it wouldn't be in the South Pacfic, as the nature of the space elevator puts it exactly on the equator of the earth.
(Excuse me in advance if the "South Pacific" actually extends north of the equator. I'll blame the cartographers)
Because rarely is the AC ever plugged into the UPS (takes too much power) and most server rooms die during a power failure not due to the UPS running out of power, but because the room overheats and the servers all shut down.
Server rooms can turn into tropical saunas pretty fast. During a power failure we have to get into the office in 40 minutes to start powering down less important servers (try telling management that *all* the servers aren't mission critical, or worse yet, getting them to fork out $$$$$ for a bigger UPS)
I have about 3 upper division statistics courses as part of my honours math major. I'd likely have to pick up a bit more. And brush up... it's been years.
:) I'm being inspired by Slashdot though, what a sad life I must lead... :)
This all seems so much more realistic if I was 20 instead of 30 though...
Thanks for your reply!
Agreed on commercial vs kacky stuff. I've seen a number of books on Perl and Bioinformatics. They've got a good "hacky" feel to them. Also I'd have to agree with the Computer Science vs Life Science. There's a reason why it's "Applied Science", I've often found Comp Sci students at the 3rd year university level struggling with basic high school math.
Hmm... Just posted a question about this in another thread. How about a Mathematics/Physics background?
I'm thinking I'm looking at about 2 years of further undergraduate to bring my basic biology/biochemistry/molecular biology knowledge up to snuff, and pretty much a lifetime career change. I'd wished I'd had a chance to consider this when I decided on my degree over 10 years ago!
I'm a Math major, Comp Sci/Physics minor out of university, been working with computer programming and database administration in the past 9 years, but have strongly been looking at changing careers and moving into bioinformatics.
Perhaps it's the DB admin that getting to me, but I've enjoyed being able to work with enormous data sets and putting puzzle pieces together.
It's a big leap. I'm 30. I only have first year chemistry under my belt (no university level biology) and having kids, a mortgage and my own health and sanity to take into account, it seems an enormous career change.
I've started to look into the field by checking out about a couple dozen books on the subject from my university library. (I've since whittled the pile down to just a few books!) I'm plodding along and what I've read to date is really intriguing, even if I'm taking a bizzare Math approach to understanding genetics.
I'm concerned that I have a niave approach to the field: looking at genomics, proteomics and bioinformatics as the biggest and coolest LEGO puzzle ever devised. Yet most books (especially the "Programming for Bioinformatics" types) seem to focus solely on data storage and not actually *using* the data.
Has anyone else here moved from Computing or Mathematics into Bioinformatics? Was the experience what you expected?