the uninstaller?!?
i kid i kid...
i am interested to see what kind of run this gives compared to the recent news about ff2 issues, etc.
I think if ie7 had some great plugin base it could gain back some of those in the middle ground----
Yes...OS X is pleasantly simple like this most times. And I do love my PB with tiger. However, with half a dozen desktops and a few servers, and still growing, I can't afford to run this on all of them and like to be able to run my OS of choice on any hardware, including that which I have thrown together (which makes up all my machines excluding my PB). This is why I tend not to really clump OS X in with the others. With some shell scripting and maybe a little tweaking I have things close enough to OS X ease from an OS that is free and I can mimic the image on pretty much any of my other machines. Yet, money and hardware dependency aside, I do personally feel that OS X is pretty hard to beat for those who love eye candy with there power usage.
"A desktop OS should be valued for how good the compiler is, and for how many configurations you can make. Not for the look, the experience and the applications."
Even though I pretty much agree that 'I personally' prefer a desktop OS that is about configurations and adaptibility, I have always come to the assumption that quite a number or users look for "experience and the applications" in determining their opinion of the OS they are using on their desktop. Maybe I am incorrect in assuming that, but my experience has tended to be that most users are concerned with the applications side of things for an OS. Isn't that one of the top complaints when people try to convert their peers to OSS alternatives (especially the infamous OS alternatives)..."But I can't use my 'XYZ' applications, or open 'ABC' file formats".
This is personally why I like an OS like Ubuntu for my main desktop machine as it has given me personally the best of usability, configuration, power, and looks right of the install DVD. But that is just my personal opinion of my 'desktop' desires.
good point. and I would agree. I just pointed this out as it was something I encountered a few years back when I was trying to jump into linux and was experimenting with vector and slack, etc., as these were touted by a few resources as probably running better on old architecture and low memory machines.
I agree with you. But (I think) what the poster was referring to may have been a more general reference to linux os installs. Yes, there is the ease of Ubuntu which is far easier than most windows os installs in my opinion. But there can also be the more comlex (but not always) installs of slack or vector, etc. For someone who has done partitioning etc, then this is no biggie. But for someone who is a non-power user or not for computer saavy then they may not even understand partitioning let alone installing without a 100% gui base.
But overall, I think linux has grown exponentially in expanding its ease of to an audience that now encompasses just about everyone. And with more and more package management systems available with gui bases this is making things even easier than ever.
Thats just MHO.
"I, for one, welcome our new Pirate Overlords!!!"
I think you meant to say...
AYYYYE for one, welcome our new Pirate Overlords/
sorry someone had to do it.
maybe it's time to get out the old encyclopedia bookshelf collection next to the tv and start building some 'in-book' mods. I wonder how long it would take the 'other-halves' to recognize the radiant heat and dull purr of some of the books in the living room?!
I would have to agree with this idea. I am all for price drops and savings... but just from a Sony perspective it would make sense for them to be simply making the console produuction cheaper and cutting the loss.
However, my business/economics background is null, but maybe passing on a little savings could boost sales, especially those initially not willing to spend 600.
I just wonder how much excluding such a 'chip' would alter each console production price?
I think this is a great approach. Its effectiveness is questionable, but that is the story with everything else. Seems as though it should at least help shed some light on different approaches to some of the problems and maybe help those that are truly the 'professionals' that have been cranking on these problems to see some insight and fresh ideas. Kinda just rolls with the oss philosophy of having as many eyes and brains as possible looking at code to find the bugs and to provide creativity...so why not math. Maybe this will also open up more opportunity for those with gifts in programming to find methods to help design new methods for computational approaches to these problems.
Will it cure cancer, stop hunger, prevent aids/hiv...no.
But basic research is basic research, so why not.
or you could equip the goomba camo and CQC the hammer launching guys. Now which way do i swing my remote/sex toy controller to slit that little reptile guys throat and then tranq the next goomba before he sees me?
I expected it to be hight...but jeez.
Looks like I won't be playing MGS4 until I am as old as snake in those fancy-dancy trailers....
Guess its going to be some tactical espionage with my old friend mario.
I was trying to get to the wiki link to read about the server features they might have included (packages, etc.)...guess the slashdotting may have answered my questions....
however, on a serious note....i have been playing with the initial release on an old PII with 64mb of ram and was extremely impressed with the stability and responsiveness. Nothing too ground breaking but is definitely a great version for new users of non windows OSes and is relatively nice to run on old hardware at the standard installation level (haven't needed to do much tweaking). However, being a "desktop" distrobution there isn't really much in terms of natively installed server tools, but is quite understandable....just would have been nice for a newer user to not have to try to hunt down the packages or decide which to use.
My impression, however, is that we might not see games like madden and such on the revolution (just a feeling). I think this may play into the whole pricing scheme as well. Sure xbox 360 has indie and old school stuff for cheap online, as will the revolution, but my guess is the difference in "in store" prices will be the change. I think we will see the revolution pushing games like zelda (and other stereotypical nintendo games like are available on the DS) for reasonably affordable prices. This is just my prediction...I mean if we can already play madden on a ps2/xbox/360/gamecube im not so convinced that they will be looking to expand this to the revolution especially with ps3 coming out. But maybe I am totally incorrect...
I am in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology research and I have to agree with FC's observation. From my experience at 4 different universities, I would have to guestimate that about 80+ percent of the labs were Apple labs (OS 9 for some instrumentation and OS X for general use machines). The remaining 20 percent I would have to say was a large fraction of Unix or Linux machines (sometimes clusters for crystallization experiments and modelling). I'm sure this is not the case in all of academia, but is probably somewhat close. What is also interesting is seeing all the analysis applications are mostly oss that are posix based. This makes things very nice as it doesn't chunk of change of our dwindling research budgets and allows for modification of the software to meet specific needs and experimental changes. One thing though I have come across is the prevelance of Excel to analyze data and keep track of results/graphing etc.
-pardon the spelling and grammar mistakes...
I agree with you Kono. I have been watching mini boards and anticipating this nano board for a while now with a couple of cool projects in mind but am always bothered by the fact that there is an abundant lack of dual lan. I understand that with mini boards you can use a pci version or here the mini-pci...but what if you need that for another component of the system. I guess I have always just thought of these being used in projects that would really fall heavily on a network backbone (e.g. server, router. etc) as you mentioned and don't really understand the need for multiple video outputs (composite, s-video, and vga) when you still only have a single ethernet port. I guess you could always go with a usb workaround?!
I also thought that was funny. I especially chuckled at the end when they mentioned a con of lacking windows drivers. I don't remember how many times I had to reread that aloud as I am used to the exact opposite statement.
I just wanted to say that this is a correct statement... I did research related to this (well actually vaccine development utilizing HPV E2 E4 proteins) a while back and the controversy of causation is almost non-existent. I can't remember the statistic, but almost ALL cervical cancer cells from patients have contained HPV genomic fragments incorporated into the cellular DNA.
Although I do agree with the observation of over-medication in our society (e.g. the abuse of antibiotics and the catalyzed evolution of resistant strains of bacteria), the most likely causation here is from the actual viral infection. The corona virus (i.e. "common cold") has been shown to utilize very unique and distinct replication strategies which may be causing the mutations that would lead to increased susceptibility of tumor develop. As is stated in a later comment in these topic, HPV viral expression patterns have been shown to be linked to almost all cervical cancers. There is most likely some such related mechanism of cellular disruption causing either altered expression patterns in the cells of these children or mutations affecting the proteins that are responsible for regulating cell growth (hence tumor development). What is interesting, however, is that such situations have been shown in adults many times with various viral infections which is logical when one considers the risks of cancer related to age progression.
I am finishing up a BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and have battled this throughout my collegiate years as well. I have searched long and far for a solution and have thus far not found anything. I have come across a few medical versions but even they tend to be for the lay person. One solution (somewhat) has been http://wikipedia.com/. I know this is not a dictionary but works if you need to double check a spelling, but mainly I have found it useful while writing scientific pieces to double check a few pathways or cell types. While its not comprehensive by any means, it is coming along at a suprisingly great rate.
On a quick note... The Cell (which can be found at NCBI website) is a good book reference for such purposes as is Voet and Voet's Biochemistry.
I have to tack up my affirmative nod on this one as well!
I used AIM and Trillian for windows...as well as Gaim on both win and lin boxes. However, when I got a PB last may and found Adium, I have trouble using anything else. Granted, as TF says, there are benefits to each, I have found Adium to be one of the most complete packages out there. As mentioned tabbed browsing is great, with the integrated ability to jump tabs with keyboard shortcuts. The other nice feature is the ability to totally manipulate the interfaces and customize the link of the buddy list, the icon sets and menu icons, no ads, color scheme, soundsets, message boxes, etc. I know these are just visual features and don't reference what's 'under the hood', but these are the things that have tended to impress me the most with a program that I always have open and visually available on my desktop.
Slashdot Mirror
http://blogs.msdn.com/ie [for the good] ie team blog http://secunia.com/product/12366/ [ for the bad] ie7 vulnerability report http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/community/ [for the both] ie community page
the uninstaller?!? i kid i kid... i am interested to see what kind of run this gives compared to the recent news about ff2 issues, etc. I think if ie7 had some great plugin base it could gain back some of those in the middle ground----
tv station!..yes...but does it run linux.... oh wait..that's the question.
Yes...OS X is pleasantly simple like this most times. And I do love my PB with tiger. However, with half a dozen desktops and a few servers, and still growing, I can't afford to run this on all of them and like to be able to run my OS of choice on any hardware, including that which I have thrown together (which makes up all my machines excluding my PB). This is why I tend not to really clump OS X in with the others. With some shell scripting and maybe a little tweaking I have things close enough to OS X ease from an OS that is free and I can mimic the image on pretty much any of my other machines. Yet, money and hardware dependency aside, I do personally feel that OS X is pretty hard to beat for those who love eye candy with there power usage.
"A desktop OS should be valued for how good the compiler is, and for how many configurations you can make. Not for the look, the experience and the applications." Even though I pretty much agree that 'I personally' prefer a desktop OS that is about configurations and adaptibility, I have always come to the assumption that quite a number or users look for "experience and the applications" in determining their opinion of the OS they are using on their desktop. Maybe I am incorrect in assuming that, but my experience has tended to be that most users are concerned with the applications side of things for an OS. Isn't that one of the top complaints when people try to convert their peers to OSS alternatives (especially the infamous OS alternatives)..."But I can't use my 'XYZ' applications, or open 'ABC' file formats". This is personally why I like an OS like Ubuntu for my main desktop machine as it has given me personally the best of usability, configuration, power, and looks right of the install DVD. But that is just my personal opinion of my 'desktop' desires.
good point. and I would agree. I just pointed this out as it was something I encountered a few years back when I was trying to jump into linux and was experimenting with vector and slack, etc., as these were touted by a few resources as probably running better on old architecture and low memory machines.
I agree with you. But (I think) what the poster was referring to may have been a more general reference to linux os installs. Yes, there is the ease of Ubuntu which is far easier than most windows os installs in my opinion. But there can also be the more comlex (but not always) installs of slack or vector, etc. For someone who has done partitioning etc, then this is no biggie. But for someone who is a non-power user or not for computer saavy then they may not even understand partitioning let alone installing without a 100% gui base. But overall, I think linux has grown exponentially in expanding its ease of to an audience that now encompasses just about everyone. And with more and more package management systems available with gui bases this is making things even easier than ever. Thats just MHO.
lol, you got me there! ;)
"I, for one, welcome our new Pirate Overlords!!!" I think you meant to say... AYYYYE for one, welcome our new Pirate Overlords/ sorry someone had to do it.
maybe it's time to get out the old encyclopedia bookshelf collection next to the tv and start building some 'in-book' mods. I wonder how long it would take the 'other-halves' to recognize the radiant heat and dull purr of some of the books in the living room?!
I would have to agree with this idea. I am all for price drops and savings... but just from a Sony perspective it would make sense for them to be simply making the console produuction cheaper and cutting the loss. However, my business/economics background is null, but maybe passing on a little savings could boost sales, especially those initially not willing to spend 600. I just wonder how much excluding such a 'chip' would alter each console production price?
"...two-core chip or provide quadruple the performance with a quad-core processor." unify, unite, and unihilate....beware the QUAD LAY-ZAH!
I think this is a great approach. Its effectiveness is questionable, but that is the story with everything else. Seems as though it should at least help shed some light on different approaches to some of the problems and maybe help those that are truly the 'professionals' that have been cranking on these problems to see some insight and fresh ideas. Kinda just rolls with the oss philosophy of having as many eyes and brains as possible looking at code to find the bugs and to provide creativity...so why not math. Maybe this will also open up more opportunity for those with gifts in programming to find methods to help design new methods for computational approaches to these problems. Will it cure cancer, stop hunger, prevent aids/hiv...no. But basic research is basic research, so why not.
or you could equip the goomba camo and CQC the hammer launching guys. Now which way do i swing my remote/sex toy controller to slit that little reptile guys throat and then tranq the next goomba before he sees me?
I expected it to be hight...but jeez. Looks like I won't be playing MGS4 until I am as old as snake in those fancy-dancy trailers.... Guess its going to be some tactical espionage with my old friend mario.
I was trying to get to the wiki link to read about the server features they might have included (packages, etc.)...guess the slashdotting may have answered my questions.... however, on a serious note....i have been playing with the initial release on an old PII with 64mb of ram and was extremely impressed with the stability and responsiveness. Nothing too ground breaking but is definitely a great version for new users of non windows OSes and is relatively nice to run on old hardware at the standard installation level (haven't needed to do much tweaking). However, being a "desktop" distrobution there isn't really much in terms of natively installed server tools, but is quite understandable....just would have been nice for a newer user to not have to try to hunt down the packages or decide which to use.
My impression, however, is that we might not see games like madden and such on the revolution (just a feeling). I think this may play into the whole pricing scheme as well. Sure xbox 360 has indie and old school stuff for cheap online, as will the revolution, but my guess is the difference in "in store" prices will be the change. I think we will see the revolution pushing games like zelda (and other stereotypical nintendo games like are available on the DS) for reasonably affordable prices. This is just my prediction...I mean if we can already play madden on a ps2/xbox/360/gamecube im not so convinced that they will be looking to expand this to the revolution especially with ps3 coming out. But maybe I am totally incorrect...
I am in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology research and I have to agree with FC's observation. From my experience at 4 different universities, I would have to guestimate that about 80+ percent of the labs were Apple labs (OS 9 for some instrumentation and OS X for general use machines). The remaining 20 percent I would have to say was a large fraction of Unix or Linux machines (sometimes clusters for crystallization experiments and modelling). I'm sure this is not the case in all of academia, but is probably somewhat close. What is also interesting is seeing all the analysis applications are mostly oss that are posix based. This makes things very nice as it doesn't chunk of change of our dwindling research budgets and allows for modification of the software to meet specific needs and experimental changes. One thing though I have come across is the prevelance of Excel to analyze data and keep track of results/graphing etc. -pardon the spelling and grammar mistakes...
I think you mean the Windows Vista Super Golden Premium Edition at 300 x 250 resolution.
I agree with you Kono. I have been watching mini boards and anticipating this nano board for a while now with a couple of cool projects in mind but am always bothered by the fact that there is an abundant lack of dual lan. I understand that with mini boards you can use a pci version or here the mini-pci...but what if you need that for another component of the system. I guess I have always just thought of these being used in projects that would really fall heavily on a network backbone (e.g. server, router. etc) as you mentioned and don't really understand the need for multiple video outputs (composite, s-video, and vga) when you still only have a single ethernet port. I guess you could always go with a usb workaround?!
I also thought that was funny. I especially chuckled at the end when they mentioned a con of lacking windows drivers. I don't remember how many times I had to reread that aloud as I am used to the exact opposite statement.
I just wanted to say that this is a correct statement... I did research related to this (well actually vaccine development utilizing HPV E2 E4 proteins) a while back and the controversy of causation is almost non-existent. I can't remember the statistic, but almost ALL cervical cancer cells from patients have contained HPV genomic fragments incorporated into the cellular DNA.
Although I do agree with the observation of over-medication in our society (e.g. the abuse of antibiotics and the catalyzed evolution of resistant strains of bacteria), the most likely causation here is from the actual viral infection. The corona virus (i.e. "common cold") has been shown to utilize very unique and distinct replication strategies which may be causing the mutations that would lead to increased susceptibility of tumor develop. As is stated in a later comment in these topic, HPV viral expression patterns have been shown to be linked to almost all cervical cancers. There is most likely some such related mechanism of cellular disruption causing either altered expression patterns in the cells of these children or mutations affecting the proteins that are responsible for regulating cell growth (hence tumor development). What is interesting, however, is that such situations have been shown in adults many times with various viral infections which is logical when one considers the risks of cancer related to age progression.
I am finishing up a BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and have battled this throughout my collegiate years as well. I have searched long and far for a solution and have thus far not found anything. I have come across a few medical versions but even they tend to be for the lay person. One solution (somewhat) has been http://wikipedia.com/. I know this is not a dictionary but works if you need to double check a spelling, but mainly I have found it useful while writing scientific pieces to double check a few pathways or cell types. While its not comprehensive by any means, it is coming along at a suprisingly great rate. On a quick note... The Cell (which can be found at NCBI website) is a good book reference for such purposes as is Voet and Voet's Biochemistry.
I have to tack up my affirmative nod on this one as well! I used AIM and Trillian for windows...as well as Gaim on both win and lin boxes. However, when I got a PB last may and found Adium, I have trouble using anything else. Granted, as TF says, there are benefits to each, I have found Adium to be one of the most complete packages out there. As mentioned tabbed browsing is great, with the integrated ability to jump tabs with keyboard shortcuts. The other nice feature is the ability to totally manipulate the interfaces and customize the link of the buddy list, the icon sets and menu icons, no ads, color scheme, soundsets, message boxes, etc. I know these are just visual features and don't reference what's 'under the hood', but these are the things that have tended to impress me the most with a program that I always have open and visually available on my desktop.