Disclaimer: I am part of a group involved in developing a competing solution, the Functional Genomics Investigation Ontology (FUGO) http://fugo.sourceforge.net/ which uses the same OWL technology.
The importance of properly documenting scientific experiments has been the subject of much scientific discourse in the peer reviewed literature. Recently, a series of letters on the use of ontologies for representing scientific experiments was published in Nature Biotechnology http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v24/n1/full/nbt0 106-21a.html, in part discussing the merits of Soldatova's work. However, it is generally agreed that developing such mechanisms is important, as just reviewed in another Nature journal http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v3/n6/full/nme th0606-415.html.
As scientific experiments become more complex, using new high throughput and complex technology platforms, having things like EXPO and FUGO in place will become crucial. In fact there is no need to wait to hold your breat for three years as there are experimental ontologies already in use, the best example is for microarrays http://mged.sourceforge.net/ontologies/index.php. A key requirement is the development of software tools that implement these ontologies, so that end users are not required to download and understand the backend OWL, as the parent post suggests. The most likley route is to have this built into databases http://fuge.sourceforge.net/ as a controlled vocabulary in a manner that is tranparent to the benchtop scientist.
I very highly recommend the Belkin Speedpad n52 http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process ?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=2071&pcount=&Product_Id=1 57024/
I have both the n52 and the n50 (like all first gen game components its now attached the wife's computer). I cannot recommend this highly enough. After the last LAN party, everyone else was complaining about sort wrists after 4 hours of BF, but the modled shape of the n52 (for the left hand only) fit the bill. All buttons are customizable, but WASD default works well. Thumb sits on 4-way directional arrow keys (for up/down) and within a deft flick to 2 other buttons. I never need to take hand off keyboard/Belkin for any game and just put the keyboard out of the way. Its absolutly made for long gamign sessions.
RAID does not improve gaming performance - stats
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Pukbuster has been around a very long time in computer gaming terms (2001?) and is most assuradly NOT spyware. Its has the support of most of the big gaming companies, in large part due to its success in stopping cheaters in on-line games by scannign for hacks installed locally. Its now required by many games (and gaming companies) to play on-line (thus your kids request) and based on my own use I have had no problem iwth it, or heard of any.
No documented reports about spyware (use google) kinda tells you the story right there. It does one thing and does it well. Thumbs up
Maybe things have changed, but when this made the rounds of Slashdot in September 2003 "There were 20,000 hits in 24 hours, and plenty of discussion in the Slashdot forums regarding slow downloads"
http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id= 8764&PHPSESSID=5d3c8e0ad9765c01ba411759c623899 8
Got to love Maximum PC. Great mag!
They also quoted 2GB of RAM for Doom3, a gig more than any other game they profiled (included HL2, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., etc.).
2GB of RAM? What's up with that?
Mind you that was to play the game at its highest detail levels.
you forgot the bit about that Biosafety level 4 pathogens may be transmitted by the *cough* aerosol *cough* route. Within work areas of the facility, all activities are confined to Class III biological safety cabinets, or Class II biological safety cabinets used with one-piece positive pressure personnel suits ventilated by a life support system. The Biosafety Level 4 laboratory has special engineering and design features to prevent microorganisms from being disseminated into the environment. (Except power outages followed by sabotage of the generator apparently). Remember these are the nice things like Viral Hemorragic Fevers (the Ebolas of the world http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispage s/vhf.htm)
BSL1 - Biosafety Level 1; Organisms not known to cause disease in health adult humans. However, these agents may be opportunistic and cause disease in the young, aged, immunodeficient or immunosuppressed individuals.
BSL2 - Biosafety Level 2; Laboratory transmission occurs by self-inoculation or exposure via mucous membranes. Human blood, body fluids and cell lines are designated as Biosafety Level 2, unless they are known to contain a higher level pathogen. BSL2 organisms may cause diseases that may be lethal over time such as HIV. However, the BMBL lists BL2 organisms as being of moderate risk to personnel and the environment.
BSL3 - Biosafety Level 3 have the potential for respiratory transmission (inhalation of aerosols). BSL3 organisms may cause serious and potentially lethal infection.
BSL4 - Biosafety Level 4 is assigned to work involving dangerous or exotic agents which pose a high individual risk of life-threatening disease, which may be transmitted via the aerosol route, and for which there is no available vaccine or therapy
More info at http://www.cdc.gov/od/ohs/biosfty/bmbl4/bmbl4s3.ht m
Are there any other cities like Vancouver out there where cars part when you put your toe over the edge of the sidewalk, and you cross like Moses? It REALLY freaked me out the first couple of months after we moved here. After three years here its still disturbing. Its still on the must-see list when we have out-of-town guests.
Nope, they claim it is to prevent fraud
Note: In certain circumstances personal information can be collected, used, or disclosed without the knowledge and consent of the individual. For example, legal, medical, or security reasons may make it impossible or impractical to seek consent. When information is being collected for the detection and prevention of *fraud* or for law enforcement, seeking the consent of the individual might defeat the purpose of collecting the information.
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Awesome, thanks so very much!
I would buy Car Wars instantly if I could find a copy. Maybe I should go look. Damn that was a fine game.
http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Order_66
Actually its not the downloading* that is the problem, its the uploading that is the "file-sharing" part that gets you in trouble. *See also NNTP.
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The importance of properly documenting scientific experiments has been the subject of much scientific discourse in the peer reviewed literature. Recently, a series of letters on the use of ontologies for representing scientific experiments was published in Nature Biotechnology http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v24/n1/full/nbt0 106-21a.html, in part discussing the merits of Soldatova's work. However, it is generally agreed that developing such mechanisms is important, as just reviewed in another Nature journal http://www.nature.com/nmeth/journal/v3/n6/full/nme th0606-415.html.
As scientific experiments become more complex, using new high throughput and complex technology platforms, having things like EXPO and FUGO in place will become crucial. In fact there is no need to wait to hold your breat for three years as there are experimental ontologies already in use, the best example is for microarrays http://mged.sourceforge.net/ontologies/index.php. A key requirement is the development of software tools that implement these ontologies, so that end users are not required to download and understand the backend OWL, as the parent post suggests. The most likley route is to have this built into databases http://fuge.sourceforge.net/ as a controlled vocabulary in a manner that is tranparent to the benchtop scientist.
I very highly recommend the Belkin Speedpad n52 http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process ?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=2071&pcount=&Product_Id=1 57024/
I have both the n52 and the n50 (like all first gen game components its now attached the wife's computer). I cannot recommend this highly enough. After the last LAN party, everyone else was complaining about sort wrists after 4 hours of BF, but the modled shape of the n52 (for the left hand only) fit the bill. All buttons are customizable, but WASD default works well. Thumb sits on 4-way directional arrow keys (for up/down) and within a deft flick to 2 other buttons. I never need to take hand off keyboard/Belkin for any game and just put the keyboard out of the way. Its absolutly made for long gamign sessions.
RAID will not make your games *run* faster. Games are entirely CPU and graphic bound, and disk performance has no impact. RAID *will* shave off a 1-2 seconds off your map load times, maybe. http://www.amdzone.com/modules.php?op=modload&name =Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=66&page =2
Its called a Physics Processing Unit and will cost $250 to $400. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/ 08/1827239&tid=137
Pukbuster has been around a very long time in computer gaming terms (2001?) and is most assuradly NOT spyware. Its has the support of most of the big gaming companies, in large part due to its success in stopping cheaters in on-line games by scannign for hacks installed locally. Its now required by many games (and gaming companies) to play on-line (thus your kids request) and based on my own use I have had no problem iwth it, or heard of any. No documented reports about spyware (use google) kinda tells you the story right there. It does one thing and does it well. Thumbs up
"If you ask me, it's just a waste of time, completely meaningless" Your new here, aren't you?
Maybe things have changed, but when this made the rounds of Slashdot in September 2003 "There were 20,000 hits in 24 hours, and plenty of discussion in the Slashdot forums regarding slow downloads" http://www.archive.org/iathreads/post-view.php?id= 8764&PHPSESSID=5d3c8e0ad9765c01ba411759c623899 8
Got to love Maximum PC. Great mag! They also quoted 2GB of RAM for Doom3, a gig more than any other game they profiled (included HL2, S.T.A.L.K.E.R., etc.). 2GB of RAM? What's up with that? Mind you that was to play the game at its highest detail levels.
you forgot the bit about that Biosafety level 4 pathogens may be transmitted by the *cough* aerosol *cough* route. Within work areas of the facility, all activities are confined to Class III biological safety cabinets, or Class II biological safety cabinets used with one-piece positive pressure personnel suits ventilated by a life support system. The Biosafety Level 4 laboratory has special engineering and design features to prevent microorganisms from being disseminated into the environment. (Except power outages followed by sabotage of the generator apparently). Remember these are the nice things like Viral Hemorragic Fevers (the Ebolas of the world http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dvrd/spb/mnpages/dispage s/vhf.htm)
BSL1 - Biosafety Level 1; Organisms not known to cause disease in health adult humans. However, these agents may be opportunistic and cause disease in the young, aged, immunodeficient or immunosuppressed individuals.
BSL2 - Biosafety Level 2; Laboratory transmission occurs by self-inoculation or exposure via mucous membranes. Human blood, body fluids and cell lines are designated as Biosafety Level 2, unless they are known to contain a higher level pathogen. BSL2 organisms may cause diseases that may be lethal over time such as HIV. However, the BMBL lists BL2 organisms as being of moderate risk to personnel and the environment.
BSL3 - Biosafety Level 3 have the potential for respiratory transmission (inhalation of aerosols). BSL3 organisms may cause serious and potentially lethal infection.
BSL4 - Biosafety Level 4 is assigned to work involving dangerous or exotic agents which pose a high individual risk of life-threatening disease, which may be transmitted via the aerosol route, and for which there is no available vaccine or therapy
More info at http://www.cdc.gov/od/ohs/biosfty/bmbl4/bmbl4s3.ht m
Are there any other cities like Vancouver out there where cars part when you put your toe over the edge of the sidewalk, and you cross like Moses? It REALLY freaked me out the first couple of months after we moved here. After three years here its still disturbing. Its still on the must-see list when we have out-of-town guests.
Nope, they claim it is to prevent fraud Note: In certain circumstances personal information can be collected, used, or disclosed without the knowledge and consent of the individual. For example, legal, medical, or security reasons may make it impossible or impractical to seek consent. When information is being collected for the detection and prevention of *fraud* or for law enforcement, seeking the consent of the individual might defeat the purpose of collecting the information.