I swear, I will do HORRIBLE things to the next one who mentions clippy. Whoever is not able to turn of clippy is too stupid to be allowed to post in a forum.
Regarding OpenOffice - I for one will gladly use it, as soon as an OS literature management system is available that can compete with EndNote or ReferenceManager - and which can import my EndNote database. I will not rebuild a 5000+ citations database from scratch.
So, let me summarize: a) microsoft retracts its support for an antidiscrimination bill regarding homosexuals b)penguins, on the other hand have TEH GAY and, as if this wasn't enough, are whoring and pimping sons-of-a-bitches.
Now, folks, the penguin is a common symbol, not to say heraldic animal for what? That's right, folks, we're talking bout linux here. Am I the only one seeing the potential for new, unprecedented trolling and flaming? Ahhh, how I love the smell of napalm in the morning....
Did I state that I'm non religious? Ahh... I see, religion means your specific flavor.
But that aside - the question remains: why are you specifically picking out the biblical ban on homosexuality to rant about? Why don't you spend your energy promoting an anti-shellfish law?
You are a bigot. You choose one part of the bible and stick it to others. Do you adhere to the food regulations in leviticus? Never wear clothes made of different fibres? etc. etc. If yes, I am sorry. If no - you're a bigot.
Footnore to this - a virus scanner doesn't usually slow me down because of its computational cost - it the additional disk access operations that make it a PITA. Dual core won't help with that.
Gates Law: As the number of trnsisters available in CPUs double every 18 months, software bloat doubles in 18 months negating any real gain.
Linux desktop foo-foo isn't far behind. Isn't far behind? As much as I like linux, or unices in general, desktop inefficiency is actually worse under linux than under windows. I like linux as a naked, barebones system to run my computationally expensive stuff - very efficient at that. But if you go to desktops - KDE or gnome are way worse than windows in my humble opinion. They eat at least the same resources without providing an at least adequatly homogeneous environment. And no, good sirs, to stop the flames, the last piece of malware i caught under windows was five years ago.
I guess you're a GEEK gamer if you prefer Nethack/Angband/T.O.M.E over Madden NFL$year/$generic_crap... But I don't envision shirts reading "I beat MORGOTH with a YEEK HERMIT BARD" becoming a fashion statement soon...
Look it up here, you just have to find the cluster-size.
And of course, 1 amu = 1.66e-27 g, so 1 zeptogram (10e-21 g) is about 1.66e6 amu per weighted Xe Cluster. At a mass of 131.3 amu per Xe atom we get a cluster size of roughly 12000 Xe atoms per cluster.
yeah, works like a charm. i always keep an old box, which has lost the magic blue smoke a long time ago and has been stripped of useful parts and otherwise seriously mistreated since, with my other boxes. If they act up, I just give them that special look, point to the wreck amongst them and remind them "you wouldn't want to end up like that one, now would you?"
Just remembered another one to recommend - Tad William's Otherland. Four volumes, somewhere between 3.5 and 4k pages - should keep you going for some time. Great stuff, between cyberpunk and mythology.
There is no purpose, dear AC. Everyone would write Methionylalanylthreonyl...leucin as MAT...L in standard one letter code. There you have a represenation in which you can actually see patterns, that give you clues about function etc.
Unfortunately the name - which is simply the sequence - does not give you information bout different conformers, at least not in a straightforward way. If you wrote out the sequence of the prion protein in that way, it would not reveal its "prionness". You'd have to do statistical analyses for that, and even they aren't that accurate.
This is no IUPAC problem - this long name is simply the sequence. If you have a functional protein, you have other nomenclatures at hand, for example the IEC classification for enzymes. Biochemists have developed several systems of nomenclature, which are actually useful (Overview here. IUPAC has its place for small molecules organic chemists are concerned with.
By the way, if you want a longer and equally useless chemical name, you can always spell out the nucleotid sequence of a whole chromosome in full nomenclature.
Well, If you like Iain M. Banks, I strongly recommend Alastair Reynolds: Revelation Space, Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap. Great trilogy, a lot of really hard SF (written by an astrophycicist working at ESA), combined with a very interesting and insightful view on possible cultural evolution driven by technology. One of the most credible pictures how a society with sub-light space travel and the resulting relativistic distortions might look like. That, and yes, first contact with aliens that truly are alien. I won't tell no more, so I don't move into spoiler territory. Give it a try!
I second that. Biology, biochemistry and genetics - apart from being fascinating per se - will be the next field for hacking, optimizing and late-night coding sessions - beware of the nerds of the next generation!
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I swear, I will do HORRIBLE things to the next one who mentions clippy. Whoever is not able to turn of clippy is too stupid to be allowed to post in a forum.
Regarding OpenOffice - I for one will gladly use it, as soon as an OS literature management system is available that can compete with EndNote or ReferenceManager - and which can import my EndNote database. I will not rebuild a 5000+ citations database from scratch.
So... I have people tellig me all the time I was as crazy as a shithouse rat... Am I out? No hibernation for me?
Come on, set yourself a realistic goal, such as the Duke Nukem Forever release date...
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a) microsoft retracts its support for an antidiscrimination bill regarding homosexuals
b)penguins, on the other hand have TEH GAY and, as if this wasn't enough, are whoring and pimping sons-of-a-bitches.
Now, folks, the penguin is a common symbol, not to say heraldic animal for what? That's right, folks, we're talking bout linux here.
Am I the only one seeing the potential for new, unprecedented trolling and flaming? Ahhh, how I love the smell of napalm in the morning....
Did I state that I'm non religious? Ahh... I see, religion means your specific flavor.
But that aside - the question remains: why are you specifically picking out the biblical ban on homosexuality to rant about? Why don't you spend your energy promoting an anti-shellfish law?
You are a bigot. You choose one part of the bible and stick it to others. Do you adhere to the food regulations in leviticus? Never wear clothes made of different fibres? etc. etc.
If yes, I am sorry. If no - you're a bigot.
Footnore to this - a virus scanner doesn't usually slow me down because of its computational cost - it the additional disk access operations that make it a PITA. Dual core won't help with that.
Gates Law: As the number of trnsisters available in CPUs double every 18 months, software bloat doubles in 18 months negating any real gain.
Linux desktop foo-foo isn't far behind.
Isn't far behind? As much as I like linux, or unices in general, desktop inefficiency is actually worse under linux than under windows. I like linux as a naked, barebones system to run my computationally expensive stuff - very efficient at that. But if you go to desktops - KDE or gnome are way worse than windows in my humble opinion. They eat at least the same resources without providing an at least adequatly homogeneous environment. And no, good sirs, to stop the flames, the last piece of malware i caught under windows was five years ago.
No, there are actually some real conspiracies out there...
tinfoilHat.takeOff();
Mushroom cloud.
Here you go:
A tape deck.
I guess you're a GEEK gamer if you prefer Nethack/Angband/T.O.M.E over Madden NFL$year/$generic_crap... But I don't envision shirts reading "I beat MORGOTH with a YEEK HERMIT BARD" becoming a fashion statement soon...
Why, is it underfunded and vetoed by the US?
Do error messages come in the form of "I am sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that.", or what?
And of course, 1 amu = 1.66e-27 g, so 1 zeptogram (10e-21 g) is about 1.66e6 amu per weighted Xe Cluster. At a mass of 131.3 amu per Xe atom we get a cluster size of roughly 12000 Xe atoms per cluster.
yeah, works like a charm. i always keep an old box, which has lost the magic blue smoke a long time ago and has been stripped of useful parts and otherwise seriously mistreated since, with my other boxes. If they act up, I just give them that special look, point to the wreck amongst them and remind them "you wouldn't want to end up like that one, now would you?"
Just remembered another one to recommend - Tad William's Otherland. Four volumes, somewhere between 3.5 and 4k pages - should keep you going for some time. Great stuff, between cyberpunk and mythology.
There is no purpose, dear AC. Everyone would write Methionylalanylthreonyl...leucin as MAT...L in standard one letter code. There you have a represenation in which you can actually see patterns, that give you clues about function etc.
Unfortunately the name - which is simply the sequence - does not give you information bout different conformers, at least not in a straightforward way. If you wrote out the sequence of the prion protein in that way, it would not reveal its "prionness". You'd have to do statistical analyses for that, and even they aren't that accurate.
By the way, if you want a longer and equally useless chemical name, you can always spell out the nucleotid sequence of a whole chromosome in full nomenclature.
seriously.. whatever it looks like... we'll bitch about it, now won't we?
only if the spellchequer fails...
Well, If you like Iain M. Banks, I strongly recommend Alastair Reynolds: Revelation Space, Redemption Ark and Absolution Gap. Great trilogy, a lot of really hard SF (written by an astrophycicist working at ESA), combined with a very interesting and insightful view on possible cultural evolution driven by technology. One of the most credible pictures how a society with sub-light space travel and the resulting relativistic distortions might look like. That, and yes, first contact with aliens that truly are alien. I won't tell no more, so I don't move into spoiler territory. Give it a try!
Might acutally be news to a lot of people....
I second that. Biology, biochemistry and genetics - apart from being fascinating per se - will be the next field for hacking, optimizing and late-night coding sessions - beware of the nerds of the next generation!