Wow, you're cheap. My friends had to bribe me $20 to vote for Bush!
(And I did it multiple times on multiple people! I figure the money will balance out any negative side effects of having him in office...)
=]
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That's all great and dandy, but take a look at the article. It's about a guy who writes programs that will make physical puzzles; this has nothing to do with programming puzzles or exercises.
I think you had it wrong - they aren't implying that public school science teachers are poor teachers! It says they have one of the worst jobs, which I believe is true. Not only do they have to teach a subject which requires intelligent thought to a disinterested student body, their profession is constantly under attack by religious radicals.
Hell, my own mother threatened to take me out if they taught me evolution. It didn't happen, but I shudder to think of other students who did have that happen to them.
Also, science is one of the most poorly funded departments across the nation. Hell, team sports such as Football and Soocer, even electives such as music get more funding in some areas.
So yes, they've got one of the worst jobs in science: teaching it to the next generation.
Agreed. If they tax us, the government should put that money back for the public's benefit. How would we benefit from an internet tax? Libre Fiber connections, courtesy of the government? I don't think so. It's simply a money grab.
I was on #halflife2 on IRC for the countdown. Then I started playing. In the hour that I have played Half-Life 2, the only thing I can say is that I am in complete awe.
First off, If you've played CS:Source, you don't even know the half of it. Half-Life 2 is one hell of a single player. It manages to scare you in broad daylight. It scares you not just by monsters, but by the dystopia/authoritarian thing going on. It's really freaking scary.
The voices, facial movements, physics, "Civil Protectorate", it's all awesome. After just one hour, I've forgiven Valve. Half-Life 2 is just as revolutionary as the original Half-Life was. You really have to play it to believe it. I can't even begin to describe in words the euphoria and the terror it strikes in your heart.
It is also important to consider the injustices of slashdot's editors. This topic
can be researched more on anti-slash [anti-slash.org]
Is this a clever troll? Why in the world would *BSD developers mention anti-slash?
Google Mobile has been out longer than a week - it was just in "beta" (which tends to be pretty good for Google) and accessible at labs.google.com. Google Labs is an awesome place to visit and play around with the cool toys they're working on.
Could be a good thing if it ultimately puts another thorn in the side of spammers who promote those pr0n web sites.
Could be a bad thing if it is nothing but pure censorship.
A government that excuses its actions by acting as a sort of parental figure, is a corrupt government indeed. Human beings are critical thinkers, thank you very much, and it is an insult to the intelligence of a Billion+ Chinese if China's government thinks it should "protect" them from "harmful content" so that they don't "harm" themselves.
I know that's not the real reason, but seriously, who does China think it's fooling?
This is very interesting. Prions, supposedly the cause of CFJDv (The human version of Mad Cow disease) could be targeted. Cancer cells could be neutralized. It's really very broad, the possibilities.
The cancer part is interesting - I hadn't thought about that in my previous post. The idea is to engineer ubiquitin to attach itself to cancer cells, therefore causing the body to kill the proteins inside, effectively killing the cells. (Well, cells are proteins.)
It's a very interesting concept, not limited to any type of cancer as far as I know, but again, this is 1980s research, not brand new as the article suggests, but still exciting.
From the first couple of comments, it seems people don't know what the heck this is talking about. Let me explain:
The human body has a natural mechanism for recycling proteins. What nobody understood, however, was how it knew what proteins to recycle - after all, if proteins were just recycled randomly we'd all be globs of jelly.
So then these guys came along and figured it out: when the body wants to recycle a protein, it attaches another protein as a label, called ubiquitin.
The science isn't exactly new - 1980s - but it was significant, and best of all, pure research. (So you can stop with the whining about drugs)
Congrats to these guys. It really is an honor for a University to have a Nobel Laureate in their staff, and UC Irvine just got one. =]
But look, there are two checkboxes for Politics! Which one, which one??
(Checks the second one hoping to exclude all stories on Australian Politics...)
He said software that was not sold is non-commercial. So if you buy Red Hat, that's commercial, but if you download Debian or Slackware or someother distro, its not sold, and therefore non-commercial.
In California, you can leave a $30,000 deposit with the DMV in lieu of car insurance. You can also carry some sort of proof of assets in your car instead, signed by a public notary. Of course, most people would rather have the insurance than give the DMV $30k to keep for the rest of their lives.
Schools have been making deals with soft drink makers for decades. Millions go to school districts from Pepsi and Coke. In fact, I believe there was a school in the northeast that had a giant advertisement for Pepsi on their roof, as they were near the local airport. So this is nothing special, really.
Never mind that: imagine the resource crunch using only one processor! It looks as though they have four X servers running off of that one poor little CPU. Now, from the translation:
The computers most recent supply to a processing power many times bigger that the demand of many users. Having this in sight, this project looks for to use to advantage better the power of these machines, allowing that the computacinal power of them is shared by some people.
Too much processing power? Well, it certainly could be true if the users were only using the computer for browsing the internet, checking email, word processing, etc., but if all four were doing graphics-intensive (UT2004) or CPU-intensive (manipulating large sets of files) tasks, the slowdown would be considerable.
Speaking of games, these brings a whole new meaning to the term "hotseat".
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Wow, you're cheap. My friends had to bribe me $20 to vote for Bush!
(And I did it multiple times on multiple people! I figure the money will balance out any negative side effects of having him in office...)
=]
That's all great and dandy, but take a look at the article. It's about a guy who writes programs that will make physical puzzles; this has nothing to do with programming puzzles or exercises.
I think you had it wrong - they aren't implying that public school science teachers are poor teachers! It says they have one of the worst jobs, which I believe is true. Not only do they have to teach a subject which requires intelligent thought to a disinterested student body, their profession is constantly under attack by religious radicals.
Hell, my own mother threatened to take me out if they taught me evolution. It didn't happen, but I shudder to think of other students who did have that happen to them.
Also, science is one of the most poorly funded departments across the nation. Hell, team sports such as Football and Soocer, even electives such as music get more funding in some areas.
So yes, they've got one of the worst jobs in science: teaching it to the next generation.
Agreed. If they tax us, the government should put that money back for the public's benefit. How would we benefit from an internet tax? Libre Fiber connections, courtesy of the government? I don't think so. It's simply a money grab.
I was on #halflife2 on IRC for the countdown. Then I started playing. In the hour that I have played Half-Life 2, the only thing I can say is that I am in complete awe.
First off, If you've played CS:Source, you don't even know the half of it. Half-Life 2 is one hell of a single player. It manages to scare you in broad daylight. It scares you not just by monsters, but by the dystopia/authoritarian thing going on. It's really freaking scary.
The voices, facial movements, physics, "Civil Protectorate", it's all awesome. After just one hour, I've forgiven Valve. Half-Life 2 is just as revolutionary as the original Half-Life was. You really have to play it to believe it. I can't even begin to describe in words the euphoria and the terror it strikes in your heart.
Not bad for a company's second game.
Why only Sun's Java Desktop System? JDS is a Linux distribution; what could be prohibiting them from expanding this to other distros?
financial modeling Well, with all that computing power, they can model the girls over in financials anytime, baybe!
It is also important to consider the injustices of slashdot's editors. This topic can be researched more on anti-slash [anti-slash.org] Is this a clever troll? Why in the world would *BSD developers mention anti-slash?
We know, we know. *BSD is not dying. Don't let the trolls get to you, m2ig! Those of us who use BSD know of it's goodness. =P
Google Mobile has been out longer than a week - it was just in "beta" (which tends to be pretty good for Google) and accessible at labs.google.com. Google Labs is an awesome place to visit and play around with the cool toys they're working on.
I think Rob was a bit angry at his wife, so he wanted us to /. her website.
Could be a good thing if it ultimately puts another thorn in the side of spammers who promote those pr0n web sites. Could be a bad thing if it is nothing but pure censorship.
A government that excuses its actions by acting as a sort of parental figure, is a corrupt government indeed. Human beings are critical thinkers, thank you very much, and it is an insult to the intelligence of a Billion+ Chinese if China's government thinks it should "protect" them from "harmful content" so that they don't "harm" themselves.
I know that's not the real reason, but seriously, who does China think it's fooling?
This is very interesting. Prions, supposedly the cause of CFJDv (The human version of Mad Cow disease) could be targeted. Cancer cells could be neutralized. It's really very broad, the possibilities.
Now they just need more funding!
The cancer part is interesting - I hadn't thought about that in my previous post. The idea is to engineer ubiquitin to attach itself to cancer cells, therefore causing the body to kill the proteins inside, effectively killing the cells. (Well, cells are proteins.)
It's a very interesting concept, not limited to any type of cancer as far as I know, but again, this is 1980s research, not brand new as the article suggests, but still exciting.
From the first couple of comments, it seems people don't know what the heck this is talking about. Let me explain:
The human body has a natural mechanism for recycling proteins. What nobody understood, however, was how it knew what proteins to recycle - after all, if proteins were just recycled randomly we'd all be globs of jelly.
So then these guys came along and figured it out: when the body wants to recycle a protein, it attaches another protein as a label, called ubiquitin.
The science isn't exactly new - 1980s - but it was significant, and best of all, pure research. (So you can stop with the whining about drugs)
Congrats to these guys. It really is an honor for a University to have a Nobel Laureate in their staff, and UC Irvine just got one. =]
But look, there are two checkboxes for Politics! Which one, which one?? (Checks the second one hoping to exclude all stories on Australian Politics...)
...is a good thing.
He said software that was not sold is non-commercial. So if you buy Red Hat, that's commercial, but if you download Debian or Slackware or someother distro, its not sold, and therefore non-commercial.
I can't tell if your new here or not.
I can just see it now!
*Wiggle*
*Sniff*
HEADSHOT!
In California, you can leave a $30,000 deposit with the DMV in lieu of car insurance. You can also carry some sort of proof of assets in your car instead, signed by a public notary. Of course, most people would rather have the insurance than give the DMV $30k to keep for the rest of their lives.
(This is a troll. RTFA, or at least RTFB, please.)
The Business Software Alliance, as discussed in /. several days ago.
Schools have been making deals with soft drink makers for decades. Millions go to school districts from Pepsi and Coke. In fact, I believe there was a school in the northeast that had a giant advertisement for Pepsi on their roof, as they were near the local airport. So this is nothing special, really.
Never mind that: imagine the resource crunch using only one processor! It looks as though they have four X servers running off of that one poor little CPU. Now, from the translation:
The computers most recent supply to a processing power many times bigger that the demand of many users. Having this in sight, this project looks for to use to advantage better the power of these machines, allowing that the computacinal power of them is shared by some people.
Too much processing power? Well, it certainly could be true if the users were only using the computer for browsing the internet, checking email, word processing, etc., but if all four were doing graphics-intensive (UT2004) or CPU-intensive (manipulating large sets of files) tasks, the slowdown would be considerable.
Speaking of games, these brings a whole new meaning to the term "hotseat".