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BSD is dying.
Yeah, but does it run Linux?
Imagine a Beowulf cluster with these!
Natalie Portman uses BSD. Shouldn't you?
In Soviet Russia, BSD releases you!
Darl McBride is not amused.
Yeah, but Linux has a higher kitsch factor.
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There. They're made. Happy? You made me do this... It hurt me *way* more than it hurt you. Go to your room.
When I read the summary, I thought "Oh, like the one on Monster Garage". For those of you who didn't see the one they featured (briefly), there was a monowheel with a Caddilac engine, and the rider rode on the inside... at high speeds it was unstable until the designer added Stabilizing fins...
But, for those of you who don't RTFA: You ride in FRONT of the wheel. It's *really* fuggin' cool looking.
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have come a step closer to creating a minuscule DNA computer that may one day be able to spot diseases like cancer from inside the body and release a drug to treat it.
Professor Ehud Shapiro and researchers at Israel's Weizmann Institute constructed the world's smallest biomolecular computer a few years ago.
Now they have programmed it to analyse biological information to detect and treat prostate cancer and a form of lung cancer in laboratory experiments.
"We've taken our earlier molecular computer and augmented it with an input and output module. Together the computer can diagnose a disease and in response produce a drug for the disease in a test tube," Shapiro told Reuters.
The microscopic computer is so minuscule a trillion could fit in a drop of water. Its input, output and software are made up of DNA molecules -- which store and process encoded information about living organisms.
"Our work represents the first actual proof of concept and the first actual demonstration of a possible real-life application for this kind of computer," Shapiro added.
DIAGNOSING CANCER WITHIN THE CELL
The findings, which are published online by the science journal Nature and were presented at a symposium in Brussels, Belgium, could transform how diseases like cancer are treated in the future.
Instead of biopsies to remove cancerous tissue, which then must be analysed in the laboratory. The DNA computer could potentially diagnose the disease within the tissue in the body.
"Our medical computer might one day be administered as a drug, and be distributed throughout the body by the bloodstream to detect disease markers autonomously and independently in every cell," said Shapiro.
It could enable doctors to treat cancer in its earliest stages before tumours have formed and to deliver drugs to hard-to-reach cells if the disease has spread to other parts of the body.
I would create a witty BASIC code responce, but my mind has shunned all knowledge of BASIC from my head.
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. (Edsger Dijkstra)
Well, it's close to the bottom limit of what XP's recommended for. Any less memory, or a significantly slower processor (600Mhz or less), and I'd go Win2k if I wanted to stick with Windows.
That's a completely different can of worms. Cars are not operating systems. Operating systems are operating systems.
I've seen Linux crash dealing with a bad sound card before. Would you say Linux has a stability problem? I sure as hell wouldn't. So why does XP get a bad rep for being unstable when it crashes under the same circumstance?
Safety restrictions? With the same logic they would stop assembling the ISS, too. They use the shuttle for that...
The safety restriction is that the Shuttle must be able to reach the International Space Station in case of an emergency, to use it as a lifeboat. The Hubble is in a completely different orbit, and the shuttle would not be able to use the ISS if an emergency arose.
Hubble's not getting decommed. It'll be used until it fails, which without repairs will be 2007 by conservative estimates, or 2012 when it's replaced by the James Webb Space Telescope.
And NASA is pondering robotically repairing Hubble to save it from an early grave, without violating the self-imposed safety restrictions.
Believe it or not, the boom peaks in intensity around 40,000 feet below the airplane. After this point, the smaller sonic booms blend together with the main wave creating a more defined 'N-wave'. Below this point, the booms are further spread out and thus less intense.
The fact that the Concorde cruises at 50,000 feet for reasons of efficiency (air density) is actually a drawback in terms of the sonic boom.
Yeah, but does it run Linux?
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
I for one welcome our new climate-controlling-mousepad overlords.
In Soviet Russia, Mousepad cools YOU!
1: Slap fan on mousepad
2: ???
3: Profit!
Sadly, I can't figure out any way to work in either hot grits, or Natalie Portman.
Slashdot Mirror
Damn... knew I forgot one!
And a note, in case it wasn't perfectly clear by the end. It was a (Very poor) attempt at humor.
[Obligatory]
BSD is dying.
Yeah, but does it run Linux?
Imagine a Beowulf cluster with these!
Natalie Portman uses BSD. Shouldn't you?
In Soviet Russia, BSD releases you!
Darl McBride is not amused.
Yeah, but Linux has a higher kitsch factor.
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There. They're made. Happy? You made me do this... It hurt me *way* more than it hurt you. Go to your room.
When I read the summary, I thought "Oh, like the one on Monster Garage". For those of you who didn't see the one they featured (briefly), there was a monowheel with a Caddilac engine, and the rider rode on the inside... at high speeds it was unstable until the designer added Stabilizing fins...
But, for those of you who don't RTFA: You ride in FRONT of the wheel. It's *really* fuggin' cool looking.
In my experience, it's not much different...
Friends of mine who only use Unix-based OSes swear by BSD, and in my (Regretfully limited) experience, BSD is darn nice.
I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you in. Your GPA is too low this semester.
It's not 'software' in any traditional sense. It's a hardwired chemical design. It's not something you take home, tweak, and recompile.
It's like comparing Apples to Buicks.
No it isn't, but since you're having trouble:
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have come a step closer to creating a minuscule DNA computer that may one day be able to spot diseases like cancer from inside the body and release a drug to treat it.
Professor Ehud Shapiro and researchers at Israel's Weizmann Institute constructed the world's smallest biomolecular computer a few years ago.
Now they have programmed it to analyse biological information to detect and treat prostate cancer and a form of lung cancer in laboratory experiments.
"We've taken our earlier molecular computer and augmented it with an input and output module. Together the computer can diagnose a disease and in response produce a drug for the disease in a test tube," Shapiro told Reuters.
The microscopic computer is so minuscule a trillion could fit in a drop of water. Its input, output and software are made up of DNA molecules -- which store and process encoded information about living organisms.
"Our work represents the first actual proof of concept and the first actual demonstration of a possible real-life application for this kind of computer," Shapiro added.
DIAGNOSING CANCER WITHIN THE CELL
The findings, which are published online by the science journal Nature and were presented at a symposium in Brussels, Belgium, could transform how diseases like cancer are treated in the future.
Instead of biopsies to remove cancerous tissue, which then must be analysed in the laboratory. The DNA computer could potentially diagnose the disease within the tissue in the body.
"Our medical computer might one day be administered as a drug, and be distributed throughout the body by the bloodstream to detect disease markers autonomously and independently in every cell," said Shapiro.
It could enable doctors to treat cancer in its earliest stages before tumours have formed and to deliver drugs to hard-to-reach cells if the disease has spread to other parts of the body.
Out of curiousity: BSD?
I would create a witty BASIC code responce, but my mind has shunned all knowledge of BASIC from my head.
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. (Edsger Dijkstra)
Dunno 'bout the AI, but the flying cars don't seem to be too far off.
Well, it's close to the bottom limit of what XP's recommended for. Any less memory, or a significantly slower processor (600Mhz or less), and I'd go Win2k if I wanted to stick with Windows.
That's a completely different can of worms. Cars are not operating systems. Operating systems are operating systems.
I've seen Linux crash dealing with a bad sound card before. Would you say Linux has a stability problem? I sure as hell wouldn't. So why does XP get a bad rep for being unstable when it crashes under the same circumstance?
I'm typing this from a machine with an 850 Mhz processor, 256 MB of RAM, and a 104 day, 4 hour, 32 minute, an 27 second uptime.
If that's not stability on older hardware, I'd like to know what is.
By adding value to the product beyond the price.
I've run XP 2 years now, on two computers. Had the BSOD once, due to a bad driver. I'd say that's damn near fixed.
That's the problem. He hates the fresh pine smell.
Then buy one!
Hubble's not getting decommed. It'll be used until it fails, which without repairs will be 2007 by conservative estimates, or 2012 when it's replaced by the James Webb Space Telescope.
And NASA is pondering robotically repairing Hubble to save it from an early grave, without violating the self-imposed safety restrictions.
Oh?
Believe it or not, the boom peaks in intensity around 40,000 feet below the airplane. After this point, the smaller sonic booms blend together with the main wave creating a more defined 'N-wave'. Below this point, the booms are further spread out and thus less intense.
The fact that the Concorde cruises at 50,000 feet for reasons of efficiency (air density) is actually a drawback in terms of the sonic boom.
More obligatory Slashdot jokes:
Yeah, but does it run Linux?
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
I for one welcome our new climate-controlling-mousepad overlords.
In Soviet Russia, Mousepad cools YOU!
1: Slap fan on mousepad
2: ???
3: Profit!
Sadly, I can't figure out any way to work in either hot grits, or Natalie Portman.
No, they aren't. They're licenced using the MIT licence now... They did use the LGPL, but no more...
Err, I'm sorry. That should be: .NET != Microsoft's .NET
.NET moniker
Mono also refers to C# with the