Only in America do politicians go to jail for taking bribes. ... The point is that, though the system is corrupt here, it's worse everywhere else, and has been worse.
Who has moderated this post as insightful? It is nothing but misinformed stupidity. In (almost) all western countries politicians have been jailed for taking bribes. Maybe they did not loose their job for having affairs but then not everyone is as puritan as americans. And where are your facts concerning corruption? You are a typical American that has never moved is obese bottom out of his country.
Compaq, HP, IBM, SGI all claim they are for linux and want to develop it. This is just bullshit. I talked to people (directors, VPs,...) of all these companies and they just want to sell two things: 1. Machines with whatever system but preferably their own (HPUX, AIX,...) 2. Services.
IBM is the worst of the lot. They have small groups working on linux, but not one sales person will sell you Linux. It's AIX, AIX, AIX.
Research should be privately funded. If you don't like the kind of research a company is doing, boycott that company's products. When the government gets involved, things get a lot more complicated. How will you boycott the government?
By not voting for the political party in power at the next election! DUH!
Fundamental research will not be funded by private companies! So what you want is no university. This is completely idiotic. When companies are doing research, it's almost entirely based on what was done before at universities.
Celera, Incyte and many other companies do not collaborate with the public effort. So what? Everyone makes such a big deal about this when after all these are commercial companies and they are not going to give away their data for free (without strings attached). I was talking about the collaboration between public bioinf centres. This does happen. The UCSC and NCBI and EBI and Sanger and Genoscope,...
Is "junk DNA" just that? Or some subtle part of the design that we have yet to understand?
I am not so keen on the word "design" there. Anyhow, research is just that. Research. There are lots of things we don't know and we are trying to find out WTF this junk DNA is all about.
Anyway this post will never be read by anyone.
Maybe if they open sourced their efforts and cooperated
1- Most databases are publicly available.
2- Many bioinformatics groups DO cooperate
Unfortunately, everybody has a different view of what is a gene and how to find them.
As always, there is a big difference between hardware and software. If people could copy food, chairs,... they would do it. Your remark is thus pointless.
* Big backwards 'L' shaped enter key.
Why? Having changed to a "Happy Hacking" keyboard (with a small enter key), I don't understand why anyone would want a big enter key. It's just a waste of space.
I think boulevard comes from Dutch, although it has been "frenchified". I think the main reason that there are not many Dutch words in english is that only Dutch people could pronounce them. Just think van Gogh!
Having lived in the Netherlands for a few years, this thread reminds me of what a Dutch colleague used to say: Dutch is not a language, it's a throat disease.
I find it quite suprising that so many people have searched for Wimbledon since the official site is www.wimbledon.com (and.org). What is less surprising is Le Tour de France since the official site is www.letour.com (and.fr) which is much less obvious.
But, then again, who would be crazy to make a killer bot ? There is no robot designer who would do this in a real life situation for the defense of a building.
Well I'm sure it couldn't pass the turning test, and it will probably identify inflatable dolls in dorm rooms as intruders.
The turning test? The robot is only intelligent enough to go straight then! I hope they have long corridors.
Some posts mention alternatives to Napster, but I have not seen this one: http://www.inoize.com/.
I admit I haven't tried it myself, but it seems it's a P2P with a Windoze AND Linux client. Anyone has tried it?
I have been taught and have taught science. Yes sir. As a scientist I try to demonstrate theories with facts. I teach facts and not myths. I tell my students to be critical and not to believe at face value what they are told (even by me) or what they read (even from Darwin). Then they decide by themselves. Is that too liberal for you? You would prefer them to be brain-washed from an early age with the bible or whatever other book. That's your prerogative. That's not what I do.
When I am writing this reply, the post from Erikson has got (Score:5, Informative). Who are the stupid cavemen moderating this up? WE LIVE IN THE 21st CENTURY! We know about evolution, dinosaurs, the big-bang et al. Creationism is a myth! There is not one scientific fact in creationism. Not one.
Please, stop attacking the French people, the French politicians,... They are not responsible for a small student movement that is suing Yahoo! and recently for another small movement threatening French ISPs for not blocking US-based neo-nazis web-sites. In all the French forums I have visited, there is an overwhelming majority of French people against these actions. These small anti-racist action groups are simply shooting themselves in the foot. They forgot that Voltaire said that we are all entitled to say stupid things and that he will fight to the death to preserve this right.
even if you did the work to "discover" it yourself & they just happened to get to the patent office a little earlier
Well duh! That's research for you.
like distribute seeds with patented genes for FREE to starving people
Like it has been said many times before, people don't starve because of bad crops, but because of bad governements and wars. Most GM crops are sterile anyway, so you would have to distribute FREE crops to starving people every year. Does that sound like a good idea?
Ordinary American citizens if asked to pick a justice system other than the US they would trust their fates to would likely select Britain or Canada..
You idiot! Ordinary Americans don't know any other countries!
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Only in America do politicians go to jail for taking bribes.
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The point is that, though the system is corrupt here, it's worse everywhere else, and has been worse.
Who has moderated this post as insightful? It is nothing but misinformed stupidity. In (almost) all western countries politicians have been jailed for taking bribes. Maybe they did not loose their job for having affairs but then not everyone is as puritan as americans. And where are your facts concerning corruption?
You are a typical American that has never moved is obese bottom out of his country.
You are not a chemist. Any chemist will tell you that we can create millions of different molecules that do not exist in nature.
IBM is the worst of the lot. They have small groups working on linux, but not one sales person will sell you Linux. It's AIX, AIX, AIX.
So don't believe the hype!
I am looking for a 3d Rendering farm using clusters any idea ?
Sure. In France : Artabel. I don't know any other company doing the same.
By not voting for the political party in power at the next election! DUH!
Fundamental research will not be funded by private companies! So what you want is no university. This is completely idiotic. When companies are doing research, it's almost entirely based on what was done before at universities.
Unfortunately, (as can be seen here) only very few stretches of DNA are known for penguins!
You mean like in Barbarella? Jane Fonda is a bit too old now. Who should it be?
Is "junk DNA" just that? Or some subtle part of the design that we have yet to understand?
I am not so keen on the word "design" there. Anyhow, research is just that. Research. There are lots of things we don't know and we are trying to find out WTF this junk DNA is all about.
Anyway this post will never be read by anyone.
Maybe if they open sourced their efforts and cooperated
1- Most databases are publicly available.
2- Many bioinformatics groups DO cooperate
Unfortunately, everybody has a different view of what is a gene and how to find them.
As always, there is a big difference between hardware and software. If people could copy food, chairs, ... they would do it. Your remark is thus pointless.
The other hand is making profit from other schools.
He must have read Machiavelli. Look like an angel in the public eye, act like a devil in reality.
* Big backwards 'L' shaped enter key .
Why? Having changed to a "Happy Hacking" keyboard (with a small enter key), I don't understand why anyone would want a big enter key. It's just a waste of space.
set prompt="-------%B%n:%m:%/:%T%b-------\n%h%% "
This looks like:
101%
-------username:hostname:/path/path:17:12-------
I personally like my prompt to be on 2 lines with colours (the first line is grey or blue or red depending on which machine I log in).
I think boulevard comes from Dutch, although it has been "frenchified". I think the main reason that there are not many Dutch words in english is that only Dutch people could pronounce them. Just think van Gogh!
Having lived in the Netherlands for a few years, this thread reminds me of what a Dutch colleague used to say: Dutch is not a language, it's a throat disease.
I find it quite suprising that so many people have searched for Wimbledon since the official site is www.wimbledon.com (and .org). What is less surprising is Le Tour de France since the official site is www.letour.com (and .fr) which is much less obvious.
Do you mean like this one ?
The turning test? The robot is only intelligent enough to go straight then! I hope they have long corridors.
I admit I haven't tried it myself, but it seems it's a P2P with a Windoze AND Linux client. Anyone has tried it?
I have been taught and have taught science. Yes sir. As a scientist I try to demonstrate theories with facts. I teach facts and not myths. I tell my students to be critical and not to believe at face value what they are told (even by me) or what they read (even from Darwin). Then they decide by themselves. Is that too liberal for you? You would prefer them to be brain-washed from an early age with the bible or whatever other book. That's your prerogative. That's not what I do.
When I am writing this reply, the post from Erikson has got (Score:5, Informative). Who are the stupid cavemen moderating this up? WE LIVE IN THE 21st CENTURY! We know about evolution, dinosaurs, the big-bang et al. Creationism is a myth! There is not one scientific fact in creationism. Not one.
Please, stop attacking the French people, the French politicians, ... They are not responsible for a small student movement that is suing Yahoo! and recently for another small movement threatening French ISPs for not blocking US-based neo-nazis web-sites. In all the French forums I have visited, there is an overwhelming majority of French people against these actions. These small anti-racist action groups are simply shooting themselves in the foot. They forgot that Voltaire said that we are all entitled to say stupid things and that he will fight to the death to preserve this right.
Well duh! That's research for you.
like distribute seeds with patented genes for FREE to starving people
Like it has been said many times before, people don't starve because of bad crops, but because of bad governements and wars. Most GM crops are sterile anyway, so you would have to distribute FREE crops to starving people every year. Does that sound like a good idea?
Ordinary American citizens if asked to pick a justice system other than the US they would trust their fates to would likely select Britain or Canada. .
You idiot! Ordinary Americans don't know any other countries!
remember?