Some time this year, geneticists say they will probably have a rough draft of the complete human genome. In a short time, we will have gone from knowing little about genes to knowing nearly everything. Thanks Jon for this interesting review. But please understand that we know very little about what all these ATCG's are doing. Going from the genomic sequences to the genes will take time. And understanding what all these genes are doing will take even more time. We have now barely scratched the surface. We don't even know how many genes we have (probably between 80 and 150K), and many of our genes make several proteins. Proteins are involved in complex pathways and... Well it is complicated. But fun!
Quick translation: ..... The power of 5 teraflops is obtained by the use of the Compaq Alphaserver SC series of supercomputers..... The installation of this supercomputer..... is the first of three steps in the realisation of the nuclear weapon simulation centre. The second step, towards the year 2005, will see an increase to a power of between 30 and 50 teraflops and the last step, 2009, to a machine of about a 100 teraflops. .....
One of the reasons is studying the decay of the current stock of nuclear armement. There is no point in stocking your nukes if they cannot be used in a few years. I believe this is the main reason actually.
We did. In my company, we need computers able to crunch lots of data in very short amount of time. We now have a 16 CPU SGI origin. We are considering going for a beowulf type machine, because for a similar amount of CPU power, the cost is 5 times less (at least).
I'm wondering if we can get a Beowulf cluster going for a cheaper price with similar speeds. These alpha boxen will problably run tru64 in a configuration similar to beowulf, that is a cluster.
I have enjoyed all the comments on this article. The general conclusion seems to be that M$ programmers are nice people and M&S (Marketing & Sales) are evil. Although the latter is certainly true (of every company in every business in my experience), I would also say that M&S people are generally clueless when it comes to R&D. All the complaints most of us have about M$ software does not always involve M&S, does it?
Do you think M&S said to the programmers that every new version of M$Word should have a different file format? Do you think that M&S said to the programmers that IE should be completely mixed up in the OS?
I don't think so. I am sure most M$ people are nice, but I don't think Marketing & Sales are the only bad people(tm) at M$!
Especially since the Facist US government is going to try to force it down our throats with the helps of the WTO.;-(
Actually this is a good point (the WTO one, not the fascist one). The USofA are very powerful when it comes to software rules and we in Europe might have to fight the same stupid laws that our American friends are now fighting. We must be very careful.
Has anyone else noticed that the people who did this survey do not consider the UK to be in western Europe? They don't consider IRIX to be a server OS either.
Why not put all your encrypted data in your mail box. You could then claim that you received these (encrypted) emails by mistake and never deleted them. Basically blame spam!
Indeed, you are perfectly correct. I have plugged in a 21 inch SGI monitor to my linux box and Jesus! thinks look small. Since my eyes are fine, I got used to it and I now enjoy it. But each time I go to see the lab workers (next door to my office) who can only "enjoy" a crappy 800x600 cheap monitor, I tend be shocked.
If I remember correctly, there use to be an SGI OpenGL version of Doom. This alone would make it rather easy to transfer to a CAVE-like system. Since the CAVE in Amsterdam is also equipped (AFAIR) with a very fast network connection allowing it to connect to other CAVEs, multiplayer mode is entirely possible, and probably already done.
The address of the CAVE in Amsterdam is: http://www2.sara.nl/hec/vr/cave/. I went there a couple of years ago and was suitably impressed. They use several high-end SGI to control the 3D display on several walls (please don't say we could do this with PC's nowadays. You can't). You need to put SGI's 3D glasses (crystal eyes) and use a "magic wand" (a 3D mouse). Several people can enter in the CAVE and view and control 3D animations. One of the most impressive is the one about galaxies merging. You feel you are there, so to speak. Unfortunately, more software is need for these CAVEs.
Maybe like in start trek, we could use these things for games. VR quake anyone?
Since at the moment of this writing, the unix time is: 949509356 And the next even time should be: 1000000000 We will have to wait until: time_t p = 1000000000; printf("%s\n",ctime(&p));
Hi Jon, I was wondering if when the police knocked on your door you had a moment of panic and thought about crazy things like going underground or hide in the Scandinavian forest (maybe winter is not ideal for that!).
Sure you could do that. But will it be legal to use in the USA or EU data collected off-shore in a fashion illegal in the USA or EU? Maybe now, maybe not for long.
Please don't misunderstand me. I don't want to know personal details about this person. I was just (innocently) asking if anyone knows why she's doing this. If it were "Tara Lemmey" the president of the EFF, I would not ask this question.
Who is this woman? Is she trying to save us all from evil companies like dblclick or is she trying to suck them out of some shiny $$? I don't mean to offend her. I am just curious about why would anyone spend lots of money and energy on this. I mean, if it were some consumer association or the EFF, I'd understand and wish them all the luck in the world, but an individual... I have to wonder.
Please someone tell me if I am wrong: To get a patent (software or not), you must have an original idea or product.
If anyone, here, has a good idea, you can make some software and GPL and distribute it. Then nobody but you are able to patent it. So then, what's the point of a "Public Domain patents" ?
Attitudes towards free speech and thus racist speech are radically different in the USofA and in the rest of the world. In most countries in Europe for instance there are laws that make it illegal to deny the holocaust, to incite people to violent or racist acts. Thus one has to understand the UN proposal in this perspective: Racism is unacceptable thus lets fight it on the internet by closing down racist sites.
I think that it is a bit like politicians talking about pedophiles on the internet. There are just not many racist sites on the internet and I don't think it's worth spending our energy over that. Everyday racism is infinitely bigger and worst.
One reason why there is not so much racism on the Web might be that racists tend to have an IQ that is so low that they don't even know how to use a mouse!
Come on! You cannot customise everything that way. And I am not saying everyone should customise everything. If you have some good ideas and want to experiment, then you can do it.
Indeed! Can you customise IE5? Can you change routines, add options,... with IE5? Nope!
I predict that when Mozilla will be finally released (and relatively bug-free), there will be plenty of improvements that people will do to it. I know I want to add things to Mozilla, but I will wait until it's stable.
I heard another 100 year old lady in an interview saying that the best invention was the washing machine. Remember people use to wash their clothing with cold water and that was a nightmare in winter. Hot water was too expensive at that time (I sound like gran-pa simpson). She also mentioned that the dish-washer was completely useless.
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Even if it is owned by Ford, it is still a swedish company!
Thanks Jon for this interesting review. But please understand that we know very little about what all these ATCG's are doing. Going from the genomic sequences to the genes will take time. And understanding what all these genes are doing will take even more time. We have now barely scratched the surface. We don't even know how many genes we have (probably between 80 and 150K), and many of our genes make several proteins. Proteins are involved in complex pathways and
Quick translation:
..... The power of 5 teraflops is obtained by the use of the Compaq Alphaserver SC series of supercomputers..... ..... is the first of three steps in the realisation of the nuclear weapon simulation centre. The second step, towards the year 2005, will see an increase to a power of between 30 and 50 teraflops and the last step, 2009, to a machine of about a 100 teraflops.
.....
The installation of this supercomputer
I'm wondering if we can get a Beowulf cluster going for a cheaper price with similar speeds.
These alpha boxen will problably run tru64 in a configuration similar to beowulf, that is a cluster.
Do you think M&S said to the programmers that every new version of M$Word should have a different file format? Do you think that M&S said to the programmers that IE should be completely mixed up in the OS?
I don't think so. I am sure most M$ people are nice, but I don't think Marketing & Sales are the only bad people(tm) at M$!
Actually this is a good point (the WTO one, not the fascist one). The USofA are very powerful when it comes to software rules and we in Europe might have to fight the same stupid laws that our American friends are now fighting. We must be very careful.
Indeed, you are perfectly correct. I have plugged in a 21 inch SGI monitor to my linux box and Jesus! thinks look small. Since my eyes are fine, I got used to it and I now enjoy it. But each time I go to see the lab workers (next door to my office) who can only "enjoy" a crappy 800x600 cheap monitor, I tend be shocked.
If I remember correctly, there use to be an SGI OpenGL version of Doom. This alone would make it rather easy to transfer to a CAVE-like system. Since the CAVE in Amsterdam is also equipped (AFAIR) with a very fast network connection allowing it to connect to other CAVEs, multiplayer mode is entirely possible, and probably already done.
http://www2.sara.nl/hec/vr/cave/.
I went there a couple of years ago and was suitably impressed. They use several high-end SGI to control the 3D display on several walls (please don't say we could do this with PC's nowadays. You can't). You need to put SGI's 3D glasses (crystal eyes) and use a "magic wand" (a 3D mouse). Several people can enter in the CAVE and view and control 3D animations. One of the most impressive is the one about galaxies merging. You feel you are there, so to speak. Unfortunately, more software is need for these CAVEs.
Maybe like in start trek, we could use these things for games. VR quake anyone?
2000000000!
Which is:
Wed May 18 05:33:20 2033
949509356
And the next even time should be:
1000000000
We will have to wait until:
time_t p = 1000000000;
printf("%s\n",ctime(&p));
Sun Sep 9 03:46:40 2001
Maybe now, maybe not for long.
To get a patent (software or not), you must have an original idea or product.
If anyone, here, has a good idea, you can make some software and GPL and distribute it. Then nobody but you are able to patent it.
So then, what's the point of a "Public Domain patents" ?
I think that it is a bit like politicians talking about pedophiles on the internet. There are just not many racist sites on the internet and I don't think it's worth spending our energy over that. Everyday racism is infinitely bigger and worst.
One reason why there is not so much racism on the Web might be that racists tend to have an IQ that is so low that they don't even know how to use a mouse!
I predict that when Mozilla will be finally released (and relatively bug-free), there will be plenty of improvements that people will do to it. I know I want to add things to Mozilla, but I will wait until it's stable.
I am amazed nobody mentioned this one yet!