The other issue, of course, is being able to charge overhead. Many private grants do not allow this, while the Gov't ones factor it in. Therefore, faced with two professors, one who may develop an idea which might be granted a patent which may hold up in court (or ever pay back even the patenting fees), versus one who comes in with a 5Mill grant that can be skimmed at 56% by the U. to pay for "overhead" (libraries, power, HVAC, and, of course, lots of administrators), most Unis will take the grant with overhead attached.
If anything, what it will allow is researchers at Unis to go back to fundamental research, rather than applied, as the administration won't view them as potential golden geese any more. Silver geese, yes, especially compared with the other side of campus, but as long as grants that pay overhead come in, they'll be happy.
Fair enough. I probably sent my IBM account rep to Aruba on Opteron purchases at that time, as opposed to Xeons or the new EM64Ts. On the other hand, there was the intial changeover to SATA drives if you want a more recent example; good hardware now that drivers are everywhere, but kind of expensive and difficult when new. That was a case of much better to wait six months, and put off other purchases because of the promise of the new technology once the first wave of bugs were squashed.
Of course, a truly bad time to buy was when that semiconductor plant that made memory chips caught on fire. That was a good time to be consolidating old equipment to get memory. When Everyone was shipping IBM DeathStar drives, wasn't such a good time either. (I spent a lot of time with a screwdriver in hand during that period).
If it's like where I came from in PA, the appeal of Linux is probably, "well, it's based on 1970's computer technology. We don't want 'em to learn about anything newer, or they might get ideas, start voting democrat, and move off the farm." They'd install a personal version of OS/360 on the school PC's, but that's from the 60's and would cause even more problems. I'm still surprised that when i was taking programming they let the Keypunch go (this was in the 80s), and replaced it with PCs.
And yes, the fact that my old school district is somehow coming up with a multi-million dollar upgrade to their football field for a weekly audience that numbers in the low hundreds, while not retaining qualified and educated teachers who don't coach sports as well, contributes to my attitude this morning.
Obviously, I was being facetious. However, on a serious note, while it's not clear how the RIAA is harmed by the activity it spends so much time prosecuting, various ISP and ISP-like entities (such as campuses), are harmed in that their bandwidth bills are much higher due to the increased traffic. Therefore, I would seriously argue that while the RIAA can't dig up your yard to recover assets they have a reasonable cause to believe you've hidden there, a University could, if they believed that you had profited from their bandwidth and they had something to recover. Otherwise, they should just add a surcharge onto your tuition bill/ISP bill to cover increased bandwidth usage and legal liability.
Some universities allegedly saw their bandwidth usage go down 30% or more when they started blocking Napster, etc, so I would argue that if you're profiting from their bandwidth, then they should be allowed to recover those gains.
My bad. I typed the one that provides my bi-monthly dose of Journal of Chemical Physics, without thinking clearly what those three letters actually meant.
Personally, i think that if you can dig up a spammer's lawn in retaliation, then you can dig up an RIAA executive's lawn as well. While you're there, you can fill the hole back in with all of those cassettes and CD's of Menudo, NKOTB, and whatever other corporate-pop they've foisted on us over the years and are now claiming that people are stealing with their computers.
The home pages for the Royal Society of Chemistry http://www.rsc.org/ and the public face of the American Chemical Society, http://www.chemistry.org/, as well as the American Physics Society http://www.aip.org/. It's a lot of foraging, but it will get you the technical gory details. If your local library has it, Chemical and Engineering News has roundups both in the front of the magazine, and in a one-page science-technology roundup. The rest of the mag is pretty much chemical industry, but has articles on particular areas at times.
Personally, I start every monday lunch off with browsing the table of contents of JACS, J. Phys. Chem., Organometallics, Inorganic Chemistry, and J. Org. Chem. If you're not a chemist, these will probably bore you to death, but it's where I get my science news from, other than the Tuesday NYT.
I should consider this, as I took a machining class while post-docing. I'm a lot more comfortable with a mill than I am with saws.
What I really need is a better, larger, mitre box, so that I can stick with the power-tools that make sense (drill-press, router), and skip those that I'm too leary about (saws).
This is one place I certainly approve of it. Hopefully this will also be added to devices such as bandsaws, routers, circular saws, etc. I enjoy woodworking/construction when I do it, but I tend to try to find ways to get the same type of cuts with hand-tools, so that I don't have to handle powertools. This is a really great step forward.
I had a Pro350 at one point. Lovely machine, and if DEC hadn't had it's head up its hind-quarters (floppies you couldn't format yourself, unescapable idiot-proof shell rather than RSX-11), it would have had a good shot at becoming the standard. The WYSIWYG wordprocessor with the ability to embed graphics from other apps, at a time when WordStar, DisplayWrite, and WordPervert were the standards on the other side, was simply amazing. The only bad thing I remember about the PRO was that it was almost as heavy as a PC-RT. Not an issue if you never move, but bad if you do.
The VAXMates were cute, but I can't understand the nostalgia for the Rainbows. They were well-built, overengineered (or as my VAX-centric friends put it, correctly engineered as opposed to slapped together by drunken monkeys), machines. But they didn't have the software and power of the Pro series, or the general purpose utility of real CP/M or DOS computers.
If you're thinking in the 1989 time-frame, i.e. Sun 3/60 being current, then SGI's offerings were the 4D series, and the Personal Iris. MIPS R2000 processors, as I remember (my lab had a 4D 220, 4 proc at that time). The Indigos, with Irix 4.0.5 (the version that included X instead of NeWS as the windowing system), were a couple of years later.
You're also forgetting the other great features of the Next; razor-sharp B&W monitor, and Mathematica. Their software development environment was slicker than anything except AVS as well. Unfortunately, my people (chemists), looked at them and said, "RS/6000 and Alpha-VMS systems are faster, and run the software we already have. There is no NeXT here."
Just people who don't appreciate the advances in technology. So your power adapter can go up in flames every now and then. 100 years ago, your major power source (Equus caballus) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equidae/ was capable of throwing you on your head, trampling you in a fit of rage, or sneaking up from behind and delivering an uncomfortable bit in an unmentionable place. A little contained fire in a 2"x2"x1" box is a major improvement.
Or would you rather that your power supply demanded a sugar cube before doing any work?
Politely, no. The organism is filtering free ions in solution, and using them for its energy needs, in the process precipitating out less-soluble minerals. This may be the origin of uranium deposits which are mined, at least in some cases.
So, the purpose here is if you have a mess such as Hanford, i.e. millions of gallons of highly radioactive soluble waste, this bacterium can help precipitate is as uranite, and take it out of your water supply. It's not going to dine on fuel rods. I'm not sure you'd want that anyway, as it would be fairly annoying to hear about rolling blackouts due to a bacterial infestation eating a reactor core.
And to further pile on, a Marmoset http://images.google.com/images?q=marmoset&hl=en&b tnG=Search+Images/ is a monkey, not a cat. It's use will be reserved exotic additictions, "man, I went from having a monkey on my back to a purebred golden Marmoset on my back", not Apple OS releases.
Except the issue is that if the software doesn't work as expected, after the distro maintainer finally gets around to packaging it, the customer is going to call *you*, not *them*, to complain. Even if the package is free, someone is going to call (email, IRC, telepath, whatever) you and complain that they're running UltraLinux 3.14, and your package isn't built correctly, like it is for RedHat users. They'll never write the distributor and complain, "you put all of the data files where the program can't find them".
If you're a business, I can see wanting to have finer control over installation, and that yielding the decision to not support certain distros, or not develop for Linux at all. This goes to show that the GNU Zealots are right; Linux is just a kernel, onto which many, many, operating systems have been layered.
Yep, Low-sodium salts. Salts are just ion-paired complexes, and table-salt can be converted to low-sodium by replacing the sodium chloride with potassium chloride. Theoretically, better for your heart, and you won't worry about the banana jokes at lunch. (I seem to remember somewhere during my schooling a lot of kidding of people at lunch, concerning whether they peeled their bananas in three or four strips. Allegedly Chimps consistently peel theirs in three sections.
I'm afraid that goes for thinking of using Hendrix as well.
On the other hand, haven't you gone dumpster-diving recently? We cleaned out an old lab a year ago (group finally moved elsewhere), and found a Heathkit stereo receiver underneath some manila folders. Sounded just as "home-built by undergrad physics major" as it did when new, probably.
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The other issue, of course, is being able to charge overhead. Many private grants do not allow this, while the Gov't ones factor it in. Therefore, faced with two professors, one who may develop an idea which might be granted a patent which may hold up in court (or ever pay back even the patenting fees), versus one who comes in with a 5Mill grant that can be skimmed at 56% by the U. to pay for "overhead" (libraries, power, HVAC, and, of course, lots of administrators), most Unis will take the grant with overhead attached.
If anything, what it will allow is researchers at Unis to go back to fundamental research, rather than applied, as the administration won't view them as potential golden geese any more. Silver geese, yes, especially compared with the other side of campus, but as long as grants that pay overhead come in, they'll be happy.
Even Itaniums had their place. For us they marked the end of buying big Sun servers.
But yes, unless you lived in Duluth, Minnesota and were too cheap to pay for oil or gas heat, then there was no reason to buy an Itanium.
Fair enough. I probably sent my IBM account rep to Aruba on Opteron purchases at that time, as opposed to Xeons or the new EM64Ts. On the other hand, there was the intial changeover to SATA drives if you want a more recent example; good hardware now that drivers are everywhere, but kind of expensive and difficult when new. That was a case of much better to wait six months, and put off other purchases because of the promise of the new technology once the first wave of bugs were squashed.
Of course, a truly bad time to buy was when that semiconductor plant that made memory chips caught on fire. That was a good time to be consolidating old equipment to get memory. When Everyone was shipping IBM DeathStar drives, wasn't such a good time either. (I spent a lot of time with a screwdriver in hand during that period).
386sx, 486SLC, P60-wienie-roaster-edition, early Intel-EM64T. I think those were points not to "Buy Now".
If it's like where I came from in PA, the appeal of Linux is probably, "well, it's based on 1970's computer technology. We don't want 'em to learn about anything newer, or they might get ideas, start voting democrat, and move off the farm." They'd install a personal version of OS/360 on the school PC's, but that's from the 60's and would cause even more problems. I'm still surprised that when i was taking programming they let the Keypunch go (this was in the 80s), and replaced it with PCs.
And yes, the fact that my old school district is somehow coming up with a multi-million dollar upgrade to their football field for a weekly audience that numbers in the low hundreds, while not retaining qualified and educated teachers who don't coach sports as well, contributes to my attitude this morning.
Darn, you beat me to it.
However, the other answer would be, "Hoosiers".
Obviously, I was being facetious. However, on a serious note, while it's not clear how the RIAA is harmed by the activity it spends so much time prosecuting, various ISP and ISP-like entities (such as campuses), are harmed in that their bandwidth bills are much higher due to the increased traffic. Therefore, I would seriously argue that while the RIAA can't dig up your yard to recover assets they have a reasonable cause to believe you've hidden there, a University could, if they believed that you had profited from their bandwidth and they had something to recover. Otherwise, they should just add a surcharge onto your tuition bill/ISP bill to cover increased bandwidth usage and legal liability.
Some universities allegedly saw their bandwidth usage go down 30% or more when they started blocking Napster, etc, so I would argue that if you're profiting from their bandwidth, then they should be allowed to recover those gains.
My bad. I typed the one that provides my bi-monthly dose of Journal of Chemical Physics, without thinking clearly what those three letters actually meant.
Personally, i think that if you can dig up a spammer's lawn in retaliation, then you can dig up an RIAA executive's lawn as well. While you're there, you can fill the hole back in with all of those cassettes and CD's of Menudo, NKOTB, and whatever other corporate-pop they've foisted on us over the years and are now claiming that people are stealing with their computers.
The home pages for the Royal Society of Chemistry http://www.rsc.org/ and the public face of the American Chemical Society, http://www.chemistry.org/, as well as the American Physics Society http://www.aip.org/. It's a lot of foraging, but it will get you the technical gory details. If your local library has it, Chemical and Engineering News has roundups both in the front of the magazine, and in a one-page science-technology roundup. The rest of the mag is pretty much chemical industry, but has articles on particular areas at times.
As a previous poster mentioned, Science http://www.sciencemag.org/ and Nature http://www.nature.com/ are good all in one stops.
Personally, I start every monday lunch off with browsing the table of contents of JACS, J. Phys. Chem., Organometallics, Inorganic Chemistry, and J. Org. Chem. If you're not a chemist, these will probably bore you to death, but it's where I get my science news from, other than the Tuesday NYT.
Otherwise, I'd have to suggest the perpetrators be sentenced to muck-out a feedlot or two.
"Use Open-Source on My FARM!?! That's what did more damage to my oats than a hailstorm followed by locusts last year!"
I should consider this, as I took a machining class while post-docing. I'm a lot more comfortable with a mill than I am with saws.
What I really need is a better, larger, mitre box, so that I can stick with the power-tools that make sense (drill-press, router), and skip those that I'm too leary about (saws).
This is one place I certainly approve of it. Hopefully this will also be added to devices such as bandsaws, routers, circular saws, etc. I enjoy woodworking/construction when I do it, but I tend to try to find ways to get the same type of cuts with hand-tools, so that I don't have to handle powertools. This is a really great step forward.
I had a Pro350 at one point. Lovely machine, and if DEC hadn't had it's head up its hind-quarters (floppies you couldn't format yourself, unescapable idiot-proof shell rather than RSX-11), it would have had a good shot at becoming the standard. The WYSIWYG wordprocessor with the ability to embed graphics from other apps, at a time when WordStar, DisplayWrite, and WordPervert were the standards on the other side, was simply amazing. The only bad thing I remember about the PRO was that it was almost as heavy as a PC-RT. Not an issue if you never move, but bad if you do.
The VAXMates were cute, but I can't understand the nostalgia for the Rainbows. They were well-built, overengineered (or as my VAX-centric friends put it, correctly engineered as opposed to slapped together by drunken monkeys), machines. But they didn't have the software and power of the Pro series, or the general purpose utility of real CP/M or DOS computers.
If you're thinking in the 1989 time-frame, i.e. Sun 3/60 being current, then SGI's offerings were the 4D series, and the Personal Iris. MIPS R2000 processors, as I remember (my lab had a 4D 220, 4 proc at that time). The Indigos, with Irix 4.0.5 (the version that included X instead of NeWS as the windowing system), were a couple of years later.
You're also forgetting the other great features of the Next; razor-sharp B&W monitor, and Mathematica. Their software development environment was slicker than anything except AVS as well. Unfortunately, my people (chemists), looked at them and said, "RS/6000 and Alpha-VMS systems are faster, and run the software we already have. There is no NeXT here."
Just people who don't appreciate the advances in technology. So your power adapter can go up in flames every now and then. 100 years ago, your major power source (Equus caballus) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equidae/ was capable of throwing you on your head, trampling you in a fit of rage, or sneaking up from behind and delivering an uncomfortable bit in an unmentionable place. A little contained fire in a 2"x2"x1" box is a major improvement.
Or would you rather that your power supply demanded a sugar cube before doing any work?
Politely, no. The organism is filtering free ions in solution, and using them for its energy needs, in the process precipitating out less-soluble minerals. This may be the origin of uranium deposits which are mined, at least in some cases.
So, the purpose here is if you have a mess such as Hanford, i.e. millions of gallons of highly radioactive soluble waste, this bacterium can help precipitate is as uranite, and take it out of your water supply. It's not going to dine on fuel rods. I'm not sure you'd want that anyway, as it would be fairly annoying to hear about rolling blackouts due to a bacterial infestation eating a reactor core.
Actually, it's because I think Marmosets are kind of cute, actually, so it caught my eye. A better answer might be "august heat and fixer fumes".
And to further pile on, a Marmoset http://images.google.com/images?q=marmoset&hl=en&b tnG=Search+Images/ is a monkey, not a cat. It's use will be reserved exotic additictions, "man, I went from having a monkey on my back to a purebred golden Marmoset on my back", not Apple OS releases.
Except the issue is that if the software doesn't work as expected, after the distro maintainer finally gets around to packaging it, the customer is going to call *you*, not *them*, to complain. Even if the package is free, someone is going to call (email, IRC, telepath, whatever) you and complain that they're running UltraLinux 3.14, and your package isn't built correctly, like it is for RedHat users. They'll never write the distributor and complain, "you put all of the data files where the program can't find them".
If you're a business, I can see wanting to have finer control over installation, and that yielding the decision to not support certain distros, or not develop for Linux at all. This goes to show that the GNU Zealots are right; Linux is just a kernel, onto which many, many, operating systems have been layered.
Sounds good to me. Maybe we can spec out a G66, for those old codes we just can't let go, while we're at it.
Yep, Low-sodium salts. Salts are just ion-paired complexes, and table-salt can be converted to low-sodium by replacing the sodium chloride with potassium chloride. Theoretically, better for your heart, and you won't worry about the banana jokes at lunch. (I seem to remember somewhere during my schooling a lot of kidding of people at lunch, concerning whether they peeled their bananas in three or four strips. Allegedly Chimps consistently peel theirs in three sections.
o ducts/lowsodiumsalt.htm/ a suitable discussion of low-sodium salt.
From Oak-Ridge National Labs, (http://www.orau.org/PTP/collection/consumer%20pr
*BOTH* of us! I know for a fact that there are at least *THREE* Fortran programmers out there.
ForTran! ForTran! ForTran! (picture a room full of climatologists dressed in bedsheets for the correct effect)
Seriously, are they finally going to ship GNUFortran pre-built, or are we still going to be downloading the source-tree each time?
I'm afraid that goes for thinking of using Hendrix as well.
On the other hand, haven't you gone dumpster-diving recently? We cleaned out an old lab a year ago (group finally moved elsewhere), and found a Heathkit stereo receiver underneath some manila folders. Sounded just as "home-built by undergrad physics major" as it did when new, probably.