One problem with some proposed forms of electronic publishing is the lack of the peer review process. Unfortunately, using a community based review instead of a peer review is going to compound our problems finding literature. And, ironically, might have the effect of excluding smaller PI's, because scientists may exclude all but the most cited authors.
If we can find a way to support electronic publishing without the losing the peer review process, electronic publishing methods will become more popular with the scientific community.
I just read the introduction on the website and it is so biased that it is impossible to tell what he actually did. I wish him luck on further appeals, but I wonder why Intel is so interested in him.
Interesting. If white dwarves are really to account for the enormous difference in predicted vs seen dark matter, then there must be an awfull lot of white dwarves out there. Don't white dwarves give off some radiation strongly taht should be detectable if they are really that common?
It is great to see more openness in the NSA. Their recent job fairs and other communications show a new beast. This is important, I think, because unlike the military and NASA, NSA technologies usually take a relatively long time to be released to the public. Government funded agencies usually site technology and inventions as something they will do for the long time greater good.
If your tables are *huge* MySQL may not be
the best solution, not sure on performance
but it is something to check. Your language
is not the only thing you need to consider. You should also consider the DB engine and the server platform. Why recode when you can purchase more hardware?:) Might be cheaper.
As a CS/Scientist in biotech, I am well familiar with these issues. The problem that the scientists are really hitting on is a perceived lack of communication between the CS field and the rest of science. Don't get me wrong, not all CS people don't communicate with thier collaborators and not all CS people need collaborators, but some do and they don't have any. Doing cs in a vacuum when you are developing tools for others to use is really frustrating for those of us who need the tools but they don't quite do what we need.
It isn't particulary useful because of the line out requirement. I want to be able to use my computer in the middle of no-where without having to connect to anything. *Sigh* I guess I'll just have to suffer the limited range of cellular.
Bounced paychecks are not good. Sounds like this company needs better management. There is no reason that paychecks should bounce, the should be able to cover for such a problem. Bummer.
I figured this could be done. I have a cobalt appliance (Raqx) and there is almost nothing inside. I hope they have the appropriate mounting brackets to fix two together (can't check link its/.'ed)
I wonder if they could scale this up to shoot payloads into orbit? With a relatively low trajectory they could concievably build a long enough barrel to prevent acceleration from damaging the cargo. Probably would flatten a human but maybe not hurt computer hardware, or fuel, or O2, H2O or other necessary supplies.
It wasn't the greatest thing I've ever seen, but the loan gunman didn't suck that bad. I can't believe, though, that anyone would think that TLG sucked and CSI doesn't. It is ok if the technology isn't quite correct, it is obviously a bit tongue in cheek. I'll watch next week (I don't generally watch the X-files anymore, sigh).
-Moondog
One problem, it is pretty bad...
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I dunno folks. I have found myself watching that show a few times, but found it to be disturbingly unrealistic. Somehow the X-files manages to seem real even when most of the stuff is far more far fetched than CSI topics. For example, they aren't police officers, yet they act like police officers. Could you imagine what a police force would do if the scientists involved in research would start interrogating witnesses and investigating?
I wish they would get some advisors that know how the real world works, to help tone it down. I also find it to be a little soapy (which often gets worse as shows progress). An investigator was an ex-boyfriend of special short term (1 episode) hired specialist.
I'm not a lawyer, but I would bet that attempts to actively subvert napster by misspelling names might pull liability from Napster to the user. If napster works hard to prevent copyright infringement, the users that are perpetrating that infringement might be more likely to be held responsible. Meta11ica does know those names, and they might head for them instead of napster. Especially if napster cooperated with companies.
In 1994, I bicycled across most of the US and ended up being just a couple of days ahead of RAGBRAI. I would have loved to have a cam for my trip, it would have been really cool. Now if only I can get a wireless net solution that worked everywhere I went....
-Moondog
You are in the home directory of the MUD Shell demo account. You are
feeling curious and want to explore. You are particularly curious about
the shimmering portal to the South. If you get lost, type "go home"
(without the quotes) to return here.
xirium@
Exits: North East South West.
Funny how with every turn everything seems to be going south.
The differences between these majors are clear when you consider that one is from an engineering school and the other is from (usually) letters and science or other. I think in the end, you will be well served with either. As a graduate student, if you are interested in an academic career I would think about CS. As an undergraduate I would consider either. I have heard of C.E. programs focusing more on hardware and CS focus more on software, but in practice I don't think that is true.
These days, I would also consider branching into other fields, such as bioinformatics, theoretical chemistry or medical informatics. I think there is a lot of exciting work going on outside of CS or CE that is right in line with traditional CS/CE research.
For the previous poster who implied that this would be of Dilbertian purportions is incorrect. The simpsons sold out long before Dilbert did. The first time I saw the simpsons was an ad (butterfinger I think) in the late 80's or early nineties in a theater (I think when they were still on the M.T.M. show)
Come on, I watch the simpsons and think they are funny. Why not sell some ad rights to companies we don't like. M.G. and gang are making money, and I think that is good, because I like the simpsons and think they deserve their success.
I'm not surprised that magnetite is arising again as evidence for early life. I can think of lots of reasons to question any of the claims made by scientists, but still it is very intriguing. If true, it will be really neat to see what life might have been like on earth billions of years ago. But this may mean that life is more likely, or as others may argue (I personally disagree) that life originated from extraterrestrial origins.
-Moondog
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This is cool because we will have great historical documents about how real people lived. Often the people we have detailed historical records were rich or royalty. It is however, creating an enormous wealth of junk text on the web. Difficult to index, search, usually not what someone will look for.
I remember in the mid-late 80's there was a revival of old games with upped graphics. Super Mario Bros, Pacman land (or world or something) and other games. I would love to see a new revival of modern fps games and the end of the side shooter era....
These aren't fusion bugs, they are just resistant to high levels of radiation. They can break down compounds into more managable forms or do other useful things. The radioactive waste is still dangerous, though.
You know, I think it is great that students want to run their own computers. In scientific laboratories, students often run the computer hardware. But, I think in a collage setting in a dorm it would be a VERY BAD IDEA. College students, IMO, would be much more likely to: 1) Be vindictive to other students in the dorm, 2) Do something illegal like script kiddying themselves to a DoS, 3) Fill bandwidth with quake and/or MP3's and have other students be completely powerless against loss of bandwidth, 4) Be very unprofessional and unable to fix problems quickly, and finally, 5) Not be organized enough because of the high level of turnaround in students (every four years!). I'm sorry, I think this would be either free labor for the university or a free for all for students who wouldn't care about the users. I really don't mean to troll nor am I bitter about dorm living, I just haven't met many cool dorm student representitives.
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One problem with some proposed forms of electronic publishing is the lack of the peer review process. Unfortunately, using a community based review instead of a peer review is going to compound our problems finding literature. And, ironically, might have the effect of excluding smaller PI's, because scientists may exclude all but the most cited authors.
If we can find a way to support electronic publishing without the losing the peer review process, electronic publishing methods will become more popular with the scientific community.
-Moondog
I just read the introduction on the website and it is so biased that it is impossible to tell what he actually did. I wish him luck on further appeals, but I wonder why Intel is so interested in him.
-Moondog
I really hope this is an April fools joke, because the last thing I want to do is maintain *another* scripting language. Anyways python is just fine.
(grin)
-Moondog
Interesting. If white dwarves are really to account for the enormous difference in predicted vs seen dark matter, then there must be an awfull lot of white dwarves out there. Don't white dwarves give off some radiation strongly taht should be detectable if they are really that common?
-Moondog
It is great to see more openness in the NSA. Their recent job fairs and other communications show a new beast. This is important, I think, because unlike the military and NASA, NSA technologies usually take a relatively long time to be released to the public. Government funded agencies usually site technology and inventions as something they will do for the long time greater good.
-Moondog
Thats funny. /.'ers trolling ebay. Man I hope the current winner wins.
-Moondog
If your tables are *huge* MySQL may not be :) Might be cheaper.
the best solution, not sure on performance
but it is something to check. Your language
is not the only thing you need to consider. You should also consider the DB engine and the server platform. Why recode when you can purchase more hardware?
Servlets are quick, well supported and popular.
-Moondog
As a CS/Scientist in biotech, I am well familiar with these issues. The problem that the scientists are really hitting on is a perceived lack of communication between the CS field and the rest of science. Don't get me wrong, not all CS people don't communicate with thier collaborators and not all CS people need collaborators, but some do and they don't have any. Doing cs in a vacuum when you are developing tools for others to use is really frustrating for those of us who need the tools but they don't quite do what we need.
-Moondog
It isn't particulary useful because of the line out requirement. I want to be able to use my computer in the middle of no-where without having to connect to anything. *Sigh* I guess I'll just have to suffer the limited range of cellular.
-Moondog
Bounced paychecks are not good. Sounds like this company needs better management. There is no reason that paychecks should bounce, the should be able to cover for such a problem. Bummer.
-Moondog
I figured this could be done. I have a cobalt appliance (Raqx) and there is almost nothing inside. I hope they have the appropriate mounting brackets to fix two together (can't check link its /.'ed)
-Moondog
I wonder if they could scale this up to shoot payloads into orbit? With a relatively low trajectory they could concievably build a long enough barrel to prevent acceleration from damaging the cargo. Probably would flatten a human but maybe not hurt computer hardware, or fuel, or O2, H2O or other necessary supplies.
-Moondog
It wasn't the greatest thing I've ever seen, but the loan gunman didn't suck that bad. I can't believe, though, that anyone would think that TLG sucked and CSI doesn't. It is ok if the technology isn't quite correct, it is obviously a bit tongue in cheek. I'll watch next week (I don't generally watch the X-files anymore, sigh).
-Moondog
I dunno folks. I have found myself watching that show a few times, but found it to be disturbingly unrealistic. Somehow the X-files manages to seem real even when most of the stuff is far more far fetched than CSI topics. For example, they aren't police officers, yet they act like police officers. Could you imagine what a police force would do if the scientists involved in research would start interrogating witnesses and investigating?
I wish they would get some advisors that know how the real world works, to help tone it down. I also find it to be a little soapy (which often gets worse as shows progress). An investigator was an ex-boyfriend of special short term (1 episode) hired specialist.
-Moondog
I'm not a lawyer, but I would bet that attempts to actively subvert napster by misspelling names might pull liability from Napster to the user. If napster works hard to prevent copyright infringement, the users that are perpetrating that infringement might be more likely to be held responsible. Meta11ica does know those names, and they might head for them instead of napster. Especially if napster cooperated with companies.
-Moondog
In 1994, I bicycled across most of the US and ended up being just a couple of days ahead of RAGBRAI. I would have loved to have a cam for my trip, it would have been really cool. Now if only I can get a wireless net solution that worked everywhere I went.... -Moondog
xirium@
Exits: North East South West.
Funny how with every turn everything seems to be going south.
-Moondog
The differences between these majors are clear when you consider that one is from an engineering school and the other is from (usually) letters and science or other. I think in the end, you will be well served with either. As a graduate student, if you are interested in an academic career I would think about CS. As an undergraduate I would consider either. I have heard of C.E. programs focusing more on hardware and CS focus more on software, but in practice I don't think that is true.
These days, I would also consider branching into other fields, such as bioinformatics, theoretical chemistry or medical informatics. I think there is a lot of exciting work going on outside of CS or CE that is right in line with traditional CS/CE research.
-Moondog
Oops. You are totally right, my bad. I don't know why I always switch those two....
-Moondog
For the previous poster who implied that this would be of Dilbertian purportions is incorrect. The simpsons sold out long before Dilbert did. The first time I saw the simpsons was an ad (butterfinger I think) in the late 80's or early nineties in a theater (I think when they were still on the M.T.M. show)
Come on, I watch the simpsons and think they are funny. Why not sell some ad rights to companies we don't like. M.G. and gang are making money, and I think that is good, because I like the simpsons and think they deserve their success.
-Moondog
I'm not surprised that magnetite is arising again as evidence for early life. I can think of lots of reasons to question any of the claims made by scientists, but still it is very intriguing. If true, it will be really neat to see what life might have been like on earth billions of years ago. But this may mean that life is more likely, or as others may argue (I personally disagree) that life originated from extraterrestrial origins. -Moondog
This is cool because we will have great historical documents about how real people lived. Often the people we have detailed historical records were rich or royalty. It is however, creating an enormous wealth of junk text on the web. Difficult to index, search, usually not what someone will look for.
-Moondog
I remember in the mid-late 80's there was a revival of old games with upped graphics. Super Mario Bros, Pacman land (or world or something) and other games. I would love to see a new revival of modern fps games and the end of the side shooter era....
-Moondog
These aren't fusion bugs, they are just resistant to high levels of radiation. They can break down compounds into more managable forms or do other useful things. The radioactive waste is still dangerous, though.
-Moondog
You know, I think it is great that students want to run their own computers. In scientific laboratories, students often run the computer hardware. But, I think in a collage setting in a dorm it would be a VERY BAD IDEA. College students, IMO, would be much more likely to: 1) Be vindictive to other students in the dorm, 2) Do something illegal like script kiddying themselves to a DoS, 3) Fill bandwidth with quake and/or MP3's and have other students be completely powerless against loss of bandwidth, 4) Be very unprofessional and unable to fix problems quickly, and finally, 5) Not be organized enough because of the high level of turnaround in students (every four years!). I'm sorry, I think this would be either free labor for the university or a free for all for students who wouldn't care about the users. I really don't mean to troll nor am I bitter about dorm living, I just haven't met many cool dorm student representitives.
-Moondog