The Department of Computational Biology at Pitt (and CMU, for that matter) supports Linux quite well, with many faculty, students, and postdocs using it. Opensuse seems to be preferred, though others like Ubuntu are common. When Windows is required, we run it under VMware, which works very well. An increasing number of folks are starting to use Macintoshes as well. Linux also seems to be more popular in some of the other computational sciences (CS, engineering, etc), though for most of the rest of the campus, such as undergraduates and even the experimental sciences (like cell biology or surgery), the most popular choices appear to be Windows or Mac. The general rule of thumb to follow is, if your research or schoolwork is computationally intensive or requires a good amount of programming, use Linux. Otherwise, if you're mostly reading and writing papers, checking email, doing presentations, just stick with Windows/Mac. For presentations, especially, I'd recommend sticking with Windows/Mac -- I've noticed many connectivity and resolution issues with both Opensuse and Ubuntu when connecting to various LCD projectors. And you're average tech support guy that specializes in connecting PCs to projectors still doesn't know the first thing about getting Linux to work with a projector,...
Today's kids seem to be able to text just as fast as their grandparents can type, so touch-typing seems rather pointless,... Even when I was in high school in the late 90s, I took programming, not typing -- learned to code AND learned to type all in one class! However, I would think it's more important to focus our school efforts on grammar and spelling -- teaching kids to speak in full sentences rather than tapping out, "IDK, MY BFF Jill", or trying to squeeze an entire job application into 140 characters or less,...
Thank you for your interest in our Copulation in Space Program! After reviewing your qualifications, we have determined that you unfortunately do not qualify. At this time, we are only seeking experienced candidates for the mission, and seeing as how you have ZERO experience with sexual reproduction, we are unable to process your application. We will keep your application on file and, should an appropriate opportunity arise, we'll contact you in your mother's basement at that time.
Once again, thank you for your interest in NASA's Copulation in Space Program!
This sounds like the makings of a great Sci-Fi flick. Oh wait, I think it was recently just done,... Or maybe that was just a SyFy flick, so it really doesn't count,...
I don't subscribe to cable, and don't really watch "over-the-air" TV, mostly because I don't really feel like fiddling with the antennae. I do watch lots of shows on Hulu, which is great from the network standpoint, because all they have to do is check website server logs and javascript reports to find out how many times someone is watching their show. The best part about it, is that they get an exact number of who's accessed the file, so there's no "sampling" of the population going on. Plus, they can sell ads based on an exact number. This is probably exactly why Hulu is so valuable to NBC and Fox (and now ABC).
Does anyone else see it as slightly ironic that the average life expectancy appears to be lower in the more rural areas, like the Deep South, Appalachia, and Texas? In other words, solid red state territory. And, they say that other parts (the blue states?) are on par with most of Europe. So, in other words, for the most part, the folks that are more in favor of health care reform are living longer than the people that are staunchly against it. Maybe we should just let the red states die off and that would solve a whole host of other problems!;-)
Not only the engineering stuff, but looking at a creature like Jar Jar Binks,. . . that's a walking contradiction to Darwin's Theory of Evolution right there, not to mention a Darwin-Award-waiting-to-happen,. . . And Jabba the Hut seems to fail miserably in the "survival of the fittest" category! How a fat slug of a creature like that could not only climb above the food chain on Tatooine, but also manage to squeak through it's political structure, is a complete mystery!;-)
Would be to do what Abe Vigoda has done... set up a website with your current status on it. When he finally dies, everyone will know,... and unfortunately the server will probably be slashdotted and die a horrible death within about six hours of Vigoda's actual death,...;-)
... and spruce up the old series with CGI environments... ships in the air and a couple of bantha or dewbacks walking through New Caprica before the attack?
Are you on crack? The last thing BSG needs is to come in and insert overly done CGI in the place of good plot and character development. Encouraging this kind of stuff will only give us a campy series with an overgrown, floppy-eared Daggit that talks with an annoying Jamaican accent and ought to be shot on sight. The real Adama would have nothing of the sort on his ship.
Let's get this right. The Battlestar Galactica series that every true Slashdotter knows and loves never aired on the SyFy network. It aired on the Sci-Fi Channel, before they "re-branded" themselves. BSG is too good to be associated with a network name that invokes images of syphilis,... Second, why the frak are the "reimagining" this thing AGAIN. That seems to be the same thing they've done and are doing with Star Trek. How many different plot lines can you have without (a) doing the time travel/alternative time line thing, or (b) boring us to death with the same old stories with different characters?
Please stop redoing the same old stories over and over again, ad nauseum. Instead, focus on putting more energy and creative thought into some newer and more original science fiction series. Put more effort into shows like Eureka, Fringe, or Warehouse 13 (although Warehouse 13 and Fringe are kind of like redoing X-files, they're still a little different, and still not just a continuation of an old series).
I'm not sure if there's specifically a list of wikis anywhere, but there is a wiki for Conservatives. Most articles seem to be mostly fixated on debunking Abortion, Evolution, and Homosexuality.
I live there, in that town. It seems like a ton of retarded news stories come from not only here, but Florida in general. I feel embarrassed saying I'm from Florida sometimes.
Yep,... that's why the state has it's own Fark tag,... =)
Actually, Wikipedia is run by the Wikimedia Foundation, and they appear to have about 30 people on their staff currently. Their based in San Francisco, not New York. But I do see your point. ICANN is just horribly, horribly incompetent and overstaffed.
It says much that you only wish to block the whackos and nutjobs that you (by inference) disagree with. (Which is also why the.eco TLD shouldn't be run by any but a neutral authority. The possibilities of it being run by the Thought Police are fairly high.)
I was more joking about that,... though, for that matter, you could throw all the socialist websites into.soc, all the communist websites into.com -- Oh, wait, that one already exists and is somewhat "anti-communist" as it is. Oops,...;-)
I'm not sure if I like the idea of handing out a TLD that is basically going to support a groups in a particular cause. In the.eco realm, it seems to me like.org would work just fine, and it's broad enough to be all-encompassing of many points of view. Speaking of which, I think Wikipedia addresses this quite well with their Neutral Point of View policy. Domains should be the same way.
On the flipside, it would be kind of nice to have a.nut domain for all the right-wing neocons and nutjobs out there. It would be easier to just block anything in that TLD,...;-)
This isn't exactly breaking news. It's long been known that nicotine has had positive cognitive and memory-enhancing benefits in most people. So the fact that it might help someone with schizophrenia to get somewhat "back to normal" doesn't really surprise me. Not sure if I'd recommend that they smoke, though. There are other ways of delivering nicotine to the brain without all the other crap that cigarettes have associated with them,...
I think what's evident is that the actual policies clearly vary by institution here, as well as by the difference in laws between the US and Canada. Granted, it says on my dissertation that it's copyright to myself as well, and I'm pretty much free to do what I want with it as long as a went into the library. Many US universities also require the student to bear the cost of publishing as well (even going as far to say that they can't use the departmental copier).
When I was referring to your laboratory notebook, the fact that individual PIs hang on to that after their students graduate is not so much for copyright, but for going back and being able to answer questions the might arise once your work is published, since your major advisor will be the corresponding author on your work. For example, if another researcher raises questions on work you did 5-10 years after you graduate, they'll contact your advisor, who may want to review the original notes to provide the best answer. So there is significant value to hanging on to these lab notebooks -- not for money or selling it, but for scientific reasons.
Other stuff you do, like your class notes, class essays, or blog posts (plus, if your blog is on the university's servers, they'll probably delete it after a certain period of time -- again, depending on the institution), is of little value to the university (or anyone else, but you, I suppose), so no one's really going to care whether you claim copyright on it or not. Although I suppose in today's legally-obsessed culture, with everyone screaming copyright infringement and people trying to file frivolous lawsuits to make a fast buck, I can't blame students for trying to copyright such petty things,...
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Forget that! I'd rather just play Global Thermonuclear War? I'm sure it's better in AJAX than over that 300 baud modem used in the movie!
The Department of Computational Biology at Pitt (and CMU, for that matter) supports Linux quite well, with many faculty, students, and postdocs using it. Opensuse seems to be preferred, though others like Ubuntu are common. When Windows is required, we run it under VMware, which works very well. An increasing number of folks are starting to use Macintoshes as well. Linux also seems to be more popular in some of the other computational sciences (CS, engineering, etc), though for most of the rest of the campus, such as undergraduates and even the experimental sciences (like cell biology or surgery), the most popular choices appear to be Windows or Mac. The general rule of thumb to follow is, if your research or schoolwork is computationally intensive or requires a good amount of programming, use Linux. Otherwise, if you're mostly reading and writing papers, checking email, doing presentations, just stick with Windows/Mac. For presentations, especially, I'd recommend sticking with Windows/Mac -- I've noticed many connectivity and resolution issues with both Opensuse and Ubuntu when connecting to various LCD projectors. And you're average tech support guy that specializes in connecting PCs to projectors still doesn't know the first thing about getting Linux to work with a projector,...
Today's kids seem to be able to text just as fast as their grandparents can type, so touch-typing seems rather pointless,... Even when I was in high school in the late 90s, I took programming, not typing -- learned to code AND learned to type all in one class! However, I would think it's more important to focus our school efforts on grammar and spelling -- teaching kids to speak in full sentences rather than tapping out, "IDK, MY BFF Jill", or trying to squeeze an entire job application into 140 characters or less,...
Thank you for your interest in our Copulation in Space Program! After reviewing your qualifications, we have determined that you unfortunately do not qualify. At this time, we are only seeking experienced candidates for the mission, and seeing as how you have ZERO experience with sexual reproduction, we are unable to process your application. We will keep your application on file and, should an appropriate opportunity arise, we'll contact you in your mother's basement at that time.
Once again, thank you for your interest in NASA's Copulation in Space Program!
Sincerely,
NASA
But, I heard that only affects members of the GNAA. So the rest of us should be immune, right? =)
Well, damn! That would rule out CowboyNeal from participating,... not to mention 99.9% of all slashdotters,...
This sounds like the makings of a great Sci-Fi flick. Oh wait, I think it was recently just done,... Or maybe that was just a SyFy flick, so it really doesn't count,...
This is 2009, dammit! Why do the media companies keep wanting us to go back to 1984?!?!
Better hurry it up then. 2010 is almost here,... ;-)
I don't subscribe to cable, and don't really watch "over-the-air" TV, mostly because I don't really feel like fiddling with the antennae. I do watch lots of shows on Hulu, which is great from the network standpoint, because all they have to do is check website server logs and javascript reports to find out how many times someone is watching their show. The best part about it, is that they get an exact number of who's accessed the file, so there's no "sampling" of the population going on. Plus, they can sell ads based on an exact number. This is probably exactly why Hulu is so valuable to NBC and Fox (and now ABC).
Does anyone else see it as slightly ironic that the average life expectancy appears to be lower in the more rural areas, like the Deep South, Appalachia, and Texas? In other words, solid red state territory. And, they say that other parts (the blue states?) are on par with most of Europe. So, in other words, for the most part, the folks that are more in favor of health care reform are living longer than the people that are staunchly against it. Maybe we should just let the red states die off and that would solve a whole host of other problems! ;-)
Not only the engineering stuff, but looking at a creature like Jar Jar Binks,. . . that's a walking contradiction to Darwin's Theory of Evolution right there, not to mention a Darwin-Award-waiting-to-happen,. . . And Jabba the Hut seems to fail miserably in the "survival of the fittest" category! How a fat slug of a creature like that could not only climb above the food chain on Tatooine, but also manage to squeak through it's political structure, is a complete mystery! ;-)
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Would be to do what Abe Vigoda has done ... set up a website with your current status on it. When he finally dies, everyone will know,... and unfortunately the server will probably be slashdotted and die a horrible death within about six hours of Vigoda's actual death,... ;-)
Are you on crack? The last thing BSG needs is to come in and insert overly done CGI in the place of good plot and character development. Encouraging this kind of stuff will only give us a campy series with an overgrown, floppy-eared Daggit that talks with an annoying Jamaican accent and ought to be shot on sight. The real Adama would have nothing of the sort on his ship.
Please stop redoing the same old stories over and over again, ad nauseum. Instead, focus on putting more energy and creative thought into some newer and more original science fiction series. Put more effort into shows like Eureka, Fringe, or Warehouse 13 (although Warehouse 13 and Fringe are kind of like redoing X-files, they're still a little different, and still not just a continuation of an old series).
I'm not sure if there's specifically a list of wikis anywhere, but there is a wiki for Conservatives. Most articles seem to be mostly fixated on debunking Abortion, Evolution, and Homosexuality.
Like why the Vogons would not see any value in our system, thereby planning to demolish it to make way for a new hyperspace bypass,... Oh well, so long, and thanks for all the fish!
Yep,... that's why the state has it's own Fark tag,... =)
Actually, Wikipedia is run by the Wikimedia Foundation, and they appear to have about 30 people on their staff currently. Their based in San Francisco, not New York. But I do see your point. ICANN is just horribly, horribly incompetent and overstaffed.
I was more joking about that,... though, for that matter, you could throw all the socialist websites into .soc, all the communist websites into .com -- Oh, wait, that one already exists and is somewhat "anti-communist" as it is. Oops,... ;-)
On the flipside, it would be kind of nice to have a .nut domain for all the right-wing neocons and nutjobs out there. It would be easier to just block anything in that TLD,... ;-)
This isn't exactly breaking news. It's long been known that nicotine has had positive cognitive and memory-enhancing benefits in most people. So the fact that it might help someone with schizophrenia to get somewhat "back to normal" doesn't really surprise me. Not sure if I'd recommend that they smoke, though. There are other ways of delivering nicotine to the brain without all the other crap that cigarettes have associated with them,...
When I was referring to your laboratory notebook, the fact that individual PIs hang on to that after their students graduate is not so much for copyright, but for going back and being able to answer questions the might arise once your work is published, since your major advisor will be the corresponding author on your work. For example, if another researcher raises questions on work you did 5-10 years after you graduate, they'll contact your advisor, who may want to review the original notes to provide the best answer. So there is significant value to hanging on to these lab notebooks -- not for money or selling it, but for scientific reasons.
Other stuff you do, like your class notes, class essays, or blog posts (plus, if your blog is on the university's servers, they'll probably delete it after a certain period of time -- again, depending on the institution), is of little value to the university (or anyone else, but you, I suppose), so no one's really going to care whether you claim copyright on it or not. Although I suppose in today's legally-obsessed culture, with everyone screaming copyright infringement and people trying to file frivolous lawsuits to make a fast buck, I can't blame students for trying to copyright such petty things,...