Even in groups like the one I work in, it's sad how few of the protein structures and Open Reading Frames are still unpublished, years after the work was essentially complete.
Those groups committed to publishing all their work still have a hard time depositing half the work done after four years, partially due to constraints in fully documenting the ORF and it's Structure, but the goal is good from my viewpoint.
And it is true that management can tend to be autocratic, but this is usually caused by:
1. Unrealistic deadlines due to shipping and marketing requirements;
2. A tendency to attract dreamers who can envision something that may not be reasonable to do, or at least not with the money, people, and tools available;
3. A tendency for those who seek out gaming as a career - especially management - to push way beyond any resonable limits.
True, I saw the last Harry Potter in IMAX and it was awe-inspiring. Talk about total immersion.
It's almost as good as seeing Hero (with the many-colored tree grove fight scenes) at the Cinerama... sitting in the sweet spot of the theater (for 70mm, about 5-6 rows back in the center aisle).
So, I could see going to see Star Wars 3D at IMAX, that would be fun.
By "adding" to it, he can insist the copyright be extended another 70 years, kind of like what Disney did.
And since copyrights worldwide don't use the US method, this gives him a few decades more money from international showings that would soon expire their copyrights and get used in music videos and game systems.
Every time he tries to add to it, it reminds me of that South Park episode, and how his improvements have never really improved anything so much as made it way too busy and too flashy and unreal.
The only good improvements he ever made were getting rid of the shadow boxes around the ships and the see-thru aspects inside some of the fighter cockpits.
Back when the national NOW website was just getting started, most of the time when you used Yahoo or Google to search, most people came up with pages for my WA NOW website and our underlying pages, because I coded them to show up high on keywords and links.
Naturally, I provided links back to them, but since we had been on the web before they were, and were responsible for forcing them onto the web in the first place, it wasn't surprising. Their webperson now was part of the three state chapters that forced them to get a web presence, and she knows all about how to get good page rankings - so this is no longer the case, especially since I don't spend much time on the site anymore.
I've been using my.yahoo.com with Mozilla and Konqueror for ages - to my knowledge, I've never once accessed it with Internet Explorer. Is there something magical I've been missing by browsing it with something else all this time, or do you just consider official support to be more important than I ever bothered to?
Some of the sites my son likes to surf don't work too well unless you have IE, but I'm pretty sure if Yahoo is supporting FireFox on the Mac as well that they should work fine for him on FireFox.
After all, you can never have to much Foamy the Squirrel, Happy Tree Friends, GoGaia, or plug-ins...
He just got the Washington State Supreme Court to hand him a ruling that says he doesn't have to pay Estate Tax, and that's $145 million right there.
So $5 million a day is a long time from his viewpoint, especially when he's the richest man in the World, with Paul Allen the fourth richest - and that's most of Microsoft's stockholders right there.
I use opera as my primary browser and I have all kinds of problems trying to use Yahoo mail.
This is why my Mac (sadly) at home still uses IE (or did until I heard that Yahoo will work on Firefox for the Mac now), whereas my other Windows boxen all use Opera at home.
The only thing that was holding my mom back from completely using firefox was yahoo's online streaming music radio.
Now if I could just get Nathan Hale High School radio (KNHC) to broadcast in a Mac-friendly way - with Yahoo Streaming Music - my life would be complete!
It's all about the music. The rest is just worldly possessions that should be invested in a European value index fund...
Now all we need is some high-grade bullet-resistant body armor suits and kevlar samurai helmets and some light sabers, and we can have some fun on the streets!... What, don't tell me such images didn't flash thru your mind when you heard how quiet they are...
Sony and formats - it's not always what u think
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People seem to forget that Sony has had a hand in many of the most prevalent formats around;
The first being the 3.5" Floppy Disk. Sony invented the "micro" floppy disk drive, releasing its first commercially available model called the OA-D30V in 1981 for Apple.
One of the reasons that 3.5 inch Floppy Disks did so well was that they fit inside military uniform pockets as well as the short and long-sleeve shirt pockets of most engineers and techs, and thus were encouraged in natural selection.
The second reason was that the hard-shell casing stopped people from shoving them thru the slots between drive bays and reduced damage from paper clips and small magnets. As well as reducing dirt and mud damage.
We bulk ordered them in mass quantities which drove the market acceptance.
So long as they don't have region encoding specs
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I don't mind what gets chosen.
But if I want to watch the Japanese or French version of the movie, that's darned well what I want to watch, with German subtitling if that's what I like.
Re:Betamax did not hold as much data as VHS...
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Instead, Sony has learned from history and gone over.
Perhaps. I mean, it would be great for me, I've got 400 shares of Sony, it's just that accurately predicting which recording format will gain popularity is more an art than a science, from my perspective.
They still sell records three blocks from my house, and do quite well at it, at Java Time Records in Fremont (Seattle). Is it better? Maybe not, but it's cheaper for a startup band...
Oh, hell... "The protecting layer for CDs and DVDs (cover layer) is 0.6 mm. in thickness, while Blu-Ray's cover layer is only 0.1 mm. thick, which, roughly, means a better access to the recording area."
And better access to scratches, ball point pens, ink chemistry, label adhesive chemistry.
But, this also means that it's easier to defeat copy protection schemes, and that's a good thing...
No, but you'll need to buy twelve versions of "Lord of the Rings": the Blu-Ray standard version, the Blu-Ray two disc extended version, the Blu-Ray five disc super extended version,...
It's not about what's right or what's better
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I remember when people laughed at my RCA VCR because it wasn't Beta, it was VHS.
Beta is more technologically advanced they said. Beta is supported by more industry leaders they said. Beta is cheaper they said.
VHS won.
Personally, I've learned never to underestimate that people buy stuff because it works for them. If Blu-Ray is easily smudged or doesn't have pretty pictures on the disk, that could be what kills it in the marketplace.
I'll wait a couple of years until the victor appears, thanks.
Which is also the date when the Tuvalu.tv domain goes out of service as both Tuvalu and half of Florida go down beneath the waves due to global warming.
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Even in groups like the one I work in, it's sad how few of the protein structures and Open Reading Frames are still unpublished, years after the work was essentially complete.
Those groups committed to publishing all their work still have a hard time depositing half the work done after four years, partially due to constraints in fully documenting the ORF and it's Structure, but the goal is good from my viewpoint.
I should point out i meant the version on the cell phones is banner ad free. Pop-ups are easy to disable in ALL versions of Opera.
So, you don't have to pay - again - for the ad-free version - that's how it comes INSTALLED on your Nokia phone.
[caveat - I own shares of Nokia, lots of them, so I have a financial interest in this]
And it is true that management can tend to be autocratic, but this is usually caused by:
1. Unrealistic deadlines due to shipping and marketing requirements;
2. A tendency to attract dreamers who can envision something that may not be reasonable to do, or at least not with the money, people, and tools available;
3. A tendency for those who seek out gaming as a career - especially management - to push way beyond any resonable limits.
But the pay is ok, if not great.
Plus, since this will be an ad-free version, you won't have to worry about all those pop-up and other ads at all.
True, I saw the last Harry Potter in IMAX and it was awe-inspiring. Talk about total immersion.
... sitting in the sweet spot of the theater (for 70mm, about 5-6 rows back in the center aisle).
It's almost as good as seeing Hero (with the many-colored tree grove fight scenes) at the Cinerama
So, I could see going to see Star Wars 3D at IMAX, that would be fun.
By "adding" to it, he can insist the copyright be extended another 70 years, kind of like what Disney did.
And since copyrights worldwide don't use the US method, this gives him a few decades more money from international showings that would soon expire their copyrights and get used in music videos and game systems.
It's all part of his master plan.
oh the horrors!
Every time he tries to add to it, it reminds me of that South Park episode, and how his improvements have never really improved anything so much as made it way too busy and too flashy and unreal.
The only good improvements he ever made were getting rid of the shadow boxes around the ships and the see-thru aspects inside some of the fighter cockpits.
Back when the national NOW website was just getting started, most of the time when you used Yahoo or Google to search, most people came up with pages for my WA NOW website and our underlying pages, because I coded them to show up high on keywords and links.
Naturally, I provided links back to them, but since we had been on the web before they were, and were responsible for forcing them onto the web in the first place, it wasn't surprising. Their webperson now was part of the three state chapters that forced them to get a web presence, and she knows all about how to get good page rankings - so this is no longer the case, especially since I don't spend much time on the site anymore.
I've been using my.yahoo.com with Mozilla and Konqueror for ages - to my knowledge, I've never once accessed it with Internet Explorer. Is there something magical I've been missing by browsing it with something else all this time, or do you just consider official support to be more important than I ever bothered to?
...
Some of the sites my son likes to surf don't work too well unless you have IE, but I'm pretty sure if Yahoo is supporting FireFox on the Mac as well that they should work fine for him on FireFox.
After all, you can never have to much Foamy the Squirrel, Happy Tree Friends, GoGaia, or plug-ins
He just got the Washington State Supreme Court to hand him a ruling that says he doesn't have to pay Estate Tax, and that's $145 million right there.
So $5 million a day is a long time from his viewpoint, especially when he's the richest man in the World, with Paul Allen the fourth richest - and that's most of Microsoft's stockholders right there.
Yeah, and then you can upgrade from Firefox to a good browser like Safari.
If I wanted to go on a Safari, I would have.
I'd rather twirl Fire with the Foxes.
whenever I browse Slashdot with Firefox the page just doesn't seem to be drawn correctly.
See that little icon in the upper right corner? The one that if you mouseover says "Firefox Upgrades to Download" or somesuch?
Try clicking on that and downloading the upgrades.
I did that and since then have never had any problems.
Now, the stories I could tell about WebPine glitches are another matter...
I use opera as my primary browser and I have all kinds of problems trying to use Yahoo mail.
This is why my Mac (sadly) at home still uses IE (or did until I heard that Yahoo will work on Firefox for the Mac now), whereas my other Windows boxen all use Opera at home.
The only thing that was holding my mom back from completely using firefox was yahoo's online streaming music radio.
...
Now if I could just get Nathan Hale High School radio (KNHC) to broadcast in a Mac-friendly way - with Yahoo Streaming Music - my life would be complete!
It's all about the music. The rest is just worldly possessions that should be invested in a European value index fund
At home, I tend to use my iMac to surf the web, and I always start at Yahoo.
So now I can upgrade from IE4 to a real browser like Firefox, safe and secure in the knowledge that my fave portal will work with it.
Kinda stomps on the Fear Uncertainty and Doubt, doesn't it?
Now all we need is some high-grade bullet-resistant body armor suits and kevlar samurai helmets and some light sabers, and we can have some fun on the streets! ... What, don't tell me such images didn't flash thru your mind when you heard how quiet they are ...
People seem to forget that Sony has had a hand in many of the most prevalent formats around;
The first being the 3.5" Floppy Disk. Sony invented the "micro" floppy disk drive, releasing its first commercially available model called the OA-D30V in 1981 for Apple.
One of the reasons that 3.5 inch Floppy Disks did so well was that they fit inside military uniform pockets as well as the short and long-sleeve shirt pockets of most engineers and techs, and thus were encouraged in natural selection.
The second reason was that the hard-shell casing stopped people from shoving them thru the slots between drive bays and reduced damage from paper clips and small magnets. As well as reducing dirt and mud damage.
We bulk ordered them in mass quantities which drove the market acceptance.
I don't mind what gets chosen.
But if I want to watch the Japanese or French version of the movie, that's darned well what I want to watch, with German subtitling if that's what I like.
Instead, Sony has learned from history and gone over.
...
Perhaps. I mean, it would be great for me, I've got 400 shares of Sony, it's just that accurately predicting which recording format will gain popularity is more an art than a science, from my perspective.
They still sell records three blocks from my house, and do quite well at it, at Java Time Records in Fremont (Seattle). Is it better? Maybe not, but it's cheaper for a startup band
Guitar totally gets chicks.
True. It worked for my dad and my brother.
Nothing like a neat job saving the world though, or being a firefighter.
Oh, hell... "The protecting layer for CDs and DVDs (cover layer) is 0.6 mm. in thickness, while Blu-Ray's cover layer is only 0.1 mm. thick, which, roughly, means a better access to the recording area."
...
And better access to scratches, ball point pens, ink chemistry, label adhesive chemistry.
But, this also means that it's easier to defeat copy protection schemes, and that's a good thing
Will I need to buy the "White Album" again?
...
No, but you'll need to buy twelve versions of "Lord of the Rings": the Blu-Ray standard version, the Blu-Ray two disc extended version, the Blu-Ray five disc super extended version,
I remember when people laughed at my RCA VCR because it wasn't Beta, it was VHS.
Beta is more technologically advanced they said. Beta is supported by more industry leaders they said. Beta is cheaper they said.
VHS won.
Personally, I've learned never to underestimate that people buy stuff because it works for them. If Blu-Ray is easily smudged or doesn't have pretty pictures on the disk, that could be what kills it in the marketplace.
I'll wait a couple of years until the victor appears, thanks.
Wear your propeller beanie and a t-shirt that says "Kiss Me I use Unix".
Or you can wear a snappy red fedora and a t-shirt that says "Kiss Me I use Linux".
Well, 2222222222 is Sat, 02 Jun 2040 03:57:02 GMT
.tv domain goes out of service as both Tuvalu and half of Florida go down beneath the waves due to global warming.
Which is also the date when the Tuvalu