why saving data which already exists identical somewhere else? "duplicates of users' photos and videos that it keeps for backup" are stuff that can be deleted (does not help anybody anyway and will not be accessed anyway) or if the databases are so conservative, just remove the redundant files and instead put some links in place so to not break the user experience on looking at the same happy cat photo all over the web for the n-th time:)
i'm also not familiar with the inner workings of d-wave... but in general since we would have anyway always a non-quantum and quantum computer mixture, an indicator of the qubits used for a process might be of use!
thanx for the paper - its quite interesting, but not part of a running computer. also the bell signal would be changing from state to state of d-wave.
quantum computers need a indicator of the bells signal (or rather CHSH signal) at the moment of computation! we should make it a nice colourful display in front to show you how much "quantified" you are computing atm;)
elegant solution!... but how do you do it inside the D-wave? if you want it to work as a "computer" (which is a bit a misnamer if quantum is involved), you would have to manipulate the machine itself to be able to determine bells signal or in your suggestion the passing.
creativity is to be shared but also protected because usually the artist wants credit for it. now if you are keeping things in "the cloud" (independend who is providing it to you, be it apple, google, adobe,...) and you intend do work on them, you have to ultimately trust the owner of the clouds servers on your data staying your data. making a small website with holidays pictures is one thing but working with real data for high payed contracts i would never just put the data anywhere in a cloud... after all winds can carry clouds anywhere.
a DVD has smaller frames inside compared to a blueray - whereas the texture and 3d structures a game is shipped with is the same... no game will show you a different 3d object with more detail simply because you are on higher resolution
does it matter that much if you play on a 4k or 2k screen? the games graphics are anyway not distinguishing between single pixels and the textures are not optimised for 4k. if you would play 2k side by side to 4k (now keeping aside the GPU power), would you realise the difference? 4k makes significant difference for photography and video!
Genome Compiler is a nice tool, but the luciferase gene is since long available to molecular biology and can be just put in the right vector for expressing it in the plants... why making everything more complicated? or do the authors just want to buy the fancy genome complier software for something else?;)
this project does not show any calculations as of where the plants should aquire enough energy to give enough light when needed. to get 1000 lumen from a source, one has to generate enough photons first. also the heat produced goes where? is it not harmful to the plants? nobody yet has evaluated or tested what goes on exactly when you have a plant producing light and also consuming it at the same time.... and we also do not know how our bodies like the firefly luciferase when consumed - any firefly eating people around to enlighten us?
this is for sure an interesting movement. an old system (from the time of renaissance, IIRC) rediscovered and implemented with modern means.
what i find really interesting is how such a crystoptical system (origami lens sounds misleading and quite wrong, sorry) behaves in phase contrast transformation... if it's just mirrors of molecular thikness layers, then i would think that even aberrations can be eliminated... and this would lead not only to cheap mini-objectives but also to excellent reproducing objectives for professional photography... especially in the wide-lens range, where good optical systems are hard to make.
to make a database of all compounds of a human is a really great idea. from my point of view (master student in biochemistry + infection biology) it's one of the essential in the right direction to increase the understanding of humans!
i didn't know about this database till now, so i played around alittle bit and find it usefull, but quite hard to use. the problem is more a technical one. if you for example open the entry of biotin here
you see a huge list of nice links that would maybe interest you (PDB, PubChem, KEGG,...) but there is a quite confusing part of such an entry (that's why i have choosen biotin as example, it is quite well known and a big entry) and that is the overview of the node itself related to the enzymes that make, degrade and modify the node. just listening the pathway names, the kegg maps and the SimCell maps, it may contain all the information needed, but it is not at all userfriendly, if you want to browse the metabolome and go from one node to another somewhere completely different... like you wolud be able to do on the big poster one tends to have. of course, the poster is missing a whole lot of information you have in a digital database, but it is much more userfriendly. you can use your finger to follow pathways;)
of course the enthusiastic biochemists among us would say, that we already have learned this overview in the textbooks and that you should know them by heart anyway.. but for natures (like me) who are more interested interdisciplinary and want to use this database as a browsable map.
some coding experts should sit together with the biologists to code a clickable SVG rendering map for a visual tour trough the metabolome:)... for the non-molecular-biologists: what i mean is something similar to the KEGG one http://www.genome.jp/kegg/pathway/map/map00010.htm l but in a more interactive and more modern way (modern way = vector based, clickable, popups presenting links to other DBs and maybe adding color... or am i asking too much? *smile*).
Are we talking about users w/ enough knowledge to compile their stuff, or are we talking about users who only need to see a click-here-to-update interface?
in my eyes, an OS should offer all kinds of users the ability to do their intended tasks. one of the ideas behind OSX was exactly this. lots of old *nix experts now actually moved to OSX because of this fact. still lots of people who have no idea about using a computer start opening a new mac (out of the box) and get used to OSX in minutes to hours.
linux came from the other side: it was quite a pain installing it a decade ago. now with the right distribution choice (according to your knowledge, eagerness to learn and things you want to do) you have exactly like in OSX the same niches covered. you can get a CD that sets a system, taht is user-friendly (after some studies even more) like OSX and windows for all tasks an average person intends to do. in addition you can always read manuals, open a terminal and automate your work and enhance your productivity. it's up to the likeness of the user.
packaging in linux is a phenomenon on itself - like packaging of opensource code for OSX and like it will be for vista ultimate (posix): either you leave it to the author (the classical, painfull way), or it is done by package maintainers of a distibution, or it is done by the community members. first way has its problems for teh author. second way has the disadvantage that unpopular projects are ignored. third way has the advantages of being nice for the author, distribution and has the advantage that as soon one user comes across this project who knows how to package it, it is packaged if this person is convinced. at the moment popular linux distributions are doing mostly the packaging by package maintainers and by community people. it shows to be quite successfull - but this means, that every installation of this OS should be able to have a compiler for free (e.g. gcc) so that together with a packaging tool, every normal user can become a community package maintainer.
I'll definitely grant you one good point: a windows developer having the ability to "hook into" the standard update system would probably be a real boon. Firefox, Java, Acrobat, AVG, iTunes, etc. all running their own update checks. Though, can't say it's really popped up on my radar screen enough for it to bother me too much, it does sound like an idea worth consideration... assuming Microsoft is still trying to curry favor with their developers/partners.
there is a need for a standard! every linux distribution has a standardised way to access repositories where software packages are. if you give every company the access to such a repository with authentification codes, it would be quite easy for every closed source software company to provide their product in a repository for regular updates for users who have the private key (as a proof they own this app) that makes the package manager to get this update for them.
that would even make buying software quite easy: they just give you a special private key in form of a file, and the package manager of your OS is instructed to isntall it because now you own it... and even better, you will stay updated forever. all centralised. no need for microsoft or others to get partners... because once it is set up and the OS distributors have agreed on it, every company would want to join.
actually, would i not be in middle of my master thesis, i would go to microsoft and apple suggesting such a solution... maybe they read this?
[...] They all work different as their origins and goals are different [...]
they feel different... and some lack things other have... but in the end they are here to do defined things with digital information and offer an environement to other software to do so in a more specialised way - for as many users and kinds of users as possible. a car can be driven by somebody who just learned to drive in the sa
you can use tab-completion in cmd, that's true. but if you are not running winXP fresh installed, you will have to meddle in the system registry to set the key:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\CompetionChar should be 9 = ASCII(Tab)
and make sure you use/F:ON:)
but this can autocomplement only paths... not commands
about history and DOSKEY - when you are used to CTRL-R in bash, you feel really handicapped with DOSKEY
it's like listening your CD-collection on your iPOD... you do not like to replace it with a cassette walkman with bad batteries and a tendency to not work at all without any reason
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why saving data which already exists identical somewhere else? "duplicates of users' photos and videos that it keeps for backup" are stuff that can be deleted (does not help anybody anyway and will not be accessed anyway) or if the databases are so conservative, just remove the redundant files and instead put some links in place so to not break the user experience on looking at the same happy cat photo all over the web for the n-th time :)
i'm also not familiar with the inner workings of d-wave... but in general since we would have anyway always a non-quantum and quantum computer mixture, an indicator of the qubits used for a process might be of use!
just ask such questions - but be prepared for 42 :)
so that they can be uncertain about our personal data?
thanx for the paper - its quite interesting, but not part of a running computer. also the bell signal would be changing from state to state of d-wave. quantum computers need a indicator of the bells signal (or rather CHSH signal) at the moment of computation! we should make it a nice colourful display in front to show you how much "quantified" you are computing atm ;)
elegant solution! ... but how do you do it inside the D-wave? if you want it to work as a "computer" (which is a bit a misnamer if quantum is involved), you would have to manipulate the machine itself to be able to determine bells signal or in your suggestion the passing.
how do you show the presence of entanglement without disturbing it?
credit cards stored in plain? or stored at all?? amateurs!
they might sell your data and give you access again from the earnings they do :)
creativity is to be shared but also protected because usually the artist wants credit for it. now if you are keeping things in "the cloud" (independend who is providing it to you, be it apple, google, adobe, ...) and you intend do work on them, you have to ultimately trust the owner of the clouds servers on your data staying your data. making a small website with holidays pictures is one thing but working with real data for high payed contracts i would never just put the data anywhere in a cloud... after all winds can carry clouds anywhere.
isn't that already happening?
a DVD has smaller frames inside compared to a blueray - whereas the texture and 3d structures a game is shipped with is the same... no game will show you a different 3d object with more detail simply because you are on higher resolution
16:10 was the standard before the industry decided that 16:9 is actually cheaper to produce http://mybroadband.co.za/news/hardware/17621-widescreen-monitors-where-did-1920x1200-go.html http://www.displaysearch.com/cps/rde/xchg/SID-0A424DE8-28DF6E59/displaysearch/hs.xsl/070108_16by9_PR.asp
does it matter that much if you play on a 4k or 2k screen? the games graphics are anyway not distinguishing between single pixels and the textures are not optimised for 4k. if you would play 2k side by side to 4k (now keeping aside the GPU power), would you realise the difference? 4k makes significant difference for photography and video!
kickstarters to sponsor marketing of the product of their company? wow, these guys are smart!
what would Ron Finley http://www.ted.com/talks/ron_finley_a_guerilla_gardener_in_south_central_la.html make out of these plants (assuming they somehow produce enough light when needed)?
glowsticks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glow_stick have no luciferase inside, sorry. most of them are actually very much void of proteins.
Genome Compiler is a nice tool, but the luciferase gene is since long available to molecular biology and can be just put in the right vector for expressing it in the plants... why making everything more complicated? or do the authors just want to buy the fancy genome complier software for something else? ;)
this project does not show any calculations as of where the plants should aquire enough energy to give enough light when needed. to get 1000 lumen from a source, one has to generate enough photons first. also the heat produced goes where? is it not harmful to the plants? nobody yet has evaluated or tested what goes on exactly when you have a plant producing light and also consuming it at the same time. ... and we also do not know how our bodies like the firefly luciferase when consumed - any firefly eating people around to enlighten us?
this is for sure an interesting movement. an old system (from the time of renaissance, IIRC) rediscovered and implemented with modern means.
what i find really interesting is how such a crystoptical system (origami lens sounds misleading and quite wrong, sorry) behaves in phase contrast transformation... if it's just mirrors of molecular thikness layers, then i would think that even aberrations can be eliminated... and this would lead not only to cheap mini-objectives but also to excellent reproducing objectives for professional photography... especially in the wide-lens range, where good optical systems are hard to make.
to make a database of all compounds of a human is a really great idea. from my point of view (master student in biochemistry + infection biology) it's one of the essential in the right direction to increase the understanding of humans!
R D=HMDB00030
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:) ... for the non-molecular-biologists: what i mean is something similar to the KEGG onem l
i didn't know about this database till now, so i played around alittle bit and find it usefull, but quite hard to use. the problem is more a technical one. if you for example open the entry of biotin here
http://www.hmdb.ca/scripts/show_card.cgi?METABOCA
you see a huge list of nice links that would maybe interest you (PDB, PubChem, KEGG,...) but there is a quite confusing part of such an entry (that's why i have choosen biotin as example, it is quite well known and a big entry) and that is the overview of the node itself related to the enzymes that make, degrade and modify the node. just listening the pathway names, the kegg maps and the SimCell maps, it may contain all the information needed, but it is not at all userfriendly, if you want to browse the metabolome and go from one node to another somewhere completely different... like you wolud be able to do on the big poster one tends to have. of course, the poster is missing a whole lot of information you have in a digital database, but it is much more userfriendly. you can use your finger to follow pathways
of course the enthusiastic biochemists among us would say, that we already have learned this overview in the textbooks and that you should know them by heart anyway.. but for natures (like me) who are more interested interdisciplinary and want to use this database as a browsable map.
some coding experts should sit together with the biologists to code a clickable SVG rendering map for a visual tour trough the metabolome
http://www.genome.jp/kegg/pathway/map/map00010.ht
but in a more interactive and more modern way (modern way = vector based, clickable, popups presenting links to other DBs and maybe adding color... or am i asking too much? *smile*).
great work - right step in the right direction!
Are we talking about users w/ enough knowledge to compile their stuff, or are we talking about users who only need to see a click-here-to-update interface?
in my eyes, an OS should offer all kinds of users the ability to do their intended tasks. one of the ideas behind OSX was exactly this. lots of old *nix experts now actually moved to OSX because of this fact. still lots of people who have no idea about using a computer start opening a new mac (out of the box) and get used to OSX in minutes to hours.
linux came from the other side: it was quite a pain installing it a decade ago. now with the right distribution choice (according to your knowledge, eagerness to learn and things you want to do) you have exactly like in OSX the same niches covered. you can get a CD that sets a system, taht is user-friendly (after some studies even more) like OSX and windows for all tasks an average person intends to do. in addition you can always read manuals, open a terminal and automate your work and enhance your productivity. it's up to the likeness of the user.
packaging in linux is a phenomenon on itself - like packaging of opensource code for OSX and like it will be for vista ultimate (posix): either you leave it to the author (the classical, painfull way), or it is done by package maintainers of a distibution, or it is done by the community members. first way has its problems for teh author. second way has the disadvantage that unpopular projects are ignored. third way has the advantages of being nice for the author, distribution and has the advantage that as soon one user comes across this project who knows how to package it, it is packaged if this person is convinced. at the moment popular linux distributions are doing mostly the packaging by package maintainers and by community people. it shows to be quite successfull - but this means, that every installation of this OS should be able to have a compiler for free (e.g. gcc) so that together with a packaging tool, every normal user can become a community package maintainer.
I'll definitely grant you one good point: a windows developer having the ability to "hook into" the standard update system would probably be a real boon. Firefox, Java, Acrobat, AVG, iTunes, etc. all running their own update checks. Though, can't say it's really popped up on my radar screen enough for it to bother me too much, it does sound like an idea worth consideration ... assuming Microsoft is still trying to curry favor with their developers/partners.
there is a need for a standard! every linux distribution has a standardised way to access repositories where software packages are. if you give every company the access to such a repository with authentification codes, it would be quite easy for every closed source software company to provide their product in a repository for regular updates for users who have the private key (as a proof they own this app) that makes the package manager to get this update for them.
that would even make buying software quite easy: they just give you a special private key in form of a file, and the package manager of your OS is instructed to isntall it because now you own it... and even better, you will stay updated forever. all centralised. no need for microsoft or others to get partners... because once it is set up and the OS distributors have agreed on it, every company would want to join.
actually, would i not be in middle of my master thesis, i would go to microsoft and apple suggesting such a solution... maybe they read this?
[...] They all work different as their origins and goals are different [...]
they feel different... and some lack things other have... but in the end they are here to do defined things with digital information and offer an environement to other software to do so in a more specialised way - for as many users and kinds of users as possible. a car can be driven by somebody who just learned to drive in the sa
Vista Ultimate comes with Interix POSIX subsystem, not installed by default but available.
... let's see where it leads to...
this sounds promising! thank you for the information! i have to test this one and try to compile a package manager like pacman on it - could be cool!
seems that they are on the right track
you can use tab-completion in cmd, that's true. but if you are not running winXP fresh installed, you will have to meddle in the system registry to set the key: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Command Processor\CompetionChar should be 9 = ASCII(Tab) and make sure you use /F:ON :)
but this can autocomplement only paths... not commands
about history and DOSKEY - when you are used to CTRL-R in bash, you feel really handicapped with DOSKEY
it's like listening your CD-collection on your iPOD ... you do not like to replace it with a cassette walkman with bad batteries and a tendency to not work at all without any reason