I'll never forgive FOX for airing The Train Job, probably the weakest episode of the show, before the pilot Joss wrote. I'm a big Joss Whedon fan and I even stopped watching Firefly after that. Only much later, after I borrowed the DVDs and saw the real pilot did I thought that the show was something special.
Venter is a high profile character in the genetic sequencing scene and the Human Genome Project.
Craig Venter was NOT part of the Human Genome Project. Venter led, through Celera Genomics, the private effort to sequence the human genome. The Human Genome Project was the public group working on the sequencing the human genome.
The only thing Craig did for the Human Genome Project was give us someone to race against.
On the QE2, I've crossed the North Atlantic in 4.5 days. It was one of those cheap moving-the-ship-around trips, so they cared more about speed that having a long enjoyable trip. Now they do, the run in five days, slow and relaxed.
Three days sounds like a yawn to me, wake me up when they do it overnight!
I am currently working on starting a non-profit company to electronically publish free textbooks. So, I followed this question with great interest.
I've decided that a pure open source strategy is not appropriate for textbook publishing. I think that one of the best motivations for getting authors to allow their work to be published online is that it can help draw attention to them as an author. So, in one sense authors would be using my project to get free publicity. I think that this is ok, as long as the project is also using the author. The idea is that an author will publish with my project in the hopes that a publishing house will pick up the book. We want the authors to have this ability to "sell out" but we also want the rights to keep publishing the authors work and even keep updating and modifying it. The viral nature of the GPL makes using this as a motivation impossible.
If anyone is interested in this project, free online textbook publishing, please email me at krish@jmaginary.org. Right now, I trying to drum up as much interest in the project I can.
I've always though that graphics and GUI stuff should be taught at a lower levels. Face it, most students go into CS because of games. Here at UCSC, I wish that they would teach OpenGL and some GUI programming in the lower-division classes. I mean, how interesting is it for people who grew up on Quake and Doom to program a linked list? I still think they should learn to role their own link list but they should also be tought the cool stuff like how to draw to the screen with something other than text!
I like OpenGL for graphics and FLTK for GUI because they are cross-platform so that what they learn will be applicable no matter what system they program on.
-krish
Understanding is a lot like sex. It's got a practical purpose, but that's not why people do it normally. ----Frank Oppenheimer
RAND are the people who came up with MAD, Mutually Assured Destruction. Including the idea of, during "tense moments," of keeping nuclear bombers in the air at all times. John Nash, game theorist, also work from them.
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He did know how to coach companies on wage suppression.
I'll never forgive FOX for airing The Train Job, probably the weakest episode of the show, before the pilot Joss wrote. I'm a big Joss Whedon fan and I even stopped watching Firefly after that. Only much later, after I borrowed the DVDs and saw the real pilot did I thought that the show was something special.
Craig Venter was NOT part of the Human Genome Project. Venter led, through Celera Genomics, the private effort to sequence the human genome. The Human Genome Project was the public group working on the sequencing the human genome.
The only thing Craig did for the Human Genome Project was give us someone to race against.
-krish
But the Nobel Prize in Economics is not a true Nobel Prize. It's given out by a bunch of Swiss bankers in "honor of Nobel."
My eepro100 in my Sony Vaio worked just dandy as a module from 2.2 and on.
"It's not stupid, it's advanced!"
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On the QE2, I've crossed the North Atlantic in 4.5 days. It was one of those cheap moving-the-ship-around trips, so they cared more about speed that having a long enjoyable trip. Now they do, the run in five days, slow and relaxed.
Three days sounds like a yawn to me, wake me up when they do it overnight!
-krish
I am currently working on starting a non-profit company to electronically publish free textbooks. So, I followed this question with great interest.
I've decided that a pure open source strategy is not appropriate for textbook publishing. I think that one of the best motivations for getting authors to allow their work to be published online is that it can help draw attention to them as an author. So, in one sense authors would be using my project to get free publicity. I think that this is ok, as long as the project is also using the author. The idea is that an author will publish with my project in the hopes that a publishing house will pick up the book. We want the authors to have this ability to "sell out" but we also want the rights to keep publishing the authors work and even keep updating and modifying it. The viral nature of the GPL makes using this as a motivation impossible.
If anyone is interested in this project, free online textbook publishing, please email me at krish@jmaginary.org. Right now, I trying to drum up as much interest in the project I can.
-krish
I like OpenGL for graphics and FLTK for GUI because they are cross-platform so that what they learn will be applicable no matter what system they program on.
-krish
Understanding is a lot like sex. It's got a practical purpose, but that's not why people do it normally.
----Frank Oppenheimer
RAND are the people who came up with MAD, Mutually Assured Destruction. Including the idea of, during "tense moments," of keeping nuclear bombers in the air at all times. John Nash, game theorist, also work from them.