However, in the current academic climate (at least for life sciences) publish or perish is not a way to communicate your ideas or to advance knowledge. It's a way to get funded so you can continue working.
Nintendo isn't interested in crippling their own hardware in order to "protect" their own movie studio or their own music publishing business.
It is however interested in ensuring that games bought in Japan won't run on European or USA units, and vice versa. This is a far more deal breaker than what you report to me. (Microsoft leaves the lock to the publisher, while Sony, at least for physical games, goes region free).
As an owner of a USA PS3 living in Europe playing mostly Japanese games (yes, a mixture of things), I like the fact that I can get a copy whenever in the world and knowing it will run. Region lock sucks.
KOffice is basically dead commits-wise. What you might be interested in is the Calligra Suite, a fork which is under heavy development. More info: http://calligra-suite.org/
In fact, I think it's just hype. To do proper analysis runs you *need* parallel computing, as these tasks are primarily CPU bound. But a whole load of RAM doesn't hurt, either, especially if you analyze more than one genome at once.
There's another problem to bear in mind: coverage. What is coverage exactly? In terms of "next generation sequencing" (to which this machine belongs to) is how well a part of the genome is covered (sequenced), and that in turns means that the number of fragments (100-150 in the case of Ion Torrent) read for a specific region must be high as possible (those are called "reads").
A good coverage allows you ensure that what you're seeing is real and not some sequencing errors (all technologies suffer from certain types of errors). In the case of Ion Torrent, you usually sequence fragments up to 1 Gbp of sequenced material (G base pairs of DNA), which isn't enough to cover the inter-genic regions or other structural DNA. So usually you do a "reduction step" by either only selecting a handful of genes to be sequenced (mutation screening for example) or by sequencing only the "exome" (exons are the parts of DNA that are actually transcribed to mRNA, the exome is a collective term for all the exons in the genome). That may be useful per se but it's nowhere near a complete genetic map for one individual.
Equipment to do that is much more expensive (500K USD, not counting reagents and other machines).
The name for the technology is "Ion Torrent", and albeit the wording there is terrible, it detects, using a semiconductor, the flows of protons in solution to determine which DNA base is being read.
At least from a commercial perspective, XI is not bad at all, being still in operation and (partially) developed. Having played it for about 7 years, I would add that it was not that bad despite clearly a very unrewarding set up. In particular, the main scenario (and even more in particular the Chains of Promathia expansion) are well worth the FF name.
I beg to differ: I've run R600 and R700 (read: 3000 and 4000 series) cards with the FOSS driver and I find it miles better than fglrx: at least it does play nicely with all other components in the system.
I recently set up a wiki on a server of mine to be used to take notes to replace Google Notebook because I was afraid it might shut down, and now I read this.
Let's start with the fact that if this was a KDE message board, and I was to thoughtfully complain in any way, my message would be quietly deleted
Care to bring specific examples? I'm one of the administrators of the KDE Community Forums, and not once we have deleted a message we disagreed with. In fact all that's asked to users is to respect the Code of Conduct, their opinions can be freely expressed.
You'll need the pulseaudio module for bluetooth, enable the pulseaudio support in Phonon and then use the newly-released "bluedevil" (new version of the BT stack for KDE) to pair your headset.
That is a limitation of Qt, which Okular uses to print, rather than in KDE or Okular itself. Odd/even pages should work on Linux at least, providing you use CUPS for printing.
Perhaps not relevant to the discussion, but I have to point out that when PJ dealt with GPL v3 (many articles on Groklaw when it was being drafted), she did not say anything about her involvement in the process(and so, potential conflict of interest) until *after* the license was approved.
PJ was targeted with a very aggressive smear campaign (O' Gara and co.) that IMO went far beyond the limits of decency, but it doesn't mean she's perfect. That point I mentioned was a major letdown for me.
I like a lot the investigative side of Groklaw, but I like a lot less paranoia-induced articles like this one.
Are we talking about the same game? Because it has problems but it is enjoyable: however the community (the same FFXIV community) has been very hostile to people who play and enjoy the gaem (which are different from people who think that Square Enix is always right).
The UI update has been already delivered, two weeks ago. The "anedocte" was also found to be completely baseless (an unconfirmed report on IM, without any other external sources). Oh, and don't expect servers to move: the good thing about FFXI, shared with FFXIV is that the servers were cross region.
Yes, I said "was fired" because this is what is in practice, despite the announcement. The rest is always the same people, with different positions.
Personally, I find this announcement more worrying than the state of the game (which I've been enjoying, despite its flaws). The risk is that the "new" team will try to pull a "NGE-like" thing and scrap what was good and different about XIV to fix the problems the game has.
You can easily select "community repositories" from YaST. No need to know addresses and everything. And zypper, the package management tool (command-line), is also quite powerful nowadays. Plus, you have the openSUSE Build Service to make your own packages (and with kde-obs-generator you can make ones without knowing too much about packaging as well), openSUSE and other distros alike.
I don't think so. THe group I work in has had some papers in very respectable journals, and a few high-profile ones, yet this "peer review" problem is quite felt. It's not a generalized mafia, mind you. But I'd really prefer that the refereeing would be done in double blind.
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However, in the current academic climate (at least for life sciences) publish or perish is not a way to communicate your ideas or to advance knowledge. It's a way to get funded so you can continue working.
Nintendo isn't interested in crippling their own hardware in order to "protect" their own movie studio or their own music publishing business.
It is however interested in ensuring that games bought in Japan won't run on European or USA units, and vice versa. This is a far more deal breaker than what you report to me. (Microsoft leaves the lock to the publisher, while Sony, at least for physical games, goes region free).
As an owner of a USA PS3 living in Europe playing mostly Japanese games (yes, a mixture of things), I like the fact that I can get a copy whenever in the world and knowing it will run. Region lock sucks.
KOffice is basically dead commits-wise. What you might be interested in is the Calligra Suite, a fork which is under heavy development. More info: http://calligra-suite.org/
If you are legally allowed to. Some journals require copyright trasnfer upon acceptance of a manuscript, which makes such things illegal.
System Settings > Window Behavior > Window specific overrides.
That's exactly what you're looking for, and oh, it's been there for several releases.
In fact, I think it's just hype. To do proper analysis runs you *need* parallel computing, as these tasks are primarily CPU bound. But a whole load of RAM doesn't hurt, either, especially if you analyze more than one genome at once.
There's another problem to bear in mind: coverage. What is coverage exactly? In terms of "next generation sequencing" (to which this machine belongs to) is how well a part of the genome is covered (sequenced), and that in turns means that the number of fragments (100-150 in the case of Ion Torrent) read for a specific region must be high as possible (those are called "reads").
A good coverage allows you ensure that what you're seeing is real and not some sequencing errors (all technologies suffer from certain types of errors). In the case of Ion Torrent, you usually sequence fragments up to 1 Gbp of sequenced material (G base pairs of DNA), which isn't enough to cover the inter-genic regions or other structural DNA. So usually you do a "reduction step" by either only selecting a handful of genes to be sequenced (mutation screening for example) or by sequencing only the "exome" (exons are the parts of DNA that are actually transcribed to mRNA, the exome is a collective term for all the exons in the genome). That may be useful per se but it's nowhere near a complete genetic map for one individual.
Equipment to do that is much more expensive (500K USD, not counting reagents and other machines).
The name for the technology is "Ion Torrent", and albeit the wording there is terrible, it detects, using a semiconductor, the flows of protons in solution to determine which DNA base is being read.
At least from a commercial perspective, XI is not bad at all, being still in operation and (partially) developed. Having played it for about 7 years, I would add that it was not that bad despite clearly a very unrewarding set up. In particular, the main scenario (and even more in particular the Chains of Promathia expansion) are well worth the FF name.
I beg to differ: I've run R600 and R700 (read: 3000 and 4000 series) cards with the FOSS driver and I find it miles better than fglrx: at least it does play nicely with all other components in the system.
Looks my hunch wasn't that wrong, after all.
That physics does not follow hysteria. The situation is serious, but the media are blowing it way out of proportion.
And as someone said, detectable means nothing. The detection systems are so precise they can identify the natural background.
Care to bring specific examples? I'm one of the administrators of the KDE Community Forums, and not once we have deleted a message we disagreed with. In fact all that's asked to users is to respect the Code of Conduct, their opinions can be freely expressed.
There is a keyboard layout applet for the panel with multiple configurable keybindings.
You'll need the pulseaudio module for bluetooth, enable the pulseaudio support in Phonon and then use the newly-released "bluedevil" (new version of the BT stack for KDE) to pair your headset.
This is AFAIK.
That is a limitation of Qt, which Okular uses to print, rather than in KDE or Okular itself. Odd/even pages should work on Linux at least, providing you use CUPS for printing.
Perhaps not relevant to the discussion, but I have to point out that when PJ dealt with GPL v3 (many articles on Groklaw when it was being drafted), she did not say anything about her involvement in the process(and so, potential conflict of interest) until *after* the license was approved.
PJ was targeted with a very aggressive smear campaign (O' Gara and co.) that IMO went far beyond the limits of decency, but it doesn't mean she's perfect. That point I mentioned was a major letdown for me.
I like a lot the investigative side of Groklaw, but I like a lot less paranoia-induced articles like this one.
Are we talking about the same game? Because it has problems but it is enjoyable: however the community (the same FFXIV community) has been very hostile to people who play and enjoy the gaem (which are different from people who think that Square Enix is always right).
You expect Final Fantasy XIV to be a Western style MMO? I think you are looking at the wrong game...
The UI update has been already delivered, two weeks ago. The "anedocte" was also found to be completely baseless (an unconfirmed report on IM, without any other external sources).
Oh, and don't expect servers to move: the good thing about FFXI, shared with FFXIV is that the servers were cross region.
Yes, I said "was fired" because this is what is in practice, despite the announcement. The rest is always the same people, with different positions.
Personally, I find this announcement more worrying than the state of the game (which I've been enjoying, despite its flaws). The risk is that the "new" team will try to pull a "NGE-like" thing and scrap what was good and different about XIV to fix the problems the game has.
I'm not sure in which version it appeared, but at least I've seen it from 11.1 onwards (the first version I installed after trying 6.4 years ago).
You can easily select "community repositories" from YaST. No need to know addresses and everything. And zypper, the package management tool (command-line), is also quite powerful nowadays. Plus, you have the openSUSE Build Service to make your own packages (and with kde-obs-generator you can make ones without knowing too much about packaging as well), openSUSE and other distros alike.
I don't think so. THe group I work in has had some papers in very respectable journals, and a few high-profile ones, yet this "peer review" problem is quite felt. It's not a generalized mafia, mind you. But I'd really prefer that the refereeing would be done in double blind.
I've had some papers reviewed by two people last year (PLoS ONE).