And perhaps you don't know that the upcoming GIMP 2.8 will feature a "single window mode". I tested it by compiling from the git repository: it still has a LOT of rough edges (that's unreleased software for you) but it's better than the present UI in my opinion.
Even if it's just removed from the live CD, I find this move from Canonical to be borderline on stupid.
Indeed, AFAIK the Virtuoso server backend, which is what is used with Nepomuk for 4.4, uses a lot less RAM than the current working backend (Java-based Sesame2).
The verification was required due to increase in compromised accounts and the associated credit card chargebacks by compromised users.
Also, it's not mandatory for EU accounts and you can request an exemption via the customer service. Lastly. if you haven't changed credit card data prior to the introduction of verified cards, it's not required.
Except that FFXIV will be different (although - luckily - not WoW like). FFXI hasn't changed a lot in the past 2 years because SE is basically keeping the game on life support, with very little development (despite a new "expansion").
For some it matters as it was not a release out of good will (like some may have thought) or out of interoperability, but simply because they were forced to.
And in Italy too. Not too long ago our "Corte di Cassazione" (roughly equivalent to the Supreme Court, although Italy doesn't use common law) overturned a decision on file sharing because there was no for profit motive involved.
Exploding, but is it *really* resulting in more high-quality publications? I say not. I've seen (not mine) papers rejected because of non-scientific issues (politics, anyone?) and papers that are out with utterly useless research (take a look at bioinformatics software, see how much crap is around). All because you need to rush, be the first, get a paper out as soon as you can. The result is completely detrimental to the quality of the scientific work as a whole.
And I've seen bright people burnt out because they can't get papers out fast enough... which is frankly ridicolous.
Take a look at the PLoS, which is invaluable. However, it also does *not* have peer review because that requires maintaining a specific board of reviewers and at least one editor.
Ahem, are you sure? I sent a paper early this year to PLoS ONE and indeed there was quite a bit of peer review, in fact I had to significantly modify it to have it accepted. So much for absence of peer review...
But some scientific societies consider this a form of competitive pre-publication, particularly in biosciences where commercial speed is important.
As an aside, that is why I think the life sciences area has been completely dried up due to this mentality and to the publish or perish syndrome. And yes, I happen to work in the field myself...
The same can't be said for other language versions of the latest Final Fantasy series. Speaking of the Italian versions, which I've seen, the translation is incredibly sloppy and sometimes (with regards to naming) follows language conventions that are flat out wrong (e.g. Italian can't form compound words with the same frequency as English, and there are a lot of them in the text).
However, sometimes in doing so you end up with lines that look totally out of place in the overall setting of the game. This is because no matter how good the translation/adaptation is, subtlety is bound to be lost anyway. Trying to recover it anyway like WD did (which was completely different from other companies, I have to say), ends up most of the time with stuff that is borderline on the ridicolous side.
who no one really properly appreciated for their localization efforts.
Perhaps because they inserted a lot of things that weren't even loosely related with the original text? Adaptation is one thing, inserting pop culture references were they aren't there another.
To be frank, I found Aion incredibly boring. Most quests are "collect X amounts of Y" or "kill Y enemies" and they are just text to read at, and even the "story" quests present cutscenes that are bland to say the least (this is an area where FFXI, with all its faults and limits, is still strong). Also, literally zero interactions with the other players: for the time I looked it at, Aion just seemed like an online version of Diablo (style of play wise), and for sure I'm not even thinking about paying a subscription for this type of play style.
Did anyone who got a chance at reading see who the company is? I live in Milan and IIRC there aren't many that are laying fiber here. The biggest one was the ex-monopolist Telecom Italia, which stopped around the half of the nineties, and then the work was continued by other companies.
we had more structured annotation standards, both human- and machine-readable, and the databases strictly enforced these standards for submissions, we'd all be a lot better off.
That's what stuff like ISA-TAB and MAGE-TAB are supposed to solve, but the implementations outside the organizations that mandated them (EBI in this case) are lacking, if present at all.
The same applies to software implementations of new algorithms. In the paper you cite, it looks to me like there's enough detail that implementing the algorithm yourself wouldn't be all that hard, but why should you have to?
This is a killer for smaller laboratories, however, who have for example one or two people maximum doing bioinformatics, where there is not enough manpower (given the existing commitments) to start such an effort. That, and in a lot of cases in bioinformatics people end up reinventing the wheel..
Street guys like us don't stand a chance nowadays.
Depends on what science you do. For my own work, I can use a desktop PC with decent specifications, if I'm willing to wait a while for the results to come out.
b) a number of enormous public access databases with raw data available to anyone who wants to use it
A bioinformatician myself as well, I'd say that it depends. Some databases are really gold mines for analyses, others (I'm looking at you, Gene Expression Omnibus) contain data that's not as useful as it could be because it's poorly annotated. This is IMO a side effect of the dreaded "Publish or perish" syndrome: in order to publish your findings, you need to have them available in a public resource, but nothing is said about the quality of the submission.
Also, software in bioinformatics is of varying quality. Since maintaining software does not qualify you for funding most of the time, software is released at publication time to be abandoned shortly afterwards... if there is even an implementation available. This paper is a perfect example. Method published with no implementation. How can you see if it really works?
Bioinformatics has to learn a lot from FOSS, but until it's driven by the frenzy to get funding, I doubt that will happen.
In all fairness, there are "Open Access" journals, which publish contents under Creative Commons licenses. So far, all my publications have been in Open Access journals, which everyone can view.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, KRDC does that. You can have several tabs with different connections (and not only VNC, also RDP).
At least in communication. The git repository is fairly active as far as I can see.
And perhaps you don't know that the upcoming GIMP 2.8 will feature a "single window mode". I tested it by compiling from the git repository: it still has a LOT of rough edges (that's unreleased software for you) but it's better than the present UI in my opinion. Even if it's just removed from the live CD, I find this move from Canonical to be borderline on stupid.
Indeed, AFAIK the Virtuoso server backend, which is what is used with Nepomuk for 4.4, uses a lot less RAM than the current working backend (Java-based Sesame2).
IIRC R100+ chips are supported by the open-source Radeon driver, which also includes 2D, 3D and kernel mode-setting.
The verification was required due to increase in compromised accounts and the associated credit card chargebacks by compromised users. Also, it's not mandatory for EU accounts and you can request an exemption via the customer service. Lastly. if you haven't changed credit card data prior to the introduction of verified cards, it's not required.
I have to point out that the Samba developers worked with the SFLC (so, lawyers) before getting to work with the specifications they had received.
... unlike what Namco Bandai does on PS3/360, where the "DLC" is actually on the disc the moment you buy it, and you pay for a key to enable it...
Except that FFXIV will be different (although - luckily - not WoW like). FFXI hasn't changed a lot in the past 2 years because SE is basically keeping the game on life support, with very little development (despite a new "expansion").
I don't think there's a conspiracy at all. But the spin Microsoft put into this, compared to what the truth was, is annoying.
For some it matters as it was not a release out of good will (like some may have thought) or out of interoperability, but simply because they were forced to.
And in Italy too. Not too long ago our "Corte di Cassazione" (roughly equivalent to the Supreme Court, although Italy doesn't use common law) overturned a decision on file sharing because there was no for profit motive involved.
And I've seen bright people burnt out because they can't get papers out fast enough... which is frankly ridicolous.
Ahem, are you sure? I sent a paper early this year to PLoS ONE and indeed there was quite a bit of peer review, in fact I had to significantly modify it to have it accepted. So much for absence of peer review...
As an aside, that is why I think the life sciences area has been completely dried up due to this mentality and to the publish or perish syndrome. And yes, I happen to work in the field myself...
The same can't be said for other language versions of the latest Final Fantasy series. Speaking of the Italian versions, which I've seen, the translation is incredibly sloppy and sometimes (with regards to naming) follows language conventions that are flat out wrong (e.g. Italian can't form compound words with the same frequency as English, and there are a lot of them in the text).
However, sometimes in doing so you end up with lines that look totally out of place in the overall setting of the game. This is because no matter how good the translation/adaptation is, subtlety is bound to be lost anyway. Trying to recover it anyway like WD did (which was completely different from other companies, I have to say), ends up most of the time with stuff that is borderline on the ridicolous side.
Perhaps because they inserted a lot of things that weren't even loosely related with the original text? Adaptation is one thing, inserting pop culture references were they aren't there another.
To be frank, I found Aion incredibly boring. Most quests are "collect X amounts of Y" or "kill Y enemies" and they are just text to read at, and even the "story" quests present cutscenes that are bland to say the least (this is an area where FFXI, with all its faults and limits, is still strong). Also, literally zero interactions with the other players: for the time I looked it at, Aion just seemed like an online version of Diablo (style of play wise), and for sure I'm not even thinking about paying a subscription for this type of play style.
Did anyone who got a chance at reading see who the company is? I live in Milan and IIRC there aren't many that are laying fiber here. The biggest one was the ex-monopolist Telecom Italia, which stopped around the half of the nineties, and then the work was continued by other companies.
Not wanting to troll, just asking a honest question: why are they invalid? (No, I haven't RTFA)
That's what stuff like ISA-TAB and MAGE-TAB are supposed to solve, but the implementations outside the organizations that mandated them (EBI in this case) are lacking, if present at all.
This is a killer for smaller laboratories, however, who have for example one or two people maximum doing bioinformatics, where there is not enough manpower (given the existing commitments) to start such an effort. That, and in a lot of cases in bioinformatics people end up reinventing the wheel..
Depends on what science you do. For my own work, I can use a desktop PC with decent specifications, if I'm willing to wait a while for the results to come out.
A bioinformatician myself as well, I'd say that it depends. Some databases are really gold mines for analyses, others (I'm looking at you, Gene Expression Omnibus) contain data that's not as useful as it could be because it's poorly annotated. This is IMO a side effect of the dreaded "Publish or perish" syndrome: in order to publish your findings, you need to have them available in a public resource, but nothing is said about the quality of the submission.
Also, software in bioinformatics is of varying quality. Since maintaining software does not qualify you for funding most of the time, software is released at publication time to be abandoned shortly afterwards... if there is even an implementation available. This paper is a perfect example. Method published with no implementation. How can you see if it really works?
Bioinformatics has to learn a lot from FOSS, but until it's driven by the frenzy to get funding, I doubt that will happen.
In all fairness, there are "Open Access" journals, which publish contents under Creative Commons licenses. So far, all my publications have been in Open Access journals, which everyone can view.