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Scientists: Flores island ‘Hobbit’ is new species:
Creature had brain about one-third the size of modern adult humans

Cough cough, mmm yeah… This is science isn’t it??? Either reporting on this as “is new species” is way too premature, or someone is simply less objective in their analysis. Tolkien was a visionary, who knew?
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Research of epilepsy - Collaborated by Dr. Petr Ivankov and Genetibase.

Present achievements in biology and medicine are very impressive. Lots of features of human organism are known. However, there are still lots of unresolved problems and scientists have no satisfactory idea how to approach to them. My reading of papers and books about biology hit me upon an idea that organism is an engineering object. Moreover, I’ll illustrate it using the Universal Framework for Science and Engineering software. So let us start.

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We want to brag a little about two people that we actively collaborate with. Without a doubt these two think alike, yet are unlike most others, certainly they are a very rare pair.

Dr. Petr Ivankov and Nikolay P. Ivankov will both be presenting at the International Conference for Operator Algebras and Topology.

This is being held in Moscow, January 29 - February 3, 2007.

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Their topic of presentation will be “Coverings of noncommutative geometry”.

We are very excited to be working with them on future Genetibase development offerings.

Nearly two in three full-time U.S. employees say their workload has increased in the past 12 to 24 months, according to a recent survey from Accenture Ltd., a global management consultancy.

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Well. this sounds like the perfect plan Highly unlikely to work in application though… I already consider myself and my day structured. And still, this really doesn’t address the underlying problem of only 24 hours in the day. lol (Waiting for someone to fix that small issue)

And, from the article:

Call it a day if you’re feeling ill or zapped out, says Sloan. “A lot of people think that being present in the office makes a big difference, even if they’re not doing anything,” she says. “The opposite is true. If you’re in the office, be productive or don’t be there at all.”

“don’t be there at all”… Well, what do I say? “I will not be in the office today because I will not be productive”, and the “Man” says: “don’t bother coming in to the office tomorrow because it’s not your place to judge your own productivity. “pink slip is being emailed”.

Pressing ahead!

In August of 2005 the United States Congress passed the Energy Policy Act, which changes the dates of both the start and end of daylight saving time (DST). When this law goes into effect in 2007, DST will start three weeks earlier (2:00 A.M. on the second Sunday in March) and will end one week later (2:00 A.M. on the first Sunday in November) than what had traditionally occurred.

Didn’t know that, now we both do.

Scratch is a new programming language that lets you create your own interactive stories, games, music, and art.

So, what we need now is a little mobile phone tissue cover dispenser to carry around.
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Good commentary on the debate regarding Sun’s decision to Open Java.

Although, In both my opinion and many others, Open Sourcing a large product or platform distribution always leads to fragmentation of the very product or platform. Far too many examples of that. Even the argument that it will “micro-fork” for specific purposes, is well, still a fork. Oracle for example has decided to offer its own Linux distribution based upon Red hat, only to offer support for less. No doubt, within 2 years we will have Oracle MAD HAT, and Red EVEN MADDER HAT. So maybe we will end up with a more data-centric Linux distribution, which was part of the idea behind the Red Hat enterprise distribution all together. Which will prevail? Maybe the cheaper of the two, or three, or four or …

All of this feels messy and with no doubt hardly aids the “business” enterprise; considering they already have a difficult time choosing and or managing between Microsoft, Sun and “OTHER”. All of that on top of the daunting task of managing the current VP list, the company coffee brand, stapler brand, pencil brand, desk brand, …

Companies looking to build new products on Java should really look at their options once again. (Assuming they did it in the first place) I am not talking about the micro products like phones, pda’s etc. Rather, I am talking about desktop products; this is where a reconsideration of the Java platform choice should be addressed. With Sun all but saying “We can’t take it any further than it is, you have a go at it”. Which of course means, which fork will be for you, and will it last, will it be supported and will it be continued in terms of development. Will it still run on all the fancy OS upgrades (i.e., Vista and its far too numerous siblings) Granted, it will be sometime before anyone is really faced with the above questions. Although, assuming you are planning now, now then is the time to think about the future. (Which is pretty obvious, generally speaking)

Look, it’s already started! 

What makes a programming language “more productive”

hmm, good question… Seems to come up often between the VBers and CSharpers

OOP is dead

OOP is dead part 2

OOP is dead part 3

Hey, come on… OOP isn’t dead, it has matured…

Here’s a little part of US history which makes you go h-m-m-m:
Have a history teacher explain this if they can?

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.
Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.
Lincoln’s secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy’s secretary was named Lincoln.
Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners.
Both successors were named Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born! ! in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.
Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.
Lincoln was shot at the theater named ‘Kennedy.’
Kennedy was shot in a car called ‘Lincoln.’
Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.
Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.
Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
And here’s the kicker…
A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland.
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.

AND THE ANSWER IS, YES IT IS AS RANDOM AS SOME THINK IT IS:

See here: http://www.snopes.com/history/american/linckenn.htm

Good comment regarding the above:

Given the infinite number of facts to describe two people, you simply choose to publish those facts that show coincidence. My 1st wife did this with her “true love” (not me: I was the stepping stool).

If you tell me EVERYTHING about you, I can find at least as many coincidences, probably double since we are still alive and doing things in life.

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Hubble’s map: Dark matter may be invisible but it accounts for most of the Universe’s mass. Its gravitational attraction acts as a template, pulling normal matter - the stars in their galaxy groupings – into the large-scale structures we can see through telescopes.

Awesome and Awesome!

Our reasons for converting the open source project GENtle to .Net is to make extensive use of the Alchemi [.NET Grid Computing Framework]. In fact we are modifiing Alchemi as well, in order to work specifically with NuGenGENtle datasets. This will allow for the processing of extremely large datasets across multiple Alchemi processes (machines). This will be especially useful for plasmid maps, restriction and ligation and alignments. As well, the fact that we are combining one of our other projects NuGenTransciber (Scans multiple DNA sequences, e.g. from micro-array experiments, for potential binding sites of regulatory transcription factors.) with NuGenGENtle in order to create a very complete and extensible package. Both supporting grid processing and standalone processing.

I seriously can’t wait to get this humming on our SGI Cluster. Very exciting times ahead!
Anthony Nystrom