I can't believe no one mentioned this yet.
On a more serious note, the McArthur foundation makes annual awards to people at the forefront of their respective fields that is popularly known as the "Genius grant"; you can find information on (and recipients of) this award here. "Genius" is a pretty loaded term and very open to interpretation, so programs like that are as good a place as any to get started looking.
scartol: The benefit is that it is an open format, which means everyone knows how to read and write it. The .doc format, in contrast, is only known to Microsoft, and everyone else has to figure it out through trial and error (If I were in a snarky mood, I'd say Word does too ;-)
This isn't a big deal in a world where everyone uses MS Word, but becomes problematic if you'd like to have a little competition in the office suite world.
Ah, yeah, sorry for leading you on the wrong track there; I had misinterpreted and thought you wanted to use an already-up-and-running linux machine as a print server. I'll third the recommendation for a standalone solution like the Belkin; I'm currently unaware of any easily bootable print server solution. As loto said, it's very possible to go the full install linux route (and a good way to learn about it), but that's certainly not the easy way.
(And, to clarify, are you looking to tack on a print server to a machine already running linux, or are you looking for a one-shot solution to turn an old machine INTO a networked print host)
No offense taken -- I didn't know exactly what you were shooting for. That being said, is there any particular reason you're looking for a linux solution for this?
That's a pretty little piece of hardware techsmith...
Sure thing. From my install:
Image 1Image 2Image 3
This should be accessible after you install and start CUPS (emerge cups on gentoo, apt-get install cups on Debian, or the equivalent). The project provides a lot of drivers, but it also provides the web interface and a way to share a printer, which, it sounds like, is what you're after. At least in my case I could install CUPS and have things Just Work (tm). If you need more detailed help, you might want to check out this page, although it is fairly dense (which is why CUPS is nice to have in the first place. Hopefully this will help...
CUPS would be the obvious solution, and seems to have what you need (in short, you access the web based administration through port 631 once it is running). There should be packages for most distros out there.
It's only the bottom two that look 'shopped to me, although in that case the fact that every wrinkle on their suits is identical should be a dead giveaway.
Monkeyfilter: Why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
That has been my favorite for as long as I've known about bash.
(Incidentally, for all the geeky monkeys out there, I was first introduced to bash when a cs friend of mine told me to go there, and I was expecting to see something like this. Fortunately, I was mistaken)
Fwiw, I'm on using GAIM. I don't know what the distinction is, but at least for my client I had to set Server to gmail.com but Connect Server to talk.google.com.
(As a side note, this is one of the reasons that some of the geeky among us are excited about this particular IM service: They actually used *gasp* an open protocol, so that 3rd party clients don't have to rely on reverse engineering)
MCT: Very wise of you. As far as I can tell (BS in biology, currently in grad school), there is certainly a degree of bullshit here. To the best of my knowledge the overall potential of embryonic and adult stem cell lines is identical (and the promise is strong enough that we certainly should be pursuing research here), BUT: There are a couple of additional hurdles that need to be passed before adult stem cells become as useful as embryonic stem cells: Returning those cells to a fully undifferentiated state (we've taken a baby step on this but there's still a long long way to go) and dealing with the additional wear and tear present in adult cells. So, to answer your question, we can get the same thing out of either of these cell classes, but the adult stem cells will take more work to get to the same place. Note that adult stem cell technology would have the sole advantage of allowing perfect tissue matches to people born before we find a good way to save stem cells from people as they're born, but it's unclear how much of an issue this will be once we have the technology to actually use stem cells; this seems like more of a derivative problem to me.
(Any additions or corrections to this or welcome; like I said, BS in bio and I try to keep up with interesting research, but this isn't near my specialty)
I think that putting the responsibility for the misuse of technology on science may be missing the point. Science, and the innovations it creates, are just tools. With very few exceptions (like grey goo scenarios), it takes someone misusing a technology to make it bad; even an atomic bomb doesn't kill anybody sitting in storage. It seems to me that much more important than worrying about what those scientists are doing is working as a society to develop the ethical framework necessary for dealing with increasingly powerful technologies. Because, unless people across the world start actively slowling the progress of science (which seems to me rather counterproductive), technology is going to continue to advance, and we're going to have increasing numbers of ways to do terrible things, and what we need to do as a society is find a good way to deal with this capability, rather than simply worry about its existence (and, in the process, turn the scientists who might have some useful things to say about the use of such technologies into scapegoats).
(And yes, Mr. Knickerbocker, trying to balance profit motives with scientific ethics is something that will take some work...)
When I was 3, my parents went out to a sorta-nice restaurant and brought me along. Well, there was live music, and apparently I jumped right up on stage and started dancing. I guess it sorta foreshadowed me getting into theater in high school...
MJ, with regards to why the kid wouldn't grow even in response to HGH... I haven't seen all the test results that they've done, but there's probably some flaw in one of the pathways that leads from receiving hormones on the cell surface to where it gets to the nucleus and actually exerts an effect; this could have happened for HGH or some other necessary growth factor. It's amazing how many ways the human body can go wrong because of how complicated the systems it relies on are; in general a flaw this bad would probably cause a miscarriage or stillbirth, but every once in a while you see a baby survive with some sort of mutation thought to be incompatible with life.
Anyway, my money's on this kid having a below normal to normal life span; just, never maturing.
I had seen this elsewhere; it sounded legit, but what they left out here is that the baby/kid has had some serious health problems (described in the Telegraph link); doesn't sound like a fountain of youth type thing.
I can't believe no one mentioned this yet. On a more serious note, the McArthur foundation makes annual awards to people at the forefront of their respective fields that is popularly known as the "Genius grant"; you can find information on (and recipients of) this award here. "Genius" is a pretty loaded term and very open to interpretation, so programs like that are as good a place as any to get started looking.
posted by mahoukenshi 18 years ago
In "OMFG!"
scartol: The benefit is that it is an open format, which means everyone knows how to read and write it. The .doc format, in contrast, is only known to Microsoft, and everyone else has to figure it out through trial and error (If I were in a snarky mood, I'd say Word does too ;-) This isn't a big deal in a world where everyone uses MS Word, but becomes problematic if you'd like to have a little competition in the office suite world.
posted by mahoukenshi 18 years ago
In "Curious, George: Linux Printing Software"
Ah, yeah, sorry for leading you on the wrong track there; I had misinterpreted and thought you wanted to use an already-up-and-running linux machine as a print server. I'll third the recommendation for a standalone solution like the Belkin; I'm currently unaware of any easily bootable print server solution. As loto said, it's very possible to go the full install linux route (and a good way to learn about it), but that's certainly not the easy way.
posted by mahoukenshi 18 years ago
In "OMFG!"
That's the catch. The manual says it should load by the time your NEXT carton of milk spoils.
posted by mahoukenshi 18 years ago
Given the state of my refrigerator, that means OO.o 2.0 should be out 3 days ago. w00t! Where's my download?
posted by mahoukenshi 18 years ago
In "Curious, George: Linux Printing Software"
(And, to clarify, are you looking to tack on a print server to a machine already running linux, or are you looking for a one-shot solution to turn an old machine INTO a networked print host)
posted by mahoukenshi 18 years ago
No offense taken -- I didn't know exactly what you were shooting for. That being said, is there any particular reason you're looking for a linux solution for this? That's a pretty little piece of hardware techsmith...
posted by mahoukenshi 18 years ago
Sure thing. From my install: Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 This should be accessible after you install and start CUPS (emerge cups on gentoo, apt-get install cups on Debian, or the equivalent). The project provides a lot of drivers, but it also provides the web interface and a way to share a printer, which, it sounds like, is what you're after. At least in my case I could install CUPS and have things Just Work (tm). If you need more detailed help, you might want to check out this page, although it is fairly dense (which is why CUPS is nice to have in the first place. Hopefully this will help...
posted by mahoukenshi 18 years ago
CUPS would be the obvious solution, and seems to have what you need (in short, you access the web based administration through port 631 once it is running). There should be packages for most distros out there.
posted by mahoukenshi 18 years ago
In "Congratulations to China on the successful launch of their 2nd manned space flight:"
It's only the bottom two that look 'shopped to me, although in that case the fact that every wrinkle on their suits is identical should be a dead giveaway.
posted by mahoukenshi 18 years ago
In "Quotes from IRC conversations."
Monkeyfilter: Why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? That has been my favorite for as long as I've known about bash. (Incidentally, for all the geeky monkeys out there, I was first introduced to bash when a cs friend of mine told me to go there, and I was expecting to see something like this. Fortunately, I was mistaken)
posted by mahoukenshi 18 years ago
In "Google has launched their IM client, Google Talk. "
Fwiw, I'm on using GAIM. I don't know what the distinction is, but at least for my client I had to set Server to gmail.com but Connect Server to talk.google.com. (As a side note, this is one of the reasons that some of the geeky among us are excited about this particular IM service: They actually used *gasp* an open protocol, so that 3rd party clients don't have to rely on reverse engineering)
posted by mahoukenshi 18 years ago
Monkeyfilter: Anglocentric imperialist conquest of the world's information
posted by mahoukenshi 18 years ago
::drinks with flashboy::
posted by mahoukenshi 18 years ago
In ""
You obviously missed the portion of the Monica Lewinsky hearings about the blue sash. No wonder we don't have one any more. ... ... I'm a bad man
posted by mahoukenshi 18 years ago
In "Curious George: Science Gone Amok?"
MCT: Very wise of you. As far as I can tell (BS in biology, currently in grad school), there is certainly a degree of bullshit here. To the best of my knowledge the overall potential of embryonic and adult stem cell lines is identical (and the promise is strong enough that we certainly should be pursuing research here), BUT: There are a couple of additional hurdles that need to be passed before adult stem cells become as useful as embryonic stem cells: Returning those cells to a fully undifferentiated state (we've taken a baby step on this but there's still a long long way to go) and dealing with the additional wear and tear present in adult cells. So, to answer your question, we can get the same thing out of either of these cell classes, but the adult stem cells will take more work to get to the same place. Note that adult stem cell technology would have the sole advantage of allowing perfect tissue matches to people born before we find a good way to save stem cells from people as they're born, but it's unclear how much of an issue this will be once we have the technology to actually use stem cells; this seems like more of a derivative problem to me. (Any additions or corrections to this or welcome; like I said, BS in bio and I try to keep up with interesting research, but this isn't near my specialty)
posted by mahoukenshi 18 years ago
I think that putting the responsibility for the misuse of technology on science may be missing the point. Science, and the innovations it creates, are just tools. With very few exceptions (like grey goo scenarios), it takes someone misusing a technology to make it bad; even an atomic bomb doesn't kill anybody sitting in storage. It seems to me that much more important than worrying about what those scientists are doing is working as a society to develop the ethical framework necessary for dealing with increasingly powerful technologies. Because, unless people across the world start actively slowling the progress of science (which seems to me rather counterproductive), technology is going to continue to advance, and we're going to have increasing numbers of ways to do terrible things, and what we need to do as a society is find a good way to deal with this capability, rather than simply worry about its existence (and, in the process, turn the scientists who might have some useful things to say about the use of such technologies into scapegoats). (And yes, Mr. Knickerbocker, trying to balance profit motives with scientific ethics is something that will take some work...)
posted by mahoukenshi 18 years ago
In "Sir (or ma'am), you're making a scene."
When I was 3, my parents went out to a sorta-nice restaurant and brought me along. Well, there was live music, and apparently I jumped right up on stage and started dancing. I guess it sorta foreshadowed me getting into theater in high school...
posted by mahoukenshi 18 years ago
In "Twelve-year-old Baby Confuses the Hell Out of Everyone "
MJ, with regards to why the kid wouldn't grow even in response to HGH... I haven't seen all the test results that they've done, but there's probably some flaw in one of the pathways that leads from receiving hormones on the cell surface to where it gets to the nucleus and actually exerts an effect; this could have happened for HGH or some other necessary growth factor. It's amazing how many ways the human body can go wrong because of how complicated the systems it relies on are; in general a flaw this bad would probably cause a miscarriage or stillbirth, but every once in a while you see a baby survive with some sort of mutation thought to be incompatible with life. Anyway, my money's on this kid having a below normal to normal life span; just, never maturing.
posted by mahoukenshi 18 years ago
I had seen this elsewhere; it sounded legit, but what they left out here is that the baby/kid has had some serious health problems (described in the Telegraph link); doesn't sound like a fountain of youth type thing.
posted by mahoukenshi 18 years ago
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