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Comment Re:Why? (Score 2) 387

Yes but why are they supposed to do that, what value does that give. Knowing how to get the information you need to accurately understand and answer the question is a very important skill to learn. If you use it regularly then you will remember it, if you don't use it regularly then you can't being able to quickly research and understand things is a very important skill.
Biotech

Synthetic Genome Drives Bacterial Cell 174

Dr. Eggman writes "Physorg.com brings us news of a synthetic genome, produced by the J. Craig Venter Institute, being used in an existing bacterial cell for the first time. Using a combination of biological hosts, the technique produces short strings of DNA by machine which are then inserted into yeast to be stitched together via DNA-repair enzymes. The medium sequences are passed into E. coli and back into yeast. After three rounds, a genome of three million base pairs was produced." (More below.)
Science

Submission + - First Synthetic Cell Created (wsj.com)

aoshi73 writes: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the first completely synthetic cell has been created. Here is an excerpt:

"Heralding a new era in biology, scientists for the first time have created a synthetic cell, completely controlled by man-made genetic instructions, which can survive and reproduce itself, researchers at the private J. Craig Venter Institute announced Thursday."

Comment Depends on your contract... (Score 1) 735

... and the terms you agreed to when you took the job. The usual deal is that being on call is covered by your salary but if you actually get called out you get more paid for it, usually a standard fee per call rather than an hourly rate. There is usually an on call rota as well so you are not on call 24/7.

Comment Re:wow, a whole million? (Score 1) 773

Sorry but this is not true, you can be specific about which robots you want to exclude. More importantly google chooses to respect robots.txt and noindex meta tags, if it decided it was in its interest not to respect them - either at all or just for the sites that did the deal - then there is precisely nothing anyone could do about it.

Comment Re:wow, a whole million? (Score 1) 773

The thing is though if the top 1000 sites used robots.txt and the noindex meta tag to remove themselves from google, then google could just ignore robots.txt and the noindex meta tag for the top 1000 sites and index them anyway. Ultimately if the site is publicly accessible then google can index it and there is nothing anybody could do about it.

Comment Re:US vs UK... (Score 1) 1174

The circuit breakers in my house are 30 amps, they protect against current overload in the wiring in my house. The fuses in my plugs are between 3 and 13 amps (as appropriate to the particular appliance) they protect against circuit overload in the appliance and associated wiring. This is not redundancy it is 2 different fuses/breakers that serve totally different purposes.

Comment Put all projects together (Score 1) 103

Most tech cvs/resumes i have seen list the various projects worked on in the career history section. If you wanted to include open source projects that don't relate to a specific job then you could have a cut down career history section with just an explanation of each job and then split out the projects into a seperate section. You could then just put a reference with each project to say which job or open source project it related to. That way your commercial work and open source work get equal precedence and you don't have to relegate your open source projects to their own little ghetto.

Comment Insert (Score 1) 939

Insert is not only useless it is actually irritating that it exists. I always want to type text in insert mode and never in overwrite mode. If I want to overwrite some text i will highlight it first. The only time i am ever in overwrite mode is by accidentally hitting the insert key. A colleague of mine has even gone so far as to prize the key off his keyboard cos he i so fed up of hitting it accedentally.

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