Comment Japanese did it! (Score 1) 900
( 理科離れ <p> <--- whaat? no unicode in slashdot comments?)
http://www.google.com/search?q="rika+banare" (heh... wikipedia only suggests "rika banana")
( 理科離れ <p> <--- whaat? no unicode in slashdot comments?)
http://www.google.com/search?q="rika+banare" (heh... wikipedia only suggests "rika banana")
As a broader hey-you-kids-get-off-my-lawn polemic: folks that fancy themselves as techies (most slashdot commentors?) would do themselves a favor in education not to become so rigidly married to GUIs. GUIs are handy for a specific class of tasks typically involving many choices taken from relatively small sets; but in the background they're essentially, often actually, performing what a single line of "Ugh" command-line would do.
git clone git://git.xmms.se/xmms2/xmms2-devel.git
compiles easily. and it's only heard not seen. it does exactly what a music player ought to do and no more.
blessings upon the maintainers.
grep -ir "amazon" * | wc -l
in the amarok 2.5 source tree?
next-up: Fat cat CEO doesn't like bothering to fire or hire people. why-oh-why do people fear/hate the HR department?
(http://www.etymonline.com/ plasma 1712, "form, shape" (earlier plasm, 1620), from L.L. plasma, from Gk. plasma "something molded or created," from plassein "to mold," originally "to spread thin," from PIE *plath-yein, from base *pele- "flat, to spread" (see plane (1)). Sense of "liquid part of blood" is from 1845; that of "ionized gas" is 1928)
Q: Oh yeah? You want to review your rapid progress?
Q: Rapid progress, to where humans learned to control their military with drugs.
a team of chemical engineers at the University of California, Santa Barbara have defined an equation that measures a compound's hydrophobic character. It's the first such equation of its kind.
Perhaps there's an escape via language lawyerism via "of its kind" but for decades there has been software to estimate the hydrophobicity of small molecules and (relying on even more approximations) proteins. Underlying that software are scores of "equations" that use tables of atomic and molecular fragment parameters of electronegativity and polarizability to calculate 'not bad' estimates of molecular hydrophobicity.
And while i'll quibble about "the first such equation"; i really think most folks should quibble over "defined an equation that measures", people armed with instruments "measure", equations 'calculate an estimate'. ok, now: hey you kids get off my lawn!
Work is the crab grass in the lawn of life. -- Schulz