Projection Alarm Clocks

13 Comments

1. MegAn 2 dA FoX
   Posted August 14, 2010 at 9:46 am | Permalink

   go the downloads on the mac site. there are a lot of free programs noob.

2. mndoci
   Posted August 15, 2010 at 4:11 am | Permalink

   Couldn’t agree more. The sad thing is, that was the case 10 years ago too. Now, it’s just magnified. I’ve said it elsewhere, but will repeat it here. The incentive structure for bioinformaticians and scientific software developers needs to change.

3. bigoinie
   Posted September 12, 2010 at 10:50 am | Permalink

   I would say you are quite right not to trust DuPont [I used to work for the scumbags]. Not all of the managers there are swine, just a high enough fraction that you need to watch out.
   However, a patent MUST list the name of the inventor or it is invalid, and the patent is awarded to the inventor. For example, the patents on Lasik surgery were declared invalid by the courts; the inventor had some crooked partners who tried to cut him out and left his name off the patent. He tried negotiating, but no go, so he got the patent overturned. THis sucked because now he gets nothing, but at least the crooks don't have a patent on his work.

   So if you sent DuPont an idea they couldn't run out and patent it.
   However, if that idea led them to a fruitful line of inquiry, and they discovered something new thereby, that they could patent.

   The devil is in the details; read the fine print, and if you have a useful idea, might be worth chatting with a lawyer before submitting it. Certainly keep a copy.

4. Tino
   Posted September 25, 2010 at 11:17 pm | Permalink

   This is a fun exercise. Lets see. First Firefox:1. Blog post about integrity2. Google maps voter info (I didn’t know about this address and had to test it)3. Massachusetts election info (trial click in map on tab 2)4. List of latest posts in a forum I follow5 – 11. Department of Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, 404 page, and a host of other pages trying to track down a scientific software package that had gone missing.12. IEEEXplore page, leftover from opening a paper.13-16. Discussions and search results of effective mass in solid state physics17. A political blog18. Swedish newspaper about the Assange case.

5. pama
   Posted October 23, 2010 at 10:57 am | Permalink

   In addition to the common excuses that Nick Barnes mentions in his article in Nature, one reason why scientists did not freely provide their code was the fear of potential misuse of their software (since erratic publications using their software could harm their reputation). The common solution to this problem was to impose a barrier to entry by charging a fee. Many of the early examples of complicated scientific software used this

6. bizblogged1
   Posted October 27, 2010 at 8:48 am | Permalink

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7. punker_rocker
   Posted November 2, 2010 at 1:20 am | Permalink

   Whether or not there is scientific consensus over global warming theory depends on what you mean by consensus. if you define consensus as total unanimity among scientists, then no, there's no consensus at all. However, if you define consensus to mean widespread acceptance from the majority of the scientific community, then a consensus about the issue undoubtedly exists.

8. Rebecca Skipper
   Posted November 3, 2010 at 8:15 pm | Permalink

   I should point out that Freedom Scientific has included a text annalyzer which helps speech users find common errors in their documents. I welcome the new ribbon and the chance to use my Braille display as a keyboard occasionally. the ability to script JAWS is nice if you know how to do this, but I agree that we need additional functionality in some applications including popular ebook readers such as MobiPocket, mathematical and scientific software, and business software including Go to Meeting. I'd like the ability to type in Nemeth code and have my work backtranslated into printed math. We need more colaborative efforts between universities, the government, and Freedom Scientific. For example, I'd like to guarantee that every publicly funded job has an accessible workstation or the ability to create such a workstation on demand. Given the variability in workstations used by visually impaired employees, can we expect Freedom Scientific to address every concern without widespread colaboration with all stakeholders including blind users? Remember how Freedom Scientific incorporated ITunes support in later versions of JAWS?In Freedom Scientific's August 2010 FSCast, Freedom Scientific cited how State Farm is using the ResearchIt feature to boost productivity. If software vendors implement accessible design elements in their software more frequently, then our workplaces would be more accessible regardless of the screen reader chosen! I'd like Freedom Scientific to implement a pay-as-you-go plan so that more blind consumers could acquire assistive technologies.

9. bioinformatics - Twitter Search
   Posted November 15, 2010 at 10:29 pm | Permalink

   I am still not convinced software should be funded the same way as research, especially infrastructure software

10. Chris
    Posted November 16, 2010 at 6:24 pm | Permalink

    Hey there Anthony.

    Just wanted to say it's cool that you run some open source OSs like Slackware, I'm kind of proud of you. I've been checking out your links and putting some of the data up on graphs with GNUplot. Have you been using that? Ocatve? OOcalc maybe? I'm interested to know what scientific software you've been using…..

    I'm just glad to see you have a plethora of good things to work with so you can keep up the good work!

11. ddcampayo
    Posted January 14, 2011 at 6:25 am | Permalink

    Scientific software… that's an idea. But, I am thinking about writing something about the real “underdogs” of scientific sofware: simple programs that really help me each day. xmgrace, g3plot, simple scripts in octave, gnuplot, awk.

12. xiaowei
    Posted January 21, 2011 at 1:34 am | Permalink

    from your code, i recognize this blog owner.
    i'm a big fan of your scientific software.
    and thanks for your generic c programming tricks.

13. bigoinie
    Posted May 29, 2011 at 11:10 pm | Permalink

    I would say you are quite right not to trust DuPont [I used to work for the scumbags]. Not all of the managers there are swine, just a high enough fraction that you need to watch out.
    However, a patent MUST list the name of the inventor or it is invalid, and the patent is awarded to the inventor. For example, the patents on Lasik surgery were declared invalid by the courts; the inventor had some crooked partners who tried to cut him out and left his name off the patent. He tried negotiating, but no go, so he got the patent overturned. THis sucked because now he gets nothing, but at least the crooks don't have a patent on his work.

    So if you sent DuPont an idea they couldn't run out and patent it.
    However, if that idea led them to a fruitful line of inquiry, and they discovered something new thereby, that they could patent.

    The devil is in the details; read the fine print, and if you have a useful idea, might be worth chatting with a lawyer before submitting it. Certainly keep a copy.