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It's more income. So ... more taxes. Think of it like the grocery bag tax in the affluent suburbs. We do need more "investment" in schools ... so this is a win for society, right?

Serious biologists were very skeptical from the start : http://omicsomics.blogspot.com/2010/12/arsenic-and-new-micro...

Soon, there were lots of questions : http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/06/01/return_of_th...

I'm thinking NASA is good at space exploration, not so good at biology.

Sadly, it's called HTML5 : DOM + javascript + CSS + AJAX Google and Apple and Microsoft have locked things down pretty good, otherwise. The best portable application appears to be Mozilla compatible.

Many are not working because they're unemployed: http://www.google.com/search?&q=U.S.+real+unemployment+r...

I'm guessing the down moderators are missing the irony here. I'll spell it out: why is sql server an essential system service on Windows? WTHeck?

Porting to unix? How about the other way: turning it OFF on windows?

sigh

Intel Fortran vs gcc ???

How about Intel Fortran vs. Intel C ? How about gcc C vs. gcc Fortran ?

Hyper-optimized compiler for Intel architecture beats compiler designed to be portable to many, many target architectures? Not very shocking.

digg:2008::twitter:2012

The Great State of Twitterbraska is not on the Republican primary schedule, though.

Having a lightweight, standalone executable with quick start up time is still a major win.

Here's the "experts" talking about the announcement ...

seqnanswers thread : http://seqanswers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=16709

Just how good this piece of equipment is unknown. Regardless, the race to the $1K genome may be in the final lap.

Illumina is their main competitor. Looks like ILMN stock took a hit but recovered quickly : http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?s=ILMN+Basic+Chart&t=5d , so I guess the market is unconvinced.

Funniest Intel fake I ever saw this: Intel had a demo booth at at computer covention where they ... ta da ... were demonstrating the latest whatever. I peered inside the computers and had a good chuckle. This was obviously run by the marketing guys on the cheap because the "intel inside" ... was actually and AMD chip.

Dang. I hate these boys vs girls articles that cite testing at 8th grade. How about after puberty? That's when the boys start to really shine in math.