pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=493851f7796c7a3400e7ad29maxX=300maxY=422" border="0" alt="qilu.jpg" title="qilu.jpg" width="300" height="422" /We'll just admit it: We know nothing about the man. So, Yahoos, we'd be grateful for your input./p pHere's what we do know: Fixing Microsoft's Internet business is going to require one hell of a talent. Not because there aren't worthwhile assets there, and not because Microsoft lacks resources or conviction. Just because Microsoft has had 13 years to get its Internet act together, and it has failed to do it, and we just don't see what is likely to change now. We also know that this is not even remotely about "technology./p pSpecifically, Dr. Lu is going to have to deal with the following:/p ul listrongMission./strong Microsoft has about a dozen different Internet businesses: search, display, ad network, portal, email, online apps, messaging, etc. It needs to have emone/em. This is going to require a major structural re-org--all accomplished without offending the REAL power bases at Microsoft, the Windows and Office guys (see below.) It's also going to require a brutal evaluation of where Microsoft can compete and where it can't and why./li listrongBranding. /strong "Microsoft's Internet business" just isn't going to cut it. Neither is the grab-bag of brands Microsoft has collected over the years, the existence of each of which appears to be an attempt to come up with something cool without offending one or another of the many other constituencies and brands within the Microsoft empire. Microsoft's Internet business needs ONE BRAND. Now. /li listrongPolitics. /strong At Microsoft, the Internet business will always play third banana to Windows and Office (and Steve Ballmer would be an idiot to run the company any other way). We assume that means that every time Dr. Lu does something that might annoy or threaten the Windows or Office guys, he's going to have to get permission first. That is REALLY annoying. And it's going to take a special kind of individual who can build a real business out of all these parts without being driven mad in the process./li listrongProfits/strong. After 13 years of online striving, Microsoft's Internet business is still burning billions of dollars a year. Even clobbered AOL is making money. If Microsoft's Internet business is ever to be a real business, Microsoft has to fix this. That's going to be no easy task./li /ul pSo is the good Doctor a Superman? We hope so. If not, he's just going to be the latest in a long line of Microsoft Internet honchos who have moved pieces around the board without ever really accomplishing anything./p pYahoo colleagues, we need to hear from you. Does he have what it takes? Please enlighten us!/p pstrongSee Also: /stronga href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/meet-microsofts-new-digital-head-qi-lu-msft"Meet Microsoft's New Digital Head: Qi Lu/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/8Prl7aK8863ZaK_gyxjeIfLwIBw/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/8Prl7aK8863ZaK_gyxjeIfLwIBw/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=3whZ6eJY"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=3whZ6eJY" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=IDXdau2S"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=ZvWWFx6X"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=gR7yFBWR"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=gR7yFBWR" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=0fXiW464"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=jTcDiF1s"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=PImFWcsU"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=eTK4fM63"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/pLlYijvQmyw" height="1" width="1"/

Our evaluation of the ASUS M3A78-T motherboard sporting the new 790GX chipset is online today for your viewing pleasure. If you are an overclocker with an older Athlon 64 X2 processor, this board might be what you are looking for.

If you are about to buy a new AMD motherboard, this one showed great overclocking prowess on the front side for older Athlon X2s. Maybe we will see the same with Phenom II CPUs.

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Le projet national « coopération interinstitutionnelle » (CII-MAMAC) doit être soumis à une évaluation d'ensemble afin de déterminer dans quelle ...

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Les sciences humaines et sociales sont souvent attaquées sur l'opacité de leurs objets d'étude, de leurs pratiques et de leurs résultats. En réalité, elles pâtissent seulement d'une insuffisance de visibilité, due à l'absence d'outil performant de mesure et de caractérisation. Ainsi, la base de données commerciale Web of Sciences (WOS), référent bibliométrique en science de la matière et de la vie, est notoirement inadaptée pour les sciences humaines et sociales du fait de sa couverture bibliographique très limitée. La mise au point d'un outil opérationnel et normalisé de caractérisation et de quantification des activités des chercheurs SHS s'impose donc comme une transparence nécessaire et une réponse indispensable aux critiques. Elle relève aussi de la responsabilité du CNRS. C'est pourquoi le conseil scientifique de département SHS et le département SHS du CNRS ont pris en charge ce travail, qui devra déboucher sur un observatoire des pratiques de recherche. Descriptif du projet Le projet concerne l'ensemble des sciences humaines et sociales du CNRS qui, pour être étudié, nécessite une base de données. Or un outil de ce type existe déjà. C'est la fiche CRAC « Compte rendu annuel d'activité des chercheurs du CNRS » (déclaration des activités des chercheurs). Nous nous en sommes saisie et, afin qu'elle soit apte à constituer un outil pertinent d'analyse des SHS, en avons entièrement révisé le contenu. Contrairement aux usages actuels de la bibliométrie, c'est toute l'activité des chercheurs qui est considérée, avec l'idée de systématiser les informations recueillies à un niveau collectif. Outils employés, compétences et profils des chercheurs sont également intégrés. Le travail a consisté à : 1 - Redéfinir les rubriques de la fiche existante et en ajouter (par exemple, compétences individuelles, activités éditoriales, production de données - terrain, enquêtes, dépouillement d'archives -, productions multimédias). 2 - Elaborer une typologie nouvelle et normée des activités des chercheurs pour chaque rubrique (publications, activités de transfert et valorisation, responsabilités collectives, etc.). 3 - Standardiser et contrôler la saisie des données afin qu'elles soient exploitables (listes d'autorité et contrôle des correspondances des informations descriptives et quantitatives). 4 – Favoriser l'ergonomie et la rapidité de saisie des informations (cases à cocher, listes fermées de mots clés). Les principes fondateurs du nouvel outil sont : simplicité, clarté, représentativité, comparabilité des informations, allègement de la tâche de saisie des chercheurs et amélioration de la lisibilité du document-support d'évaluation. Le degré de finesse des descripteurs est un problème central de ce travail. Nous avons privilégié un niveau de critères médian, ni trop général ni trop fin, afin d'extraire des informations significatives qui permettent à leur tour d'élaborer des indicateurs généraux comme spécifiques. Repenser les supports d'évaluation et alléger les tâches Trois mesures ont été pensées pour alléger le coût et l'énergie investis dans l'évaluation. 1) La nouvelle fiche pourrait devenir le document de référence unique pour toutes les disciplines SHS. 2) Elle pourrait aussi bien servir de support d'évaluation individuelle que collective. Insistons sur son caractère de comparabilité, qui permet de faire des évaluations bien plus pertinentes. 3) La mesure d'un an d'activités n'est pas adaptée au temps de la recherche. Aussi, la nouvelle fiche pourrait-elle être remplie tous les deux ans et remplacer le rapport d'activité rédigé à deux ans. De même, pour le rapport à 4 ans, la nouvelle fiche pourrait être complétée par une bibliographie complète et un programme de recherche. Quant au CRAC, sous sa forme actuelle, nous proposons de le supprimer. Un observatoire des pratiques de recherche des SHS au CNRS L'ambition est de constituer une véritable base de connaissance des pratiques de recherche et de travail des chercheurs en SHS au CNRS, qui puisse servir d'outil de référence et d'évaluation. Ainsi, l'interrogation de la base permettra-t-elle de : 1) Fournir, en temps réel, des études normalisées qui donnent un panorama régulier des activités des chercheurs. Par exemple : - Une analyse des publications (nombre d'articles, nombre d'ouvrages, nature des revues, pays d'éditions, langue de publication, supports de publication). - Une analyse des collaborations (institutions, nature, nombre) et des pratiques et des activités par champ disciplinaire. - Une analyse des activités de valorisation, du nombre de chercheurs qui dirigent une revue internationale ou nationale. 2) Fournir des indicateurs à la demande pour les directions scientifiques, les conseils scientifiques ou stratégiques, le comité national ou la direction générale. 3) Définir des objets d'études comme par exemple, les expertises et les spécialités des chercheurs SHS, la notion de pluridisciplinarité, sa mise en oeuvre et ses modalités pratiques (avec quel organisme ou université, quelle discipline avec quelle(s) autre(s), quel type d'outil utilisé, quels programmes). 4) Fournir des études à la demande sur une question précise qui intéressent les décideurs pour la prospective. 5) Effectuer une veille des pratiques d'évaluation internationale. Pour fonctionner, l'observatoire devra comporter un minimum de deux personnes ayant une connaissance solide de l'organisation et des pratiques de la recherche en SHS. Au service du nouvel institut et de ses instances scientifiques, il devra préserver sa neutralité et être autonome. Le document complet est consultable sur le web à l'adresse suivante : http://www.cnrs.fr/shs/recherche/evaluation-production-scientifique/fichiers/Classement_des_publications.pdf

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Summary: SPOCTOPUS is a method for combined prediction of signal peptides and membrane protein topology, suitable for genome-scale studies. Its objective is to minimize false predictions of transmembrane regions as signal peptides and vice versa. We provide a description of the SPOCTOPUS algorithm together with a performance evaluation where SPOCTOPUS compares favorably with state-of-the-art methods for signal peptide and topology predictions.

Availability: SPOCTOPUS is available as a web server and both the source code and benchmark data are available for download at http://octopus.cbr.su.se/

Contact: arne@bioinfo.se

Supplementary information: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Summary: BioCaster is an ontology-based text mining system for detecting and tracking the distribution of infectious disease outbreaks from linguistic signals on the Web. The system continuously analyzes documents reported from over 1700 RSS feeds, classifies them for topical relevance and plots them onto a Google map using geocoded information. The background knowledge for bridging the gap between Layman's terms and formal-coding systems is contained in the freely available BioCaster ontology which includes information in eight languages focused on the epidemiological role of pathogens as well as geographical locations with their latitudes/longitudes. The system consists of four main stages: topic classification, named entity recognition (NER), disease/location detection and event recognition. Higher order event analysis is used to detect more precisely specified warning signals that can then be notified to registered users via email alerts. Evaluation of the system for topic recognition and entity identification is conducted on a gold standard corpus of annotated news articles.

Availability: The BioCaster map and ontology are freely available via a web portal at http://www.biocaster.org.

Contact: collier@nii.ac.jp

If you only read one power supply review all day, make sure it is our evaluation of the Tagan BZ 1300W PSU. Trust us, you (and your wallet) will be glad you did.

If I paid $400 for this kind of workmanship I would be less than happy. I have no idea who QC'd these units but there is no way soldering and component placement should ever be this bad and given that kind of construction I am not really that surprised this unit failed our testing, although I am surprised there were no shorts or cold joints in these units.

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THE GLORY OF THE OBVIOUS

Romans IV

INTRODUCTION:

God the Father is prominent in the first three chapters of Romans. God the Son figures largely from the middle of three to the end of five. And then the Holy Spirit is central from chapters five through eight. We have the wrath of the Father, the propitiation of the Son, and the liberating deliverance of the Spirit. Remember that all three persons of the Trinity are working in harmony together, and that they are not trying to balance one another by leaning in opposite directions. So as we work through the first part of the book of Romans, let us remember that God reveals Himself in His Word, and not just in His creation.

THE TEXT:

"For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen" (Rom. 1:18-25).

 

SUMMARY OF THE TEXT:

In this passage, Paul outlines what the wrath of God is directed against, which is all ungodliness and unrighteousness (v. 18). He also reveals to us the way God's wrath functions (v. 24). Men in rebellion suppress the truth in unrighteousness, holding it under (v. 18). Paul is explicit that men sin against light. God has shown to man what is manifestly truth about Him. He has shown it to them and in them (v. 19). How did God do this? God's invisible characteristics are understood by inference from the things that are made (v. 20). Specifically, Paul means God's eternal power and Godhead, and this means that men are without excuse in their rejection of Him (v. 20). This is because they started from a position of knowing God (v. 21), but then refused to do two things. They refused to acknowledge the Godness of God, refusing to glorify Him as God (v. 21), and they refused to be thankful (v. 21). As a result, their imagination veered into vanity, and their foolish hearts were darkened (v. 21). Of course, this was not their perspective on what was happening (v. 22). As they became increasingly foolish, they puffed themselves up as wise. The glory of the incorruptible God that they refused to glorify was changed (in their imagination only) into images of corruptible creatures, like man, birds, quadrapeds, and creeping things (v. 23). Therefore God let them go, giving them up to uncleanness in the lusts of their hearts and the dishonoring of their bodies (v. 24). This is what happens to those who swap the truth of God for a lie (v. 25), and who worship and serve the creature more than the Creator--the one who is forever blessed (v. 25). Amen.

THE WRATH OF THE FATHER:

We are accustomed to think that the wrath of God comes on men for their sins. We sin in history, and the wrath of God comes at the end of history. This is certainly true (see v. 32), but it is not the entire truth. The Bible not only teaches that sin brings the wrath of God, but that in an important sense, sin is the wrath of God. In this passage, the wrath of God is revealed against sin (v. 18). But how is it revealed (v. 24)? When God "lets go" that is a form of His wrath. When He takes away His restraining hand, the pit of evil that we fall into is a consequence of His anger, and not just an occasional for additional anger later. We see the same principle elsewhere in Scripture. "The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein" (Prov. 22:14). This adultery is not just something that God will judge; it is a judgment in its own right. Sodom was judged, therefore, before the fire fell, and America is under judgment as we speak. The mercy of God is when we say to God, "Thy will be done." The wrath of God is when He says to us, "No, no, thy will be done."

SUPPRESSION, SUBSTITUTION, SUBVERSION:

The sin starts with rebellion and ingratitude. That is the first step. God takes our heads in both His hands, and points our head towards the greatness of His glory. We refuse to look because to do so would obligate us. We take the greatness of His glory and thrust it away from us, holding it under, suppressing it.The second stage is to substitute something else in place of God--images of men, or birds, or beasts, or crawling things. The final stage of judgment (remember, this is the wrath of God) is subversion. The glory of God in the image of God (man) is still too clear, and so that image must be dishonored. That dishonor takes the form of homosexual practices. This is not something where we can agree to differ. It is not that we believe such practices are dishonoring, while they believe it is honoring. They know it is dishonoring and degrading also--that is the whole point.

REALITY AND IMAGE:

You cannot dishonor the glory of God in the Godhead, and then sustain honor for the image of God in man. Incidentally, Godhead is not related to the word head, but rather from the Middle English hed to our word hood. So this word refers to the Godness of God, the Godhood of God, the divine nature of God.

This means, among other things, that apart from Christ human rights is an incoherent concept. If you hate the person, you won't honor their picture. If your whole orientation is a rejection of the goodness of God, then what are you going to do with the reflection of that goodness that is found in the human body? You are going to figure out ways to degrade it, and unnatural sex acts are one of the most obvious ways to accomplish that kind of degradation.

WHAT EVERYBODY KNOWS:

Never undertake to prove what everybody knows already. When you are in discussions with the office atheist, or with the radical secularist in your family at the Christmas reunion, do not accept their invitation to step into a neutral place from which you can prove to them that God exists. For to do so grants legitimacy to the heart of their rebellion--you have acknowledged that he really does not know, and that he would really like to know. He is holding an overinflated beach ball underwater, and has been doing it so long that his arms are quivering, and he invites you to accept the challenge of proving to his satisfaction that beach balls in fact do exist. He is terribly interested, and wants nothing more than to know the truth.

Remember that he professes that what he is doing is wise (v. 22). But God's evaluation is different (v. 22). They say they want nothing other than respect, mutual affirmation, an elimination of hate crimes, and all the rest of it. God calls it the dishonoring of one another.

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