Nature Publishes a "Post-Gutenberg" Electronic Text

lpress writes "Most of today's electronic textbooks are re-purposed versions of print books. Nature has published an e-text that departs from the traditional book format and business model. Their Introduction to Biology e-text was created from the ground up and consists of 196 modules rather than a sequential book and the student gets a lifetime subscription for $49. Nature will continuously update the e-text as the science and pedagogy evolve."

Biology question

[rev0lt]

Does a biology textbook evolve?

Finally!

[Sloppy]

Someone has finally invented the website.

Re:First question

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Not directly: Just as bare-metal VM hosts run hypervisors, rather than Linux directly, bare-metal shelves run an embedded Stress Allocation Geometry engine, rather than an OS.

If you want to run linux, you need to provision your shelves with one or more "Physical Machines", according to the requirements of your operation. Just be sure to observe caution: If you don't load balance your shelves correctly, all the PMs on a given shelf can end up crashing simultaneously. Also, if you exceed the provisioning constraints embedded by the vendor in your shelves' SAG parameter tables, you risk permanent damage to the shelves and the possible crash of some PMs on the over-provisioned shelves.

Delivering Linux services with a shelf-based architecture can be complex and challenging; but it is possible. For home/home office purposes, IKEA has some great whitepapers.

Re:Biology question

[thegarbz]

Unlike most textbooks this one was "Intelligently Designed"

Re:First question

[s4m7]

Yo dawg I heard you like memes in your memes, so in soviet russia zombie linux badgers imagine a beowulf cluster of you, you insensitive clod! But, does it blend?