Re: Bug#361418: Debian menu and the Apps/Science section
[not replying to the bug to avoid surcharging it.]
Le Mon, May 15, 2006 at 06:42:06AM +0200, Francesco Pietra a écrit :
> Mathematics
> Physics
> Biology
> Medicine
>
> Maybe I am overlooking one or two important "cuts". Suggest. These sections
> allow interdisciplinary contacts. Today, more perhaps than ever, it is hard
> to do good science that is not interdisciplinary. The more you cut into
> pieces, the more you isolate scientists because, for economy reasons, one
> tends to scan only his specialized section.
>
> These are my ideas of an university organic chemist with parallel education
> in biological sciences. In particular, i am against "tasks" with respect
> to "disciplines". Tasks change with small changes in the society. Disciplines
> are for a long time a reference point.
Dear Francesco,
I am just reading a paper in which researcher designed a microfluidic
chip to analyse the gene expression in isolited cells. Typically, they
may have used programs from :
- Engeneering/Electronics, to design the chip.
- Science/Biology, to deal with the sequence-specifig gene expression analysis.
- Mathematics, to plot the results.
Would not it be better with
- Science/Vectorial design (for sure, there must be a better name)
- Science/Sequence analysis
- Science/Data plotting
I agree that the concept of task is somehow volatile, but if the name of
the task has an obvious meaning in the present, is the volatility really
a problem ? I think that having tasks avoids the "economic scanning" you
described in your mail: people will have an unbiased toolbox instead of
havin the tools scattered in boxes with "not for you" subliminal
stickers.
PS: I could not figure out whether it is allowed for a program to appear
more than once in the menu.
Best regards,
--
Charles Plessy
Wako, Saitama, Japan
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