DNA, Fifty Years To the Day

An anonymous reader writes "Today being the fiftieth anniversary (April 2, 1953) of the Watson-Crick double-helical, DNA discovery [to quote, 'We wish to put forward a radically different structure...'], there is an interesting tally of completed gene sequences here, and ones still being worked, including the Ames strain of the anthrax bacteria. It also appears that the only lifeforms not using DNA for code storage are a few viruses like the common cold."

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anotehr cahnce at fp

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Re:anotehr cahnce at fp

[Anonymous Coward]

It is official; Netcraft confirms: *bsa is dying

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered *bsa community when IDC confirmed that *bsa market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that *bsa has lost more market share, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. *bsa is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last [samag.com] in the recent Sys Admin comprehensive networking test.

You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict *bsa's future. The hand writing is on the wall: *bsa faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for *bsa because *bsa is dying. Things are looking very bad for *bsa. As many of us are already aware, *bsa continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.

Freebsa is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Freebsa developers Jordan Hubbard and Mike Smith only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Freebsa is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Openbsa leader Theo states that there are 7000 users of Openbsa. How many users of Netbsa are there? Let's see. The number of Openbsa versus Netbsa posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 5 to 1. Therefore there are about 7000/5 = 1400 Netbsa users. bsa/OS posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of Netbsa posts. Therefore there are about 700 users of bsa/OS. A recent article put Freebsa at about 80 percent of the *bsa market. Therefore there are (7000+1400+700)*4 = 36400 Freebsa users. This is consistent with the number of Freebsa Usenet posts.

Due to the troubles of Walnut Creek, abysmal sales and so on, Freebsa went out of business and was taken over by bsaI who sell another troubled OS. Now bsaI is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

All major surveys show that *bsa has steadily declined in market share. *bsa is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If *bsa is to survive at all it will be among OS dilettante dabblers. *bsa continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, *bsa is dead.

Fact: *bsa is dying

FAILURE begets to become one of you

[bombkit]

you know its true

moron counting the daze

[Anonymous Coward]

Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
'Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

"Fools", said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls"
And whispered in the sounds of silence

Douglas Adams

[bjtuna]

Interestingly enough, Douglas N. Adams (DNA) of Hitchhikers' Guide fame, was also born in 1952 (March, not April).

Re:Bake a Cake

[Overly Critical Guy]

Captain! Reroute power to something! Repeat for decades!

Re:Rosalind Franklin

[Anonymous Coward]

April fool!