Multi-threaded programming is not trivial, and can be hellish to debug. If you're referring to the usual Java version which is "Throw a mutex around a functions and your done" then it is not difficult, but when you have to take into account deadlocks then things can get trickier.
As others have mentioned, there are a million services that will retrieve sequences and do a number of analyses on them. However if you don't understand the algorithms and statistics behind the analyses the information is nearly useless. There is already too much of the plug my seqeunce into BLAST and publish what I get back.
>My favorite Netscape bug: The one where Navigator >starts ignoring all left mouse clicks
This is THE show stopper that keeps me using IE on windows. I can't recall if I'd had the problem on Linux. Actually, I find Netscape 4.61 on Linux to be pretty stable. And replying to an email doesn't require netscape to be killed -9. I'm blown away!
> Panasonic/JVC realized peoplen needed longer > recording times, and provided that in VHS.
I thought VHS just had more pr0n since Beta was under tighter control by Sony, so first adopters bought VHS so they didn't have to go to adult theaters. Up until not too long ago, the only money makers on the web were purveyors of peurile pages (pr0n).
Sometimes freedom (and pr0n), can be a key to success.
Any company, governement, or whatever will do what they can to stay in power - or stay profitable. Even if this is at the expense of progress. The saving grace to this situation is that there are dozens working in the name of increasing their profits (and thus advancing progress).
I think your complaints are kind of lame. If you don't like the record companies and the artists they promote, don't listen to them or spend your money on them. No one is stopping you from going to a local club and supporting the bands there.
If you don't like movies, don't see them. If you feel that you society puts such pressure to see these movies that you HAVE to see them go rent it with a few friends and have everyone put in 33 cents.
You can't have it both ways you know - embracing the benefits of mainstream media (glitzy special effects, wide promotion of artists) - without the drawbacks (paying whatever they ask for it).
Try listening to public or college radio and reading a book instead.
Even though I too have my share of illegal MP3s I find a lot of the "reasons" behind it hypocritical.
Hey loser, so now MS can't create a product without people jumping down its throat? And MS's is better than Sun's - it doesn't need a special mousepad to provide tracking.
I never used Dejanews that much so I can't really comment on how much it changed. But I think this indirectly leads to an interesting topic. It would be fairly easy to put your own front end and then go-between parser in front of these engines. Pretty much the "Run your search on other engines" that we see on Yahoo and Google, and the Metasearch type engines (Ask Jeeves etc.). I wonder when we will start seeing lawsuits like the ones that happened when another auction site was providing searches on E-Bay? Would it be illegal for me to slap my own front end on Dejanews? Technologically it seems really straight forward, just a few HTML forms and some Perl scripts to strip ads and useless links returned.
I actually think this also connects to the recent IM wars over buddy lists and what not. I guess these are the intellectual property issues that are only starting to be addressed.
Are you people all idiots? Does it really matter to you if a web site throws a bunch of useless links on the bottom part of their site? If it helps them stay in business and provide a service to us, then all the better. It's not as if you are paying for it. The efficacy of the search hasn't changed any, so it doesn't really matter. You are all a bunch of whiners.
Wouldn't you rather get rich while you're young so then you can spend the rest of your life getting laid, drunk and high, unlike your peers who are slaving away?
> Sounds like they're fooling people into doing > some drudge work for them. Damn corporate trickery!
Whatever. I'm sure you have no idea what a design pattern is. If you ever figure it out, you will realize that this would do just about nothing for AOL, but could benefit anyone working on a large, platform independent project.
>Can you show me some concrete references from >experts in SCSI driver design?
Actually, I seem to remember Alan Cox recently saying on linux-kernel that the SCSI code blows major chunks and need to be completely rewrtten. This shouldn't affect users much though.
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Is this a bit of sarcasm that I am missing?
Multi-threaded programming is not trivial, and can be hellish to debug. If you're referring to the usual Java version which is "Throw a mutex around a functions and your done" then it is not difficult, but when you have to take into account deadlocks then things can get trickier.
As others have mentioned, there are a million services that will retrieve sequences and do a number of analyses on them. However if you don't understand the algorithms and statistics behind the analyses the information is nearly useless. There is already too much of the plug my seqeunce into BLAST and publish what I get back.
Oh sure, home users are going to back up their $200 27GB IDE hard drive on 9GB DATs and then lock them in a safe box across the state line.
With the price of drives these days, it seems like mirroring is a viable strategy for backups. Obviously it won't work for incremental backups though.
>My favorite Netscape bug: The one where Navigator
>starts ignoring all left mouse clicks
This is THE show stopper that keeps me using IE on windows. I can't recall if I'd had the problem on Linux. Actually, I find Netscape 4.61 on Linux to be pretty stable. And replying to an email doesn't require netscape to be killed -9. I'm blown away!
> Panasonic/JVC realized peoplen needed longer
> recording times, and provided that in VHS.
I thought VHS just had more pr0n since Beta was under tighter control by Sony, so first adopters bought VHS so they didn't have to go to adult theaters. Up until not too long ago, the only money makers on the web were purveyors of peurile pages (pr0n).
Sometimes freedom (and pr0n), can be a key to success.
Profits don't impede "progress", monopolies do.
Any company, governement, or whatever will do what they can to stay in power - or stay profitable. Even if this is at the expense of progress. The saving grace to this situation is that there are dozens working in the name of increasing their profits (and thus advancing progress).
Aren't we all using 3D window managers already? I can send windows to the bottom of a stack and view several at once. Sure seems like 3D to me.
But mapping the 2-D image onto a plane is a trivial solution to the problem. Pretty much useless if you ask me. (which nobody did)
A couple of comments:
It was Archimides Plutonium, not Isaac Plutonium, and he was on Usenet. I learned quickly to ignore almost everything posted on sci.*
>First, there were the intellectuals and the perverts.
Let's hear it for the perverts!!!
In Hong Kong the movie industry is suffering greatly because often pirated VCDs of movies are available before the movie is even released in theatres.
Even with computers it will always take money and talent to make a good movie.
I think your complaints are kind of lame. If you don't like the record companies and the artists they promote, don't listen to them or spend your money on them. No one is stopping you from going to a local club and supporting the bands there.
If you don't like movies, don't see them. If you feel that you society puts such pressure to see these movies that you HAVE to see them go rent it with a few friends and have everyone put in 33 cents.
You can't have it both ways you know - embracing the benefits of mainstream media (glitzy special effects, wide promotion of artists) - without the drawbacks (paying whatever they ask for it).
Try listening to public or college radio and reading a book instead.
Even though I too have my share of illegal MP3s I find a lot of the "reasons" behind it hypocritical.
Hey loser, so now MS can't create a product without people jumping down its throat? And MS's is better than Sun's - it doesn't need a special mousepad to provide tracking.
Did someone screw up the moderation here? This comment only contains incorrect guesses. It is definitely not insightful.
I never used Dejanews that much so I can't really comment on how much it changed. But I think this indirectly leads to an interesting topic. It would be fairly easy to put your own front end and then go-between parser in front of these engines. Pretty much the "Run your search on other engines" that we see on Yahoo and Google, and the Metasearch type engines (Ask Jeeves etc.). I wonder when we will start seeing lawsuits like the ones that happened when another auction site was providing searches on E-Bay? Would it be illegal for me to slap my own front end on Dejanews? Technologically it seems really straight forward, just a few HTML forms and some Perl scripts to strip ads and useless links returned.
I actually think this also connects to the recent IM wars over buddy lists and what not. I guess these are the intellectual property issues that are only starting to be addressed.
Are you people all idiots? Does it really matter to you if a web site throws a bunch of useless links on the bottom part of their site? If it helps them stay in business and provide a service to us, then all the better. It's not as if you are paying for it. The efficacy of the search hasn't changed any, so it doesn't really matter. You are all a bunch of whiners.
Wouldn't you rather get rich while you're young so then you can spend the rest of your life getting laid, drunk and high, unlike your peers who are slaving away?
> Sounds like they're fooling people into doing
> some drudge work for them. Damn corporate trickery!
Whatever. I'm sure you have no idea what a design pattern is. If you ever figure it out, you will realize that this would do just about nothing for AOL, but could benefit anyone working on a large, platform independent project.
Wasn't it less than a year ago that ATI was openly hostile to Linux?
I think I caught one of those in a pond when I was 7.
Two GHz speed x86 chips means twice as much heat wasted and twice as much microwave radiation!!!
I'll be impressed when we get to the point when other computers actually enjoy listening to music composed to another computer.
Obviously he meant the 1 Mother Board limit. We need more mother boards god damn it!!!!
DC is still biult upon a damn swamp.
Though the homeless seemed to have good manners.
>Can you show me some concrete references from
>experts in SCSI driver design?
Actually, I seem to remember Alan Cox recently saying on linux-kernel that the SCSI code blows major chunks and need to be completely rewrtten. This shouldn't affect users much though.