The use of the term "dogma" in "Central Dogma" was incorrect from the get-go. Frankly, Francis Crick either chose to misunderstand the word or simply didn't fully grasp its connotations.
He was just looking for a more dramatic word for "hypothesis".
"Central Hypothesis" would be the more accurate name for it. It isn't a proper theory, but it does provide a framework for understanding molecular biological functions.
It's basically this (from WP): 'once information gets into protein, it can't flow back to nucleic acid.'
Uhhh... "C" would be a not-for-profit national company.
Did you even read the post?
Besides, if ISPs can't double dip, they'll just get a bigger dipper. That was mostly the point of the GP's entire comment.
Any time you increase their costs, you increase your own costs across the board. The inverse, however, is not true when there is little competition in the market, because there is no incentive to drop the rates when your expenses drop.
Also recall that there is more water in your blood than there is in your skin.
Even a 1:1 cell conversion would not produce a 1:1 final volume. It would probably be more like 1:3 or 1:4.
Even better though, the conversion is apparently actually to the cells that produce blood cells, so you could conceivably see like a 1:50 or even near-unlimited conversion rate.
Before Microsoft went all-out on the "let's kill everything on the PC that isn't DOS/Windows" crusade, there was a thriving market for all sorts of applications, many of which either bundled their own GUI, bundled GEM or simply didn't have a GUI at all.
Not thriving enough to beat the big Dos business applications, which ran fine in Windows up till Win95. As good as the others may have been, they just weren't good enough to overcome that momentum.
The proof is in the fact that Windows still has 90%+ of the PC market.
In their case it's comparable to finding a corpse with a back full of bullets and refusing to accept that it's likely a case of murder - since no-one was there to witness it.
From Mystery Men:
The police said he fell down an elevator shaft. Onto some bullets.
The proper pattern is: Powerful, High Quality, Cheap, pick two.
The "easily disassembled" part is a function of a good design. As such, it falls under high quality. Small is also a function of the design, and as such falls under the high quality.
So you can have a small, easy to disassemble, powerful laptop, but it won't be cheap. You can have a small, easy to disassemble laptop for cheap, but it won't be powerful. You can have a cheap, powerful laptop but, depending on exactly how cheap it is, it won't be small or easy to disassemble or both.
The real trick here will be to get manufacturers to play along. Desktops are easy, having lots of space is a good thing. Laptops are harder, because leftover space is a bad thing, and a standardized format will invariably lead to wasted space for many designs.
In the long run, though, things would be a lot cheaper. We'd be spending $50 for a laptop case, $150 for a motherboard, $300 for that kickass new processor, and $150-$400 for the screen. We'll get a custom laptop market similar to the custom desktop market, and that will be very, very cool. In this scenario you could build a reasonably powerful laptop for $300-$400 if you chose last gen's components instead of the latest and greatest.
If we could get some kind of standardization in the laptop market it would be wonderful in my opinion.
Yup, as long as they technically comply with the regulations it's just bad service and they can't be punished. They might get in trouble if it can be proven that they are using poor service as a way to harass their customers, but it's extremely difficult to distinguish poor service from intentionally poor service as a means of harassment.
We really do have it good compared to what I've seen of their systems. In the US if you want to view the full history of your online banking you have to seriously pay a fee.
Uh.. Born and raised in America here, and I've never heard of this. I'm not sure how far I can go back, but I must assume it's the full history. I've done more than a year at once before. No fee at all. All but my yearly statements come in through my email, too.
You can't download PDFs or CSVs of an account via the online banking systems i used in the USA.
No PDFs, but PDFs aren't very useful. I can download my account history in MS Money format, three different Quicken formats, two QuickBooks formats, and good 'ole CSV.
Direct deposit to other accounts isn't nearly as easy as it is here either.
I don't get this, all the depositor needs is the bank account and routing number for the bank. It's stupid easy.
On top of that, free checking, free check card (or debit card if you prefer), free automatic bill pay (especially easy if the biller has a relationship with the bank, but it will mail checks for you if not), free check images, etc. Honestly I don't pay any fees at all. Oh well, there is a fee if you drop below $5 in your checking account (which hasn't happened since I was in high school), but otherwise none. I guess they make all their money on loans and credit cards (both reasonable, but not the lowest rates I've ever seen). I even have my auto insurance through my bank, and it's a pretty good rate.
I really have to wonder what kind of hellish bank you used while you were here. I'm sure such banks exists, but I've never used one.
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If it's consistent, would it not be selected for and therefore not really an error at all?
Once an error becomes fundamental to the system, it's not an error.
The use of the term "dogma" in "Central Dogma" was incorrect from the get-go. Frankly, Francis Crick either chose to misunderstand the word or simply didn't fully grasp its connotations.
He was just looking for a more dramatic word for "hypothesis".
"Central Hypothesis" would be the more accurate name for it. It isn't a proper theory, but it does provide a framework for understanding molecular biological functions.
It's basically this (from WP): 'once information gets into protein, it can't flow back to nucleic acid.'
Uhhh... "C" would be a not-for-profit national company.
Did you even read the post?
Besides, if ISPs can't double dip, they'll just get a bigger dipper. That was mostly the point of the GP's entire comment.
Any time you increase their costs, you increase your own costs across the board. The inverse, however, is not true when there is little competition in the market, because there is no incentive to drop the rates when your expenses drop.
I think AC still doesn't understand what "Open Source" really means.
Yeah, the internet's on computers now!
How close was I?
Purple.
Also recall that there is more water in your blood than there is in your skin.
Even a 1:1 cell conversion would not produce a 1:1 final volume. It would probably be more like 1:3 or 1:4.
Even better though, the conversion is apparently actually to the cells that produce blood cells, so you could conceivably see like a 1:50 or even near-unlimited conversion rate.
That would be a very, very good thing.
How else is he supposed to be come Gator Man?!
a 12x12 cm patch of skin
What's that in American? Is it big?
I've never met anyone who thinks abortion is a convenient form of birth control, including women who have had several of them.
You've obviously never listened to a feminist rally!
Obama is a Christian.
I win.
Before Microsoft went all-out on the "let's kill everything on the PC that isn't DOS/Windows" crusade, there was a thriving market for all sorts of applications, many of which either bundled their own GUI, bundled GEM or simply didn't have a GUI at all.
Not thriving enough to beat the big Dos business applications, which ran fine in Windows up till Win95. As good as the others may have been, they just weren't good enough to overcome that momentum.
The proof is in the fact that Windows still has 90%+ of the PC market.
Nintendo DS doesn't run multiple programs at one time. It's a one-at-a-timer.
Micro black holes will swallow Dan Brown! OH GOD.
I thought that was a bonus, myself.
In their case it's comparable to finding a corpse with a back full of bullets and refusing to accept that it's likely a case of murder - since no-one was there to witness it.
From Mystery Men:
The police said he fell down an elevator shaft. Onto some bullets.
Clearly it was an accident!
By replicating the conditions of the universe almost 14 billion years ago.
I.e. if the universe isn't more than 6,000 years old, we have no basis for trying to understand the strong nuclear force.
Small, easily disassembled, cheap: pick 2.
Why?
The proper pattern is: Powerful, High Quality, Cheap, pick two.
The "easily disassembled" part is a function of a good design. As such, it falls under high quality. Small is also a function of the design, and as such falls under the high quality.
So you can have a small, easy to disassemble, powerful laptop, but it won't be cheap. You can have a small, easy to disassemble laptop for cheap, but it won't be powerful. You can have a cheap, powerful laptop but, depending on exactly how cheap it is, it won't be small or easy to disassemble or both.
The real trick here will be to get manufacturers to play along. Desktops are easy, having lots of space is a good thing. Laptops are harder, because leftover space is a bad thing, and a standardized format will invariably lead to wasted space for many designs.
In the long run, though, things would be a lot cheaper. We'd be spending $50 for a laptop case, $150 for a motherboard, $300 for that kickass new processor, and $150-$400 for the screen. We'll get a custom laptop market similar to the custom desktop market, and that will be very, very cool. In this scenario you could build a reasonably powerful laptop for $300-$400 if you chose last gen's components instead of the latest and greatest.
If we could get some kind of standardization in the laptop market it would be wonderful in my opinion.
YYMW
Ok, I could not find this anywhere, what the hell does it mean? It's obviously synonymous with YMMV, but I can't find the acronym anywhere.
Yup, as long as they technically comply with the regulations it's just bad service and they can't be punished. They might get in trouble if it can be proven that they are using poor service as a way to harass their customers, but it's extremely difficult to distinguish poor service from intentionally poor service as a means of harassment.
True, but this is an American website, so we always frame the discussions from an American perspective.
We really do have it good compared to what I've seen of their systems. In the US if you want to view the full history of your online banking you have to seriously pay a fee.
Uh.. Born and raised in America here, and I've never heard of this. I'm not sure how far I can go back, but I must assume it's the full history. I've done more than a year at once before. No fee at all. All but my yearly statements come in through my email, too.
You can't download PDFs or CSVs of an account via the online banking systems i used in the USA.
No PDFs, but PDFs aren't very useful. I can download my account history in MS Money format, three different Quicken formats, two QuickBooks formats, and good 'ole CSV.
Direct deposit to other accounts isn't nearly as easy as it is here either.
I don't get this, all the depositor needs is the bank account and routing number for the bank. It's stupid easy.
On top of that, free checking, free check card (or debit card if you prefer), free automatic bill pay (especially easy if the biller has a relationship with the bank, but it will mail checks for you if not), free check images, etc. Honestly I don't pay any fees at all. Oh well, there is a fee if you drop below $5 in your checking account (which hasn't happened since I was in high school), but otherwise none. I guess they make all their money on loans and credit cards (both reasonable, but not the lowest rates I've ever seen). I even have my auto insurance through my bank, and it's a pretty good rate.
I really have to wonder what kind of hellish bank you used while you were here. I'm sure such banks exists, but I've never used one.
See Wal-Mart.
If you're low on cash, cheaper is always better. Service doesn't mean shit if you can't afford to pay for it.
Who the fuck do you call if there's a problem with PayPal, where are their bricks and mortar branches?
From what others are saying, the brick and mortar branches just call the home office and sit on hold like everyone else.
Other than sharing the misery of waiting on hold, it doesn't sound like an improvement over PayPal to me.
That's interesting, the spread for Lua JIT was greater than Java, but Lua had a slightly faster median than Java.
C++, contrary to what all the Java buffs say around here, was significantly faster than either of them. C++ median score was twice as fast as Java's.
Just goes to show you, if you want speed stick with native code.
It's too bad none of the .Net stuff is in there, they have C# mono, and it did relatively poorly, but mono could be significantly slower than .Net.
And Hulu Plus doesn't even have everything Hulu has.
I honestly have no idea why they call it "Plus", you pay a subscription fee and get... less?