The plant can't have more genetic information than us.
Why not?:) (but in this case, it doesn't...)
The Nature article talks about giving away 5000 CDs containing the data, and mentiones somewhere that the dataset is 120 Megabytes.
No, it said 120Mb, which is 120 mega base pairs... geneticists don't talk about DNA in megabytes:) The ABC article seems to be off by 3 orders of magnitude. I think the human genome is around 3 billion base pairs, so it's probably right about that.
above.net should not blackhole sites on the RBL--sure, spam sucks, but spamblocking is not a job for a transit provider. And MAPS putting entire class Cs on its list to browbeat a company into dropping a software publisher is completely unacceptable.
I've disliked MAPS ever since hearing about their treatment of ORBS, and this just makes me dislike them even more.
I got a turquoise one for my friend's birfday (and picked up one for myself too)... I think it's pretty cool--turquoise is a rather exotic LED color (as is blue), and the thing is really bright for a LED. It works pretty decently as a flashlight; certainly not as bright as a 4 D-cell incandescent flashlight, but good enought for walking around in the dark or finding your door's keyhole in the dark:)
Got 'em from Action Electronics, btw... they have 'em for $14, which was the best I found after a bit of web searching. (Anyone know of cheaper places?)
The day I see the defenders of christianity loudly denounce, in forums such as these, the people who use the name of Christ as a tool of hate and intolerance is the day I regain respect for christians in general.
DENOUNCED! (loudly). There you go. Don't be blind now.
Re:Check it out, GM is /not/ cross-breeding.
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He said "generally", then used DDT and dioxin as specific examples. And the bulk of his argument was probably just cut and paste from various websites, seeing that he didn't realize that DDT and dioxin were organic... I can cut and paste from pro-GM websites too, but I don't find that particularly useful, and is only a step above karma whoring.
P.S. So you require me to contribute something useful, yet you don't require that of your own posts, eh? Hypocrite.
Well, maybe "hack to death" has negative connotations, but FreeBSD's VM is most certainly based on Mach VM. It's a heavily modified version of the 4.4BSD VM system, which was based on Mach's.
And since UCB has *not* been merged yet, as you confirmed, it seems I'm still up to date with my info.
Re:Check it out, GM is /not/ cross-breeding.
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The toxin is composed entirely of proteins (it's all organic molecules, different from petro-pesticides which generally contain no organic compounds (think DDT and Dioxin.))
This tells me that you don't know what you're talking about. DDT and dioxin most certainly are organic compounds--DDT's got chlorinated aromatic rings, and dioxins are a group of compounds, also containing chlorinated aromatic rings.
You miss jaga~'s point... language is defined by the way people use it--if enough people mean "invite the question" when they say "beg the question", well, that's what it means.
However, I don't have to like it:) If anyone "misuses" the term "beg the question" when talking to me, I might correct them, depending on my mood:)
For the clue impaired, ethernet does use all 8 wires. Unless you're using castrated half-duplex ethernet. If you have a collision light, you're cutting your bandwidth in 1/3! And your bidirectional bandwidth in 1/6! Buy a 10/100 switch rather then a hub, set all the ports to full duplex, and watch your data scream.
Is this a troll? 'cuz if it is, I guess IHBT. 10BaseT uses 4 wires, a pair for transmit, and a pair for receive. 100BaseTX uses 4 wires also (but requires twistier Cat5 cable). 100BaseT4 uses 8 wires, but will work with older Cat3 cable. And collisions don't reduce your bandwith to 1/3, or by 1/3, or whatever you meant by "cutting your bandwidth in 1/3".
1.24.166.199.in-addr.arpa. 2D IN PTR a.root-severs.orsc.
doesn't exactly inspire confidence:) If I secondary my root zone from y'all, I'd like it to be typo-free...
Characters are sorted according to the Japanese alphabet ordering (Unicode uses random ordering)
No, the Unicode hiragana/katakana ranges are ordered in standard Japanese ordering, and the kanji in the CJK range is ordered in Chinese dictionary order (radical first, then stroke count). You do know that kanji means Chinese characters, right? It's not unreasonable to order them the Chinese way.
In IE or Netscape, look under the encoding menu. You will find 3 choices; Shift-JIS, JIS, and EUC.
Well, I also find Unicode (UTF-8) in IE, and both Unicode (UTF-7) and Unicode (UTF-8) in Netscape. You need to realize that Unicode is for displaying all languages, not just Japanese.
Most Japanese experts on this subject view Unicode as an unwanted Western imposition.
Mrs. Cartman: Don't you see Governor; I should have a right to have an abortion if I want one.
Governor: Mra, I don't know, I, I might need some more convincing.
Mrs. Cartman: I mean, what right do I have bringing another child into this overpopulated world? Then again, I should have thought of that before having sex.
Somebody cuts me off on the road, I get their license plate, look it up on my handy CD-ROM, and well, if I weren't such a nice guy, that person might start getting strange phone calls in the night, or have even worse things happen.
Or they might get a rude postcard:) (service no longer available, unfortunately... I dunno why, but I do know the guy was paying for the postcards, postage, etc... out of his own pocket. Might've gotten too expensive and taken too much of his time)
Love the shot of the two geeks in front of the Tempest display, pointing at the screen as if we would have missed it otherwise.
If I were standing up there, I'd avoid looking towards the laser:) At least the guy on the right turned his head back towards the screen once the "Tempest" started getting close to his head:)
Handwriting recognition isn't the same as OCR. OCR is optical character recognition, i.e., having the computer analyze a bitmap (usually a scan) of some text. I suspect handwriting recognition of Chinese characters works quite well because the computer knows the order and direction the strokes were written in--things that are fixed (by custom and tradition) for Chinese characters.
BTW, Windows 2000 and the Japanese version of Windows 98 come with an input method that does handwriting recognition. You use the mouse (or if you have one, a graphics tablet) to draw in this box on the screen, and after each stroke, it shows you a list of the possible characters. Rather nifty and fun to play with:)
Just so people know, I bought a new Cube with 17" monitor and cost me $1799. Well worth it. It's not only absolutely beautiful, but it's incredibly fast.
What's a good place to buy Macs nowadays? The last time I bought a Mac was in '92:) The Apple Store sells a Cube without any monitor for $1799; where did you get Cube and monitor for that price? I'm actually interested in getting a dual G4, not a cube:)
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Considering that there is no working version of FreeBSD for the Mac, I guess the question is irrelavent.
Well, he said NetBSD or FreeBSD. NetBSD works on just about all PowerMacs less than 5 years old, and almost every 68K Mac with a 68020+PMMU or higher.
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Why not? :) (but in this case, it doesn't...)
The Nature article talks about giving away 5000 CDs containing the data, and mentiones somewhere that the dataset is 120 Megabytes.
No, it said 120Mb, which is 120 mega base pairs... geneticists don't talk about DNA in megabytes :) The ABC article seems to be off by 3 orders of magnitude. I think the human genome is around 3 billion base pairs, so it's probably right about that.
LEDs aren't monochromatic. They emit a continuous spectrum too, just not across the entire visible range.
I've disliked MAPS ever since hearing about their treatment of ORBS, and this just makes me dislike them even more.
The ends do not justify the means.
Got 'em from Action Electronics, btw... they have 'em for $14, which was the best I found after a bit of web searching. (Anyone know of cheaper places?)
Scanning electron microscope. They make small things look bigger :)
DENOUNCED! (loudly). There you go. Don't be blind now.
P.S. So you require me to contribute something useful, yet you don't require that of your own posts, eh? Hypocrite.
Looks like it supports 'em to me... arm32 and arm26. NetBSD was the OS that ran on DEC's DNARD network appliance thing.
Well, maybe "hack to death" has negative connotations, but FreeBSD's VM is most certainly based on Mach VM. It's a heavily modified version of the 4.4BSD VM system, which was based on Mach's.
And since UCB has *not* been merged yet, as you confirmed, it seems I'm still up to date with my info.
Sure it has.
This tells me that you don't know what you're talking about. DDT and dioxin most certainly are organic compounds--DDT's got chlorinated aromatic rings, and dioxins are a group of compounds, also containing chlorinated aromatic rings.
For a bionic hand? Valvoline might be better :)
"Or are is" what now? I guess I shouldn't be surprised that someone who operates "name severs" thinks that "or are is" is proper English grammar.
You miss jaga~'s point... language is defined by the way people use it--if enough people mean "invite the question" when they say "beg the question", well, that's what it means. However, I don't have to like it :) If anyone "misuses" the term "beg the question" when talking to me, I might correct them, depending on my mood :)
Is this a troll? 'cuz if it is, I guess IHBT. 10BaseT uses 4 wires, a pair for transmit, and a pair for receive. 100BaseTX uses 4 wires also (but requires twistier Cat5 cable). 100BaseT4 uses 8 wires, but will work with older Cat3 cable. And collisions don't reduce your bandwith to 1/3, or by 1/3, or whatever you meant by "cutting your bandwidth in 1/3".
1.24.166.199.in-addr.arpa. 2D IN PTR a.root-severs.orsc. :) If I secondary my root zone from y'all, I'd like it to be typo-free...
doesn't exactly inspire confidence
No, the Unicode hiragana/katakana ranges are ordered in standard Japanese ordering, and the kanji in the CJK range is ordered in Chinese dictionary order (radical first, then stroke count). You do know that kanji means Chinese characters, right? It's not unreasonable to order them the Chinese way.
In IE or Netscape, look under the encoding menu. You will find 3 choices; Shift-JIS, JIS, and EUC.
Well, I also find Unicode (UTF-8) in IE, and both Unicode (UTF-7) and Unicode (UTF-8) in Netscape. You need to realize that Unicode is for displaying all languages, not just Japanese.
Most Japanese experts on this subject view Unicode as an unwanted Western imposition.
True... also known as "Not Invented Here".
Awesome! :) That's the main reason I voted for him :)
To quote from that highly regarded work, Cartman's Mom Is Still A Dirty Slut :
Actually, they get 3, the same as the least populous state. See the complete list here.
That's nice. But the point is that they're still not the same.
Or they might get a rude postcard :) (service no longer available, unfortunately... I dunno why, but I do know the guy was paying for the postcards, postage, etc... out of his own pocket. Might've gotten too expensive and taken too much of his time)
If I were standing up there, I'd avoid looking towards the laser :) At least the guy on the right turned his head back towards the screen once the "Tempest" started getting close to his head :)
BTW, Windows 2000 and the Japanese version of Windows 98 come with an input method that does handwriting recognition. You use the mouse (or if you have one, a graphics tablet) to draw in this box on the screen, and after each stroke, it shows you a list of the possible characters. Rather nifty and fun to play with :)
Wo bu zhidao, zhishi wo de mao jiao "T-Chat," parce qu'il est un p'tit chat. Ta hao ke-ai :)
What's a good place to buy Macs nowadays? The last time I bought a Mac was in '92 :) The Apple Store sells a Cube without any monitor for $1799; where did you get Cube and monitor for that price? I'm actually interested in getting a dual G4, not a cube :)
Well, he said NetBSD or FreeBSD. NetBSD works on just about all PowerMacs less than 5 years old, and almost every 68K Mac with a 68020+PMMU or higher.