But the physical medium is hardly worth anything to begin with. So where's the value? In the combination of content on the medium? Shouldn't that same combination also have value on a magnetic disk?
The only consistent answer is that a copy of information has no value on its own, and that the real value lies in access to the content, a notion merrily encapsulated in the idea of licensing.
I think the 'winding' action that magnetic tape does under normal usage might be properly described as 'transwinding'. One spool is unwinding and the other is winding up at the same time, after all.
(Also, I looked it up. 'improduco' is totally a Latin word. As weird as it may sound, we actually should be saying improductive. Obviously that's not the case, but reality has never diminished the appeal of idealistic purism, and it's not about to start!)
I am not sure the Clinical Education & Training Institute of New South Wales will really benefit from this technology. But, it's a neat idea.
Now, imagine how the aliens will feel when, in four billion years, they receive the binary-coded message "Neutrino" from that dumpy-looking yellow dwarf in that one galaxy they went to for tea yesterday—and have no idea how to interpret it.
Personally, I'm more concerned that this method of communication appears to be toggling random bits: at the top of the page TFA claimed the message sent was "Neutrino", and at the bottom it had morphed into "neutrino". Next time it might not just be a capital letter becoming lower case! "Prime minister is lead at conference" could very easily become "prime minister is dead at conference" if they don't start using error-correction, and fast!
Wholly agreed—but it should be emphasized that the mere existence of BAliBASE asserts that the trickiest part still requires direct intervention. There are precious few things in the universe that a computer can do that a human can't do more slowly or in smaller chunks, after all—and most of those are comparatively silly things like set voltages. I could, for example, implement ClustalW by hand, no sweat—just give me your favourite BLOSUM table, a few other parameters for gap size, a stack of paper, and enough time: it's a pairwise alignment followed by a series of careful compromises to approximate something that looks fairly right. In general this approach achieves 96-97% accuracy on BAliBASE tests. Approaching the challenge blindly certainly looks daunting, but like using synthetic division to solve higher-order polynomials, it's actually not that bad in terms of memory consumption or effort. Of course, there are some really heinously complex algorithms on that chart, like Mafft, which uses a Fourier transform to do something I still completely don't understand, but even the first FFT implementation required unit tests.
That giant tangent aside? The day Slashdot posts an accurate story about bioinformatics is the day I get tenure.:)
Technically, from 2004 to 2009, Yahoo had its own results, which were actually pulled by a real crawler. Said crawler was originally a company they contracted from, Inktomi, but later bought. I remember this era brightly, because the results were so bad.
If you were to ever try to solve a real MSA problem by hand, you would quickly understand how completely hopeless it is.
Nope nope nope. From scratch, perhaps it looks daunting. But the big parts are actually pretty easy. I should stress that BAliBASE is used as a benchmark for new alignment programs, including MultiZ (which, btw, is actually a little old now.)
TFA does superfluously mention the Raspberry Pi, if it's any help. (As an example of a reason to get a 3D printer, since it doesn't ship with a case. Total rubbish.)
The fourth example is a dynamic circuit diagram that displays voltage and amperage over time. I'm not an electrical engineer so I don't know much about it, but it seems to me that this has already been done at least once. (I'm sure there are more mainstream examples than KCIRC, but it's one I've run into.)
The fifth example is exactly like the iPad version of Garage Band, except with animation tweens instead of musical instruments: you play back the tracks that have already been performed while creating the next one. This is a pretty exciting idea, but he's a couple of years too late for it to be truly remarkable.
Unfortunately, the Onion (America's Finest News Source) has been prevented from registering a TLD. Sources suggest their rejection by ICANN was a real tear-jerker.
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Ignoring the other responses—which are all dependent on the violence being fictional or at a distance amongst strangers—the core reason is because it's simply in our best interest to, from a long-term perspective. Lion cubs play-fight when they're young. What do you think is going on there? Fiction and sports are violent passion surrogates. We have a drive to prevent violence from actually occurring and affecting things that we care about—and hey, that sphere is somewhat larger than what a lion cares about, because we recognize it's all important.
Noted. Personally I can't hold a pipette still enough to load a gel, so I'm pretty helpless in the lab... but it remains a constant source of amusement how you can go to the ends of the earth looking for a scientific or engineering discipline that appears to have nothing to do with your line of work, and discover that they very much do—I never thought I would be doing next-gen sequence assembly for a lab that's technically part of the psychiatry department. (And indeed, around here that's certainly not a shabby salary either.)
Earlier versions of DesktopX for Windows and Object Bar much more closely resembled Object Desktop for OS/2. They're both essentially widget engines, and if anything I think they'd be best described as cognates, not 'very different' products sold under the same name. Wikipedia suggests that at least some code is common between the two.
If you must demand absolute semantic clarity, past the point of what is accepted in typical English-language discourse, then I will revise my statement to read 'I had no idea that the Object Desktop name once applied to something that was, at some point in history, widely regarded as not a hideous wreck,' but I really don't think that's much of a victory on your part.
It's really not a problem, just unexpected.:) I concur with your proposal, and am curious as to the nature of your work at the previously-mentioned R&D lab that pays under $20/hr?
I think I'll need to call this a mild whoosh. Sort of like one of those summer breezes that come out of nowhere. Thanks for the neat bit of history, though—I had no idea that Object Desktop was, at one point in history, widely regarded as not a hideous wreck.
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But the physical medium is hardly worth anything to begin with. So where's the value? In the combination of content on the medium? Shouldn't that same combination also have value on a magnetic disk?
The only consistent answer is that a copy of information has no value on its own, and that the real value lies in access to the content, a notion merrily encapsulated in the idea of licensing.
Oh yeah?! Well *I* just scanned a $13 bill with no problems!
I think the 'winding' action that magnetic tape does under normal usage might be properly described as 'transwinding'. One spool is unwinding and the other is winding up at the same time, after all.
Perhaps—but they're certainly conductive!
(Also, I looked it up. 'improduco' is totally a Latin word. As weird as it may sound, we actually should be saying improductive. Obviously that's not the case, but reality has never diminished the appeal of idealistic purism, and it's not about to start!)
...actually, the opposite of wind is unwind, but thanks for playing.
I am not sure the Clinical Education & Training Institute of New South Wales will really benefit from this technology. But, it's a neat idea.
Now, imagine how the aliens will feel when, in four billion years, they receive the binary-coded message "Neutrino" from that dumpy-looking yellow dwarf in that one galaxy they went to for tea yesterday—and have no idea how to interpret it.
Personally, I'm more concerned that this method of communication appears to be toggling random bits: at the top of the page TFA claimed the message sent was "Neutrino", and at the bottom it had morphed into "neutrino". Next time it might not just be a capital letter becoming lower case! "Prime minister is lead at conference" could very easily become "prime minister is dead at conference" if they don't start using error-correction, and fast!
"Unprint" violates the phonotactic constraints of Latin. Unpossible! Clearly, the antonym of "print" should be "imprint". (Wait. Oh noooooo...)
Wholly agreed—but it should be emphasized that the mere existence of BAliBASE asserts that the trickiest part still requires direct intervention. There are precious few things in the universe that a computer can do that a human can't do more slowly or in smaller chunks, after all—and most of those are comparatively silly things like set voltages. I could, for example, implement ClustalW by hand, no sweat—just give me your favourite BLOSUM table, a few other parameters for gap size, a stack of paper, and enough time: it's a pairwise alignment followed by a series of careful compromises to approximate something that looks fairly right. In general this approach achieves 96-97% accuracy on BAliBASE tests. Approaching the challenge blindly certainly looks daunting, but like using synthetic division to solve higher-order polynomials, it's actually not that bad in terms of memory consumption or effort. Of course, there are some really heinously complex algorithms on that chart, like Mafft, which uses a Fourier transform to do something I still completely don't understand, but even the first FFT implementation required unit tests.
That giant tangent aside? The day Slashdot posts an accurate story about bioinformatics is the day I get tenure. :)
Technically, from 2004 to 2009, Yahoo had its own results, which were actually pulled by a real crawler. Said crawler was originally a company they contracted from, Inktomi, but later bought. I remember this era brightly, because the results were so bad.
If you were to ever try to solve a real MSA problem by hand, you would quickly understand how completely hopeless it is.
Nope nope nope. From scratch, perhaps it looks daunting. But the big parts are actually pretty easy. I should stress that BAliBASE is used as a benchmark for new alignment programs, including MultiZ (which, btw, is actually a little old now.)
TFA does superfluously mention the Raspberry Pi, if it's any help. (As an example of a reason to get a 3D printer, since it doesn't ship with a case. Total rubbish.)
Continuing your post:
The fourth example is a dynamic circuit diagram that displays voltage and amperage over time. I'm not an electrical engineer so I don't know much about it, but it seems to me that this has already been done at least once. (I'm sure there are more mainstream examples than KCIRC, but it's one I've run into.)
The fifth example is exactly like the iPad version of Garage Band, except with animation tweens instead of musical instruments: you play back the tracks that have already been performed while creating the next one. This is a pretty exciting idea, but he's a couple of years too late for it to be truly remarkable.
FIRST YORKSHIREMAN: And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you.
ALL: They won't!
This question has been answered: it's a customer device giant.
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
I take it you're onionspired, then?
Unfortunately, the Onion (America's Finest News Source) has been prevented from registering a TLD. Sources suggest their rejection by ICANN was a real tear-jerker.
I'm guessing it's some kind of Class 2.
After an exhaustive study of Dr. Wolfram's personal habits, science has concluded that we're twenty years too late.
Ignoring the other responses—which are all dependent on the violence being fictional or at a distance amongst strangers—the core reason is because it's simply in our best interest to, from a long-term perspective. Lion cubs play-fight when they're young. What do you think is going on there? Fiction and sports are violent passion surrogates. We have a drive to prevent violence from actually occurring and affecting things that we care about—and hey, that sphere is somewhat larger than what a lion cares about, because we recognize it's all important.
Noted. Personally I can't hold a pipette still enough to load a gel, so I'm pretty helpless in the lab... but it remains a constant source of amusement how you can go to the ends of the earth looking for a scientific or engineering discipline that appears to have nothing to do with your line of work, and discover that they very much do—I never thought I would be doing next-gen sequence assembly for a lab that's technically part of the psychiatry department. (And indeed, around here that's certainly not a shabby salary either.)
Earlier versions of DesktopX for Windows and Object Bar much more closely resembled Object Desktop for OS/2. They're both essentially widget engines, and if anything I think they'd be best described as cognates, not 'very different' products sold under the same name. Wikipedia suggests that at least some code is common between the two.
If you must demand absolute semantic clarity, past the point of what is accepted in typical English-language discourse, then I will revise my statement to read 'I had no idea that the Object Desktop name once applied to something that was, at some point in history, widely regarded as not a hideous wreck,' but I really don't think that's much of a victory on your part.
It's really not a problem, just unexpected. :) I concur with your proposal, and am curious as to the nature of your work at the previously-mentioned R&D lab that pays under $20/hr?
I think I'll need to call this a mild whoosh. Sort of like one of those summer breezes that come out of nowhere. Thanks for the neat bit of history, though—I had no idea that Object Desktop was, at one point in history, widely regarded as not a hideous wreck.
Be kind, now! This is Stardock's first attempt at writing a program that has any resemblance to the underlying OS. They're trying as hard as they can!