But you're missing a key point: DNA translates into protein in chunks of 3. Depending on where the translation starts, one chunk of DNA can translate into several different proteins. You don't actually need to grow the genome to increase the amount of proteins around, and it's probably the case that genomes will shrink over time as natural selection finds these random overlaps.
To put it in computing terms, you can have two or three programs in one binary just by changing the word alignment. The only way I can think of to get a complier to do that would be one based on genetic programming, funnily enough.
It's probably less about returns, than about where retail purchasers make money. If you're a purchasing manager for Big Box retailer, sell-through and return rates are just the beginning. You also look at affiliated sales, and one thing should be apparent: 90 percent of your software shelving isn't linux compatible. No anti-virus, no microsoft office, no photoshop. There's also hardware pack-ins. Each netbook company appears to have chosen a unique distribution to power it, with their own hardware support problems. So now you also have a certification problem: does this webcam work with Xandaros? What about this external DVD burner? Basically, retailers can count on fewer add-on purchases.
And yes, people like you and I who can work around limitations of a supported netbook Linux offering, or install a custom Linux may in fact be a sizable market. However, the retail purchasers cannot be ignored; they order in sizes of millions, and order across the lineup. It's far easier to placate these few, large buyers than divine what we want six months or a year from now. And the retailers love the idea of netbooks. They're a bargaining chip against existing low end laptops, where the bulk of sales are.
The article implies that Microsoft is abusing it's traditional monopoly power to prevent existing players from experimenting with alternative operating systems, but nothing quoted there is credible. I don't even get the bit about "sales" comes first. Perhaps they meant "existing sales"?
One way to fix this is to build a package with a version bump. Usually you just do these steps:
1. apt-get source 2. replace orig.tar.gz with the version you want to use 2b. If you wish to alter the build configuration, you can edit debian/rules as appropriate. 3. debchange -i 4. debuild -i -us -uc -b
Ideally, the workflow would be bzr based and you could just pull the security patches and rebuild as needed on custom packages.
F-Zero GX was a badass game, but not a market buster like the original was. Even the N64 version wasn't a huge success (by Nintendo's gargantuan standards), so they farmed the gamecube version to Sega. The obvious downside to that farming out is that all those games are ridiculously hard. Metroid Prime, Starfox Assault, and F-Zero GX are all "Nintendo hard", long after Nintendo took the edge off their games.
Probably, the biggest reason Nintendo isn't trotting out F-zero anymore is because they're a franchise company, and F-Zero is forced into that mold, for better or worse. If you look at F-Zero GX, there was something like 40 characters needed to flesh out the 30 car race + bonus secret characters. That's 40 characters with in game model animations, vehicles, their own theme song, background, story and whatnot. I think Bleach is close to that number of characters, in a character driven episodic anime that's been running for years.
They need to drop the dramatic emphasis on characters and build on the game elements like the custom cars, track builders and online sharing, but nobody is going to get a company built on character design to change this. Look at what they did (and how successful it was) when they gave character designs to Advance Wars, Custom Robo, and hell, Super Mario 2.
I've worked with microcontrollers with a language called nesC; it's a C-like language that is translated to C in the end, but heavily relies on gcc directives and ASM to offer concepts the C standard cannot support. Things like interrupts and atomic operations. In fact, it should be possible to implement this without needing C or GCC, but it's just the path to least resistance.
There's also Wiring, which borrows not from C, but from Processing. I think it too depends on gcc on the end, but again, means to an end. And of course, there's always BASIC stamps;)
You can't tell with just the source code. To say the average is wrong, you'd need to have some idea of what the inputs are, and how they vary over time. For that you'd ideally want the actual device, which is was not made available. It's a bit like being asked to demonstrate if a car works, given only the steering wheel.
Lint, as a static code analyzer, is bound to have false positives. More so in embedded systems, where you're dealing with registers and occasionally "violating" type safety where no type adequately exists. It's really not super surprising that 60 percent of the code is reported by Lint.
Twitter is basically a terrible implementation of IRC, squashed to fit into SMS's horribly stupid and anticonsumer protocol. 20 cents for 140 bytes is not the sort of technology we should be organizing around.
The above is paragraph in fact wouldn't fit into twitter or SMS, and I think that pretty much says it all.
They're paying 5 percent on their 30 year debts. I can get a car loan close to that, without the 24 billion in collateral that earns Microsoft the AAA rating. It's not enough to help buy Yahoo, but should be plenty to buy any of a number of smaller companies. Perhaps microsoft decided to engage in ratings arbitrage and enter the LBO business?
Good sarcasm is about exaggeration. The difference between not caring at all and claiming to only care some is nowhere near large enough. If you wanted to say you don't care sarcastically, then you'd say "That's the most interesting thing ever!" The key of good sarcasm is in the tone of the speaker, and there's just no room in "I could care less."
Feel free to continue defending this; I'm sure you've got a plausible rebuttal!
That's stupid American sarcasm. What do you mean by a sarcastic "I could care less"? That you care a lot? Or not at all? It's stupid on the face of it and indefensible.
The question then is, who started the rumor? Probably the twitter execs themselves, who are in negotiations with a different party and need some leverage to prop a valuation greater than zero.
"I don't really think that racism was the problem, but more a perception that being smart was "turning white" and the very real problem that successful blacks that come out of this system were ostracized by their community and feel very little need to help out a community that has essentially pushed them away."
If all your friends are black, and all your friend's friends are black, and you worry about losing all your friends by "turning white" then the problem by definition is racism.
Bluetooth runs in user space, as do most usb drivers. Its been ages since I configured and built a kernel, but bluez is the basic driver stack for bluetooth, as I recall.
or its graded by Grad Assistants who don't give a shit, and why should they.
Oh no, that line of thinking is simply going to get students trouble. Grad TAs are very petty people. They're usually people who passed the courses they grade without cheating, and find it an insult to themselves, the field and the rest of the class. They'll regularly grade much harder than Professors. I know, because I've been a TA, and have brought clear, deliberate plagiarism to Professorial attention and was basically punished for it by being asked to do the detective work. In the end, no ethics board, no getting kicked out of school, just a zero for the assignment.
Knowing what I know now, I would have refused the task and asked the ethics council to step in.
1-2 hours for a single page paper is probably reasonable to earn an A. At some level, it's about the content, not the length. But this nonsense about "Oops I forgot I was plagiarizing" won't stand. Cite your sources whether you're quoting or not; it's important to do and validates your arguments to some degree.
If you're not allowed to use sources, don't use sources.
The constitution makes no mention of parties, but lets leave that aside--it's a living document so who knows what it may contain later. Is it not possible to run on a platform and decide that the party which you ran as is not only not willing to abide by that platform, but has chosen to actively fight against it?
Launchpad's Rosetta tool does something different, but workable. Software usually doesn't have complete sentences as much as words or phrases sprinkled about the UI. So what they do is gather up a bunch of pre-existing translation strings and suggest them to a human for approval for a new context.
What you're proposing is basically an intermediate language, similar to how you can compile Java, Ruby, Python, Scala and so on into JVM bytecode, and let the JVM translate into the platform's specific language. So when you say "Instead of having to know two languages, all that the crowd has to know is what the text actually means, which then allows them to disambiguate it for the program," what you really mean is "Instead of having to know two language, all that crowd has to know is some intermediate representation language and the target language." Not exactly a great improvement over just using English as a lingua franca (it must make frenchmen turn in their grave to see English labeled the french language).
Nope. Well, it may in the future require replaying old IOS's if they start blocking it. The install method I've seen is to basically exploit Zelda and write the new channel to system memory.
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DNA isn't encoded in binary, but lengths are still referred to in "kb" (kilobases).
But you're missing a key point: DNA translates into protein in chunks of 3. Depending on where the translation starts, one chunk of DNA can translate into several different proteins. You don't actually need to grow the genome to increase the amount of proteins around, and it's probably the case that genomes will shrink over time as natural selection finds these random overlaps.
To put it in computing terms, you can have two or three programs in one binary just by changing the word alignment. The only way I can think of to get a complier to do that would be one based on genetic programming, funnily enough.
No, but I assume the Iranian elections were scheduled well in advance.
It's probably less about returns, than about where retail purchasers make money. If you're a purchasing manager for Big Box retailer, sell-through and return rates are just the beginning. You also look at affiliated sales, and one thing should be apparent: 90 percent of your software shelving isn't linux compatible. No anti-virus, no microsoft office, no photoshop. There's also hardware pack-ins. Each netbook company appears to have chosen a unique distribution to power it, with their own hardware support problems. So now you also have a certification problem: does this webcam work with Xandaros? What about this external DVD burner? Basically, retailers can count on fewer add-on purchases.
And yes, people like you and I who can work around limitations of a supported netbook Linux offering, or install a custom Linux may in fact be a sizable market. However, the retail purchasers cannot be ignored; they order in sizes of millions, and order across the lineup. It's far easier to placate these few, large buyers than divine what we want six months or a year from now. And the retailers love the idea of netbooks. They're a bargaining chip against existing low end laptops, where the bulk of sales are.
The article implies that Microsoft is abusing it's traditional monopoly power to prevent existing players from experimenting with alternative operating systems, but nothing quoted there is credible. I don't even get the bit about "sales" comes first. Perhaps they meant "existing sales"?
One way to fix this is to build a package with a version bump. Usually you just do these steps:
1. apt-get source
2. replace orig.tar.gz with the version you want to use
2b. If you wish to alter the build configuration, you can edit debian/rules as appropriate.
3. debchange -i
4. debuild -i -us -uc -b
Ideally, the workflow would be bzr based and you could just pull the security patches and rebuild as needed on custom packages.
Open packaging standards? I know a great one!
I approve of this law, but only after it's adopted for laws itself. I have a hard time seeing why we can't treat legal code like... code.
What's with the random advice? Did you think I don't have Ico or Shadow of the Collosus?
F-Zero GX was a badass game, but not a market buster like the original was. Even the N64 version wasn't a huge success (by Nintendo's gargantuan standards), so they farmed the gamecube version to Sega. The obvious downside to that farming out is that all those games are ridiculously hard. Metroid Prime, Starfox Assault, and F-Zero GX are all "Nintendo hard", long after Nintendo took the edge off their games.
Probably, the biggest reason Nintendo isn't trotting out F-zero anymore is because they're a franchise company, and F-Zero is forced into that mold, for better or worse. If you look at F-Zero GX, there was something like 40 characters needed to flesh out the 30 car race + bonus secret characters. That's 40 characters with in game model animations, vehicles, their own theme song, background, story and whatnot. I think Bleach is close to that number of characters, in a character driven episodic anime that's been running for years.
They need to drop the dramatic emphasis on characters and build on the game elements like the custom cars, track builders and online sharing, but nobody is going to get a company built on character design to change this. Look at what they did (and how successful it was) when they gave character designs to Advance Wars, Custom Robo, and hell, Super Mario 2.
Sounds like someone found a recipe for free software development!
I've worked with microcontrollers with a language called nesC; it's a C-like language that is translated to C in the end, but heavily relies on gcc directives and ASM to offer concepts the C standard cannot support. Things like interrupts and atomic operations. In fact, it should be possible to implement this without needing C or GCC, but it's just the path to least resistance.
There's also Wiring, which borrows not from C, but from Processing. I think it too depends on gcc on the end, but again, means to an end. And of course, there's always BASIC stamps ;)
You can't tell with just the source code. To say the average is wrong, you'd need to have some idea of what the inputs are, and how they vary over time. For that you'd ideally want the actual device, which is was not made available. It's a bit like being asked to demonstrate if a car works, given only the steering wheel.
Lint, as a static code analyzer, is bound to have false positives. More so in embedded systems, where you're dealing with registers and occasionally "violating" type safety where no type adequately exists. It's really not super surprising that 60 percent of the code is reported by Lint.
Twitter is basically a terrible implementation of IRC, squashed to fit into SMS's horribly stupid and anticonsumer protocol. 20 cents for 140 bytes is not the sort of technology we should be organizing around.
The above is paragraph in fact wouldn't fit into twitter or SMS, and I think that pretty much says it all.
They're paying 5 percent on their 30 year debts. I can get a car loan close to that, without the 24 billion in collateral that earns Microsoft the AAA rating. It's not enough to help buy Yahoo, but should be plenty to buy any of a number of smaller companies. Perhaps microsoft decided to engage in ratings arbitrage and enter the LBO business?
Good sarcasm is about exaggeration. The difference between not caring at all and claiming to only care some is nowhere near large enough. If you wanted to say you don't care sarcastically, then you'd say "That's the most interesting thing ever!" The key of good sarcasm is in the tone of the speaker, and there's just no room in "I could care less."
Feel free to continue defending this; I'm sure you've got a plausible rebuttal!
That's stupid American sarcasm. What do you mean by a sarcastic "I could care less"? That you care a lot? Or not at all? It's stupid on the face of it and indefensible.
The question then is, who started the rumor? Probably the twitter execs themselves, who are in negotiations with a different party and need some leverage to prop a valuation greater than zero.
"I don't really think that racism was the problem, but more a perception that being smart was "turning white" and the very real problem that successful blacks that come out of this system were ostracized by their community and feel very little need to help out a community that has essentially pushed them away."
If all your friends are black, and all your friend's friends are black, and you worry about losing all your friends by "turning white" then the problem by definition is racism.
Bluetooth runs in user space, as do most usb drivers. Its been ages since I configured and built a kernel, but bluez is the basic driver stack for bluetooth, as I recall.
or its graded by Grad Assistants who don't give a shit, and why should they.
Oh no, that line of thinking is simply going to get students trouble. Grad TAs are very petty people. They're usually people who passed the courses they grade without cheating, and find it an insult to themselves, the field and the rest of the class. They'll regularly grade much harder than Professors. I know, because I've been a TA, and have brought clear, deliberate plagiarism to Professorial attention and was basically punished for it by being asked to do the detective work. In the end, no ethics board, no getting kicked out of school, just a zero for the assignment.
Knowing what I know now, I would have refused the task and asked the ethics council to step in.
1-2 hours for a single page paper is probably reasonable to earn an A. At some level, it's about the content, not the length. But this nonsense about "Oops I forgot I was plagiarizing" won't stand. Cite your sources whether you're quoting or not; it's important to do and validates your arguments to some degree.
If you're not allowed to use sources, don't use sources.
The constitution makes no mention of parties, but lets leave that aside--it's a living document so who knows what it may contain later. Is it not possible to run on a platform and decide that the party which you ran as is not only not willing to abide by that platform, but has chosen to actively fight against it?
Launchpad's Rosetta tool does something different, but workable. Software usually doesn't have complete sentences as much as words or phrases sprinkled about the UI. So what they do is gather up a bunch of pre-existing translation strings and suggest them to a human for approval for a new context.
What you're proposing is basically an intermediate language, similar to how you can compile Java, Ruby, Python, Scala and so on into JVM bytecode, and let the JVM translate into the platform's specific language. So when you say "Instead of having to know two languages, all that the crowd has to know is what the text actually means, which then allows them to disambiguate it for the program," what you really mean is "Instead of having to know two language, all that crowd has to know is some intermediate representation language and the target language." Not exactly a great improvement over just using English as a lingua franca (it must make frenchmen turn in their grave to see English labeled the french language).
Nope. Well, it may in the future require replaying old IOS's if they start blocking it. The install method I've seen is to basically exploit Zelda and write the new channel to system memory.