Don't confuse your own ignorance with other people not having ideas.
Oh, there were plenty of ideas (or at least a set of contradictory fantasies peddled by the Leave campaigns). Practical, workable ideas, on the other hand...
A human has about 4 billion base pairs, which are roughly 2 bits each, so that is 500 MB. You could fit that on a CDROM with room to spare. But humans share 99% of their DNA, so you would really only need to store the diffs. 1% is 5 MB.
A copy of the (haploid) reference genome encoded as 2 bits per base pair comes in at about 800MB:
Run that through something like Z-zip and you can store it in less that 640MB, so it will indeed fit on a CD. Each of us has a diploid genome, though (a copy from each parent), so you really need to store double that if you take no account of the high level of similarity between both copies. If we assume a known reference genome, however, the 'diffs' are as you suggest very small - one paper reports compression down to 4MB, small enough to email:
Lots of analyses are done with lists of variants with respect to a reference genome, but the raw data generally comes from 'next generation sequencing' platforms, where every base needs to be sequenced many times over before bases can be called confidently, and quality scores of base calls need to be stored. The raw data usually needs to be kept since alignment and variant calling algorithms are improving all the time. Storage requirements are something like 80GB+ compressed.
There will be 20 sizes available during its trial run where it will be available exclusively for employees and partners
Let me guess:
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
Never mind the metal. Can anyone confirm that this laptop comes with military strength encryption? I'd also hope that for that price it's fitted with an ergonomic keyboard made from space age polymers, is protected by marine grade sealing, and features superfast wifi, audiophile speakers, and a True (We Really Mean It This Time) Ultra HD display.
Donald Trump: 'Think Big and Kick Ass in Business and Life'. To understand the 'thinking' behind the nightmarish dystopia you might be coding in for the next five years.
"I mean I love my Apple Watch, but - it's taken us into a jewelry market where you're going to buy a watch between $500 or $1100 based on how important you think you are as a person. The only difference is the band in all those watches. Twenty watches from $500 to $1100. The band's the only difference? Well this isn't the company that Apple was originally, or the company that really changed the world a lot."
That said, I live out in the boonies nowadays and haven't experienced the DC metro for 8 or 10 years. But I recall it as being no worse than, and possibly a bit better than the Boston MTA, NYC subways, PATH, the Japanese subway and train systems, or the London underground. Has it changed?
I was in the DC area a lot about 15 years ago, and found the system much, much nicer to use to use than most of the London Underground or the NYC subway, with few technical problems. In 2013 I went back and had the alarming experience of sitting on a train that started to fill with acrid fumes as something began to burn, luckily while still at one of the above ground stations. Passengers in 2015 weren't so lucky, when a smoke incident in a tunnel caused a fatality. Decades of neglect, including inadequate cleaning and maintenance, seem to have taken their toll: https://www.washingtonpost.com...
even without a sim card you should get wifi and use NTP.
This is the answer, though you may need a rooted phone and a third party app like ClockSync to make it happen (claimed accuracy '~1-20ms'): https://play.google.com/store/...
Support for HTTP live streaming on all platforms seems to be much more widely available than the list in the article suggests: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
What worries me about this is that the BBC might enforce it by finally adding some effective DRM to iPlayer, breaking the excellent third party get_iplayer tool that is by far the best way of managing BBC programmes.
The summary and discussion is all about the technical problem of cracking UHD BD, but surely the interesting question is why Fengtao is making this announcement now. Are they being held at legal/political gunpoint? Is it a complete coincidence that Slysoft, maker of AnyDVD, has shut up shop this week with a similarly cryptic statement about 'recent regulatory requirements'?
So the point is why a desktop environment needs its own distro, rather than polishing debian/ubuntu upstream.
Mint isn't a single desktop distro, quite the reverse - the Ubuntu-based edition is available in MATE, Cinnamon, Xfce and KDE versions, and the Debian-based version in Cinnamon or MATE. It exists for much the same reason as any other distribution - the developers wanted to do something different to what was already out there, and their changes weren't limited to the DE (before Gnome 3 and Unity happened, Mint ran Gnome 2 like Ubuntu, but still had its own character).
It's what passes for trash talk from anonymous story contributors, a loaded question like 'when will the developers stop beating their wives?' Mint is not just Cinnamon, of course, and not all versions are even based on Ubuntu, 'broken' or otherwise. Mint fans might want to point out that Ubuntu-Mate, by far the best version of Ubuntu (see what I did there?), owes a great deal to Mint's support of the MATE desktop project...
Surely all the naughty pirates with any sense have already signed up to a VPN for their actual torrenting, making ISP-level tracker site blocks completely irrelevant?
The last wallet I bought claims to block RFID. I tested it at work and found that it blocked the POS reader in the coffee bar, but not the entry card reader on the door, which doesn't exactly inspire confidence. Perhaps the sort of low-powered device 'pickpockets' are likely to use would also be blocked, but there's no way to be sure. Do the manufacturers actually test these things?
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Don't confuse your own ignorance with other people not having ideas.
Oh, there were plenty of ideas (or at least a set of contradictory fantasies peddled by the Leave campaigns). Practical, workable ideas, on the other hand...
A human has about 4 billion base pairs, which are roughly 2 bits each, so that is 500 MB. You could fit that on a CDROM with room to spare. But humans share 99% of their DNA, so you would really only need to store the diffs. 1% is 5 MB.
A copy of the (haploid) reference genome encoded as 2 bits per base pair comes in at about 800MB:
http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu...
Run that through something like Z-zip and you can store it in less that 640MB, so it will indeed fit on a CD. Each of us has a diploid genome, though (a copy from each parent), so you really need to store double that if you take no account of the high level of similarity between both copies. If we assume a known reference genome, however, the 'diffs' are as you suggest very small - one paper reports compression down to 4MB, small enough to email:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pu...
Lots of analyses are done with lists of variants with respect to a reference genome, but the raw data generally comes from 'next generation sequencing' platforms, where every base needs to be sequenced many times over before bases can be called confidently, and quality scores of base calls need to be stored. The raw data usually needs to be kept since alignment and variant calling algorithms are improving all the time. Storage requirements are something like 80GB+ compressed.
Some decayed packets of money were found, but that seems to lead more credence to the theory that the jump/landing/escape was a failure.
That's probably why he left them there, before continuing with the next phase of his escape plan...
He's a loud mouth idiot who was screaming right up until last week
If they want to stick with the formula, I believe Nigel Farage is now available.
There will be 20 sizes available during its trial run where it will be available exclusively for employees and partners
Let me guess:
Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die,
One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
...which is itself just a smaller version of a 19th century connector:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/maga...
Has anyone made a 1/4 inch jack to Lightning adapter yet?
Never mind the metal. Can anyone confirm that this laptop comes with military strength encryption? I'd also hope that for that price it's fitted with an ergonomic keyboard made from space age polymers, is protected by marine grade sealing, and features superfast wifi, audiophile speakers, and a True (We Really Mean It This Time) Ultra HD display.
Donald Trump: 'Think Big and Kick Ass in Business and Life'. To understand the 'thinking' behind the nightmarish dystopia you might be coding in for the next five years.
Well, it's better than Vista: https://xkcd.com/528/
The Power of Thor's Mighty Hammer? The Power of Greyskull?
"I mean I love my Apple Watch, but - it's taken us into a jewelry market where you're going to buy a watch between $500 or $1100 based on how important you think you are as a person. The only difference is the band in all those watches. Twenty watches from $500 to $1100. The band's the only difference? Well this isn't the company that Apple was originally, or the company that really changed the world a lot."
- Steve Wozniak
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/...
At least some of them seem to work in Affinity already:
https://affinity.serif.com/for...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Between 'Hey, use my proxy! Be anonymous!' and 'Hey, use my proxy! Pirate shit!'
Plausible deniability?
That said, I live out in the boonies nowadays and haven't experienced the DC metro for 8 or 10 years. But I recall it as being no worse than, and possibly a bit better than the Boston MTA, NYC subways, PATH, the Japanese subway and train systems, or the London underground. Has it changed?
I was in the DC area a lot about 15 years ago, and found the system much, much nicer to use to use than most of the London Underground or the NYC subway, with few technical problems. In 2013 I went back and had the alarming experience of sitting on a train that started to fill with acrid fumes as something began to burn, luckily while still at one of the above ground stations. Passengers in 2015 weren't so lucky, when a smoke incident in a tunnel caused a fatality. Decades of neglect, including inadequate cleaning and maintenance, seem to have taken their toll: https://www.washingtonpost.com...
even without a sim card you should get wifi and use NTP.
This is the answer, though you may need a rooted phone and a third party app like ClockSync to make it happen (claimed accuracy '~1-20ms'):
https://play.google.com/store/...
Support for HTTP live streaming on all platforms seems to be much more widely available than the list in the article suggests:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Surely robots only need 3 Laws?
The Russians had this back in the 80s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Input license number to view. Fixed!!
What worries me about this is that the BBC might enforce it by finally adding some effective DRM to iPlayer, breaking the excellent third party get_iplayer tool that is by far the best way of managing BBC programmes.
The summary and discussion is all about the technical problem of cracking UHD BD, but surely the interesting question is why Fengtao is making this announcement now. Are they being held at legal/political gunpoint? Is it a complete coincidence that Slysoft, maker of AnyDVD, has shut up shop this week with a similarly cryptic statement about 'recent regulatory requirements'?
Personally, I always observe the Shire Reckoning:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
So the point is why a desktop environment needs its own distro, rather than polishing debian/ubuntu upstream.
Mint isn't a single desktop distro, quite the reverse - the Ubuntu-based edition is available in MATE, Cinnamon, Xfce and KDE versions, and the Debian-based version in Cinnamon or MATE. It exists for much the same reason as any other distribution - the developers wanted to do something different to what was already out there, and their changes weren't limited to the DE (before Gnome 3 and Unity happened, Mint ran Gnome 2 like Ubuntu, but still had its own character).
It's what passes for trash talk from anonymous story contributors, a loaded question like 'when will the developers stop beating their wives?' Mint is not just Cinnamon, of course, and not all versions are even based on Ubuntu, 'broken' or otherwise. Mint fans might want to point out that Ubuntu-Mate, by far the best version of Ubuntu (see what I did there?), owes a great deal to Mint's support of the MATE desktop project...
Surely all the naughty pirates with any sense have already signed up to a VPN for their actual torrenting, making ISP-level tracker site blocks completely irrelevant?
The last wallet I bought claims to block RFID. I tested it at work and found that it blocked the POS reader in the coffee bar, but not the entry card reader on the door, which doesn't exactly inspire confidence. Perhaps the sort of low-powered device 'pickpockets' are likely to use would also be blocked, but there's no way to be sure. Do the manufacturers actually test these things?