Data storage. You could retrieve a hell of a lot of data this way, assuming you could sequence a DNA strand fast enough. Even if it was only read-only, it would still be pretty cool.
wrt to the research skill/teaching ability correlation, I think you'll find the reverse is more likely to be true: If you're extremely intelligent, and deeply immersed in your field, I imagine it must be quite hard to 'think down' to the level of someone who's not quite as bright/a beginner: You might not be able to see why something even needed to be explained, as to you it would just be 'trivially obvious' - you might not even know _how_ to explain something that just became clear to you in a flash of insight.
Not strictly true, actually it's the underlying C localtime (or gmtime call), or rather the definition of 'struct tm' in time.h [or equivalent], on which the return list from localtime/gmtime is based. It could be written in C, or Perl, or just about anything that uses struct tm or a data structure based on it.
"This may also force the cable companies to finally get their act together."
I think there's at least as much pressure in the other direction, what with cablemodem rollout starting for NTL companies next month [in this area anyway, or at least that's what we've heard]: BT have basically been holding back ADSL to milk as much money out of ISDN and leased lines as possible... and then there's the Nortel DPL thing starting soo too - it's about time we got some decent 24x7 bandwidth at less than exorbitant prices....
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It doesn't help that Software+, EB and Game all said they "wouldn't be stocking any linux games"
You had poor parents, eh? Lucky. The other trick is to get them to get a divorce, apparently then you get a full grant. Not that I had any luck with that. By the way, did you get your kippered herring with the university crest on it yet?
They must have really improved it since version 3 then if it doesn't produce a mangled, horrible, bloated mess of unneccessarily nested tables, random font tags and table cells with widths that are just plain wrong then. I've had to deal with it before, and apart from the fact that the bletcherous piece of software produced unreadable, monstrously bloated HTML, it thoroughly mangled any forms it came across to. I still have flashbacks today. It was horrible. Brr. Get a text editor and learn HTML. You'll save yourself a lot of grief.
"Do you really know or do you just say that on faith? Yes of course you do"...
There's a difference between "just saying that on faith" and observing people's behaviour and drawing your own conclusions. I could be wrong, or I could be right - I happen to think my point of view is more self consistent than any religion that's ever been pitched to me: Speaking of saying things "on faith" - you seem pretty certain of how and what I think - I assume you've got a direct line to my subconscious...
[Just in case you do... where did I leave my keys? I can't remember...]
"cyberspace is the opposite of the spiritual.cyberspace is a vast consensual delusion manufactured out of bits of silicon and electrical signals."
"religion is a vast consensual(ish) delusion manufactured out of bits of carbon and electrochemical signals"
That part doesn't seem to hold up so well:)
I think it's just part of the age old pattern: Random things [that people don't understand very well] happen, people can't cope with the idea that life is arbitrary and chaotic, people try to find order/meaning where there isn't any, people cook up the most bizarre ideas, and then cling to them desperately. .
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Data storage. You could retrieve a hell of a lot of data this way, assuming you could sequence a DNA strand fast enough. Even if it was only read-only, it would still be pretty cool.
wrt to the research skill/teaching ability correlation, I think you'll find the reverse is more likely to be true: If you're extremely intelligent, and deeply immersed in your field, I imagine it must be quite hard to 'think down' to the level of someone who's not quite as bright/a beginner: You might not be able to see why something even needed to be explained, as to you it would just be 'trivially obvious' - you might not even know _how_ to explain something that just became clear to you in a flash of insight.
Not strictly true, actually it's the underlying C localtime (or gmtime call), or rather
the definition of 'struct tm' in time.h [or equivalent], on which the return list from localtime/gmtime is based. It could be written in C, or Perl, or just about anything that uses struct tm or a data structure based on it.
"This may also force the cable companies to finally get their act together."
I think there's at least as much pressure in the other direction, what with cablemodem rollout starting for NTL companies next month [in this area anyway, or at least that's what we've heard]: BT have basically been holding back ADSL to milk as much money out of ISDN and leased lines as possible... and then there's the Nortel DPL thing starting soo too - it's about time we got some decent 24x7 bandwidth at less than exorbitant prices....
It doesn't help that Software+, EB and Game all said they "wouldn't be stocking any linux games"
You had poor parents, eh? Lucky. The other trick is to get them to get a divorce, apparently then you get a full grant. Not that I had any luck with that. By the way, did you get your kippered herring with the university crest on it yet?
They must have really improved it since version 3 then if it doesn't produce a mangled, horrible, bloated mess of unneccessarily nested tables, random font tags and table cells with widths that are just plain wrong then. I've had to deal with it before, and apart from the fact that the bletcherous piece of software produced unreadable, monstrously bloated HTML, it thoroughly mangled any forms it came across to. I still have flashbacks today. It was horrible. Brr. Get a text editor and learn HTML. You'll save yourself a lot of grief.
"Do you really know or do you just say that
on faith? Yes of course you do"...
There's a difference between "just saying that on faith" and observing people's behaviour and drawing your own conclusions. I could be wrong, or I could be right - I happen to think my point of view is more self consistent than any religion that's ever been pitched to me: Speaking of saying things "on faith" - you seem pretty certain of how and what I think - I assume you've got a direct line to my subconscious...
[Just in case you do... where did I leave my keys? I can't remember...]
"this is so much garbage"
:)
I'm inclined to agree. However:
"cyberspace is the opposite of the
spiritual.cyberspace is a vast consensual
delusion manufactured out of bits of silicon
and electrical signals."
"religion is a vast consensual(ish) delusion
manufactured out of bits of carbon and
electrochemical signals"
That part doesn't seem to hold up so well
I think it's just part of the age old pattern:
Random things [that people don't understand very well] happen, people can't cope with the idea that life is arbitrary and chaotic, people try to find order/meaning where there isn't any, people cook up the most bizarre ideas, and then cling to them desperately. .
Sounds good... shame about the 'Great Big Hammer of Morality (tm)' though... anyone have any idea if/when the series might get aired in the UK?
Personally, I always liked the 'wheel of morality':
Wheel of morality , turn turn turn, tell us the lesson that we must learn... and the moral of today's story is...