Of course Introns do SOMETHING (probably lots of different things) important. We just don't know what.
The guy may be clever to get a broad patent in the sense that it will allow him to collect $$$ for more stuff he hasn't thought of. But it is silly to let him parasitise other people with DIFFERENT good ideas for comparing and measuring introns in order to find out what they do. He ought to be granted only a patent on something specific that he publishes in detail in his patent.
I have a patent! Invest in my idea you don't understand ( under breath: neither do i ) if you don't invest in my new technology you will miss out on the massive returns promised! Look at all the kewl ideas that have brought riches galore for investors. ( under breath: and all the thousands more dumb ideas that were nothing but hype ) you'd be a fool not to invest in my idea and give me a juicy position as it's lead architect!
First of all his patent is overly broad. It applies to any attempt to measure and compare introns. How can that be unless he tells us every concievable way to measure and compare introns. That's patently silly ( pun intended )
Secondly, a heart could be thought of as a three dimensional picture made of atoms which are analogous to pixels. The genes that define how to make a heart and keep it functioning are merely a coding scheme ( like jpg ). While there are 'fractal' compression algorithms, they are not radically better than conventional coding schemes except maybe in some special instances. They may be faster or slower or better at compression or worse. There are tradeoffs. The 'formula' for the psychedelic fractals you see on posters may look complicated for having been drawn by a formula like x1 = x^2 + c but they actually are simple ideas repeated ad infinitum.
A heart has some repetitive features ( like cells ) but there is alot of innate complexity in the structure that can not be factored out easily. It has in information theory terms a certain entropy that means it can only be compressed just so far. The compressed heart code ( ie it's fractal formula ) may be very complicated and have as many bytes( or codons ) as other algorithms for encoding biological information.
it is even possible that we have evolved many different coding algorithms and that different introns and exons are in different 'file formats' so to speak.
They ought to make a Star Trek style series to nowhere out of what's left of the Star Wars beast. They could set it in the EU ( that's Expanded Universe not European Union ) and have Jedi wars w/ those intergalactic bio-invader dudes.
Very longwinded Very boring. Only such rambling could hide something like an ID card initiative. I couldn't find the initiative in the somnulence that was that speech.. My endurance was just not powerful enough to see through the fog..
I use Joe for word processing for one reason: it's CTRL-K-J command that reformats entire paragraphs for you. I use VI for everything else though. VI sux for word processing though because it does not wrap your text inserting newline characters for you when you type past the end of a line and if you do it yourself adding text to the middle of a paragraph is a bitch. That's why I use Joe for wordprocessing.
With this firearm, I will shoot Evil Cathode Rays and cook your balls. Then I will put an egg in your mouth and Cathode Irradiate it until the egg explodes blowing your frikken jaw off. Then I will shoot EVIL CATHODE RAYS at your BRAIN and you will turn green. If I keep it up, your head will do much what the egg did -- explode, after squirting your cooked eyes out of their sockets and shooting blood out yourars and nose. But since I will stop before that happens, when you've started to turn green, you will walk the night for eternity as a Zombie eating people's brains.
I hate car parts that were never meant to come off, like clips that were made to be clipped but always break if you try to unclip them. I get really ticked off when I find 'disposable' crap like this on my vehicles. Yet people are built that way.. I tell ya the factory just want's to sell more people, they don't care if ya an fix it when it breaks...
My friend's cat had the ball of her femur ( the part that sticks into the hip socket ) busted off by a BIG BAD BABY. The vet did something where he made a sling for it with the muscle and now the cat jumps and frolicks and plays happily and pain free. I wonder if they do that wit people?
The sad thing is that many morons wouldn't know what to do with a PDF since they have never heard of Adobe. The way to send docs so you know other people can read them is ( Yikes ) MSWord. ( or HTML if there are no pictures or you know they have a net connection when reading it.)
I'm sorry, but bash sux compared to good olde Korn shell rulez.
I don't like the funny switches you have to use to get the prompt you want in bash, and it's bigger than it has to be.
I never bothered to learn csh/tcsh because Borne shell is what all the scripts are written in, and frankly tcsh doen't do anything that's particularly cool for me.
I'm sorry, but bash sux compared to good olde Korn shell rulez.
I don't like the funny switches you have to use to get the prompt you want in bash, and it's bigger than it has to be.
I never bothered to learn csh/tcsh because Borne shell is what all the scripts are written in, and frankly tcsh doen't do anything that's particularly cool for me.
Right. No voting system is fair, but voters know this and can vote strategically to compensate if the rules are simple enough for them to know what strategies work.
In a plurality vote, voting for a third party candidate who is your first choice can make your second choice lose to your most hated candidate. BUT, voting for a third party candidate also lets you voice your preferences if you believe that your issues are being ignored by the major party candidates. Voting third party is a a risk. You bet that the second choice candidate will still win even if you vote third party. You, by not voting for them make them have to work harder to make up your lost vote. When it becomes easier to cater to your wishes in order to get your vote back than it is to make up your vote from campaigning to other sources, the second choice major party may include some of
the issues that are important to you in their platform.
However, in a really close race, voters know that the risk of electing the least preferred candidate goes up more if they vote third party than if the race was not close. In such a race they may not vote third party, or possibly the issues that the third party stands for are so important that the voter is willing to demand that they be addressed even if it means that their least favorite candidate will win.
In the US, there is not too much difference between Democrats and Republicans. They both try to build as big a coalition as possible by choosing issues that will attract the most voters, It's almost like a draft pick, you take pro-choice, I'll take family values. You take gun control, I'll take war on drugs. You take programs + highter taxes, I'll take no more programs and give you back half the money but spend the rest of it on the war on drugs. Most people find that one of the parties appeals to them more than the other and swallow the rest of the stuff they don't agree with to get the stuff that's most important to them.
A pro-lifer religious right person might vote Republican but not want their food stamps to be cut since they need them to feed the six kids they had before age 20. A lasez faire capitalist might vote republican even though he is atheist/pro-choice and thinks pot should be legalized because he doens't want to be taxed to pay for welfare for the f*ckups who used to beat him up at school when he was a kid, or he might have despised every social worker/eduactor/gov't paid parent he ever met and wants school vouchers so at least you can fire a school department that is worthless.
These same people might vote democratic if the issue's the democrat's have grabbed were more important to them.
Voting third party over issues is a powerful way to advertise the importance of that issue to you. If you would let your second favorite candidate lose over that issue it pretty much says to candidates that if they take up that issue they are guaranteed your vote.
In more complicated voting systems the consequences of vaoting strategies are more confusing. You might think that in a ranked system that you should vote for your favorite first thinking that your vote will automatically be converted to your second favorite and you will have your say. But if your second favorite is elimated from the first round of voting because of lack of first place choices, then your vote would actually be converted to your third place vote. Better to vote for your second favorte if you think your fave has no chance of winning. Borda count makes it even harder to understand voting strategy.
Under approval voting, voting for both your first and second favorite candidates would merely say that you wish they'd take up your issue but you are voting for them too anyway. If you vote for them anyway why should they alienate voters that dissagree with you by taking up your issue? You would be forced to select only one choice ( or only choices that reflect your issue stance ) to put teeth into your demand for that issue to be addressed. Your voting strategy would be the same as for the existing plurality vote.
So why confuse people with approval voting into thinking they are making a protest when they are not? Why NOT force voters to put their money where their mouth is since that is the only way they will have an effect?
Because it is simple, the existing plurality voting system is best. People aren't confused and are able, with simple voting strategies, to compensate well for it's inherent flaws.
Sure some tasks in graphic design and in the film industry need supercomputer level horsepower for short period of time, but most people don't need that sort of power ever. There are also security questions that ppl might have about putting their sensitive data on multiuser systems.
I once thought about the possibility of getting a book of blank parchment pages bound in the skin of a pig ( use the facial skin and artfully make the eye hole look human ).
Then I would find some red ink that dried a reddish brown like blood. And get people to sign their souls over to me to be turned over to Satan in exchange for favors in Hell.
I would pay them $1.00 to $5.00 to sign their souls over and give them my card. They would not take me seriously, thinking I was a sucker to pay $1.00 to $5.00 for their John Hancock. They don't believe in souls and the Devil anyway..
But every few years I would call the people on the list and identify myself as the man to whom they sold their soul. I would ask them spooky questions about what they thought hell would be like etc.
Most would hang up, but some, maybe the recently religious or those with doubts and fears for eternity could be extorted to pay me maybe $500-$5000 to have me cross their name from the rolls of the damned.
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You don't have to fence in the whole state to grow peaches on 40 acres which is what this guy is doing.
The guy may be clever to get a broad patent in the sense that it will allow him to collect $$$ for more stuff he hasn't thought of. But it is silly to let him parasitise other people with DIFFERENT good ideas for comparing and measuring introns in order to find out what they do. He ought to be granted only a patent on something specific that he publishes in detail in his patent.
I have a patent! Invest in my idea you don't understand ( under breath: neither do i ) if you don't invest in my new technology you will miss out on the massive returns promised! Look at all the kewl ideas that have brought riches galore for investors. ( under breath: and all the thousands more dumb ideas that were nothing but hype ) you'd be a fool not to invest in my idea and give me a juicy position as it's lead architect!
First of all his patent is overly broad. It applies to any attempt to measure and compare introns. How can that be unless he tells us every concievable way to measure and compare introns. That's patently silly ( pun intended )
Secondly, a heart could be thought of as a three dimensional picture made of atoms which are analogous to pixels. The genes that define how to make a heart and keep it functioning are merely a coding scheme ( like jpg ). While there are 'fractal' compression algorithms, they are not radically better than conventional coding schemes except maybe in some special instances. They may be faster or slower or better at compression or worse. There are tradeoffs. The 'formula' for the psychedelic fractals you see on posters may look complicated for having been drawn by a formula like x1 = x^2 + c but they actually are simple ideas repeated ad infinitum.
A heart has some repetitive features ( like cells ) but there is alot of innate complexity in the structure that can not be factored out easily. It has in information theory terms a certain entropy that means it can only be compressed just so far. The compressed heart code ( ie it's fractal formula ) may be very complicated and have as many bytes( or codons ) as other algorithms for encoding biological information.
it is even possible that we have evolved many different coding algorithms and that different introns and exons are in different 'file formats' so to speak.
Tuck's medicated pads: clears up assteroids without the need for thermonuclear weapons.
I heard ( A sciam article I think ) that all the computers in existance put together equal approximately the processing power of a mouse brain.
Shmaa Shmaa Shmaa....
They ought to make a Star Trek style series to nowhere out of what's left of the Star Wars beast. They could set it in the EU ( that's Expanded Universe not European Union ) and have Jedi wars w/ those intergalactic bio-invader dudes.
A jedi invasion of TV Land has begun. We must neutralize this threat before the borg assimilate them and all is lost.. Shma Shma Shmaa...
Very longwinded Very boring. Only such rambling could hide something like an ID card initiative. I couldn't find the initiative in the somnulence that was that speech .. My endurance was just not powerful enough to see through the fog..
Read down in the article. They start talking about some 4000 year old ice mummy that was possibly a 'cyborg'. That paper will print any tripe.
I use Joe for word processing for one reason: it's CTRL-K-J command that reformats entire paragraphs for you. I use VI for everything else though. VI sux for word processing though because it does not wrap your text inserting newline characters for you when you type past the end of a line and if you do it yourself adding text to the middle of a paragraph is a bitch. That's why I use Joe for wordprocessing.
I went back in time and infected them with the flu. They all died.
With this firearm, I will shoot Evil Cathode Rays and cook your balls. Then I will put an egg in your mouth and Cathode Irradiate it until the egg explodes blowing your frikken jaw off. Then I will shoot EVIL CATHODE RAYS at your BRAIN and you will turn green. If I keep it up, your head will do much what the egg did -- explode, after squirting your cooked eyes out of their sockets and shooting blood out yourars and nose. But since I will stop before that happens, when you've started to turn green, you will walk the night for eternity as a Zombie eating people's brains.
I want one of these "Lasers" for my "Moon base" on the dark side of Youranus.
I hate car parts that were never meant to come off, like clips that were made to be clipped but always break if you try to unclip them. I get really ticked off when I find 'disposable' crap like this on my vehicles. Yet people are built that way.. I tell ya the factory just want's to sell more people, they don't care if ya an fix it when it breaks...
My friend's cat had the ball of her femur ( the part that sticks into the hip socket ) busted off by a BIG BAD BABY. The vet did something where he made a sling for it with the muscle and now the cat jumps and frolicks and plays happily and pain free. I wonder if they do that wit people?
The sad thing is that many morons wouldn't know what to do with a PDF since they have never heard of Adobe. The way to send docs so you know other people can read them is ( Yikes ) MSWord. ( or HTML if there are no pictures or you know they have a net connection when reading it.)
I'm sorry, but bash sux compared to good olde Korn shell rulez.
I don't like the funny switches you have to use to get the prompt you want in bash, and it's bigger than it has to be.
I never bothered to learn csh/tcsh because Borne shell is what all the scripts are written in, and frankly tcsh doen't do anything that's particularly cool for me.
Plus bash always beeps and does wierd thinks.
PDKSH all the way. Download it.
I don't like the funny switches you have to use to get the prompt you want in bash, and it's bigger than it has to be.
I never bothered to learn csh/tcsh because Borne shell is what all the scripts are written in, and frankly tcsh doen't do anything that's particularly cool for me.
Plus bash always beeps and does wierd thinks.
PDKSH all the way. Download it.
In a plurality vote, voting for a third party candidate who is your first choice can make your second choice lose to your most hated candidate. BUT, voting for a third party candidate also lets you voice your preferences if you believe that your issues are being ignored by the major party candidates. Voting third party is a a risk. You bet that the second choice candidate will still win even if you vote third party. You, by not voting for them make them have to work harder to make up your lost vote. When it becomes easier to cater to your wishes in order to get your vote back than it is to make up your vote from campaigning to other sources, the second choice major party may include some of the issues that are important to you in their platform.
However, in a really close race, voters know that the risk of electing the least preferred candidate goes up more if they vote third party than if the race was not close. In such a race they may not vote third party, or possibly the issues that the third party stands for are so important that the voter is willing to demand that they be addressed even if it means that their least favorite candidate will win.
In the US, there is not too much difference between Democrats and Republicans. They both try to build as big a coalition as possible by choosing issues that will attract the most voters, It's almost like a draft pick, you take pro-choice, I'll take family values. You take gun control, I'll take war on drugs. You take programs + highter taxes, I'll take no more programs and give you back half the money but spend the rest of it on the war on drugs. Most people find that one of the parties appeals to them more than the other and swallow the rest of the stuff they don't agree with to get the stuff that's most important to them.
A pro-lifer religious right person might vote Republican but not want their food stamps to be cut since they need them to feed the six kids they had before age 20. A lasez faire capitalist might vote republican even though he is atheist/pro-choice and thinks pot should be legalized because he doens't want to be taxed to pay for welfare for the f*ckups who used to beat him up at school when he was a kid, or he might have despised every social worker/eduactor/gov't paid parent he ever met and wants school vouchers so at least you can fire a school department that is worthless.
These same people might vote democratic if the issue's the democrat's have grabbed were more important to them. Voting third party over issues is a powerful way to advertise the importance of that issue to you. If you would let your second favorite candidate lose over that issue it pretty much says to candidates that if they take up that issue they are guaranteed your vote.
In more complicated voting systems the consequences of vaoting strategies are more confusing. You might think that in a ranked system that you should vote for your favorite first thinking that your vote will automatically be converted to your second favorite and you will have your say. But if your second favorite is elimated from the first round of voting because of lack of first place choices, then your vote would actually be converted to your third place vote. Better to vote for your second favorte if you think your fave has no chance of winning. Borda count makes it even harder to understand voting strategy.
Under approval voting, voting for both your first and second favorite candidates would merely say that you wish they'd take up your issue but you are voting for them too anyway. If you vote for them anyway why should they alienate voters that dissagree with you by taking up your issue? You would be forced to select only one choice ( or only choices that reflect your issue stance ) to put teeth into your demand for that issue to be addressed. Your voting strategy would be the same as for the existing plurality vote.
So why confuse people with approval voting into thinking they are making a protest when they are not? Why NOT force voters to put their money where their mouth is since that is the only way they will have an effect?
Because it is simple, the existing plurality voting system is best. People aren't confused and are able, with simple voting strategies, to compensate well for it's inherent flaws.
Sure some tasks in graphic design and in the film industry need supercomputer level horsepower for short period of time, but most people don't need that sort of power ever. There are also security questions that ppl might have about putting their sensitive data on multiuser systems.
That planet's a sewer no matter how you look at it.
I'll have to moon yours.
I once thought about the possibility of getting a book of blank parchment pages bound in the skin of a pig ( use the facial skin and artfully make the eye hole look human ).
Then I would find some red ink that dried a reddish brown like blood. And get people to sign their souls over to me to be turned over to Satan in exchange for favors in Hell.
I would pay them $1.00 to $5.00 to sign their souls over and give them my card. They would not take me seriously, thinking I was a sucker to pay $1.00 to $5.00 for their John Hancock. They don't believe in souls and the Devil anyway..
But every few years I would call the people on the list and identify myself as the man to whom they sold their soul. I would ask them spooky questions about what they thought hell would be like etc.
Most would hang up, but some, maybe the recently religious or those with doubts and fears for eternity could be extorted to pay me maybe $500-$5000 to have me cross their name from the rolls of the damned.
Moo haa haa haa!!!