They chose the rendering and display parameters, such as a line size of 3500 pixels, for the computing & display ease, or culteral bias, not because of relation to genetic structure. This is too simplistic. Does anyone really think that significant or important genetic patterns will show up when rendered as:
2 dimensionally
3500 points per display line
left to right
top to bottom
Sheesh. How about 3 dimensional spiral rendering or spherical or (for the "flat worlders") a cube? Granted, even with the present limitations, I can see some patterns in the data, but then I see Elvis at the Walmart. To paraphrase a famous astronomer : "The humane genome is not only weirder than we imagine, it's weirder than we can imagine".
I must be in the brainless zone today. I cannot find this highly publicized and promoted list of IP numbers. We got articles, we got links, but IP numbers? Ogg not find. Ogg feeling stupid. Embarrass family. Ogg need know if his IP number on list, even though he regularly change router's WAN ethernet number, get new IP from glomcast. Ogg spend much time nmapping spammers. Running nessus. Ogg probably on someone's list as troublemaker. Ogg not care. Tired of UEC not from wild boar.
Ask "What should I do?" when I plug in my (memory) stick.
..On the other hand...
My PC:
Can suggest new things to try.
Is always ready to go somewhere, and can usually suggest some interesting places.
Doesn't complain if I want to play computer games all weekend.
Will remind me of appointments without complaining that it shouldn't have to remind me of any gawddamn thing.
Doesn't bitch if the temperature is below 65 or above 75.
Doesn't go psycho if it sees a spider, wasp or mosquito.
Thinks the color of the room is just fine.
Lets me watch "American Chopper"
Doesn't complain that my hands are cold.
Probably knows the optimum arrangement for loading the dishwasher.
Is almost always "in the mood"
My PC doesn't:
Tell me on a weekly basis how f**ked up I am, and how I need therapy.
Tell me how screwy my family is, and how it's family is just wonderful.
Insist I get a 1 $Mil life insurance policy.
Stop running self-diagnostics when it discovers that it might have a problem.
Spend all day watching TV, then whine about how lonely and depressed it is.
Complain that it'll never meet anyone unless I introduce it to friends or co-workers, then say "I can't handle it" when I offer to arrange get-togethers with friends or co-workers.
Reformat it's disk because I lied to it.
Kick me out of the house for 3 months and accuse me of abuse because I didn't want to have anything to do with it for a while.
Drain the joint checking and savings accounts into it's own secret, private account.
What can I say about an administration who's entire eight years in office can be summed up by a bumper sticker or a couple lyrics from a song? Sheesh.
The change, it had to come We knew it all along We were liberated from the fold, that's all And the world looks just the same And history ain't changed 'Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war
I'll tip my hat to the new constitution Take a bow for the new revolution Smile and grin at the change all around Pick up my guitar and play Just like yesterday Then I'll get on my knees and pray We don't get fooled again
The major end user benefit (as I see it) of SCSI is command queueing and re-ordering. This allows a device to queue up commands from the host and execute them in a order more optimal to it's specific disk layout and current head position, as long as the re-ordered commands don't create data integrity problems. SAS can also do this. Another "benefit" of SCSI (from the OEM's point of view) is all the wonderful MODE SENSE/MODE SELECT crap. I work for (ahem) a disk drive company, and I've written SCSI drive code, and let me tell you, MODE SENSE/SELECT sucks. It is an enormous amount of work to implement (and test, and version control) especially all the customer-specific pages. It adds cost and time to the product, and doesn't really offer any benefit, other than the customer can get all kinds of obscure drive diagnostic info, and change the drive's configuration to make it perform worse. The diagnostic info doesn't do them any good because they don't know diddly about the subtleties of magnetic storage devices, and the drive is already configured for optimal performance. Why would we ship a non-optimal performing product given the availability of SE Asian alternatives?
The major benefit of SCSI from the drive vendor's point of view is the word "$C$I" itself. Anything within a stone's throw of the word "SCSI" suddenly becomes 2-3 times as expensive - it's like an Ebola virus for pricing. Higher prices lead to higher profit margins. This allows for whopping stock options and obscene bonuses for upper management, along with no-interest loans to those same execs to buy the options. And then the company goes and "forgives" the loans or misplaces the paperwork.
'Scuse me - the guy with the whip is coming back. I gotta go write code.
Star Trek misquote:
The Internet is a little bird tweeting in the meadow.
The Internet is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad.
Are your circuits registering correctly? Your root name servers are green!
...where Xen suffers is disk I/O. Anything that's disk intensive seems to eat up the CPU.
I don't understand why that would be. A disk is slow - glacial - by processor standards. The disk I/O subsystem should submit a request to the disk, then free up the kernel/system to go off and do other things. "other things" may eventually become "wait around for the disk subsystem", but I thought that would show up as idle time.
Re:"Circuit City sotres [sic] per capita"?!
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And where is the CompuUSA index? The RadioShack Index?
I didn't see any mention of the turbo in the referenced article (or a casual chase of Google links). If the main crank is turning at a relatively sedate 102 RPM, how fast is the turbo running?
Since the stuff can support the weight of a small family car, how about a set of tires with Synth-o-setae (tm) on the treads? Traffic across the bay too much for ya? Drive across the underside of a bridge. Lot full? Park on the side of that building. And someone finally gets to prove that their Hummer really can "climb a tree".
Let me take this line of reasoning a bit further. You think that people should not be upset with the:
Land-mine manufacturers or dealers
crack cocaine or heroin manufacturers or dealers
orphan child sex slave dealers
stolen fissile material dealers
identity info thieves or dealers
because they're not doing anything wrong (it's just business). But we should be unhappy with
some African dictator. (He laughs at your displeasure)
an addict. (she is too busy selling her ass to score a hit to worry about your bs)
a Thailand visitor out looking for a bj (he'll IM you in the morning)
Kim Il Jong (A press release announces that he is most pleased with events)
yet another Russian mafia thug (you should be unhappy - he just drained your 401k)
Here's the deal, in cause you've missed it - processing spam takes time. That's my time. My personal time. My time on this earth is limited, irreplacable, and is therefore valuable (to me). So for me, spam is theft. IMHO, the correct reaction for the truely enlightened would be to turn the other cheek, but I'm not there yet, so my desire would be to take from the spammers. To take something of value, something irreplacable. Since I can't fulfil this desire, I have to let someone else settle the score, that way I can get on with the rest of my life, which is now that much shorter.
Your conclusion states, more or less, that if people weren't buying anything, there wouldn't be any advertising. I'm pretty sure that humans were buying, selling, trading, and bartering long before there was advertising. These days, cigarette advertising is severely restricted (at least in the US), but people still seem to be buying cigarettes. Advertising fulfills a need of the seller, not the buyer. A spammer forcing me to deal with an advertisement is like someone bringing their dog over to leave big steaming heap on my porch - Yea I don't have to do anything with it, but it ain't going away by itself. There may be people who actually like doggy doo on the threshold, and you're saying it's their fault. All I know is, blame or no blame, I can't use my front door.
A good sniper could take out these suckers from 1000 yards. "Oops! Sorry Mr. South Korea! Very much accident. Cleaning rifle and it go off! Ha Ha! Good thing no one hurt. Not happen again! Haha. Ok bye." And what would a powerful laser do to the vision systems? These acts are not intended as a prelude to invasion, but just to make life expensive for the robot owner.
This ranks right up there with burning down a forest because someone wants a spotted owl as a pet, or owning a humvee. I feel sad those who can justify the waste of natural resources for the sake of ego.
I have installed an omnimorphic macro trojan key logger virus daemon on your parent's computer. It will add 47 strokes to your dad's golf score and change his Viagra prescription to aspirin. It modify your mom's recipes so that everything tastes like Chef Boy R/D. It will call the White House and make silly noises. It will break into the state's electronic voting machines and submit 67 million votes against Social Security and Medicade reform. It will send insulting email and bjornographic spam to everyone on your parent's email list. It will attack the Vatican web site with the pink-of-doom. Woe unto those who fear not the evil juan.
I'm betting that power consumption on a 30kRPM would be "high". Make that "really high". Even if the platters were essentially weightless, the motor components require power to spin. Current 15k and 18k RPM drives gobble many watts and run hot.
And all those heads jammed in next to each other? A head, especially one that has to follow a 30kRPM wobblin' taco, requires a complicated gimbal suspension mechanism and arm. These things all take up space, which is in tight supply with 10 disks in a 1/4" high package. And putting R/W heads in close proximity can lead to crosstalk -- writting data on the platter "under" the head (the one you want to write to) can degrade the data already written to the platter over the head.
You were expecting a Jessica Simpson or Dolly Parton joke perhaps? Hah!
Anyway, a co-worker had some manufacturer's 20 or 21 incher in his office about 6 months ago. It had at least 3 fans in it, and the display (upper half) was glass-faced. A piece of glass that big is heavy, especially in comparison to the bottom half. Opened up (using it like you would use a laptop), it was always in danger of tipping over.
This makes sense. The gov't itself sets a fine example - the Dept of Treasure takes back old, worn-out currency (money) and disposes of it. Come to think of it, the entire US government is dedicated to disposing of money....
In any case, let's see if our legislators have the yarbles to require that these rules also apply to:
Nuclear reactor fuel
Landmines
Depleted uranium ordnance
Automobiles
Tom Cruise
Prophylactics
Beer
Probably not. Legislative gonads are reserved for the pages...
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- 2 dimensionally
- 3500 points per display line
- left to right
- top to bottom
Sheesh. How about 3 dimensional spiral rendering or spherical or (for the "flat worlders") a cube? Granted, even with the present limitations, I can see some patterns in the data, but then I see Elvis at the Walmart. To paraphrase a famous astronomer : "The humane genome is not only weirder than we imagine, it's weirder than we can imagine".I must be in the brainless zone today. I cannot find this highly publicized and promoted list of IP numbers. We got articles, we got links, but IP numbers? Ogg not find. Ogg feeling stupid. Embarrass family. Ogg need know if his IP number on list, even though he regularly change router's WAN ethernet number, get new IP from glomcast. Ogg spend much time nmapping spammers. Running nessus. Ogg probably on someone's list as troublemaker. Ogg not care. Tired of UEC not from wild boar.
- Takes care of the bills
- Will occasionally clean the cat box.
- Fixes me a meal a couple times a year.
- Encourages me to try new things.
My SO doesn't..On the other hand...
My PC:
- Can suggest new things to try.
- Is always ready to go somewhere, and can usually suggest some interesting places.
- Doesn't complain if I want to play computer games all weekend.
- Will remind me of appointments without complaining that it shouldn't have to remind me of any gawddamn thing.
- Doesn't bitch if the temperature is below 65 or above 75.
- Doesn't go psycho if it sees a spider, wasp or mosquito.
- Thinks the color of the room is just fine.
- Lets me watch "American Chopper"
- Doesn't complain that my hands are cold.
- Probably knows the optimum arrangement for loading the dishwasher.
- Is almost always "in the mood"
My PC doesn't:The major benefit of SCSI from the drive vendor's point of view is the word "$C$I" itself. Anything within a stone's throw of the word "SCSI" suddenly becomes 2-3 times as expensive - it's like an Ebola virus for pricing. Higher prices lead to higher profit margins. This allows for whopping stock options and obscene bonuses for upper management, along with no-interest loans to those same execs to buy the options. And then the company goes and "forgives" the loans or misplaces the paperwork.
'Scuse me - the guy with the whip is coming back. I gotta go write code.
The Internet is a wreath of pretty flowers which smell bad.
Are your circuits registering correctly? Your root name servers are green!
I don't understand why that would be. A disk is slow - glacial - by processor standards. The disk I/O subsystem should submit a request to the disk, then free up the kernel/system to go off and do other things. "other things" may eventually become "wait around for the disk subsystem", but I thought that would show up as idle time.
At least gimme a Fry's index, although some people would consider that "points off".
I didn't see any mention of the turbo in the referenced article (or a casual chase of Google links). If the main crank is turning at a relatively sedate 102 RPM, how fast is the turbo running?
Not that you're going to get what you want....
SED made the list, but not my favorite, "I ain't buyin a TV until it's" OLED
Since the stuff can support the weight of a small family car, how about a set of tires with Synth-o-setae (tm) on the treads? Traffic across the bay too much for ya? Drive across the underside of a bridge. Lot full? Park on the side of that building. And someone finally gets to prove that their Hummer really can "climb a tree".
Yea? Mine's cooler -- it's powered by Duke Nukem Forever promos.
So what is this? The Spanish Inquisition? Obviously - according to my wife all our furniture is uncomfortable.
- Land-mine manufacturers or dealers
- crack cocaine or heroin manufacturers or dealers
- orphan child sex slave dealers
- stolen fissile material dealers
- identity info thieves or dealers
because they're not doing anything wrong (it's just business). But we should be unhappy withHere's the deal, in cause you've missed it - processing spam takes time. That's my time. My personal time. My time on this earth is limited, irreplacable, and is therefore valuable (to me). So for me, spam is theft. IMHO, the correct reaction for the truely enlightened would be to turn the other cheek, but I'm not there yet, so my desire would be to take from the spammers. To take something of value, something irreplacable. Since I can't fulfil this desire, I have to let someone else settle the score, that way I can get on with the rest of my life, which is now that much shorter.
Your conclusion states, more or less, that if people weren't buying anything, there wouldn't be any advertising. I'm pretty sure that humans were buying, selling, trading, and bartering long before there was advertising. These days, cigarette advertising is severely restricted (at least in the US), but people still seem to be buying cigarettes. Advertising fulfills a need of the seller, not the buyer. A spammer forcing me to deal with an advertisement is like someone bringing their dog over to leave big steaming heap on my porch - Yea I don't have to do anything with it, but it ain't going away by itself. There may be people who actually like doggy doo on the threshold, and you're saying it's their fault. All I know is, blame or no blame, I can't use my front door.
A good sniper could take out these suckers from 1000 yards. "Oops! Sorry Mr. South Korea! Very much accident. Cleaning rifle and it go off! Ha Ha! Good thing no one hurt. Not happen again! Haha. Ok bye." And what would a powerful laser do to the vision systems? These acts are not intended as a prelude to invasion, but just to make life expensive for the robot owner.
This ranks right up there with burning down a forest because someone wants a spotted owl as a pet, or owning a humvee. I feel sad those who can justify the waste of natural resources for the sake of ego.
I have installed an omnimorphic macro trojan key logger virus daemon on your parent's computer. It will add 47 strokes to your dad's golf score and change his Viagra prescription to aspirin. It modify your mom's recipes so that everything tastes like Chef Boy R/D. It will call the White House and make silly noises. It will break into the state's electronic voting machines and submit 67 million votes against Social Security and Medicade reform. It will send insulting email and bjornographic spam to everyone on your parent's email list. It will attack the Vatican web site with the pink-of-doom. Woe unto those who fear not the evil juan.
And all those heads jammed in next to each other? A head, especially one that has to follow a 30kRPM wobblin' taco, requires a complicated gimbal suspension mechanism and arm. These things all take up space, which is in tight supply with 10 disks in a 1/4" high package. And putting R/W heads in close proximity can lead to crosstalk -- writting data on the platter "under" the head (the one you want to write to) can degrade the data already written to the platter over the head.
Anyway, a co-worker had some manufacturer's 20 or 21 incher in his office about 6 months ago. It had at least 3 fans in it, and the display (upper half) was glass-faced. A piece of glass that big is heavy, especially in comparison to the bottom half. Opened up (using it like you would use a laptop), it was always in danger of tipping over.
In any case, let's see if our legislators have the yarbles to require that these rules also apply to:
- Nuclear reactor fuel
- Landmines
- Depleted uranium ordnance
- Automobiles
- Tom Cruise
- Prophylactics
- Beer
Probably not. Legislative gonads are reserved for the pages...Microsoft's solution is a combination of hardware and software. Here is a photo of the main hardware component of the top secret browser shield.