"Fortunately, Sulston won the last round and the HGP is freely accessible..."
Before Celera existed, the public HGP was already going to be freely accessible as a consequence of the Bermuda Accord and taxpayer funding (does that make it noble or just obligatory?). In the end, Celera gave away its assemblies (they're in GenBank) and its genome assembly software (it's in sourceforge (GPL)) (was that obligatory?).
I haven't read the patent application associated with his synthetic genome work, but I encourage people not to assume it is overbroad.
BTW, search uspto.gov for patents listing "venter, j craig" as an inventor & then do the same for "collins, francis" (head of the public HGP). Guess who has more patents?
Bottom line - it's about rpms, specific to your engine, not speed.
I have a Civic hybrid and squeezed out 57mpg for a tank, mostly driving early morning/late night, which allowed me to speed up (a lot) on downhills and slow down (a lot) on uphills. Not a sociable (or very safe) way to drive, but very fuel efficient.
So, fast down/slow up isn't a practical policy solution & evidence for speed limits is equivocal. What's left? I like the idea of mandatory dashboard display of instantaneous & average mpgs on new cars.
The IBM 350 cabinet was 60x68x29 inches and the drive had a 4.4MB capacity.
My Sony Micro Vault Tiny USB drive is 1 1/4 x 9/16 x 1/8 inches and has a 4GB capacity.
9/16 of the 1 1/4 inch length is plug. But ignoring that, the USB drive is 1.2 billion times more space efficient than the IBM 350.
Equivalently, an IBM 350-size cabinet with a capacity of almost 5.4 petabytes would be as space efficient as the USB drive - and somewhat harder to misplace.
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"Fortunately, Sulston won the last round and the HGP is freely accessible..."
Before Celera existed, the public HGP was already going to be freely accessible as a consequence of the Bermuda Accord and taxpayer funding (does that make it noble or just obligatory?). In the end, Celera gave away its assemblies (they're in GenBank) and its genome assembly software (it's in sourceforge (GPL)) (was that obligatory?).
I haven't read the patent application associated with his synthetic genome work, but I encourage people not to assume it is overbroad.
BTW, search uspto.gov for patents listing "venter, j craig" as an inventor & then do the same for "collins, francis" (head of the public HGP). Guess who has more patents?
Bottom line - it's about rpms, specific to your engine, not speed. I have a Civic hybrid and squeezed out 57mpg for a tank, mostly driving early morning/late night, which allowed me to speed up (a lot) on downhills and slow down (a lot) on uphills. Not a sociable (or very safe) way to drive, but very fuel efficient. So, fast down/slow up isn't a practical policy solution & evidence for speed limits is equivocal. What's left? I like the idea of mandatory dashboard display of instantaneous & average mpgs on new cars.
The IBM 350 cabinet was 60x68x29 inches and the drive had a 4.4MB capacity.
My Sony Micro Vault Tiny USB drive is 1 1/4 x 9/16 x 1/8 inches and has a 4GB capacity.
9/16 of the 1 1/4 inch length is plug. But ignoring that, the USB drive is 1.2 billion times more space efficient than the IBM 350.
Equivalently, an IBM 350-size cabinet with a capacity of almost 5.4 petabytes would be as space efficient as the USB drive - and somewhat harder to misplace.
Seems like the Wikipedia elite have taken Asimov's Foundation Series (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Foundation_Series) way too seriously and watch Survivor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_(TV_series)) way too much.
Jimbo & co.: Please reflect on and return to the original spirit and intent of Wikipedia. Or are the roots also riddled with conspiracies?