I don't see anything illogical about this. Try baking three cakes using the same recipe. Chances of them being *identical* are rather small.
It would be theoretically possible to estimate information capacity of DNA molecue (after all it isn't infinite). I don't know how big it would be, but I don't know why would anyone believe DNA could store information about everything.
The real problem is that people often assume you should help them with their new toys just because you can do it. They don't consider the fact that I'm working with computers all of the time and it is last thing I want to do during long-awaited holidays.
To put it in another way: my sister is an accountant. And I wouldn't ask her to fill my tax declaration for me (I live in Poland, and here tax laws are quite complicated and changing all the time). Sure, it will take me more time - but I don't expect that all my problems will be solved by other people.
So, after years I have learned to say "no" to all but closest relatives and friends (the only ones who think about it before they ask me for a favour).
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I don't see anything illogical about this. Try baking three cakes using the same recipe. Chances of them being *identical* are rather small.
It would be theoretically possible to estimate information capacity of DNA molecue (after all it isn't infinite). I don't know how big it would be, but I don't know why would anyone believe DNA could store information about everything.
The real problem is that people often assume you should help them with their new toys just because you can do it. They don't consider the fact that I'm working with computers all of the time and it is last thing I want to do during long-awaited holidays.
To put it in another way: my sister is an accountant. And I wouldn't ask her to fill my tax declaration for me (I live in Poland, and here tax laws are quite complicated and changing all the time). Sure, it will take me more time - but I don't expect that all my problems will be solved by other people.
So, after years I have learned to say "no" to all but closest relatives and friends (the only ones who think about it before they ask me for a favour).
Man, just use right tool for the job:
#!/bin/sh
trap "" SIGINT
while true; do
read input
echo "?"
done
This is really good clone - I had to quit it the same way I usually quit ed when I accidentaly run it (^Z, kill %1)