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CDP1802 wrote: Hopefully such a massive and undeliberate mutation will not be able to survive.
That's very insensitive to the massive and undeliberate mutations out here. Very insensitive, indeed. 
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I've already done that. Twice.
My wife helped.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: I've already done that.
Best and most true answer of all. I guess you are officially a "Scientist". Probably of the mad variety.  And, by mad, I mean completely lunar.
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Let's just hope that we're not the interstellar equivalent of a paper-tape backup.
Software Zen: delete this;
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If they were aiming at the thirtieth anniversary of this[^], they missed it by about seven months.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Uh-huh. And several months ago a band pledged to release an albumn encoded using it.
At one recent event, a 12 second clip was encoded and the resultant DNA put into a soap suspension. Audience members were then asked to blow bubbles using the soap so that each of them could leave carrying the music on their skin. Gee we humans can be so incredibly self-indulgent. Musical DNA soap, $300,000 lab-'grown' beef burgers, tourist trips into space. ;sigh;
http://www.popsci.com.au/science/band-will-release-album-in-dna,398158[^]
http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/blog/music-of-the-spheres[^]
As for the proposition you consider - here's some reading if you're up for it.
Origin and Evolution of DNA and DNA Replication Machineries[^]
Spoiler: DNA (is believed to be and is accepted as being something that) was created here, on earth.
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
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DNA encoding is slightly more complicated than a base four system. DNA uses triplets of four possible nucleotides (Adenosine, Cytosine, Guanine, and Thymine) to encode 21 different amino acids. However, the encoding has no frame of reference. That is, encoding can begin again shifted by 1 or 2 nucleotides. Additionally, the encoding is also represented on the reverse complement making a total of 6 frames of reference, and any or all may be valid. In a programmers world, this is like encoding a second (or third) program by shifting the starting op-code by 1 byte and getting another valid program. Even weirder, imagine shifting the start by 2 bytes, then taking the one's complement of the program and reversing the bit-order to get another valid program. We enforce encoding to have a definitive start, but DNA has no such restriction and allows for a much higher information content.
modified 18-Feb-15 13:15pm.
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Ask him. Ask him. Look at him, Grandpa. Ask him.
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Well, our main Exchange server broke down an hour ago. Can't send an email to Help Desk to complain. Tried it by phone, same result: Help desk phones off line as well.
The signature is in building process.. Please wait...
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...after that whole UBS and HSBC thing, Switzerland has been disconnected from the internet.
We aren't allowed to tell you this though. 
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Good one! I am connected again, server came back now!! It was our internel Exchange server, the external one works (otherwhise I wouldn't be here...)
The signature is in building process.. Please wait...
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your bit of Switzerland has been given to France in payment of taxes owed which is why you have got the Internet back
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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Since when has Switzerland owed taxes to France?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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ok but explaining will kill what was a feeble joke anyway
HSBC (Switzerland) were advising its customers on ways of avoiding paying tax, this has created a bit of fuss, I was implying that this was not a isolated case (Swiss banks helping its customers avoiding tax in their home countries - which you have to admit is hardly news)
and that the countries involved somehow "reclaimed" said lost tax revenue by taking part of Switzerland as payment (France was picked purely at random but please feel free to substitute Italy, Germany or any other country of choice)
I know I missed the joke icon but I assumed that such a comment would not be taken seriously sorry for that assumption
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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I was pulling your leg. I hope it didn't come off... 
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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vonb wrote: Can't send an email to Help Desk to complain.
I'm fairly certain that they know. Assuming you have more than just a handful of employees, though.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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(naturally)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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8 bits ought to be enough for anyone.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
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That's 30 too many, because if you try to rub them together, you'll drop them all over the place.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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8 bits make a dollar, and I've never had any dropouts when rubbing 4 dollars together.
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: 8 bits make a dollar
What?!?
Look, 8 bits make a byte!
8 Hours is how you make a dollar!
What are you doing in CP, if you don't even know that much?!?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Look, 8 bits make a byte!
I beg to differ: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_dollar#United_States[^].
Mark_Wallace wrote: 8 Hours is how you make a dollar!
Are you Bob Crachit or Ebenezer Scrooge? Either way, you have my sympathies.
Mark_Wallace wrote: What are you doing in CP, if you don't even know that much?!?
Busting your chops?
<rant>
Since my CP cred has been questioned, I will say that I have been writing software in a professional capacity, man and boy, for the last 35 years. Is this sufficient for me to remain, or should I get my coat?
</rant>
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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