Since not every thing is fully sequenced, I would wager a guess that they search the 'soup' for specific sequences that are known thought to be unique to a species. The rest would just be noise to the data they are seeking. However, if say bluefin tuna had a lesser or unknown related species that also had the same thought to be unique sequence, it could make their estimates high. However if it was an unknown species the fact that it is unknown means that there are probably very few and the difference would be negligible and within the margin of error.

Elephants drop largest turds of any land animal. (Except our project manager. I swear he slings shit everywhere).

We've had too much coffee. Ba dum dum. Be here all day.

In all seriousness I think part of it is due to the facts that one, Oracle is not expected to actually pay attention and two, if they do, it won't be here that they listen to. They have their own channels.

Open access roads are used to transport drugs. Open access city streets can hold dealers and prostitutes. Public libraries have been used to read about revolution and bomb making and pot growing.The postal service has been used to facilitate illegal payments. Lets close them all DOWN.
Pro tip, just because it is online, or open source, does not make human nature any different.

Some people will beat their spouse or hire a hitman. Some people will be addicts. Some will sell to the addicts. Some will fondle their niece.

Claiming some tool is enabling these behaviors and ignoring that tool's greater benefit greater benefit to society is either fear-mongering or blind unthinking fear (possibly instilled by other fear mongers). If the former, you are the worst kind of control hungry sociopath to use fear to restrict others. If the latter, you are a puppet and a simpleton. in either case, you do not deserve to be in any position of leadership.

I am shocked.
My puny brain doesn't have the power to Coulomb through this information.
However, I am sure my fellow slashdotters can tell me Watt is going on.
Maybe a car analogy using the Chevrolet Volt?
If Joule help me, I can make it worth your while.

You are just as dead if killed by a crip for your car and shoes as you are by some low level mafia puke for not paying protection.

Um, if you sort by date, they are currently 3rd place out of 3 for major consoles. The only 'current' device they have on the list is the 3DS. Hope that can float them.

Alienware used to be quite the boutique vendor. Remember when their ads were the back cover of nearly every Maximum PC? The area 51 was about the single most powerful laptopyou could get, if you didnt mind 30 minute battery life and a huge price tag. Then Dell bought them and they, to my mind and at least, have largely ceased to have much relevance.
However, Dell does have the money due to its humongous other operations to push this market a little nwith the steam box and see where it goes. I have a feeling that after the initial push, it will settle down to just two to three manufacturers with two to four models each. even that selection I hope will give the console wars a push in a better direction.
Also, d + e = 5 and l = 12. 12 - 5 = 3. Half life 3 confirmed.

If you move enough units, try Dell. We are a small shop and don't move many but dell ships us Win 7 loaded machines to resell. Cheaper than a new OS license, less setup time.

Of course, because nicely formulated ad hominem is an excellent logical rebuttal.

...until the fear mongering military industrial complex bankrupts this country. Rome was not built in a day, but neither did it fall in a day. We are falling now, will we catch it?

But no prototype. I am not a physicist, but I ran it through a little thought experiement. If it is some sort of standing pressure wave, it would have to move with the piston, that may be possible, but difficult. The problem I see is that any type of wave would hbe dependent on the frequency/speed of the piston in the cylinder. Therefore, it would have to be there across the entire operating range of the engine, not just it's peak power band. That is a large range. If it falls off anywhere along this range then you get oil control issues, compression issues, or both just as if you had bad rings. Oil control leads to plug/combustion chamber issues and expensive oil replacement. Compression issues lead to huge ineffeciencies, that would offset some or all of the gains from reducing friction. In addition, while the friction may be less, this pressure wave would by its nature have to exert some pressure on the piston and cylinder walls to seal. It may be less friction and less metal to metal contact, but not zero friction. In short a laudable goal, but seems more like a funding grab than a workable idea.

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