We know that Neanderthals had a hyoid bone which indicates that they had the 'capacity' to make sounds.
In lay terms, they had vocal chords which means they could have produced sounds from their throats.
What we don't have are all the 'fleshy bits', the throat tissues and musculature, the palette and mouth tissues
the tongue, the nasal tissues, the lips and facial muscles, and most importantly, a Neanderthal brain.
Yes, we can make a conjecture as to what those bits make have 'looked' like based on the fossils that we have,
but without those details, all of this is unsupported conjecture.
End the dependence of the western world on mid-east oil.
Once the Saudi's have only the Chinese as customers, anything
that happens in the middle east becomes irrelavent to the western world.
When middle-eastern economies degrade to the point that they have to depend
on sand as an export product, all this nonsense will stop.
However, as long as American presidents like Bush hold hands with
Saudi princes, we will never be rid of the 'terrorists' and we will have to put
up with this, and worse, until the oil runs out.
There's always an Earth-crossing asteroid or a searing beam of high-energy gamma rays...
or an mass extiction event about to wipe out life on this planet.
The only way people get on with their happy lives...
is they do not know about it!
Apple doesn't document some APIs that they use to make their software faster.
Mozilla guys bust their asses and STILL come up with a browser that is faster than
Apple's Safari and every other browser on the platform without those APIs.
So, what does that get Apple?
A slower browser and the disdain of their own developer base, again.
I use Macs at work and at home and have admin'ed a large network installation
of Apple servers and workstations for the last 12 years and I am never surprised at
Apple's attitude toward their customers. They make BillG and SteveB look like saints
by comparison.
The time is coming for Apple with their large Ed customers -especially in California-
that if they don't wise up, they're going to be replaced with the Asus' and Everexes
with their low-cost laptops and desktops.
When that day comes, I won't miss Apple even a little bit.
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After all one-in-four /. readers surveyed now this already, that's 25%.
and what we don't know from the fossil record.
We know that Neanderthals had a hyoid bone which indicates that they had the 'capacity' to make sounds.
In lay terms, they had vocal chords which means they could have produced sounds from their throats.
What we don't have are all the 'fleshy bits', the throat tissues and musculature, the palette and mouth tissues
the tongue, the nasal tissues, the lips and facial muscles, and most importantly, a Neanderthal brain.
Yes, we can make a conjecture as to what those bits make have 'looked' like based on the fossils that we have,
but without those details, all of this is unsupported conjecture.
Look for a 'Talking with Neanderthals'©®(TM) on television sometime in the near future.
Just remember...
"You can't fix stupid." - Ron White
Microsoft Designed UAC to Annoy Slashdot Users.
There. All better.
One out of four mathematicians already know that psychologists don't know math.
You all suck at Photoshop.
No, really, you do.
End the dependence of the western world on mid-east oil.
Once the Saudi's have only the Chinese as customers, anything
that happens in the middle east becomes irrelavent to the western world.
When middle-eastern economies degrade to the point that they have to depend
on sand as an export product, all this nonsense will stop.
However, as long as American presidents like Bush hold hands with
Saudi princes, we will never be rid of the 'terrorists' and we will have to put
up with this, and worse, until the oil runs out.
There's always an Earth-crossing asteroid or a searing beam of high-energy gamma rays...
or an mass extiction event about to wipe out life on this planet.
The only way people get on with their happy lives...
is they do not know about it!
Apple doesn't document some APIs that they use to make their software faster.
Mozilla guys bust their asses and STILL come up with a browser that is faster than
Apple's Safari and every other browser on the platform without those APIs.
So, what does that get Apple?
A slower browser and the disdain of their own developer base, again.
I use Macs at work and at home and have admin'ed a large network installation
of Apple servers and workstations for the last 12 years and I am never surprised at
Apple's attitude toward their customers. They make BillG and SteveB look like saints
by comparison.
The time is coming for Apple with their large Ed customers -especially in California-
that if they don't wise up, they're going to be replaced with the Asus' and Everexes
with their low-cost laptops and desktops.
When that day comes, I won't miss Apple even a little bit.
of PINK PONIES!
So do we, Zonk. So do we.
As a long time OS X admin, OS X will -unfortunately- probably go down really hard this time 'round.
After all, LI_US has already passed judgement on it.
...but now everyone is gunning for them.
You must be new around here.
We've been gunning for them since 1974.
They should all be ground up into a fine, pink powder.