Dr. Lahn said there may be a dozen or so genes that affect the size of the brain, each making a small difference yet one that can be acted on by natural selection. "It's likely that different populations would have a different make-up of these genes, so it may all come out in the wash," he said. In other words, East Asians and Africans probably have other brain enhancing alleles, not yet discovered, that have spread to high frequency in their populations.
Another geneticist, David Goldstein of Duke University, said the new results were interesting but that "it is a real stretch to argue for example that microcephalin is under selection and that that selection must be related to brain size or cognitive function."
Basically this study shows that the 2 genes they studied are distributed with different frequencies in different populations, but occur more often in these populations now then 60,000 years ago.
Anything else is just theory and speculation.
I thought that the bursting of the bubble got rid of stupid names and branding, guess I was wrong. I blame it on the pharmaceutical companies. If they hadn't started inventing words for their drugs we wouldn't have tech companies following suit. At some point we are all going to have to learn that native African language with the Clicking noises. Ung Tcosk Klick Kluck Uunnnau
If you want to keep the standards from impacting your business join the committee that makes them and strangle it in delays and horsecrap. Welcome to big business 101. Kinda like Oil guys working with the EPA, or cigarette companies running Health studies.
Before Canada the country was Canada the colonies, and the war of 1812 was about taking those colonies from the British. -Upper Canada (Ontario), Lower Canada (Quebec) being the main colonies involved in the conflict based on geographic location. Nova Scotia was likely too heavily fortified a target to ever be taken by the yanks. While you are correct that there wasn't a Nation named Canada during the war of 1812, there were colonies named Canada, that as a group resisted the American invasion, and there was forged the foundation of the Nation Canada. Besides when the British empire is effectively 2 months travel away, self rule was pretty much the case for the colonies. (though it got better in the 1830's with responsible government).
As for who won, really everybody did both sides got a certain amount of street cred, the Canadians for fighting well and as a nation, the Americans for ultimately standing up to the British, and the British finally got the rematch that was sorely needed just so everybody could be friends again.
Of course if it was based on a capture the flag set of rules, the US Capital was captured and torched.
yeah that one really bothers me, never seeing the name and then almost every story on the front page is from him and a UID of 55. Honestly my first thought was that somehow slashdot has been hacked by an editor from bizarro world (except these inflammatory stories are common now). In fact when I clicked to check his/her (I don't know) profile I received an expired security certificate warning from Firefox, strange eh.
It was my bad sentence, don't worry about me cutting you slack, it was my bad at 3 am, my timezone, that I wasn't clear in my post. I imagine with enough work it would be possible to show where OOo (any version) and MS Office aren't compatible, but I maintain that happens between versions of MS office itself. OOo 2.0 certainly isn't perfect but it's a heck of an improvement in compatibility. Cheers.
It don't, err or it didn't last I looked, and if it does now, it's likely messy. The.PST file has a lot of crap in it, attachments, calender, and other stuff. This is a PST from Outlook (the real one, not express). I imagine if I would spend money there may be a solution (that's why I still have the backup.PST file), however the best I've managed so far is about 60% of the text from my email messages imported into thunderbird, through the use of various pieces of software. The attachments, wacky html, and other stuff from just don't make it.
1.1.4 - very messy, my sentence really should have read, and I thought it was implied,: However, I have never had a problem using MS Office Files created by Open Office (2.0) in either of the two programs.
I've had more success getting people to us Open Office then any of the other 'Open Alternative' products. Given the design philosophies of the MS products it's amazing when any of the alternatives show some compatibility. I wish Thunderbird, for example, worked with my 1gb.pst file representing 3 years of my life. Open Office 1.x.x had a hard time with MS Office. With Open Office 2.0 I've seen some issues importing MS Office files when they were created by MS Office. However, I have never had a problem using MS Office files created by Open Office in either of the two programs, even going back and forth making small changes in the document with others before final printing. Weird, but OO makes it good.
I really believe the 500 was the pinnacle of the Rio line. It was better then the 300 (mem and shape) and when they released the 400 and 600 models I think they took steps backwards. In both shape and battery tech. It's a shame about your SD slot, I think I'm going to have to replace my slider switch at the top soon, it may end up looking a little messy with a new switch wired in, but even the new mp3 player I got(like you) doesn't match the Rio's solid perfomance and design.
I suppose I do deserve that (and the comment below about throwing battery acid away), I wasn't very clear originally. When I travel I like minimal extra gear, my Rio fits into a pocket nicely, smaller then a deck of cards. At home I have a nice battery recharger and 4 AA batteries for it, but on the road in different countries there are different requirements for adaptors in order to safely recharge a battery. I don't want the extra hassle of trying to make sure I always have the right adaptor and don't leave it in a hotel room somewhere. I even get about 13 hours on a AA, sometimes more depending on the manufacturer. Besides it's amazingly easy to find AA batteries worldwide, even in places where electricity itself is scarce. Really I don't have much of a problem with rechargeable batteries, just with devices that have them built in, not easy replaceable with a 3$ purchase at almost any corner store. Even my charger and 4 pack of AA batteries cost a fraction of the price of a replacement/extra battery for most MP3 devices. I only wish my cell phone took AA's.
You are so right. My sweet baby, a diamond rio 500 purchased over 5 years ago, may only have as much 128mb mem, but the 1 AA battery that it takes lasts a very long time, and rather then worry about using some kinda adaptor to recharge it when I'm outside north america travelling, I just buy a pack of 4 AA batteries and move on. It's always astounded me that manufacturers are moving to the rechargeable battery. What do people do when their rechargeable iPod battery goes dead on a 13 hour flight to Asia? Talk to their seat mate?
agreed, this is actually quite good for the linux operating system in general, even the trademark thing I think, keeps people from pushing crap linux and then blaming good linux for problems. I was speaking through my sarcastic mouth above, it's been a long time coming, some sort of organization to the OSS movement that plays like the big boy. PR pieces like this and all of the other things that work on enhancing the legitimacy of OSS (ie: Linux) will start to pay off dividends soon, and I don't just mean red hat stock.
"We looked at the technologies the big names were relying on, and realised that when IBM and Novell are all spending big in the open-source space there's gotta be something in it."
Credibility at last.
This article with it's 4 or 5 case studies reads like any number of the Microsoft Propoganda articles I've read before, I half expect that within an hour some slashdotter will post details about the people in the articles that demonstrate that they are really working for Linus's favorite Public relations firm. Think about it, today we get Linux license fees from Linus (yes just trademark, but $ are real) and now some wonderful case studies to encourage us to go Linux. It's all to much like an organized competitive company for me, I can't deal properly when the business novices (Open Source) acts all like a wicked organized multinational.
Obligatory Family Guy joke:
"Remember last week when you asked me to define irony and I said - urarghhh!"
AOL personally kept me supplied with floppy disks during my school dayz, and many a cd coaster when I started working IT. These guys are the king of snail mail spam (virus(AOL8) laden cd's anyone:) and here this guy goes and follows their lead online, further screwing over the poor AOL customers. I love it.
The lightbulb is likely an essential device to modern living. (if someone disagress then more power to you:) It remains to be seen if the PDA and MP3 player follow suit. I believe the phone has already hit that point. And on the matter of points my point is anywhere from a 120 to 150 years ago the lightbulb was invented by numerous different people in various forms. I had always thought Diamond invented the MP3 player with the Rio,wiki says it was Eiger labs. However the minute MP3's became common everybody conceptualized the portable MP3 player, who patented it should really be a moot point. Damn I hate the USPTO sometime, I didn't want to say that, but god what a mess it's becoming.
Why do you call the U.S.A the "land of the free"? They mean free as in beer, not free as in freedom.:o)
Reminds of that joke about American beer and sex in a canoe.
A final note about the ALiant strike was that it was not about higher wages and better benefits. It was about using contract workers to replace employees (you don't have to pay benefits for contractors) and the company's desire to cut health benefits.
Another reason to like binding arbitration...
Agreed, I didn't point out the ugliness from the management either (and they had their share), nobody wins in a strike situation. I knew people on both sides and most of them just wanted to do their jobs rather then be involved in the stike, but situation didn't allow that. Politics is one reason I don't work with telcos anymore, not worth the stress. Side note, my favorite strike was when BCTransit shutdown for most of a summer. As a mass transit cummuter that ended up costing me a bundle, but it saved BCTransit so much that they were able to give the strikers what they wanted in wage increase.
damn...I left the company before that happened, missed it, that didn't say how many shares verizon started with or had left after the sale, but point made.
I've worked for and with Telus, and Aliant, and Bell, and yeah the Unions in all companies are spending a lot of time in Fantasy Land. Telcos are very monolithic still in Canada, though they are trying. I personally wasn't impressed with Telus when I worked with them, too much of that new age management enthusiasm for me. These people were smiling as they told you to screw telus customers, and I just didn't dig that. Phone Company strikes are ugly. There are few strikes now adays where people take it as far as Telco workers. On the East coast last year during Aliant's strike cables kept getting dug up and cut during the night. Killing phone and internet service all over the maritimes. Scabs/strikebreakers were physically accosted by strikers - hell there were a number of contracters who stopped working for Aliant, because even though they weren't Management or UNION, and technically didn't even work for Aliant but other companies that Aliant contracted, they were being taunted, harrassed and a target for the Union members. I don't know that Telus is in the right for blocking the website, but the strike is only 3 days old, I'm not surprised it happened, and I fully expect it will get worse before it gets better.
Telus is no Bell - and Bell may run central canada, but it's Aliant here in the East. Damn you left coasters and your marginalization of the East Coast, Ontario is not the East Coast, it's Central Canada, or UPPER Canada if you really want to be specific. And I know that Bell owns 50% of Aliant, but let us have our illusion of independance. Besides Verizon owns a good chunk of Telus.
I saw a piece on TV about both (they're both here in Canada), the can and bottle both have widgets, but the widgets are 2 different ones with different gas release methods,(a ball for can, rocket for bottle, nitrogen and CO2) the end result being pretty similar to True Guinness. The 'Rocket Widget' from the bottle actually keeps a good head on the beer while you drink from the bottle, which is nice.
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Dr. Lahn said there may be a dozen or so genes that affect the size of the brain, each making a small difference yet one that can be acted on by natural selection. "It's likely that different populations would have a different make-up of these genes, so it may all come out in the wash," he said. In other words, East Asians and Africans probably have other brain enhancing alleles, not yet discovered, that have spread to high frequency in their populations.
Another geneticist, David Goldstein of Duke University, said the new results were interesting but that "it is a real stretch to argue for example that microcephalin is under selection and that that selection must be related to brain size or cognitive function."
Basically this study shows that the 2 genes they studied are distributed with different frequencies in different populations, but occur more often in these populations now then 60,000 years ago. Anything else is just theory and speculation.
I thought that the bursting of the bubble got rid of stupid names and branding, guess I was wrong. I blame it on the pharmaceutical companies. If they hadn't started inventing words for their drugs we wouldn't have tech companies following suit. At some point we are all going to have to learn that native African language with the Clicking noises. Ung Tcosk Klick Kluck Uunnnau
So the planet Zeist is really Australia? Suddenly it all makes sense, especially the Mad Maxesque outfits favored by Katana and his henchmen.
If you want to keep the standards from impacting your business join the committee that makes them and strangle it in delays and horsecrap. Welcome to big business 101. Kinda like Oil guys working with the EPA, or cigarette companies running Health studies.
wiki article
As for who won, really everybody did both sides got a certain amount of street cred, the Canadians for fighting well and as a nation, the Americans for ultimately standing up to the British, and the British finally got the rematch that was sorely needed just so everybody could be friends again.
Of course if it was based on a capture the flag set of rules, the US Capital was captured and torched.
yeah that one really bothers me, never seeing the name and then almost every story on the front page is from him and a UID of 55. Honestly my first thought was that somehow slashdot has been hacked by an editor from bizarro world (except these inflammatory stories are common now). In fact when I clicked to check his/her (I don't know) profile I received an expired security certificate warning from Firefox, strange eh.
It was my bad sentence, don't worry about me cutting you slack, it was my bad at 3 am, my timezone, that I wasn't clear in my post. I imagine with enough work it would be possible to show where OOo (any version) and MS Office aren't compatible, but I maintain that happens between versions of MS office itself. OOo 2.0 certainly isn't perfect but it's a heck of an improvement in compatibility. Cheers.
It don't, err or it didn't last I looked, and if it does now, it's likely messy. The .PST file has a lot of crap in it, attachments, calender, and other stuff. This is a PST from Outlook (the real one, not express). I imagine if I would spend money there may be a solution (that's why I still have the backup .PST file), however the best I've managed so far is about 60% of the text from my email messages imported into thunderbird, through the use of various pieces of software. The attachments, wacky html, and other stuff from just don't make it.
1.1.4 - very messy, my sentence really should have read, and I thought it was implied,:
However, I have never had a problem using MS Office Files created by Open Office (2.0) in either of the two programs.
I've had more success getting people to us Open Office then any of the other 'Open Alternative' products. Given the design philosophies of the MS products it's amazing when any of the alternatives show some compatibility. I wish Thunderbird, for example, worked with my 1gb .pst file representing 3 years of my life. Open Office 1.x.x had a hard time with MS Office. With Open Office 2.0 I've seen some issues importing MS Office files when they were created by MS Office. However, I have never had a problem using MS Office files created by Open Office in either of the two programs, even going back and forth making small changes in the document with others before final printing. Weird, but OO makes it good.
I really believe the 500 was the pinnacle of the Rio line. It was better then the 300 (mem and shape) and when they released the 400 and 600 models I think they took steps backwards. In both shape and battery tech. It's a shame about your SD slot, I think I'm going to have to replace my slider switch at the top soon, it may end up looking a little messy with a new switch wired in, but even the new mp3 player I got(like you) doesn't match the Rio's solid perfomance and design.
I suppose I do deserve that (and the comment below about throwing battery acid away), I wasn't very clear originally. When I travel I like minimal extra gear, my Rio fits into a pocket nicely, smaller then a deck of cards. At home I have a nice battery recharger and 4 AA batteries for it, but on the road in different countries there are different requirements for adaptors in order to safely recharge a battery. I don't want the extra hassle of trying to make sure I always have the right adaptor and don't leave it in a hotel room somewhere. I even get about 13 hours on a AA, sometimes more depending on the manufacturer. Besides it's amazingly easy to find AA batteries worldwide, even in places where electricity itself is scarce. Really I don't have much of a problem with rechargeable batteries, just with devices that have them built in, not easy replaceable with a 3$ purchase at almost any corner store. Even my charger and 4 pack of AA batteries cost a fraction of the price of a replacement/extra battery for most MP3 devices. I only wish my cell phone took AA's.
You are so right. My sweet baby, a diamond rio 500 purchased over 5 years ago, may only have as much 128mb mem, but the 1 AA battery that it takes lasts a very long time, and rather then worry about using some kinda adaptor to recharge it when I'm outside north america travelling, I just buy a pack of 4 AA batteries and move on. It's always astounded me that manufacturers are moving to the rechargeable battery. What do people do when their rechargeable iPod battery goes dead on a 13 hour flight to Asia? Talk to their seat mate?
agreed, this is actually quite good for the linux operating system in general, even the trademark thing I think, keeps people from pushing crap linux and then blaming good linux for problems. I was speaking through my sarcastic mouth above, it's been a long time coming, some sort of organization to the OSS movement that plays like the big boy. PR pieces like this and all of the other things that work on enhancing the legitimacy of OSS (ie: Linux) will start to pay off dividends soon, and I don't just mean red hat stock.
"We looked at the technologies the big names were relying on, and realised that when IBM and Novell are all spending big in the open-source space there's gotta be something in it."
Credibility at last.
This article with it's 4 or 5 case studies reads like any number of the Microsoft Propoganda articles I've read before, I half expect that within an hour some slashdotter will post details about the people in the articles that demonstrate that they are really working for Linus's favorite Public relations firm. Think about it, today we get Linux license fees from Linus (yes just trademark, but $ are real) and now some wonderful case studies to encourage us to go Linux. It's all to much like an organized competitive company for me, I can't deal properly when the business novices (Open Source) acts all like a wicked organized multinational.
In this case the spam was going to AOL customers, so AOL was paying for it :) but I aknowledge your point.
Obligatory Family Guy joke: "Remember last week when you asked me to define irony and I said - urarghhh!" AOL personally kept me supplied with floppy disks during my school dayz, and many a cd coaster when I started working IT. These guys are the king of snail mail spam (virus(AOL8) laden cd's anyone :) and here this guy goes and follows their lead online, further screwing over the poor AOL customers. I love it.
The lightbulb is likely an essential device to modern living. (if someone disagress then more power to you :) It remains to be seen if the PDA and MP3 player follow suit. I believe the phone has already hit that point. And on the matter of points my point is anywhere from a 120 to 150 years ago the lightbulb was invented by numerous different people in various forms. I had always thought Diamond invented the MP3 player with the Rio,wiki says it was Eiger labs. However the minute MP3's became common everybody conceptualized the portable MP3 player, who patented it should really be a moot point. Damn I hate the USPTO sometime, I didn't want to say that, but god what a mess it's becoming.
Why do you call the U.S.A the "land of the free"? :o)
They mean free as in beer, not free as in freedom.
Reminds of that joke about American beer and sex in a canoe.
A final note about the ALiant strike was that it was not about higher wages and better benefits. It was about using contract workers to replace employees (you don't have to pay benefits for contractors) and the company's desire to cut health benefits. Another reason to like binding arbitration...
Agreed, I didn't point out the ugliness from the management either (and they had their share), nobody wins in a strike situation. I knew people on both sides and most of them just wanted to do their jobs rather then be involved in the stike, but situation didn't allow that. Politics is one reason I don't work with telcos anymore, not worth the stress. Side note, my favorite strike was when BCTransit shutdown for most of a summer. As a mass transit cummuter that ended up costing me a bundle, but it saved BCTransit so much that they were able to give the strikers what they wanted in wage increase.
damn...I left the company before that happened, missed it, that didn't say how many shares verizon started with or had left after the sale, but point made.
I've worked for and with Telus, and Aliant, and Bell, and yeah the Unions in all companies are spending a lot of time in Fantasy Land. Telcos are very monolithic still in Canada, though they are trying. I personally wasn't impressed with Telus when I worked with them, too much of that new age management enthusiasm for me. These people were smiling as they told you to screw telus customers, and I just didn't dig that. Phone Company strikes are ugly. There are few strikes now adays where people take it as far as Telco workers. On the East coast last year during Aliant's strike cables kept getting dug up and cut during the night. Killing phone and internet service all over the maritimes. Scabs/strikebreakers were physically accosted by strikers - hell there were a number of contracters who stopped working for Aliant, because even though they weren't Management or UNION, and technically didn't even work for Aliant but other companies that Aliant contracted, they were being taunted, harrassed and a target for the Union members. I don't know that Telus is in the right for blocking the website, but the strike is only 3 days old, I'm not surprised it happened, and I fully expect it will get worse before it gets better.
Telus is no Bell - and Bell may run central canada, but it's Aliant here in the East. Damn you left coasters and your marginalization of the East Coast, Ontario is not the East Coast, it's Central Canada, or UPPER Canada if you really want to be specific. And I know that Bell owns 50% of Aliant, but let us have our illusion of independance. Besides Verizon owns a good chunk of Telus.
I saw a piece on TV about both (they're both here in Canada), the can and bottle both have widgets, but the widgets are 2 different ones with different gas release methods,(a ball for can, rocket for bottle, nitrogen and CO2) the end result being pretty similar to True Guinness. The 'Rocket Widget' from the bottle actually keeps a good head on the beer while you drink from the bottle, which is nice.
yeah the tasp is wireless, but the grandparent used the word wirehead in the body of the comment