Typical Daily Mail headline rubbish, brought to you by the same newspaper that considers benefit fraud to be perpetrated solely by immigrants, etc etc..
You can easily confuse Daily Mail readers by telling them that asylum seekers are the natural predators of paedophiles....
I doubt there is any truth in the article. A government dept considering a thing is far from the same thing as doing it.... why should they not consider all options, even the stupid ones like this one?
I've done the same for sites I have designed, I just don't bother to support IE6 any more. I usually leave a nice little tag that only displays in IE6 telling them to join 2004 with the rest of us.
If enough people do things like this, then hopefully a critical mass can be reached whereby even the morons decide IE6 is a waste of time...
That is obviously a complete lie, you can't have been in the UK if you experienced trains being on time....
Didn't the German accents give away your real location?:)
Every windows upgrade I've ever done on my own hardware has involved a clean install, initially this was beacause by the time windows was due to be upgraded so was my hardware but not so much nowdays, windows 7 may be the first time I've upgraded an MS OS without at the very least a hard drive upgrade.
None of the above is true for any flavour of linux I've ever had.
Not sure what that tells you....
Our Linux servers work just fine. Ironically seeing as we're a charity and Microsoft gives v.generous discounts to charities and the like, our Redhat licenses cost us more than Windows would (at least that's what my boss tells me and I don't see why he'd be lying).
Given the above, why on earth would we spend more money on Linux than Microsoft if it didn't work better for our needs?
I'd have to agree, although credentials don't hurt you're chances either. I've never had any formal IT or computing training, I'm entirely self-taught. But I have a PhD in biology and that helped me to get hired in IT.
Any degree you may have ultimately counts for something on your CV/resume. But as with all jobs its the experience that counts the most to the interviewer and you don't need a degree to get that experience, especially not with all the open source projects out there.
I'd say you've likely misread both in that case. Do you have any references to hand? I'm intrigued by the idea and I may be forgetting something (it has been some years since I worked on any of this)
They will have changed, just very slowly:) There will be lots of differences between them and the examples preserved in the fossil record, but its not easy to determine what they are. There are lots of ways that species are classified, some are morphological, some are genetic, some are a mixture.
How do you know that the coelocanth we see today is identical to the one we see in the rocks? For all we know they could be an example of convergent evolution (unlikely in this case).
The fact that forms which function well are conserved does not mean that they have not evolved, it just means they've come up with a good design and forces are at play to preserve that design.
The bottom line is that those who advocated punctuated equilibrium hold the view that evolution either happens very fast or not at all. I hold the view (and as far as I recall from my time at University so do most evolutionary biologists) that there are many speeds to evolution, not just stop and go. As far as I'm aware this view is borne out by the fossil record in which we see a variety of paces of change.
This is one of the reasons that punctuated equilibrium is referred to (in probably less than a charitable manner) as 'evolution by jerks'.
The fossil record is the problem, its patchy and difficult to interpret. Punctuated Equilibrium is essentially a non-starter as far as I'm concerned (unless something has changed since my departure from the field of evolutionary biology in favour of computing), its a theory that describes a process that most likely doesn't even happen (evolutionary stasis).
This is known as "punctuated equilibrium", and is generally accepted as the standard evolutionary model.
Actually no it isn't, most evolutionary biologists I know are less than impressed with the idea. Most evolutionary biologists would probably tell you that the rate of evolution varies greatly and that apparent evolutionary stasis (the hallmark of punctuated equilibrium) is probably just a wrinkle in the fossil record.
Agreed, and what's this in the summary about evolution progressing "smoothly". I belive that the late S.J. Gould demonstrated that it actually proceeds in spurts or maybe it was Dawkins. Regardless of who's idea it was it has been known for quite a while that evolution is not a nice smmoth curve.
The evidence for Gould's ideas concerning punctuated equilibrium has never been entirely convincing to me. PE has also been referred to by those in the gradualist camp as 'evolution by jerks' on the odd occasion....
So what happens if someone is sitting at your computer and happens to browse to one of your favourite private sites and is prompted for a password?
Surely just better to do it the way its already implemented?
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Typical Daily Mail headline rubbish, brought to you by the same newspaper that considers benefit fraud to be perpetrated solely by immigrants, etc etc.. You can easily confuse Daily Mail readers by telling them that asylum seekers are the natural predators of paedophiles.... I doubt there is any truth in the article. A government dept considering a thing is far from the same thing as doing it.... why should they not consider all options, even the stupid ones like this one?
I've done the same for sites I have designed, I just don't bother to support IE6 any more. I usually leave a nice little tag that only displays in IE6 telling them to join 2004 with the rest of us. If enough people do things like this, then hopefully a critical mass can be reached whereby even the morons decide IE6 is a waste of time...
That is obviously a complete lie, you can't have been in the UK if you experienced trains being on time.... Didn't the German accents give away your real location? :)
Every windows upgrade I've ever done on my own hardware has involved a clean install, initially this was beacause by the time windows was due to be upgraded so was my hardware but not so much nowdays, windows 7 may be the first time I've upgraded an MS OS without at the very least a hard drive upgrade. None of the above is true for any flavour of linux I've ever had. Not sure what that tells you....
Our Linux servers work just fine. Ironically seeing as we're a charity and Microsoft gives v.generous discounts to charities and the like, our Redhat licenses cost us more than Windows would (at least that's what my boss tells me and I don't see why he'd be lying). Given the above, why on earth would we spend more money on Linux than Microsoft if it didn't work better for our needs?
"Touch computing-which started with the iPhone"..... At this point I stopped reading...
I'd have to agree, although credentials don't hurt you're chances either. I've never had any formal IT or computing training, I'm entirely self-taught. But I have a PhD in biology and that helped me to get hired in IT. Any degree you may have ultimately counts for something on your CV/resume. But as with all jobs its the experience that counts the most to the interviewer and you don't need a degree to get that experience, especially not with all the open source projects out there.
I'd say you've likely misread both in that case. Do you have any references to hand? I'm intrigued by the idea and I may be forgetting something (it has been some years since I worked on any of this)
They will have changed, just very slowly :) There will be lots of differences between them and the examples preserved in the fossil record, but its not easy to determine what they are. There are lots of ways that species are classified, some are morphological, some are genetic, some are a mixture.
How do you know that the coelocanth we see today is identical to the one we see in the rocks? For all we know they could be an example of convergent evolution (unlikely in this case).
The fact that forms which function well are conserved does not mean that they have not evolved, it just means they've come up with a good design and forces are at play to preserve that design.
The bottom line is that those who advocated punctuated equilibrium hold the view that evolution either happens very fast or not at all. I hold the view (and as far as I recall from my time at University so do most evolutionary biologists) that there are many speeds to evolution, not just stop and go. As far as I'm aware this view is borne out by the fossil record in which we see a variety of paces of change.
This is one of the reasons that punctuated equilibrium is referred to (in probably less than a charitable manner) as 'evolution by jerks'.
The fossil record is the problem, its patchy and difficult to interpret. Punctuated Equilibrium is essentially a non-starter as far as I'm concerned (unless something has changed since my departure from the field of evolutionary biology in favour of computing), its a theory that describes a process that most likely doesn't even happen (evolutionary stasis).
This is known as "punctuated equilibrium", and is generally accepted as the standard evolutionary model.
Actually no it isn't, most evolutionary biologists I know are less than impressed with the idea. Most evolutionary biologists would probably tell you that the rate of evolution varies greatly and that apparent evolutionary stasis (the hallmark of punctuated equilibrium) is probably just a wrinkle in the fossil record.
Agreed, and what's this in the summary about evolution progressing "smoothly". I belive that the late S.J. Gould demonstrated that it actually proceeds in spurts or maybe it was Dawkins. Regardless of who's idea it was it has been known for quite a while that evolution is not a nice smmoth curve.
The evidence for Gould's ideas concerning punctuated equilibrium has never been entirely convincing to me. PE has also been referred to by those in the gradualist camp as 'evolution by jerks' on the odd occasion....
So what happens if someone is sitting at your computer and happens to browse to one of your favourite private sites and is prompted for a password? Surely just better to do it the way its already implemented?