i saw a vhs of lord of the rings that a friend of mine bought off some guy on teh street in new york for $5. it had the same screener version thing. another friend of mine worked in a video rental place and they got those screener copies before the movie came out on video and they would let her take them home to watch for free, but she had to bring them back. those screener versions are for video stores and the like. they usually aren't the same quality as what you pay full price for when the movie is officially released. i remember the one i saw had about 30 seconds to a minute of black and white only every 15-20 minutes of the movie, in addition to the words scrolling at the bottom every so often.
another point i'd like to make is that i believe the dvd copies that they are talking about in the article are not camcorder jobs, but are literally copies of the original dvd (dvd's that were already released). like you can make exact copies of cd's by putting a blank cd in your burner and putting a audio cd in your cd-rom and saying "copy cd" in your burning software. same deal, only with dvd burners.
you are absolutely correct. there may be patterns to evolution in some ways, but they are certainly far from predictable. evolution, by definition is completely random. you cannot predict it by something that seems "pre-programmed" in one species of bacteria. the test may have shown evolution in those test subjects, because the did the same thing that was seen in the natural environment (surprise surprise, same species, same time, same changes). evolution or "de-evolution" (since i've seen that poor term used on slashdot before) is completely random and will never be truly predictable. (an aside... de-evolution is really evolution... the changes from evolution are not necessarily bad or good, they could be either...)
i installed kazaa, and because i knew that it had also installed spyware apps, i quickly ran ad-aware shortly afterwards. not to my surprise, i found that a whole ton of spyware stuff had been installed along with kazaa. unfortunately, i removed it all with ad-aware (because i did check add/remove programs and there was nothing else there) and kazaa would no longer run properly. so i uninstalled kazaa and installed morpheus which does not install spyware (and now, because of the lawsuits against kazaa, uses the gnutella network...).
Birds did not evolve from Pterodactyls. As you said, Pterodactyls were more like giant bats. They were gliding dinosaurs, not flying ones. Birds evolved from the theropod dinosaurs, which includes Tyrannosaurus Rex and the velociraptor.
You are correct in your assumption that feathers did evolve from scales. They are modified scales that provide insulation for birds, which require large amounts of energy for flight.
The feather has been shown to be a modified scale. Reptiles have scales, dinosaurs have scales, birds have scales (ever look at their legs?). The feathers on a bird are modified scales to help insulate the body. They are used for more than just flight, in face, feathers are not a key ingredient in flight, and that's why the defining characteristic of birds is not flight, it's feathers. Other animals fly (insects, bats, etc). If you ever get a chance to look at a bird's wing, it's shaped like that of an airfoil. Flying requires a lot of energy and the feathers help keep hold onto the heat energy. I also believe that Archaeopteryx has been thought of as a gliding dinosaur, not a flying one. Maybe this helps clear things up a bit.
There is a missing link. Up until this point, the only fossil that linked birds to dinosaurs was Archaeopteryx. Ornithologists and paleontologists have been hoping they would find some other fossil to help prove their theory. It goes without showing that this fossil will help them. Just because there may not be a fossil doesn't mean that it didn't exist. Unfortunately fossils are the only way to prove evolution (at least that far back in time).
What does evolution being a punctuated equilibrium have to do with any of this? The article says that they found another possible link between birds and dinosaurs, one that might prove the theory better than Archaeopteryx has. They are gradually unfolding the truth. Punctuated equilibrium is the way that evolution occurs, and it's still only one theory.
The article also pointed out that there are some hawks with feathers that come out of the "hind" legs. The feathers in the fossil are possibly truly feathers from the hind legs (which would probably be true since the real paleontologist says that's what they are) or they could be feathers from another part of the body that got pushed there at death and during fossilization. They are definitely not feathers from some animal that landed on a lizard. Scientists do know the difference between that and a real bird by looking at it. I studied ornithology in school and there is a whole group of ornithologists that don't believe that there is a true link between birds and dinosaurs and they believe that birds are something completely different. But if one were to just look at the fossil evidence, it's definitely obvious, and even with just Archaeopteryx, it's obvious.
As for the CAT scan, he probably doesn't care that it would prove this is a "hodge-podge" of fossils, since it's definitely one slap and not a couple thrown together. It's most likely the cost, since I know first hand that ornithologists and paleontologists don't get a ton of money for things like this. He said the fossil was on one slap, and not a couple different broken pieces put together. If the CAT scan were to say it was not one, then the CAT scan would be wrong. The second slab that he speaks of is the top part, or cover if you want to think of it that way. The rock above and below the dead bird were taken, as whole pieces.
I don't understand why everyone is always saying that America was discovered. It was inhabited even longer before anyone ever "discovered" the place. The Native Americans (or Indians as some people below like to call them) lived here long before Columbus, the Vikings, or now the Chinese ever came here. An uninhabited place can be discovered, but not some place that already has people with permanent settlements living there. If they didn't live here before the land bridge, they came over across the land bridge that connected Siberia to Alaska through what is now the Bering Strait. No one discovered America, they merely found a piece of land that no Europeans (or now Asians i guess) had colonized and pushed away the original inhabitants, even though they had already been living here for quite some time.
they had the symphony of dot matrix printers. i downloaded the mp3's. it was interesting at the very least. i don't think they used the printers to make sounds (like this kid did with the hard drives). i think they took the printer noises and mixed them to produce a musical piece. the printers weren't the "speakers" they were the musical instruments, like in a real orchestra you've got violins and horns and stuff. hope this helps.
While trying to get tickets for Billy Joel and Elton John, I noticed this weird thing fly across the browser window. At first, I thought it was a virus, but then I noticed it was an add for some Symantec product. It was crazy, scared the crap out of me at first. It was definitely intrusive. I honestly felt that popup ads were much better than this thing. you could at least ignore them somewhat because of the feature in Windows 2000 that keeps new windows from opening up in front of your current one if you're using it. If people all just used banner ads, the world would be a much happier place. Are websites really losing that much money with them that they need to become more intrusive?
i found it odd at first, but when you think of it, win98 is still based on dos and uses teh shell quite a bit. that's part of the main reason why i would choose that as my gaming platform over winme anyday, well, that and the fact that winme is not as stable. windows millenium is the first one to attempt get rid of dos. that's the main difference between the 2 that i saw. so i can understand still supporting dos. win3.x, i have no idea. that's just silly.
i've always used them to install debian (except when i didn't have a working floppy drive) and i always choose the network install for both the base system and packages. it's so much easier than the cd. you can always get the latest packages and not have to worry about upgrading right away. the only thing i didn't like was the addition of another driver disk with one of the last releases of potato. i got over it though.
if they won't go for the link to your new address, then make a new deal with them that says you still own the domain for 6 more months and have it be a redirect page to your new site with ample info on how to get to the new site. that way they will get the domain anyways, you get the money, and you don't get angry customers. and if they won't go for that, try 3 months still yours as a redirect, and 3 months with a link on their site. making a smooth transition will be important and you will still have angry customers who can't find it.
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This is probably the best tool to tell you how secure your system is. The command-line tool is good on a small scale or for your own personal computer, but it only tells you what hotfixes you need. The Security Advisor tells you everything, and helps you completely (well, almost completely because nothing is truly secure) secure your system. Check it out. I love it.
i recently aquired an old compaq nt workstation (pentium 100) and i went to go change bios settings and it was all messed up. i put in a different hard drive and little did i know that i had to download the bios and put it on a floppy disk. talk about a pain in the ass. luckily the compaq tech support didn't mind my emails asking for help with this even though i didn't have a warranty or anything because someone just gave me the machine.
if you look at the stats on the page, there are 3 open source developers who were born in 1997 and 1 that was born in 1999. that makes them no older than 4 years old. i never knew kids these days got such an early start in coding. that's amazing. someday they will grow up to be the doogie howser of software development. many kudos go out to their parents who put them in front of a computer at such an early age.
on a side note... the editors might want to make a comment about how if people are going to visit the site, they should take it seriously as it is an educational research survey.
do you even live in CT? i live here and have driven on every major highway in the state through every major city in the state at all different times of day. fact is, the worst drivers in CT don't even live in CT. they are mostly from NY or NJ, at least that's what i've seen. every state has its bad drivers, but i don't think you can rightfully say that CT has the most dangerous drivers. maybe it seems more dangerous because the roads aren't the greatest, but that's still getting worked on and will probably never be finished. maybe if every joe schmoe didn't have a car and didn't buy his little kiddies cars of their own, we wouldn't have this problem. i've only been driving for 6 years and i've noticed the number of cars on the road at least double since i started driving. (i used to drive a delivery truck for a living so i've driven all over the state doing that). so before you start pointing fingers, take a look at license plates. most of the people that drive in CT on any given Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or Monday (and special holidays as well) are usually not from CT and are just travelling through so they can spend their weekend on the Cape or in RI.
google groups (the old deja) is still in beta, but in my opinion it is still fully functional. i use it regularly to get information that i need. i even post messages from time to time to ask for some help with things. i think it's pretty good. i haven't seen the new images.google.com, but i'm sure it's pretty good too. i don't think google would have released something out to the internet public like this if it wasn't really functional.
this must be one of the deepest, most interesting stories i've ready by katz. i completely agree with all his points, however, i do not think that we should forget about those that go out and kill others to pay more attention to those that kill themselves. i think they deserve equal attention. the new government that we elected, being primarily republican and overly conservative likes to blame things like tv, video games, and the internet, not realizing that these things don't have as much of an effect on people's lives as they think. people kill others because of more psychological reasons than anything else. if kids are playing games that involve a lot of violence, then their parents need to start being real parents and not allowing this. the problem with kids today is not society or the media or video games, it's the amount of parenting that takes place. parents nowadays tend not to punish their children because punishing has been deemed bad by most people. they allow their kids to go out and do whatever they please, simply saying "no" or "i don't like that." at the same time, these kids learn things that they shouldn't until they are more mature and that's where we end up with younger teenage pregnancies, younger kids pulling guns on each other, and younger kids swearing in public and at their parents. parents lately do not know how to control their own kids. i personally was brought up in a household where violence, bad language, and sex were all deemed as bad, and as i got more mature things changed. i don't think i ever swore until i was halfway through high school, and i still refuse to swear in front of my parents. it's respect that kids don't have and that parents don't show. parents are the best role models for their kids and they need to be more of that. i don't blame bullies or video games or violence on tv or even the internet for the problems kids have now. i blame the parenting they receive, or should i say, the lack of parenting they receive. this is the problem with the younger generations of kids. i am not very old myself, and i noticed a lot of changes in the people younger than me. i would tak the bus from high school and get off and see 4th and 5th graders running around jumping on each other swearing like there's no tomorrow, talking about having sex with this girl or making out with that girl. i thought girls were gross at that age, i never had any sexual desires then. their parents are what need to teach them things. another problem i've seen is htat kids nowadays seem to be physically maturing much faster than they used to. and when your hormones mature much faster than your mental maturity, you run into many problems. i've seen girls in grammar school dressed like sluts, and the reason for his is because their role models are people like britney spears and jennifer lopez who walk around wearing practically nothing. their parents need to not allow them to watch things like that. that way they won't dress like that. parents aren't teaching the morals they used to be teaching. it all just stems down to the parenting these kids receive, and until that changes, more problems will arise.
i go to uconn (university of connecticut) and we have a semi-student-run network here. i actually work for them. resnet is mainly students that go out and help people with their computers trying to get connected to the network, there are about 20 of us (out of 10000 that live on campus). we work nights because that's the best time to find people. there are also student admin who keep the exchange server running and the account system and do a bunch of server side stuff for the resnet employees. there are student programmers who wrote the online network account system and who wrote the automatic registration system. students take care of enforcing the network policy and checking on security problems. the people in charge are full timers. the network is run very efficiently and we have not had many problems at all with this system. one of the student admin is almost always on call. the residential life department also has students do a lot of their work with fixing machines for employees and other basic IT work. it's a pretty good system in my opinion. doing almost anything other than normal support requires looking through logs and getting ip addresses and other student info, which means a lot of trust and responsibility for the students.
i am not a computer science major, nor have i taken any computer science classes. my best teacher was a geology professor who taught us truly how to be scientists and look at the world in a completely different way...
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i saw a vhs of lord of the rings that a friend of mine bought off some guy on teh street in new york for $5. it had the same screener version thing. another friend of mine worked in a video rental place and they got those screener copies before the movie came out on video and they would let her take them home to watch for free, but she had to bring them back. those screener versions are for video stores and the like. they usually aren't the same quality as what you pay full price for when the movie is officially released. i remember the one i saw had about 30 seconds to a minute of black and white only every 15-20 minutes of the movie, in addition to the words scrolling at the bottom every so often.
another point i'd like to make is that i believe the dvd copies that they are talking about in the article are not camcorder jobs, but are literally copies of the original dvd (dvd's that were already released). like you can make exact copies of cd's by putting a blank cd in your burner and putting a audio cd in your cd-rom and saying "copy cd" in your burning software. same deal, only with dvd burners.
you are absolutely correct. there may be patterns to evolution in some ways, but they are certainly far from predictable. evolution, by definition is completely random. you cannot predict it by something that seems "pre-programmed" in one species of bacteria. the test may have shown evolution in those test subjects, because the did the same thing that was seen in the natural environment (surprise surprise, same species, same time, same changes). evolution or "de-evolution" (since i've seen that poor term used on slashdot before) is completely random and will never be truly predictable. (an aside... de-evolution is really evolution... the changes from evolution are not necessarily bad or good, they could be either...)
i installed kazaa, and because i knew that it had also installed spyware apps, i quickly ran ad-aware shortly afterwards. not to my surprise, i found that a whole ton of spyware stuff had been installed along with kazaa. unfortunately, i removed it all with ad-aware (because i did check add/remove programs and there was nothing else there) and kazaa would no longer run properly. so i uninstalled kazaa and installed morpheus which does not install spyware (and now, because of the lawsuits against kazaa, uses the gnutella network...).
Birds did not evolve from Pterodactyls. As you said, Pterodactyls were more like giant bats. They were gliding dinosaurs, not flying ones. Birds evolved from the theropod dinosaurs, which includes Tyrannosaurus Rex and the velociraptor.
You are correct in your assumption that feathers did evolve from scales. They are modified scales that provide insulation for birds, which require large amounts of energy for flight.
The feather has been shown to be a modified scale. Reptiles have scales, dinosaurs have scales, birds have scales (ever look at their legs?). The feathers on a bird are modified scales to help insulate the body. They are used for more than just flight, in face, feathers are not a key ingredient in flight, and that's why the defining characteristic of birds is not flight, it's feathers. Other animals fly (insects, bats, etc). If you ever get a chance to look at a bird's wing, it's shaped like that of an airfoil. Flying requires a lot of energy and the feathers help keep hold onto the heat energy. I also believe that Archaeopteryx has been thought of as a gliding dinosaur, not a flying one. Maybe this helps clear things up a bit.
There is a missing link. Up until this point, the only fossil that linked birds to dinosaurs was Archaeopteryx. Ornithologists and paleontologists have been hoping they would find some other fossil to help prove their theory. It goes without showing that this fossil will help them. Just because there may not be a fossil doesn't mean that it didn't exist. Unfortunately fossils are the only way to prove evolution (at least that far back in time).
What does evolution being a punctuated equilibrium have to do with any of this? The article says that they found another possible link between birds and dinosaurs, one that might prove the theory better than Archaeopteryx has. They are gradually unfolding the truth. Punctuated equilibrium is the way that evolution occurs, and it's still only one theory.
The article also pointed out that there are some hawks with feathers that come out of the "hind" legs. The feathers in the fossil are possibly truly feathers from the hind legs (which would probably be true since the real paleontologist says that's what they are) or they could be feathers from another part of the body that got pushed there at death and during fossilization. They are definitely not feathers from some animal that landed on a lizard. Scientists do know the difference between that and a real bird by looking at it. I studied ornithology in school and there is a whole group of ornithologists that don't believe that there is a true link between birds and dinosaurs and they believe that birds are something completely different. But if one were to just look at the fossil evidence, it's definitely obvious, and even with just Archaeopteryx, it's obvious.
As for the CAT scan, he probably doesn't care that it would prove this is a "hodge-podge" of fossils, since it's definitely one slap and not a couple thrown together. It's most likely the cost, since I know first hand that ornithologists and paleontologists don't get a ton of money for things like this. He said the fossil was on one slap, and not a couple different broken pieces put together. If the CAT scan were to say it was not one, then the CAT scan would be wrong. The second slab that he speaks of is the top part, or cover if you want to think of it that way. The rock above and below the dead bird were taken, as whole pieces.
I don't understand why everyone is always saying that America was discovered. It was inhabited even longer before anyone ever "discovered" the place. The Native Americans (or Indians as some people below like to call them) lived here long before Columbus, the Vikings, or now the Chinese ever came here. An uninhabited place can be discovered, but not some place that already has people with permanent settlements living there. If they didn't live here before the land bridge, they came over across the land bridge that connected Siberia to Alaska through what is now the Bering Strait. No one discovered America, they merely found a piece of land that no Europeans (or now Asians i guess) had colonized and pushed away the original inhabitants, even though they had already been living here for quite some time.
ARRRRRRRR, me matey!!! shiver me timbers!!!
they had the symphony of dot matrix printers. i downloaded the mp3's. it was interesting at the very least. i don't think they used the printers to make sounds (like this kid did with the hard drives). i think they took the printer noises and mixed them to produce a musical piece. the printers weren't the "speakers" they were the musical instruments, like in a real orchestra you've got violins and horns and stuff. hope this helps.
While trying to get tickets for Billy Joel and Elton John, I noticed this weird thing fly across the browser window. At first, I thought it was a virus, but then I noticed it was an add for some Symantec product. It was crazy, scared the crap out of me at first. It was definitely intrusive. I honestly felt that popup ads were much better than this thing. you could at least ignore them somewhat because of the feature in Windows 2000 that keeps new windows from opening up in front of your current one if you're using it. If people all just used banner ads, the world would be a much happier place. Are websites really losing that much money with them that they need to become more intrusive?
i found it odd at first, but when you think of it, win98 is still based on dos and uses teh shell quite a bit. that's part of the main reason why i would choose that as my gaming platform over winme anyday, well, that and the fact that winme is not as stable. windows millenium is the first one to attempt get rid of dos. that's the main difference between the 2 that i saw. so i can understand still supporting dos. win3.x, i have no idea. that's just silly.
i've always used them to install debian (except when i didn't have a working floppy drive) and i always choose the network install for both the base system and packages. it's so much easier than the cd. you can always get the latest packages and not have to worry about upgrading right away. the only thing i didn't like was the addition of another driver disk with one of the last releases of potato. i got over it though.
are hp and compaq related? i don't understand the topic of the post being compaq when it's about hp. any ideas?
maybe this will help persuade the guy who asked this question into looking at the ibook.
if they won't go for the link to your new address, then make a new deal with them that says you still own the domain for 6 more months and have it be a redirect page to your new site with ample info on how to get to the new site. that way they will get the domain anyways, you get the money, and you don't get angry customers. and if they won't go for that, try 3 months still yours as a redirect, and 3 months with a link on their site. making a smooth transition will be important and you will still have angry customers who can't find it.
Microsoft Personal Security Advisor
This is probably the best tool to tell you how secure your system is. The command-line tool is good on a small scale or for your own personal computer, but it only tells you what hotfixes you need. The Security Advisor tells you everything, and helps you completely (well, almost completely because nothing is truly secure) secure your system. Check it out. I love it.
i recently aquired an old compaq nt workstation (pentium 100) and i went to go change bios settings and it was all messed up. i put in a different hard drive and little did i know that i had to download the bios and put it on a floppy disk. talk about a pain in the ass. luckily the compaq tech support didn't mind my emails asking for help with this even though i didn't have a warranty or anything because someone just gave me the machine.
if you look at the stats on the page, there are 3 open source developers who were born in 1997 and 1 that was born in 1999. that makes them no older than 4 years old. i never knew kids these days got such an early start in coding. that's amazing. someday they will grow up to be the doogie howser of software development. many kudos go out to their parents who put them in front of a computer at such an early age.
on a side note... the editors might want to make a comment about how if people are going to visit the site, they should take it seriously as it is an educational research survey.
do you even live in CT? i live here and have driven on every major highway in the state through every major city in the state at all different times of day. fact is, the worst drivers in CT don't even live in CT. they are mostly from NY or NJ, at least that's what i've seen. every state has its bad drivers, but i don't think you can rightfully say that CT has the most dangerous drivers. maybe it seems more dangerous because the roads aren't the greatest, but that's still getting worked on and will probably never be finished. maybe if every joe schmoe didn't have a car and didn't buy his little kiddies cars of their own, we wouldn't have this problem. i've only been driving for 6 years and i've noticed the number of cars on the road at least double since i started driving. (i used to drive a delivery truck for a living so i've driven all over the state doing that). so before you start pointing fingers, take a look at license plates. most of the people that drive in CT on any given Friday, Saturday, Sunday, or Monday (and special holidays as well) are usually not from CT and are just travelling through so they can spend their weekend on the Cape or in RI.
google groups (the old deja) is still in beta, but in my opinion it is still fully functional. i use it regularly to get information that i need. i even post messages from time to time to ask for some help with things. i think it's pretty good. i haven't seen the new images.google.com, but i'm sure it's pretty good too. i don't think google would have released something out to the internet public like this if it wasn't really functional.
this must be one of the deepest, most interesting stories i've ready by katz. i completely agree with all his points, however, i do not think that we should forget about those that go out and kill others to pay more attention to those that kill themselves. i think they deserve equal attention. the new government that we elected, being primarily republican and overly conservative likes to blame things like tv, video games, and the internet, not realizing that these things don't have as much of an effect on people's lives as they think. people kill others because of more psychological reasons than anything else. if kids are playing games that involve a lot of violence, then their parents need to start being real parents and not allowing this. the problem with kids today is not society or the media or video games, it's the amount of parenting that takes place. parents nowadays tend not to punish their children because punishing has been deemed bad by most people. they allow their kids to go out and do whatever they please, simply saying "no" or "i don't like that." at the same time, these kids learn things that they shouldn't until they are more mature and that's where we end up with younger teenage pregnancies, younger kids pulling guns on each other, and younger kids swearing in public and at their parents. parents lately do not know how to control their own kids. i personally was brought up in a household where violence, bad language, and sex were all deemed as bad, and as i got more mature things changed. i don't think i ever swore until i was halfway through high school, and i still refuse to swear in front of my parents. it's respect that kids don't have and that parents don't show. parents are the best role models for their kids and they need to be more of that. i don't blame bullies or video games or violence on tv or even the internet for the problems kids have now. i blame the parenting they receive, or should i say, the lack of parenting they receive. this is the problem with the younger generations of kids. i am not very old myself, and i noticed a lot of changes in the people younger than me. i would tak the bus from high school and get off and see 4th and 5th graders running around jumping on each other swearing like there's no tomorrow, talking about having sex with this girl or making out with that girl. i thought girls were gross at that age, i never had any sexual desires then. their parents are what need to teach them things. another problem i've seen is htat kids nowadays seem to be physically maturing much faster than they used to. and when your hormones mature much faster than your mental maturity, you run into many problems. i've seen girls in grammar school dressed like sluts, and the reason for his is because their role models are people like britney spears and jennifer lopez who walk around wearing practically nothing. their parents need to not allow them to watch things like that. that way they won't dress like that. parents aren't teaching the morals they used to be teaching. it all just stems down to the parenting these kids receive, and until that changes, more problems will arise.
i go to uconn (university of connecticut) and we have a semi-student-run network here. i actually work for them. resnet is mainly students that go out and help people with their computers trying to get connected to the network, there are about 20 of us (out of 10000 that live on campus). we work nights because that's the best time to find people. there are also student admin who keep the exchange server running and the account system and do a bunch of server side stuff for the resnet employees. there are student programmers who wrote the online network account system and who wrote the automatic registration system. students take care of enforcing the network policy and checking on security problems. the people in charge are full timers. the network is run very efficiently and we have not had many problems at all with this system. one of the student admin is almost always on call. the residential life department also has students do a lot of their work with fixing machines for employees and other basic IT work. it's a pretty good system in my opinion. doing almost anything other than normal support requires looking through logs and getting ip addresses and other student info, which means a lot of trust and responsibility for the students.
windows update still works, just tried it...
i am not a computer science major, nor have i taken any computer science classes. my best teacher was a geology professor who taught us truly how to be scientists and look at the world in a completely different way...