Could you substantiate that? I'm interested in your reasoning. With respect, I would disagree and I provide one simple example: Lions have manes. The reason is to protect the neck. It makes sense to protect a delicate area in an animal that is a predator and will be involved in life and death struggles.
That's not science it's intelligent design by nature, the banana argument from a naturalistic perspective. The mutation does not occur because it would be useful, the mutation occurs and survives because it is useful (or at least not harmful), over time assuring that animals that "fit" best in their environment will thrive. Don't confuse the cause and effect.
Well, they claim that they thought it was "lost to evolution"... I assume the fact that the gene is not active today is the result of evolution. So that implies the question Why is it inactive? I would think the ability to regenerate body parts on demand would be an evolutionary advantage, wouldn't it?.
Supposedly around 8% of human DNA was inserted by viruses into our genome. It could be that a virus in the past messed up our ancestor badly enough to lose regeneration and killed of all the rest. Also evolution doesn't have a "goal" our non-regenerative ancestor was just lucky that through some trait it was the best adapted to the environment at the time and it survived. It doesn't mean regeneration had a negative side to it.
If I interpret tables 4 and 7 on this site correctly, in 2008 China would have lost 17.7% of their exports if they stopped exporting to the USA. So, problems on the scale of strikes and maybe riots, but probably not "a billion out of work and hungry people" because they can still manufacture for the remaining 82.3% of their customers.
You're saying a US-China trade war wouldn't send shockwaves through the global economy and europe and japan in particular ? Doubtful.
"We will no longer be loaning either the US or EU any more money. Furthermore we've decided it's time to collect our 5 trillion in loans. If you don't have the money, we'll be happy to take Alaska and Spain as payment instead."
Yeah. Who cares about China? Don't affect us at all! (rolls eyes)
Haha, like they could take any european or US territory. MAD still exists, and that not only goes for the nukes: as the old saying goes if you can't pay back a $100 dollar loan you've got a problem but if you can't pay back a billion dollar loan the bank has a problem. Why do you think they've been buying up commodities left and right with a small part of those treasuries ? Besides if they stop their industry by no longer exporting to us they're stuck with a billion out of work and hungry people with nothing to do but to contemplate the difference between them and the party officials. No we're all in the same (currently very leaky) boat.
Tor is the obvious answer, combined with Foxyproxy for Firefox to redirect traffic through the tor network only when needed to contact the piratebay site. The Tor website provides a convenient prepackaged browser bundle you can download to see if you like it.
I expect the correlation between campaign contributions and policy decisions is as strong in Europe as it is in the United States.
There's no doubt it happens but less than in the US IMHO. In Belgium for example political parties are given funds by the government to run election campaigns to make them less dependent on external contributions.
At first I was confused how you couldn't get it and then I realized the browser wars were more than 10 years ago now. Basically the point is that there is a reason almost all browsers are now based on open source, the one thing Microsoft can't destroy financially or snuff out. You could rightfully say the intervention comes too late but that's just the EU's way of saying they may be slow but they don't forget (unlike the US DOJ.)
MS is simply doing as told and it appears to be bending over backwards to comply with what the EU thinks everyone wants. How is it MS's job to help you choose another browser...they offer the option to pick a different one after that your own your own.
That's also exactly what the EU wants, the quality control is up to the user. This may seem odd to us but I've seen people run some crazy shit and love it. No accounting for taste.
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Nice headline. These idiots make it sound like the Basji took down the firewalls at Langley and laid waste to the CIA's cyberwar infrastructure. More appropriate headline: "Iranian script kiddies take down website; blame US".
Didn't mean to reply twice but I happened to come across this NY Times op-ed just now which highlights problems with the reported high productivity suggesting it is (at least partly) caused by misreporting due to outsourcing.
"But there’s a problem: labor productivity figures, which are calculated by the Labor Department, count only worker hours in America, even though American-owned factories and labs have been steadily transplanted overseas, and foreign workers have contributed significantly to the final products counted in productivity measures.
The result is an apparent drop in the number of worker hours required to produce goods — and thus increased productivity. But actually, the total number of worker hours does not necessarily change. "
If there is 1 super-productive farm in the country (say double the yield per acre) is farming doing "very well" despite the fact every one is starving (or importing food) ? The trade balance shows too little is produced to satisfy US domestic demand and too little is exported to pay for the imports. That's not "doing very well."
We have this new thing on the internets now called a "hyperlink", it was created especially so people could directly "link" to other stuff to further explain their claims. It's pretty neat and that way it's less work for everyone ! Technology eh, what'll they think of next ?
In fact, manufacturing in the U.S. is doing very well. Productivity is at an all-time high, and the amount we are producing has not been in decline, as is commonly believed.
To quote Peter Schiff : 'If we're becoming so much more productive where are the goods we're producing and why can't I see it in the balance of trade ? If we're so productive where are the exports ?"
Next up: The Texas schoolboard mandates that textbooks 'de-emphasise' the RECORDED HISTORICAL FACT that Hollywood was founded on industrialised copyright infringement.
"Since the 1890s, Thomas Edison owned most of the major American patents relating to motion picture cameras.Since 1902, Edison had also been notifying distributors and exhibitors that if they did not use Edison machines and films exclusively, they would be subject to litigation for supporting filmmaking that infringed Edison’s patents.
[...]
Many independent filmmakers, who controlled from one-quarter to one-third of the domestic marketplace, responded to the creation of the MPPC by moving their operations to Hollywood, whose distance from Edison’s home base of New Jersey made it more difficult for the MPPC to enforce its patents. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and covers the area, was averse to enforcing patent claims."
Is the registry kept up to date ? E.g. if a company gets bought by another and that company then decides to sell part of its IP, etc. A lot of old game companies from back in the 80's went through that dance several times.
I've read more than one interview on this topic. While I agree with you about having cheating AI really sucks, the point made in the interviews was that even now it is difficult to get an AI to win at chess. Chess has a large but finite number of moves with only two opponents. In a game like Civ, with random land masses and features, multiple opponents, and variable numbers and capabilities of game pieces, and even more variables when you through culture, religion, civics, and the rest in, it is impossible to make honest and challenging AI. So they let it cheat.
They should at least make it cheat more intelligently then. There's nothing worse than carefully planning an attack and seeing it go to pot because the AI, suddenly perceiving the threat, pulls a stack of units or number of technologies it cannot logically have out of its magic hat. It sucks because it destroys the gameplay, you can't plan anything because the planning will be defeated by changing the rules mid-game.
It is and it isn't. Apple seems to think they've finally hit on the much anticipated "computer as consumer appliance" while most geeks think it should just be a computer which does phone calls. This is the reason for most of the controversy around some aspects of the iPhone and iPad.
I was, rather, replying specifically to GGP's claim that Apple is morally in the right to forcibly prevent third-party development for its platform if it competes with its own services.
I see. That's just Apple's philosophy: the iphone isn't hard- or software to them but a combination of both plus the way the user interacts with its basic functions. You may think it's bullshit but as Kaspersky himself points out there are plenty of people out there willing to sell you a device with a different philosophy. I don't know why people have such a sense of entitlement when it comes to iPhone development. Just move to a different platform, enjoy that luxury that wasn't there for such a long time on the desktop (and even in the mobile space until very recently.)
You'd better read it again (like I just did). To me, the site is quite agnostic toward jail-breaking, and is no less useful to someone with a non-jailbroken device. I believe I feel the same way about jailbreaking as you do (currently not considering jailbreaking my device, fairly sure I'll never do it), but as another poster has said: There's not a chance in hell that Apple have properly audited all the application for security, and it's flat out impossible they'd be able to do so adequately anyway (they don't audit the source). The App Store is not about that at all.
Apple may not audit the source but they do have analysis tools to scan for the use of non-public APIs. This provides some security but everything you can do with the public API's will not get checked, unfortunately this includes phoning home some information (because there are times when this behavior is wanted.) So this guy should be applauded for taking the time to check a lot of applications for this kind of behavior and shaming the ones that do.
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Easy, because rotten.com is one of the original good shock sites that any geek would've encountered long ago, you premature pre-pubescent prick.
Yeah, I remember a time when the first site you would tell people to visit was rotten.com, the second was persiankitty.com.
/b/ has "backed up" (read: been unavailable) plenty of times. All that happens is the /b/tards swarm other parts of 4chan, or other chans.
Seeing the horrified posts on other boards as people realize they're about to be swamped by /b/tards almost makes /b/ being down worth it.
Could you substantiate that? I'm interested in your reasoning. With respect, I would disagree and I provide one simple example: Lions have manes. The reason is to protect the neck. It makes sense to protect a delicate area in an animal that is a predator and will be involved in life and death struggles.
That's not science it's intelligent design by nature, the banana argument from a naturalistic perspective.
The mutation does not occur because it would be useful, the mutation occurs and survives because it is useful (or at least not harmful), over time assuring that animals that "fit" best in their environment will thrive. Don't confuse the cause and effect.
If by 'larger' you mean 'second', then yes.
AKA the shocker (now hands-free).
No thanks, I have enough trouble keeping the blood flow going to my brain as it is.
Well, they claim that they thought it was "lost to evolution"... I assume the fact that the gene is not active today is the result of evolution. So that implies the question Why is it inactive? I would think the ability to regenerate body parts on demand would be an evolutionary advantage, wouldn't it?.
Supposedly around 8% of human DNA was inserted by viruses into our genome. It could be that a virus in the past messed up our ancestor badly enough to lose regeneration and killed of all the rest. Also evolution doesn't have a "goal" our non-regenerative ancestor was just lucky that through some trait it was the best adapted to the environment at the time and it survived. It doesn't mean regeneration had a negative side to it.
If I interpret tables 4 and 7 on this site correctly, in 2008 China would have lost 17.7% of their exports if they stopped exporting to the USA. So, problems on the scale of strikes and maybe riots, but probably not "a billion out of work and hungry people" because they can still manufacture for the remaining 82.3% of their customers.
You're saying a US-China trade war wouldn't send shockwaves through the global economy and europe and japan in particular ? Doubtful.
>>>Who cares about China. Seriously.
"We will no longer be loaning either the US or EU any more money. Furthermore we've decided it's time to collect our 5 trillion in loans. If you don't have the money, we'll be happy to take Alaska and Spain as payment instead."
Yeah. Who cares about China?
Don't affect us at all!
(rolls eyes)
Haha, like they could take any european or US territory. MAD still exists, and that not only goes for the nukes: as the old saying goes if you can't pay back a $100 dollar loan you've got a problem but if you can't pay back a billion dollar loan the bank has a problem. Why do you think they've been buying up commodities left and right with a small part of those treasuries ? Besides if they stop their industry by no longer exporting to us they're stuck with a billion out of work and hungry people with nothing to do but to contemplate the difference between them and the party officials. No we're all in the same (currently very leaky) boat.
Tor is the obvious answer, combined with Foxyproxy for Firefox to redirect traffic through the tor network only when needed to contact the piratebay site. The Tor website provides a convenient prepackaged browser bundle you can download to see if you like it.
Citation needed.
I expect the correlation between campaign contributions and policy decisions is as strong in Europe as it is in the United States.
There's no doubt it happens but less than in the US IMHO. In Belgium for example political parties are given funds by the government to run election campaigns to make them less dependent on external contributions.
I'm voting ninjas.
How would you find them on the ballot ?
At first I was confused how you couldn't get it and then I realized the browser wars were more than 10 years ago now. Basically the point is that there is a reason almost all browsers are now based on open source, the one thing Microsoft can't destroy financially or snuff out. You could rightfully say the intervention comes too late but that's just the EU's way of saying they may be slow but they don't forget (unlike the US DOJ.)
MS is simply doing as told and it appears to be bending over backwards to comply with what the EU thinks everyone wants. How is it MS's job to help you choose another browser...they offer the option to pick a different one after that your own your own.
That's also exactly what the EU wants, the quality control is up to the user. This may seem odd to us but I've seen people run some crazy shit and love it. No accounting for taste.
Nice headline. These idiots make it sound like the Basji took down the firewalls at Langley and laid waste to the CIA's cyberwar infrastructure. More appropriate headline: "Iranian script kiddies take down website; blame US".
Well it is called the "Farce News Agency."
Didn't mean to reply twice but I happened to come across this NY Times op-ed just now which highlights problems with the reported high productivity suggesting it is (at least partly) caused by misreporting due to outsourcing.
"But there’s a problem: labor productivity figures, which are calculated by the Labor Department, count only worker hours in America, even though American-owned factories and labs have been steadily transplanted overseas, and foreign workers have contributed significantly to the final products counted in productivity measures.
The result is an apparent drop in the number of worker hours required to produce goods — and thus increased productivity. But actually, the total number of worker hours does not necessarily change. "
That's why.
If there is 1 super-productive farm in the country (say double the yield per acre) is farming doing "very well" despite the fact every one is starving (or importing food) ? The trade balance shows too little is produced to satisfy US domestic demand and too little is exported to pay for the imports. That's not "doing very well."
do your own work
We have this new thing on the internets now called a "hyperlink", it was created especially so people could directly "link" to other stuff to further explain their claims. It's pretty neat and that way it's less work for everyone ! Technology eh, what'll they think of next ?
In fact, manufacturing in the U.S. is doing very well. Productivity is at an all-time high, and the amount we are producing has not been in decline, as is commonly believed.
To quote Peter Schiff : 'If we're becoming so much more productive where are the goods we're producing and why can't I see it in the balance of trade ? If we're so productive where are the exports ?"
Next up: The Texas schoolboard mandates that textbooks 'de-emphasise' the RECORDED HISTORICAL FACT that Hollywood was founded on industrialised copyright infringement.
For people wondering about the context here. See Motion Picture Patents Company :
"Since the 1890s, Thomas Edison owned most of the major American patents relating to motion picture cameras.Since 1902, Edison had also been notifying distributors and exhibitors that if they did not use Edison machines and films exclusively, they would be subject to litigation for supporting filmmaking that infringed Edison’s patents.
[...]
Many independent filmmakers, who controlled from one-quarter to one-third of the domestic marketplace, responded to the creation of the MPPC by moving their operations to Hollywood, whose distance from Edison’s home base of New Jersey made it more difficult for the MPPC to enforce its patents. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and covers the area, was averse to enforcing patent claims."
Via.
Is the registry kept up to date ? E.g. if a company gets bought by another and that company then decides to sell part of its IP, etc. A lot of old game companies from back in the 80's went through that dance several times.
Glad I'm not suffering alone. The first thing I though was "I wonder if they can build them pineapple shaped?"
Yeah but these are the people who still completely ignore slavery in their Colonization game, so it's no big surprise.
I've read more than one interview on this topic. While I agree with you about having cheating AI really sucks, the point made in the interviews was that even now it is difficult to get an AI to win at chess. Chess has a large but finite number of moves with only two opponents. In a game like Civ, with random land masses and features, multiple opponents, and variable numbers and capabilities of game pieces, and even more variables when you through culture, religion, civics, and the rest in, it is impossible to make honest and challenging AI. So they let it cheat.
They should at least make it cheat more intelligently then. There's nothing worse than carefully planning an attack and seeing it go to pot because the AI, suddenly perceiving the threat, pulls a stack of units or number of technologies it cannot logically have out of its magic hat. It sucks because it destroys the gameplay, you can't plan anything because the planning will be defeated by changing the rules mid-game.
It's a computer with wireless.
It is and it isn't. Apple seems to think they've finally hit on the much anticipated "computer as consumer appliance" while most geeks think it should just be a computer which does phone calls. This is the reason for most of the controversy around some aspects of the iPhone and iPad.
I was, rather, replying specifically to GGP's claim that Apple is morally in the right to forcibly prevent third-party development for its platform if it competes with its own services.
I see. That's just Apple's philosophy: the iphone isn't hard- or software to them but a combination of both plus the way the user interacts with its basic functions. You may think it's bullshit but as Kaspersky himself points out there are plenty of people out there willing to sell you a device with a different philosophy. I don't know why people have such a sense of entitlement when it comes to iPhone development. Just move to a different platform, enjoy that luxury that wasn't there for such a long time on the desktop (and even in the mobile space until very recently.)
You'd better read it again (like I just did). To me, the site is quite agnostic toward jail-breaking, and is no less useful to someone with a non-jailbroken device. I believe I feel the same way about jailbreaking as you do (currently not considering jailbreaking my device, fairly sure I'll never do it), but as another poster has said: There's not a chance in hell that Apple have properly audited all the application for security, and it's flat out impossible they'd be able to do so adequately anyway (they don't audit the source). The App Store is not about that at all.
Apple may not audit the source but they do have analysis tools to scan for the use of non-public APIs. This provides some security but everything you can do with the public API's will not get checked, unfortunately this includes phoning home some information (because there are times when this behavior is wanted.) So this guy should be applauded for taking the time to check a lot of applications for this kind of behavior and shaming the ones that do.