The article explains that prior work has shown that humans, as compared with the great apes from which we diverged over 5 million years ago, have...
Or rather, keeping us human.
From the badly written article:
chimpanzees and orangutans... diverged most recently from human ancestors (about 5 and 14 million years ago respectively)
So chimps and orangutans had human ancestors, like us, but then they diverged and became something non-human.
I think there should be a moratorium on basing/. articles on PhysOrg stories.
This is absolute nonsense.
I can already use the telephone built into the back of the seat in front of me, if I am prepared to use my credit card to pay for the very high cost per minute...
The real reason for the cellphone ban is that the airlines want to be able to squeeze every possible thaler out of the passengers.
Beef.
I bought a Sony camcorder three years ago, and it still works like new. I expect that this is because I don't use it very often for filming. In fact, it gets more use taking stills than shooting film. But it gets carried around a lot, even more than my Canon SLR.
My brother in law also had a Sony camcorder, but he used it a lot. The tape transport gave up a few months ago. Repair would cost as much as a new camcorder...
If the weak part of the camcorder is the tape transport, and you have one or several camcorders where the tape part is the only failure, then I suggest using a laptop computer to record straight to disc.
Use either the S-VHS or the Composite video output of the camcorder connected to the laptop.
I've connected my camcorder to a Pinnacle TV-Tuner card like this in order to use it as a webcam.
If you have trouble with dust getting inside the camcorder, it might be from changing the cassettes often.
You should be able to make up a sort of "dustproof bag" from a ziplock freezer bag, and control the camcorder via the remote.
Beef.
I've never read Chaucer, but I do know for a fact that France is the only country to have such an institution.
Maybe you should read Chaucer. It's not all that difficult, so long as you understand a little etymology and can imaginine how the words might have been pronounced.
I think Spain might have a similar institution to the French...
http://www.rae.es/
Selecting individual plants or animals and breeding strains in the hope of exagerrating desirable traits (resistance to disease, early ripening of fruit, etc). is one thing.
This can only happen within a single species, so far as I know. I might be wrong about this. It happens.
If you manage to get a hybrid of two species, the offspring are sterile, so the strain acnnot ontinue beyond a first generation fo offspring (cf. mules).
What is meant by GM, is taking genetic information from one species and inserting it into the genome of another species. This crossing of the species barrier cannot normaly happen, and certainly has not been used by farmers "for centuries".
Now, while it may be laudable to develop a strain of rapeseed that is resistance to a particular disease by inserting a gene from a bacterium, what happens if pollen from a field full of this rapeseed is taken up by bees and some of this is eaten by another bacterium.
This is what the European Commission is wary of. Monsanto et.el. are pushing for short term profits by being first-to-market. Let's face it, the directors are put there to serve shareholders' interests. "Long term" investment for many of those shareholders is maybe ten years.
The commissionars in Brussels are nominated by career politicians and technocrats, whose short term goals are mainly fiscal but whose long term goals are to return to power over again, in alternating periods of government. Now, we're looking at three to five cycles of five to seven years...
The consumer is torn between the desire for ultra-cheap food right now, this instant, and wanting his childrens and maybe unborn grandchildren to be born with the right number of fingers, toes, eyes and ears.
you'd have to have a copy of the HD controller cached somewhere to be able to restart it. (since, obviously, you can't load it from HD:))
Wouldn't the driver be on a read-only filesystem, maybe even ROM or a CompactFlash type device? I thought we were talking about writing data to the disc... so it's going to the data disc, not the system disc.
Maybe a paranoid designer of an experimental system would expect things to break often. Writing to disc A fails, buffer cache is flushed to disc B and verified, before trying to diagnose the problem with disc A.
You take your average lawyer in a courtroom, put a hard hat on his head, take away his tie and suit jacket (er, I think you crazy Yanks call that a "vest"), and strap a fully loaded up tool belt round his waist, and he'll look like he's going to a fancy dress Hallowe'en party as Bob the Builder. Nobody will take him seriously. "Unprofessional"
Take him from the courtroom, dressed up in his Bob the Builder outfit, and put him on a building site (OK, "construction site") and he'll be taken for an architect or civil engineer, with five or seven years of University study under his tool belt. "Professional".
Look, the whole problem that the corporations (whether Music or Software) is that they see "piracy" as depriving them of revenue.
The argument is, that if I couldn't get a "pirate" copy, then I would fork out the full price for an "official" copy; that my choosing a "pirate" over an "official" copy deprives the copyright owner of revenue.
Of course, if I earn two thousand thalern a month, and can afford to spend twenty-five thalern on the new Britney album, but I choose to buy a "pirate" version for two-fifty, then the record company is right; I have deprived the delicious starlet of some revenue.
However, if I earn 2000 finbinks a month, and when the choice is between spending 1000 finbinks on the "original" or 25 on a "pirate" copy, then there is no real choice. I'm going to buy the "pirate" copy. Since there was no way I was going to buy the "original", even in the absence of the copy, then there is no loss of revenue for the delicious starlet.
Real modems always cost more. There is more hardware to them. Personally, I use an external USR V.Everything modem. There is nothing better. They are Not cheap.
Is that so? I was under the impression that all the real work of compression and modulation was being done by a single chip made by Rockwell.
A good, real hardware PCI modem is fine -- it is just as simple as an external modem; you just plug it in the slot, boot, and all of a sudden there is a modem on/dev/ttyS4.
Quite possibly true. I haven't had an internal modem since a US Robotics 14k4, a long time ago.
I long ago switched to a Kortex K56Flex external modem on the serial port. Never had any problem with it; it worked fine straight away, and is still going strong.
Sometimes, dialing up can fail, and I see a message like "blacklisted". The modem them won't dial the number again, and I need to reset it.
With an external modem, this is easy: switch off and back on.
With an internal modem, this is easy, too: reboot the whole computer.
I thought that patenting a process or ides, then letting people use it for years on end, before filing a claim for infringement was a submaris. Maybe there's another word for this practise.
What you're describing,
[a] submarine patent [is one which] which is designed around technology that doesn't exist yet, and once someone actually invents it
The same page (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3457823.stm) currently (5 feb 2004) has a link:"Brazil falls in love with Linux".
So, Lula da Silva is a Linux Geek!
In another article, Stephen Evans uses this to assert that
Not only was Lula so maddened by the tightening of visa restrictions on Brazilians visiting the US, he is also a great fan of Linux and a notorious Microsoft-hater. He and his band of anti-globalisation "hacktivists" are probably behind the MyDoom virus
Silver is used because it has the highest thermal conductivity of any metal at 417 W/(mK). However, since its too expensive to use as a heat sink, its just used in the putty between.
Nonsense. Silver is not expensive.
But compared to aluminium profiles, it is more expensive.
Also, it is a damned sight heavier, and would put far more strain on the mounting when the mainboard is vertical (like in a tower case).
Whereas "independant test labs had previously shown our product to be 25% by volume, and 75% by weight, silver, which adds up to a whopping 95%, which we rounded up to 99% 'coz it looks good and ph00lz da kidz".
Advertising standards authority, Office of fair trading, Trading standards officer, Federal Trade Commission, DGCCRF... whatever you call it in your neck of the woods, should have been tipped off l o n g ago over this.
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This is absolute nonsense. I can already use the telephone built into the back of the seat in front of me, if I am prepared to use my credit card to pay for the very high cost per minute... The real reason for the cellphone ban is that the airlines want to be able to squeeze every possible thaler out of the passengers. Beef.
What we have here is an asymmetry of information preventing consumers from making informed choice.
And therefore the "free market" that the government claims to support is being distorted.
Beef.
You beat me to it.
I remember these as Band Printers. Very fast, very noisy, and the machine was around three times the width of the paper.
I briefly worked with IBM Chain printers in the mid eighties.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_printer
Beef.
This was what I thought.
I bought a Sony camcorder three years ago, and it still works like new. I expect that this is because I don't use it very often for filming. In fact, it gets more use taking stills than shooting film. But it gets carried around a lot, even more than my Canon SLR.
My brother in law also had a Sony camcorder, but he used it a lot. The tape transport gave up a few months ago. Repair would cost as much as a new camcorder...
If the weak part of the camcorder is the tape transport, and you have one or several camcorders where the tape part is the only failure, then I suggest using a laptop computer to record straight to disc.
Use either the S-VHS or the Composite video output of the camcorder connected to the laptop.
I've connected my camcorder to a Pinnacle TV-Tuner card like this in order to use it as a webcam.
If you have trouble with dust getting inside the camcorder, it might be from changing the cassettes often.
You should be able to make up a sort of "dustproof bag" from a ziplock freezer bag, and control the camcorder via the remote. Beef.
No, you're confusing two things.
Selecting individual plants or animals and breeding strains in the hope of exagerrating desirable traits (resistance to disease, early ripening of fruit, etc). is one thing.
This can only happen within a single species, so far as I know. I might be wrong about this. It happens.
If you manage to get a hybrid of two species, the offspring are sterile, so the strain acnnot ontinue beyond a first generation fo offspring (cf. mules).
What is meant by GM, is taking genetic information from one species and inserting it into the genome of another species. This crossing of the species barrier cannot normaly happen, and certainly has not been used by farmers "for centuries".
Now, while it may be laudable to develop a strain of rapeseed that is resistance to a particular disease by inserting a gene from a bacterium, what happens if pollen from a field full of this rapeseed is taken up by bees and some of this is eaten by another bacterium.
This is what the European Commission is wary of. Monsanto et.el. are pushing for short term profits by being first-to-market. Let's face it, the directors are put there to serve shareholders' interests. "Long term" investment for many of those shareholders is maybe ten years.
The commissionars in Brussels are nominated by career politicians and technocrats, whose short term goals are mainly fiscal but whose long term goals are to return to power over again, in alternating periods of government. Now, we're looking at three to five cycles of five to seven years...
The consumer is torn between the desire for ultra-cheap food right now, this instant, and wanting his childrens and maybe unborn grandchildren to be born with the right number of fingers, toes, eyes and ears.
Beef>
Wouldn't the driver be on a read-only filesystem, maybe even ROM or a CompactFlash type device? I thought we were talking about writing data to the disc... so it's going to the data disc, not the system disc.
Maybe a paranoid designer of an experimental system would expect things to break often. Writing to disc A fails, buffer cache is flushed to disc B and verified, before trying to diagnose the problem with disc A.
Beef
There's at least one Linux kernel module for a packet radio network driver.
Beef
It's just about context.
You take your average lawyer in a courtroom, put a hard hat on his head, take away his tie and suit jacket (er, I think you crazy Yanks call that a "vest"), and strap a fully loaded up tool belt round his waist, and he'll look like he's going to a fancy dress Hallowe'en party as Bob the Builder. Nobody will take him seriously. "Unprofessional"
Take him from the courtroom, dressed up in his Bob the Builder outfit, and put him on a building site (OK, "construction site") and he'll be taken for an architect or civil engineer, with five or seven years of University study under his tool belt. "Professional".
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Beefy.
Look, the whole problem that the corporations (whether Music or Software) is that they see "piracy" as depriving them of revenue.
The argument is, that if I couldn't get a "pirate" copy, then I would fork out the full price for an "official" copy; that my choosing a "pirate" over an "official" copy deprives the copyright owner of revenue.
Of course, if I earn two thousand thalern a month, and can afford to spend twenty-five thalern on the new Britney album, but I choose to buy a "pirate" version for two-fifty, then the record company is right; I have deprived the delicious starlet of some revenue.
However, if I earn 2000 finbinks a month, and when the choice is between spending 1000 finbinks on the "original" or 25 on a "pirate" copy, then there is no real choice. I'm going to buy the "pirate" copy. Since there was no way I was going to buy the "original", even in the absence of the copy, then there is no loss of revenue for the delicious starlet.
Beef.
Is that so? I was under the impression that all the real work of compression and modulation was being done by a single chip made by Rockwell.
Please feel free to correct me if I'm blathering.
Beefy
Quite possibly true. I haven't had an internal modem since a US Robotics 14k4, a long time ago.
I long ago switched to a Kortex K56Flex external modem on the serial port. Never had any problem with it; it worked fine straight away, and is still going strong.
Sometimes, dialing up can fail, and I see a message like "blacklisted". The modem them won't dial the number again, and I need to reset it.
Guess which I'd choose...
Beef.
I thought that patenting a process or ides, then letting people use it for years on end, before filing a claim for infringement was a submaris. Maybe there's another word for this practise.
What you're describing,
sounds to me like a wrongly granted patent.Beefy
I thought there was some specific legislation to stop "submarine patents" like this?
Beefy.
Picard: "Computer, connect me to Commander Laforge"
Computer: "I'm sorry, I can't do that; Commander Laforge is in conference with Master Bates."
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searching for XWindow will find a link to the XFree86.org site: http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=XWindow&FORM= SMCRT
Keith
Last time I looked in one of his books, it was definitely written in Russian, not in Ukrainian.
Oblomov.
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your number's been disconnected
...
How about if I write a bash script, an awk script, put them inside the same directory and then make a tarball of this directory.
There; I have a single file, encompassing two scripts written in different languages.
Beefy
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I'm sure there are millions of sickos who'd give $5 each to watch films of that sort of thing. .
The same page (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3457823.stm) currently (5 feb 2004) has a link :"Brazil falls in love with Linux".
So, Lula da Silva is a Linux Geek!
In another article, Stephen Evans uses this to assert that
Or something like that.
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Nonsense. Silver is not expensive.
But compared to aluminium profiles, it is more expensive.
Also, it is a damned sight heavier, and would put far more strain on the mounting when the mainboard is vertical (like in a tower case).
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Whereas "independant test labs had previously shown our product to be 25% by volume, and 75% by weight, silver, which adds up to a whopping 95%, which we rounded up to 99% 'coz it looks good and ph00lz da kidz".
Advertising standards authority, Office of fair trading, Trading standards officer, Federal Trade Commission, DGCCRF... whatever you call it in your neck of the woods, should have been tipped off l o n g ago over this.
That's it, then... Indisputable proof, that the Martianians have Weppons of Mass Distruction... >