I think there is a great misunderstanding about evolution at all: Evolution doesn't require livings to constantly change (and as a matter of fact it's not the single living, that changes, it's the long chain of generations which carries the change). Evolution says: If the environment changes (for what ever reason), the cards get newly shuffled, and what was a survival trait before can now be (but doesn't need to be) a disadvantage.
Evolution theory claims that the livings best adapted to the environment survive, and that offspring always has a little variation to the parent generation, caused (for livings creating offspring by sexual contact) by recombination of the genes and mutation (which works also for parthenogenetic offspring). Thus every new generation is faced with a new challenge, and only those livings that are adapted just enough to breed will have offspring, the other lines will die out when the livings which weren't able to create offspring die (for whatever reason: old age, dropping of cliffs, being devoured by other livings, getting sick without recovery...).
Living fossils are livings which didn't change very much since millions of years, and that could simply happen because each generation basically finds the same survival conditions than the generation before. Sharks and crocodils, gingkos and corals all have lived in environments where there was no big pressure on changing the building plan.
"Living fossil" is just a description for a living, which is recent, but where there exists a large fossil record of similar livings, often reaching back in time for millions of years and often spawning more morphological variation than can be found today. That's nothing "anti evolutionary" or such. It just happens. And it will probably happen again that with exploring not yet fully explored habitats (like many parts of the rain forests), we will find recent livings of which until now we have only fossil records because they died out in most of their former environments due to changes they couldn't adapt to.
That's why a purely paper-and-pen-based voting system is much better fit to detect voting fraud: Because every step of the voting can be watched without any technical means, from printing the ballots till adding up the count. The only part that's (intentionally) not watched is the moment when someone is actually casting the vote. So the layman can know that the whole process is being sound. With any additional device intended to speed up a part of the voting process exactly this part isn't watchable and thus controllable anymore by the layman, and that's the point where fraud can happen without being easily detected anymore.
Philipp Reis had. He showed it to the Frankfurter Physikalischer Verein in 1860. The first sentence ever spoken via wire was "Das Pferd frisst keinen Gurkensalat." (The horse doesn't feed on cucumber salad.) One of the members of the Physikalischer Verein invented the nonsense sentence to make sure the demonstration wasn't rigged. Philipp Reis invented the name 'telephon' (1863). He died in 1874, so he had no chance to battle A.G.Bell in court.
Linking Slackware to RedHat would probably upset Patrick Volkerding (the guy maintaining Slackware since the beginning... 1992 or so). I remember getting Slackware Linux on 12 1.44-MByte floppies (and another 9 floppies for the X11 and another 11 for LaTeX) back in 1993:)
But that's the point of Eugenics at all: To standardize on a single set (or a small number of sets) of allels that are considered 'useful' today. Look at things like consumer equipment standards: It's nearly impossible to get a standard with a smaller user base maintained (think Digital Audio Tape vs. CD-RW), the bigger one will get and maintain 95% of the market, until a really disruptively improved standard comes by.
And we are mainly 'consumers' of our own gene pool. We are really looking at the neighbour's kids and want our offspring to be the same (or 'better' for today's value of 'better'). We want them to get along with the other kids in school, so they shouldn't be too weird. And if you can use Eugenics, the definitions what is considered 'normal' and what's 'weird' get changed and the tolerated differences get smaller (having a tendency to be phlegmatic and growing fat? Your parent's were cheapos not wanting to pay for a correction of that!).
Eugenics will in the end really make the gene pool smaller for us humans. Because differently than for plants and animals we grow for our uses (and because we have quite different uses, we have lots of different strains of seeds and races of domestic animals), we are our own use, we want to take part in most activities offered to us, and we tend to go with the mayority. In the end most people will settle to some Wintel equivalent of genes: It works for most situations, and it is not a real disadvantage even in some specialized environments, because there is always a market for tools to adapt the environment to a large customer base.
The main accomplishment of the Wright Brothers was the steering. The principle of flying 'heavier than air' was shown to be sound before (Lilienthal et.al.), and the idea to have the plane being self propelled was obvious. It was just a matter of time until the gas engines were light and powerful enough. But it was the Wright's analysis of the bird flight, and the realisation that you have to have bendable wings and tail/front flaps to get to a controlled flight, that was really new. Ironically it was this idea that was published in the patent application of 1904, which enabled the other flight pioneers to get their planes ready until 1910.
They just claim to have been flying first with a self propelled plane. Alberto Santos-Dumont was the first to show the large public himself flying in a self propelled airplane:) (and there is still this odd picture allegedly taken in 1902 showing him in one of the early constructions).
... And the attackers of the Sep 11 2001 weren't hiding their identity at all or borrowing from other people (there have been some clouds around the real identity of Muhammad Atta though, the family Atta denies the person being their [missing] son).
The interesting and most Anti-PATRIOT thing about the suicide bombers of Sep 11 2001 was that they were just normal. They were regular students at a regular university in Germany. They had regular student visa for both Germany and U.S., they were using their regular passports, they were openly going to their preferred mosque.
They did nothing to hide their tracks. Of course they wanted a good credit report on their credit cards. Of course they didn't want to be chased by debt collectors. Of course they didn't want the cheques they were writing to bounce. Basicly all they did was being good citizens. And that should scare anyone who thinks waging a War on Terror might be a good idea. If you didn't to anything wrong, you are a prime suspect.
People talking french because they want to open a business in China, avoid the slackers in the U.S. plants and having communism for themselves (last time I checked China still called itself 'communist').
No, instead of being more precise that it is a copyright violation, if and only if they don't have the permission from the copyright holder to do so. As a matter of fact, without the permission of the copyright holder, downloading copyrighted material with HTTP is a copyright violation as well. The connection of P2P and copyrighted material is in itself suspicious. Using P2P doesn't add to the copyright violation, and it doesn't remove anything. If the downloading is in violation of copyright, it really doesn't matter what protocol you are using. So what most people are complaining about is the connection from P2P and copyright infringment, which has nothing to do with the P2P part of the protocol.
There was a time when there was only one manufacturer of Floppy Disks in the world, and all brands of floppy disks were just labels on the product of this one manufacturer (it was a subsidy of BASF, as far as I remember). There also was a time when only three manufacurers built VHS-drives, and all brands of VHS drives were just buying there. As far as I remember, JVC and Hitachi were two of them. In Germany all canned pet food is manufactured by exactly one company, Masterfoods of Bremen. All the brands are just registered with that single company. So if you buy kitekat or sheba for your cat or whiskas... it really doesn't matter, in the end you buy it from Masterfoods.
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The revolution started by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs was not the operating system, but the idea of the Personal Computer, the computer, that sits on your desk and you are in control of it, upgrading it (yes... the standardized expansion port was one of the great design ideas of the Apple ][) and deciding which software is running there. From the Apple ][ and the C= PET the line goes to the IBM PC and Phoenix/Compaq, which took the idea a step further: The "Standard PC" as a design, not a product, where hundreds of "compatible" products can exist, whose parts are (nearly) completely interchangeable and can assembled to whatever YOU, the final user needs.
Only if you want a fully meshed network. You could have meshed meshes instead. Let's say, you have four nodes, fully meshed to each other, thus with six lines. Then you have four four-meshes, again fully meshed to each other, this makes 30 connections per 16 nodes (4x 6 for the single meshes and another six for the four meshes). Again four of those mesh-meshes interconnected as full mesh needs 126 connections for 64 nodes. So instead of 2*n*(n-1)/2 ~ O(n^2) you have 2*n-2 ~ O(n), and you have still mesh properties with non predictable routes. In the end every node has four connections to the outside world, exept for two nodes (what to do with them? Start connecting the next level of meshes!)
No. The principle of capitalism ist: Privatize profits, communalize costs. Sony BMG was just trying to profit privately from non copyable media while externalizing the costs to thousands of PC owners.
It is. It is calling 'sliding CD sales'. Currently they attribute it to piracy. And they will continue to do so. But I guess there are some people inside RIAA that have realized it has to do with the hassle with the Un-CDs. But instead of giving up on Un-CDs, they try to remove the alternative: If you can't buy a hassle free CD anymore, and if the only other sources to get music from is DRM encrusted online services, then people will swallow the toad and buy Un-CDs.
Of course they can. If you refuse to pay $9,90 for your meal because you deduct the $0,50 for the WiFi you didn't use, the restaurant will call the police. Same with taxes: If you don't pay the taxes in full because you deduct the part that is paid for services you didn't use, they call the police.
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In the end Diablo and Diablo II are just fancy GUIs for Nethack.
Cool. You just reinvented the Berne Convention.
Natural selection is one of the aspects of evolution. So what?
I think there is a great misunderstanding about evolution at all: Evolution doesn't require livings to constantly change (and as a matter of fact it's not the single living, that changes, it's the long chain of generations which carries the change). Evolution says: If the environment changes (for what ever reason), the cards get newly shuffled, and what was a survival trait before can now be (but doesn't need to be) a disadvantage.
Evolution theory claims that the livings best adapted to the environment survive, and that offspring always has a little variation to the parent generation, caused (for livings creating offspring by sexual contact) by recombination of the genes and mutation (which works also for parthenogenetic offspring). Thus every new generation is faced with a new challenge, and only those livings that are adapted just enough to breed will have offspring, the other lines will die out when the livings which weren't able to create offspring die (for whatever reason: old age, dropping of cliffs, being devoured by other livings, getting sick without recovery...).
Living fossils are livings which didn't change very much since millions of years, and that could simply happen because each generation basically finds the same survival conditions than the generation before. Sharks and crocodils, gingkos and corals all have lived in environments where there was no big pressure on changing the building plan.
"Living fossil" is just a description for a living, which is recent, but where there exists a large fossil record of similar livings, often reaching back in time for millions of years and often spawning more morphological variation than can be found today. That's nothing "anti evolutionary" or such. It just happens. And it will probably happen again that with exploring not yet fully explored habitats (like many parts of the rain forests), we will find recent livings of which until now we have only fossil records because they died out in most of their former environments due to changes they couldn't adapt to.
I'll take the quadX2 anyday :) Much less maintenance required for about the same amount of fun time :)
That's why a purely paper-and-pen-based voting system is much better fit to detect voting fraud: Because every step of the voting can be watched without any technical means, from printing the ballots till adding up the count. The only part that's (intentionally) not watched is the moment when someone is actually casting the vote. So the layman can know that the whole process is being sound. With any additional device intended to speed up a part of the voting process exactly this part isn't watchable and thus controllable anymore by the layman, and that's the point where fraud can happen without being easily detected anymore.
But at least his invention would (as prior art) have prevented A.G.Bell's patent being valid. But the USPTO decided to grant the patent anyway.
Philipp Reis had. He showed it to the Frankfurter Physikalischer Verein in 1860. The first sentence ever spoken via wire was "Das Pferd frisst keinen Gurkensalat." (The horse doesn't feed on cucumber salad.) One of the members of the Physikalischer Verein invented the nonsense sentence to make sure the demonstration wasn't rigged.
Philipp Reis invented the name 'telephon' (1863). He died in 1874, so he had no chance to battle A.G.Bell in court.
If voting fraud is detected, then the voting has to be redone anyway... there is no point in recounting the fraudulent votes.
Linking Slackware to RedHat would probably upset Patrick Volkerding (the guy maintaining Slackware since the beginning... 1992 or so). I remember getting Slackware Linux on 12 1.44-MByte floppies (and another 9 floppies for the X11 and another 11 for LaTeX) back in 1993 :)
But that's the point of Eugenics at all: To standardize on a single set (or a small number of sets) of allels that are considered 'useful' today. Look at things like consumer equipment standards: It's nearly impossible to get a standard with a smaller user base maintained (think Digital Audio Tape vs. CD-RW), the bigger one will get and maintain 95% of the market, until a really disruptively improved standard comes by.
And we are mainly 'consumers' of our own gene pool. We are really looking at the neighbour's kids and want our offspring to be the same (or 'better' for today's value of 'better'). We want them to get along with the other kids in school, so they shouldn't be too weird. And if you can use Eugenics, the definitions what is considered 'normal' and what's 'weird' get changed and the tolerated differences get smaller (having a tendency to be phlegmatic and growing fat? Your parent's were cheapos not wanting to pay for a correction of that!).
Eugenics will in the end really make the gene pool smaller for us humans. Because differently than for plants and animals we grow for our uses (and because we have quite different uses, we have lots of different strains of seeds and races of domestic animals), we are our own use, we want to take part in most activities offered to us, and we tend to go with the mayority. In the end most people will settle to some Wintel equivalent of genes: It works for most situations, and it is not a real disadvantage even in some specialized environments, because there is always a market for tools to adapt the environment to a large customer base.
The main accomplishment of the Wright Brothers was the steering. The principle of flying 'heavier than air' was shown to be sound before (Lilienthal et.al.), and the idea to have the plane being self propelled was obvious. It was just a matter of time until the gas engines were light and powerful enough.
But it was the Wright's analysis of the bird flight, and the realisation that you have to have bendable wings and tail/front flaps to get to a controlled flight, that was really new. Ironically it was this idea that was published in the patent application of 1904, which enabled the other flight pioneers to get their planes ready until 1910.
They just claim to have been flying first with a self propelled plane. Alberto Santos-Dumont was the first to show the large public himself flying in a self propelled airplane :) (and there is still this odd picture allegedly taken in 1902 showing him in one of the early constructions).
... And the attackers of the Sep 11 2001 weren't hiding their identity at all or borrowing from other people (there have been some clouds around the real identity of Muhammad Atta though, the family Atta denies the person being their [missing] son).
The interesting and most Anti-PATRIOT thing about the suicide bombers of Sep 11 2001 was that they were just normal. They were regular students at a regular university in Germany. They had regular student visa for both Germany and U.S., they were using their regular passports, they were openly going to their preferred mosque.
They did nothing to hide their tracks. Of course they wanted a good credit report on their credit cards. Of course they didn't want to be chased by debt collectors. Of course they didn't want the cheques they were writing to bounce. Basicly all they did was being good citizens. And that should scare anyone who thinks waging a War on Terror might be a good idea. If you didn't to anything wrong, you are a prime suspect.
People talking french because they want to open a business in China, avoid the slackers in the U.S. plants and having communism for themselves (last time I checked China still called itself 'communist').
In group C: People who just want to be correct enough not to get in conflict with A) or with people chasing B).
No, instead of being more precise that it is a copyright violation, if and only if they don't have the permission from the copyright holder to do so.
As a matter of fact, without the permission of the copyright holder, downloading copyrighted material with HTTP is a copyright violation as well. The connection of P2P and copyrighted material is in itself suspicious. Using P2P doesn't add to the copyright violation, and it doesn't remove anything. If the downloading is in violation of copyright, it really doesn't matter what protocol you are using. So what most people are complaining about is the connection from P2P and copyright infringment, which has nothing to do with the P2P part of the protocol.
There was a time when there was only one manufacturer of Floppy Disks in the world, and all brands of floppy disks were just labels on the product of this one manufacturer (it was a subsidy of BASF, as far as I remember). There also was a time when only three manufacurers built VHS-drives, and all brands of VHS drives were just buying there. As far as I remember, JVC and Hitachi were two of them. In Germany all canned pet food is manufactured by exactly one company, Masterfoods of Bremen. All the brands are just registered with that single company. So if you buy kitekat or sheba for your cat or whiskas... it really doesn't matter, in the end you buy it from Masterfoods.
The revolution started by Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs was not the operating system, but the idea of the Personal Computer, the computer, that sits on your desk and you are in control of it, upgrading it (yes... the standardized expansion port was one of the great design ideas of the Apple ][) and deciding which software is running there.
From the Apple ][ and the C= PET the line goes to the IBM PC and Phoenix/Compaq, which took the idea a step further: The "Standard PC" as a design, not a product, where hundreds of "compatible" products can exist, whose parts are (nearly) completely interchangeable and can assembled to whatever YOU, the final user needs.
Sorry. Typo. A fully meshed network has n*(n-1)/2 connections. :) Next time I'll preview again.
Only if you want a fully meshed network. You could have meshed meshes instead.
Let's say, you have four nodes, fully meshed to each other, thus with six lines. Then you have four four-meshes, again fully meshed to each other, this makes 30 connections per 16 nodes (4x 6 for the single meshes and another six for the four meshes). Again four of those mesh-meshes interconnected as full mesh needs 126 connections for 64 nodes. So instead of 2*n*(n-1)/2 ~ O(n^2) you have 2*n-2 ~ O(n), and you have still mesh properties with non predictable routes. In the end every node has four connections to the outside world, exept for two nodes (what to do with them? Start connecting the next level of meshes!)
No. The principle of capitalism ist: Privatize profits, communalize costs. Sony BMG was just trying to profit privately from non copyable media while externalizing the costs to thousands of PC owners.
It is. It is calling 'sliding CD sales'. Currently they attribute it to piracy. And they will continue to do so. But I guess there are some people inside RIAA that have realized it has to do with the hassle with the Un-CDs. But instead of giving up on Un-CDs, they try to remove the alternative: If you can't buy a hassle free CD anymore, and if the only other sources to get music from is DRM encrusted online services, then people will swallow the toad and buy Un-CDs.
Legislation doesn't get bought, it gets extorted. :)
Of course they can. If you refuse to pay $9,90 for your meal because you deduct the $0,50 for the WiFi you didn't use, the restaurant will call the police. Same with taxes: If you don't pay the taxes in full because you deduct the part that is paid for services you didn't use, they call the police.