I don't think you got it right. There are people who are not much into dating at all, and while they might not say no to a supermodel, most other people to them are just not worth the hassle. They don't put much effort into dating at all, and if they refuse a date, it's not because they think they could do better, it's because they simply aren't interested. Not everyone boosts their self-esteem by trying to score as many dates as possible.
I for once never was much into dating at all, and I don't think I ever made a big effort into courtship. I'm married now, and I have two children, but the proposal was some way that has nothing to do with romance or even with a diamond ring (as I am not an U.S. american, diamond rings are out of question anyway). When my then-future wife was renting a van, we noticed in the contract conditions that family members with a driving license were allowed to drive the rental van too, and because a bride or groom count as family, we decided to call this a proposal and share the driving.
Yes, there are people who overestimate themselves and are thus unsuccessful at dating, but I don't think this happens very often or for a longer time. If the need arises, most people adjust their expectations automatically. Often they have some acquaintances anyway they hang around with, and then a date just happens, and later on both will tell everyone that the mate they found was not what they initially searched for, but proved to be a perfect match anyway.
Actually, no. We are currently faster evolving than ever in human (e.g, Homoean) history. Since the advent of agriculture and semi-permanent settlements, the species experienced some interesting changes. We adapted to new diets, for instance being able to digest lactose even as adults or being quite tolerant to alcohol. In East Asia, where humans very early invented cooking water and thus making it potable even if from dubious sources, those adaptions are still less common, as they had a steady source of potable water. Eurasians developed a resistance to a lot of common diseases, as we saw when Europeans started to conquer the Americas and their original population fell to pests which were quite harmless for Europeans. On the other hand, Europeans took Treponema pallidum from the Americas to Europa, where no resistance against it existed, and the syphilis spreaded.
So yes, humans evolve quickly given their quite long generations. The main reason is that humans are able to overcome a lot of obstacles due to their ability to cooperate, to adapt their lifestyle to the environment and to adapt the environment to their advantage. It means that a lot of phenotypes (and with them the genotypes) can survive and create offspring, and thus humans have a very large genetic reservoir to draw from. Another reason is that humans were always able to travel long distances (there are not many species in the world which are able to run a marathon!), and thus even distant populations from different continents were constantly connected to each other, allowing for an ongoing recombination of genes and for positive mutations to spread quickly.
Yes, the ancestry of Homo sapiens is still somewhat unclear, we don't even know right now, if many of the human fossils we currently attribute to different species like Homo erectus, Homo rudolfensis, Homo habilis etc.pp. don't belong to a single species, and we just found the remainings of very differently looking persons. If we look at today's Homo sapiens L., we have also very different phenotypes, and we still count them into a single species.
But today, we can't easily determine if all those specimen formed a single, continious procreation community, or if they were actually separated by time and place. There is just not enough of the fossil record right now to give a definite answer, we just have some hypotheses, that make more sense to us than others. But we are looking at a single genus (Homo) with several species and subspecies, which are very closely related. And we are looking at a time frame of 2.5 to 6 mio years (not 60,000 as you stated).
Dinosaurs are a very different kind of beast -- in the literal sense of the word. First, dinosaurs are not just a species or a genus, they cover two orders (Ornithischia and Saurischia), which would be comparable to analyzing the orders Primates and Dermoptera (colugos, batlike mammals from Southeast Asia), which are closely related and part of the superorder Euarchontoglires. The last common ancestor of the colugos and Homo sapiens lived about 80 mio years ago, which means that the evolution of the Homo sapiens from a comparably encompassing group than the dinosaurs took 80 mio years until today.
And then the time frame from the last known common ancestor of crocodiles and dinosaurs to the dinosaurs as we know them today took much less than 100 mio years. The Crurotarsi (modern crocodiles and their ancestors and related, but extinct groups) split about 270 mio years ago from the Ornithodira (pterosaurs, dinosaurs and today's birds), and the first dinosaurs appeared about 245 mio years ago (Prorotodactylus).
Actually, no. It's more severe than $100. It could be that he is out of up to 3 weeks severance pay. And this makes Safeway look really bad. They caused hardship to the guy, fired him, he vents off about it and then they slap him with a suspension causing him to lose even the severance pay for the hardship they caused him.
This is not some anti-corporate rant. This is a corporation just being evil.
Spoken like one who never has seen more than his desktop PC.
There are systems which don't have any HD that can be sped up by replacing it with an SSD. Flash based appliances come to mind. They surely can make use of faster boot times. There are systems whose storage is on a multi terabyte NAS, which can't be replaced by an SSD (or do you volunteer to foot the bill?). There are systems which are just virtual machines, and whose HDs are wherever the virtual filesystems are placed. I am working with systems, which run several servers as separate virtual machines in QEMU because of real time issues, and being able to short the time for a restart of those machines really helps.
You are not the navel of the universe, and if you can speed up boot times just by replacing your HD with an SSD, it's fine. But it's only relevant for you. It's not a solution for anyone else.
Hm. I see a minimum kerb weight of 1,887 kg for the 90" wheelbase Defender. The F-150 has 5550 lbs ~ 2500 kg. So the Defender is 600 kg (1300 lbs) lighter than the F-150.
I made it a routine to always check for all boundaries, even for those I believed to be covered already, and to throw an exception if the check fails. Even so often there are other undiscovered bugs that allow the function to be called with invalid data, or someone (often me) later reuses the function at another place and forgets the boundary checks.
Wrong. That was not how van Hoeydonck got involved in this. And if that was the sole reason, David Scott took the figurine to the Moon, he totally failed to tell van Hoeydonck about it.
It's not easy to understand something that was never explained to you.
It indirectly shows that you didn't read the actual article. What this "PC Plus" actually provides is the ability to run Android Apps. It seems to be a Dalvik runtime environment and some supporting libs pre-installed on Win8.1 PCs and laptops.
Of course hating corrupt politicians is a disease. Hate blinds you. Working to get rid of corrupt politicians requires something completely different than hate. At first it requires some knowledge about politics in general and how it actually works. And then you will notice that one of the reasons the politician you hate so much never listens to you is that you refuse to talk to him.
The Range Rover is no equivalent to the F-150. The real Land Rover is the Defender, built since 1948 with only a few modifications. The Range Rover was designed and still is a posh car for snob people.
I am daily using a software that doesn't run on WINE, not on Windows 7, but surely runs on WinXP. Sadly, it's the tool to report my work to the central server for bookkeeping and billing the customers. Thus it has a) to be run on an Internet facing WinXP and b) means that I have to have at least one system I can't upgrade and c) can't easily be replaced by any other software.
With "mining silicon yourself" you surely mean "fill a bucket with sand", right? Sand is, after all, mainly silicondioxide. Then you have to mix the sand with coal and iron ore in an oven to create ferrosilicon. Blow hydrogen chloride on it to get Trichlorsilan. Distill it and then let it condense at pure silicon bars to grow them. Put the resulting large silicon bars into a zone melting oven to purify them.
The problem with silicon is not mining the ore. Its purifying the silicon.
You didn't get it, right? Someone is using your phone for a 911-call. And you are left with a $100 bill for each call. And none of your acquaintances will tell you who placed the call. Who do you sue?
Because that would make the prank of calling 911 from your acquaintance's phone just more fun. And maybe call it several times. And then don't tell anyone who did the actual call.
When is IP important to you, as a business? If you hold patents and if you're heavily invested in R&D, and copyright is something that you care about strongly if you're creating content, be it music, movies or software. Else, at best, it's uninteresting to you. At worst, it is a headache to you since you always have to watch out whether or not something trivial you do steps on someone' patent toes.
You should actually read the report. Then you would stumble upon such results as:
Even when looking at a sector where one would expect heavy reliance on intellectual property, the results do not match expectations. For example, take one of the most copyright-dependent sectors we can imagine: “R&D active” software publishing. In 2010, 51.4% of respondents in this sector said copyright was “very important”; 34.6% said it was “somewhat important”; and 13.9% said it was “not important.” That is, only about half of respondents in a purportedly heavily copyright-dependent sector describe copyright as “very important” to their business.
Or look at this:
Overall, businesses report that trade secrets are the most important form of intellectual property protection, with 13.2% of businesses calling trade secrets “very important” or “somewhat important.” Trademarks are a close second, with copyrights and patents significantly farther behind.
No. Baking recipes are not protected by the law. No one can sue me for using a gas chromatograph to figure out the recipe for food and then prepare the same food. Trade secrets fall within contract law, it's just a contract between two parties that they won't reveal the recipes to any third party.
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I for once never was much into dating at all, and I don't think I ever made a big effort into courtship. I'm married now, and I have two children, but the proposal was some way that has nothing to do with romance or even with a diamond ring (as I am not an U.S. american, diamond rings are out of question anyway). When my then-future wife was renting a van, we noticed in the contract conditions that family members with a driving license were allowed to drive the rental van too, and because a bride or groom count as family, we decided to call this a proposal and share the driving.
Yes, there are people who overestimate themselves and are thus unsuccessful at dating, but I don't think this happens very often or for a longer time. If the need arises, most people adjust their expectations automatically. Often they have some acquaintances anyway they hang around with, and then a date just happens, and later on both will tell everyone that the mate they found was not what they initially searched for, but proved to be a perfect match anyway.
Windows is the Caliphate of Microsoft (at least in TFA).
So yes, humans evolve quickly given their quite long generations. The main reason is that humans are able to overcome a lot of obstacles due to their ability to cooperate, to adapt their lifestyle to the environment and to adapt the environment to their advantage. It means that a lot of phenotypes (and with them the genotypes) can survive and create offspring, and thus humans have a very large genetic reservoir to draw from. Another reason is that humans were always able to travel long distances (there are not many species in the world which are able to run a marathon!), and thus even distant populations from different continents were constantly connected to each other, allowing for an ongoing recombination of genes and for positive mutations to spread quickly.
But today, we can't easily determine if all those specimen formed a single, continious procreation community, or if they were actually separated by time and place. There is just not enough of the fossil record right now to give a definite answer, we just have some hypotheses, that make more sense to us than others. But we are looking at a single genus (Homo) with several species and subspecies, which are very closely related. And we are looking at a time frame of 2.5 to 6 mio years (not 60,000 as you stated).
Dinosaurs are a very different kind of beast -- in the literal sense of the word. First, dinosaurs are not just a species or a genus, they cover two orders (Ornithischia and Saurischia), which would be comparable to analyzing the orders Primates and Dermoptera (colugos, batlike mammals from Southeast Asia), which are closely related and part of the superorder Euarchontoglires. The last common ancestor of the colugos and Homo sapiens lived about 80 mio years ago, which means that the evolution of the Homo sapiens from a comparably encompassing group than the dinosaurs took 80 mio years until today.
And then the time frame from the last known common ancestor of crocodiles and dinosaurs to the dinosaurs as we know them today took much less than 100 mio years. The Crurotarsi (modern crocodiles and their ancestors and related, but extinct groups) split about 270 mio years ago from the Ornithodira (pterosaurs, dinosaurs and today's birds), and the first dinosaurs appeared about 245 mio years ago (Prorotodactylus).
He was terminated. That the day of his termination wasn't here yet doesn't change anything.
This is not some anti-corporate rant. This is a corporation just being evil.
"Faster boots"
Drop an SSD in the box. Problem non-existent.
Spoken like one who never has seen more than his desktop PC.
There are systems which don't have any HD that can be sped up by replacing it with an SSD. Flash based appliances come to mind. They surely can make use of faster boot times. There are systems whose storage is on a multi terabyte NAS, which can't be replaced by an SSD (or do you volunteer to foot the bill?). There are systems which are just virtual machines, and whose HDs are wherever the virtual filesystems are placed. I am working with systems, which run several servers as separate virtual machines in QEMU because of real time issues, and being able to short the time for a restart of those machines really helps.
You are not the navel of the universe, and if you can speed up boot times just by replacing your HD with an SSD, it's fine. But it's only relevant for you. It's not a solution for anyone else.
Hm. I see a minimum kerb weight of 1,887 kg for the 90" wheelbase Defender. The F-150 has 5550 lbs ~ 2500 kg. So the Defender is 600 kg (1300 lbs) lighter than the F-150.
I made it a routine to always check for all boundaries, even for those I believed to be covered already, and to throw an exception if the check fails. Even so often there are other undiscovered bugs that allow the function to be called with invalid data, or someone (often me) later reuses the function at another place and forgets the boundary checks.
It wasn't made on commission. So what?
It wasn't made on commission.
Verbal agreements are binding. Not as binding or easy to prove as a written agreement but they are still binding.
Yes, and David Scott hat problems to keep the terms of his side of the contract. And thus Paul van Hoeydonck didn't feel bound by his side anymore.
It's not easy to understand something that was never explained to you.
Actually, prisons are there to deprive you of your freedom. Not more, not less. Everything else are just juvenile revenge dreams.
It indirectly shows that you didn't read the actual article. What this "PC Plus" actually provides is the ability to run Android Apps. It seems to be a Dalvik runtime environment and some supporting libs pre-installed on Win8.1 PCs and laptops.
Of course hating corrupt politicians is a disease. Hate blinds you. Working to get rid of corrupt politicians requires something completely different than hate. At first it requires some knowledge about politics in general and how it actually works. And then you will notice that one of the reasons the politician you hate so much never listens to you is that you refuse to talk to him.
The Range Rover is no equivalent to the F-150. The real Land Rover is the Defender, built since 1948 with only a few modifications. The Range Rover was designed and still is a posh car for snob people.
4WD gets you stuck where no other car can pull you out.
I am daily using a software that doesn't run on WINE, not on Windows 7, but surely runs on WinXP. Sadly, it's the tool to report my work to the central server for bookkeeping and billing the customers. Thus it has a) to be run on an Internet facing WinXP and b) means that I have to have at least one system I can't upgrade and c) can't easily be replaced by any other software.
The problem with silicon is not mining the ore. Its purifying the silicon.
You didn't get it, right? Someone is using your phone for a 911-call. And you are left with a $100 bill for each call. And none of your acquaintances will tell you who placed the call. Who do you sue?
Because that would make the prank of calling 911 from your acquaintance's phone just more fun. And maybe call it several times. And then don't tell anyone who did the actual call.
When is IP important to you, as a business? If you hold patents and if you're heavily invested in R&D, and copyright is something that you care about strongly if you're creating content, be it music, movies or software. Else, at best, it's uninteresting to you. At worst, it is a headache to you since you always have to watch out whether or not something trivial you do steps on someone' patent toes.
You should actually read the report. Then you would stumble upon such results as:
Even when looking at a sector where one would expect heavy reliance on intellectual property, the results do not match expectations. For example, take one of the most copyright-dependent sectors we can imagine: “R&D active” software publishing. In 2010, 51.4% of respondents in this sector said copyright was “very important”; 34.6% said it was “somewhat important”; and 13.9% said it was “not important.” That is, only about half of respondents in a purportedly heavily copyright-dependent sector describe copyright as “very important” to their business.
Or look at this:
Overall, businesses report that trade secrets are the most important form of intellectual property protection, with 13.2% of businesses calling trade secrets “very important” or “somewhat important.” Trademarks are a close second, with copyrights and patents significantly farther behind.
No. Baking recipes are not protected by the law. No one can sue me for using a gas chromatograph to figure out the recipe for food and then prepare the same food. Trade secrets fall within contract law, it's just a contract between two parties that they won't reveal the recipes to any third party.
However, baking recipes don't fall under any legal protection. Also fashion is not protected by the law.