Lets suppose that I would have a better chance of surviving with an eye at the back of my head. Such a mutation simply would not happen within one generation, it requires to many patches.
Insects and amphibians can fairly easily have mutations which give them extra limbs, even in places far removed from the proper location. Sometimes the limbs are functional, even. Usually this would not be a beneficial mutation, but on occasion it might happen to be, and the chance of that happening again is increased.
Now, as for the development of the eye in the first place, rather than novel locations. There is evidence for that as well. There are examples of scores of different eye strategies, at different stages of complexity. Some microscopic organisms have light-sensitive patches which they use to avoid predator shadows, seek or avoid sunlight, and/or modify their behavior based upon time of day. if you have several patches in pits, you can sense direction. A transparent covering would prevent occlusion by debris. Better shapes for the covering increase accuity. Aiming muscles would increase the range that each eye could cover. The detail level and the brain complexity then evolve hand in hand according to the needs of the species.
Evolution requires no magic poof, just an unlikely event in a large timeframe (origin of life). Theories on the origins of matter come closer to a need for a magical poof, provided you feel the need to fill all unknowns with magic poofs. And scientists are generally intellectually honest about admitting where the unknowns are in a theory.
3) EULAs are only binding (in the US) in Maryland and Virginia, the states that passed UCITA.
However an EULA can act as "posted rules", informing users that Mythic can choose to terminate your account if you break them, so an EULA has a few more teeth for am MMRPG than for single-user software.
"When will they learn? I mean, they should be the experts, right?" ...
I'm figuring most of 'them' have learned long ago already.
What better business to be in than working on an impossible problem, and have extremely wealthy clients who refuse to believe it is impossible? Talk about job security.
A solar panel is, for practical (not literal) purposes, a perpetual motion machine. As are hydro, wind, and geothermal plants. This guy could have invented something akin to that, but using "zero point energy" instead of sunlight. Not likely, but the existence of "free energy" doesn't necessarily break any thermodynamic laws.
Security is always an issue, but I think that one would have to explicitly allow payments to each entity. Maybe not each time, but definitely each provider. An automatic charge incurred by spam, or even just by visiting a new page, would certainly be unacceptable.
Each party has an account with the micropayment company. Customers only are charged when a certain minimum total is built up. Providers are only paid when enough deposits have accumulated to reach a minimum. The time difference between transactions is covered by the company's venture capital until it is self-sustaining.
It's not complicated, but you need lots of people to buy into it to get it running.
I wouldn't call it "broken" -- it is still functioning perfectly to spec.
I'd say it's more of a kludge. It may meet the spec ("Have more pros than cons on average."), but it is far from an elegant solution. It would be much more useful if awareness of danger was simply placed into consciousness. But evolution is kludge central.
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Lets suppose that I would have a better chance of surviving with an eye at the back of my head. Such a mutation simply would not happen within one generation, it requires to many patches.
Insects and amphibians can fairly easily have mutations which give them extra limbs, even in places far removed from the proper location. Sometimes the limbs are functional, even. Usually this would not be a beneficial mutation, but on occasion it might happen to be, and the chance of that happening again is increased.
Now, as for the development of the eye in the first place, rather than novel locations. There is evidence for that as well. There are examples of scores of different eye strategies, at different stages of complexity. Some microscopic organisms have light-sensitive patches which they use to avoid predator shadows, seek or avoid sunlight, and/or modify their behavior based upon time of day. if you have several patches in pits, you can sense direction. A transparent covering would prevent occlusion by debris. Better shapes for the covering increase accuity. Aiming muscles would increase the range that each eye could cover. The detail level and the brain complexity then evolve hand in hand according to the needs of the species.
Yo have a cow-orker? Lucky. I have to ork my own cows.
Evolution requires no magic poof, just an unlikely event in a large timeframe (origin of life). Theories on the origins of matter come closer to a need for a magical poof, provided you feel the need to fill all unknowns with magic poofs. And scientists are generally intellectually honest about admitting where the unknowns are in a theory.
3) EULAs are only binding (in the US) in Maryland and Virginia, the states that passed UCITA.
However an EULA can act as "posted rules", informing users that Mythic can choose to terminate your account if you break them, so an EULA has a few more teeth for am MMRPG than for single-user software.
If they want to. That's their prerogative.
Try searching for ":00". Can't be many shows with that in the title. I haven't tried it, so there may be other problems.
"When will they learn? I mean, they should be the experts, right?"
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I'm figuring most of 'them' have learned long ago already.
What better business to be in than working on an impossible problem, and have extremely wealthy clients who refuse to believe it is impossible? Talk about job security.
Well, they call us "consumers." Turnabout's fair play.
So that's what happened to Earth on Babylon 5. They went from capitalism to capitolism.
A solar panel is, for practical (not literal) purposes, a perpetual motion machine. As are hydro, wind, and geothermal plants. This guy could have invented something akin to that, but using "zero point energy" instead of sunlight. Not likely, but the existence of "free energy" doesn't necessarily break any thermodynamic laws.
1000 odd residents, and a few who aren't?
There's a reason you can wrap an inductor around the line to get juice, but can't do the same around the equator.
There are more reasons than that! How about logistics?
AOL lost nothing. In fact, Netscape's poor performance allowed AOL to buy it cheaper.
AOL and the various CD clubs seem to be doing well, despite this tactic. It can be dealt with.
Security is always an issue, but I think that one would have to explicitly allow payments to each entity. Maybe not each time, but definitely each provider. An automatic charge incurred by spam, or even just by visiting a new page, would certainly be unacceptable.
More usually, 6 issues for $20...
Each party has an account with the micropayment company. Customers only are charged when a certain minimum total is built up. Providers are only paid when enough deposits have accumulated to reach a minimum. The time difference between transactions is covered by the company's venture capital until it is self-sustaining.
It's not complicated, but you need lots of people to buy into it to get it running.
Because video game characters are usually gorgeous.
I guess the pain-free mice could be used as an additional type of control group for testing new painkillers.
And (as an important subplot) "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, Unbeliever".
Changing their position based on this new breed of mice would not demonstrate any of those qualities in PETA.
I wouldn't call it "broken" -- it is still functioning perfectly to spec.
I'd say it's more of a kludge. It may meet the spec ("Have more pros than cons on average."), but it is far from an elegant solution. It would be much more useful if awareness of danger was simply placed into consciousness. But evolution is kludge central.
Worse - it was copyright Scholastic, Inc. They make those mini-newsletters given to school kids.
I'd think that SGI should be the one suing GLock.
What do you mean, "it's coming"? That's true now. Though I haven't seen any that are up to 15 minutes yet.