In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
And as an afterthought, He created the sun.
And the moon to rule the night, though for some reason it spends half its time in the daytime sky.
The problem I have with a lot of people is I don't try to shove my belief in god on them
this is the same GSA now under fire for pricey Vegas conference flings
Which is more outrageous than it sounds, because it's the GSA that sets the rates that lots of public institutions use to limit how much their employees can spend for hotel rooms, etc.
Less poor, but actually sounds like an environmental pressure to favor small species rather than large ones - the opposite of what the articles seem to be saying.
No, the point is that bigger specimens of smaller dinosaurs had an advantage over the average, so there was environmental pressure driving larger animals to survive. Therefore, as the bigger dinosaurs bred more than their smaller siblings, the average size of their young went up, reinforcing their advantage until truly huge specimens became the norm.
Now that actually makes sense, though as others have pointed out, why didn't the same apply to mammals?
Still sounds like unnecessarily convoluted logic. There's no reason the young of big dinosaurs wouldn't be able to compete with smaller species as well as they had before.
A simpler explanation would be that post-KT there wasn't an ecosystem to support the huge adults, and when the environment won't support adults the whole species dies.
I think the summary is just making too much of the relevance of the articles to extinction.
I think the actual implication would be that big dinosaurs had to produce vast numbers of young, so that enough of them would survive to become full-sized adults.
Also, "the little ones get eaten" would apply to small species of dinosaurs - and mammals. (Unless most predators preferred the taste of chicken to the taste of beef.)
When the young of large animals start out small, they must grow through a large size range before reaching adulthood. As a result there was intense competition between small and medium-sized dinosaurs, forcing adults to keep growing until they reached very large sizes to gain a competitive edge.
IOW, dinosaur species had to be big, because young dinosaurs of big species had to become big?
IIRC there was a story a few years back that Larry had bought a new, smaller boat because it was too difficult to find places to park the old one in some countries.
I just cannot fathom why at this point that Microsoft still does not grasp how important security is.
Nothing makes this more clear than withholding advanced encryption features or even virtualization from the general consumer version.
They're in the business of making money, not providing important services.
This continued split of versions at this point is just absurd, and confusing to the market. You'd think by now Microsoft would learn to simplify - I guess not. Must be nice being a monopoly that scores of companies have no choice but to ship whatever you put out.
Back in the day, "only one version" was one of their arguments against using Linux.
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In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. 3 And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.
And as an afterthought, He created the sun.
And the moon to rule the night, though for some reason it spends half its time in the daytime sky.
The problem I have with a lot of people is I don't try to shove my belief in god on them
Remind us who brought this nonsense up?
Okay, so the fact that there was an intelligent designer and the fact that the Earth was intelligently designed are only correlations, not causation.
Suppose I were rich and you had a clue.
Correlation does not equal causation.
Correlation does not equal causation.
Correlation does not equal causation.
Wow - same thing three times in a row!
But is it correlation or causation?
Hey, "a wizard did it" is basically the foundation of intelligent de... ok, you're right, good punchline but lousy science.
The Greeks were cynical about the Deus ex Machina even in entertainment. It's a total wash for science.
this is the same GSA now under fire for pricey Vegas conference flings
Which is more outrageous than it sounds, because it's the GSA that sets the rates that lots of public institutions use to limit how much their employees can spend for hotel rooms, etc.
Less poor, but actually sounds like an environmental pressure to favor small species rather than large ones - the opposite of what the articles seem to be saying.
Probably came about from pondering why the fuck they were born with such short arms.
Couldn't reach a conclusion?
No, the point is that bigger specimens of smaller dinosaurs had an advantage over the average, so there was environmental pressure driving larger animals to survive. Therefore, as the bigger dinosaurs bred more than their smaller siblings, the average size of their young went up, reinforcing their advantage until truly huge specimens became the norm.
Now that actually makes sense, though as others have pointed out, why didn't the same apply to mammals?
Does nobody read the summaries before posting them?
Yes, nobody reads everything.
Using the same reasoning: The birds were able to fly, and only the flying dinosaurs lived.
Then why didn't non-flying mammals die?
"small && ( mammal || flies)" doesn't really make a lot of sense.
There's no reason the young of big dinosaurs wouldn't be able to compete with smaller species as well as they had before.
Unless of course the adults were interfering with the others to make their own young more able to compete.
Though that doesn't jibe with the "because they had to compete with their own young" line.
Still sounds like unnecessarily convoluted logic. There's no reason the young of big dinosaurs wouldn't be able to compete with smaller species as well as they had before.
A simpler explanation would be that post-KT there wasn't an ecosystem to support the huge adults, and when the environment won't support adults the whole species dies.
I think the summary is just making too much of the relevance of the articles to extinction.
If he really exists, then he's an idiot.
Clearly, the dinosaur god couldn't compete. It's down to the human god vs. the beetle god now.
Sounds like the ultimate free market.
Yes, every meal was "all you can eat".
I think the actual implication would be that big dinosaurs had to produce vast numbers of young, so that enough of them would survive to become full-sized adults.
Also, "the little ones get eaten" would apply to small species of dinosaurs - and mammals. (Unless most predators preferred the taste of chicken to the taste of beef.)
When the young of large animals start out small, they must grow through a large size range before reaching adulthood. As a result there was intense competition between small and medium-sized dinosaurs, forcing adults to keep growing until they reached very large sizes to gain a competitive edge.
IOW, dinosaur species had to be big, because young dinosaurs of big species had to become big?
What, precisely, does it mean if you say a programming language is free?
as in beer
Is there really any other definition?
a) You can use programs written in the language without anyone expecting you to pay them.
b) You can write programs in the language without anyone expecting you to pay them.
c) You can write a compiler for the language without anyone expecting you to pay them.
d) You can use the source code for someone else's compiler without anyone expecting you to pay them.
e) You can modify the language definition without anyone expecting you to pay them.
f) You can use the name of the language without anyone expecting you to pay them.
g) You can make conformance/compatibility claims about your compiler for the language without anyone expecting you to pay them.
[...]
z) Some combination of the above.
IIRC there was a story a few years back that Larry had bought a new, smaller boat because it was too difficult to find places to park the old one in some countries.
Well, he should just buy bigger countries.
Actually, Ellison's annual salary is 1$, no joke. He is paid in stock to avoid income taxes.
Does he have to pay tax when he cashes in the stock?
If so, how does he come out ahead?
(And if no, why isn't he covered with tar and feathers.)
What, precisely, does it mean if you say a programming language is free?
at least he didn't dive to avoid hitting Uranus
Think what he might have done if someone had projected goatse on his windscreen when he woke up.
The only danger in this situation had been the F.O. napping for 75 minutes instead of the maximum 40
And all the people not wearing seatbelts.
Windows RT : as in... Windows Russia Today?
No, it's the "arty" flavor of Windows 8, meant to compete with the Mac.
I just cannot fathom why at this point that Microsoft still does not grasp how important security is.
Nothing makes this more clear than withholding advanced encryption features or even virtualization from the general consumer version.
They're in the business of making money, not providing important services.
This continued split of versions at this point is just absurd, and confusing to the market. You'd think by now Microsoft would learn to simplify - I guess not. Must be nice being a monopoly that scores of companies have no choice but to ship whatever you put out.
Back in the day, "only one version" was one of their arguments against using Linux.
You're supposed to wait a bit so as to not be so obvious.
Yeah, and so your coveted First Post won't go to waste on shilling.