Actually, collaborative, multi-user editing environments have been around a bit longer than "Netscape Communicator days". It was the purpose of that Berners-Lee fellpw's application, 'The World Wide Web'.
"fitness", as applied to evolution, has nothing to do with the kind of "fitness" you might acquire by going to the gym; ie, being bigger and stronger.
"Survival of the fittest", (a phrase that did not originate with C. Darwin), means leaving more offspring who, in turn, leave surviving offspring, passing on whatever adaptive advantage led to having more offspring. Certainly our intelligence, tool using, and general intellectual flexibility is highly adaptive. It is, perhaps, our most adaptive trait, along with bipedalism.
Hell, I'm still struggling to keep some relatives from using websites to send me "e-greeting cards".
I have to periodically create throw-away email addresses just to email these individuals, who complain that they have to keep changing their address books to email me.
This faux etymology is refuted in about 45 seconds on teh interwebz.
from Dictionary 2.26.0, and from
The Century Dictionary; 'an encyclopedic lexicon of the english language':
" Cooks could make artificial birds and fishes in
default of the real ones. --Arbuthnot. "
John Arbuthnot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"John Arbuthnot, often known simply as Dr. Arbuthnot, (baptised April 29, 1667 - February 27, 1735),
was a physician, satirist and polymath in London...."
Jeez - Microsoft is acting just like a corporation facing competition. Who would've thunk it? I'm just glad Gnu/Linux is actually competitive nowadays.
"i don't see why..." [...] "if there is anything science teaches us," it's that the argument from personal incredulity is usually wrong.
A non-fluff article on the topic in Scientific American is at http://tinyurl.com/5ps6ny. The article approaches it from the anomalous fact that the arrow of time and entropy do not exhibit symmetry.
Paying my Verizon phone bill on line is the most excruciating web experience I ever have. A click-through-a-handful-of-https-pages takes about 15 minutes. I typically play a couple of games of Solitaire while waiting for each subsequent page to load. I have assumed from Day 1 that they are trying to make it as painful as possible, so as to compel me to buy DSL from them.
Actually, I would if it were available in my neighborhood. DSL is not available in my immediate area, but they punish me once a month anyway.
Reproductive isolation is a major characteristic of speciation. Lions and tigers, horses and donkeys, etc are different species, but under unnatural conditions may mate and even produce offspring. Depending on how unrelated the species are, the offspring may or may not be viable.
Speciation is not as cut-and-dried as you might think. Reproductively isolated populations diverge more and more over time, and the speciation becomes more and more pronounced.
Consumer Reports is selling a service perceived as having material, immediate value. 'The News' can be had from a gazillion [more or less beholden to advertisers] sources. Impartial information they will base monetary decisions on in the near term is information people with pay for. As a VP of Consumer Reports said, "It's not like we're a stroke of brilliance"
Thank goodness, Reading the comments so far, it was looking like not a single poster had actually read TFA. The strange thing is that Whittington, author of the linked 'review' of the 'polemic' seems not to have either.
For an extensive review of Dyson's desire to scrap 'reductionist biology', read Jon Richfield at http://www.staff.livjm.ac.uk/spsbpeis/Dyson-respon se.htm. Dyson and Hoyle both have added little to biology, despite their eminence in other fields.
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Actually, collaborative, multi-user editing environments have been around a bit longer than "Netscape Communicator days". It was the purpose of that Berners-Lee fellpw's application, 'The World Wide Web'.
"fitness", as applied to evolution, has nothing to do with the kind of "fitness" you might acquire by going to the gym; ie, being bigger and stronger.
"Survival of the fittest", (a phrase that did not originate with C. Darwin), means leaving more offspring who, in turn, leave surviving offspring, passing on whatever adaptive advantage led to having more offspring. Certainly our intelligence, tool using, and general intellectual flexibility is highly adaptive. It is, perhaps, our most adaptive trait, along with bipedalism.
Senator Stevens? Is that you?
From the above link:
"The robot was last seen near Venice Beach about 12 miles offshore and 100 feet underwater."
WTF?
Some passerby happened upon it "100 feet underwater"?
Hell, I'm still struggling to keep some relatives from using websites to send me "e-greeting cards".
I have to periodically create throw-away email addresses just to email these individuals, who complain that they have to keep changing their address books to email me.
Killing, butchering, and eating your own meat involves a great deal of blood.
This faux etymology is refuted in about 45 seconds on teh interwebz.
from Dictionary 2.26.0, and from The Century Dictionary; 'an encyclopedic lexicon of the english language':
John Arbuthnot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"There's far more classes of users than just witless Joe Sixpack and savvy Tom Developer."
Yes, there is also the Dick.
What next, Elvis sightings?
Jeez - Microsoft is acting just like a corporation facing competition. Who would've thunk it? I'm just glad Gnu/Linux is actually competitive nowadays.
Alright, who left the damned troll-flap open?
"It's been going on pretty much since the mp3 was invented."
In fact, it (the grubby behaviour of Music Publishing) has been going on since the invention of the player piano.
Get the heck off my lawn. And take your fruit machine with you.
"i don't see why..."
[...]
"if there is anything science teaches us," it's that the argument from personal incredulity is usually wrong.
A non-fluff article on the topic in Scientific American is at http://tinyurl.com/5ps6ny. The article approaches it from the anomalous fact that the arrow of time and entropy do not exhibit symmetry.
I suffer with a dial-up connection at home.
Paying my Verizon phone bill on line is the most excruciating web experience I ever have. A click-through-a-handful-of-https-pages takes about 15 minutes. I typically play a couple of games of Solitaire while waiting for each subsequent page to load. I have assumed from Day 1 that they are trying to make it as painful as possible, so as to compel me to buy DSL from them.
Actually, I would if it were available in my neighborhood. DSL is not available in my immediate area, but they punish me once a month anyway.
um, Biologists, geneticists? You know, nerds...
Reproductive isolation is a major characteristic of speciation. Lions and tigers, horses and donkeys, etc are different species, but under unnatural conditions may mate and even produce offspring. Depending on how unrelated the species are, the offspring may or may not be viable.
Speciation is not as cut-and-dried as you might think. Reproductively isolated populations diverge more and more over time, and the speciation becomes more and more pronounced.
Consumer Reports is selling a service perceived as having material, immediate value. 'The News' can be had from a gazillion [more or less beholden to advertisers] sources. Impartial information they will base monetary decisions on in the near term is information people with pay for. As a VP of Consumer Reports said, "It's not like we're a stroke of brilliance"
Thank goodness, Reading the comments so far, it was looking like not a single poster had actually read TFA. The strange thing is that Whittington, author of the linked 'review' of the 'polemic' seems not to have either.
Ah, so it isn't the message, but the messenger that matters...
Remove, refuse, overrule, disallow, strike it.
"
And then these IDIOTS elected him.
Twice."
Depressing. You have quoted me exactly. Only, I was saying it in 1972.
You've been listening to that Berners-Lee fellow, haven't you.
What he said...
n se.htm. Dyson and Hoyle both have added little to biology, despite their eminence in other fields.
For an extensive review of Dyson's desire to scrap 'reductionist biology', read Jon Richfield at http://www.staff.livjm.ac.uk/spsbpeis/Dyson-respo
I read TFA.
I learned absolutely nothing about earning money by putting my XP to work performing sex acts with others.