I have a 192mb quicktime of his actual show. It's really very good -- much more so than you would guess by this review. I'll upload it to a decent server and post the link back here.
Of course, the default login for Yahoo uses http rather than https. It's pretty darned annoying to HAVE to click 'secure' in order to not have your password broadcast all over the world.
This just proves that customer service is completely useless. Any attempt to get them to solve a computer problem is like banging your head against a brick wall, repeatedly, for 9 hours straight.
I guess they help complete morons, but they never help me.
I went down to the courthouse with my fiancee today to get a marriage license.
Along with our new marriage license, which cost us $45 (damn the man!!), we were given free samples of Tide, Bounty napkins, Secret deoderant, Folger's coffee, an ad for custom checks, and an AOL cd (1000 hours free!).
From the Tide sampler:
You're starting a new life together, so we'd like to offer you a new way to get your laundry remarkably clean. The deep clean formula brightens and whitens {blah blah blah..}
Jesus holy mary mother of god.. I simply cannot escape advertising!! AHHH!!!
I think the basic problem is that humans have a hard time grasping infinity. It basically just makes our heads hurt. Doesn't mean it doesn't exist, though.
So, let me see if I can sum up Mr. Hawking's logic:
1: time is infinite. 2: why is time infinite? 3: 1 is wrong, because we can ask 2.
The whole argument just seems silly. You can't invalidate one theory by asking a new question.
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This is a point well taken.
You can certain look for a new job without quitting your current one though. Always keep your eye on the market and your options open.:)
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I'm not really happy with my current employer due to changes company-wide.
If you dislike your job, it is my strong opinion that you should not stay for anything. It all depends on how much you dislike your job of course. But hey man, happiness is a hell of a lot more important that money.
Find a cool job that you don't detest going to every day. Every moment that slips by you can never get back. Enjoy it while you can.
I don't know much about physics, but i've always thought this. Really he's not disputing the Big Bang theory at all. He's saying that while it did occur, it was not the beginning of time. He's saying that in fact time has no beginning, or ending.
This makes perfect logical sense to me. Why would time have a beginning OR ending? Just because human lives have them?
Why in the hell do the editors constantly accept story submissions that are blatant cut-and-pastes from the story itself? Do peopl have no creativity at all? No words of their own??
The Field Museum in Chicago, where this study was done, has an nice press release on this here.
They also released a sketch of what the earliest common ancestor for primates might have looked like, and a nice evolutionary tree which might put some of this into perspective for some of you.
mtDNA is different from nuclear DNA. There is a lot more of it per cell, so it's easier to find. It's also shorter - about 16,000 base pairs.
You're right about how fossils form, that's what I was taught as well. But apparently some DNA can remain if the specimen is not too old. Neanderthals were here just 30,000 years ago. I mean, we're not taking 65 million years here.
From talk origins:
After death, DNA starts degrading immediately. It is thought that under the most favorable conditions, some DNA fragments can survive for as long as 50,000 to 100,000 years. The Feldhofer Neandertal fossil, thought to be between 30,000 and 100,000 years old, was therefore pushing the limits for this kind of work. However initial testing of the fossil showed good preservation of amino acids, indicating that it might contain recoverable mtDNA.
Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) is a technique which can be used to create many copies of an initially small number of molecules. The researchers used PCR to amplify and extract many short strands of mtDNA from the Neandertal sample. By overlapping these, they were able to generate a sequence of 379 bases apparently from the Neandertal individual. To protect against errors and contamination, each base was extracted in at least two separate amplifications.
Also, they can compare mtDNA with a bunch of humans living today, calculate the differences, and then use math to figure out when the common ancestor of all of them lived. So if you want to find out when the common ancestor of two being lived, you don't actually need the mtDNA of the common ancestor.
Mitochondrial DNA is different from nuclear DNA. With the help of mathematics, can be used to determine degrees of relatedness between species, and when two species diverged from their common ancestor. My Human Evolution professor explained this technique in class just yesterday. It was used as evidence that Neanderthals contributed no DNA to the Homo Sapien gene pool.
Incidentally, talkorgins.org is a great site for this kinda stuff.
If you don't use an install program, your program quickly incurs "dll hell". Different Windows versions have different system libraries and you have to be sure that the user has the correct versions, otherwise your program won't work.
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Don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but I use vcr.
Along with cron and a simple shell script, that's pretty much all you need.
This book is not so much about Amazon itself, as it is about how working for corporations can steal your soul and suck the life out of you.
Anyone who's worked at Best Buy and hated it can probably relate.
I have a 192mb quicktime of his actual show. It's really very good -- much more so than you would guess by this review. I'll upload it to a decent server and post the link back here.
The author of the book has his own weblog, www.mikesdaisey.com, wherein you can download videos of his shows.
Dude, lighten up. They're people, just like you. Are you serious all the time?
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Everyone likes to have fun now and then. Even lawyers.
Yeah, but where are you going to put it? In your dorm room? Those things are huge!
It's quite likely that he's busy and doesn't want to go to the trouble of organizing it.
Why all the hostility?
Of course, the default login for Yahoo uses http rather than https. It's pretty darned annoying to HAVE to click 'secure' in order to not have your password broadcast all over the world.
This just proves that customer service is completely useless. Any attempt to get them to solve a computer problem is like banging your head against a brick wall, repeatedly, for 9 hours straight.
I guess they help complete morons, but they never help me.
Along with our new marriage license, which cost us $45 (damn the man!!), we were given free samples of Tide, Bounty napkins, Secret deoderant, Folger's coffee, an ad for custom checks, and an AOL cd (1000 hours free!).
From the Tide sampler:
Jesus holy mary mother of god.. I simply cannot escape advertising!! AHHH!!!
I think the basic problem is that humans have a hard time grasping infinity. It basically just makes our heads hurt. Doesn't mean it doesn't exist, though.
So, let me see if I can sum up Mr. Hawking's logic:
1: time is infinite.
2: why is time infinite?
3: 1 is wrong, because we can ask 2.
The whole argument just seems silly. You can't invalidate one theory by asking a new question.
This is a point well taken.
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You can certain look for a new job without quitting your current one though. Always keep your eye on the market and your options open.
If you dislike your job, it is my strong opinion that you should not stay for anything. It all depends on how much you dislike your job of course. But hey man, happiness is a hell of a lot more important that money.
Find a cool job that you don't detest going to every day. Every moment that slips by you can never get back. Enjoy it while you can.
What?
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Would you care to reword that so I can understand it?
This makes perfect logical sense to me. Why would time have a beginning OR ending? Just because human lives have them?
Why in the hell do the editors constantly accept story submissions that are blatant cut-and-pastes from the story itself? Do peopl have no creativity at all? No words of their own??
The Field Museum in Chicago, where this study was done, has an nice press release on this here.
They also released a sketch of what the earliest common ancestor for primates might have looked like, and a nice evolutionary tree which might put some of this into perspective for some of you.
Exactly. An early primate might have looked something like this.
You're right about how fossils form, that's what I was taught as well. But apparently some DNA can remain if the specimen is not too old. Neanderthals were here just 30,000 years ago. I mean, we're not taking 65 million years here.
From talk origins:
Also, they can compare mtDNA with a bunch of humans living today, calculate the differences, and then use math to figure out when the common ancestor of all of them lived. So if you want to find out when the common ancestor of two being lived, you don't actually need the mtDNA of the common ancestor.
Another good link related to this:
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/homs/mitoeve.html
It sounds like the technique they used was Mitochondrial DNA Concordance
Mitochondrial DNA is different from nuclear DNA. With the help of mathematics, can be used to determine degrees of relatedness between species, and when two species diverged from their common ancestor. My Human Evolution professor explained this technique in class just yesterday. It was used as evidence that Neanderthals contributed no DNA to the Homo Sapien gene pool.
Incidentally, talkorgins.org is a great site for this kinda stuff.
Not unless you think Rachel Welch looks a lot like a Tarsier
Fuck them. I will import it anyway!
If you don't use an install program, your program quickly incurs "dll hell". Different Windows versions have different system libraries and you have to be sure that the user has the correct versions, otherwise your program won't work.