This is the kind of post where people should either shut up or say "wow, now that's something." This is not the time for *stupid* comments like the poster wrote, "see if the linux folks can match that" or for the kinds of responses where some slashdotters do all sorts of analysis on how an open-source OS helps sick kids. I can't even believe what I'm reading here.
You can't map the market, because the market depends on people and world events. You would have to predict or compensate for natural disasters, russia defaulting on loans, rogue traders, etc.
The analogy of the market to the human genome isn't a good one, IMHO, simply because the human genome is essentially in a vacuum, and the market isn't. The market today is very different than it was 20 years ago, but the human genome is still the same as it was 200 years ago.
Oh wait..this is number of computer in your lifetime?? Uh-oh..I was only counting computers that I have currently running, and I'm at +5. Man...stick a fork in me.
What I forgot to mention was that even though the NES and gameboy are two entirely different systems, for all intents and purposes, an XBox 1 & 2 (w/o backwards compatibility) would be two entirely different systems. So people would buy the new systems and get the new games as well as purchase older games that just look better. Granted, there are compelling arguments on both sides of the issue.
This is coming from someone who doesn't own a ps2, xbox or gamecube. I'm still enjoying bomberman on my ps1. However, I remember buying the nintendo 64 for the sole purpose of being able to play zelda:ocarina of time, and goldeneye on it. If MS had good enough games for the new system, and didn't offer them on xbox 1, well..they could make quite a few sales that way too.
The original NES games {Zelda, Mario, etc...}, have recently been ported to the Gameboy SP. If they sell, then it can be taken as proof that people will buy old games for new systems. I've bought tetris for ps1, and several other platforms, for various reasons throughout the years.
An offspring of this concept, would be the relationship between software demanding more of the hardware and the hardware offering more to the software. This relationship is obvious in the video game industry with new releases like Doom 3 pushing the envelope. (graphically intense video games, 64-bit computing, etc...)
Very cool. Btw, it sounds like you're talking about Todd MacFarlane, who is the Image/Spawn guy. Seth MacFarlane is the Family Guy..guy. I'm going to look for that making-of.
What the DEUCE!? That's bloody marvelous! Family guy is a virtual cornucopia of matriarchal matricide.
Does anyone know for certain if Stewie's accent is modeled after a South African or some form of British? I guess I'm not worldly enough to tell;-)
The ability to cost-effectively suppress conflicts of interest, through posing the threat of coercive violence, does just the opposite of what you're thinking. It's a driving factor for peace, rather than violence. It forces us to form larger and larger coalition groups, exposing us to more and more extragenetic knowledge, which in turn allows us to create and build all types of technology on an increasingly larger and larger scale.
For example: I'm not an expert carpenter. Yet I am able to enjoy the benefits of an expert carpenter since the knowledge of wood craftsmenship was passed on, and made "public" (note the implications of open-source here ). This is possible because this extragenetic knowledge was not kept within a small village, but rather that village containing that knowledge of wood carpentry, was forced (through the threat of violence) to join with another village at some point in time thus making that knowledge available for everyone.
Still, much of the Americas still lived a Stone Age lifestyle when the Europeans came
Ok, I'll bite. Specifically who lived this stone-age lifestyle? But before you get into that, define stone-age as well.
The bigger point is that being a modern human does not guarantee you a high-tech civilization within any bounded amount of time
Absolutely true. The occurrance of adaptive revolutions depends upon our ability to create larger and larger sized coalitions.
At what point in time does it become ok to dig up remains in the name of science- in order to learn more about our past? How many years? Hundreds? thousands?
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Whoops. Good call. You are absolutely correct. I wasn't thinking. Homo rudolfensis is around then too. I wouldn't consider Homo heidelburgensis to be the first hominid, only because it came about so close to the evolutionary division which eventually resulted in Homo neandethalensis on one end, and Homo sapiens on the other. This subject is somewhat debatable, but the point is that they were after Austrolopithecus Garhi.
Hell, most of North America was populated with hunter/gatherers until Europeans came, and it's not like they weren't 'smart' enough or anything.
Thats not true. Specific cases in North America include the Mississippians, the Anasazi and the Calusa. These were sophisticated societies. They had relatively complex economies, large cities consisting of thousands of people, organized religion, art and centralized government.
What is true, is that we know very little else about these societies, as the Europeans brought diseases which essentially wiped out these people.
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This is the kind of post where people should either shut up or say "wow, now that's something." This is not the time for *stupid* comments like the poster wrote, "see if the linux folks can match that" or for the kinds of responses where some slashdotters do all sorts of analysis on how an open-source OS helps sick kids. I can't even believe what I'm reading here.
Did everyone just miss the reference to Ozzy Osbourne being mildly autistic and using heavy metal therapy?
You can't map the market, because the market depends on people and world events. You would have to predict or compensate for natural disasters, russia defaulting on loans, rogue traders, etc.
The analogy of the market to the human genome isn't a good one, IMHO, simply because the human genome is essentially in a vacuum, and the market isn't. The market today is very different than it was 20 years ago, but the human genome is still the same as it was 200 years ago.
Classic..lol!
Oh wait..this is number of computer in your lifetime?? Uh-oh..I was only counting computers that I have currently running, and I'm at +5. Man...stick a fork in me.
..the kids didn't get a copy of Marthas next album..."Not Quite Spooky Sounds from Cellblock 11."
What I forgot to mention was that even though the NES and gameboy are two entirely different systems, for all intents and purposes, an XBox 1 & 2 (w/o backwards compatibility) would be two entirely different systems. So people would buy the new systems and get the new games as well as purchase older games that just look better. Granted, there are compelling arguments on both sides of the issue.
This is coming from someone who doesn't own a ps2, xbox or gamecube. I'm still enjoying bomberman on my ps1. However, I remember buying the nintendo 64 for the sole purpose of being able to play zelda:ocarina of time, and goldeneye on it. If MS had good enough games for the new system, and didn't offer them on xbox 1, well..they could make quite a few sales that way too.
The original NES games {Zelda, Mario, etc...}, have recently been ported to the Gameboy SP. If they sell, then it can be taken as proof that people will buy old games for new systems. I've bought tetris for ps1, and several other platforms, for various reasons throughout the years.
Now thats already old-school...hehe
One day, dual-booting will be considered "old-school." I, and my 12 partitions, live for that day.
An offspring of this concept, would be the relationship between software demanding more of the hardware and the hardware offering more to the software. This relationship is obvious in the video game industry with new releases like Doom 3 pushing the envelope. (graphically intense video games, 64-bit computing, etc...)
Who would've thought that the windows-based cell phones wouldn't be the first to have viruses.
before this turns up sampled in a hip-hop song?
A pulse.
Very cool. Btw, it sounds like you're talking about Todd MacFarlane, who is the Image/Spawn guy. Seth MacFarlane is the Family Guy ..guy. I'm going to look for that making-of.
Wow...Someone needs their diaper changed.
What the DEUCE!? That's bloody marvelous! Family guy is a virtual cornucopia of matriarchal matricide. Does anyone know for certain if Stewie's accent is modeled after a South African or some form of British? I guess I'm not worldly enough to tell ;-)
I believe that was Newt Gingrichs' mother.
If I laugh, will I get ...flamed?
The ability to cost-effectively suppress conflicts of interest, through posing the threat of coercive violence, does just the opposite of what you're thinking. It's a driving factor for peace, rather than violence. It forces us to form larger and larger coalition groups, exposing us to more and more extragenetic knowledge, which in turn allows us to create and build all types of technology on an increasingly larger and larger scale.
For example: I'm not an expert carpenter. Yet I am able to enjoy the benefits of an expert carpenter since the knowledge of wood craftsmenship was passed on, and made "public" (note the implications of open-source here ). This is possible because this extragenetic knowledge was not kept within a small village, but rather that village containing that knowledge of wood carpentry, was forced (through the threat of violence) to join with another village at some point in time thus making that knowledge available for everyone.
Still, much of the Americas still lived a Stone Age lifestyle when the Europeans came
Ok, I'll bite. Specifically who lived this stone-age lifestyle? But before you get into that, define stone-age as well. The bigger point is that being a modern human does not guarantee you a high-tech civilization within any bounded amount of time
Absolutely true. The occurrance of adaptive revolutions depends upon our ability to create larger and larger sized coalitions.
Don't forget the hyoid bone. There have been very few recovered hyoid fossils, but they do exist.
;-)
So is Pinker implying that certain european accents require a restricted vowel space?
At what point in time does it become ok to dig up remains in the name of science- in order to learn more about our past? How many years? Hundreds? thousands?
Whoops. Good call. You are absolutely correct. I wasn't thinking. Homo rudolfensis is around then too. I wouldn't consider Homo heidelburgensis to be the first hominid, only because it came about so close to the evolutionary division which eventually resulted in Homo neandethalensis on one end, and Homo sapiens on the other. This subject is somewhat debatable, but the point is that they were after Austrolopithecus Garhi.
Hell, most of North America was populated with hunter/gatherers until Europeans came, and it's not like they weren't 'smart' enough or anything.
Thats not true. Specific cases in North America include the Mississippians, the Anasazi and the Calusa. These were sophisticated societies. They had relatively complex economies, large cities consisting of thousands of people, organized religion, art and centralized government. What is true, is that we know very little else about these societies, as the Europeans brought diseases which essentially wiped out these people.