theoretically, when populations no longer interbreed. Note that the populations may still be fertile together, as long as they don't naturally and normally interbreed. They may be too far apart, or they may have very different mate attraction strategies that are not interesting to the other group.
This definition, like many in biology, is in practice rather blurry, especially in plants and extinct organisms.
In this case, I agree that saying an island dwarfed type of H. erectus *is* H. erectus seems silly, but then I am not a biologist.
Why are you so surprised? They have been speculating that H. floresiensis might be a dwarfed H. erectus almost since they found it. And it was clear even in the initial description that it was very recent.
Anyway, even if you could clone H. floresiensis, you would get, well, H. floresiensis, not H. erectus.
it'll end up being the default in pretty much all debian based distros like ubuntu, mepis, xandros, etc.
I don't know if that is guaranteed. It would be easier to change, but they could choose to stay with glibc if they really wanted.
Now, if Fedora where to follow Debian in this, I think that *everyone* would follow sooner (Debian downstreams, probably) or later (likely SuSE, Slackware, others).
I don't know about "from MS", but anyone that builds their own computer and wants a legal Windows OS buys it from somewhere, rather than getting it pre-installed.
I may end up buying a copy of 7, for dual boot or a VM. I don't trust the pirated versions at all.
Yes, Standards mode is default, although it is easy to override, either from the user side or the web author side: <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7"/>
you mean the old one? because the new one applies the moderation as soon as you select it with the dropdown. I thought the new one was broken because it wouldn't apply, but it was just that for some reason they moved the JS to fsdn.com, and noscript was blocking it.
The new Slashdot interface is better than the old, all in all. The preferences popup/overlay is stupid and the moderating interface needs to go back to having a confirm moderation button but the dynamic display of remaining mod points is nice and the inline, dynamic commenting is brilliant. The ajax-driven thread expand/collapse is also good.
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Tolkien's Hobbits did not have pointed ears.
>where is the "species" line drawn?
theoretically, when populations no longer interbreed. Note that the populations may still be fertile together, as long as they don't naturally and normally interbreed. They may be too far apart, or they may have very different mate attraction strategies that are not interesting to the other group.
This definition, like many in biology, is in practice rather blurry, especially in plants and extinct organisms.
In this case, I agree that saying an island dwarfed type of H. erectus *is* H. erectus seems silly, but then I am not a biologist.
Why not? Island dwarfism and island gigantism are well know phenomena, even if we don't really understand why they happen.
Why are you so surprised? They have been speculating that H. floresiensis might be a dwarfed H. erectus almost since they found it. And it was clear even in the initial description that it was very recent.
Anyway, even if you could clone H. floresiensis, you would get, well, H. floresiensis, not H. erectus.
Oh, yeah, he works for them. I guess that make it less likely, but you never know... Or maybe RH will reconsider his position as maintainer.
That's awesome. Mod parent up!
I didn't realize there were modern EBCDIC systems out there. Kind of scary to think about.
it'll end up being the default in pretty much all debian based distros like ubuntu, mepis, xandros, etc.
I don't know if that is guaranteed. It would be easier to change, but they could choose to stay with glibc if they really wanted.
Now, if Fedora where to follow Debian in this, I think that *everyone* would follow sooner (Debian downstreams, probably) or later (likely SuSE, Slackware, others).
>CLI doesn't make everything better
No, not everything, but many things are better on the CLI.
Who uses aim/icq anymore?
>fatbeard
I have heard of a beard being full, but I have never heard of a beard being fat. How does that work?
I don't know about "from MS", but anyone that builds their own computer and wants a legal Windows OS buys it from somewhere, rather than getting it pre-installed.
I may end up buying a copy of 7, for dual boot or a VM. I don't trust the pirated versions at all.
Try irssi. Loads better than mirc.
Not sure what is best for CLI IM, maybe mcabber? or maybe bitlbee+irssi.
# ignores commands preceded by a space
HISTCONTROL=ignorespace
of course then you have to remember to put a space in front of any commands you don't want recorded
>recently used files lists
strange, my cli apps don't seem to have that
Better to say "non-avian dinosaurs"
>Many kinds of animals survived, after all. Why shouldn't dinosaurs have, too?
Plenty of them did survive, you may have eaten one, or one of their eggs, in a recent meal, or one might be singing outside your window right now.
Hilarious!
It doesn't, by itself.
IE8 does have "improved" namespace support, meaning that MathML and SVG plugins are not limited to <objects>, they can also work on inline xml.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd565690(VS.85).aspx
Yes, Standards mode is default, although it is easy to override, either from the user side or the web author side: <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=7" />
http://blogs.msdn.com/askie/archive/2009/03/23/understanding-compatibility-modes-in-internet-explorer-8.aspx
Huh. How about that.
you mean the old one? because the new one applies the moderation as soon as you select it with the dropdown. I thought the new one was broken because it wouldn't apply, but it was just that for some reason they moved the JS to fsdn.com, and noscript was blocking it.
http://slashdot.org/~lena_10326/comments
>internet wayback machine
who do you think archive.org is?
And google cache is strictly short term.
The new Slashdot interface is better than the old, all in all. The preferences popup/overlay is stupid and the moderating interface needs to go back to having a confirm moderation button but the dynamic display of remaining mod points is nice and the inline, dynamic commenting is brilliant. The ajax-driven thread expand/collapse is also good.