When all these factors are evaluated and balanced against the billions and billions of stars and galaxies, the probability of another earth-like planet in the entire universe coming into existence by any statistical, unplanned process, not involving intelligence is so tiny as to be essentially zero.
Doncha know, 1 in a billion odds happen 9 times in 10.
Proto-fish Intermediate fish . Proto-amphibian Intermediate fish . Intermediate-amphibian . Proto-Reptile Intermediate fish . Intermediate-amphibian . Intermediate-Reptile . Proto-Mammal __ Current Fish _ . __ Current Amphibian _ . __ Current Reptile _ . _ Current Mammal .
Most modern fish are as far from the common ancestor as modern amphibians, reptiles, and mammals; barring archae that live in relatively unchanging, low mutation ecologies.
If one were to do such a thing, the smart person would keep the entire PSD so as to show the sketches, lines, and painting; and maybe also one of those "hi-speed photoshop" videos as well.
Keeping just the flattened version would be asking for it, these days.
At least, this was the explaination I was given for why 40 appears everywhere in the Bible. Given that the person who told me reads it in the original, I tend to trust him when it comes to linguistic nuances.
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Is it so special to be able to read shakespearean english?
I mean, the King James isn't as easy as some of those new teenager bibles, but you can muddle through the -iths and thous with some trouble.
Just about everything except the motherboard, LCD, and case you can buy overseas with a bit of searching. LCDs & cases are best bought off Ebay as "broken laptops".
Can't really do much about the motherboard, cheaply, though. They tend to change everything with that.
I'd be cool with it. I'm already running XP in a virtual machine to keep compatibility with 16 bit apps. Cut the whole thing off and dedicate a core and 2-3 gigs of ram. Everything is happy, especially when they finish up allow guest OSs to use the video card for 3D.
Hell, I waited so long this time around, the quadcore I just got has more memory per core than my last machine had and is as fast. If I had sprung for a faster processor then my virtual XP machine would be better than my old physical machine.
The real "data-over-time" eye opener is the bandwidth he'd need to download it in the firstplace.
Either he's had a 10 gigabit/second pipe stuffed continuously for the last 2 years, or somebody took the "bandwidth of a station wagon full of disks" saying past the jumbo jet level.
Gas, at least that used for home heating, is a fungible commodity. There is no material difference between ConEd gas or APL gas, once it is in the system, all of it has the same chemical makeup.
The only difference is how it was produced(efficiently, ecologically, etc). Much like electricity, you pay a premium for ecologically friendly production, less for efficient producers, etc.
So you put down that you buy ConEd gas and the meter shows you took out X cubic meters of gas, then ConEd is responsible for putting that same amount of gas into the delivery network. The molecules of that particular gas may never make it to you, but then the electrons that your power company moves never reach you either. It doesn't matter though, as long as all the producers put in how much "their" consumers use. I'm sure they fudge the numbers a bit day to day, but catch up on the accounting a few times per year.
As for DSL, physically it is exactly the same. In most areas, there is only one owner of the local phone cables and your neighbor shares exactly the same pipes from your DSLAM out to the peering point and probably has exactly the same kind of wire from the DSLAM to his house as you do. And, unless your provider has built their own backbone, you get the same physical pipes for some distance outwards as well. I pay Covad, you pay Cleareasy, but Ma Bell owns the pipes that run into your house.
Company A's gas is made by eco-friendly hippies. Company B's is made by raping cows but has great customer service and mails me barbecue jerky. I support the environment by buying A(or cow-raping customer service, whichever).
Both A & B put their gas into the network. I may be actually getting B's molecules, but since they put in the same quantity as their customers buy, it is a wash on whose you actually receive. I'm not paying for better molecules, I'm paying for service & business practices.
Ditto with the internet. The infrastructure company rolls out a massive pipe from a central location to all the homes and all the service providers hook up to that point. They provide internet transit to their customers from that point, you pay for the transit you need, the infrastructure company makes sure it's pipes are wider than the highest transit level provided. Same electrons between your house and the peering point, different services from there on out and business practices from the transit providers.
The only reason you have more than one wire now is because phone and cable started out as different industries. Once they are the same, like gas providers, you'll only have one wire.
The thing is, that means that the City (or whoever owns the meter at your house) can select between different providers as they choose, but you are still stuck with a single choice, and thus this is still a monopoly.
It's like my local phone monopoly can pick whatever providers they want for their servers or internet connectivity, but I'm still stuck with them as my only choice (outside of orthogonal technologies like cell or cable phone).
The city doesn't get to choose, you do. I have the choice of 3 different gas companies, but only one pipe comes in to my house. I can switch whenever I want to with only a few days notice.
If I had internet the same way, I'd have a single fiber line and be able to choise between Speakeasy, Roadrunner, and Earthlink and switch whenever I wanted.
Actually, it is a lot like second party DSL providers, where it is always same phone company, but you pick the name on the bill and it is usually cheaper than using the phone company directly, for some bizarre reason. Ditto for my gas, the company that owns the pipes is almost never the cheapest, it is always the refinery out in the boonies.
The specs we were quoted, by our software provider were either
One(1) 2-core 2 GHz AIX box for the software, the database, mail, userspace, file storage, etc, for 50 thin clients or 3x the dumb terminals and half a dozen printers
or
Two(2) quadcore 2 GHz xeons for 50 thick clients, 1 for the software and 1 for the database. Printers, Exchange, the domain, storage, etc. all need to live somewhere else.
If you are already a windows shop then you only need double, per the vendor. It ain't FUD when it is coming from someone trying to sell you the windows version.
Maybe if we were running WinEverything it wouldn't have been a hard sell, but to go from one 10 year old AIX box to either 3 new AIX boxes or 7 to 8 WinBoxes plus replacing dozens of dumb terminals, it isn't a hard choice.
What happens when she uses roman numerals? Same, worse, or easier?
Ditto for, say, dice or card pips, can she tell the roll of 3 dice?
Can she recite a number told to her if she doesn't try to write or visualize it?
No need to bother her if you don't know off the top of your head, I'm just curious if it is only the numbering system she learned, or all visual/written form of numbers, or numbers in general.
Since you said she can understand the concepts of performing calculations, if it is only the symbols of numbers and not the concept, I'd be curious if there are other symbols that would work(heck, can she write them as words?)
I think Google has done the numbers, though. They are banking on semi-truck sized compact portable data centers and using existing the existing backbone as merely the pipeline for cache coherency. So when you run google apps, you are getting your applications only a few hops away without sprint in the way.
I will paraphrase an old expression, never under estimate the data bandwidth of a semi-truck sized data center driving two days across country. Think about the number of raw terabytes that can be shipped vs transfered over the backbone.
I imagine a future when data centers are like mobile home parks, just cheap, flat land with little clusters of pipes poking up every dozen feet.
Trucks makes deliveries & pick ups every day, but some get containers just quietly rust into the concrete until an eviction notice gets plastered on it, to be later confiscated and sold cheaply to somebody overseas. A crazed, methed up guy in a wifebeater bangs on pipes, performs physical maintenance, and stores kiddy porn on an empty in back. Or at least until his common law wife finds it and, during the ensuing argument, trips in his drug lab and the fire takes out a quarter of the park.
Have I ever lived within earshot of a trailer park? Why yes, how could you tell?
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Doncha know, 1 in a billion odds happen 9 times in 10.
Hell, just counting the usb sticks in my pocket, I've got at least 30 million.
Add in my phone and we're over 40 million.
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Hardly, more like
Proto-fish
Intermediate fish . Proto-amphibian
Intermediate fish . Intermediate-amphibian . Proto-Reptile
Intermediate fish . Intermediate-amphibian . Intermediate-Reptile . Proto-Mammal
__ Current Fish _ . __ Current Amphibian _ . __ Current Reptile _ . _ Current Mammal
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Most modern fish are as far from the common ancestor as modern amphibians, reptiles, and mammals; barring archae that live in relatively unchanging, low mutation ecologies.
If one were to do such a thing, the smart person would keep the entire PSD so as to show the sketches, lines, and painting; and maybe also one of those "hi-speed photoshop" videos as well.
Keeping just the flattened version would be asking for it, these days.
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Is it so special to be able to read shakespearean english?
I mean, the King James isn't as easy as some of those new teenager bibles, but you can muddle through the -iths and thous with some trouble.
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Sounds awesome to me, and I live in the US.
But if you aren't playing with your toys, you have to share with the other children.
If they really want to keep RIM from having their castoff engineers, just keep paying their salaries.
Just about everything except the motherboard, LCD, and case you can buy overseas with a bit of searching. LCDs & cases are best bought off Ebay as "broken laptops".
Can't really do much about the motherboard, cheaply, though. They tend to change everything with that.
I'd be cool with it. I'm already running XP in a virtual machine to keep compatibility with 16 bit apps. Cut the whole thing off and dedicate a core and 2-3 gigs of ram. Everything is happy, especially when they finish up allow guest OSs to use the video card for 3D.
Hell, I waited so long this time around, the quadcore I just got has more memory per core than my last machine had and is as fast. If I had sprung for a faster processor then my virtual XP machine would be better than my old physical machine.
The real "data-over-time" eye opener is the bandwidth he'd need to download it in the firstplace.
Either he's had a 10 gigabit/second pipe stuffed continuously for the last 2 years, or somebody took the "bandwidth of a station wagon full of disks" saying past the jumbo jet level.
Or perhaps he lives in this granny's basement and she's finished doing his laundry.
Serously, can you imagine the coilgun that could be made with one of these?
Something like 3500volts*sqrt(.01 efficient*30.7F/10 grams) = 613 meters/second?
Or was that in microfarads... hell, now I'll have to look it up.
Regardless, it'd make a neat vehicle mounted weapon.
So buy 2 of them, leave one in your house to trickle charge all day. When you get home, plug your car into the home one.
Or swap them, if you've got a crane handy.
Gas, at least that used for home heating, is a fungible commodity. There is no material difference between ConEd gas or APL gas, once it is in the system, all of it has the same chemical makeup.
The only difference is how it was produced(efficiently, ecologically, etc). Much like electricity, you pay a premium for ecologically friendly production, less for efficient producers, etc.
So you put down that you buy ConEd gas and the meter shows you took out X cubic meters of gas, then ConEd is responsible for putting that same amount of gas into the delivery network. The molecules of that particular gas may never make it to you, but then the electrons that your power company moves never reach you either. It doesn't matter though, as long as all the producers put in how much "their" consumers use. I'm sure they fudge the numbers a bit day to day, but catch up on the accounting a few times per year.
As for DSL, physically it is exactly the same. In most areas, there is only one owner of the local phone cables and your neighbor shares exactly the same pipes from your DSLAM out to the peering point and probably has exactly the same kind of wire from the DSLAM to his house as you do. And, unless your provider has built their own backbone, you get the same physical pipes for some distance outwards as well. I pay Covad, you pay Cleareasy, but Ma Bell owns the pipes that run into your house.
Company A's gas is made by eco-friendly hippies. Company B's is made by raping cows but has great customer service and mails me barbecue jerky. I support the environment by buying A(or cow-raping customer service, whichever).
Both A & B put their gas into the network. I may be actually getting B's molecules, but since they put in the same quantity as their customers buy, it is a wash on whose you actually receive. I'm not paying for better molecules, I'm paying for service & business practices.
Ditto with the internet. The infrastructure company rolls out a massive pipe from a central location to all the homes and all the service providers hook up to that point. They provide internet transit to their customers from that point, you pay for the transit you need, the infrastructure company makes sure it's pipes are wider than the highest transit level provided. Same electrons between your house and the peering point, different services from there on out and business practices from the transit providers.
The only reason you have more than one wire now is because phone and cable started out as different industries. Once they are the same, like gas providers, you'll only have one wire.
The city doesn't get to choose, you do. I have the choice of 3 different gas companies, but only one pipe comes in to my house. I can switch whenever I want to with only a few days notice.
If I had internet the same way, I'd have a single fiber line and be able to choise between Speakeasy, Roadrunner, and Earthlink and switch whenever I wanted.
Actually, it is a lot like second party DSL providers, where it is always same phone company, but you pick the name on the bill and it is usually cheaper than using the phone company directly, for some bizarre reason. Ditto for my gas, the company that owns the pipes is almost never the cheapest, it is always the refinery out in the boonies.
Or a barrel full of delayed blast fireball gems. Heave, 1 2 3, boom.
The specs we were quoted, by our software provider were either
One(1) 2-core 2 GHz AIX box for the software, the database, mail, userspace, file storage, etc, for 50 thin clients or 3x the dumb terminals and half a dozen printers
or
Two(2) quadcore 2 GHz xeons for 50 thick clients, 1 for the software and 1 for the database. Printers, Exchange, the domain, storage, etc. all need to live somewhere else.
If you are already a windows shop then you only need double, per the vendor. It ain't FUD when it is coming from someone trying to sell you the windows version.
Maybe if we were running WinEverything it wouldn't have been a hard sell, but to go from one 10 year old AIX box to either 3 new AIX boxes or 7 to 8 WinBoxes plus replacing dozens of dumb terminals, it isn't a hard choice.
What happens when she uses roman numerals? Same, worse, or easier?
Ditto for, say, dice or card pips, can she tell the roll of 3 dice?
Can she recite a number told to her if she doesn't try to write or visualize it?
No need to bother her if you don't know off the top of your head, I'm just curious if it is only the numbering system she learned, or all visual/written form of numbers, or numbers in general.
Since you said she can understand the concepts of performing calculations, if it is only the symbols of numbers and not the concept, I'd be curious if there are other symbols that would work(heck, can she write them as words?)
So how do you middle click?
That's what Mister Stevenson said last week your grandmother. I wouldn't hae thought he had it in him at that age, but he had photos.
God, he's a dirty old man, I am never delivering Meals-on-Wheels to his house again after seeing what he did to her with the Vegetable Medley.
I imagine a future when data centers are like mobile home parks, just cheap, flat land with little clusters of pipes poking up every dozen feet.
Trucks makes deliveries & pick ups every day, but some get containers just quietly rust into the concrete until an eviction notice gets plastered on it, to be later confiscated and sold cheaply to somebody overseas. A crazed, methed up guy in a wifebeater bangs on pipes, performs physical maintenance, and stores kiddy porn on an empty in back. Or at least until his common law wife finds it and, during the ensuing argument, trips in his drug lab and the fire takes out a quarter of the park.
Have I ever lived within earshot of a trailer park? Why yes, how could you tell?
That'd be obstruction. You are much better off making your passphrase something like "I'd love to tell you, but I don't know it".
Then you can truthfully answer their request for your passphrase and probably still be safe.
Will I be compensated with lower fares for the reduction of my kinetic & potential energies, or will they just take it as profit?
I'm sorry, but are you trying to suggest your 50 coins are distinct and in order? Mine are interchangeable.
The AceKard 2 works well, although the case is somewhat flimsy, but unless your microsd spring fails, you don't really need to take it out.