take place is interesting for GNU/Linux news, an election is something of a serious issue... I'm an Australian and I sure wouldn't want to see this go pear shaped any more than the Open Source community (think of the bad press... "Linux Fault Voids National Election"... No-one wins) I don't really like the idea of using my election as a guinea pig for this, but then again I don't have any doubts about the abilities of the software to perform.
It's just a pity that the limits of this development won't exactly be tested by the upcoming election (the political climate does not look good for the incumbent) do to the fact it's almost certainly gonna be a landslide.
Mmmmmm kay. I know the '4am funny' syndrome. BTW they mostly survived the Americans during the occupation (corruption, you gotta love it) but they are generally known as 'keiretsu' nowadays. Keep up the good fight, buddy.
That's 'zaibatsu' with two a's. And you really should do a bit more research into what they actually are (or were, since they theoretically ended with the American occupation). For one, there were many more than two- that would not have provided too much oppurtunity for backstabbing, double ganging and triple dealing so typical of the real zaibatsu. And which companies would make up the bottom ends of the families? Adobe and John Deere?!?
I use Windows and I agree with this too. I don't like it, but I feel as if I have no other option. Trying Linux is something I would like to do but the thought scares me... I am the less computer literate (I can only do hardware) but I want to see what this Linux is all about. But all I get here is all rhetoric, no support... Slashdot is where you're going to make the conversions (you got me interested). If you are interested in taking it to the next level this is where you should start.
"If dominant and recessive genes really were so binary in nature (D | R = D, R | R = R, D | D = D, etc) then unless there was more imbreeding going on, all recessive genes would've eventually gone away and we would all be the same. "
Dominanace and recessiveness is not so black and white. You also get cases where two genes exhert their effect on the organism (ie. a white and a red cow having offspring that have patches of both white and red hide).
The generally accepted theory these days is that evolution is not purely caused by either environment or by random genetic change, but by a combination of the two; ie a random genetic change that happens to be beneficial to that particular organism in that particular environment. This leads to the organism having a higher survival and therefore reproductive capacity and ensures the propogation of the 'new' gene in sucessive generations.
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take place is interesting for GNU/Linux news, an election is something of a serious issue... I'm an Australian and I sure wouldn't want to see this go pear shaped any more than the Open Source community (think of the bad press... "Linux Fault Voids National Election"... No-one wins) I don't really like the idea of using my election as a guinea pig for this, but then again I don't have any doubts about the abilities of the software to perform.
It's just a pity that the limits of this development won't exactly be tested by the upcoming election (the political climate does not look good for the incumbent) do to the fact it's almost certainly gonna be a landslide.
Mmmmmm kay. I know the '4am funny' syndrome. BTW they mostly survived the Americans during the occupation (corruption, you gotta love it) but they are generally known as 'keiretsu' nowadays. Keep up the good fight, buddy.
That's 'zaibatsu' with two a's. And you really should do a bit more research into what they actually are (or were, since they theoretically ended with the American occupation). For one, there were many more than two- that would not have provided too much oppurtunity for backstabbing, double ganging and triple dealing so typical of the real zaibatsu. And which companies would make up the bottom ends of the families? Adobe and John Deere?!?
I use Windows and I agree with this too. I don't like it, but I feel as if I have no other option. Trying Linux is something I would like to do but the thought scares me... I am the less computer literate (I can only do hardware) but I want to see what this Linux is all about. But all I get here is all rhetoric, no support... Slashdot is where you're going to make the conversions (you got me interested). If you are interested in taking it to the next level this is where you should start.
"If dominant and recessive genes really were so binary in nature (D | R = D, R | R = R, D | D = D, etc) then unless there was more imbreeding going on, all recessive genes would've eventually gone away and we would all be the same. "
Dominanace and recessiveness is not so black and white. You also get cases where two genes exhert their effect on the organism (ie. a white and a red cow having offspring that have patches of both white and red hide).
The generally accepted theory these days is that evolution is not purely caused by either environment or by random genetic change, but by a combination of the two; ie a random genetic change that happens to be beneficial to that particular organism in that particular environment. This leads to the organism having a higher survival and therefore reproductive capacity and ensures the propogation of the 'new' gene in sucessive generations.