Scientists account for the lack of transitional fossils through the theory of puntuated equilibrium. Basically, this states that species persist without significant changes unless there is a reason to change. When evolutionary pressure is exerted, the change occurs quickly.
So, since the transitional periods are short and separated by a lot of stasis time, transitional fossils should be hard to find.
You folks think slashdot is big and bad, but in truth it is a minor site that drives little traffic to article it links.
The reason you see the slashdot effect so often is that the editors like to link to stories on sites that cannot take any appreciable load, and they neve give those sites a heads-up.
Professional web programming teams always give sites they link to an estimate of anticipated traffic a link will generate.
The scientists, in my experience, aren't overdoing it. EVERY real scientist I have spoken to about the ozone hole or global warming has said "welllll, we don't really know."
To reverse engineer and duplicate a processor requires a superior understanding of processor design and construction.
Once you have reverse engineered the processor, why wouldn't you then put your resources into designing a better processor based on what you've learned, rather than wasting time making a clone?
XML already makes your data easier to read. By wrapping the data in XML markup (which is essentially metadata), you are putting it in a form that humans naturally read.
Humans are great information analyzers. If all the information is on a page, your brain sorts it out and makes you understand even if the information is in an unfamiliar order. In XML, by definition, all the information is there... Your brain gets it pretty easily.
Actually, he's referring to the commong wives' tale which suggests that cats should not be left alone with a baby because they will suck the baby's breath out.
My mother actually believes this... She told me very matter-of-factly that she would help me find a home for my cats when my son was born.
Oh well, I guess that's what happens when you don't have a job for 20 years and you just sit at home watching soaps all day.
People have a need to dominate wildness. It gives us satisfaction to dominate an animal which would sooner kill us than look at us.
Cats hate humans. The cat in your house puts up with you because he too small to kill you. The "affection" you get from a cat is simply his social programming in action.
So, what's the point of this necoro? It is a thing which looks like a cat but is harmless... How do humans get pleasure from that?
If you asked a random American to sit down and think about what the biggest problem with our government is, they would say corruption, campaign funding or corporate legislation.
We all know this is a problem.
We send a huge volume of mail to congress about this.
Congress ignores us because it is in each congressman's best interest to maintain the status quo.
In order for this to change, a majority of congressmen would have to put their asses and their pocketbooks on the line.
The other way to change this is by supreme court ruling against campaign funding. Since the supreme court has already declared campaign funding to be free speech, it is going to be hard to get them to change their position.
I am a Clemson Grad, and as I recall the requirements were tight only because it was difficult to get the courses you wanted when you wanted them. Even so, with some creative schedule russling I was able to take some cool courses (including a course studying the legend of King Arthur, which involved a two week trip to England).
Had I taken the full four years to complete my Physics BS (I still regret completing it in three, I cheated myself out of a great year, as Clemson was the best time of my life), I would have been free to take loads of breadth courses.
Well, I guess Clemson is trying to become an engineering school... Perhaps they are modeling their growth too much after factories like Va Tech.
One assumption you apparently made in writing this article is that giant companies are forever.
You may or may not remember that AOL started as a little yappy dog biting the ankles of CompuServe and Prodigy. At the time AOL was lauded by many as the little guy who was making good inroads in a market dominated by the giant CompuServe. AOL won its position in the world today through a combination of skilled businessmanship and luck.
Somewhere right now is a little company with four or five staffers which will one day eat AOL's lunch.
It may be a little group like feed or suck.
But if there are a thousand little companies that aspire to be the next AOL, then 999 of them will fail. Many will fail because they just weren't good enough, many will fail because they just weren't lucky enough. And many will fail because they were clobbered by AOL. That's the way it goes.
MS to buy AOL?
Remember that AOL is the biggest company in the world.
MS doesn't want to buy AOL, they just want to put AOL out of business, which is just as unlikely, imho.
A few commenters have touched on this, but I think this deserves a focused post.
AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo messengers are focused on the at-home user. There are some inroads to business users, but they are often viewed with distrust because messages are routed through AOL or MS or Yahoo servers, and also because employees spend a lot of time IMing their friends outside of the company.
As it turns out, businesses would love to use instant messaging for inter-office communication. In fact, many businesses are using systems that predate AIM.
There is a niche market for an instant messaging product which lives totally within a company's internal network. A messaging system which does not rely on AOL's servers would be private and secure, and would be a very attractive solution for a business' communications needs.
It appears to me that Jabber is capable of this type of function. Indeed, it was mentioned in the article.
Has it occurred to you why The "US is BY FAR the best country in the world to live"?
It's because we don't put up with this kind of shit.
You seem to think it's ok to put up with this kind of invasion to keep a harmless weed in check just because it's better than what they do in singapore. That's baloney.
If you want to be a US citizen, then you must stand up for your freedom.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh Shut Up.
Oh, you hear stuff first on slashdot all the time. Like when Stephen King died.
I heard that first on slashdot every time it happenned.
Scientists account for the lack of transitional fossils through the theory of puntuated equilibrium. Basically, this states that species persist without significant changes unless there is a reason to change. When evolutionary pressure is exerted, the change occurs quickly.
So, since the transitional periods are short and separated by a lot of stasis time, transitional fossils should be hard to find.
Just don't do it while you're at work, 'cause then your employer will own the idea.
Read the stuff you signed when you got hired.
-Vortigern
You cannot make a direct connection without the consent of the other user.
Burying the stuff that represents your freedom.
Yep, I will be burying my guns as soon as the anti-constitutional anti-gun lobby succeeds.
They will wait for me until the oppressive regime is over.
I dunno about ICQ on a mobile phone, but AIM on a mobile phone works right now. Check it out:
http://www.aol.com/wireless/index.adp
Naa. Not a site like foreignpolicy.com
You folks think slashdot is big and bad, but in truth it is a minor site that drives little traffic to article it links.
The reason you see the slashdot effect so often is that the editors like to link to stories on sites that cannot take any appreciable load, and they neve give those sites a heads-up.
Professional web programming teams always give sites they link to an estimate of anticipated traffic a link will generate.
It sounds like you have a good point, but you should not back it up by lying about working in an uplink station.
Anyone who worked in an uplink station would know how to spell satellite.
The scientists, in my experience, aren't overdoing it. EVERY real scientist I have spoken to about the ozone hole or global warming has said "welllll, we don't really know."
To reverse engineer and duplicate a processor requires a superior understanding of processor design and construction.
Once you have reverse engineered the processor, why wouldn't you then put your resources into designing a better processor based on what you've learned, rather than wasting time making a clone?
XML already makes your data easier to read. By wrapping the data in XML markup (which is essentially metadata), you are putting it in a form that humans naturally read.
Humans are great information analyzers. If all the information is on a page, your brain sorts it out and makes you understand even if the information is in an unfamiliar order. In XML, by definition, all the information is there... Your brain gets it pretty easily.
That's like having a woman in the car even when you're alone.
I'd rather keep my driving controlled and orderly, thank you.
-Nick
Actually, he's referring to the commong wives' tale which suggests that cats should not be left alone with a baby because they will suck the baby's breath out.
My mother actually believes this... She told me very matter-of-factly that she would help me find a home for my cats when my son was born.
Oh well, I guess that's what happens when you don't have a job for 20 years and you just sit at home watching soaps all day.
People have a need to dominate wildness. It gives us satisfaction to dominate an animal which would sooner kill us than look at us.
Cats hate humans. The cat in your house puts up with you because he too small to kill you. The "affection" you get from a cat is simply his social programming in action.
So, what's the point of this necoro? It is a thing which looks like a cat but is harmless... How do humans get pleasure from that?
If you asked a random American to sit down and think about what the biggest problem with our government is, they would say corruption, campaign funding or corporate legislation.
We all know this is a problem.
We send a huge volume of mail to congress about this.
Congress ignores us because it is in each congressman's best interest to maintain the status quo.
In order for this to change, a majority of congressmen would have to put their asses and their pocketbooks on the line.
The other way to change this is by supreme court ruling against campaign funding. Since the supreme court has already declared campaign funding to be free speech, it is going to be hard to get them to change their position.
In other words, we are pretty much stuck.
No, he said what he meant.
Just because something has a hole poked in it does not mean its structural integrity has been violated.
English is a versatile language, I suggest you learn how to use it.
I am a Clemson Grad, and as I recall the requirements were tight only because it was difficult to get the courses you wanted when you wanted them. Even so, with some creative schedule russling I was able to take some cool courses (including a course studying the legend of King Arthur, which involved a two week trip to England).
Had I taken the full four years to complete my Physics BS (I still regret completing it in three, I cheated myself out of a great year, as Clemson was the best time of my life), I would have been free to take loads of breadth courses.
Well, I guess Clemson is trying to become an engineering school... Perhaps they are modeling their growth too much after factories like Va Tech.
If an obgyn is relying a computer program to tell him/her the statistical risk of Down Syndrome, then that doctor should not be practicing.
A doctor should have a deep knowledge of their field which transcends anything figureable by a computer.
You have to watch the first few episodes of Lexx -- they are many times better than the later series.
If you have trouble finding the first episodes, you might try looking under its US name "Tales from a Parallel Universe."
The old Lexx was truly amazing. The actress who played Zev in the first episodes was breathtaking, and the stories were both disturbing and exciting.
You may or may not remember that AOL started as a little yappy dog biting the ankles of CompuServe and Prodigy. At the time AOL was lauded by many as the little guy who was making good inroads in a market dominated by the giant CompuServe. AOL won its position in the world today through a combination of skilled businessmanship and luck.
Somewhere right now is a little company with four or five staffers which will one day eat AOL's lunch.
It may be a little group like feed or suck.
But if there are a thousand little companies that aspire to be the next AOL, then 999 of them will fail. Many will fail because they just weren't good enough, many will fail because they just weren't lucky enough. And many will fail because they were clobbered by AOL. That's the way it goes.
MS to buy AOL? Remember that AOL is the biggest company in the world. MS doesn't want to buy AOL, they just want to put AOL out of business, which is just as unlikely, imho.
AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo messengers are focused on the at-home user. There are some inroads to business users, but they are often viewed with distrust because messages are routed through AOL or MS or Yahoo servers, and also because employees spend a lot of time IMing their friends outside of the company.
As it turns out, businesses would love to use instant messaging for inter-office communication. In fact, many businesses are using systems that predate AIM.
There is a niche market for an instant messaging product which lives totally within a company's internal network. A messaging system which does not rely on AOL's servers would be private and secure, and would be a very attractive solution for a business' communications needs.
It appears to me that Jabber is capable of this type of function. Indeed, it was mentioned in the article.
It's because we don't put up with this kind of shit.
You seem to think it's ok to put up with this kind of invasion to keep a harmless weed in check just because it's better than what they do in singapore. That's baloney.
If you want to be a US citizen, then you must stand up for your freedom.