Agreed. Also I don't think phenotype is very much related to genetic complexity. Before the 'Iced Earth' episode (not the band), life was basically stromatolites for 2 billions years. Then ice covered everything, keeping a few isolated pockets for a long time. This must have put a lot of selective pressure on those pockets of life. It must have been like extended development of/lib while not doing much on the main apps. Then when the ice melted there was all those varied building blocks available to use in newly opened biotopes, hence the complexity explosion (Ediacara).
Similarly while the dinosaurs roamed the Earth the mammals were 'under the ice'; a lot of/lib changes, but no possibility to get big or more varied than your primitive rat because of the competition. Then once the big guys got wiped out all those ecological niches were available and filled out faster than one would expect from standard selection processes; simply because the genotype had lots of diversity already: it just needed to show in the phenotype and a few minor mutations did that.
Last I've heard about the Apple one is that they were having trouble getting the battery to last for _half_ a day. DO NOT WANT (as a climber/hiker/skier but also as a lowly geek).
Why would you have a requirement of "No touch"?
You don't have to use it, but specifically asking for it to not exist seems silly, you may change your mind further down the line.
Because on a normal screen I already have to beat up my colleagues so they won't leave their greasy fingerprints on my screen when they 'point' at something. I cannot even imagine on a touch screen. Yeah, I hate smears on my screens and find them very distracting. I like my smartphone, but I wipe it twice a minute when using it.
Actually I did. Chatted with a Dell rep and justified my not buying from them. Also chatted with Amazon rep and complained about the impossibility to search for 'No OS' or 'Linux' as a filter. But by one in the morning I gave up and got a big brand without fight left in me. And yes, I'd read some pages about how to get your money back on MS licenses, and with a few exceptions it looks night on impossible. Sue them ? Right...
I was waiting for laptops with a decent screen resolution.
This and not being forced to buy Windows.
My 8 year old laptop died a few days ago. I spent last night trying to find a replacement. I had no idea how hard it would be.
My requirements were, I thought, simple: 13" non-glossy non-touch, SSD 64~128Gb (without HDD), no optical drive, Qwerty keyboard, Linux or no OS, SDXC reader.
From the get go it's impossible to match half those specs. They 'give' you a HDD in addition to the SDD. It's almost impossible to get a matte screen at 13". Most models are now 'touch'. Linux? Yeah we support it with a special developer edition that cost 50% extra for the same specs. Be happy we made a lighter keyboard by removing the arrow keys and the Home/End/PgUp/PageDn/Delete keys.
I had to settle for 13" glossy non-touch, 128Gb SSD, no SDXC. And pay the fucking illegal MS tax.
I have a question... Why hasn't this been implemented in 95 ? There was a real need for a micropayment system at the time: everybody was talking about it, and then it got more or less replaced by credit card purchases, which took a long time to gain traction and are only use for larger payments anyway. Napster would have been different if there'd been a micropayment option in it !
As a loosely related side story, as I need to purchase 2 laptops, I wrote a no-name laptop maker today asking for Linux compatibility as the laptop they sell are either with Windows or 'No OS'. I got a quick answer that said that although they cannot guarantee it, most of their models work well with Linux, with only one series having a chipset to currently avoid. I'd rather like guaranteed compatibility, but that's good to hear too. Indeed they forwarded a whole bunch of users' messages and criticisms.
Well, I can imagine the following: take a large water bottle, feel it with azeotropic alcohol (94%), get on the plane with it, spray it over the ground, let it seep, light it on fire. You could even take a small seep at the checkpoint and not cough too much. And it wouldn't pose any risk at all to the checker if they place it at their feet after confiscating it. Of course, a quick response with an extinguisher should save the ass of everyone on board, but it would still suck.
There are some phones with an IR port, which is basically a UART. But that's not exactly what you are asking. And I can't name an Android phone with it.
I'm a climber and during the long boring approaches in very early morning, when your brain is half asleep on semi-auto, I always have the latest tune I heard in the car playing back and forth. Fortunately as soon as the climbing starts, it's nowhere to be heard again, confirming what they say in TFA about the brain 'not being engaged enough'. So my trick is to play a good song just before parking the car, otherwise it can really drive you to jump off a cliff if it's Chris Brown.
Honest question here: what do you get with CM that you didn't get with the original Android of the S3 ? I have a SII and I was curious about CM, but I couldn't find a compelling reason to try it besides curiosity itself.
Well, beer in the old days wasn't as strong as know, so yes you could leave mostly drinking only beer. Check out 'small beer'. Workers had two gallons or so of the stuff to drink daily!
For those who want to know more, I just read this interesting and quite complete book on the archeology of alcohol. It would be worth a book review on/., but I'm not good at writing those.
The other thing is, you make it sound like tomorrow the equatorial region of the planet's going to suddenly go apocalyptic and everyone will be rushing out of there overnight. Dude, this isn't Hollywood. Even at the incredible speed at which global warming is occuring, we're still talking about something that's happening at a speed unlikely to significantly change the environment you're living in within your lifetime.
I don't agree with that. While it's true on average, climatic event often happen as exceptional events: an exceptional flood, a high yearly tide combined with exceptional low pressure (like 2 years ago in France), exceptional snow, exceptional hurricane, etc... All those have a higher probability to happen due to climate change. And when they happen, you end up with a sudden flood of refugees 'Hollywood style', or should I rather say 'Katrina style'. A 10cm in sea level rise in a flat 0.1 per thousand area means that the same high tide / flood goes 1km farther inland.
Canonical, on the other hand is a a for-profit corporation is actually selling your demographic info to advertisers just like Facebook and Apple.
"My demographics" ?!? Besides my IP for when I downloaded Ubuntu 6.4 and every time I run "aptitude full-upgrade", I really wonder what kind of "demographics" they have on me...
Some people really deserve all the insults that can be thrown at them.
The difference between the CO2 you exhale and that exhaled by your car is that yours come from the food you ate: plants (even if indirectly you ate animals that ate plants). And those plants got it from the atmosphere. So you are just returning CO2 to where it came from. A car takes it from the ground where it's been slowly accumulating for tens of millions of years and dumps it into the atmosphere. It's NOT the same CO2.
Now if we go into externalities such as "how must CO2 from petroleum did it take to bring that food on the table", then it gets a bit more tricky.
"we often think of evolution as being the survival of the fittest, where the strong and the dominant survive and the soft and weak perish"
I like to give the example of birds. Which one is the most successful bird ? The most numerous on the planet. I'll give you a hint: it doesn't fly at all, it doesn't run fast and it's very good to eat. Still it's the most successful in terms of species: the chicken. Because it's good to eat, another specie (us) takes it everywhere and makes sure they reproduce in droves. Evolution works in funny ways...
I wonder how long it will be before there's a major failure loop in the cloud, something like the certificate for cloud X is stored in service Y, which actually uses cloud X as its backend. So when certificate for X stops, the whole thing grinds to a halt with no way to restart it (unless backdoors)...
Wrong. Predators often hide their shit (like a cat covering it up) in order to hide their odor from potential preys. Some pack animals often have a specific spot where they go so as not to soil the den (which is why it's easy to potty train dogs).
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Similarly while the dinosaurs roamed the Earth the mammals were 'under the ice'; a lot of /lib changes, but no possibility to get big or more varied than your primitive rat because of the competition. Then once the big guys got wiped out all those ecological niches were available and filled out faster than one would expect from standard selection processes; simply because the genotype had lots of diversity already: it just needed to show in the phenotype and a few minor mutations did that.
Not such a stupid idea, at least it can power itself by recovering energy from the walk.
Last I've heard about the Apple one is that they were having trouble getting the battery to last for _half_ a day. DO NOT WANT (as a climber/hiker/skier but also as a lowly geek).
Why would you have a requirement of "No touch"? You don't have to use it, but specifically asking for it to not exist seems silly, you may change your mind further down the line.
Because on a normal screen I already have to beat up my colleagues so they won't leave their greasy fingerprints on my screen when they 'point' at something. I cannot even imagine on a touch screen. Yeah, I hate smears on my screens and find them very distracting. I like my smartphone, but I wipe it twice a minute when using it.
Shit, why didn't I see that 2 days ago. Too late now.
Actually I did. Chatted with a Dell rep and justified my not buying from them. Also chatted with Amazon rep and complained about the impossibility to search for 'No OS' or 'Linux' as a filter. But by one in the morning I gave up and got a big brand without fight left in me. And yes, I'd read some pages about how to get your money back on MS licenses, and with a few exceptions it looks night on impossible. Sue them ? Right...
I was waiting for laptops with a decent screen resolution.
This and not being forced to buy Windows.
My 8 year old laptop died a few days ago. I spent last night trying to find a replacement. I had no idea how hard it would be. My requirements were, I thought, simple: 13" non-glossy non-touch, SSD 64~128Gb (without HDD), no optical drive, Qwerty keyboard, Linux or no OS, SDXC reader.
From the get go it's impossible to match half those specs. They 'give' you a HDD in addition to the SDD. It's almost impossible to get a matte screen at 13". Most models are now 'touch'. Linux? Yeah we support it with a special developer edition that cost 50% extra for the same specs. Be happy we made a lighter keyboard by removing the arrow keys and the Home/End/PgUp/PageDn/Delete keys.
I had to settle for 13" glossy non-touch, 128Gb SSD, no SDXC. And pay the fucking illegal MS tax.
I have a question... Why hasn't this been implemented in 95 ? There was a real need for a micropayment system at the time: everybody was talking about it, and then it got more or less replaced by credit card purchases, which took a long time to gain traction and are only use for larger payments anyway. Napster would have been different if there'd been a micropayment option in it !
As a loosely related side story, as I need to purchase 2 laptops, I wrote a no-name laptop maker today asking for Linux compatibility as the laptop they sell are either with Windows or 'No OS'. I got a quick answer that said that although they cannot guarantee it, most of their models work well with Linux, with only one series having a chipset to currently avoid. I'd rather like guaranteed compatibility, but that's good to hear too. Indeed they forwarded a whole bunch of users' messages and criticisms.
Well, I can imagine the following: take a large water bottle, feel it with azeotropic alcohol (94%), get on the plane with it, spray it over the ground, let it seep, light it on fire. You could even take a small seep at the checkpoint and not cough too much. And it wouldn't pose any risk at all to the checker if they place it at their feet after confiscating it. Of course, a quick response with an extinguisher should save the ass of everyone on board, but it would still suck.
There are some phones with an IR port, which is basically a UART. But that's not exactly what you are asking. And I can't name an Android phone with it.
I'm a climber and during the long boring approaches in very early morning, when your brain is half asleep on semi-auto, I always have the latest tune I heard in the car playing back and forth. Fortunately as soon as the climbing starts, it's nowhere to be heard again, confirming what they say in TFA about the brain 'not being engaged enough'. So my trick is to play a good song just before parking the car, otherwise it can really drive you to jump off a cliff if it's Chris Brown.
Would not the first thing one would do, if interesting in these technical reports, is to download them all
You mean, like Aaron Schwartz did ?
Honest question here: what do you get with CM that you didn't get with the original Android of the S3 ? I have a SII and I was curious about CM, but I couldn't find a compelling reason to try it besides curiosity itself.
Well, beer in the old days wasn't as strong as know, so yes you could leave mostly drinking only beer. Check out 'small beer'. Workers had two gallons or so of the stuff to drink daily!
For those who want to know more, I just read this interesting and quite complete book on the archeology of alcohol. It would be worth a book review on /., but I'm not good at writing those.
The other thing is, you make it sound like tomorrow the equatorial region of the planet's going to suddenly go apocalyptic and everyone will be rushing out of there overnight. Dude, this isn't Hollywood. Even at the incredible speed at which global warming is occuring, we're still talking about something that's happening at a speed unlikely to significantly change the environment you're living in within your lifetime.
I don't agree with that. While it's true on average, climatic event often happen as exceptional events: an exceptional flood, a high yearly tide combined with exceptional low pressure (like 2 years ago in France), exceptional snow, exceptional hurricane, etc... All those have a higher probability to happen due to climate change. And when they happen, you end up with a sudden flood of refugees 'Hollywood style', or should I rather say 'Katrina style'. A 10cm in sea level rise in a flat 0.1 per thousand area means that the same high tide / flood goes 1km farther inland.
Canonical, on the other hand is a a for-profit corporation is actually selling your demographic info to advertisers just like Facebook and Apple.
"My demographics" ?!? Besides my IP for when I downloaded Ubuntu 6.4 and every time I run "aptitude full-upgrade", I really wonder what kind of "demographics" they have on me...
The difference between the CO2 you exhale and that exhaled by your car is that yours come from the food you ate: plants (even if indirectly you ate animals that ate plants). And those plants got it from the atmosphere. So you are just returning CO2 to where it came from. A car takes it from the ground where it's been slowly accumulating for tens of millions of years and dumps it into the atmosphere. It's NOT the same CO2.
Now if we go into externalities such as "how must CO2 from petroleum did it take to bring that food on the table", then it gets a bit more tricky.
"we often think of evolution as being the survival of the fittest, where the strong and the dominant survive and the soft and weak perish"
I like to give the example of birds. Which one is the most successful bird ? The most numerous on the planet. I'll give you a hint: it doesn't fly at all, it doesn't run fast and it's very good to eat. Still it's the most successful in terms of species: the chicken. Because it's good to eat, another specie (us) takes it everywhere and makes sure they reproduce in droves. Evolution works in funny ways...
Why can't you use ext2 on Android? I tried and it doesn't work.
I wonder how long it will be before there's a major failure loop in the cloud, something like the certificate for cloud X is stored in service Y, which actually uses cloud X as its backend. So when certificate for X stops, the whole thing grinds to a halt with no way to restart it (unless backdoors)...
I'd rather trust a computer turned off than turned on. Of course, I'm a programmer...
Wrong. Predators often hide their shit (like a cat covering it up) in order to hide their odor from potential preys. Some pack animals often have a specific spot where they go so as not to soil the den (which is why it's easy to potty train dogs).
My iphone-dependant colleague has to recharge his twice a day. I'm sure he'll remember it for his car.