You could add this to a Roomba to create a vacuum cleaner that lives under the bed during the day and comes out at night to vacuum the house. But I hope you don't own a cat.
You seem to have trouble with the English language. The word case in this instance refers to the phrase "of a species altruistically serving another,...". It doesn't refer to an individual member of a species. Evolution acts on populations not individuals.
And yet the irony is that you are the one out of his league. Futuyma's statement is not in error. Your reading of it is. As for your statement
"No member of any species will act for the benefit of another with no benefit for its own" is falsified by the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement.
How many members have actually commited suicide or murder? As amusing as your example is, giving it even this much credence is foolish of me. As the previous poster pointed out, Darwin's and Futuyama's statements refer to the evolution of structures in populations, not the behavior of individuals.
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Apparently, I am the only person here that watches the Discovery Health channel. Some time ago, DH ran a documentary on face transplants that profiled an event 10 years ago when an Indian girl had her face and scalp amputated by a grass cutting machine. The doctors in India were able to reattach her face. The success gave other doctors the incentive to begin researching the possibility of transplanting faces for the severely disfigured.
I offer no judgements about whether the procedure is a good idea or not. I just know that I wouldn't deny a well informed individual the right to the surgery.
Oh and pollution... Um, isn't the stuff radioactive when it goes in? And the uranium is all natural? So basically unless you're running a breeder reactor, there's really less radioactive material than what was pulled out of the ground to go in it, right?
That is the most abominably ignorant statement I've ever heard. For every uranimum nucleus that fissions, you end up with about two radioactive nuclei. (I say about two because sometimes fission produces three nuclei not two and there is always the very remote chance that one of them is going to be stable.) What's more, the fission products typically have a much shorter half life than the natural isotopes of Uranium, which makes them more radioactive.
Please, if you don't know what you're talking about, don't try to explain things to people.
Do the lack of information about the actual dive site in the article, I went out looking for more information. You'll find more information here http://lostcity.jason.org/
Yeah, the next thing you know a bunch of fundamentalist christians will be trying to force through laws to push their form of creationism into public classrooms.
So, it produced 900 neutrons/sec. What is the supposed advantage to this technique? You can buy commercial off the shelf neutron generators that produce 100,000,000 neutrons/sec already.
F and J? No way. D and K. All my keyboards have bumps on D and K at home. They would at work too, if I had my way.
Ahh, you have a Mac. It took me a long time to get used to switching back and forth between Mac and PC keyboards. Now if I can just get used to the reversed Caps Lock/Control keys on Suns...
Okay. Here are the instructions for installing the compilers on Jaguar.
Double click on your hard drive icon.
Double click on the folder Applications.
Double click on the folder Installers.
Double click on the Xcode.pkg (I believe that was the name. I'm not sitting at my Mac.)
Follow the instructions in the installer window.
Having said that, the developer package doesn't come with a fortran compiler.
Xcode is the worst IDE I've ever seen. The layout is cluttered and baffling. You can't include other projects in your current project as a dependency. If you have to build four libraries before your application, then you're SOL. You either have to open five projects and build them in the correct order yourself, or you have to use a horrible hack with the command line build tool for xcode in your top level project. The hack means that you don't have access to all of the nice features of the IDE for those external libraries, so what's the point?
Thank god for the command line and make. After struggling with Xcode for several weeks, I finally abandoned it as a lost cause. Perhaps they'll fix it one day.
Not only that, both of my parents received their gifts before Amazon sent out the email notice that the items had been shipped. Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for a book I ordered in October...
Or maybe we can write a paranoid technothriller (based on Discovery Channel shows) in which environmentalists are unscrupulous terrorists capable of controlling the weather and Martin Sheen is eaten alive by cannibals!
Born long before there was an AIDS problem. So just how did she evolve?
Uh, the Delta-32 variant of the CCR5 receptor is believed to have become fixed in the population about 700 years ago. The common wisdom is that the mutation became fixed in European populations as a result of the Black Death--against which it also confers immunity. Some are now arguing that the mutation became widespread in Europe not because of the plague but because of smallpox.
What is interesting about the Chinese woman isn't that she is unique, but that she is the one of the few non-Europeans known to possess the mutation.
In news more relevant to this crowd, the DVD for Colussus, the Forbin Project was released today. One of the most underappreciated science fiction movies of the early seventies. How do you top a self-aware, megalomanical computer taking over the world? Build two of them!
Not only that, it is painfully slow when communicating with my IMAP servers. It takes several minutes to scan my folders over a secure imap connection. Evolution 1.4 felt about ten times faster. After running FC3 for a few days, I dropped Evolution 2.0 for Thunderbird. I don't want to drink a cup of coffee while waiting for my mail. I've never seen an application take such a nosedive in quality as Evolution did between 1.4 and 2.0. Pity, because coworkers often asked me if 1.4 was available for Windows.
The solar constant is 1366 +/- 2 Watts/m^2 at the top of the atmosphere. This number is based on satellite measurements, and you can find a lot of slightly different values quoted. The total power incident at the top of the atmosphere is roughly this number times the projected area of the earth, pi*r^2.
The mean radius of the earth is 6371 km. This gives a value of around 1.74e17 Watts. So it would take about 7.5 hours for the sun to deliver 5.0e21 joules to the earth. In other words, if the heat balance of the earth changes by about 0.001%, then (assuming the earlier poster's calculation was correct, which I haven't checked) it would only take 50 years to raise the temperature of the atmosphere by one degree C.
Extrapolating from your limited experience to the rest of the world is fun and easy! You too can make ignorant comments regarding things you know nothing about!
I work at a place where signing hard drives in and out of safes when you want to boot a computer is a standard procedure. Visiting other businesses is just as cumbersome. Just try and visit Lockheed or Boeing or a military base. Cell phones, USB memory sticks and (frequently) laptops are held at the lobby or the security office.
I went to a meeting a month or two ago with my laptop. We were all sitting around working with our individual machines around a table. Someone wanted a file from me, so I went to burn it to a CD for them. The host company had conveniently provided a stack of blank CDs for our use.
I pulled a disk off the top of the stack and popped it in my drive. It turned out to have data on it already. I said this out loud and everyone in the room froze. Fortunately, the data was innocuous, so I got to keep my hard drive. But for a moment there, I faced the real possibility of having my drive confiscated and either classified or destroyed.
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You could add this to a Roomba to create a vacuum cleaner that lives under the bed during the day and comes out at night to vacuum the house. But I hope you don't own a cat.
You seem to have trouble with the English language. The word case in this instance refers to the phrase "of a species altruistically serving another,...". It doesn't refer to an individual member of a species. Evolution acts on populations not individuals.
Apparently, I am the only person here that watches the Discovery Health channel. Some time ago, DH ran a documentary on face transplants that profiled an event 10 years ago when an Indian girl had her face and scalp amputated by a grass cutting machine. The doctors in India were able to reattach her face. The success gave other doctors the incentive to begin researching the possibility of transplanting faces for the severely disfigured.
I offer no judgements about whether the procedure is a good idea or not. I just know that I wouldn't deny a well informed individual the right to the surgery.
That is the most abominably ignorant statement I've ever heard. For every uranimum nucleus that fissions, you end up with about two radioactive nuclei. (I say about two because sometimes fission produces three nuclei not two and there is always the very remote chance that one of them is going to be stable.) What's more, the fission products typically have a much shorter half life than the natural isotopes of Uranium, which makes them more radioactive.
Please, if you don't know what you're talking about, don't try to explain things to people.
Do the lack of information about the actual dive site in the article, I went out looking for more information. You'll find more information here http://lostcity.jason.org/
That's okay. Someone stole the Darwin fish off my car just before I left Texas.
Yeah, the next thing you know a bunch of fundamentalist christians will be trying to force through laws to push their form of creationism into public classrooms.
You mean like this list of machines logged on my company's mailserver last night?
So, it produced 900 neutrons/sec. What is the supposed advantage to this technique? You can buy commercial off the shelf neutron generators that produce 100,000,000 neutrons/sec already.
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F and J? No way. D and K. All my keyboards have bumps on D and K at home. They would at work too, if I had my way.
Ahh, you have a Mac. It took me a long time to get used to switching back and forth between Mac and PC keyboards. Now if I can just get used to the reversed Caps Lock/Control keys on Suns...
The version I prefer goes:
Heaven is defined as having an American salary, a Chinese cook, an English house, and a Japanese wife.
Hell is defined as having a Chinese salary, an English cook, a Japanese house, and an American wife.
Obviously, you've never seen "Lesbian Spank Inferno!"
Wow! Really? I had no idea that Apple was distributing my software with their OS. Get a clue moron.
Okay. Here are the instructions for installing the compilers on Jaguar.
Having said that, the developer package doesn't come with a fortran compiler.
Xcode is the worst IDE I've ever seen. The layout is cluttered and baffling. You can't include other projects in your current project as a dependency. If you have to build four libraries before your application, then you're SOL. You either have to open five projects and build them in the correct order yourself, or you have to use a horrible hack with the command line build tool for xcode in your top level project. The hack means that you don't have access to all of the nice features of the IDE for those external libraries, so what's the point?
Thank god for the command line and make. After struggling with Xcode for several weeks, I finally abandoned it as a lost cause. Perhaps they'll fix it one day.
Not only that, both of my parents received their gifts before Amazon sent out the email notice that the items had been shipped. Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for a book I ordered in October...
Or maybe we can write a paranoid technothriller (based on Discovery Channel shows) in which environmentalists are unscrupulous terrorists capable of controlling the weather and Martin Sheen is eaten alive by cannibals!
Uh, the Delta-32 variant of the CCR5 receptor is believed to have become fixed in the population about 700 years ago. The common wisdom is that the mutation became fixed in European populations as a result of the Black Death--against which it also confers immunity. Some are now arguing that the mutation became widespread in Europe not because of the plague but because of smallpox.
What is interesting about the Chinese woman isn't that she is unique, but that she is the one of the few non-Europeans known to possess the mutation.
BTW, individuals don't evolve, populations do. Individuals mutate.
Oops! That was supposed to be Colossus, The Forbin Project
In news more relevant to this crowd, the DVD for Colussus, the Forbin Project was released today. One of the most underappreciated science fiction movies of the early seventies. How do you top a self-aware, megalomanical computer taking over the world? Build two of them!
Not only that, it is painfully slow when communicating with my IMAP servers. It takes several minutes to scan my folders over a secure imap connection. Evolution 1.4 felt about ten times faster. After running FC3 for a few days, I dropped Evolution 2.0 for Thunderbird. I don't want to drink a cup of coffee while waiting for my mail. I've never seen an application take such a nosedive in quality as Evolution did between 1.4 and 2.0. Pity, because coworkers often asked me if 1.4 was available for Windows.
The solar constant is 1366 +/- 2 Watts/m^2 at the top of the atmosphere. This number is based on satellite measurements, and you can find a lot of slightly different values quoted. The total power incident at the top of the atmosphere is roughly this number times the projected area of the earth, pi*r^2.
The mean radius of the earth is 6371 km. This gives a value of around 1.74e17 Watts. So it would take about 7.5 hours for the sun to deliver 5.0e21 joules to the earth. In other words, if the heat balance of the earth changes by about 0.001%, then (assuming the earlier poster's calculation was correct, which I haven't checked) it would only take 50 years to raise the temperature of the atmosphere by one degree C.
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
Extrapolating from your limited experience to the rest of the world is fun and easy! You too can make ignorant comments regarding things you know nothing about!
I work at a place where signing hard drives in and out of safes when you want to boot a computer is a standard procedure. Visiting other businesses is just as cumbersome. Just try and visit Lockheed or Boeing or a military base. Cell phones, USB memory sticks and (frequently) laptops are held at the lobby or the security office.
I went to a meeting a month or two ago with my laptop. We were all sitting around working with our individual machines around a table. Someone wanted a file from me, so I went to burn it to a CD for them. The host company had conveniently provided a stack of blank CDs for our use.
I pulled a disk off the top of the stack and popped it in my drive. It turned out to have data on it already. I said this out loud and everyone in the room froze. Fortunately, the data was innocuous, so I got to keep my hard drive. But for a moment there, I faced the real possibility of having my drive confiscated and either classified or destroyed.