Google news for Tiktaalik and find 231 stories at the moment. Several have photos of the fossils and reconstructions of the living animal. I'm surprised that it's so big -- I imagined the first walking animal would be small, cat sized, rather than this, crocodile sized. I think all of our known direct ancestors have been smaller than we are now, certainly the further back we go in primate history. Having this rather fearsome creature in our family tree is like finding you're descended from Genghis Khan.
It's possible, likely even, that it isn't "the" link, there could have been many animals making the transition to land at the time. As for "missing link", well every fossil was a "missing link" before it was found. Just some seem more significant than others.
Okay, I was almost agreeing with you up to that point. By calling it a "lie" you imply there is some organised conspiracy. I've never understood this point of view. Who would profit from it? Windwill makers? On the other hand, the largest and richest companies in the world have a large vested interest in casting doubt on the idea. They've actually has oil lobbyists vetting reports on global warming in the White House.
But anyway, I'm sure this would be an arid and acrimonious discussion, so I'll leave it at that. Kudos on having the "fuel efficient car for ordinary driving" BTW.
Well then, you must simply not have needed to type-up very math-intensive spreadsheets.
No. Who does? Not anyone doing business accounting for a small company. I did budgets, processed sales reports and other stuff for a company with about 6 staff. It's basically adding up columns of numbers, maybe making a chart or two. Not doing weather simulations or trying to beat the stock market. Most desktop PCs spend far more processing power on their screensavers than the applications they were bought to run.
In a business setting, I'm tihnking downtime, maintenance, centralized back-up, security etc. etc., which are all a lot better served by a few locked up servers
And who is going to look after the servers? Who is going to network them?
What we're talking about is small businesses; a handful of staff. Wordprocessing, email, maybe accounting.
If I'm setting up a system today,
This isn't what you, or I, would choose. It's what would serve initially a student, or small businessman, in the Third World.
not spread across an office landscape
Exactly; in an "office landscape" you'd do something as you suggest. In a one-room company a laptop or two will do the job. This is entry-level in every sense.
Well, TFA tells us haow many are using Linux, 17%, and are thinking about it, etc. But how can we make any conclusions form this when it isn't even hinted at what the other 83% are using? Some version of Windows? QNX? DOS? Is Linux at 17% the largest or much smaller than the others? Maybe the EETimes readers have the context, but I don't.
Using 286s in 1996? Most people were on 300MHz Pentium IIs by then
Sadly, not me. Actually, I think I was using a 286 up till about 1994 when I was upgraded to a 486. The 286 was handed down to another staffer, and remained in use for at least another 4 years. I was still using the 486 when I quit in 2000. (By which time I was on my second Pentium at home.)
There was a guy on a CP/M machine (a salesman, he used Wordstar to write his faxes.) When I got the 486, the 286 went to the accountant, his XT went to the salesman, and we retired the CP/M. Believe it or not.
Hell, the wasted electricity over the course of a month, while you wait for the spreadsheet to re-calculate
Look, I'd never go back, but the 20 MHz 286 handled my spreadsheets just fine. Lotus 123 v 2.4 is very efficient. The bottleneck was my typing, and sometimes the printer; never the CPU.
Well, all those who did any work with computers in 1990s does remember that the $4,999 models (say 486 DX2/66 or so) were wonderfully powerful and solved a lot of tasks...
It took me about two years of lobbying before I got one to upgrade from the 286. Wordstar, Lotus 123, dBase IV, Ventura 3, and Coreldraw 2 for Windows all ran at blinding speed. I still use some of that stuff.
As you said, garbage. You're trying to rationalise an emotional choice.
"6000 lbs of steel", etc, makes you feel macho. "purchasing some simple pleasures is one of the reason why I work hard and make money." in other words, the message you are broadcasting with your choice of car is "Get the fuck out of my way peasants or get run over." Having "different values" is fine in itself. When giving free reign to these values is destroying the world, it's not.
They are making a laptop that will cost $100, and perhaps $50 by 2010. Who cares about the specs, it will not be a buisness machine.
No, it will be an excellent business machine. Writing documents, doing spreadsheets, inventory, email. We used to do that on 286s 10 years ago. That's 98% of what most small businesses use a PC for. And there are lots of more specialised apps on SourceForge, they can probably use DOS apps under emulation, and with millions of these machines around there will be a demand and market for more to be created. That's what Gates is afraid of, a whole world of non-MS software.
Europeans can say dumb stuff like that since the distances they must drive are so tiny
I'm Australian, I know about long distances.
It takes 5 days to cross the whole country in a car and that's what my daughter has to do in order to get all her belongings from home to her University she is now studying at.
That's an excuse for 5 of the 365 days in a year. And is using your own car the only way to get goods across the country? Aren't there "trains" in the US? Or at least freight services where vehicles designed for moving goods are used instead of passenger vehicles?
Please, spare me your rationalisations. TFA talks about how Americans think sacrifices need to be made. But what they actually mean is that OTHER PEOPLE have to change.
I meant that somethng is wrong with the poster, because someone who had studied physics of any stripe would know that magnetic fields don't block electromagnetic radiation (i.e., sunlight).
But the original idea is still logically crazy.
Charge a 10 MPG car a higher rate than a 30 MPG car.
Both should pay the same per gallon, the 10 MPG would pay more because of use assuming same travel miles.
The problem is that people don't think logically about cars. Look at the advertising. It's about sex and machismo. Auto makers spend billions of dollars every year on pressing your buttons to make you want, desire and need to prove yourself by driving a big, fast, expensive car. And politicians know this is a dangerous area to meddle in. The pump prioce is somethng that's in voters' faces every day, if higher gas taxes are imposed, as would be the logical, simple method of encouraging fuel economy, they'll get voted out. Higher car prices are a one-time hit, and few bother to break out the portion due to taxes.
during my studies in sub-atomic physics, I learned that a particles velocity can be effected by magnetic fields. I keep hearing about the increased activity of our Sun (it's been getting hotter) and I believe it's possible that more of the Sun's radiation is penetrating the Earth's magnetic field,
You are lying if you say you "studied sub-atomic physics", because anyone who had been awake in high-school physics would know that makes no sense.
I want to buy a bigger car with a sporty V6 then I should be able to without having to worry about the Fed crippling it.
Showing how thin the "commitment" Americans have to fighting global warming. Express "concern", but drive big wasteful cars and vote out anyone who says you shouldn't. Don't be a hypocrite, just say you don't care if the world goes to hell as long as you're comfortable and have your "sporty" penis subsitute.
Of course, you can extract text and images from a pdf
Yes, but not as straight-forwardly as from a word-processing document. Sometimes the font subsetting makes copying text problematic (uncommon characters come out as a blank when copied). And there is no distinction between line wraps and deliberate line breaks, "real" or soft hyphens, and similar classes of information are obfuscated simply because they're not important to just viewing or printing.
I'm sure the Archive is looking to allowing useful searching of the files, which again is possible with PDF (Google does it), but is much easier and more reliable with a text-based format.
Why don't you post some pics of yourself and we'll let her comment?
Do you dudes wonder why you don't get laid?
The comments are prompted by the description "gorgeous". I know exactly what I look like, and it isn't that, and I never claimed to be. But despite that somehow I do get laid, since you ask.
Do you know of any places to get a reliable one then?
Hong Kong, where I live, so that might not be a great help to you. But on general principle, find someone you trust who is technically minded and get a shop he recommends. Someone who won't just shrug when it blows up. Just shopping around for lowest price when it's a black box you have to take the specs on trust is dodgy at least in China.
soy sauce from burnt hair? I'd at least like to think that quality control in China doesn't suck THAT bad.
That's a real news story from last year. A bigger scandal was fake baby formula, lots of babies got sick, some died. Maybe we hear more about that here than you do actually in China. My wife does quality control in the garment trade, it's a constant battle.
Obviously, you got a piece of crap. I see people runing TVs and much heavier powered equipment with these. The problem is in China you never know what you're getting. Soy sauce made from burnt hair; leather shoes that are actually cardboard; and electrical equipment that's made with paperclips and chewing gum.
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Google news for Tiktaalik and find 231 stories at the moment. Several have photos of the fossils and reconstructions of the living animal. I'm surprised that it's so big -- I imagined the first walking animal would be small, cat sized, rather than this, crocodile sized. I think all of our known direct ancestors have been smaller than we are now, certainly the further back we go in primate history. Having this rather fearsome creature in our family tree is like finding you're descended from Genghis Khan.
It's possible, likely even, that it isn't "the" link, there could have been many animals making the transition to land at the time. As for "missing link", well every fossil was a "missing link" before it was found. Just some seem more significant than others.
Okay, I was almost agreeing with you up to that point. By calling it a "lie" you imply there is some organised conspiracy. I've never understood this point of view. Who would profit from it? Windwill makers? On the other hand, the largest and richest companies in the world have a large vested interest in casting doubt on the idea. They've actually has oil lobbyists vetting reports on global warming in the White House.
But anyway, I'm sure this would be an arid and acrimonious discussion, so I'll leave it at that. Kudos on having the "fuel efficient car for ordinary driving" BTW.
No. Who does? Not anyone doing business accounting for a small company. I did budgets, processed sales reports and other stuff for a company with about 6 staff. It's basically adding up columns of numbers, maybe making a chart or two. Not doing weather simulations or trying to beat the stock market. Most desktop PCs spend far more processing power on their screensavers than the applications they were bought to run.
And who is going to look after the servers? Who is going to network them?
What we're talking about is small businesses; a handful of staff. Wordprocessing, email, maybe accounting.
If I'm setting up a system today,
This isn't what you, or I, would choose. It's what would serve initially a student, or small businessman, in the Third World. not spread across an office landscape
Exactly; in an "office landscape" you'd do something as you suggest. In a one-room company a laptop or two will do the job. This is entry-level in every sense.
Well, TFA tells us haow many are using Linux, 17%, and are thinking about it, etc. But how can we make any conclusions form this when it isn't even hinted at what the other 83% are using? Some version of Windows? QNX? DOS? Is Linux at 17% the largest or much smaller than the others? Maybe the EETimes readers have the context, but I don't.
Sadly, not me. Actually, I think I was using a 286 up till about 1994 when I was upgraded to a 486. The 286 was handed down to another staffer, and remained in use for at least another 4 years. I was still using the 486 when I quit in 2000. (By which time I was on my second Pentium at home.)
There was a guy on a CP/M machine (a salesman, he used Wordstar to write his faxes.) When I got the 486, the 286 went to the accountant, his XT went to the salesman, and we retired the CP/M. Believe it or not.
Hell, the wasted electricity over the course of a month, while you wait for the spreadsheet to re-calculate
Look, I'd never go back, but the 20 MHz 286 handled my spreadsheets just fine. Lotus 123 v 2.4 is very efficient. The bottleneck was my typing, and sometimes the printer; never the CPU.
It took me about two years of lobbying before I got one to upgrade from the 286. Wordstar, Lotus 123, dBase IV, Ventura 3, and Coreldraw 2 for Windows all ran at blinding speed. I still use some of that stuff.
As you said, garbage. You're trying to rationalise an emotional choice. "6000 lbs of steel", etc, makes you feel macho. "purchasing some simple pleasures is one of the reason why I work hard and make money." in other words, the message you are broadcasting with your choice of car is "Get the fuck out of my way peasants or get run over." Having "different values" is fine in itself. When giving free reign to these values is destroying the world, it's not.
No, it will be an excellent business machine. Writing documents, doing spreadsheets, inventory, email. We used to do that on 286s 10 years ago. That's 98% of what most small businesses use a PC for. And there are lots of more specialised apps on SourceForge, they can probably use DOS apps under emulation, and with millions of these machines around there will be a demand and market for more to be created. That's what Gates is afraid of, a whole world of non-MS software.
I'm Australian, I know about long distances.
It takes 5 days to cross the whole country in a car and that's what my daughter has to do in order to get all her belongings from home to her University she is now studying at.
That's an excuse for 5 of the 365 days in a year. And is using your own car the only way to get goods across the country? Aren't there "trains" in the US? Or at least freight services where vehicles designed for moving goods are used instead of passenger vehicles?
Please, spare me your rationalisations. TFA talks about how Americans think sacrifices need to be made. But what they actually mean is that OTHER PEOPLE have to change.
I meant that somethng is wrong with the poster, because someone who had studied physics of any stripe would know that magnetic fields don't block electromagnetic radiation (i.e., sunlight).
The problem is that people don't think logically about cars. Look at the advertising. It's about sex and machismo. Auto makers spend billions of dollars every year on pressing your buttons to make you want, desire and need to prove yourself by driving a big, fast, expensive car. And politicians know this is a dangerous area to meddle in. The pump prioce is somethng that's in voters' faces every day, if higher gas taxes are imposed, as would be the logical, simple method of encouraging fuel economy, they'll get voted out. Higher car prices are a one-time hit, and few bother to break out the portion due to taxes.
You are lying if you say you "studied sub-atomic physics", because anyone who had been awake in high-school physics would know that makes no sense.
Showing how thin the "commitment" Americans have to fighting global warming. Express "concern", but drive big wasteful cars and vote out anyone who says you shouldn't. Don't be a hypocrite, just say you don't care if the world goes to hell as long as you're comfortable and have your "sporty" penis subsitute.
Yes, but not as straight-forwardly as from a word-processing document. Sometimes the font subsetting makes copying text problematic (uncommon characters come out as a blank when copied). And there is no distinction between line wraps and deliberate line breaks, "real" or soft hyphens, and similar classes of information are obfuscated simply because they're not important to just viewing or printing.
I'm sure the Archive is looking to allowing useful searching of the files, which again is possible with PDF (Google does it), but is much easier and more reliable with a text-based format.
The comments are prompted by the description "gorgeous". I know exactly what I look like, and it isn't that, and I never claimed to be. But despite that somehow I do get laid, since you ask.
She can take it out on the submitter who called her "gorgeous". Probbaly one of her buddies taking the piss.
Some more images here; though sadly the one in bikini is not her. I'm afraid on the "hot or not" scale, it's "not".
Hong Kong, where I live, so that might not be a great help to you. But on general principle, find someone you trust who is technically minded and get a shop he recommends. Someone who won't just shrug when it blows up. Just shopping around for lowest price when it's a black box you have to take the specs on trust is dodgy at least in China.
soy sauce from burnt hair? I'd at least like to think that quality control in China doesn't suck THAT bad.
That's a real news story from last year. A bigger scandal was fake baby formula, lots of babies got sick, some died. Maybe we hear more about that here than you do actually in China. My wife does quality control in the garment trade, it's a constant battle.
Obviously, you got a piece of crap. I see people runing TVs and much heavier powered equipment with these. The problem is in China you never know what you're getting. Soy sauce made from burnt hair; leather shoes that are actually cardboard; and electrical equipment that's made with paperclips and chewing gum.
Spend 100 RMB and buy a step down transformer.
I found this page with some preliminary storyboards. I'll be standing in line for this one.
April fool.
Don't you mean
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They only have to edit a dozen at most per day. (Using "edit" in the sense of "adding smart-arse 'from XXX dept' intro and pressing "publish".)