1 in 40,000,000,000 is all that is needed, since that special 1 is who will survive and replace the other 40,000,000,000. Useful features develop in paralel, and there weren't many before sexual reproduction (the history of life is mainly that of single cell bacteria for a long, long time).
Also natural selection does not explain evolution. Natural selection + variation does. Natural selection can't change a species if all the individual to select from are identical.
The fossil record has plenty of holes in it and can't explain ALL changes, but what remains does show enough clear transitions and failed combinations to support that theory.
First, evolutionary pruning works on the whole population. The death of a single individual is not very important, since many others share the same genetic material.
Second, natural selection doesn't work only at the mutation level: sexual reproduction introduces big variance in each generation.
Third, those changes do not occur "in a line" or secuentially, they randomly accumulate without a purpose. There are not "right" mutations, there are mutations that remain and those that disappear.
Fourth, having the changes at conception or during the life of the individual does not change at all the probabilities of survival of a species, what matters is if those changes are transmitted to the children. Predators, natural calamities & illness are the things that make HIGHLY likely that species as a whole adapt to the environment or are eliminated, since only those adapted will transmit their genes.
It's called Archy. This OS is a redesign of the command line with a focus on habit-forming, not navigational use.
The LEAP technique for quick positioning would make it better for blind users than a traditional CLI where users can't easily scan the output of a command. In Archy, users can touch-type the destination point and have it read in loud voice, instead of having to hear the whole text.
Bandwidth (or do you think free geocities account will do it for you).
You forget that all slashdot readers have already paid por their bandwith. The problem of slashdotting is because the HTTP protocol for accessing WWW is unbalanced and doesn't put all that bandwith to a good use.
The blocking of advertisement will not destroy free content, though it will force the use of distributed bittorrent-like protocols for Web content.
The first edition of a website only exists in digital form and there is no way to stop the original from being edited and timestamped back to the expected date.
...unless you make a digital signature of the timestamp?
If you want trust, use trust tools. We already knew that digital media does not leave physical traits behind, but that doesn't mean that other checking processes can't be built.
But who cares? History has always been written by the victorious, hasn't it?
Actually yes. The originals couldn't be rewritten, but they could be destroid and replaced by a new official version. Nothing new under the sun.
If you're limited to significantly slower-than-light travel your stories have to take place in our solar system. They can't involve any alien species, because no aliens would bother spending millenia coming to earth....unless the writer's name is Clarke...
There's a real problem with propretary multimedia codecs, Acrobat reader and Java virtual machine, but nothing unsolvable in the long term, I think.
You see, 100% free-as-in-speech distros like Ubuntu can't have those codecs preloaded due to license restrictions, so the experience out of the box is similar to Windows. And pay-per-use distros like Lindow^H^H^Hspire have enough money to pay for having them preinstalled, but they don't have a big enough user base so the community support sucks.
But there's hope in the free-speech distros: given enough time, someone will make an automated procedure to integrate de propretary codecs with the distro, and it will be inmediately available to the rest of the distro users.
Ubuntu is just too young to have achieved this, but I predict that it will be able to install and configure multimedia/java/Ffox-plugins support with a one-click wizard.
Of course that opinion can be perfectly valid too.
Yes, but is a very shallow way to enjoy movies.
You say the format or the origin is such a turn-off to stop you from even trying to see the movie, even when you're certain that it has some interesting elements that probably you would enjoy. Then you are just as a hobby, something to spare time on. And you're losing every artistic dimension of cinema, the creation that a fellow human made trying to touch you.
And that's sad, because you could be doing jogging or gardening instead of enyoing the old craftman of storytelling.
Totoro falls in the same category of those "a few of their movies I still enjoy as an adult, but I take them for what they are--films intended for a much younger audience". In that way it's different of the other examples.
Actually it would help if you say what you liked or disliked of those movies, to find one that you surely *would* like because it's not like the other anime you've seen. Saying "I don't like anime" is like saying "I don't like B&W movies".
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1 in 40,000,000,000 is all that is needed, since that special 1 is who will survive and replace the other 40,000,000,000. Useful features develop in paralel, and there weren't many before sexual reproduction (the history of life is mainly that of single cell bacteria for a long, long time).
Also natural selection does not explain evolution. Natural selection + variation does. Natural selection can't change a species if all the individual to select from are identical.
The fossil record has plenty of holes in it and can't explain ALL changes, but what remains does show enough clear transitions and failed combinations to support that theory.
First, evolutionary pruning works on the whole population. The death of a single individual is not very important, since many others share the same genetic material.
Second, natural selection doesn't work only at the mutation level: sexual reproduction introduces big variance in each generation.
Third, those changes do not occur "in a line" or secuentially, they randomly accumulate without a purpose. There are not "right" mutations, there are mutations that remain and those that disappear.
Fourth, having the changes at conception or during the life of the individual does not change at all the probabilities of survival of a species, what matters is if those changes are transmitted to the children. Predators, natural calamities & illness are the things that make HIGHLY likely that species as a whole adapt to the environment or are eliminated, since only those adapted will transmit their genes.
How do they manage to survive as species without the benefit of variation from sexual reproduction?
(Yay for obscure references)
http://www.schnapple.com/2002_05_12_archive.html
Seems like these days, people are more for the look of the game than the thought process required to play it.
Funny, I'd say that's true for Hollywood movies, too...
You're right, and the Jedi religion has already been shown to be a hoax.
How many of google's different heads actually make money?
Anyone with a small white free space to show Google Ads.
It's called Archy. This OS is a redesign of the command line with a focus on habit-forming, not navigational use.
The LEAP technique for quick positioning would make it better for blind users than a traditional CLI where users can't easily scan the output of a command. In Archy, users can touch-type the destination point and have it read in loud voice, instead of having to hear the whole text.
that's what happen when you believe that encouraging private profits is a public good.
after a week, the letters dissolved?
I heard of another one who was found dead in his shower (indelible ink, I suppose).
the input arguments?
Bandwidth (or do you think free geocities account will do it for you).
You forget that all slashdot readers have already paid por their bandwith. The problem of slashdotting is because the HTTP protocol for accessing WWW is unbalanced and doesn't put all that bandwith to a good use.
The blocking of advertisement will not destroy free content, though it will force the use of distributed bittorrent-like protocols for Web content.
The first edition of a website only exists in digital form and there is no way to stop the original from being edited and timestamped back to the expected date.
If you want trust, use trust tools. We already knew that digital media does not leave physical traits behind, but that doesn't mean that other checking processes can't be built.
But who cares? History has always been written by the victorious, hasn't it?
Actually yes. The originals couldn't be rewritten, but they could be destroid and replaced by a new official version. Nothing new under the sun.
If you're limited to significantly slower-than-light travel your stories have to take place in our solar system. They can't involve any alien species, because no aliens would bother spending millenia coming to earth. ...unless the writer's name is Clarke...
There's a real problem with propretary multimedia codecs, Acrobat reader and Java virtual machine, but nothing unsolvable in the long term, I think.
You see, 100% free-as-in-speech distros like Ubuntu can't have those codecs preloaded due to license restrictions, so the experience out of the box is similar to Windows. And pay-per-use distros like Lindow^H^H^Hspire have enough money to pay for having them preinstalled, but they don't have a big enough user base so the community support sucks.
But there's hope in the free-speech distros: given enough time, someone will make an automated procedure to integrate de propretary codecs with the distro, and it will be inmediately available to the rest of the distro users.
Ubuntu is just too young to have achieved this, but I predict that it will be able to install and configure multimedia/java/Ffox-plugins support with a one-click wizard.
BSD license -> negative freedom.
GPL license -> positive freedom.
You could argue that
|freedom(BSD)| > |freedom(GPL)|,
but there's no doubt that
freedom(BSD) < freedom(GPL)
since the former is negative and the later is positive.
Don't like it ? Don't release under that license.
I think that's exactly the point of the GP post.
It's too sad that such a miopic view of business is so often applied to all the economic field.
What's wrong with the "install software" section in Mandrake Control Center?
LicorIsSake
ConectManLy
EctCake
Of course that opinion can be perfectly valid too.
Yes, but is a very shallow way to enjoy movies.
You say the format or the origin is such a turn-off to stop you from even trying to see the movie, even when you're certain that it has some interesting elements that probably you would enjoy. Then you are just as a hobby, something to spare time on. And you're losing every artistic dimension of cinema, the creation that a fellow human made trying to touch you.
And that's sad, because you could be doing jogging or gardening instead of enyoing the old craftman of storytelling.
So you haven't seen it?
Totoro falls in the same category of those "a few of their movies I still enjoy as an adult, but I take them for what they are--films intended for a much younger audience". In that way it's different of the other examples.
Actually it would help if you say what you liked or disliked of those movies, to find one that you surely *would* like because it's not like the other anime you've seen. Saying "I don't like anime" is like saying "I don't like B&W movies".
Go and see Totoro.
Then tell me.
All property laws create a monopoly on the use of a resource. Do you really believe that state property laws are anathema to the free market?
Go and see Totoro.
Then tell me.