If you kill elephants, and some survive because of a genetic trait: It's survival of the fittest.
To clarify, though, you're defining fittest in a narrow scope. Tusks serve a valuable purpose in the lives of elephants. For one, elephants use the tusks to scrape rocks (the one image I remember is scraping the top of a cave) and liberate necessary salts. These new tuskless variants will be unable to do this and their independent survival (without tusked brethen to liberate the salt for them) is questionable.
What this really indicates is that evolution is willing to take a weakened existence for survival, even if this weakness is not viable for the long term; there is an intermediate step between "endangered" and "extinct" which cannot be captured in raw population numbers.
Regardless, the people most affected are those with really good URLs that corporations want. Not dr-seuss-fan.net, maybe, but short grammatically simple names owned by small businesses or individuals for personal use. Corporations could afford $50/$500/$5000 for those domains, and would be able to drive the market upwards.
Why wouldn't you just delete two pixels around the entire image, rather than decreasing the quality of the entire picture? Same result and significantly more fool-proof.
Is there an advantage to having the airflow going in the left side and out the right? Why wouldn't it be better to have both left, right and top facing outward and have air coming in from the bottom (to avoid sucking in passing particulates and to pull in cooler air)?
Before they could sell these systems for 10, maybe even 15 cents a piece. But thanks to the latest Windows security holes and viruses, the market has been so flooded with cheap foreign zombies that the pirates can barely make a living selling their hard-earned bots for 5 cents a piece.
I didn't vote in 2000, due to being in college. Figuring that Gore would win Massachusetts handily (where I lived and where I was in college) and not knowing about local issues where I was registered, I didn't feel any guilt over the issue.
That being said, the Massachusetts voter rolls will show that I voted. Why? My father and I have the same name (he's the third, I'm the fourth) and after giving the info to the lady at the poll, he looked at the list and saw the lady marked off my name rather than his.
That being said, I can very easily imagine the reverse result accounting for 50 votes: people who have the same or similar name to someone who died being incorrectly marked off.
We appreciate your interest in the Connect music store, but our store currently only works with computers running Windows 98 Second Edition or higher. You don't seem to be using that particular operating system at the moment, so, unfortunately, we'll have to part ways until we support the operating system you're currently using, or you make the switch to an OS that is compatible with the Connect music store.
Well, she did insert that line about pirate sites being full of viruses (I get viruses form my mp3's al lthe time, god bless her), and soart of backhandedly danced around the fact that DRM and lossy music are the reason we can't transfer, so I guess the party line is stil lsorta there.
It's perfectly consistent. The Apple DRM was a necessity to stop pirating. But it has an inherent limitation: $1 per song. At the time, it was nice because it was a dollar they wouldn't have gotten anyway, but now they can get a permanent (and, probably, increasing) monthly fee plus a dollar on some files. The RIAA wants the most money they can get (not flamebait, but a statement of fact regarding a business); therefore, for the long term, the success of the iPod in the absence of an iPod subscription service is not desirable. Anti-iPod sentiments are therefore expected.
Intelligent design is simply stating that certain things in life - like DNA - are simply too complex to have been formed by some amino acids randomly millions of years ago.
You're probably right. To go from amino acids to DNA is highly improbable. The fact that the ribosome is a ribozyme (RNA enzyme) supports this observation as well.
What is much more likely is that RNA (which can be catalytic) went to DNA (which is more stable due to the lack of the 2'-OH) and protein (which can be more varied) in some progression.
We already frequently track criminals. This is an element of the parole system. Yet somehow our society doesn't slide down this slippery slope. All that is being proposed here is a different technological method for doing so.
Or you could argue that this method is the next step down the slippery slope. Slopes don't need to be steep; they can be a series of very small decreases in liberty. Those are the most slippery and the ones that we need to be most vigilent against.
The first entry makes mention of this, as have most theology and mythology books I have read. God is the name given to the creator. That is the definition of "God". The one who created (and usually, rules) the universe. You cannot under any circumstances say "someone" created the universe, because, by definition, if someone created the universe, that someone must be God.
My bet is that its grounded on the wreckage of Beagle II.:)
I was going to dismiss this out of hand, but FTA, Opportunity did find two small craters right before running aground. The cause? They could have been created by an object from space that was large enough to make it through the martian atmosphere without burning up.
And, let's not forget:
"Given that these two craters haven't been covered by sand even though they are surrounded by sand ripples on a flat plain lends support to the idea that they're fairly recent."
While TigerDirect still ranks number one in the non-sponsored links (Apple's not on the first page...), Apple is one and TD is two in the sidebar. However, I don't think the order will mess many people up, given the titles "New Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger" and "TigerDirect Official Site".
And if anything, more people searching for Tiger or derivatives will lead to more people coming to Tiger Direct (someone I had never heard of before today).
Kerry's campaign spokesman Chad Clanton made an obvious threat against Sinclair Broadcasting after they announced they were going to air an anti-Kerry documentary.
1) That was a hypothetical statement by an aide not important enough to get out of Fox News duty; Bush has actually done this.
2) The Kerry spokesman's statement was made in jest, if you've actually seen the clip. I was watching Fox News when that aired and have been amazed by how frequently it has been quoted, since it was really an inocuous comment.
The news item at the top of the Google search was: Democratic state Treasurer Robert P. Casey Jr., who hopes to challenge Republican Sen. Rick Santorum next year, increased his lead to 14 points in a poll released Wednesday.
And curse you for giving away the spoiler of the part about Malkovich!
Whenever a comment like the grandparent is that long (multiple paragra- um, lines), I just skim down, figuring there'll be spoilers. But then you go ahead and ruin that plan. Now I know that somewhere there'll be something related to an actor or character named Malkovich.
Okay, they have found collisions but no one has found a way to generate file for a given key.
This may be extrodinarily naive, but isn't the MD5 hash simply something the program computes or obtains for any given file? If that's the case, then what would stop the **AA from simply "adjusting" the program so that the proper hashes are assigned to a bogus file? Broadcast that the hash is correct, but when the file's downloaded, it's broken. One broken piece per download (since most services use multiple fractions from multiple sources) would kill the file, force a redownload and thus make P2P completely unusuable.
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If you kill elephants, and some survive because of a genetic trait: It's survival of the fittest.
To clarify, though, you're defining fittest in a narrow scope. Tusks serve a valuable purpose in the lives of elephants. For one, elephants use the tusks to scrape rocks (the one image I remember is scraping the top of a cave) and liberate necessary salts. These new tuskless variants will be unable to do this and their independent survival (without tusked brethen to liberate the salt for them) is questionable.
What this really indicates is that evolution is willing to take a weakened existence for survival, even if this weakness is not viable for the long term; there is an intermediate step between "endangered" and "extinct" which cannot be captured in raw population numbers.
Less than half an hour later...
I actually think raising the price is a good idea. How much of a big deal is it to pay 49.95/yr for a domain, even for us who have their own domain at home ?
Regardless, the people most affected are those with really good URLs that corporations want. Not dr-seuss-fan.net, maybe, but short grammatically simple names owned by small businesses or individuals for personal use. Corporations could afford $50/$500/$5000 for those domains, and would be able to drive the market upwards.
Using your logic, a 42-41 victory in the Superbowl would entitle the losing team to almost half the trophy.
Politics is not a game.
Treating it as such is what got us into this mess in the first place.
"Ok, Harry Reid. We'll give you 10% and we'll take the other 90%"
How exactly does an ~51% majority in the election and a 55% majority in the Senate equate to a 90/10 split?
Why wouldn't you just delete two pixels around the entire image, rather than decreasing the quality of the entire picture? Same result and significantly more fool-proof.
Is there an advantage to having the airflow going in the left side and out the right? Why wouldn't it be better to have both left, right and top facing outward and have air coming in from the bottom (to avoid sucking in passing particulates and to pull in cooler air)?
Before they could sell these systems for 10, maybe even 15 cents a piece. But thanks to the latest Windows security holes and viruses, the market has been so flooded with cheap foreign zombies that the pirates can barely make a living selling their hard-earned bots for 5 cents a piece.
I didn't vote in 2000, due to being in college. Figuring that Gore would win Massachusetts handily (where I lived and where I was in college) and not knowing about local issues where I was registered, I didn't feel any guilt over the issue.
That being said, the Massachusetts voter rolls will show that I voted. Why? My father and I have the same name (he's the third, I'm the fourth) and after giving the info to the lady at the poll, he looked at the list and saw the lady marked off my name rather than his.
That being said, I can very easily imagine the reverse result accounting for 50 votes: people who have the same or similar name to someone who died being incorrectly marked off.
They're saving Atalanta for OS X 10.5, code name "Lion".
That's been an option for a little while now, and doesn't require iTunes 4.8. iTunes 4.7 is handling it fine right now.
We appreciate your interest in the Connect music store, but our store currently only works with computers running Windows 98 Second Edition or higher. You don't seem to be using that particular operating system at the moment, so, unfortunately, we'll have to part ways until we support the operating system you're currently using, or you make the switch to an OS that is compatible with the Connect music store.
Ah, a test of wills. Let's see who breaks first.
Well, she did insert that line about pirate sites being full of viruses (I get viruses form my mp3's al lthe time, god bless her), and soart of backhandedly danced around the fact that DRM and lossy music are the reason we can't transfer, so I guess the party line is stil lsorta there.
It's perfectly consistent. The Apple DRM was a necessity to stop pirating. But it has an inherent limitation: $1 per song. At the time, it was nice because it was a dollar they wouldn't have gotten anyway, but now they can get a permanent (and, probably, increasing) monthly fee plus a dollar on some files. The RIAA wants the most money they can get (not flamebait, but a statement of fact regarding a business); therefore, for the long term, the success of the iPod in the absence of an iPod subscription service is not desirable. Anti-iPod sentiments are therefore expected.
If it was really a blood bath, it would be rated R.
No, the MPAA's rule has always been that horrific, deplorable violence is okay, as long as people don't say any naughty woids.
Intelligent design is simply stating that certain things in life - like DNA - are simply too complex to have been formed by some amino acids randomly millions of years ago.
You're probably right. To go from amino acids to DNA is highly improbable. The fact that the ribosome is a ribozyme (RNA enzyme) supports this observation as well.
What is much more likely is that RNA (which can be catalytic) went to DNA (which is more stable due to the lack of the 2'-OH) and protein (which can be more varied) in some progression.
It wasn't a typo. They had to spell it like that to get it through the spam filters.
We already frequently track criminals. This is an element of the parole system. Yet somehow our society doesn't slide down this slippery slope. All that is being proposed here is a different technological method for doing so.
Or you could argue that this method is the next step down the slippery slope. Slopes don't need to be steep; they can be a series of very small decreases in liberty. Those are the most slippery and the ones that we need to be most vigilent against.
Let's make this real simple:
Google: Define God.
The first entry makes mention of this, as have most theology and mythology books I have read. God is the name given to the creator. That is the definition of "God". The one who created (and usually, rules) the universe. You cannot under any circumstances say "someone" created the universe, because, by definition, if someone created the universe, that someone must be God.
My bet is that its grounded on the wreckage of Beagle II. :)
I was going to dismiss this out of hand, but FTA, Opportunity did find two small craters right before running aground. The cause?
They could have been created by an object from space that was large enough to make it through the martian atmosphere without burning up.
And, let's not forget:
"Given that these two craters haven't been covered by sand even though they are surrounded by sand ripples on a flat plain lends support to the idea that they're fairly recent."
Searching for 'tiger' alone isn't going to prove much. A better example might be 'tiger software'.
Easy enough.
While TigerDirect still ranks number one in the non-sponsored links (Apple's not on the first page...), Apple is one and TD is two in the sidebar. However, I don't think the order will mess many people up, given the titles "New Mac OS X v10.4 Tiger" and "TigerDirect Official Site".
And if anything, more people searching for Tiger or derivatives will lead to more people coming to Tiger Direct (someone I had never heard of before today).
Is it just me or did this read like they were fobbing everyone off?
I don't know. What does fobbing mean? I tried Google, but it was of little assistance.
Kerry's campaign spokesman Chad Clanton made an obvious threat against Sinclair Broadcasting after they announced they were going to air an anti-Kerry documentary.
1) That was a hypothetical statement by an aide not important enough to get out of Fox News duty; Bush has actually done this.
2) The Kerry spokesman's statement was made in jest, if you've actually seen the clip. I was watching Fox News when that aired and have been amazed by how frequently it has been quoted, since it was really an inocuous comment.
Thank you for the best news I've heard all day.
The news item at the top of the Google search was:
Democratic state Treasurer Robert P. Casey Jr., who hopes to challenge Republican Sen. Rick Santorum next year, increased his lead to 14 points in a poll released Wednesday.
And curse you for giving away the spoiler of the part about Malkovich!
Whenever a comment like the grandparent is that long (multiple paragra- um, lines), I just skim down, figuring there'll be spoilers. But then you go ahead and ruin that plan. Now I know that somewhere there'll be something related to an actor or character named Malkovich.
Okay, they have found collisions but no one has found a way to generate file for a given key.
This may be extrodinarily naive, but isn't the MD5 hash simply something the program computes or obtains for any given file? If that's the case, then what would stop the **AA from simply "adjusting" the program so that the proper hashes are assigned to a bogus file? Broadcast that the hash is correct, but when the file's downloaded, it's broken. One broken piece per download (since most services use multiple fractions from multiple sources) would kill the file, force a redownload and thus make P2P completely unusuable.