"It's fine that you think that, but can you provide some evidence to me so I can change my mind if I'm wrong?"
I was disagreeing with your statement, and then I gave the explanation why. It's impossible to give evidence about the sexual practices of humans pre-agrarian. Yes, there are hunter-gathers in the world today, but we cannot say they deal with sex and reproduction in the same way.
"As long as the nursing mother is exclusively breastfeeding, (nursing frequently day and night with no supplemental feedings), the baby is younger than 6 months of age, and the mother has not started having periods, she is more than 98% protected against pregnancy. This period of exclusive nursing means not only no supplemental feedings of water or formula, but also little or no pacifier use. All of the baby's sucking needs are met at the breast, which means demand feedings around the clock. As long as the mother has had no vaginal bleeding after 56 days postpartum, and the baby receives no supplemental feeds, she has only about a 2% chance of becoming pregnant (this compares to the combined birth control pill, which is about 98%-99% effective if taken every day without missing a dose)."
And from another source...
Can I get pregnant while I am breastfeeding?
The short answer is "Yes." It is possible to get pregnant while breastfeeding. However, breastfeeding can be used as part of your family planning technique. As a matter of fact, if you can answer yes to the following three* questions, your risk of pregnancy is less than two percent.
1. Is your infant less than six months old? 2. Are you amenorrheic, that is, are your menstrual periods absent? 3. Is your baby breastfeeding around the clock without receiving other foods, beverages or pacifiers?
I also disagree with your statement "They know that caring for children takes a lot of effort, and that more children means less likelihood that any individual child does well." I'm thinking that caring for children in a hunter-gather tribe consists of "Feeding", "Shelter", and "Socialization". Feeding is easy, it's done at the group level. You said it yourself that they only need to work 2-3 hours a day to provide for themselves. Shelter, you have to make some clothes and something to shelter from the elements. Socialization. Teaching the kids may take some effort at the beginning of the family, but the kids will learn from each other, and you can have the older kids take care of the younger kids. So, where's the effort? If it's such an effort, and they have those primitive BC methods, why have more than two or three kids?
Here's another biological fact, women cannot have a baby if their body fat goes below a certain percentage. One of the problems of the hunter-gatherer societies is that sometimes there's nothing to hunt. They had to migrate just to survive. When you're not getting enough food to build up a fat reserve, birth rates will go down.
Fact, calories don't come from nowhere. If you're breastfeeding, and you become pregnant, your body will have to support the creation of a new baby plus convert enough calories to support the existing baby. Sometimes you won't get enough calories. You weaken, both babies weaken, survival rates for all involved go down.
So, lets look at what we have here: My facts: 1. Breast feeding is a natural birth control. It doesn't last forever, (and is unreliable past 9 weeks) but when you add up the time over a mother's life, there will be years in her lifetime where she's not pregnant and infertile. 2. Hunter-gatherer tribes are completely at the mercy of finding animals to hunt and edible plants to gather. Since they migrate, they can't store food for very long. 3. When you can't find enough food, humans (And all life I've heard of) have built-in safeties that prevent them from spending calories on creating babies.
Your facts: 1. Some guy found a modern hunter-gatherer tribe where the women know how to get guys off without having sex. 2. Agrarian societies have higher birth rates than hunter-gatherers.
It's sad how some people romanticize primitive societies.
Ahh. I had to look it up to be sure. I don't think "Hunter-garther women try to limit the number of children they have to care for."
The same hormones that make milk suppress the release of reproductive hormones in women. While breastfeeding full-time most mothers do not ovulate and do not have menstrual periods.
So, farmers have more kids because they bypass the natural inhibitor by feeding their babies alternate foods.
You still can't make beer out of a dead woodchuck though.
Hunter-gatherers work about 2-4 hours a day to meet thier needs. Why would someone give that up to work 8-12 hours a day for some payoff in another season?
Because you can't make beer out of a dead woodchuck.
On a more serious note, because farming is more dependable, and causes less wear and tear on people, than hunting and gathering.
You said it yourself, farmers have more children. Do you really think they reproduce more, or that their children have a better survival rate?
28 days! Pshaw! You're just *inviting* the bad guys into your system if you follow such a lax plan.
Every day should start out with changing your passwords. You may have to hire a few more people who's job is to reset forgotten passwords, but when you have to do it constantly it shouldn't take more than a minute per person.
Of course, if the bad guys learn that everyone changes their password in the morning, it wouldn't take much effort to be in the right place at the right time and get unrestricted access to the systems for 24 hours. So you'll want to back this up with some sort of bio-identity methods. Fingerprint identification, retina scans, and instant DNA testing.
Some people say that these aren't secure enough, that someone can get fingerprints, a DNA sample, and a picture of your retina. There is an easy solution to this if you just think about it, the daily random mutation of all your employees before they change their password and give a DNA sample.
Anything less than the method outlined above simply isn't secure.
I know a woman who draws a online comic. Each page is one large JPG, when a story arc is done, she zips them all up and uploads them to my server.
I make her resize them all to 80% the original size, reducing the file size by quite a bit. I taught her how to batch processing in Photoshop to do this, but if she used linux, I would have set up something for her using ImageMagick.
I was thinking the same thing the other day. There's just too many PC companies making incompatible products. Dell, Gateway, Apple. What we really need is to consolidate all those into one, universal PC company.
Inhumane?! Science being cold, calculating and pitiless? Say it isn't so!
Don't worry about it, when the tests are done, they cure the arthritic mice, put the anti-seizure chip in the epileptic mice, and tiny little bionic eyes in the blind mice. Then they send them to a local farm and release them in a field. Where it's nice and sunny and they can run and laugh and frolic all day long.
But usually they last about 15 minutes before an owl comes by and eviscerates it. A lot of owls hang out by that field, we're not sure why.
Did you look at AMD's earning's statement? They made a profit, but compared to all the income they brought in, it wasn't much in comparison.
I was also dissapointed at the 800$ 4800X2, but from looking at their statements, it looks like the X2s just cost more to make.
Intel can price their dual core cheaper because they're using the new 62nm fabs. The cores take up less space on a die and therefor cost less to produce.
It's interesting that it took a (multi?)billion dollar fab for Intel to catch up to AMD. Once AMD gets their's up and running, their product will smoke anything Intel has out.
Thanks for the link. I had not used SUSE in the past because it had been a pain to find the free version.
I went and installed it on the system last night, and everything worked. Well, except for the sound. It couldn't figure out how to use the on-board sound. But everthing else is fine so I'm calling it a win and delivering her the PC today.
She has some windows-only software that she's going to use, so once she has the time she'll just wipe the box and reload. But until then she'll use SUSE and get some exposure to Linux.
Second, you need to work on your reading comprehension skills.
They haven't had a failure in applying an open source solution to a problem.
So, they need a database. They might not have been able to get X, Y or Z package working. But Open Source Database W works just fine for them. That's a success. They successfully applied open source to a problem.
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I was disagreeing with your statement, and then I gave the explanation why. It's impossible to give evidence about the sexual practices of humans pre-agrarian. Yes, there are hunter-gathers in the world today, but we cannot say they deal with sex and reproduction in the same way.
And from another source...
I also disagree with your statement "They know that caring for children takes a lot of effort, and that more children means less likelihood that any individual child does well." I'm thinking that caring for children in a hunter-gather tribe consists of "Feeding", "Shelter", and "Socialization". Feeding is easy, it's done at the group level. You said it yourself that they only need to work 2-3 hours a day to provide for themselves. Shelter, you have to make some clothes and something to shelter from the elements. Socialization. Teaching the kids may take some effort at the beginning of the family, but the kids will learn from each other, and you can have the older kids take care of the younger kids. So, where's the effort? If it's such an effort, and they have those primitive BC methods, why have more than two or three kids?
Here's another biological fact, women cannot have a baby if their body fat goes below a certain percentage. One of the problems of the hunter-gatherer societies is that sometimes there's nothing to hunt. They had to migrate just to survive. When you're not getting enough food to build up a fat reserve, birth rates will go down.
Fact, calories don't come from nowhere. If you're breastfeeding, and you become pregnant, your body will have to support the creation of a new baby plus convert enough calories to support the existing baby. Sometimes you won't get enough calories. You weaken, both babies weaken, survival rates for all involved go down.
So, lets look at what we have here:
My facts:
1. Breast feeding is a natural birth control. It doesn't last forever, (and is unreliable past 9 weeks) but when you add up the time over a mother's life, there will be years in her lifetime where she's not pregnant and infertile.
2. Hunter-gatherer tribes are completely at the mercy of finding animals to hunt and edible plants to gather. Since they migrate, they can't store food for very long.
3. When you can't find enough food, humans (And all life I've heard of) have built-in safeties that prevent them from spending calories on creating babies.
Your facts:
1. Some guy found a modern hunter-gatherer tribe where the women know how to get guys off without having sex.
2. Agrarian societies have higher birth rates than hunter-gatherers.
It's sad how some people romanticize primitive societies.
I find it difficult to believe someone who as successful as you, can't manage to figure out the "Shift" key.
Ahh. I had to look it up to be sure. I don't think "Hunter-garther women try to limit the number of children they have to care for."
The same hormones that make milk suppress the release of reproductive hormones in women. While breastfeeding full-time most mothers do not ovulate and do not have menstrual periods.
So, farmers have more kids because they bypass the natural inhibitor by feeding their babies alternate foods.
You still can't make beer out of a dead woodchuck though.
Because you can't make beer out of a dead woodchuck.
On a more serious note, because farming is more dependable, and causes less wear and tear on people, than hunting and gathering.
You said it yourself, farmers have more children. Do you really think they reproduce more, or that their children have a better survival rate?
A dollar for an MP3 isn't a micropayment.
Micropayments are a quarter, or a nickle charge.
"You better hope that the law is end-all-be-all. Afterall, it's the law of the land that provides freedom of the press."
No it's not. It's people's belief that we need a free press that provides it. "By the people, for the people" isn't just fancy boilerplate.
I had heard that they fixed the problems with vacuum? Is this still an issue?
Huh. So, the easiest way to kill freedom of the press would be to make a law against it?
Laws are not absolute be-all end-all.
28 days! Pshaw! You're just *inviting* the bad guys into your system if you follow such a lax plan.
Every day should start out with changing your passwords. You may have to hire a few more people who's job is to reset forgotten passwords, but when you have to do it constantly it shouldn't take more than a minute per person.
Of course, if the bad guys learn that everyone changes their password in the morning, it wouldn't take much effort to be in the right place at the right time and get unrestricted access to the systems for 24 hours.
So you'll want to back this up with some sort of bio-identity methods. Fingerprint identification, retina scans, and instant DNA testing.
Some people say that these aren't secure enough, that someone can get fingerprints, a DNA sample, and a picture of your retina. There is an easy solution to this if you just think about it, the daily random mutation of all your employees before they change their password and give a DNA sample.
Anything less than the method outlined above simply isn't secure.
I know a woman who draws a online comic. Each page is one large JPG, when a story arc is done, she zips them all up and uploads them to my server.
I make her resize them all to 80% the original size, reducing the file size by quite a bit. I taught her how to batch processing in Photoshop to do this, but if she used linux, I would have set up something for her using ImageMagick.
They...stopped working on it?
What happened? Did they run out of programmers?
The guy spent 10k. On THREE houses.
A deal like that, one would expect them to be on the edge of an active volcano.
At this point, you level those houses and rebuild on the property. 3k doesn't get you a house, it gets you land with house shaped debris on it.
Duh. Get a second TV. Split the frames between the two.
Because doing it this way is easy. Yes it's a mistake, but sounds impressive when put on a powerpoint slide.
I was thinking the same thing the other day. There's just too many PC companies making incompatible products. Dell, Gateway, Apple. What we really need is to consolidate all those into one, universal PC company.
Oh please.
A company the size of Dell doesn't ask us what version of Linux is going to be on a Dell, it tells us.
All he has to do is partner up with Red Hat. Dell supports the hardware, Red Hat supports the software. Done.
I can't find a 3Ghz dualcore anywhere. 2Ghz is the max. Where are you seeing these?
Inhumane?! Science being cold, calculating and pitiless? Say it isn't so!
Don't worry about it, when the tests are done, they cure the arthritic mice, put the anti-seizure chip in the epileptic mice, and tiny little bionic eyes in the blind mice. Then they send them to a local farm and release them in a field. Where it's nice and sunny and they can run and laugh and frolic all day long.
But usually they last about 15 minutes before an owl comes by and eviscerates it. A lot of owls hang out by that field, we're not sure why.
I'm going to assume a typo, and that you meant 2Ghz.
"I considered making the jump. I jumped back."
So, not only didn't you jump, the system was so horrible that merely contemplating it made you go back to your previous language of choice?
Impressive.
Is windows Calc threaded? Will it use both processors in a dual core machine?
Did you look at AMD's earning's statement? They made a profit, but compared to all the income they brought in, it wasn't much in comparison.
I was also dissapointed at the 800$ 4800X2, but from looking at their statements, it looks like the X2s just cost more to make.
Intel can price their dual core cheaper because they're using the new 62nm fabs. The cores take up less space on a die and therefor cost less to produce.
It's interesting that it took a (multi?)billion dollar fab for Intel to catch up to AMD. Once AMD gets their's up and running, their product will smoke anything Intel has out.
That sound interesting. Does anyone know how well it works?
It sounds fast, but it could act like a beuwulf cluster of 386s.
Thanks for the link. I had not used SUSE in the past because it had been a pain to find the free version.
:-)
I went and installed it on the system last night, and everything worked. Well, except for the sound. It couldn't figure out how to use the on-board sound. But everthing else is fine so I'm calling it a win and delivering her the PC today.
She has some windows-only software that she's going to use, so once she has the time she'll just wipe the box and reload. But until then she'll use SUSE and get some exposure to Linux.
Thought you might like to know.
First, FUD isn't the word you want to apply here.
Second, you need to work on your reading comprehension skills.
They haven't had a failure in applying an open source solution to a problem.
So, they need a database. They might not have been able to get X, Y or Z package working. But Open Source Database W works just fine for them. That's a success. They successfully applied open source to a problem.
Get it?