There is no general answer to whether you will get more bang for the buck from defense (sticking around to guard your young) or offense (going out to eliminate the competition). It depends entirely on the situation. There is simply no utility in trying to reason out an answer based on basic evolutionary principles. Many narratives are plausible. The point of gathering evidence is to see which one actually occurred.
It goes somewhat beyond correlation, in that infanticide consistently precedes monogamy, and when infanticide does not arise neither does monogamy, or so they claim. It's not an airtight argument, nor does it seem very amenable to a controlled experiment to test it.
But the point is, it's not productive to discuss what "could be" explained by evolution, since that is practically everything and anything. You have to stick with the fossil record, DNA, and (where possible) direct experiments.
That is not an answer at all. (And who brought "design" into the discussion? Creationism wouldn't explain it either; why did God grant wings to birds and not to us?)
The study (and the linked article) go far beyond "lots of stuff could have worked and this is the one that must have come up." What is says is that monogamy hasn't evolved in other species because they don't practice infanticide. And why is that? Because big-brained animals take a long time to develop, so the young are defenseless.
But personally, I think Apple buying Intel would be a travesty. Intel laid the foundation for personal computing (including smartphones) more than any other company. I realize Apple uses Samsung chips, not Intel, and that microprocessors would have developed a lot since the 1970s without Intel or any other single company. But still... for Apple to swoop in and make such an unheard of windfall by putting a pretty face on the technology that an entire industry has been building for decades just exemplifies the annoying "winner takes all" aspect of market forces when it comes to intellectual property.
My question is whether they will even bother supporting consumer-level writing devices in the first place. I think they are more interested in selling 4K stereo movies at 48 fps (which admittedly could be cool). The article seems to emphasize magazine-changing devices for the video production industry, which is another application that does NOT involve $30 burners and $2 blanks on newegg.
In the early 1950's, there were only a few computers (mainframes). The idea that we would now have only a few dozen computers in the world, which would each cost a fraction of a cent due to Moore's Law, sounds pretty dumb, doesn't it? Obviously the ability to do more is at least as important as declining cost for a fixed capability. Nothing new at all.
as I understand it, nobody actually wants a 3D printed gun
At the very, VERY least you would use a prefab metal pipe for the barrel, if you goal were really just to make a gun. (Even a prefab plastic pipe would make a better barrel than a printed plastic barrel.)
It is strange that there are no hard drive bays. But with so much fast external connectivity (via Thunderbolt 2), it won't be a dealbreaker IF the requisite Thunderbolt 2 peripherals are actually available. I got an early Thunderbolt MacBook Pro and have been very disappointed with the lack of compatible peripherals. I still plug in 7 different connecters when I arrive at work every morning.
MacBooks can't even drive 3 displays, and nobody would buy a Mac Pro right now.
If starting over, waiting a few months, and spending well over $10K is an option, the new round Mac Pro with three 4k displays would make an awesome workstation. But otherwise I think just installing the NVidia driver on his existing setup will fix the problem he has.
Amplifying your point, read Dawkins' The Selfish Gene. (It's not about some gene that makes people selfish). It makes the case that the basic unit of evolution is a gene - not one copy of the gene, or even 10^14 copies living together (a human), but rather the information content of the gene.
Like you said, destroying a few copies of a gene in the process of making many more is a net gain.
I still wonder if that super-fast disk in the new Air wouldn't help. But it is also a bit sad; I have chosen to stick with XP for my VMs whenever possible since it uses so much less disk space and RAM than Win7. I can run half a dozen XP VMs in 8GB, and they run decently well for what I most often use them for. But maybe it's your application that's RAM-hungry.
Anyways I hate to be on the wrong side of the argument, and the right side of the argument is that RAM is good, and more RAM is better. I am looking forward to upgrading my MacBook Pro with a Haswell model when they arrive. The 8GB RAM in my current MacBook hasn't bothered me, but the battery life is not satisfactory, and I am sure I will opt for 16 GB next time since it is affordable future-proofing.
I also have a Dell E6430 that I mainly got out of frustration with non-swappable battery in the MacBook. It has 16 GB RAM. But the screen is so disgustingly bad that I have hardly used it - incredibly narrow viewing angle, poor colors and contrast, and a big fat bezel all the way around with big phillips screws at each corner.
He didn't mean biological generations. The previous wave of hyper-concentration of wealth in the US was the late 19th and early 20th century. (Wikipedia entry on robber barons.) At this time, recent industrialization had allowed commerce to achieve national scale, but regulation was still primarily state-by-state, so business was running rings around government. This triggered the rise of the federal government and its greatly expanded role in regulating interstate commerce. Globalization, with little corresponding rise in global governance, has lately caused a recurrence of the pattern. I suppose it will also trigger a recurrence of the solution, namely increased regulation of global trade. It will be annoying in some ways, but global corporations have truly made regulation and taxation into a joke by global jurisdictional arbitrage, so it is inevitable.
I dunno, 8 GB is not small, and it is paired with a 700 MB/s disk! With that kind of speed, swap doesn't really mean the same thing as it did on a 50 MB/s hard drive just a few years ago.
Can the Viera and Galaxy S3 also just send the normal display to HDMI? I like the idea of having a smartphone and bluetooth keyboard that can plug into the nearest HDMI display as a laptop/desktop replacement for showing powerpoints, websurfing, etc. Or to run Netbeans and do code development on for that matter. (It would be much better still if it were a high-speed wireless display link, but I suppose that's asking too much...)
How amenable is H.265 to vector operations? Nobody would expect a 3d game to run at an acceptable rate without a GPU nowadays, and video encoding may fall in the same category. Serial processing hasn't been getting significantly faster for years now.
The article says 4.2 sec 0-60 for a Model S, whereas a TDI is 8.7 according to zeroto60times.com.
A vehicle that runs 150,000 miles at 40mpg will burn 3750 gals. Assuming a $4/gal average that is $15,000.
The Model S includes free lifetime use of their supercharger network, otherwise admittedly you will be paying for electricity.
I think a Jetta is a good car. I have a VR6 Jetta myself, and would trade it for a new TDI in a heartbeat. I have never bought a car in the Model-S price range and don't plan to. I am simply pointing out that sticker price is not the whole story, particularly for electric cars.
For comparison, Tokyo to Honolulu is "only" 6200 km (then 3900 from Honolulu to San Francisco). Washington DC to Paris is also 6200 km. So, as far the planet earth is concerned, it's a very realistic maximum distance of interest.
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The fact is we have scarcely even started to recycle, or for that matter avoid producing waste in the first place.
Geez, wouldn't it be more fun, and probably easier, to just start a business in real life?
There is no general answer to whether you will get more bang for the buck from defense (sticking around to guard your young) or offense (going out to eliminate the competition). It depends entirely on the situation. There is simply no utility in trying to reason out an answer based on basic evolutionary principles. Many narratives are plausible. The point of gathering evidence is to see which one actually occurred.
But the point is, it's not productive to discuss what "could be" explained by evolution, since that is practically everything and anything. You have to stick with the fossil record, DNA, and (where possible) direct experiments.
The study (and the linked article) go far beyond "lots of stuff could have worked and this is the one that must have come up." What is says is that monogamy hasn't evolved in other species because they don't practice infanticide. And why is that? Because big-brained animals take a long time to develop, so the young are defenseless.
But personally, I think Apple buying Intel would be a travesty. Intel laid the foundation for personal computing (including smartphones) more than any other company. I realize Apple uses Samsung chips, not Intel, and that microprocessors would have developed a lot since the 1970s without Intel or any other single company. But still... for Apple to swoop in and make such an unheard of windfall by putting a pretty face on the technology that an entire industry has been building for decades just exemplifies the annoying "winner takes all" aspect of market forces when it comes to intellectual property.
My question is whether they will even bother supporting consumer-level writing devices in the first place. I think they are more interested in selling 4K stereo movies at 48 fps (which admittedly could be cool). The article seems to emphasize magazine-changing devices for the video production industry, which is another application that does NOT involve $30 burners and $2 blanks on newegg.
In the early 1950's, there were only a few computers (mainframes). The idea that we would now have only a few dozen computers in the world, which would each cost a fraction of a cent due to Moore's Law, sounds pretty dumb, doesn't it? Obviously the ability to do more is at least as important as declining cost for a fixed capability. Nothing new at all.
Oh, don't worry, I have bigger problems too. That's why I come to relax by dickering about computers on /.
At the very, VERY least you would use a prefab metal pipe for the barrel, if you goal were really just to make a gun. (Even a prefab plastic pipe would make a better barrel than a printed plastic barrel.)
It is strange that there are no hard drive bays. But with so much fast external connectivity (via Thunderbolt 2), it won't be a dealbreaker IF the requisite Thunderbolt 2 peripherals are actually available. I got an early Thunderbolt MacBook Pro and have been very disappointed with the lack of compatible peripherals. I still plug in 7 different connecters when I arrive at work every morning.
MacBooks can't even drive 3 displays, and nobody would buy a Mac Pro right now. If starting over, waiting a few months, and spending well over $10K is an option, the new round Mac Pro with three 4k displays would make an awesome workstation. But otherwise I think just installing the NVidia driver on his existing setup will fix the problem he has.
Mobile content authoring only makes sense for Facebook, where posting selfies is the whole point.
That said, I think it was just a troll... nobody actually likes the Ribbon do they?
Look at it this way, Windows was already entrenched on the desktop by the time Linux came along (and especially by the time it was reasonably mature).
Contrast that with smartphones, where Linux has been a massive success.
So, maybe forking wasn't the dominant issue in the first place.
Like you said, destroying a few copies of a gene in the process of making many more is a net gain.
Anyways I hate to be on the wrong side of the argument, and the right side of the argument is that RAM is good, and more RAM is better. I am looking forward to upgrading my MacBook Pro with a Haswell model when they arrive. The 8GB RAM in my current MacBook hasn't bothered me, but the battery life is not satisfactory, and I am sure I will opt for 16 GB next time since it is affordable future-proofing.
I also have a Dell E6430 that I mainly got out of frustration with non-swappable battery in the MacBook. It has 16 GB RAM. But the screen is so disgustingly bad that I have hardly used it - incredibly narrow viewing angle, poor colors and contrast, and a big fat bezel all the way around with big phillips screws at each corner.
He didn't mean biological generations. The previous wave of hyper-concentration of wealth in the US was the late 19th and early 20th century. (Wikipedia entry on robber barons.) At this time, recent industrialization had allowed commerce to achieve national scale, but regulation was still primarily state-by-state, so business was running rings around government. This triggered the rise of the federal government and its greatly expanded role in regulating interstate commerce. Globalization, with little corresponding rise in global governance, has lately caused a recurrence of the pattern. I suppose it will also trigger a recurrence of the solution, namely increased regulation of global trade. It will be annoying in some ways, but global corporations have truly made regulation and taxation into a joke by global jurisdictional arbitrage, so it is inevitable.
I dunno, 8 GB is not small, and it is paired with a 700 MB/s disk! With that kind of speed, swap doesn't really mean the same thing as it did on a 50 MB/s hard drive just a few years ago.
We can't even get over the hump in converting to the Metric System...
Can the Viera and Galaxy S3 also just send the normal display to HDMI? I like the idea of having a smartphone and bluetooth keyboard that can plug into the nearest HDMI display as a laptop/desktop replacement for showing powerpoints, websurfing, etc. Or to run Netbeans and do code development on for that matter. (It would be much better still if it were a high-speed wireless display link, but I suppose that's asking too much...)
How amenable is H.265 to vector operations? Nobody would expect a 3d game to run at an acceptable rate without a GPU nowadays, and video encoding may fall in the same category. Serial processing hasn't been getting significantly faster for years now.
A vehicle that runs 150,000 miles at 40mpg will burn 3750 gals. Assuming a $4/gal average that is $15,000.
The Model S includes free lifetime use of their supercharger network, otherwise admittedly you will be paying for electricity.
I think a Jetta is a good car. I have a VR6 Jetta myself, and would trade it for a new TDI in a heartbeat. I have never bought a car in the Model-S price range and don't plan to. I am simply pointing out that sticker price is not the whole story, particularly for electric cars.
For comparison, Tokyo to Honolulu is "only" 6200 km (then 3900 from Honolulu to San Francisco). Washington DC to Paris is also 6200 km. So, as far the planet earth is concerned, it's a very realistic maximum distance of interest.
Moreover the Tesla gets from 0-60 in half the time of a Jetta TDI.