"Lucas probably didn't want to admit that he knows that everyone that watches to movie wants to go and shoot Jar-Jar."
Well...after watching some interview with him (or the making of..) on tv...I seem to remember he was asked a question regarding Jar-jar (something along the lines of: What were you thinking?:) and he sort of indirectly implied in a roundabout way that yes, perhaps Jarjar might've possibly been a mistake...maybe:)
"George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic is using the Unreal engine to storyboard Star Wars movies."
I have to resist the dark side....must not make obvious comment...aaargh...no.... <<bangs head against wall>>
<<Sigh>> I give up...here goes:
"Used a computer game (engine) to storyboard Star Wars? Wellll...THAT explains a lot!"
Fantastic! This will come in eh...'handy' for:
on
Swiping Out Cancer
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· Score: 3, Insightful
Here's a post about something a fair amount of/.ers will not be familiar with: BREASTS (we're talking hands-on experience guys, looking does not count;^)
What have (wonderful wonderful) female breasts got to do with a handheld cancer-scanner?
Well...do you know how they check women's breasts for tumors currently? No? Well...
It involved placing a single breast in a vice-like device, which is then TIGHTENED. (And yes, the device is made out of COLD metal;) It is apparently also a fairly inaccurate method of detecting breast-cancer, but that is another story:o Then repeat process for the other breast.
(I don't have this from first-hand experience, I am not a woman:)
Now imagine if you could do the same with a little baton...
"I wave my magic-stick and...voila!" (For godsake, don't take that out of context;)
Testicle-cancer in men is (also) often diagnosed too late. I do not know how they confirm that you have it (AFTER the physical examination) but I hope to god it does not involve a vice-like device:o Again, bring on the handheld scanner...
BTW some poster mentioned that micro-wave radiation is dangerous...nope, not as far as I can establish...(read up on the HERF gun previously mentioned on/. )
"...is the front-runner for a proposed fifth Batman movie."
- Holy sequel Batman! - What is it Robin? - Those dastardly studio-execs have hatched a fiendish plot! They're making another batman movie! - We must stop them at once, Robin! To the batmobile!
I know what those studio-execs were thinking: "It is impossible to make a batman movie that is worse than it's immediate predecessors. Huzzah, we're on to a winner!"
But...let's look on the positive side: Let's say thousands of websites DO get de-faced (w00t - how very unlikely;)
A) Thousands of extra hours of work created to clean up the mess. (or not - y'all make backups right;) Those are surely bill-able hours right? And it's on the weekend, wahey! Double rates!
B) All the administrators of web-servers that WERE defaced will HAVE to examine the security of their web-servers. Improvements will HAVE to be made. If 'thousands' of web-servers are forced to improve their security...is that a bad thing?
C) Perhaps a lot of administrators (and PHB's) will notice that the most commonly defaced web-servers were (or are likely to be) those that run M$ software of some sort. Would that make them more likely to switch to OTHER software?
D) Hundreds of lamo script-kiddies prosecuted, jailed and/or permanently disallowed from using the internet. Excellent. Perhaps/.'s troll ratio will drop, and IRC will become a pleasant experience....NOT!:^D
"Radeon owners rejoice!...nVidia has finally released a kernel patch..."
Timothy...what were you smoking?
I can handle bad speeling and double double posts...and occasionally I manage to overcome the SCOverdose and Cowboy Neal madness...but this....this...<<shakes fist>>
Having seen the TV adaptation (and read most of his books) only one question remains:
Is it me or does it seem that the ending to each of his books seems...eh...rushed? Or is he trying to give his books these meaningful endings that I just don't get? I think he's a good writer...but I've yet to find a book if his where the ending does not suck.
It was merely a matter of time before SCO would lay the blame at Linus feet...
He's an obvious target, after all...there's not much elso TO target in the 'open source world' (not saying there's nobody participating in OS, they're all just running targets;^)
It is the inevitable faith of the innovator...
(As for myself, I'm developing a mild case of SCOverdose, expressed by a strange feeling that there is something inside of me that *might* not belong there....but I'm not quite sure about it. Must be something I had for dinner lastnight;)
>> (Ah, sweet memories...Anyone here who did NOT hack the high-school computer network?;)
> I graduated in 1975. IBM came out the the PC in 1981. > There was no network to hack you insensitive clod.;-)
heh heh heh
Geeeeeez you must be old! <<grins, ducks and runs for cover>>
but eh....
<nostalgia - eyes glaze over - voice starts to wheeze> the first computers I got to use in high-school had tape-drives (yay, mini-cassettes:) and monochrome screens. No hdd's. Half or more an hour to load a smiple BASIC program, 20 minutes to fiddle with it, end of class.
The next high-school I went to had networked DOS machines with colour screens <<gasp>>, running a Unix emulator (serious!) written in eh...C or BASIC I think. (Press Ctrl+C et voila...i'm at the command-prompt)
Fun things to do in class: Observe what file my neighbour was trying to access from the (woofully underpowered) server, try to open the same file - watch network lock up...end of class.
The last high-school I went to had a network of Macintosh classics...which was completely overrun by virii and whatnot...that was fun too...NOT. What did we do with these Macs? Wordprocessing...in fact, that's all I ever seemed to do at high-school...glorified word-processing classes.
The best high-school hack I heard of was one where some kid had written a little TSR that would randomly remap all the keys on the keyboard after each key-press. It was probably some sort of boot-virus, and it had spread over that schools entire network. My brother never had any 'computer' classes because of it:o
I'll assume they're going to visit high schools and primary schools...
This is a good idea...but:
I see (at least) three problems:
(I'm going to get flamed to a crisp for this:^o
1) From (my own humble) experience...the teacher who takes the 'computer class' at high school is not necessarily a very experienced computer-user. He is usually a random teacher who was sent to a course to learn about computers, someone else set up the network for him, that is all he knows. More often than not his students know more about the computers they are using than the teacher. (Ah, sweet memories...Anyone here who did NOT hack the high-school computer network?;)
Now it's stupid of me to generalize like this, but I don't see the average teacher installing linux just like that without help. I'm not saying that teachers are stupid - just lacking experience perhaps - and no, not all schools have an IT department. (OTOH Usually there's a 'whiz'kid around, who's more than glad to help...)
2) Don't Micro$oft and Apple sponsor schools and give them free computers? Do they still do that? (The obvious idea is: Get the kids to use your software and computers in school --> they'll want to use them at home and later at work as well --> more customers) How do you convince the schools to switch to linux (and potentially miss out on future freebies?)
3) See 2, the kids (and parents - the ones who pay the bills) will want what 'everybody else' uses. Experience with $%#% Word etc is perceived as being essential for getting a job. OpenOffice? Hmmm...don't think so.
Of course it's not all bad.... Obvious advantages (for a school)
- Linux is cheap.
- Linux is secure.
(And it will be placed in an environment where
its security-model will get thoroughly tested;)
- By 'exposing' kids to linux earlier we can increase it's acceptance. (see 2)
- Will run on older hardware (schools have limited budgets)
As we (all) grew up watching TV, we learned to filter out what was true and what was not...we learned to filter out what was relevant and what was not...we learned to distinguish between what was entertainment and fact and make-believe.
Now imagine introducing TV to a society that does not have those "filters".
(Hmm, same applies to internet&computer games? yeah..i think so)
And of course there are people around the world who have not been able to correctly 'filter' or 'distinguish' between TV and real-life...the results have been disastrous (Can I cite Columbine as an example?)
Watching TV does not make people violent. Playing violent computer games does not make people killers.
BUT
There will always be exceptions! (I've noticed that a lot of parents treat TV as some sort of baby-sitter for their children - I find that unacceptable)
Unfortunately I'm old enought to remember watching this on tv...
I distinctly remember 3 things:
1) All the magazines spoiled the surprise on the 'real' identity of the aliens by publishing photo's of their 'leader' with the flaps of his fake human skin hanging off his face, showing half his slimy reptilian face. Looked freaky then, betcha it still looks good today. That was probably the best part in the whole damn series... Ooh, and the much hyped scene where the evil alien she-bitch eats a whole hamster in one bite - IIRC 'the making of' later explained that they had to build a complicated contraption so that it looked like she could stuff an entire hamster/gerbil in the appropriate orifice...
2) The eh....landsharks. They were neat. All the aliens had to do to protect their bases was dump a few tons of red sand in a ring around their bases, release some of those critters and voila. No intruders. <<Cue scene where actor sinks into the sand - whilst waving arms and screaming like a maniac>> The eh...landsharks were man-eaters if you hadn't figured it out yet...can't remember why they didn't eat the aliens.
3) How crap the second series really was compared to the (obviously bigger budget) first/mini series...the lizard alien actors, when not disguised as 'humans', wore cheap plastic masks (didn't even look like lizards half the time;) The aliens were suddenly bullet-proof as well. Oh...and plot? Well...yes, as previous posters have pointed out...the 'magic' child plot just ruined it.
Heck, I think I remember watching the very last episode...it ends with the 'magical' child walking into some shuttle (it's all supposed to be very mystical and meaningful...) which is eh...piloted by the "real" leader of the aliens? Something like that...you never see him, you just hear his voice, coming from the dark interior of the shuttle. Shuttle door closes, people&aliens start crying/cheering, shuttle buggers off, end of series, thank god.
IIRC genetic diversity also indicates how old a 'species' is.
Hence, given the widespread genetic diversity in chimpansees and the low genetic diversity in humans, you can deduce that chimpansees have been around much longer than humans.
The other explanation could be that a single group of humans were so succesfull at some point in the past that we are all descendants of that group. (oops, thats the same as coming close to extinction - just phrased a different way:)
There are groups of people in the world that are very much genetically distinct from the rest of us. (Eh, Read "The Naked Ape" by whatshisname...) ( Isolated pockets of genetic diversity...stuff like that )
Another explanation could be the life span of chimpansees...anyone know how long they life in the wild? Short lifespan? Females are almost constantly pregnant. Now compare that to humans...long lifespan...relatively low pregnancy rate ( welll...) That could also explain the difference in genetic diversity? Phrased another way - for an equivalent period of time there might have simply been more generations of chimpansees compared to generations of humans.
Could that account for the difference in genetic diversity (as well)?
One of my friends is (more or less) a rocket-scientist (or likes to think he is:)
He is currently doing a study on what it would take to launch a bunch of Kiwi's into space/orbit (don't ask) using existing, off the shelf technology. It's part of his physics degree.
(IF he finishes his study I might see if we can get it linked on/. - he was noseying through a book about nuclear missile guidance systems the other day:)
Anyway, asked him about a mission to Mars the other day...he reckons the trip back and forth would take about 500 days in total (I hope I remembered that right) which would give the crew a window of about 10 (!) days to explore the planet.
I was then officially made a member of his potential mission to Mars. Hence I, Marcel, will be the first man on Mars:^P (Obviously my ego doesn't fit on Earth anymore, as such we are relocating it to Mars - move over losers!;)
Anyway, then more details of this mission to Mars were explained to me...and this is were things went wrong. My friend has come to the conclusion that a six-way group marriage is the most stable group of people possible. Hence, if you want to join his mission to Mars...you have to bring along a female and marry 4 others. (In fact, bring two...or three for that matter)
3 men and 3 women in a tiny space capsule, going where no man or woman has boldly gone before. Catchy.
I'm all for it of course, I don't mind sharing 3 women on a 1 year trip back and forth too Mars...
My fiance...took a different view of that proposal...sufficient to say that she's not allowed anywhere near rocket-scientists anymore...
For those of you/. readers who do not know this: "Never underestimate the power of she."
> Ahh, the only thing sadder than a stupid post is > the moron who screams "first post" 30 posts > in... <<sigh>>
(:D Alas, here I was...looking at a pristine, blank, virgin (oooh, there's a lot of that here on/.) slashdot news-item...I rushed to the task, pounded the keyboard...and after much pondering (all of 2msecs;) I produced that wonderful post.
But of course...by the time MY post had been sent all the way from down here in NZ to/....it was too late:o I blame the rotation of the earth slowing down my network packets dammit!
> Now wheres MY force field?
Obviously it's not working... (It might unintentionally work on members of the opposite sex though;)
I wouldn't worry too much about the future of PNG, it will stick around. Now MNG...thats a different story:o
Hmmm...the infamous "Burn all GIF's" website... showing the rather disturbingly fanatic side of the (open-source?) movement. That page, and the people that wrote it, worry me. They need to calm down I think. Talk about PNG being redundant... ( Why am I suddenly thinking of ESR? )
And now for something completely different:
step 1) go to "Burn all gif's" website step 2) scroll down step 3) click on "Eric's homepage" link. step 4) click on "A cookie message" link.
and then...possibly....something like this? --- gpm[623]: oops() invoked from gpm.c(164) gpm[623]:/dev/tty0: Input/output error. gpm(pam_unix)[769]: session closed for user foo. Fatal X error - Restarting:0 --- fun fun fun:)
About a month ago I was reading something or other about Star Wars on/. and it occurred to me that (given time) someone would no doubt create a remake of the dire Star Wars prequels...the difference being that of course you would NOT follow the original storyline.
"StarWars I.alt":o
Anyone think they can do a better job than George? (Hmmm...forget about the prequels...make a SEQUEL!:P
How long do you think it will take before someone figures out how to fake those 'wipe harddrive' commands? Looks like a smiple case of packet-sniffin' to me.
"Hey d00d, watch what happens when I run THIS phoenix-nupe script...u r s0 0wn3d l0s3r"
All together now: "I will place my trust and the fate of my harddrive in the hands of script kiddies"
Reports my location as well??!? Huh? Why? Do they have guided missiles lined up for nasty computer thiefssess?
I'm not sure whether that game should be considered an 'original' title - looks like it's just a variation on existing dancing games (I'm pretty sure I have seen a dance-game in the arcades where people could compete against each other:o
There's also a lack of screen-shots on that website - unless the ones provided are all you get to see in the game?
Hmmm...let's sum up:
1) Original concept? Dance game...probably not... 2) Mindblowing graphics and/or art-work? Probably not...(need to see more screenshots to be 100% certain) 3) Large established target-market? No. Who owns a dreamcast? 4) Large target-audience? Possibly, but they would probably be playing other dance games on other consoles or in the arcades (see 3) 5) Marketing? A (not so exciting) website and a mention on/. Oh, and there's a goat in there somewhere:) ---- 6) Profit? Well...I hate to dissappoint but...no.
Of course I could be totally wrong and this could become the smash-hit of the year...stranger things have happened;)
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"Lucas probably didn't want to admit that he knows that everyone that watches to movie wants to go and shoot Jar-Jar."
:) and he sort of indirectly implied in a roundabout way that yes, perhaps Jarjar might've possibly been a mistake...maybe :)
Well...after watching some interview with him (or the making of..) on tv...I seem to remember he was asked a question regarding Jar-jar (something along the lines of: What were you thinking?
"George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic is using the Unreal engine to storyboard Star Wars movies."
I have to resist the dark side....must not make obvious comment...aaargh...no....
<<bangs head against wall>>
<<Sigh>> I give up...here goes:
"Used a computer game (engine) to storyboard Star Wars? Wellll...THAT explains a lot!"
Here's a post about something a fair amount of /.ers will not be familiar with: BREASTS ;^)
;) It is apparently also a fairly inaccurate method of detecting breast-cancer, but that is another story :o Then repeat process for the other breast.
:)
;)
:o
/. )
(we're talking hands-on experience guys, looking does not count
What have (wonderful wonderful) female breasts got to do with a handheld cancer-scanner?
Well...do you know how they check women's breasts for tumors currently? No? Well...
It involved placing a single breast in a vice-like device, which is then TIGHTENED.
(And yes, the device is made out of COLD metal
(I don't have this from first-hand experience, I am not a woman
Now imagine if you could do the same with a little baton...
"I wave my magic-stick and...voila!"
(For godsake, don't take that out of context
Testicle-cancer in men is (also) often diagnosed too late. I do not know how they confirm that you have it (AFTER the physical examination) but I hope to god it does not involve a vice-like device
Again, bring on the handheld scanner...
BTW some poster mentioned that micro-wave radiation is dangerous...nope, not as far as I can establish...(read up on the HERF gun previously mentioned on
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"...is the front-runner for a proposed fifth Batman movie."
- Holy sequel Batman!
- What is it Robin?
- Those dastardly studio-execs have hatched a fiendish plot! They're making another batman movie!
- We must stop them at once, Robin! To the batmobile!
I know what those studio-execs were thinking:
"It is impossible to make a batman movie that is worse than it's immediate predecessors. Huzzah, we're on to a winner!"
> is this title proof that 2D gameplay can still enchant the mass market?
;^)
Probably, old arcade games are still popular (There are still pacman, tetris and pong clones being made as we speak
Gameplay - that word is the key here, graphics don't matter that much IMHO, the graphics are only there for the 'initial' sell.
Having said that....
I haven't seen viewtiful joe...whats the replay value like? (Always a problem with 2D scrollers)
Hmmm...july 3rd...counting down...
;)
;) Those are surely bill-able hours right?
/.'s troll ratio will drop, and IRC will become a pleasant experience....NOT! :^D
But...let's look on the positive side:
Let's say thousands of websites DO get de-faced (w00t - how very unlikely
A) Thousands of extra hours of work created to clean up the mess. (or not - y'all make backups right
And it's on the weekend, wahey! Double rates!
B) All the administrators of web-servers that WERE defaced will HAVE to examine the security of their web-servers. Improvements will HAVE to be made. If 'thousands' of web-servers are forced to improve their security...is that a bad thing?
C) Perhaps a lot of administrators (and PHB's) will notice that the most commonly defaced web-servers were (or are likely to be) those that run M$ software of some sort. Would that make them more likely to switch to OTHER software?
D) Hundreds of lamo script-kiddies prosecuted, jailed and/or permanently disallowed from using the internet. Excellent. Perhaps
Someone has to say it:
"Browsing through my pr0n mpeg collection will be never be the same again..."
Savage Island Network == S.I.N.
Hmmm....I wonder what they will do with all that free internet access?
"Radeon owners rejoice!...nVidia has finally released a kernel patch..."
Timothy...what were you smoking?
I can handle bad speeling and double
double posts...and occasionally I manage
to overcome the SCOverdose and Cowboy Neal madness...but this....this...<<shakes fist>>
Having seen the TV adaptation (and read most of his books) only one question remains:
;)
Is it me or does it seem that the ending to each of his books seems...eh...rushed? Or is he trying to give his books these meaningful endings that I just don't get? I think he's a good writer...but I've yet to find a book if his where the ending does not suck.
(The TV adaptation was a bit so so btw
Come on people,
;^)
;)
It was merely a matter of time before SCO would lay the blame at Linus feet...
He's an obvious target, after all...there's not much elso TO target in the 'open source world'
(not saying there's nobody participating in OS, they're all just running targets
It is the inevitable faith of the innovator...
(As for myself, I'm developing a mild case of SCOverdose, expressed by a strange feeling that there is something inside of me that *might* not belong there....but I'm not quite sure about it. Must be something I had for dinner lastnight
>> (Ah, sweet memories...Anyone here who did NOT hack the high-school computer network? ;)
;-)
:)
:o
> I graduated in 1975. IBM came out the the PC in 1981.
> There was no network to hack you insensitive clod.
heh heh heh
Geeeeeez you must be old! <<grins, ducks and runs for cover>>
but eh....
<nostalgia - eyes glaze over - voice starts to wheeze>
the first computers I got to use in high-school had tape-drives (yay, mini-cassettes
and monochrome screens. No hdd's.
Half or more an hour to load a smiple BASIC program, 20 minutes to fiddle with it, end of class.
The next high-school I went to had networked DOS machines with colour screens <<gasp>>, running a Unix emulator (serious!) written in eh...C or BASIC I think. (Press Ctrl+C et voila...i'm at the command-prompt)
Fun things to do in class: Observe what file my neighbour was trying to access from the (woofully underpowered) server, try to open the same file - watch network lock up...end of class.
The last high-school I went to had a network of
Macintosh classics...which was completely overrun by virii and whatnot...that was fun too...NOT.
What did we do with these Macs?
Wordprocessing...in fact, that's all I ever seemed
to do at high-school...glorified word-processing classes.
The best high-school hack I heard of was one where some kid had written a little TSR that would randomly remap all the keys on the keyboard after each key-press. It was probably some sort of boot-virus, and it had spread over that schools entire network. My brother never had any 'computer' classes because of it
</nostalgia>
(Without reading the article - as usual ;)
:^o
;)
;)
I'll assume they're going to visit high schools and primary schools...
This is a good idea...but:
I see (at least) three problems:
(I'm going to get flamed to a crisp for this
1) From (my own humble) experience...the teacher who takes the 'computer class' at high school is not necessarily a very experienced computer-user. He is usually a random teacher who was sent to a course to learn about computers, someone else set up the network for him, that is all he knows.
More often than not his students know more about the computers they are using than the teacher.
(Ah, sweet memories...Anyone here who did NOT hack the high-school computer network?
Now it's stupid of me to generalize like this, but I don't see the average teacher installing linux just like that without help. I'm not saying that teachers are stupid - just lacking experience perhaps - and no, not all schools have an IT department. (OTOH Usually there's a 'whiz'kid around, who's more than glad to help...)
2) Don't Micro$oft and Apple sponsor schools and
give them free computers? Do they still do that?
(The obvious idea is: Get the kids to use your
software and computers in school --> they'll want to use them at home and later at work as well --> more customers)
How do you convince the schools to switch to linux (and potentially miss out on future freebies?)
3) See 2, the kids (and parents - the ones who pay the bills) will want what 'everybody else' uses. Experience with $%#% Word etc is perceived as being essential for getting a job. OpenOffice? Hmmm...don't think so.
Of course it's not all bad....
Obvious advantages (for a school)
- Linux is cheap.
- Linux is secure.
(And it will be placed in an environment where
its security-model will get thoroughly tested
- By 'exposing' kids to linux earlier we can increase it's acceptance. (see 2)
- Will run on older hardware (schools have limited budgets)
</rant>
(Without reading the article)
As we (all) grew up watching TV, we learned to filter out what was true and what was not...we learned to filter out what was relevant and what was not...we learned to distinguish between what was entertainment and fact and make-believe.
Now imagine introducing TV to a society that does not have those "filters".
(Hmm, same applies to internet&computer games? yeah..i think so)
And of course there are people around the world who have not been able to correctly 'filter' or 'distinguish' between TV and real-life...the results have been disastrous (Can I cite Columbine as an example?)
Watching TV does not make people violent.
Playing violent computer games does not make people killers.
BUT
There will always be exceptions!
(I've noticed that a lot of parents treat TV as some sort of baby-sitter for their children - I find that unacceptable)
A solution? No idea, TV killed my imagination (:o
> Now all my fears are justified. I guess the internet is supposed to be better for you?
Ah, you must be new here...
Unfortunately I'm old enought to remember watching this on tv...
...the lizard alien actors, when not disguised as 'humans', wore cheap plastic masks (didn't even look like lizards half the time ;) The aliens were suddenly bullet-proof as well. Oh...and plot? Well...yes, as previous posters have pointed out...the 'magic' child plot just ruined it.
I distinctly remember 3 things:
1) All the magazines spoiled the surprise on the 'real' identity of the aliens by publishing photo's of their 'leader' with the flaps of his fake human skin hanging off his face, showing half his slimy reptilian face. Looked freaky then, betcha it still looks good today.
That was probably the best part in the whole damn series...
Ooh, and the much hyped scene where the evil alien she-bitch eats a whole hamster in one bite - IIRC 'the making of' later explained that they had to build a complicated contraption so that it looked like she could stuff an entire hamster/gerbil in the appropriate orifice...
2) The eh....landsharks. They were neat. All the aliens had to do to protect their bases was dump a few tons of red sand in a ring around their bases, release some of those critters and voila. No intruders. <<Cue scene where actor sinks into the sand - whilst waving arms and screaming like a maniac>> The eh...landsharks were man-eaters if you hadn't figured it out yet...can't remember why they didn't eat the aliens.
3) How crap the second series really was compared to the (obviously bigger budget) first/mini series
Heck, I think I remember watching the very last episode...it ends with the 'magical' child walking into some shuttle (it's all supposed to be very mystical and meaningful...) which is eh...piloted by the "real" leader of the aliens? Something like that...you never see him, you just hear his voice, coming from the dark interior of the shuttle. Shuttle door closes, people&aliens start crying/cheering, shuttle buggers off, end of series, thank god.
(Without reading the article...)
:)
I don't know much about genetics but....
IIRC genetic diversity also indicates how
old a 'species' is.
Hence, given the widespread genetic diversity in chimpansees and the low genetic diversity in humans, you can deduce that chimpansees have been around much longer than humans.
The other explanation could be that a single group of humans were so succesfull at some point in the past that we are all descendants of that group.
(oops, thats the same as coming close to extinction - just phrased a different way
There are groups of people in the world that are very much genetically distinct from the rest of us. (Eh, Read "The Naked Ape" by whatshisname...)
( Isolated pockets of genetic diversity...stuff like that )
Another explanation could be the life span of chimpansees...anyone know how long they life in the wild? Short lifespan? Females are almost constantly pregnant. Now compare that to humans...long lifespan...relatively low pregnancy rate ( welll...) That could also explain the difference in genetic diversity?
Phrased another way - for an equivalent period of time there might have simply been more generations of chimpansees compared to generations of humans.
Could that account for the difference in genetic diversity (as well)?
This little story might amuse you...
:)
/. - he was noseying through a book about nuclear missile guidance systems the other day :)
:^P ;)
/. readers who do not know this:
One of my friends is (more or less) a rocket-scientist (or likes to think he is
He is currently doing a study on what it would take to launch a bunch of Kiwi's into space/orbit
(don't ask) using existing, off the shelf technology. It's part of his physics degree.
(IF he finishes his study I might see if we can get it linked on
Anyway, asked him about a mission to Mars the other day...he reckons the trip back and forth would take about 500 days in total (I hope I remembered that right) which would give the crew a window of about 10 (!) days to explore the planet.
I was then officially made a member of his potential mission to Mars.
Hence I, Marcel, will be the first man on Mars
(Obviously my ego doesn't fit on Earth anymore, as such we are relocating it to Mars - move over losers!
Anyway, then more details of this mission to Mars were explained to me...and this is were things went wrong.
My friend has come to the conclusion that a six-way group marriage is the most stable group of people possible. Hence, if you want to join his mission to Mars...you have to bring along a female and marry 4 others.
(In fact, bring two...or three for that matter)
3 men and 3 women in a tiny space capsule, going where no man or woman has boldly gone before. Catchy.
I'm all for it of course, I don't mind sharing 3 women on a 1 year trip back and forth too Mars...
My fiance...took a different view of that proposal...sufficient to say that she's not allowed anywhere near rocket-scientists anymore...
For those of you
"Never underestimate the power of she."
> Ahh, the only thing sadder than a stupid post is
/.) slashdot news-item...I rushed to the task, pounded the keyboard...and after much pondering (all of 2msecs ;) I produced that wonderful post.
/. ...it was too late :o I blame the rotation of the earth
;)
> the moron who screams "first post" 30 posts
> in... <<sigh>>
(:D Alas, here I was...looking at a pristine, blank, virgin (oooh, there's a lot of that here on
But of course...by the time MY post had been sent all the way from down here in NZ to
slowing down my network packets dammit!
> Now wheres MY force field?
Obviously it's not working...
(It might unintentionally work on members of the opposite sex though
Phah! Primitives! :P
;)
:o
Using my portable force-field
I managed to block all the trolls
and hence...I got first post
(It also blocks noxious ga^H^Hodours - much appreciated by my other half
But ehh...(I probably misread this...)
Unfortunately it appears this new forcefield technology only works in very hot conditions
- 50x room temperature
Now all we need is heat-and-flame-resistant people...
I wouldn't worry too much about the future of :o
/dev/tty0: Input/output error. :0 :)
PNG, it will stick around. Now MNG...thats a different story
Hmmm...the infamous "Burn all GIF's" website...
showing the rather disturbingly fanatic side of the (open-source?) movement. That page, and the people that wrote it, worry me. They need to calm down I think. Talk about PNG being redundant...
( Why am I suddenly thinking of ESR? )
And now for something completely different:
step 1) go to "Burn all gif's" website
step 2) scroll down
step 3) click on "Eric's homepage" link.
step 4) click on "A cookie message" link.
and then...possibly....something like this?
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gpm[623]: oops() invoked from gpm.c(164)
gpm[623]:
gpm(pam_unix)[769]: session closed for user foo.
Fatal X error - Restarting
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fun fun fun
About a month ago I was reading something or other about Star Wars on /. and it occurred to me that (given time) someone would no doubt create a remake of the dire Star Wars prequels...the difference being that of course you would NOT follow the original storyline.
:o
:P
"StarWars I.alt"
Anyone think they can do a better job than George?
(Hmmm...forget about the prequels...make a SEQUEL!
(Without reading the article :)
How long do you think it will take before someone figures out how to fake those 'wipe harddrive' commands? Looks like a smiple case of packet-sniffin' to me.
"Hey d00d, watch what happens when I run THIS phoenix-nupe script...u r s0 0wn3d l0s3r"
All together now:
"I will place my trust and the fate of my harddrive in the hands of script kiddies"
Reports my location as well??!?
Huh?
Why? Do they have guided missiles lined up for nasty computer thiefssess?
Sssssh! Not so loud /. ! (:o
Someone from Microsoft might read
"Laywers are converging on your house as we speak..."
I'm not sure whether that game should be considered an 'original' title - looks like it's just a variation on existing dancing games (I'm pretty sure I have seen a dance-game in the arcades where people could compete against each other :o
/. Oh, and there's a goat in there somewhere :)
;)
There's also a lack of screen-shots on that website - unless the ones provided are all you get to see in the game?
Hmmm...let's sum up:
1) Original concept? Dance game...probably not...
2) Mindblowing graphics and/or art-work? Probably not...(need to see more screenshots to be 100% certain)
3) Large established target-market? No. Who owns a dreamcast?
4) Large target-audience? Possibly, but they would probably be playing other dance games on other consoles or in the arcades (see 3)
5) Marketing? A (not so exciting) website and a mention on
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6) Profit? Well...I hate to dissappoint but...no.
Of course I could be totally wrong and this could become the smash-hit of the year...stranger things have happened