Orang-pendek anyone?
As recently as 1847, gorillas were dismissed as silly native legends. It was then that white men finally laid eyes on them. The mountan gorilla was also thought to be central Africa's Yeti until 1901.
Then there's the whole tree-beater/lion-killer ape controversy in Africa right now.
The moral is: don't dismiss native stories so easily.
A cease and desist from Apple Legal won't necessarily mean this is the new iMac. Claiming something is an Apple product when it's not is pretty worthy of legal action.
There was actually a really great, informative article about the 6800 on Tom's Hardware a few weeks ago.
"NVIDIA has seemingly pulled out all stops in an attempt to deliver cutting edge graphics with its GeForce 6800 Ultra. After gamers for too long have had to be content with mere incremental improvements to graphics performance, NVIDIA new card delivers a performance jump not seen for a long time. The device is also solidly engineered as well as insanely fast."
You and I have learned different versions of Sedna's story. It's kind of like the two versions of Aphrodite's birth and the two creation stories in Genesis, I suppose.
They might have chosen the name Sedna because the object is in the Kuiper Belt. If I recall correctly, the naming convention for Kuiper Belt Objects is that of creation deities.
Sedna is the most important deity to the Inuit and plays a vital role in one creation tale, what with her parents chopping off her fingers and those fingers turning into various aquatic animals.
You're thinking of the various Paranthropus specimens: P. aethiopicus, P. robustus, and P. boisei. Like male gorillas, they had a bony crest on top of the skull to anchor their massive jaw muscles.
The article fails to go into depth concerning any of Homo erectus' actual skull features which might have lessened trauma in a conflict.
H. erectus skullcaps are pachyostic, meaning to possess an increase in size, density, or mineral content. There is a thickening along the midline of the skull that resembles a boat's keel. Thusly, it is referred to as "sagittal keeling". Also, there is a projecting brow ridge with which most people are familiar and bony thickenings on the sides and rear of the cranium.
If a heavy blow were to hit a modern human on the top of his or her head, the bone would cave in. Hematoma, coma, and death are likely results of this. The thicker bone of erectoids is less likely to fracture on impact.
Anyone who's been in a fight though, will tell you that you're probably going to deliver blows at eye-level. The thick ring of bone starting above the eye sockets and continuing around the skull help protect against trauma to the head. For one, your eye sockets are protected because of the brow ridge. Secondly, you have thick bones above your temples and ears to protect the sinuses that conduct blood into the internal jugular vein. The ridge on the rear of the skull protects sinuses carrying blood to the cerebullum and occipital lobe of the brain.
The roofs of H. erectus eye sockets are flat and horizontal and any blow to them would be transmitted to the back of the skull, thusly protecting the bones around the eye. The H. erectus face was also tucked under brow ridges, which made it harder to fracture cheek bones and to separate the facial skeleton from the braincase.
The jaw also thickens just behind the chin, the most common place for breaks in modern peoples. Erectoids differed from modern humans in the placement of arteries in and around the temple area. The main blood supply of the meningeal artery was moved away from this vulnerable area because the bone there was particularly thin and this movement lessened the effects of the breakage of arteries in that area.
There are other differences, but those are the major ones covered in the work of Ciochon and Boaz.
Searching ScAm's Ask the Expert section, I found the following:
"Dragline silk [a kind of silk all spiders make] is a composite material comprised of two different proteins, each containing three types of regions with distinct properties. One of these forms an amorphous (noncrystalline) matrix that is stretchable, giving the silk elasticity. When an insect strikes the web, the stretching of the matrix enables the web to absorb the kinetic energy of the insects flight. Embedded in the amorphous portions of both proteins are two kinds of crystalline regions that toughen the silk. Although both kinds of crystalline regions are tightly pleated and resist stretching, one of them is rigid. It is thought that the pleats of the less rigid crystalline regions not only fit into the pleats in the rigid crystals but that they also interact with the amorphous areas in the proteins, thus anchoring the rigid crystals to the matrix. The resulting composite is strong, tough, and yet elastic."
Unlike the G3 and G4 processors, the G5 does not support pseudo little endian mode, which boosts performance when emulating Pentium architecture. I think it's more a case of rewriting lots and lots of Connectix code than just not planning on doing it.
Apple has a pricing plan that's been fairly accurate for the past five years. Essentially, they replace the old boxes and keep the price of the new ones about the same (within $200 usually) but improve the product and tack on a few more features. So the G5 Power Macs will probably be roughly the same price as current G4 lineup.
There was an article on MacEdition a few weeks ago in which CodeBitch talked about tabbed browsing.
The most interesting part of the article though, was the graphic halfway down the page that showcased the browser shares of Mac Edition visitors from November 2000 to March 2003.
Some scientists prefer a broader definition of the Hominidae, others a narrower definition. The broader definition has gained significant ground with scientists in the past two decades as a result of molecular studies illustrating that all the great apes (humans included) form a clade of very closely related species.
The narrower definition is a left-over of the days of mythological distinctions between man and animal.
These days, Hominoidea is still a superfamily constituting the Hylobatidae (gibbons and siamangs) and the Hominidae. Within the Hominidae are the subfamilies Ponginae (orangs) and Homininae (the African apes). Still further below the Homininae is the tribe Hominini (humans and our related bipedal apes).
My bet is they're launching on 18 December so the astronauts can see Return of the King the night before.
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Actually, the term hominid has become somewhat broader in recent years. Hominid is a derivative of Hominidae, the family once used to describe humans and their extinct relatives but now inclusive to the non-human great apes as well--both gorilla species, both orang-utan species, chimpanzees, and bonobos.
Humans and their relatives tend to be grouped in the subfamily Homininae these days. Thats where the term "hominin" comes in to play.
The Broca's area in H. neanderthalensis was as fully developed as it is in H. sapiens. Also, the basicrania of Neanderthals were just as flexed as anatomically modern humans. Neanderthals also possessed an enlarged canal in the thoracic vertebrae allowing for fine control over phonetically significant movements of the rib cage.
The extent to which Neanderthals could speak was determined by their anatomy. The larynx was located high in the vocal tract and the oral cavity was significantly longer than in H. sapiens. This differently arranged vocal tract could not form the 'i', as in tea; 'u', as in too; and 'a', as in tall. Nor could it pronounce 'k' as in kite and 'g' as in god.
However, as Steven Pinker put it: "In any case, e lengeege weth e smell nember ef vewels cen remeen quete expresseve, so we cannot conclude that a [hominin] with a restricted vowel space had little language."
It tends to only become a moral issue when there's a possibility that the remains in question might be associated with an extant group of people or tribe.
This is much of the reason that Judge Jelderks ruled in favour of the scientists rather than native tribes in the Kennewick case--there was no sufficient evidence to support any cultural affiliation.
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I'm okay with this idea so long as there isn't a Used & New grocery section, like for the other items they sell.
Orang-pendek anyone? As recently as 1847, gorillas were dismissed as silly native legends. It was then that white men finally laid eyes on them. The mountan gorilla was also thought to be central Africa's Yeti until 1901. Then there's the whole tree-beater/lion-killer ape controversy in Africa right now. The moral is: don't dismiss native stories so easily.
It was actually the Phil Schiller keynote. Steve is still recovering from his bout with adenocarcinoma.
A cease and desist from Apple Legal won't necessarily mean this is the new iMac. Claiming something is an Apple product when it's not is pretty worthy of legal action.
There was actually a really great, informative article about the 6800 on Tom's Hardware a few weeks ago.
"NVIDIA has seemingly pulled out all stops in an attempt to deliver cutting edge graphics with its GeForce 6800 Ultra. After gamers for too long have had to be content with mere incremental improvements to graphics performance, NVIDIA new card delivers a performance jump not seen for a long time. The device is also solidly engineered as well as insanely fast."
I think you have it backwards there, friend. Assume dinosaurs are the ancestors of birds.
You and I have learned different versions of Sedna's story. It's kind of like the two versions of Aphrodite's birth and the two creation stories in Genesis, I suppose.
Isn't mythology great?
They might have chosen the name Sedna because the object is in the Kuiper Belt. If I recall correctly, the naming convention for Kuiper Belt Objects is that of creation deities. Sedna is the most important deity to the Inuit and plays a vital role in one creation tale, what with her parents chopping off her fingers and those fingers turning into various aquatic animals.
You're thinking of the various Paranthropus specimens: P. aethiopicus, P. robustus, and P. boisei. Like male gorillas, they had a bony crest on top of the skull to anchor their massive jaw muscles.
The article fails to go into depth concerning any of Homo erectus' actual skull features which might have lessened trauma in a conflict.
H. erectus skullcaps are pachyostic, meaning to possess an increase in size, density, or mineral content. There is a thickening along the midline of the skull that resembles a boat's keel. Thusly, it is referred to as "sagittal keeling". Also, there is a projecting brow ridge with which most people are familiar and bony thickenings on the sides and rear of the cranium.
If a heavy blow were to hit a modern human on the top of his or her head, the bone would cave in. Hematoma, coma, and death are likely results of this. The thicker bone of erectoids is less likely to fracture on impact.
Anyone who's been in a fight though, will tell you that you're probably going to deliver blows at eye-level. The thick ring of bone starting above the eye sockets and continuing around the skull help protect against trauma to the head. For one, your eye sockets are protected because of the brow ridge. Secondly, you have thick bones above your temples and ears to protect the sinuses that conduct blood into the internal jugular vein. The ridge on the rear of the skull protects sinuses carrying blood to the cerebullum and occipital lobe of the brain.
The roofs of H. erectus eye sockets are flat and horizontal and any blow to them would be transmitted to the back of the skull, thusly protecting the bones around the eye. The H. erectus face was also tucked under brow ridges, which made it harder to fracture cheek bones and to separate the facial skeleton from the braincase.
The jaw also thickens just behind the chin, the most common place for breaks in modern peoples. Erectoids differed from modern humans in the placement of arteries in and around the temple area. The main blood supply of the meningeal artery was moved away from this vulnerable area because the bone there was particularly thin and this movement lessened the effects of the breakage of arteries in that area.
There are other differences, but those are the major ones covered in the work of Ciochon and Boaz.
Actually, it's not a Latin conjugation at all. Verbs have conjugations; Nouns, pronouns, and adjectives have declensions.
U = 01010101
It's bound to be the alternating bit pattern.
Searching ScAm's Ask the Expert section, I found the following:
"Dragline silk [a kind of silk all spiders make] is a composite material comprised of two different proteins, each containing three types of regions with distinct properties. One of these forms an amorphous (noncrystalline) matrix that is stretchable, giving the silk elasticity. When an insect strikes the web, the stretching of the matrix enables the web to absorb the kinetic energy of the insects flight. Embedded in the amorphous portions of both proteins are two kinds of crystalline regions that toughen the silk. Although both kinds of crystalline regions are tightly pleated and resist stretching, one of them is rigid. It is thought that the pleats of the less rigid crystalline regions not only fit into the pleats in the rigid crystals but that they also interact with the amorphous areas in the proteins, thus anchoring the rigid crystals to the matrix. The resulting composite is strong, tough, and yet elastic."
Unlike the G3 and G4 processors, the G5 does not support pseudo little endian mode, which boosts performance when emulating Pentium architecture. I think it's more a case of rewriting lots and lots of Connectix code than just not planning on doing it.
To go along with that, there's a decent Aqua GUI for Bochs--Wintel by OpenOSX.
Big deal. Batman has had this for years.
Running Microsoft products does mean they'll be at the forefront of any computer attacks. Maybe they're just thinking outside of the box.</sarcasm>
Instead nearly two-third said they "wish to have things work and not spend time setting up."
So people are saying they want Apple products?
Apple has a pricing plan that's been fairly accurate for the past five years. Essentially, they replace the old boxes and keep the price of the new ones about the same (within $200 usually) but improve the product and tack on a few more features. So the G5 Power Macs will probably be roughly the same price as current G4 lineup.
There was an article on MacEdition a few weeks ago in which CodeBitch talked about tabbed browsing.
The most interesting part of the article though, was the graphic halfway down the page that showcased the browser shares of Mac Edition visitors from November 2000 to March 2003.
Not incorrect. It really depends on who you ask.
Some scientists prefer a broader definition of the Hominidae, others a narrower definition. The broader definition has gained significant ground with scientists in the past two decades as a result of molecular studies illustrating that all the great apes (humans included) form a clade of very closely related species.
The narrower definition is a left-over of the days of mythological distinctions between man and animal.
These days, Hominoidea is still a superfamily constituting the Hylobatidae (gibbons and siamangs) and the Hominidae. Within the Hominidae are the subfamilies Ponginae (orangs) and Homininae (the African apes). Still further below the Homininae is the tribe Hominini (humans and our related bipedal apes).
My bet is they're launching on 18 December so the astronauts can see Return of the King the night before.
Actually, the term hominid has become somewhat broader in recent years. Hominid is a derivative of Hominidae, the family once used to describe humans and their extinct relatives but now inclusive to the non-human great apes as well--both gorilla species, both orang-utan species, chimpanzees, and bonobos.
Humans and their relatives tend to be grouped in the subfamily Homininae these days. Thats where the term "hominin" comes in to play.
The Broca's area in H. neanderthalensis was as fully developed as it is in H. sapiens. Also, the basicrania of Neanderthals were just as flexed as anatomically modern humans. Neanderthals also possessed an enlarged canal in the thoracic vertebrae allowing for fine control over phonetically significant movements of the rib cage.
The extent to which Neanderthals could speak was determined by their anatomy. The larynx was located high in the vocal tract and the oral cavity was significantly longer than in H. sapiens. This differently arranged vocal tract could not form the 'i', as in tea; 'u', as in too; and 'a', as in tall. Nor could it pronounce 'k' as in kite and 'g' as in god.
However, as Steven Pinker put it: "In any case, e lengeege weth e smell nember ef vewels cen remeen quete expresseve, so we cannot conclude that a [hominin] with a restricted vowel space had little language."
It tends to only become a moral issue when there's a possibility that the remains in question might be associated with an extant group of people or tribe.
This is much of the reason that Judge Jelderks ruled in favour of the scientists rather than native tribes in the Kennewick case--there was no sufficient evidence to support any cultural affiliation.