You are probably right about the skewed distribution of the population (though I don't posess statistic data about the distribution at that age). I find it on the other hand hard to beleive that was common for thos people to get older than 40 before being killed by something. Even in the more modern medicine ages we live, our body still starts to show the first irreversible problems starting already at age of 30. Here in Germany isn't even easy to get a private healthinsurance after the age of 35 (prives go rocket high if you try to swith to a private healthinsurance after that age).I would rather expect that it would be more like a gaussian distribution, where the most "able" persons would be maybe somewhere between 20 and 35 years old and fewer kids and fewer that live over 35. It would be hard to remain alpha male after the age of 35. So in my opinion it still doesn't make a link between old/young pairing as the ground for our evolution.
I wish I could get some accurate distribution data about the neanderthal ages (for example), just to get a better picture.
I guess I would have agreed with the article if the scientist would have said that by pairing old with young we would push at least the mutation rate to a point which would compensate the other missing factors which would be needed to have a high evolution rate.
Anyway, I also guess that it all depends what evolution means. I mean if we look at the bodyshape and IQ between the various timelines, I would agree that in means of body we are more like evolving backwards (the beerbelly and all:)), but in means of IQ and Knowledge I think our brain has evolved pretty well with even increasing rate in the recent past. But then again, not all.:)
Not that I would mind "pairing" wiht a younger woman or using such a story as an excuse:), but this is just plain bullshit!
In the ancient times the halfapes and ancient representatives of our species had the same problem as any other animal on earth. It was a wonder if anyone survived for 25 (or so) years of age (remember to have seen statistics which said an average of 15 years). It was either the diseases or the predators which made it so. At that point the evolution was pushed forward by the high birth and death rates. Only the stronger survived in means of fast, intelligent, strong, good immune system and so on. That was the time with the highest evolution rate. The pairing took place at very young ages (as soon as reproduction was possible). I tend to beleive that at that evoultion was based on these facts and not because older people have mutating sperm. Yeah, mutating sperms do contribute to mutations which also was part of our evolution, but to say that mutation alone is responsible for evolution is plain bull. Mutation as means to adaption to an aggresive world is the only kind of mutation which would count as evolution. Mutating sperm because of old age of a person produces a lot more random mutation (most of them lead to defects rather than evolving characteristics) which do not get compensated through the aggresiveness of the environment (as many already stated, we live in ages where life and reproduction are also guaranteed for genetically challanged people through medicine).
Of course, more mutations could eventually lead to evolution in some other way, but a scientist to explain this phenomenon through to small of agegap between sex partners is plain dumb.
Never thought to use my Blender in such way... I know high speed rotation can generate such an effect, but never though to use a Blender for that... Back to the drawing board...
I am an 30 years old IT Consultant and in the last years my career boomed. With each new position I found less and less time to do sports as the chores became more and more demanding, and am spending most of my time in front of my PC. Naturally I got about 25 Kg fatter in the last 6 years. Pretty alarming, at least for me. On the other hand, when I come from work I am dead tired (more like mental tiredness) and am in no mood for anything beside relaxing. I remember the time when I had lots of free time (highschool and university) and was training in at least 2 sports and at least twice a week and was lean as a stick. The main difference now is that I have less time and less mood for sports. After many months of self analysis I finally understood that the time is not the problem. It is the lack of mood. Bodybuilding was fun when I had no worries and lots of time. Now it is just like taking another duty in my little free time. So that was the answer and actually is the thing behind the dancing game in the article! You don't necessarily have to dance to lose weight. You just have to find something which takes up a lot of muscle energy and still is fun! For me, tennis did the trick. I just had to find a sport I like. Now I have no problem to find time for it and can barely wait till the next training to have fun.:) I lost about 10Kg in the last 6 weeks and am feeling great!
First of all, in the past you were able to tell which network you are calling by the phone number. If people will keep their numbers while switching back and forth, it will result that I will never ever call a cellphone again. And if they mix also the fixed phone numbers with the cell ones, I might as well terminate my phone contracts. The costs are huge for calls outside your network. Now you won't be able to tell when you are being scalped untill blood fills your eyes...
the local laws have precedence on such issues (except maybe in some 3rd world country). So anything which is in a contract (EULA in this case) is considered to be null if that part is contradicted by some local law. That is why in many civilised countries there is a clause which says: If some parts of this contract are otherwise stated by the law, then these parts are automatically void, but the rest of the contract remains in place. The huge EULAs / contract with many complex clauses could be reduced to a halfpage contract if the void garbage would be taken out. But they are formulated this way just so the persons who have no clue about the laws might get scared. That is why I have my legal insurance which provides free consultans on any legal matter of mine.:) So they can take their EULA and stick it where the sun don't shine.
*rant* And since we are at EULAs, why the heck do Windows upgrades come with an EULA?!? The law require hidden bugs to be fixed for a product you buy. And AFAIK in most countries the law extends the warranty indefinitely when it comes to hidden bugs. Since when do I have to agree to anything so I can get their garbage of a product fixed?!? *rant end*
Hmmm... I think no one spoke about putting your cigarette lighter under your HDD while operating and see if it fails.
My question to you would be: You wanna say that it will heat that much to cause damage under normal operating conditions? If yes, how come up to 7200 rpms drives I never saw one single drive which requires explicitly to have a cooler?!? My assumption is that if a HDD requires space around it too be cooler, it should say so in the manual. If it needs a cooler to stay inside nominal temperature interval it should state so in the manual or come with a cooler on it in the first place. Or at least deliver a crystal ball in the package so I can guess what the builder had in mind and what should I do to keep my drive alive.
And I would be amused to see what a court of law would say about a company refusing a RMA based on overheat, as long as there is no clear requirement about installation of a drive in means of space or cooling.
Of course, according to the article only 600 files are offered from Altnet.
Hmmmm... Would these be the 600 that the RIAA have seen as shared by that user of the Verizon ISP?!?:)
Re:that makes no sense
on
Kazaa Fights Back
·
· Score: 5, Insightful
Ummm... I see that a lot of people miss the point by far. Kazaa itself is not illegal. It is just a tool for P2P sharing of files. It never said it is for sharing illegal stuff (copyrighted material). The fact that the users use it for illegal stuff is a complete different stuff and please keep that in mind. Also according to the laws in most countries the fact that the users "missuse" it, doesn't make the tool itself illegal. It is like trying to interdict knifes cause they can also be used to kill someone beside their intended domestic use.
I doubt that RIAA is really serious about this. I mean, which user would be so impacient to give up just cause of some crappy file. Most users which use P2P are on broadband and most of 'em on a flatrate. So I am no sure anyone would give a shit if he has to download more before getting to see a movie or hear a song. It's not like he really has to do it in the next 3 hours or he will become epileptic. He will have his PC turned on over several days/nights and finally get it. Beside the search phase, there is no effort from the users to download. So their idea makes me say: "Nice try, but no banana!"
but the solution against their aproach should be simple. Do a "whois" or something similar to find out if when more sources available the ip addresses belong to same Firm. If more sources belong to same firm, then exclude all except if they are dial-up IPs. The probability that a person is sharing P2P from a firm network from 2 machines and be legitimate is close to nil.
RIAA & Co are no isp provider and it would cost them huge wads of money to start thousands of ghost firms each with individul ip address.
Such a check should be able to eliminate most garbage from a P2P network. The check doesn't take long and for most dial-up / broad band providers the ip address (including the static ones assigned to the private users) ranges are public.
One of the recent studies of EPA discovered that the average Fart contains about 7g of H2S which is known as being a toxic product (who doesn't beleive it, fart and then watch the persons around you). So EPA recommends that you buy a buttplug and save the planet.
Yeah, right... And the chips are used in machines which helped do these statistics, are used to design new technologies which are more eficient and environmental friendly, etc (input here all the fields which use chips and actually help cleaning the environment and you will get a prety huge list). So cut the bull... Before computer assisted analysis and design evolved the industries were more polluting than are now. I am tired of a bunch of "looney environmentalists" running around in circles yelling "wolf". The are more polluting the earth with their cries than other whole industries do with their residues.
And just for the heck of it, did anyone calculate how much materials (electricity, pens, paper, PC-s, etc) were used to conduct this study, to publish it, to spread it, to discuss it on./ . Gee... Tough one...:/
And BTW, here in European Comunion there is a law project already in discussion (and seems it will apply starting with 2004 if I got it right) which will force all electric and electronic producing firms to get back and recycle the old equipment which people throw out.
Yeah. And don't foget the tons of cleaning products (which are containing harmfull elements) used to clean up the toilets after that intake of pizzas and burgers.;)
Guess what. You get it for free while it lasts. It is a simple equation:
Mandrake has costs -> Users download "for free" instead of paying -> Mandrake goes bankrupt and closes doors -> You aren't getting jackshit for free anymore cause there is no one left to provide it.
So you are welcome to enjoy maybe your last Mandrake linux.
Member of Mandrake Club and proud of it!
Re:Sounds like a superhero/villain origin story.
on
Visiting the Big Bang
·
· Score: 1
He was growing in a day like others in 1 year. And he died at 2.5 months of age.;)
So... If they use radio signals, they will probably not be shielded against magnetic / electromagnetic fields. So how about having an electromagnetic field generator that would give a couple of extreme high power impulses. Such a device should be easy to build by yourself even from something like an old washmachine engine. Even a noob could build it.:) Aply a few such shocks to everything you buy by placing your bought goodies near the gizmo and shock 'em a bit. It should fry them instantly.;)
At least with Germany and some other countries. In Germany for example it is against the law to collect data from user's computer or modify any of someone's data or computer functionality for that matter without prior explicit user agreement. So if this proves to be true, RIAA might find itself in the position of paying a lot of damage to the users. The ones who downloaded illegal files might not pursue legal action, but if any legal downloads get infected, then it might be interesting to watch this fire back at RIAA...
Slashdot Mirror
You are probably right about the skewed distribution of the population (though I don't posess statistic data about the distribution at that age). I find it on the other hand hard to beleive that was common for thos people to get older than 40 before being killed by something. Even in the more modern medicine ages we live, our body still starts to show the first irreversible problems starting already at age of 30. Here in Germany isn't even easy to get a private healthinsurance after the age of 35 (prives go rocket high if you try to swith to a private healthinsurance after that age).I would rather expect that it would be more like a gaussian distribution, where the most "able" persons would be maybe somewhere between 20 and 35 years old and fewer kids and fewer that live over 35. It would be hard to remain alpha male after the age of 35. So in my opinion it still doesn't make a link between old/young pairing as the ground for our evolution. I wish I could get some accurate distribution data about the neanderthal ages (for example), just to get a better picture. I guess I would have agreed with the article if the scientist would have said that by pairing old with young we would push at least the mutation rate to a point which would compensate the other missing factors which would be needed to have a high evolution rate. Anyway, I also guess that it all depends what evolution means. I mean if we look at the bodyshape and IQ between the various timelines, I would agree that in means of body we are more like evolving backwards (the beerbelly and all:)), but in means of IQ and Knowledge I think our brain has evolved pretty well with even increasing rate in the recent past. But then again, not all. :)
Not that I would mind "pairing" wiht a younger woman or using such a story as an excuse:), but this is just plain bullshit!
In the ancient times the halfapes and ancient representatives of our species had the same problem as any other animal on earth. It was a wonder if anyone survived for 25 (or so) years of age (remember to have seen statistics which said an average of 15 years). It was either the diseases or the predators which made it so. At that point the evolution was pushed forward by the high birth and death rates. Only the stronger survived in means of fast, intelligent, strong, good immune system and so on. That was the time with the highest evolution rate. The pairing took place at very young ages (as soon as reproduction was possible). I tend to beleive that at that evoultion was based on these facts and not because older people have mutating sperm. Yeah, mutating sperms do contribute to mutations which also was part of our evolution, but to say that mutation alone is responsible for evolution is plain bull. Mutation as means to adaption to an aggresive world is the only kind of mutation which would count as evolution. Mutating sperm because of old age of a person produces a lot more random mutation (most of them lead to defects rather than evolving characteristics) which do not get compensated through the aggresiveness of the environment (as many already stated, we live in ages where life and reproduction are also guaranteed for genetically challanged people through medicine). Of course, more mutations could eventually lead to evolution in some other way, but a scientist to explain this phenomenon through to small of agegap between sex partners is plain dumb.
Never thought to use my Blender in such way... I know high speed rotation can generate such an effect, but never though to use a Blender for that... Back to the drawing board...
I am an 30 years old IT Consultant and in the last years my career boomed. With each new position I found less and less time to do sports as the chores became more and more demanding, and am spending most of my time in front of my PC. Naturally I got about 25 Kg fatter in the last 6 years. Pretty alarming, at least for me. On the other hand, when I come from work I am dead tired (more like mental tiredness) and am in no mood for anything beside relaxing. I remember the time when I had lots of free time (highschool and university) and was training in at least 2 sports and at least twice a week and was lean as a stick. The main difference now is that I have less time and less mood for sports. After many months of self analysis I finally understood that the time is not the problem. It is the lack of mood. Bodybuilding was fun when I had no worries and lots of time. Now it is just like taking another duty in my little free time. So that was the answer and actually is the thing behind the dancing game in the article! You don't necessarily have to dance to lose weight. You just have to find something which takes up a lot of muscle energy and still is fun! For me, tennis did the trick. I just had to find a sport I like. Now I have no problem to find time for it and can barely wait till the next training to have fun.:) I lost about 10Kg in the last 6 weeks and am feeling great!
First of all, in the past you were able to tell which network you are calling by the phone number. If people will keep their numbers while switching back and forth, it will result that I will never ever call a cellphone again. And if they mix also the fixed phone numbers with the cell ones, I might as well terminate my phone contracts. The costs are huge for calls outside your network. Now you won't be able to tell when you are being scalped untill blood fills your eyes...
the local laws have precedence on such issues (except maybe in some 3rd world country). So anything which is in a contract (EULA in this case) is considered to be null if that part is contradicted by some local law. That is why in many civilised countries there is a clause which says: If some parts of this contract are otherwise stated by the law, then these parts are automatically void, but the rest of the contract remains in place. The huge EULAs / contract with many complex clauses could be reduced to a halfpage contract if the void garbage would be taken out. But they are formulated this way just so the persons who have no clue about the laws might get scared. That is why I have my legal insurance which provides free consultans on any legal matter of mine. :) So they can take their EULA and stick it where the sun don't shine.
*rant* And since we are at EULAs, why the heck do Windows upgrades come with an EULA?!? The law require hidden bugs to be fixed for a product you buy. And AFAIK in most countries the law extends the warranty indefinitely when it comes to hidden bugs. Since when do I have to agree to anything so I can get their garbage of a product fixed?!? *rant end*
That would probably be the only thing which would still work in case of a nuke attack. :)
Hmmm... I think no one spoke about putting your cigarette lighter under your HDD while operating and see if it fails.
My question to you would be: You wanna say that it will heat that much to cause damage under normal operating conditions? If yes, how come up to 7200 rpms drives I never saw one single drive which requires explicitly to have a cooler?!? My assumption is that if a HDD requires space around it too be cooler, it should say so in the manual. If it needs a cooler to stay inside nominal temperature interval it should state so in the manual or come with a cooler on it in the first place. Or at least deliver a crystal ball in the package so I can guess what the builder had in mind and what should I do to keep my drive alive.
And I would be amused to see what a court of law would say about a company refusing a RMA based on overheat, as long as there is no clear requirement about installation of a drive in means of space or cooling.
Of course, according to the article only 600 files are offered from Altnet. Hmmmm... Would these be the 600 that the RIAA have seen as shared by that user of the Verizon ISP?!? :)
Ummm... I see that a lot of people miss the point by far. Kazaa itself is not illegal. It is just a tool for P2P sharing of files. It never said it is for sharing illegal stuff (copyrighted material). The fact that the users use it for illegal stuff is a complete different stuff and please keep that in mind. Also according to the laws in most countries the fact that the users "missuse" it, doesn't make the tool itself illegal. It is like trying to interdict knifes cause they can also be used to kill someone beside their intended domestic use.
I doubt that RIAA is really serious about this. I mean, which user would be so impacient to give up just cause of some crappy file. Most users which use P2P are on broadband and most of 'em on a flatrate. So I am no sure anyone would give a shit if he has to download more before getting to see a movie or hear a song. It's not like he really has to do it in the next 3 hours or he will become epileptic. He will have his PC turned on over several days/nights and finally get it. Beside the search phase, there is no effort from the users to download. So their idea makes me say: "Nice try, but no banana!"
but the solution against their aproach should be simple. Do a "whois" or something similar to find out if when more sources available the ip addresses belong to same Firm. If more sources belong to same firm, then exclude all except if they are dial-up IPs. The probability that a person is sharing P2P from a firm network from 2 machines and be legitimate is close to nil. RIAA & Co are no isp provider and it would cost them huge wads of money to start thousands of ghost firms each with individul ip address. Such a check should be able to eliminate most garbage from a P2P network. The check doesn't take long and for most dial-up / broad band providers the ip address (including the static ones assigned to the private users) ranges are public.
One of the recent studies of EPA discovered that the average Fart contains about 7g of H2S which is known as being a toxic product (who doesn't beleive it, fart and then watch the persons around you). So EPA recommends that you buy a buttplug and save the planet.
Similarly the water used would be less than a week's worth of showers. Ummm... Ok... You convinced me... I am giving up taking showers. :)
Yeah, right... And the chips are used in machines which helped do these statistics, are used to design new technologies which are more eficient and environmental friendly, etc (input here all the fields which use chips and actually help cleaning the environment and you will get a prety huge list). So cut the bull... Before computer assisted analysis and design evolved the industries were more polluting than are now. I am tired of a bunch of "looney environmentalists" running around in circles yelling "wolf". The are more polluting the earth with their cries than other whole industries do with their residues. And just for the heck of it, did anyone calculate how much materials (electricity, pens, paper, PC-s, etc) were used to conduct this study, to publish it, to spread it, to discuss it on ./ . Gee... Tough one... :/
And BTW, here in European Comunion there is a law project already in discussion (and seems it will apply starting with 2004 if I got it right) which will force all electric and electronic producing firms to get back and recycle the old equipment which people throw out.
Yeah. And don't foget the tons of cleaning products (which are containing harmfull elements) used to clean up the toilets after that intake of pizzas and burgers. ;)
Guess what. You get it for free while it lasts. It is a simple equation: Mandrake has costs -> Users download "for free" instead of paying -> Mandrake goes bankrupt and closes doors -> You aren't getting jackshit for free anymore cause there is no one left to provide it. So you are welcome to enjoy maybe your last Mandrake linux. Member of Mandrake Club and proud of it!
He was growing in a day like others in 1 year. And he died at 2.5 months of age.;)
So... If they use radio signals, they will probably not be shielded against magnetic / electromagnetic fields. So how about having an electromagnetic field generator that would give a couple of extreme high power impulses. Such a device should be easy to build by yourself even from something like an old washmachine engine. Even a noob could build it. :) Aply a few such shocks to everything you buy by placing your bought goodies near the gizmo and shock 'em a bit. It should fry them instantly.;)
At least with Germany and some other countries. In Germany for example it is against the law to collect data from user's computer or modify any of someone's data or computer functionality for that matter without prior explicit user agreement. So if this proves to be true, RIAA might find itself in the position of paying a lot of damage to the users. The ones who downloaded illegal files might not pursue legal action, but if any legal downloads get infected, then it might be interesting to watch this fire back at RIAA...