I am not saying this is bad science, or that they didn't find the results they did, just that the study belongs to a category where you likely need independent confirmation before accepting theur claim.
Why? Well, in behavioral studies it is notoriously difficult have repeatable results, due to small test series and the high sensitivity of the parameters themselves, which typically are measured on very crude scales.
It is a bit like judging contestants in chamber music in a steel plant. You need an awful lot of judges and repeated plays in order to discern the virtuosos. Bad analogy, but I hope you get the point.
I anticipate we will find tools much older, somewhere between five and fifteen million years. The reason is that that is the age of the common ancestor of humans and chimps and gorillas.
There is another movie of a captive chimp (or bonobo) hammer two rocks creating sharp edges to cut meat. But I cannot find it now. They were not designed, however, but pretty rough and unpolished. Still, good for the purpose.
Designed tools were previously known since 1.5 my ago. But how would we recognize a fool's rock tool in nature? The answer it that we probably wouldn't. And therefore, we can only rely on indirect evidence like the video above.
Windows 7 will come in multiple versions, and one of them is called KDE but will be free, both as in free beer as well as free speech.
The point is that most people don't care about the OS as long as they can do what they want. And, most people
For example, my 78 yo grandad runs xubuntu on his 600 MHz PIII w. 128 MB RAM. He doesn't like it, it is too slow, but he is not prepared to shell out $150 on top of a laptop for $500.
This is why KDE is the next version of Windows, even if it might have xfce under the hood for those who never notice the difference.:)
"There have been too many times I where I couldn't find a good Gnome/GTK+ based app but found it with a KDE based app. However, that one app pulls in a lot of KDE based bloat that I don't want/need."
OTOH, as a KDE user I would rephrase that as - There have some times I where I couldn't find a good KDE based app but found it with a Gnome/GTK+ based app. However, that one app pulls in a lot of Gnome/GTK+ based bloat that I don't want/need.;)
Some twenty eras ago people suggested that many conflicts might better had been solved by chess. Today, a Quake Deathmatch seems more appropriate.. And, it is virtual.
The salary level for economists is generally way way higher than for scientists, even at lower positions. In fact it is so much higher it rubs away anything with a "'hard sciences' feel".
The sad part is that econometrics can be as fun as "hard science", but with a decent salary.
When you are below 30 it might not matter, but later with kids and mortgages...:)
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I am not saying this is bad science, or that they didn't find the results they did, just that the study belongs to a category where you likely need independent confirmation before accepting theur claim.
Why? Well, in behavioral studies it is notoriously difficult have repeatable results, due to small test series and the high sensitivity of the parameters themselves, which typically are measured on very crude scales.
It is a bit like judging contestants in chamber music in a steel plant. You need an awful lot of judges and repeated plays in order to discern the virtuosos. Bad analogy, but I hope you get the point.
That argument fails completely. Six of the top ten evolution believing nations are protestant-majority, according to a study in Science.
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/313/5788/765
In that survey, 34 industrialized nations were studied and the US comes on a 33rd place just before Turkey.
The results from the Science article was also published in NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/08/14/science/sciencespecial2/20050815_EVO_GRAPHIC.html
The reason must be found elsewhere.
That is, as the Brits say, bollocks.
The issue is that this ignorant view may be perpetuated in America. I have never heard anyone in Europe utter such crap.
Let us pray that Obama can wipe public references to deities into oblivion.
I anticipate we will find tools much older, somewhere between five and fifteen million years. The reason is that that is the age of the common ancestor of humans and chimps and gorillas.
Here is a movie of a wooden hammer and anvil use in chimpanzees: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AElmAJH2G00#
There is another movie of a captive chimp (or bonobo) hammer two rocks creating sharp edges to cut meat. But I cannot find it now. They were not designed, however, but pretty rough and unpolished. Still, good for the purpose.
Designed tools were previously known since 1.5 my ago. But how would we recognize a fool's rock tool in nature? The answer it that we probably wouldn't. And therefore, we can only rely on indirect evidence like the video above.
Tools are old, really old.
Windows 7 will come in multiple versions, and one of them is called KDE but will be free, both as in free beer as well as free speech.
The point is that most people don't care about the OS as long as they can do what they want. And, most people
For example, my 78 yo grandad runs xubuntu on his 600 MHz PIII w. 128 MB RAM. He doesn't like it, it is too slow, but he is not prepared to shell out $150 on top of a laptop for $500.
This is why KDE is the next version of Windows, even if it might have xfce under the hood for those who never notice the difference. :)
"glide through the water without the need for an engine, sails or paddles"
Humbug! Don't believe it. It's all wind in sails. ;)
I don't understand the focus on clothes here. Obviously, vehicles would be the first targets. And, vehicles don't care about weight, that much.
"There have been too many times I where I couldn't find a good Gnome/GTK+ based app but found it with a KDE based app. However, that one app pulls in a lot of KDE based bloat that I don't want/need."
OTOH, as a KDE user I would rephrase that as - There have some times I where I couldn't find a good KDE based app but found it with a Gnome/GTK+ based app. However, that one app pulls in a lot of Gnome/GTK+ based bloat that I don't want/need. ;)
"No, the GPL just presumes to attempt to restrict what I do with my code that has no GPL code in it."
That IS an interesting view, which I have never heard of before. To me that sounds like Patent Law!
This kind of news leads to a CO2 (and unfortunately methane) emitting knee-jerk reaction - That study must have been payed by M$.
I'm sure, too!
Some twenty eras ago people suggested that many conflicts might better had been solved by chess. Today, a Quake Deathmatch seems more appropriate.. And, it is virtual.
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Here is a link to leaked videos of the KDE 4.2 beta!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg0ma-qKHrM
There are numerous of those on that site, Youtube.
Youtube clip of Volvo XC60 - Test drive - Elk test
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtWQPf59iJ4
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIQ2VI7pJ1o
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-moose-test.htm
If he gets a higher salary, why not? People have been motivated for less.
In other, recent news, SCO, squeaked "We own Linux. The judges were wrong, so we'll appeal".
Funny. I thought judges were right. Probably they are right in this Watchmen case, too.
Hinduism would have been better as Fortran.
It is truly old and the polytheistic setting for the monotheistic precursor to all other monotheistic religions, Zoroastrianism!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism
"really huge numbers of low priced FOSS based computers"
Sadly, most Asus EEE in Scandinavia have been sold with XP. 4 to 1 or so.
Not that they would run Steam on those machines, however.
Housing, Nursery, or a Zoo?
I think that may become the biggest obstacle.
When that is decided, should we let him/her go to school and socialize or should we let keep him locked up for study.
Yes, he realized it revolved only around his nose; read more at http://books.google.com/books?id=tvRp1whVFUsC&pg=PA812&lpg=PA812&dq=slang+%22curved+nose%22
www.patentstorm.us/patents/7243507/description.html
Unbelievably, you didn't try http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=liquid+helium+cpu+cooling&btnG=Search
Had I not bought two new computers within a year I could almost have been a fanboy. No, they were Intel as I could afford them...
The salary level for economists is generally way way higher than for scientists, even at lower positions. In fact it is so much higher it rubs away anything with a "'hard sciences' feel".
The sad part is that econometrics can be as fun as "hard science", but with a decent salary.
When you are below 30 it might not matter, but later with kids and mortgages... :)
You are a party pooper, Sir. You don't happen to read Slashdot too, by the way?
Thanks to the US people we didn't get that p**** P****. Our ***** would have been so full of luke warm ******.