This sounds like the frivolous science from the past decades. Before this meteorite from 'Mercury' there was a meteorite allegedly from 'Mars'. They even fooled poor president Clinton to utter upon it. http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/snc/clinton.html
It is April 1st today, but these mercurian reports from a dude called Irving came yesterday.
Don't the scientists at NASA and elsewhere have anything better to do than identify earthlings rocks as extraterrestrial. Self-deception is indeed a strong force, but this is getting out of hands.
The submitter's "I'll say that again, because that number really surprised me: 23 percent of sun-like stars have a nearly-Earth-sized planet orbiting in tight orbits within 0.25 AU of the host stars.'" and your "As Carl said, "...billions and billions..."" don't mix well with all people.
Many people get wound up for an aware agenda or an unaware one. Why? I have no serious idea, but I think that the lack of religion today, in general, coupled with the the non-scholar yet educated wish for sensation among scientists or slashdot-readers is part of the answer.
Yes, with the media hype over a new pope the last few days I think that says it all. There are more ignorant people than ever, both in absolute numbers and in relative terms. We are living in dangerous times.
Not my two-cents, but two Euros.
There is no fundamental reason why one quarter of all sun-like stars shouldn't have Earth-size objects fairly close to them, according to any theory I am aware of.
"doing our own thing — we can do exactly and only what we want, we can build an easily-testable codebase, we can use our own infrastructure, we don't have an additional layer of upstream review."
IOW, Fuck GPL and collaboration.
Canonical better find an attitude. This is why they are disliked by the Debian team and others.
This is also why I dislike Shuttleworth and Canonical - the lack of helpful upstream collaboration.
Not that I disagree with your comment about Mathematica, but I do want to point out that there are institutions for which it makes sense to download R http://www.r-project.org/ for free, even if the machine itself is way more expensive than their combined salaries.
"the insurance industry successfully lobbied the state lawmakers to pass legislation in 2011 making it more difficult for homeowners to claim sinkhole damages"
Are you trying to say the insurance industry owners shouldn't be allowed to trick uneducated and become billionaires because of that? If so, say it clearer so the politicians can understand you. Some politicians are pretty thick polo players.
Tried two dozen sites that I visit regularly. No issues. Most are top 100,000 on alexa but a few below 1,000,000.
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Please specify why the Maya UI (or any other 3D package) is easier to use than the Blender UI. I've never used Maya and would like to get some idea what are the differences.
Variance components estimates of political and social attitudes suggest a substantial level of genetic influence, but the results have been challenged because they rely on data from twins only. In this analysis, we include responses from parents and nontwin full siblings of twins, account for measurement error by using a panel design, and estimate genetic and environmental variance by maximum-likelihood structural equation modeling. By doing so, we address the central concerns of critics, including that the twin-only design offers no verification of either the equal environments or random mating assumptions. Moving beyond the twin-only design leads to the conclusion that for most political and social attitudes, genetic influences account for an even greater proportion of individual differences than reported by studies using more limited data and more elementary estimation techniques. These findings make it increasingly difficult to deny that—however indirectly—genetics plays a role in the formation of political and social attitudes.
How about ethnicity in tropical countries and blushing? I come from Europe and don't meet dark colored people very often so I'm not sure if I'm way off. But can you really see a very dark colored person blush? If not and if humans evolved in Africa, blushing may be a really weak cause for retaining something as complex as color vision. And as most of our non-human relatives have color vision the theory has lost all credibility.
Given the so-called epicness for a pay-as-you-pay-ass-game: "cost in damages are still being calculated, but early totals reach beyond 700 billion for both sides combined" I think the article is bloody sparse in details.
It is as if nothing really happened.
No videos to document the event. Nothing re-created.
Until that is publicly available, I'm not willing to believe in it but defer it as minor blip from a sinking company's black box shot to near death in the intergalactic struggle for omnipresence in the ominously luguber gaming world.
A wormhole into a can of worms? I doubt it. Wallace has never critized Darwin publicly as far as I know, and I doubt in secrecy either. Did Victorian English ever use blunt language in writing? I don't really know but I suspect they didn't. I some of the summaries to the scanned pages and find it hard to believe there was ever
Intrepid imaginaut (1970940): "Why do you think neanderthals had dark hair and brown eyes? Doesn't it seem a little odd that the only place you can find blonde hair, red hair, blue or green eyes and white skin also happens to be the same location that the neanderthals were mostly last seen in?"
Because
"A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today. [...] Originally, we all had brown eyes”, said Professor Eiberg from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. “But a genetic mutation affecting the OCA2 gene in our chromosomes resulted in the creation of a “switch”, which literally “turned off” the ability to produce brown eyes”. The OCA2 gene codes for the so-called P protein, which is involved in the production of melanin, the pigment that gives colour to our hair, eyes and skin. The “switch”, which is located in the gene adjacent to OCA2 does not, however, turn off the gene entirely, but rather limits its action to reducing the production of melanin in the iris – effectively “diluting” brown eyes to blue."
Yes, dark hair and brown eyes are the plesiomorphic traits. However, their breasts probably are way too large to be primitive and their noses are too narrow too to be it too. Still, I found those breasts really interesting and to be sure about their authenticity it would be nice to examine them more in detail. If they turn out to be of the primitive type I can go primitive too; maybe I have more of those plesiomorphic traits than I ever knew.
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This sounds like the frivolous science from the past decades. Before this meteorite from 'Mercury' there was a meteorite allegedly from 'Mars'. They even fooled poor president Clinton to utter upon it. http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/snc/clinton.html
It is April 1st today, but these mercurian reports from a dude called Irving came yesterday.
Don't the scientists at NASA and elsewhere have anything better to do than identify earthlings rocks as extraterrestrial. Self-deception is indeed a strong force, but this is getting out of hands.
'zlatanera', a Swedish neologism from the French neologism 'zlataner'.
See also:
http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/zlataner
http://www.20minutes.fr/sport/1108105-verbe-zlataner-entrera-dictionnaire
http://nesn.com/2012/12/sweden-adds-zlataner-to-dictionary-honoring-zlatan-ibrahimovics-dominance-on-soccer-field/
and not when they are in jail and want to flog them to Hollywood or some newspaper owned by Mr Scam himself, Rupert Murdoch.
Or, a series of small interrelated projects.
That is the customary approach I've seen the last decade.
If you re-read what I wrote I think you'll see that I said the same thing.
The submitter's "I'll say that again, because that number really surprised me: 23 percent of sun-like stars have a nearly-Earth-sized planet orbiting in tight orbits within 0.25 AU of the host stars.'" and your "As Carl said, "...billions and billions..."" don't mix well with all people.
Many people get wound up for an aware agenda or an unaware one. Why? I have no serious idea, but I think that the lack of religion today, in general, coupled with the the non-scholar yet educated wish for sensation among scientists or slashdot-readers is part of the answer.
Yes, with the media hype over a new pope the last few days I think that says it all. There are more ignorant people than ever, both in absolute numbers and in relative terms. We are living in dangerous times.
Not my two-cents, but two Euros.
There is no fundamental reason why one quarter of all sun-like stars shouldn't have Earth-size objects fairly close to them, according to any theory I am aware of.
"doing our own thing — we can do exactly and only what we want, we can build an easily-testable codebase, we can use our own infrastructure, we don't have an additional layer of upstream review."
IOW, Fuck GPL and collaboration.
Canonical better find an attitude. This is why they are disliked by the Debian team and others.
This is also why I dislike Shuttleworth and Canonical - the lack of helpful upstream collaboration.
That is the BIG expectation.
Very few like it and buy it. The new bruiser interface has ruined it.
Windows phones? less than 2% of the market share. Could you have a worse model for an interface?
Not that I disagree with your comment about Mathematica, but I do want to point out that there are institutions for which it makes sense to download R http://www.r-project.org/ for free, even if the machine itself is way more expensive than their combined salaries.
LibreOffice had 16% market share already in 2010 next to MS Office 56% http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey?platform=combined And now from http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/08/libreoffice_40_ships/
"LibreOffice 4.0 ships with new features, better looks. Slowly closing the gap with Microsoft Office"
"the insurance industry successfully lobbied the state lawmakers to pass legislation in 2011 making it more difficult for homeowners to claim sinkhole damages"
Are you trying to say the insurance industry owners shouldn't be allowed to trick uneducated and become billionaires because of that? If so, say it clearer so the politicians can understand you. Some politicians are pretty thick polo players.
Tried two dozen sites that I visit regularly. No issues. Most are top 100,000 on alexa but a few below 1,000,000.
Please specify why the Maya UI (or any other 3D package) is easier to use than the Blender UI. I've never used Maya and would like to get some idea what are the differences.
Please be specific.
From the article Not by Twins Alone: Using the Extended Family Design to Investigate Genetic Influence on Political Beliefs
Variance components estimates of political and social attitudes suggest a substantial level of genetic influence, but the results have been challenged because they rely on data from twins only. In this analysis, we include responses from parents and nontwin full siblings of twins, account for measurement error by using a panel design, and estimate genetic and environmental variance by maximum-likelihood structural equation modeling. By doing so, we address the central concerns of critics, including that the twin-only design offers no verification of either the equal environments or random mating assumptions. Moving beyond the twin-only design leads to the conclusion that for most political and social attitudes, genetic influences account for an even greater proportion of individual differences than reported by studies using more limited data and more elementary estimation techniques. These findings make it increasingly difficult to deny that—however indirectly—genetics plays a role in the formation of political and social attitudes.
The article can be found here.
This is complex indeed.
I doubt this has anything to do with any bad news
for Google. It is my guess Schmidt just wants the
money here and now. Totally understandable.
How about ethnicity in tropical countries and blushing? I come from Europe and don't meet dark colored people very often so I'm not sure if I'm way off. But can you really see a very dark colored person blush? If not and if humans evolved in Africa, blushing may be a really weak cause for retaining something as complex as color vision. And as most of our non-human relatives have color vision the theory has lost all credibility.
Yeah, but the shows on it beats it hands down.
Thanks. Excellent!
Strange the article didn't include any of that.
Given the so-called epicness for a pay-as-you-pay-ass-game: "cost in damages are still being calculated, but early totals reach beyond 700 billion for both sides combined" I think the article is bloody sparse in details.
It is as if nothing really happened.
No videos to document the event. Nothing re-created.
Until that is publicly available, I'm not willing to believe in it but defer it as minor blip from a sinking company's black box shot to near death in the intergalactic struggle for omnipresence in the ominously luguber gaming world.
A wormhole into a can of worms? I doubt it. Wallace has never critized Darwin publicly as far as I know, and I doubt in secrecy either. Did Victorian English ever use blunt language in writing? I don't really know but I suspect they didn't. I some of the summaries to the scanned pages and find it hard to believe there was ever
Yes, Wallace is our too little sung hero. He is not unsung (e.g. http://wallacefund.info/song-about-alfred-russel-wallace, http://wallacefund.info/mr-darwin-mr-wallace-mr-matthew-song-mr-haines) and I've raised many a toast to his memory!
Wait, why should I?
"The telcos *WISH* that having a phone connection were as crucial to everyday life as Internet access..."
Where I live this has already happened.
and why should they... Scanners+email+internet have replaced that function, but are also what many teenagers don't know how to use.
Todays' kids take a photo with their smartphone and mms it. That's mobile phone systems, not the good old and tried internet with cables and dirt.
Intrepid imaginaut (1970940): "Why do you think neanderthals had dark hair and brown eyes? Doesn't it seem a little odd that the only place you can find blonde hair, red hair, blue or green eyes and white skin also happens to be the same location that the neanderthals were mostly last seen in?"
Because
"A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today. [...] Originally, we all had brown eyes”, said Professor Eiberg from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine. “But a genetic mutation affecting the OCA2 gene in our chromosomes resulted in the creation of a “switch”, which literally “turned off” the ability to produce brown eyes”. The OCA2 gene codes for the so-called P protein, which is involved in the production of melanin, the pigment that gives colour to our hair, eyes and skin. The “switch”, which is located in the gene adjacent to OCA2 does not, however, turn off the gene entirely, but rather limits its action to reducing the production of melanin in the iris – effectively “diluting” brown eyes to blue."
From http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080130170343.htm
"Neanderthal extinction hypotheses are plausible explanations on how Neanderthals became extinct around 30,000 years ago."
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal_extinction_hypotheses
So, the Neanderthals died out some 20,000 years _before_ there were blue eyes.
And no, the large dinosaurs like T-Rex weren't around at that time either.
Yes, dark hair and brown eyes are the plesiomorphic traits. However, their breasts probably are way too large to be primitive and their noses are too narrow too to be it too. Still, I found those breasts really interesting and to be sure about their authenticity it would be nice to examine them more in detail. If they turn out to be of the primitive type I can go primitive too; maybe I have more of those plesiomorphic traits than I ever knew.
Possibly, many dogs will be happy as will their Slashdot counterparts.
However, this does not equate the general public as a whole, who will be pissed off.
Profanities aren't for sissies.