Very good point: unlike humans, a sea-urchin's grandma doesnt bake cakes for her grandkids.
I guess see the 'long life' / 'no menopause' pair as an inseparable chicken-and-egg problem.
So, is it:
a) they are able to reproduce at advanced ages, and this provides evolutionary pressure to increase their lifespan, OR
b) their makeup somehow allows for them to potentially reach an advanced age, and this provides evolutionary incentive to increase the hardwired limit on the length of their reproductive careers
I undestood your argument as a), I wonder if you think the reverse (ie. b) is also possible.
I'm not sure its that simple.
Grandmas can help improve the chances of survival for their grandkids, even after menopause.
The 'selfish gene' has very complicated ways of being 'selfish', some of which might even look 'altruistic'.
I had an internship at the Redmond campus in the mid 90's.
The perks are good, the pay was good, the food was cheap and pretty good, the free arcade games were great, the facilities of course were great. I even loved the weather.
But the Bill-devotion was really spooky. People talked about 'when Bill first came into my life', kinda like he was J.C. And these were program managers who had only met him briefly.
The other thing that bugged me: calendar devotion. It was clear that we were to ship ON TIME, this meant agressively dropping any and all features that got in the way. Even pretty key features could be dropped.
"Shipping on time, shipping often" was the way to get more people to "throw their wallets at us". The quality of the software not central.
I think this really makes a lot of business sense. But what I learned is, this perpective takes some of the joy out of creating software.
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Very good point: unlike humans, a sea-urchin's grandma doesnt bake cakes for her grandkids.
I guess see the 'long life' / 'no menopause' pair as an inseparable chicken-and-egg problem.
So, is it:
a) they are able to reproduce at advanced ages, and this provides evolutionary pressure to increase their lifespan, OR
b) their makeup somehow allows for them to potentially reach an advanced age, and this provides evolutionary incentive to increase the hardwired limit on the length of their reproductive careers
I undestood your argument as a), I wonder if you think the reverse (ie. b) is also possible.
I'm not sure its that simple. Grandmas can help improve the chances of survival for their grandkids, even after menopause. The 'selfish gene' has very complicated ways of being 'selfish', some of which might even look 'altruistic'.
I may soon need to do some ghosting of XP machines myself so I'm interested in your post.
excuse my ignorance but, is the 'funny' mod on your post accurate or is the double sysprep issue a real one??
I had an internship at the Redmond campus in the mid 90's. The perks are good, the pay was good, the food was cheap and pretty good, the free arcade games were great, the facilities of course were great. I even loved the weather. But the Bill-devotion was really spooky. People talked about 'when Bill first came into my life', kinda like he was J.C. And these were program managers who had only met him briefly. The other thing that bugged me: calendar devotion. It was clear that we were to ship ON TIME, this meant agressively dropping any and all features that got in the way. Even pretty key features could be dropped. "Shipping on time, shipping often" was the way to get more people to "throw their wallets at us". The quality of the software not central. I think this really makes a lot of business sense. But what I learned is, this perpective takes some of the joy out of creating software.