Each of us alive has as many as about 2^(3500/18) or about 10^58 3500-year-old ancestors. Of course, that assumes no inbreeding, but the point is that each of us is descended from a whole bunch of people. That there should be one or even a lot of them in common isn't even surprising.
If we had all exclusively descended from one couple, 3500 years ago (rather than there being somebody 3500 years ago who just happened to be one of the up-to-10^58 ancestors of pretty much everyone alive today) we'd all be an awful lot alike. To arrive at our present diversity after only 190 generations would require a ludicrously high survivable mutation rate.
There are fewer than 30 million teenagers in the country. That means each year more than one teenager in ten contracts an STD. That means any given teenager has about a 50% chance, tops, of making it to age 20 without contracting an STD. Wha...????
They're a public company now; depending on the details (with which I'm not familiar - how typical, right?), MS could just buy them if the rumored browser actually exists and takes a huge chunk out of IE's share. I suspect, at least for now, things are set up so this wouldn't happen, but I don't know. And, things change.
You stick the array into the proper area of the brain; the 40% or so of electrodes that are contacting useful neurons are recorded from while the monkey (or, at some point in the future, the human) performs (or imagines performing) the appropriate actions - in the present case, following a moving spot on a screen with a joystick-controlled cursor. Do that for a while, and after you've got enough data it's basically just a big overblown math problem to find the relationships between neural activity and physical motion. Figure this out, and you can cut out the middleman - i.e. have the neural activity directly control the cursor on the screen. Or, in the not-too-distant future, control the artificial limb. It's very cool.
(A lot of the folks working on this are on the same hall as I am)
McDonalds holds a trademark on the term "big breakfast". People shouldn't be so surprised that Microsoft has "Windows".
Sort of lame and ridiculous, if you ask me, but that's how the sticks fall here.
...at least in the short run... right? If the image still gets downloaded, the view still gets counted, and the site still gets their half a penny or whatever. Unless the ad relies on JavaScript or something to send back the "I was seen" message... I realize I'm not sure how they work. Open mouth, insert foot...
Although you can go to the local stores (e.g. apple.hu) they're not always quite the same. For example, apple.hu won't sell you a PowerMac and asks $5000 for a base 17" PowerBook.
Of course, you can take a walk downtown and pick up a nice shiny new Mac at your choice of several local stores... Don't know what the prices would be like though.
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Each of us alive has as many as about 2^(3500/18) or about 10^58 3500-year-old ancestors. Of course, that assumes no inbreeding, but the point is that each of us is descended from a whole bunch of people. That there should be one or even a lot of them in common isn't even surprising. If we had all exclusively descended from one couple, 3500 years ago (rather than there being somebody 3500 years ago who just happened to be one of the up-to-10^58 ancestors of pretty much everyone alive today) we'd all be an awful lot alike. To arrive at our present diversity after only 190 generations would require a ludicrously high survivable mutation rate.
There are fewer than 30 million teenagers in the country. That means each year more than one teenager in ten contracts an STD. That means any given teenager has about a 50% chance, tops, of making it to age 20 without contracting an STD. Wha...????
Should be "denouncing them..." :)
They're a public company now; depending on the details (with which I'm not familiar - how typical, right?), MS could just buy them if the rumored browser actually exists and takes a huge chunk out of IE's share. I suspect, at least for now, things are set up so this wouldn't happen, but I don't know. And, things change.
Wow... That's both off-topic and just about the biggest piece of crap I've read this month. Congratulations! I don't even know how I'd mod it...
At this point the level of control the monkeys have isn't wonderful; good enough for HoMM probably, but pretty useless for any FPS games.
I have a vague memory that something like this is true... If so, there's an easy explanation. Shocking!
You stick the array into the proper area of the brain; the 40% or so of electrodes that are contacting useful neurons are recorded from while the monkey (or, at some point in the future, the human) performs (or imagines performing) the appropriate actions - in the present case, following a moving spot on a screen with a joystick-controlled cursor. Do that for a while, and after you've got enough data it's basically just a big overblown math problem to find the relationships between neural activity and physical motion. Figure this out, and you can cut out the middleman - i.e. have the neural activity directly control the cursor on the screen. Or, in the not-too-distant future, control the artificial limb. It's very cool. (A lot of the folks working on this are on the same hall as I am)
There is no feedback to the brain. It's all visual, which is still good enough for decent precision.
McDonalds holds a trademark on the term "big breakfast". People shouldn't be so surprised that Microsoft has "Windows". Sort of lame and ridiculous, if you ask me, but that's how the sticks fall here.
...to the sites /. links to, and we're talking! (though people might miss being able to use slashdot as a verb)
...at least in the short run... right? If the image still gets downloaded, the view still gets counted, and the site still gets their half a penny or whatever. Unless the ad relies on JavaScript or something to send back the "I was seen" message... I realize I'm not sure how they work. Open mouth, insert foot...
Really, I mean it. From looking at their web site one would have thought they were totally legitimate!
Although you can go to the local stores (e.g. apple.hu) they're not always quite the same. For example, apple.hu won't sell you a PowerMac and asks $5000 for a base 17" PowerBook. Of course, you can take a walk downtown and pick up a nice shiny new Mac at your choice of several local stores... Don't know what the prices would be like though.