You mean to say that no other mammal as caught on to this bipedal thing as yet? From the fastest cheetahs to the slowest sloths?
I don't know what he ment to say, but from a anatomical/physiologicl perspective there is noting strange with the fact that evolution/whatever places you somewhere on the scale from really fast to really endurant. Does this have an effect on how efficiently you utilize your energy sources? Oh, definitely! Unfortunately I can not seem to find a ref on this right now, but you can have a look at the difference in energy consumption between running and walking. I don't think I am extrapolating to much when think that different animals differ in energy efficiency.
The factors that determine the predisposition are numerous but some of them could be:
Anatomical construction Well, just by looking at the cheeta and the sloth you would have a pretty good guess who is the fastest, wouldn't you?:)
Muscle fiber type composition You might expect the cheeta to have extremely high concentration of Type II B in the skeletal muscles, but apparently they don't. "All else being equal, one would predict that fast species should have a high percentage of fast-twitch glycolytic (FG) fibers in their locomotor muscles. Whether this prediction holds true is unclear. For example, the cheetah has 61% fast-twitch fibers in its gastrocnemius and 83% in the vastus lateralis muscle (Williams et al., 1997), but these values are no greater than found in some of the five species studied by Ariano et al. (1973; guinea pig, rat, cat, lesser bushbaby, slow loris). In human athletes, the vastus lateralis is known to vary from up to 70% fast twitch to as low as 15%, and sprint speed is positively correlated with the amount of fast-twitch fibers (Schele and Kaiser, 1982; references in Wilmore and Costill, 1994)."
Neurological innervation To be honset I have no idéa what the difference is between the sloth and the cheeta when comparing muscle innervation. Nor is CNS differences in these species within my area. Off the top of my head I would say that you can expect to see some major differences in fiber recruitement pattern if you would study them.
The site ShipItForYou.Com's Internet Security statement is a bit strange: "ShipItForYou.Com's Internet Security is a VeriSign Secure Site. Our security is unmatched anywhere on the Internet. Your name, credit card number, and all other information are NEVER stored on the Internet. Once you enter your information, they are encrypted and sent directly to our accounting/order processing system that is NOT on the Internet."
If it is not on the Internet, how is it sent to the accounting/order processing system? Do the 'encrypt' it with Whitespace and fax it over?
Interesting comment. (Actually, I wasn't trying to be funny, apart from the last sentense.:)
"Currently we're paying people to produce software that doesn't last. We do this by the simple approach of paying them to work on software that has problems, and not paying anyone for software that doesn't have problems."
Spot on! This is not an approach that only exist in SE, though. Just look at allopathy. Do people pay MD's to stay healthy or to fix problems? Maybe this is the way people work, I don't know. If that is the case then breaking out of this habit will be a hard thing to do. Well, I guess it is since nobody has.
As I am sure you know we have a similar paradox in sw consulting. The better you get the less time things take and the less you make. Sure you can increase your houerly rate, but only to a certain degree. Having five or ten times higher consulting fee than other firms usually makes customers a bit uncomfortable.
In both cases I would say that people do not appreciate quality and that they therefore don't wont to pay for it. I guess "good enough is good enough". I wish I knew what to do about it...
I think there was a/. post some time ago (that I cannot seem to locate right now) that talked about the freeware paradox: The better freeware becomes the less you make on support.
So, in order to survive I guess you have to make shitty sw and do lots of marketing to sell your products anyway.
Just find me a customer that wants to pay for "robustness, testing, maintainability, ease of replacement, security, and verifiability" and I'll deliver.
Matt: "(seemless != the current hacks you see on Linux currently)"
r00t: " You're comparing future DragonflyBSD features with current Linux features."
I think he just meant it as an example. You know, brackets...
And besides, he put in "current" and "currently" in the same sentense so your comment seams a bit tense as well as redundant. I think we all agree that Linux will improve over time...
to produce mediocre software. World class developers would probably feel the need to write hi-end software. Hopefully they wont change their attitude so the rest of us will become....oh, wait, help, STOP!
Puh, that was scary....but I'm okey now. Thank you!
VMS was designed to be stable and to run on a narrow spectrum of reliable hardware. Windows, on the other hand, was designed to be cheap and to run on a broad range of "uncontrolled" hardware. Personally I don't think trying to add security and stability as an afterthought is a good thing, but maybe it's just me. I mean, the gamingplatform called *nix is doing pretty well.
On the other hand, David N. Cutler worked for DuPont in the 60-ties. Who knows what kind of chemicals he got his hands on...
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...I agree. A M.D. that is both ignorant and sloppy. Luckily we've never seen that before...
Come on, that would mean every human around couldn't drink milk or eat animal protiens etc. Because some people are allergic.
Sorry, but no it does not. How about thinking for awhile instead of giving a knee-jerk reaction? Oh, i forgot....you're an AC...
If the cat causes allergy, then everybody that came in contact with the cat would get an allergic reaction, right?
Take some REST instead!
Well, I was playing with you too. :)
And no, I don't need a hug. I already have a girlfriend....hehe....but thanks for asking!
OK, four people used Gopher (give or take an order of magnitude or three). How many people use WWW?
Can you say inertia? I knew you could.
I guess you've never heard of a smily or netiquette.
You might also find that studying Internet history as well as growing up can diminish your cluelessness.
...and you know, gopher was replaced by www. Maybe it's time we came up with the replacement for www...? :)
You mean to say that no other mammal as caught on to this bipedal thing as yet? From the fastest cheetahs to the slowest sloths?
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I don't know what he ment to say, but from a anatomical/physiologicl perspective there is noting strange with the fact that evolution/whatever places you somewhere on the scale from really fast to really endurant. Does this have an effect on how efficiently you utilize your energy sources? Oh, definitely! Unfortunately I can not seem to find a ref on this right now, but you can have a look at the difference in energy consumption between running and walking. I don't think I am extrapolating to much when think that different animals differ in energy efficiency.
The factors that determine the predisposition are numerous but some of them could be:
Anatomical construction
Well, just by looking at the cheeta and the sloth you would have a pretty good guess who is the fastest, wouldn't you?
Muscle fiber type composition
You might expect the cheeta to have extremely high concentration of Type II B in the skeletal muscles, but apparently they don't.
"All else being equal, one would predict that fast species should have a high percentage of fast-twitch glycolytic (FG) fibers in their locomotor muscles. Whether this prediction holds true is unclear. For example, the cheetah has 61% fast-twitch fibers in its gastrocnemius and 83% in the vastus lateralis muscle (Williams et al., 1997), but these values are no greater than found in some of the five species studied by Ariano et al. (1973; guinea pig, rat, cat, lesser bushbaby, slow loris). In human athletes, the vastus lateralis is known to vary from up to 70% fast twitch to as low as 15%, and sprint speed is positively correlated with the amount of fast-twitch fibers (Schele and Kaiser, 1982; references in Wilmore and Costill, 1994)."
Neurological innervation
To be honset I have no idéa what the difference is between the sloth and the cheeta when comparing muscle innervation. Nor is CNS differences in these species within my area. Off the top of my head I would say that you can expect to see some major differences in fiber recruitement pattern if you would study them.
On the other hand speed and endurance don't always contradict each other. Isn't biology fun?
The site ShipItForYou.Com's Internet Security statement is a bit strange:
"ShipItForYou.Com's Internet Security is a VeriSign Secure Site. Our security is unmatched anywhere on the Internet. Your name, credit card number, and all other information are NEVER stored on the Internet. Once you enter your information, they are encrypted and sent directly to our accounting/order processing system that is NOT on the Internet."
If it is not on the Internet, how is it sent to the accounting/order processing system? Do the 'encrypt' it with Whitespace and fax it over?
"We discovered som security issues on the network that were swiftly remedied by the administration" is a win-win situation for both parties.
"We discovered som security issues on the network that that the idiots at administration are to dumb to fint and correct" is not.
Actually, I think the second alternative makes you look very unhelpful and most people don't like their kind...
Interesting comment. (Actually, I wasn't trying to be funny, apart from the last sentense. :)
"Currently we're paying people to produce software that doesn't last. We do this by the simple approach of paying them to work on software that has problems, and not paying anyone for software that doesn't have problems."
Spot on! This is not an approach that only exist in SE, though. Just look at allopathy. Do people pay MD's to stay healthy or to fix problems? Maybe this is the way people work, I don't know. If that is the case then breaking out of this habit will be a hard thing to do. Well, I guess it is since nobody has.
As I am sure you know we have a similar paradox in sw consulting. The better you get the less time things take and the less you make. Sure you can increase your houerly rate, but only to a certain degree. Having five or ten times higher consulting fee than other firms usually makes customers a bit uncomfortable.
In both cases I would say that people do not appreciate quality and that they therefore don't wont to pay for it. I guess "good enough is good enough". I wish I knew what to do about it...
I think there was a /. post some time ago (that I cannot seem to locate right now) that talked about the freeware paradox: The better freeware becomes the less you make on support.
So, in order to survive I guess you have to make shitty sw and do lots of marketing to sell your products anyway.
Hmm, sounds familiar in some way...
...to say that your comment feels more like "5, Insightful" than "3, Funny" to me. Wish I had some modp to give you.
Just find me a customer that wants to pay for "robustness, testing, maintainability, ease of replacement, security, and verifiability" and I'll deliver.
Matt: "(seemless != the current hacks you see on Linux currently)"
r00t: " You're comparing future DragonflyBSD features with current Linux features."
I think he just meant it as an example. You know, brackets...
And besides, he put in "current" and "currently" in the same sentense so your comment seams a bit tense as well as redundant. I think we all agree that Linux will improve over time...
this is slashdot. I should be used to getting my submissions rejected and be content with reading the same old stories over and over again.
Please repeat after me:
SCO! SCO! SCO! BASH IE! HOPE! SCO! BASH IE! HOPE! SCO! BSD is dying! No it's not! BASH M$! HOPE! SCO!...
Since 2004-06-24 when we had HOPE Conference Gets Wozniak, Mitnick, Biafra
Shouldn't it be "Score: 5, Redundant?"
I thought that picking on M$ always gave you a good score. I am on slashdot, am I not?
to produce mediocre software. World class developers would probably feel the need to write hi-end software. Hopefully they wont change their attitude so the rest of us will become....oh, wait, help, STOP!
Puh, that was scary....but I'm okey now. Thank you!
VMS was designed to be stable and to run on a narrow spectrum of reliable hardware. Windows, on the other hand, was designed to be cheap and to run on a broad range of "uncontrolled" hardware.
Personally I don't think trying to add security and stability as an afterthought is a good thing, but maybe it's just me. I mean, the gamingplatform called *nix is doing pretty well.
On the other hand, David N. Cutler worked for DuPont in the 60-ties. Who knows what kind of chemicals he got his hands on...
Please review these references from HP:
OpenVMS status a perspektiva
Enterprise Server Consolidation in the OpenVMS Environment
"What we're trying to do is not eliminate those customers, but just diminish the number (...)" Anderson said
Puh! Being a customer, I still have a chance of survival then...
So, after all these years....when I finally found a girl on /. she's not straight. Damn!
Deap breath....k, just keep searching...
"with outstanding performance"
A 2,8 TB floppy drive....now that would be something. Actually, a 1,44TB one would be ok too...