I remember reading about a "dig" around an English hill fort where they found the same practice. But your suggestion makes a lot of sense, maybe even then it was a hangover from colder times or colder places the people had migrated from.
A file is a collection of data in one place. Like a book on your bookshelf or a letter is information in one place. On the computer the "file" you create or are after has a name and it is located somewhere on disk. Just as you have rooms in your house or folders in your filing cabinet so your hard disk you can make directories or "folders" (same thing) with their own names so you can put files into. It is much easer to find a letter in a filing cabinet than just knowing it is somewhere in your house, and it is much easier finding a letter you wrote on your computer if you put it in a folder called "letters" for example.
"File" is not an intuitive idea. And if someone doesn't get these fundamental concepts right at the beginning then they may nod and agree but they wont understand.
Not all societies bury their dead. Humans are notorious for having diverse, and perverse, behaviour. Northern Europeans once, and not that long ago either, would lay their dead out in the open to be devoured as carrion. But I'd say that generally yes the dead are buried.
The problem is that ALL of them require you to obtain orbit first.
The first nuclear rockets proposed were for ground to orbit not just space. When I was a kid I even came across the plans for one of them in my state library (and this was in Oz so I'm sure they must exist in the US)... ahh bliss. Basically, in a nutshell you had the "propellant" say hydrogen sent through the core of a lightweight fission reactor and heated dramatically... which then became the exhaust. Obviously there may be a few environmental questions about this (yes the sarcasm bit is on). I had read that in an essay by Clarke that this was the basic original idea for the use of nuclear power in rocketry... in fact one of his novels uses it, Prelude to Space I think.
I always find it amazing how when a questionable ethical action is reported people dismiss the data without really thinking about it.
It is about gene expression not changing the genes. RTFA.
The whole point is that, for example, stress on the skin may boost the expression of certain genes leaving molecular markers in the body that forensic tests could pick up. That is, the type of stress may leave markers when the other physical clues are far less obvious that simple dcapitation.
Actually I didn't list the problems. But one for instance the use of diamagnetism for levitation works for lifting something like a frog but wont work for something as big as a human.
Use of electrostatic fields to lift very light small frames works but wont work for large scale objects because for example the breakdown voltage in air. These issues are more than engineering.
I was arguing with a guy in a newsgroup about new methods of propulsion that, as usual, are being "suppressed" and I was pointed to some "papers" written in the 1950s for the US DOD about using electromagnetic fields to produce gravitational fields for spacecraft etc. Even a casual look was enough to show the ideas were about interesting electromagnetic propulsion methods, which work for small models but just wont work for anything bigger. It amazed me that these papers got anywhere in the military and irritating that they had lasted for so long without someone adding a comment that it was totally unfeasible. Eh. Physical ignorance is timeless.
Where I come from when people call themselves an atheist they talk about belief. When they dont know if there is a God they say they are agnostic. Pretty clear. Anyway, the fact you are splitting hairs about this suggests to me a hidden agenda. I suppose you are a Christian?
Sorry but you simply don't understand the meaning of the word. Theist believes in God. Atheist believes there is no God. Agnostic does not KNOW if there is a God. Notice the agnostic definition is about knowledge NOT belief.
To Muslims, Christians were considered "infidels" ie those without faith. If you do not believe in Allah, then some may consider you to be an atheist by your definition. Is this the definition you want? Or perhaps you should consider that the opposite of an idea is not its set complement. The opposite of White is Black, not non-white... you don't say that light grey is the opposite of White do you?
But if you had read the article you would have noticed that the placebo effect was blocked by the addition of naloxone a morphine blocker. All in the mind or all in the biochemistry?
You are comparing a measure applied between two sets of two individuals. The comparison should be between the average of two groups compared to two individuals. So for example, the difference between weather from Day X to Day Y (for a given set of factors e.g. temperature), compared to the difference for these factors between Month A and Month B.
Generally, the traits used to characterize a population are either independently inherited or show only varying degrees of association with one another within each population. Therefore, the combination of these traits in an individual very commonly deviates from the average combination in the population. This fact renders untenable the idea of discrete races made up chiefly of typical representatives.
Another point to consider is that this idea that humans arose in Asia has a long history. Traditionally, scholars thought humans arose in Asia because according to the Bible Paradise was in the East. Doesn't mean this has anything to do with it, but once these memes get ingrained in society they pop up from time to time.
If humans started in Asia then maybe we just haven't found a suitable fossil site as rich as those in Africa. However, for my money I'm betting on Africa. Where are the nastiest parasites of human beings ? There are some doozies in Africa. And where did most of the megafauna survive after the appearance of H. sap? That would be where the local wildlife was used to them.
About the GP comment. The existence of pottery != civilisation. The Beaker People made pottery (of course:) but were not a civilisation by any stretch. And cultures can be pretty static for a long time, people were just as smart (or smarter) during the last ice age but didn't have the right conditions for civilisation (see: Guns, Germs and Steel). And, haven't the Japanese finds been disputed?
Also the date of origin of a civilisation (thousands of years ago) says nothing about where the species started millions of years ago. And on the issue of dates, why are they comparing the Flores finds (c. 18,000 years old) with finds of 1.7 million? Makes no sense.
Here is one comment that may explain the statement:
3. There is great genetic diversity within all human populations. Pure races, in the sense of genetically homogenous populations, do not exist in the human species today, nor is there any evidence that they have ever existed in the past.
And
Generally, the traits used to characterize a population are either independently inherited or show only varying degrees of association with one another within each population. Therefore, the combination of these traits in an individual very commonly deviates from the average combination in the population. This fact renders untenable the idea of discrete races made up chiefly of typical representatives.
As I recall the variation between individuals in a human "race" is greater than the variation between the so called "races". The races are mostly an illusion.
OK so I have an email client. What should I call it? KMail (taken), Mail ? Taken from day one. The number of names is fairly limited, and the number that are registered in the real world for real products is large. The era of easy naming of applications is long gone. The most we can hope for these days is for descriptive menu items / desktop link names rather than application names: "ASDF an email client".
I didn't think much of the TFA or why this is an issue. Surely the application installer can insert the appropriate menu item or link name. It isn't even a new idea just look at gnome or say kde where firefox is shown as "Web Browser (Firefox)" in the Internet menu (Slack 10.2). Perfectly clear.
No offense. But Atlantis seems to me like the deathnell of the Stargate saga. Damn shame. I see little creativity there anymore, each episode is just disappointing and I have finally given up watching it. Its dead Jim.
As for Firefly. It's OK, but it is basically Buffy In Outer Space. BSG is far better. But that just might be because of my personal preferences.
Yeah the search for water bit irked me seriously, the design of some of the spaceships was... well what... I haven't agreed with the design of most spaceships in most SF programs anyway... and the physics always sucks (see Firefly). But I forgive those lapses, cos its always harder to get good SF on film than it is in print.
By that do you mean the emulation of battlefield witness filming? First time I saw it I thought it was brilliant. I remember, though I try to forget, seeing the original BSG. This series is so far ahead I can't believe my eyes or luck.
bad acting
Huh?
bad plot
I like stories that mess with my head, stories that are complex, make me think and leave me a bit stunned. BSG does this totally. "Lost" tries to do it but seems simple minded in comparison (though it aint bad). The plot is probably the best part of the series.
This is highly dubious. There has been a scientific myth around for some time that polar bear hairs are optical fibres. Yeah right. Just think about it, there is little sunlight at the north pole in fact none during winter when warmth is most needed, the most usable light is in fact available when the bear needs it least: summer.
Why are polar bears white? Camouflage is the best guess to catch food to supply energy, not to have optical fibre hair.
OK. When I read the New Scientist and Nature (news) articles earlier today it was clear that there is more data, I just didn't understand why it was not available. BTW, these data "points" are from my understanding a transect so lots of data associated with each "point". the parent is talking about why we haven't seen more about this before.
Conclusion: The situation is completely and hopelessly fucked. Everyone is acting in their pathetic selfish self-interest, and nobody is willing to give anything up to change anything. Whatever's going to happen is going to happen.
Sadly, I totally agree. Whatever happens, it is not going to be pretty. I remember an article in New Scientist arguing that the estimated temperature increase would not happen because we would run out of the oil to feed it. That is the optimistic view.
For America I don't know. I don't think there are going to be many "winners" out of this. Just think of the colder North and the hotter South... man the storms are going to be awesome, hate to be growing crops between the two. For my own country, Australia, I just remember Jared Diamond claiming it has the most random weather in the world... does this mean any change will be better... somehow I don't think so.
it will throw all the climate regions into chaos, and change them, which will change the local fauna and flora.
And let us not forget we aren't just talking about wildlife areas here... remember this applies to growing seasons, which if you have ever had to study anything about cereals say are incredibly fussy about the required conditions. As climate changes, even by a degree, this will make many agricultural areas unfeasible. We need more money pushed into agri science, fast.
Slashdot Mirror
I remember reading about a "dig" around an English hill fort where they found the same practice. But your suggestion makes a lot of sense, maybe even then it was a hangover from colder times or colder places the people had migrated from.
I think a better description of a file is:
"File" is not an intuitive idea. And if someone doesn't get these fundamental concepts right at the beginning then they may nod and agree but they wont understand.
My 2 cents worth anyway.
Not all societies bury their dead. Humans are notorious for having diverse, and perverse, behaviour. Northern Europeans once, and not that long ago either, would lay their dead out in the open to be devoured as carrion. But I'd say that generally yes the dead are buried.
The problem is that ALL of them require you to obtain orbit first.
The first nuclear rockets proposed were for ground to orbit not just space. When I was a kid I even came across the plans for one of them in my state library (and this was in Oz so I'm sure they must exist in the US) ... ahh bliss. Basically, in a nutshell you had the "propellant" say hydrogen sent through the core of a lightweight fission reactor and heated dramatically ... which then became the exhaust. Obviously there may be a few environmental questions about this (yes the sarcasm bit is on). I had read that in an essay by Clarke that this was the basic original idea for the use of nuclear power in rocketry ... in fact one of his novels uses it, Prelude to Space I think.
I always find it amazing how when a questionable ethical action is reported people dismiss the data without really thinking about it.
It is about gene expression not changing the genes. RTFA.
The whole point is that, for example, stress on the skin may boost the expression of certain genes leaving molecular markers in the body that forensic tests could pick up. That is, the type of stress may leave markers when the other physical clues are far less obvious that simple dcapitation.
Actually I didn't list the problems. But one for instance the use of diamagnetism for levitation works for lifting something like a frog but wont work for something as big as a human.
Use of electrostatic fields to lift very light small frames works but wont work for large scale objects because for example the breakdown voltage in air. These issues are more than engineering.
I was arguing with a guy in a newsgroup about new methods of propulsion that, as usual, are being "suppressed" and I was pointed to some "papers" written in the 1950s for the US DOD about using electromagnetic fields to produce gravitational fields for spacecraft etc. Even a casual look was enough to show the ideas were about interesting electromagnetic propulsion methods, which work for small models but just wont work for anything bigger. It amazed me that these papers got anywhere in the military and irritating that they had lasted for so long without someone adding a comment that it was totally unfeasible. Eh. Physical ignorance is timeless.
Where I come from when people call themselves an atheist they talk about belief. When they dont know if there is a God they say they are agnostic. Pretty clear. Anyway, the fact you are splitting hairs about this suggests to me a hidden agenda. I suppose you are a Christian?
"well known"? To who?
Sorry but you simply don't understand the meaning of the word. Theist believes in God. Atheist believes there is no God. Agnostic does not KNOW if there is a God. Notice the agnostic definition is about knowledge NOT belief.
To Muslims, Christians were considered "infidels" ie those without faith. If you do not believe in Allah, then some may consider you to be an atheist by your definition. Is this the definition you want? Or perhaps you should consider that the opposite of an idea is not its set complement. The opposite of White is Black, not non-white ... you don't say that light grey is the opposite of White do you?
Here I was re-reading my somewhat battered copy of "On Growth and Form" and this turns up ... sweet.
But if you had read the article you would have noticed that the placebo effect was blocked by the addition of naloxone a morphine blocker. All in the mind or all in the biochemistry?
Wrong.
You are comparing a measure applied between two sets of two individuals. The comparison should be between the average of two groups compared to two individuals. So for example, the difference between weather from Day X to Day Y (for a given set of factors e.g. temperature), compared to the difference for these factors between Month A and Month B.
Have a look here where:
Another point to consider is that this idea that humans arose in Asia has a long history. Traditionally, scholars thought humans arose in Asia because according to the Bible Paradise was in the East. Doesn't mean this has anything to do with it, but once these memes get ingrained in society they pop up from time to time.
If humans started in Asia then maybe we just haven't found a suitable fossil site as rich as those in Africa. However, for my money I'm betting on Africa. Where are the nastiest parasites of human beings ? There are some doozies in Africa. And where did most of the megafauna survive after the appearance of H. sap? That would be where the local wildlife was used to them.
About the GP comment. The existence of pottery != civilisation. The Beaker People made pottery (of course :) but were not a civilisation by any stretch. And cultures can be pretty static for a long time, people were just as smart (or smarter) during the last ice age but didn't have the right conditions for civilisation (see: Guns, Germs and Steel). And, haven't the Japanese finds been disputed?
Also the date of origin of a civilisation (thousands of years ago) says nothing about where the species started millions of years ago. And on the issue of dates, why are they comparing the Flores finds (c. 18,000 years old) with finds of 1.7 million? Makes no sense.
What criteria are you using?
A fair question.
Here is one comment that may explain the statement:
And
As I recall the variation between individuals in a human "race" is greater than the variation between the so called "races". The races are mostly an illusion.
OK so I have an email client. What should I call it? KMail (taken), Mail ? Taken from day one. The number of names is fairly limited, and the number that are registered in the real world for real products is large. The era of easy naming of applications is long gone. The most we can hope for these days is for descriptive menu items / desktop link names rather than application names: "ASDF an email client".
I didn't think much of the TFA or why this is an issue. Surely the application installer can insert the appropriate menu item or link name. It isn't even a new idea just look at gnome or say kde where firefox is shown as "Web Browser (Firefox)" in the Internet menu (Slack 10.2). Perfectly clear.
No offense. But Atlantis seems to me like the deathnell of the Stargate saga. Damn shame. I see little creativity there anymore, each episode is just disappointing and I have finally given up watching it. Its dead Jim.
As for Firefly. It's OK, but it is basically Buffy In Outer Space. BSG is far better. But that just might be because of my personal preferences.
Yeah the search for water bit irked me seriously, the design of some of the spaceships was ... well what ... I haven't agreed with the design of most spaceships in most SF programs anyway ... and the physics always sucks (see Firefly). But I forgive those lapses, cos its always harder to get good SF on film than it is in print.
shakey-cam?
By that do you mean the emulation of battlefield witness filming? First time I saw it I thought it was brilliant. I remember, though I try to forget, seeing the original BSG. This series is so far ahead I can't believe my eyes or luck.
bad acting
Huh?
bad plot
I like stories that mess with my head, stories that are complex, make me think and leave me a bit stunned. BSG does this totally. "Lost" tries to do it but seems simple minded in comparison (though it aint bad). The plot is probably the best part of the series.
Sorry I can't help thinking this has to be troll.
Motivation for this? This works under Linux. Written in TCL. If I have to use MSN to talk to someone I don't have to reboot into my Winders partition.
From casual observation I'd say the "peak" is about 2-3 times longer than the dip. I'd say the dip is on the weekend.
What I found more interesting is the exponential decay of the hits for various events. Very nice. Must work out the constants to see how "pure" it is.
This is highly dubious. There has been a scientific myth around for some time that polar bear hairs are optical fibres. Yeah right. Just think about it, there is little sunlight at the north pole in fact none during winter when warmth is most needed, the most usable light is in fact available when the bear needs it least: summer.
Why are polar bears white? Camouflage is the best guess to catch food to supply energy, not to have optical fibre hair.
Doesn't crash 1.5 here (on Win2k). Though I haven't got the plugin installed. If it requires the plugin then I think the problem lies with Apple.
Goddam lameness filter.
OK. When I read the New Scientist and Nature (news) articles earlier today it was clear that there is more data, I just didn't understand why it was not available. BTW, these data "points" are from my understanding a transect so lots of data associated with each "point". the parent is talking about why we haven't seen more about this before.
Conclusion: The situation is completely and hopelessly fucked. Everyone is acting in their pathetic selfish self-interest, and nobody is willing to give anything up to change anything. Whatever's going to happen is going to happen.
Sadly, I totally agree. Whatever happens, it is not going to be pretty. I remember an article in New Scientist arguing that the estimated temperature increase would not happen because we would run out of the oil to feed it. That is the optimistic view.
For America I don't know. I don't think there are going to be many "winners" out of this. Just think of the colder North and the hotter South ... man the storms are going to be awesome, hate to be growing crops between the two. For my own country, Australia, I just remember Jared Diamond claiming it has the most random weather in the world ... does this mean any change will be better ... somehow I don't think so.
it will throw all the climate regions into chaos, and change them, which will change the local fauna and flora.
And let us not forget we aren't just talking about wildlife areas here ... remember this applies to growing seasons, which if you have ever had to study anything about cereals say are incredibly fussy about the required conditions. As climate changes, even by a degree, this will make many agricultural areas unfeasible. We need more money pushed into agri science, fast.