Your use of the word "designed" is telling. No structures within the brain were designed - they evolved. If they served no purpose that improved genetic survival, there would have been no refinement of the structures. My guess is that the first fish that could figure out that there were more fish on his left than on his right, and turned to the left probably started us on the way to the Calculus.
Mathematics was designed to work within the neural circuitry of the human brain, not the other way 'round. Perhaps, the Pirahã had little environmental pressure to retain or develop the circuitry for mathematical skills.
TV Personalities peers are not scientists - they are TV people, so peer review is dubious. Viewers of television programs such as this are far more interested in good TV than in science, so their feedback is of dubious value. Do you have any evidence that they actually are open to viewer feedback? Sure they say they are, but if you accept there claim without substantiation, you have failed to apply scientific priciples yourself.
I have seen the program several times. I have been amazed at how lame their tests sometimes are, particularly when using Buddy the wonder dummy, or whatever they have named him, and how they clearly do not apply critical thinking in the design of their experiments, nor in the conclusions they make from them. In how many episodes have they applied thrust off-center and sent the dummy in circles rather than down range?
RTFA? Are you crazy? This is USA Toady we're talking about here. Where's the colorful graph that summarizes (misleads the reader as to the content of) the story?
PS Toady started out as a typo, but I kinda like it.
Since the sliding scale is not aligned properly with the fixed ones, it is a few percent shorter in my browsers here at work (Opera, Internet Explorer 6.0), it shows that 4x2=8.05. The slide should be extended another decade and there ought to be a means to move both slider and rule together so that one can view results greater than 10.
Using a live CD or other means to prevent malware is great, but these people will want to return to the same websites, and a volatile browser session does not support that well. So make sure you set up a homepage on Yahoo! or Google with their favorites.
Maybe someone can suggest a good homepage that would be quite suitable.
Since this is an open standard, how could it possibly restrain competition? Clearly you do not understand how magnimus Microsoft is being in sharing this wonderful document with all of us.
You want anonymity. If you were to (re)discover how to run cars on water, the oil companies will either discredit you - making you look like a raving lunatic, or they would "disappear" you. The risk is greatly reduced with anonymity. I suggest you take your invention and file it away, or better yet - burn it!
You will receive no further warnings on this subject.
Comcast does not include the V-Chip encoding with these OnDemand shows. As a consequence, users who have set their TVs to not accept adult content do not have the control that Comcast touts in its advertising. I suspect that someone will sue in... Five... Four... Three...
Electric motors have gobs of torque at very low speed, but they don't have much left at higher rpm. This makes them a great fit with a gasoline engine, especially a turbocharged one which produce maxmum torque at higher rpms - the motor gets the car off the line quickly and the engine takes over at some point. Diesel engines have lots of low speed torque, and it tapers off at higher speed, so the electric motor doesn't bring anything to the party.
A patent does not apply to doing the thing, it applies to how to do the thing. After the fact recognition of how obvious the invention was is inappropriate - if I am smart enough nothing you can invent is not obvious in hindsight. Patents are about being first to create a product or process, recognizing its value, and capitalizing on that value by seeking patent protection. Eli Whitney's cotton gin did not do anything new, it did it efficiently, he made little money from his invention because a person can copy a patented item for his own use.
I believe that, while the patent is valid in principle, since MS failed to actively defend the patent initially they cannot start enforcing it now. This is because every time MS let a product enter the market that was "MS compatible" they leveraged the availabililty of those products to increase MS OS appeal. Now that they dominate the market, they cannot be allowed to change the rules to their further benefit.
TCO for a racehorse is greater than that of a gerbil.
Gerbil's do not command significant stud fees, nor win million dollar purses. Racehorses that do invariably have a very high TCO, but the ROI (Return On Investment) is greater still.
People who confuse cost with value for an asset should be ignored or taken advantage of whenever possible.
The public have a disturbing lack of understanding of the scientific process. Yes, climate change is a hot issue, and rightly so! If an issue is hot (I hope you did not intend the pun), it has become an emotional rather than analytical one. This is the crux of the problem. Everything that follows in your argument is emotional and full of logical fallacies. It is clear that you, and others like you, have no respect for the scientific process, but are willing to capitalize on the public's lack of understanding of the scientific process.
Searching for "evidence of warming" is not science, it is pop science.
Your post recieving a "4, Informative" shows just how important a good catch line is, and how what follows is largely irrelevant.
Since beer comes in six packs, any system that is not loaded in multiples of six is seriously flawed.
Makes as much sense as buying a package of ten weiners and a package of either eight or twelve buns..
How about, "We get paid to play this song." announced before each song - of course, the language would be slightly more obscure. It meets the FCC rules, and lets the radio station take payola. If one reads the article carefully, you will note that there is more posturing than substance in the FCC statements.
Christian tolerance teaches me to tolerate people's rights to choose whatever religious belief they want, even if they are wrong.
Let me point it out for you: you're assuming you're right and that non-christians are wrong. That's not tolerance, that's religious blindness.
You need to brush up on your Logic.
It merely states that good Christians should tolerate all other Christians. Good Christians do not have to be tolerant of those whose religious beliefs are right. Therefore good Christians CAN hate Moslems.;-)
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Your use of the word "designed" is telling. No structures within the brain were designed - they evolved. If they served no purpose that improved genetic survival, there would have been no refinement of the structures. My guess is that the first fish that could figure out that there were more fish on his left than on his right, and turned to the left probably started us on the way to the Calculus.
Mathematics was designed to work within the neural circuitry of the human brain, not the other way 'round. Perhaps, the Pirahã had little environmental pressure to retain or develop the circuitry for mathematical skills.
TV Personalities peers are not scientists - they are TV people, so peer review is dubious. Viewers of television programs such as this are far more interested in good TV than in science, so their feedback is of dubious value. Do you have any evidence that they actually are open to viewer feedback? Sure they say they are, but if you accept there claim without substantiation, you have failed to apply scientific priciples yourself. I have seen the program several times. I have been amazed at how lame their tests sometimes are, particularly when using Buddy the wonder dummy, or whatever they have named him, and how they clearly do not apply critical thinking in the design of their experiments, nor in the conclusions they make from them. In how many episodes have they applied thrust off-center and sent the dummy in circles rather than down range?
RTFA? Are you crazy? This is USA Toady we're talking about here. Where's the colorful graph that summarizes (misleads the reader as to the content of) the story? PS Toady started out as a typo, but I kinda like it.
Since the sliding scale is not aligned properly with the fixed ones, it is a few percent shorter in my browsers here at work (Opera, Internet Explorer 6.0), it shows that 4x2=8.05. The slide should be extended another decade and there ought to be a means to move both slider and rule together so that one can view results greater than 10.
The (lack of) stability of the Operating System prevents running a computer for such marathon sessions.
I hate to break this to you, but Americans lost in every battle of the Civil War.
Using a live CD or other means to prevent malware is great, but these people will want to return to the same websites, and a volatile browser session does not support that well. So make sure you set up a homepage on Yahoo! or Google with their favorites. Maybe someone can suggest a good homepage that would be quite suitable.
I better latch onto some of that SCOX stock before it the run-up.
Since this is an open standard, how could it possibly restrain competition? Clearly you do not understand how magnimus Microsoft is being in sharing this wonderful document with all of us.
You want anonymity. If you were to (re)discover how to run cars on water, the oil companies will either discredit you - making you look like a raving lunatic, or they would "disappear" you. The risk is greatly reduced with anonymity. I suggest you take your invention and file it away, or better yet - burn it!
You will receive no further warnings on this subject.
Comcast does not include the V-Chip encoding with these OnDemand shows. As a consequence, users who have set their TVs to not accept adult content do not have the control that Comcast touts in its advertising. I suspect that someone will sue in ... Five ... Four ... Three ...
Golden parachutes will preclude any cost savings to be gained by ousting the people in power at SCO.
Electric motors have gobs of torque at very low speed, but they don't have much left at higher rpm. This makes them a great fit with a gasoline engine, especially a turbocharged one which produce maxmum torque at higher rpms - the motor gets the car off the line quickly and the engine takes over at some point. Diesel engines have lots of low speed torque, and it tapers off at higher speed, so the electric motor doesn't bring anything to the party.
If you want to compete with the industry powerhouses like Radioshack you have to use the latest technlogy.
DoubleClick is not accessible from any computer I use. I don't believe a change in its ownership will change that
I believe that, while the patent is valid in principle, since MS failed to actively defend the patent initially they cannot start enforcing it now. This is because every time MS let a product enter the market that was "MS compatible" they leveraged the availabililty of those products to increase MS OS appeal. Now that they dominate the market, they cannot be allowed to change the rules to their further benefit.
How-to websites are just plain dangerous.
Gerbil's do not command significant stud fees, nor win million dollar purses. Racehorses that do invariably have a very high TCO, but the ROI (Return On Investment) is greater still.
People who confuse cost with value for an asset should be ignored or taken advantage of whenever possible.
Searching for "evidence of warming" is not science, it is pop science.
Your post recieving a "4, Informative" shows just how important a good catch line is, and how what follows is largely irrelevant.
Since beer comes in six packs, any system that is not loaded in multiples of six is seriously flawed. Makes as much sense as buying a package of ten weiners and a package of either eight or twelve buns..
How about, "We get paid to play this song." announced before each song - of course, the language would be slightly more obscure. It meets the FCC rules, and lets the radio station take payola. If one reads the article carefully, you will note that there is more posturing than substance in the FCC statements.
The war is not over until people are buying the winner to replace the the loser, and that is a long way off.
Four Minutes! You must have a low speed connection.
If I were a conspiracy theorist, I might conclude that this was sham to discredit the FSF movement.