Hatta's right here. There have been a number of studies that show that "modern" human genetic diversity was widest in Africa, and that some of those people moved north to Europe, and some of those people moved to Asia, and some of them moved to Australia and the Pacific Islands in various groups, and others of them moved to North America. Some of the Europeans hung out with Neanderthals, and some of the Asians hung out with Denisovans, and of course there were mutations along the way, like the ones that let the Northwest Europeans drink milk as adults (and separately, the ones that let the MauMau drink milk.)
But the folks who went to different parts of Africa had a really wide genetic range compared to the ones who stayed in Kenya or went north.
A Finnish friend of mine describes the similarity between Finnish and Hungarian as "kind of like the similarity between English and Russian." Yes, they're Uralic and not Indo-European, and there are some grammatical similarities and word roots, but they're nowhere close enough to understand each other (unlike Finnish and Estonian.)
But genetically, Hungary's in the middle of Europe, and all sorts of people have passed through there on their way to somewhere else, or when trying to conquer them or all of Europe or Asia. Finland's off at the northern edge, and while they've occasionally been conquered by Vikings or Russians, and some of the people have been nomadic, it's a lot more stable.
At least in Israel, where religion affects whether you can get citizenship, the ultra-orthodox parties have tended to only recognize converts to orthodoxy. Converting to Reform Judaism isn't good enough for many of them, and even converting to Conservative Judaism isn't enough for some of them.
For bigots who want to beat up Jews, the fact that somebody's now practicing Catholicism usually isn't a problem. That's especially true here in the US, where those bigots usually also don't like Catholics, and being a Jewish Muslim would just be a double target. It may be somewhat different in Catholic parts of Europe, but probably not much, because haters are still haters, and people they can beat up are still people they can beat up.
(I'll leave the Jews for Jesus and Jews for Muhammad discussions to other people, preferably in other places.)
White people may not have had arranged marriages, except in isolated communities like polygamous Mormons. For slaves it was a different issue. I don't know about the Native American practices, but they probably varied by tribe.
(Arraigned marriages, on the other hand, were usually handled informally, with the girl's father bringing his shotgun to inform the boy that he was going to marry her.)
The groups in the US who consider themselves "conservative" or "far-right" seldom advocate a society without government intervention. Most of them are in favor of lots of government intervention, but only in some areas, and only supporting them and their interests. Lots of them approve of wars against Communism, and you don't get much more interventionist than war. (Of course, Muslim is the new Commie.) Lots of them approve of government making lots of social policies, and keeping the poor people and foreigners in their places (even if they're less concerned about what color the poor are than they used to be), and about banning "obscenity" (are vibrators legal in Texas yet?), and deciding who's allowed to get married.
And they may be opposed to some kinds of government intervention in business (like environmental or worker safety regulations), but they sure want their defense contracts, and their "intellectual property" protection. And whether they like free trade or protectionism depends a lot on the business they're in (for instance, steel companies got Bush to support protectionist legislation, even though it made steel more expensive for American car manufacturers.)
And when you're talking about European far-right parties, a lot of them aren't particularly in favor of civil discourse anyway.
He wanted to show he was "pure" enough to join the cool kids who beat up people they don't like. Maybe he's not doing anything directly bad with the genetic testing, but he's presumably trying to join them so he can help them make the world worse for people he doesn't like.
And back in the alleged good old days, private schools or social clubs didn't need genetic testing to decide who was Jewish, because they usually knew who your family were and whether they were their type of people, or if they didn't, you weren't getting in anyway. There were tricks, like giving your kids traditional English names like "Irving", but that only lasted a little while before everybody figured it out.
On the other hand, I do know a number of people who've done the "23&Me" ancestry-testing thing, and apparently most of the Ashkenazis in the US are at most 4th cousins of each other. There's been a lot of recent work showing that the Jews have mostly stayed in a few close-knit groups since the Diaspora, not mixing that much with either the Christian, Muslim, or pagan communities around them. I don't know if anyone's done much study on the Roma.
Layer 2 is bridging. Layer 3 is routing. Switching used to be doing bridging fast and cheaply using specialized hardware, but if they want to throw in routing features in the same box, that's still fine. And usually the routing in a Layer 3 switch is dumber than the routing in a router, though that's usually deliberate marketing (leaving out BGP so you still get to buy a Real Router.)
Wow - maybe I am better off with 32-bit Win7? Firefox crashes on me very frequently, probably because Win7 won't let me use swap space to get past the 4GB RAM limit, and FF+Flash is a bit of a memory hog (though not as bad as Chrome.)
And here I'd just been going to rant about "Does this mean Firefox won't crash as often?"!
No. But a 50-year-old once-famous ex-footballer can get a booth babe type job. Step right up and have the Champ autograph your router (or equivalent, if it's an auto-business trade show, or whatever.)
If the product you're selling is stripper poles, or g-strings, or stiletto heels with adequate ankle support, then having girls pole dancing would be appropriate. But if you're trying to sell those products at the Consumer Electronics Show, somebody clearly got confused about which trade show was in Vegas that week.
Well, yeah. I've been to technical trade shows in San Francisco where some vendor had the skimpily dressed booth babes, and what it said was that they totally failed to understand their audience. Not only is it disrespecting the women who work in the industry, it's also telling the men "We think you're more interested in ogling babes than in finding out anything specific about our product" (and also saying "We didn't even think to bring both genders of irrelevant eye candy, does somebody other than straight guys work in this business?") At least one time that happened was at my previous job, where not only had I worked for female technical managers for a decade, but also the sales VP and her boss that we supported were there, hoping to discuss business development. The vendor with the booth babes didn't get their time.
I'm sorry, I'd rather talk to the woman who developed the critical features for the current release of your product (assuming the developers speak English) or at least to some marketing/sales person who knows what they've brought and why it's interesting, or if you're going to have somebody who's not specifically about your company, hire $RANDOM_FAMOUS_HACKER to tell stories about how hopelessly broken some critical infrastructure is and how it needs to be fixed or replaced, and then let your sales people talk about how you can help.
(Of course, saying we're insulted about being bribed with eye candy doesn't mean we're above being bribed with chocolate candy, or blinky marketing swag, or raffling off an iPad if we don't have to wait too long. And bribing us with coffee is a way to let us stay on the show floor longer, near your booth, as opposed to ducking out because our eyes are glazing over.)
The original view of IPv6 addressing was that the host portion was going to be assigned automagically based on your MAC address, similar to the way Novell Netware IPX and XNS did things, so not only would that provide trackability to individual computers for traffic from your home location, but if you took your laptop or cellphone somewhere else, the host portion would still be the same, just showing "Your laptop at Starbucks" instead of "Your laptop at home". Eventually, of course, 48-bit MACs got replaced with 64-bit EUI-64, leading to the/48-vs-/56-vs-/65 fights, and SLAAC-vs-DHCP6 fights, and to IPv6 Address Privacy Extensions, so it's a bit less of a concern, just messier.
Also, there are some genetic differences that make broccoli and many other cabbages taste bitter to some people. (And similarly, there are genes that affect whether cilantro (aka coriander leaf) tastes really bad to some people.) I love the stuff, but President Bush was well known to be one of those people who hated broccoli, and most people have been kind enough to attribute it to genetics rather than his having been a spoiled child.
If you hang out with genetics geeks, eventually they're going to hand you pieces of blotter paper and see how they taste to you. If suddenly the whole world turns shiny, please introduce me to your friends, but usually they're either going to taste like paper or they're going to taste like really nasty bitter stuff, depending on which versions of several flavor-tasting genes you've got.
Also, to tie this vaguely back to IPv6, eventually you're going to run out of asparagus, there won't be any more in the stores, so you'll have to eat broccoli and cabbages until the summer veggies start to come in.
Normally, no - you either get your choice of a board that's shaped like a standard Arduino and can support the Arduino shields, or else a board (such as the Teensy or Really Bare Bones Board) that's narrower and has all the pins on 1/10" spacing so it can plug directly into a standard breadboard, leaving you room to connect it to other things. While most of the Arduino connectors are on 1/10" spacing, a few of them are offset for historical backward compatibility reasons.
One cool thing about the Raspberry Pi is that the OS is entirely on the SD card, so if you want to experiment with other OSs, or want to make a backup, or trash the one you're using, etc., you can just pop out the card and read it in a standard reader instead of "installing" things onto the on-board flash by negotiating with a BIOS.
If the Via APC can do this, then I'm fine with you calling Android a better OS, because you can easily replace it if you don't like it. If not, then it's much more limited. But still, Yay! for more memory.
The big differences between Arduinoish models are mainly
Do they have on-board programming support (USB/FTDI) or do they need an external programming interface board (which will cost you $10-20, or you can use another Arduino to do it.)
Do they have the new full-featured USB support that's in the Leonardo (which unfortunately means using a surface-mount AVR chip - there isn't a DIP with those features)?
Do they support standard Arduino shield interfaces (weird pin-spacing and all)?
Do they plug conveniently into a breadboard (thus, non-shield models, and usually small)?
CPU model and speed (some use the older 168 instead of the 328, some only run at lower clock speeds, typically at 3.3v instead of 5v.)
How many pins? (The Arduino Mega versions have a lot more pins.)
Do they have any extra features added? (Often Zigbee or other radio.)
How music affects job performance depends a whole lot on what kind of work you're doing. What you need (if anything) is much different for an engineering design job where you need to be concentrating on precise visual and logical content than for the supermarket bakery job I used to have, or driving, or reading a lot, or other things. And even though you haven't figured out that "rap" long ago became the old-school stuff that informs hip-hop, and is no longer the noise that kids are listening to today (:-), I find it extremely distracting for many kinds of work because it's highly verbal as well as percussive.
I used to live somewhere that the Grateful Dead Hour was on in the evenings when I'd be using the computer. It was usually really pleasant, but occasionally I'd notice that I'd drifted off mentally during a jam and hadn't actually typed anything in 15 minutes. Jazz can do the same thing. Pop does a lot less of that, because it's mostly intended for short-attention-span radio.
The cost-benefit analysis is "It used to be expensive, but now it's pretty cheap, and it looks like it might be useful." And while from a civil liberties perspective I really don't like it, from a technologist perspective I've got to say that it's gotten pretty cheap and it's only going to get cheaper, so get used to it. Sigh...
A decade or so ago, when San Francisco wanted to tear down a major highway, they video-recorded the license plates of many of the cars using the highway, used prison labor to read the license plates, and sent people a postcard saying "We're tearing down the freeway next month, please find an alternate route to drive to work." It didn't have to be perfect, and didn't need perfect compliance, but enough people got the message that when they actually started the highway work, it didn't cause a massive traffic jam. These days they'd have a faster cheaper machine to read and scan the plates, and similar technology has been on the market for a while for doing parking enforcement.
So you're doing 34-80 meg **DSL* service over 12000-foot copper pairs? No, didn't think so. You don't get to that kind of speed without deploying DSLAMs a lot closer to the customer's house, and feeding them with fiber. Deciding to do that or not is a business decision, but it's not just DSL at that point.
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Hatta's right here. There have been a number of studies that show that "modern" human genetic diversity was widest in Africa, and that some of those people moved north to Europe, and some of those people moved to Asia, and some of them moved to Australia and the Pacific Islands in various groups, and others of them moved to North America. Some of the Europeans hung out with Neanderthals, and some of the Asians hung out with Denisovans, and of course there were mutations along the way, like the ones that let the Northwest Europeans drink milk as adults (and separately, the ones that let the MauMau drink milk.)
But the folks who went to different parts of Africa had a really wide genetic range compared to the ones who stayed in Kenya or went north.
Sure. But he's doing the tests so he can join a party of bullies and thugs who hate people who are different from them.
A Finnish friend of mine describes the similarity between Finnish and Hungarian as "kind of like the similarity between English and Russian." Yes, they're Uralic and not Indo-European, and there are some grammatical similarities and word roots, but they're nowhere close enough to understand each other (unlike Finnish and Estonian.)
But genetically, Hungary's in the middle of Europe, and all sorts of people have passed through there on their way to somewhere else, or when trying to conquer them or all of Europe or Asia. Finland's off at the northern edge, and while they've occasionally been conquered by Vikings or Russians, and some of the people have been nomadic, it's a lot more stable.
At least in Israel, where religion affects whether you can get citizenship, the ultra-orthodox parties have tended to only recognize converts to orthodoxy. Converting to Reform Judaism isn't good enough for many of them, and even converting to Conservative Judaism isn't enough for some of them.
For bigots who want to beat up Jews, the fact that somebody's now practicing Catholicism usually isn't a problem. That's especially true here in the US, where those bigots usually also don't like Catholics, and being a Jewish Muslim would just be a double target. It may be somewhat different in Catholic parts of Europe, but probably not much, because haters are still haters, and people they can beat up are still people they can beat up.
(I'll leave the Jews for Jesus and Jews for Muhammad discussions to other people, preferably in other places.)
White people may not have had arranged marriages, except in isolated communities like polygamous Mormons. For slaves it was a different issue. I don't know about the Native American practices, but they probably varied by tribe.
(Arraigned marriages, on the other hand, were usually handled informally, with the girl's father bringing his shotgun to inform the boy that he was going to marry her.)
The groups in the US who consider themselves "conservative" or "far-right" seldom advocate a society without government intervention. Most of them are in favor of lots of government intervention, but only in some areas, and only supporting them and their interests. Lots of them approve of wars against Communism, and you don't get much more interventionist than war. (Of course, Muslim is the new Commie.) Lots of them approve of government making lots of social policies, and keeping the poor people and foreigners in their places (even if they're less concerned about what color the poor are than they used to be), and about banning "obscenity" (are vibrators legal in Texas yet?), and deciding who's allowed to get married.
And they may be opposed to some kinds of government intervention in business (like environmental or worker safety regulations), but they sure want their defense contracts, and their "intellectual property" protection. And whether they like free trade or protectionism depends a lot on the business they're in (for instance, steel companies got Bush to support protectionist legislation, even though it made steel more expensive for American car manufacturers.)
And when you're talking about European far-right parties, a lot of them aren't particularly in favor of civil discourse anyway.
Earth looks really good in your rear-view mirror!
He wanted to show he was "pure" enough to join the cool kids who beat up people they don't like. Maybe he's not doing anything directly bad with the genetic testing, but he's presumably trying to join them so he can help them make the world worse for people he doesn't like.
And back in the alleged good old days, private schools or social clubs didn't need genetic testing to decide who was Jewish, because they usually knew who your family were and whether they were their type of people, or if they didn't, you weren't getting in anyway. There were tricks, like giving your kids traditional English names like "Irving", but that only lasted a little while before everybody figured it out.
On the other hand, I do know a number of people who've done the "23&Me" ancestry-testing thing, and apparently most of the Ashkenazis in the US are at most 4th cousins of each other. There's been a lot of recent work showing that the Jews have mostly stayed in a few close-knit groups since the Diaspora, not mixing that much with either the Christian, Muslim, or pagan communities around them. I don't know if anyone's done much study on the Roma.
Bela Lugosi's Dead
Layer 2 is bridging. Layer 3 is routing. Switching used to be doing bridging fast and cheaply using specialized hardware, but if they want to throw in routing features in the same box, that's still fine. And usually the routing in a Layer 3 switch is dumber than the routing in a router, though that's usually deliberate marketing (leaving out BGP so you still get to buy a Real Router.)
Wow - maybe I am better off with 32-bit Win7? Firefox crashes on me very frequently, probably because Win7 won't let me use swap space to get past the 4GB RAM limit, and FF+Flash is a bit of a memory hog (though not as bad as Chrome.)
And here I'd just been going to rant about "Does this mean Firefox won't crash as often?"!
No. But a 50-year-old once-famous ex-footballer can get a booth babe type job. Step right up and have the Champ autograph your router (or equivalent, if it's an auto-business trade show, or whatever.)
If the product you're selling is stripper poles, or g-strings, or stiletto heels with adequate ankle support, then having girls pole dancing would be appropriate. But if you're trying to sell those products at the Consumer Electronics Show, somebody clearly got confused about which trade show was in Vegas that week.
Well, yeah. I've been to technical trade shows in San Francisco where some vendor had the skimpily dressed booth babes, and what it said was that they totally failed to understand their audience. Not only is it disrespecting the women who work in the industry, it's also telling the men "We think you're more interested in ogling babes than in finding out anything specific about our product" (and also saying "We didn't even think to bring both genders of irrelevant eye candy, does somebody other than straight guys work in this business?") At least one time that happened was at my previous job, where not only had I worked for female technical managers for a decade, but also the sales VP and her boss that we supported were there, hoping to discuss business development. The vendor with the booth babes didn't get their time.
I'm sorry, I'd rather talk to the woman who developed the critical features for the current release of your product (assuming the developers speak English) or at least to some marketing/sales person who knows what they've brought and why it's interesting, or if you're going to have somebody who's not specifically about your company, hire $RANDOM_FAMOUS_HACKER to tell stories about how hopelessly broken some critical infrastructure is and how it needs to be fixed or replaced, and then let your sales people talk about how you can help.
(Of course, saying we're insulted about being bribed with eye candy doesn't mean we're above being bribed with chocolate candy, or blinky marketing swag, or raffling off an iPad if we don't have to wait too long. And bribing us with coffee is a way to let us stay on the show floor longer, near your booth, as opposed to ducking out because our eyes are glazing over.)
The original view of IPv6 addressing was that the host portion was going to be assigned automagically based on your MAC address, similar to the way Novell Netware IPX and XNS did things, so not only would that provide trackability to individual computers for traffic from your home location, but if you took your laptop or cellphone somewhere else, the host portion would still be the same, just showing "Your laptop at Starbucks" instead of "Your laptop at home". Eventually, of course, 48-bit MACs got replaced with 64-bit EUI-64, leading to the /48-vs-/56-vs-/65 fights, and SLAAC-vs-DHCP6 fights, and to IPv6 Address Privacy Extensions, so it's a bit less of a concern, just messier.
Steam! Steam will save your Broccoli!!
Also, there are some genetic differences that make broccoli and many other cabbages taste bitter to some people. (And similarly, there are genes that affect whether cilantro (aka coriander leaf) tastes really bad to some people.) I love the stuff, but President Bush was well known to be one of those people who hated broccoli, and most people have been kind enough to attribute it to genetics rather than his having been a spoiled child.
If you hang out with genetics geeks, eventually they're going to hand you pieces of blotter paper and see how they taste to you. If suddenly the whole world turns shiny, please introduce me to your friends, but usually they're either going to taste like paper or they're going to taste like really nasty bitter stuff, depending on which versions of several flavor-tasting genes you've got.
Also, to tie this vaguely back to IPv6, eventually you're going to run out of asparagus, there won't be any more in the stores, so you'll have to eat broccoli and cabbages until the summer veggies start to come in.
Normally, no - you either get your choice of a board that's shaped like a standard Arduino and can support the Arduino shields, or else a board (such as the Teensy or Really Bare Bones Board) that's narrower and has all the pins on 1/10" spacing so it can plug directly into a standard breadboard, leaving you room to connect it to other things. While most of the Arduino connectors are on 1/10" spacing, a few of them are offset for historical backward compatibility reasons.
They checked for signals over an 8-hour period. Obviously the Gliese 581ers had the sense to go to bed at night instead of watching TV.
One cool thing about the Raspberry Pi is that the OS is entirely on the SD card, so if you want to experiment with other OSs, or want to make a backup, or trash the one you're using, etc., you can just pop out the card and read it in a standard reader instead of "installing" things onto the on-board flash by negotiating with a BIOS.
If the Via APC can do this, then I'm fine with you calling Android a better OS, because you can easily replace it if you don't like it. If not, then it's much more limited. But still, Yay! for more memory.
Yes, they've typically got a television at home. And a keyboard, mouse, and USB hub cost $5 each.
The big differences between Arduinoish models are mainly
How music affects job performance depends a whole lot on what kind of work you're doing. What you need (if anything) is much different for an engineering design job where you need to be concentrating on precise visual and logical content than for the supermarket bakery job I used to have, or driving, or reading a lot, or other things. And even though you haven't figured out that "rap" long ago became the old-school stuff that informs hip-hop, and is no longer the noise that kids are listening to today (:-), I find it extremely distracting for many kinds of work because it's highly verbal as well as percussive.
I used to live somewhere that the Grateful Dead Hour was on in the evenings when I'd be using the computer. It was usually really pleasant, but occasionally I'd notice that I'd drifted off mentally during a jam and hadn't actually typed anything in 15 minutes. Jazz can do the same thing. Pop does a lot less of that, because it's mostly intended for short-attention-span radio.
The cost-benefit analysis is "It used to be expensive, but now it's pretty cheap, and it looks like it might be useful." And while from a civil liberties perspective I really don't like it, from a technologist perspective I've got to say that it's gotten pretty cheap and it's only going to get cheaper, so get used to it. Sigh...
A decade or so ago, when San Francisco wanted to tear down a major highway, they video-recorded the license plates of many of the cars using the highway, used prison labor to read the license plates, and sent people a postcard saying "We're tearing down the freeway next month, please find an alternate route to drive to work." It didn't have to be perfect, and didn't need perfect compliance, but enough people got the message that when they actually started the highway work, it didn't cause a massive traffic jam. These days they'd have a faster cheaper machine to read and scan the plates, and similar technology has been on the market for a while for doing parking enforcement.
So you're doing 34-80 meg **DSL* service over 12000-foot copper pairs? No, didn't think so. You don't get to that kind of speed without deploying DSLAMs a lot closer to the customer's house, and feeding them with fiber. Deciding to do that or not is a business decision, but it's not just DSL at that point.