...human beings have stopped evolving because modern social customs have lowered the age at which human males have offspring, which results in fewer of the mutations...
Which completely ignores Chromosomal crossover, changes to the environment, food supply, etc., and ignores the notion that most big jumps occur in small, isolated populations. Yes, with the world population and density at what it's at, with intercontinental travel so easy, we're at a reasonably homogenous genetic plateau just now. Wait until small groups of us move off to the asteroids and wait a few generations, then we'll talk again about how human evolution is "over".
"immanent" is a (correctly spelled) word, just not the right one. They meant "imminent" (impending), not "immanent" (indwelling). Chalk it up as you would lose/loose then/than or (my personal favorite) "should of" for "should've".
The difference is, guns, refrigerators, pens, book bindings, and shopping carts were all invented (and the patents ran out) long before corporations bribed their way into writing all the IP legislation so that patents/copyrights last (for all practical purposes) forever. Second, a patent is meant to apply to a device, even something so small as a new piece added to an old, existing device ("adding this flange prevents the breakage that has plagued previous designs"). Since software is, by definition, the expression of an idea, it shouldn't get patent protection. Since Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet, does that mean that all other versions of boy-meets-girl, boy-falls-in-love-with-girl, things-end-badly should be precluded from being produced?
Thanks for the advance heads-up, so we could you know, like ORGANIZE something. Instead of doing something, anything about it, let's just bitch about it on/. the day it happens. Thanks, good job.
Perhaps if there were some mention of what broadcast radio stations were paying for their tithe or per-song charges we could make a reasonable comparison. Somehow I doubt that all-talk/mostly-talk broadcast stations are paying 10% of revenues in tribute.
Why yes, yes there is. It can randomly spurt out false positives, subjecting people to random stops and questioning. It can still miss the real terrorists who are doing their damnedest to look normal and unthreatening. It can further the "show us your papers" society we've been building and seem so enamored of. It can supply the mindless thugs at security checkpoints an ironclad "the machine says so" excuse to hassle harried, irritated travelers. It can further the "security theatre" in all aspects of everyday life. In short, it can do nothing positive.
According to VMware execs, VDC OS will not be a product as such. Instead, it is an umbrella concept covering a range of capabilities that VMware will build into the next generation of its Virtual Infrastructure products.
So it's not just vaporware, it's an "umbrella concept" that will be built into future products.
They did get quite a lot of free marketing because of that campaign.
I'm not sure having the technorati (who were, let's face it, the only people who paid any attention at all to these ads) standing around the water cooler saying "WTF?? How stupid! What were they thinking?" the effect they were looking for.
Yeah. I think "ummm? WTF?" pretty much says it all. This is the most breathtakingly silly idea I've heard in a long time. If they haven't picked a model name for this beast yet, I nominate "OMG PONIES!!".
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Which completely ignores Chromosomal crossover, changes to the environment, food supply, etc., and ignores the notion that most big jumps occur in small, isolated populations. Yes, with the world population and density at what it's at, with intercontinental travel so easy, we're at a reasonably homogenous genetic plateau just now. Wait until small groups of us move off to the asteroids and wait a few generations, then we'll talk again about how human evolution is "over".
I think you're wrong. BBQ sauce has started almost as many wars as Perl.
I thought my BBQ sauce was going to win the Nobel Prize for Chemistry :(
Nicely caught. I stand corrected ;)
Where do we go for the peer-reviewed Creation Science papers?
Well, according to TFsite, "3 Oct 2008: arXiv passes half-million article milestone", so that would be 5 * 10^5.
No no no, it's spelled, "Raymond Luxury Yacht," but it's pronounced, "Throatwobbler Mangrove".
So it's like all their other software then?
Sounds painful.
What, like storing the year as two digits, that sort of thing?
Yeah. My folksyometer redlined about ten minutes in.
Of coarse your write.
Off course yore rite.
Here here!!
"immanent" is a (correctly spelled) word, just not the right one. They meant "imminent" (impending), not "immanent" (indwelling). Chalk it up as you would lose/loose then/than or (my personal favorite) "should of" for "should've".
Actually, that depends on your locale settings, particularly LANG and LC_TIME.
I love your bad analogies.
The difference is, guns, refrigerators, pens, book bindings, and shopping carts were all invented (and the patents ran out) long before corporations bribed their way into writing all the IP legislation so that patents/copyrights last (for all practical purposes) forever. Second, a patent is meant to apply to a device, even something so small as a new piece added to an old, existing device ("adding this flange prevents the breakage that has plagued previous designs"). Since software is, by definition, the expression of an idea, it shouldn't get patent protection. Since Shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet, does that mean that all other versions of boy-meets-girl, boy-falls-in-love-with-girl, things-end-badly should be precluded from being produced?
Thanks for the advance heads-up, so we could you know, like ORGANIZE something. Instead of doing something, anything about it, let's just bitch about it on /. the day it happens. Thanks, good job.
Perhaps if there were some mention of what broadcast radio stations were paying for their tithe or per-song charges we could make a reasonable comparison. Somehow I doubt that all-talk/mostly-talk broadcast stations are paying 10% of revenues in tribute.
Me, I'd be resigned and calm, because I know nothing can escape from Chuck Norris, and nothing can survive Chuck Norris.
Sounds plausible.
I'm sure if they ask real nice on the news.admin.net-abuse.email and news.admin.net-abuse.sightings newsfroups, they'll be reconnected in no time :D
Why yes, yes there is. It can randomly spurt out false positives, subjecting people to random stops and questioning. It can still miss the real terrorists who are doing their damnedest to look normal and unthreatening. It can further the "show us your papers" society we've been building and seem so enamored of. It can supply the mindless thugs at security checkpoints an ironclad "the machine says so" excuse to hassle harried, irritated travelers. It can further the "security theatre" in all aspects of everyday life. In short, it can do nothing positive.
So it's not just vaporware, it's an "umbrella concept" that will be built into future products.
I'm not sure having the technorati (who were, let's face it, the only people who paid any attention at all to these ads) standing around the water cooler saying "WTF?? How stupid! What were they thinking?" the effect they were looking for.
Yeah. I think "ummm? WTF?" pretty much says it all. This is the most breathtakingly silly idea I've heard in a long time. If they haven't picked a model name for this beast yet, I nominate "OMG PONIES!!".