it's like thinking that randomness ill cause your hostess's underwear to jump several feet to the left for quantum uncertainty reasons. It can be amusing to discuss
Indeed. You may find Memes an interesting topic to read up on. The name has been corrupted lately to mean a quiz on blogs/social sites, but really it's a theory that human brains have become an environment in which ideas breed and evolve, largely independently of humans themselves. In other words, that ideas are virtual/software evolution rather than hardware evolution.
I'm not sure humans are a good example of evolutionary processes any more. We evolve based on other things now, like financial success, keeping up with fashions on MTV. If you have the money, your teeth will look perfect, and you'll therefore be a better candidate for reproduction, regardless of how rotted your teeth once were.
Agreed. I originally thought the post was about trees that were CONTINUING to evolve. But simply having old adaptations is pretty uninteresting.... nay, normal. Especially for trees, which repopulate very slowly compared to say, fruitflies.
Anyway, the only reason for a species to "unevolve" changes that are no longer necessary is if they are very expensive, and no other side-effects make them beneficial. Barbed leaves may collect more rain and retain heat better than unbarbed leaves, and plenty of tree species have similarly pointed leaves, even when they're grown and well fed in managed woods and public parks.
The tree continues to sport evolutionary adaptations, such as barbed leaves, to protect it from a large, flightless bird known as a moa. There's just one problem: the moa went extinct around 1500 AD.
So the assumption is that the true is doing something for reason X, but reason X is invalid, so the tree is crazy? How about ruling out that assumption and coming up with another reason for the behaviour?
With a bit less arrogance we might assume the tree has a GOOD reason for what it's doing, but that we just haven't figured it out yet.
it's interesting that, unlike when this sort of stuff happens in the US or Europe, they actually came out and said the real reason: "concerns of 'a likely and uncontrolled fall in profits
It's great how that at least never happens in the west. Imagine if, just because of greed and redundant business models, the RIAA et al were allowed to bitch about lost income.
This is a political lobby for corporate interests, just like you get in America. It's pure capitalism --- at least how capitalism has turned out to work in the end.
Bull. Scanning is only one half of the (modern) photocopying process. So if I'm "creative" enough to think of photocopying your book, I own the photocopy, and can sell it as a new work?
Can someone explain it to me with a robot analogy?
Imagine you're a kid on one of the twelve colonies, and Apollo saves you from being lost in the extras. You beg Apollo for a Cyclon that you can order about, to shoot up your enemies. Apollo goes to see an engineer, and brings back a dumb, annoying person dressed up in a robot suit, calling him Muffet. So you take Apollo's gun while he's playing with the "dagget", and hijack a Viper instead.
I think the whole argument is ass-backwards, to be honest. Software will ALWAYS need updates, no matter how fresh it is when you install. With the move to ever more online software, like MMOs, financial apps which integrate with websites, thin-client webapp frontends, etc., this is even more true lately. To start from a position of assuming that updates are bad or should not be expected is just stupid. What we need to do is focus on getting a modern, secure, comprehensive update system for all major OS's.
Why would anyone have the right to force Microsoft to contribute to open-source?
No one wants to force them, any more than they want to force their kids to be good upstanding citizens. On the contrary, we kind of hope that, at some point, they'll become mature enough within themselves, and develop some decency, to be able to show respect and concern for others.
This is an moodle plugin for microsoft's own groupware. Like their previous driver offering, it's not a wholehearted contribution to making an open source project better, but instead just a thing to make microsoft's own services work better when people need to use open source.
It's good to see a willingness to do even this much, but hardly a staggering change of heart. They've a long way to go yet.
Evince is pretty lacking in PDF functionality anyway. If you want to compare best of breed on each system, you should probably compare KPDF. It would still fall short of Acrobat Reader. However, I think it's silly to expect otherwise, given that Adobe set the standard AND develop the software meeting that standard in one go.
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And even more amusing to simulate.
Indeed. You may find Memes an interesting topic to read up on. The name has been corrupted lately to mean a quiz on blogs/social sites, but really it's a theory that human brains have become an environment in which ideas breed and evolve, largely independently of humans themselves. In other words, that ideas are virtual/software evolution rather than hardware evolution.
You're paying for it right now. It's called an internet connection.
But any attempts to charge beyond that seemed to be doomed to failure.
I suspect you've confused jokes with propaganda.
Yep, that's why I said, "...how capitalism has turned out...".
Ludicrous to you, maybe. Obvious to others.
I'm not sure humans are a good example of evolutionary processes any more. We evolve based on other things now, like financial success, keeping up with fashions on MTV. If you have the money, your teeth will look perfect, and you'll therefore be a better candidate for reproduction, regardless of how rotted your teeth once were.
Agreed. I originally thought the post was about trees that were CONTINUING to evolve. But simply having old adaptations is pretty uninteresting.... nay, normal. Especially for trees, which repopulate very slowly compared to say, fruitflies.
Anyway, the only reason for a species to "unevolve" changes that are no longer necessary is if they are very expensive, and no other side-effects make them beneficial. Barbed leaves may collect more rain and retain heat better than unbarbed leaves, and plenty of tree species have similarly pointed leaves, even when they're grown and well fed in managed woods and public parks.
So the assumption is that the true is doing something for reason X, but reason X is invalid, so the tree is crazy? How about ruling out that assumption and coming up with another reason for the behaviour?
With a bit less arrogance we might assume the tree has a GOOD reason for what it's doing, but that we just haven't figured it out yet.
It's great how that at least never happens in the west. Imagine if, just because of greed and redundant business models, the RIAA et al were allowed to bitch about lost income.
This is a political lobby for corporate interests, just like you get in America. It's pure capitalism --- at least how capitalism has turned out to work in the end.
Bull. Scanning is only one half of the (modern) photocopying process. So if I'm "creative" enough to think of photocopying your book, I own the photocopy, and can sell it as a new work?
That's why you need to read these books ;)
Every one.
Wow, so a page that also mentions similar biblical topics is all about the bible. You really are dumb.
Thanks for finally explaining that, Oh Great and Omniscient $diety. Had us all wondering for a while there.
Imagine you're a kid on one of the twelve colonies, and Apollo saves you from being lost in the extras. You beg Apollo for a Cyclon that you can order about, to shoot up your enemies. Apollo goes to see an engineer, and brings back a dumb, annoying person dressed up in a robot suit, calling him Muffet. So you take Apollo's gun while he's playing with the "dagget", and hijack a Viper instead.
I'd bet on Honda before GM.
Stop talking out of your ass and go learn something before you speak:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_and_spirit_of_the_law
Oh, I dunno... because they hopefully don't want to fit the definition of a sociopath?
I think the whole argument is ass-backwards, to be honest. Software will ALWAYS need updates, no matter how fresh it is when you install. With the move to ever more online software, like MMOs, financial apps which integrate with websites, thin-client webapp frontends, etc., this is even more true lately. To start from a position of assuming that updates are bad or should not be expected is just stupid. What we need to do is focus on getting a modern, secure, comprehensive update system for all major OS's.
Yeah, if you've no concept of the spirit of laws.
No one wants to force them, any more than they want to force their kids to be good upstanding citizens. On the contrary, we kind of hope that, at some point, they'll become mature enough within themselves, and develop some decency, to be able to show respect and concern for others.
This is an moodle plugin for microsoft's own groupware. Like their previous driver offering, it's not a wholehearted contribution to making an open source project better, but instead just a thing to make microsoft's own services work better when people need to use open source.
It's good to see a willingness to do even this much, but hardly a staggering change of heart. They've a long way to go yet.
Evince is pretty lacking in PDF functionality anyway. If you want to compare best of breed on each system, you should probably compare KPDF. It would still fall short of Acrobat Reader. However, I think it's silly to expect otherwise, given that Adobe set the standard AND develop the software meeting that standard in one go.
I didn't know this had been opened up. Thanks for the pointer :)