Of course it isn't ignored. It's a whole field of research. And yes, there are plenty of tools, some of them quite old (and most of them requiring maths).
Question whether there was some degree of genetic exchange between Neanderthals and humans have been already asked decades ago -- and most probably, already answered. The answer is based on the sequences that have already been obtained and it is a "no".
j.
It's not nearly as clear-cut as that. That result was obtained by examining the mitochondrial DNA, which is only inherited from the mother. All it shows is that all modern humans have a common female ancestor but Neanderthals were not descended from her.
It says nothing about the nuclear DNA, of which half comes from the father.
It seems to be a regional thing as to whether a black cat crossing your path is good or bad luck.
Where I'm from in the UK (Dorset coast) its considered very good luck.
where I am in Scotland, black cats are considered to be lucky (in general, not just crossing your path) as well.
I always assumed the unlucky black cat thing to be a mainly american variation of the superstition, as that's where I've mainly heard this one from, though ISTR reading in a book on superstitions many years ago that some central/eastern european countries have this slant on it as well.
wrt the article, a case here maybe of the WB publicity drones and suits forgetting which country they're in ?
Yes, it all stems from the Salem witch trials where old women were tortured into "confessing" how they consorted with Satan. They came up with a bunch of fantastic shit, one piece of which was their "familiars", some kind of small animal, always black, usually a cat, who helped the witch accomplish her evil deeds.
A modestly sized program, and easy to install. I told it to go catalog my media and it grabbed some pr0n it couldn't even play and some.ogg files from Wesnoth that I turn off the sound to avoid hearing. Then it crashed.
Forced quit and tried it again. Watched a funny Onion spot and some bullshit propaganda called "The New World Order." Then it crashed again.
It's too simple for many adults with pre-conceived notions to understand and I'm pretty sure they won't encounter it in any standard curriculum: The Laws Of Form.
It's pretty cool, too. Spencer-Brown derives Boolean algebra from it and it uses fewer axioms.
I spent a day downloading Slackware on a 2400b modem. I set up a dual-boot system & everything (at least on the linux side) worked great.
In 1997 I received SuSe (5.x I think) on cd. That was the most stable operating system I have ever run. It was up and running continuously almost 2 years until I started screwing around with samba and it crashed (I'm sure there's a moral in there.)
I got SuSe 6.x in 1999. What a Piece Of Shit. It was so bad I got clear out of linux and went to FreeBSD, which I used until I got my mac w/osx 10.4. In the meantime I installed a few machines with Ubuntu, which is what I will be using when I get my next intel box.
This takes the phrase "getting lit" to a whole new level.
Seriously speaking though, this is very cool. I hope lots of other companies/industries that churn out biomass take a lesson from this.
"Biomass"? Just remember, if it's nae Scottish it's "crap"!
I have yet to hear/see a rational reason why marijuana is still illegal.
There is a perfectly rational reason: Greed.
Granted, a confluence of interests was responsible for the prohibition of cannabis, but I submit the primary impetus came from Hearst, who, as the article linked above mentions, had "invested heavily in the timber industry to support his newspaper chain and didn't want to see the development of hemp paper in competition."
Slashdot Mirror
Great obscure reference, but Lovecraft post-dates the witch trials by a couple hundred years.
I thought of something like this when I first saw the story. Trouble is, if you decentralize the trackers you need a metatracker to track them. Etc.
Maybe the bittorrent protocol could use some robustification.
Speaking of chromosomes, how many did the Neanderthal have, 23 or 24? They should have been able to determine that.
Of course it isn't ignored. It's a whole field of research. And yes, there are plenty of tools, some of them quite old (and most of them requiring maths).
Question whether there was some degree of genetic exchange between Neanderthals and humans have been already asked decades ago -- and most probably, already answered. The answer is based on the sequences that have already been obtained and it is a "no".
j.
It's not nearly as clear-cut as that. That result was obtained by examining the mitochondrial DNA, which is only inherited from the mother. All it shows is that all modern humans have a common female ancestor but Neanderthals were not descended from her.
It says nothing about the nuclear DNA, of which half comes from the father.
It seems to be a regional thing as to whether a black cat crossing your path is good or bad luck.
Where I'm from in the UK (Dorset coast) its considered very good luck.
where I am in Scotland, black cats are considered to be lucky (in general, not just crossing your path) as well.
I always assumed the unlucky black cat thing to be a mainly american variation of the superstition, as that's where I've mainly heard this one from, though ISTR reading in a book on superstitions many years ago that some central/eastern european countries have this slant on it as well.
wrt the article, a case here maybe of the WB publicity drones and suits forgetting which country they're in ?
Yes, it all stems from the Salem witch trials where old women were tortured into "confessing" how they consorted with Satan. They came up with a bunch of fantastic shit, one piece of which was their "familiars", some kind of small animal, always black, usually a cat, who helped the witch accomplish her evil deeds.
Or Arubix, if we were talking about another tropical island...
Then later they could merge the distros into Arubix Cubix.
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And most importantly, this happened a long time ago.
Not for me, you insensitive clod!
And BTW, get off my lawn!
Toi thic Tux!
Still "Cubix" is so much cooler.
A modestly sized program, and easy to install. I told it to go catalog my media and it grabbed some pr0n it couldn't even play and some .ogg files from Wesnoth that I turn off the sound to avoid hearing. Then it crashed.
Forced quit and tried it again. Watched a funny Onion spot and some bullshit propaganda called "The New World Order." Then it crashed again.
Maybe I'll wait for 3.0
Especially since they probably didn't screw up the mirror this time.
although it's not a book.
Expose them to Clifford Algebra before they start screwing up their brains with linear algrebra.
It's too simple for many adults with pre-conceived notions to understand and I'm pretty sure they won't encounter it in any standard curriculum: The Laws Of Form.
It's pretty cool, too. Spencer-Brown derives Boolean algebra from it and it uses fewer axioms.
That's great! They still have their old domain: well.sf.ca.us - try it.
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Web? Heh. Anybody still remember UUCP?
Ah, good ol' days.
Yeah, that brings back memories. In 1987, I had an account on the Well that I had to get to via the Compuserve network til I got PC-Pursuit.
I forgot to mention the X server that runs on osx - it uses the fvwm2 window controller (or something very similar), so near & dear to my heart!
I spent a day downloading Slackware on a 2400b modem. I set up a dual-boot system & everything (at least on the linux side) worked great.
In 1997 I received SuSe (5.x I think) on cd. That was the most stable operating system I have ever run. It was up and running continuously almost 2 years until I started screwing around with samba and it crashed (I'm sure there's a moral in there.)
I got SuSe 6.x in 1999. What a Piece Of Shit. It was so bad I got clear out of linux and went to FreeBSD, which I used until I got my mac w/osx 10.4. In the meantime I installed a few machines with Ubuntu, which is what I will be using when I get my next intel box.
That's ingentoous.
I name all my machines after wild members of Compositae (or Asteraceae) - thus: sunflower, dandelion, chamomile and thistle.
I know an ISP who was caught up in Operation Sundevil who named his servers after the agents who busted him, e.g. golden, foley.
This takes the phrase "getting lit" to a whole new level. Seriously speaking though, this is very cool. I hope lots of other companies/industries that churn out biomass take a lesson from this.
"Biomass"? Just remember, if it's nae Scottish it's "crap"!
Since you didn't give any references I'll assume you're just blowing hot air.
By way of contrast, why don't you read some peer-reviewed articles.
I have yet to hear/see a rational reason why marijuana is still illegal.
There is a perfectly rational reason: Greed.
Granted, a confluence of interests was responsible for the prohibition of cannabis, but I submit the primary impetus came from Hearst, who, as the article linked above mentions, had "invested heavily in the timber industry to support his newspaper chain and didn't want to see the development of hemp paper in competition."