Comment Re:Wasn't there a book about this? (Score 1) 138
Not really. The chick doesn't wrap itself up in an egg shell.
Not really. The chick doesn't wrap itself up in an egg shell.
The ability for adult insects to fly evolved gradually.
Explain the stages where it sort of flew.
"I can't figure out how evolution could have worked, ergo it must be impossible."
Actually, having a brain causes me to think about such things. I do understand evolution. And if it were an advantage, at all, some species would likely to have both. But none exist. So having half teeth and half beak wasn't so good after all, but apparently it was good enough to get from teeth to beak for all birds, and not just some.
I always thought that they should build two layered freeways, bottom layer for the shorter routes, and the top layer with VERY limited on and off choices for mid/long range commuters. The number one reason for traffic problems is people weaving in and out of lanes to hit their offramp.
Because weaving in and out of traffic gets you there a whole minute faster!
Exactly my point. Half Beak, Half Teeth doesn't make sense.
Price equilibrium is the hallmark of capitalism. The thing that people often miss, because of how much government interferes with pricing models is that Supply will meet Demand at a price point that makes sense for the economics to work. People like the author have almost no experience looking at Econ 101 style supply demand graphs, so they have no idea how economics really works.
Eventually, Uber, Lyft, and Sidecar will all be priced about the same, for the same kind of ride. Sidecar is interesting, because it is demand side (Customers) driven, and Lyft and Uber are supply side driven. Eventually, these two sides will end up being about the same price.
The real problem I see, are the people crying for "Regulation" simply because they don't like the new models. My answer is, you have a regulated industry (Cabs), use them and stop complaining about the others. If the others can't compete, then there is a problem with their economic model that depends upon Government regulation to keep prices artificially high.
The problem with macro evolution is the inherent issues with the "in between" stages that are mostly useless, being neither good for one thing they are coming from or good for the thing they are changing into.
The example I use is Butterflies, which change from a crawling creature to one that flies, mid life. Incredible "random" feat if you ask me.
Heretic!
I dunno, people kill for governments all the time, yet we don't call those people deranged. I know plenty of people who are atheists that are deranged, the fact that they don't have a unifying cause behind them is only temporary.
IRA was as much about Nationalism as it was about religion, making it hard not to conflate the two. The fact that England is protestant and Ireland is Catholic makes it hard to distinguish between the motivations.
Before Sony got hacked, they hadn't had a big breach. Past performance means little. The scale of Sony Breach is largely unprecedented. I reject your assessment on the grounds that "best indicator" is a meaningless phrase, and probably completely untrue. Best indicator are the perpetual steps being taken by IT staff to secure the data. I can assure you, from the little I know about the breach ( which is very little) I can assure you that the data was not secured properly.
But, seriously, companies are now expected to keep growing quarterly, or they're seen as stagnating by the stock market.
In mature markets, growth slows. This is normal. It is unreasonable to have unreasonable expectations of fast growth in markets that are mature. And companies chasing after unreasonable growth tend end up failing.
I'm in IT, but not in a CIO type level. However, I take the view that our data is NOT secure, even after I have made painstaking effort to assure that it is actually secure. Why? Because invariably, I am wrong whenever I assume that I am secure.
The result is that I am always securing, making more secure, ensuring existing policies and procedures are up to industry best. I also realize that is never good enough. The weakest link in all of the security I employ is always the people. Always.
It depends. We hope they are more secure, but we have no idea if they actually are. Lack of data breaches doesn't indicate future performance.
DIN is a physical format standard. This does nothing for the octopus connector, which is not a standard.
And unlike DIN, current in dash SYNC style displays do not have a standard. And now that Sync is no longer going to be supported, in 5 years, all those nifty consoles may just be worthless. They are barely cute toys today, and compared to the Android / iDevice options that are currently out there they suck.
This place just isn't big enough for all of us. We've got to find a way off this planet.
