ReachingFarr - Slashdot User

+ - When is a Honeyeater not a Honeyeater? -> 0

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grrlscientist

on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @11:52AM

grrlscientist writes "Every once in awhile, I will read a scientific paper that astonishes and delights me so much that I can hardly wait to tell you all about it. Such is the situation with a newly published paper about the Hawai'ian Honeyeaters. In short, due to the remarkable power of convergent evolution, Hawai'ian Honeyeaters have thoroughly deceived taxonomists and ornithologists as to their true origin and identity for more than 200 years."
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Comment: Why Can't We Blame Everyone? (Score 1) 1104

by ReachingFarr on Thursday September 18, 2008 @10:03AM (#25054253) Attached to: Who do you blame for the US Financial Situation

What if I want to lay the blame on Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and just about everyone else who is in the Legislative and Executive branch? Surely the corruption in the Department of the Interior helped. Bush's economic policies are certainly a problem, but the Democrats have a majority in Congress, and while this doesn't give them any magical powers to avoid a financial meltdown, some of this is their responsibility as well.

+ - Windows Vista restricts GNU GCC apps to 32 MB

Submitted by

Dave Coffin

on Monday April 02, 2007 @01:05PM

Dave Coffin writes "In Windows Vista, applications that don't link the Win32 API cannot use more than 32 MB of RAM. This affects all executables generated by GNU compilers. No such limit exists in earlier versions of Windows, and no work-around has yet been found. See http://www.trnicely.net/misc/vista.html for details."

+ - Divergent Species Use Same Genes to Different Ends

Submitted by

webdoodle

on Monday April 02, 2007 @12:59PM

webdoodle writes "Using fruit flies and wasp's which diverged into two separate species 250 million years ago, scientists look at how two distinct species use the same genes to their own distinct uses."