It could easily mean that the mammals suffered less than other animals around that time. If 90% of non-mammals die out but only 70% of mammals die out then that will certainly lead to a massive expansion of mammals relative to other species; it's still the case that the vast majority of mammals died out though.
I've read a book by that guy and agree with his premise, but it does focus on the technological side of science rather than pure research, stuff that may or may not have any practical use directly.
Ron Paul's name is not trademarked.
The moral lessons to be drawn from Star Wars are not very helpful.
Mine has it's own scarf for just the same reason... it's like trying to sleep in a nightclub at full blast.
Agreed, it may even have improved from the penis bird days of yore.
To be fair there's been a lot of new stuff introduced from 1.8 onwards as part of ECMAScript 5, which do address a lot of the shortcomings of the language, including a lot of object changes - properties and descriptors, frozen objects, Object.getOwnPropertyNames etc. Development is proceeding rapidly after a long period of stasis.
Apart from Object.keys(obj) and obj.length that is.
If you're doing XML in Python use the lxml library, it's a wrapper around libxml2 and libxslt, and is a joy to use.
Something that is fungible means any one instance of it can be swapped with any other instance of it without changing its effects - electricity is electricity, whether it comes from a solar panel on your roof or a nuclear power plant via the grid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungibility
Great post, and I think spot on analysis.
Business is a good game -- lots of competition and minimum of rules. You keep score with money. -- Nolan Bushnell, founder of Atari
