Monday, October 4, 2010

Did Humans Evolve From Monkeys?

Humans are (distantly) descended from a fish that was able to escape some of it's competition and predation by escaping the water. By coming out of the water it got more food and was able to escape all the bigger fish. Over time certain species of fish were just better made for escaping to land so they passed on their traits and little by little these traits became more pronounced and they became an entirely separate species, amphibians.

Meanwhile, back in the water, there were many other species of fish who survive particularly well right where they are, either as top level predators, or because they feed on something that other fish don't feed upon, or they swim faster, or they have a swim bladder, or whatever.

So, now you have all these fish (still) and you also have land walking animals. Everything is just capable of surviving in its own environment. In the same way, we share common ancestors with monkeys, but monkeys are still suited for their own environment. I mean, we can't survive swinging from the tops of trees - our limbs are not strong enough, our weight is too great, and our visual cortex is not geared for mapping that environment the ways monkeys do it.

So basically, that question is a good one, but it makes a very basic mistake in understanding just how evolution works.
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Don't you find it pretty scary that our ancestors were fishes before they turned into monkeys?

Source:-http://www.moolf.com/amazing/we-were-fishes.html

Top 10 Anti Smoking Ads

Telling a smoker that “smoking kills” is like screaming in front of a deaf person, none of them will notice. But still hoping for the best, different anti smoking Ads do appear often, geared towards making youth aware of the dangers of smoking. We have compiled another creative collection of Anti Smoking Ads. Current smokers aren’t going to be affected by these Ads, but if any of them stops smoking, then the purpose is served. Check out our anti-smoking ads & cool anti-tobacco posters!!!
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Source:-http://www.moolf.com/amazing/top-10-anti-smoking-ads.html

Thursday, September 30, 2010

Intel Flex Memory Technology









Two modules with different capacities will always be run in asymmetric mode. As soon as the capacity in both memory channels is the same, the chipset will run in symmetrical dual channel mode. As one would expect, the performance suffers, but it is still much better than running single channel.
It sounds much like another marketing buzz word, but there is real value behind it. With recent chipsets and motherboards, you can either insert DIM modules arbitrarily and run the system in single channel mode, or you can go for two DIMMs with the same capacity. Preferably, the memory pair should even be identical, so that it is possible to run the fastest timing settings.
Intel may have been very quick to realize that memory timings would only have little impact on their DDR2 / PCI Express / LGA 775 platform. This could be one reason why Flex Memory Technology was introduced. By looking more closely at this term, we quickly learn how it works: It is possible to run dual-channel modes with different memory equipment in order to facilitate upgrades. How does it sound to run dual channel with 2x 256 MB in one channel and 1x 512 MB in the other one?
Intel's presentation does not go into detail about the performance one can expect in this dual channel symmetric mode, so we decided to run a couple of benchmarks. Here we picked the ATI Radeon X600 and another 3.6 GHz Pentium 4 Processor 560, as our first test system was busy with the platform benchmarks.







Source:-http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-stakes-vision-pc-future-775-launch,830-28.html

Lahore Fashion Week Showcases Pakistani Talent

The city of Lahore has long enjoyed the status of being Pakistan’s cultural capital, and thus served as the perfect backdrop to a dazzling Fashion Week. The four-day long exercise in aesthetic magnificence jolted the world into seeing the beauty and rich vision of Pakistanis.
Lahore Fashion Week, organized by the Pakistan Fashion Design Council, welcomed the chance to show off the creative side of Pakistan and tickets to all shows were sold out instantly.
The fact is, Pakistan has always loved fashion. The Quaid’s sister was a fashion icon in her own right, consistently wearing smart, sophisticated outfits.


Art and beauty have always been part of the fabric of Pakistani culture.
It is for that reason that we Pakistanis reject the claim that Fashion Week was a direct reaction to militancy. Creativity and innovation have long since been inherent in Pakistan, they are not new! What Fashion Week has done is demonstrate who we are as a people to the West: no, we are not the Taliban, and we categorically reject their radical views. All that our fashion shows have illustrated is that we are proud of our culture and we are not willing to let it go.
One of Pakistan’s top models, Vazeena Ahmed, put it best: “You know, we are very liberal — in our way of thinking, in our way of dressing up. Islam does not preach all that the Taliban are telling. For me at least, that’s not being a Muslim. That’s being a terrorist.”
This is who we are. We are a brilliant, imaginative and adventurous people. Our fashions have long since catered to the diversity within Pakistan – a country that boasts people of varying cultures and complexions.
Lahore Fashion Week may have surprised the world, but we know our designing abilities and talents have always been there. We are not a country ruled by the Taliban, our society can never accept such a miserable reality.
Western media portrayed this event as Pakistanis standing firm in the face of conservatism, but that isn’t quite true. We are simply being Pakistanis.

Source:-http://realpaknationalists.com/2010/02/24/lahore-fashion-week-showcases-pakistani-talent/