I always saw the hormones that regulate our emotions as primitive forms of memory, older than neurons. So an organism can remain in a certain state for a while.
There is also the possibility that RNA is used for memory:
That was a great article! The last paragraph, however:
"By the way, Knuth is interested in these algorithms mainly for the interesting mathematical problems (...) not because they’re in any way efficient algorithms! "
Made me wonder, these kind of algorithms, where there is a lot of comparing and swapping of adjacent records might be more efficient on a tape-based architecture. Or an architecture with a lot of prefetch caching.
Here, in the Netherlands, towns get more similar. Mostly because all the shops are part of the same big chains, with the same cheap building style, and the same ways roads are upgraded.
Cities all have their own history, so there is more variation there.
Indeed. People tend to forget that the Middle Ages lasted for a thousand years. When all the conflicts are put together it seems there were only murderous barbarians out there trying to murder and/or rape you. But most areas were war-free most of that time. The reason that Barbara Tuchman wrote about France in the 14th century is that there happened so much.
Monty Python and The Holy Grail was not a documentary but satirised (among other things) the way the Middle Ages were depicted in movies and books.
One of the reasons we have such a bad image of that period is that the brutalities of the French Revolution needed to be justified.
Basically you have to trust the compiler because it compiles all code on your system, including itself. Not entirely the same, and I think the Intel trick is more nefarious.
It wouldn't surprise me if RS-232 will still be around long after USB falls out of use.
Does anyone know the reasons why USB was not made backward compatible with RS-232? It would only take a very short negotiation to determine if both endpoints support USB.