![]() ![]() I never really considered switching from the simple widget to another app in the menubar, but the new version 3 came out last night and I decided to give it a try. ![]() Also, it’s free.ĭespite iStat Pro being awesome and unobtrusive, Bjango also developed a different version of it, iStat Menus, which unlike the widget is a “real app” that sits in the menubar and allows you to choose which stats to display as icons or small graphs, animated just like in the widget. It may be a little scary and too complex at first, but once you get the hang of it, it becomes a must have tool to understand everything about your Mac in different situations. As Bjango’s tradition is a great looking piece of software but, most of all, it’s useful: when I’m doing something that requires a high consumption of resources like exporting a HD video or downloading many files at the same time, I usually invoke the Dashboard and take a look at what’s going on using this widget. IStat Pro is a very popular dashboard widget for Mac OS X that lets you quickly check on your Mac stats like fan temperature, battery health, RAM and CPU usage. I’ve always done that with the iStat Pro dashboard widget from Bjango (former iSlayer), but last night I decided to upgrade to iStat Menus 3. ![]() But, I think that’s a given that I should keep an eye on its internal stats: you know, stuff like the battery health, CPU usage over time and memory consumption. I think that my machine is still a great one though, with its 4GB of RAM and a pretty capable hard disk: it’s been able to do so many things for me in these two years that I don’t see it being replaced anytime soon, actually. Maybe with some SSD and new processor goodness. Human DNA suggests even earlier origins for modernity.īecause the fossil record is so patchy, fossils provide only minimum dates.I have a late 2008 Macbook Pro, and one could argue that maybe it’s time for me to consider an upgrade to a new model. Comparing genetic differences between DNA in modern people and ancient Africans, it’s estimated that our ancestors lived 260,000 to 350,000 years ago. All living humans descend from those people, suggesting that we inherited the fundamental commonalities of our species, our humanity, from them.Īll their descendants – Bantu, Berber, Aztec, Aboriginal, Tamil, San, Han, Maori, Inuit, Irish – share certain peculiar behaviours absent in other great apes. All human cultures form long-term pair bonds between men and women to care for children. We preen our hair, adorn our bodies with ornaments, tattoos and makeup. We form large, multigenerational social groups with dozens to thousands of people. We cooperate to wage war and help each other. We contemplate the stars, our place in the cosmos, life’s meaning, what follows death. The details of our tools, fashions, families, morals and mythologies vary from tribe to tribe and culture to culture, but all living humans show these behaviours. That suggests these behaviours – or at least, the capacity for them – are innate. These shared behaviours unite all people. They’re the human condition, what it means to be human, and they result from shared ancestry. We inherited our humanity from peoples in southern Africa 300,000 years ago. The alternative – that everyone, everywhere coincidentally became fully human in the same way at the same time, starting 65,000 years ago – isn’t impossible, but a single origin is more likely. The network effectĪrchaeology and biology may seem to disagree, but they actually tell different parts of the human story. Bones and DNA tell us about brain evolution, our hardware. Tools reflect brainpower, but also culture, our hardware and software. Just as you can upgrade your old computer’s operating system, culture can evolve even if intelligence doesn’t. Humans in ancient times lacked smartphones and spaceflight, but we know from studying philosophers such as Buddha and Aristotle that they were just as clever.
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