Well, besides the fact that they dont geographically overlap at all. Just because its possible that they could interbreed doesn't mean that they ever would in the wild, Ligers and Tigons are artificial species and require humans to be produced. Also, their offspring are almost always infertile. There are many more differences besides their fur and markings. Also, I believe that various species of lions and tigers have been palentologicaly diferentiated specialy going back many thousands of years.
Compression free video? I rip or download files for all the TV DVDs i've got, and more. Average 1hr show is around 350MB in a DivX or Xvid.avi. Seems like a lot of space, but its really only about a fifth of the space of whats on the DVD. Compression is good these days, but its still not as crisp as off the discs themselves. Sure having the DVDs is nice, but you've still gotta pick one, take it off the shelf, put it in the player, switch your AV stuff to it. Whole lot easier to treat the DVDs as a backup to sit on a shelf for display, or even in a box, and then just being able to call up anything in seconds off the HD. Its nice to hit a button and have my playlist of a couple dozen series come up on shuffle. Its like adult swim, sci-fi channel and TNT daytime all rolled into one whenever i want. I have 2 250GB SATA drives in RAID0, and infact ordered another 100GB drive the other day to move my music onto (65 or so gigs of legally ripped CDs, 300+ CDs @256kb MP3). If i had the money, would i like 2 of these? Hell yes, double my storage without taking up any more room in my already full case. I will admit that all my stuff isn't 100% legal, but thats more out of practicality, simpsons DVDs are only up to season 5... and fair use vs DMCA with the issue of me being too lazy to rip stuff myself...
Watch a tv show, a movie, anything nowadays, nobody uses zoom. I think it works for these sci-fi shows, when the distances they're 'shooting' are in the hundreds of kilometers. You try to hold a camera steady enough to not get any shakes at that distance. I suppose you're also annoyed that the ships dont woosh through space like tie fighters either?
The scientists that created them in the first place. I can see humanity being pretty pissed off at the cylons creators. Much like what happened to the Borgs creators on Star Trek (i think voyager got to that), or the Replicators on SG1.
"Pop-up blocking is an in-built feature of Firefox..."
Uh, yeah, so is google. Isnt the entire point of the google toolbar to add an in bar google search and popup blocking to IE, which both Firefox and Opera already have? Whats the point of this?
Fable weirded me out in that respect. I ended up only marying one chick, and it was some true love thing where you chose her over the mayor. I dont really remember the specifics, it was months ago. But yeah, it was a weird thing to have in a game.
The prophecy was that he would bring balance to the force, not destroy the sith. Balance would be the Jedi and Sith having equal power, but since that would just be non stop war, having only 2 of each (discounting EU) left, Obi-Wan and Yoda, and Vader and the Emporer, achieves a pretty good balance.
Most consumers dont know or dont care, they use whatever they have/download. WMA is the default if you rip a cd, AAC for itunes. You can get 3rd party rippers (i use audiocrusher, and rip to 256mb MP3s, good mix of quality, compression, and compatability), but you have to download and install the encoders yourself for legal reasons. Only geeks do that. But really, the consumer doesn't care about quality, or mp3 never woulda taken off. Check any p2p network, rough estimate, 85% of the files will be 128mb MP3s, 10% WMVs at whatever the default bitrate of WMP is(96?). The remaining 5% will be mp3s, mostly at 192mb with a few VBR abd 320mb files, probably less than a percent. Ogg will never take off because its not a default for anything (except audiocrusher since its the only encoder they could legally bundle), and most people havn't even heard of it.
The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, then think about the FDAs usefulness. Like any government agency they do screw up, but they do, by far, more good than harm.
Startup and shutdown are the periods of lowest efficiency and with the highest chance of failure. I had a fan, it was running for about a week straight, the other day I turned it off for a while, then it wouldnt start back up, even with manual assistance. Its a lot easier to start something up and keep it running than to be constantly spinning it up and down. But yes, nobodys really sure of the complications that could arrise from living without a pulse, besides you know, sucking blood or eating brains...
Right now if the Internet ad demand collapses, so would Google...
Google differs though from other advertisers by being contextual and text based. The doubleclick article posted on the front page, if traditional web ads all went away, theyd probably be replaced by googles. You cant block a text based add, not that people want to so much since theyre contextual and more importantly not annoying. Hell, i'm using a free copy of opera right now, theres a box with ads by google, i'm on slashdot and theyre all about linux and software. Not that i look up there much since its not flashing and telling me to fight the kangaroo or whatever...
Seriously. Ton of nukes at the martian poles. Heats up the planet, vaporizes the CO2 and water in the poles, thickening the atmosphere, and maybe putting enough of both out there to sustain plantlife and start making some o2.
At the end of RotS, it wasnt the first death star, it was just the prototype (it made an apperance in the books, KJAs ones IIRC), so it probably only took them a couple of years to finish the full one (i'm sure someone can find a timeline somewhere), and as someone pointed out, although operational, the second one wasnt even half finished when it got asploded.
According to this book, tauntauns generally live in underground caves and grottos pretty well stocked with lichens. Remember, Lukes died out in the open at night, they werent built to survive much on the surface.
Someone replaces their lithium tantalate with foldgers crystals to see if they can tell the difference and wind up blowing a crater half the size of the state...
I have an 20" Apple Cinema display, and a 15" CRT that i scrounged to the right of it. Main ones for browsing, gaming, etc (and tv, since my tv will only display on my primary monitor) and the second monitor i keep my IM windows, winamp, or if im watching videos or a movie while doing other stuff. Pic1, Pic2 (mine on the right, roomies on the left, he runs a 17" and a 15" CRT) Then i can just move my browser to the second monitor if the TV is maximized for whatever reason. I do however plan to replace the probably 10 year old CRT with an LCD soon, since the brightness sucks compared to my ACD.
This all of course depends on your taxonomical definition of speciation. Weither throught simple taxonomy or through gene sequencing. Some people would argue that every distinct breed of dog is a species, while others argue the opposite that dogs are one species since they can all readily interbreed. This of course is not the only factor, since nearly all equines can interbreed (although not necesarily create fertile offspring). Even taxonomicaly is a sixth digit that much of a difference? Despite our ability to inbreed, one could argue that the basic races of the world, given their different colorations, physical features etc could be classified as seperate species. Species have been differentiated for less...
On a similar subject, out of curiosity, has anyone ever knocked up a chimp? They're supposedly 99% genetically similar to us, are their chromosonal differences keeping us from having monkey-men?
But anyway, it would take a complete collapse of civilization, a loss of language, sudden geographical isolation, and probably a major ecological shift for humans to evolve radically to fill another nich. Basically where humans are going is taller, less hair, etc, the same characteristics that have been progressing for the past million years or so in our species.
Interestingly enough, your point about 6 digit humans reminded me of one of my own theories that the pinkey is becoming opposable. Think about it, we'd definitly benifit from having another oposable digit, and although the bone structure is not that different, the muscle structure on the pinkey is different from the other 3 fingers, allowing it to opperate more independently.
Biggs Darklighter was lukes childhood friend on tatooine. Wedge was corellian, and IIRC, born and raised in a well known military family, hence the confusion about a relation with the captain of the Tantive IV.
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Well, besides the fact that they dont geographically overlap at all. Just because its possible that they could interbreed doesn't mean that they ever would in the wild, Ligers and Tigons are artificial species and require humans to be produced. Also, their offspring are almost always infertile. There are many more differences besides their fur and markings. Also, I believe that various species of lions and tigers have been palentologicaly diferentiated specialy going back many thousands of years.
Compression free video? I rip or download files for all the TV DVDs i've got, and more. Average 1hr show is around 350MB in a DivX or Xvid .avi. Seems like a lot of space, but its really only about a fifth of the space of whats on the DVD. Compression is good these days, but its still not as crisp as off the discs themselves. Sure having the DVDs is nice, but you've still gotta pick one, take it off the shelf, put it in the player, switch your AV stuff to it. Whole lot easier to treat the DVDs as a backup to sit on a shelf for display, or even in a box, and then just being able to call up anything in seconds off the HD. Its nice to hit a button and have my playlist of a couple dozen series come up on shuffle. Its like adult swim, sci-fi channel and TNT daytime all rolled into one whenever i want. I have 2 250GB SATA drives in RAID0, and infact ordered another 100GB drive the other day to move my music onto (65 or so gigs of legally ripped CDs, 300+ CDs @256kb MP3). If i had the money, would i like 2 of these? Hell yes, double my storage without taking up any more room in my already full case. I will admit that all my stuff isn't 100% legal, but thats more out of practicality, simpsons DVDs are only up to season 5... and fair use vs DMCA with the issue of me being too lazy to rip stuff myself...
Do you?
Watch a tv show, a movie, anything nowadays, nobody uses zoom. I think it works for these sci-fi shows, when the distances they're 'shooting' are in the hundreds of kilometers. You try to hold a camera steady enough to not get any shakes at that distance. I suppose you're also annoyed that the ships dont woosh through space like tie fighters either?
The scientists that created them in the first place. I can see humanity being pretty pissed off at the cylons creators. Much like what happened to the Borgs creators on Star Trek (i think voyager got to that), or the Replicators on SG1.
I know sci-fi shows the same block twice in a row. IDK if USA does the same think/
Batteries are heavy though. The extra power provided by the batteries is probably mostly being used to haul their own weight around.
Fable weirded me out in that respect. I ended up only marying one chick, and it was some true love thing where you chose her over the mayor. I dont really remember the specifics, it was months ago. But yeah, it was a weird thing to have in a game.
The prophecy was that he would bring balance to the force, not destroy the sith. Balance would be the Jedi and Sith having equal power, but since that would just be non stop war, having only 2 of each (discounting EU) left, Obi-Wan and Yoda, and Vader and the Emporer, achieves a pretty good balance.
Most consumers dont know or dont care, they use whatever they have/download. WMA is the default if you rip a cd, AAC for itunes. You can get 3rd party rippers (i use audiocrusher, and rip to 256mb MP3s, good mix of quality, compression, and compatability), but you have to download and install the encoders yourself for legal reasons. Only geeks do that. But really, the consumer doesn't care about quality, or mp3 never woulda taken off. Check any p2p network, rough estimate, 85% of the files will be 128mb MP3s, 10% WMVs at whatever the default bitrate of WMP is(96?). The remaining 5% will be mp3s, mostly at 192mb with a few VBR abd 320mb files, probably less than a percent. Ogg will never take off because its not a default for anything (except audiocrusher since its the only encoder they could legally bundle), and most people havn't even heard of it.
I do believe that silicon is one of, if not the most, common element on the planet.
Every version of opera ive ever used has this. Default is google, theres also amazon, ebay, download.com, dealtime. You can add others too.
The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair, then think about the FDAs usefulness. Like any government agency they do screw up, but they do, by far, more good than harm.
Startup and shutdown are the periods of lowest efficiency and with the highest chance of failure. I had a fan, it was running for about a week straight, the other day I turned it off for a while, then it wouldnt start back up, even with manual assistance. Its a lot easier to start something up and keep it running than to be constantly spinning it up and down. But yes, nobodys really sure of the complications that could arrise from living without a pulse, besides you know, sucking blood or eating brains...
Seriously. Ton of nukes at the martian poles. Heats up the planet, vaporizes the CO2 and water in the poles, thickening the atmosphere, and maybe putting enough of both out there to sustain plantlife and start making some o2.
At the end of RotS, it wasnt the first death star, it was just the prototype (it made an apperance in the books, KJAs ones IIRC), so it probably only took them a couple of years to finish the full one (i'm sure someone can find a timeline somewhere), and as someone pointed out, although operational, the second one wasnt even half finished when it got asploded.
According to this book, tauntauns generally live in underground caves and grottos pretty well stocked with lichens. Remember, Lukes died out in the open at night, they werent built to survive much on the surface.
Someone replaces their lithium tantalate with foldgers crystals to see if they can tell the difference and wind up blowing a crater half the size of the state...
I have an 20" Apple Cinema display, and a 15" CRT that i scrounged to the right of it. Main ones for browsing, gaming, etc (and tv, since my tv will only display on my primary monitor) and the second monitor i keep my IM windows, winamp, or if im watching videos or a movie while doing other stuff. Pic1, Pic2 (mine on the right, roomies on the left, he runs a 17" and a 15" CRT) Then i can just move my browser to the second monitor if the TV is maximized for whatever reason. I do however plan to replace the probably 10 year old CRT with an LCD soon, since the brightness sucks compared to my ACD.
This all of course depends on your taxonomical definition of speciation. Weither throught simple taxonomy or through gene sequencing. Some people would argue that every distinct breed of dog is a species, while others argue the opposite that dogs are one species since they can all readily interbreed. This of course is not the only factor, since nearly all equines can interbreed (although not necesarily create fertile offspring). Even taxonomicaly is a sixth digit that much of a difference? Despite our ability to inbreed, one could argue that the basic races of the world, given their different colorations, physical features etc could be classified as seperate species. Species have been differentiated for less... On a similar subject, out of curiosity, has anyone ever knocked up a chimp? They're supposedly 99% genetically similar to us, are their chromosonal differences keeping us from having monkey-men? But anyway, it would take a complete collapse of civilization, a loss of language, sudden geographical isolation, and probably a major ecological shift for humans to evolve radically to fill another nich. Basically where humans are going is taller, less hair, etc, the same characteristics that have been progressing for the past million years or so in our species. Interestingly enough, your point about 6 digit humans reminded me of one of my own theories that the pinkey is becoming opposable. Think about it, we'd definitly benifit from having another oposable digit, and although the bone structure is not that different, the muscle structure on the pinkey is different from the other 3 fingers, allowing it to opperate more independently.
Biggs Darklighter was lukes childhood friend on tatooine. Wedge was corellian, and IIRC, born and raised in a well known military family, hence the confusion about a relation with the captain of the Tantive IV.