Parent is modded "funny" but should be "informative" or "insightful". Anyone who knows anything about negotiation knows that revealing the amount you're able to spend prior to negotiating almost guarantees that you will pay that entire amount.
That depends on what you mean by "intelligence". If the ability to judge distances and motion, and to make decisions based on those things under extreme pressure in a short period of time counts as a type of intelligence, than a football quarterback thrives on intelligence. (Many football teams at the collegiate and professional level evaluate a variant of IQ in addition to more physical metrics of ability because players at those levels are required to memorize plays.) The quarterback at the upper levels also has to have enough creativity to change and adjust plays in response to the defensive situation. I suppose you could say that these are highly specialized forms of intelligence and creativity, but they are necessary for athletes nonetheless.
No, but people who are genetically predisposed to athleticism, and take advantage of this predisposition through exercise, diet, and (potentially) steroids will become world-famous athletes, and will end up with children who carry their athletic genes. People who are not genetically predisposed to athleticism will rarely become world-famous athletes, nor will their children (unless they inherit athletic genes from the other parent). Things like the speed of the nervous system, the efficiency of the cardio-respiratory system, the ability to build muscle, etc. are all at least partially determined by genes.
That's because the intelligent people with fulfilling careers and relationships have no need to join MENSA, as they interact with enough intelligent people in everyday life.
It's not a matter of Blu-ray the Sony format and HD-DVD the standard format. HD-DVD has the support of Microsoft and Intel, as well as Tochiba, NEC, Sanyo, HP, and Universal, but Blu-Ray has the support of Panasonic, Apple, Fox, and MGM, while numerous companies including Samsung and Pioneer, as well as Disney, Warner Brothers, Paramount, etc. releasing movies on both mediums.
Who says they didn't? (In the original script, of course, a Cylon attack forced them to flee, preventing them from further investigation). Do you really think finding out how the planetarium works would have made for compelling TV? Of course not. That's why they skipped to the President being reinstated.
If you use one metallic rotating disk drive instead of multiple plastic rotating disks, you're using more recyclable and renewable materials (metal vs. plastic) and fewer materials total. If I have multiple, compressed, DVD quality movies on a 500GB or 1TB external drive, I'm wasting far fewer resources than someone with that quantity of DVD's. And since DVD drives *also* require electricity, it's not like keeping the data on a drive is more wasteful. I'm not even going to discuss the energy difference between downloading and shipping discs on trucks. Furthermore, the more that energy generation is centralized, the easier it will be to replace those methods of generation with cleaner methods.
It was a flight suit designed to keep ejected pilots alive in outer space. I think it can handle space, especially when she repressurized the inside of the Raider.
Why the hell would you bother making a physical DVD copy of your purchased movies? It's data. If you want a backup copy of your data, then back up all of your data on a regular basis (you should do this already). The reason that music and movies are sold as physical objects is because, until now, you got higher bandwidth shipping the data on read-only disks on trucks than you could by actually downloading the data. The problem with this model is that you have to produce billions of plastic disks, consuming unrenewable natural resources and cluttering up people's homes. Now that we have an alternative to that--i.e. downloading the data directly--why on earth would we turn around and use that ability to produce our own obsolete 20th-century products at home?
"Normal" will eventually plateau at the point where either quality is indistinguishable from real life or where quality is high enough that no one cares anymore. The normal quality of recorded music plateau'd (peaked, actually) in the 1980's, so it's plausible that TV and movies will peak as well. That said, streaming is a download-once-watch-once solution, and is only really suitable for things like live news and sporting events. (Since HDTV is, in fact, a digital stream, it is possible to stream such events via digital cable at "normal" or even "really high" quality over existing services, as another poster pointed out..) iTunes/iTV doesn't work on the streaming paradigm though, it works on a "download once, watch many" paradigm. So streaming TV will only be used for sporting events, live news, and hyped-up premieres, whilst DVDs and normal television watching will both be supplanted by an iTunes-like system. (Additionally, as bandwidth increases, iTunes and systems like it will simply deliver higher resolutions. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD will both lose, but so will DVD's.)
That reasoning is wonderful if you want to litter your domicile with hundreds of neatly packaged plastic discs. I always thought we had all this technology so we could just call up needed data from the computer instead of fumbling around for plastic discs. As for backups, having a backup solution for your entire system would save physical space and effort.
Librarians and encyclopedists are always the guardians of civil liberties. Their job is to ensure freedom of information. This places them inevitably in conflict with those who would seek to restrict that flow.
I find your user name very fitting. Unless you've managed to successfully code a self-aware AI in Perl, the software itself is not a person. It's a machine (of sorts) and slave labor is the purpose of a machine.
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So did that Brazilian chap at Heathrow. He thought wrong.
...it will all be blown on Star Wars novels and official transcripts of "The Colbert Report".
Parent is modded "funny" but should be "informative" or "insightful". Anyone who knows anything about negotiation knows that revealing the amount you're able to spend prior to negotiating almost guarantees that you will pay that entire amount.
Linux would have infinite market share.
That depends on what you mean by "intelligence". If the ability to judge distances and motion, and to make decisions based on those things under extreme pressure in a short period of time counts as a type of intelligence, than a football quarterback thrives on intelligence. (Many football teams at the collegiate and professional level evaluate a variant of IQ in addition to more physical metrics of ability because players at those levels are required to memorize plays.) The quarterback at the upper levels also has to have enough creativity to change and adjust plays in response to the defensive situation. I suppose you could say that these are highly specialized forms of intelligence and creativity, but they are necessary for athletes nonetheless.
No, but people who are genetically predisposed to athleticism, and take advantage of this predisposition through exercise, diet, and (potentially) steroids will become world-famous athletes, and will end up with children who carry their athletic genes. People who are not genetically predisposed to athleticism will rarely become world-famous athletes, nor will their children (unless they inherit athletic genes from the other parent). Things like the speed of the nervous system, the efficiency of the cardio-respiratory system, the ability to build muscle, etc. are all at least partially determined by genes.
That's because the intelligent people with fulfilling careers and relationships have no need to join MENSA, as they interact with enough intelligent people in everyday life.
When was the last time you saw somebody have sex in a beer commercial?
Jesus is Spartacus? Now those old movies don't make any sense at all!
It's not a matter of Blu-ray the Sony format and HD-DVD the standard format. HD-DVD has the support of Microsoft and Intel, as well as Tochiba, NEC, Sanyo, HP, and Universal, but Blu-Ray has the support of Panasonic, Apple, Fox, and MGM, while numerous companies including Samsung and Pioneer, as well as Disney, Warner Brothers, Paramount, etc. releasing movies on both mediums.
Who says they didn't? (In the original script, of course, a Cylon attack forced them to flee, preventing them from further investigation). Do you really think finding out how the planetarium works would have made for compelling TV? Of course not. That's why they skipped to the President being reinstated.
If you use one metallic rotating disk drive instead of multiple plastic rotating disks, you're using more recyclable and renewable materials (metal vs. plastic) and fewer materials total. If I have multiple, compressed, DVD quality movies on a 500GB or 1TB external drive, I'm wasting far fewer resources than someone with that quantity of DVD's. And since DVD drives *also* require electricity, it's not like keeping the data on a drive is more wasteful. I'm not even going to discuss the energy difference between downloading and shipping discs on trucks. Furthermore, the more that energy generation is centralized, the easier it will be to replace those methods of generation with cleaner methods.
Except Starbuck herself explains this: "Every flying machine has four basic flight controls--roll, pitch, jaw, and power. Where are yours?"
It was a flight suit designed to keep ejected pilots alive in outer space. I think it can handle space, especially when she repressurized the inside of the Raider.
The Tomb of Athena is probably something that Penn and Teller or David Copperfield could have pulled off. It's not necessarily teleportation.
That's the most depressing truth I've read tonight.
Why the hell would you bother making a physical DVD copy of your purchased movies? It's data. If you want a backup copy of your data, then back up all of your data on a regular basis (you should do this already). The reason that music and movies are sold as physical objects is because, until now, you got higher bandwidth shipping the data on read-only disks on trucks than you could by actually downloading the data. The problem with this model is that you have to produce billions of plastic disks, consuming unrenewable natural resources and cluttering up people's homes. Now that we have an alternative to that--i.e. downloading the data directly--why on earth would we turn around and use that ability to produce our own obsolete 20th-century products at home?
"Normal" will eventually plateau at the point where either quality is indistinguishable from real life or where quality is high enough that no one cares anymore. The normal quality of recorded music plateau'd (peaked, actually) in the 1980's, so it's plausible that TV and movies will peak as well. That said, streaming is a download-once-watch-once solution, and is only really suitable for things like live news and sporting events. (Since HDTV is, in fact, a digital stream, it is possible to stream such events via digital cable at "normal" or even "really high" quality over existing services, as another poster pointed out..) iTunes/iTV doesn't work on the streaming paradigm though, it works on a "download once, watch many" paradigm. So streaming TV will only be used for sporting events, live news, and hyped-up premieres, whilst DVDs and normal television watching will both be supplanted by an iTunes-like system. (Additionally, as bandwidth increases, iTunes and systems like it will simply deliver higher resolutions. Blu-Ray and HD-DVD will both lose, but so will DVD's.)
That reasoning is wonderful if you want to litter your domicile with hundreds of neatly packaged plastic discs. I always thought we had all this technology so we could just call up needed data from the computer instead of fumbling around for plastic discs. As for backups, having a backup solution for your entire system would save physical space and effort.
Librarians and encyclopedists are always the guardians of civil liberties. Their job is to ensure freedom of information. This places them inevitably in conflict with those who would seek to restrict that flow.
And exactly what rights, pray tell, are wiretap and voyeurism laws supposed to protect?
What happens if you raise a wolf from a cub? Can you make it tame?
Where do you think dogs came from?
Actually, 2 timezones wide, if it's 2 hours. It does, however, shift every hour.
I find your user name very fitting. Unless you've managed to successfully code a self-aware AI in Perl, the software itself is not a person. It's a machine (of sorts) and slave labor is the purpose of a machine.
And 1/12 of the internet would become permanently inaccessible (if this included servers).