Was there anyone who actually thought that the human line(s) immediately dominated the hunting scene the instant they became geneticly distinct from the other primates?
Remember, according to evolutionary theory, the life events of an individual are irrelevent.All that matters is whether it produces offspring (also some evolutionary advantage to protecting close relatives, but even that can be simulated quite easily), and supposedly the mechanism is crossover and mutation, ie in a GA, life experience is equivalent to the evaluation function.
Two words: learned behaviors.
You mentioned evolutionary advantage to protecting close relatives, but learned/taught/imitated behaviors go far beyond that. Food-gathering and nest-building techniques can be learned. And in more advanced species, tool making.
Even things which would eventually evolve in the form of instinct (cats burying their feces) can come about more quickly through learned behavior.
Where would H. Sapien be without this simple form of communication?
Genetics are not the only factor which contributes to evolution.
"Are they seriously trying to argue that records that a player set, as well as numbers calculated from the tabulated performance of an athelete are not facts?"
Cork bats, steroids... I'd say no, a lot of those records are not facts.:p
Now I think the MPAA system is technically voluntary
Damn right, it's voluntary. And so is the currenly existing video game rating system. If we don't need laws for movies, books, etc, we don't need laws for video games either.
Problem one: This bill allowed for the determination of whether the game is "too violent" to take place AFTER the sale. Rated T for Teen? Sure, I'll sell this to a 17-year-old....$10,000? WTF?
Problem two: Remind me why we don't fine people for selling violent books, movies, magazines, newspapers, music, etc. to minors. If we're going to restrict free speech we need to restrict all forms of it.
FYI, Joss has confirmed that he's going to write another series of Serenity comics, and has been saying for months that the DVD sales of Serenity will determine whether the franchise will be seen on screens (big or small) in the future. EW are just quoting Joss out of context to stir up some contraversy.
A-fricken-men. I doubt I'm the only fan that didn't buy the Serenity DVD on the first day. There's still revenue coming in.
I assume that after the vote is cast, the voter can view the receipt. That way they can make sure their vote registered (no more dimple or chad issues). Also, if there's a discrepency between what you actually voted and what the receipt says, you can take it to the election judge.
Bittersweet Symphony isn't by Coldplay. It's by The Verve.
Ah, thank you, this explains much. Coldplay did a duet of Bittersweet Symphony at Live8, which is where I was misinformed. And iTunes does have it, but it didn't come up in my searches because it's spelled Bitter Sweet there. With a space.:p
Generally the album is the logical unit of musical expression, and it wouldn't make any more sense to just listen to 2 or 3 tracks then it would to just read 2 or 3 chapters from a book.
Not really. A chapter of a book does not stand on its own, but all the chapters together form a cohesive and coherent story. A lot of albums these days are just seperate songs that are thrown together to fill a CD. They might all be worthwhile songs, but that doesn't mean they necessarily go together, or that I like them enough to pay for them, you know?
As an example, I recently found out three of the songs I like a lot (Bittersweet Symphony, Clocks, and Speed of Sound) are all by the same band, Coldplay. So I bought the latter two off iTunes (they didn't have Bittersweet Symphony? awww...), and listened to some more of their tracks on Rhapsody, but I didn't like anything else enough to pay for the priviledge of having it on my MP3 player. Similar stories with Green Day, Tina Malia, and Franz Ferdinand. On the other hand, I bought an entire album from 2002, because I liked 8 of the 10 tracks, but it actually DID feel like something was missing when the last two weren't in the playlist. That's certainly not the case with Green Day. =P
Out of curiosity, what if they don't give you the disc but let you burn one?
Assuming I always get "close enough" video quality and a good burn... well, I guess $10 compared to $15-25 for the DVD would be about right, but there's still two issues.
-Burned CDs/DVDs have life expectancy issues. -I, personally, only buy the Collecters' Edition movies with all the extras. Otherwise, I rent.
I imagine Oracle's financials are like a messy kitchen. Cleaning it doesn't sound like too bad of a job until you actually walk in and see it...
Yes, I live in a bachelor pad.
You're certainly free to write your own version and release software under that new version's license (assuming it wasn't already released under GPL 3), but you get to call it something else.
So what keeps people from recording the output and distributing that?
Nothing, but there are a few deterrents:
-A small reduction in quality (Boo hoo) -The time it takes to play the whole thing, then recompress it. (Of course, you could just do the first while you're watching it, and the second overnight.) -Much higher chance of having interrupts, skips, etc. (Blah) -You lose the DVD menus! (This would actually matter.)
Basically, the same reason people choose to disable the copy-protection on those new CDs that Sony has been putting out, rather than playing-and-recording. Plus the DVD menus.
Even the Intel Integrated Graphics (about as bad as you can get) has decent 3D support.
But no shader support.
My brother recently bought Battlefield Vietnam, thinking he could play it on his $500 Dell Dimension 42something. Of course, it wouldn't run. We had to go spend $40 on a PCI GeForce FX-5200 so he could play it. And the framerate on some other games was actually slightly WORSE than with the integrated chipset.
If this had been available at the time, we could have saved the price difference for probably better results.
Of course, I'm assuming it would be cheaper than $40, or perhaps come bundled with low-end computers with no AGP/PCIEx16 slots.
Yes, I mis-read the corrected version of the riddle as well. *bangs head on desk*
My apologies for throwing in another wrong-but-looks-right solution.:p
In that case, point to one door and ask either statue "Is that the door which you are guarding?" Both statues will say "Yes" if you point to Salvation, and "No" if you point to Death.
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The film companies, including Walt Disney and Time Warner, are demanding Samsung recall the players.
Raise your hand if you're going to return your player if/when it's recalled. =P
Was there anyone who actually thought that the human line(s) immediately dominated the hunting scene the instant they became geneticly distinct from the other primates?
Wait, can they DO that?
...about being slower than mold. :(
Two words: learned behaviors.
You mentioned evolutionary advantage to protecting close relatives, but learned/taught/imitated behaviors go far beyond that. Food-gathering and nest-building techniques can be learned. And in more advanced species, tool making.
Even things which would eventually evolve in the form of instinct (cats burying their feces) can come about more quickly through learned behavior.
Where would H. Sapien be without this simple form of communication?
Genetics are not the only factor which contributes to evolution.
It's not really sharing if they're charging money, now is it?
Hurray for politicians, lawyers, and people in their employ with too much time on their hands!
This... does not compute. One would assume only one or two reboots for the sake of clearing the RAM.
I'm gonna break the mold and reply on-topic here
Boo! The double-dupe was the best opportunity for a story with nothing but dupe comments, and now you've ruined it!
Cork bats, steroids... I'd say no, a lot of those records are not facts.
Now I think the MPAA system is technically voluntary Damn right, it's voluntary. And so is the currenly existing video game rating system. If we don't need laws for movies, books, etc, we don't need laws for video games either.
Problem one: This bill allowed for the determination of whether the game is "too violent" to take place AFTER the sale. Rated T for Teen? Sure, I'll sell this to a 17-year-old. ...$10,000? WTF?
Problem two: Remind me why we don't fine people for selling violent books, movies, magazines, newspapers, music, etc. to minors. If we're going to restrict free speech we need to restrict all forms of it.
FYI, Joss has confirmed that he's going to write another series of Serenity comics, and has been saying for months that the DVD sales of Serenity will determine whether the franchise will be seen on screens (big or small) in the future. EW are just quoting Joss out of context to stir up some contraversy.
A-fricken-men. I doubt I'm the only fan that didn't buy the Serenity DVD on the first day. There's still revenue coming in.
Cache all 'Zig'!
I assume that after the vote is cast, the voter can view the receipt. That way they can make sure their vote registered (no more dimple or chad issues). Also, if there's a discrepency between what you actually voted and what the receipt says, you can take it to the election judge.
Bittersweet Symphony isn't by Coldplay. It's by The Verve.
:p
Ah, thank you, this explains much. Coldplay did a duet of Bittersweet Symphony at Live8, which is where I was misinformed. And iTunes does have it, but it didn't come up in my searches because it's spelled Bitter Sweet there. With a space.
Generally the album is the logical unit of musical expression, and it wouldn't make any more sense to just listen to 2 or 3 tracks then it would to just read 2 or 3 chapters from a book.
Not really. A chapter of a book does not stand on its own, but all the chapters together form a cohesive and coherent story. A lot of albums these days are just seperate songs that are thrown together to fill a CD. They might all be worthwhile songs, but that doesn't mean they necessarily go together, or that I like them enough to pay for them, you know?
As an example, I recently found out three of the songs I like a lot (Bittersweet Symphony, Clocks, and Speed of Sound) are all by the same band, Coldplay. So I bought the latter two off iTunes (they didn't have Bittersweet Symphony? awww...), and listened to some more of their tracks on Rhapsody, but I didn't like anything else enough to pay for the priviledge of having it on my MP3 player. Similar stories with Green Day, Tina Malia, and Franz Ferdinand. On the other hand, I bought an entire album from 2002, because I liked 8 of the 10 tracks, but it actually DID feel like something was missing when the last two weren't in the playlist. That's certainly not the case with Green Day. =P
Out of curiosity, what if they don't give you the disc but let you burn one?
Assuming I always get "close enough" video quality and a good burn... well, I guess $10 compared to $15-25 for the DVD would be about right, but there's still two issues.
-Burned CDs/DVDs have life expectancy issues.
-I, personally, only buy the Collecters' Edition movies with all the extras. Otherwise, I rent.
If I don't get a seperated backup copy (an actual, physical DVD), I will pay no more than 20% of the DVD price.
This isn't like music where one usually only wants 1-3 tracks from the album. Buying 1-3 tracks from a CD, you're paying... 20%!
I'd want the same discount on a downloaded movie, 20% for what I want, even though that's (usually) the entire thing.
I imagine Oracle's financials are like a messy kitchen. Cleaning it doesn't sound like too bad of a job until you actually walk in and see it... Yes, I live in a bachelor pad.
You're certainly free to write your own version and release software under that new version's license (assuming it wasn't already released under GPL 3), but you get to call it something else.
So what keeps people from recording the output and distributing that?
Nothing, but there are a few deterrents:
-A small reduction in quality (Boo hoo)
-The time it takes to play the whole thing, then recompress it. (Of course, you could just do the first while you're watching it, and the second overnight.)
-Much higher chance of having interrupts, skips, etc. (Blah)
-You lose the DVD menus! (This would actually matter.)
Basically, the same reason people choose to disable the copy-protection on those new CDs that Sony has been putting out, rather than playing-and-recording. Plus the DVD menus.
Even the Intel Integrated Graphics (about as bad as you can get) has decent 3D support.
But no shader support.
My brother recently bought Battlefield Vietnam, thinking he could play it on his $500 Dell Dimension 42something. Of course, it wouldn't run. We had to go spend $40 on a PCI GeForce FX-5200 so he could play it. And the framerate on some other games was actually slightly WORSE than with the integrated chipset.
If this had been available at the time, we could have saved the price difference for probably better results.
Of course, I'm assuming it would be cheaper than $40, or perhaps come bundled with low-end computers with no AGP/PCIEx16 slots.
Yes, I mis-read the corrected version of the riddle as well. *bangs head on desk* My apologies for throwing in another wrong-but-looks-right solution. :p
In that case, point to one door and ask either statue "Is that the door which you are guarding?" Both statues will say "Yes" if you point to Salvation, and "No" if you point to Death.