Well, if you learned to keyboard properly and wore shirts that fit properly you may still be wearing a watch. You're not supposed to rest your wrists on something while typing. It's like playing the piano. Your wrists are supposed to be elevated with you hands flat, parallel to the floor and fingers naturally angling down to the keys. Dress shirt sleeve cuffs should terminate just behind the opposing joint of the thumb and not constrict around your wrist so jewelry (watches, bracelets) doesn't get caught easily. Might want to try French cuff shirts. Sounds like the boat may have already sailed for you though. I don't wear watches often these days either, unless I am getting dressed up, but the right clothing does help the getting caught problem. As for they keyboarding, you may want to work on your technique to prevent any long term injuries, or to mitigate any existing ones. I learned piano before typing so I had a bit of a head start on proper wrist-hand posture when I did finally start typing.

You would assume correctly. Has to do with our common Roman/European roots. It's not an original English idiom, nor is it an English idiom at all, really. Since modern English is a hodge-podge of borrowed words from several different cultures and root languages, and some ridiculous meldings ("television" for instance-half Greek, half-Latin) one could see how some could get confused. The great 20th century philologist, J.R.R. Tolkien, saw Icelandic as the closest thing to what Old English was. Modern English is a mess. It's ok, most people don't know what the words they're saying mean anyway so what difference does it make. I had some idiot the other day in a meeting try to make themselves look cool by using "bifurcated" to describe something that was split in three parts. [facepalm]

One other thing to note is that cell towers have limited range, dependent on a myriad of factors it can be as little as several hundred yards to 10 miles. Do you know how many towers would be needed to cover, say, rural Nevada or Utah? It's completely unfeasible from a cost stand point. If they tried, everyone's basic cell service would cost over $500/month, nationwide. Besides, they would still need the cables in the ground to get the signal from place to place because wireless interconnects would only be line-of-sight.

Actually, if you look at most long running series television shows, the third season is usually the best. The writers, actors and directors seem to hit a stride and it's shades of season three or a downward slide from there on, with few exceptions. My personal feeling is that series shows should not go beyond four seasons. After 100 episodes they tend to take a dive and everyone wants to do something else.

I think that was one where they were thinking of taking the story line in a certain direction, got the reviews and changed their mind. The Borg went over better as an arch enemy rather than some parasitic race trying to take over the Federation.

Wow, how naive are you? That show blows away most sci-fi screenwriting done since. Maybe when you grow up you might realize that good stories aren't just written and portrayed within your limited lifetime or experience.

Wow, just wow. How can you dismiss episodes like "The Measure of a Man," where Data's sentience is on trial? One of Picard's best lines in the whole series (start about 38 minutes into the episode to get to), "Your honor, the courtroom is a crucible. In it we burn away irrelevancies until we are left with a pure product, the truth--for all time." Those court proceedings speak to how we as a species treat other life forms, and how "racist" and narrow minded we can be. Science fiction, Star Trek in particular, is mostly made up of morality tales. If you haven't realized that then you've missed a lot. There are many amazingly well told morality tales in those in between episodes. It's a shame you missed them.

See some of my posts above. Yes, language is based on referents, most of which require a great deal of cultural context and why there is no such thing as a literal translation between any language, even those based on the same roots, i.e. the Romance languages. I am sad that so many disliked the Darmok episode. It is actually one of my top 20. I can only hope that you learn more about different languages and cultures and to appreciate how interesting that episode really is.

Ok, as an armchair philologist I am going to say that spoken language and the ability to design microprocessors are not mutually essential. Mathematics is more important to processor design than spoken language. If their society's understanding and expression of mathematics is advanced the spoken language is almost irrelevant. We don't express processor designs, nor computer code in spoken language. We use mathematics or an abstraction (insert your favorite programming language here).

Ummm, you say "It's not about idioms. It's about meaning," and then explain how it's about context. It's all about context. Context is key and why words pulled out of context have different meaning. It's also why people who are philologists or armchair philologists enjoy the Darmok episode. To bash that episode only proves how little someone actually knows about language, culture and meaning, the basis of context. The worst episodes of TNG are like the worst of any screenwriting. Most of the 24x7 (that's 24 episodes by 7 seasons) were very well written, some not so much. Hey, even the best home run hitter strikes out every now and then, but you don't poo-poo his career because he had seven strike outs and 120 home runs.

Options two and three should switch positions. "I'm interested, but wary of hype" should be closer to "Not terribly interested in gaming headgear" than "Looks amazing, I can't wait".

You really aren't very smart are you? "Ph.D." = Doctor of Philosophy, duh. He has a Masters and a Ph.D. in astrophysics from Columbia University.

What? Like a Porsche GT3? You speak as if gas powered vehicles don't randomly catch fire all the time, and nobody says boo. Troll.

Actually, it was a three-ball commercial trailer hitch that was in the road and got flipped up under the car when the driver tried to avoid it. http://www.teslamotors.com/blo...

I had it explained this way: "Carbon fiber is great in the X and Y axis of the weave. Not so much the Z axis." So, yeah, hitting a carbon fiber structure with a rock perpendicular to the weave will damage (possibly destroy) the carbon fiber structure. They don't layer and epoxy coat them for looks.