What'd be interesting to me is if you administered this test to current athletes and found the ones who the test wouldn't have predicted would be good. I can only think of a few sports where only one thing is the determinant for success. Those sports are typically ones in which you're not dealing with other people directly. So, track and field, and weightlifting. In every other sport that I can imagine, there's an element of having to react to another human being's actions. And sometimes, if you're really good at that and making appropriate decisions based on it, you can beat the guy with better size/speed/power.

So, when I finally bit the bullet and joined FB this year, I had a bunch of pending friend requests that I'd previously ignored waiting for me. How else would this have been accomplished if not for the so-called shadow profile? It struck me as a no-brainer at the time.

Here's what I've done historically. Take the new job but give your employer the option to contact you for issues that they can't figure out. Determine an hourly rate and be a consultant. Put time expectations on it (i.e. "I'll spend no more than 3 hours on an average week for the next 3 months"). Tell the new employer about your situation (in case there are conflict of interest issues). By doing this, you're giving your current employer a way to still have access to any unique knowledge that you have while still doing what's right for you. You get a reputation for being a good guy with the current employer (and likely the new since you're showing the behavior that you'll exhibit when you leave them) and you get the better job. Win-win.

I was thinking more of the scene from "Meet the Parents" where Greg explains how he milks a cat.

You know, I've always wondered what this proverbial clue would look like. That is, what model could the media companies adopt make the people who make this argument as an argument for stealing actually use it? As it is, you can go to your local Redbox and get a DVD for $1/day. What is wrong with that? Selection you say? Okay. So what you're looking for is some company who will somehow have literally anything that you're looking for available instantly for a nominal price? I think the logistics behind that are mind-boggling. Seriously, work up some numbers. Since you've implied that it should be easy to do, you should have no problem coming up with a model in which everyone wins. When you do that, go ahead and put yourself in business and make millions. You're welcome.

I think the point was that it took them two weeks to arrive at that conclusion. I know I'd have been frustrated in his situation.

But you're assuming that mistakes are detrimental. Mutations are, by definition, a mistake in the genetic copying process.

Unfortunately, it's your bandwidth and power, too. Granted, I get your point about the scalability of this, but your attack ain't free.

President Rockefeller? Err... which president was that again?

Do it just like they've been doing with food labeling for a very long time: put both units on the signs for a while with the intent for a cutover at the next refresh. Or, if you want to be really careful about it, you have things in the format of imperial/metric for round 1, then metric/imperial for round 2, then cutover to metric in round 3.

Two things:

1) Do you have numbers to quantify "most"?
2) Since when is trolling a crime?

I don't know about paper, but I'd guess that shipping prices are highly correlated to the price of diesel. And, as you can see here, it's about triple what it was 10 years ago. That cost isn't just factored in to getting the book from the distributor to the store where you buy it, but in every step of the manufacturing process where something has to be moved from one place to another. And it's not like business to just eat those costs, so they pass them on to you.

Now imagine if the entire process of making a book were electronic. There's no reams of paper to ship to print it on, no sending the book from the distributor to the consumer. All of those shipping costs are now nil. The million dollar question is: what portion of the price of a book is shipping?

But the argument "open-source doesn't belong on the web" was never made. So what's your point again?

I suggest that you look up gerund.

That word does not mean what you think it means.