I maintain that the original series were good because at the time, Lucas had a good understanding of pacing. He had to make the best of limited resources, which meant he chose closer, more intimate shots, and conveyed suspense and a sense of scale largely through storytelling and the characters reacting to the (often…

This is going to be such a deeply personal issue that I can’t fathom anyone coming to a reasonable conclusion. This is the kind of thing that needs to be discussed on a per-team basis, and not decided for all of humanity all at once.

Even if the car is designed to obey those limits at the time of manufacture, what happens if the laws change? The regulations get adjusted? The car is certified for the rules in one state, but the family takes it on a road trip into a state with different rules?

The really weird thing is, bootcamp *is* supported by Apple, but only for upgrades. The official way to run Windows 10 in bootcamp involves installing 7 or 8 first, performing the upgrade (from within bootcamp already at this point), then allowing bootcamp to update itself from within windows. Only then will it…

My parents treated my love of videogames as an addiction, and tried to keep me away from them. I don’t know if this was intentional, but the only internet access I had was through our school, and its filtering made it difficult to find any resources on things I actually wanted to study.

As a musician in college, our professor once had us book a performance in the cafeteria at the school. We got up there on stage, sang our hearts out, and pretty much nobody cared one bit. The entire cafeteria ignored us, and it was obvious the ones who wanted to listen couldn’t possibly hear the choir over the bustle…

This should still reduce a lot of the friction. One of the most frustrating elements in League right now is the pre-game banter during champ select. Many an argument start here and snowball into extreme toxicity during the game proper, as the more arrogant players have their “fears confirmed” with every setback.

This falls apart a little bit if any of the opposing members own nearly all of the roster, but the feature’s handy for the 90% of other games you’ll end up in. :)

Well, not forced. They’d be perfectly fine if they meant to use that computer for Windows 7. As far as I’m aware, this only affects sales of new PCs by Microsoft partners. The licenses for the old operating systems should still validate and remain quite active; Windows 7 isn’t due to go off long term support until…

And Cheeksqueak is why.

This is precisely the issue with the government trying to mandate backdoors: the criminals will simply stop relying on commercial encryption software entirely. Encryption is *easy* to understand. Even RSA isn’t terribly complicated; I was able to grasp the basis behind it without any real difficulty, and I’m hardly a…

Yes. :)

You are half right; chrome does run a Linux kernel, but so does Android. I don’t consider either to be a Linux desktop though, due to the lack of a way to install or run normal desktop programs. I mean, most routers use Linux kernels, and I don’t go around calling them Linux desktops. :P

I don’t think it’s confusing at all; Chrome OS is an operating system entirely comprised of the Chrome web browser. It does almost just about nothing else, nothing that an end user would use regularly. It’s an odd name because it’s an odd product; it doesn’t have to run on anything else, it *is* the OS.

Now you have me pondering the possibility of a computer vision technique that can look at the behavior of a pedestrian, work out where that person is currently walking, where they’re currently spotting (looking around, monitoring obstacles) and work out the probability that said pedestrian will change course and cross…

I was pleasantly surprised by this. I expected them to still exclusively use Nintendo accounts in the interest of being family friendly, but then again, the prevailing message for the younger kids (< 13yo) seems to be for parents to keep them off the internet entirely.

No, I don’t think that’s what he means. There are several virtual console titles that are available for purchase on the old Wii, the new Wii U, or the 3DS. Same game, same exact experience, ported to different consoles. If you purchase that game on one system right now, you have to purchase it *again* if you want to…

Man, Biology is just fascinating. I don’t study it enough to really comment intelligently here, but it seems like mother nature just goes, “Yup, that’s a creature. Looks like it can reproduce, sure, good enough then.” Never mind that the production of the creature involves organs destroying themselves, or lots of…

I have. A friend decided to call me back when Google Hangouts was new. Not knowing how this worked, I answered the strange message, and my phone promptly turned on my front facing camera and did a video chat. What the hell Google? I’m squeamish about cameras and always have been; I got quite upset and proceeded to…

I’m a completionist, so I’m going out there trying to finish all the heart quests and little side jobs. I’m out-leveling most of the areas *easily,* without trying, because there’s just so much to do, and I enjoy doing nearly all of it.