Aliens: Pre-Re-Pluralization

I Am Legend 2: I Will Be Legend: The Pre-Legendeering.

@The Intangible Fancy: I could be mistaken, but my understanding of the reference to the black hole as a singularity is that it results more from the strictly mathematical notion of singularity. The equations of physical science suggested that it was possible to have a point at which the magnitude of the force of…

@corpore-metal: I am also a skeptic of Vinge's notion of the singularity, although that didn't really come through in my earlier comment. I also agree that the idea contains an oversimplification: specifically, I think it implicitly creates an analogy-

@corpore-metal: My understanding of the term is that it refers to a point in a manifold at which something unusual, aberrant, paradoxical, or merely interesting takes place. So the word "singularity" has a pretty broad connotation. I think this use of the term "singularity" refers to the hypothetical moment at which…

@Razoky: Maybe we can hold out hope that Peter Jackson, like James Cameron, will actually know what to do with 3D.

@icelight: Haha. It's true that I've set a relatively low bar there.

@icelight: I think Vogt is making a whole host of assumptions, to be sure. But I do think that he's engaging in scientific thinking, to the extent that it is possible to do so in this arena, where there is only one case in which a planet is the host of lifeforms, and several other planets that we can see and that do…

@icelight: I don't really think he's grandstanding. Ray Kurzweil is more the type of person who grandstands by making absurd, groundless claims.

Summary: Darth Vader is Luke's father!!

Best review ever.

@marlowespade: It's the thinking person's The Island.

@mtfmuffins: I personally wouldn't recommend the iPad to you then for the purpose of long-form writing. I myself use the iPad along with a notebook PC, as a kind of secondary device or display, to look at notes or articles while I'm writing. As a touch typist, I can't achieve any significant speed or accuracy on the…

@mtfmuffins: Without an external keyboard, typing on the iPad is really slow. However, I could see why someone would want to use the iPad with external keyboard over a netbook in order to write, primarily because of the battery life. The external keyboard is not exactly well integrated with the iPad, in the sense…

All the benefits of a patentable chemical compound owned by a corporate entity, none of the risks of a plant that can be grown in a home, the use of which is associated with no fatal medical complications.

@UhOK: I tend to agree with you. When notebooks cost $500 and netbooks cost $350-$500, in the face of a dead battery, a beat up exterior with non-upgradable components, and the cost of an OS upgrade, most people probably just buy another computer. Now that there's something different available that allows them to…

@truthtellah: Incidentally, I challenge you to find out how many of the 17 attorneys general who signed that letter to Craigslist are not up for re-election later this year. I'm betting that the answer is zero, but I honestly don't know.

@truthtellah: All I'm trying to say is that people here in the U.S. like to be free to do what we want, but we also want to engage in our chosen behavior privately. In the U.S., freedom and privacy go hand in hand. That's because public society as a whole is intermittently intolerant, and people have a certain…

The U.S. is prudish in certain ways; the most relevant ways for internet content have to do with legal and political action and with the way the media portrays certain elements of society. A good example is the recent letter sent by the 17 attorneys general (who are presumably up for election this fall) sending the…

If only MS had the perspicacity to make the same announcement about Windows.