I'm uh... not familiar with any dolphin species that have spaceships.

As long as the only widely used and/or reasonably useful alternatives are proprietary and exclusive, then no.

What I hate far more are progress indicators that fail to let you know that progress is no longer being made. I especially hate throbbers that are merely animations and so just spin and spin once they've been triggered, regardless of what's actually going on.

I prefer to base estimates for data transfers on an average of either the total work to that point or the work done over the most recent X% of that. I say % because if you always average, say, the last minute of data, then the larger a transfer is, the less useful that average becomes. % keeps it useful for any size…

Lots of text makes a worse slide than images do, in my experience. If I'm spending a lot of time reading your slide, I'm not paying attention to what you're saying. And if what you're saying is exactly what's on the slide, then you don't need the slide. At least you can't speak images. So they're guaranteed to add…

Those are just badly designed slideshows, though. I can't presenters who do this, especially those who don't bring a copy of their talking points and just crane their neck to read directly off the screen behind them. Ugh...

Yup. Labours of love, time, blood, and sweat can still be overproduced masses of stereotype and cliche. This isn't the right site for pointing that out, though. And there's no way I know to convince an Avatar fan of it.

A manga that can work as a movie that doesn't need to be a movie because the existence of the manga proves that interesting and original characters and plots are possible, and that leeching off of existing ones is not needed for making good movies. If you must "adapt", have the balls to give your movie a new name so…

Yeah, we get it. It's common knowledge that Hollywood is stuffed to the gills with people who could have done the prequels well.

Bring extra torches for the monster spawners.

The complexity comes from the fact tha every combination of people groups can itself be seen as a people group. Implying that a 50/50 gender split fixes the representation problem oversimplifies the problem and implies that other identity categories are less important. It also implies a claim that all men are…

Of course a shitload bought it. It was Windows. I didn't say otherwise. Over time, and relative to global Windows ownership, though, they were significantly less popular.

Hyperbolic post warrants a hyperbolic response. And I think "most people didn't buy them" (which is at least literally true) is a lot less hyperbolic than "all windows users forgot" and "brought nothing new".

I only know about 20 Mac users. But they all spring for the upgrade every single time. I know this because they each tell me about it. Every single time. Makes me feel like sending them an e-mail every time Windows gets a service pack, or one of my Linux distros turns over.

With Hydro, it depends on the size of the dam. In BC, yeah, we've got some huge ones that created giant lakes where there was only a river valley before. There are so many different ways to set up hydro, though. Some of the newer, smaller dams in BC are built in steep, rocky canyons to minimize flood damage; are not…

Most people didn't buy those, though. Most Apple users will buy this.

I used to live in BC, where electricity is all hydroelectric. If you've got that or nuclear, your electric car's as clean as it appears to be.

Right, these tests aren't real world. But your tests represent one usage pattern on one system. While that's technically "real-world" it's only an extremely tiny part of that world.

Day by day, I see Google as an ever-enlarging strike against Chrome.

These tests disagree.