Or drop acid on it. "The lines are moving man, they're MOOOOOVVVVIIINNNGG." "My marble's talking to me."

In my head, I always hear Spock whispering, "There's no need to be insulting."

Skullkickers does the best sound effects:

It depends on what you mean by "rule". If you mean, "is popular", then sure- you're 100% right. If, on the other hand, you mean: it's what gets you paid, what gets your bills paid, what keeps your banks running and manages your health care, and in short, is responsible for pretty much every important thing that…

I'm not arguing that it's not a declining segment- but it's not dead, and very likely may never die. Legacy code tends to stick around forever.

Embedded programming is its own skill because it operates under much different constraints. For similar reasons, OS programming has its own different constraints.

Fewer, sure- but there's also less competition for those jobs. If you know COBOL and have industry knowledge, you can be gainfully employed up to your retirement, easily. A decade ago, I saw the State of NY hiring kids out of college and training them on COBOL because they were that desperate for COBOL devs.

You used the past tense. I'm not sure you truly recognize how much of the world still runs on COBOL.

I tend to take the stance that individual languages aren't a skill. Like, think about sword-fighting. Sword-fighting is a skill. To properly sword-fight, you have to learn a lot of specific techniques- stances, strikes, parries, etc. Each technique is part of the overall skill of sword-fighting, but these subskills…

In all cases, I can take the number of slices in half the pie and double them. Ohhh… so the first slice bisects the pie. The second slice could then… oh, look at that, you could make a total of six slices on your second cut. The third cut could then make that 9. Ah, so n^3, no minus.

When n=1, the largest number of slices can be 2- I can cut the pie however I like, but the largest number of pieces is two.

Honestly, one of the things that kept me from getting into Minecraft was the block-based construction. It's tedious. I'd much rather have something that lets me build in a more descriptive fashion, instead of by meticulously placing each 1m cube of material that I want.

I haven't read that one, but I did read the William Gibson debacle, which had Ripley wrapped up in a medical device for the whole film, since they couldn't be sure Weaver was returning. Since the script heavily featured Space Soviets, it had to be scrapped when the Berlin Wall fell.

Because the concept in that concept art is that Hicks and Newt don't die, and Ripley and Hicks team up to be badasses. The concept is what everybody wanted from Alien3.

Oh, Greer did think of this, or more accurately, Samaritan did. That tech company had all of the ear-marks of a Google-like organization, with stock shooting through the roof. Samaritan would have had a difficult time acquiring their assets quietly under those circumstances. But if Samaritan knew that people were…

That's just unfair. Speed Racer was pink tinted, and Jupiter Ascending mixes pink, green, and blue tinting!

More a consequence of the plot, I'd say. The first film had a clear plot which let the characters develop, at least a little. But the rest of the films just jerked off to green-tinted visuals for the next 4 hours.

Farsi doesn't have gendered pronouns at all, if memory serves.

These sorts of subjects are why I doubt human beings are intelligent by any standard not arbitrarily chosen by humans who are convinced that they're intelligent.

I don't want a Felicity action figure that doesn't come with a whole bunch of interchangeable outfits. I don't know what that actress does to make the costume department love her so much, but she has the greatest wardrobe on TV (although, since we're on the subject, what was with that top this week, which was…