Would a plane even get off the ground on Mars? I mean the atmosphere is so thin would you get any lift at all unless you were traveling really fast already?

I can't get too worked up about this at all. I'm watching these "finely crafted" movies on my TV at home so it's not like it's being displayed like it was intended anyway. The fact that film makers/artists can't/won't make films to a standard ratio (16:9) implies they aren't interested in the home video market in any…

My kid likes Kre-o. He doesn't make much distinction between Lego and Kre-o except that the mini-figures are better in Kre-o because they're more posable. Kre-o isn't quite on the same level for quality of sticking together as Lego from my perspective but my kid doesn't care that much. He can build transformers in…

This is experimental to see if it can be done. It's not like this robot is used for anything or will be used for anything besides this research. Almost all robots that are actually useful look nothing like people because the one task the robots do doesn't require a human form. Robots are very useful for their single…

He's designed a robot to do this task. Something robots are excellent at are doing one thing really well but now let's get this same robot to do the pommel horse next.

Tonnes of open source stuff is torrented. It's a pretty efficient way to "host" things and send it out.

Why can't you?

It may not be simple "puritanism" at least not for the "swears". While these words have become part of informal discourse they're still not considered part of formal language usage. The very fact that these words, even in this article, are referred to as "foul-mouthed" suggests that they are seen as different than…

"And maybe they are cosmically significant? After all, we've been staring at them and going, "Woooooah. NO. WAY." since before we could even walk fully upright."

Fair enough but I, and many people I know, almost never use their phone as a phone but for every possible other feature on the phone. So this may not be a phone for everyone but it's certainly a phone of interest to many. If you watch video on your phone, bigger is always better.

Is there a hotline or something to get in touch with MS if you find a vulnerability? Or is there a formal agreement between Google and MS to do this kind of thing? Is there a system in place at all for this? I don't know but I am curious how that happens.

It's very curious that everything isn't re-checked numerous times in their assembly. It's not like these are being thrown together on an assembly line. They make them one at a time. Actually I don't know that but it seems likely.

Gameboy70 I had noticed the same thing and, like you, figured it was something to do with mac and PC differences. Much to my chagrin as well it is entirely intentional and unlikely to change.

Don't wait! It's liable to fall down on you if you wait too long, apparently.

That's why I like Cyanogenmod (or other mods too) because you can often get the latest android far sooner than the official channels. With some devices you're never getting it from the official channels so it's the only way to get it.

Yes that is a weird way to photoshop it.

I've been confused by the "bro" thing for a while. I'm a heterosexual (not sure if that's necessary or not) man but from the various descriptors (no actual definitions) I'm patently not a bro. I can't say I feel bad about it though.

This is such a strange attitude. If I wanted to pay to go to an event with food and dancing it certainly wouldn't be a wedding reception. Would anyone? If your attitude is really that it's a big bash that others should be paying for then just sell tickets. It would be less crass/vulgar than writing cranky letters to…

Wow that's both dumb and hideous. Anyone who has ever seen a baby in real life would wonder why your kid had a weird fur hat with an elastic strap holding it on. Infants are almost always bald-ish and that's part of them being infants. Is their a "brother" site that has mustaches and beard wigs so no one will confuse…

I'm very much in the minority here, I'm sure, but I could not get through A Song of Ice and Fire. I came to the feeling with all the cliff hangers and "surprises around every corner" that it was just a soap in book form or maybe he was getting paid by the word. As I say, I'm a minority (of one, it seems) even among…