"The only problem is that the Apache Lowbow isn't equipped to carry the Sidewinder."

Certainly. It will be coming out in a few months. Of course, it will require Windows 8, an online license check every time the program starts, and a video card that fully supports DX13, and your computer has to have the integrated digital rights module that will allow Microsoft to remotely scan your computer at will…

...and how much of the 'unintentional' consists of being unlucky enough to be in the area when other kids are shooting...

The directors of the firm hired to continue the credits after the other

Doesn't seem to get in the way of fighter pilots, though. Admittedly, they have a lot more room to maneuver. And landings, where the pilot needs to pay attention to both the HUD data and the environment (watching the FLOLS for approach-path guidance) is done without other aircraft in proximity. Still, I think it's an…

Actually, the controls are more than inverted, they're scrambled. In a helicopter, pulling back on the stick makes the helicopter move backwards; in order to climb, you need to pull up on the collective — a lever on the left side of the pilot's seat. The stick is just the equivalent of the WASD key group.

Auto Union/Horch produced vehicles in Germany during the war; the Type 1 incorporated four-wheel steering engaged via a lever at the driver's position. The mechanism was a simple reverse of the direction of turn of the front wheels, intended to make the vehicle more maneuverable, but drivers discovered a tendency for…

I've been periodically checking the manufacturer's website since I found the first announcement of the models years ago. They were to have been produced by Brumm in Italy, but after exhibits and prototypes were shown around at various expos (and a special run of 50 for the 61st reunion of the 509th Composite Group),…

Making skunks sexy goes back more than half a century, when Walt Kelly did it with Mam'selle Hepzibah in his comic strip 'Pogo'.

The 'Simple Windows' image needs to have the Windows logo continue to repeat in ever-shrinking copies for a properly fractal appearance.

IIRC, it was research that indicated that people who showed an innate resistance to infection with HIV — about 1% of the Northern Europe population — possessed a genetic mutation (CCR5-Delta 32) that prevented them from producing the CCR5 receptor used by the HIV virus to enter cells; this mutation was originally…

It's no longer as useful with the shift away from analog watches, but if you point the hour hand of your watch at the sun, halfway between there and 12 is due south.

If you successfully lock yourself out of a convertible with the top down, you get a free t-shirt with the words "LEGALLY BLONDE" printed on the back, and your license is amended to require you to wear it at all times while behind the wheel.

And what makes the Magic Roundabout so interesting is the way that it separates tourist and local drivers by how they traverse it.

Actually, either "Going to the mall, are you?" or "Went to the mall, did you?" sound less stilted than "Go to the mall, did you?" just from regularizing the tenses.

There's always the old mnemonic "Bad boys rape our young girls, but Violet goes willingly."

The release appears to be UK-only at this time. Pity.

Actually, that would be 'bodyguard' or 'peace enforcement officer'. Klaatu was the humanoid alien who came to Earth as an ambassador, while Gort was a robot that was a representative of a 'race' of robots that were created to deter aggression by humans.

You could make a claim that accessing the contents of your cellphone is a violation under Section 502 of the California penal code, which makes it a violation for 'any person' who "knowingly accesses and without permission takes, copies, or makes use of any data from a computer, computer system, or computer network,…

Even with conventional sails, a sailboat on a beam or broad reach (wind at 90° to 135° off the bow) can move faster than the wind, but sailing before the wind (the wind coming across your stern) has always been limited to the wind speed because, at that point, your sails aren't acting as airfoils, they're acting more…