Here's the (obligatory) xkcd I was thinking of: Good Morning

I really just want to wake up an hour or so later every day, so I think drifting west would be the best way to go. Just each night while I sleep move over a time zone and slowly circle the globe. Plus, think of all the cool places you'd get to wake up

I think there was an xkcd about this once...

Things always come in threes, right?

Why does everyone bring this up? That support is leaving in 11.10 so the argument only works as a stopgap for another few months. Sure you can choose that now, but in the long run if you don't want to use unity (and who does?) you have to switch someday.

The big question is where will people go; slackware? Fedora? Xubuntu? I know Ubunutu is trying to get more mainstream, but they'll lose some of their hardcore users, and I have to wonder how that'll affect their devs.

I have a blu-ray player, but I still buy a lot of movies on DVD (because they're cheaper). The main reason is just that a lot of the movies I buy don't really benefit from having better graphics. Sure, if I'm watching the new Tron, I want good graphics, but if I'm watching some random comedy film, do I really need that boost?

Because of that, I rarely stream action movies from Netflix, because I do want the bump in graphics. Mostly on Netflix I watch TV shows, since the quality isn't going to be great anyway and it doesn't matter, and go out and buy my favorite movies.

I agree. I mean, the prequels aren't the best movies of all time, but the originals are pretty campy too. I love them though; probably largely because I watched them every week for the first 10 years of my life and played the video games and all that. I predict that my kids (who I will force Star Wars upon) will probably like all six of them, as they'll grow up watching all of them, and won't be surprised if they like the prequels better because they have better special effects.

The same thing goes for the new Indiana Jones. People are all "Aliens, in Indiana Jones?! That's not okay!" but it really isn't any less believable than a guy pulling out someone's heart through their chest.

Complain about the acting, hate on Jar Jar, whatever, but Mark Hamill couldn't act either, and C-3PO is annoying in all 6 movies.

Yes, but they'd have to do something more that just that or you wouldn't be able to actually move your arms (I know this is suggested as being for people without arms, but if you had no hands but still had arms it could be useful) without causing the car to steer. Having the car veer every time you tried to scratch an itch would be a problem, so it couldn't stay this general.

I think this could only be viable if we had an I-Robot like automatically driving car situation. So you could just think of where you want to go (to the jogger's apartment) and the car will drive there automatically without further input. And, hopefully, by talking to the other cars would do so without accident. If you have to sit and think "turn left" it would probably end poorly. People's minds just wander too much.

Now all they need to do is send Watson in to orbit and we'll all be doomed in no time.

I, for one, welcome our new robotic overlords.

It's not a translation problem, some of the original manuscripts have different text. Kind of a problem with the days before copy machines. I think more versions have 666, but the older ones have 616.

Donald Trump tried to patent "you're fired," so there's precedent for trying. He failed though (luckily) and I have to assume Nintendo will fail too. Also, I'd keep using it and not paying them royalties so it would really only affect print usage, and I doubt it's a common phrase in the Times.

A Strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?

You could run it on a tablet (Archos and a couple others did it, I hear Dell has plans to, but we'll see if that pans out) or an e-reader (Nook) or a netbook (Aspire One). It still runs, you can still do what you want/need to with it, but you don't need the phone (or the contracts)

Granted, most of these have proprietary overlays, but it doesn't make the OS itself any less open. I'd even posit that the fact that so many different companies are using it for so many different purposes indicates that it is open.