And that's the best decision they made. I've read a few of the books, including the often highly praised Timothy Zahn novels, and for the most part the books are so badly written that they actually make Lucas's scripts look good.

And I don't call it a reboot to ignore all the Extended Universe storylines. Unlike new Star Trek and James Bond films, which literally restart the franchises at the very beginning. The new Star Wars films simply start some time after RotJ, so are more akin to Star Trek TNG.

I suspect that Abrams is going to be given significantly less latitude to play around with the basic concepts. For Star Wars I think he was given carte blanche to do whatever was necessary to revive what Berman and Braga had driven into the ground. I find the results appalling, but the movies have been hits, so mission accomplished.

But Star Wars, even the pretty dismal prequels, has a certain cinematographic vocabulary, heavily influenced by Kurosawa. At times, the vocabulary was about the only thing that marked the prequels as Star Wars films, seeing as Lucas so thoroughly muddied the waters in other ways. I have to believe that Disney has told Abrams that the "Star Wars" feel has to remain intact, so I don't expect any lens flare, or shot length to be cut to the dizzyingly short length that typifies the Star Trek reboots.

The difference between a 10" screen and, say, a 15" is a tough call, though I still think 10" is too big for a Metro style interface. Bump up to the 17"-22" monitors, and Metro is just a horrific experience that makes Windows 3.1 look like an ultra-modern GUI.

Like I said, Microsoft already tried it. It was a disaster. They're not going to try it again.

Except that mobile devices like phones and tablets are fundamentally different than PCs. Microsoft already tried this stunt with Windows 8, and got smacked down hard.

I have my doubts that a "zillion" RT devices are floating around out there, unless you mean in a warehouse somewhere.

That's farther down the list. "Don't implicate yourself, even to your friends" :)

I'm the wrong one to implicate. Your diversion will be a bit too transparent. You may as well hang a neon sign in your front window saying "IT'S ME!"

At best, someone will show up to my door with doughnuts, and we'll have a good laugh over it.

I think the 2008 crash demonstrated that there are more than a few psychopaths running major corporations. Maybe we should be thankful they're only screwing investors and customers out of billions, otherwise they would have underground lairs filled with kidnapped plus size women putting the lotion in the basket.

Sort of like your post.

Mental note: When establishing a questionably legal site for definitely illegal transactions to be made through, don't keep any logs about it, nor your conversations regarding it.

He thinks his company's shareholders idiots. Like most CEOs.

Yes, and the Senators should be reminded that they have no more power than Cnut demonstrated he had. Being democratically elected does not grant powers to alter or negate physical reality.

And what percentage of C/C++ code is well written?

Or, to put it another way, is there any evidence that Java applications are LESS secure, on average, than C/C++ applications?

I know it's for mathematics and liquor.

Has fucking little to do with science, mind you.

Well, the other to be sure of is that fucking retards will repeat Koch memes endlessly out of ignorance, stupidity, and well, just plain fucking cowardice.