Have you looked at the procedure for making glass emulsion plates or tintypes? you won't be doing that, you have neither the materials nor knowledge. Again, I am amused how people think something is within their abilities because "people were doing it 100 years ago". They imagine they could make a steam locomotive from blocks of steel; they imagine they could make a half-megawatt polyphase alternator from iron and copper.

If you're the only one left, I totally agree. However, if people were able to do it 100 years ago, then as a group, we can figure it out again. I'm not saying that I can personally accomplish all of these things, but we are human after all, and our greatest strength is adapting.

I saw the headline on Fark and was curious, but it seems like they just made a movie about rape, violence, gore, and rape. I have zero interest in seeing it.

I don't know if it was int he article you linked to, but apparently a group of contest winners whose prize was going to a movie premier at Cannes. Wanna guess which they saw?

Sometimes it feels like /. has turned into a Dilbert cartoon, and they're trying to drive away traffic to lower their costs.

It actually sounds like a nice setup. I would primarily be using it for writing. Did you, perchance, try picasa on it? I'm curious how well that would do.

Why was it called Area 51?

If I remember correctly from one of the shows on it, the terrain there is so desolate that the military maps just denoted different "Areas." The base happened to be situated in "Area 51." It was on TV, and I vaguely remember it that way, so I am totally sure its true.

I totally understand your feelings about Firefly, although for me it didn't make me feel empty so much as whole. It was after my separation, I had the weekend to myself, and was sick as a dog. A friend had loaned me his Firefly boxed set and watched almost all of them in a couple of days. Made me feel better, helped me forget my own misery, and took me wholly into another world. It is sad that its gone, and would that there would have been more, but it was simply awesome being able to disappear into that world for some of the crappiest of my days.

I agree with you but, at the same time, I think part of why Firefly was so good was because they honestly thought that every episode was going to be their last. They got along well, had great chemistry, and so poured everyhing into every episode. If they had known that they had a season or two garaunteed, I wonder if they would've put as much into every episode, or if they would have paced themselves more instead. So I think part of why it is so great is because it was so short lived, and if it had been longer, it wouldn't have been as good.

Not to mention that the entirety of Kuwait was under Bush I's watch. Its not like the Democrats had been trying to get the Iraqi's out of Kuwait for 8 years and campaigned on how the Republicans were soft on it. The Republicans have tied a good deal of their aspirations to being the party of defense, but it was Obama who pulled the trigger.

What a fantastic tribute. I've never actually had a desire to go tehre ever, but now, if I end up there, I know exactly what I have to check out.

I still have a fantastic quote from Artifex saved: Wright, rightly righting waiting wights' weighty writing rights writ white, writes right. -- artifex2004

In all honesty I've been thinking of leaving, too. The group that made everything so great about the dot has dispersed, and the dot itself is doing all it can to kill the rest. I hit 8,000 comments recently, still only half of SamTheButcher, and he's been gone 5 years. If I do leave, at least I'll doa closing JE...

Indeed. I would say that, "Grim staisfaction," just about covers it.

Don't forget the 360 and Kinect as well. The one thing always lacking for videophones was the infrastructure. Now, you have it.

How do you differentiate a troll from someone just drinking the derpaide?

XBox has strict cops, but they're honest. If you cheat or priate they boot you. Sony boots everyone, promises features and then takes them away. It's not the honest cop that the Mob goes after int he movies, it's the dirty cop who double-crossed them. They may not like XBox Live, but they hate Sony.

Is that a record for Godwin'ing? :-)