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Comment Re:What do they speak in India? (Score 1) 526

George R. R. Martin is an American and the ASoIaF books use American spelling, as the American writers of the American TV show do. The language of Westeros isn't British English; it's American English with intentionally unusual/archaic-sounding spelling ("Ser") and wording changes.

Comment Re:What happened next? (Score 1) 493

SNP and Lib Dems have already said they're not going to form a coalition government which means the only option left is for Conservative to form a minority government

The likeliest outcome is a coalition with the DUP (ten seats), which will seek a "seamless and frictionless" Irish border. That will get the Conservatives a slim majority.

Comment Re:They will, without a doubt, die... (Score 5, Funny) 923

and be the syfy movie of the week.

Unlikely. Syfy prefers animals as the villains of its Saturday-night original movies, not people.

Now, if it turns out that a shark or octopus (or, even better, both) stole the cobalt-60, then you'l have the network's attention. Expect Sharktopus II: Nuclear Boogaloo any week now.

Comment Figured this out in 2003 (Score 5, Interesting) 663

I figured this out on the day in 2003 when I first tried out OS X. I've been using LInux since 1995 and had tried every available desktop: CDE, KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment (The horror .. the horror ...), Window Maker/AfterStep, fvwm, and even older ones like Motif and twm. I'd used Mac OS 7 and 8 in college and hated it, but OS X was a revelation.

I still use Linux as a server, but for a Unixlike desktop that actually works and runs a lot of applications, OS X is it. Period.

Comment Glasses = death of 3D TV (Score 4, Interesting) 594

People accept glasses for watching 3D movies in theaters because they are there for the experience of watching a film on a giant screen with other people while eating popcorn and drinking soda. The same goes for other specific, controlled environments, like 3D CAM in an office; people accept it as part of the experience (or job in this case).

3D in the home will never succeed until and unless glasses are not needed. It doesn't matter whether the glasses are disposable or expensive, or if today's multiple competing standards congeal into one. No one will accept needing to constantly put on and take off 3D glasses to watch TV. Period.

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