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Comment Re: Spaceballs 2: the quest for more money (Score 2, Insightful) 300

Not just Uhuru, the regular cast also had Japanese, Russian, Scottish and of course Vulcan characters.

Hard to realise the significance of a Russian character as one of the good guys at the height of the cold war.

And then of course you had episodes that were dedicated to condemning racism, such as "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" where the aliens were half black, half white.

And of course having Kirk and Uhuru kiss was quite literally "pushing it in the viewer's face", at a time when segregation was still an issue in some US states.

If you have a problem with diversity in 2018, you are an asshole.

Comment Re:I have a better idea... (Score 1) 179

Who are you quoting with the "inventing" in quotes?

Musk is not an inventor. Who's saying he is? He is what he says he is - an engineer. And engineers construct from existing technologies and improve them.

And there's plenty of value in that. The Slashdot hive-mind is fucking ridiculous with this stupid idea that nothing ever has an value if there was prior art. There's always prior art.

Comment Re:I have a better idea... (Score 2) 179

I believe there's essentially 2 main approaches they are proposing to take to make boring faster.
1) Smaller diameter. Because the amount of spoil is a squared function of the diameter, a reduction in diameter helps a lot.
2) The traditional machines bore a section, then stop to put in the tunnel lining. The proposal is for continuous boring, with tunnel lining put in whilst the boring machine is still propelling itself forward.

They also propose to create the tunnel linings on site, using the spoil material coming out of the tunnel. So that's more environmentally friendly and presumably cheaper.

Comment Re: Why not just include an emulator? (Score 1) 46

I don't think there's any need for fat binaries. The App Store and The Mac Store are separate places. Different download for users, different upload for developers.

Same XCode project for both, same code, compiling for 2 different targets.

A developer would probably want to deliver them on a different schedule anyway. Different testing plan. And quite likely different bugs to fix.

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