I don't know about Turning, but thats exactly what Edison did. He personally didn't invent most of the inventions he's credited with, but was the visionary and leader for a team of engineers that did the actual work.

This isn't a chromatic aberration. Chromatic aberration is when an image isn't focused correctly because different wavelengths (colors) of light refract differentially when entering a new medium (like how a prism separates white light into the full spectrum). When you have chromatic aberrations, objects in the image have a slightly out-of-focus color streaked look to them, like when an old projector TVs didn't have the RGB elements aligned.

This is a flare, which is caused by the scattering of bright light just outside of the frame as it hits the side of the lens.

Yeah, they should have gotten someone important... like why couldn't they find the guy who came up with the company name Micro-Soft or something? I bet he's pretty important!

People get that impression because they're usually TOLD that Linux can be used as a replacement for Windows, not that you have to buy or build a system dedicated to running it. They aren't trying to run it on an Amiga... they just want to try it out on the PC they bought at Best Buy or put together from components they bought on NewEgg. If you go to most of the popular distributions, they'll say something along the lines of it "runs on almost any hardware that runs Windows". When Linux newbies read that, they automatically assume that everything will just work the way it did when they installed Windows. Sure, they'll need to install drivers, but that's easy, right? Just download and the double-click - DONE!

So, they download Ubuntu and install it, then find out that their sound card or wireless or video or whatever don't work. So, they go online and are told 'oh yeah, you need to compile the driver... etc'. While not necessarily difficult to someone with experience, to Linux newbies that's the end of that experiment. Sure, it RUNS, but it still requires a bit of fiddling around to get fully operational, and to newbies the instructions telling you what you need to do may as well be in ancient Greek.

Oh yeah... the "it's just marketing" argument spouted by anti-Apple types because they refuse to admit to themselves that different people prefer different things. I mean, there's NO WAY Apple might offer products that actually appeal to the way some people might want to use them, so their success has to be based on how much they spend on TV commercials, right?

And in return, as an example of "brilliant" marketing, you link us to a guy in a tiger suit dancing on the moon... yeah... GOOD ONE.

They would have fixed it completely with a hippopotamus break-dancing on Saturn.

I read the parent about 4 times and still didn't understand what he was trying to say.

Me, too. And I don't know which is worse, that her mom is so crazy with paranoia that she called the police, or that I may actually be willing to ignore my parental/humanist instincts and refuse to help out an adolescent in need due to fear of the consequences.

So, from personal experience, you should be able to understand why so many people responding to you think that the policy of branding any adult with an adolescent's phone number as a pedophile is ridiculous, yet your comments seem to indicate that you support it.

I've been in a situation just as you describe.

A month or so ago my neighbor's daughter knocked on my door. It was raining and cold and she had been locked out of her house. I have a daughter who does not live with me full time, so I let the neighbor girl in and sent her to my daughter's room to change into dry clothes and hang out until her mom to got home.

An hour or so later her mom arrives home and was very grateful... until she learned that my daughter wasn't living with me that week. My thanks? She called the police. I wasn't arrested or charged with anything, but an officer did arrive to take statements.

Next time her kid gets locked out, she can catch pneumonia.

Gentlemen, we have found the post of stupid.

First off, I was responding to the ridiculous claim was that there have been 12 Mario games released in the last 21 years. I have absolutely shown how false that statement is. Without even breaking a sweat, here's 59 Mario franchise releases... that's 5 more than the Wikipedia list of FF releases you pointed me to. Not a SINGLE ONE of these is a "Let's give Mario and his pals some extra out-of-franchise screen time."

Unlike the FF Wikipedia list of releases that you use to back up your retarded claim, I DIDN'T include ANY anthologies like the 3 All-Stars and 4 Mario Advance releases, rereleases, ports etc.

I also didn't include ANY of the 23 Mario sports titles, 3 fighting games, the educational games, games that have an appearance of Mario characters but is not based in the Mario universe, pinball games, rail shooters, rhythm games, or puzzle games. I didn't even include the original arcade games in this list!

Also, all these games were released on a total of 10 systems making their releases extremely console dense. While the FF games have sold more copies, they have been released on nearly every system ever made, including PCs and mobile phones.

Finally, this is ONE... ONE of the handful of franchises that Nintendo has milked absolutely to death.

Seriously... how fucking dense are you??

Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros - The Lost Levels
Super Mario Bros 2
Super Mario Bros 3
Super Mario Land
Super Mario Land 2
Super Mario World
Super Mario World 2
Yoshi's Island DS
Yoshi's Story
Mario Clash
Virtual Boy Wario Land
Wario Land 2
Wario Land 3
Wario Land 4
Super Mario 64
Super Mario Sunshine
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario Galaxy 2
New Super Mario Bros
New Super Mario Bros Wii
Super Mario 3D Land
Super Princess Peach

Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country 2
Donkey Kong Country 3
Donkey Kong Land
Donkey Kong Land 2
Donkey Kong Land 3
Donkey Kong 64

Super Mario RPG
Paper Mario
Paper Mario The Thousand Year Door
Super Paper Mario

Super Mario Kart
Mario Kart 64
Mario Kart Super Circuit
Mario Kart Double Dash
Mario Kart DS
Mario Kart Wii
Mario Kart 7
Mario Kart GP
Mario Kart GP2
Diddy Kong Racing
Diddy Kong Racing DS

Mario Party
Mario Party DS
Mario Party Advance
Mario Party 2
Mario Party 3
Mario Party 4
Mario Party 5
Mario Party 6
Mario Party 7
Mario Party 8

Luigi's Mansion
Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga
Mario and Luigi Partners in Time
Mario & Luigi Bowser's Inside Story

FF has also been released for a couple dozen different platforms, including iOS and other mobile phones. Wikipedia lists a TOTAL of 54 FF releases, INCLUDING spin-offs, collections, and compilations.

Compare that to the Mario releases:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_games_featuring_Mario

FF still has a LONG way to go...
Not even close, bud.

Sure, I wouldn't have argued otherwise. The FF franchise would STILL have a long, long ways to go before reaching the levels to which Nintendo has milked the Mario franchise (let alone the Zelda, Pokemon, and Metroid franchises).

You are really, really leaving out a bunch of titles if you only come up with 12....

Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros 2
Super Mario Bros 3
Super Mario Land
Super Mario Land 2
Super Mario World
Super Mario World 2
Super Mario 64
Super Mario Sunshine
New Super Mario Bros
New Super Mario Bros Wii
Super Mario Galaxy
Super Mario Galaxy 2

These are JUST the sidescroller / platformers that star Mario. You can also include the following platformers, although the first 2 arcade games lack side scrolling and the others add RPG elements, but all of these star Mario:

Donkey Kong
Mario Bros
Super Mario RPG
Paper Mario
Super Paper Mario

We're up to 18 now. Other games that star / costar Mario, but are of various other genres:

Dr Mario
Mario Puzzle Party
Mario vs Donkey Kong: Mini-Land Mayhem
Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time
Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Tale

Now we're at 23... I can't think of any more that star Mario off the top of my head, but I know there were some Mario pinball games and a few other Mario puzzle games. And where do you even put Mario Paint?

Now, if you include other Nintendo platformers that don't STAR Mario, but do have platformer mechanics that are somewhat similar to the Super Mario series and star other prominent Mario universe characters, like Wario, Peach, Yoshi, and Donkey Kong you get:

Yoshi's Story
Yoshi's Island DS
Super Princess Peach
VB Wario Land
Wario Land 2
Wario Land 3
Wario World
Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country 2
Donkey Kong Country 3
Donkey Kong Country 64
Donkey Kong Country Returns

These are just the sidescroller / platformers based on Mario and his ilk. I'm sure I'm missing at least a few in there as well. I'm not going to count all the puzzle games, board games, mini game collections, racing games, sports games, fighting games, and other misc action games that don't star Mario per say, but are based on the characters in the Mario universe.

This is JUST ONE of Nintendo's franchises. You can complain about COD, Halo, and even FF until the cows come home, but the fact is, nobody, and I mean NOBODY, milks their franchises the way Nintendo does.