Wow, I was complaining about this very thing to my friends as well. Clouds and lightning? Vehicles that burn rubber and leave marks on the grid? I was a bit disappointed that they didn't carry cyberspace physics further, rather than trying to match them to a real-world experience. In the cyberspace, you can break all the laws you want -- no gravity, no momentum... you could even play with time, though I don't think I'd recommend going down that path. The older Tron seemed to have a more pure vision of cyberspace, though perhaps that's just because their rendering computers lacked the processing power to show a Recognizer wobbling as it landed or to put pretty clouds in the sky.

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Not just that, but Quorra did make it through -- does she have internal organs? Does her antivirus software recognize chicken pox? Somehow I can conceptualize the idea of a brain being translated into cyberspace more than I can understand how programs existing on a computer can be fully fleshed-out to exist in our world.

I think one reason the flashbacks didn't bother you as much is that the folks behind Tron, perhaps a bit apologetically, conceal the young Flynn more in the real life flashbacks than they did in cyberspace. It took them forever to reveal young Flynn at the beginning, as most of the shots were in shadow and from behind. When they did flash his face, it wasn't for long, and he was soon out the door.

I noticed his computerized plastic surgery in both forms, and it bugged me. I wish the uncanny valley effect were intentional, but I'm pretty sure that if they could have made a more realistic face, they would have done it.

I tried to use that same reasoning on myself, because CLU does look really weird (the mouth, especially). It certainly does add to his creepiness.

Your assertion might hold, but unfortunately they do show a few shots of the "young" Jeff Bridges in real life, and he's had the same CGI makeover as CLU in the computer system. :^( I think it would have been cool if, as the Legacy title suggests, he really is lacking the sophistication of higher programs, visual or otherwise. Bring back the MCP!

I tend to agree that it was the best so far, but I also think SGU had so much untapped potential that became entangled with the trappings of soap-opera caliber relationships and irritatingly pointless antics where they returned to Earth via the stones. I don't care about what's happening on Earth. I don't care that the HR lady's lesbian relationship is strained being 20 kabillion miles from her lover. I'm in this more for the science and the vast promise of the entire universe.

I did think a few things were quite well-done:

• I greatly enjoyed the universe. Instead of landing in yet another deciduous midwestern forest like every stargate seemed to point to, the planets in SGU had radically different terrain. Ice planets, deserts, wastelands, jungles... very few of which had even signs of civilization. Space in SGU was much emptier, mysterious, perilous, and realistic.
• Along with that, I enjoyed the music (not the crooning pop montage at the end of the episodes). It... really felt "spacey" to me. :)
• I thought the aliens were very well-done in this series -- especially the little guys on the seed ship. They were truly alien and unknown, unlike the Wraith, who stomped about in their dingy scary ship wearing scary makeup and scary clothes and hissing scarily at the camera for the umpteenth scary time. The scariness of the wraith was so exaggerated that they simply became ludicrous caricatures of antagonists.

I'm not going to shed tears at its departure, because while it had potential, I got the feeling the writers would never really get around to harness it, being instead trapped with a middle school mentality amidst the intrigues of the crew. It's a shame, though, because they did get many things right.

I'm a bad beta tester. I only played the beta a couple of times -- my friends and I got a few keys at Comic-Con. Perhaps they've improved things in the past couple of months that have elapsed since I abandoned the game, but I have to concur that the chat system was terribly restrictive. At the time I played, I couldn't even say people's names, like "how are you today, Nancy?" The word "wife" was banned, so I had to refer to my friend's significant other as "girl friend" (a concatenated girlfriend was also too naughty). We couldn't even complain that "This chat sucks." We entertained ourselves briefly by speaking like cavemen, which really was about the only language you could speak. For a massively multiplayer online game, it felt like we were robbed of one of the primary features of a purportedly social game.

Perhaps it's gotten better, though. I know for a while, even question marks weren't legal.

Wow, I was pretty pleased with myself when I was going to mention the hapless residents who lived on Butt Hole Road, but you've definitely stolen any thunder I might have had.

I'm sure that the situations vary, but at least in Bend, Oregon where I biked for a while, the sensors seem to be calibrated carefully enough to detect the metal in your bike. The DMV does recommend that you step off and lean it low to the ground to bring more metal closer to the sensors.

That being said, I've never trusted those things to work for a cyclist. I usually transform into a pedestrian at that point and hit a crosswalk button instead.

In answer to your question, the problem they are trying to solve is the fact that most forum threads in the WoW deteriorate into petty insults and gainsaying before the end of the first page of posts. Or at least, that's the published reason for doing this.

I sympathize with Blizzard's desire to want to make the forums a more constructive and friendly environment, but I can certainly envision scenarios where players carry their RPG rage into real life. I also noted that a few women wrote in response to the new post, and they were disturbed that their gender might become an issue.

The new system also seems to allow people to rate posts, and I wish Blizzard had first taken this step of moderating before it went whole hog and published the poster's identity.

I worked at a video store when I was in high school, and every once and a while some customer would lose a copy of their new release. When we finally caught up to them, a month or two down the road, we would inform them that they owed us $90 for the actual video. Sometimes we'd be selling the same movies on our shelves for $35, since we had since bought more to sell to customers at a reasonable price point. The copy *they* lost was the $90 "new release" video, however. The logical arguments that ensued from this disparity were ugly, I tell you!

B-but, you'll never get to see The Wizard of Oz the way it was intended to be unless you watch it in its original Blu-Ray format!

I actually really liked Tron 2.0. It had its issues, like the fact that you broke your neck if you fell more than 7 feet, an odd weapon balance, and some annoying Super Mario Bros. jumping sequences. However, the aesthetics were gorgeous, the gameplay was fun, and the character customization was interesting.

Beyond the environment, I'm sure many folks would argue it wasn't a spectacular game, but it didn't suck. :)

They do support native PDF, but the text doesn't scale as it does in some of the other formats. If you have a 10-page PDF file you want to look at, you are forced to view each page in its entirety on your teensy Kindle screen. I was really disappointed to discover this. You can get somewhat larger text by rotating the reader, but it feels awkward and I found it still too small for my taste.

.AMZ and Mobi files were designed to be viewed by readers. PDFs were designed to be viewed/printed page-by-page, so technically it's more difficult to shoehorn the format into a reader. Still, the Kindle implementation of PDFs seems rather lazy and even deceiving. I love my Kindle, but I roll my eyes whenever I see Kindle bragging about "native PDF support."