Funny how you bolded "comedy" and not "situational".
I think back to sitcoms like The Cosby Show, Night Court, etc, and the comedy really did arise from the situations... not by simply making the cast subjects of ridicule.
I really do think television has gotten "meaner". IMHO things really took a turn after "The Weakest Link" and "Survivor" type shows became popular.
> no one cares about size of screen anymore; my kids watch everything on their tablets
Thank you for generalizing the entire planet from your two children.
I assure you many of us still prefer a big-screen, surround-sound home theatre experience.
The post I was replying to, was talking about an EMP as something we shouldn't even remotely be concerned about, along the same lines as a giant fire-breathing lizard.
The potential threat and damage is very real, that was the point of my post. I didn't say there was no possible way to mitigate against it. (That's the subject of the article, after all!)
Ha, and after looking through the book link, I gave you the wrong sequence...
The one I gave you is for rotating the CORNER pieces (4e), whereas you need the sequence described in 5a/5b.
YES! That is exactly what I learned it from. I still have the book somewhere too.
I don't know of an identical method posted online, that sequence was actually from memory believe it or not (or rather, my hands still remembered the pattern and I just had to transcribe it).
A pattern to rotate 3 of the 4 bottom side pieces (all except the "top" one) is:
R- B- R+ B-
R- B2 R+ B2
(+ = clockwise, - = counterclockwise, 2 = twice)
I wonder if we know the same method? The one I know does: top sides, top corners, sides, bottom corners, bottom sides.
Who's talking about terrorists?
The danger is another Carrington Event, which unlike your 500-mile tsunami and fire-breathing lizard examples could actually happen.
Half the planet's power transformers blowing out is hardly "nothing more than a power outage".
Such transformers can take a long time to replace, especially if hundreds are destroyed at once, said [Daniel] Baker, who is a co-author of a National Research Council report on solar-storm risks.
The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory's Cliver agrees: "They don't have a lot of these on the shelf," he said.
[...]
"Imagine large cities without power for a week, a month, or a year," Baker said.
Check out a movie called Snowpiercer.
Gmail was an early pioneer in using the URL hash to track state, so that eg, the Back button worked properly with Ajax. They deserve credit for that.
And yes, I remember being annoyed about not being able to open links in a new window... for about 10 seconds, before discovering the "Open in new window" function they provided, which rendered that pretty moot.
Is it better than the modded PC version?
Haha... I think the "feed the dolphin" mini-game was the EXACT point where I quit the game.
And yet, people still hail it as one of the greatest stories ever, nearly 2 decades later... so I always feel this nagging feeling that I should dust it off and finish it. But man.. those flat polygons and 320x240 backgrounds *shudder*. Maybe I'll wait for the inevitable iOS/Droid remake (they're already up to FF6).
Do you also argue that you shouldn't use font-weight:bold in CSS, because <b> is non-semantic?
Because that's the idiotic equivalence you're trying to make.
Why do you say that? I play with KB+M from my couch perfectly fine, on a PC hooked up to a projector and 5.1 sound.
Takes a USB hub on my coffee table, and one of these things on a pillow beside me for a proper (ie, elbow supporting) mouse surface.
Jupiter is not thought to be composed of any significant amount of rock. Last I heard it doesn't even have a solid surface.
Thought by whom? Heard from where? An Anonymous Coward on a random discussion board?
"The core is often described as rocky, but its detailed composition is unknown, as are the properties of materials at the temperatures and pressures of those depths (see below). In 1997, the existence of the core was suggested by gravitational measurements,[31] indicating a mass of from 12 to 45 times the Earth's mass or roughly 4%–14% of the total mass of Jupiter.[30][33] The presence of a core during at least part of Jupiter's history is suggested by models of planetary formation involving initial formation of a rocky or icy core that is massive enough to collect its bulk of hydrogen and helium from the protosolar nebula."
Being in a big round room with screens all around you is not at all the same thing as stereoscopic VR.
2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League
