In other words, the average consumer can't tell the difference in quality?

I wish I could get LTE. The best I can do is 3G, even though I am 200 yards from houses with cable.

Even so, 3G is a great improvement over dialup.

Didn't do so much for your writing habits, though.

How do I get a Sluftwaffle Mark II to slurf the gripple?

You'll get better results using a Wafsluffle Mark IV.

I don't have a Wafsluffle.

You should get one. The Wafsluffle supports up to version 4.0 gripples, while the Sluftwaffle can only handle up to version 2.9.

That's okay. All of my griffles are version 2.0.

You really shouldn't be using gripples below version 3.0.

My grandmother got the original Sears Telegames-branded Atari C100. I later got a Telstar Ranger, which was pong plus a gun.

I'm a fan of Jeff Noon's Vurt series:

Vurt
Pollen
Automated Alice
Nymphomation

The best of the bunch is probably Nymphomation, which is a prequel to Vurt that can be read as a stand-alone novel.

I cut my teeth on Simak books from my public library. Whenever I hear the words "Science Fiction," I still think of him and Frederik Pohl first.

Try telling that to Samsung.

But scissors cut paper, and rock breaks sissors.

Kiff, we have a conundrum.

The film is called China Blue . Definitely worth watching.

There is also David Redmon's Mardi Gras: Made in China , which reveals the source of plastic Mardi Gras beads.

And even when I do get a HD TV, I'll still use my trusty DVD players. Heck, I'm still using one about 10 years old that has the annoying habit of automatically closing the tray a second after you open it. So you need to open it, hold the tray open, place the DVD in and *then* let it close.

Sweet. My old Pioneer player is the same way. I'm so used to holding the tray that I get startled when I encounter a DVD player which doesn't automatically close its tray. It's like when I drive an automatic transmission car and keep hunting for the clutch.

But, I agree. I have no use for Blu-Ray now, nor do I expect to until DVD is defunct.

No, the child isn't being directly harmed by someone viewing their exploitation, however their honor and dignity are chipped away at with each viewing.

Indeed. We must preserve the honor and dignity of 10-year-olds so they will have some left to throw away when they are 17.

Disney's formula has pretty much been lame-ass princess romance stories unless they feel like branching out and ripping off some anime. Lion King was Kimba, the one with what was it, Atlantis? That was ripping off another anime with a hero with glasses who had the hots for some native-type chick in a bikini.

Fushigi no Umi no Nadia, released in the US as Nadia: The Secret of the Blue Water.

To be fair, Gainax borrowed elements from Miyazaki's films for Nadia, though they didn't do anything as blatant as swiping the appearance of the two main characters like Disney did.

But yes, I expect that she and Nathan Fillion are going to show up as Dolls next fall. There are already actors on the show who could be their body doubles, and what the hell else are they going to do?

Well, Nathan still has his own show. Castle has been renewed.

Backticks? Why on earth would you use backticks to move files around? That's what File::Copy is for. And Archive::Tar handles tarballs.

Write Perl code, not shell scripts wrapped in Perl code.