Comment Re:It was a movie--duh (Score 4, Insightful) 133
In understand why he did it. If he made it accurate looking, a large percentage of the non-geek public wouldn't understand they went to a different part of the universe.
Keyboard mashing can produce word patterns. If someone is mashing a keyboard and accidentally mashes "t" and "h", there is no magical force in the universe which quickly checks an English dictionary and stops the masher from mashing any button which would create a word ("the", for example). That's the thing about infinity - it makes the massively unlikely infinitely more likely. As long as something is not impossible, if attempted an infinite number of times, it is possible that it will happen.
If the universe is truly infinte, not only if something's possible will it happen, but it will happen an infinte number of times. Infinity gets...weird...when you start thinking about it.
Lighten up, Francis...
Yes, we all know there's a difference between the internet and the world wide web, but sometimes for the sake of convenient reference, the world wide web is just "the internet"...
Duck Duck Go is just Bing, dude. So is Yahoo.
Yeah, sure, they slip some other results in there, but there is a pretty bright line between having the capacity to index the web and not, and neither duckduckgo nor yahoo has that capacity. Only bing, baidu, yandex, google.
but by all means go on being a brand-monkey.
I'll go with the brand that does not track me, thanks.
Your hobby drone can't carry 47 million pounds?
What? Yours can't? Noob...
Love may laugh at locksmiths, but he has a profound respect for money bags. -- Sidney Paternoster, "The Folly of the Wise"
