Most consumers are not photographers who keep every RAW image.

Did you honestly just write David Niven "Ringworld" series?

David Niven (actor)
Larry Niven (author)

There's no good reason to have an app store. We lived without app stores for decades. We can return to not having them.

If you cared to actually read the rest of the fucking article, you'd realize that it's been several years since the software was even COMPILABLE for the original Xbox. Idiot.

The problem is not the six suns but the constraints on the planet and moon:

* that the planet's orbit be stable over thousands of years. Millions or billions, if you want life to evolve.
* that the moon stay invisible at all times -- never be illuminated enough by any sun to be visible.
* that the moon be wide enough in angular size to eclipse one sun for over a day!

If you read this paper, you see they settled on a moon the same mass as Kalgash but with the density of Saturn! How could such a system possibly arise?

Yes, because everyone has the resources to migrate to another country at any moment, just because they dislike their phone contract. Your username is incorrect, it should be IDiot.

Somewhat similar. Also resembling WISARD, which used RAM like a neural network.

The essential point to think about is that a 1GB RAM can act as a cellular automaton with a billion cells. There's no algorithmic complexity to defeat because there's no algorithm. Of course the harder the problem gets, the more cells you need....

Read a bit more carefully. He's not saving the overpopulated earth. He's saving a few millions of people. The rest are written off for dead.

Two HUNDRED BILLION Dollars!

Please turn your sarcasm detector back on.

Actually this makes sense to me for pubcrawls. Hook up the loo where everyone pisses to a bank of batteries, and let anyone at the bar plug in.

You meant a tenet of writing, not a tenant -- an article of faith, not someone who lives inside.

Brought to you by A.S.S.H.A.T.S. Grammar & Usage division.

Hey Pegg, you've got a bit of something brown there on your nose.

I would pay TRIPLE ADMISSION if JJ replaced all the headache-causing lens flare with just 5 minutes of thought-causing idea.

I'm not knocking lens flare because I'm smug. I'm knocking it because it fucking hurts my goddamn eyes and leaves me with a half hour headache after the movie ends. No way am I seeing this in 3D.

While I'm griping ... has JJ Abrams ever done ANYTHING without dragging fucking time travel into it eventually?

If you use up screen time with pretty colors and snappy writing, by definition, there is less time for careful exposition of complicated ideas.

or 5 billion inane Slashdot comments per hour.