Rumour has it that Ford's deal is a fairly significant part. I'm not sure that he'd be interested in just a cameo, to be honest. He doesn't owe Lucas squat, and has done so much since then that he barely remembers those movies, so if he's on board, it's because it's worth it for him to be on board. Sure, his role won't be as significant as in Crystal Skull, obviously, but he'll get a few action scenes and lots of dialogue, I'm sure.

I just hope he's still flying the Falcon. It's not a Star Wars movie without the Falcon breaking down (again).

Except that they're talking about arrests. When you're being arrested, you can expect to be searched. However, there are limits on the search that can be done. This is merely a logical interpretation of the existing laws as applicable to phones.

No. They predicted a >0% chance of an earthquake but told people it was a 0% chance, resulting in people who were already preparing for an earthquake to stop their preparations.

Could be worse. You could've received one of these.

Additionally, the person will have had to intentionally sync their card with their Twitter account to enable this in the first place. It's a stupid idea from a consumer perspective, although kind of brilliant from a marketing perspective, as now not only do we make purchases but we announce them to the world, but it's not nearly as prone to abuse as folks here are making it seem.

As I understand it, the way he got the huge universe into such a small space was by not actually storing it at all. The universe was randomly generated, but it used a hardcoded seed value so that it always generated the same universe. Pretty cool if you ask me.

And it's nothing compared to the $10/gal that Americans routinely pay for bottled water without a single complaint.

This is how the conversation should've ended.

Actually, unregistered trademarks exist, too, and are in effect simply by using a particular mark of trade. The "R" symbol is used to denote a registered trademark, while the "TM" symbol denotes an unregistered trademark. However, in the U.S., unregistered trademarks have limited protection.

Pfft. There are other designs.

Didn't you know? If Apple did it, then they invented it, even if they invented it decades after others did it. That's just how it works.

The most open option out there seems to be the Kobo, which supports EPUB (open format), PDF, and MOBI, as well as TXT, HTML, and RTF, plus image files in JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, and TIFF, and also comic formats CBZ and CBR. Even the DRM books that I've bought are so unrestricted that I've never noticed the DRM at all, even though I have them on multiple devices.

Kobo's philosophy also seems to be the most "free" of the various options out there. A great many of the books sold at the Kobo store are DRM-free, and even the ones with DRM are easily shared between multiple devices (in my case, for some of my books, 2-3 laptops, a smartphone, and 2 Kobos). I also don't think (haven't confirmed this, though) that it's even possible for them to wipe a book the way Amazon already has with the Kindle.

A user interface is more than just what pixels are lit on the screen. You also have to factor in how you physically interact with it. So, if you're using a keyboard and mouse, as opposed to a touch screen, then it's not the same interface, no matter what it looks like on screen. And, what it looks like on screen will be, or at least should be, based on how you're going to interact with it.

English law is still a small, relatively recent subset of the much larger institution. You still want to pick and choose your own ideal of what this thing is and make everyone adhere to it.

The age-old problem of democracy is that it's two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for dinner. That's why the U.S. has a Constitution and Bill of Rights in the first place. Because there are some things that should never, ever be decided by a vote. People voting on what other people are allowed to do within their own private lives is just pure evil. The only people who should ever have any say in the same-sex marriage issue are same-sex couples who want to marry. I'm sick of the world's religious thinking they get to dictate other people's lives.