Why is dogfight a parameter in assessing 5th generation plane?
It's like saying my car sucks because I can't use a crank to start the engine like the old cars could.

A fucking patent on a fucking start button.
And we're supposed to admire the guy for his immeasurable contribution to the history of computing?
Bitch please. Go draw a plane or something.

This is, like, ultimate appeal to authority argument; reasons are a, b, c and d, and if you don't accept them, it's because you're inherently flawed.

Try again.

Yeah, hassle. I don't think choice of computer/OS has impact on hustle level.

While technically correct, your argument misses the point. Regular user doesn't want to service the computer/OS, they just want to use it. If bloat means less hustle (and usually it does), then bloat it will be.

Any sufficiently complex system contains a bunch of dead man switches by nature. No need to be malicious, just walk away.

If that's not the case, you might need to acknowledge your job wasn't all that complicated.

This is non-news. Now half a mile above the ice, that would be something!

Tell me more about those Muslims from 4000+ years ago.

Btw, citation needed. For example, beat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe/.

Looking out through airplane window and realizing a dark patch between city lights of Cairo was actually a pyramid was a mystical experience for me. Having to stand at least a kilometer away to comfortably grasp the whole too.

Size does matter, or as comrade Stalin would say, quantity in itself is a quality. And it was anything but easy, otherwise structures of such size would be built more often in 4000 years since. They truly are a marvel.

Sphinx, though, is overrated.

Rotoscopy was part of the appeal of the movie, not a drawback. I've seen that movie as a kid and remembered it for unique atmosphere it had. It really was magical & mythical. It really did take you to another time and place.
A work of art trying to depict 'different' place/time needs to have a skewed perspective. It's not only about CGI and costumes. Think David Lynch. Or if you want to go further back / more experimental, think Maya Deren.

PJ movies did nothing like. And to make things worse, they could pass as vanilla M&M adaptation of the book, were it not for awful, awful cheapening through dwarf-tossing and campy fights.
Why is it awful? Because LOTR, in its core, is about loss. Loss of innocence, youth, friends, your whole world, in the face of events bigger than life. It's a tragic story.
Those battles were supposed to be desperate and grim. The victories were supposed to come at a cost, not to be taken as granted.
But as filmed, you get gung-ho hack-n-slash action against non-descript enemies, which soon enough gets boring, contrasted with gay escapades of Frodo, Sam & Gollum, which are dull and instead of being poignant, are cheaply pathetic. Why all the drama when our guys are winning and laughing?

Those two storylines were supposed to strengthen each other by being equally desperate, not provide different strokes for different audiences. In the end, you get a bipolar movie, instead of a whole.

And RB movie is a whole, despite not covering all three books.

Um, maybe Ralph Bakshi movie is an atrocity for you. For me it's the best Tolkien adaptation ever.
Today there's too much money to milk out from Tolkien books for anything NOT completely-dumbed-down to happen. Including Jackson's LOTR movies that are 'great' only compared to poorly animated turd fest that is Hobbit, parts one to eleventy.

As much as I'd be prone by education and origin to go with this (as someone born & raised in ex-Yugoslavia), that is just not true. There was a bloody civil (&ethnical) war going on and none of the sides involved were willing (or able) to cause significant trouble to Germans.

* Germans were kicked out of Belgrade by Russians* in 1944.
* Some 20,000 people died on Srem Front in late 1944. on partisan side unsuccessfully trying to breach Axis defense. Russians were the ones who smoked that too.
* Partisans were more interested in hunting down retreating Ustasha and Chetnik forces (and did some 'good killing' in Austria when they caught them) than fighting retreating but still formidable Germans.

Yugoslavia was left out as part of Churchill-Stalin agreement (50-50) and not because of any local capability to resist Russian occupation.

* When I say Russians I mean mostly Ukrainian (for whatever value of Ukrainian) sourced forces.