Went to post from another PC, and Anonymous posting is now disabled. Looking at the news, I see that I missed the announcement, but hey I'm not on /. every day.

Let me know when a robot with a defective positronic brain can carve wood with a butter knife of its own volition.

A developer for one of my past organizations, a true rocket scientist, posited it the best: "The network would be great, if it wasn't for all of those users!" Cheers, Ron.

Yeah they own many many brands, except for (arguably) the original Budweiser brand. I hear they've been trying argue they deserve the Budweiser name over the Budweiser Budvar brand since 1907 or so.

Based on my recollection, the Romans found that mixing a certain kind of volcanic ash, which IIRC had aluminum silicates in it, into the cement caused it become what is called hydraulic cement, or cement that hardens in water.

Third option: I'm buying all of them. None of this "or" business for me.

I can't help but wonder if they are strictly telling the truth: i.e. no microphone access, _but_ they are reading something else that gives the same result. This is a pie-in-the-sky idea, but could the built-in accelerometer be read while speech is impinging on the phone? Would that yield intelligible results?

Daggits are in short supply these days, so they should name it Muffit II.

Puts me in mind of a very informative blog post I read years ago about popular programming falsehoods about time.

https://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time
https://infiniteundo.com/post/25509354022/more-falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-time

Same here. I was on quite a while before I decided to make a login.

On the contrary. I didn't mention the other three on purpose. Good taste, bad taste, no matter: Return (unedited) outclasses the new three without even trying, and it was my least favorite of the first three.

As fan who was there from the beginning -- I came in from summer break to hear my classmates talking about Dark Vader and the Jet Eyes, and after my brother came down with tonsillitis, I got to go see it in all of its original glory at the theater, sans the "Episode VI". I've been a fan of the story of Luke Skywalker, not the tragedy of Anakin Skywalker. I collected the figurines and watched the Christmas Special. Empire blew me away, and Return left me with an "eh" feeling. Han shot first, and the first image of the Emperor had monkey eyes superimposed on a woman's face. I've read and agree with "The Secret History of Star Wars."
My conclusion? Disney and whoever else can't possibly do any more damage to Star Wars than Lucas already has. The first two movies, VI and V of course, were masterpieces in spite of Lucas, not because of it.

I grok your jive, me hearty.