Thin 80s ties, constant rain in L.A., video payphones, "Cityspeak" lingua franca, advertising blimps...

Some other stuff BR got right: Atari still in business, guns with LEDs, giant animated billboards, and revival of analog synthesizers. ^_^

LeVar Burton did Reading Rainbow long before TNG.

"Gila Monsters Meet You at the Airport" :)

Human bifocal vision for 3D only works out to about 200 feet, farther than that it makes no difference.

True, and this unfortunately leads directors of 3D films to use hyperstereo shots, where the left/right separation is increased to enhance the 3D effect. It's as if your head were made much bigger, and as a consequence the objects in the scene look small. I saw Rogue One in 3D and some of the "massive" starships looked like wee models.

The standard rule is 1/30 - separate your left/right cameras by no more than1/30th the distance to the nearest object in the scene.

I would be happy with a 3D TV that offered head tracking, kind of like what Johnny Lee did with a Wiimote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd3-eiid-Uw

Pay special attention to the "window" on the stadium at 3:34.

Of course it would only work for one person at a time, but it would still be pretty cool.

I cut my teeth on BASIC and 68k assembly language. Fat lot of good that will do me now, unless I'm working on emulators.

I also enjoyed playing around with a KIM-1, and was pleased to see there's an emulator for it that runs on an Arduino!

Thanks for the "-v" trick! Sadly it is not present on the BSDs

There's a reason for that.

You don't need a lawyer, it's a pretty simple rule: GPL is designed to keep code free and open.

If you plan to share your code, consider using/linking GPL. If not, don't use any GPL code in your project/product.

We're safe unless the raptors have figured out how to operate spinlocks...

FileNotFound LOL!

People called him a fascist (and still do! idiots) for writing Troopers, ignoring that he also wrote Stranger in a Strange Land.

He also wrote the nonfiction treatise Take Back Your Government (original title: How to Be a Politician).

Look at his usrname.

Unix usrs nvr type more chars than they have to. :)

That's because professionals see computers as a tool, not a religion. The rule hasn't changed in 3 decades, you figure out which software you need to do the work, then buy the system that runs it.

Apple has been pushing the religion hard lately (read brand loyalty) and no longer care about the choir of professionals who have been their loyal customers through thick and thin.

Sure in KDE there's the "Start" menu, and you're also allowed to have non-blurry fonts, but besides that it's very similar.

No, it really isn't. Doesn't look like it, doesn't act like it, except in the very coarsest details.

Well, not to burst your iBubble but OSX today looks like KDE in 2003.

Wait, whut?

Do you really mean to say that Sierra looks like this to you?

Okay... They both have windows with title bars at the top. And some icons that stick to the bottom of the screen. Other than that, not much resemblance.

Please tell me you don't design GUIs as part of your job!

I would have thought they'd call it "Blade Runner 2: Electric Sheep Boogaloo."