I was concerned by that scene at first, too, but on further reflection throughout the evening, I think it's actually not completely implausible:

While Clooney's character wouldn't have been actively pulling away from Bullock, in order for her to pull him in (even just a bit to get him moving in that direction) she'd have to pull enough to overcome his inertia. Since she clearly has much less mass (he's heavier *and* has a jetpack on), the net effect would be to pull herself away from her own precarious tether, which would have been bad.

Doesn't explain why he floated away when he detached, and they didn't really even telegraph that this might be the scenario they were considering, but at least it doesn't have to be quite as silly as it seemed at first. :)

That's... not how it works. The "penta" part refers to a prototype arrangement that isn't actually in use in any phones (see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PenTile).

These phones are using the RGBG pattern, which has the greens 1-to-1 with the pixel map, which means each pixel is either a green-with-red or a green-with-blue. So the parent here did do the math correctly.

If your sense of "geeky" is like mine, and you take it to mean really investing in rigorous curiosity about the process combined with a sciency hypothesis-trial approach to technique, then you can't get any better than Kenji Lopez-Alt's Food Lab over at Serious Eats. Here's his comprehensive Thanksgiving Q & A from a few days ago. (Sorry if this post shows up twice; I think the first try was eaten by mbeta.slashdot.org)

I manage about a hundred clients with OS X Server, and it covers pretty much everything I can think of. Can you describe what you can do with Windows client management that you can't do with OS X?

Wait, what? Does not compute.

...but if her password had been stronger, you would have been much less likely to be able to track her down. Maybe it's a reasonable compromise: some dudes see your pix, but you get your $600 phone back.

Note that this only applies to making copies of sheet music, not merely singing the songs (or arranging, or performing, or anything else). Same sort of thing is in effect here in Canada, and I'm sure many other places. Not a wonderful policy, but not the culture-destroying terror that the summary implies.

That wasn't Aquinas, that was Anselm.

It was mentioned once up above, but I've gotta recommend DeployStudio. After using a stock NetInstall setup for a few years and getting tired of stuff breaking, I gave it a try -- a hurdle or two at the start, but then holy crap is it ever a million times better. Waaayy more flexibility, no need to create actual NetBoot images based on entire masters (just a tiny boot-only image, then it grabs the rest off a sharepoint), and wwaaaaayyy faster. I was doing six simultaneous 16GB eMac images on a 100mbit network in about 15 minutes, which would have taken like a day and a half with NetInstall.

Science World, in Vancouver, BC, is awesome. There are lots of things to play with -- many are kinda "aimed" at kids, but I still love it every time I go there.

Er... You're kind of missing the point, I think, which is that it's really neat to be able to get it that good entirely by synthesis. Without doing any sampling.

Anyone else flabbergasted by the cropped "e" on the Marketplace menu item? This is their official promo imagery (captioned with the word "Perfection," no less) on all their press pages! Really? They couldn't have sized that to fit?