I've heard of those and a friend has some like those, but custom-made for his ears, and he swears by them (he's a musician). I might try one of those next time I plan to go see an IMAX film, sad indeed

Indeed, and this is so rare it makes the news... Usually it just dies, from heat, deep-sea trawling, you name it.

Sounds like exceptional cases all rolled into one... Maybe pick different times/days? But if you got an adequate setup at home and you're really mentally done, fair enough. I prefer home for comfort and most importantly subtitles... damn modern audio mixing

I mean I've been to rock and metal concerts and I don't remember my ears suffering that much (except Motorhead!). On top of that, I'm not sure that the speakers were handling the volume that well. But yeah I wish there was some feedback mechanism to the cinema on that front.

I didn't mind the lack of breaks (3h would be my limit though), and there were no disruptive people in the big cinema where I watched it, but I *did* mind the obnoxiously loud sound in that IMAX theater. In most action scenes I couldn't wait for them to be done so my ears would stop suffering.

Tell that to the people who did the surveys in the 60s:

Drones can drop handcuffs, use projectors for visual directions and shout instructions via a speaker, at a mounted-gun point. Far, far, far simpler than trying to program hand-to-hand combat on robots, and far cheaper too. Nauseating scenarios either way.

Nah, some drones with guns can do that better and far more efficient

for screwing your OS so badly and making me move to Linux, I'm far happier and I miss nothing, thanks to all the awesome software that is either native (Kate) or cross-platform (JetBrains) or is used as a bridge to windows software (Wine et al). The only thing you're extending is your pointless hopes for recovery from this unparalled idiotic move to force people to 11.

No software of mine gets faster with updates (in the game development space - IDEs, game engines, etc). So, "hold on" translates to "see performance gets worse every day". I don't think the old console paradigm applies anymore, as the hardware is known these days

*facts, not factors, dammit fingers!

And if I may: 5. Providing sources should not go against the text limit, so people have no excuse for not backing up things they say as factors

It's technological progress alright. But not a societal one yet - it actually looks like we're heading off a cliff in that regard, and only a few have parachutes.

"NASA Picks Eric Schmidt For Mars Mission". The unwashed masses would care about this more, compared to which billionaire gets money before delivering anything.

No, because that way you give way too much power to a bunch of manipulating and manipulated idiots making a decision at a particular point in time.