Actually, Avatar was the ONE 3D movie that got this right. They almost constantly had a very large depth of field, allowing the viewers to choose what to look at since everything was crisp. This made the 3D experience great. The only thing I ever saw in 3D that was as good was a U2 concert compilation from a bunch of shows in South America in 3D. That was in iMax, and the sound quality was amazing too.

I later watched Avatar at home in good resolution, but 2D, and it was really bad. Pulling focus to direct the viewer’s attention is so important in 2D film making to create a great sense of depth, and without it, everything just looked flat. And all the computer animated stuff just looked fake because of it.

With The Force Awakens, the situation was reversed. The narrow depth of field really bothered me for exactly the reasons you described. It’s hard for the brain to accept when something you look at and try to focus on remains out of focus.

But watching The Force Awakens at home on my 4K TV without 3D was awesome. JJ Abrams is really great at using depth of field to make a great 2D experience with depth, and he's also a master of using it to direct the user's attention.

To truly make a film work in both formats, everything would have to be recorded twice, with different focus settings, or with light field cameras so that focus can be decided in post. Not sure light field video cameras exist though...

By Ken Grimwood

Back in 2002 I used a Siemens "world phone" (capable of using the American GSM frequencies) that I had bought to be able to use it both in Sweden and in the US with Voicestream. This worked great, but shortly after T-Mobile purchased Voicestream, my phone started having random freezes which I felt sure was because of changes to their network and how it communicated with the phone. I complained about it to T-Mobile and simply got informed that they didn't "support" my phone. The freezes happened every two days or so, and the only fix was to remove the battery and put it back in for a reboot.

One day this must have happened during the night when the phone was charging. When I checked it in the morning it was completely dead, very very hot and never turned on again. Seems to me the freeze caused it to keep charging when it should have sensed a full charge and stopped.

How about 20 people cramming themselves into his garage and simply walking around reaching and feeling with their arms and legs. Unicorns usually aren't very small and shouldn't be very hard to find, invisible or not.

Patsy's Pizza - the real one, up in Harlem on 1st ave and 118th St, not the lame clones in other parts of the city.

Best Pizza anywhere, no room for discussion.

Sure, there's Grimaldi's, Lombardi's and so on, but those are for the tourists. If you've never had Patsys's, you simply have no idea what you've been missing