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OK, I see, I see. They're trying to create these "film-friendly" versions of costumes. So, can't have Supes wearing trunks. Can't have yellow/gold belts and tiaras. Make the colors kind of dark and washed-out. And put plating on the costumes so that actors can wear blatantly padded outfits. And...

It may well be couched as the kids being harvested for components, a la Torchwood Children of Earth. Or, maybe it turns out the "aliens" aren't aliens at all. They're actually from the future, like in The 4400, and they need kids to repopulate the world after they blasted the hell out of...

As you say, the term "app" has been around a long time, and is simply an abreviation of "application". As such, it's simply not something that someone can claim a trademark. That they popularized it with mainstream consumers through their undeniably innovative approach to smartphones doesn't...

This pretty handily misses the point. I won't argue how well "App Store" measures up to "shopping cart", but I will say for the record that it is exactly as generic as "Book Store" or "Shoe Store" or "Candy Store" or "Grocery Store", and I'd be pretty audacious for someone to try trademark those...

I'm not sure that the OP provided much to rebutt, as it was mostly just bullet points of things that he personally doesn't care for. To each their own. To answer his question, I can certainly imagine Zeus being unable to oppose the Lady of Pain. He wasn't omnipotent. He had to do battle with...

Basically, e-ink is just a little ball that's black on one side, pale on the other, and the reader rolls them over. This supposedly achieves a more pleasing look to text than square pixels. Makes sense, though it's mox nix to me. There was talk of color e-ink being in development about a year...

So, now the rumor mill is abuzz about the increasingly likely possibility that Amazon is getting into the tablet game. The official word from Amazon wasn't a denial or even a "we don't indulge speculation based on rumors", but rather "stay tuned". My hunch is that this will be a real contender...

The problem for some folks like me is that I can't buy into what's going on because it's becoming increasingly obvious that there's no interest in even bothering with building sets, but rather just shoot everything on green screen. And in this case, even the actor's clothes are bogus (though his...

Neither great nor awful. This is not a labor of love on the order of Raimi's Spider-Man or Nolan's Batman. Just a very basic, by-the-numbers piece of work with no ambition other than to establish a franchise. We get all the obligatory components, from the opening scene that offers a...

The old Thundercats *felt* epic, but didn't deliver in the actual course of the series, which for the most part stuck to an episodic format where by the end of the episode everything returns to status quo. They were feeling too much of Return of the Jedi, I think, with the robotic teddy bears...

This really hit the spot. I liked it better than Walking Dead. I'm not big on that comparison, mind you, but that's the one that keeps coming up. I thought the reaction of the Maggie character was an especially sensible resolution to the conflict with the raiders. Stuff exactly like that would...

Six-issue story arcs are the order of the day now, because they lend themselves to the trade paperback format. A lot of folks want something they can put on a shelf--expensive as they are, it's hard to see comics as disposable. Personally, I prefer at least a year's worth of stories, but what...

Dex isn't on the table. Str and Int is what I'm looking at. Anyway, I think it is correct to hold Str up a little higher than Int.

This was my thinking as well. D&D is a very arbitrary game. My guess is that what he was trying to emphasize was that you make rulings on the fly based on what seems plausible rather than refer to rules to see what the consequence of a given action is. Well, it's from the actual events of the...

The title says it all. The character in question is a 3rd-level human built on 25 points. I'm leaning towards STR as being more important, because I will probably be rolling to hit more often than anything I'll be doing that uses INT, such as tapping my arcane pool or casting spells with save...

Assuming that Community falls somewhere under the umbrella of "comedy in all forms", the very next sentence that followed this remark constitutes the very advocacy I was referring to. As I said before, it has no place as a rebuttal to anything I've said. Now let's take a look at some good...

Most important spell for any aspiring summoner: vanish and invisibility. Don't even need greater invis. that much.

This is absolutely correct, and I had actually edited my post while you were typing this to account for it. But there are such things as seasonal vacation spots, places that roll up their carpets for half the year. Have you ever read Shirley Jackson's short story, "The Summer People"? For...

Well, don't beat yourself up too much, because the weather isn't quite the show-stopper previous posters made it out to be. Americans do most of their vacation travel in the summer, not the winter. And guess what? Florida is a horrible place to be walking any measurable distance in the summer...

Anyone seen this article? Exclusive: Dell spurns U.S. in launch of Android tablet in China | Nanotech - The Circuits Blog - CNET News The article refers to the Chinese consumer tech market as being more mature and savvy. When it comes to tablets at least, they do have a point. Joe Consumer...