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I watched the first two episodes and decided that it very much wasn't for me. On the advice of multiple friends, though, I went back and started watching through them again. Now I'm hooked, and almost always enjoy it.

No Revenge for me, but Homeland is fantastic.

Lots of apps, not some. That doesn't mean there are lots of rejections, just that potential submissions aren't even made due to the gatekeeper. For example, there's a really great iOS app called Instapaper that saves things you read on the web into a super-readable form, which you can...

Spoony killed me in a game and I loved it; my character did something both foolish and heroic in an unknowable situation. I didn't expect it to kill me, but felt perfectly fine when it did. I do see this safe play in recent D&D material; I don't know how the RPGA was back then, but it wouldn't...

Right, that's why I said "for most colors": it doesn't include colors outside of that gamut. Fortunately most of the colors we can perceive are within the RGB gamut.

In this case the pawn is no different from a finger, no recognition required. It's doable, though. I've spent some time designing a system that would work, but I'm not sure it's commercially viable.

High resolution screens help with poor vision since things don't have to be so physically large in order to be readable. 16 point characters on a 96 - 120 dpi screen are somewhat readable with limited vision but the shapes of the characters become much, much sharper at 300+ dpi, which helps way...

I'm not aware of any systems that use more than 32 bits to store a pixel's color -- 64 bit processing is popular now, but the colors themselves are, as far as I know, stored in 24 or 32 bits, depending on whether they include transparency information. 8 red bits (256 levels) * 8 green bits * 8...

Unfortunately it's a bit tricky to describe, and as you can imagine, effectively impossible to show you since your monitor has the limits. This Wikipedia bit explains the basics. The image that Cor Azer posted is one way of showing it. The colors outside the triangle all look like the colors...

Whereas I actually enjoyed this episode. Yeah, the pet dinosaur will be stupid, but there was no pet dinosaur this week.

I'm not sure, actually. There are all kinds of ifs, I suppose, but I assume that useful discussion is based on realistic information. It's not clear what "out there" means, as again, there's "shipped to stores" and "actually sold to customers". There have been 40 million iPads actually sold to...

I have a friend like that too. People always call BS when I mention it, that there's some other explanation, but hers is so strong that if you put a watch on her wrist -- digital OR battery-driven mechanical -- it will instantly freak out (digital) or stop (mechanical). Take it off her wrist and...

I exaggerated, definitely not any color, I meant "all the colors you'd think you could create by mixing those three", and that the reality is that in order to actually produce vibrant-to-the-eye colors, together those three can't absorb all light if mixed in the right proportions.

Adding to the CMYK info, in theory you can use only cyan, magenta, and yellow printing inks to create any color, but the reality is the same as if you mix blue, red, and yellow paints yourself: no matter how you balance them, the darkest you can make them is a muddy brown. The black ink (K is...

I think that's extremely unlikely, if for no other reason that Amazon likely can't produce nearly enough to meet that ranking. As I noted in my previous post, Apple will likely sell around 16 million iPads this quarter, and many more iPhones; heck, they sold 4 million iPhone 4S devices in the...

They didn't, they've sold more than 25 million in the first three quarters (9 months) of this calendar year: first quarter, second quarter, third quarter (Apple's fiscal year is a quarter off the calendar year, so links are to appropriate quarters and so the total does not include the 7.33...

You can also pay only minimal attention to certain voice calls when feasible -- e.g. someone droning on or your mom repeating the same story she's told you three times before -- but with video calls it's obvious if you're not paying attention.

With an Apple TV (or other AirPlay device hooked up to your TV), you can do this wirelessly: Real Racing 2 Party Play - YouTube With many more such apps to come (including several I'm working on). There's some very cool D&D stuff one could do with this, too.

Indeed, as with any of the (truthful) "Darwin award winners"; if you included such ridiculous deaths in a book readers would assume you'd intentionally gone way over the top and it would pull them out of the book's constructed reality, regardless of how real it actually was.

No indeed, I didn't mean it as a "first taste is free" strategy. Rather, it's about something that's a solid file format that, due to Reader being free and very broadly distributed, can be read by anyone, where it will look (very nearly) identical regardless of device. Once you have that in...