Is there any chance of Disney Lucasfilm ever being run by adults again? They announce new movies several times a year, but none of them get made, which is good, because the ones that do get made are all garbage. Well, all but one.

I can't believe they haven't damaged the company so much they have to start selling properties off, and I'll be happy when they do.

Disney delenda est.

And then you can wait longer while it swaps all that bilge _out_ of memory when you want to run something other than Office.

It really feels like Microsoft has nothing left to offer.

Well, he could have taken on more of a father role, but he was totally playing Andy Dwyer in this movie.

I definitely watched a different movie. I thought it was mind-numbingly stupid. Sure, there were some fun visuals, but the story was nothing but a long string of cliches. Every single actor completely phoned it in, except for maybe Millie Bobby Brown, who just isn't that good.

I've seen B-movies from the 80s made for under a million that had better writing.

Yeah, but it's definitely awful. $320 million budget, but it's written like a 80's B-movie made for a million.

Can device using these so-called topological qubits factor the number 15 yet?

Perhaps not, but I bet they can factor the number 15 really well.

I'm sorry to hear that. I've been bitten a few times by an app that does exactly what I want falling into disrepair.

I've had a few Kindle devices over the years, and the first thing I always did was install the infrastructure to access the Google Play store.

I can't imagine there were ever more than a handful of people that did that.

My complaint about VR is that it's not, and never has been, interesting. I have yet to see anything that I find exciting, or more than mildly interesting, and definitely not anything that would convince me to buy expensive hardware.

I can tell immediately from the tone of the voice. It's always too cheerful. A pleasant speaking voice is important for basic communication. Sounding that cheerful comes across as completely fake. I just got one not 5 minutes ago and it opened with "Hi, this is Mary. How are you doing?" I said "Fine" just to see how bad the script was. Then it said, "I'm calling to help you --", which is when I hung up.

First off, if you don't identify the organization you are representing in the first sentence, I'm going to hang up on you, person or bot. Second, I can't stand that everyone asks how I'm doing. You don't really care, and I don't want to tell you. It's a stupid tactic that again just comes across as insincere and annoys me immensely. It's bad enough when people do it, but a bot? That's insulting _and_ absurd.

Fortunately, the AI bots don't respond quite quickly enough, and they completely ignore you if you speak over them. However, even if they were better, it would still obviously be a spam phone call within 5 seconds.

I'm guessing the new traffic lights are still LEDs, but better tech, and with lenses that make them look like the old-fashioned incandescent lights. Traditionally green traffic lights are a fair bit bluer than the typical green LED light (usually around 520 nm). Honestly, I haven't taken notice if traffic lights are still the slightly warmer green color or not.

I'm glad because the traffic lights with the very distinct individual bulbs where a bunch of them are failing are really ugly and annoying to me. Maybe it's a trypophobia thing.

Well, that's not entirely true. The LEDs themselves emit a single wavelength, but they can be combined. And more importantly, LEDs are enhanced with the use of phosphors that emit other wavelengths. That's how they made white LEDs, since "white" is not a single wavelength of light.

Fluorescents really suffer in cold temperatures. I don't imagine the cold would affect incandescents that much since they get very, very hot very quickly.