So this bullshit gets a long, thought-out response but serious issues just get completely ignored? For fuck's sake...

>being in nature, using your hands, feeling Earth to be "dull."

I thought he was referring to back-breaking and mind-numbingly repetitive manual labour. "Being in nature, using your hands" is an over-romanticisation for what is, in reality, a shitty and low-paying job.

They're the in thing. It was vampires before this, and pirates before that.

Double amen to your comment too. In addition to all of your observations: the tone for this movie has been set by Jackson's LotR films.

So it has to be this epic action movie, with lots of swordplay and scary brutal monsters, and an overall 'gritty' tone. So instead of cutesy little goblins being petty and irritating, they get upgraded to savage LotR Orcs. And there was that annoying sub-plot with The Great White Orc chasing the party down because fuck dwarves.

It's going to get big bucks regardless of how shitty the movie is, so they've stopped bothering to do it properly. The corners can be cut with zero consequence to the bottom line, so fuck it, cut every corner there is.

"Dark Grey Blue" is another Mujuice track that I'm pretty fond of. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dgy_9G6fKIQ

Looked up the synopsis. Looks like it will be much better than this trailer makes it out to be.

Carl H's programming lessons are a very good place to learn. Start with the basics before you move onto embedded systems.

If the ability to collapse/hide comment trees could be implemented, that would be fantastic.

Nope. Different software, processors, different firmwares, different qualities of other components, variable levels of support for digital music formats and encodings, etc. All result in a different quality of music playback and fidelity. Take a look at anythingbutipod.com, for example.

That just throws the game-the-system door wide open though.