Ser Pentrose

Now, cue jokes about her with Writer's Block nearby (she is a rectangular box), and her with box/es nearby.
Pandora has that childish side again, and it is too petty.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN 'USED TO BE', FOUL UNBELIEVER!!!!! (!)

 
People often refer affectionately to their girl dogs as "my little princess" or the like.  The cat who lives in our animal hospital is never referred to as a Princess, because we all know full well that even Queen would be a demotion from her current status as Cat.

Never claimed it. I said we "have" a cat. I never mentioned its position in the household hierarchy.

I hope not.  Apple is to full of themselves now.  Plus guidelines from on high should not be in a proprietary format
Information wants to be free
DRM is spawn of the Evil Ones.

Of a slightly different note, sort of, my priest's wife (Church of England) got her nursing degree in Dallas.  She has the female version of the BBC "received pronunciation" accent.  It's quite jarring to hear "y'all" being used unironically in that accent.

Languages can result in funny things at times. 'corn' meant 'horn'. 'Licorn' meant 'the horn', referring to a winged, horned horse. This went into another language and became 'Alicorn', where the 'a' was another definite article, resulting in 'The the horn.' Which means that anyone who in English refers to a specific alicorn ends up saying "The the the horn."

The more I see of Pandora the more I actually like her. Sure she's selfish and crazy she doesn't strike me as a jerk (or Cat's J word if you prefer). She's also intelligent and seems to avoid actively lying for the most part (though she does kinda not give you the whole truth). Also note that she freely and without outside prompting set not one but two pretty comprehensive vows upon herself which didn't have any obvious loophole.

The sound track.  I'm thinking something by John Williams, in the line of Indiana Jones. Or the TV version of the Mission:Impossible theme.

Catalina plan: sneak into sports store, get rappelling rope and gear, go to roof of mall, wait for helicopter to pass, attach rope to helicopter, get lifted away, unnoticedly climb rope, wait for helicopter to land, sneak off helicopter pad...
Did I forget something?

See this is why EGS needs more villains who will do the things we all know are wrong....but would be cool to see.   Kind of like the Evil Mad Bomber What Bombs at Midnight.  Yeah he's completely crazy but haven't we all wanted to blow something up?  We just need an Evil Mad Morpher What Morphs in Moperville....or something.
 

If you are, this terrain is booby trapped.

My own guess is that they are actually like the hammers used to be. Some Immortal got involved in that management book craze that flared up a while back and loved it so much that he made a charts and tables artifact that works similarly to the hammer artifact. And anyone that knows the trick can conjure charts for whatever they want to talk about simply by waving a pointer, asking for attention and looking stern.

I bet chart generation is one of Edward's spells.

Catalina took the GIURPS disadvantage "Impulsive" at double normal strength,

Hmm, y'know, after looking at the episode list on Wiki a bit, I may have to revise my opinion of Season 2 and of the effect of the writers' strike.  Melinda Snodgrass wrote the script for "The Measure of a Man" on spec, and it was accepted due to the strike.  Perhaps my favorite episode, "Q Who," was in the second season, and it's absolutely fantastic!
As for "Shades of Grey," what I just read says that they spent an extra $50,000 on "Q Who" and also went overbudget on "Elementary, My Dear Data," and that's what left them needing to save money by doing a clip show.  If I were asked whether it would be better to skimp on those two, or do a clip show to make up for them, I know what I'd say!
The more I learn about TV production, the more I've come to appreciate just how difficult it can be to craft a good bottle episode. That's an episode which is filmed with minimal cast, sets, effects, etc. to save money.  Some of the finest pieces of drama are bottle episodes, because when you take away all the shooting and running and guest stars and new sets, what you get is the main characters everyone knows and cares about, talking to each other and hopefully revealing new depths.  Unfortunately, if it's done wrong, then it comes across as cheap, boring, or both.  Or, of course, it ends up expanding until it's no longer the money-saver it was meant to be,

Well, there was a big writers' strike early in the series, so they kinda had to go with what they had at the time.  If you have six Wesley-saves-the-day scripts sitting on your desk, normally you'd pick the best one, maybe two, and put them at most at opposite ends of a season, if not in completely different seasons.  If you've got nothing else to use and you have a show to put on, then you have to use more of them and closer together than is ideal.  A lot of other shows had the same problems.
Ah, but those are exactly the roles you need the best actors for, because it's such a challenge to convey what you need to while handicapped.  (I use the term here like it's used in chess or golf, where a stronger player might give up a few pieces from the beginning in order to make it a more fair game for the weaker opponent and more of a challenge, and thus more interesting, for the stronger player.)  To be able to deliver a nuanced enough performance to make it believable that Data is only just starting to develop and explore friendship and loyalty and fear; to be able to show love and concern and distrust without showing it through the eyes; even to express emotions when their forehead is a prosthetic and they can't wrinkle their brow; those are the times you really appreciate how good an actor is!

That is not a factor. It is an assumption. There is an important difference. If it were a correct assumption, no women would ever go to movies only featuring men. Blacks, First Nationers, Latinos would scarcely watch movies at all. For that matter, I would not currently sit glued to Netflix's Luke Cage. Moreover, the actual assumption is "if we use women or coloured people or Latinos/whatever then our movies will bomb." I suppose that explains why The Force Awakens so utterly bombed that Disney lost a fortune on it.
No, wait, actually it was a huge box office success. My bad.

The accuracy possible increases with the number of satellites used. When the GPS system was new the high accuracy was considered a problem as it could be used by a foreign military. To prevent this a pseudo random time modifier was used by the satellites. This degraded signal was believed to allow for an accuracy of about 100 yards which was thought to be good enough for civilian uses. The US military GPS receivers were able to use the same pseudo random algorithm to calculate the original time and thus were able to achieve the full accuracy that the system is capable of.
While an accuracy of 100 meters might have been fine for some civilian use it wouldn't be good enough for something like a GPS navigator for a car. But through some software trickery GPS manufacturers were able to increase the accuracy to about 25 yards. This was much better but not enough for really demanding applications, and that's when someone dreamed up Differential GPS. By having a stationary GPS receiver transmit the satellite data to a computer they could calculate how large the time error was. That data was then sent as a radio signal that DGPS capable receivers would use to correct their received satellite signals. In favorable situations it was possible to get an accuracy of about 4 inches this way.
Around 2000 it was determined that as DGPS had made it possible to achieve greater accuracy than what the military grade GPS receivers was capable of there was no reason to keep degrading the service for civilian use and the feature was turned off. Even so DGPS is still used for demanding applications today as it can correct some errors introduced by the atmosphere.
Modern GPS receivers can track a large number of satellites simultaneously. While in theory it should be possible to triangulate your position using 3 satellites 4 is actually considered the minimum that's usable and 6 is adequate for most purposes. But modern GPS receivers can track many more than that. Tests show that there are significant improvements even going from 13 to 15 tracked satellites, it can improve the accuracy from about 2 yards to about one.
 
Note that you may get excellent accuracy with only four satellites if the reception is good, but using more satellites improves the reliability.
And why on earth did I feel compelled to write this? I really don't remember, but perhaps it was to remind people just how amazingly complex the GPS system is, and yet we take it for granted today as almost all new mobiles and pads has GPS capability.
 

Which once again boils down to cishet racist assumptions. They altogether disregard the fact that it is not about 'offending minorities' but rather making movies for an entire untapped market. They use excuses like "There is no money in movies about women/Blacks/insert minority of choice" and happily bumble on because an unrealised profit doesn't show up in the budget.

All that is not a reason for using white actors. It's a justification. Or, if you like, switching the burden of responsibility for racism and bigotry to the SAG. I am not buying it.

All the functionality you expect of the OS is there - but typically not in the same place, so it takes some getting used to and learning your way around. But then, so did Windows; it's just that you probably learned that a little bit at a time and now know where things are.
Also there's a lot of other software that is only available for Windows. However there are approximate Linux equivalents for most of it other than games, and a substantial share of them are free. So far I'm only missing a few games and Quicken, and I'm not missing Quicken much because the company can't be bothered to fix existing problems as it's too busy adding new ones.
(There's a Windows emulator, called Wine, that can run a lot of Windows software. But not all of it. Graphic-intensive stuff like commercial games, typically not. Wine is free, and included in many Linux distributions.)
MS Office? Most Linux distributions come with LibreOffice, which replaces Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Visio plus has some other features (and can read/write, at least, Word and Excel files). There are also versions of LibreOffice for Windows and OSX, and of it or some other descendant(s) of OpenOffice for BSD Unix, Android, and iOS (and possibly other OSes).
On the other hand, the OS is frequently MORE capable. For example: due to my particular situation I want my computer to run a wifi hotspot and NOT connect to some other wifi hotspot (my cell phone does that - or uses the cell network, and my computer doesn't see any difference). Windows 8 makes it easy (assuming suitable hardware) to configure things so the wifi adapter divides its time between connecting to another hotspot and being a hotspot - dividing the bandwidth in half for that computer and by four for any other device - but apparently can't be persuaded for the wifi adapter to JUST be a hotspot. With Linux I found a document that told me what setting in what configuration file to change and how to find out what values are supported by the hardware... one value supports dividing the wifi adapter in two like Windows insists on, another is for a dedicated hotspot.

In your opinion, yes -- but not in the opinion of girls and women looking for role models and heroes of their own. The point of diversity in movies is that as long as we do not have full representation, those who don't get represented feel left out.
(At one point, a teenage gay boy wrote Mark Hamill a fan letter in which he wondered if Luke Skywalker might be gay. Mark Hamill wrote back that he saw absolutely no reason that Luke couldn't be. Such a seemingly small gesture but it allowed a boy to feel included instead of left out...)

Mph. This is the usual problem when someone invents a rough rule of thumb and others then try to apply it as if it were a precision tool. It originated simply as a filter for whether the inventor could be bothered to see a movie or not. If it passed the test, she might give it a chance; if not, she considered it a lost cause.
It's the same thing with the Kinsey scale. The true value of both the Kinsey scale and the Bechdel test is that they show there is something to pay attention to. Having now served that purpose, we really need to progress to more advanced tools.

And even then, it does not work well as a rule of thumb on how misogynistic a movie is or not. A movie could theoretically star only females, and not mention men at all, and yet be very offensive by portraying only the most negative female stereotypes.