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800 | Not exactly. Early on they do resemble pubes, but as it grows the hair thickens and becomes much more coarse than something you would want on your jibbly bits all day. | i dunno. i grew mine for a year straight, and it was all pubes. |
801 | No no, there are numerous stories and first hand accounts of Axl refusing to go on stage in front of sell out crowds for bullshit reasons and generally thinking he is a god. There is no misconception when it comes to Axl. | The one that pops to the top of my mind is Axl walking off stage in Montreal the night James Hetfield got burned, prompting a riot. |
802 | For more educational books I've liked, [I've written this post.] | The second book about recovery seems very interesting, just like Thinking Fast and Slow. Will look into it |
803 | > But electric trucks are not going to be a thing for... I dunno, three decades or more? BMW put one into live testing [a year ago] | Yeah, it goes 63 miles compared to 1000 miles for an actual semi. It also likely goes way below highway speeds, if I had to guess. Slower speed makes an enormous difference in the energy used. Its a far cry from a real truck. |
804 | Wow I've never heard this song before... It just gets posted every couple weeks... stop | Come on man I think this song is tremendous. I honestly don't mind seeing this be posted a lot, i'm glad to see it ranking so high on "reddit"'s favorites |
805 | Something tells me a lot of kindle owners are female. | The free books are high on the charts because they are free, not because the people picking them are female. I'm not saying that there aren't a lot of female kindle owners. I'm sure there are. But if publishers were releasing "The alphabet of manliness", or other manly fare, for free on Amazon Kindle I'm sure it would be right up there next to the free romance novels on the charts. |
806 | The Eragon series- too many detailed descriptions I just had to start skimming. | Oh man, I think my teenage brain blocked those books from my mind like I did the movie... |
807 | Very good, but very different. A good 80% of it is just going into detail about flower types. | So like American Psycho but swap electronics and Huey Lewis out for flowers. |
808 | What would be the effect of compiling a longer work of your short stories and submitting it to KU? | It would keep me from uploading those shorts to other websites. |
809 | 50/50 - Its funny as hell for half the movie, but the last half is unbelievably sad especially if you have someone close to you who is dealing with cancer. | Even if you don't know anyone with cancer that movie is powerful. Personally I thought it was an amazing movie, one of the best I've watched in recent memory |
810 | Kim is gonna be the first First Lady with a public sex tape. | You never saw the Ron and Nancy bathtub 69 tape that was making the bootleg VHS circuit back in the day? |
811 | That's not bad. I've always paired Less Than Zero with the Catcher in the Rye. | Word. I can see that. I was super disappointed when I read Catcher again ten years later. I couldn't relate to Holden Caulfield as an adult :( I need some real depravity these days, I guess. |
812 | I listened to Kanye's latest album to see what the fuss was about. Me and my friends laughed at how terrible every single song sounded. I still can't believe people think of that as good music. It's not even music, wtf is going on. | Yeezus IMO is his worst album, not counting 808's and Heatbreak which is barely hip-hop. College Dropout, Late Registration, Graduation, and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy are all pretty much masterpieces. |
813 | Okay, just making sure I'm not missing something! From lyrics to drums to guitar, their interest to push their own boundaries seem almost nonexistent. They are too comfortable and know their tickets/album will sell regardless the amount of effort they put in. Plus their ginormous egos just put the cherry on top. | I used to love them back when I was an angst-ridden teenager. Nowadays, I just can't believe I ever enjoyed their music. With Hetfield putting "Uh" and "Ah" at the end of every line, Kirk "Sour Note" Hammett plugging away at his guitar like Michael J. Fox, and Lars Ulrich trying desperately even at a young age to keep up, I'd have to say the best part of Metallica died over 30 years ago. |
814 | So you are saying there isn't any enterprise grade software written for *nixes? | No, there isn't ENOUGH of it to make it worthwhile switching. Especially on the desktop side of things. Server side Linux is pretty damn good. |
815 | Funny enough, I do. Good ones, at that. I just haven't had a chance to listen and pay proper attention since you people suggested this might be overdubbed. My casual listen gave me no reason to assume it was fake and I tend to assume 'live takes' are live takes for the obvious reason. | Man I'm sorry. You're wrong. I've spent many hours in the studio. I'll give you one word as a clue regarding her vocals. "Reverb". You think that voice is 100% natural? You're crazy. Edit: That being said, yes, I still think she is talented. |
816 | Just some random guy here that roamed in from another sub, but if you wanna slam this dude for his mathematical notation usage, you should probably represent an inequality comparison correctly ("!=" or "<>"). | !== is used in programming, not maths, and is distinct from !=. |
817 | I know not many people are going to see this or know the band even to upvote, but I'll still comment it because it gives me chills to this day. The jazz solo into sweeping solo from "Selkies: The Endless Obsession" by Between the Buried and Me is absolute perfection. Paul Waggoner in my opinion is one of the best guitarists of the past 15 years, especially for the band only really being known to metalheads etc. They blew my mind live. A runner-up is from my favorite band of all-time... Coheed and Cambria - The Willing Well: Act IV - The Final Cut. Absolutely breathtaking is that track's ending, even if it's by no means a "little moment", they make it feel as such. | Did you see them play together last year?? Only time I've ever thought "shit. How is Coheed going to follow THAT?" And Coheed is my favorite rock band of all time. Seen them 9 times now. My favorite Coheed moment is the heavy riff following "PRAY YOURE NOT THE ONLY..." in The Crowing. |
818 | LegsW is totally right on this. Section one of the 21st Amendment repeals the prohibition, but section two provides: "The transportation or importation into any State . . . for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors, *in violation of the laws thereof*, is hereby prohibited." So States still have very wide latitude in determining their liquor laws and the 21st Amendment expressly protects this. | This. There are tons of laws in Texas regulating alcohol sales. It can't be sold on Sundays. It can't be sold after 9pm out of stores. Grocery stores can't sell liquor above a certain %ABV (so you can only get beer and wine at grocery stores), etc. None of these are unconstitutional, although they all suck big time. There are counties where you literally cannot buy alcohol because it's been banned. |
819 | It's fucking flawless, Danny has such a great voice and TWRP is a great band. I can't wait for UTC2. | Yep, unbelievably hyped for the next Utc. Not to mention their song selections are fucking incredible. |
820 | Story time? I'm not entirely shocked, but I've always wondered about the details. | Well one quick one was he’s addicted to MDMA/Molly and people in OKC would charge him $200+ for a gram just because they knew they could cause he had the money and no one else had the product lol. Another quick one, mainly because I don’t remember the full details, but he’s fucked over a lot of people in the OKC music scene and caused a few people to never get record deals/get big or noticed. Basically what I was told, “after the lips got big, Wayne made sure as much as he could, that they were the band known from OKC” |
821 | Have you gone back and re-read them recently? I haven't, and I'm afraid to. | Barring a few poorly ghostwritten books, I think the series holds up alright. Sure, the '90s stuff is a little dated, but I do like how it tackled themes like war. |
822 | ...because being a programmer makes you unable to learn or understand other computer-related stuff? Sure, some people may do "only their thing in their little corner of expertise", but there are many people with very broad computer knowledge (which is actually usually very useful for troubleshooting malware issues and such). I also find it funny how people here argue whether you should or should not have an AV software and recommend one over another when it's one of the last things any expert would advise (if they would advise it at all) including [the one in this very thread] | Being a programmer and knowing how to maintain a PC isn't mutually inclusive by default. Sadly we often see people primarily using the credential of being a programmer then giving non-programmer specific advice about computers on Reddit all the time. Often they can be the very worst people to listen to as being a good programmer doesn't expose you to the kinds of problems say a helpdesk person or a sysadmin would encounter very often. |
823 | Part of Sony's contract was that any time they relaunched the film franchise, they had to tell the origin story. Homecoming won't have one because that was part of the deal with Marvel Studios. | This is exacerbated by the fact that it is Sony's only major franchise they own the rights to. Everytime they want a big budget superhero film, it's back to a new Spider-Man. |
824 | I'm not sure I get why you'd compare the screen-sizes as if it was a competition. It isn't that Apple can't make it bigger, they could just as easily make 7, 8, or even 9 inch iPhones, but they don't want to. | Right, just like they always said they didn't want to make it as big as they're doing now, because the old screen size was 'perfect'. Other phone companies have been doing screens like this for years. Apple joining them now is an admission that they were full of shit all that time. |
825 | Maybe, but some tasks are much more simple than many seem to think. For instance, scaling and cropping an image. | Scaling and cropping images is not hard at all and you don't need a program even half as featured as Gimp or Paint.NET for that. |
826 | That doesn’t really take into account space wind or any other forces from robot internals (drilling arm extension?) Are you sure it hasn’t attached its feet somehow? | Space itself is a vacuum so there is no drag. The gravity of this asteroid isn’t enough for an atmosphere so no drag there either. |
827 | I'm not sure those categories are exclusive? I mean, it seems to me that a lot of fiction that could reasonably be called literary caters/catered to what an intended audience wants, and that the artist has a way that he or she intends to make money from his or her art. You also have things like fanfiction without either literary or commercial goals. | Hi Maymaytics. Those categories aren't meant to be exclusive. It all began because and author asked us how she should categorise her work. She had been asked by a publisher. Very good points raised. Especially about fanfiction. |
828 | Man some of The Clan of the Cave Bear is a rough read. It's the only one of her series that I've only read once. | Because of the content, or the writing style? I chose this book over the others because it sets up the whole saga. |
829 | Might I recommend the very excellent (and very free) audio lecture series on Tolkien and his works? [The Tolkien Professor Podcast] | I took a summer literature class when I was getting my English degree that was the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. The Silmarillion, LOTR, and a bunch of translations and commentaries he did on older works. I remember them including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Beowulf. I think we read Heaney's translation of Beowulf, and Tolkien had done a commentary of some kind. Best. Class. Ever. |
830 | There was research showing a decrease in the time teens spend doing face to face conversations. And while TV did affect that, it's clear that mobiles and the net made it worse, even far worse. | >There was research showing a decrease in the time teens spend doing face to face conversations. What did the research have to say about the decrease? Did it affect the teens negatively? Just curious since at face value "teens spend less time conversing face to face due to tech" sounds bad, it may not be and there might be a benefit. Won't know until research is done on how technology affects people. |
831 | Subscribed. I really really hope this works. The most fun I have on reddit is the once-a-week argument I have with people on /r/Music. I want to have that every day. | I've never seen music arguments before, I look forward to it |
832 | That's the highest for a 7200rpm sata hard drive, get an SSD to increase it. | Actually, that's a 10K RPM hard drive. But, yes, to increase it you either need a 15K RPM drive, or an SSD. |
833 | I didn't realize how high on the controversial tab they'd end up - All I can say is it's in my top 5 live concerts all time. | Yes they're definately best live. Ended up seeing three times in one year in Scotland. Great energy, great music. |
834 | Frank Herbert's *Dune* They should have just left it alone. | But on the flipside, most of the staff for the movie went on to make Alien |
835 | Have you heard Beyoncé's album? It's brilliant. Also, there are about a zillion albums I'd suggest ahead of all of those others, however Beyoncé's is probably one of the top. Also seriously, fuck the Grammys - Their scope for quality and taste for the most part is quite lacking. | Their scope of quality and taste is in the ears of the beholder. There's no way to give awards for music *as a whole* without just awarding the most famous people, like Beyonce. And I also loved her album. But I really dug Morning Phase. |
836 | As an owner of a surface pro 2, I support this entirely. I love my surface because it can function like a tablet AND a laptop. It's the perfect all in one. Its light so I can carry it around, I can use it on my lap, and it has enough horsepower to run actual windows applications. I hope that windows continues to work on the connections between the devices though. I have a custom built desktop with windows 8.1 and I hope windows 10 adds more syncing and such. | I agree, though I wish they would have been able to take a 3rd party OS. I think they would have made excellent thin clients. |
837 | I'm guessing you can expect 3rd party support like with Cortana. Maybe they will even just staight up pair Cortana with the Kinect. Imagine saying, "Open Netflix and play Scrubs where I left off." It would be pretty damn awesome for a HTPC. Gesture controls from sitting on your couch would be pretty damn awesome as well. | You won't need a bulky Kinect for voice commands though, most built in laptop microphones and nearly all webcam microphones will do the job. You can now even go to Google and say "ok Google, whats 5 plus 5" and it will understand you and give you the answer, it's a software problem not a hardware one, no need for additional expensive devices. Sane for simple gestures that don't require depth like the ones you mentioned, although Kinect would probably be better at it. |
838 | Funny coincidence, was thinking just of Iain M. Banks when I read the title. I'd argue that the way he ended *Use of Weapons*, the twist, sort of nullified the emotional involvement that I had built up over the preceding chapters. It made too little sense. His twists are usually rather terrible. If I remember *Excession* correctly, his twist ending was simply to refuse to say anything about the excession thing, which seemed to me as a cheap way out. *The Player of Games* had this problem too, with the revelation of one charatcer's true identity, which was simply needless, as it undid the sense of developing relationships in the story. But it didn't really *ruin* it, PoG is just too good for that. | Yes I agree. I had the same reaction to the ending of Use of Weapons. It made me think: "why did I read all this? What was the point of it all?" I think Banks in general isn't very good with endings in his sf books. |
839 | I don’t think that logic holds. That ruling was about **Trump’s** use of twitter’s ban feature which denied citizens access to what the White House has said are official communications by the president. The ruling was not about the twitter platform or how twitter manages its platform. Which cases have shown political party to be a protected class? IIRC, the courts recently ruled in favor of a bar that kicked someone out for wearing a MAGA hat, which seems to indicate that political party is *not* a protected class. | California has state law that establishes this but someone else informed me it’s for employment purposes only. |
840 | The site's live at It's kind of amazing so far (it's really good at identifying my cat in pictures!) but I can't verify if you retain full rights to the photos you upload to it. Anyone know anything about that? | I'd like to steal your cat pictures before this question is answered |
841 | They really aren't. Industry averages are highly misleading and not at all useful for making statements about the medium. Many ad campaigns are for branding and are designed to be seen, not clicked. This lowers the average since an ad designed for performance can be very different. Beyond that many sites are flooded with bot traffic which destroys the average. Ad campaigns vary wildly in terms of competent design and management. Campaign goals can be very different. Different ad formats and sizes perform differently. And there is huge variance among sites themselves. | What I meant was more along the lines of clickthrough rates being bad because they all have seperate call to actions, compared to the one action of setting a monthly amount to be written off. |
842 | Are those plaques screwed in to the wood of the wardrobe itself? That's horrifying! Who would do such a thing? | Good point. I wonder if they really paid a terribly high sum for these since they're right out in the open for anyone to touch, carve, write on, etc. |
843 | do something with her. grandparents don't have energy that kids might like. take her horseback riding or something. get her a book about what you do with her. | I am living with her grandparents for the next few months, and I intend to do a lot of things like this once the weather improves, and my new job settles down. For now, I keep her company in the evenings and she kicks my ass on the Wii every now and then. |
844 | Aside from The Hobbit movies what other movies do this? | I've heard that the last Transformers movie was exceedingly long for such a dumb film. |
845 | Consider the consequences of the thief transferring all of your books to their account, before you notice. | Possibly, but I'm not sure that cyber criminals hacking into accounts to steal ebooks is really a thing we would have to worry about. |
846 | I am also pretty sure he is not the biological father to Suri. Katie Holmes was already pregnant and Co$ approached her to be TC's beard. He got a kid to show off and a marriage. 5 years later the contract expired and they got a divorce, Suri hasn't been with TC over a year. The other 2 adopted kids may be his biological kids. Some poor Xenu slave was forced to be the surrogate. | Mmm... I doubt it. [She looks way more like Tom than she looks like Katie] |
847 | 90 percent of the thread will be people asking for a job or an internship. | Eh, I'd rather see someone try to get a job than more questions about duck sized horses or whatever else is shiny that day. |
848 | Mark's Law: The bigger a corporation gets, the more evil it becomes. Now this one is "too big to fail". What should we do? hint: We now HAVE to negotiate with the terrorist. | Let's split them up and destroy any remants of the old company and remove the shareholders from creating another super corporation |
849 | Just when I stop listening to Audible ads from youtube... | It'll follow you around forever. Just because it is so convenient to clean and read. |
850 | > It was just a bunch of atmospheric feedback-like noises. [There were tracks like that on their older albums.] | Of course there were, however this song doesn't reflect the rest of the album or artist overall. [For example] The new cd was like they took this song and made 14x longer. It never got more complex than a couple of tone changes. |
851 | What? No. Decreasing jobs decreases disposable income. They're talking transportation and logistics in the article. What point of making that more efficient *doesn't* remove jobs? Less money to spend is always less demand. | If a cab driver is replaced by a robot, that cab driver can no longer afford a cab. But his customers are not cab drivers, and they will still need to pay for a ride. The economical impact comes down the line with other goods and services from the displaced workers, but the aforementioned industries are mostly unaffected. |
852 | Not fashionable in this political atmosphere; now that the last vets in every belligerent are dead, whitewashing WW1 has become a bit of thing. | Could be, but I sincerely hope that's not the actual reason. |
853 | >i also think pop=rock and rock=pop. Uhh, no. Not at all. | okay, so what are the pixies? the beach boys? the buzzcocks? rock or pop? i don't see any reason to place artists or artistic works in those two bins, when there is sooo much overlap between the two, and more interesting qualities to differentiate upon. we all know a good typical pop song. it's about 3 minutes long and it's catchy with a chorus you can sing along to. this does not exclude rock music. |
854 | Also, remember that, in the worst case, that one guy will set up a camera on a tripod, point it at his computer screen, and break every layer of DRM that can be imagined. And, in this hypothetical world where that's required, people *will* figure out how to record in full quality using this method. | Even better, just screen record. If you've got a decent enough GPU, couldn't you just screen record the 4k version? Near perfect quality |
855 | dress and look like a slob, whine and snivel ... so glad this period of music is over | Okay, bud. Compare that to what we have now. It's the same shit in a different package. At least these guys actually played their instruments. |
856 | The entire point of the event is to encourage kids to read. It's not fucked up to ask that a kid who's taken the prize five years in a row be a good sport and let somebody else have a go. Reading shouldn't be a race and kids shouldn't be made to feel bad because, although they read butt-loads, they didn't read quite as much as little Timmy, for the fifth time. | "Be a good sport. tie these weights around your ankles so the other kids have a chance to beat you when you race. It's not nice of you to do better than others." |
857 | Lets face it though. Chris is going to make any super hero movie golden but Frankenstein. a scientist who unentitionally created a monster and has to do everything in his power to stop it. nice. | i would just be interested in seeing his take on it. The only version that was remotely watchable, was Mary Shelly's Frankenstien. The Dracula and Wolfman have been redone into the ground. I think it's a franchise that could use a modern remake. But then again, thats just MY opinion. |
858 | Because, like the Lion King, it's loosely based on Hamlet. | all the best stories told are of a shakespearian thematic |
859 | I can't listen to books or podcasts at normal speed; they all sound so slow! 0.7 speed must have sounded sedated! 1.5 is the sweet spot for me, though sometimes I'll go 1.75. Glad you discovered your faux pas before you tried another book, but sorry you had to experience the whole thing that way. | Yeah, 1.5...when I got back to normal speed (when wife is in the car for instance), I feel like I'm on sleeping pills or something |
860 | I enjoyed reading it, I was about six months pregnant when I started it. I was pretty surprised at the number of people who had previously tried to conceive / were pregnant and miscarried that later decided that children were not for them. I recently read **Why Have Kids** by Jessica Valenti in between taking care of my four month old. | I liked "why have kids" and also "selfish." Another great one I just finished (in between my 10-month-old's naps and my full-time job lol) is "All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenting" by Jennifer Senior. It was excellent and thought-provoking! |
861 | >also watching said machine eat drives was really cool, when we went to evaluate the process. [Omnomnomnomnom] | This link was purple. And I think it would have been no matter what HDD shreder video you linked to on youtube. Way to pleasing to watch. |
862 | About time. But in my experience, the encryption key was always derived from the lockscreen PIN, thus making bruteforcing trivial. | But generally voiding any potential evidence in court obtained through questionably legal methods |
863 | And not-so-classics... "Neverwhere"? "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"? "The God Delusion"? Come on, this can't be a legit service. Thumbs up to gutenberg, though. That's very legit. | It's not legit. It's based in an ex-soviet bloc and the guy simply ignores any takedown requests by the living authors themselves. Sometimes, he [yells at them] Additionally, the "about" page is basically "because I'm emailing you the copy, it's not publicly linked! If anybody's going to get sued, it's gmail! HA HA HA HA HA" There is nothing legit about this service, and he flaunts it. |
864 | The Verge is a New York based company, in which non-competes are valid. However I still don't see how a non-compete would really come into play in this instance. | > The Verge is a New York based company, in which non-competes are valid. If an NC agreement exists, it will spell out jurisdiction in its text. |
865 | Not all phones have SD cards, since google seems to have it out for them. I'm running out of space on my 32 GB nexus 5 which I use to listen to music. | Getting a phone to suit your needs should be a priority then. If you listen to a lot of music and want to have the physical mp3's on your phone then you should look at phones with sd cards. |
866 | Really? I thought TLS was the best of the three Langdon books at the time. Although the whole pyramid thing was a massive let down at the end. | Honestly, I barely remember it at the moment (think I read it just after it came out), but I think I had a problem with the pseudoscientific "institute". Also, for me the massive let down was the revelation of the Bible. On a similar note, I loved the ending to Inferno, that one was completely unexpected. |
867 | I can't force myself to watch Drive... Ryan Gosling is just too much of a pretty-boy for me to take him seriously in an action role....not hating...just saying. | Watch it. Sounds like you only saw the trailer, and the trailer is very misleading. It's not really an "action role"... |
868 | Oh, damn. Well I guess I can't find her attractive at all now. | I never said that. I just pointed out it wouldn't work out for him... |
869 | The Killers? Probably not for another couple of years. Battle Born is only 2 years old, and they said they'd be taking an extended break after it. Not only that, but Brandon is currently working on another solo album. So yeah, I'd say probably 2016 or something? | I hope his second solo album is better than his first... |
870 | If you liked **In Bruges** and **Seven Psychopaths**, both of his brother's movies would qualify as well (**The Guard** and **Calvary**). | I didn't think Calvary was funny at all. Still good, though. |
871 | So they want to take CO2 from the air, combine with H2 from water electrolysis, and come out with fuel. So basically the reverse of burning the fuel. I don't think we've broken the laws of thermodynamics yet... so best-case scenario, we're burning renewable energy to make more gasoline, etc.? I can't imagine that's terribly efficient. | That gasoline is burned CO2 neutrally, and if that fuel is a replacement for fossil fuel, then we are still polluting a little less. And all little bits help in this case |
872 | It is absolutely dirty, and I think you explained it quite well. P.S I'm an avid NIN fan. | Why thank you. I am as well, I find that I connect with NIN's music, probably because I'm going through depression and have been through many other personal problems as well. Can't wait for the new album, It's going to be good. |
873 | As is I end up buying something stupid I don't need I. on amazon every other time I get drunk. I don't need this to be any easier... | It makes no difference to me, drunk me takes obstacles as a personal challenge. |
874 | I'm not convinced its a bad idea. Just not a well thought out idea. Edit: downvote if you disagree | ...Seriously? It's a bad idea. In what way is having a bright phone screen in a dark cinema room NOT a bad idea? Especially if it's multiple people. |
875 | Naming your third console "One" is pretty stupid, almost as stupid as naming the version following Windows 8 as 10 instead of 9. Apparently they should hire someone able to count at Microsoft. | haven't you gotten the memo? 7 8 9, therefore 9 no longer exists. |
876 | Have you read his new book. "They Both Die at the End"? Just started it and it's a really interesting premise. | I've wanted to for the longest time and I'm planning to use my Christmas money to buy it finally! |
877 | John, I love the work you did with 311, and I was wondering if you think you'll be producing any future songs or albums with them. Thanks! I'm looking forward to hearing the new album. | I've been a long time fan of 311 and we toured back in 1998. I loved working with them and hope to work on more music with them in the future. Nick Hexum also sang "Liftoff" on our new album. Which came out last Friday! |
878 | [Mark Kermode agrees about Pirates.] Batman Forever is terrible (IMO) but worth it all because of Jim Carrey's performance. | It's a terrible representation of the Batman story, but Jim Carreyis just so lovable... |
879 | Sure it's a good device, but for the value? It's pretty much the problems mac desktops have had for decades. | iPhone is great value for me, I found after switching from Android I am using my phone probably about 2 thirds more. I actually enjoying picking it up and using it; I found Android to be very slow and clunky - especially the 3rd party apps. There is definitely a sense of usability and quality through ALL the apps on iOS. The device and OS looks appeasing and is more responsive navigating about the place. iCloud makes everything very easy between my other devices. Bottom line I guess is, I don't mind paying a premium for the ease-of-use. Others on the other hand might not mind and therefore yes it probably isn't good value for them because it's not what they value in a device. |
880 | Time reveals good music, in a few years we'll look back fondly on 2012. | Just looking back at 2008 and can't remember anything special besides my introduction to more indie music and further listening of Radiohead. |
881 | Listening to Nevermind I always have to fight the urge to replay the track, then I hear the start to "In Bloom" and change my mind very quickly. And then that's followed by Come As You Are, followed by Breed, followed by Lithium. Fucking amazing album. | And then Polly, Territorial Pissings, Drain You, Lounge Act, Stay Away, On A plain, Something In The Way and ends with Endless, Nameless. |
882 | Amazon customer of 17 or 18 years. Only books i have ever had popup in Matchbook were public domain ones, and even then it wasn't all of them. | Is that the one where you take a picture of your bookshelf? It was a neat idea, but none of my books returned anything from the service. So I just download the epubs online of the physical books I've bought. There's no way I'd ever pay more for the digital version, or even the same amount. I'll just buy the physical if I know I want the book, and then keep that around and pirate the digital to read on my Kindle. |
883 | Saw a trailer for the movie and told my wife about it (she loves horror movies). Did not realize it was based on a short. I'm kind of skeptical about movies that are based on shorts because they have very different aims (IMO). Shorts are meant to be that, short. Concise and very deliberate in their pacing, exposition, etc. If a short is done well, then it will tell the whole back-story without having to go too deep into the details (explicitly). This can result in a full-length feature spending time on the back-story, which is a nice-to-have but essentially unnecessary. | My short doesn't have any backstory though since it's so short. Honestly I didn't want to have much of a backstory in the feature either, I was more interested in exploring how the characters are dealing with the situation they've found themselves in. Kind of like how in Jaws I don't care about the shark's backstory. We did put a bit of backstory into the film though. When it's more of a human antagonist it's kind of expected to at least hint to something. Marketing put the backstory front and center in the trailer though which I wasn't really a fan of since it's not really the point of the film. |
884 | We're based in France, which I would qualify as an "okay" country for privacy i.e. we're not a nordic country yet. | Finland's #1 on that part. [That's why Turing Robotics moved to Finland apparently.] |
885 | Yeah don't tell them. If your friends are excited to see it, you don't want to be that guy that kills the mood. And really-- it has a 32% on rotten tomatoes, which means around 1/3rd of people enjoy it. Honestly I'm sure you guys will end up having a good time. | 1/3 of *critics* enjoy it. The general population is usually more lenient. |
886 | Part of the issues is devices and software running on that XP machine. They are most likely vulnerable in ways that a newer, and supported, operating system wouldn't be. People having their devices and computers turned into botnets affects all of us in one way or another. | A friend of mine owns a rather large private company, that probably has a connection with some of the things in your house. His company is still being terribly affected by the economic downturn, and cannot afford the vlk or equipment to upgrade from XP. Protected information is now held on a disconnected fileserver, and manual exchanges of information are implemented. In short, there is one cable for the internet, and one cable for the internal network. Obviously, this is not a perfect solution. Far from it. But explain to me why this well known company, with its many secrets and floats, has not been targeted? PcKcopy hasn't picked up anything dodgy, netccf reports a clean network. |
887 | Hold your horses.. This is the first part hehe | Good point. I'm glad they showed Barry at least! He's so perfect, I love it. |
888 | I still haven't finished "If on a Winter's Night a Traveler" because I'm concerned that when I finish it I will have finished the best book ever, and I don't want to live in a world where the best book ever is in my past. | The ending is one of the best parts! Read Invisible Cities in the meanwhile. |
889 | I have a 5", 1080p, w/20mp camera. Fuck the iPhone. And this is coming from Macbook owner since 2007. | Much like penises, more mega pixels does not equal better results. It's how they're used. |
890 | Talk Talk? Really? So they had some 80s synth hits and then went a little ambient, but are they any better than A-ha? Seems like middle of the road synth pop not GOAT. Meanwhile, the British invasion was "rehashing/popularizing" American blues, so the best popular music is American blues is what you're saying. Which is probably true, though the english combined that with dance hall pop structure and harmony to create the perfect pop song outfit of all time in the Beatles, that is true. | Talk Talk are way better A-ha. It's not even close. And I love A-ha. Hunting High and Low is one of my favorite albums of all time. |
891 | I think they should cut down RDJ's pay a little bit in order to compensate for the other actors. 50-80 million is a little much, in my opinion. People could never work again and survive on 50 Million dollars. | It wasn't originally 50 million though. Downey's agent was smart and decided to take less money upfront but to get percentages off box office and merchandise. The other actors agents weren't that smart. Plus they had an already low upfront pay. So even though the movie made 1.5 billion some of them only got paid 200,000. Edit: Downey's agent not Disney's. My brain got jumbled sorry. |
892 | its probably one of hundreds of thousands of planes that exist in this specific type. the guitar was priceless, and few and far between, so its a hugely different situation here. | You really think there are hundreds of thousands of these planes left? You definitely know very little about aviation. |
893 | I agree, but millions of people are supposed to be playing that car game, and NO-ONE tried driving backwards?? | Yeah that's pretty dumb. Or how no one watched the guy, in the video go "Maybe you should try going backwards" while intently staring at the camera, and thought "Huh, maybe I should try that." |
894 | Blood Diamond was the first movie that made me appreciate him being a great actor, not just a heartthrob. | What about The Beach? I think that was the first indication that he had the chops to become a super star. |
895 | Then stop on over at The Highwaymen. ...and end up listening to Traveling Wilburys, even though JC was never a member. | I agree with The Highwaymen. They do a lot of covers of each other's hit songs, but some of their originals are great. My personal favourite is Silver Stallion |
896 | I am eating some jacked 3D ones, taste good | Mmm, I'll paypal you if you split em with me. |
897 | Because it is utter shit. I will never understand people's enjoyment of that book. It is without a doubt the worst book I have ever read. Edit: This comment was a bit dramatic but I will stand by it | I’d love to see your library if that’s the worst ever for you. |
898 | Your misplaced anger does in fact show you do have a problem with the movie. | Nah, I'm looking forward to the new ghostbusters! (CUE THE ENDLESS DOWNVOTES) |
899 | Thanks I'll check that out. Have you heard Unified Theory? | Yeah, I like it, but it's quite different sounding than Blind Melon. Also there's Abandon Jalopy, Roger Steven's band, that I probably like a little more than Unified Theory. It goes without saying that neither can compare to BM but I'm glad the band members carried on and tried new things. |
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