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1,500 | > And then they'll have 2 million more people tied into their app/theme market, where they make the real money. Yea I imagine that was the real motive. But a $10 margin is nothing. The profit made is needed for growth and re-investment. Small margins will hurt their ability to scale in new markets and compete with Apple and Samsung. | You literally quoted the exact response someone would use if you had just posted without the quote. |
1,501 | You mean the hastily assembled website that was selling the novelty USB attachment for a ridiculous price wasn't legitimate?! I am shocked. **Shocked**, I say! Not by the usb thing of course, but shocked! | Yup lol. Usually I am pretty keen on scams, but this time was just a oblivious for some reason. Very obvious now looking back. |
1,502 | Out of the goodness of their hearts, I'm sure. | Are these companies all invested in health care? I always hear about how they might enter the market but haven't seen anything about real investments. If they are not heavily invested, why would that industry care about their standard? |
1,503 | If they had left any more joker in then I feel like it would have become a Joker and Harley movie, not a suicide squad movie. Honestly I wanted less of him as it was, maybe develop the films actual villains instead. | Yeah, which means the original script may have been even worse or weirder. |
1,504 | Also the device would need to read the data off the drive at that speed for it to be able to transport the data. | Nah, the sending device could hold all it's data in RAM too. It would only read the drive on boot. |
1,505 | Would the current offerings of chromebooks be a good choice too? I was thinking of getting either a used MacBook or a HP14 w/ llinux mint. The only drawback I keep hearing is that the chromebook might be too slow. | It all depends. I run my code on a distributed network. The computer I use is nothing more than a glorified SSH terminal. So cheap ultra-book with linux is the way to go for me. Could link together a few /r/raspberrypi 's together and build your own little box to SSH into to run your code. That would be fun. I might do that. 120$ for the boxes, another 200$ for the chromebook. Bam. You're up and running. I was thinking macbook, but they're super expensive. But if you need unix, and you need to run things on it, they're a good option. 7 |
1,506 | You aren't trying to say that politicians or unrelated companies have never tried to use music to advertize their idea/product, right? | No, I am saying that the popularity of gangsta rap in the early 90s was not the result of a conspiracy by private prisons and the music industry. There are many documented cases of what you're talking about. I do not believe that this letter is reliable or conclusive evidence of what it is claiming. |
1,507 | This might sound crazy but you should reach out to Orson Scott Card. When I was in high school I went to a book signing and asked him if he would come to my English class. I emailed him afterward, and he responded, set it up with my teacher, and two weeks later he was there. We had 30 people in the class and on that day 40 people showed up. He spent two hours teaching us how to write a story from scratch. It was the best day of high school. | He's also written a short book about how to write Sci-books. |
1,508 | i worked on a movie for sy fy channel called "stonadoes", i got to set and thought it was about a crime family but turned out its actually about a tornado of stones. cant wait to see the finished result | At least it was not about hurricanes who are stoned. |
1,509 | I'm no network expert, but it's fairly easy to route your traffic through almost *any* country with a VPN. I do it quite frequently. If someone is smart enough to hack a large company, it's likely they would at least try to obscure their location, identity, nationality, etc. | This wasn't a one time attack. It was a DoS, specifically a DDoS. It was observed in action. The attacks were implemented by scripts that would be received when someone outside China went to baidu.com. It's hard to imagine these scripts were not coming from baidu.com or something consistently on the packet path between baidu.com and people coming from outside China. baidu.com says it wasn't them, so that seems to indicate the Great Firewall was doing it. Or baidu was lying perhaps. |
1,510 | Any recommendations for non-fiction science and science fiction alike? Particularly of space (non-fiction) or intelligent life in other worlds (fiction) | I just finished "Your Inner Fish" and it's FASCINATING. The author talks about the development of different features (limbs, eyes, ears, a body itself) throughout our evolutionary history. |
1,511 | No grand conspiracy needed...Flash can take control of your audio and camera. A single vulnerable release and bam you're being recorded. I would do the same if I was that level of profile, has nothing to do with teh NSA. | Thing is, most webcams (and certainly all in macbooks etc) have an LED that lights up when they're in use. A hacker can't disable that LED as it's not software/firmware controlled. So this idea of a hacker recording you without your knowledge is scaremongering because you'd see the light on the camera and know it's on. |
1,512 | Strange. I thought that this very thread is about blaming capitalist for alleged communist sins. EDIT: And I have no idea what your link have to do with our discussion. Perhaps I should linked to articles about how slavery was remade into capitalist exploitation in form of prison business in USA, targeted mainly at Blacks and Latinos, exploiting their work as well as public funding. And incarcerating the biggest fraction of overall population, exceeding even authoritarian regimes. | Nah you made it be like that. The matter of fact is, google is as much of a superpower as the Chinese government is and at that scale the arguments about political systems or companies hold little value. |
1,513 | I dont know about any other Americans but I got nervous when it lead him into the left hand lane. | Yeah, it looks like he's driving the wrong way into a left-turn lane. |
1,514 | Can we just take 1 minute, forget Napster, forget how much of a douchebag Lars is or isn't, forget the politics and appreciate how fucking amazingly talented each and every one of their band members (current and ex) are and how much of an impact they've made on literally millions of people and continue to do so? This instrumental isn't that well known, but to me it brings to light every single one of the band members strong suits (yea, yea "no bass" please let's not start that again): To Live is to Die. | Orion is even better. But that was with Cliff Burton (bass god, RIP) got decapitated. |
1,515 | If you're worried about privacy/safety you shouldn't be using Flash in the first place. | You've discovered the reason I didn't specifically mention being concerned with privacy/safety |
1,516 | We share taste. I think you'd love [Carbon Based Lifeforms] | I imagine JP from the movie Grandma's Boy making games in his office to this song. |
1,517 | I read this as "Jesus is BLACK and he's pissed!" | That would also be awesome. Assuming Jesus is played by Samuel L. Jackson, of course, complete with fictionalized Biblical quotes similar to the one from Pulp Fiction. |
1,518 | Hasn't happened so far, sometimes the clip loosens and it tumbles down a bit, but never reached my face. My next project will combine [this] with a proper fixture for the kindle. Right now the angle is a bit too steep, it hangs directly over my head, I'd prefer it a bit narrower. Will post pictures when it's done. | That is a wonderful idea. I think I will try it. |
1,519 | "Amazon is warning customers" - no they aren't - they send me hundreds of emails about all kinds of crap but I haven't heard this from them, just tons of other sites. | They've been sending lots emails about it and even mailed a notice to me. Check your junk mail folder. It my be overflowing with notices. |
1,520 | yea, ok. you feel good about yourself for knowing about tech enterprise? You feel even better about yourself knowing you know more than I do about a thing? | Dude you are in a tech sub insulting a guy about knowledge in tech. Grow up. |
1,521 | And I certainly disagree with you. And so does the Hollywood Foreign Press. To say that it is "decent to bad" is just ignorant. You have you're opinion, and that's fine, but I along with many others (obviously) think she did great. | It's apparantly not fine with your angsty little self that i have my opinion, when you call it ignorant... Just get the fuck out of here sheep. |
1,522 | I gave it 10 minutes and had to skip a bunch of tracks. I must be very closed minded (musically), but this just seemed like a big fuckton of music with maybe a couple of gems here and there. Which ones are the gems obviously depends on the listener. I do however appreciate the effort and the post, so upvoted. | Hey thanks you for giving it a go, taste definitely varies and I can't hit every note, but I'm tryin' |
1,523 | Do you have access to my library records? I haven't read any of these books but they all sound fascinating! | I work for a nonprofit human services agency, so when you said you are a teacher, I figured I would just pick some highlights from my work-related nonfiction list. |
1,524 | Humbert Humbert is the hero, structurally speaking, and not the villain (as with Pinky in Brighton Rock). Lolita only develops a villain about 2/3s of the way through (Quilty). And Humbert Humbert is definitely relatable. That's why his narration is so horrifying and hilarious and compelling. We can't relate to his obsession with 'Nymphettes' or perhaps his narcissism, but we can relate to his sense of humour, his general feelings of longing and loneliness, his jealousy, his boredom. The novel wouldn't be as spectacular as it is if he was completely alien. Dolores is a less relatable character than he is, though I suppose the other way round if you're a 12 year-old girl. | That is a good point about HH--I think the obvious faults in his character made me want to categorize him as a villain when I first read the OP. I disagree--disagree may be too strong, actually--but I think categorizing Pinky as the hero of Brighton Rock begs discussion. Can there be more than one hero? Can there be a hero (Ida) vs and anti-hero (Pinky). Or, am I misreading your post and you are in fact saying that Pinky is the villain. I think this struggle is why I enjoyed Brighton Rock so much. |
1,525 | problem is that usually such devices cost 100-500$ while a car costs 70k$. Don't think many 19 year olds have that laying around. | Couldn't someone just dump all the software and put it on the internet though? |
1,526 | A lot of people probably care. Loads of people listen to music for the lyrics. | What I meant is I don't worry about getting in a set number of words from my music. That is what books and written text is for |
1,527 | Absolutely loved the movie but I kind of lost immersion when they went for the bottomless mag approach when the Apes were using guns. | Same here. Just sprayin hundreds of rounds, no reloads or jams. |
1,528 | Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm none the wiser, and I'm not sure I care to find out. | It's ok. Some people see an advertisement that seems vague and they may ignore it. Some people see an ad for a movie and comment about how they are confused and disinterested in it. Because... attention. |
1,529 | Last year we made a huge fire pit probs 6 x 6 and dug it deep, all emptys went into the fire and then buried once the fire died and all the gear was taking away. | This is illegal in every national forest in the United States. |
1,530 | I love the wikipedia page about this album: Especially this passage: "Publicist Laurence Verfaillie, aware of the label's inability to cover further studio bills, recalled Green's hair turning grey overnight. 'He would have not gone grey if it was not for that album', Verfaillie said." In the MBV NES game, every time you hit Dick Green in his boss battle, his hair should get greyer and greyer. | It's enlightening, but essential reading is [this] - which, despite somewhat negative reviews for the whole journalism aspect, is probably the most thorough and fascinating insight you could ever possibly get learning about the band. It's a short read and utterly captivating if you like the band - or just the album - remotely. It's also where my chinchilla joke came from, which nobody seems to have enjoyed :(... Shields is reported to have harbored hundreds during his bout of depression. Exaggerated..maybe. |
1,531 | As great as the band is, stop posting them here. For the love of fucking god. | Na I like seeing Tame Impala on Reddit it's refreshing just to see them |
1,532 | This is why I don't buy products with Samsung software any more. They have some awesome, great hardware, but god, they are awful at writing software. | Their awesome, great hardware breaks reliably after two years and one day (Source: my SG3 and Syncmaster Monitor). |
1,533 | While I love Amazon and was a customer in their earliest years...I still prefer to look at books in real bookstore. | At some point Amazon will probably look to help you with that. |
1,534 | Fresno has no punk scene. I was in a high school of 4000 or so and was the only one who listened (or publicly admitted it anyway) to punk rock. Makes sense that Op Ivy had a shitty show and/or stay in Fresno. | Depends on when. Punk rises and dies in schools. I was lucky to be in highschool during the early 2000's when there was a huge revival. There was at least 15 or so of us. |
1,535 | Modern moviegoers look for those sorts of things, it's to be expected. | As they should, it's getting really tiring having boring female characters serving the same purpose in every film. |
1,536 | How long was the OpenSSL TLS exploit in the wild? Like a decade? Being open does not mean it is automatically safer. OpenSSL is one of the most important software projects in the world and it is basically 2 guys working parttime. | How much does a single example matters? What about RANDU? Do you really think that a closed code OpenSSL, identical under every other aspect would have been more secure? |
1,537 | No, that's exactly why you *should* read it on a Kindle. That and the book weighs like 20lbs, while a Kindle always ways the same. | No, this is exactly why you should NOT read it on a kindle. The interruption to the "narrative flow" is only complemented by and expanded with the flipping of 250 pages over and over again to get to the end notes. It really completes the holistic experience of IJ. |
1,538 | >black adam was originally a egyptian prince, which would be closer to rocks skin color as well. He did play the *Scorpion King*, after all. Also, Captain Marvel, and the superhero "Shazam" are the same guy. DC felt it was necessary to essentially rename Captain Marvel. Not sure why. Now he's a superhero *named* Shazam, that gets his powers *from* Shazam, and transforms by *saying* Shazam. | He was renamed because Captain Marvel caused a lot of problems with Marvel comics for obvious reasons. There is also a Captain Marvel mantle in marvel comics. |
1,539 | As a colossal Bowie fan trying to expand his reading range, I think I'll be referencing this list a fair bit in the future... | It is a remarkable list. Extending from heideggerian psychiatry (Laing) to a detailed analysis of the collapse of western civilisation (Steiner). |
1,540 | Nobody said they won’t? So someone said they will? First the IS is worse. Then when I mention actual things happening in China. You say “somebody” said the USA might be worse sometime in the future. Real concrete argument. A+. | Considering the fact you used big trendy words like "whataboutism" in anger when someone said that Snowden exposed USA's surveillance tendencies, it's obvious you are sure that this can't happen in the states. My argument is that it can and probably will if Trump and others like him are allowed to do whatever the fuck they want. |
1,541 | This, for me, is the best song from the movie. I've tried to figure it out on guitar, but I believe its in a strange tuning. | If I remember correctly is an open tuning to F? Or F#.. Been a long while. |
1,542 | Gotta check the oil before you fill her up. If shit's nasty I'd rather have that on my fingers. | If you want to keep your fingers, keep them out of moving machinery. |
1,543 | The Danzig Trilogy by Günter Grass: The Tin Drum, Cat and Mouse, and Dog Years. Edit: My initial thought was Gabriel García Marquez, but someone already mentioned him. My afterthought was Italo Calvino. | I agree on Grass and Calvino and I will add Robert Musil's The Confusions of Young Törless |
1,544 | To be honest 64GB is enough for most people. It's enough for a LOT of documents (15GB), a complete HD season of some TV show (20GB), A few HD movies (5GB), a bunch of good bitrate music (10GB) and a game or 2 (3GB). Source: This is what I have on my cheap Xubuntu laptop. The one I'm using to type this. | You're forgetting that you need to fit an OS on there somewhere. I have a laptop now with a 64GB SSD. It runs Linux, I have 19GB free, and I really don't store much on it. My 3GB Dropbox takes up the most space among my files. |
1,545 | >To me it's different when it's a small retail shop that survives on foot traffic and small purchases vs. an apartment complex or real estate management company. I stopped reading right there. You're just making shit up now. | How am I "making shit up" when I'm simply describing my own opinion on something? I'm not discussing the legalities of it, obviously they are legally allowed to charge the fee, that's not my point. |
1,546 | What did you think of Atlas Shrugged? I gave up on it, just didn't find any of the characters engaging at all. I know Reddit as a whole tends to shit on it, but I figure there must be someone around here who likes it. | I loved it. The beginning of the book is really boring but it get's really awesome by the second volume and becomes a great novel. By the middle of the book the characters get more engaging and the story really great, you can't stop reading. It really worth to read, and the message behind the story is mind blowing. |
1,547 | The church scene in The Killer is probably it. I've watched the car chase in Ronin more than most non-Bond action scenes though. | You nailed it. Best shootout and car chase scenes of all time. |
1,548 | I agree spez is a fucking idiot, but this is going to be a net positive for the users. Reddit is way more usable with custom CSS disabled. The default style is dated. They need to do away with mods having the power to fuck up a subreddit like a 13 year old girl with a MySpace theme from 2002 and the only alternative being a decently usable but ugly theme from the same era. | But what about subs like /r/ooer where that's the point of the sub? |
1,549 | I don't think The Alchemist is great by any means. But for people on the internet there seems to be a correlation between thinking it it is utter trash, and being a sarcastic holier-than-thou. | Appearances can be both deceiving and illuminating. Question why you are *not* a sarcastic ass. |
1,550 | Why pay for a voice actor if you're a voice actor? | I think you hit the nail right on the head sir. |
1,551 | For anyone like me wondering what would happen if you pointed a railgun straight up, mach 7 is not nearly fast enough for a projectile to escape Earth's gravity and go into space. Escape velocity of a ballistic projectile on Earth is around mach 33, not even considering air drag. Source:Student of the Month award in 3rd grade, also WolframAlpha | Yup, about 7 miles a second. *A second*. One mississippi and I'm at work. Two mississippi and I'm home again. Wat. |
1,552 | Hmmm, maybe I should update. Nah, 10.3.3 is fine. 🙃 | The longer you use an outdated OS that isn't being maintained the more likely it's possible for someone to find an unreported unpatched bug that grants them complete access to your phone. 10.3.3 was released on July 19, 2017 or 355 days ago. 355 days someone has had to continually poke at the OS looking for holes. |
1,553 | So there's the two new guys and PineappleMeister, but what about the rest of the elder mods? | I believe top mod is busy with real life/traveling and is letting pineapple be the de-facto top mod. |
1,554 | The UK just got 200mbs for £42ppm, or $64ish With Virgin's new Vivid line. | Comcast claims they can offer 150Mbps for $78 a month (if you can get it). Virgin's 200Mbps is $65 a month (if you can get it). It's not phenomenally different. BTW, BT has been doing 330Mbps for ages in areas where they have fibre to the premises, and other companies have been doing gigabit |
1,555 | Google did that in China. Eventually costs begin to matter and the development money could be spent elsewhere to engage new markets like India. | Google did that because they had no way of competing with Baidu. Google are now looking to re enter the Chinese Market |
1,556 | > Hopefully one day we get a 'final' or 'ultimate' editions where 90% of the pointless changes are taken out. I believe that is the concept behind Harmys Despecialized Editions. | Yep. Definitely worth having the Blu-Rays but showing this at watch parties/viewings. |
1,557 | The only way for towers to have an ID that can't be spoofed is for it to have a signature, and you'd have to have a signing authority that the US government couldn't get access to but all telecom providers could. This would be very hard. | Well considering that ATT willing cooperates with the NSA that ain't happening. They would immediately hand over the private keys. |
1,558 | Bear with me, because I'm an idiot, but what if the tube went straight into space/upper atmosphere? Obviously there would be challenges in building such a structure, but space elevator concepts are of a similar scale | If you could build something like that into the upper atmosphere, you won't be using a self propelled vehicle to retriever the cargo. |
1,559 | Oh so not actually lady Macbeth? Seems like an odd title if it's not a literal adaptation. That's like calling Grease "Romeo & Juliet | Not really. Lady Macbeth is an archetype, which is what the film title is referring to. |
1,560 | When it's a cheap knock off, I've heard them called "mockbusters" (e.g., I Am Omega was the straigh-to-dvd mockbuster of I Am Legend). | I Am Omega and I Am Legend are both remakes of "Omega Man" starring Charlton Heston, which is based on a book. :) |
1,561 | Me too. It’s on my amazon playlist and I could listen to it all day | There is a certain melancholy to it that makes you feel something so real, y'know? So pungent, it takes you to another place... "Eye in the sky", performed by Noa, had one day the same effect on me after a breakup. I just went home, decided to listen to something to take my mind off things, then it was the first on the playlist. 15 times in a row (haha) and I was ready to move on. Surreal! |
1,562 | No billion, the total Nasa contract did not reach 1 billion dollars. And this contracts are being payed for a service. Obviously the government should not be getting a service for free that is abuse of power. | Commercial crew program was 6.8 billion of which SpaceX got 2.6 billion |
1,563 | Wow. I think I speak for all of us when I say, "Thank God Reddit is not tasked with picking the classic books of the future." Anyone else notice that this growing list is exactly the same as all lists ever created on Reddit about great books? Let's see.... Cormac McCarthy, Harry Potter, Infinite Jest and Game of Thrones on endless replay. This is why I sometimes suspect Reddit's actual user base of being 50 teenagers, 5 Republican computer programmers and 10 security guards lost at sea with really great wifi. | To question Infinite Jest is understandable. It's polarizing. However, I cannot see how you could dismiss McCarthy or claim he is not an author of modern classics. I imagine that sometimes, not always, but sometimes, large scale consensus on media can be somewhat indicative of it's quality. I'm a 29 year old data analyst, so I'm not sure what that means for your assessment of Reddit users. |
1,564 | Seriously? Here in europe if you dont have whatsapp no one will send you anything. My grandma's dont send sms amymore and almost all work related things go with emails or whatsapp. I would almost be a social outcast if i didnt use whatsapp. They have a massive monopoly here. If not whatsapp what so you use? | Depends where in Europe. In Poland it's completely unheard of, I suppose likewise in other Central+Eastern European countries. |
1,565 | Stanhope may well be the most zero-bullshit guy with a public profile out there right now, based on what I've seen following his work for the last 5 or so years. I'd take his word over most so to me this article has the ring of truth. Sad that relationships go like this. | Doug Stanhope is one of the coolest people I know. I'm a guy on the Internet so there's little risk for me pointing out that people who have children are stupid, selfish, fucking imbeciles, and I recognise that it's these idiots who think it's acceptable to have children that are causing most of the world's problems. Meanwhile Stanhope is saying the same thing but he's got the balls to do it on a stage in front of a live audience, which is something I'd never do. [Fuck everyone else, Stanhope cuts through the bullshit straight to the heart of the matter] |
1,566 | This episode is actually how I was introduced to The Cure, which then became my favorite band. I was like hmm, lets see what these guys sound like then, and Friday I'm in love was the first of their songs I ever listened to. Ironically not even disintegration. I like the pornography / faith / disintegration era best. Though I must admit I kind of liked Wish a lot too. | I'm going to have to make the argument that porno & faith are not the same era as disintegration. 17 seconds is the other album that fits with porno and faith. Disintegration can only really be paired with KM,KM,KM and maybe wish. But I'm totally with you that the three you mentioned are some of the cure's finest work. |
1,567 | Don't Move and Bill Murray are both amazing songs by them | Holy fuck. I definitely need to check this band out. Thanks dude. Much appreciated. |
1,568 | I saw them and the same tour and couldn't agree more. Skillet and Halestorm were the first two bands and killed it. They had the crowd really pumped then Theory of a dead man came out and every bit of energy left the building. It was the most boring live performance I've seen by far. | what stop on the tour did you see them at? |
1,569 | Morgan Freeman as the voice of the child's thoughts? Perhaps that guy from TVs The Wonder Years? Seriously though, plenty of movies have been done where the character just thinks a lot and the voice is narrated to everyone. Some done well, some done bad. The good ones are classics (ala Shawshank Redemption). | But it is around 90% thought. All the battle scenes barely feature anything but inner thought... Just like the opening scene with the bully who's name I can't remember. I don't think he said anything at all during that bit, just wailed on the guy. Without his inner thoughts, he'll just come over as a violent thug, rather than a calculating child. I just can't see it working without massive changes to both the plot and his character. |
1,570 | Hey you didn't tell us if listening to audiobooks counts as reading or not; I have to update my excel sheet!! | Only if you listen to your audiobooks out loud in front of other people. |
1,571 | > You can't really root for anybody. I feel like some of the people who loved TWoW were unaware of the irony and were genuinely cheering on the douchebags. I'm actually not even sure if Scorsese knows if he was celebrating these people or not. However, that article about the wallstreet stockbrokers watching it at a screening and cheering sort of makes me feel like the film missed its mark as a satire. | > I feel like some of the people who loved TWoW were unaware of the irony and were genuinely cheering on the douchebags. what if I like cheering on the douchebags? |
1,572 | The Bible. I meditate on it every day, many times, and there's so incredibly much more to explore still. And so much of it goes back to the essence of it all: that God loved us, and Christ became man to atone for our sins. "In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God's grace." | "Hello, I am yet another Christian who is woefully unacquainted with my own holy book. I only talk and think about the parts that support my narrow world view. Won't you join me?" There are Christian on reddit - but there is a reason they all hang out in their own little subs. |
1,573 | I have a hard time picturing the inside of Hotel23...did you have any pics on the web maybe that show how you pictured it in your head or were the closest? I always imagine a scene from the opening of WarGames but that can't be right...it seemed too small and narrow considering your descriptions. | I don't really have any pictures, just what you see/read in the books. It's a tight, confined place for sure. |
1,574 | It became a shitty establishment when they realized their angle in to the kids was with reality TV and not with music. 1992. The Real World. Don't get me wrong -- It was shitty before that too, but it also had it's sporadic moments. | Before Real World they were playing MC Hammer, Paula Abdul, Vanilla Ice, and Milli Vanilli. MTV has always been dog shit. |
1,575 | I don't get the hype of Pokemon go. It has less content than Pokemon red ffs. They are missing so many obvious features. It's just hide and seek AR Pokemon edition. I expected so much more.. | It sparked a cultural phenomenon. It herds people to downtown areas (where they interact) and creates a sense of comradry by encouraging you to hunt together for Pokémon. Teams and gym battling add a competitive nature to it too, but certainly isn't required. No arguing that the game right now is lacking in content, but it shows potential for so much more. We can only hope it stays that way. |
1,576 | I tried searching reddit already for a similar post, but I wasn't satisfied with the results. You'd think that someone would start their own ISP and offer 1gbps service to completely blow them out of the water, or force them to catch up. Other countries, such as Japan, have several ISPs that offer 1gbps and its only about $30-$50 a month for it. | I know that at least in Philly, the city government actively blocked alternate providers. I remember even Verizon had a very hard time coming in here until they filled out the proper paperwork (ie bribed enough city council members). "We have to tear up the streets so you can come in here and compete against one of our best corporate citizens?" - Former Mayor of Philadelphia and Governor of PA |
1,577 | Is Windows Server 2008 still supported by Microsoft? I know very little about this stuff but I do know that they have Windows Server 2012 out and Win Server 2016 on the way. | Until 2020 if my memory serves me right. I didn't check how the situation is on 2012 and 2016 but it wouldn't surprise me if it's still enabled there too. |
1,578 | Such a good choice! I really enjoy Amputechture too. | I have a vinyl of Amputechture and that album cover in large is amazing, but this one is just perfection. My sister actually has Frances The Mute on vinyl and the artwork throughout it is just stunning! |
1,579 | The problem is that delivery drones will have people **underneath** them as they fly to their customer. A 400 pound drone falling from 100m up will kill people on the ground even if nobody was manning the aircraft. | Where did that 400lb figure come from? None of those delivery 'drones', as they seem to be called now, look to be even 40 lbs (and a 6lb ArduCopter is enough to deliver a pound of payload anywhere). |
1,580 | I was the exact same back in February. I'd only seen parts of the first two movies and thought they sucked. It was largely Stephen King's enthusiasm that got me to read the books, which I thoroughly enjoyed. *I still think the first two movies suck, however.* | The first two movies suck because they just put the book on screen, nearly verbatim. After book 3, when they started to re-work things for more effectiveness cinema-wise, they started to drastically improve. |
1,581 | Updoot just for 'prosumer', also can't go wrong with ubiquiti | Ubiquiti for the win. I got a UniFi setup just a week ago and I'm madly in love so far. Never realized how awful consumer routers are until I saw the difference. |
1,582 | Uhhh. If Billy Corgan was what defined the sound of the Smashing Pumpkins then why have their last like 4 records been subpar at best? | Who would you say defines Metallica's sound? They're last four albums have sucked as well. |
1,583 | I read fiction when I can relate to and learn from it. I primarily read non-fiction like your fried does, but I enjoy well written (and if applicable, well researched) when I can empathize with the characters and the situation. Recently I blazed through The Hunger Games trilogy because I could empathize, understand, relate it to the wars in Iraq and the fears of losing a parent or a sibling. I'm picky when it comes to fiction, but there is good fiction out there for the non-fiction lover! | What type of non-fiction do you tend to read most? And what other novels have you enjoyed? |
1,584 | I also remember hearing that President of the USA changed the last line of the song "Lump" to "And that's all I have to say about that" | The Presidents of the United States of America* or PUSA. All or nothing I say. |
1,585 | *"When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes."* -Desiderius Erasmus | Just yesterday, I found my Amazon.com bookmark from the mid Nineties with that quote. |
1,586 | Is it me or does every new blockbuster beat the record now | No, haven't you been listening to the MPAA? Piracy is killing the industry! |
1,587 | Eh, I disagree. Use Your Illusion came out about a year before the grunge movement really went mainstream, and GnR never hit those highs again after that. Most of their stuff post- UYI was pretty crappy too, and there wasn't much of it. The Spaghetti Incident in '93 was forgettable, and then they released no studio alums for 15 years.... | I think that definitely played a part in their decline, but I want to say it was more due to the constant turmoil in the band that led to their demise |
1,588 | I'm looking for novels that compare/contrast different cultures, like [Einstein's Dreams] or [Gulliver's Travels] I'd consider something that contrasted real cultures as well, but I lean towards the fictional. Something like the Iain Banks culture books would also work (though not those specifically since I've already read/am reading them). Thanks! | Real cultures--Americanah by Adichie (recommended above to another asker). Scifi--The Sparrow!! |
1,589 | Interesting. It doesn't show who requested the take downs. I just don't understand why ONE SONG is targeted. It's baffling. And no, there's no remixes, just instrumental versions. | I came here looking for the song as well, do you think you have any digital copies of the instrumentals on Matilda that you could send through? |
1,590 | I had it, then lost the tape. I later bought a DVD of it, but it cuts out the scene where Fozzie meets the snowman outside. It's so weird. You just see Fozzie yelling "KERMIT!" then running inside...then all the sudden there's a snowman telling jokes. So weird. EDIT: it looks like several scenes were cut due to music rights. The rights were only bought for TV purposes, not VHS/DVD releases. | That absolutely kills me. I bought a bootleg dvd of it and I couldn't believe they cut that scene. |
1,591 | Very true, like with Fare Thee Well with the Grateful Dead. And then they announced Dead and Company. | My friend sent me some videos of The Dead and Company and to be honest they were sounding far better than the Grateful Dead's latter years. I do wonder why Phil Lesh isn't involved though. |
1,592 | Yea... but if you want to use the bathroom you have to buy something | But think of all the literary possibilities available for bathroom reading! |
1,593 | Being a follower of Asatru (Norse paganism), I love the little things he adds that allude to the religion. The dwarves and their written language in particular is very very Old Norse. Gandalf as Gangleri (Odinn as the wanderer) Galadriel as Freya, Aragon as Thor (and not comic book Thor, but heroic protector of Midgard Thor), even the eagle symbolism, while universal, was cool in that aspect. | Agreed. I'm not a follower but I find the Norse myths intriguing. |
1,594 | Hmm... I don't know about that, but regarding the Green Goblin, yeah he is creepy. Plus, this really hides the fact, and shows that he is insane, that behind the "mask" is a multi-billion dollar CEO. I put mask in quotes because it could be that Spidey and others may think it is real and I think that could have added to the film. | Lex Luthor's mindset + Bruce Wayne's R&D department + Joker's theatricality - DC = Green Goblin |
1,595 | except not everything is always easy with that method. i'll never have a problem finding a recent release or a classic, but not everything is a recent release or classic. | If the ebook is available, the pirate is available imo. |
1,596 | Zimmer basically just comes up with loops and plays them over everything. | I was going to say, you could probably take the sound tracks for The Dark Knight and Inception and play them on shuffle on any film with dark lighting and it would fit. |
1,597 | Yeah, it had good reviews even before her identity got out. | Reviews mean little. She wasn't unknown to the people pulling the strings to get the reviews more than likely. Yes, it really is like that. |
1,598 | Nope, Amazon Prime's video app has had it for a year now. It's just studio contracts and other bullshit. | I know, it's a reference to r/gaming who use the excuse that "the technology just isn't there yet" for any thing that should be implemented into a game that hasn't been yet for some unknown reason. A poor joke attempt apparently. |
1,599 | No because only the initial poster of a thread is required to post an image. The rest of a thread CAN include images (and often does) but people can just reply with text comments as well. The fast-moving boards on 4chan have so much user activity that threads get purged after only a couple of hours (or less), but the slower boards (like /lit/, the literature board) move much slower and the same thread can stay active for several days. | So threads are automatically deleted? The impression I'm getting it that it's more like chat. People post an image and then there is a lot of rapid chat about it, some of which is funny (a lot of in-jokes from what I've seen). Would that be a fair summary? |
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