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1,600 | Reddit is quick to hate on people who did something bad (like Mark Wahlberg) or just said something racist. But this guy being a convicted criminal is somehow badass and heroic. | At least he was able to turn his life around and i'm sure acting, good or bad has helped him no end. |
1,601 | I would guess 8. Just slopping together current ssd is about 16k (128 GB * $35) for 60 TB. Divide in half every two years.. gives you about 8 years for $1000. Probably even be quicker than 8 years. It's not like platters have to get denser and denser.. micro sd is already pretty small. 500 of them probably is no bigger than a current platter drive. *clicks on article... * Hmmm yup. | I actually have a buddy who works in design at Seagate. I'd ask him, but it's probably still heavily under NDA. |
1,602 | I'll raise the movie 1 Vin Diesel and 1 The Rock. | The Rock can be the Dungeon, Vin can be the Dragon. |
1,603 | I kind of hate Bill Paxton but Titanic is my favorite movie, and I really think he's great in both Big Love and Twister too. What really gets me in Titanic is his portrayal as James Cameron's idea of what a "cool guy" is, with his mostly unbuttoned shirts and his shaggy haircut and his stupid goddamn earring. | I agree about Twister. I love that movie because I hate it. It's so horribly done, with so many errors and extremely scientifically inaccurate, but it makes me laugh because of all of that. Particularly the scene when they're driving on a that tiny 1 lane dirt road with ponds on both sides (when the cows are flying through the air) and when they cut to them inside the truck, you can clearly see a highway through the back window, with cars driving by! |
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1,605 | Not really that surprising. The bay area is becoming absurdly expensive to live and work in. Perhaps the only downside is the lack of sweet VC money but hey that could change easily. | The main advantage of the bay area is the availability of people to work on things. If you're building a startup and you need to find something unusual like a Ruby developer who specializes in building RESTful APIs that leverage MongoDB for caching large amounts of data for very fast transactions, you're going to find that sort of developer easier in California than in Kansas. |
1,606 | Best part of that AMA: Top voted comment was simply "lol" | I laughed at that when I first saw it but almost immediately felt bad for the guy. Felt even worse once I read more and saw how chill he had become. |
1,607 | Im sorry, but someone who gets that enraged over someone's titling on a Reddit post needs to reevaluate their life. And yeah sure, I'll take more downvotes. | You must have pretty thin skin if you think that constitutes me being enraged o_0 |
1,608 | Oh no, I didn't read those. Do they keep fucking even after they got out? | They stop for a while but a couple books later they start up again. |
1,609 | What seriously? The books are 15 years old now... Not worth just delete the comment... | Lol someone covered a spoiler from the Bible earlier |
1,610 | Never got the aphex twin hype. It's just really fast, repetitive electronic music. | Maybe selected ambient works vol. 1 & 2 of his could be more your pace? |
1,611 | Nope, your info is wrong. It's not uncommon for distributors to keep 90% of the first week's gross, and dropping to 30% after several weeks. Exhibitors make up to 70% of their profits from concession stands. Just studied this in class a week ago. | I remember hearing that the distributors kept 100% of the ticket gross in the opening week of The Phantom Menace, thought that might not be true as I couldn't find a source in the minute I spent I searching for it. |
1,612 | My coworker actually thinks being an adult is 26, and I quote: "because their risk assessment part of the brain isn't fully developed until then." | I mean, technically that is scientifically accurate. But my uncle is still a kid and he's 36 soooo.... |
1,613 | The covers look awesome. How is the text size/font? Can you take a picture of one of the pages? | The text is a bit smaller than I would prefer, but I'm not complaining! |
1,614 | Home by the sea is my favorite right now. I’m listening to it weekly! | Just heard it for the first time in years a few weeks ago. Holds up swell. |
1,615 | This is like B movie version of Seven Samurai. With song and dance of course. | [China Gate] is more similar to Seven Samurai than Sholay. I liked this movie, and the cast is amazing. Seeing actors who usually play villains in a more leading role was pretty cool. Also Urmila Matondkar! |
1,616 | I'm going to regret asking what this is, aren't I? | Probably not. It's a shitty attempt at a crime / drama that features dumptrucks of cliches & bad directorial choices. It's also an insult to well-made movies. Long-time hater, first-time venter. |
1,617 | > Girls on Twitter. **NICE SOURCES BRO. SO LEGIT** Anyway, do you have an *actual* legitimate source for that? Random teenagers on twitter aren't exactly the kind of people who's word we should be taking at face value, you know. If people on Reddit think the mass media is constantly feeding them misinformation then you'd think people would be more skeptical. Got any links or something as proof? Or should we just take your word for it? | We should take his word for it. Makes it easier to hate this kid, ya know? |
1,618 | It'd have been great if the person who is there to introduce the acts wasn't more concerned about getting her agenda points out to the audience and worried about doing her job correctly. Which seems like it would be easy but apparently wasn't. | yeah, everyone seems to be breaking script to raise awareness for their "thing" |
1,619 | I was hoping they might do other Straka novels with notes that give us a bigger picture. Or a completely different story with a similar second-story in the margins. | I guess that's pretty much up to Doug, if he decides he can come up with some other stuff. It would have to be different enough that working on it would be worth it and creatively stimulating for him. Also, maybe different people communicating in the margins. |
1,620 | Acer C720 here. Have transferred movies to my chromebook via a flash drive, dropped it multiple times, used it for college, and its lasted longer than my ~$1k dell ultrabook. I can't possibly imagine the demands of a high school student outscaling something I used in college to get a 4.0, be an officer in 2 clubs, and work as a Computer Science TA. | Do you have 16 or 32GB version of the C720? I have my mind set on getting one but haven't nailed down the version yet. |
1,621 | Here it's on HBO Nordic. I find the series quite cringey tbh. | Apparently there is an HBO dedicated to the race of the descendants of vikings. Huh, TIL |
1,622 | Tell that to the MPAA. They don't usually make that distinction so well. | They have a weird thing with penises too. They hate penises. |
1,623 | he's a tone deaf asshole who is handwaving away racial complaints from his yacht | The thing is, they're both correct. To progress, you need to shed the weight of the past, but also you must recognize history to account for the present state. But yeah, my favorite comment from twitter: david brooks' opinions arent completely worthless. for example: id definitely take david brooks' advice on where to shop for discount khakis |
1,624 | I wouldn't particularly recommend it. Its extremely cryptic in an overly frustrating way IMO. I thought 50 year sword was really enjoyable, though a very short read. | Word. I got it as a gift (signed even!), and I was excited to read it. But while I love its physical presentation, I only read one of the stories and never looked back. |
1,625 | I respectfully disagree. As much as I like Mario Lalli's vocals, there just seems to be more energy (for lack of a better term) in the QOTSA version. | Don't get me wrong, Nicks vocals on this power through I just like the stripped back version of the original. Completely different groove |
1,626 | Generally a company getting an NSL means you get a visit from some men in black suits and they deliver you the letter telling you to comply with their demands or they shut you down and/or put you in prison. So that many NSLs just for 2013 could apply to many companies. By now I would expect all the major players in IT and Telecommunications are compromised. They're probably just mopping up all the small ones now. | I believe they were attempting to make a witty joke about how the US doesn't make any products. |
1,627 | That's called "proper sex education, letting people know what the nasty side effects of pregnancy can be, and discussing just how *difficult* life with a child is". But we can't do that, because religion. | In Thanos position I think religion would be one of the qualifiers for vaporization. |
1,628 | "Push," that movie starring Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Djimon Hounsou, etc. It's not really good, and is quite boring, but I think it has a cool concept and I saw it at a really good time in my life so I still get that rush of nostalgic excitement whenever I watch it. | *Push* is a great 'watch on a plane' kind of movie. It's got super pretty visuals, fun but nothing emotionally wrenching or serious where you have to pay close attention to really get the most out of it. I thought it was really cool. |
1,629 | IMO, Yeezus is solid track for track, as well. I think Yeezus > Acid Rap. And this is coming from someone who has [this] | Yeezus seemed disjointed compared to other albums of his. Normally, his lyrics and tone match the beat better. On this album, it sounded like he aand coproducers were experimenting with beats and he shoehorned lyrics to match. I also think he's a better producer than lyricist. He has interesting mixes, but I'd be scared to see what he had before Rubin stripped the album. |
1,630 | What do you think of the gene an intimate history, Im reading it now | It was really good, I had read his cancer book a while ago which I enjoyed. I certainly know a lot more about how DNA works than I did before. |
1,631 | Most nudity in American films is meant to be sexy (and why mostly attractive young women get naked in suggestive scenes). Insidental or plot relevant nudity is rare. | But I don't see the problem. Exposing children to horrendous gore and violence, but then standing on a soap box to bitch about a little bit of T&A is one of the many things wrong with the world today. Basically I blame religions for making Sex Taboo for some odd reason. |
1,632 | Those aren't real books. They're more like 2-hour time-wasters they should sell up where you checkout your groceries, with all the magazines like US and People. Good for a plane ride or something, but shouldn't be considered "real" books, IMO. | Yep exactly, but all these ladies keep saying "You gotta read it!" And I'm like hell no |
1,633 | Literally got back into Gorrilaz earlier this month. Bought the self titled and Demon Days and have been listening non stop. Good find, good read. | One of my favorites is Laika Come Home, Gorillas vs Spacemonkeyz. It's a dub remix, but I just absolutely love the album. It seems like it's largely unknown. Laika Come Home: |
1,634 | this sounds interesting. do you have anything that I could listen to? | At the moment the only material we have out as a band is an acoustic video with myself and our guitarist (watch it [here] I have a lot of solo material out but getting everyone to have enough time off work at once (so we can record) seems to be proving to be quite the challenge lol |
1,635 | I do both of these, with the addition of theoretical analysis. I try to figure out the chords, the time signature, and what the melody is doing. Another thing to listen to is the atmosphere - how everything contributes to the overall feel of the song. In depth listening is awesome and rewarding. | I do all of this *and* rub my belly at the same time. |
1,636 | They have plenty more fucked up videos if you want me to post them so you can see them haha. | [This] is probably the best example - extremely, extremely NSFW i hasten to add. |
1,637 | Great vibrato...you should join a corporate band and make some cash doing standards. | Thanks! I've been trying to work on it more and more, so I'm truly honored. :) Singing the standards to make money would be a dream come true! What a gig that would be... |
1,638 | \mm/ I second Anchor Drops! Seeing them live is unbelievable, and they have an amazing light system. Here is a good one | Thank you for the link! I am noticing some funk and jazz influence in their music! :D I like it |
1,639 | I hadn't heard of Mars bars before I read this book and it made me obsess over trying one for a few weeks. I still haven't had one. | wryly, that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard. PM me your address, I'll send you one from Canada. |
1,640 | Albums like Rubber Soul, Revolver, and Sgt. Pepper are what inspired other artists to step up their game. Prior to these, albums were seen by many as a way to sell a popular single to you twice. A single would make it big and become popular, then the band would record a bunch of filler to push out an album and capitalize on the single's success. Meanwhile The Beatles were filling albums with new, innovative songs on par with their singles. Give those five an actual listen through at some point. There are good reasons why they are considered some of the best, most influential albums of all time. | But how does Revolver beat Pet Shop by The Beach Boys? That is the album that changed music, especially The Beatles. It went on to influence Sgt. Peppers. So to say Revolver beats Pet Shop is a little much of a stretch, imo. |
1,641 | I was considering getting one, but I'm never an early adopter of anything, so I couldn't justify throwing down 1k for a car before reading any reviews. Unfortunately it looks like anyone who doesn't pre-order will need to wait until at least late 2018 for one. | I also considered getting one but I have to test drive one before I decide |
1,642 | >Finally, a feature called Easy Connect will let you connect the smart, Internet-enabled home gadgets to Wi-Fi that don’t have any screens or buttons. Sounds like another form of WPS to me. Hopefully being able to disable it is required this time around. | WPS should absolutely have a screen and button on the router to confirm who's connecting to it (or in the web interface, but a real screen would be ideal). The fact it just lets any device in is a huge security vulnerability. And then you have the fact that apparently it's super-easy to crack into WPS pin mode even though that should be more secure... [Sophos - We told you not to knit your own crypto] |
1,643 | Cardiacs should be a household name. [Buds and Spawn] [Bellyeye] [Faster Than Snakes With a Ball and a Chain] | I instantly fell in love with Cardiacs after watching [this video] |
1,644 | 4 Top Level News. I think the comments are the best place for "Check out arstechnica's take on XYZ". If r/Tech is going to be a place for news it should adhere to 4 very strictly and allow the comments to provide insight as they always have. | I might as well just go to /r/technology if I want that level of moderation. Why not let the users decide? |
1,645 | The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie. But looking back I'm not sure it was a "fair" whodunit | Came here hoping to find this answer! That was a great one. |
1,646 | At the time I went to see this movie, produced by an extremely popular director, did I know his movies weren't for me? I certainly realized this after I saw this movie. Maybe my real complaint is that I just don't get it. Especially for this movie. | > At the time I went to see this movie, produced by an extremely popular director, did I know his movies weren't for me? I think my point was that you probably should have. But if you had truly never seen a Tarantino movie, I guess I can understand some of your disappointment |
1,647 | Yep. Finding a good series will do it. | There's nine more of these!? -Me, every few months, age 5-15 |
1,648 | > LaVey's Necronomicon. Do you mean Simon's necronomicon? LaVey, if I recall, never wrote one. | Yeah, you're right, the Simon one. I literally have one on my shelf too, hahaha. My brain must have confused the covers or something because they had the Necro and the Satanic Bible both in reference. |
1,649 | The photoelectric effect causes regulation to break down completely, in the switch-mode power supply. [Someone hooked up their oscilloscope to the chip and gave it a flash] That's supposed to be a smooth 3.3V output. Swinging from 3.3V to 0V and then it gets to somewhere around 4.5V - that is not a smooth 3.3V output. [You get the same effect with the device turned off, too.] Looks like there's enough light in a xenon flash to go through the chip package, and kick some electrons around enough to induce a current. | If it's a switcher circuit as explained below, then likely the photoelectric effect causes the feedback voltage to rise, making the switcher thinking it needs to reduce its output. Hence the drop. And the rise happens once the effect wears off and the switcher tries to drive it back up again. |
1,650 | There's the reformatory stance, which is to give women rights and opportunities equal to those of men. There's also the revolutionary stance, which is to stamp out sexism entirely. Removing sexism would be the end goal, in my opinion. | Shame the crazies get the most air time, if you only watch/read the news then you'd think all feminists were raving lunatics who want to kill all men. |
1,651 | I feel like we are heading for a big die-off of the rock stars and movie stars we grew up with, and it sucks. Jimmy Page: 75. Bill Murray: 67. Harrison Ford: 76. Billy Gibbons: 68. The Rolling Stones average age is almost 70. And these folks are not known for a healthy lifestyle. | You forgot that Keith Richards, born sometime during the reign of Thotmose III and showing no sign of not being immortal, skews that average considerably. |
1,652 | Nah, poor man's EV was Scott Weiland. Scott Stapp is more like a homeless man's EV. | Scott Stapp is K-Mart Eddie to Scott Weiland's Heroin Eddie. |
1,653 | If you put the satellite in geostationary orbit (around 35000km up) you'll. get latency in the region of 200-300ms. However: Low earth orbit is between 160 and 2000 km up, so call it 1000 for. ease of calculation. c= ~3x10^8ms. leo = ~1 x 10^6. given that time = distance/speed: 1x10^6 m / 3x10^8 m/s = 0.0033 s. Now, the round trip is twice that so you're looking at ~7ms latencies. You have to track the satellite across the sky, but it's a hell of a lot faster. internet and it's a hell of a lot cheaper to put something in low earth orbit. | > You have to track the satellite across the sky, but it's a hell of a lot faster internet and it's a hell of a lot cheaper to put something in low earth orbit. You'll also want some kind of seamless hand-off when the signal gets passed to the next satellite. Cell technology might have some answers for that. |
1,654 | Thanks! Great depth. I've seen so many mixed reviews. How about Freedom? | I liked Freedom more than The Corrections. No particular reason though |
1,655 | No not in the clear, you wouldn't take the civilian version and incorporate it but the idea is already being worked on for the TALOS suit. | The FBCB2 already does an exceptional job of tracking units on the move and it's only getting better every day. |
1,656 | > No good movie should need this level of analysis and explanation. It's easy to find the meanings in children's books, one day you may start reading chapter books! I guess you just aren't on that level yet :/ | You shouldn't insult someone for having different beliefs or opinions. If you think that's an okay way to view things, then maybe you're not on a high enough level to see how bad Prometheus was. Maybe the 3D light show was pretty enough for you to fall for its pseudo-philosophical depth. |
1,657 | WTF is an adventure module? ECG works with just one single small 20mm x 15mm square touching the skin? A heart rate monitor? how will that work with a 3 block too small or 4 block too big strap? what's powering the SIM module and how good of reception can a single block get? This all seems like a pipe dream at best. | Looked at the kickstarter. Adventure gives info about the altitude, temperature, and pressure. Interestingly, the ECG module is only shown in the image, not even in the "future modules" section, because it's not reasonable to take an ECG with just one plastic square. A standard ECG lead uses Ag/AgCl electrodes to transfer the body voltage to a monitor, and has 3 leads to actually detect useful information. One wrist lead that picks up a terrible signal would do nothing. |
1,658 | I must be the only person alive who fuckin loved Salvation. Bale was fuckin bad ass | I really liked Bale as Connor, I believed him as the character. But lets be honest, we all wish Edward Furlong had his shit together so he could be John Connor forever. |
1,659 | didn't downvote you, but i do disagree with you. the bf was for some reason chosen as a leader by a group of people. however, he did not want to lead these people. all he cared about was finding his ex. yet time and time again when a decision needed to be made the survivors looked to him. he would have done the exact same things throughout the film if he had people with him or not. they decided to follow him, and take his advice, no matter how clear he made it that his focus was on finding a girl. it really is their own fault for putting their lives in his hands. | Exactly this. At one point he even tells them to join the evacuating crowd across the alley because he's going to her apartment and they had no reason to follow. They went with him by their own choice, and almost all of them were killed because of it. |
1,660 | You're right. There isn't a security issue at all. The networks are separate. | It's still a risk though, it's running on the hardware your ISP has provided and most of the time the firmware running on those things is pretty bad. I wouldn't say it's secure at all because it's on another network. A simple example would be my current Huawei modem provided by my ISP where I can get all settings stored on it without being logged in as admin. (plain text credentials stored in xml files). And I just need to be connected to it. |
1,661 | I really loved slapstick. Vonnegut said a lot about love in that book that I really related to. Read the whole thing in one sitting. This is my favorite quote- I love you, Eliza,” I said. She thought about it. “No,” she said at last, “I don’t like it.” “Why not?” I said. “It’s as though you were pointing a gun at my head,” she said. “It’s just a way of getting somebody to say something they probably don’t mean. What else can I say, or anybody say, but, ‘I love you, too’? | Yeah, they're initial relationship and how it changes due to outside forces that neither can control is heartbreaking but seemingly necessary for both characters to grow. |
1,662 | The rocket itself costs like 10 times the cost of the fuel to fly it. It makes space travel so much more economical if you don't destroy a rocket every time. | Per Elon Musk it's actually 0.3% of the rocket cost. 0.3 % of 60 million. |
1,663 | But you haven't seen it? Give it a try, it's really intense and full of suspense. The cinematography and the whole jungle-atmosphere is pretty stunning, too. | No. It's extremely violent and I don't want any new awful pictures in my memory. |
1,664 | I seriously don't understand how people put up with this anymore. I would have gone insane if I just lost 100% control over my computer. So glad I switched to Linux two years ago. | It is definitely worth the extra learning curve and occasional inconvenience to have 100% dictatorial control over your computer, what it talks to, and when it can update. I dual boot with Windows 8.1 for the few applications and games that I still want to use, but any work, file management, backups, web browsing, etc are all done under Fedora 23. |
1,665 | I see a win win. A locked area of the home (accessible from outside) that heats the home. Server owner pays for power usage of the whole home in lieu of rental space. I don't see why this wouldn't work. Edit: this supposes that ISPs roll out gigabit or higher to these homes. The distribution of these could also reduce traffic overall but increase traffic in residential areas. | These aren't webhosts. They're computing platforms that researchers can do for long term processing tasks like folding@home. They don't need much bandwidth, they just need CPU cycles. |
1,666 | Why don't we just get rid of texting and calling altogether and replace it with an internet-based cross-platform service like iMessage & FaceTime audio. This would ensure that features can be quickly implemented instead of relying on carriers to support each feature individually. EDIT: yes I understand this isn't feasible right now, since data is expensive and WiFi isn't everywhere. I'm talking about a long-term plan that includes affordable data that is virtually global. EDIT #2: iMessage and FaceTime audio are *not* cross platform, thus my call to action asks for a solution that is | Because when I make a phone call my connection is guaranteed to work until I'm done. Internet protocols make no such guarantee as they are all greedy, speeding up until forced to stop. |
1,667 | Yeah. First time in a while I welled up in the cinema. | I read that as walked up. Like you walked up to the screen and like touched it or something. |
1,668 | Harper-Collins is what's wrong with modern publishing. They are the very worst face of big, soulless, international publishing sausage mills. | I agree. I have no idea why you are being downvoted. Books used to be sold by small publishing companies on their own merits. Now,as with everything else,big corporations dominate the publishing industry and it's all about profit,profit and more profit. |
1,669 | I was in Rosemont Illinois when that crazy furries convention was being evacuated. I thought I took some bad drug when I saw them all outside. | In 2014? Someone broke a glass bottle full of chlorine powder in the stairs, probably intending to harm (or even kill) furries. 19 people were hospitalized because of that. :s |
1,670 | That's largely because infant and child mortality skew the numbers. In practice if you made it to late teens/early adulthood you'd probably be looking at somewhere between your mid 40s to 60s. | >That's largely because infant and child mortality skew the numbers. No thats largely before the advent of mass marketed foods and medicine. |
1,671 | How is Docker, a server technology, related to a consumer electronics OS (assuming that's what this HP's thing is)? | You could containerize consumer applications for security purposes... It's actually a pretty good idea to do so. |
1,672 | wrong question.. the best action camera is still GoPro.. they’re different companies and they’re offering different solutions | While yes, different companies with different solutions and specialties, saying that the GoPro (not even mentioning a specific model) is the *best* action camera is pretty, well, wrong. There's dozens of companies making high quality action cameras. Better, even. I'm a big fan of the Sony HDR series. |
1,673 | >...I find it less difficult to adjust to the black screen and look back and forth between the darkness and my devices. The switching back and forth is the big problem. The majority of what I see on my screen -- whether a word doc or a website page -- is light background, dark text. Reversing that fucks with my eyes. I've used [Readability] to re-format pages that I know will be a pain to read. Maybe it's time to start using it again. Also, hand me my bifocals. And stay off my damn lawn, you kids. | Haha, I ain't no spring chicken. My white on black habits began in DOS and have migrated over the years to many many other terminal based systems. |
1,674 | Well the angry little gremlin isn't wrong. Taxis are kind of a shitty overpriced service by virtue of oligopoly. Uber threatens their business model, so they want to legislate it away. It's just like the Tesla dealership thing, and it's going to happen almost anywhere Uber pops up. Its kinda apples to oranges when talking about Facebook regulation. | That might be the case, but here in the Netherlands cabdrivers have to have mandatory cards which are tied to certain standards, including behavioural and medical fitness. Since Uber tries to introduce taxis-in-all-but-name these (safety) standards will be threatened as well. I don't care about taxis myself, since I hardly use them anyway (once in a year or less), but I do care about safety standards. |
1,675 | Robert McCammon. He still publishes novels but they have such small print runs and don't sell in chain bookstores so he's really hard to get a hold of. If you go to a Barnes and Noble you might find a paperback of Boy's Life or Swan Song but that'll usually be it. I think when the horror craze of the 80s sort of died down a lot of people forgot about him since he drew a lot of comparisons to Stephen King and most people don't want someone like Stephen King when they can just read Stephen King. Some good McCammon recs though if you're interested: Mystery Walk. Speaks the Nightbird. Blue World. They Thirst | Have you read Swan Song, Boy's Life or Mine? Those seem to be his most interesting ones (I looked him up real quick) |
1,676 | They're arguably easier on the eyes than paper books. Very crisp, can set the text size to whatever is most comfortable, and you get super-even illumination in pretty much any external lighting conditions. **Edit**: Oh and, they sip electricity. You can go weeks of actual use on a charge. | I own one, and it is great. I love it. But I wouldn't want to read a manual or something I meant to use to study or anything. I would only use it for reading for leisure. |
1,677 | That was a crap article, the writer has no idea what he is talking about. I am worried about TrackingPoint in general they should be quite able to become a profitable company, but they laid off nearly all of their staff and from what I've heard they had been stagnating in development in the time leading up to the restructuring. Adding WiFi to the system seems an odd choice to me, air gap is the only real security and disabling a rifle remotely is a real concern. The retargetting shouldn't be a huge problem if the users are still using the four rules, potentially there is some concern in a police sniper role in a hostage situation. | Really, all you would have to do is make the storage media read-only and force any changes to the OS be done with a physical conection. If the gun gets "hacked", a slim Linux distro can take seconds to reboot. Hell, make it reboot on reload? |
1,678 | Yeah I have one A to Z mysteries book that I just downloaded. I used to love them as a kid | If you're taking suggestions, read Fictions by Borges. Also read The book of sand. Both are short stories collections. Amazing stories. |
1,679 | If you put two spaces at the end of a line, you can do a single line break instead of double spacing it. U N D E R R A T E D. N. D. E. R. R. A. T. E. D. | That's so ass backwards though. It should be 2 spaces to get double spaced shouldn't it? |
1,680 | Austen herself sounds like a very cool-headed and pragmatic person, and she lends that personality to her favored female characters. Yet she includes Bronte's perspective, for example Marianne in Sense and Sensibility is all about following the passions and the heart. But Bronte has a point, Austen did use Marianne as an examplar of the danger of following your passions. | To be fair, Elinor is an exemplar of the dangers of repressing one's passions. Elinor and Marianne are extremes, and neither extreme is shown to be good. |
1,681 | An apple watch and many other smart watches do so much more than an old fashioned watch and they're fashionable and fairly inexpensive. I would be scared if I was a watch maker other than apple or Google. The only thing stopping me from buying one is the battery life. As soon as they make an apple watch that lasts a week I'm all over it. The battery is a deal breaker for me though | > fairly inexpensive. I would like to have your salary. Where I come from, $600 to not have to take your phone out of your pocket to see it is expensive. |
1,682 | This perfectly illustrates how a person's brilliance in a field has no correlation to their teaching ability. | Exactly. Notice that he has never actually done this; he just says he's "always wanted to." It's a terrible idea. |
1,683 | The bass was terrible, the singing was completely off, you couldn't hear the drums, and the guitar was okay. | I'm gonna assume you actually attended a My Chemical Romance concert then, the way you're speaking. Every show I attended the instruments were fine. Unless you're just basing your opinion off a shitty youtube video recorded on some kids shitty Razr in 2007. |
1,684 | Nothing shocking considering the theoretical limit of SDXC is 2TB. It's just a matter of getting to that point. | Its still impressive. Doesn't lose credibility just because it isn't the theoretical limit. |
1,685 | I only wish my inferior knowledge of US culture was a match for your obviously witty allusion. | It's not your fault if you don't get his subtle deprecating Jewish humor. |
1,686 | The other guy is also doing it is not a good justification to throw ethics out of the window. | Thats not the point. China is constantly pushing western companies out of their market. Anything we can do to keep some sort of presence on their network, puts us in a potential position of leverage down the road. Forcing google to drop their work on this so called “censored” search engine, only helps the Chinese government and nobody else. Sometimes you have to ignore your ethics in order to advance them. |
1,687 | Wow, you weren't rocking Offspring in the 1990's but in the 1900's. Impressive! | erm, I guess I meant "20th Century" speaking in 100's instead of 10's. 19xx's. Yeah! |
1,688 | I am just finishing up Misery, which happens to be my first Stephen King novel. I was stuck between picking up Salem’s Lot, Pet Cemetery, or The Shining. I think I’ll pick up Salem’s Lot as per your comment. | I’m honored! I’m sure you’ll enjoy it. I am probably going to read that one annually. How was misery? I’ve only seen the movie. |
1,689 | >It's amazing what you can do with MIDI these days and I can't imagine it ever being supplanted. It's perfect. Don't know where its at these days but only having 256 steps of granularity is a huge gap. Love it to death, don't get me wrong. | [There is a way around that though] and with that said I've never found that to be much of a problem anyway. The fact that pitch of a note can't slide polyphonically is a real problem though. |
1,690 | I wouldn't call will.i.am unoriginal. But this is /r/music so.. | I always thought he was alright up until this. I think it's more that Reddit's got the stand up for the underdog mindset, and the rage at all this bullshit's making them attack his musicianship. Granted a lot of his work is remixes and tailored for top 40 stuff, but I've heard a few songs by him that were pretty good. |
1,691 | > Unlike Apple, which is the sole manufacturer of iPhones and iPads that run its software, called iOS, Google sells its own devices, such as the Pixel, while licensing Android to other hardware companies. In some cases, Google also provides significant financial incentives for those device makers to adopt Android and pre-install the search giant’s full suite of apps — a practice that the E.U. said Wednesday “harmed competition by significantly reducing [device makers'] incentives to pre-install competing search apps.” I really don't get how this is any different from Apple having their own software on their phone. Safari is pre-installed on iPhones and no competitors can get their search engine pre-installed. | The result is similar but the methods differ wildly. If Google didn’t let anyone use Android and only built their own hardware then it would be more similar. Google’s case is more like the Microsoft anti trust case. |
1,692 | I usually panic and make it sound bad or even worse get so detailed that I start spoiling things. | I feel you! I sometimes like to read books that really stretch me as a reader, and of course those are the only times I ever get asked this question. Examples: Dhalgren, House of Leaves. My answer: “Oof... umm... well, so it’s... it’s kind of a... no more like... actually I’m not sure yet.” |
1,693 | I actually like it when people say this to me, it means I can instantly disregard their opinion on music, culture, and pretty much everything else. | in many ways i feel the same way. when i hear "i don't like the beatles". i always think, so you don't like pop, rock, heavy metal, orchestral, trip, fusion, etc. music? because that's why the beatles are so legendary. they wrote so many volumes of work and moved through styles many times within the structure of a single song much less the album itself. and at the time much of those styles hadn't been explored that much yet. musicians and songwriters in general had great opportunities for exploring originality at that time. the idea that any boy band, which is fine if people like them, has explored music in any fraction of the capacity to a band like the beatles is probably offensive. |
1,694 | *Ulysses* by Jame Joyce. I want to try and tackle it again, but omg, it's *so long winded*. I got about halfway through before finally abandoning it. I found reading just a few pages at a time exhausting. I'm determined to give it a go again someday though! | OMG yes. This was on my mandatory reading list in uni. Could not read it for the life of me. I got lucky that none of the exam questions had anything to do with it. May I say I admire your determination to pick it up again. I don't want to touch that book ever again. Not even with a 10 foot pole! |
1,695 | They get progressively worse with each new book. The third one was pretty dull and mostly seemed like a bad attempt at writing a more mature National Treasure, however compared to the fourth book it's still leagues better. | Definitely agree with you on The Lost Symbol, the feel of that book is way off. The twist too of who the bad guy really is also is painfully obvious and not one that should be used in an "adult" book. |
1,696 | "Is...is that song...Walk Of Life?" Drop everything, the trailer has convinced me to see this film. Giant gorilla? Nah, some fuckin' Dire Straits made me want to watch this. | lol, I don't think I've ever head my favourite band in a trailer before. I am floored. |
1,697 | I saw Buckcherry a couple years back at a big festival and they were actually pretty awesome. WAY better than the headliners, but when the headliners are Korn, it's really NOT that hard to be better than them lol. Also, I saw Megadeth and Volbeat just last week, only this time the headliner was Rob Zombie. Kickass show. Megadeth's set was the craziest set I've ever been on the floor during a concert for. | >Christina scabbia and the guy that looks like Pedro from napoleon dynamite just look at each other when It's not their turn to sing. best description of Lacuna Coil I've ever heard |
1,698 | Not surprised to see him upvoted ahead of other certain hip-hop artists on here. Seems most of his fan base is a really specific demographic. He's corny, preachy and not as smart as he thinks. Guys whole shtick is 'You don't live or think how I live and think, therefore you are an idiot'. He seems to talk down on all of his listeners in most of his songs. His beat choice is terrible too. | I think he makes his own beats. It sounds like he learned how to produce like 15 years ago and never developed. |
1,699 | he's the beefiest batman we've seen. definitely has that Dark knight returns look down to the letter. | To that point, It's funny that in his first movie as Batman he faces Superman. |
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