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2,400 | Well Oldboy is on netflix. Its also really popular in pretty much any cult movie section. | >cult movie. By definition, most people have not seen it. |
2,401 | Not explained as well as I would've liked. Pacing is very very fast. | aw boo,from the trailers it looked like it might be slow.did you recall the time at all? 45minutes for backstory-ish? from start of the movie til superman? |
2,402 | Hates Star Wars now and has probably quit acting because of it. I really can't blame him. | Yeah, poor guy got really fucked over by Phantom Menace, from what I understand. |
2,403 | I'd like to start writing, but I lack of inspiration; Any advice? Also, thanks for the free books. I'll check them out ;) | You're welcome and thank you! As for inspiration, I was inspired by reading. A lot. How often and what do you read? |
2,404 | Well back in my day we had to walk 15 miles, in the snow with bare feet to get to the picture show, uphill!!! | Your humor and wit is old, outdated, and non original. I bet you got to sit in the back of the bus cause you're so funny. My question is, did they let you takeoff your helmet off that you wore in the front of the short bus? |
2,405 | What is the "nice touch" about that then? What's significant? | I never said there was anything significant, it's just a little detail that I happen to like. |
2,406 | Why is he considered one of the smartest of this generation? I find that his dedication was amazing and his heart too, but usually when I talk to physicists he doesn’t seem as central? Don’t mean any disrespect as I find his life inspiring I was just curious. | He's a clever cookie but there are a number of other people out there who are on his level, Gerard 't Hooft comes to mind. For me it's more an inspirational tale of overcoming illness, and the amazing mental skills he developed to replace pen and paper |
2,407 | Thanks for another one of these. And I think it would be really cool if comic book movie posters looked more like comic book covers. We get enough posters of people looking all stoic as it is. | I totally agree. Though if the poster for Amazing Spider-Man 2 looked like **(SPOILERS)** [this] people might complain. |
2,408 | Festival crowds aren't known for being the most lively. Especially at the end of the day. | Late night at Bonnaroo would like a word with you |
2,409 | >Because let me tell you, I bought a $3000 computer in the 90s that would not sell for $5 now. I'll give you $5 for it if it's functional. | Careful, this is a dangerous path. I too once thought as you did "sure i can always use another computer, i'll figure out something to do with it", but eventually you have a closet full of useless CRT monitors and a dozen old laptops and desktops with perhaps as much combined CPU power as a new watch. They're literally useless. |
2,410 | I was thinking something similar. The best candidate is not the most qualified candidate. The positions that these algorithms hire better then people are the ones that are soul crushing second measuring metric slammers. Managers hire who they want to work with. You may not be the most qualified but if you can crack a joke and get a smile during an interview you are in. You could program an algorithm to remove the humanity and producing a healthy working environment with just pure number crunching. You do not want the tails on the bell curve but the person with no options and in the middle. | You're not necessarily hiring **at** the jobs level. The moment you get someone in that is underqualified - they have no incentive to ever leave. But according to this metric they are the perfect employee. |
2,411 | * Godspeed You! Black Emperor. * Mono. * Daturah. * Mogwai. * God is an Astronaut. * Gifts from Enola. * Caspian. * Jakob. there are tons of bands doing this style of music, hell I am in one that is sorta like this. This music is not about drugs. This music is about life. Just like all music but crappy music. Listen to the bands above, particularly Jakob and Godspeed. Also Caspian is on tour right now, go see them, you will be moved. edited for formating. | I agree 100%. It's not necessarily about drugs. That doesn't mean it can't compliment them well though. You're completely right about it being about life and the great thing about this kind of music is the lack of words so almost anyone can apply the *feel* of the music to their lives. Psychoactive, hallucinogenic drugs are a big part of my life, so this music goes great with my life as it does with drugs. |
2,412 | > The two US companies predict a wide range of benefits, from speeding up scientific research to making more elaborate video games. So you mean, like, everything that requires/uses a computer, lol. | It isn't going to do much for browser-based activities (netflix, porn, gmail, reddit/FB/twitter/news/online banking/wikipedia) which is most definitely the most common use of a computer. |
2,413 | We still have a Harry Potter mega thread at the top of the page which only gets like 2 posts a week. | We do. Any suggestions on what we should replace it with? |
2,414 | Not a single one. I never want to hear the crowd, I don't want to hear the lead singer get out of breath as he runs around the stage, I don't want to hear witty improvisations in my favorite song. Listening to live music is like watching baseball, it's great when you're there in person, with the charged atmosphere... but otherwise it's not worth it. | But surely you've heard songs you like which sound better than the original recording, no? |
2,415 | Especially since his soliloquy is all improvised, if I recall correctly. | I don't know about "improvised", I think Rutger Hauer wrote it the night before the scene was shot. It certainly wasn't in the original script, though. |
2,416 | I have not, but I'll definitely check it out. Thanks! | Specifically, there's merit in reading it before finishing Words. It'll make one particular scene much, much better. |
2,417 | Also his post history says he lives in Europe as of 3 months ago. Now he's claiming he spent 4 months in jail in the US. | Where does it say it's in the US? (Just asking) |
2,418 | That part in royals where the song is over. Awesome. | Seriously. If I had a choice between listening to royals, or Whitney Houston rising from the grave to fart into my ears, I still wouldn't want to hear royals again. That song is played tha fuck out! |
2,419 | There are models where this doesn't apply, e.g. a "free to lure them in, then charge for premium" (github.com) as well as sponsored websites, for example those which host major open source projects (kernel.org, gnome.org, each holding fairly traffic and CPU-intensive git repositories but paid for by major industrial players). | Right, but in the first case you (and your code) are still the product - they try to upsell you and they also have influence over your code and workflow. Even if it feels fair or has just minor drawbacks, that still makes you their product - which they try to sell to themselves, at that point. As for the other examples, they are just private hosts, right? So a sponsored service where they don't really offer much. I guess that that does fall in the category of "not product" while also getting some service, but the service feels really miniscule compared to others. |
2,420 | honestly, i would love to see the reaction if the article was all bands that people hate anyway... *something tells me the comments would be completely different.* if cracked was smart, they'd do this list again some time in the future, but with only hated bands... and then sit back and watch everyone agree with them, accidentally exposing their own bias. | I think people who know some stuff about music would still react the same. I honestly don't really care for any of those bands and I still think this old "omg everything that sounds similar is stolen!" thought is just as stupid as the hate on specific genres or generally anything that isn't old that you hear so often these days... |
2,421 | But it is not a reason, none of ye know william gillette. | It is a reason. Making a claim without naming him is clickbait. |
2,422 | SM actually tried to achieve something in society, instead of the usual Hollywood whoring. How did it not deserve an oscar? | Because it was a manipulative movie that really wasn't all that fantastic and I'm not really sure what it tried to achieve. For all the fuss made about how it showed how horrible slum life was, the film also spent quite a bit of time romanticizing it. |
2,423 | I think prices need to go down, before I'm willing to accept e-books in lieu of paper books. Sort of like how cheap games via Steam have altered my PC game buying habits. | There are less then legal ways to obtain e-books for free, which I do use. However, I only do this it to obtain books I've already bought a physical copy, or try out a book. If the formatting is horrible I will go ahead a purchase for my e-book. If I'm enjoying the book and it's well formatted, I will buy a physical copy. For some reason I can't not buy a book in some fashion after reading it. |
2,424 | Which mall cop movie came out second? That's when I lost it - the idea that a studio felt they could justify a second mall cop movie. | they came out at roughly the same time. hollywood has a history of companies competing and making making a few movies that are identical in theme. Ants vs. Bug's Life is one of the first examples of this I can remember, but it happens all the time. |
2,425 | If I may ask, why were there only 30 World Series played from 1923-1962? | There weren't. There were 40 World Series in that time period, 20 of which the Yankees won. |
2,426 | what about join.me they own that too and its free | They cancelled free subscriptions that they previously advertised as being subscribed for years into the future. That has turned out to be blatant false advertising designed to hook you into their product. I am not wasting any more time migrating to any of their free or paid products when they will probably do exactly the same thing again to them soon enough. I don't see why paid subscriptions will be any more immune to unilateral price rises with no notice. I don't have any problem with them monetising, and even cutting off free subscriptions completely, but the broken promise and 7 days notice is a sleazy move that I am sure will backfire on them. |
2,427 | I got stuck in book 6 or 7 and never finished. I still remember the part that made me put it down - a description of the curtains in some bathroom that just went on and on. I've heard good things about Sanderson's final books, but I really feel like Jordan was phoning it in for a while just stretching the books out for no reason other than i guess money. It's my intention to power through again because Eye of the World is still one of the greatest books I've ever read and I want to see where everything eventually goes. | I think Sanderson picks it up on book ~~9~~ 12? Just read a synopsis of the ones you're skipping and go to it. ​ Edit: Book 12, not 9. |
2,428 | I couldn't finish reading that book. The rape fantasies/apologies and rabid racism made me very unsettled. | have you read any of his other books? are they like that? i have a couple sitting on my TBR list and i am itching to just remove them... |
2,429 | Where the fuck is Ant Man? I am not amused! | He didn't make it. Magnifying Glass Man was too strong. |
2,430 | I am with you. I am getting quite sick of the karma whoring submissions about "Look at the drawing my daughter did!!" and "Here is a picture of my kid eating bacon with a narhwal!!" I get that parents are proud and want to show off how cool their kids are with the entire world but please keep it to emails to your extended family. | That's not exactly what I was getting at. It's fine for him to show off the cool thing his kid made, it's just the fact that he pointed out it was his kid. It would be just as affirming if he hadn't mentioned that fact. In any case I think this video deserves an upvote. |
2,431 | I actually saw this really cool short film based on that book. Instead of using actual film they made 12 paintings for every second and created a sort of animation that way. I didn't particularly love it though and I have other books on my list so I think I'm going to stay away from that one for now. | Sounds like an interesting short - you wouldn't be able to conjure a name, would you? Well, hope you continue to enjoy reading anyway! Good luck. |
2,432 | And costs more. Anyone can stake out a house, but it is not worth the cost in the majority of cases. Making it super cheap and easy to track everyone is the problem. | > but it is not worth the cost in the majority of cases. It isn't like they have to buy a new one every time they want to use it. They've got them and they use them everyday without oversight in direct violation of the spirit of if not the letter of the US constitution. Google isn't spying on you, they are asking you for information and offering you a service in return. You are free to say no. |
2,433 | I am proud of LG of always trying to do something different even though they are not the market leader of smartphones. They have had some crazy ideas in the past like the LG Crystal but I applaud them for doing that. That's why I chose LG over HTC when recently upgrading | > I am proud of LG of always trying to do something different even though they are not the market leader of smartphones. They have had some crazy ideas in the past like the LG Crystal but I applaud them for doing that. Don't forget that it was LG who came up with the original iPhone design style. They're no slouches when it comes to pioneering industrial design. |
2,434 | Okay. Well it's not long and it's a really amazing book; if your library does not have it I would be happy to mail-lend my copy to you. I wish I could try to sell you on it more often but I don't want to cheapen it. | I'm going to go ahead and guess that we live on different continents, so your lending me the book would be impractical. I'm going to make sure to include it in my next order. I didn't know whether to get Mr. Palomar or Invisible cities next, but your impassioned defence of Mr. Palomar has certainly helped make that decision easier. |
2,435 | As much as I hate to be that guy: I like their old stuff more. It has much more of that bluesy feel although I still do listen to their new stuff. Try listening to anything before brothers. | Yeah, i'd much rather listen to their older music then their new stuff |
2,436 | Agreed. Also, the movie was disappointing. The acting, the script, and the cinematography were all impeccable... but because it was visual, I think, it just seemed like more of a long slow trainwreck than the book. | I agree with you that the movie wasn't as good, but that was mostly because they took out some of my favorite parts of the book and Ruth has a lot more going on for her in the book. Still incredibly well done though and I feel like I'd enjoy it more now that I've had time for both of them to fade from memory a bit. |
2,437 | Ya pal that's why it's a monopoly. No one else can compete at the scale they do I. Order to save money. | This advantage is not from being a monopoly, this advantage is from being a tech company competing with old school businesses. Amazon can find out what all of its competitors are using for a price and then price their product to beat it. At scale. With millions of products and hundreds of competitors. Barnes and Noble is stuck using MSRP. They don't know what other companies are selling a book for, not at the scale they should need to. Sears similarly isn't going to stand a chance vs Amazon purely from an ability to keep up in the technology areas that would be relevant. |
2,438 | itt a bunch of white americans think their government is out to get them (you are the government) | So each American is out to get the other. That's what it feels like on the street. |
2,439 | I've heard that she(or her family) were against her taking the role at first, seeing what happened to the maria schneider after starring in the last tango in paris. | maybe this is a proof that at least to a certain extent, things have (hopefully) changed. (another example for me is the leaked nude pictures of Jennifer Lawrence. I think not too long ago these kind of photos would have seriously damaged her career) |
2,440 | Stupid, orange ass-clown in the white house who repeatedly ignores basic phone security. Foreign spies must love how easy their jobs have become. Sit in a cushy hotel room and record president bloatard's phone conversation. Edit... Spelling error. | I too dislike Trump but holy hell are these comments getting personal |
2,441 | I dunno, some things about American English make me think we just wanted to rebel and create our own version with our own weird accents, words, and spellings. And somehow biscuits are now called cookies, crisps are called chips, and chips called fries. I don't get it. And while I'm at it, football was a *perfectly reasonable* name for "soccer". Maybe those early colonists just weren't that smart? | I'm guessing education was more of a privilege to a few people in england. So when they moved out from the UK to the colonies, they just brought their limited education and knowledge. I mean, look at the people who first came here... It's not the same as the British sending educated, trained people. These where farmers, common old folk escaping from one place and immigrating to another. |
2,442 | Post does not refer to period, but rather stylistic tendencies | Possibly. God knows what they called it backthen. I do find it amusing though as "post" tends to refer to "after" |
2,443 | Obviously this means FB is tracking you outside of the app. Even more reasons to never use their stupid website or apps. No one seems to care they reserve the rights to monitor your microphone and camera even if you aren't using it. When I read about that from several sources about a year ago all I could think was "holy shit!" why aren't people up in arms about this. | > why aren't people up in arms about this. Well, there essentially are two groups of people: Smart people use something else instead of the official FB app. Friendcaster is nice and doesn't crash. Also Adblock. What good is their tracking if they can't show ads to you? Stupid people continue using the app because they just don't care. They need to share a selfie and that is very important. |
2,444 | She took a page. What would be a reasonable amount to take for a 'book remix', one vowel? | I guess it's like porn - "I know it when I see it." To borrow a line, or a turn of phrase, or even a fictional character is to remix, to engage in "fair use." A whole page, without attribution or reference, would be the equivalent of lifting the melody of a song and claiming to have written it. |
2,445 | Or just digitize and forget about the player. People still use the players for playback, but with USB sticks, more often, than with physical media. | Pretty sure people use players for the media they're meant to play. |
2,446 | So? Regardless of whether it's a forced userbase, it's still in-place in a vast number of schools' toolkits. [Citrix however did change their software in 2014 to no longer require Java (uses Javascript instead).] edit: You're being pedantic, especially with your edit. -- I'm just pointing out widely used services/issues. damn | I was reconsidering my reply and then it apparently didn't delete when I wanted to :P |
2,447 | how much electricity does the A/C use in a battery only EV? | Supposedly this answer used to be on the Tesla website but I can't find it there now: > How Far Can I Go, there is a 3% loss of range at 65 MPH and 9% loss of range at 45 MPH between 70 deg F, AC off and 90 deg F, AC on. Note, that the affect of AC only is greater than that. The loss of range between 90 deg F, AC off and 90 deg F, AC on, is 6% at 65 MPH and 11% at 45 MPH. |
2,448 | Now, I do think that John Frusciante's music is amazing but I have a little issue with it... Not his music, but my drummer's love of his music. In his eyes this is the only music that matters and when we are working on vocals and new tracks, this is what he aspires towards. That's great and all, but with the wealth of new music and influences out there it kinda turns me off to Frusciante's music. Or it's probably that I listen to way too much music: | Being a drummer myself, I can sympathize with you. I don't listen to JF for the drumming, for much the same reason I wouldn't listen to Radiohead for the drumming. |
2,449 | Maybe I'm a snob but just don't consider that literature. | Nor do I, but the list does include *Twilight*, which seems about as literature-y as *Fifty Shades*... |
2,450 | Transmission costs energy, too. That's why we have centralized power plants. | I always thought transmission costs were a reason to have decentralized power and that centralized power plants only exist because combustion based plants are more efficient when they are larger. |
2,451 | He isn't a kid. Even if he was, why would he deserve a break? I don't know of any other professions in which you can decide to stop midproject and quit. Hasn't he done this before? Pretty low to let all your fans down. | Empathy is nice, you know. I'm not exactly the guy's biggest fan but he's been on the road non-stop for the past two years, he's burned out. Believe it or not, artists are human just like us and their mental health is important. |
2,452 | Wait, am I the only one who noticed that dead shots daughter looks exactly the same after 10 years? | Was it supposed to be 10 years later?? I never picked up on that. |
2,453 | He's giving an example of the same system being applied to a different industry and how completely stupid it would be in order to illustrate how stupid this particular idea is. | "Stupid" is a value judgment. He was demonstrating one particular downside to the system. It doesn't mean the system is necessarily "stupid"; you concluded that. It has upsides too. |
2,454 | Chuck Berry for sure, there's a great Rolling Stone piece in the last issue. | the segregated audiences and how Chuck had to try harder for the black side was memorable. |
2,455 | As an industry, they've NOT learned that. Lovefilm (owned by Amazon) in the UK is getting worse as far as selection goes, not better. More and more movies are either not appearing there or only appearing months after they're available to buy. The Netflix selection is pretty weak here too. I want to be able to choose at most 2 rental services, pay my monthly fee and get access to movies within no more than 2 months after they're released for sale - when that's happening, I'll consider the problem solved. | Just use a Chrome extension to change your country it's incredibly easy and you even end up saving money on your subscription |
2,456 | "Human meat" thinks otherwise and likes to travel places. We also don't care much for people who presume to decide what we should like and how. | Travel and commute are not the same thing. Human meat may learn the hard way that in an energy-poor world travel is a luxury. |
2,457 | If Cudi has been overplayed on the radio... Show me that station because I need it in my life | Overplayed is relative, but when this song came out, I heard it everywhere. Every top 40 radio played it, inside hip clothing stores, coffee shops. Cudi played this song on late-night talk shows, it was used in commercials and movies. The album was a major-label release, won three CircleJerks...I mean Grammys and went gold. This song was huge, and when that happens, a song is always overplayed to extract maximum value from it. |
2,458 | Definitely a weekly classic film or two if they can, with copious advertising. There's a lot of interest in seeing old (esp very cinematic) films on the big screen again. Kubrick's 2001, or E.T? The place will be packed, esp if the ticket price is discounted. | I've been thinking about themed classic films leading to a new release. Like playing hitchcock films before Hitchcock came out, or British comedies leading up to At World's End. |
2,459 | does that not defeat the purpose of a review though? | The purpose of a review is to decide if watching a movie if worth your time, and the only way to do that is consult those with similar tastes. With Ebert gone, we're all lost and a way to personalize a review system would help. |
2,460 | Is that so? I put Debian on my BBB like a month ago to give it a run and then never actually gave it a run... Maybe I will tonight. | Here is the official Debian BBB build. If you're going to install it fresh may as well be sure you're using the latest official build. |
2,461 | Women In Chains is one of my favourite tracks ever! EDIT: wow, my grammar is terrible! | First time I heard that song I thought "Man, the drumming is amazing" Checked the liner notes and sure enough: Phil Collins. |
2,462 | I tried reading it on the kindle and it was a nightmare tracking the endnotes. I don't know who told you it was easy, but they are insane. | Great. Someone told me that Infinite Jest works well on the Kindle, too, and I just bought it. |
2,463 | AP Lit & AP Lang. I had forgotten about In Cold Blood. I really enjoyed that book too. | Ah thanks. Yes I really enjoyed that book. There was also a science class I took my freshman year of college that I absolutely LOVED because it was about ideas, concepts, etc. Like, an intro of an intro to bio class. So the textbook was actually a book written in short-story form about different cool things that occur. Almost like a book form of Bill Nye the Science Guy. Ugh I wonder if I can look it up on google, because it really is a great read. |
2,464 | [keep this in mind when you do] This is BS but it's how it is now. i was able to set a traditional BIOS screen in mine from here. | So what happens if Windows fails to boot? Am I just locked out of the uefi control panel entirely? This is the kind of thing you'd deal with on an embedded device like a game console not a full blown PC, even Macs have single key shortcuts in the EFI firmware for such situations |
2,465 | im so glad i've never had the radio or MTV ruin a song for me. if i start to hear something more than i want to, i change the channel. When people say "i used to love _____ (song/artist) but then the radio played the shit out of it and now i hate it" i can't help but scratch my head cause no one is forcing you to listen to the same song over and over on the radio. Turn it off and put in a CD or turn the station, it's really that simple. /rant | Yeah, but you still hate it. That's why you're changing the station. |
2,466 | Check my first post. I edited it. And no, you get paid pretty much the same; very little. | I've gotten paid 5 cents for some ad clicks and 20 cents for others. There is a huge deviation. Also, people get paid different amounts per 1,000 views based on their contract. I'm not sure about the general Youtube contract, but I believe it's in the range of $.50 and $1.00 for every 1,000 views. Companies like Machinima, however, can afford to pay their partners more (Generally $2.00 or $2.50 per every 1,000 views) as they get paid a lot more for ads specifically tailored for their audience. It's not a black and white situation. |
2,467 | Millennial blogger. If it was a GenXer, it would have been there! | Millennial redditor, Bunnicula was required reading in 4th grade at my school. We learned irony through the dog having a love for chocolate even though it will kill him lol. |
2,468 | Except that in this analog, a DSLR is a full gas range and a phone camera is the microwave. Kind of silly to pretend you're going to make gourmet food with a microwave. | I wasn't talking about mobile phones I was speaking generally about raw. I should have clarified. |
2,469 | Lol then why have these companies chosen to go with AWS? Pretty every other tech you use today use AWS in one shape or form. | I'm legitimately fascinated as to why my broad dislike of cloud services in certain scenarios draws so much ire. |
2,470 | Well try having a family of 4, one on a video streaming call, two watching UHD(4K) streams: one being a movie (netflix), the other a live show (twitch), the last one listening to music, reading websites and uploading large batches of images (in the order of 100s MB). Suddenly even Google Fiber doesn't sound as amazing as it is. I mean sure, we could say that it's absurd to have that. I wonder why build faster cars when there were no highways, or why build better TVs when there's no shows. | Did you get 4k monitors for said 4k streams? If not it's just wasted bandwidth. |
2,471 | Eh, all the games are around 8 hours long for just the story. Assuming you start at 9pm or so, you'd be done for 5am, leaving an hour or two for side quests before the sun comes up. | But all those riddler trophys though. That takes longer than two hours. |
2,472 | William Gibson wasn't life changing for me, but I have read every book he has written and enjoyed every one. | I literally went from being a blue collar worker to working full time in IT. |
2,473 | USB 3 requires new cables too, unlike what the story says. 'Jumping from FireWire 400 to FireWire 800 also required different cables, where USB 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, and 3.0 have managed to use physically compatible connectors across all generations of the standard' Yes, USB 3 ports can accept USB 2 cables/devices. And that's a big plus. But if you want to use USB 3, you need new cables. The old USB 2 ones don't have enough conductors or contacts. And if you want to use USB 3.0 on micro connectors, God help you. | USB 1.0 and 2.0 cables are also different in multiple ways. |
2,474 | That guy's singing sounds off and annoying to me. :/ Interesting though. | In the first Reddit thread I found this in, some guy said he was Dutch (or another country) and just had an accent. Not sure if it's true or not. |
2,475 | Can someone (seriously) explain to me why reading only counts if it's a book or magazine? It feels to me like every time one of these articles crops up, they fail to take into account that part of the time people spend browsing on computers IS devoted to reading--it just happens to be that the information is more concise. It can be every bit as narrative as a fiction book, or informative as a magazine, yet it somehow doesn't count (not that the article explicitly said so). | "pick up a book, magazine, or iPad—if you can resist the siren of the internet." The Author does touch on the eReader market with the iPad comment, and the reason internet reading is not as beneficial for the skill of *focus* (which is the whole point of the article). When we read online, we're jumping from one thing to another. Unless you're reading a 15 page article with no sidelooks at everything else on the website, you're not achieving focus. |
2,476 | * Soundgarden - *Superunknown* * Green Day - *Dookie* * Radiohead - *OK Computer* * The White Stripes - *Elephant* * Linkin Park - *Hybrid Theory* Honorable mentions: * Nine Inch Nails - *The Downward Spiral* * Tool - *Ænima* * Pearl Jam - *Vs.* | A lot of people have mentioned *Vs.*, but I think I still like *Ten* the best. |
2,477 | How do you know if you're interested, just by the title? | Usually read a small synopsis, who acts and who directs (if I'm familiar with them), genre (I expect different things from different genres). And then I give that film a chance and judge it myself. For me critics are full of hot air (or shit). |
2,478 | You won't learn much from messing with a multimeter on a PSU unless you can test all the rails under load. He'll obviously get a reading as the fans are spinning, etc. Even if he learns that the 12V rail, say, is giving only 10V, he needs a new PSU, but if it reads 12, he should get a new PSU. He's best off just getting a new one and giving it a try. A spare PSU is something useful to have anyway, and if he's got to build a new PC, at least he has a PSU ready to go. | well you can test the different voltages and make sure they are all within spec, as well as wiggle the P1 to see if there is a loose wire. even if he does replace the PSU, might as well test the other one in any case. |
2,479 | Lady GaGa is alright, go bitch to people who give a shit. | Yeah, Redditors have shitty taste in music as it is. |
2,480 | I recommend 'How an Economy Grows and Why it Crashes' by Peter D Schiff and Andrew J Schiff. It is wonderfully well written, using a big metaphor about an island which use fish as currency to explain how our economy works. It gives you a better perspective of the business world, and understanding of economics. That and it makes you sound intelligent at dinner parties when in reality, it's ease of understanding is similar to 'Economics for Dummies'. | Also it's a pretty short read, and the audiobook version has a smoooth talking reader |
2,481 | Damn right, now you have to use a free/different DNS because you can't trust your ISP. | Explain? I already use Google's, but why do you say this? |
2,482 | I think it's because (and no offence to her) carrie can barely string two sentences together due to the copious amount of drugs she took. So they had this weird redubbed convo and not even a kiss because she was unable to carry the movie like she could before | Uhh.. have you seen any interview's with Carrie? She's hilarious and can form together coherent sentences as easily as anyone else. Her drug use has nothing to do with it. |
2,483 | Yes! This is what i'm looking for, the guitar at the end is amazing! | Glad you liked it! If you aren't familiar with the band you should definitely check out the rest of their catalogue. Their last two releases Devil and God are Raging Inside Me and Daisy have plenty of songs that you could get into that would sort of fit your criteria in this thread. |
2,484 | The falling asleep thing I can't really say, besides maybe a snack of some sort. It's hard to stay awake after getting a bunch of exercise and then sitting down in a car for an extended period. Like any time I go hiking. For the remembering, you could try a 'commonplace book' - | It's like a scrapbook FOR BOOKS! You, sir, made my day! |
2,485 | Odroid-U3 is exactly what you want. I just set up two of them as personal servers for running owncloud and other things. I'm very happy with them so far. | Uhm, I have a pi with deluge, owncloud and some extra fancy stuff and it runs pretty smooth. Care to share what else are the devices handling? I'm trying to convince myself of something, either "buy it, its cool and you can use it for xxx" or "don't buy it, it's cool but you will not use it for anything." |
2,486 | This and How Soon is Now? are my least favorite Smiths songs because I have heard them so so so many times. Give the rest of their songs a listen, the sounds are so diverse you're sure to find at least a few you like, if you don't end up liking them all. | I heard them too much in Art school. Started listening to their stuff again in the mid 90's and it's more enjoyable now. |
2,487 | Any movie that has a commentary by Ron Howard is superb. | Really, I have never heard any. What makes them great? |
2,488 | Well, yeah....but you've got a lot better chance of getting a good recommendation if you told us your interests. The way it is, who knows if you'll like this stuff.... | I don't have a set list of likes. I'll try reading anything. I guess the point in this was to see what you readers have read that has really stuck with you, and that you would want to pass along to another reader, no matter what they like, because you have so much faith in the story and the characters and anything else it has to offer. I like books that have moved others, that's enough for me to keep reading. |
2,489 | To be fair, the evil vampire stand user was named after the artist. Araki named a fuckton of his characters after Western musicians. | And then most of them got messed up coming to America because of licensing issues... But at least Dio didn't. |
2,490 | Me personally, that part was quite a slog. It was great and had some pretty pearls of wisdom in it, but still to long IN MY OPINION. It's been a while since I've read it though. That was one negative to an overall great book. | I totally agree with you. I'm sure it's full of clever thoughts on the human nature but I found myself skimming it. It felt like he was talking way too long to say things. |
2,491 | Wow, you're getting awfully heated about codecs. Jesus. I use QuickTime and iTunes to play all my media on my Windows box. If QuickTime can't play a video file I just play it back full screen with VLC and use FRAPS to record it to a QuickTime-compatible format in real time. | Why don't you reply to /u/pallotto? My response is to him. No one will care what media player you use. If it works fine for you, then good job. I'm responding on points that the more advanced users would know about that you seem to not care for. |
2,492 | If I remember correctly, he lost it in an accident on the way to his wedding. So basically, zombie-groom is how he would have looked IRL when it happened. | It was a motorcycle accident. Simon talks about how he felt terrible when he (groom zombie) had the wound SFX out on but he was the first to make jokes about it and put everyone at ease. |
2,493 | "Alexey Fyodorovitch Karamazov was the third son of Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov, a land owner well known in our district in his own day, and still remembered among us owing to his gloomy and tragic death, which happened thirteen years ago, and which I shall describe in its proper place." - You guessed it. :P | Love this one. Read it many decades ago. Still sticks with me. |
2,494 | He told his mom she should get plastic surgery? Wow, he's an even bigger douche bag than I realized. | Thats a shit thing to say dude, his mom wanted the surgery and Kanye encouraged her not really thinking about the consequences like most people do. |
2,495 | I love that little theater. Hell, I love that whole town. Edit: also I was there this weekend and the snow is SPECTACULAR. If you ski or snowboard try to get over there ASAP. It was awesome conditions. | Wish I could. I'm Chicago-based for a while, and anyway, I'm afraid my skiing days are probably over. My first trip to Mammoth was in 1966 I think. There used to be a hair-jump off to the right of #3 under the frontside Cornice run. Some awesome skiing there. Dave's Run in the morning down to #9 was the best. |
2,496 | Aggg Happiness. I've haven't seen an old couple sex scene from start to finish since. I kept thinking the scene was going to cut...but it didn't. | Heh. I like overly-exaggerating how amazing a movie "Happiness" is, without mentioning ANYTHING in it, in order to get people to watch it unawares. Their reactions a few days later is priceless. |
2,497 | The idea that you can upgrade the motor in your vehicle is absurd. When's the last time anyone upgraded the motor in an ICE? | Engine swaps are a thing. You can get engines from other cars or from junkyards, and you can even order "crate engines". Some people do it to replace damaged engines, others to get a massive performance upgrade. |
2,498 | I'd go with An Ordinary Man by Paul Rusesabagina. It's a terrific autobiography about the man who saved approximately 1,200 Rwandan refugees during the 1994 genocide through leadership and negotiation skills. It's based on the same story that inspired the film Hotel Rwanda. | That sounds really interesting! Is it a relatively easy/moderate read? |
2,499 | The FBI put itself in a bad position with this entire debacle. It's far too public, and the court of public opinion tends to be against them. Consider this: If the FBI were to *lose* this, it would create a precedent **against** them, which would make it even more difficult for them to get backdoors in products in the future. This feels more like "live to fight another day" than "oh lol sorry don't need your help we got this" | > If the FBI were to lose this, it would create a precedent against them. Exactly. They do not want to take this to court when their opponent has the resources and principles that Apple does. It's much better for them to back down and have no court decision on this matter, and be able to continue to bully smaller companies, than to get a ruling against them that effectively shuts everything down. |
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