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2,600 | Looking at *actual risk*, you're far more likely to die in an every day auto accident or from poor health than from a terrorist plot involving aircraft. Spending 2x on road safety and healthcare would save *far* more lives every year than would raising airfare for yet more security theatre. | the thing is, we care less about car safety than airplane safety. So naturally marketing, lobbying and cold hard cash will go to the latter. humans are weird. We'll text while driving on the way to the airport. Quickly run with our suitcases across a street without a crosswalk, quickly smoke a few cigarettes before entering the airport departure hall and THEN get nervous for flying... (i am not different btw, don't like flying at all). |
2,601 | No way, Das Sound Machine was awesome. DSM huh! | No kidding, the second one was fucking amazing! Especially because now I know of Flula and his incredible talent. |
2,602 | How big is a sector? If is small enough, the data leaked may be negligible. I wonder if SSDs support commands to write to "bad" sectors... | ~~512KB IIRC~~ It varies by drive [4K or 8K is common] |
2,603 | I loved it for the mystery. I mean, they really draw the puzzles and story out in that one, more than the others. Tons of clues, and hunting, and movement. | For me it was the dance my little brother used to do when we'd rent it from Blockbuster. INDY! <o/ ANA! \o> JONES! <o/ AND THE! \o> LAST! <o/ CRUSADE! \o/ Also the movie is pretty kick ass in it's own right. |
2,604 | yeah, you throw something the least bit abstract in /r/movies' face and they get frustrated in this really annoying way. Like, 99% of movies made make sense. Give me my weirdo art shit. | People are going to try to use the quote to try to defend movies that are nonsensical like Prometheus. |
2,605 | Nope, that was either "Thunderball" or "Never say never again", and both starred Connery. | Aah yep. I just remembered water being involved a lot, but that probably narrows it down to... half the Bond films pre-craig. Since every one had a secret lair, and a whole bunch of those were underwater :P |
2,606 | So to you it doesn't matter if (as an example), you maybe need one microgram of Indium to produce 1 ton of CIGS of solar panels vs 1 ton of Silicone for 1 ton of pure silicone solar panels? What matters is if the scale of availability is comparable to the scale of usage, or don't you think so? | >What matters is if the scale of availability is comparable to the scale of usage, or don't you think so? On the infinite timeline the quote uses? No. A small number multiplied by infinity is infinity, and the availability of these metals is extremely limited. The statement, “There’s no reason why the cost of solar will ever increase again,” is what I responded to, and I'm standing by my critique. |
2,607 | Both are so good and they couldn't have been more differnt. Kinda like World War Z, except Jurassic park is a good movie. | Yeah. Im not knocking the movie. He movie was done great but i still fell the book described the island better and was more intense and visceral. |
2,608 | I’m not afraid to admit it, I love ABBA. I usually get strange looks from my friends when it comes on shuffle between Godsmack and Disturbed. But I don’t care. | That is quite a mood change! Good on ya! "Cheesy" music needs more people unashamed to shout its praises |
2,609 | Today is my 40th birthday. I am the age he was when he was assassinated. | Today is my 28th birthday, and I feel like John Lennon is still taking away my birthday glory after all these years. ;) |
2,610 | Because it's faster to start again and 99% of the time you don't need a real shutdown. | 99% of the time I'd rather save energy and have my hardware live longer personally, I can wait a minute or two to boot up. |
2,611 | I still can't get anyone who has seen hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy to even think about reading the books. | Which is funny, because the two are entirely dissimilar -- As intended by the author. |
2,612 | Nice to see free speech totally not being suppressed here | Trump wants to censor the Internet, thinks Britains libel and slander laws are the right way to go, and wants to alter the first amendment so he can sue newspapers critical of him |
2,613 | [REC] is definitely under rated and under viewed, I guess as there was no cinematic release in the UK, people here don't know about it until I shove my DVD in there face and make them borrow it. The Prestige and In Bruges and also 2 of my favourites. | Yeah absolutely. REC is one of the best zombie/isolation horror films that are out there. 28 Days Later and REC top my list in that category |
2,614 | Elementary school teach here. The One and Only Ivan, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, and Number the Stars | The Miraculous Journey made me so angry that I mentally rewrote it to have the characters leave the book and invent new lives for themselves bec they were disgusted by the sadistic author. Can't recall the author's name, but she's anathema at our house. |
2,615 | Maybe a reread would help. Those Felurian chapters were just way too long and creepy though, and very little moved anywhere near resolution. | I was just glad a lot of the second book was away from the university. Too much time, in both books, was spent there. |
2,616 | No, you are not the only one. I find phones these days to be too thin. They are uncomfortable to hold they are so thin. Triple the thickness and triple the battery life please. | I have happily done that with the help of Zerolemon. Wish it could be a stock feature. |
2,617 | Whenever I watch Princess Mononoke I'm always thrown off by Billy Bob Thornton playing a fat Japanese priest. It just seems strange. | Way out of place. It's the same for Phil Hartman as the cat in Kiki's Delivery Service for me. He has such a recognizable and commanding voice, it really seems out of place with the other subdued voice actors |
2,618 | I am in the minority that likes Thor 2 above Thor 1. Thor 1 was weighed down by introducing too many characters, many of whom were not memorable. It had a TV movie feel to it. | They're both very close but I give 2 a few extra points because the European backdrop is more interesting than Oklahoma. |
2,619 | They claim [there isn't a catch] and it's just a nice free service they made so more people would use their browser. That's more suspicious to me. | They've had their "turbo mode", which is similar, for a long time. Everything goes through opera's servers so they can compress it before sending it to you. Throw HTTPS on top of that and an option to skip compression, and there you have it. |
2,620 | I'm not familiar with "Girls", but a simple google image search shows some concerns for me | From reading his Wikipedia page, he sounds like an interesting choice though. Former marine, studied acting at Julliard's, influenced by John Cassavetes. I'd give him a chance. I wouldn't have wanted Chris Hemsworth for Thor is I did a google image search of him in 2009. |
2,621 | I saw the same show in Kansas City. BR got booed, but the other bands were on point. Great show to me, but I was a youngin'. | Why are the people of our city so stupid? Can't they just be patient and try to appreciate the music being played for them. |
2,622 | So, mix this with those 3D hologram displays that use layers of transparent displays to create 3D holographic images. Put it behind a mirror in every room in my house. And I’ll be set. | “You, dude, why yo mirrors so thicc?” *“Hello! Would you like to know the current weather conditions? How about I tell you about some top news stories? You have two meetings later today. The first is at 2:30. There’s mild traffic on I-90.”* “AAAAAAAAAA!” |
2,623 | What a strange situation to be in. Broke the all-time record for it's month of release, but wasn't as successful as expected. That's like Usain Bolt running the 100m in 9.5s and the commentators going "yeah, but it wasn't sub 9 seconds, though..." | The month it was released in is also one that blockbuster movies typically avoid. It's more like he won in the women's event instead of the men's. |
2,624 | I hope this does very well. Android is largely closed off to me for a number of reasons but I plan to buy an FFOS phone as the cheaper companion to my iPhone. Similarly, I used Chrome for a while but it got too intrusive so I use FF now. | I've sadly had a lot of bad Google experiences and don't trust them much as a company now. Putting my money where my mouth is has been something I've been hoping for for a while now, and I've just not had a phone in the interim. It's nice that the Firefox OS is affordable. Actually, the previous version, the ZTE Open is still selling and is only $69 bucks, but doesn't look like its getting the new version of Firefox OS (or if it is, I can't find anything about it.). |
2,625 | I think I'm the only person I know who is really disappointed in this film in that it didn't deal plausibly with the galactic politics... the prequels had many shortcomings, but the whole arc of how the republic was warped into the empire was *cool*. Palpatine and all that. By contrast the new movie, well it's like the rebels never did anything. They are still the rebels, and now there is an orc instead of an emporer and they are still a ragtag group of rebels. Who do all the same things in the same order as in the first movie. I really enjoyed lots of it, but seriously. It's like it was made by disn.. umm. | Yep. Safe choice after safe choice. But still a good movie. |
2,626 | You sure about that face paint assertion? You might wanna look up The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. He was setting his head on fire and painting his face in the 60's. And the tunes were decent too. | Assert my balls, no one has ever heard of dat nigga |
2,627 | It is. I'm sure the pop culture references might date the movies a bit, but I didn't get most of them when I was like 10 and I still thought they were great movies. And now that I get the references, I don't really care if they get oudated, cause they'll still be funny. I'm assuming all of the above, I don't think I've seen the Shrek movies for at least 8 years. | And dating a film with references isn't automatically bad, either. Something that gives Shrek and Shrek 2 this very unique charm was the fact that they referenced both contemporary and "classic" pop culture, something that many other animated films weren't doing at the time. |
2,628 | For example, will/do electric cars allow you to have the A/C on without the keys in the ignition? | If it had some type of motion detector that starts the AC. Otherwise, children and pets cannot turn it on themselves. It is their caregivers responsibility, if they "forget" as they say, they are not gonna leave the AC running. Personally, I think stiffer penalties should be in place, as I find it hard to believe somebody can forget another living being in the car. |
2,629 | "Gorgeous epilogue" is where he lost me. The epilogue made me want to punch kittens. I would have been much, much happier to have finished the book at the end of the final chapter. | The epilogue sounds like fan-fiction written by a 12-year-old who wasn't ready to let go. |
2,630 | Im a T-Mobile vpn'er. Netflix and Hulu don't work via VPN. | Depends on the VPN. I just use a VPN that connects to my home internet connection no way for them to block that since it's no different than if I had my phone on Wifi at home. |
2,631 | *ring ri-* "Hello!?" "Yeah, Kid Rock, we were wondering if -" "I'LL DO IT!" | you'd think you would've learned his lesson after doing pamela anderson |
2,632 | What is with the assholes in this thread? A man just died. A man whose music touched a lot of people. Maybe not you. Maybe you think his music was awful. That's fine, but why choose now to talk a bunch of shit about him? Jesus christ. My thoughts go out to his family and his bandmates. | Oh, please. What is touching about writing songs that use euphemisms for eating pussy? Warrant weren't particularly good at their instruments and wrote generic ballads that were a trend at the time. They only had two relevant albums and most can't name more than that or more than three or four songs. They were painfully formulaic and did nothing original. Shittiness like that clogged the airwaves while artists with originality suffered. They were a flavor of the week band and they were the Blink 182 fad of their time. Anyway, back to the shameless pandering with you. |
2,633 | Ahhhh yes. The Split album is basically my favorite. Rancid brings the crunchy, speediness to the NOFX songs, and NOFX brings the poppy, riffy catchiness to rancid. They compliment each other so well. They should do another one. | I just dont like his voice in Don't Call me White. Close your eyes and picture Kermit the Frog singing it. It fits too well, it makes me laugh. |
2,634 | No I agree with you. I think he has some good qualities, but seems so trapped by the road trip/vaguely cute protagonist/manic pixie dream girl formula. I get that it is his target audience, but I really wish he would move the fuck on. And Fault in Our Stars had it's moments, but I was getting tired of having every single love interest for his books being this ridiculously handsome and intelligent person who's only apparent fault is 'loving too much', or else some type depression. I love John Green, and Looking for Alaska and Will Grayson Will Grayson were pretty good (I also enjoyed An Abundance of Katherines), but he needs to try exploring some different concepts. Maybe change genres. | Yes, exactly! I read TFiOS and thought it was okay so I picked up his other books only to realize they all started sounding the same. It'd be great for him to get out of his comfort zone and write something gritty and less cutesy. Then again, his formulaic approach has got him to being a well known YA writer and a movie deal so it's profitable for him to continue to appeal to his target audience :P |
2,635 | Why limit it in the first place? Seems like a pretty pointless move on Microsoft side. | They want to push everyone on to 10 as fast as possible after the debacle that was 8. |
2,636 | That really bit Sony in the ass. They paid everybody to win the format war and the only people cheering were those at Sony. It turns out, nobody really cared in the first place. | But it isn't that simple. I mean, we could blame the economy, increasing cost of making and transporting goods, lack of desire to buy entertainment goods when everything is so expensive, or most importantly... Rev. Wright. That's right, he controls the world. |
2,637 | As a huge fan of films with suped up cars, I really hope nothing happens to Paul Walker. He makes the Fast and the Furious films come alive. | Should we break the news that Paul Walker died over two years ago? Shucks... Edit: In case you didn't know bro, Fast And Furious 7 was his last movie and he wasn't even the actor that played in it. His real life brothers, Caleb and Cody, filled in and they replaced their faces with his digitally. |
2,638 | >Which has not been shown to have any effect on voting habits. [citation needed] Propaganda works. I'm not sure why you think it would stop working, just because it's online and custom tailored to the individuals it's being delivered to... | So it's assumed that they changed they way people would vote, but my statement that they did not needs a citation? |
2,639 | the characters and interactions were 100% forgettable. i will say reading that book challenged and grew my sense of scale in thinking about physical perspective and large areas tho. like no other really | Read "ringworld" if you haven't yet. Bigger scale with actual characters. |
2,640 | Naw. A mix is never finished, it's just eventually set free. Were the people who saw Star Wars in theaters before the digital remasters sold a "faulty, substandard product"? | The Green Day Albums are one thing, the key question is were the CD printed at the time with a substandard copy of the music? But what you have chosen for as an analogy.... I have no words... |
2,641 | Mace Windu being a badass? Sign me up for that! | It's like Christopher Nolan wrote a book about Mace Windu fucking shit up. It's absolutely wonderful. |
2,642 | The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed to give him his mixtape 🔥🔥🔥 | You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and breaks your knuckles till you pay for the mixtape |
2,643 | Or how bright the reflections from the bonnet would be. Could it do permanent damage to your eyes? I mean you are basically looking straight at it. | Yeah, even scatter from a beam that powerful will blind you instantly. Hell, even scatter from a beam an order of magnitude or two less powerful will blind you. However intentional blinding is illegal per international law. Spontaneously combusting a human with photons isn't... |
2,644 | If you get a chance, check out Take Shelter. My favourite Shannon performance to date. | Actually ordered the Blu-Ray yesterday, loved Mud, looking forward to watching it. |
2,645 | Is it just me or do curved TVs & monitors just sound like nothing more than a huge gimmick meant to convince people to replace otherwise perfectly functional TVs & monitors? | I just want a 28" OLED flat display. Is that too much to ask? |
2,646 | i love the idea but I think i would choose nature as my fitness temple. | Really, nature is the best fitness coach if you have the self-discipline to follow it. But many don't and that's why we have so many unfit people going around. If technology can give us the means to become more fit, why not go for it? I believe we should make the best use of technology in all areas of life. That way, we can take advantage of great ways to improve our fitness and wellbeing. |
2,647 | > biometric data in a central database. As if there isn't one like that already somewhere. | There is for criminals, and it takes a while to compare a print to a record stored there with any confidence. |
2,648 | Love this series. Are you able to find a copy of Foundation and Earth? I remember having a hell of a time finding it because it was out of print. | Will check out. As I'm not very good economically, I'm using eBay, old editions. And one by one. |
2,649 | As HoL is one of my favorite books and I didn't much care for S I would suggest starting with S (even though I believe it is more difficult to push through). S will give you an idea of how much can be done in a novel and HoL should drive that idea home. Just my two cents. | Thanks for the input. That was the order I was leaning towards. I'll probably throw a book or two in between to refresh my mind but I'm looking forward to both. |
2,650 | There's no reason why this can't be a steadicam shot. This is asinine. | I'll take his judgement over yours considering his track record. No pun intended but take it as such if you wish. |
2,651 | I hardly even remember reading “nigger” in Huck Finn. I remember the story and *one time* Huck said it on the river island. The story completely dwarfs the word. I think I read it in fourth grade. And it wasn’t the edited version, it was a copy from the 60’s or 70’s. I graduated in 07. Also, I thought Tom Sawyer came first. Or did I read your comment wrong? Was never a fan of Tom Sawyer, I should give it another go I guess. | Yeah Sawyer came first. Huck was started in the same style of that book but then he scrapped it all and started over with a more adult reading. Tom Sawyer is definitely sweet and charming, but it’s clear where Twain’s talents really shine. |
2,652 | For enterprise level check out PFSense. It's an open source OS based on FreeBSD and runs on 32 and 64 bit hardware. Take your old computer, put an extra NIC in it, install PFSense, and you have an extremely powerful enterprise level router. We use our standard workstation hardware in our PFSense machines at work so if there is any hardware failures we have spares on hand. It's also much cheaper to replace parts than most turn key enterprise routers. | I run it on a thin client as they are cheap, somewhat powerful, while being silent and power efficient. I made sure it had a PCI slot and bought a dual port NIC. Compact flash for storage. Hasn't missed a beat. Sometimes the Web interface has really annoying quirks though. I have an 80/20 connection and it handles it with ease, while dealing with PPPoE, IPv6, some firewalling, lots of sub interfaces, openvpn and my weird routing requirements. PC engines have finally released a new board based on an AMD APU. Thinking about using that next time. |
2,653 | I don't understand people who say this. Do you not remember Dredd, Watchmen, 300, Sin City, Blade, or the Punisher movies? Or, for that matter, Road to Perdition or A History of Violence? We've had R rated comic book movies pretty regularly since the 90s. | I think people mean we could star seeing A-list characters getting R rated films like Batman and members of the avengers and such. Like if the next Batman solo film was R that would be sweet |
2,654 | Beck has been doing even more then Beyonce for almost 30 years now you stupid fuck. He writes his music, he plays instruments, he performs live shows that are just as intense as Beyonce. Kanye doesn't give a fuck about you cult worshippers. | lmao a sneak peek of what has beck been dancing makes me laugh my ass off. Beyonce is stil lthe better artist in the stage performance and concept wise |
2,655 | Meanwhile, one of the bigger tech school here ( FPT ) announced that they are going to accept Bitcoin as a payment method just 2 days ago lol | Wow. Do you happen to have any links to that announcement? (Maybe they even have it in English?) |
2,656 | Nest is internet connected. Perhaps it has features to automatically notify emergency services if an alarm persists, and silencing is meant to tell the device "I'm just cooking, this isn't an emergency." | It does not have an automated notification of emergency services to my knowledge. Given the false alarm rate of consumer smoke alarms that would be a nightmare. |
2,657 | So ELI5 what does this really mean for T-Mobile? Will their service actually be usable in most areas as opposed to their broken shakey coverage in the south east? | 5G is high frequency and thus low coverage. It is primarily designed to increase speed, increase number of connected devices (including iot devices), and enable micro cells for dense urban areas. 5G isn't a phone technology. There will an insane amount of connected devices coming online in the next 10-20 years and 5G is meant to handle these many billions of future devices without congestion. Coverage doesn't really require any new spectrum technology, indeed the lower frequencies with lower bandwidth have greater propagation. Coverage simply requires more towers and more lower end spectrum bands, neither of which is really the mission of 5G. |
2,658 | Is the lyric not misfit? Have I been wrong for years?!?! | It is misfit but I can see how it would be misheard. |
2,659 | I can't believe I had to scroll this far to find her. Autumn Red, White hardtop...drool. Fun fact, all the other Fury's on the line in the beginning of the movie were white because that was the only color offered on the 58 fury. King put in the book that she was a special order...and oh your god she was a beauty. | Wasn't there a bit in the movie to do with the red paint, was it in his trunk when the cop was investigating the first murder? It's been so long since I've seen it. |
2,660 | Oh.... I didn't realize he was supposed to be American. Yikes. Either way, looks interesting. edit - *American/Anerican .... same thing! | Ya I didn't think for a second he was trying to do an american accent. |
2,661 | I like how, in this entire thread (so far), they agreed with your final sentence in the post. Way to stay on topic, people! That being said, I feel the same about McCarthy. I gave up on The Road about 1/4 of the way through it, and I'm a huge fan of post-apocalyptic novels. I think his writing is so needlessly complex and "original" it's just not worth reading his books. Maybe it's just me. | I liked The Road, but I went through it looking up a ton of words. I think that helps you though because he reuses a lot of words. Words that I have never seen in any other book will reoccur through several of his books. |
2,662 | Anyone figure out the specific on the license terms? Like what if I have to reinstall the OS two years later and I only have the Win 7 install material. Is it per machine, so if I purchase a new machine later and it came with Win 8.1, but I had Win 10 on my old machine. Or is it apply to per Win Live account. | As far as install material goes, you can download it whenever. I don't know for sure about licensing, but I frequently wipe my various computers and change out operating systems and I've never had troubles so long as I keep it to one key for each computer. |
2,663 | There are two ways looking at this. One is whether it was a lot of effort. The other is whether it's worth reporting the problem next time or it's better to sell the data somewhere else. Value of effort vs value of data. In this case the data is quite valuable. | True but even the BEST rewards from google payout $20,000. I think my point still stands this guy is demanding a bit much. edit: I guess demand was a bad word, it just seemed like he was coming across that way to me. |
2,664 | DAMMIT! You should warn people before linking them to videos with GE FUCKING SMITH in them! | GE Smith's licks cure cancer. Do not fuck with GE smith. *EDIT: aside from the whole Chuck Norris joke there, GE is a guy who seems to actually enjoy his medium. No reason to knock a dude who enjoys that at which he kicks ass. |
2,665 | This is a choice Apple has made (favoring security over durability/customization.) A lot of people buy Apple products to ignore the details and implicitly trust Apple for their overall user experience. This is an unfortunate case of users discovering one of those choices the hard way. I sympathize for those who have irrevocably lost data. I would point them to various Cloud options (Apple and non-Apple alike, lots of good ones) to mitigate that in the future. But I disagree with offering bypass/suppression options. If the device could be set into a mode that forgave tampering around the Secure Enclave, it would undermine the very purpose of it. | The main issue is that the Apple made this choice with an encouraged update. An iPhone that is not updated will still work just fine, even with the third-party repairs. The update intentionally kill the phone; the phone does not prevent the bypass. |
2,666 | Force-fed? I'm in high school and I wish we read more classics! Although we do so much work on each book and play we read, which, although it helps my understanding and appreciating, is a pain in the ass. I get the most homework from English out of all of my classes, including Honours Biology. | No one stops you from reading more. Just find one of those snobby ass lists and start reading. Everyone here seems to like Pride and Prejudice, I loved Fahrenheit 451, Catch 22, 1984, Lolita, No Exit (play Huis Clos), The Stranger, Hamlet/etc, ... Here's a good list: (oh my gf fucking hated Anna Karenina) |
2,667 | My wife walked in on me taking a shot of 120 proof bourbon and BLARING Probot's "Shake your Blood" after work tonight. She went to turn it down...I've never given her such a stern "NO!" before her finger hit that button. | I'm gonna have that song in my head all day now, thank you! |
2,668 | MS is making plenty of money on cloud services and Office software. They don't need to charge for everything. | Oh, so because they make money on Office software and cloud services, they're not allowed to charge for the OS that they spend millions making? |
2,669 | I want to point out that having a formulaic or no surprises story isn't necessarily a bad thing if it can be executed well. Toy Story 3 is basically a rehashed Toy Story 2, but with Woody doing the saving this time, and it is excellent. I see where you are coming from though, and I had the same issue with.Avatar. | Toy Story 3 was basically a rehashed Brave Little Toaster |
2,670 | The difference between collecting one type of data among dozens and using it for advertisement, and pushing a political agenda is *also* as big as between here and the moon though. | Yeah, sending right-leaning articles to right-leaning people and left-leaning results to left-leaning people wouldn’t be bias, that would just be like autocompleting “Nintendo” after I type “Super” in the search bar and “Man” after a comic book fan types it in the search bar. |
2,671 | Hardware-based DRM, yay. See, the thing about DRM is that it takes literally one person to do the work to break it and then everyone else can just download it on bittorrent. | Sounds like MS bought the rights to 4k netflix. Stupid move, as there are plenty of other 4K capable computers and setups that are not MS or browser based. |
2,672 | This is not quite right. A single cycle of a CPU doesn't amount to squat. In order to process picture or sound the CPU needs to sequentially load and process millions of bits of data, each bit requiring multiple CPU cycles depending on the algorithm. So that one cycle (shown as a second) to process something is actually more like a month on the graph. | I was thinking exactly this, thanks. Another thing this article overlooks is that the problem an AI might have from "thinking too fast" is trivially solvable by *thinking slower*. I see no reason why a well-designed AI wouldn't be able to adjust its clock speed to whatever rate it prefers given the stimuli it's receiving. If you're on a ship traveling between interesting planets but there's a thousand years between each planet just sleep through the dull parts and wake up whenever a planet's nearby. |
2,673 | Who is "we"? There's nothing to indicate it's the US government. It could just as easily be some neckbeard with too much time on his hands. | You sound like some neckbeard with too much time on his hands. |
2,674 | I imagine it will be beaten eventually but I think the better question is what type of movie will do it. | It will have to be something that plays as well in China as the US and Europe. Apparently the Chinese are not that into Star Wars. |
2,675 | It irritates me that they keep introducing things that aren't as reliable. Wireless networking is slower, less reliable and less secure than wired. I don't use a wireless mouse and keyboard because the batteries run out and it becomes painful to use. I don't use a wireless headset because the quality is rubbish compared to even a cheap wired microphone. I don't want to use wireless headphones because they will run out of charge, and the end result will be poor quality sound and having bluetooth on drains the phone battery. Apple does innovate, often very effectively, but trying to sell this that way is ignorant. Innovation is not supposed to make things worse. | > It irritates me that they keep introducing things that aren't as reliable. You've nobody to blame but yourself. Apple keeps making new gewgaws that are less reliable, more expensive, and rely on proprietary (and artificially-expensive) accessories that can only be bought from apple, *yet you keep buying them*. They do this shit because, as the article pointed out, they know that people like you will buy their iThingies no matter how many artificial limitations apple cripples them with. Apple thinks they can literally do no wrong. Stop proving them right. |
2,676 | I'm not sure I see the connection to Rammstein, but Ensiferum is awesome. | No connection. Just trying to restore his faith in metal. |
2,677 | What Townes songs does he do? I've never heard of him but i love Townes. | As I posted above, Buckskin Stallion Blues. That should be your first introduction to TBT or Dave Simonett because the recording is so rough, but if you enjoy Townes, you'll enjoy Dave's writing. |
2,678 | RotK holds up so well, crazy that it's 10 years ago | The entire trilogy (LoTR) holds up well. Same with The Matrix. It's actually very refreshing to watch them once in a while. |
2,679 | Tangent: Wired's current layout is really frustrating to read. Everything around the article is fading in and out, flashing quotes, ads, and social media buttons all the way down the page. It was distracting and I kept having to re-find my place in the article. I am all for well laid pieces, but enough with the visual junk. | It also takes too long to load. If you don't have the servers to maintain a fancy site, don't put up a fancy site. |
2,680 | Ugh, movies that have a budget of millions upon millions of dollars have product placement. That makes me sick. I mean can they just make a gofundme page instead of bowing to corporate sponsors? I mean jeez guys | Lolz. I honestly will forgive product placement if the movies go or it's striving to do something good. Skyfall and MI: Rogue Nation fall into this category real real well. |
2,681 | No. You're veing willfully ignorant. Granting a government monopoly over regional internet services is no better than granting a corporation a monopoly over regional services. How does that not compute? | It's not giving the government power dude, it's allowing municipalities to subsidize their own Internet to lower their own costs. It's already been done and is good for consumers and hasn't been taken advantage of. |
2,682 | Yeah it's been in Australia for something like 4 years with since Aug 2014 you can no longer even sign for items, it's PIN (for expensive items) or paywave (under $100 usually) | They haven't even gotten PIN /chip tech in the US, don't overwhelm them.... |
2,683 | Right now, there is no method that stands up to scientific scrutiny that supports or disproves the existence of god. That's the way it is, and you're just going to have to deal with it. Occam's razor alone is not enough. The principle of parsimony (Occam's razor) alone is never, ever enough to support a hypothesis. | And there is no method that stands up to scientific scrutiny that supports or disproves the existence of invisible dragons that prey on god, forcing him into hiding while alien lizards proceed to take control of the entire world. That's the way it is, and you're just going to have to deal with it. Occam's razor alone is not enough. The principle of parsimony (Occam's razor) alone is never, ever enough to support a hypothesis. |
2,684 | If piracy does a better job of getting content into markets than legit means, I don't see why these people expect it to stop. | I got black flag on uplay during the sale last week. Game won't download. I spend an hour on Google with a bunch of random BS about firewalls, admin privileges, port forwarding. Nothing worked. Guess which website I turned to next. Seriously, first time in almost 3 years, because it's the first non-steam game I've bought in the last 3 years. Guess what's going to happen the next time ubi has a non steam game? |
2,685 | Nobody praises them for their consistency. Even their best albums (Red, Court) have a terrible song that goes nowhere on them (Moonchild, Providence). Honestly though, I would probably actually like Moonchild if it was about 7 minutes shorter though. | Moonchild definitely has potential, but I nearly always skip half of it because I get bored... |
2,686 | Transformers 3 pretended to be an exciting movie, and it wasn't. Is it now a pretentious movie? | One could say that Age of Ultron is pretentious because, through its marketing, it professes to be a "can't-miss cultural event", when in reality it is simply a forgettable episode to tide people over until the next "can't-miss cultural event". |
2,687 | Same here. I was loving these books...but the very last one I didn't even finish. I rarely ever leave a book unfinished, but I just didn't care about Fiddler wandering around some underworld as a ghost. Just was very boring. | I did as I have this odd compulsion to finish series once I start them but, yes, other than that I completely agree. |
2,688 | I read *The Grapes of Wrath* right after reading *Atlas Shrugged*, and it was a mind bender. Steinbeck does a great job humanizing the Everyman that Rand spends so much time cutting down. Steinbeck explores sacrifice for the collective good, a sharp contrast to Rand’s reverence for selfishness. Highly recommend pairing those two; they go together like tart fruit and creamy cheese. Edit: spelling | Yes, I was going to post Grapes of Wrath but this fine_person beat me. I wholeheartedly agree with this post. |
2,689 | *Sure you could make the argument that a lack of major awards from the Grammys is also true for country or alternative music, but they haven’t reached the levels of popularity and haven’t had the cultural impact that hip-hop has.* Wait, wait, wait just a goddamn minute. I've been told time and time again that popularity shouldn't factor into AOTY, so why is the author invoking popularity to dismiss the fact that country music doesn't win any awards either? | I think it's more of a minimum level of popularity. It's fair to say that the album or artist should be reasonably popular, but it shouldn't just be a popularity contest. |
2,690 | I made it through the first chapter and threw it across the room. I can deal with crushing bleakness.... But the lack of quotation marks, I just couldn't deal. | TIL it has chapters? Every copy I've seen is just a continuous rambling depressive episode. |
2,691 | I think they were more trying to give the song context into the film than anything, but I do get why some people might be annoyed. | Yeah, I think it's intended for people who haven't seen the movie. |
2,692 | If a famous actor is uncredited and shows up in one scene then it's definitely a cameo | I wouldn't have called Joel McHale a famous actor in 2004. |
2,693 | I think that would have worked. Don't know about Stallone. | Yeah it helps that Rourke was pretty much a real life Butch at that point of his career. |
2,694 | no, you're not. I'm with you on both of these books. Alchemist and every other book by Coelho is a regurgitation of a mix of various New Age and Eastern philosophies, but written into a simple story form and somehow presented to the masses as if Coelho was the first person ever to think such profound things. | The Alchemist was interesting in its concepts and did offer something creative...but the writing is atrocious, like something written by a high school freshman. A first draft of sorts that was prematurely released. And Coelho is full of himself as well, so that doesn't help. Noted Kasabian fan? |
2,695 | My favourite part with that was that Rey was like: "K, cool, dont leave though". It would have been awful if they made her get pissed at him for lying, but she didn't give a shit cause he obviously wasn't First Order evil. Edit: changed posted to pissed | I mean, he's a defector, defecting from space nazis. That takes balls, no one could reasonably hate that. |
2,696 | If this is indeed the original, hand-written edition made by that guy, the description is unclear. "Facsimile" doesn't have to mean a photocopy, but it does mean an attempt at a precise copy of *something*. If this isn't a reprint of this guy's handwritten edition, then what is it a facsimile *of*? It doesn't look like any other version that I've ever seen. I think the seller needs to choose a different terminology. | It's a copy (facsimile) of _The Hobbit_, handwritten by a guy. |
2,697 | If you're paying a company to maintain a blockchain for you, it's *far* cheaper to have them maintain a database instead. Blockchains are horrifically inefficient for the one lonely advantage of decentralization. Once you centralize a blockchain you are officially an idiot. "Oh, but you can verify it..." Sure, and you can write a log file with periodic PGP signatures too. Much cheaper and trivial to implement, much harder to forge. | I do some light consulting work around blockchain. I can't tell you how many times people think I'm either presenting them with a new central database or a new internet or both. Big companies are using blockchain apps indirectly in that they want it to be a service they run when the real use case is a bias-less service between them and other companies |
2,698 | The "inner goddess" did it for me. Just thinking about it still makes me cringe . | My inner goddess laughed and threw the book in the trash |
2,699 | I'm a bit too tired to start thinking about this so early in the day, but I did have [this bookmarked] from Rian's explanations of a few things. I seemed to remember that clarified a lot of the questions and perceived plot holes. Any of that "solve" things for you? | No, if anything it makes what I said stronger. From the Director: >This is the kinda stuff that 'really fries your brain.' Because they are so interdependently connected, there is no real answer. “For me it’s a trope of time travel movies and there’s a slight amount of magic logic that you have to apply in order for a story like this to make sense,” AKA: It doesn't make any sense and its magic, just go with it. Which is fine, its still a fun movie, but it makes no internal sense. |
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