id
int64 0
412k
| context
stringlengths 9
1.09k
| response
stringlengths 7
1.07k
|
|---|---|---|
3,000 | Won't do shit. The amount of energy to be generated will be tiny. A cloudy day is about 1/5th the energy of a sunny one. And being indoors is about 1/10th of a cloudy day. Outdoors in direct sunlight with a panel perpendicular to the sun you can make about 300W/m^2. Indoors, you are looking at 6W/m^2. And that's if your entire square meter is perpendicular to the sun, if it isn't you will make even less. This isn't a square meter, it isn't perpendicular to the light source and the light source surely isn't the sun. You'd collect far more energy plugging it into a USB charger for an hour than you would from its solar reception all day. | I think the idea was to power the sensors the skin had rather than using it as power source from anything else on the arm. But yea the amount it generates is small that a small battery surely would solve the same issue. |
3,001 | I absolutely love Beck, both his major label and his indie stuff. I had no idea he was even being considered for a grammy. | I also really like a lot of Becks music but had no idea he released anything new until the Grammy. |
3,002 | The nice thing for him to do would be to post the song without sobstorying it up about how its for his dead girlfriend. | How is that not 'nice'? It's his song that he wrote for his deceased girlfriend. It's not a sobstory if he's telling it how it is... If you don't like that then it's your problem not his. |
3,003 | He'd be great in the role, no doubt, but Rearden has always been Kevin McKidd to me. I think Craig would be an awesome Ragnar. On the topic of Atlas Shrugged, does anyone else think that Kevin Spacey would make the perfect Jim Taggart? | Kevin McKidd might be a good Howard Roark, but I'm set on Daniel Craig for Rearden. Haha. Actually, I see Paul Bettany as Howard Roark, so never mind. |
3,004 | I disagree with this statement so hard. There are some amazing groups/artists from the right now. You just have to find them. | >I'm not saying all, but most. Care to name some of the recent acts you like? The little bit I've heard from Kids In The Hall is pretty good. Also Kid Cudi is alright. I like Madlib's production but can't stand MF Doom's voice, and I prefer Madlib's work with Dudley Perkins. Other than that, I can't think of a whole lot. |
3,005 | Ah, the tyranny of choice. Google lets you choose between no traffic information or having them track your movements. Like democracy guarantees you a vote, you get a choice but you don't get to decide what the choice is. You have a choice between a tank of fire ants or a bath of african bees. What are you complaining about? I gave you a choice. | Or you can just walk away from both tanks. |
3,006 | agree, Finn character was lazy writing, the main flaw in the film--and he got tiresome quickly--hopefully, they'll kill him off in Episode 8 | Are you freaking kidding me? He was incredibly well written. I loved his interactions with Rey, BB-8, Han and Poe. |
3,007 | Saw them in Reading. Amazing show, especially considering they played after a poor performance by Modest Mouse. Brought the mood back. | What was so poor about the Modest Mouse set? I've only seen them once, but I've never heard anything bad about their live shows. I'm interested, now. |
3,008 | Again, do you have a pass code set up on the phone? What do you mean by "looking at what im doing"? What makes you think they are doing these things? Do you use the chrome browser? | First of all, thanks for your help. Second, I'd rather not answer your first question. But I do use a chrome browser. |
3,009 | I'm working 12 hours a day, 6 days a week sometimes, fueling trains. I want. The fuck. Out. I'm working on going back to school, but in my spare time I'd like to just self teach myself a few languages, and then I see posts like this and I just get an arrow shot through my motivation. So tell me, in a nutshell, what do I need to have done to make you say "Hey wait a minute... this guy might have what it takes." ? | Have demonstrable skill outside the standard bootcamp lite repos. Contributing to large open source projects is a good way because it means that at least someone reviewed your work and thought it was decent enough for production - which is basically all an actual engineering job is anyway. And finally understand this is not a get rich scheme. Engineer salaries are inflated because they are all in expensive areas, but over a decade or two with normal career growth you will be substantially better off than an average American |
3,010 | I won't flat out say no, but I doubt it. True, it's 40 decades too soon to say for sure, but majority of mainstream songs nowdays become hit only to be very soon forgotten. | Dont you think that has to do with that (I would presume) we consume more music now than we did then? |
3,011 | But what about Arcadio and Arcadio and Aureliano and Arcadio and 17 more Aurelianos and Remedios and Remedios and Arcadio and Aureliano and Remedios and Arcadio and Aureliano and Rebeca who eats dirt and OH MY GOD A PIG'S TAIL. [Plot summary complete] | This is amazing. I want to be your friend. |
3,012 | > Counties outside USA enjoy many services superior than ours at a lower cost. As an Australian, I beg to differ. :) #ThanksTony. | Occasionally Virgin Mobile Australia quietly runs a deal that gives an extra 2GB if you sign up within a window of a few weeks. For a $19/month BYO plan with no lock in I'm on 2.25 GB (LTE) and something like $500 call credit. |
3,013 | Stayed famous compared to others because he likes making music and is good at it? That’s a pretty thin reason. I’d say it has more to do with how often he tours, and the fact that his brand is really just big enough now to sustain itself. He got lucky to get famous and the hype surrounding the mau5 brand is basically keeping itself alive. He doesn’t even really need to try. As long as he keeps making music and touring, his name will always be prominent. | before his 2017 tour... he hadn't toured in 5 years. that was also just a crude summary of what he said. He was essentially just trying to make a point that anyone can get famous if they try hard enough or stay on it long enough |
3,014 | For an extreme step, you could spend a few years sleeping too little and eating poorly, and hopefully develop the poor memory I have developed. While I read dune a few years ago, I remember almost nothing about it except a vague skeleton of the plot, setting and characters. I could dread it again now and enjoy it fully. I can actually say the same about any book I read more than a few weeks ago actually. | Don't worry, it turns out I've been taking your advice for the past decade and haven't ate or slept properly, I'm glad I finally now understand why I've been doing this to myself all these years |
3,015 | Is it that one or The Beautiful Struggle where he talks about all the literature his father read? There were some good recs in there. | I don't remember so I'm going to say probably The Beautiful Struggle but hey, They're probably BOTH worth reading tbh, op. |
3,016 | Hello everyone, Over the last several hours we have been getting an influx of new users. so I would like to just cover a few things. 1. We don't have a banned word list so please don't do this. 1. All the rules are on the sidebar, I changed them today because I added the old ones when I was added as mod since there were no rules, but I thought we needed something more specific to this subreddit and clearer. 1. and Any rule change will be added to the sidebar. Anyways, enjoy the sub. | Oh wow. A technology sub I can actually submit [a link] to? I don't know if I can handle that. |
3,017 | "Basically as loud as a fighter". I've had fighter jets blow past my house only a couple hundred feet above it. | The Concorde was powered by 4 very large afterburning turbojet engines. Most fighter jets would pale by comparison, audio-wise. |
3,018 | BMW and 1984 go hand-in-hand. They should be read together to get both sides of dystopian rule. | My grandfather, not a big reader but he was in prison at the time, read 1984 and you can tell he loves it. I feel he's proud to have read it |
3,019 | Technically, Bob Marley and the Wailers (not Bob Marley) were 1st Wave ska , Reel Big Fish is 3rd wave ska. | Yeah, I know about the different waves, but I guess I don't really lump most of Bob Marley and the Wailers' stuff in with guys like the Skatalites. No matter though. |
3,020 | John Lithgow does a rendition of Uncle Fred Flits By in his one man show, Stories by Heart. My wife and I were dying laughing. My face hurt by the end. If you get a chance, don't miss it. I check every few months if he's released a DVD. Which reminds me.... | There really needs to be more intersection between John Lithgow and Wodehouse. |
3,021 | > Memory is managed automatically, and you don’t even need to type semi-colons. So they've invented a kind of Beginner's All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code? | Holy shit, *that's* what BASIC stands for? Should've looked into that earlier.... |
3,022 | I love the story behind it. Peter Jackson wanted Blomkamp to direct the Halo project after Del Toro turned them down to shoot Hellboy II. The studio turned them both down as Niel was too much of a risk for such an expensive project. As consolation Jackson agrees to produce a smaller project for Niel and gives him 30 million. District 9 makes 210 million worldwide. Suck on it doubters! | It's such a different story, I love it! The story was so well put together and a satisfying ending. *sigh* |
3,023 | Wuthering Heights makes me so freaking angry every time I read it. Stupid man! Edit: Withering to Wuthering | Which one? Heathcliff? They're all pretty damn stupid. But I think that's why I like it. It's an unresolved love story. Added bonus for death window chill! |
3,024 | > if you go to Spotify.com there is no possible way for you to access the web player. Uh... Go to [spotify.com] scroll to the bottom of the page, click the link that says "Web Player." **EDIT:** Or, scroll about a quarter of the way down the page to the section marked MUSIC FOR EVERYONE and click the link that says "GO TO WEB PLAYER." | You caught me, I was exaggerating just a tiny bit :) Nonetheless do you see how that's a horrible UI? See how what I actually want is completely overshadowed by a giant Selena Gomez album cover? I'm just saying, I go to Pandora.com and it starts playing. That's the competition. |
3,025 | This is the kind of thing I don't want to see. This is really just politics that happen to involve a tech company. The story would really the same if you removed all mention of technology in it. | [I was also discussion that stuff here in the moderator state of the subreddit post.] |
3,026 | Sam Rockwell is great in "Choke", but I don't think it captured the style of the book that well. "Upstream Color" was one of my favorite films last year. Shane Carruth is such an incredible director. | I thought the same thing regarding both of your comments. I remember just reading Choke for the first time right before I saw the film, and I was really disappointed they didn't follow the ending the book went through with. |
3,027 | I have a 13 year old son who is into gaming, CaD, computers, design, music but not coding. I want to make sure he is prepared for the future as much as possible. Wondering what jobs would be good to aim toward. Edit: I have been telling him to learn to repair the robots that repair robots. | He could get into making computer games. As a 3d artist he could make characters or environments or vehicles etc. gotta be super passionate about it though. It's not the kind of industry you can just fall into if you're not super into it. |
3,028 | These may actually be unsubsidized prices, but these are also avoided costs in areas with unusually sunny weather. If it were the primary energy source you'd need an energy storage system that would massively drive up the costs. That issue compounds for places that aren't a desert. | Is there a battery that could last through the night? If batteries could even store energy for 8-10 hours it could be possible. We could live off the grid. I would love to be free of the grid |
3,029 | Which seems like the vibe this site wants to create. | That's assuming absolutely perfect transmission with no packet loss and 100% QOS for everyone, 100% of the time. What this would actually be like is a drunken basement jam session where someone keeps fucking up every ten seconds and they have to start over. |
3,030 | By your logic, the same could be said for Jar Jar Binks. | It's ok that people like things others don't. Hell, I genuinely liked the first Paul Blart movie and I get so much shit for it. |
3,031 | Pink Floyd is a hard band to get into from the radio songs -- I hate to be "that guy" but they're definitely a band you need to hear the whole album to appreciate the individual songs afterward. I bought Dark Side without ever hearing a note before and they've been in my Top 5 since the first chord of Breathe. | That's the thing I remember this old radio show I believe was called "Into the pink" and featured a lot of deep cuts. My mom would love it and I would just beg her to put anything else on. I snagged my Dad's copy of the wall and burned it to my comp at probably 13 or 14 and from there explored the rest of their collection and never looked back. |
3,032 | Assume I know nothing. If the Internet was developed by the government and nobody actually owns the Internet, then why do I pay an ISP every month? How does an ISP provide internet? Is it possible to become your own ISP? Thank youuuuuuuuuuuu!!! | You don't pay for the Internet itself. You pay for access to it. Kind of like bottled water. You aren't paying for the water itself, you are paying for the container/delivery. |
3,033 | Dave Franco is clearly the better Franco. He was hilarious in Neighbors. | Dude got Allison Brie. That fucker Dave Franco... good for him. |
3,034 | So I had an interesting experience with VR on a flight. I had a Samsung galaxy 7 with VR and decided to try out watching a movie on the plane. Everything was going fine and it was pretty neat to feel like you're in a movie theater by yourself when your actually crammed into a flying sardine can. What was interesting was when the plane started to turn a bit, the accelerometer (sic) in the phone picked up the turn and suddenly the movie theater started to turn around me while i kept staring forward. It was certainly a disorienting moment. I wonder if they'll find a way to deal with that. | Could probably hook up an external accelerometer that you place on the seat in front of you or something... Wonder how much they cost? |
3,035 | I ***unreasonably love*** "From Up On Poppy Hill". It's not a complex film, it's not a Studio Ghibli classic, but it's beautifully put together. The score, the artwork, the simple yet charming story, it all comes together. If a big part of how you judge a film is how it makes you *feel*, then From Up On Poppy Hill is a great film. For me, it absolutely makes me envisage living in Yokohama in the 1960s, it all just comes to life. A little sad it's under-appreciated, but then I get to tell people to go and watch it and enjoy hah. | Its probably my favorite movie peroid. Not just favorite anime. |
3,036 | OMG I love Peep Show, but I don't remember Mark saying this - Could you tell me which episode he says this in? | The closest thing I can think of is the Snow Patrol/Beatles joke when they play band names out a hat |
3,037 | The books are very different from the series. Brian Fuller (the show runner) has said that the show is a Thomas Harris mash up more than it is a direct following of the books. I am a devotee of both the show and the first two books, which are incredible. I pretend that the last two don't exist. | Awesome! Thank you guys! Definitely going to be picking up at least the first two books for some vacation reading. Super excited. |
3,038 | Finally the punk rockers are taking acid... I just saw the Lips on Sunday night and it was AWESOME!! | It was the most amazing show i have ever seen it was crazy! |
3,039 | The reason that this song "can't be sung by humans" isn't the vocal range (which as you point out can be done by a fair number of female singers), it's that the original actually has an instrument dubbed into the vocal track, which you can [hear at this point] Note the incredibly fast pitch changes across a wide range in those notes. The Fifth Element is in my top three favorite movies of all time, I've seen a huge number of different covers of this song, and no human singer has ever been able to nail that one exact part. Jane Zhang [doesn't even get close] Laura [makes a better stab at it] but still not quite there. | Actually both Laura and Jane get the sequence of pitches correct. They're just singing it legato instead of staccato / separated (that would be the true "impossible" technical part). But in that sense you could say that any t-pain vocoder song is an "impossible to reproduce" song for a human, since the pitch changes are "instant". I think what people find more impressive is the fast vocal range reproduction, rather than the computer-like transitions between notes. |
3,040 | **Catch 22, by Joseph Keller (Audiobook)** I have almost finished this highly recommended book and can say it is quite a fun read. The way this book is written had made me laugh out loud more then any other book whilst having an intriguing story! I consider this book a must read. | Finished hard copy of this last week. I have laughed out loud with this novel. Definitely a Must read. :) |
3,041 | [METZ] Also [Palma Violets] aren't strictly garage, but the element is there. | I didn't mind Palma Violets too much but METZ are brilliant, thanks a bunch |
3,042 | The problem is there is no way to store sunlight. You can light to generate electricity and use that to power light bulbs. That's not the same thing. | Just get a bunch of gravity and let the light orbit it. Easy stored sunlight. |
3,043 | I thought he played the role quite well. If you have an issue with the terrible dialogue, the fault lies with the writers and their script, not Smith's ability to play the role he was given. | That's what everyone always said to me. I just didn't care for his character. He's C level compared to Joker and Harley who I wanted to see more of. |
3,044 | I actually live in an area with a high amount of immigrants. It's lovely and diverse - much more tolerant and open than the monochromatic working-class estate I grew up in. I feel safer, too. | > I actually live in an area with a high amount of immigrants. It's lovely and diverse. What area is that? |
3,045 | These are just total numbers. How do we know that number of projects Huawei has is exactly the same that Apple has? How can we know from these numbers how much each company spent on processor development? What you have given is shit. Does not answer anything. | What evidence have you given? You just stated a percentage with nothing to back it up. |
3,046 | No, publishers know libraries, in general, are some of their biggest purchasers. Big book comes out, virtually every library in the US will have access to a physical copy. Plus, they've granted access to ebooks through overdrive, albeit the short end of the stick really goes to the libraries. | Not to mention the fact that libraries promote literacy and a "culture of reading," which ultimately benefits publishers. A literate population is a book-buying population. |
3,047 | Should we expect a paintless Mark II Captain America suit, then? | There is virtually no red on it, so there's that. |
3,048 | Is there any movie you can compare it to. I feel like I'm about to have to alter my expectations too after how you just described it. I liked PTA's *There Will Be Blood* and I thought *The Master* was a wonderfully crafted film, but it put me in a funk for a few days after I watched it and I don't have any desire to see it again. Does *Inherent Vice* lean toward one of those? | I guess the best way to watch the film for the first time is to watch it passively. Don't get so hung up on the details because it will frustrate you. Just enjoy the ride, retain what you can from the dense convoluted plot and just have fun with it. As to whether you would want to watch it again will be up to you. The story definitely does benefit from multiple viewings so that's something to keep in mind. |
3,049 | Am I able to upgrade to win10 straight from win8? | No. You need to upgrade to 8.1, and then to win 10 |
3,050 | Even a follow up tweet saying we dont agree with the post and we don't say negative things about our president. Would of made me believe it was "Hacked". I definitely feel like it was internal because they never really Retracted what was said they just blamed hacking. | You can't say "we dont (sic) agree with the post" because that's a stance. Corporations generally don't like to take a stance on controversial topics, which the current president of the US certainly is, because you will annoy a section of your consumer base. This isn't true in all cases of course. A firearms manufacturer taking a pro-gun stance won't surprise anyone or lose them any significant business, but if your consumer base has a wide range of opinions on a topic you want to stay neutral. The response McDonald's gave was their best option, saying they didn't do it keeps it neutral. |
3,051 | It is rather pointless. A lot of expensive electronics and EM fields to solve a "problem" which nobody really has. I have 2 wires going into my laptop, the charging cable and the USB3 dock. It takes me all of 5 seconds to plug them in and I'm good. I really don't need to double the cost of my laptop to save myself 5 seconds every time I want to dock my laptop. | I find wires a problem.they are messy aa hell and make a room look crap IMO. |
3,052 | I am going with West Philly, like the 4300 block of Spruce St. | Who are you and how do you know where I live? |
3,053 | I've evolved beyond that. Instead I feel superior to people who care about people who care about what medium people read from. I should post a thread about how pointless it is to care about it... | It's not so much feeling superior as just wanting to see less of it. It adds nothing to the discussion. I see 'books' as an umbrella term for paper, ebook, maybe even graphic novel etc. And I know lots of people here are talking about other flaws of the sub, but just because there's more than one kind of shit post doesn't meant that we can't, in this thread talk about one particular kind. |
3,054 | I was given this CD for Xmas way back when and was mercilessly made fun of by my cousin and an uncle - "Weezer? What, like they can't breathe or something?" Skip ahead 6 years to said cousin escaping the farm for his freshman year at college, and him apologizing profusely by telling me what a classic that album is/was. | Mom: "Weezer, Smashing Pumpkins, all your bands have weird names, son." Me: "You listen to Lynyrd Skynyrd and Tears for Fears, Mom, GAWL." |
3,055 | Agree. Especially re: Kevin Smith. I mean Zack and Miri was alright but looking back on his filmography I can see what appealed about it when I was a teenager but in my late 20's not so much. It just seems like he writes movies for 16 year old stoners. Tim Burton is a bit of a one trick pony. He did some great stuff a long time ago. Then kept doing it. Over and over. Sort of like the Chili Peppers ;) | "It just seems like he writes movies for 16 year old stoners." You say that like it's a bad thing. |
3,056 | That looks incredibly useful, probably easier than what he's doing and also a great price. | Assuming they'll sell you an order for less than $10. Whoops, no. Need to buy more shit. |
3,057 | This was awful, boring, and I don't get how this crap got approved. | I get how people would hate it, but I laughed throughout. It probably has limited appeal, though. I'm not a Murray enthusiast either, but I do like dry humor. |
3,058 | i like Anandtech but i'm looking for more alternates. for mobile/cell websites, i like GSMArena even if the fantard comments in the comments section make me want to pull my hair out. i'm meh on Engadget and i really, really, really dislike The Verge and their pompous/worship writing. Ars Technica was recommended to me once but i've come to dislike it after reading their reviews (if you can even call it as such) that read more like rants. can anyone recommend other sites that are informative as well as moderate or neutral in terms of the tone of their content? | Well there's anandtech. You can also check out anandtech. Or even anandtech. |
3,059 | Why reddit, for a large corpus of conversation, instead of Project Gutenberg for example? | I mean, I think it's a terrible idea, but Reddit is people *talking* to each other. Guttenberg is books, people *writing* to each other. Very different voices and registers. |
3,060 | You asked why PayPal was relevant. It’s relevant because they disclosed the breach. | The fact PayPal owns the company is irrelevant to the topic. Thus, sensationalized news. "Blah blah blah company reported its own breach" would have made no one pay attention. The media is adding PayPal in to the dialog purely to get people to get click. They are clicking over the word PayPal and nothing more. |
3,061 | Technically it is, but then when we say Linux we of course talk about the whole package and not the technical term. | Which is my point, and why Android is not "Linux". It's a totally different package except for the kernel. It has *nothing* else in common with "Linux" -- not the libaries, not the shell, not the GUI, nothing. |
3,062 | His criticism is perfectly valid. Seems pretty true from my perspective, too, but that's neither here nor there. | "It had very little plot" -- Not true. "Then all the sudden they just have him go on a murderous rampage." --Objectively false. Maybe you were just drunk while watching the movie; totally understandable. "Then cue AND HE'S A REAL HUMAN BEING AND A REAL HERO" --Trite and irritating to read. Basically it's terrible criticism. I don't expect everyone to agree on a film, and don't really care if you don't like the movie. Just express yourself intelligently, for the love of God. |
3,063 | They can't give them away for free? Think about it. Tesla gets great PR. Tesla gets a population with really high uptake of the powerwall product and concept. Tesla gets to demonstrate to the world - a lot of which will and does face power supply problems both regular and during disasters - that powerwalls will keep the lights on. They'd easily get their money's worth giving them away. | I don't know, I'd have to see the numbers behind spending that much money and how much they benefit from additional PR. They already have great PR so I don't know how good the marginal return is. If it convinces a lot of Puerto Ricans to start buying them then maybe it makes sense but I doubt it's a good economic move for most Puerto Ricans. |
3,064 | I really, REALLY loved the idea of having my smart watch/jewelry having the ability to send out a distress signal if necessary to my family and boyfriend, and Cuff was discontinued after I ordered it. :( Is there any alternative that any of you know about that offers this type of option as well? Thanks all. | My Samsung Gear 2 has a distress function. I hit the home button three times and it will send a message, my gps location, and a short audio clip of my surroundings to up to four contacts. |
3,065 | Superchargers are not free for Model 3 owners, or for any Model S/X owners purchased after December 2016 or so (forgot the exact date). [The costs/rates are around $0.12-$0.20 per kW] depending on the state, same as the normal electricity prices. And every store/work charger I've seen charges higher than $0.20 (around $0.25-$0.50) per kW to use their chargers (the only free ones I've ever seen are at the Google campus). So to "fill up" a 65-kW Model 3 at a Supercharger would cost around $7.80-$13.00, depending on your state, vs. around $14 to fill up a 35-mpg gas tank for that same range (225 miles). | Good to know! Thanks! My friend got a model S early on so I just assumed the super charger were free for all tesla customers |
3,066 | Assuming he survives Civil War, which in my mind is doubtful | Chris Evans is contracted to appear in both Infinity Wars movies, so I doubt he's going to die. |
3,067 | As part of the new year, I recommend everyone back up all of their computer data. I know I don't do it nearly enough. :) | Download cobian backup, do an incremental backup of your documents folder or even your whole drive every day, it's super easy. Once you do the initial backup, the incrementals take like a few minutes and run in the background. |
3,068 | But he already has a Reading Rainbow App, which I don't think WNED is involved with so why are they upset now? This is pathetic greed. | He has/had a license agreement with WNED for RR digital content and it stipulates they get half. They are upset because he went into negotiations with Jim Henson Co and Netflix without their involvement to make a spinoff/crossover show for Netflix. Not sure if this falls under the license but that caused them to say Burton's company violated the license. Button's company then requested a judge validate their use under the license agreement to prevent WNED from kicking him out of something he worked on for years already and WNED counter claimed. This is still in litigation. I am assuming the litigation is going bad so now they are trying to throw everything against the wall to see what sticks. |
3,069 | > As of now, the engine lives only in patent documents. The technology is so out-there that it is unclear whether anyone will ever build it. I guess gone are the days were you have to **invent** something to patent an **invent**ion. I take it that just imagining it is good enough these days. | Patent examiners have no way to actively test that something works. If it is something obvious like perpetual motion, then the application will get flagged. But if there is sufficient information to build the device, it is fine. However black-box inventions would not be patentable. For example creating a rocket with a "warp drive" where "warp drive" is not a commonly known piece of technology and there is no explanation in the application on how to create one. /patent examiner |
3,070 | > Build a stadium? Who do you think pays for it? Actually, city governments (taxpayers) most often pay for them. | That was my point. The person way above was talking about subsidies. I.e., the govt funding private projects. Whether it's state or local. |
3,071 | What's the exact difference between a kalimba and a mbira? | mbira is the original African instrument, typically with a double layer of "keys" on one side. kalimba is the modernized equivalent. |
3,072 | Government efficiency.... People think I'm insane for not believing that the government is capable of choosing how to best spend my tax money. | If you think shit like this doesn't happen in the private sector, I've got some bad news for you... We only hear about the government fuckups because they are public record. You don't hear about the private sector fuckups because they get buried and not admitted to. Only taking the 2 most recent fuckups I've dealt with at my work, the company I've worked for (private company) has wasted somewhere in the ballpark of $10-20 million on crappy software we were forced to use and integrate into the rest of our systems for various reasons. |
3,073 | Man, I loved the stuff Sabbath has done with Dio. The new Heaven and Hell record was amazing, and super heavy. Meanwhile Ozzy is doing (christmas) duets with Jessica Simpson. Im just sayin... | Ozzy may be doing Christmas duets, but even Jessica Simpson is more rocking and less of a girl than RJD. If you think that album was heavy, then you must have bought it in lead. Dio's songs don't make any sense, he can't stop making idiotic, useless, noises during songs and his only skill is going through octaves while singing about dragons. The name sticks. |
3,074 | Funny how everyone was saying they broke up a couple months ago... | Did they not make a video about how they broke up just to mess with everyone a little? |
3,075 | Check out "Tripped" People also almost did another called "parallels", but it got dropped n became a "movie" that was clearly intended as a pilot for a series =( | Awesome, I'll add it to the list, It'll fill the gap until the inevitable reboot! |
3,076 | ya some cable exec is screaming at his lawyers I bet. Most likely the supreme court will rule again in the favor of money because that is what the supreme court does these days. | Cable companies had nothing to do with the case. That myth needs to die. They don't really care about their broadcast-station-only plans. Not many people subscribe them, and there is not much money to be made. They design their pricing to make basic cable a better option. Compare the Limited Basic to Digital Economy plans here: It was broadcast stations that were losing out to Aero. People watching Aero are not being counted towards their audience/ratings via Nielsen. Anyone that ditched their antenna for Aero made them lose money/ratings. Aero could have avoided the entire lawsuit if they had worked with Nielsen and broadcast stations. |
3,077 | Book 5 here. I could not take one more "And she turned up her nose and sniffed at him" Dude hates women. Like...it was obnoxious. Also, these are all people in their mid to late 20's, and yet they blush at holding hands. | I just started book three, does it really get that bad? =\ |
3,078 | And by "support their outdated business plan" they mean "make people actually pay for their products if they want to use them." Illegal, free sharing and copying has never existed in the past nearly to the extent to which it exists today, which is why it was never prosecuted for before. | Record labels aren't needed anymore to distribute music, so they had better start offering something unique if they want money. Even if the commercial music industry some how collapsed people would still make music and perform, because that's what people do. (And now the entire process can take place without ever leaving a room). |
3,079 | I'm not quite consigning him to the pile yet, but it goes beyond his having one stinker. His record indicates he's difficult to work with - he's been mysteriously dismissed from several films and gone on unprofessional twitter rants against his backing studio, which is not going to endear him to them. He also (in my opinion) attempted to make *Fantastic 4* into some kind of *Chronicle* sequel or something of that kind. So it's not just his ratio of good film to bad film, he doesn't seem like the kind of guy who's going to make good choices professionally or directorially. | Exactly. He's not the first director to have their film taken away from them by the studio, but he is one of a handful who behaved very poorly about it. |
3,080 | no I am asking for proof that government is under russian blackmail, including president. dont trust anything you see on internet on blank value - always ask for proof/source. and to be honest your username indicates that you are not the best source of info - so that is why I asked also. | At this point the burden of evidence is on you dude. Do you have proof that they are not compromised? |
3,081 | You don't know me but I just wanna say congratulations on 51 days! I've never been an addict, but I have many close friends who have been/are, and as such, this is very close to my heart. I'm genuinely happy you were able to kick your addiction and are still with us! | He's a pretty good lyricist in that his flow is extremely smooth. Also, he's been in the scene in he was *9* years old. Not many other people can say that. He's basically beethoven. |
3,082 | My pc is silent even when I game hard core. I7-4790k @ 4.0Ghz, 16gb RAM, Azza full tower case (7 silent fans), 600w PSU with a 1 tb hdd and a 256gb ssd... and a 980gtx. All of that shit together is less than iMac, and would eat it up. Hell the VMs in my hypervisor outperform the current gen iMac with comparable specs | Great, I bet your dad is bigger than my dad too. I beginning think the PC only crowd has a some sort of cognitive problem. They can't comprehend the words small and light. |
3,083 | Linkin Park. My musical tastes are pretty broad, but I tend to gravitate towards punk, post-hardcore, indie rock. But I still dig early Linkin Park; it's pretty well-made music. I guess Slipknot would be a guilty pleasure, but I honestly don't feel guilty about listening to them. They were unfairly lumped into nu-metal, but that first album was far from the likes of Limp Bizkit and their ilk. | LP was my favorite band growing up. I wouldn't consider listening to them a guilty pleasure. *Hybrid Theory* sold 27 million and *Meteora* sold over 20 million. Not too bad if you ask me. |
3,084 | I dont know if I am an idiot, or should have watched the original but what the fuck was Mad Max? | Well, there was this guy called Max, and he did some crazy stuff. |
3,085 | Cool stuff, but I’d listen to John Siracusa’s discussion on encoding formats and what drives their adoption. It’s sad, but without larger corporations pushing for it a lot of encoding formats do not get the widespread adoption you’d think they deserve. | I guess a group consisting of Google, Amazon, Netflix, Hulu, Adobe, Nvidia, Intel, AMD, ARM, Mozilla, Microsoft, Cisco, Broadcom and others **might** have good chances of pushing a new format to the market. |
3,086 | ohmyrockness.com is decent if you're in Chicago, NYC, or LA.... | Unfortunately I'm in Sunderland, England, but thanks for the recommendation anyway. |
3,087 | Foo Fighters reminds me of Paul McCartney's band Wings. Dave Grohl and Paul McCartney are both excellent musicians and *producers*. You can hear them coaching their bands when they sing. They exaggerate the cadences and over-emphasize builds (etc). These guys are probably two of the best and most authentic singer/producers around but you still cannot shake the feeling that they are teaching at the same time they are singing/emoting. I might've added Ronnie James Dio to that category too but somehow the nature of the metal genre tends to gel really well with exaggerating vocal performances anyway. It's the musical equivalent of Diet Grapefruit soda where you can't taste the aspartame after-taste. | If you think they're similar then you'd like this cover. It's the Foos covering 'Band on the Run' |
3,088 | Can't you tell that the hydrogen economy is a front for business as usual? It's the same game they played with ethanol. | You've been listening to well meaning people who don't know what they're talking about. Or maybe not so well meaning. Just watch what happens in the next few years. If not the US then the rest of the world. Edit:Grammar |
3,089 | Have you tried it? I have tried it on two connections on a LAN. In one case it worked, in another case it didn't. It has some way to go before I would rely on it for anything. | I love it. My phone backs up images to my NAS thanks to my always on OSX BT client. I also have a folder synced to 3 different computers and my phone to keep my recent "in demand" music within arms reach. It's anecdotal of course, but I've had zero issues. |
3,090 | Thank you for your submission! Unfortunately, your submission has been removed for the following reason(s): * Editorialised title. Please read the the [subreddit rules] before continuing to post. If you have any questions, please feel free to message the mods. | I'm not quite sure how I editorialized the title if I took the title from the article and added a line from the article. |
3,091 | Okay? And? He writes for both of them? This is known, doesn't make their music any less enjoyable. | Not any less enjoyable, but they share more in similarity than two bands formed on different continents who were majorly successful at two different times, and also performed two distinct genres |
3,092 | SyFy *is* turning it into a series, it premieres this December alongside an adaptation of Clarke's "Childhood's End," and early press for "The Expanse" [seems to be positive] | > The filming crew had 80,000-square feet of stage space, and most of the sets are physically constructed, not greenscreen. Wow, positive indeed! |
3,093 | Star Wars: Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace. Nuff Said. | 'Fanboys' nails it when right at the end they're in the theater and it's about to start, then the great final line 'What if it sucks?' |
3,094 | It makes perfect sense to me. Always remove the most popular genre. Identify the cinematic zeitgeist and remove it. While you're at it remove actioners, horror, and R-rated comedy. /r/movies should be a place where redditors of discerning tastes can discuss the common aesthetic between Woody Allen and Jean-Luc Godard, and maybe when the next Kurosawa festival is going to be. Finally, change the tagline for the subreddit to "Milan, dahling. Milan...." And /r/movies will be fabulous at last!!! You fucking dumbass mods. Name one instance where "mods making major changes" **didn't** translate into suck. I'll wait. | I love this reply. It's a shame it's being downvoted. The hipsters are aware and angry. |
3,095 | >the firm would not hold the currency, but would convert its Bitcoin deposits back into US dollars every 24 hours. >However, as Ms Spaven points out, "that's what most of the big companies are doing, because [the price of] Bitcoin is still massively volatile". This is just like a company accepting other commodities like beanie babies or Magic cards based on their dollar value, then selling them for currency. | Exactly, but it's much easier to send bitcoins over the internet than beanie babies. |
3,096 | Sherlock Holmes? As in the sequel that came out a year ago? Was it really that culturally significant? | Harry Potter? That's a low target, particularly is the *last* of a long series was out a year ago. Avatar, too, has long since been overplayed. Worth remembering, too, that it's still at least two months before this rubbish is released. So the jokes are going to be even *more* tired by then. |
3,097 | Songs for the deaf is a rough one since you can't even hear it. | K. L. O. N. Los Angeles, Klon radio! We play the songs that sound more like everyone else, than anyone else. KLON klon ^klon ^^klon |
3,098 | Oh fuck... I lost it. I can't imagine having no more of Vimes, Nobbs, Carrot, Colon, Little Sam... Rincewind, Vetinari, Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg, the Nac Mac Feegles... No more Moist von Lipwig... I can't process it. These characters defined my awkward late teens and early adulthood. I'm right there with you, my internet friend. | The more of these comments I read the more i lose it, but the more i know those ripples indeed will never die. |
3,099 | Yeah, usually you rev match while down shifting. Rev matching while going up gears in a car isn't used much to my knowledge, race car or not. | it is if your car doesn't have synchros. eg. sequential transmissions with dog teeth. |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.