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3,100 | Would you or someone kindly explain to me the subtext of the meta joke? Because I'm missing something. Thanks | the movie is about america sending assassins disguised as an interview team to kill kim jong un. if north korea sends assassins disguised as an interview team to etc etc you get it. meta. irony. whatever |
3,101 | It would have to be a tie between *The Great Gatsby* by F. Scott Fitzgerald and *The Virgin Suicides* by Jeffrey Eugenides. The sheer amount of love and tragedy expressed throughout both of those stories is phenomenal. Both authors are such masterminds with words. | The part of the Great Gatsby that really stuck with me as a teen reading it was the part at the very end where he says says that we are boats being ceaselessly bourne back into the past. That's when it hit me that the world isn't fair, the American Dream of anyone can become anyone they want to be is false and we all just have to live with it. That idea STILL resonates today. |
3,102 | From some of the people who brought us the economic shitstorm in 08, here is a list of books that can teach you how to be an incredible, heartless douche. | Interesting to note where their political leanings lie based on reading choice |
3,103 | Im guessing you never been behind a car which was actually driving the speed limit on the highway. Around me in Hartford ct buses drive the speed limit of 50 on the highway and create miles of traffic behind them since the average speed is 65 to 70. | The point is that traffic will be much better in the long run if everyone were to drive "perfectly" (such as these automated cars do), so by dumbing them down to fit human driving you're just letting the root cause fester. I would shit a brick if someone was going 10-20mph slower than everyone else on the highway (out here they're face paced, and an exit every mile). But I understand that human driving is ultimately the cause of most standstills and accidents. |
3,104 | I'll go with bad marketing for sure. The trailer sucked. I had no interest whatsoever in seeing it until I read lots of good reviews. The trailer didn't reveal what kind of movie it was. | The ironical thing is that on the front page there's another story at this moment which says: [Dear filmmakers, please stop putting the funniest/scariest/best scenes from a movie in it's trailer.] Guess this whole conversation gives me more respect for the art of creating a good trailer where you can tempt a movie-goer without giving away the best scenes of the movie. |
3,105 | You don't have a point because you don't understand enough about chemistry to be arguing about it. You've already revealed your lack of knowledge, it's too late to backpedal out of it now. Next time, learn the topic you want to debate before debating it instead of expecting your opponent to fill in massive gaps of fundamental knowledge for you. Confident ignorance like yours is why people can sell fake gills using blatant pseudoscience. | Again, even ignoring chemistry, most of my points here are basic reasoning, with no specific amount of chemical knowledge required for them. Aside from that, you're arguing from a position of clearly not knowing much chemistry since you think molecular diameter is relevant here, and since, unlike mine, your point (that I "don't understand enough about chemistry to be arguing about it") actually relies on knowledge of chemistry, you're probably the one who should learn the topic you want to debate about next time. |
3,106 | Guardians is the only Marvel film I would consider to be a comedy. The rest are action movies with comedic moments. | Thor: The Dark World tried way too hard to be funny in my opinoin. |
3,107 | Wait wtf, they just randomly forced me to use my real name on youtube instead of my email username, i thought they were doing the opposite... | You could avoid it by hitting the back button. I really got turned off of G+ once the popups stopped putting "cancel" or "later" buttons, just one "awesome, that's totally fine!" button and no "X" to close the window or anything. Talk about out-Facebooking Facebook and stealing defeat from the jaws of victory. |
3,108 | [Box Office Mojo] or, if you prefer seeing movie posters, [IMDb] *Drops the mic.* | Looks like they don't count dead or obscure languages. Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ and Apocalypto would come in at #1 (by far) and #4, respectively. |
3,109 | It was really, really god awful. I don't have the slightest idea how they could even make a movie out of it? Does Scarlet Johansson turn into quantum computer optical disc in this one? | it was really confusing and dumb at the same time. |
3,110 | My problem is that was Will Smith being Will Smith. Saying cocky shit when he's in a losing situation? Check. Welling up and just wanting to be with his kid? Check. All he needed to do was smoke a cigar and rap on the soundtrack and it would have officially been every Will Smith movie ever. His roles are always the same, and it's just stale at this point. | But I think we also need to consider whether that's Will Smith's limited acting range, or is it just writers writing a Will Smith role for Will Smith. |
3,111 | Great book, great show. Every time it comes up I being up how brilliantly the subtitles were handled. When it begins you have no idea what anyone is saying, but as Blackthorne learns Japanese more and more of the words get translated. | >When it begins you have no idea what anyone is saying, but as Blackthorne learns Japanese more and more of the words get translated. This is true, but there really aren't very many subtitles at all. Usually a character translates for Blackthorne. |
3,112 | I'd reccomend Strange Angels and Ghost Huntress series for equal parts fun paranormal and romance (not in the early books but they are present later) and for dystopia I'd reccomend the online book Zombies vs Aliens which should still be available for free on Wattpad. They're all fun, can still be serious, and have well written and rounded characters you'll fall in love with! | I know you said you didnt want series but the GH are good as stand alones and Strange Angels are very short books. |
3,113 | But *does* it inherently have value? Isn't it essentially just a shiny thing? | It's a shiny thing that can *do* stuff though. You can make stuff out of it. Ditto with gold. So as long as people are making stuff with it, then there's a demand for it (and their labor) and is sort-of establishes a baseline of value. (1 silver piece = X chickens or Y Beers) and you can figure out prices from there. |
3,114 | your taste in movies brings a tear to my eye. Dirty dozen and the great escape are two movies I absolutely love. Also, guns of navarone is a good one. Edit: spelling. on my phone at work... | Totally forgot about Guns of Navarone, have not seen that movie in about 10 years. |
3,115 | Because then you wouldn't be training it against real life possibilities? I believe it'd be semi useless to train it against a computer generated set if your computer generated images are not representative of the real images. | I dont see why they should not could be made representative. CGI still images are pretty close to photo realistic these days. So making them look cctv ugly should not be a problem. |
3,116 | I agree, I hadn't seen any kind of pictures/videos of them for years and it just kind of hit me that they aren't 20something rockers any more. They looked like accountants. | To be fair there were some other punk bands back in the day that rocked pocket protectors and horned-rimmed glasses to good effect. |
3,117 | Curious but usefulness information: some physicists of the University of Leicester calculated that the amount of energy needed was more or less 2.25*10^32 J (or watts in one second). | /r/theydidthemath. for clarity, it should say a power of 2.25*10³² watts for* one second |
3,118 | Why do so many people think that the more cuts there are, the worse it is? | Because if you do it wrong, it's distracting at best and disorienting at worst. Editors are like referees: if you go unnoticed, you've done a good job. |
3,119 | To be fair, I groused. I didn't think you could redo a major Nicholson performance. I considered Jack's Joker to be seminal work and closed to challenge. Even attempting it was a cardinal sin in my eyes. I was not expecting Ledger to have the performance he did. I was so wrong. Ledger was brilliant, disturbing and nothing like Nicholson. Both are great and not remotely in contest with each other. I've never seen two performances of the same role be so different and yet both be successful. I hope Hathaway can deliver. If not, she might need a stern sexual disappointment and I'll step up to deliver it, if necessary. | I had the same disappointment when I heard they cast Ledger. Then I saw one of the early teasers with no video footage from the film, just an image of the bat logo slowly growing to fill the screen with some audio snippets mostly from Alfred and Bruce, then at the end you can hear Heath's Joker say a short line and then laugh and [just from that short burst of laughter at the end I knew he had fucking NAILED IT.] |
3,120 | Newegg used to be great. But they went downhill fast. Their prices are now often beat by others, their shipping policies are pretty bad, and their return policy is atrocious compared to something like Amazon which will often take things back no questions asked. | Who's better than Newegg nowadays? (I'm Canadian if you want to get country-specific) |
3,121 | > it will inevitably fall behind again. Too late! IE10 was released over 2 years ago. Making something compatible with IE10 is heaven compared to IE8 or lower, but still way behind on new HTML5 features. | 10 has automatic updates so complaining about it is like complaining about Chrome 13 being outdated today. |
3,122 | This was the plan long before the tariffs came into play. Nice try though. | Yeah, he was talking about this years ago, im not saying this is new. |
3,123 | Despite how much the chili peppers have fallen off Stadium Arcadium is an amazing album. Assuming you're talking about them and not Radiohead because that is just wholly untrue if so. | I miss John Fruciante, that album was so much influenced by him |
3,124 | In theory, your idea would be great, but in the current energy market this is unrealistic. | We can replace our most of our energy structure twice in the foreseeable future, or we can do it once. How is doing it twice more realistic than doing it once? |
3,125 | I guess it's the opposite. The older the system, the easier it is to hack. Let's say, MS stopped supporting XP. If today MS releases a patch for vulnerability for Win7, hackers will first look if that vulnerability is present on XP. Since, XP is not supported, it will not get any patch and for hackers it's like "candy from a baby." | I'm pretty dumb with this kind of thing so forgive my ignorance but if that was the case couldn't they just use any computer themselves? |
3,126 | I'm an undergrad right now, and am probably going to major in math. While I agree with you completely, there is still a noticeable difference between your average, not so special math undergrad or graduate student and the average guy who knows math. Math does need some innate talent, it's just that the difference between a good mathematician and a GREAT mathematician is vast to the point where the good think they're simply average. | >Math does need some innate talent, it's just that the difference between a good mathematician and a GREAT mathematician is vast to the point where the good think they're simply average. I humbly disagree. Just sit down and ask your professors about their current research. It may sound like they are talented, but they are as confused as you are. I use to think math was an innate talent, but as I've progressed in my learning it really was just my own hubris. Anyone can learn math. For some awful reason we just tell people they can't. |
3,127 | Best concert in terms of production? I went to the Watch the Throne tour last October and it absolutely blew my mind. Two of my favorite musicians performing their best hits and an amazing collaborative record for 3 hours. In terms of just talent, I caught La Dispute and Defeater in Savannah, GA at a venue no bigger than my bedroom. That was incredible. Honorable mentions go to Touche' Amore', Circa Survive, and my personal favorite band to see live is The Chariot. | I just went to see touche and circa. I'd never really heard touche. They one of my favorite bands right now. They really put on a great show. |
3,128 | Eh... they better be cheap. Otherwise you might as well buy Samsung Gear VR or similar, and get a simple app to do the horizon stuff. | >The £300 goggles are set to be unveiled at a technology convention in the US and could one day be part of every aircraft seat. They are not cheap and they will never be part of every aircraft seat. |
3,129 | Come on, it's an article about *libraries.* You don't think people actually *read* it do you? | They only read the digital versions on their phone. Weird, It's like books are outdated and kill trees. |
3,130 | They haven't released the iPad Pro yet. No, it's most likely not a match for an i3, but it seems unfair to judge before we see some benchmarks. | It might match an older i3 - true - but it's still disingenuous. They were clearly saying it to get less-informed people to think that the iPad Pro's processor is as powerful as my workstation's processor. Not that Microsoft comparing a 2015 Surface Book to a 2012 Macbook Pro is any better. |
3,131 | that's not how the market works. Things are priced at the maximum value that will still get purchased. They've found that 10 bucks is the magic number. You talk about laptops in your example, but there's a tangible difference in those differently priced devices. A streaming service without ads isn't very different from the next. | But shouldn't there be a more affordable option for everything? $10 is borderline overpriced, especially when you have no choice but to pay that amount in most cases. |
3,132 | If you can borrow a kindle from someone I'd suggest giving it a go. The difference between a paperwhite and a tablet is day and night - it doesn't look like a screen and although there is an internet browser it's not easy to use for scrolling social media. | looks like a paperwhite is only $80, may give that a try. >it doesn't look like a screen and although there is an internet browser it's not easy to use for scrolling social media. good. i just deleted the reddit app off my phone, freeing me from the temptation to just scroll endlessly. |
3,133 | ...I don't think you really read that if you are asking for the name of the movie. It's the last two words in the first sentence. | Hindsight being 20/20 you are correct, guess I was so excited to read the letter it did not register. Take care, and buy/rent the movie if you can afford it. |
3,134 | Sadly it was not.. Until you mentioned it, I had never heard that song. Too bad, because I had an amazing set up for a clever title. Damn. | I saw Cake performing. In the rain. What does reddit think. About that band? |
3,135 | Hahahaha. Dude you are absolutely correct. Instead they could have invest to save whales from dying. | Why save the whales when you can electrocute them? |
3,136 | for true post scarcity society, you also need large amount of resources, not just automated exploitation thereof. | What you really need is vast quantities of essentially free energy. Everything else will just be a matter of spending some of that energy in acquiring it or recycling it from your waste. Rare elements can even be produced through transmutation of existing abundant elements. When you've got all the energy you could ever want it's really not a (huge) problem. Since the Sun is a free source of vast quantities of energy, it's just a matter of time before we get there. |
3,137 | Wow, Linus was right, Forbes has really been on the ball about tech news | > Wow, Linus was right, ~~Forbes~~ *a Forbes.com-hosted blogger* has really been on the ball about tech news |
3,138 | In defense of the people who skim the Great Novels of the XIX century: yes, those texts are dense, but maybe could have benefited from a better editing. At the time writing was a solemn process and since most of the books were supposed to last a long time, the texts were very padded. We read more books, the narrative tropes have become familiar to us and (my favorite example) once you read a description of a forest, you have read them all! So, we can skim some parts and not miss much. | That’s not even factoring in the novels from times when authors got paid by the word for their novels! |
3,139 | Wasn't black parade my chemical romance? Or was that just the song? | It's the name of the album and a song. |
3,140 | I genuinly think it was a piece of garbage. Felt like a B-movie in all ascepts except visual/audio FX. Uninteresting characters and a messy and unengaging story. I really do not understand how every reviewer and person who sees this film just sees past how exceptionally bad it is. Official discussion? More like official circlejerk. The downvote button is for "does not contribute to discussion". | Not terrible, just a mildly entertaining, generic action movie that is completely soulless, and that I'll probably never go out of my way to see again |
3,141 | See, for a moment I had no idea who 'q' was and had to look her up. Considering that's how memorable her character was, i'd say ilsa faust is miles ahead. | I had to look it up too because I didn't know the actress' name, same as I didn't know who Ferguson was until I read the article |
3,142 | It was mostly Jennifer Lawrence looking at sad shit and making sad faces. I almost fell asleep. | If the bitch would quit visiting people Donald Sutherland wouldn't cap ass! |
3,143 | Yeah was that the one where the kid bought the typewriter and everything he wrote came true but it turned out that it was actually everything that he *thought* regardless of if it was written or not? I think the title had the word "blob" in it somewhere. | I think you're thinking of an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark. |
3,144 | So the Google car broke the law (on a way that 99% of drivers also break the law), but that did not cause the accident. It's not clear if there were cars or sandbags in front of the Google car when the accident occurred, but regardless, the bus actually caused the accident by trying unsuccessfully to pass vehicles in the same lane. The Google car had done that previously and safely, the bus did not. At the time of the crash, the bus was at fault. | No, that extra wide right lane is for parallel parking. It's like if you pulled into a parking spot and then pulled back into traffic. |
3,145 | Since it's quiet, do you shoot film and digital? I just got an old Pentax medium format and am having a lot of fun with it. | I shoot both, but mostly digital since film can get expensive. I used to have an Mamiya RZ67 medium format that I loved, but I sold it when I injured my arm a few years ago. It was a dumb move. I could have just waited until the arm healed to use it, but I was convinced the it would never get better, so off it went. |
3,146 | Right?? Didn't know it was anything but a kinks song | I only know the Van Halen version from Guitar Hero II |
3,147 | I'm pretty sure that RATM thought government was the machine too. Sure they were opposed to corporatization and globalization, but all of that occurs under the guise of good governance. Also, they supported the Zapatista movement which is anti-government. | There are different forms of anti-government at play here. RATM would be against the part of government that benefits the rich at the expense of the poor. Rush is very much for that, he is anti-government in the way of anti-helping-people. |
3,148 | That looks fucking awesome, that guy really knows how to work the crowd. Must of had a lot of fun. | I love the 'asshole' comment half way through. Very funny. |
3,149 | 720p? Come on Amazon... It's 2014, give us 1080p. That's even slightly less PPI than the iPhone. | Especially since the Note 4 is rumored to be at 1440p |
3,150 | Cowon S9 with 32GB flash memory. OLED screen. It plays FLAC and OGG, as well as other open formats. The sound quality is far better than what the Apple products offer. | Hmm this does look pretty good. I'll look into getting this. |
3,151 | i dont get it. did he spill on it or put it there intentionally. | he puts "lean" (cough syrup) on his "square" (cigarette) so that when he smokes it he'll get high. The line is clever because if one were to literally lean on a literal square, then the square would be deformed into a rhombus. hope this makes sense. |
3,152 | False. When Louis CK released is standup for what, $5? Completely DRM free and in HD, people still pirated it. Louis himself even posted comments on The Pirate Bay about it because the person who uploaded it tried to claim he was feeling guilty about it. People just like to steal, prices don't matter all that much. | It's ease of access not price. If you had the same access as a pirate library plus more for a very low price you could make a lot of people pay rather than pirate. Basically people will always flow to the path of least resistance. |
3,153 | It could send GPS coordinates. Sounds kind of over the top to triangulate signals when all modern phones that could run the app has a GPS. | GPS doesn't have a Z axis, brings me back to my previous point. How many non-single family dwellings have more than 1 story? Police, Fire, EMS will not search a multifamily residential top to bottom, despite what you'd hope they would do. Source: My profession. Edit: Wow, didn't mean GPS, meant cell triangulation. I work overnights and hadn't slept yet... Even with GPS having a Z axis to fully utilize it the call taking software would have to have some sort of 3D building map built into the software (just providing an altitude as a raw number would be of limited use). $$$$$ |
3,154 | They do good services. As long as I understand the IKEA family is pushing the monis into their town, where they came from, and also they probably live a posh life in some hotels too. They push environmental things and LEDs, and solar panels, and more resource-efficient products. So we can be OK with them for a while. There are far more evil corps around. | > the IKEA family is pushing the monis into their town. Their town of [Älmhult, Sweden] has 8,955 residents. Everyone in that town should have free everything. They should all be driving around in free Hummers with free gas eating at free restaurants when they are not cooking in their free houses filled with free IKEA furniture. |
3,155 | And for the love of all that is holy, please do not bring up Citizen Kane. Historical significance does not make something enjoyable in itself. | For many (including me), Citizen Kane is enjoyable by itself. |
3,156 | Anansi Boys is hands down my favorite audio book of all time. The reader is fantastic, and the plot sounds like you would enjoy it. | And while you're at it, just about everything I've read by Neil Gaiman is great. Add American gods and Neverwhere to that list. |
3,157 | Why is this even news? If it were me would it be on the news? No, so what does everyone care? Yeah he was there, big deal. Fucking hell people need to stop worrying so much about celebrities personal lives and just let them be. | I don't know about anyone else, but my interest in this story would be in police behavior, not in whoever the hell Zac Brown is ... |
3,158 | Your post is not conveying the meaning you're intending. You literally said "when they were good", and "they fell off so badly after this" in reference to their first album. Implying their "not good" albums started right after. At some point you're going to have to meet your audience half way and tell us what you really meant to say instead of putting our reading comprehension on blast. No need to get defensive about it. | No dude youre just a dullard, not gonna argue with you anymore, continue justifying why youre a moron. Jesus Christ, what a whiney baby. |
3,159 | How is flying lotus not in any of these man | He was in 2012, but his project didn't have the staying power of the rest of the top ten. I found myself consisting going back to each one of those albums, but I listened to his 3-4 times after it came out. |
3,160 | Theon Greyjoy as a brother? That must be interesting? | Just as I suspected. Nobody gives two shits about her terrible music, they only want to know about her brother. |
3,161 | Time to return to Firefox. ...wtf at its latest interface? Screw it, I'm jumping ship to Internet Explorer. | Try Opera if you like Chrome. RES exists for it too. My pick recently though is Maxthon. Seems to do everything right, but very few extensions available for it though. |
3,162 | I think instead it's about the general feeling of people at the time. The 80s were carefree so MJ's thriller was perfect for it. Today many people are depressed and down, so Adele's sad album thrived. | What a sad fucking world we live in where we have some talentless gutbusted fuckhead like Adele topping the charts over Pink Floyd and MJ. |
3,163 | Malick is one of the best cinematographers and directors in the business today. But it's hard to neglect the fact that many of the actors who've worked with him have said that it was a very sour experience. [Christopher Plummer being one of the group...] | Why does that matter? They get mad because some/many of their scenes are cut, but ultimately it's his film. His decision. He isn't abusive, or mean, he just shoots a lot of footage and then pieces it together in a way that doesn't always meet actors expectations. I like that. |
3,164 | If you don't mind my asking - is it too complex for casual reading? I feel like I would benefit from reading it (I'm a fan of the tv series too) but don't want to have to keep notes or anything (yes, I'm lazy) | It caters well to a casual reader. Just think of it this way , at best (if you're willing to read with careful attention to each detail) , you'll notice minor stuff and things that match up with events in the later seasons; at worst you'll get to relive the show with better detail and fleshed out characters. |
3,165 | Uhh what? Jamf is incredible and makes it easy to manage Apple products. | Is jamf an apple product? Because it doesn't look like it. |
3,166 | Idk from that scene it looks like a pretty funny movie. | It was Hollywood trying to capitalize on the success of "Dazed and Confused", and there were a few movies with the same subject matter trying to popularize the late 70's because of it. It was the most hackneyed movie I've ever wasted time on. I think there may have been a sequel to some wacky porn movie with dinosaurs around the time. Any idea like that is better than anything "The Stoned Age" has to offer. It's literally offensive to anyone that grew up, or lived in that era. |
3,167 | Maybe *Fifth Business*, by Robertson Davies would be up your alley. | Davies is like a slow descent into madness. Amazing. |
3,168 | Depends on (among other things) the [price elasticity] of books. If it turns out that people will pretty much buy 3.5 books a year, on average, no matter whether that book costs $25 or $3, then the number of books sold annually will stay the same, and the publishing industry will just plain shrink. The fact that big, cheaper bookstores like Barnes & Noble have successfully expanded at the expense of smaller community bookstores strongly suggests that books are substantially price-elastic, meaning that you can expect more books to be sold as cheaper ebooks supplant more expensive print books. | [Amazon made a good argument regarding the price elasticity of books in an open letter to the authors who are currently signed to Hachette the other day] |
3,169 | I thought it was very enjoyable, especially as an audiobook. However it wasn't quite what I was expecting. | The voice actor was so good! Holy crap, I think it was the best audio book I've listened to. |
3,170 | Well if you’re in New York City obviously you’ve got to hit The Strand (and Forbidden Planet is right there as well). There are a million hidden gems of bookstores in the NYC area but The Strand is amazing. The creaky wooden floors, the huge bookshelves, it’s a must-see. | I walked into the Strand by accident years ago, and I thought it was a library, it was so big! Very cool bookstore! I miss Borders because they sold coffee inside and it was huge and the prices were right:) I like Barnes and Noble, they sell coffee and for the most part they have a good selection of books. |
3,171 | I don't even know the name of the song but when the riot breaks out in Hot Rod. That song is awesome and I will always riot when I hear it. | I had to look that one up. It's such an amazing scene. John Farnham -- You're The Voice |
3,172 | The Tesla can swap the battery in 90 seconds. | And on a 500mi drive through the Midwest, that doesn't do me any good. Battery swap is about as useless as hydrogen at this point, the infrastructure isn't there. |
3,173 | I would have included A Texas Cow Boy by Charles Siringo. | > You may be interested in The Floor of Heaven by Howard Blum. It "weaves together three true narratives to tell the true story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush. Siringo is a key character, when he worked for the Pinkerton Detective Agency, and a con-man, Soapy Smith, and another American who lived with the Taglish Indians, all during the Yukon Gold Rush. |
3,174 | I'd suggest the following: Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Legacy of Love: My Education in the Path of Nonviolence by Arun Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson. Those are 2 of my favorite books. | I hated Siddhartha. I just could not take anything away from it, and stopped about 30% of the way in. |
3,175 | And all I got was a lousy "we'll cover you for credit monitoring" offer | And then keep bugging you to sign up for the paid premium membership. So ridiculous. We should have complete access to any info pertaining to our SS. We should be able to manage the flow of that info at our discretion without any hoops to jump through. It’s our info. Not theirs. |
3,176 | May I suggest The Murder of Roger Ackroyd? My favourite one. | Thanks! I'll check that out, I wasn't really sure what I wanted to read. |
3,177 | The article states that. > Meanwhile, the South China Morning Post also reports that 35 Taiwanese companies including Foxconn have spent a total of 4 billion yuan (or about $609 million USD) on artificial intelligence last year. Do they mean automation, or are these companies investing in AI? | AI in today's world doesn't mean the singularity type AI Sci-Fi would have you believe. It's much more revolved around machine learning type things. So this is research in AI/machine learning what-have-you that will go towards production. |
3,178 | If the Earth has 1.815x10^17 cubic feet of air in the atmosphere. This box would take 181,500,000,000 (181.5 billion) hours to purify the entire atmosphere. That's 7,562,500,000 days, or 20,704,997 years. In another way, we would only need 2 million of these devices and 10 years to purify the entire atmosphere. | Probably a bit longer than that as it would be cleaning a lot of the same air over and over. Still that number is pretty darn impressive. |
3,179 | No I don't. I can pirate it. You don't like it? Tough. | And I value the hundreds, sometimes thousands of people who work for a modest wage to bring that product to market. And I realize that the market is morphing unpleasantly due to increased concern for recoupment, narrowing the nature and scope of the product made. I acknowledge that the product I want didn't appear out of a vacuum. And, most simply, I don't ever expect anyone to give me something for nothing just because I want it. |
3,180 | That’s odd, since the books were released almost Netflix-style in quick succession. They even read like a single book published in theee volumes. | Agreed. I hope they do a good adaption, but then again, even if they don't, I enjoyed the books just fine before I heard there was a movie. I'll enjoy them whether its good or not. |
3,181 | He has blood squibs and a fake chest. I imagine they had an idea just not how gory it would be. The scene was edited down to remove gore to enhance the effect of fear in the remaining crew. | John Hurt was the only actor who even knew that the alien was going to come out of him. The others had no idea. Thus, Ridley Scott had to get it in one shot. |
3,182 | Nuclear power plants were incredibly profitable... until the government had to get all up in it with their regulations and safety. A few nuclear accidents and a swath of Russian land is now entirely uninhabitable and everyone freaks out. | > A few nuclear accidents and a swath of Russian land is now entirely uninhabitable and everyone freaks out. Ukraine actually. |
3,183 | I'm writing a paper on intellectual property licensing and am looking for an example when it took a while for someone to take a risk and license something but once they did it paid off. | Not that technical, but the Etch a Sketch was overlooked for years and was about to declare bankruptcy. Until the movie Toy Story brought the toy back into mass appeal and the very next Holiday season was sold out everywhere. |
3,184 | Radiohead is not better than Homme. Homme can bring out feelings and emotions that radiohead can't. But it's very much the same with Radiohead. They are both amazing, but you can't compare apples to kiwis. | They are both round, have seeds and are classified as fruit. Both go well in salads. They both can rot and mold. |
3,185 | "Curtain." Which brings Poirot/hastings story full circle from the Mysterious Affair at Styles. It was also written 30 years before publication. Also, "Murder on the Orient Express". For some reason I don't particularly like the Miss Marple stories. The Poirot stories quality varies from excellent to competent to the down side of average. Tommy and Tuppence are slight adventure stories; I tend to think of them as slight and fun juveniles | The beginning and end of Hercule Poirot. This is definitely going into my pile for a restful weekend read. I hope they're as good as they sound! |
3,186 | I think all the liquid and floating papers are CGI'd in. But it's hard to tell. I got no idea how they can move the camera as fluid as that with the actors so still. They must be composited but again, I don't know. Very impressive. Can a VFX guy break this down? | Actually, they set up multiple cameras in different positions to take simultaneous pictures of the same thing. When you edit it all together, you create a 3D picture like this. The bullets are obviously CGI though. |
3,187 | I found i funny how some of the covers made it into what feels like a serious religious song, which it is not. | That would be the Blind Boys of Alabama. :) Even though the irony seems to be lost on them, I like their version. They have some amazing musicians in their backing band. In a similar fashion, they also did Waits' [*"Jesus Gonna Be Here"*] on the same album as *"Way Down in the Hole"*. Pretty decent version aswell. |
3,188 | I'd encourage you to look for local comic stores. Most also carry games, and many are filled with knowledgeable staff that are willing to help. Mine has a wall of demo games to try, and usually a staff member will recommend one and show you how to play. | Yeah. That's actually what my wife does whenever she decided to buy me some comics and graphic novels. The prices are the same, MSRP. But she likes to help local businesses. I think the last time I stopped at a comic store to buy a game was in downtown Chicago. It was a really cool spot and will most likely stop there again |
3,189 | They're called Dixons Carphone because that's what they used to sell. They now sell basically all consumer electronics. | You'd think they changed their name to something less...specific. |
3,190 | Im a dude, I can never play Lady MacBeth. Shit happens. | > Shit happens. Always a great response. And I don't know how much you know about Shakespeare, but yeah, you can play Lady Macbeth. It's happened before. |
3,191 | This thread is getting a little... Off? Odd? I dunno, but it feels like less fun than it should be... | Really? I'm having a ton of fun with it. What's wrong? |
3,192 | Well in the interests of accuracy the satire that was injected in the Verhoeven movie was amusing but worked against the entire thesis of the novel. Those of us who liked the book mostly think that if Verhoeven wanted to make an anti war satire he should have written his own damned story. Just because a work portrays war as unglamorous and emotionally frought doesn't make it an anti war novel. | >Those of us who liked the book mostly think that if Verhoeven wanted to make an anti war satire he should have written his own damned story. In fairness, he basically did. Aside from character and location names, the movie's plot shares remarkably little with the book's. Personally I felt that using Heinlen's book as a basis added more to Verhoeven's message. The movie was itself a commentary on the book as much as anything else. |
3,193 | He also does the Abhorsen trilogy! I love having Tim read great books to me. | YEEEEEEES. His Mogit is one of my very favorite pieces of acting in any audio book ever! |
3,194 | I've just realized I haven't seen a movie with Michael Douglas since A Perfect Murder and The Game. | If you're looking for suggestions, [King of California] was a more recent film of his that I thought was fun. I'm sure someone else can jump in and give you some better recommendations. edit: Also, I remember [Behind the Candelabra] getting a lot of good buzz when it released, but I haven't seen it myself yet. |
3,195 | Fucking hell guys! The new Winnie the Pooh was awesome! Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez did the fucking music! IT WAS FANTASTIC! | I remember going with a friend and her 4 year old daughter when it came out. We ended up laughing more than she did! I've always found Winnie the Pooh to be cute, but this movie was far more enjoyable than I would have expected. |
3,196 | The link doesn't go to a discussion for me. Does she not live within a town with an actual library where students could go and get these books? | Are you using the reddit toolbar? If so, either click the "view original page" button or disable it. Edit: Yahoo Answers blocks the Reddit Toolbar, as well as some other sites. |
3,197 | If it's pulled off, then it will be a memory kept forever. It is not the usual proposal, and then you both will have a physical copy of the proposal to keep forever | Any ideas what it could be printed on? Or bound with? |
3,198 | > Unfortunately Safari doesn't natively support WebM (VP8 and VP9), so you've still got some issues. YouTube also uses H.264, which is natively supported. | >YouTube also uses H.264, which is natively supported. Yes, however not every video and resolution is supported in h.264 mode. In other words, there are some issues with using it. |
3,199 | Set a goal of 30 books and just surpassed book 78! I thought starting a master's degree in English ed would make me not want to read, but it has had the opposite effect! Also, my fiancé and I moved into a new house this year with a three minute walk to the library so I have been absolutely ridiculous taking out books this year. Hoping to get through 50 next year, which will also (hopefully) be my first year of teaching! That goal is probably out of reach but a girl can try! | I like to set goals that are achievable but just slightly out of reach. You want to achieve it, but expect to full just slightly short. If you can complete it easily then it's not really a goal - is it? That's why I like to add 10% to the previous years reading total. |
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