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4,100 | True, but has any company ever really offered a phone with battery life as first priority? I feel like a lot of people haven't even considered that it's possible for a phone to last several days. But you might be right that most people only want one day. | There was the Motorola Droid Max or whatever it was called. All the ads for it focused on battery life. No idea if it sold well or not. |
4,101 | At *least* the second time. I was thinking it's been at least three. Not to mention the servers with Red Hat (do they still sell those?) | Selling servers with Linux doesn't count, since the majority of servers run Linux. I only know of two instances that they'll be selling consumer machines with Linux on them, though I could have missed one somewhere down the line. |
4,102 | I think that sometimes you see a performance and immediately think "Wow, this one's got it" from the moment you see it. It's things like Dustin Hoffman in *Rain Man* and Eddie Redmayne in *The Theory of Everything*. However, this is where we get uproar when things happen like Jake Gyllenhaal not getting nominated for *Nightcrawler*. We often see a performance and find ourselves so taken with it that we attach our Oscar hopes with it. I'm no different, I do it myself. | Well Keaton could have easily won last yr. I agree with 12 years. |
4,103 | People in this subreddit don't even know what the fuck music is. | I know well what music is. Does thst mean I listen to this? No. Will I ever? No. Will anything change my mind? No. But I've also stopped judging people for their tastes. I don't agree this, or any rap or hip hop, is good for me. But likewise, I'm sure there is no Metal you are willing to listen to. Will I force you to listen to it? No. Will you ever on your own? I do not know. Will I judge you either way? No. |
4,104 | Yea for sure. My ear and taste has definitely evolved over my time as a musician as well. There seems to be some like minded musicians here! Maybe I should hang with you guys instead!! | Yeah definitely. I get frustrated a lot being 30 years old and feeling like I haven't done enough. But I talk to a lot people and realize music is a life long journey. It's not like sports where your abilities start to diminish due to physical barriers. Music can be made even if you're physically incapacitated. It's all in the brain. It's about attitude. The willingness to learn something new. To not be afraid to fail. To keep going because you love it. |
4,105 | Many moons ago I worked for a integrator that took on MSI and asus repairs to try to generate more cash. We cycled into repairs and spent a month there before back out servicing our regular clients. After working on many different brands over the years. They are all fucking shit. All shit. Brand loyalty is fucking retarded. Buy the cheapest thing that meets your needs and throw the cunt out when it breaks. Oh and for the record, the failure rate on Asus, MSI, Acer ... Holy mcfuck tits. Fucking SHIT. | Hmm, my other friends have MSI and they've had no problems. I just built my own desktop because laptops suck for gaming :p. |
4,106 | The Departed, The Prestige, Silence of the Lambs, Hero, Inglorious Basterds, Anchorman, Pan's Labyrinth, Hot Tub Time Machine, Moon, V for Vendetta, and Gattaca are all great options in the comedy/thriller genres. | Hot Tub Time Machine is so underrated. I love that movie. |
4,107 | I actually consider Watchmen to be my favorite comic book movie. The changing of the "squid" at the end was a change I welcomed. It made a lot more sense. The cast and their performances were strong despite a lack of "big" names. It was able to tell the story of each individual character well. The soundtrack was well-thought out (although "Hallelujah" for the sex scene was cheesy as fuck). It was very true to the source material. I love the Dark Knight as well but take Ledger's Joker out and the result is a very mediocre movie. Batman Begins was a better Batman movie but TDK was a better movie overall because of how strong the Joker was. | Taking The Joker out of The Dark Knight is like taking the shark out of Jaws. |
4,108 | Yeah it’s really easy to find racists when you go assuming everyone that disagrees with you is racist. | Yeah, which literally no one here is doing. Seriously, find me a single fucking instance of “anyone who dislikes this is racist” that isn’t a blatant troll and I will eat my shoe. It’s even easier to avoid hard facts like racism when you literally refuse to lift a finger looking for it. Sort by controversial, my guy. |
4,109 | I can't say about Sonisphere but I know that both years I've been to Download festival I've always felt really safe. Did someone not get stabbed at T a couple of years ago? | I feel safe at all festivals. Truth is shit happens everywhere there was a rape at Latitude festival 2 years ago. |
4,110 | Its tough to say if this would work for those. This works reallllllly well for these genres because djs use and abuse beatport and the like. So this has the finger on the pulse of whats popular because of that. For the others you dont see too many dj sets and as a result it probably wont be as good as this | Probably find some sort of played count out there for those genres though. I'm sure there are resources out there and hopefully someone will let him know |
4,111 | If ska dies down on Reddit, I might just have to pick it up myself. | So far I've been the poster of Less Than Jake and Catch 22. I'm stockpiling ska, but I could always use a brother in the Two Tone Army. |
4,112 | El Ateneo was my first stop when I moved to Buenos Aires. It's as cool in person as the pictures make it seem. | I agree. We were in BA 3 years ago and visited El Ateneo Gran Splendid multiple times in the 12 days we were there. I'll have to make a point of seeing most of the rest of these bookstores, because they look so interesting! |
4,113 | Well she's actually a good singer with a wide range, it's just that the niche that she's famous for isn't this type of music. | Ya, when you hear her music, you group it in with the rest of her genre, which is mostly auto-tuned crap. But she's actually a pretty talented singer. |
4,114 | Teen Spirit will hit a billion. Not doubt about it. Same with Take on Me (if people consider new wave a subgenre of punk rock like I do), Zombie and Numb | > Same with Take on Me (if people consider new wave. New what? It's bare Synth-Pop, mate. |
4,115 | I love that villains nowadays are no longer as archetypal, and the line between good and evil is no longer as clear. Same with heroes. | My impression of this is that collectively we go through periods of different stripes of villains. Sometimes, we want a simple villain - a man who represents all evil in the world, but isn't human. Just an enemy, nothing more. And sometimes we love the idea of delving into the insanity that is a mind most of society would consider warped, and trying to understand how and why a villain does what he does. I don't have anything to back this theory up, and it's a generalization, but I find it reasonable that culture (particularly before technology enabled the mass production and accessibility of literature) can seriously affect the villains we produce and enjoy. |
4,116 | If every one just listened to Chris Evans every time he suggested something they would have all lived. Most notably going for the second payload. | nah, he fucks up good too. actually, it was my biggest "holy shit you guys are fucking morons" moment in the whole movie. you remember the scene. here's the rundown. they have four people on board the icarus 1. one is mission-critical, capa. the docking between the two ships is *fucked*. there's only one space suit. somebody has to stay behind to release the airlock's outer door, and fire the remaining people out of towards icarus 2. so they put capa in the suit, draw straws, and someone sacrifices himself to fire the airlock. hey. dipshits. one of you has a spacesuit. why don't you leave *that guy* behind. he can take his sweet ass time getting back, after slowly depressurizing the whole ship. |
4,117 | because then you don't have to but a taxi medallion that costs as much as some houses. | But a taxi driver already owns his medallion by definition, so this isn't an issue. |
4,118 | *On The Waterfront*. Because then when people try to force them to watch *The Shawshank Redemption*, *Pulp Fiction* or *Forrest Gump* because they're the "best movies of all time", they'll know better. | nice one.. just watched it.. its up there fro sure, appreciate the tip mate!. |
4,119 | Dang, where? My university has like one interesting undergrad lit class a semester. The coming fall has comic books*... *Note: Which is cool and fine, but still, I'm not crazy for wanting Lit. | UT Arlington. We like to act up because we're so overshadowed by the Engineering dept. We also have a comic book lit course, I think it focuses on Batman. I'm even going to attempt to do my senior project or some such on comics. |
4,120 | I am halfway through Pandora's Star (commonwealth saga) and I've gotta say, it is the most imaginative, mind bending story I've ever read/seen/played/anything. Although I do have to question some of the decisions made by the characters... | You (and everyone else) should definitely read The Night's Dawn Trilogy then. |
4,121 | I work in a company that does remote monitoring of IT infrastructure for restaurant chains and retail stores. We are basically an outsourced IT department, we plan the network, install stuff, connect cables and then manage it. We do hire lots of entry levels admins,, OP could look into that! (or if OP is close to Paris, France, just send me his CV). | That's good! I worry there aren't as many places (in the US at least) for entry-level people to get started and grow into senior people. |
4,122 | >The real will always be preferable to the fake. >The properties of synthetic diamond depend on the details of the manufacturing processes; however, **some synthetic diamonds (whether formed by HPHT or CVD) have properties such as hardness, thermal conductivity and electron mobility that are superior to those of most naturally-formed diamonds.** Fuckwit. > If I'm retareded, You are indeed retareded. | No, the value, which is what I was talking about, depends on whether the diamond is real. Real diamonds go for significantly more than fake ones. Also, it's impossible to recreate larger diamonds. Whatever. You resort to personal insults? I see that as a victory in the argument. |
4,123 | Well, to be fair, Uwe Boll has not wasted billions of dollars on utter bullshit. | Bay's films are box-office hits. Period. The same can't be said of Boll's |
4,124 | PDF files are horrible ebook formats. Anyone in their right mind creates EPUB or Kindle format books unless the interior is extremely design-dependent (and even then, Kindle format v8 can handle that). | Depends on the book. For technical books I like reading PDFs because they just work. The charts/graphs/images arne't all botched up. There isn't a single ebook publisher i know that has managed to publish mobi/epub and not screw up technical books.. and by technical i'm mostly talking about IT, but i also read a lot of physics & astronomy books and they too are largely botched translations into epub/mobi. PDFs don't have to be unruly though.. and i like having the option much how O'reilly offers such capability. |
4,125 | ok? and who cares... plenty of other artists who would actually want to perform for the super bowl halftime show. Personally id like to see a non radio pop artist perform for once | I still remember when the stones did it. That was a good show |
4,126 | Question: Why the fuck are the French so worried about preserving their language? I hear French Canadians talk about "preserving the language" all the time, so I just assumed it was a Quebec thing. I wasn't aware that there was a risk to the French language. Edit: Downvotes for a legitimate question? I thought this was /r/tech, not /r/technology. | Every time this question is asked on Reddit, it always attracts the most obtuse answers. Antagonism between English-speakers and French-speakers is no longer overt and definitely not an everyday issue anymore, but there's at the very least still sort of a nagging rivalry going that. Knowing that... asking a bunch of English-speakers why the French do X is like asking a bunch of dogs why cats lick themselves clean. "Because they're dainty pretentious little fucks" is all you'll hear. Yet if you asked the cats, you'd hear something to the tune of "Because hygiene". A tip for you: if a person answers using "They" instead of "We", move along. |
4,127 | I liked it a lot. Not my favorite Coen Film but I still enjoyed it. It's like a western with Tarantino Dialogue. Also, wow can that girl act! | You know, I've actually gotten kinda tired of Tarantino dialogue. This is not Tarantino dialogue. Tarantino characters have long conversations that are completely unrelated to the movie. Tarantino gets off on his dialogue writing. The Coen Brothers write *characters*, and those characters say things in really entertaining ways. There's a difference. I still like Tarantino, for the record. But I think the Coens are much, much better. |
4,128 | A lot of Polonius's advice to Laertes has entered the culture as actual truisms, especially "Neither a borrower nor a lender be." Which is funny if you know that it's the advice of a useless idiot. | Was just about to post this. People often smugly quote it, thinking it makes them clever but Shakespeare put that line in the mouth of an absolute knob. |
4,129 | I was trying to think of a book you could do this for that I absolutely could not resist buying... Fahrenheit 451. There could be a silhouette of a man looking at a far away city... with planes above the city about to bomb it. Of course, I'm not the artist, and I'd probably buy it no matter what the design was anyway. | Ahh sorry. We don't do any modern books right now. Can you submit a [book request] so you'll be notified when we make a poster for Fahrenheit 451? |
4,130 | Internet speeds - typically the best internet speeds are thru the cable company. The telephone/dsl company has too many restrictions it all has to do with exact distance from their central office. I have Cox in Las Vegas I only pay 79$ for 150MB. Not the case everywhere. Try looking to see what options you have for cable internet. Then of course just play the numbers game and see what is your best value. Some cities also have multiple cable co options. Play everyone to your benefit. Good luck with the move! | I just looked at your options - you have plenty. Verizon Fios is fiber and the best of all options *(depending on price of course) Time Warner and Comcast are similar companies. All of them will have package deals with tv if that's what you want. Just avoid att uverse and century link. There is my 4Cents for ya! |
4,131 | Is it a nonfiction account of all the neat stuff Skunk Works has done, or how it got started, or what? | Ben Rich started working at Skunk Works in the 50s on the U-2. He later became the boss after Kelly Johnson retired. Its a mix between a biography and a nonfiction account. Richs stories are sometimes mixed with the same stories told from the perspectives of different key people (test pilots, other engineers etc.) |
4,132 | Maze runner: Scorch Trials 7.5/10. Better then the first,great cast, way to long | That's good to hear. While the first one was by no means a legendary movie, I enjoyed and will likely be seeing the second in theaters. |
4,133 | A superhuman level AI cannot be stopped by a stupid red button. It's like expecting a toddler to stop an adult by a toy gun. An AI will simply convince people to spread it till it's indestructible. It will promise you all kinds of things, like a billion dollars, and will deliver on that promise. | Good thing the paper has absolutely nothing in the slightest to do with superhuman level AI. |
4,134 | I'm afraid he's going to hit a point where he's just never completely happy with it, and he won't release it because of that. | I think he's got more of a connection to his readers than that. Did you see his AMA? I think he'll put out. At least he's way younger than GRRM. That said I'm hoping for a trilogy, and not a 12 book epic. |
4,135 | If you nerd out on imagery, atmosphere, and setting, this is a beautiful film. The story and cinematography is top notch too! | You have no idea how much I nerd out on this film haha. Wrote a paper on every emotion it gives and all symbolism for each emotion. |
4,136 | It was popular to say in man of steel too. "Ugh I cant believe this photojournalist has the most popular brand of camera in the world, so ridiculous, took me right out of the movie!" "What are the odds that you'd actually see a Uhaul van on the street, nothing but unrealistic bullshit product placement!" "God! What kind of small town has an IHOP? I mean seriously? Just shameless corporate whoring is all this movie is!" | No what I'm saying is that it's popular to DEFEND product placement now. Back when Man of Steel came out, everyone was attacking the product placement. Now all of a sudden because of Jurassic World, everyone on here is ok with it because Chris Pratt. |
4,137 | I hate his voice now. None of his radio hits have been anything but popshit in my ears. But by god, put on Be Calm and I will get up and sing along every second of the way with a smile. | Be Calm and The Gambler are my favorite Fun. songs. |
4,138 | \> "90s rap metal band" \> song is from 2006 | The way I read it was that they were a band from the 90's - where they found success. not that she sung in the 90's. |
4,139 | Everyone knows this? Really? I don’t know this. I’m tech savvy and I’ve literally never had my storage fill up from stuff that wasn’t my data. And phones with old/cycled batteries are slowed down, not just “old phones”. Old phones typically have heavily worn batteries, though. | I bought a brand new SE in July and the latest update slowed it down, so the battery thing is not true or at least not always true. The difference is not just with speed but with smoothness. I'm going to get a warranty replacement now since they are claiming they slowed it down due to it s properly charged 5 month old battery. Edit: showed slowed! |
4,140 | It's not exactly a great detail when the camera is going to zoom in on it like that. Attention to detail would be to not say they were 500 million miles from Earth, or to portray prehistoric Earth with all the continents as they are now (blatantly ignoring Pangaea) Prometheus, attention to detail? ::SNORT:: Puh lease | 500 million miles? Ever heard of Hyperbole? prehistoric? They never actually say how far back they went. Calm down. |
4,141 | Even better live, check the fake old man with green skin and a pimp cup in the background. | With Chauncey from CC DJ'ing and Cage standing next to him. |
4,142 | Someone tell OP and writer of article that One day is not 26 hrs. Just saying. | Thats how it was reported in the local news too |
4,143 | GoT is one of my favorite books of all time. It's one of those series where I wish I could erase them from my memory so I could experience what you are right now! So enjoy it haha. Also, definitely consider subscribing to /r/asoiaf but watch out for spoilers. Most of the good stuff in there is marked "spoilers all" but for sure check it out when you get caught up so you can see all of the awesome theories, tinfoil and subplots that you might have missed. I wish you many and more happy nights of reading ahead | Another note on spoilers, if you care about them--stay off the wikis and do not type character names into google. A friend of mine was trying to remember a character's eye color, typed their name into google, and was spoiled on their death. If you need to look something up, use Tower of the Hand and set the spoiler scope. |
4,144 | Walt Disney himself was quite a guy. EPCOT was intended as eexperimental future city. | It's literally in its name. Experimental Planned City Of Tomorrow. |
4,145 | So reading reduces stress. Using the Internet increases depression. So I'm highly depressed but fairly relaxed. | It'll make you too lazy to kill yourself, at least. |
4,146 | Do you understand the different being the words "Action" and "Actor(Profession)" because it doesn't seem like it. | They're called actors because they portray a variety of actions. I guess you're right, speaking is an action. But everything anyone does is an action, if they're only doing the one thing it's just a little curious to pretend it's the same as... I don't know what you want to call it, regular acting? It's not like I'm saying voice acting is so easy or anything. It's just not the same thing. |
4,147 | I suppose that's fair enough. At this point, with the number of data breaches, "Accidentally retained records", and repeated demonstrations that Facebook is not particularly trustworthy, I don't think I would have believed them if they DID say they weren't. Probably best to just save time all around and skip the implausible denial. | it’s also probably best if we just all delete our facebooks too. |
4,148 | I'm sorry, but, is that an M1 Carbine he's holding? When is the film set? | Yeah its a M1 Carbine, and biased off the notch in the top left of where the stock would be it was a folding stock model that's had the stock removed. |
4,149 | Dexter. I would walk around in crowds, analyzing everyone as if they were a potential murderer. | I started thinking Michael C. Hall's voice. It's such a slow drawl, it would drive me nuts...and I'd get creeped out by my self. |
4,150 | There was a story? The whole thing felt incoherent to me. | It was far too ambitious. Other people here seem to think it's God's gift to movie making, fair enough, but these are the same people that probably camped out to be first in line for Jupiter Ascending. |
4,151 | I need them to be called Johnny Cabs. If they were called Johnny cabs, that would make me so happy. | A video of Ahnold using one would make my day |
4,152 | > Would suck if your phone died. Or if your car ran someone over while you were at the movies... Would you still be liable for the injuries, or would the manufacturer of the navigation system? | If the car was up on its inspection, unmodified, patched (firmware), and given "standard" input then it's a manufacturing fault. If you rooted your car and it went on a rampage then you might be liable... |
4,153 | I wish the Apple one had two ports like this one does. Having only 1 is nutty. | You can plug your charger in on either side of this new Chromebook. |
4,154 | HP actually. or maybe we should say HP Enterprise now that they "split" | I'm not sure if HP or Dell has been the most common I've seen at customers datacenters, but I sure do prefer the Dell servers. |
4,155 | I think it's not so much his writing style that impresses people, I think it's more (like whiteskwirl2 mentioned) the worlds he creates, the atmosphere. The way he places fairly normal characters in absurd surroundings. Is that the only book you read? It's one of my favourites, but it's kind of bland in comparison to some of his other novels. Try Kafka on the Shore or Dance, Dance, Dance. Or After Dark if you want something short. I think these are more Murakami-esque. | Agreed on the bland point. OP will probably like a different book if he tries one out. |
4,156 | I hated Catcher in the Rye because Holden was such a dick. Like, if I wanted to listen to an over privileged asshole complain about how shitty their life is, I would just carry a tape recorder and listen to the crap I spew during the day. Maybe I'm just a dirtbag and like reading books about people I think are better than me. I just like them to have some kind of redeeming quality. | I felt the exact same way about CITR every time I was forced to read it in my public education. I think it is the worst choice of book to demand teenagers to read. Franny & Zooey would be a much wiser choice IMO. |
4,157 | This was me too. I really regret not reading most of the books assigned to me in school, but I do feel like I'm in a better place to appreciate many of "the classics" now, than say when I was 14. I do think a lot of English classes ruin reading for many students, though. I remember when we were reading the Invisible Man, and my English teacher, who was a good dude, made us dissect that book line by line looking for hidden meanings. Not that I can't recognize that there are themes in a book, but every line of a novel doesn't have duel meanings. | I've gone back and read most of the these books I skipped. When reading stopped being a chore I enjoyed a lot of them quite a bit. |
4,158 | **Matt and Kim** [Daylight] [Lessons Learned] **OK Go** [This Too Shall Pass] [End Love] | Saw Matt + Kim a little less than a month ago @ the SBC. Suprisingly fun show. |
4,159 | I know the ramones used to play for just 30 mins. it's "punk" to do short sets. it's not punk to charge a lot for tickets tho. $40, that isn't bad. | That's an outrageous price for a fairly new group with limited popularity. |
4,160 | Yet, you still value your rights and profit from your work. You can't deny it. Why should Paul forego that if you don't? Seems hypocritical. | Because he already has, more than any other musician in history. And he is almost 75 years old. Put me in THAT situation and then you can call me hypocritical. He lost the rights to the music legally, its not like someone stole them from him before he was able to make a dime. The whole line of reasoning in these comments is just comical. |
4,161 | the new Honda Accord Hybrid/Plug-in hybrid works very similar as the volt. For the hybrid, it uses the electric motor up to 43mph while the engine is in the back generating electricity, above that, it has a clutch that can engage the engine directly to the wheels. Because of this it can get around 50mpg. The plugin hybrid can go up to 60mph battery only. | The problem is no one is going to drive slow just to stay on electric. |
4,162 | Is that a weird a or did someone misspell library | Pretty sure the "a" is just weird because of the way he writes it and the ink turded-out on him when he was writing it. See [here] |
4,163 | I still marvel at its brilliance years after first getting one. I had damage to more than one laptop before the magsafe as a result of people tripping on the cord. Also with little kids and a dog it is a must have. | And to think Grandma has been using one for decades on her crockpot. |
4,164 | I'm all over the place? You literally accused me of bringing up past shit of the previous admin. And then I show you an example of how every administration does it, and now I'm all over the place because you realize that Bush is still bitched at? Try to follow your own BS please and form a proper rebuttal other than, yo cra cra. And realistically, people on the left bring up Hillary and Obama all the time. Just not for their crimes or anything negative really. | You sound agitated. Do you even know what "people on the left" means? Does it mean people that believe in climate change? Does it mean non-white people? Does it mean homosexuals? Define "people on the left" if you please. |
4,165 | Kind of. I mean I'm excited for the Lego Movie, but seeing these characters realized in live-action is a long-time dream come true for many of us. | That's not the reason, i just really liked batman in the lego movie. |
4,166 | Thanks, i'm a huge fan of dark short stories, The Wasp factory by Iain banks and the Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan spring to mind. i'll take a look. | Some wonderful, dark short stories in *A Good Man is Hard to Find* by Flannery O'Connor. |
4,167 | Yeah, it's likely wishful thinking, really. Just can't believe a sci-fi writer of all people would embrace such closed minded views. It seems antithetical. | Brandon Sanderson is also _probably_ homophobic. He's deeply christian and doesn't even write hetero sex scenes in his books, and has never written an LGBT character as far as I'm aware. |
4,168 | Very nice. This almost makes me want to watch Agents of Shield. Almost. I tried when it first came out, couldn't stand it. | It's quite a bit different than it was when it first started. |
4,169 | To be fair pitchfork is so in love with Kanye that they are not remotely objective when they rate his album. Pitchfork and Kanye, get a room already. | My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is legitimately a masterpiece and is considered so by pretty much every publication. |
4,170 | Well, Lana Lee wasn't exactly a kind-hearted heroine, either. And Ignatius himself could rightly be called villainous in many ways. | Good points. Ig was so delusional though, it's hard to put anything truly villainous on him. Lana Lee though, she was probably the only character that didn't have a good side. |
4,171 | Regardless of who's publishing it, its either the constitution or it isn't | There are some introductory pages that proselytize for theism and say the Constitution was a religious document. |
4,172 | Looper, can't root against Bruce Willis, even when he's trying to kill kids. | Actually, Looper is one of the few movies I can think of where the protagonist and antagonist are the same person. Bruce Willis' character, while regarded as an antagonist, was killing kids specifically to make sure that a powerful mass-murderer never came about. His intentions were sound... It's just that Joseph Gordon-Levitt's character managed to accomplish the same thing without killing any children. |
4,173 | You may have heard this already, but check this band out. | I like this. You should definitely check out that Mutation project I mentioned if you don't know it already, cos it's got a couple of Hawk Eyes guys involved with it too! |
4,174 | Pick up Stephen Erickson's The Malazan Book of the Fallen series. He does away with all those childish and simplistic clichés that so many other authors fall into. Martin was my all time favorite fantasy author until a friend handed me Gardens of the Moon, the first of the Malazan series, and as I tore my way through the series, I realized that Erickson is unmatched. The final book of the main series was released last week, but he and a friend also release satellite novels about other characters in other parts of the world. | s/Stephen/Steven/ I was searching for this author and found out why the first few results weren't what I was looking for. Though in your defense, "Stephen" is how the name should always be spelled, "Steven" is not. I should know, my name is Stephen. Thanks for this recommendation. I loved SoFaI, and I was looking for something else to read while I waited (forever) for the next book. |
4,175 | The shorter European version doesn't include Scatman Crothers' line "They turned out to be completely unreliable assholes" so naturally it's inferior. | I love his artwork - beautiful big haired ebony goddesses |
4,176 | It's very practical reference. If you have 20/20 vision, it means you can see well enough to read road signs, books, and etc. If you have belowr this number, you generally need glasses to function as well as you need. It's not like 20/20 gets remeasured, it's a standard. | The explanation is that 20/20 vision means you see objects that are 20 feet away in the same acuity as a person with normal vision would view those objects from 20 feet away. |
4,177 | Yeah, the trailer makes me not want to see the movie. Not cause it looks bad, but it looks too scary. I want my campy Evil Dead back :( | This film was made to appeal to the fans of the original, the hardcore horror types. |
4,178 | For small transactions ($20ish in Europe) you just insert the card, no pin or signature or anything. Or just touch the terminal with it if you have a contactless. | ~~Most~~ A lot of places in the US, you don't have to sign for purchases under $20. Not that I don't want the chip and PIN system, just pointing that out. |
4,179 | I had to look at their wiki to see what genre they were. When I read they were "extreme metal", I just shrugged and typed it in. | Extreme metal isn't a genre really. They make Math metal and progressive death metal. Rather than looking on wiki try looking at last.fm or rateyourmusic.com . Their genre descriptions are more accurate and precise. Sorry if this comes over as condescending (i don't mean it like that). I'm just a bit of a genrenazi :p |
4,180 | Writer of Iron Man 3 and the unproduced Runaways script, directors of Winter Soldier, Channing Tatum. Shit, I want to not like Sony trying to build a GCU but I feel that this could be pulled off really nicely. | Chris Pratt's name has been mentioned with it as well. |
4,181 | I saw them in Chicago a few years ago and they did a cover of Fake Plastic Trees. So awesome -- I didn't know it was possible to make Radiohead sound sexy. | Haha.... Radiohead is definitely a lot of things, but sexy isn't one that jumps to mind. I recorded a small clip of it, if you have any interest in seeing/hearing it? It's only like the first minute, because I was tired of standing still to record, but it sounds decent. |
4,182 | I'm looking for a suspenseful mystery, maybe with a little bit of sci-fi mixed into it aswell. | Lightning by Dean Koontz. Follows the life of a girl named Laura who often has horrible things happen to her. But whenever her life is truely in jeopardy a man will appear, always preceded by a bolt of lightning, and save her from the danger before he disappears. Edit: Better grammar |
4,183 | I think they might be getting worried about the new fuel cell cars which Toyota are promising to bring out next year. | I don't think Elon Musk is *afraid* of anything in the clean energy car market. I think he'd just rather that GM/Ford/What-have-you go with electric cars than fuel cell. Or at least along with fuel cell. |
4,184 | I cant wait until i can be that anti social here in the US | Plus it must speed up checking out dramatically. Nothing upsets me like waiting for ages to pay money. I’m literally trying to hand you money, have already collected the goods and you have two checkouts manned‽ |
4,185 | I like GR, but not their recs. Usually seem off. Better to engage someone who likes a book you like. From there you can get some pretty spot on books (I usually pick a book most people rave about but I hated, see who else hated—less to go through—then see what other books they have in common, then ask and discuss). I still think that finding books is harder than it should be, but GR and Amazon have enough data to soon provide spot on recs. | I've had trouble with Goodreads recs too. They suggest the most awful books sometimes. |
4,186 | Were you not a fan of the sword fight at the end? I think it's some of the best choreographed sword play on film. | I have to say no, although it may have been constructed well. That ending was a total slap in the face to the overall message of the book, and ntm is completely fabricated. |
4,187 | Books where the protagonist is a terrible yet competent person, without being a redemption story. We see plenty of them in TV and movies (usually the genius asshole doctor/scientist/etc, such as Dr House or Rick Sanchez). I mostly read fantasy and scifi, and so many protagonists are morally idealized heroes, categorically incapable of making a selfish choice. Some of the better examples I've recently read are Vicious and Prince of Fools. | What about Rick from The Walking Dead if you’re familiar? Protagonist who starts out as the good guy but slowly devolves into someone who is just about as bad as the bad guys. Same with Walt from Breaking Bad, though he doesn’t start out as a totally good guy. But at least sympathetic. |
4,188 | You know, i dont want to sound like a shill, but come to windows 10. IMO its better than every version of windows, even 7 which i loved. For some reason it seems like reddit needs to be dragged kicking and screaming into windows 10, AND ITS FREE. I mean i hate when i get the popups for my antivirus to upgrade and stuff like that, but they are literally giving it away. I do think its kinda shitty that they upgraded people computers without permission, but an advertisement for a free OS, come on. | Linux is free, in this case you are paying in other ways, but you are still paying. |
4,189 | Same thing happened to me with Dave Chappelle tickets. They were immediately sold out. Such bullshit. | I got so lucky with his El Paso show. I got in right when they dropped and immediately could only get balcony seats. Right after I got em it was sold out. |
4,190 | Ill step forward and agree, because i remember that time that we all were 13 clearly. mmusa was becoming fuse, and that channel was nothing more than cool-ass music videos. out of nowhere comes mcr's im not okay (I promise) video, and we were all blindsided from 04-08 by the emo tide hitting the rock scene. | Their actual first album wasn't bad, but when I'm Not Okay hit I totally agree. Apt comparison, I was totally swept away. |
4,191 | It was really the Billy and Madolyn scenes that slowed things down for me. It didn't help that their relationship just felt shoehorned in there. | God I loved the dialogue in those scenes so much. It thought they were great and made a bigger connection between both of the rats. |
4,192 | It judges both on political leanings, and on depth of content - television news channels seem to suffer on the "content" aspect, which is probably why MSNBC fell where it did. | I have looked at this image several times since it came out. I am not sure how to fully read it. Yeah further up and towards the middle is the ideal, but some have logos that are bigger than others. Some look like they're stretched "to cover the spectrum of them" and others look like they picked a bigger starting image. |
4,193 | Quantum computers right now are about as good at math as a 5 year old (if we don't count dwave), what's even the point of taking about them when we are so far from actually decryption a message using one? | That's the best they are now, but in 2 years time that could change drastically. I'd prefer the government never get the power to break all that encryption. |
4,194 | The scenes where he loses his virginity seal his fate as a Mary Sue forever. I love those books but there is never any feeling that Kvothe will ever make a significant mistake for me. I practically roll my eyes now. | God I had blocked out the last quarter of that book. Damn it. |
4,195 | What has Yahoo! really ever done to draw such ire? They're now partnered with Bing! And really they're both not that bad at searching, together they could be good even. Google had and has a great search engine, but the gap between them and the competition has narrowed a great deal. And why would Mozilla want to partner with their biggest competitor anyways? I suppose the real irony in this is that by distancing themselves from one browser competitor they align themselves closer with another one. | Yahoo has a history of buying companies and running them into the ground (Geocities, Flikr etc.) This has caused a lot of ire from the fans of those sites. They have also have made a lot of poor decisions on their other products that just drive users away. |
4,196 | Woah, really? Whats the point of doing a bio pic about a musician if the music isn't there, can't they do covers or something and get around that? | Oh they can do covers.... of other popular bands of the time, apparently. Really a fucking bummer. Hendrix estate, all due respect, but fuck you. |
4,197 | I personally love it, but I know what you mean. | Yeah, I would've switched Sweepstakes with Rhinestone Eyes. I feel like it is a much more approachable song for new listeners. |
4,198 | 70% of that email chain was him not being able to get video working, which was the #1 issue. They need ad revenue in place, you faded it out. They say no. Put it in or use something other than Chrome. It is their content, not yours. | Yeaaah, not the developer... And it's obvious you didn't read the emails. |
4,199 | Eventually Google will come out with a competitive OS, and they will have to tread a lot more lightly. | Why o' why do people have this misplaced, misguided notion that Google is some kind of benevolent benefactor? Google is literally right at the top of the heap of the offenders. They're the worst of the bunch, and yet they manage to maintain some kind of weird warm-fuzzy feel with the general population. The proverbial wolf in sheep's clothing. |
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