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4,300 | I have to agree with you, and I'm surprised it hasn't been said more often. Totally unjustified reaction, but making a comedy about killing a real living person, no matter how awful a person they are, doesn't sit right with me. Especially a movie joking about killing a head of state. NK claiming it is an "act of war" shows how clueless and backwards that government is, that they can't conceive of freedom of speech. But I think the film was a very misguided use of free speech. | If Inglorious Basterds had come out in 1945 would you consider it in poor taste? |
4,301 | They need to do something about them engine noises. | I don't think so. Quieter is better for everyones ears. And it doesn't contribute to noise pollution wherever they hold the races. |
4,302 | This should be MUCH higher up. One of the greatest live bands in history at their live peak. And the guitar tones...just other worldly... | The bass tone too.... sounds like another guitar really. It's amazing to hear the interplay with the three instrumentalists: Pete in the right channel, John in the left, and Keith down the center locking in and out and interweaving. It shows how The Who on paper shouldn't work...but it does anyway. |
4,303 | I wanted so badly to like his music, but I really don't. | I think he's good as a novelty, and his punchlines are funny, but that's about it. He's gonna have to try harder if he wants anyone to take him seriously. |
4,304 | Meh, you know what, I say like whatever sounds good to your ears. I hate using music as some social tool to be accepted with the 'hivemind', it pisses me off to be defined by the music I listen to. I listen to anything, rap, hip hop, rock, classical, anything that sounds soothing to my ears. I can't sit back and be asked "so what type of music do you listen to". I think secretly everyone is like this anyways. | You're on Reddit, don't piss off the "Hivemind". P.S. Notice I used a capital "H". |
4,305 | WARNING NSFL...SERIOUSLY!!! EDIT : I can't do it to people, removed link. | I saw "stiletto" and "penis" in the same sentence. NOPE! |
4,306 | Right. But preorders aren't *only* for customers - sellers also stock up, and the big boys especially will have orders in the tens of thousands. Thus, vendor stock *does* influence bestseller status, even before anyone has read the book. | No, both publishers and media make a strong distinction between retailer orders and point-of-sale data. The Times list is based on sales to readers, not B2B sales. Why? Books are returnable. It would be too easy to game the system if it were based on retailer orders. |
4,307 | i'm a huge fan of Sufjan Stevens and am in love with the song "I walked." Is the rest of the album as good as that song? | "I walked": is a stand out song, probably one of the best songs released all year. The album itself is pretty amazing if you listen to it as a whole. "Impossible Soul" in particular is a humbling song, it's 25 minutes long and absolutely amazing. It's probably one of my favorite releases all year and I'm not a huge Sufjan fan. |
4,308 | Exactly the same as me. I hit a high of 52 last year but it's usually 1 every 10 days ish. And I would have said I was a fast reader until I read some of the posts here. | I'm on track for about 15 this year, but the sizes vary from 1000 pages, 800 pages, standard 350 and a couple books around 200 pages. I've got more time on my hands now then I have before, so I am very curious as to the usual page count of the books you're reading? . :-D |
4,309 | You said don't like country, but Hellbound Glory has songs such as Another Bender Might Break Me and One Way Track Marks..a lot of their songs are about battling addiction | That group ain't bad. I just find country artists like Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton to be rather boring, but sometimes I'll find a good song. One Way Track Marks is a rather relatable song for me, actually. Tyvm. |
4,310 | >hipster douchebaggery. Care to define what 'hipster douchebaggery' is and how a song by a band fits into said definition? I wouldn't want to *physically hurt* my little drama queen with another song. Just kidding, [Race:In] and [Snare Hanger] are two of my favorites. Enjoy! | That was a much more mature response than I could have managed. People like yourself are what's good about reddit. |
4,311 | I said the most awkward, not the best one ever. | Seconding that. Cringeworthy? No no no. Amazing. That flamethrower climax. Just perfect. |
4,312 | I read all of them in 2.5 weeks, how these guys manage to spend more then that is beyond me. | I've just always read fast, if I take more than a week or so to read even one book I'd forget what had happened and have to go back. And I had a ton of free time that week so I just kept reading. I remember so clearly finishing a Clash of Kings in a French cafe after a bike ride. That final Jon chapter was awesome. |
4,313 | There's a book shop with many of these in the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka. It seemed out of place to me at first, since the entire museum is a dedication to the works of Ghibli and the history of animation. | Something had to inspire both the stories and the desire to animate them for the joy of everyone |
4,314 | Don't be fucking stupid, graphics chips have been integrated on boards since before the 90s. [edit] oh and fyi this board comes with AC97 aka integrated audio | Well, there is no VGA cable connected to the motherboard in the picture. |
4,315 | Cover art I usually don't mind as much; I have a movie edition of [The Chronicles of Narnia] that looks pretty good. I don't even mind when it says what awards the book has won. I hate it when the book has 'Part of Oprah's Book Club!' on the cover. | Jonathan Franzen gets so much credit for refusing it for *The Corrections*. No one stands up to Oprah. |
4,316 | Did you actually read the article? This is targeted initially at servers. A company like Google/Twitter will be quite happy to re-write parts of it's stack if it can save a couple orders of magnitude off its power bill for their server farms. From servers, mobile is the next obvious jump -- if people can get a phone that lasts 10-100x as long per charge, store more, and is faster, they can forgive a lack of software if the core, important features are there. Certainly enough to jump start the market. Desktops are definitely trickier, but if you can get a good visualization/emulation software package, it could be enough to make the transition palatable. | I could see it for servers. Not for phones or PCs though. |
4,317 | Imagine is the most overrated song of the century. Seriously, it's not anything truly prophetic or insightful. It's a boring song, it's not catchy and it's disingenuous. The best thing Lennon did solo was Instant Karma. And even that couldn't match even an average Beatles song. He was too self absorbed to admit he needed McCartney, who also didn't do much good stuff post-Beatles. Ironically it was Starr and Harrison who had the most worthwhile solo output (really just Harrison since he wrote both of Starr's hits) | I was referring to the album, which has a couple good songs and was mostly using how pop-friendly it was as a contrast to the darker more experimental stuff that people usually are pretty critical of. |
4,318 | If you want epic in the literal sense then The Odyssey, The Iliad, The Aeneid, Paradise Lost and The Faerie Queen will all change your life (although the latter is so long you have to question whether it's worth it); for something more modern then Middlemarch, Bleak House, Gravity's Rainbow, Ulysses, and Catch-22 are all huge, engaging, and fantastic works; if you want something a little more accessible then The Dark Materials trilogy, Ilium/Olympos (completely batshit insane), all of Iain M. Banks' Culture novels and Jonothan Strange And Mr. Norrell are all incredibly entertaining with a huge scope to match. | For 'more modern' epics I rather find that *Beowulf* and the *Nibelungenlied* spring to mind. :) |
4,319 | > I also bought 5x3TB Baracudas for my NAS a number of years ago, and 4 out of 5 failed within the first year. Were they actually drives for NAS? There's a good reason why they have NAS as a separate line, just as WD does with the Reds. | Definitely not. They were the cheapest drives possible, which was all I could afford at the time. But that still doesn't explain their unusually high failure rates though. I have friends with an identical box that houses cheap Hitachi drives that are still going strong 4 years later. These days I've got 6x6TB WD Reds in my NAS. But people have to buy what they can afford. |
4,320 | **Wizard and Glass, by Stephen King** I like it so far, but the romance plot is starting to get tedious. I'm about halfway through and waiting for the shit to hit the fan. | I can't remember any shit hitting the fan, dt4 was the worst of the first four books by far (while a lot of people think it's the best of them all). I haven't read the other 4 and I don't think I ever will, and I'm a huge king fan. maybe when nothing else remains unread by him. |
4,321 | What if ten years from now you find a use for that stuff? Encase the fuel in glass bricks, and stack them up in the desert inside a building marked "Danger: Fool Killer." | make sure to leave it unlocked. let darwin take care of it. |
4,322 | They provide entertainment to people who want to know about celebrities. Just becasue you don't like the form of entertainment they create, doesn't mean it's worthless. Evidently, it's worth a lot, or people wouldn't be making money from it. | Human trafficking is worth a lot and people make money from it. Stalking people with cameras to sell the footage is worth a lot and people make money from it. Just because something creates monetary value doesn’t mean it creates “worth”. |
4,323 | Agreed but wouldn't that mean some of the jockey type women could be even smaller? Just a theory, definitely not my area of expertise (fighter jets nor tiny women) | Sure, but there will always be someone who doesn't fit. If 95% of people fit, that's good enough. |
4,324 | Are you incapable of using Google on your own? I gave you a solid example of another source and that's all the work I'm going to do for you. Enjoy | Yes. Let's just assume (for a moment) that /u/Methodikull is entirely and completely incapable of using Google or any other search engine. The only thing they can do to ever have the possibility of garnering results for Internet research is through the humble Reddit comment. What do you do? How do you provide this info-hungry soul the precious sources that they so graciously need? |
4,325 | So I just finished Wildbow's Worm serial (60 hours of reading) and am looking for something in a slightly different vein. Any suggestions for a good single book Sci-Fi novel? Preferably something with time travel. | Not really time travel but The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August. Basically Harry August relives his life over and over again but retains his memories of previous lives. So he can act somewhat like a time traveler. |
4,326 | I assumed it was supposed to be simply a new accent with French origins due to it being so far in the future. | If that were true — there's nothing in the movie to support that — that would've been a really dumb idea. |
4,327 | Artists working on commission often don't make shit, so many of them live paycheck to paycheck with their earnings they make from Patreon. I don't see any problems that you could possibly have with that. | I don't really, its just the fact that they're calling for change(back) and citing they are living paycheck as a reason for this change. The risk of loosing one of those paychecks is eliminated in a more traditional employment setting, you choose to be an artist you have to accept that its hard to make a wage in my opinion. |
4,328 | While their intentions are 'good', these protesters are literally demanding for certain constitutional rights to be restricted or taken away. | Being safe at school isn't a right? Edit: Also, why are you putting "good" in quotes? Do you think they have some sort of ulterior motive? |
4,329 | All 911 calls are tracked as it is, by law, on everyone's phone, since 1999. Apple is just making the tracking slightly more precise by using wifi and GPS radio instead of just celltower triangulation. | Could really save some lives for people stranded in blizzards with nothing but a cell signal. |
4,330 | Only seen the movie as a kid and since i do not plan to rewatch it anytime soon, i only have found memories of it. I liked it then, this way it can remain that in my mind \o/ | If you're just looking for a fun action film, it's not bad. It's not meaningful cinema, but it's a great movie to stick on and watch with some friends and a couple of drinks. |
4,331 | On what planet is this psychedelic rock??!! Flaming Lips, Tame Impala, Jefferson Airplane, Phish, The Grateful Dead... Please show me the similarities. | 100% agree. But I wouldn't even know how to categorize this and Like Clockwork. It's not stoner rock anymore. Just damn good rock and roll. |
4,332 | Nothing beats the satisfaction of your last part arriving at the door and completing your new PC! That first beep after you hit the power button and realize everything is working is great :) | The first beep and the realization you've reversed the front panel LEDs polarity. |
4,333 | Woah there, grandpa. Get off your rocking chair and get your ass to a show. | im not a grandpa yet, probably in 10 years, but not yet. and yeah, punks not dead, but its still old. saw iggy last year, and he is still almost as punk as he was 40 years ago. |
4,334 | Well this joke was John Lennon breaking Ringos balls saying he's not even the best in the band because Paul is actually a really skilled drummer. Paul played the drums to Dear Prudence and it's actually very good, but make no mistake Ringo is one of the greatest drummers ever | Really? Just because he played drums on some of the greatest songs ever does not necessarily mean he's one of the greatest drummers. Look at Meg White. |
4,335 | That has nothing to do with immigration, so the original comment is babbling gibberish. | The over seas person is brought here with the visa. It's not gibberish, unless of course your salary depends on you saying it is, in which case I can see why you would say it is. |
4,336 | Just since you're into other bits and pieces to help flesh the world out, you know that Vertigo are doing up a comic to go with this, right? (and if you roll your eyes down to the writers, you'll note it's George, Nico, and Mark.. so the same people who were involved in the film) | Yeah, I'm actually excited for the comics. I want answers on creepy swamp people on stilts! Apperently Miller was working with the comic artist and a professional screenwriter to develop the story, and the ( unnamed in interview) screenwriter was being a douche to comic arrest because "what does he know about stories" so Miller fired him. |
4,337 | Search up E.S. Posthumus on youtube. It should be exactly what you're looking for. :) | This looks to be right up my alley. looking into it further now, thanks. Edit - after checking a few songs: I like it, but I think i'm looking for something with (even) more electro. Sort of using classical music to give it emotion or even a climax. |
4,338 | The Book of Eli. In the shadow of The Road, the movie just seemed so ridiculous. | I have to disagree, I enjoyed both quite a bit. |
4,339 | I feel even more strongly about Scarlett Johansson in this sort of scenario. Hell you could go with moderately attractive woman for half the roles instead of decent actress. | Yeah, I can't think of a time when I've seen Scarlett Johanssen show any emotion other than "concern", but I loved her in Lost in Translation because the character wasn't supposed to be the life and soul of the party. I guess Jennifer Lawrence could be said to have that same kind of.... steady voiced, calm faced acting. |
4,340 | how do you think predictive text works? you agree to allow them to see everything. | Depends on what predictive text system you’re referring to. |
4,341 | It's my all time favorite too. Don't watch the movie. It's just not worth the time, it's nothing close to the books. | It's not just not worth the time. It's a straight up insult to the source material. Jake is the main character. Roland is disillusioned with his hunt for the tower and at no point does he even express interest in saving it. Randall Flagg is a glorified mob boss who has apparently given up his traps and trickery in favor of just incinerating or mind controls anyone who walks into his line of sight. It's just upsetting. |
4,342 | My favourite (urban) fantasy book would be Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis. It is set in modern day Toronto - Ontario, Canada for those who don't know about the city. It is an insightful book into our humanity, exceptionally well writing and full of emotion. I love the character dynamics between the dogs - and sometimes humans - and how he develops them in a unique way. There is a bit of greek mythology in it, but the whole novel is focused on the lives of the dogs. | So I have Fifteen Dogs sitting on my book shelf waiting to be read, but I have a feeling it's going to upset me A LOT... On a scale of 1 to 10 how upsetting is it? (1 being not upsetting, and 10 being I balled my fucking eyes out and then curled up in a ball for the next three days trying to heal from the emotional scars) I do really want to read it, but books with animals really get to me sometimes. For reference, Animal Farm had me at a 6. |
4,343 | Probably what happened to Jaime Lannister and Theon Greyjoy in ASoIaF. | Weirdly enough, I thought watching the Theon scenes in GoT was actually harder for me than reading (or listening to them, since I had the audiobook). I had to turn the sound off. |
4,344 | Yeap, noticed it straight away. Pretty generic lyrics as well, so yeah... we got what we could expect. | Generic lyrics? I disagree. Little Lion Man had multiple ways to be interpreted. The Cave is far from generic. Half the time I'd love to know what the meaning behind their lyrics is, but then that mystery is what I enjoy. |
4,345 | Not thin, but quirky and awkward in her dating life. She doesn't make the obvious thin jokes the way McCarthy takes the easy fat jokes. I've seen literally all of those, doesn't stop people from saying that about her. (to be clear I like Wiig) Plus doesn't that disprove your original point? Wiig has range and talent, McCarthy does not and she plays only one character. | > Not thin. You could have stopped there. >McCarthy does not and she plays only one character. Nope, but I can't really fault you for not keeping up with the filmography of someone you think you're not a fan of. |
4,346 | there was no autopilot, that's what the script ensured for a dramatic ending. | There was autopilot: it's explained in the scene where Lucius Fox is speaking to the mechanics that the autopilot was fixed six months previously by Bruce Wayne. He appeared to have lied about this to fake his death. |
4,347 | > Chance plays no part in either mutations and drift. > Yes, mutations are random. You're not wrong in nuance, you're fundamentally wrong. Drift has nothing to do directly with sexual selection, for example. It's a neutral process, which is the opposite. And The entirety of the book you cited, The Blind Watchmaker, is about supplementing natural selection with randomness as a response to purposeful direction. | I am not wrong, random and chance are two very different things. |
4,348 | your questions, some bizarre social media cinema going experience. | Agreed. There's enough fucking social media crap going on in the world that I don't want to have to deal with that INSIDE of it, feel me? |
4,349 | God damn it. I'm on Verizon and was trying to choose between the Galaxy S6 and the Nexus 6. Neither one of them have an SD slot or a replaceable battery. Guess I'll stick with my current phone. I use my phone a LOT and a battery will usually last me 12-14 months before it won't hold enough charge to be useful. This recent trend towards planned obsolescence is infuriating. Maybe I'll look at the Galaxy Note 4 again. | I love my Note 4 more than my girlfriend. |
4,350 | The dress gives her no form at all. It looks like shes wearing a bag. It doesn't emphasise any features. No waist. No chest. No curves. Just a giant square form. | The dress turned out to run a bit large so I exchanged it for a smaller size. This picture is of the larger size. |
4,351 | Yeah I have a feeling I'll be flicking through the books sometimes to read a few passages and poems haha. I actually don't know much about Tolkien's works, other than what I sometimes hear from friends. I spotted Children of Hurin in the store I bought Return of the King. Have you read it? Is it more academic like the Silmarillion or would you get emotionally invested in it? | I have not read the Children of Hurin, so I cannot tell you. The obvious choice is to read the Hobbit if you have not read that. |
4,352 | There's more to the legacy of Citizen Kane than its story and themes. | Of course, but this discussion is about whether DDL would be suitable to play Kane in a modern remake. The point being made is that he has essentially proved himself by playing Daniel Plainview: a similar character. The story and the themes of a movie are a big part of what the actor is trying to convey through their character. Consequently, comparing the movies' stories and themes is relevant in the context of this discussion; comparing their legacies and cultural impact is not. |
4,353 | Kendrick is the only one I've heard mentioned who could give Em a serious run for his money, lyrically. I don't want them to have beef because I'd rather see another collab, but Em and Kdot dissing each other would be pretty fucking intense | Eminem even said it himself. A lyric in one of his new songs is - “If you ain’t Kendrick or Cole or Sean then you’re a goner” I don’t think they’ll be going up against each other anytime soon |
4,354 | So you'll keep buying iPhones even if they completely stop supporting features you want or need? Just to keep app compatibility? Hmm. | I can buy a $9 adapter. I can’t buy Android versions of all the iOS apps I use. So the features I want/need are still iOS-only. |
4,355 | Thanks so much! I'm happy to hear you enjoyed Constellation. I'm at work on a second book, and have a notebook filled with ideas for future books. If you'll read them, I'll write them. | I'll definitely read them! In the meantime I'm going to read some of the books you've suggested here. Got to have something to tide me over! Would you recommend me something particularly? Consider me a pre-order on your next book! |
4,356 | I don't know about improved but Jack White. He went from bare simplicity (which is outstanding and wonderful by the way), to a 7 piece. Whether it is better sounding or not is up to whoever is listening but musically, it is indefinitely deeper. | You're probably right, but I'm biased by a deep love for primitive blues so I like the Stripes better. Also Jack White is a breed of his own. I expect that within the next five years he will start a whole new band that will blow the world away. |
4,357 | Just got home with that book and will be uploading a video to YouTube showing how obnoxious the text layout is. Was this the only reason or is it more than just that? That is, explain why you quit. Edit, to any interested: | Many of my friends have gotten through it - and really dug it - and I can totally see how rewarding it would be to fall into a massive book like it - but I think the character that the story with just didn't hold my interest - and I can never seem to get fall enough into the story to get to The Navidson Record or whatever it is called - and even a few pages into the story there are footnotes everywhere (I've never tried Infinite Jest...but I guess hundreds of footnotes just take me out of the story) - every couple of years I'll take another shot at HOUSE OF LEAVES...and somewhere around page 30 I guess drift away from it again. |
4,358 | I don't really see goTenna and satellite phones as comparable, TBH. I feel like in the spectrum of off-grid comms, you have 'dumb' analog walkies at the one end and satellite devices at the other. And goTenna comprises a space/utility in between. goTenna is more for off-grid groups of people to communicate with each other. Satellite devices are more for SOS's out into the centralized world — but not necessarily people nearby. Moreover, u/crispy88 can speak to comparability more but I've not seen satellite devices that are cheaper than goTenna which is $100/unit and no service fees. | To echo Daniela's note here, satellite phones are definitely not cheaper than goTenna. New ones cost hundreds to thousands for a single phone (goTenna is 2 for $199), and the service plans you then have to get give you a very meager amount of data for a lot of money (think like $1.35/minute, with minimum monthly plans like a cell phone). Also they're very big and bulky with pretty short battery life. |
4,359 | It depends what old school rap you're talking about. On one hand Illmatic's lyrical content is as powerful as ever, on the other ... >i said a hip hop the hippie the hippie. >to the hip hip hop, a you dont stop. >rock it out baby bubbah to the boogie da bang bang. >the boogie to the boogie da beat | To be clear, I meant old school as in mid 80's. Of course, the further in time we go, the more into tolerable territory we get (for me personally). Illmatic happens to be one of my all time faves. But I also have faves that are much more recent. As in came out in the past 5 years recent. |
4,360 | I absolutely love the Tucker max books, I haven't seen the movie yet though | The movie is surprisingly good, at least in my opinion. It even has heart! It's largely based off of the "Austin Road Trip" story from the first book with elements/dialogue of other stories thrown in here and there to round it out. Plus, Max himself of course cameos. |
4,361 | The DVD extra where he and Mr. Incredible are doing commentary on a shitty licensed cartoon of their adventures and he flips his shit when he finds out they made Frozone white for the cartoon is one of my favorite things Sam Jackson has ever done. | Damn I forgot about that until just now!! Oh man that was hilarious! I'm totally rewatching that next weekend |
4,362 | I'd never heard of Lustmord until I read your comment - now listening to his stuff and it's absolutely my kind of music! Thanks so much :) Also, I agree about the cosmic horror nature of his sounds. | NOICE. Thank god, after years of suggesting him someone enjoys it! I'm glad you do he's definitely the greatest dark ambient artist out. |
4,363 | I like how you're saying the main point of the film was thrown in and distracting. This just isn't you're kind of movie. | They beat you over the head with it to the point of obviousness. That's the problem I had with it. I like good sci-fi, this was just poor editing and dumbing down the way they did it. That and I can't stand the actress. |
4,364 | In comics Peter's father is [Comic Spoilers, kinda](#s "king of the Spartex, and he's a *huge* asshole. That's why (in comics) Peter is called Star Lord: he's actually royalty.") | I think his mom knew this and that's why she called him "her little Star Lord" in the letter. He doesn't know but she did. |
4,365 | Reading the comments on this has opened my eyes to the kind of people that read reddit. Very different crowd now then a few years back. I feel that this list includes the best music from a variety of genres. Lots of ignorant fools like to comment. Yuck | I think it's a great thing honestly. It's cool to see how people's tastes change and develop overtime. Personally, I'm down for whatever music. Whether it be the beat I'm listening to, the lyrics, or just the musicality. |
4,366 | I recently just bought a TCL 55R617 TV. I'm just wondering if the quality of Blu Ray is so much better than streaming that it is worth it to buy a Blu Ray UHD player and discs. I've never actually watched a Blu Ray 4K HDR movie, so I can't really compare personally. I'm not a cinephile, but if the difference is significant, then I might be interested. | It depends on how far you sit. Because you have a 55 inch screen, if you are sitting more than 6 feet away, then you will probably not notice a difference. You will need to be between 3 and 6 feet to notice the difference between the two. You can use a chart [like this one] to help. However, in my opinion, Netflix 4K is about the same quality of 1080p Blu Ray. |
4,367 | Probably because they cost $350. I wouldn't want that secret to get out. | $350 isn't outrageous for noise cancelling headphones of high quality. Especially ones that actually allow you to adjust the amount of noise cancelling. |
4,368 | Man, it seems like a ton of people here on r/Music realllly dislike rap. | I absolutely detest it. Any kind of music with some boring-ass electro beat and obnoxious, processed vocals drives me bonkers. EDIT: Lol, keep downvoting me haha. Face it, I think rap sucks, and you cannot change my opinion. |
4,369 | They stay alive by dodging taxes and raising prices in other countries than USA. Fuck spotify. | Literally every medium to big-sized business does this. Do you buy IKEA furniture? Use Google products and services? Apple? Microsoft? Apple? Walmart? |
4,370 | Easy - Of mice and men. Hard - The trial | Hard - Guns, Germs and steel by jarad diamond. Easy - The hungry catapiller. |
4,371 | I mean, my Moto 360 can't measure my heart rate. I don't know if it's cause I'm hairy or what. | Have you cleaned the sensor? Mine stops working after an intense workout due to the sweat, always have to clean it after one. |
4,372 | As the battery is clearly not a user serviceable component, can not be classed as a consumable so [under EU law I'd expect them to do that.] I dunno what the rule is down under. My experience of Apple in the UK from first hand doesn't differ to what I've seen of friends, nor does it differ from other retailers, some like John Lewis who pride themselves on their customer service I've had to write lengthy letters to before *sigh*. | Still was out of warranty so they didn't have to do anything at all. I was expecting to at least pay for a replacement battery, so the service in this case went above and beyond expectations. |
4,373 | The Arclight and The Landmark theaters in Los Angeles both have 70mm showings. | Anyone have an opinion of which of these two would be the best to see it in 70mm? |
4,374 | "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." - George Orwell, Animal Farm | I really enjoyed reading Animal Farm, George (that's also my name!) did a fantastic job of expressing his thoughts on the way some humans exploit other humans. I MISS BOXER :,( |
4,375 | There's so much more out there than pop music. I'd personally not make any changes to it for 10 more years, but that's because there are great artists in the midst of forging larger bodies of work that may then qualify them for me. | I hope you are right. There might be a couple of talented artists out there currently but nothing I can foresee knocking any of the major top 100 artists out of their spots. |
4,376 | A little too late for that aye. Should have represented at the box office. Boom. | Even I have to admit I need to go to the burn unit after that. |
4,377 | All vinyl really does is produce specific sounds differently than a different medium. It's basically a filter that the music is fed through, like an audio-preset in a car, all vinyl go through that similar filter. The quality is worse in general, but the sound has the specific traits that you like to hear, so it sounds "better" to those people. This is ignoring the visual/collectable aspects obviously. | That's kinda my problem with it. Good on you if you enjoy it more, but I imagine the recording artists want us to hear what they hear in the studio. That what *I* want to hear, at least. As a recording artist myself, I'd like people to hear my songs the way I mixed them to sound. Otherwise, why'd I waste the time? It's like people are just "nice mix u/Haterbait_band, but I'm just gonna run it through an effects processor and an EQ to make it sound good to me". |
4,378 | I think it's more likely that Marvel would do this to play chicken with DC. If DC moves, they admit they're the lesser brand. If DC doesn't move, they steal DC's thunder and tickets, and DC doesn't get the push to get their version of the Marvel movie pantheon off the ground. | You think Captain America 3 would take from Batman vs Superman? Cause I see it the other way around. In my opinion Batman vs Superman will see much higher revenue opening box office weekend. |
4,379 | The evil guys right hand man was the good guys father. So for star wars the Emperors right hand man , Vader, was Luke's father. | I take it you didn't read the third book, Morzan isn't his father, his father is Brom by the same mother as Murtagh. I agree there are some Star Wars similaries |
4,380 | Last I checked, they still had internet and music periodicals in backwater redneck hick southern towns. | I didn't. I had PEER pressure. goddamned xtian pretard PEER pressure. i was raised CLUELESS. im just getting started. and im PISSED! |
4,381 | I'm not saying anyone is right or wrong. I'm giving my take, and expressing my frustration at the dismissiveness of the other poster ahah. I'd say there may not be a difference in sound, but I do believe that tone is something outside of the instrument alone. I feel that when you find an instrument that has character and you mesh with, you can't beat that tone. If that's a brand new instrument, great! If it's older, that's just as awesome. So, no, I don't believe that new and old instruments produce the same tone. I believe that's much more dependent on the connection between the violinist and the instrument. | > I'd say there may not be a difference in sound, Are you fucking serious |
4,382 | lol I was gonna say... Is it ["Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks] ["Alone Again" by Gilbert O'Sullivan] | Thanks but they aren't it. Its really slow and the guy has a stage name that I'm pretty sure is his real name. And he us not very popular I believe but the song is |
4,383 | - Damn I would kill to have seen Leonardo play spiderman. - I am legend would have been way better if they did stick to the vampires from the novel. - Nic Cage... Lol | Nicolas Cage would have made I am Legend into an amazing movie. |
4,384 | The messiah image is hardly new to the Superman mythos. | I didn't say it was new. If they're going to be so heavy-handed about it I expect him to do a better job of living up to it. |
4,385 | I would like to add Alec Guinness as George Smiley. | Wow, how did I not know about this mini-series? I'll have to check it out, thank you! |
4,386 | House of Leaves is my favorite book. It got into my head so badly. I didn't sleep well for the 1-2 months I was reading it, I would stay up late reading it because I just couldn't put it down (no joke when you're a chef that gets up at 4 am for work). I also had weird, extremely vivid dreams during this period. I spent another month reading on forums and such about the hidden messages, theories, etc. on it.? | Happy to see another HOL fan. I did the exact same thing, stay in up late to keep trucking on through the book. I loved how there were so many hidden messages within. It made it an enjoyable experience and I know there is still plenty in there that I have not found yet. There's also been some great threads on here for theories and hidden gems. Don't know about you, but I couldn't start reading another book for some time after this one. I couldn't get it out of my mind, but then again I didn't really want to stop thinking about it. |
4,387 | At this point, Apple has the most catching up to do. Siri is a joke. | I've tried Cortana for PC. There's absolutely no use case for it. |
4,388 | [This video] was made by some high school students who hung out at the library in Philly - they re-read the Rainbow Fish and were shocked about what passed over their heads as kids. | This is a very well written/well spoken video, pretty impressive. |
4,389 | There are so many amazing Indigenous writers. Which genres are you drawn to? | I'm going to step in here and ask about contemporary narrative fiction. What's life like today? I really enjoyed Salt Baby and The Post Mistress (both plays) as an example. And I just lent my sister a copy of Monkey Beach for her book club. I'm eyeing Son of a Trickster in my local bookstore too! |
4,390 | He also held a burial service for the word "def" and has a large stuffed yak Jay-Z pet when making 99 Problems. Rick is an awesome dude. | And he pulled Metallica out of the toilet with Death Magnetic. |
4,391 | "My favourite and preferred step between imagination and image is a strip of photochemistry that can be held, twisted, folded, looked at with the naked eye, or projected on to a surface for others to see. It has a scent and it is imperfect. If you get too close to the moving image, it's like impressionist art. And if you stand back, it can be utterly photorealistic. You can watch the grain, which I like to think of as the visible, erratic molecules of a new creative language. After all, this "stuff" of dreams is mankind's most original medium, and dates back to 1895. Today, its years are numbered, but I will remain loyal to this analogue artform until the last lab closes." | >Today, its years are numbered, but I will remain loyal to this analogue artform until the last lab closes." Like he doesn't have the money and influence to just fund his own. |
4,392 | YouTube probably has more daily video views than Netflix, but most of the videos on YouTube are much shorter than most of the videos on Netflix. | YouTube now has 1.8 billion hours viewed a day so would think more than Netflix. But not sure. I do use both personally a lot. |
4,393 | If you liked this book and the original (and other Victorian gothic stories), then you might want to try The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss just for fun. It imagines that all these Victorian mad scientists had daughters/young women they experimented on and then abandoned. So the young women find each other and band together. | I've actually thought about picking that up at some point. Thanks for the recommendation! |
4,394 | >OK, kindle would be a great choice because of the wifi, but are you ready to deal with all that "nothing is truly yours, you are just renting" shit? That's not true. The deal with 1984 was it was released by a 3rd party, NOT Amazon, and the 3rd party didn't have rights to release it. Amazon has closed that loophole. You're not "just renting" anything. | Well, put it this way: it would be hard for Amazon to take 1984 out form my reader, seen that it doesn't have wifi. |
4,395 | It seems inevitable that AI will be generalized enough that it can be used for anything. Including weapons use. They might not do it directly, but they will be contributing to it by making it easier to use them as weapons. I think that if you're really care about the issue, you should actively fight against the possibility of having them be used as weapons. | AI isn't something you can just treat like a multipurpose tool, the engineers who are working on learning systems are spending months right now tuning their learners for specific, narrow tasks. To be blunt, an AI that could learn any task and be repurposed from its original task would outshine humanity in so many ways it wouldn't matter any more. At that point this stops being our civilization. We better hope we get that right. |
4,396 | I was at sea for years. Submarines. Weeks of boredom punctuated by moments of stark terror. | Jokes on you guys, then: I'm extremely interested in 19th century whaling practices, I found it exhilirating. |
4,397 | well, assuming Proust was the main character in his book... the character in Proust in an angst ridden neurasthenic. He lived off his parents money, had no job, only had literary aspirations. He never confronted anybody about anything, lived in his head, and assumed the worst. | he was not a loser in the sense that he was very sensitive and thoughtful and insightful and imaginative (granted, only imaginative as long as anxiety was the driving force). he was also a loser because he was selfish, jealous, envious, overly dramatic and plagued by doubt and insecurities to the point of being non-functioning. |
4,398 | Zach Sherwin's always really good at those finishing lines. My favorite is the [Sherlock Holmes vs Batman] one: I believe your parent's homicide is why you mask your face. You're shamed and traumatized and haunted by the vast disgrace. Of watching like a passive waste as momma died and daddy was dispatched with haste. You're a bat shit crazy basket case | I remember watching that one and just thinking, "Jesus Christ, Batman is going to need an ambulance for that burn." I thought it was actually **too** harsh, if there even is such a thing in a rap battle. |
4,399 | JS uses doubles. The difference in probability between [0,1) being less than half and being equal-to-or-less-than half is infinitesimal. There is no bias. | I'm sorry? I don't think you understand the problem here. `Math.random` is random enough if you're writing a game or something, but it's _not_ actually random. The actual bits that go into the double value aren't properly random, even before you get into floating point arithmetic. If you're going to write something that randomizes something this important, `Math.random` simply doesn't cut it. In case you're still not sure why this is a bad idea, see page 24 of [this paper] |
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