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5,000 | Technological innovation thwarted by Luddites. Innovators then punished for having dared to rock the boat with their new ideas. Disappointing, but not surprising. | Don't you know that copyright laws exist to protect artists and innovators and entrepreneurs? Not these idiots who go and develop new things or new ideas based on improving obsolete ideas and then trying to provide these ideas to consumers. |
5,001 | What are the other two? Edit: Thanks for the answers. | I am not very well versed in King's bibliography, but is quite famous, because it contains the stories that made two of the most famous King-movie-adaptions (Shawshank Redemption and Stand by me). 2nd, I found by googling, is. Edit: it seems /u/SoldierHawk didn't include the Bachmann stories since there is a third by King: |
5,002 | This definitely feels like a PR move. I mean look at the OPs response right below. Psy is not popular in American because he's unAmerican. I'll never view him as anything else nor will he ever get my money, views, etc. | Is psy doing another world tour or something? PR stunts are done b4 any money-making deal. |
5,003 | I just wonder what the solution is? I want very much to believe women but I also think it's important to have a system that we can trust to protect our rights as citizens. In the absence of proof and preferably a conviction, it's unethical (imho) to decide someone is guilty at least as a regular citizen who doesn't have access to all of the information. | This is exactly what I was thinking. I respect the fact that this woman would rather move on and not subject herself to the media circus the trial would've been. I'm not going to judge her by calling her a liar. However I can't assume Nelly is guilty either because it's not right to tarnish a person's reputation when they haven't had their day in court, especially if they're innocent. |
5,004 | The new dead pool movie is going to have to address Origins. If they do I imagine it could be hilarious. | In the short promo for the Deadpool or the "Test Footage" rather they adressed Tom Rothman who is the one that deliberately tried to ruin the X-men franchise because he didn't like comic-book movies. And he is at Sony now so it's all good for now with X-men. I see it as something like this "Who would ever want to shut Deadpool's mouth or not respect an entertainment medium, oh, i know who (Tom whispered)" |
5,005 | One of their catchiest songs, with what are probably the worst lyrics of their entire catalog. But that's, like, just my opinion, man. Love the guitar riffs, hate the topic and the content of the song. | I concur. Since when has science failed our world? Tell that to the people of the middle ages lol. |
5,006 | Remember, this is Reddit, where Occam's razor leads to the obvious answer that someone is a creepy know-it-all stalker rather than someone who used Google to sate curiosity. | Well now, to be absolutely fair - I **AM** a creepy know-it-all stalker. Just in this case I really did have to look it up. |
5,007 | >The US Patent and Trademark Office granted Nikola Motor Company six design patents between February 2018 and April 2018, protecting the use of the Nikola One's "wrap windshield, mid-entry door, fuselage, fender, side cladding, and the overall design of a semi," all of which Nikola says are unique in the trucking industry. They are suing because Tesla copied their "futurey-look". I am not sure how these "design" patents work, but if this suit can go through, I think both companies are in jeopardy of being sued by the makers of *Battlestar Galactica*. | That futurey-look is just a product of tech advancement. They're both designed to be aerodynamic and maximize vision with a wrap around windshield. These things are functional and shouldn't be covered by design patents. The shape of these things is dictated by the technology involved. The general shape of most trucks on the road today are the same because they all have to accommodate a huge engine in the front. It's like saying Mack copied Internationals design because they both have large side mirrors in the same place. If they had actually copied design elements, like the decorative shape of the grill they might have a problem. But the Tesla doesn't have a grill and it looks like Nikola stole the 3 bar design from Ford. |
5,008 | I go back and forth on how I feel about Uber. I think some of the Taxi laws they are skirting shouldn't be laws in the first place. I think some of these laws create artificial scarcity for taxis, and drive the prices up. But at the same time, it gives them an unfair advantage over the other companies who follow the rules. Realistically I think a lot of these laws should be done away with so that everyone is on equal footing. | The taxi companies are the ones that lobbied for those laws in the first place, to limit competition. So, live by the lobby, die by the lobby. I only have sympathy for the drivers, who are generally not in the best life situation in the first place. |
5,009 | War and Peace. I've never experienced such emotion for characters as I did with Tolstoy's Prince Andrei, Pierre Bezukhov, and Natasha Rostova. Every time I read it or parts from I, I feel like I'm learning something new. It's a beautiful book. | In the original Russian or a translation? I was going to say Crime and Punishment, but I don't know how well written Dostoyevsky's original is, only the translator. |
5,010 | What timing, I just finished it for the first time myself a few days ago. The ending made me cry. | There was another person in this thread that finished it last Wednesday too. |
5,011 | "Your car goes where your eyes go." --Enzo the dog, from /The Art of Racing in the Rain/, by Garth Stein | Also, "That which you manifest is before you." --ibid |
5,012 | They designed a costume and did a costume test. Its happening. | Just like "Superman Lives" right?! Oh wait... Seriously though, I agree, this movie is still happening. |
5,013 | China, U.S., probably every other fucking country, where could one buy a router that is not backdoor-ed? Is it even a realistic outcome? | If you're looking for a consumer-level router, the answer is simple: use DD-WRT, OpenWRT, or Tomato firmware. The challenge is finding a router that works with your chosen firmware, but each of these projects has a router database of supported devices. I picked up an old Cisco/Linksys E1000 (v1) for $10 on Ebay a while ago and loaded DD-WRT on it, and it's been working great for years. If you need 802.11n, however, you'll need some newer hardware than that. For enterprise-level stuff, I can't help you. |
5,014 | I'm 22. It seems like half the people I meet know the current radio hits pretty well, and the other half doesn't even recognize them. | getting the music that you're interested is so easy nowadays with all of the pandora act alikes and satellite radio, etc. I'd expect more people your age and younger to not listen to airwave radio that much anymore. |
5,015 | I've managed to never watch House (I pride myself in avoiding TV) and recently found out the theme song was Teardrop. It really upset me. That song doesn't deserve to be a theme song, no matter how old it is. That song puts me immediately in a mental state that no other song can put me in. The singer, who's originally from Cocteau Twins, is one of the most mystifying vocalist of our times. Check out their album "Heaven or Las Vegas" for some out of this world catchy beautiful music. You'll never know what she's saying but it doesn't matter one bit. | House and Teardrop are perfect for each other. Whenever I see or listen to them I think of the other. |
5,016 | Uh OP come on man... This shit is old already. People even posting photoshopped versions with it color corrected. Not only did you not link to his twitter for the thread but instead the same damn picture we've been looking at, but the twitter you linked to in source is FAKE. Even if it was his twitter, there wasn't anyone out there doubting the legitimacy of the picture. So much fail OP. | It's got 315 votes so far, how did he fail exactly? |
5,017 | Not the latest hits, but these songs guarantee a quicker blood flow. [Touch & Go - Straight to Number One] Stick it towards the end. [Gotan Project - Whatever Lola Wants] [Nitin Sawhney feat. Roxanne Tataei - Distant Dreams] [Modeselektor feat. Paul St Hilaire - Let Your Love Grow] [Thom Yorke - And It Rained All Night] [Venus Hum - Pink Champagne] [Dead Can Dance - The Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove] If you can make it work with other genres, [Nouvelle Vague - Too Drunk To Fuck] is an awesome date track. Stick it between two "serious" songs and play it cool. | I'm not sure what to think of you recommendations when looking at your name. |
5,018 | The Bene Gesserit aren't fucking bald! Jessica has hair! They all have hair! They are concubines & masters of political espionage. that's their guild, they engage in political manipulations. They try to manipulate the bloodlines of every major family in the universe. How fucking far would they get were they ALL BALD UGLY MONKS!? Whatever movie is made needs to convey their sense of strangeness through their actions and words, through the intentions they convey, not their appearance. I imagine that this will be very hard to do, but no successful dune movie will ever have a scene like the one depicted in the article. | Calm down. In the movie they made the Reverend Mothers bald. Movies are a visual medium and they wanted to have a visual cue to tell you whether a BG was a Reverend Mother or not. It was a simple change and not that big of a deal. |
5,019 | Yeah those airlines are just making a killing screwing people over and definitely not providing a critical piece of transportation infrastructure on insanely small or negative margins. I've never understood the hatred for the airlines when their are so many companies out there actively screwing you over and making a lot more money doing it. | Airlines *are* making record profits, and its all on the backs of jacked rates for passengers. But those aren't even the big corporations that I was talking about. They are peanuts next to the real corporate tax cheats |
5,020 | I didn't know he was CGI until I read it here. | I knew he'd be CGI when watching it because of the lack of aging over 30 years. What I didn't know was that he'd be entirely CGI; I thought he'd have a normal human actor just with a CGI face on top. |
5,021 | Yeah, it's a very disappointing book. Lots of odd decisions that I have no idea why he decided to go through with. Why does every single person Jazz meets call her a slut? Why does Andy feel the need to remind me that they're on the Moon and the Moon has lower gravity every couple of chapters? Yes, I know why she can jump higher, you don't need to explain everything. And why does every character speak like an American even though only like 2 of them actually are? (I can't remember where Dale was from). It was released 6 years after The Martian, so I don't know why it would be rushed, but it definitely feels like a first draft. | > It was released 6 years after The Martian, so I don't know why it would be rushed. They didn't anticipate the success of the movie, which Andy worked on as well - that would be my guess. |
5,022 | > Yes, except that the secondary market for a product is built into the price of a product. It's interesting you would make this argument, as there is no secondary market for ebooks (There's [Amazon's "secret" plans] for doing so, but nothing so far). | Yeah that isn't something that's been figured out. But to be clear, I do think that ebooks should be about 5 bucks cheaper than paperback books. |
5,023 | The Quiet Earth FTW! Love that he put it on the list. I had a copy on VHS for a long time. I have always thought 28 Days Later was a love letter to The Quiet Earth, as the films share some similar themes. | I'm half amazed anyone else saw this film. I liked it. |
5,024 | I like reading on my kindle better. Arms don't get tired. It's harder to lose my place. Books have a nice old-school feel and smell, but are just not as convenient to use. That and they take up space. I'm in love with stories, not books. Books are just a medium for an author's dream to take shape. E-readers are just another medium. | Personally I can't stand e-readers. But I have begun publishing Kindle singles because many of my readers love them. For my part, it's opened up a platform for short format. There's a difference in the medium: Not every story's form translates well to ebook. There's also a difference in people who like to collect books and read and people who simply like to read and not collect books. I think most writers would agree that it's enjoyable publishing for all of these people and not one over the other. Even if many authors still prefer books for their own reading time. ;-) |
5,025 | Please, go on. How is it not true in any way? How do you know more about my musical career than I do? | Well, lets take a moment here to acknowledge that you have said you have been paid $0 for your music. So this "career" you are talking about doesn't seem to reflect a very good career in music. Second of all, as a first hand account I paid $0 as an independent artist who has 13 records on pandora and receive royalties from it. |
5,026 | I was also thinking later that it had to be intentional but I'm not so sure.... | It is the point. Those scenes are not the real Nick and Amy, they're the Nick and Amy that exist in Amy's fake diary. Sure, something like that probably happened, but the overly-romanticized version of it that we see in the movie with the lovey-dovey dialogue and overacting are because the version of Nick and Amy we're seeing are not really them. |
5,027 | Thank you, I don't understand the language but music and vocals are beautiful. | Haha I agree with you, I have no idea what they are saying but the energy and vibes of the group were contagious! I wish I could have been apart of a group like this |
5,028 | Does Gracie get separate anything when touring, (accommodations), or is she just “one of the band”,,,,,,, so to speak. | Not really! Sometimes, if we're staying at a hotel and there's one room that gets a bed to itself, the guys are gracious enough to give it to me, not necessarily because I'm a girl, but because getting a good nights sleep can really affect your ability to sing the next day. Otherwise though, it's pretty hard to have separate accommodations in the tour van that we often sleep in hahah. \- Gracie |
5,029 | I don't want too many people. If they introduce Batman, I hope it's like War Machine in Iron Man 2, but I hope the actual movies way better than Iron Man 2. I think the story should still mostly focus on the rebuilding of Metropolis, and I hope they introduce Lex Luthor, but don't immediately give him a suit of armor and have him fight Superman. They should save Gotham and the other Batman characters for a standalone Batman film or another sequel. I don't know how they should even approach the Joker, nor how to cast him. For Harley Quinn, I'd get Jane Levy though. I could see Mark Strong playing Lex Luthor. John Hamm or Damian Lewis could maybe work. | It's going to be hard enough finding a new Batman that will get over with the public. Finding a new Joker? That's a big gamble. |
5,030 | I'd think they would have seen Deadpool's success and follow suit. We could only hope. | I'd love for that to be the case, but most higher ups don't seem to make the smart choice when it comes to these things |
5,031 | So, /r/tech gets a big upswing in subscribers after /r/technology makes waves for censoring topics... And now you're banning all the technology-censored topics, essentially. Isn't that running along the same lines, somewhat? I'll stick around to see how this plays out, but this wasn't what I was hoping for when I subscribed to this subreddit. | Fine, leave. Go back to /r/technology. I finally get the subreddit I've been asking for for the past year and a half. |
5,032 | Fair point. On the other hand nuclear fusion has been promised as a usable power generation technology since the 1960s. And it's always promised as being 15-20 years away. And ITER is no different. | That has more to do with the miniscule account of funding. Even ITER which has pretty much every economy on the planet that matters involved has only a couple of billions of funding. It is going to be the first net positive generator though and it is going to run in the 2020s. You can watch their monthly progress on their youtube channel. |
5,033 | I just watched the trailer. I'm gonna go watch it tonight. | It's one of those movies that ends up being worth it for the eye-candy, but not so much for anything else. Not horrible though. |
5,034 | My wife and I use Dropbox because it is the superior service for professionals. She syncs GIS software which has an insane amount of files, and Dropbox does it flawlessly. We tried OneDrive and it shit the fucking bed with the amount of files she has. I think the amount of PC users that use cloud storage is small, but Dropbox has a significant market share. They deserve it. | I'm sure it works great as a one off but my point is that Dropbox doesn't scale to Enterprise solutions very well. They have tried pouring a ton of r&d into it but have yet to see any significant change. Also, there "ground up" market strategy pissed off a lot of sysadmins because the files are now unmanaged from a security perspective. Then they would come in and say "we have leverage because we see that x many users from your domain are registered." Not exactly a great way to build a partnership. |
5,035 | The other reason is, to put it bluntly, if you are part of a deeply marginalized group, you are much less likely to produce a work better than the works of your contemporaries. Yale could do these things, and I'm not saying it would be difficult to implement, but English Literature is largely defined by it's past, which should not be (whatever the opposite of) whitewashed with modern day political perspectives. It is the point of a course on English literature to look at English literature, not to look at those that English literature intentionally or systemically excluded. That is for another course, preferably one in sociology. | And that is a shame, but we can't whitewash history. |
5,036 | Ryan Adam is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, songwriters of his generation. | 100% agreed. A true treasure, a consummate music artist. |
5,037 | I meant more like individuals couldn't list them for more than (or more than a percentage of) face value. StubHub could still add fees, just like the original seller does. e.g. a ticket is $50 +$10 fees from the original seller, and then $50 + $10 fees from stubhub. | But then every person who sells on StubHub loses money. If I paid $60 for tickets, including fees, I should be able to sell that ticket for $60 not just $50. I'm fine with not allowing $60.01. But imagine the hassle of trying to enforce that accurately, with some tickets paid in cash, or with no receipt to show fees. |
5,038 | The right to be drafted, and the glory of being shot to bloody chunks by machine gun fire. | Actually, now women are being let into combat roles. I know a girl going into the Army as infantry 11B like myself. So far it's still only a handful of women though. It's weird, with all the protesting feminists have done for equal rights and job opportunities, you'd think they would all be linining up to join the Army and fight for their country like only men have ever done. I somehow get the feeling that fighting and dying for your country was not on the feminist "equal rights" agenda. |
5,039 | It really is a industry waiting to be made. Every US submariner has to learn quite a lot about reactors to begin with not to mention the dedicated crews. I'm sure the same is true for the UK France and Russia. If nuclear power in merchant ships take off you have a massive pool of qualified military nuclear techs to fill the role. | In order to get around the liability concerns, the ship would have to be flagged under a g8 nations merchant marine. Would make sense as the vessel is also considered a military auxiliary. Still civilian owned and operated. Problem is you cant pay those guys peanuts and you pay US Taxes. Maersk and Hanjin would fight tooth and nail against it, as their whole business model relies around Allied Naval forces protecting them, no nation being able to enforce emissions controls, and use of slave labor from the Philippines and West Africa. Besides nuclear, there is the push by the south Korean shipyards to start building electric drive ships powered by Gas Turbines. |
5,040 | The Independent is a serious source now? Edit: Seriously? [This] Independent which mentions the US President 20 different times on their front page? They're a joke. | No idea, nor do I care, but they'd definitely not be serious if they were using imperial units. |
5,041 | That's kind of a strange question to me. I think that giving students such a short list of books, and telling them, "read these, they're classics. Everyone likes them. You must like them." is so silly. I hate non-fiction books. They're so bland (to me.) I really enjoy fantasy novels. I read Pawn of Prophecy in my Freshman AP English class, and while I have always liked reading...I read the 10 books in that series in just over 2 months. I couldn't put them down. What else could an English teacher want, then to have students WANT to read books? | Well, they could want them to read books that actually have depth of both theme and language. There is a reason that classics are classics, and it isn't because the stories are really fun. Reading the latest pulp novel isn't really any different from watching TV. Reading isn't an inherent good if it is just a mindless escape like everything else in today's society. |
5,042 | I really enjoyed the light-based [system] in the Lightbringer series. It was really unique, but it worked. The most ridiculously detailed [system] I'd say is from the Malazan series. It's just awesome. Codex Alera by Jim Butcher has just a fun system. Basically Pokemon meets Roman Empire. Sounds ridiculous, but works really well. Warded Man by Peter V. Brett has an interesting rune-based system. /r/fantasy has done a couple polls about magic systems, so you could poke around there. | I love Malazan but I wouldn't call the system detailed. I |
5,043 | My first tv didn’t have a remote. If those jerks had made it appropriately I could have added one later when they came up with remote controls! First wired, then sound activated then IR. Oh wait that’s a ridiculous thing to demand. | Did that first TV stop working when TVs with remotes came out? Did the antenna stop functioning? |
5,044 | Am I the only one who does not think this would be instant gold. I think Pixar's main strength is mixing child-like wonder with incredible story telling. I love gritty and violent movies but I feel like the innocence is part of what makes Pixar so wonderful, I could be wrong though. | Agreed. They have such an talent for this style, being childish,happy on the outside but at the same time delivering a bombastic story. I'd hate to see them do some gritty things. |
5,045 | This, also the books are pretty short so why not read the first one. | You consider 374 pages short? Or are you just saying it's an easy read? |
5,046 | Nah, the music industry is a force for evil. Don't give them your money if you can possibly avoid it. If you really feel bad about listening to an artist's music for free, go ahead and buy other stuff from them or just send them money. If you don't then just enjoy getting all sorts of free stuff in a way that doesn't harm anyone. What's the worst case scenario we're worried about here? Sales will continue declining until... what? If you think quality music is going to stop being produced you're crazy. And as long as it's being produced and it's available for free, life is pretty sweet. | > Nah, the music industry is a force for evil. Keep telling yourself that. Anything to take the guilt away |
5,047 | Remember boys and girls - this is the person you reveal your lives to on FB. Do you consider yourself a "dumb fuck"? | I am glad I'm not important enough for my IM history from my college years to get published. I would probably have to get a new identity. |
5,048 | What the fuck happened to project loon? They were going to deliver internet via balloons. Not to mention that there's a latency issue with using radio waves due to the speed of light | > Not to mention that there's a latency issue with using radio waves due to the speed of light. as opposed to optical fiber cable? :D |
5,049 | Yeah, I don't think that will happen in the near future | Just 20 years ago the concept of what smart phones can do now was science fiction. |
5,050 | I think the bigger message here is this: Even Ayn Rand--a world famous philosopher and a millionaire, couldn't face down the costs of american healthcare without help. How fucked is that? | But that doesn't appear to be a true statement. Seems like her financials were fine. |
5,051 | Great speech, it felt genuine. After following the headlines up to this, part of me suspects that the reason Dylan is being aloof here is that this whole thing made him too anxious/nervous to participate. | Agreed. I've been disappointed to hear so many dismissing Dylan as arrogant for not collecting the prize in person, when I don't think that's the operative factor at all. I actually just recently offered my own half-baked theory on why he didn't show. [Here it is] if you're at all interested. Apologies in advance because it's fairly long-winded. |
5,052 | would you say google play music is similar in satisfaction to itunes? or are they completely different. is there an android equivalent to itunes? | Google Play Music is like Spotify + you can upload and stream your own collection. There's not really a desktop client, it's all web based. Bonus: It comes with YouTube Red if you live in the US. |
5,053 | Sorry it requires the use of one's brain to listen to. | Yeah, because songs about Lord Of The Rings using the blues scale are so fucking complicated and intellectual. Pull your head out of your ass you pretentious fuckhead. |
5,054 | getting a qotsa vibe.. do you use live effects on the vocals as well? | Just reverb via the PA, I plan on adding a distortion pedal though. |
5,055 | You probably already know, but the backing "La la la" is Bowie. Just perfect. | Hunt and tony sales the rhythm section later played in tin machine. Bowie and Iggy have long been intertwined. You know about China Girl right? |
5,056 | He's an idiot. No one should fear losing their job to tech because it's been a standard thing for the past forever. If your job can be replaced then that's a good thing. It's called progress. The only thing that becomes troublesome is that we have to destroy wealth inequality well before the majority of the well paying jobs get replaced. As for food service, no one ever said "Oh I can't wait to go to work and deal with asshole customers". | You are an idiot. This is already happening and wealth inequality is at a historical high. |
5,057 | He has 250 MBIT/s and I have 160 MBIT/s - how does that make mine faster? mbps stands for megabit/s | upper case MB means mega**bytes**. Lower case mb means mega**bits** They are two totally different things. |
5,058 | You can't manipulate a 24fps taken shot into a 60fps shot. You can certainly manipulate it the other way around though- once again showing that recording in 60fps gives you more versatility. You can literally take frames out if you want to. You cannot just add frames in that don't exist though if you originally recorded in 24fps. | You certainly can't. It is literally impossible to get 24 evenly spaced frames out of a 60 fps shot. |
5,059 | The Mote in God's Eye and The Space Vampire are a couple of classic examples. More than any specific book, however, I think the thing to keep in mind is that genres are defined by the common tropes they employ... I don't think it's too difficult to imagine a "Jurassic Park-in-space" type novel. | Thanks! Not literary of course, but I was also thinking Predator and Alien fit the genre well. |
5,060 | Or it means that online services will be all that some people really need, any they'll stop seeing any point behind having something more powerful than say a chromebook. | This is probably the more likely scenario. In the future people won't use computers locally anymore. Instead you sit down in front of any terminal, computer, laptop or tablet and just sign in to your online profile and all your files and your desktop appears no matter where you are. Not saying I like this, but it seems like we are heading in that direction when you look at smart phones and Windows 8. |
5,061 | Did you become interested in writing/science as a child? Is it something you've always been interested in? | No, I was not particularly interested in science as a kid. My own kids are, though, I'm happy to say. |
5,062 | Yeah I have a growing feeling this will never happen | I'd prefer that after being excited for Wright's version for so many years. I mean, there were even those tweets from Simon Pegg, remember those? I'm still dumbfounded that this happened. |
5,063 | I assume you mean undeserved 5* reviews? There are tons of ways to make money by being dishonest!! | Well, I can do deserved too. There are authors out there that can't get any reviews. So I would like to help, but don't know how to find them... |
5,064 | 1. Bing is set as the default search engine. 2. The search engine preference setting becomes harder to find. 3. Search operations become more closely integrated into the OS. 4. Search preferences become fragmented and obfuscated. 5. OS integration makes search from a web interface a minority sport. 6. Changes to search preferences become possible only with direct registry manipulation. 7. Search with Bing fully and indelibly integrated into Windows. | 8 . Users begin migrating to linux desktop...wait who am I kidding, thats next year |
5,065 | I never finished this book. It was the first book I ever read that I did not finish. Up until that point my life as a teenager I finished everything even if I thought it was horrible just so I could say I read it but Moby Dick... Moby Dick was a book I found so uninteresting that I gave up. | This is not meant as an insult, I think Moby Dick will appeal to you more the older you get. He is America’s Dostoyevsky and goes over the heads of nearly every teenager who is forced to read it. Also, his writing style is very 19c American, so you kinda have to learn his thinking/writing style before it flows easily. Perhaps give it another shot one day! |
5,066 | Everyone should listen to We Hate Movies podcast on Twister. The things they do with Dusty's character is fantastic. | I haven't heard this, but thanks for recommending it. I will definitely check it out. "It's the extreme!" |
5,067 | No. Internet rule #67-234 states that if someone is so stupid that they fail to back up their music, no one is allowed to share their music with them. | Cmon man, lol... how would i back up my music if i dont have a pc? |
5,068 | Eh, they give themselves too much credit is all. There are a few real sharp folks over there, but less than there used to be, and more of the discussion now tends to be about money and Silicon Valley culture and gender and other social issues and subjects that most of the regulars there really know nothing about but still have an opinion on. It was originally called "Startup News" and probably should've stayed that way. | I noticed there are typically 2 types of posts on HN, technical posts and entrepreneurship posts. |
5,069 | Can you elaborate on the fart thing? It's for a friend. | Just search 'fart' on Skills on your Alexa app. It's called 4AFart. It could be better, but my kid loves it. |
5,070 | "uh..Life finds a way" Malcolm talks about chaos theory several times in the book, specifically the butterfly effect. I didn't find out until I bought the book and on the pages, there's illustrations of a formula to the chaos theory which grows bigger and crazy over the course of the book | Yes, I understood about chaos theory relating to the dinosaurs and the park. It was the fractal concept - how what happens at a smaller level is then repeated on a larger level, and the shape of a particular day looks like the shape of a week, which in turn is like a year - that's the part that I didn't get, how all of the smaller events in Jurassic Park reinforce the larger theme of chaos theory. I also didn't get the fractal thing originally, whereas now I can relate it to real life experiences. |
5,071 | Better? Than what? It is a good movie, but you can't compare the Rocketeer to Requiem. | For one, The Rocketeer doesn't make you want to kill yourself. |
5,072 | If there's only one good thing Donald Trump does as president, only one, I want him to pass legislation to lock this H-1B Visa shit down so tight that every company who's taken advantage of this asshat bullshit fuckery BURNS. I'm looking at you, PUBLIC FUCKING COLLEGES. | Well for some reason people see H-1B visa locking down, illegal immigration control, and various other items as "racist" or some other such bullshit. If he actually had some more support some other stuff could probably get done. Although none of it will actually fix much of anything in the nation. |
5,073 | I was at a record store probably 15 years ago and bought a Dinosaur Jr. record. The old man who owned the store was like "Dinosaur Jr. is the second loudest band I've ever seen live." I asked him who the loudest was he says in his stonery voice "Dick Daaaaalllleeee!" | And Dino Jr is fuckin LOUD. Half of the crowd at their show was covering their ears. |
5,074 | ~~Now is that 97% of revenue as profit, or as in they make 97% of their costs as profit, closer to double their costs in revenue?~~ I read up, holy shit fuck those guys. $1.30/month/customer to operate their internet services. | Where did you read up? I would like these links for what will inevitably be a heated conversation at work tomorrow. |
5,075 | How could you feel like that? it's the lowest RT rating for him in a while, and seemed to be the consensus among fans I've talked too. It's good, of course because it's Tarantino. But it wasn't as fun as IB, Django, or KB, etc. However, I still liked it. | Ah, looks like you're right. I guess I haven't really gone looking for many reviews or anything because I walked out pretty iffy on the film. It's a shame because the experience and visuals were beautiful and I love the tarantino fanfare with the roadshow experience. The only thing i'd seen was AVclub's A- rating before viewing and the official discussion thread during my walk home from the theater where everyone was raving about it. I agree its good, it just doesnt seem as focused as his other work. |
5,076 | That's fair enough if you have eye issues, I can't blame you for that. As for the movie going experience, when it is done properly, it can be absolutely phenomenal and really compliment the film visually such as in Hugo. | Op here. Tbh I thought it would transcend into 3d very nicely and kick the likes of titanic out the water. Different tokes for different folks I guess. |
5,077 | Armor Suit + Batman chose the battleground + probably some external interference that will make superman weak at that point | My money's on him temporarily blocking out the sun, somehow... |
5,078 | Giles Goat Boy by John Barth. Also loved Catch-22 and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Heller and Kelsey as a kid. | Both absolutely mind-blowing. Very few literary heroes mean quite as much to me as McMurphy. I'll also never forget my first time reading Catch-22. It was love at first sight. |
5,079 | Intel vs AMD (processor), AMD vs NVIDIA (GPU), what are the best brands for a motherboard, an SSD, an a diskdrive? Does each brand even matter when building a custom PC? If so , which of these brands are more reliable and has a better quality built? Kindly help me out on this one please guys! as I'm just starting to build myself a gaming and working rig. I don't care about the costs YET, so as long as I get a quality CPU that justifies the premium costs I'm to incur, preety much think of it like building a ferarri or a lambo from scratch. Thanks! | [Tom's Hardware] Specifically the tutorial section. They also post reference designs that reflect best hardware at price point for several configurations (business comp, home comp, gaming rig, incredible gaming rig) |
5,080 | But not the right to storm off stage, that's childish. It's like one drunk guy taking shut down the whole show. I've seen a performer call out people in the crowd, but never be like "I'm taking my marbles and going home". | He came back 5 minutes later and resumed his performance. |
5,081 | Star Wars bloodline. It's been years since I read a star wars book. Plus sci-fi is always fun | How is it? Realistically. I've been so tempted but it's been 50/50 on all reviews I've read. Unlike Aftermath's reviews. |
5,082 | I read the whole Pretty Little Liars series. Not necessarily trashy, but not the kind of fine literature a 30 year old should be reading (and yes, it was worth it. Great teen suspense and drama). | The series that will never end... I gave up after the the [Spoiler](/s "book after the 'ali was a twin' reveal") |
5,083 | Hopefully thicker batteries (implied thicker devices) instead of ever-increasing cost of more advanced batteries just for the sake of size, not capacity. | It's the same thing. Increasing capacity means they can make the battery smaller for the same charge. Not making devices with bigger batteries is the producer's choice, and ultimately, the consumer's. |
5,084 | I'm not talking about the government knowing you have a job, it's more about what time you arrived at work every day, once you have that level of tracking. | Shit man, my previous company did that anyway and it was just a regular lanyard badge. Why would a chip be any different? |
5,085 | it's not a bad album, just overplayed. I do think it was odd that my friend's favorite band is Live. Not so much a bad choice as much as... bland, i guess. | I agree that they are, by no stretch of the imagination, 'favorite band' material. |
5,086 | Eh. Maybe I've just been jaded by how many recreations in film and on TV in Asia about Journey to the West. The TVB television show in the 90's was probably my favourite. | Unlike most of the shows that focus on the Monkey King this film is all about the monk and how he met the others before beginning the journey west. |
5,087 | "'We feel confident that consumers will continue to trust and prefer traditionally raised beef. No laboratory product will ever be able to take the place of cattlemen and women or the dedication they have to the customer, the consumer, or to rural America,' said Chase Adams, spokesman for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association." As if modern factory farms, which produce the vast majority of beef and other meat today, resemble traditional methods or are part of a rural identity in any way. The time hasn't come yet, but cultured meat will one day replace industrial farming technology, as it is more efficient in principle. | True. If you want meat produced by Cattlemens and Womens prepare to pay $20 to $30 a pound for basic stuff. |
5,088 | Yes yes yes. Can't listen to Radiohead's Pablo Honey without picturing Bullfrog's Syndicate. | For me, it was Depeche Mode *Songs of Faith and Devotion*. |
5,089 | Im actually looking forward to this, if this kind of info can be shared over FB with content being pulled by the users from many different apps, websites, services, this is going to be amazing. | But what would Apple's counter-move be? Spotify is a real good player & if it pairs with Facebook & therefore social, what's left for iTunes when Ping is basically non-existent? |
5,090 | If I put the owners of reddit under oath and asked them "Are there links to copyrighted material on your website?" What would they say? | "Are there infringing links" is a very different question than "Were you aware of this particular link, and that it was in fact infringing". Specificity matters in court cases, usually. |
5,091 | Also, it looks as if Bruce [should go see his doctor]'s_sign). | He gets regular checkups annually. I'm sure he's taking care of it if this is actually a problem. (the actual problem, not the symptom) |
5,092 | Those are some really neat improvements. Makes you think where this technology will go. | Might as well go with advertising porn since thats what the people want lol |
5,093 | I can list plenty off the top of my head. -twilight (not fair probably, but still an important comparison point) -hunger games. -city of ember. -any other YA novel with a female protag or deuteragonist, really. Beyond that, none of the women in these series to my knowledge are EVER described as particularly unattractive unless they were A: elderly, and/or B: an antagonist. | i'm curious now what you mean by "flawed but perfect", because i assumed that flawed = "look weird and gnarly", or are you taking character traits/behavior into account there? |
5,094 | I don't get why she *doesn't* do that though. I'm not a Harry Potter fan, but the universe she created was so rich and varied and whimsical and inventive, and people *love* it. Yes, everyone loves the characters. But unlike most YA series, it's not simply the main characters that drew people in, but the rich worldbuilding. That universe is ripe for exploration and I'm surprised it's taking her so long to revisit it. | Yea seriously. I would love for some full length books about exploring hogwarts before harry potter existed |
5,095 | Let's use the Beatles as an example. Barely out of their teens they only wrote simple stuff "I want to hold your hand" early on. Not saying Taylor will start writing amazing lyrics later on in life, but give the kid a break. | So you're saying we need to get her lots of acid. |
5,096 | **spoiler** I don't know why they took out the beginning part where he's yelling Walter to get his sons attention on the stair case, I couldn't stop laughing. There was a good amount of jokes I thought they should have left in and some I thought they shouldn't have taken out. All together I love the movie just as much as the first, I think I'm in the minority on that though. | I thought it was on par with the first. Everyone says the just redo the same jokes but they really don't. The only thing they redo is the cologne/condoms and the fight scene. |
5,097 | Where in fuck's name did you pull those numbers from? | The number of people who identify as asexual/non-gender? Gay people still count as having a gender. |
5,098 | >With IBM’s platform, everything in life could be a little more convenient. Consider the modern car. With more cars connecting to the internet, a driver could be alerted when the car’s warranty or certification is soon to expire. Alternatively, if a specific part needed replacing, the driver could be alerted and a service appointment could be scheduled. Eventually, the car could even connect directly to a gas pump to pay for gas. aka more shit that can break. If you need the car to pay for your gas, you're doing it wrong. | it just makes drive offs harder, but also makes it easier to scam someone out of their money without them ever knowing. Steal a gas pump receiver, trick the car into paying for "gas" as it drives down the road and you drive next to it, and then launder that money into your own account. |
5,099 | hey they are super awesome, why do you think they're on the radio all the time even they from the 80's? but, they are quite overrated, like any other popular band | im betting they are on all the time because the rights to them are cheap or pwned |
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