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5,200 | I ink there are two likely causes for this scene. 1. He was not there when it was shot, so had to use the footage they got. 2. It would be damn expensive to reshoot a minor issue like this. | on a practical level you're right, and number 1 seems perfectly reasonable. however again, Kubrick was OBSESSED with detail and perfection. For a director that generally shot at greater than 20:1 ratio of film shot vs film that ends up in the movie I doubt that the cost of a reshoot was a consideration. I'm not saying you're wrong but I am saying that with those factors in mind its EASY to assume that the shadow of the helicopter was a detail that Kubrick WANTED you to see and wonder about. |
5,201 | Hrms the description sounds flowery, but no I haven't tried it. I generally hate all perfume but the CBIHatePerfume is more musky and subtle. Unfortunately it's not available to just go check out most places and the smallest size is $20. | In case you didn't know, "CB" (Christopher Brosius) also founded Demeter, so if you like one aesthetic you might like the other. Demeter's generally significantly more literal though. |
5,202 | In Lion King when all of the animals are able to talk English. NO ANIMALS CAN SPEAK ENGLISH, STUPID DISNEY | It's a Disney movie and Disney is known for making talking animals. That's an extremely lame reason to hate on a Disney movie. |
5,203 | I don't get why people are saying Marvel movies are on a path to shittiness. Keep in mind that the last four Marvel Movies (Thor2, CA2, GotG, IM3) were four of their BEST movies yet! I think the quality control on these movies is only getting better. | I was saying that in time they will be, it happens to all good things, but for now they are great and we should enjoy them! |
5,204 | I am wondering if people have missed the joke or didn't find it funny. | Probably a little of both. I tend to think a lot of people that comment/vote around here would actually hate Yossarian if they ever met him. |
5,205 | I absolutely loved the writing in Station Eleven, I haven't yed reread the book (I certainly intend to) but I remember the writing to be both terse and poignant, like cut down from the superfluous yet oddly melancholic... What didn't you like exactly in the writing ? | I should have been more clear, the writing is not bad but the sentence structure is just foreign to me. I have mainly read non-fiction my whole life and day to day I read hundreds of corporate emails and write them as well. Sentence structure with the long sentences with many commas and em-dash's are not something I am used to. The writing is not bad at all and I did enjoy parts of it. Unfortunately I never learned to appreciate it as I was usually reading books about history and science and never much literary fiction. |
5,206 | Well, it's from Episode III (the part near the end with Leia and Bail Organa). Jar Jar is placed over them.) | Yeah, it's obviously composited together from a couple different images, but the on planet "exploding" view I'm fairly certain doesn't ever appear in a Star Wars movie. |
5,207 | Eminem to Blink 182 was such a seamless transition it blew me away | I can't tell if you're joking because I've heard of some glorious disasters from a few people |
5,208 | This isn't uncommon. Engineers are often hired for a project. When the project is canceled they often are either fired or shuffled to another project. More often than not you don't get shuffled to another amazing project so you leave. | Yeah, but this guy wasn't hired for a project. He co-founded Oculus, which was acquired outright by Facebook, and is now (some years later) departing. |
5,209 | I'm a loser for knowing it was Vitalogy that previously held the record. | Am I double loser for knowing it and finding my copy in a box a couple weeks ago? |
5,210 | Yeah come on dude I had *just* started on the new testament. | Like most sequels it's watered down a lot. They went from R to PG 13. |
5,211 | Shes really inspiring. Ive seen her in concert for every visit. Im glad shes getting morr notoriety because she really deserves it. Her sound is all her own. | I've only caught her once so far, but will definitely see her next time. I was following her since "The Grimme and the Glow" and it's impossible to predict how her career has gone, in terms of sound. I'm glad she's not afraid to take risks, and do her own thing. |
5,212 | Replying because I'm on my phone and can't save it. Thank you good sir | Of course! If you're looking to buy CD's from any of these bands, I would suggest Gordon Webster's Live in Philly, and then his Live in Rochester right after it. I have almost every CD from all of these bands, and they're all great, but those two CD's, in my opinion, have the highest density of kick-ass-awesome-songs-that-you'll-listen-to-on-repeat-for-an-entire-car-trip |
5,213 | Are you sure that is wasnt actually Paul Walker in the phone scene talking to Mia? That looked pretty damn real and if you notice, he had a tattoo on his arm he was holding the phone with that said "Meadow" which is his real life daughters name. Would seem strange to me that if it was one of his brothers they would add that in since I didnt notice it the rest of the movie. | It may have been edited to include the additional dialogue. |
5,214 | The Elfen Lied themesong on repeat plus minecraft. O quam sanctaaaa. O quam sereeenaaaaa | Balmorhea's Bowsprit was what I listened to when I played Minecraft. Just this lonesome sort of adventure-y sound, and wandering across this weird blocky landscape. Balmorhea breaks my heart though. |
5,215 | Do you have a source? I thought I heard it would only be around 1mbps, but I can't find any sources backing that up. | Anyways I've linked to the article claiming 40 mbps before but if anyone can figure out how to calculate the speeds using [this] and report back that would be great. |
5,216 | Found the guy who just watched his ex get married!!! | Found the clown who doesn't know anything about the rap game and it's history of guys switching to love songs after they blow up. |
5,217 | Quick charge 2.0 needs the stamp of approval from Qualcomm before they can be marketed as such. Most phones post Snapdragon 801 has quick charging 2.0. Not entirely sure about what Samsung is using as since they do not use Qualcomm as of Galaxy S6. | Ah ok that might be it as I'm using a Note 4. |
5,218 | Well, it would be silly to have humans drive if cars could drive themselves. Our ultimate goal should be a world in which nobody has to work at all. The answer to AI replacing jobs isn't to ban AI so humans can toil like in the good old days, the answer is to find an economic system where eliminating the need for human work leads to prosperity for everyone (as it should, intuitively). | I believe the current response to your vision is, roughly: "Fuck you, I worked hard and suffered, you should too." |
5,219 | If you're anti marijuana you definitely don't think people should be allowed to grow a plant and smoke it. Duh. | I dont care what you do dude lol. I was LSD legalized. Fuck weed. |
5,220 | Off the top of your head you have a booke worth maybe $200 in good condition and a book worth easily $15k if it's in good condition? | Between my father, mother and my collection we have about over 2,000 books, so its hard to know for sure how many are worth a lot. I know the Harry Potter and Jane Austen because I keep them safe. They are in pretty good condition. We also have Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri but I don't remember the publication date for it, I know its old but probably not older than 1800's. I have wonderful book collector nerds for parents. Our house looks like a library. |
5,221 | Robert Smith and the members of AC/DC (they haven't changed in sound at all really, that's actually the surprising thing). Can't think of any others, really. It's a fairly widespread phenomenon | I haven't heard anything from the Cure since the mid 90s but I definitely thought of AC/DC as an exception in that none of their albums seem to be better than any of their other albums. |
5,222 | You really think it would be worth it? I used to be HUGE into them, but I'm worried that seeing them live this summer in Toronto will ruin the memories. Or just not be a good show. | I already know they won't be as good live as they used to be. But for me it's a once in a lifetime chance now to see them, so if I'm able to go, I'd buy the tickets in a heartbeat. If you decide to go, then I would say just enjoy the experience. Don't go in critiquing the performance, just enjoy it, because they won't be performing forever. |
5,223 | Or like buying shit from Amazon, say you're looking for something really specific like a water pump, below there's a box that says "Customers who bought this also bought..." more water pumps. Yeah right, someone bought a water pump, then also bought five more water pumps from different brands and sizes at the same time. Thank you Amazon, and please don't strain yourself from being so fucking helpful. | This, right here, is the reason I'm not afraid of the NSA having my metadata. |
5,224 | Chain Gang of Love is fucking incredible and fucking incredibly underrated! The new stuff is good, but that album blew my mind the first time I put it on. Between Chain Gang and Whip It On I listened to them almost every day for 2 years solid. | I really like all of them too. Pretty in Black is really solid. On the later ones, I find that I'll definitely have a few favorite tracks, "Ignite" immediately comes to mind. Their earlier stuff is totally a cross between sixties girl group stuff and The Jesus and Mary Chain, but still somehow sounds unique. Speaking of the J & M Chain, if you haven't checked them out, Automatic is a great place to start. Psychocandy usually gets more attention, but I still think I like Automatic better--it's catchier. |
5,225 | There is a option called "Enterprise mode" that solves that. | And you get to say, "Engage!" every time you use it. |
5,226 | How come this article is getting upvoted even if particularly everyone is hating on it? It all depends on how you define technology and systems. I probably wouldn't agree on all of these books *at all* though. However, particularly the book "What Technology Wants" is a *legit* book that answers a lot of questions, in a BIG way. Sort of like a roadmap for our species in terms of technology. | It's getting upvoted because it's an interesting topic, even if the attached article is lacking. I'm more interested in the real gems here in the comments anyway. |
5,227 | Pre-complaining about a circle jerk that doesn't yet exist, nice. Gotta cover your bases | I honestly thought this was gonna take off. Thank god it didn't. |
5,228 | 80%+ of the laptop segment above $950 is Macbooks. Almost every designer place uses them. More than most kids in university have them. I'd call that standard. | University tech here. I would give Apple no better than a 20% share of our campus, despite being one of only two recommended vendors, and only a small percentage of the Macbooks in use are rMBPs. The 1280x800 standard Macbook Pro is still the most common. Bland university-subsidized business laptops take a larger share of the upper part of the campus market (on my campus, at least) than you would expect, and the average laptop is not $950+. Macs are simply very easy to spot compared to everything else floating around on campuses. |
5,229 | Those are Nazi wannabees, not real Nazis. Where do these white supremacist organizations register ? I need to check that out. I never realized there were so many. I've met a few people in my life that were white, and I thought pretty racist, but I assumed they were just a very small fringe minority of freaks. I guess they're really all around me, huh ? Well,....fuck. I guess we need a race war. | You seem super incredulous for some reason. I'm not sure why. Why do you so adamantly believe white supremacists are not a thing? Look at David Duke for a modern, well known example. The Aryan brotherhood, aryan nation groups. |
5,230 | Godzilla from 2014. Make Bryan Cranston main character, kill off Aaron Taylor Johnson, show interaction between Cranston and Watanabe, and more Godzilla. Don't do that stupid cut away shit like they did with the Honolulu fight. | I actually haven't seen it, was planning on watching it this weekend though. |
5,231 | Just one of many, many Chinese manufacturers of cctv/webcam boxes, I'm afraid. | That is true, but one company made public a recall. Recalling what, their friggin socks? Too secretive and lazy journalism. |
5,232 | Paul did too! The doubling sounds weird in this poorly compressed YouTube file, kind of phasey. It is much more effective in context with the rest of the arrangement. | That can be said for most vocal production though; you always mix in context, so of course it will sound weird and be less effective once that context is removed. |
5,233 | listen, if you're going to quote comics, then aldrich killian kills himself, never fighting iron man, and the villain that iron man 3 name killian (Mallen) gets beaten by tony, one on one, with a single iron man suit. So dont go quoting comics in the marvel movie universe, because you'll look like an idiot. | I got started speaking up because multiple people in this thread keep talking about Thor's relative strength as seen in fights in the films. Having a pissy attitude about what they've done to storylines in the films and thereby throwing out canon is even less helpful, in my opinion. If Thor's not as strong in the films, I really don't care. I have no skin in this game, and I like the films for what they are. But the fact is that the films are based in the comics, and I think it's AT LEAST reasonable to discuss how hard he can hit from that reference... rather than hypotheticals based on what we've seen in the film. |
5,234 | Well, yeah....but it was some fairly obvious cell phone use allegory going on there. That being Conjugal's point, I think? | But i don't believe the signal was strictly cell phones. I'm pretty sure any media device distributed it if my memory serves correct |
5,235 | Solar roadways are a solution in search of a problem. Finding places to put solar panels is not an issue. | An impractical expensive ill-conceived solution at that. Not only is finding places to put solar panels not an issue, a road is probably the worst possible location for many reasons. |
5,236 | I've listened to 50+ books this past year on audible. My favorite by far has been "The Martian". Also, two books I couldn't stop listening to were "The Name of the Wind" and "The Wise Man's Fear" by Patrick Rothfuss. It just sucks that there's no official release date for the 3rd and final chapter. | "The Martian" is always my go-to starter audiobook. That book is written almost like a play anyway, so it fits the format perfectly. Add a really excellent performance and it's just the best. |
5,237 | Hello everyone, Over the last several hours we have been getting an influx of new users. so I would like to just cover a few things. 1. We don't have a banned word list so please don't do this. 1. All the rules are on the sidebar, I changed them today because I added the old ones when I was added as mod since there were no rules, but I thought we needed something more specific to this subreddit and clearer. 1. and Any rule change will be added to the sidebar. Anyways, enjoy the sub. | > Nostalgia post. e.g, Remember this _____? insert picture of old tech here. So that's new, right? Planning on removing the current top hot submission then? |
5,238 | Same here. I could probably stretch to $20 a month if they made som helluva deal with Hollywood and got major releases 30 day after theatre release, but that will never happen and certainly not for $20 a month. I'm guessing they would hike the price and keep with their B/C-movie catalogue, with the only exception being now you get those B and C-movies 30 days after release! That would make me drop Netflix in a matter of seconds. | Maybe they would have a "Netflix Premium" option. The old price stays (£5.99 here in the UK) but for an extra five pounds or something you get access to movies/shows that have just been released. |
5,239 | > Lex wins. What exactly does he win in either of those scenarios? | The removal of someone who is better than him. The removal of competition. |
5,240 | Agreed too. I usually look at comments because they handsomely complete an article by bringing a new insight to the table. | Yesterday I got so used to reading comments on Reddit I read comments on a YouTube video. Bad mistake. |
5,241 | Loved this book! I wouldn't have bought it, but it was given to me and I would recommend it for a quick easy read. | I've so far enjoyed everything by Franny Billingsley, this included. Chime is definitely recommended! |
5,242 | sadly he said that 2 and a half years ago :/ | He's been busy with Elysium, he'll get back to it eventually |
5,243 | That kind of hack won't work for those lightbulbs if Philipps actually did some RFID or other proprietary feature that isn't purely a geometric feature. | There's an actual electrical connection here. Probably they exchange data that way. |
5,244 | Your phone will run slightly slower as there is an overhead to the encryption and decryption process. AFIAK that is the only effect - Android hides the process from your apps. | I turned it on last week on my Nexus 5 and besides the 30 minute encryption process, I havnt noticed anything running slowly. Even chrome with 9 tabs works okay and google now still loads as soon as i swipe to it |
5,245 | I really like King Ralph... Possibly because I watched it growing up. | Much for the same reason I love Robot Jox. That's a bad movie, but at that place in my childhood it was amaaaaaaazziiiiiing. |
5,246 | Lmao he sounds like a woman. Overrated genre. Bunch of noise and we call it “music”. Man FOH with that. Let metal die and let’s move on already, there is plenty of music for you uneducated, violent psychopaths to beat your wives to. | If you had done any research about this you'd realize it's about a half man half metal monster that saves the human race, look at the cover damn it. It's fine if you don't like his voice but would you call rush's vocalist a granny? |
5,247 | She's just the epitome of a middle-class stage school graduate. Not that I'm saying that's necessarily a bad thing, but it's somewhat jarring to portray a rough and ready scavenger hermit who speaks with Received Pronunciation, like she's about to burst into a rendition of "I'd do anything". She's a bit too clean cut for the role on my opinion. | what what good chap i'm a scavenger old bean. that's what she sounded like to me |
5,248 | Performance... Can you elaborate what do you consider the performance? Because I don't think having a huge ass amp and a loud speaker and blasting music is performance. All I can think of is "anyone can do that stuff". I know it might not be but it doesn't 'show' anything to me. | Djs such as Laidback Luke, Alesso, and Armin doesn't just press play and dance around. They are very skilled in DJing and knows how to put on a show. Shit look easy but it's not. Armin Only Intense shows that's been touring has live singing, dancing, and live production. |
5,249 | Really bitchin' question. I read two books in early high school that had the same comparison: difference of puberty between the genders. The first was The Center of the World by Andreas Steinhofel (male) and This Is All by Aidan Chambers (female). | i'm not familiar with either of those, but know i'll have to look them up. thanks! |
5,250 | Just updated. Not sure if the Sentinels have proper names so I left them blank. | Sentinel Mark 1 = past. Sentinel Mark X = future. and for magneto and prof x you could write past and future as well. same thing for wolverine. |
5,251 | The Mechanic was remade in 2011 with Jason Statham. It's not a bad movie, but I had no idea it was a remake. That'll probably be the first movie I watch on the list. | You know, my ex and I both liked the remake better. Ben Foster is fucking awesome. |
5,252 | I always thought that was the reason he came up with the idea in a pinch, because it was in the back of his mind from then. | He also calls himself Clint Eastwood and is able to shoot so well because of the video game he plays with Elijah Wood in part 2. |
5,253 | sublime... im a reggae head, but i never got into them. they are ok, but there are WAYYYYY better bands out there. i think alot of people just like them because they are "Sublime" you know?? you should appreciate the band for the MUSIC not who they are labeled as | I like them but I like them better with Rome |
5,254 | As long as they don't just say "this is the new James Bond", if they write her in as a different 00Agent then this could be cool. IF they just decide all of a sudden that James Bond is now a girl then our PC culture has gone too far. I have no problem with there being a super awesome girl spy that is basically the same as James Bond, but she needs to be her own character with her own backstory, and personality. | Couldn't it fit with the theory that James Bond is just a cover identity and that all of the James Bond versions exist in the same universe as different people? |
5,255 | Das Racist! Their first studio album was soooo good! Why did they have to break up? | That's cheating a bit. They did release two mixtapes prior to Relax. |
5,256 | If it were my daughter, I would like for her to inherit my estate as well. So yeah, ultimately it should end up with Kurt's daughter of course. Not that its anyones fucking business anyway. Im sure everyone involved in this story is going to have a happy ending (monetarily speaking), so dont let this keep you up at night. | Pretty sure Courtney lost rights to the catalog due to her negligence, and that Frances Bean has it now. |
5,257 | Until the Chevy Bolt beats the Tesla Model 3 to market... | So what? It doesn't mean it's going to be any better. I have absolutely no desire to buy any chevrolet piece of shit. My next car will be the tesla |
5,258 | Tops lists with folks like us - but in the real world I am the only one who has heard of it.... I used to buy extra copies to lend out because I knew once read I would never get the book back. | agreed, i didnt know about it, and im in this thread frantically google searching for a present for my girlfriend. She likes sci fi, some bill bryson, and loads of russain authors ill google replay, will report ack |
5,259 | Wheel of Time was unfinished and still talked about. He'll DEFINITELY be remembered, even before the HBO series, but after that it's clear. George R R Martin is a major part of Fantasy. I won't be as silly as to say he's up there with Tolkein (Yet) but he'll be slightly below that tier. | WoT is talked about here, but I wouldn't know about it's existence otherwise. I've yet to hear a single person mention it or see a single reference to WoT in my day to day life. The popularity/potential of Asoiaf is magnitudes greater then WoT. Every time I've looked into WoT, the consensus seems to be that it's ok to good, but not great, leading me to pass on reading it. |
5,260 | I've gotten around eight hours of battery life with the power plan set to "HP Recommended" and the brightness at around 60%. My general usage for it has been a mix of productivity (Microsoft Word and Reddit) and random stuff like Netflix usage. It weighs a little more than I thought it would, but it's not heavy by any stretch of the imagination. I could comfortably hold it as a tablet for a prolonged period of time. | omenien, after a month, do you still love the comp? Its on my shortlist. any "longer term" insight would be great! |
5,261 | Her was sci-fish. >It's about how we as a people will grow and change with technology. To me it was more about relationships and nature of attachment, mixed with sci-fi concept with the AI. I guess for me to label as it as sci-fi purely, it needed to take me somewhere strange or show me something we can't imagine right now. Terminator being a prime example of not just throwing a robot into a movie but giving it context of a future where mankind is almost killed off. If terminator was just a robot in the future trying to kill with some weird subplot about humanity it would of been Will Smith's IRobot. | > To me it was more about relationships and nature of attachment, mixed with sci-fi concept with the AI. I guess for me to label as it as sci-fi purely, it needed to take me somewhere strange or show me something we can't imagine right now. *stares silently...removes cigarette...snubs it out on screen...walks away shaking his head* For fuck's sake... |
5,262 | I read Jason Leopold's News Junkie the other day, one of my favorite books. I'm looking for more like it. The story of a journalist, another example is How To Lose Friends and Alienate People or No Place To Hide I'm looking primarily for stories about political journalism but anything related is great. Thanks. | I'm not sure if you're requesting fiction or non-fiction recs. If fiction, *The Imperfectionists* by Tom Rachman is an interesting book set in a newspaper office of an English newspaper in Rome. |
5,263 | It was fun. Not great literature, but fun for the reference points. | This exactly. It's just a fun book. Nothing more, nothing less. I enjoy much more detailed and deep books but this was one of the most fun books I've ever read. Felt like a little kid. |
5,264 | Why the hell have you been upvoted? SSDs are non-volatile flash and you're acting like they're RAM or something. | [SSDs can lose data in as little as 7 days with no power] |
5,265 | A bit offtopic, but there's also that guy who wrote the screenplay for Galaxy Quest, [David Howard] It's the only film credentials he has on IMDB. ...the fuck? | There's always two very possible scenarios when a writer/director has only one credit. A: they have been developing stuff in the meantime and just can't get the stars to align to get another project made or B: they walked the fuck away from the dumb industry. I am a screenwriter with one credit. I am currently A and getting close to B'ing. |
5,266 | I completely disagree, the old Nokias I had didn't have any way to connect to the internet. They were phones and could do sms, but that's it. My iPhone is a computer in my pocket, including internet connection all the time. It's like a Nokia, a Walkman and a computer that's better than any one I had ever used back then, and then some. | So then how is the Apple Watch "reviving a device that most people are glad to be able to do without"? Telling time is not its primary function. |
5,267 | But Harry explicitly told the Doc not to hurt Peter. Remember, the two made a trade: Doc Octopus gives Spider-Man to Harry, and Harry gives the tritium. I don't think Harry would be very enthusiastic to hand over the tritium if his friend was dead. So by killing Peter, the Doc would guarantee that he'd never get the tritium he needed. | Thats true, I guess Doc Ock just didnt think things through very well |
5,268 | I felt the same way! No one in this movie could have survived. Anyone who wanted them too doesn't understand the concept of plot holes. I also wanted to see a force monk versus Vader showdown and the main characters die by vaders hand. | It was a different sort of gut-wrench to have Jyn die at the hands of her father's creation though. There's an irony there :( poor guy did everything he did for Jyn but in the end it killed her. |
5,269 | Do you have a good example you could share? | I do, and funnily enough it's called ["Funny How Time Slips Away"] |
5,270 | >The research team said Cider was only a prototype and that they had no plans to turn it into a commercial product. I think this says enough; we shouldn't expect this to hit the market anytime soon, if ever. Apple probably isn't too keen on letting this happen. | Did they stop hackintoshes? I realize that they're hardware, and this is software, but it still digs into their market share. |
5,271 | If somebody says the show that gave us Vincent Adultman isn't a masterpiece of irreverent comedy one more time I'm going to slap them. | That was funny when I saw it in the Little Rascals decades ago. |
5,272 | He gets a bad rep because of Twilight, but he is pretty solid in almost every film I've seen him in. | You know, I didn't even realise it was him. I thought he looked familiar, but his mannerisms and such were so different. Granted, I never watched Twilight but it was pretty hard to get away from for a while. |
5,273 | Why? The broadcast model is outdated. The only people watching "live TV" are old people and sports addicts. For everyone else it's On Demand or nothing. | You don't need to look any further than /r/Netflix to find people requesting a way to watch a never ending stream of random shows. You know - like broadcast TV. It's certainly not just something that "the olds" want. |
5,274 | Can a song without lyrics be copyrighted? Why do the lyrics carry all the weight? | It's not that the lyrics carry the weight. Plenty of rap artists steal beats from other songs and put their own lyrics and those are also considered a type of cover. The point is that it does not exist on it's own. It is a rearrangement of a previously published work. |
5,275 | My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult had me bawling my eyes out. | She's good at making me cry. Handle with care destroyed me. |
5,276 | What are you reading, what book, is it dialogue, does it happen with all books, non-fiction, etc? | It's happening with everything - fiction and non-fiction, dialogue and on-dialogue passages. I can start out okay but then eventually I start with the subvocalization and can no longer concentrate. |
5,277 | Our local station plays "thank you I won't do what you tell me" | you're kidding. that's hilarious if true, i need a link. |
5,278 | I'm thinking about gnome desktop environment, for example. edit: if possible, please state the "golden age" version number. (gnome 2.3x) | Opera 12.xx. Really miss the integrated e-mail client and an actual options menu. My jaw just dropped when i saw the limited amount of settings. Now that it's basicly a clone of chrome, i just went and started using chrome. Also a rant to ALL browsers out there, let us select the audio output device. They already do it for input, but when you have a setup like a headset for default sounds/voice chat and a media center for music, listening from youtube or soundcloud becomes a pain. |
5,279 | The Princess Bride. The central romance and quest is great but Indigo Montoya's arc is so much more compelling. | This. His story is probably the main reason I liked it so much. |
5,280 | The chance of that happening went out the window a long time ago. (In all seriousness that is sad and I have a great deal of respect and admiration for Eric Clapton.) | >The chance of that happening went out the window a long time ago. Fan*tas*tic. |
5,281 | I was going to say something in defense of Facelift over Dirt, but taking another look at the tracklists... damn, Dirt is a killer album. | Yeah, Dirt and Jar of Flies are definitely their peak. |
5,282 | This movie is going to be so good. Drax looks like he'll be great, I was a bit worried but it looks like Bautista is killing it. | "I was a bit worried but it looks like Bautista is ~~killing it~~ putting his finger on its throat." |
5,283 | Shit like this is why over the years my stance towards the EU went from "a great thing" to "WTF!! Those lobbyist infested, antidemocratic assholes have no clue what they are doing". It was great when it was a trade union, but the social policies are nothing short from a dystopian scifi. | It’s also possible to use the EU to change this. The size advantage/disadvantage can be used both ways. |
5,284 | ..how is he ignoring them? not that i agree with a lot of his campaign promises but don't spout bullshit. | He isn't working on bringing back coal to 1800 levels and think of the areas that only has public schools within 500 miles, he is setting up a system to hobble public school's funding so the areas that most voted him into office are going to be hurt the most. They voted him in to help them but are going to get fucked. |
5,285 | Yea thats like the big argument to learn in an intro to logic class. | No, not really. Details can make all the difference to whether it's true or not. |
5,286 | Why did they feel the need to remake Ben Hur? I'd love to see the market research they have that says the general public would eat this up. | > Why did they feel the need to remake Ben Hur? Normally I assume it's just "use the IP or lose it", but Ben Hur should be public domain. So I have no clue. |
5,287 | In Man on Fire, I love ever second with Christopher Walken as. Paul Rayburn | A large number of Walken's on screen appearances are minor, memorable roles...eg *True Romance*, *Pulp Fiction* etc... |
5,288 | [TVs were curved a looong time ago.] They were bowed outwards, and curved around the edges. It didn't do anything for viewability. So why is curving in the other direction something to be desired? | i loved touching the glass after turning my tube tv off |
5,289 | >Why though? No cord to get tangled, no cord to get caught on things, no cords when exercising, and no cords sticking out of your pocket, fighting with your coat, etc. >And it's still not that convenient since you can't play your phone on a friend's stereo without an adapter. Pretty much any decent receiver has AirPlay support and bluetooth. "The future is wireless". >To me, this decision is only going to hurt their phone sales. I was about to make the switch to Apple, but now I won't. If you use their headphones it works the same. If you don't they include an adapter. This is whining about floppy drives all over again. | Wireless headphones are nice, but having an extra device that needs charged and stops working when its battery runs out is much more of a hassle than dealing with a cord. Wired headphones are reliable, and wireless just aren't. |
5,290 | I hope this movie doesn't end up being really boring. Visually it looks amazing. | Right now, I'm thinking about what the hell the plot is going to be for this considering what I've seen so far. |
5,291 | One huge mistake in the article: having the film be unrated will make it MUCH EASIER for schools to screen the film themselves. Many district regulations prevent R-rated films from being screened ENTIRELY. Without a rating, the decision is the schools, and is approved entirely by parent-consent forms. Source: my mom is a teacher. | Funny thing is, that doesn't even stop teachers from showing movies with R ratings. When I was in high school, my history teacher showed us Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List, telling us to just keep quiet about the whole thing. (Yes, I realize he probably risked his job by doing this, which is why we were so grateful to him.) I wouldn't be a bit surprised if some teachers sneak this movie in, even without the consent of the parents/school. Though, it will definitively restrict the number of teachers who show it. |
5,292 | >Dude, I don't think anybody is like "Oh dang, a black person of unspecified gender wrote this book, better not publish it. Gotta preserve that whiteness at the library!" tbh I didn't think people who thought this way read books in the first place. | There are. Sad puppies, sick puppies. But they're not in charge of editorial decisions. They just try to hijack the Hugoes because people they don't like have been nominated or won and that's apparently proof of an agenda being pushed in the Hugoes. |
5,293 | Chuck Palahniuk and Stephen King are my two go-to authors when I want to turn off my brain and just enjoy some trashy entertainment. They get a bad rep for writing low-brow fiction. I agree but that's never stopped me before. | You better watch out calling Chuck Palahniuk trashy on this subreddit. He's basically /r/books's mascot. But I agree with your point, Stephen King does have a bad rep, but just because he can crank out book after book doesn't mean he's a crappy writer. He deserves more credit, he definitely has chops. |
5,294 | No, it's keeping that data to sell ad space to advertisers. The data itself doesn't leave google. | > The data itself doesn't leave google. Except to go to the NSA of course. edit: I mean, what I'm stating is factual... so not sure why I'd be downvoted. |
5,295 | > badly run. To be fair, the IT departments of these hospitals are demonstrably terribly run. Now that's probably not down to the line staff, but there are a lot of incompetent people in IT policy making positions. The fact they have no budget is one thing, but they've clearly undervalued their IT infrastructure and viewed it as a cost centre when it's proper functioning is a massive force multiplier. | That's almost certainly true, certainly to some high degree, I just wanted to get a word in as the sun should in no way be taken as gospel :P, and there's compounding factors here |
5,296 | > And then they'll have 2 million more people tied into their app/theme market, where they make the real money. Yea I imagine that was the real motive. But a $10 margin is nothing. The profit made is needed for growth and re-investment. Small margins will hurt their ability to scale in new markets and compete with Apple and Samsung. | > But a $10 margin is nothing. $10 x 1,000,000 = $10,000,000 = a lot of money. Also, you're talking shit. Edit: Your new reply only supports this statement even more. You're talking shit. Xiaomi didn't do this for the profits - though $20 million dollars is a lot of money to gain in a single day - but for the market reach. Just being a $45 billion dollar company alone isn't enough. You're not stating facts, you are talking shit. I don't love Xiaomi or anything, don't generalize me just because I'm making a statement that goes against yours. |
5,297 | Jon and Catelyn evolve a tremendous amount. Tyrion has a mental breakdown, I'm not sure how you consider that staying the same. Sansa is a fair amount more jaded than she was in the beginning, that doesn't count? | Jon and Catelyn remain the same from beginning to end. They never have the deep and ongoing realizations that Jaimie and Danaerys do. Tyrion remains the same throughout, he just acts . You can't even call what happens a breakdown. He just gets pushed to far like Sam. |
5,298 | >parallax effect. Goddamn it, yet another piece of 3D technology that is useless to people with one working eye (like me). | > people with one working eye. Will never be able to see 3D, sorry. |
5,299 | Batman is not in the first 20 to 25 mins. | Well who the fuck was driving the Batmobile through downtown Gotham, setting circus performers on fire with its backfire? |
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