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5,300 | Yes of course "real" music. Let's all join hands and listen to Johnny Cashs version of Hurt for the thousandth time. DAE pink Floyd? Maybe this subreddit needs to broaden its horizons a little bit. | yes listening to blunt after blunt is a very positive way to broaden ones horizons. /sarcasm |
5,301 | She nearly killed her sister while playing with her. I would be scared to play with her too. | It's the parent's fault for not teaching her not to throw snowballs at people's face. |
5,302 | I don't think I know of anyone and have not seen any kind of indication that anyone is for the exploitation of H1Bs. And I live in SF. | H1Bs get paid 70-80% what citizens or permanent residents do. You can bet your boots employers are very much in favor of bringing in as many H1Bs as possible, whether or not they say that in so many words. That employers want more cheap H1B labor is the reason they always go in front of congress and talk about a "shortage" of tech workers. Back in the real world, there's a "shortage" of workers willing to work for what the companies are paying, if anything. If there was a real shortage, we would expect wages to go up, but they've stayed flat in the tech fields since the dot-com bubble at least. |
5,303 | exactly, this is what i mean, very good music, for example [this] song, great music, great music video and yet only 28.000 views. How many gems are there that are still hidden | I saw Yip Deceiver live and they were wonderful. They've only just started making music videos and they only have one album, so they just don't have enough content out there to get noticed globally. ***But I will wait.*** |
5,304 | Not a huge Ayn Rand fan, but Anthem was pretty damn good | I thought it was just like a sexist, worse Kallocain. |
5,305 | Is the Final Cut better than the Director's Cut? I saw the Director's Cut and thought it was incredibly dry and lacking in meaning. | Lacking in meaning? Blade Runner is definitely not a movie for everyone, but there is definitely a lot of depth to it. I prefer the Final Cut, but the two aren't very different. Its mostly a color pallet swap and a specific scene that is removed from one version iirc. |
5,306 | today news: [Is the universe a hologram?] [Science Journal] "New results suggest that the holographic principle also holds in flat spaces. Our own universe could in fact be two dimensional and only appear three dimensional -- just like a hologram." Quote from Sciencedaily release (link above)! | >"You could chose to treat the problem of a 4-dimensional universe as a 3-dimensional universe with different laws, the physics is exactly the same. And therefore you could say that maybe all the information in the universe is stored on the surface of the universe rather than embedded inside. The problem is that although that sounds nice, it's only applicable for very specific mathematical models". - Lawrence Krauss on the hologram model. At 1:02 on this Q&A session: |
5,307 | Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach. It is such an interesting book about how cadavers are/ were used in various fields of science and how they've helped the living. It was really interesting. | I read *Bonk* by her. Definitely worth a read if you enjoy her style and, well, sex. |
5,308 | Oh I didn't realize you were against Net Neutrality, just thought you were confused. You should read up on the benefits on Net Neutrality and I think you'll find that the benefits outweigh any harms of it being under government control. | > being under government control. Anything being under government control means it is controlled by people who are unaccountable to me (FCC positions are not elected - not that elected officials aren't unaccountable anyways). ISPs and other businesses, on the other hand, ARE accountable to me because they want me to keep giving them my money. So I choose the latter every time. |
5,309 | rule of hollywood..if it makes money and is popular, green light a sequel! | They should just make a third movie, then. If you're going to make a sequel, might as well make it a trilogy. |
5,310 | Four Weddings and a Funeral. Everyone was fantastic except Andie McDowell. Cringe inducing. | To be fair, anyone would look stupid saying that "Is it raining? I hadn't noticed" line. But I agree, hers is the weakest performance by a country mile. |
5,311 | Not trying to blow off your question, but I must say it always surprises me when people believe Rises is better than Begins. I think Begins is the best of the three and while Ledger gave one of the best performances ever other than him it's not better than Begins. | Maybe I have to give Begins another shot, but I found it really... unspectacular? Like, it was a solid foundation for future efforts, but I never felt strongly about it one way or another. What do you like best about it? |
5,312 | [The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans] is Werner Herzog's quasi-remake of Abel Ferrera's 1992 Bad Lieutenant. Nicolas Cage is EXCELLENT and the film is absurd and brilliant. I highly recommend it. | It's not a remake. Herzog never even saw the original. |
5,313 | Sorry, I wasn't very precise... I'm just saying that someone paying the IOC to push their product carries even less weight than other types of endorsements because the IOC has no shame. Their selection criteria is the size of a check. As bad as FIFA. Since this is a subreddit about tech, this is a non story because it has nothing to do with the technology behind AliCloud. | Well, it's normal that a sponsors pays for being the official partner. Mac Donald is paying the IOC to be the official restaurant. The IOC probably made a call for tenders and Alibaba won it. |
5,314 | Did anyone expect Microsoft to come out and say that Windows 10 *does* infringe on your privacy? | It's not like VW came out and said to all their customers "We're cheating on emissions tests," until it was painfully obvious that they totally were. Unfortunately, collecting data on people is far harder to prove, and even when it is proven, people seem to take it a lot less seriously than something like cheating on emissions tests, even though both things are in the same league of lack of corporate responsibility and being ready to screw the consumer/planet as long as you don't get caught. |
5,315 | Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (and sequels) by Stieg Larsson. Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett. Jaws by Peter Benchley. The City and the City by China Miéville. Roots by Alex Haley. Shogun by James Clavell | I can second Shogun, one of the best historical fictions I've ever read. |
5,316 | Not very unkown but I feel like Tom Hardy is one great performance away from being huge | I mean, I feel like after Inception and especially after absolutely crushing Bane I can't really call him "lesser known" anymore |
5,317 | When Sebastian mentions slavery and it immediately cuts to the only black mutant of the group. Awkwaaaaard. | This felt like a commentary on the times to me, I mean, historically that was still pretty relevant. |
5,318 | They show them in some of the flashbacks, as well as other things that would be anachronisms if it was supposed to be the same time as the book. The show does a really, really good job of making it look like something that could happen tomorrow. | Interesting. Is livestreaming and such shown with such commonplace in the flashbacks? |
5,319 | Thank you so much. You are my new favorite person on reddit. | You're very welcome. That is quite nice of you to say. |
5,320 | Anyone know why she released it everywhere as 'The Philosopher's Stone' except for the US, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, and India, which was released as 'The Sorcerer's Stone'? | Publisher's decision, Scholastic "Thought that a child would not want to read a book with the word "philosopher" in the title" |
5,321 | Be when Mustangs starting dogfighting 262s I cringed... | But not when he sunk a fucking destroyer? That movie was so terrible. |
5,322 | Hitchhiker's Guide was the worst ever imo. The Golden Compass movie was pretty bad too, they just didn't explain the daemon thing at all so that it would make sense to someone that hadn't read it. I wasn't really thrilled with any of the new Narnia movies either. | I came here to complain about The Golden Compass, what a huge mess they made of it. I always recommend the books with an advisory to forget the movie exists. |
5,323 | Regina Spektor provides a lot of chill-inducing songs. Love her. Have you heard "Just Like The Movies"? That entire song gives me chills. | "Just Like the Movies" is my favorite song of hers. Best part is when she starts with "and if he loves me, then why does he leave?" You can feel the pain in her voice. |
5,324 | So I've got it narrowed down to three: This [Acer Aspire One] The [ASUS Eee PC 1000HA] Or the [MSI Wind U100-432US] WHO WILL BE THE CHAMPION?!!? edit: should've mentioned that i want long battery life, and a good size screen/keyboard! | I got an Asus EEE 1000H, from Zipzoomfly for 450. (Which promptly fell to 400 right after I bought it.) Not sure what the current price is there, though. It's a great little machine. The 10 inch screen has a good enough keyboard that I didn't take too long to get used to it. I traded up to 2gb ram, but it's not necessary at all. It has a 6 cell battery, but I don't care what they say when the label says 7 hours. Expect nearly 5 hours with Windows XP on power saving mode and halved screen brightness. The glossiness of it is it's only real fault for me, I hate glossy. |
5,325 | I don't see why it should be illegal to rent an antenna from a guy living in a place with good signal when you live in a place that has bad signal. Isn't that basically what Aereo was doing? | It was exactly what they were doing. However, it was considered a "public performance", meaning the viewer had no association with the streamed content prior to viewing, and that categorized Aereo as a provider of a public performance, aka a broadcaster. Because they were a broadcaster and didn't pay any broadcasting fees, what they did was against copyright law (according to the supreme court). |
5,326 | The Black Keys - Brothers... I know it won them a grammy and it was enjoyable but it just wasn't the same Black Keys I fell in love with. From then on I knew they were going more indie-rock than the heavily blues influenced sound they came up on. El Camino and Turn Blue are pretty lame. | I'm kind of in agreement. I remember listening to Rubber Factory and and Magic Potion in high school. I don't mind their new stuff that much, but it just doesn't strike me as the pinnacle of rock and roll music as many have heralded it the psat few years. |
5,327 | Isn't it the baby once he got sick of trying to care for it? | That's what I thought forever now. Like a coffin-esque box...like a coffin |
5,328 | Thank you. This is what I came here to say. I didn't even know the Harry Potter books were YA. Everyone loves to shit on YA, as if all YA is Twilight, Harry Potter and Hunger Games. | I thought Hunger Games novels were incredibly dark, and got slotted into YA simply for the age of the main characters. I only wish such books had existed when I was younger. When I was a teenager I felt like we went straight from The Babysitters Club to Sweet Valley High, which I read so quickly my mom sat me down with her Judith Krantz novels. I love that young adults have books to read that actually take some time and thought. |
5,329 | Your use of generic implies a lack of critical analysis or willingness to identity specific attributes, which would make reading your opinion worth while and contribute to the discussion. | Sounds like you're just butthurt because I don't think they're as great as you seem to. But if you'd like to actually make an argument about why you think they're *not* generic instead of whining about my opinion of them, then by all means... |
5,330 | Right? Philistines. It's like the people who want time turners like in Harry Potter. Now a time machine like the Tardis on the otherhand, that would be better. | Folks who would buy one, use it for a few hours, and never touch it again. Flying surfboard would be a lifestyle. Same way a Tardis is a lifestyle. |
5,331 | I've often wondered if most of his novels are actually in the same universe. There isn't anything particularly and obviously connected with Zodiac/Diamond Age, but at the same time, I could see how they're all contained within the same timeline of the same universe. | Agreed. I see some connections between Diamond Age and Snow Crash. My pet theory is that Diamond Age takes place about 75 years after the end of Snow Crash. There's a scene in Diamond Age where a Neo Victorian woman who's taking care of Nell (maybe her school teacher?) mentions being a thrasher when she was young, and my thought is that she's actually Y.T. I think someone calls an inflatable boat a 'zodiac' in Reamde, too. I've never heard that term except in Zodiac, but that could just be my own ignorance. |
5,332 | The rise of quantum computing can also lead to true unbreakable encryption. There is already systems in place that send packets that are destroyed upon being read. Making a man in the middle attack impossible and informing the destination end of someone intercepting their traffic when the packet never arrives. | Oh yes, but if the government gets its hands on all the data encrypted with today's tech, they'll be able to read all of it. |
5,333 | You added too many periods. OP's bandwidth is too poor to read your comment. | I had to turn off images and then it loaded. |
5,334 | I think the point of the irony part of the article was to point out that in the story, the Capitol audience indulges in watching people fight to the death, but the main character fights against this. However, real life audiences gain enjoyment from the arena fights, all the while cheering on the protagonist. Ironic, yes. Crippled? Perhaps the essence of the story to, as you said, certain fans. Certainly not crippled at the box office though, which, at the end of the day, was the point of making the book into a film. | But we're not watching a film about people simply fighting to the death. Even if that's what you go into the films expecting you should come out with a completely different view given the strong social commentary in the films. If this film glorified violence whilst at the same time advocating against the glorification of violence in media that would be ironic. This movie does not do the former though. Naturally, like I said, these themes fly over some people's heads and there have been some people advocating an R rating for these first two films which would indeed have been ironic. That's not what happened though. |
5,335 | Huh I'm going to listen to this when I get home! Thanks | I have access to the FLAC. If you want it, send me a PM. |
5,336 | Second the vote for trying Daughter. I read the kelewan books before any other feist books and I definitely felt like the pug-centered books were way more cheesy. | Another vote for Daughter of the Empire. Mara of the Acoma is such an interesting character, much more unique than any in the original rift war series. Although more recent fantasy series like the Stormlight Archives might be more up your street if you're looking to move away from 'classic' high fantasy |
5,337 | Obviously none. Real men only fuck other men. Fucking women is unmanly. Talking to women is even worse. *shudders* | >Talking to women is even worse. You are starting to make a convert out of me. |
5,338 | I'm an audio engineer and I know this to be false. | Since you seem very sure of yourself and the subject interests me, how can you say there is a definite way you can learn this skill? Sure there are speculations, but I can't really find the existence of a solid method for it. For all I know you can't learn perfect pitch as an adult. |
5,339 | Stop the straw man arguments. No one says they hate gays. Not every Christian attends Westboro. Its not about hating gays, its about safeguarding religious freedom | Right, the religious freedom to hate gays and discriminate against them. |
5,340 | Just FYI - coming from a position as a bookstore employee - the stickers don't always start off super sticky. When they are still new, they peel off neat and clean. The problems arise when the stickers are left on for too long... something happens - the glue degrades or something, and they get stickier and more annoying to peel off. It gets so much worse when you have to peel hundreds of those suckers off in one day. | It also depends on the book cover. Some of them won't even hold a sticker because of the material, while other covers won't let go of that sticker no matter what you do. |
5,341 | Hello! Do you like comic books? Also, whats your favorite kind of animal? | I do like comic books, though I'm not as knowledgeable about the various backstories and universes etc as some. My favorite animal is the tardigrade. |
5,342 | Yes it does, it's just not in the release notes. I upgraded last night, had no problems whatsoever. | Despite *not* being in the release notes I don't think it upgrades your file system. I upgraded today. No problems either. |
5,343 | Hello Ingrid, thank you very much for doing this! Your new album is daring and full of tracks that I wasn't expecting to hear, but I love it. Handsome Hands definitely stands out for me. Do you have a certain track on the album that you love the most/are most proud of? I wasn't able to get tickets to your Toronto show, but hopefully you'll come around to Ontario again sometime. Enjoy Canada :) | I am proud of HH too. It feels like the biggest departure. |
5,344 | Reminds me of “R is for Rocket” by Asimov. I hope this happens | Looks cool. It's by Bradbury though. Just added to my [Goodreads] Cheers. |
5,345 | There's a translation that is quite modern actually by Robin Buss:-) | Yes, not only modern but technically superior as well. I started reading the older translation, stumbled across Buss' and read his notes on the translation where he says he corrected many clear inaccuracies made by the anonymous translator. His arguments on the objectivity of his translation convinced me to switch. The first translation does have a certain charm in it's antique language, but Buss' is very solid and elegant. I also imagine reading the whole novel in the older style would only add to the difficulty of finishing 1300 pages - whereas Buss makes the task a pleasure from start to finish. |
5,346 | That might not be an option in this case since Samsung's response suggests some of the devices in the computer might stop working if you use Windows Update. From the comments on Hacker News: >Sounds to me like they put defective rev of a USB3 host controller on the board, and they need their own driver to work around it, but the host controller is going to identify itself generically enough that Samsung can't rely on PNP ID matching to pick their work-around driver. Hence they disable windows update to avoid getting a driver update that would stomp their workaround driver. | Samsung really has gone to shit since the mobile phone business. Back in the 90s and early 00s, their TVs were the best. Now they're just shipping over priced garbage. Like apple without the brand loyalty. |
5,347 | 5% of the worlds population, yet 25% of the prison population. | You've got to take into account the fact that underdeveloped countries have crime but no/low incarceration rates, so this figure is a bit inflated. |
5,348 | Stranger than Fiction is the exception to your rule. Most Ferrell movies are a collaboration with the same writers, directors and actors. Stranger than Fiction is a different creative team. The writer did Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, a kid-targeted fantasy movie a la Willie Wonka but a toy store. The director did Quantum of Solace, Monster's Ball, Kite Runner and Machine Gun Preacher. All much more adult-oriented dramas. But I assume he was picked for doing Finding Neverland, the film with Johnny Depp about the guy who wrote Peter Pan. The writing/directing blend to make a kind of quirky comedy/drama with elements of surrealism. The role is much more serious for Ferrell, consider Adam Sandler in Punch Drunk Love if you want an equivalent. | I might have to consider watching that one. Of the other movies you named by the rest of the team, I have seen almost all of them and liked all I have seen. Thanks. |
5,349 | Must depend on where you live. In my experience in Seattle, it's more "women play Skyrim and Portal, men play Call of Duty and Battlefront, and everyone plays WoW and Overwatch" | To be fair, you pretty obviously live in a bubble. |
5,350 | Aronosky has that ability to make you feel *really* uncomfortable, does that come across in this movie? | yes. there was one moment where I noticed the people sitting next to me were looking away. |
5,351 | I know this is r/movies but the question extends beyond movies. Calm down. | It's a running gag to point that out around here. "Not a movie but" |
5,352 | miss sweeney on the red album was worth a listen. | I also liked Pig. Both songs were only on the deluxe version, though. |
5,353 | The library pays for the digital license that gives them the right to lend out their copy. | To me, there's still no difference. I'm reading a book, I didn't pay for a book. |
5,354 | So would it be better to get whatever programs we want, straight from the people who designed them? They put an an offical, "this is what our code is line by line", and us at the end, comparing the two? I'm sure that's possible, right? | > ... straight from the people who designed them ... As the Ken Thompson attack demonstrates, the compromise can be upstream or downstream from the people who designed the program you want. It could be upstream, e.g. in the compiler; it could be downstream, e.g. in the installer; and the compromising code need not be visible anywhere in the source code of the compiler or installer. |
5,355 | I don't believe it's the worst movie of the year, but it did fall quite short. Even with a very talented cast, there was no central plot line or narrative that kept me drawn in. Just seemingly random events strewn together. | > random events strewn together. You mean like real life? |
5,356 | Written and Directed by Shane Black who wrote Lethal Weapon at the age of 23 and wrote and directed Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. PLUS Ben Kingsley. I'm kind of excited. Also it can't be worse than IM2, so there is that. | Thank you for saying this... sometimes I feel like I'm the only one who was underwhelmed by IM2. |
5,357 | I work in the industry.. bots are a huge problem. The fees from Ticketmaster are usually negotiated with the promoter, venue, and others in play. With a high profile show like this it isn't unusual for there to be a high amount of bot activity and third party resale. Which sucks, because there's also a huge chance of fraud. | didn't they pass a law or something of the sort banning bots from being able to prehold tickets |
5,358 | Or you could potentially have a WRT-router and block everything there? | I have yet to do this myself but it sounds like plenty of others have had success. |
5,359 | I would be. I've had perfect vision all my life, and I never have any headaches, ever. But sit me down in front of a 3D movie for two hours and I get an awful headache and my vision feels tweaked for a day or two after. I am not alone in this. | Amen. I'm not as badly affected as you, but it's still a throughly negative experience with minimal benefits. |
5,360 | **Yes, Please by Amy Poehler** and **East of Eden, by John Steinbeck** Yes, Please I am enjoying because I love Amy Poehler. It's not a funny book like Tina Fey's, but it's providing interesting background on how she got to where she is. East of Eden I am intimidated by. I've only read the first chapter, but it is a daunting book for some reason... I've read a lot of long books, so it's not the page number, I guess I'm not sure what it is about it. | East of Eden is one of the best books I've ever read. Stick with it, it's very very worth it. |
5,361 | Well fuck you too then. Note to self: Do not try to explain yourself on the internet. | Don't forget: Do not try to explain yourself on the internet. |
5,362 | Yeah, you missed something: approximately an hour and 45 minutes of fucking fantastic cinema. | I guess. It is the only movie that I was disappointed with after reading the book. |
5,363 | To be fair it comes off like an old guy yelling at kids to get off his lawn. "Kids today with tattoos and the hippity hop" | >and the hippity hop. [Sugarhill Gang] 1979. Grand Master Flash meets Another one bites the dust? |
5,364 | I loooove those movies. The first couple are just whatever, but now these street racers and mechanics are being summoned by the government to defeat international terrorists. Vin escapes a trap in the last one by just driving off a cliff, smashing his way all the way down the mountain, and just... surviving. | I am starting Tokyo Drift now. Kill me. With pain. And fire. For watching it. |
5,365 | I find his books to be very clear without losing depth. They aren't nearly as complicated as GoT or WoT but I enjoy then. | If you do want a bit more complexity, you can try delving into the cosmere and intense theorization with the people at 17th Shard. |
5,366 | But why? Sure you can always run particle accelerators to do it, but what would be the purpose? What good is antimatter if you can't use it for power storage, is completely pointless for power generation, aren't going to use it as a Fusion Catylyst, and are not interested in explosives (as phenomenally irresponsible Antimatter weaponry would be)? Also, it is more cost effective to have a space station hanging out in Jupiter orbit collecting Antiprotons from it's magnetic field then to make the stuff on earth. Though seriously, cost effectiveness at this point is relative because we are talking the equivalent of trillions of dollars here and technology almost a century from now. | It's not the end result but the benefit that the effort yields whether that means large scale renewable construction, space stations in Jupiter orbit, or fusion catalysts. Splitting the atom was risky and expensive too. |
5,367 | Hi Mr. Larson, thanks for doing this! I'm a big fan of all your work, but particularly 'Dead Wake' as I think the sinking of the Lusitania is something that is often overlooked in discussions of WWI in America. I have some related questions: Are there any periods or topics in history that you find interesting but haven't been able to write about for some reason? Are there periods that don't interest you at all? | First, I so agree with you that the Lusitania gets overlooked, especially in the long shadow cast by the Titanic. As to periods I find interesting but can't write about--there are many! For example, I'd love to write about Magellan, but, there just isn't enough fine-grained material to allow me to do so in a rich way. Ditto for Pompeii. And the Spanish Inquisition! An unexpected idea, no?--because nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...okay, you have to be of a certain generation to get that reference... |
5,368 | Also [Öngyilkos Vasárnap] by Venetian Snares, who covered the song sampling Billie's vocals. The whole album is actually pretty haunting. | This is the version that runs through my headphones. Really puts me in a bleak mood... |
5,369 | Not great quality, but the clip I found still gave me goosebumps. [Link] | Thanks for the link! I'm actually not far off being in that video, I was to the right near the front of the crowd, the camera pans over the guy next to me at one point. |
5,370 | It's always weird to me that, when the first book came out, he and I were the same age. By the end of the series, I was older. And yet, canonically, he was eight years older than me the whole time. | Same here. I grew up with Harry; when Harry was 11, I was 11. There was something magical about having a hero your age doing remarkable things with his friends. I hope more and more come out from this. The article was a fantastic read. |
5,371 | That song is literally too long. I hope they did that on purpose. | I love Too Long, it's not long enough in my opinion. |
5,372 | hey now, it was Kurt Cobain's love of his life! I am sure he would not like to hear you talk like this about her. | 'Do you take Courtney Love to be your lawful shredded wife even when she's a bitch with zits and siphoning all your money for doping and whoring'. Plus they were gonna get a divorce when he died. He'd probably be ok with it. |
5,373 | Yes. Sanderson sometimes does this, as do plenty of others. It's not common but not uncommon either. EDIT: what's with the downvotes? | I think the answer you meant was "no". George R.R. Martin did not invent this style. Other authors have used it before. |
5,374 | i'm glad you posted this, because it gives a chance for all the neil young fans out there to listen to a BRILLIANT cover version of this song: [the wailin' jennys - "old man"] | Thanks for that link...after digging a bit further I am now a fan. |
5,375 | While they're at it, you can only use IE6 or older and it has no wifi usability. | Hilariously, that would be an absolute god-send for my company... |
5,376 | I don't see what people loved about that movie so much. I went and saw it and it just seemed like any other cheesy comedy action flick. I think the marketing and the hype got to peoples heads. I mean it wasn't terrible but I don't see how it deserves the #1 spot. | Marvel get's A LOT of free passes because they pretty much launched the superhero craze we know today. |
5,377 | Have you considered the possibility that you may be less exposed to this area of expertise than myself? I have worked for several gold partners on top of working directly for Microsoft, where I was most recently focused software defect density along with its impact to business. | Have you considered that he has more experience than you? You were IT at MS and got fired. Get over it. |
5,378 | If there is one USB Type-C port on the phone and you want to plug in your 3.5 headphones and charge at the same time you do need an adapter, and luckily there is support for that. It is called the [charge-through] This adapter is also a passive one since it just connects the pins together. But we will see how all this will look in reality. | Or we could just, you know, keep the headphone jack that works perfectly and has zero reason to be replaced. |
5,379 | > AND needing to make a living. If you're not making enough money, go and get a job that pays. He comes off a bit entitled. | Try to land a steady job where your other one requires you tour around the country. Better yet, put months of time and effort into a project for no pay, only to have people steal or exploit most of the result. It's easy to say that these artists should be grateful for the exposure when you have no idea what it's actually like. I'm not a professional musician, but my music teacher is and so are the other people he brings in, and they have a very different view on piracy from reddit. Truly, reddit is the one that's entitled, not the people who do tons of work and get cheated out of money. |
5,380 | Mistborn would be the better starting point with Sanderson. Much easier to get the story going quickly! | I'm fairly sure that was bought up around the same time. |
5,381 | Phone’s, TV’s, computer’s, etc. currently only work on 2 of our senses, sight and sound, also touch but only via input and not feedback. What if you could smell a cologne through you’re phone? or taste something before you buy it by licking the screen lol. Is it ever possible to imagine such features? It would be really cool, say, if you were to add the dimension of smell to watching a movie. Combined with VR that would make for one immersive experience. | So the difference is that light and sound are wave-based sensations at the end of the day, both based on waves which are fairly easy to simulate. Smell, however, is structure-based; specifically, it's the response triggered when olfactory receptors bind onto specific molecular structures. So, unlike light and sound, which are capable of being generated at a specific point and thereafter simply propagate through the medium, smell simulation would need to do one of two things: directly trick your brain into imagining a smell, or "constructing" these molecules and transferring them to your nose. If we manage to do either, simulating smells becomes one of the least exciting potentials tbh. |
5,382 | Here's an idea, write an original story using an all woman cast rather than taking the lazy way out. | No. We have to prove that anything men can do women can do better. One suggested plot to the move has these women using their brains and their looks to infiltrate a good ole boys club, seduce some of the more rich and powerful men in the club into giving them houses, cars, yachts, and jewelry worth millions and millions of dollars and then dumping them. One of the women eventually falls for her rich guy and marries him though....so that she can get half of everything he owns in a divorce later on. |
5,383 | I've only had one opportunity to see them in concert. Easily one of the most engaging lead singers I've seen. Hypnotizing almost... ya can't look away. | Seriously. She just gives and gives throughout a show. Great onstage energy. |
5,384 | It's possible (I can't say who owns the copyright for Azureus code) that it's split between GPL and a closed source binary license. If they own the code, that would allow them to make it both open and closed source, depending on where you got it and the features included. | I wasn't sufficiently specific. Vuze as an organization has left the Azureus components as GPL'd while the Vuze specific elements are proprietary & closed source. See thread for why this is an issue: |
5,385 | Yeah, but Kirk beats up aliens and fucks their women. Obviously he's a right-wing hero. | Republican Space Rangers from GTA is something else he should check out, then! |
5,386 | Is Shakey Graves considered country? I'm just genuinely curious because I like him a shit ton (even seen him twice) and have always had a massive aversion to country. But if I just didn't know about more stuff like him, then I'm super excited. | Yeah, he's more on the folk side of country but he gets airtime on one of my local country stations! |
5,387 | I vaguely remember seeing an extension that let you filter words and phrases "cloud to butt" style, but I can't find it. | I have it. The hard part is figuring out what to use for the word filter. |
5,388 | The movie did the best it could but it never gave me the nightmare feeling that I got from reading 1408. Even just typing the phrase "This is eight. We have killed your friends. All your friends are now dead" gives me fucking chills. That is a story that must be read alone by yourself in a silent room. | I love 1408!!!! Very creepy indeed! One day I want to check out the movie--heard it's good. |
5,389 | Wait, so what happened to Leo's Hand in Django Uncahined? | I think he cut his hand on glass but kept playing. I wonder if they left that in the movie |
5,390 | Right, but he didn't sell these albums with shiny outfits or a 40 man entourage behind him so, yeah. It's a little about skill here. | Soulja boy did a lotta that shit on his own, he produced, wrote, recorded, published and made the dance move on his own as far as I know for Crank That, so your point doesn't really make sense. |
5,391 | Your wife is not alone - I'm the same way!! | You know what they say - men are from mars... I'm glad she's not the only one! |
5,392 | Similar idea, but very different projects. Up is a documentary series, while Boyhood is a work of fiction. | The before sunset series with Ethan hawke was always planned as a trilogy. There's also another that I'm forgetting that I don't think has been released yet. |
5,393 | >locked every civilian in an underground parking complex with an unguarded side exit. If it weren't for Rose Brynne I would've turned that shit right off then and there | I actually did at that point. How could they be so inept? |
5,394 | No, I'm saying that the infrastructure to deliver information to any given person has already been paid for - by various entities the world over - and in internet service charges. The cost to deliver a few dozen kilobytes to any given IP on the net is so trivially small that it makes no sense to try to charge it. The marginal cost is in the billionths of a cent. | Aren't these eBooks still being hosted on Amazons servers though? It's not like those are paid for by internet service charges. They have to pay for that themselves. That's where the real cost is, constant maintenance and upgrades to servers, not just handling data transfer over the net. |
5,395 | So, what did the [closed doors on the Ghostbusters' firehouse symbolize?] Their inner desires to shy away from outside contact as they retreated within their own subconscious to explore the wider aspects of the supernatural? Or is is because normal buildings have fucking doors and its normal to close them? | Seriously? They're used that way in Frozen. Doesn't mean the same principle applies to every movie. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, man. |
5,396 | Nah, the older generation had nerds, and this generation has nerd. Nerds care about privacy. Nerds used to be the only people who use the internet, now everybody uses the internet. If I had to guess, I'd say the number of nerds has slightly increased, but internet users have increased immensely. | I work in software development with a lot of nerds, and that is decidedly not my experience. Some of them care deeply about privacy; many do not. If they're more likely to care at all, I think it's because they are aware of how vulnerable these systems are to attack. For me, and I don't have the data to say for sure, but I think there probably is a small generational difference on this issue. |
5,397 | That's going to use X11, and so is going to have *horrible* UI integration, and I seriously doubt there's any browser integration at all. If you are not a primary-Mac-computer user who uses Keepass as his sole password locker, I'm not going to be able to take you seriously. Let's have the testimonials from those folks, please. | I mentioned it in a different fork of this thread, but I use [KyPass] I've been using it for probably 18 months. The author eventually put a price tag on it ($6), and I promptly paid for it. It's great software and gets regular updates. |
5,398 | Jar Of Flies is my favorite AIC album(yea, I know it's technically an EP). | I was just listening to it for the first time in about a year. It brings back so many memories. |
5,399 | Pegg looked ROUGH in Worlds End, but I guess they were kinda going for that. | The contrast between that character and Sergeant Angle was truly amazing. |
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