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408,500	[He took shots at Jay-Z back in 2006.] > You thirty-eight and you still rapping? Urgh.	Lol and in West Side Story. >[And I don't do button up shirts or drive Maybachs]
408,501	Or that people would have to buy an adapter to use non-wireless headphones... It's like they want to make money AND call it a "feature." I just love the guy writing the article trying to sell it as a feature too. >"No one asked for a tear-shaped laptop" Yeah well that's skewed. This is a "feature" specifically with dollars in mind. Not innovative to the design in anyway for the end-user.	I think the author's point was more that we haven't heard Apple's purpose for the design change, so we should hold our judgement until after the official press release. EDIT: Fuck me for being neutral.
408,502	Of course it's emotionally manipulative. It's john green. I'm certainly not saying that in a critical way...it's just a fact to me. I know that he tends to write this way going into his books, so taking it all in with a grain of salt makes it easier to enjoy them. His tendency to do this kind of cheapens his books for me, but I've been known to enjoy a cheap book from time to time. But it annoys me when people confuse it being a grandiose tearjerker with it being a "brilliant" book. It's a good book. But it's got cheap tricks in it.	I got cajoled into reading this book without knowing much about John Green, surely not having read any of his other books. I read it because I was told he was a big DFW fan and namedropped authors I liked a lot, and thought maybe that meant that he was going to write something clever and unexpected that is "mainstream" enough to fit as YA fiction (which I hear disdained but I'd never personally read before).
408,503	The soundtrack track list suggests it's called "The Moon Song."	> The Moon Song. Yeah I googled and found that but it's not the same song. The Moon Song has singing and guitar.
408,504	Nobody uses one drive. For whatever reasons. Dropbox is just an established brand. I'm not that surprised that they went for it	Same reason people still use Windows, its well established and nobody wants to be liable for any problems.
408,505	East of Eden...The description of Salinas valley itself made me get hitched to it.	I loved this book. I didn’t want it to end.
408,506	I always enjoy Death Grips, letlive., and Run the Jewels	Seconding Death Grips. They're great for summoning your inner beast.
408,507	I just had this song in my head.I find this is more likely to happen if i am listening to something and i have to turn it off halfway(like in the car).thanks for the finish.	haha your welcome. i've been listening to "Dear Science" a lot recently and got the urge to revisit this classic...
408,508	Poetry and Prose by Primus was the best song on that album!	I love the whole thing, except for the Jackyl song. They're terrible. The Aerosmith one is fairly lame too, but nothing out of the ordinary for them.
408,509	So? People had a issue with taking orders from a bunch of people they didn't vote for in a complteely different country	And now we're going to have to take orders from someone who we didn't vote for who's from our own country but since they'll be tory they'll most likely be an absolute cunt.
408,510	Well, actually I stopped using facebook when they were shown to be misusing the data. Now with GDPR we have the right to ask any company to remove personal data, at least those of us who live in Europe. Facebook attempted to to move data to other countries to avoid complying with privacy legislation. If that doesn't put people off using the site I don't know what will.	My issue, which makes it difficult to stop using facebook, is that it is too useful. It has the best and most readily available marketplace which works based on location. It is the best way for me to manage my local recreational club because everyone is already on facebook, so they don't need to sign up to some unfamiliar site. It helps me stay connected to my distant and international friends, as well as all my close friends and family too. I agree with you, facebook and all the big web companies are wraught with contraversy, but unfortunately thats not enough to pull me off them.
408,511	Because the English title of the book, and the film, is "Philosopher's Stone". They changed it for the American release. I still haven't figured out why.	Because they thought american kids would see "Philosopher's Stone" and think it would be some boring book which had nothing to do with magic, blah blah. Another thing that pisses me off is that the American covers look [*horrible*]
408,512	Unless you're looking for older pressings for some reason, you can get most Pink Floyd vinyl on Amazon for $20-30.	I usually get vinyl that are part of the "back to black" regime
408,513	Funny. I remember this line, but I only took it as the officiers joking about the urban legends that there are giant crocodiles in New York city sewers. Now that you mention it though, it can be both.	You could see it as both, but it was definitely intended as a killer croc reference.
408,514	I can imagine what kind of things are delaying a production, casting being a major consideration. The Judge would probably have to be a partially computer generated character to hold true to the book (7 ft tall, hairless, albino). I think it would be next to impossible to pull off the right look and convey his intelligence and malignancy on screen	There are ways of framing shots to make someone look tall/imposing. The right director, actor, and cinematographer could pull it off.
408,515	I don't think you hang out in this subreddit often then, anytime someone brings up asoiaf, everyone pulls out their GRRM pitchforks and slam into the quality of his books. While I can understand these views, I personally, still enjoyed the story. They aren't my favorite though and there are definitely higher quality books out there. For example, I've just started the Malazan Book of the Fallen series and the story has kept me significantly more engaged though it's dialogue suffers a bit in my opinion. The prose was much more enticing than GRRM's though, it doesn't spend pages talking about food.	I don't hang out here too often, it seems that whenever a topic I moderately enjoy is posted here there are immediately two opposing groups with their pitchforks going at each other and as much as I enjoy a good ole fashioned clash, it bores me.
408,516	BBC3 did Broadchurch right? That didn't seem that low budget.	With that comment I was referring to BBC3's penchant for the kind of more experimental or risky programming that I in theory want (Almost Human, was that one fantasy show called? Misfits also kinda fits here) but falls down on poor execution through low budget or bad writing.
408,517	Is it just me or is Jamie Bell as the Thing a little weird too?	It's weirder than Michael B. Jordan as The Human Torch, that's for sure. I never had a problem with Jordan, but Bell as The Thing seems really strange and I see no one talking about it. The guy they thought to cast as Ben Grimm was a skinny british dude? I'm not saying Bell is a bad actor, I actually like him quite a lot, but he is nowhere near the first guy I would think of to play The Thing. If anything Miles Teller seems more suited to play Ben Grimm and Jamie Bell seems more suited to Reed Richards
408,518	Wait, people who grew up reading Scott Westerfeld are old? I read him in high school. I'm 23. Am I old?! Is 23 old?! What are the demographics on this website?	Hahaha I never said I was old. I just said it dates me. And I don't like that.
408,519	On one hand I want to stick it to N. Korea, on the other hand I don't want to set a dangerous precedent. Which decision will make fewer bald eagles cry? I feel like I'm in Sophie's Choice.	Well, if Sony take a huge financial loss on this because nobody buys the DVD, it may make them (and other studios) even less likely to ever make another satirical film again. I don't approve of Sony caving into threats, but I also think NK will gain an even bigger victory if they effectively manage to make such films unprofitable, thereby stomping out any future attempts to ridicule them because they aren't 'financially viable'. But yeah, I agree, it's a shitty decision either way. :(
408,520	Pretty amazing IMO. Some people I know were put off by the beggining, but if you keep pushing until The Sound of Her Wings you'll certainly be pulled by it.	I think the first time I re-read it I actually enjoyed the first part more than the rest. Not the very very beginning mind you but the whole "cereal" convention stuff.
408,521	He really disappears into roles. I mean, he tricked a significant (small, but still significant) population of the US that he was a character twice. Once before he was super famous, but the second time came after he had already had widespread fame and recognition. With the exception of Pirelli, I haven't seen him in a serious role but I think he would do a really good job. Character-based comedy and drama are different, but not hugely. Both require understanding a character's mind and being able to portray subtleties and quirks believably.	I am really looking forward to him playing Freddie Mercury.
408,522	I really liked most of the Foundation books, but seriously, read a couple of Iain M Banks' better sci-fi novels, he blows Asimov out of the water for epic space-bound sci-fi. The Culture series as a whole, or 'The Algebraist' on its own, either way you'll forget about Asimov.	Thanks for the tip, I'll be sure to check those out!
408,523	I am considering it. Most likely yes, but I plan on doing stuff from my new album, Avalon and some songs just for fun.	My son is 10 and loves Godsmack and I would like to take him...that's why I was asking if you do any Godsmack songs..
408,524	Hopefully as a pass-through USB key, to not take up the entire port for itself.	I only plug mine in when I need it and then take it out immediately after, no need for pass through
408,525	I would definitely like to see him go into more detail about the Consu.	Sorry, I meant Collapsing Empire. Sadly I think he's done with OMW universe for now. But agree, I'd love to hear more about them. I loved getting to interact with one in Zoe's Tale.
408,526	Boyhood was really good, but the performance that really stuck with me was Marco Perella as Mason's stepdad. That dinner scene....holy shit. Only other time I felt like that in a theatre was after the Joker's news interrogation video in The Dark Knight.	I guess I should write screen plays. Growing up with multiple shitty step dads in my life, that scene was nothing compared to our dinner scenes.
408,527	What I didn't get was why Maher compared him w/ the Beatles in the sense that both artists were "innovators." Am I missing something? I was under the impression Jay-Z has been making the same shit for years now. How exactly is he an innovator? What trend is he bucking exactly?	Reasonable Doubt and to some extent the Black Album were both hugely innovative.
408,528	Grabbed a ticket to Metaltown 2011 in Sweden just to see these guys. They're still amazing. I like these old ones better, but the newer ones are also good. - Edit, 2011 not 2010.	soad played in 2010? I was sure they were on hiatus from 2007-late 2011.
408,529	Do you have to pay extra for reserved seating though? Part of my gripe with this new policy at Cinemark is that you have to pay a "convenience fee" to get the best seats. It's like premium DLC for movie theaters.	Here in Germany you can reserve or buy any seat in advance. You can buy the tickets online or a few days before the showing. When you buy online you get a QR code that you scan at the cinema and the ticket is automatically printed. When you buy or reserve you pick the seats you want to have. Usually the last two rows cost a bit extra no matter if you bought in advance or not.
408,530	Hell if I can tell the difference. Are you the guys with the moose and the snow?	yup. although with this global warming my house is melting during june
408,531	In addition to the other great ones mentioned so far try The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie and The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin.	The Westing Game was one of my very favorite books in middle school. I remember it being incredibly suspenseful and a really fast read.
408,532	If the U.S. shifted to cashless wouldn't we reduce debt by quite a bit from what we pay to have our money printed and regulated? You know the whole Federal Reserve and fiat money business - ?	No, non physical USD are fiat in exactly the same way physically printed USD bank notes are. You may make a saving from all that printing/minting you no longer have to do but I doubt it would be significant on the scale of the US economy. edit: spelling
408,533	I can see you're point, but I still feel like its a simplified, watered-down version of his previous Melville/Faulkner/Old Testament prose style, and I can just never love it as much. I mean, his older books made you feel like you were in a hurricane in hell. I may just be too oversensitive to what I see as a blatant populist grab... maybe my opinion will change in 50 years...	no offense but "blatant populist grab?" come on that's laying it on a little thick. i think the majority of Americans who started that book would put it down within a couple chapters, even if it is a tighter, simpler story.
408,534	Definitely agree. The fact that our social justice movements are devoid of any real economic justice language that's openly critical of capitalism is the real coup. The civil rights movement and feminism and anti-war used to be stridently critical of the capitalist system. We just had MLK day and I'm sure most people don't know how many of his speeches were blatantly anti-capitalist. Its all just diverting our energy into equality for the masses under the same unequal paradigm.	Class consciousness came through to me at the MLK events I went to here in the PNW.
408,535	"We lied and screwed you over on your already overpriced product, so now we want more money."	They didn’t lie, though. The change was right there in the update notes.
408,536	1. OneDrive works, there's no reason not to use it. 2. They added Dropbox a couple of months ago.	> They added Dropbox a couple of months ago. Natively or do I need to run this to get it?
408,537	I’m struggling through For Whom the Bell Tolls at the moment. The book is good but this bit about halfway through where the main character is just thinking about his time in Madrid is so boring I can barely read it. I have to reread the same lines multiple times just because my brain is wandering, wanting to do more interesting stuff. It’s a shame because the first half of the book is good.	I think that's the allure for a lot of people with that book- the sitting around, waiting for something to happen as they watch the bridge bits, his mind wandering just feels so real and authentic. Like a movie with "good", "real" dialogue, it may not be fun or exciting, but for some the authenticity can be spellbinding. For others- boring as shit.
408,538	For new books the book depository is probably your best bet. For second hand try abebooks. It's a marketplace type site but it allows you to sort by price+shipping to find the cheapest overall. Some sellers just bump up the price of the book to cover the "free" shipping. Also, just a warning that free shipping is usually whatever is the cheapest option for the seller so your books may take several weeks to arrive. If you've not ordered this way before it can be a bit of a shock just how long it takes compared to some paid shipping options.	Absolutely: For used book, abebooks is usually the cheapest alternative. The listings are ordered by final price (price of book plus shipping), so you won't be fooled.
408,539	Huh? They just did a complete rewrite of it.	A complete rewrite that turned it to crap. Navigation is fine. Finding what you want to navigate to is hit and miss and unpredictable. Worse, stray clicks clear your search results! Apple maps is better than what google did to their maps product!
408,540	Then you're looking in the wrong places. It's recycled mythology, plain and simple. ITT: Defensive Theists that I'm not wasting my time on.	I think they mean that no matter how many times someone disproves the bible people will still be Christians because some people just want to be Christians
408,541	Yeah - they're already on the store. A dongle that has a pass through charging port, 1x HDMI port, and 1x USB port. $79. Near identical one with HD-15 VGA port instead of the HDMI port for the same price. Does this mean Apple has killed off support for Display Port now as there's no display port version or DVI version available yet.. Arrggghh...	Sorry for you if you actually own apple devices. I on the other hand took an old power supply, hotwired it on ( jump the 24 pin ATX ). then soldered a USB hub to the 5v rails. I can now charge 28 amps worth of usb devices for the cost of one paperclip.... and a possible housefire... Anyways ... I'd make a horrible apple fan with that attitude of "fuckit, I can do this for a fraction of the cost"...
408,542	Surely there would be a market for webcams/laptops/mics with a physical disable switch?	older laptops have physical sliding cover to cover them up.
408,543	I'm not sure that's true. Kim Stanley Robinson is from Davis.	As much as I love the Mars Trilogy, me thinks you'd have a hell of a time trying to get the general public to embrace it the way they did The Martian. You've got a real crossover hit on your hands, Mr. Weir.
408,544	How did you detect them? Was there a hit in performance on the network or some other negative impact or just an observable event?	We were doing high precision two-way time transfer using a fiber link using a ~100 mile fiber route. You can clearly see a train passing as low frequency noise when you're measuring sub-nanosecond timing.
408,545	Thinks of free lossless recordings Why the fuck would I pay spotify? I'd rather just send a dollar to the artists I like or buy some merch. Both would be infinitely more profitable for the artist. And I'm not going to find 10 artists a month that I love enough to pay. Taylor Swift is one of the few American musicians who make a lot of money on their copyrighted productions. Merch and live shows make way more money for the artist, including taylor swift. If artists want to stop piracy they need to leave their labels and sell their albums for a reasonabe price. I'm not giving any artist more than 30 dollars over my lifetime excluding live shows. No fucking way	I sell my album for €2 (or more, it is pay what you want) and still very few people buy it. I get a lot of people downloading the free tracks and streaming it but no one pays. There are quite a few sites to download it illegally from but I dont have the stats to see how many people are getting it there
408,546	I just realized that hp lovecraft died on pie day... nice	The 15th, not the 14th, bud. The Ides of March, oooooo
408,547	I think so too but could find no link to support this. Have you one?	But wasn't this much more a product of a time when these things weren't as well recorded (if at all) and people just didn't know where they came from? Not just taking someone else's lines and then selling music off of it?
408,548	Also its written and directed by M Night Shyamalan, which is something they were very careful to never mention in any of the trailers.	This is the first time I heard that he was attached to this film. Interesting.
408,549	Hmm, 11.... my all Beach Boys all the time phase. No regrets though, they've got some good shit.	Hell yeah, I went through a huge Beach Boys phase as well!
408,550	I am wanting to buy a new tv for under $1500 that is about 50 inches and is 1080p. I would like suggestion of good places to look on the internet. Whats the best brand? Do I want Plasma, LCD, LED, or some other nonsense (I don't care about 3d). Is the internet even the best place to but a tv. Basically Any info would be helpful.	That's what I thought I wanted. Then I went to a store and saw how humongous it really was. I bought a 42" tv that looks just about right across the room from me. LED is supposed to be better than LCD in some way I don't understand. I bought and recommend LCD. Plasma is slightly old fashioned at this point, and projection TVs seem to require rather stringent viewing conditions.
408,551	Well this was a brave and controversial comment /s.	Yeah, especially when you get chastised for simply being indifferent to Star Wars. ^^^^I ^^^^also ^^^^like ^^^^Star ^^^^Wars
408,552	"The only thing for us to decide is what to do with the time we are given" Gandalf's a smart dude.	You'd be wise too if you were literally older than dirt. He's at least 12000 years old.
408,553	I haven't been able to finish it yet! I still need the third book! I bought it when I was reading the second and lent it to a friend. Waiting for them to return it!!!	Luckily I downloaded all three to my Kindle so I haven't had to wait! Thank god too, because the cliffhangers are brutal.
408,554	Sometimes the songs are thematically linked in such a way that they demand to be listened to in order. Other times they are literally linked in that there is little break in between songs. It's like reading a chapter out of a long book vs. reading the whole thing. Do you get the same experience from reading the chapters in isolation or out of order vs reading the entire book? Maybe after many listens, but that's not how it was designed.	All these replies are genuinly interesting to me. I never viewed an album as more than a collection of random songs. Can you give some examples of good thematically linked albums I can listen to to see if I can pick up on any "story"?
408,555	Or any other album they've made since the early 90s.	I don't care what everybody else says, I like Death Magnetic.
408,556	I'm going to be that guy who doesn't like Goodfellas. I didn't enjoy a single character in that film - they were all self-centered assholes, and not in an engaging, Reservoir Dogs-ish way. Ray Liotta is not a good actor - he's a bad actor who thinks he's a good actor, which in many ways is worse than just a bad actor.	Do you also hate the Social Network, Nightcrawler, and Whiplash?
408,557	Sure, but then they'd have great press about "Kanye playing sell out shows, buy only charging his fans $30" rather than this "Kanye sucks lol can't even sell out shows" stuff. I don't think Kanye is that worried about making an extra $10k a show. His reputation is a lot more valuable than that.	not even that, it's a matter of paying the stagehands and paying for the equipment. i also feel that the tickets were justified in price because of the quality of the show. it made Phantom of the Opera feel like a high school play because of it's extravagance and everything.
408,558	Still on hughsnet here .. i'm not holding my breath	Exede is better than Hughes net. IMO . I install both and like the performance and plan that exede offer.
408,559	When technology moves this fast everyone is an early adopter. It'll be at least a few more years before prices more or less stabilize.	SSD prices won't "stabilize" any time in the foreseeable future. They'll keep steadily decreasing like they have for the last 5 years, and like hard drives and memory have done for the last 50.
408,560	Honestly, Precious was terrifying for me. So was The Lovely Bones. I couldn't make it through. The books by Ellen Hopkins were also terrifying. (Crank, Glass, Burned, Identical, etc.) Anything that has sexual abuse/assault of any form in it puts me over the edge.	I hate the way Ellen Hopkins formats her books. Every now and then a page makes sense, showing the character's thought processes and whatnot, but after reading two in a row I had to go read something formatted normally. And there's no way in hell you're getting a good eBook of one of those things. But, what I really came here to say was, Ellen Hopkins makes me feel like taking a shower. While reading it. Her characters have horrific consequences for all of their decisions.
408,561	Exactly right however I believe that the original point is that Quentin Tarantino hates digital film-making.	He doesn't hate digital film-making, he hates digital film-projection. I don't think he has said anything about digital film-making.
408,562	As a child, probably "Jaws" by Peter Benchley, as a young adult probably "It" by Stephen King (much better as a book then a movie, with the exception of Tim Curry as a SUPERB Pennywise the clown in the movie), and as a much older adult, probably "Geek Love" by Katherine Dunn.	Upon reflection, there were also some significant short stories by Edgar Allen Poe "The Rats in the Wall," Algernon Blackwood "The Willows," and Ray Bradbury "Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed'" that left my then-teenage mind aghast.
408,563	The Harley Quinn one was god aweful. Goes back to watching BTAS where Harley Quinn was made with taste Edit: I'm once again getting downvoted for slamming bad design. I don't get it. If you liked that kind of thing, fine. Whatever. But if that's a reflection of what you're really into, then your tastes are shit. At least own it by not being such a pissy downvoter for people saying it was bad. It actually was bad. If only I could be so easily pleased.	Have to agree. The sexed up Harley is obnoxious. They've been sacrificing writing for more "fucked up shit" since Justice League War and it's kind of a bummer.
408,564	Just came in here to suggest I, Claudius - it's incredible. The sequel, Claudius the God, is also an amazing read.	I actually never read the sequel. I'll add it to the list.
408,565	I'm 200 pages left on The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. Best book I've ever read, along War and Peace.	thanks for the reminder, I would like to read this.
408,566	I liked that movie. Wasn't great but it was a nice enjoyable film for my plane ride.	I think because you have absolutely nothing to do, movies are more enjoyable on a plane. Although Terminator Salvation was still awful.
408,567	Rush - Permanent Waves. Lamb of God - As the Palaces Burn. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend	I also said Permanent Waves. If I had included my metal taste, LoG would've made it. And I'm also just now getting pretty into VW. Good list
408,568	"with potential" Are you fucking kidding???? I think you are way under estimating what he accomplished by age 17 in 1959.	I think you're overestimating what he did accomplish. Peace!
408,569	Listen to "2" it's fun. He's a goofy guy who writes love songs and can shred on the guitar. If you like laid back melodic music, he's your guy.	I would also say "2" is a good album to start out with. If you like that you could check out "Salad Days". Sure some of his songs sound pretty similar but who cares!
408,570	The thing is T. Swift hardly produces ~~or writes~~ any of her songs anymore. Just look at the Track Listing on 1989. Now look at Kanye. He is a writer and producer on every single track on the album.	Doesn't really matter when talking about who the biggest star is. Elvis Presley, for example, didn't write that many tunes, but is by far the biggest musical star of all time.
408,571	Blue Ruin is over appreciated based on how people talk about it here.	ya went into it thinking it was going to be amazing at best and really good a worst. it was meh. a kinda lame movie that was just sorta more realistic than the average revenge movie. except not really. meh.
408,572	I have mixed feelings about this. I highly enjoyed Name of the Wind, and was very sad when I was done that there wasn't more. When Wise Man's Fear came out, I ripped into it excitedly... and couldn't finish. Kvothe was a much more annoying character to me than in the first book. Perhaps, as other commenters have suggested, that's a function of him telling his own story (anyone can become annoying while telling you about their own life), but I found the second lacking in substantive reason to carry on to the finish. Your mileage may vary, but I do think the first is worth a read.	This was my experience as well. I enjoyed the first book, immediately bought the second, then stopped a little over halfway through. [Spoiler](/s "It was the Felurian portion of the story that caused me to stop. It seemed out-of-place, and the details were not convincingly written.")
408,573	Bear with me -- I recently read Storm Front and cringed the whole way. I know people say the series gets better after the fourth book, but I'm not sure I can read another.	dresden? i am in the same boat. i don't know if i want to read through another wet dream in hopes of the series getting better.
408,574	Saw him at Red Rocks and he said "prepare for the best show in the history of red rocks". That is a bold fucking statement...	The best? Probably not. But to their credit they do put on an amazing show. Seen em twice. Both were magical and unique.
408,575	Ironically, I was off-put by him for a long time too but I think he seems to be the only one who is at least an alright fit the character. After watching this trailer, I was not convinced that Kate Mara was Sue Storm or Michael B. Jordan was Johnny Storm.	I agree with you. Teller looks to be the best thing in this movie. I believe him as Reed and while I may not be seeing this I hope I read in reviews that he was the best part. I really like him as an actor and I hope he goes far.
408,576	in my opinion, the most beautiful instrument. i wish my parents had forced me to learn it as a child	It's never too late, really. I'm planning on picking up piano again after not touching one since the first grade
408,577	Have a nook, I installed a browser so I could reddit on it and barely read books now. Send help. edit: nook simple touch. Forgot the nook color was a thing	Whats the difference between using that and a smartphone for reading books?
408,578	Good lord, I picked the wrong day to post my library sale haul.	I saw your post, if it's any consolation I like every book you bought.
408,579	They say thay had 1200 wifi access points with 40Gbps total bandwidth. If we assume wifi is the dominant traffic that means each router would only need to be 33Mbps if traffic were balanced. On top of that the article even says the peak wifi bandwidth was only 3.67Gbps. I guess not everyone is refreshing their page at the same time or watching videos. They had a peak of about 20,000 concurrently connected, which would be about 187kbps per person, way way lower than i would have thought.	Well sure, I'm just asking but still. It's small beans
408,580	A lot of "bad" music isn't bad; it just isn't good. It falls in that middle ground of catchy beats, generic sounds, and vaguely-relevant-yet-incredibly-boring lyrics. It's not going to hurt you to listen to, but it will be underwhelming for people with more sophisticated or refined tastes. Sort of like eating boiled chicken (or some equally bland/unseasoned food) when you're used to fine dining that caters to your palate.	that's exactly my point. people are trying to act like they're downright terrible and will make your ears bleed, when its just a huge exaggeration for "lols" edit: i don't really listen to them anymore, so im not a fan defending their band. just a guy calling it as he sees it. its the same shit as "rap is crap" in my eyes; not your cup of tea but you will wanna feel elitist and talk down about it.
408,581	Am I the only one who doesn't think that size is worth sacrificing important features for? It seems like a petty silly trade-off to me.	Same boat here. I'm happy with a fat phone if it does the things I want. Droid Turbo has a 2.7ghz quad core, 3GB ram, 32gb storage (or 64gb for a whopping $30 extra,) the 3,900mAh battery from the MAXX, and the background Moto chip from the Moto X to top it off. It was like christmas day when I learned someone actually made a nice fat phone. Battery isn't removable and no microSD, but with battery that big and memory that cheap, I don't care.
408,582	You missed the point, though. Peer review is a process that is specific to scientific journals. Major mastheads (e.g. the NY Times) will also have their own fact-checkers on staff, but publishers rarely do fact-checking on popular nonfiction. So, for example, [this] and [this] were independently fact-checked, but if [this] was, then the author had to spring for the vettor himself.	Peer review isn't specific to journals. Academic publishers peer review both popular science books and textbooks, and it is common for authors to send part or all of those books to colleagues for comment in addition to this.
408,583	Which is half of what they were worth a year ago:	Good point, though I think $26 billion is a bit of a ridiculous valuation for a company with so much potential competition. To protect themselves from the competition they released the DRM coffee, which obviously failed, so if their idea of being innovative is trying to use DRM to shield themselves from other players, I have less than optimistic expectations for them in the future.
408,584	This is a good example of bandwidth vs. latency. You can throw all the bandwidth you want at remote rendering for games, but the speed of light delays guarantee enough latency to prevent widespread adoption.	Depends on where the servers are located. If it's right next to you, you would have minimal latency. Edit: So, when I said right next to you, I didn't mean it as in every house. We already have cell coverage, and it wouldn't even have to be that dense. A server every 200 km? That'd be less than 1 ms latency due to the distance. I live 50 km from the nearest Google server, and when I ping it, I have less than 1 ms ping.
408,585	Yeah, maybe I overstated it a bit. It still makes it hard for me to like it. There's just a better, classic version. It also seems a little... disrespectful. I kind of want to go back and see where "hey there Delilah" came from now.	i think its original but if not its prob a simon and garfunkel song has that kinda feel.
408,586	One thing I still don't understand is how Google Fiber is having such a hard time expanding rapidly when everyone loves them and they have massive amounts of capital to invest in infrastructure.	"they have massive amounts of capital to invest in infrastructure" Which Google does not want to spend on buried fiber infrastructure, it's not profitable. That's why Google wants help from the cities. Austin bent over backwards for Google, they expect every city to do the same (like raising taxes).
408,587	JJ likes meandering, structureless, never ending and increasingly cheap and convoluted stories that aren't really planned out. See Lost. Which is why it's not remotely surprising his Star Trek and Star Wars movies both just redo the previous movies. He shouldn't be involved in scripts, he doesn't have the storytelling chops.	His involvement in Lost ended after the first episode. Don't blame him for that. That's like me blaming you for it because you watched it.
408,588	Yeah, whenever you hear about a book being challenged it’s usually just a few idiots.	School boards cave and a few idiots so often get their way. Then everyone suffers for it.
408,589	He got 8 years hard labor for a premeditated double homicide. I’d say anything short of death or life in prison constitutes getting away with it.	8 years of hard labor in Siberia is a death sentence more times than not.
408,590	ebooks aren't the only problem though - many, many people buy their print books off of amazon, or go to b&n instead of a local shop.	All sorts of indie stores have faced the same issues when big boxes moved into their communities (say, Wal-Mart coming to town). The indie stores that survived learned not to compete, to not carry the same merchandise. That said, a bookstore in my town essentially matches Amazon prices when Amazon shipping costs are factored in, and the bookstore gives 2-day delivery. (You need Amazon Prime, or to be prepared for slow Super-Saving Shipping to beat 'em.) Another indie bookstore provides free home delivery. I'm all for a discussion about how indie bookstores can become smarter about how they handle their operations, but OP specifically singled out technological solutions. I believe the root issues are classic ones -- location, marketing and merchandise.
408,591	make it an hbo series where each season is a different idea. Season 1- Two brothers try to survive in their town known for gang wars and drugs. Season 2- Down in texas a family must survive and fight aginst there purging gun-loving neighbours. Season 3- A group of strangers team up to survive while out in a campground far from home.	My problem with the 3rd season is why would anyone go camping when they know there will be a purge?
408,592	You're the only person on this thread I upvoted, because everyone else is a liar, Everybody has one or two totally shallow pop songs they can rock out to.	Yep, The Beatles. EDIT: The Beatles (PRE- Rubber Soul.) Edit 2: See reply to PizzaPlanetCool.
408,593	i'd add After On by Rob Reid and Autonomous by Annalee Newitz as well.	I really liked Year Zero so I'll end up with After On before long.
408,594	I think there was a post about Dicaprio saying he wanted to play Lenin.	He told a German publication that he was interested in Russian history and would like to play Lenin, Putin, and Rasputin. EDIT: I would totally watch Leo in some multi-role Cloud Atlas-type epic about 20th century Russia.
408,595	Whichever you want. Edit - To be clear, if I put rules on how people should be voting, they will be immediately broken and participation will be reduced. This is not a scientific poll for marketing or otherwise. It's just for fun, vote how you want just don't stuff the ballot box.	The results are useless if people don't know what they're voting on.
408,596	Right now network neutrality is dying. A company, for completely private reasons, is picking which other companies get to be on their toll roads. And you're defending them doing that. That's how it ends.	For Tmobile, it's a completely optional service. You exchange viewing videos in lower resolution (480p vs 1080p) in exchange for unlimited viewing. It's a program completely free to join. Verizon gives you free viewing if the content providers pay Verizon. I don't know how the two are comparable.
408,597	I mean, this might not be the worst thing - creativity comes strongest when you keep the creators hungry	I think even more so it's that there'll inherently be more creativity in 3 movies than 1, and lower budget means more ideas can see the light of day. Also a lower budget means risks are more acceptable which means more new stuff.
408,598	I work in the industry and have friends that worked on The Revenant. If they are to be believed, and they usually are, this happened. And was only one of many blow-ups that happened on that set.	If you cant trust squid fucker what can we say about the world we live in?
408,599	No, the whole point of King Conan is that it's many years after the originals when he's much older.	I'd like to see a Conan movie with the old guy going out for one last adventure. Possibly with him dying in glorious battle at the end.

408,500

[He took shots at Jay-Z back in 2006.]  > You thirty-eight and you still rapping? Urgh. 

Lol and in West Side Story.  >[And I don't do button up shirts or drive Maybachs] 

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Or that people would have to buy an adapter to use non-wireless headphones... It's like they want to make money AND call it a "feature." I just love the guy writing the article trying to sell it as a feature too. >"No one asked for a tear-shaped laptop" Yeah well that's skewed. This is a "feature" specifically with dollars in mind. Not innovative to the design in anyway for the end-user.

I think the author's point was more that we haven't heard Apple's purpose for the design change, so we should hold our judgement until after the official press release. EDIT: Fuck me for being neutral.

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Of course it's emotionally manipulative. It's john green. I'm certainly not saying that in a critical way...it's just a fact to me. I know that he tends to write this way going into his books, so taking it all in with a grain of salt makes it easier to enjoy them. His tendency to do this kind of cheapens his books for me, but I've been known to enjoy a cheap book from time to time. But it annoys me when people confuse it being a grandiose tearjerker with it being a "brilliant" book. It's a good book. But it's got cheap tricks in it.

I got cajoled into reading this book without knowing much about John Green, surely not having read any of his other books. I read it because I was told he was a big DFW fan and namedropped authors I liked a lot, and thought maybe that meant that he was going to write something clever and unexpected that is "mainstream" enough to fit as YA fiction (which I hear disdained but I'd never personally read before).

408,503

The soundtrack track list suggests it's called "The Moon Song."

> The Moon Song. Yeah I googled and found that but it's not the same song. The Moon Song has singing and guitar.

408,504

Nobody uses one drive. For whatever reasons. Dropbox is just an established brand. I'm not that surprised that they went for it

Same reason people still use Windows, its well established and nobody wants to be liable for any problems.

408,505

East of Eden...The description of Salinas valley itself made me get hitched to it.

I loved this book. I didn’t want it to end.

408,506

I always enjoy Death Grips, letlive., and Run the Jewels

Seconding Death Grips. They're great for summoning your inner beast.

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I just had this song in my head.I find this is more likely to happen if i am listening to something and i have to turn it off halfway(like in the car).thanks for the finish.

haha your welcome. i've been listening to "Dear Science" a lot recently and got the urge to revisit this classic...

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Poetry and Prose by Primus was the best song on that album!

I love the whole thing, except for the Jackyl song. They're terrible. The Aerosmith one is fairly lame too, but nothing out of the ordinary for them.

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So? People had a issue with taking orders from a bunch of people they didn't vote for in a complteely different country

And now we're going to have to take orders from someone who we didn't vote for who's from our own country but since they'll be tory they'll most likely be an absolute cunt.

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Well, actually I stopped using facebook when they were shown to be misusing the data. Now with GDPR we have the right to ask any company to remove personal data, at least those of us who live in Europe. Facebook attempted to to move data to other countries to avoid complying with privacy legislation. If that doesn't put people off using the site I don't know what will.

My issue, which makes it difficult to stop using facebook, is that it is too useful. It has the best and most readily available marketplace which works based on location. It is the best way for me to manage my local recreational club because everyone is already on facebook, so they don't need to sign up to some unfamiliar site. It helps me stay connected to my distant and international friends, as well as all my close friends and family too. I agree with you, facebook and all the big web companies are wraught with contraversy, but unfortunately thats not enough to pull me off them.

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Because the English title of the book, and the film, is "Philosopher's Stone". They changed it for the American release. I still haven't figured out why.

Because they thought american kids would see "Philosopher's Stone" and think it would be some boring book which had nothing to do with magic, blah blah. Another thing that pisses me off is that the American covers look [***horrible***]

408,512

Unless you're looking for older pressings for some reason, you can get most Pink Floyd vinyl on Amazon for $20-30.

I usually get vinyl that are part of the "back to black" regime

408,513

Funny. I remember this line, but I only took it as the officiers joking about the urban legends that there are giant crocodiles in New York city sewers. Now that you mention it though, it can be both.

You could see it as both, but it was definitely intended as a killer croc reference.

408,514

I can imagine what kind of things are delaying a production, casting being a major consideration. The Judge would probably have to be a partially computer generated character to hold true to the book (7 ft tall, hairless, albino). I think it would be next to impossible to pull off the right look and convey his intelligence and malignancy on screen

There are ways of framing shots to make someone look tall/imposing. The right director, actor, and cinematographer could pull it off.

408,515

I don't think you hang out in this subreddit often then, anytime someone brings up asoiaf, everyone pulls out their GRRM pitchforks and slam into the quality of his books. While I can understand these views, I personally, still enjoyed the story. They aren't my favorite though and there are definitely higher quality books out there. For example, I've just started the Malazan Book of the Fallen series and the story has kept me significantly more engaged though it's dialogue suffers a bit in my opinion. The prose was much more enticing than GRRM's though, it doesn't spend pages talking about food.

I don't hang out here too often, it seems that whenever a topic I moderately enjoy is posted here there are immediately two opposing groups with their pitchforks going at each other and as much as I enjoy a good ole fashioned clash, it bores me.

408,516

BBC3 did Broadchurch right? That didn't seem that low budget.

With that comment I was referring to BBC3's penchant for the kind of more experimental or risky programming that I in theory want (Almost Human, was that one fantasy show called? Misfits also kinda fits here) but falls down on poor execution through low budget or bad writing.

408,517

Is it just me or is Jamie Bell as the Thing a little weird too?

It's weirder than Michael B. Jordan as The Human Torch, that's for sure. I never had a problem with Jordan, but Bell as The Thing seems really strange and I see no one talking about it. The guy they thought to cast as Ben Grimm was a skinny british dude? I'm not saying Bell is a bad actor, I actually like him quite a lot, but he is nowhere near the first guy I would think of to play The Thing. If anything Miles Teller seems more suited to play Ben Grimm and Jamie Bell seems more suited to Reed Richards

408,518

Wait, people who grew up reading Scott Westerfeld are old? I read him in high school. I'm 23. Am I old?! Is 23 old?! What are the demographics on this website?

Hahaha I never said I was old. I just said it dates me. And I don't like that.

408,519

On one hand I want to stick it to N. Korea, on the other hand I don't want to set a dangerous precedent. Which decision will make fewer bald eagles cry? I feel like I'm in Sophie's Choice.

Well, if Sony take a huge financial loss on this because nobody buys the DVD, it may make them (and other studios) even less likely to ever make another satirical film again. I don't approve of Sony caving into threats, but I also think NK will gain an even bigger victory if they effectively manage to make such films unprofitable, thereby stomping out any future attempts to ridicule them because they aren't 'financially viable'. But yeah, I agree, it's a shitty decision either way. :(

408,520

Pretty amazing IMO. Some people I know were put off by the beggining, but if you keep pushing until The Sound of Her Wings you'll certainly be pulled by it.

I think the first time I re-read it I actually enjoyed the first part more than the rest. Not the very very beginning mind you but the whole "cereal" convention stuff.

408,521

He really disappears into roles. I mean, he tricked a significant (small, but still significant) population of the US that he was a character twice. Once before he was super famous, but the second time came after he had already had widespread fame and recognition. With the exception of Pirelli, I haven't seen him in a serious role but I think he would do a really good job. Character-based comedy and drama are different, but not hugely. Both require understanding a character's mind and being able to portray subtleties and quirks believably.

I am really looking forward to him playing Freddie Mercury.

408,522

I really liked most of the Foundation books, but seriously, read a couple of Iain M Banks' better sci-fi novels, he blows Asimov out of the water for epic space-bound sci-fi. The Culture series as a whole, or 'The Algebraist' on its own, either way you'll forget about Asimov.

Thanks for the tip, I'll be sure to check those out!

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I am considering it. Most likely yes, but I plan on doing stuff from my new album, Avalon and some songs just for fun.

My son is 10 and loves Godsmack and I would like to take him...that's why I was asking if you do any Godsmack songs..

408,524

Hopefully as a pass-through USB key, to not take up the entire port for itself.

I only plug mine in when I need it and then take it out immediately after, no need for pass through

408,525

I would definitely like to see him go into more detail about the Consu.

Sorry, I meant Collapsing Empire. Sadly I think he's done with OMW universe for now. But agree, I'd love to hear more about them. I loved getting to interact with one in Zoe's Tale.

408,526

Boyhood was really good, but the performance that really stuck with me was Marco Perella as Mason's stepdad. That dinner scene....holy shit. Only other time I felt like that in a theatre was after the Joker's news interrogation video in The Dark Knight.

I guess I should write screen plays. Growing up with multiple shitty step dads in my life, that scene was nothing compared to our dinner scenes.

408,527

What I didn't get was why Maher compared him w/ the Beatles in the sense that both artists were "innovators." Am I missing something? I was under the impression Jay-Z has been making the same shit for years now. How exactly is he an innovator? What trend is he bucking exactly?

Reasonable Doubt and to some extent the Black Album were both hugely innovative.

408,528

Grabbed a ticket to Metaltown 2011 in Sweden just to see these guys. They're still amazing. I like these old ones better, but the newer ones are also good. - Edit, 2011 not 2010.

soad played in 2010? I was sure they were on hiatus from 2007-late 2011.

408,529

Do you have to pay extra for reserved seating though? Part of my gripe with this new policy at Cinemark is that you have to pay a "convenience fee" to get the best seats. It's like premium DLC for movie theaters.

Here in Germany you can reserve or buy any seat in advance. You can buy the tickets online or a few days before the showing. When you buy online you get a QR code that you scan at the cinema and the ticket is automatically printed. When you buy or reserve you pick the seats you want to have. Usually the last two rows cost a bit extra no matter if you bought in advance or not.

408,530

Hell if I can tell the difference. Are you the guys with the moose and the snow?

yup. although with this global warming my house is melting during june

408,531

In addition to the other great ones mentioned so far try **The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian** by Sherman Alexie and **The Westing Game** by Ellen Raskin.

*The Westing Game* was one of my very favorite books in middle school. I remember it being incredibly suspenseful and a really fast read.

408,532

If the U.S. shifted to cashless wouldn't we reduce debt by quite a bit from what we pay to have our money printed and regulated? You know the whole Federal Reserve and fiat money business - ?

No, non physical USD are fiat in exactly the same way physically printed USD bank notes are. You may make a saving from all that printing/minting you no longer have to do but I doubt it would be significant on the scale of the US economy. edit: spelling

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I can see you're point, but I still feel like its a simplified, watered-down version of his previous Melville/Faulkner/Old Testament prose style, and I can just never love it as much. I mean, his older books made you feel like you were in a hurricane in hell. I may just be too oversensitive to what I see as a blatant populist grab... maybe my opinion will change in 50 years...

no offense but "blatant populist grab?" come on that's laying it on a little thick. i think the majority of Americans who started that book would put it down within a couple chapters, even if it is a tighter, simpler story.

408,534

Definitely agree. The fact that our social justice movements are devoid of any real economic justice language that's openly critical of capitalism is the real coup. The civil rights movement and feminism and anti-war used to be stridently critical of the capitalist system. We just had MLK day and I'm sure most people don't know how many of his speeches were blatantly anti-capitalist. Its all just diverting our energy into equality for the masses under the same unequal paradigm.

Class consciousness came through to me at the MLK events I went to here in the PNW.

408,535

"We lied and screwed you over on your already overpriced product, so now we want more money."

They didn’t lie, though. The change was right there in the update notes.

408,536

1. OneDrive works, there's no reason not to use it. 2. They added Dropbox a couple of months ago.

> They added Dropbox a couple of months ago. Natively or do I need to run this to get it?

408,537

I’m struggling through For Whom the Bell Tolls at the moment. The book is good but this bit about halfway through where the main character is just thinking about his time in Madrid is so boring I can barely read it. I have to reread the same lines multiple times just because my brain is wandering, wanting to do more interesting stuff. It’s a shame because the first half of the book is good.

I think that's the allure for a lot of people with that book- the sitting around, waiting for something to happen as they watch the bridge bits, his mind wandering just feels so real and authentic. Like a movie with "good", "real" dialogue, it may not be fun or exciting, but for some the authenticity can be spellbinding. For others- boring as shit.

408,538

For new books the book depository is probably your best bet. For second hand try abebooks. It's a marketplace type site but it allows you to sort by price+shipping to find the cheapest overall. Some sellers just bump up the price of the book to cover the "free" shipping. Also, just a warning that free shipping is usually whatever is the cheapest option for the seller so your books may take several weeks to arrive. If you've not ordered this way before it can be a bit of a shock just how long it takes compared to some paid shipping options.

Absolutely: For used book, abebooks is usually the cheapest alternative. The listings are ordered by final price (price of book plus shipping), so you won't be fooled.

408,539

Huh? They just did a complete rewrite of it.

A complete rewrite that turned it to crap. Navigation is fine. Finding what you want to navigate to is hit and miss and unpredictable. Worse, stray clicks clear your search results! Apple maps is better than what google did to their maps product!

408,540

Then you're looking in the wrong places. It's recycled mythology, plain and simple. ITT: Defensive Theists that I'm not wasting my time on.

I think they mean that no matter how many times someone disproves the bible people will still be Christians because some people just want to be Christians

408,541

Yeah - they're already on the store. A dongle that has a pass through charging port, 1x HDMI port, and 1x USB port. $79. Near identical one with HD-15 VGA port instead of the HDMI port for the same price. Does this mean Apple has killed off support for Display Port now as there's no display port version or DVI version available yet.. Arrggghh...

Sorry for you if you actually own apple devices. I on the other hand took an old power supply, hotwired it on ( jump the 24 pin ATX ). then soldered a USB hub to the 5v rails. I can now charge 28 amps worth of usb devices for the cost of one paperclip.... and a possible housefire... Anyways ... I'd make a horrible apple fan with that attitude of "fuckit, I can do this for a fraction of the cost"...

408,542

Surely there would be a market for webcams/laptops/mics with a physical disable switch?

older laptops have physical sliding cover to cover them up.

408,543

I'm not sure that's true. Kim Stanley Robinson is from Davis.

As much as I love the Mars Trilogy, me thinks you'd have a hell of a time trying to get the general public to embrace it the way they did The Martian. You've got a real crossover hit on your hands, Mr. Weir.

408,544

How did you detect them? Was there a hit in performance on the network or some other negative impact or just an observable event?

We were doing high precision two-way time transfer using a fiber link using a ~100 mile fiber route. You can clearly see a train passing as low frequency noise when you're measuring sub-nanosecond timing.

408,545

*Thinks of free lossless recordings* Why the fuck would I pay spotify? I'd rather just send a dollar to the artists I like or buy some merch. Both would be infinitely more profitable for the artist. And I'm not going to find 10 artists a month that I love enough to pay. Taylor Swift is one of the few American musicians who make a lot of money on their copyrighted productions. Merch and live shows make way more money for the artist, including taylor swift. If artists want to stop piracy they need to leave their labels and sell their albums for a reasonabe price. I'm not giving any artist more than 30 dollars over my lifetime excluding live shows. No fucking way

I sell my album for €2 (or more, it is pay what you want) and still very few people buy it. I get a lot of people downloading the free tracks and streaming it but no one pays. There are quite a few sites to download it illegally from but I dont have the stats to see how many people are getting it there

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I just realized that hp lovecraft died on pie day... nice

The 15th, not the 14th, bud. The Ides of March, oooooo

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I think so too but could find no link to support this. Have you one?

But wasn't this much more a product of a time when these things weren't as well recorded (if at all) and people just didn't know where they came from? Not just taking someone else's lines and then selling music off of it?

408,548

Also its written and directed by M Night Shyamalan, which is something they were very careful to never mention in any of the trailers.

This is the first time I heard that he was attached to this film. Interesting.

408,549

Hmm, 11.... my all Beach Boys all the time phase. No regrets though, they've got some good shit.

Hell yeah, I went through a huge Beach Boys phase as well!

408,550

I am wanting to buy a new tv for under $1500 that is about 50 inches and is 1080p. I would like suggestion of good places to look on the internet. Whats the best brand? Do I want Plasma, LCD, LED, or some other nonsense (I don't care about 3d). Is the internet even the best place to but a tv. Basically Any info would be helpful.

That's what I thought I wanted. Then I went to a store and saw how humongous it really was. I bought a 42" tv that looks just about right across the room from me. LED is supposed to be better than LCD in some way I don't understand. I bought and recommend LCD. Plasma is slightly old fashioned at this point, and projection TVs seem to require rather stringent viewing conditions.

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Well this was a brave and controversial comment /s.

Yeah, especially when you get chastised for simply being *indifferent* to Star Wars. ^^^^I ^^^^also ^^^^like ^^^^Star ^^^^Wars

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"The only thing for us to decide is what to do with the time we are given" Gandalf's a smart dude.

You'd be wise too if you were literally older than dirt. He's at least 12000 years old.

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I haven't been able to finish it yet! I still need the third book! I bought it when I was reading the second and lent it to a friend. Waiting for them to return it!!!

Luckily I downloaded all three to my Kindle so I haven't had to wait! Thank god too, because the cliffhangers are brutal.

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Sometimes the songs are thematically linked in such a way that they demand to be listened to in order. Other times they are literally linked in that there is little break in between songs. It's like reading a chapter out of a long book vs. reading the whole thing. Do you get the same experience from reading the chapters in isolation or out of order vs reading the entire book? Maybe after many listens, but that's not how it was designed.

All these replies are genuinly interesting to me. I never viewed an album as more than a collection of random songs. Can you give some examples of good thematically linked albums I can listen to to see if I can pick up on any "story"?

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Or any other album they've made since the early 90s.

I don't care what everybody else says, I like Death Magnetic.

408,556

I'm going to be *that guy* who doesn't like Goodfellas. I didn't enjoy a single character in that film - they were all self-centered assholes, and not in an engaging, Reservoir Dogs-ish way. Ray Liotta is not a good actor - he's a bad actor who thinks he's a good actor, which in many ways is worse than just a bad actor.

Do you also hate the Social Network, Nightcrawler, and Whiplash?

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Sure, but then they'd have great press about "Kanye playing sell out shows, buy only charging his fans $30" rather than this "Kanye sucks lol can't even sell out shows" stuff. I don't think Kanye is that worried about making an extra $10k a show. His reputation is a lot more valuable than that.

not even that, it's a matter of paying the stagehands and paying for the equipment. i also feel that the tickets were justified in price because of the quality of the show. it made Phantom of the Opera feel like a high school play because of it's extravagance and everything.

408,558

Still on hughsnet here .. i'm not holding my breath

Exede is better than Hughes net. IMO . I install both and like the performance and plan that exede offer.

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When technology moves this fast everyone is an early adopter. It'll be at least a few more years before prices more or less stabilize.

SSD prices won't "stabilize" any time in the foreseeable future. They'll keep steadily decreasing like they have for the last 5 years, and like hard drives and memory have done for the last 50.

408,560

Honestly, Precious was terrifying for me. So was The Lovely Bones. I couldn't make it through. The books by Ellen Hopkins were also terrifying. (Crank, Glass, Burned, Identical, etc.) Anything that has sexual abuse/assault of any form in it puts me over the edge.

I hate the way Ellen Hopkins formats her books. Every now and then a page makes sense, showing the character's thought processes and whatnot, but after reading two in a row I had to go read something formatted normally. And there's no way in hell you're getting a good eBook of one of those things. But, what I really came here to say was, Ellen Hopkins makes me feel like taking a shower. While reading it. Her characters have horrific consequences for all of their decisions.

408,561

Exactly right however I believe that the original point is that Quentin Tarantino hates digital film-making.

He doesn't hate digital film-making, he hates digital film-projection. I don't think he has said anything about digital film-making.

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As a child, probably "Jaws" by Peter Benchley, as a young adult probably "It" by Stephen King (much better as a book then a movie, with the exception of Tim Curry as a SUPERB Pennywise the clown in the movie), and as a much older adult, probably "Geek Love" by Katherine Dunn.

Upon reflection, there were also some significant *short* stories by Edgar Allen Poe "The Rats in the Wall," Algernon Blackwood "The Willows," and Ray Bradbury "Dark They Were, and Golden Eyed'" that left my then-teenage mind aghast.

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The Harley Quinn one was god aweful. *Goes back to watching BTAS where Harley Quinn was made with taste* Edit: I'm once again getting downvoted for slamming bad design. I don't get it. If you liked that kind of thing, fine. Whatever. But if that's a reflection of what you're really into, then your tastes are shit. At least own it by not being such a pissy downvoter for people saying it was bad. It actually was bad. If only I could be so easily pleased.

Have to agree. The sexed up Harley is obnoxious. They've been sacrificing writing for more "fucked up shit" since Justice League War and it's kind of a bummer.

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Just came in here to suggest I, Claudius - it's incredible. The sequel, Claudius the God, is also an amazing read.

I actually never read the sequel. I'll add it to the list.

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I'm 200 pages left on **The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann**. Best book I've ever read, along War and Peace.

thanks for the reminder, I would like to read this.

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I liked that movie. Wasn't great but it was a nice enjoyable film for my plane ride.

I think because you have absolutely nothing to do, movies are more enjoyable on a plane. Although Terminator Salvation was still awful.

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Rush - Permanent Waves. Lamb of God - As the Palaces Burn. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

I also said Permanent Waves. If I had included my metal taste, LoG would've made it. And I'm also just now getting pretty into VW. Good list

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"with potential" Are you fucking kidding???? I think you are way under estimating what he accomplished by age 17 in 1959.

I think you're overestimating what he did accomplish. Peace!

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Listen to "2" it's fun. He's a goofy guy who writes love songs and can shred on the guitar. If you like laid back melodic music, he's your guy.

I would also say "2" is a good album to start out with. If you like that you could check out "Salad Days". Sure some of his songs sound pretty similar but who cares!

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The thing is T. Swift hardly produces ~~or writes~~ any of her songs anymore. Just look at the Track Listing on 1989. Now look at Kanye. He is a writer and producer on every single track on the album.

Doesn't really matter when talking about who the biggest star is. Elvis Presley, for example, didn't write that many tunes, but is by far the biggest musical star of all time.

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Blue Ruin is over appreciated based on how people talk about it here.

ya went into it thinking it was going to be amazing at best and really good a worst. it was meh. a kinda lame movie that was just sorta more realistic than the average revenge movie. except not really. meh.

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I have mixed feelings about this. I highly enjoyed *Name of the Wind*, and was very sad when I was done that there wasn't more. When *Wise Man's Fear* came out, I ripped into it excitedly... and couldn't finish. Kvothe was a much more annoying character to me than in the first book. Perhaps, as other commenters have suggested, that's a function of him telling his own story (anyone can become annoying while telling you about their own life), but I found the second lacking in substantive reason to carry on to the finish. Your mileage may vary, but I do think the first is worth a read.

This was my experience as well. I enjoyed the first book, immediately bought the second, then stopped a little over halfway through. [Spoiler](/s "It was the Felurian portion of the story that caused me to stop. It seemed out-of-place, and the details were not convincingly written.")

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Bear with me -- I recently read Storm Front and cringed the whole way. I know people say the series gets better after the fourth book, but I'm not sure I can read another.

dresden? i am in the same boat. i don't know if i want to read through another wet dream in hopes of the series getting better.

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Saw him at Red Rocks and he said "prepare for the best show in the history of red rocks". That is a bold fucking statement...

The best? Probably not. But to their credit they do put on an amazing show. Seen em twice. Both were magical and unique.

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Ironically, I was off-put by him for a long time too but I think he seems to be the only one who is at least an alright fit the character. After watching this trailer, I was not convinced that Kate Mara was Sue Storm or Michael B. Jordan was Johnny Storm.

I agree with you. Teller looks to be the best thing in this movie. I believe him as Reed and while I may not be seeing this I hope I read in reviews that he was the best part. I really like him as an actor and I hope he goes far.

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in my opinion, the most beautiful instrument. i wish my parents had forced me to learn it as a child

It's never too late, really. I'm planning on picking up piano again after not touching one since the first grade

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Have a nook, I installed a browser so I could reddit on it and barely read books now. Send help. edit: nook simple touch. Forgot the nook color was a thing

Whats the difference between using that and a smartphone for reading books?

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Good lord, I picked the wrong day to post my library sale haul.

I saw your post, if it's any consolation I like every book you bought.

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They say thay had 1200 wifi access points with 40Gbps total bandwidth. If we assume wifi is the dominant traffic that means each router would only need to be 33Mbps if traffic were balanced. On top of that the article even says the peak wifi bandwidth was only 3.67Gbps. I guess not everyone is refreshing their page at the same time or watching videos. They had a peak of about 20,000 concurrently connected, which would be about 187kbps per person, way way lower than i would have thought.

Well sure, I'm just asking but still. It's small beans

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A lot of "bad" music isn't bad; it just isn't *good*. It falls in that middle ground of catchy beats, generic sounds, and vaguely-relevant-yet-incredibly-boring lyrics. It's not going to hurt you to listen to, but it will be underwhelming for people with more sophisticated or refined tastes. Sort of like eating boiled chicken (or some equally bland/unseasoned food) when you're used to fine dining that caters to your palate.

that's exactly my point. people are trying to act like they're downright terrible and will make your ears bleed, when its just a huge exaggeration for "lols" edit: i don't really listen to them anymore, so im not a fan defending their band. just a guy calling it as he sees it. its the same shit as "rap is crap" in my eyes; not your cup of tea but you will wanna feel elitist and talk down about it.

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Am I the only one who doesn't think that size is worth sacrificing important features for? It seems like a petty silly trade-off to me.

Same boat here. I'm happy with a fat phone if it does the things I want. Droid Turbo has a 2.7ghz quad core, 3GB ram, 32gb storage (or 64gb for a *whopping* $30 extra,) the 3,900mAh battery from the MAXX, and the background Moto chip from the Moto X to top it off. It was like christmas day when I learned someone actually made a nice fat phone. Battery isn't removable and no microSD, but with battery that big and memory that cheap, I don't care.

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You missed the point, though. Peer review is a process that is *specific* to scientific journals. Major mastheads (e.g. the NY Times) will also have their own fact-checkers on staff, but publishers rarely do fact-checking on popular nonfiction. So, for example, [this] and [this] were independently fact-checked, but if [this] was, then the author had to spring for the vettor himself.

Peer review isn't specific to journals. Academic publishers peer review both popular science books and textbooks, and it is common for authors to send part or all of those books to colleagues for comment in addition to this.

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Which is half of what they were worth a year ago:

Good point, though I think $26 billion is a bit of a ridiculous valuation for a company with so much potential competition. To protect themselves from the competition they released the DRM coffee, which obviously failed, so if their idea of being innovative is trying to use DRM to shield themselves from other players, I have less than optimistic expectations for them in the future.

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This is a good example of bandwidth vs. latency. You can throw all the bandwidth you want at remote rendering for games, but the speed of light delays guarantee enough latency to prevent widespread adoption.

Depends on where the servers are located. If it's right next to you, you would have minimal latency. Edit: So, when I said right next to you, I didn't mean it as in every house. We already have cell coverage, and it wouldn't even have to be that dense. A server every 200 km? That'd be less than 1 ms latency due to the distance. I live 50 km from the nearest Google server, and when I ping it, I have less than 1 ms ping.

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Yeah, maybe I overstated it a bit. It still makes it hard for me to like it. There's just a better, classic version. It also seems a little... disrespectful. I kind of want to go back and see where "hey there Delilah" came from now.

i think its original but if not its prob a simon and garfunkel song has that kinda feel.

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One thing I still don't understand is how Google Fiber is having such a hard time expanding rapidly when everyone loves them and they have massive amounts of capital to invest in infrastructure.

"they have massive amounts of capital to invest in infrastructure" Which Google does not want to spend on buried fiber infrastructure, it's not profitable. That's why Google wants help from the cities. Austin bent over backwards for Google, they expect every city to do the same (like raising taxes).

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JJ likes meandering, structureless, never ending and increasingly cheap and convoluted stories that aren't really planned out. See Lost. Which is why it's not remotely surprising his Star Trek and Star Wars movies both just redo the previous movies. He shouldn't be involved in scripts, he doesn't have the storytelling chops.

His involvement in Lost ended after the first episode. Don't blame him for that. That's like me blaming you for it because you watched it.

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Yeah, whenever you hear about a book being challenged it’s usually just a few idiots.

School boards cave and a few idiots so often get their way. Then everyone suffers for it.

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He got 8 years hard labor for a premeditated double homicide. I’d say anything short of death or life in prison constitutes getting away with it.

8 years of hard labor in Siberia is a death sentence more times than not.

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ebooks aren't the only problem though - many, many people buy their print books off of amazon, or go to b&n instead of a local shop.

All sorts of indie stores have faced the same issues when big boxes moved into their communities (say, Wal-Mart coming to town). The indie stores that survived learned not to compete, to not carry the same merchandise. That said, a bookstore in my town essentially matches Amazon prices when Amazon shipping costs are factored in, and the bookstore gives 2-day delivery. (You need Amazon Prime, or to be prepared for slow Super-Saving Shipping to beat 'em.) Another indie bookstore provides free home delivery. I'm all for a discussion about how indie bookstores can become smarter about how they handle their operations, but OP specifically singled out technological solutions. I believe the root issues are classic ones -- location, marketing and merchandise.

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make it an hbo series where each season is a different idea. Season 1- Two brothers try to survive in their town known for gang wars and drugs. Season 2- Down in texas a family must survive and fight aginst there purging gun-loving neighbours. Season 3- A group of strangers team up to survive while out in a campground far from home.

My problem with the 3rd season is why would anyone go camping when they know there will be a purge?

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You're the only person on this thread I upvoted, because everyone else is a liar, Everybody has one or two totally shallow pop songs they can rock out to.

Yep, The Beatles. EDIT: The Beatles (PRE- Rubber Soul.) Edit 2: See reply to PizzaPlanetCool.

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i'd add After On by Rob Reid and Autonomous by Annalee Newitz as well.

I really liked Year Zero so I'll end up with After On before long.

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I think there was a post about Dicaprio saying he wanted to play Lenin.

He told a German publication that he was interested in Russian history and would like to play Lenin, Putin, and Rasputin. EDIT: I would totally watch Leo in some multi-role Cloud Atlas-type epic about 20th century Russia.

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Whichever you want. Edit - To be clear, if I put rules on how people should be voting, they will be immediately broken and participation will be reduced. This is not a scientific poll for marketing or otherwise. It's just for fun, vote how you want just don't stuff the ballot box.

The results are useless if people don't know what they're voting on.

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Right now network neutrality is dying. A company, for completely private reasons, is picking which other companies get to be on their toll roads. And you're defending them doing that. That's how it ends.

For Tmobile, it's a completely optional service. You exchange viewing videos in lower resolution (480p vs 1080p) in exchange for unlimited viewing. It's a program completely free to join. Verizon gives you free viewing if the content providers pay Verizon. I don't know how the two are comparable.

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I mean, this might not be the *worst* thing - creativity comes strongest when you keep the creators hungry

I think even more so it's that there'll inherently be more creativity in 3 movies than 1, and lower budget means more ideas can see the light of day. Also a lower budget means risks are more acceptable which means more new stuff.

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I work in the industry and have friends that worked on The Revenant. If they are to be believed, and they usually are, this happened. And was only one of many blow-ups that happened on that set.

If you cant trust squid fucker what can we say about the world we live in?

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No, the whole point of King Conan is that it's many years after the originals when he's much older.

I'd like to see a Conan movie with the old guy going out for one last adventure. Possibly with him dying in glorious battle at the end.