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410,700 |
Villeneuve has more than three films, it's just that Prisoners, Enemy, and Sicario are big English Language successes. Incendies (French) was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film. I've also heard Polytechnique is very good
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I stand corrected, thanks. I have heard of Incendies so that's one I'll have to check out. Regardless, he's still in my top five lol
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410,701 |
Why not just give the option to download games and play them offline subscription aka Spotify/Netflix for games?
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Why not just buy the damn game and own it forever?
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410,702 |
I don't think Zemeckis likes it, it's just he's saying it seems to work. Anyway the best counter to this is the movie Oblivion. Most people that saw the trailer before watching the movie didn't like the movie. Most people that watched the movie without seeing the trailer, liked it well enough. Given that word of of mouth (or maybe type of keys?) travels fast, you really don't want the trailer to spoil the movie to the point where people are going to tell others not to bother seeing it. So any benefit from showing plot points in a trailer is lost when it damages the viewer's experience (and thus word of mouth) when will cause a decline ticket sales after the first day.
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I saw the trailer before I watched Oblivion, but it didn't really affect my opinion of the movie. I liked it, especially for the visuals. But I saw the trailer again after seeing the movie, and I'm glad that it didn't ruin the movie for me. It gives you a slightly inaccurate idea of what the movie is, but it takes away any mystery to the group that Morgan Freeman is with, which is a big part of the first half of the movie.
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410,703 |
I remember reading that they recorded the video with her lip syncing to the song played at double speed, then slowed it down so it's in slow motion but her singing still matches up. Pretty cool effect.
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They did the same thing for the Weezer video for "Undone".
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410,704 |
Since the movie did things way differently i'm gonna try to explain my understanding based on it rather than the games. So apparently Khadgar was given to the Kirin Tor(leaders of that giant floating city) and they believed that he should be trained to become the next guardian. He ran away from them for some unexplained reason. Medivh knows him through that. My biggest problem with the movie was how nothing was really explained in the beginning. the only reason i even knew what was going on was because i'm a gigantic lore nerd.
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Why was this never mentioned.... or maybe it was and I missed it. That could have easily been explained in a line towards the beginning of the movie.....
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410,705 |
The risk though. This guy is admirable for calling out the monopoly holding carriers of internet access but they do have more resources for this type of thing. I'm a pragmatist and their move would scare me away from pursuing legal action.
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Well, the cool thing is that filing a defamation suit that appears to be a SLAPP against a customer complaining that his ISP screwed him over, in today's world, is effectively screaming "hey, every tech-savvy First Amendment lawyer in America, we would like you to lay a *pro bono* smackdown on us please". Peak Internet done goofed; if they press their idiotic lawsuit, they will find themselves overwhelmed by one or more activist lawyers' righteous fury.
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410,706 |
ITT: People having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that Drake released a truly great album which appeals to a wide variety of demographic, hence its No. 1 position for nine weeks.
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Do you genuinely believe it was a truly great album? I honestly found Views pretty weak compared to his last projects (Take Care/NWTS/If You're reading This).
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410,707 |
Boredoms. Also Black Mountain, The Alps, and I would lump Deerhunter in there as well.
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Deerhunter is definitely psychedelic. If you haven't seen them live, do everything you can to do so. They tend play 15 minute or longer version of Nothing Ever Happens. Amazing.
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410,708 |
No joke, the box of the Director's Cut says "Newly inspired, faster paced, more action packed!" Not to be confused with the third home release, the Final Cut, which is an hour longer.
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Yeah, I think it was a minute shorter, but used different scenes. The directors cut was the only version I saw, and I hated it.
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410,709 |
That entire list is out of one book? My head hurts already. I thought my vocabulary was fairly good as well, but at least four fifths of that list would have me reaching for a reference too. Now to go find this book! Based on the words involved, it seems like an interesting read. :)
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That feel. Yeah I guess I need to read this soon since I haven't had my vocabulary hit that hard since Hitchens Letters to a Young Contrarian or any Hitchens at all.
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410,710 |
Yeah, but if you don't call it Mad Max you'll lose a big chunk of the audience. People wouldn't know it was the same universe.
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If they do that it will FUCK the franchise, and the installment after that will be a fucking scramble to recoup the lost audience. Same shit with Halloween 3. Successful franchise, decided to do something new, marketing did not make it clear it was not a Michael Myers Halloween film.....fucked the franchise. It went off the rails. Don't call it Mad Max.
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410,711 |
That's tragic. It's such a hugely convenient feature: just drop on the pad and walk away, with no risk of wearing out or breaking your connector. I suspect there's a business problem here, not a technical one, or Apple would be awash in this feature also. Maybe it's too expensive to license the patent?
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In the case of the 5x, its a two-fold problem. The first is a design problem. They had the fingerprint reader in the back center of the phone, and would have had to offset the charging coils to account for that. The second is business. They wanted it to have the same feature-set as the 6p, which has a metal case. Can't do induction charging through a metal case.
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410,712 |
I really like Sandman and saw American Gods at the store. I should grab it.
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American Gods the book was so, so much better than the show. If you like Gaiman's books, try Neverwhere and Stardust. Both beautiful fantasy books. If you do Audible, he reads them himself - really magical to hear him read his own books.
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410,713 |
I totally agree. Its amazing people can use equipment like that to make such cool sounding music. Didnt mean to sound like a negative nancy haha
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And I don't mean to wag my finger at people. Sometimes we forget that it still takes talent, patience, and guts to post something like that in the first place.
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410,714 |
Do you think enough insight and subtext was given to the characters in the screen adaptation to drive the conflict?
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Eve and Villanelle are more overtly antagonistic in the novels, but I think the conflict is well established in the series, even if it has a different tone.
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410,715 |
Otg is going to be deprecated in N I read somewhere (or already has in m?). So this may be important
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But why? With USB Type-C ports starting to become mainstream, either end can be the host. One would think that would make the OTG capability more useful, unless there's something I'm missing.
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410,716 |
I have Drood but I've never read it! I picked it up on a whim. Is it really good?
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I liked it a lot. It's very dark and maybe a little over the top in spots, but if you give yourself over to it, it's a fantastic read. I'd be happy to send my copy to the first person who PMs me their address.
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410,717 |
I have a strange program running that is impersonating windows XP antivirus (a program that, as far as I know, doesn't exist.) I ran Nod32 antivirus for a full sweep but it didn't find anything, but I don't know how to get rid of the program. What it does is brings up popups telling me I have a bunch of viruses and tries to get me to register and pay for some antivirus bullshit. It also bubbles from the system tray "Severe system DDamage, Malware running in the background". Anyone know how to disable?
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Crazily enough Im experiencing the same bit of a headache, but instead of XP, its Vista. I booted up in Safe Mode and I guess right before that bs malware booted I managed to open up Spybot, which has detected the malware and will hopefully remove it once the scan is done. Im hoping no other hiccups occur! Edit: Yeah, thankfully Spybot took care of it.
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410,718 |
well it USED to be. but then the music washed away all our hate and society started advancing.
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I don't think it's a coincidence that is was also around the time fingerless gloves came back in style.
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410,719 |
This is very kind of you to do. Not here to request anything, just thanking you for your kindness.
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Thank you. I have always felt that good books could bring friends together. You never know how the words on a page will affect an individual.
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410,720 |
Not finishing this book would make me feel like a failure. My goal from the start was to finish a book. I have to finish it. 36 pages to go.
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eh, fair enough. 36 pages to go. but on the next one, maybe don't focus on reading and finishing a book. it's not a huge achievement, you really don't need anyone's approval or the title of 'avid reader', so if you're not into it, ditch it and find something you really want to read. that's just the lesson i took from that fucking chore of a book i slogged through. i've just ditched a haruki murakami, everyone raves about him but i didn't like it at all. who cares what anyone else thinks!? it's my life
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410,721 |
Well *technically* Robin doesn't exist in the Nolanverse. It's just that a guy named Robin got picked to become the next Batman. Also you never see him actually do any crime-fighting.
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What's with you people? Don't you know your shit if you're gonna pretend to be a nerd? Anyway, I'm gonna go Bat-nerd on ya in this Abrams Star Wars thing, which is not at all a waste of time. John Blake is the Omni-Robin. A composite of the three primary Robins: Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, and Tim Drake. He's a cop like Dick, a hothead like Jason, and figured out Batman's identity like Tim. He is, for all intents and purposes, Robin to Nolan's Batman. Hell, they even ride in a car together and discuss their next move. Which, as Batman tropes go with Robin, pretty damn paramount.
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410,722 |
If 'lesser writers' can write women better than them, how are they lesser writers?
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Game of thrones is amateurish because of the excellent female characters didn't ya know.
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410,723 |
While this is true, the only reasonable assumption is to assume that everything that is closed source has a back door.
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Apple uses AES encryption which is a symmetric-key algorithm. This means once the data is encrypted it can only be decrypted by using the same password that was used to encrypt it. The only possible way Apple could decrypt your data would be if they had your password. Which would ruin the entire purpose of encrypting your data in the first place.
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410,724 |
Exactly this. I don't care of it's wildly different from the book or not - I just don't want them to waste my time on pointless dialogues and action scenes that go on forever. The fist two movies could have been done in 90 minutes easily, instead of the 4 or 5 hours we got.
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And the action scenes are often gore porn or idiotic. In the second movie, it really felt like they were just ways to show us yet one more way to creatively kill an orc. And that fight with Smaug was beyond ridiculous. Of course, let's burn the dragon with molten! Because naturally heat will have an effect on a dragon! Such a waste of time.
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410,725 |
> are you implying that people who adopt puppies via this method are more likely to be unsuitable than someone who acquires via other methods? Shelters and responsible sellers usually go through screening of applicants. Many dogs at shelters are there because of mistreatment by previous owners.
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yeah but uber is working with shelters on this right? you'd HAVE to assume that they would still follow some kind of process. it's not like uber just went out and bought 5,000 puppies wholesale and is going to drive around town handing them out like turkeys on christmas
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410,726 |
Visual Masturbation? Comic book fantasy style? It is kind of hard to call it something. Would you put Sin City in this category as well?
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Yeah, I think so. There's another one that seems more fitting with Samuel L. Jackson, also directed by Frank Miller, I believe.
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410,727 |
God something about that Taxi Driver card that is so amazing...
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The way the taxi cab drives past and leaves a trail of smoke and title card. Scorsese really knows how to create an opening. Raging Bull is another great example.
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410,728 |
Is it really? Because I was at home and Google thought I was in a hospital half way across the city
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It is if you got everything enabled such as wifi, data etc... Google's cars pretty much collect every signal they pass through so using all that in combination with inaccurate shitty civilian GPS receivers leads to pretty accurate outcome.
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410,729 |
Really enjoying this revival of late-90s, early-00s style emo/punk. I just saw these guys at Bunbury, did not disappoint.
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The front Bottoms are rad, but i would not characterize them as any of the things you described.
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410,730 |
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey. I love the writing - his descriptions of the Oregon Coast and the weather that slowly infiltrates every aspect of life, enough to make someone go crazy. The story is really great as well. A stubborn logging family, a town on strike, a long-lost brother. Everything seems to be on a collision course at a slow yet unstoppable rate.
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Great novel. I once had a phone conversation with Ken Kesey's daughter in law while high on prescription Vicodin (I had a really bad sunbrun).
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410,731 |
I don't celebrate Christmas, and also hate Christmas music, but I have a Christmas tradition: as soon as I wake up on the 25th, I tune into my city's jazz radio station. They play those awesome old Christmas songs by people like Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, the Vince Guaraldi Trio (e.g. the Charlie Brown soundtrack), etc. all day.
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You enjoy Christmas in a way that most people who celebrate it have lost. Your tradition is very refreshing!
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410,732 |
Heaney's translation of Beowulf is abominable. FWIW I've read the text in the original Anglo-Saxon along with a number of translations. R.M. Liuzza's translation is my favorite.
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I've only read the OE and Heaney's (side by side, the teacher had us read the OE aloud in class and the translation at home). What do you dislike about it?
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410,733 |
It's like fusion power is deliberately trying to be expensive. All those curved magnets... geez...
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Compared to other types of technology, fusion has been significantly neglected when it comes to funding. The longer it continues to proceed underfunded, the slower and more costly advancements become. However, it's still advancing relatively quickly. Fusion technology is following the path of Moore's Law for Technology growth, even while significantly underfunded.
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410,734 |
Yeah and there some people pretty much only listens to one band (glances at Rush fans)
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Yes? Looking to shit on my musical tastes that range from Rush to Duran Duran to Brian Setzer, Miles Davis, Trivium, Fall Out Boy, Bruce Springsteen, etc etc? Go right ahead!
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410,735 |
Not only does Card have kooky views, he's actively involved with imposing them on others through his high-level involvement in NOM (until recently). It's the difference between a person who disapproves of others eating meat, and someone who steals meat from supermarkets so meat-eaters can't access it. That said, I do think it's possible to separate his work from his personal life, but it makes it a lot harder.
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No. Stealing meat from supermarkets is illegal and directly hurts the business owners. Publicly advocating for your ideological position is legal and doesn't directly hurt anyone.
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410,736 |
No. Its a series with eleven books before Sanderson started writing featuring thousands of characters and hundreds of events and concepts of varying importance. They do not stand alone at all.
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Exactly, OP you need to read Jordan's series first. Otherwise you won't understand the Sanderson series.
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410,737 |
Once it gets there he'll have to assemble it himself.
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Would it come with clear plastic bricks for making Lego tears out of?
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410,738 |
How is Mogworld? It's been on my Amazon wish list for ages after seeing it recommended on here a few times, but I've never got round to actually buying the thing. Worth a read?
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If you like: A. Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation series. B. Fantasy MMOs. or C. Comedy books and video games. I'm pretty sure you'll get a kick out of it.
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410,739 |
Actually.. Uber/Lyft were doing their own background checks. The city wanted to run their own additional checks and then charge Uber/Lyft for the pleasure. Uber/Lyft felt that this was an unnecessary expense since they would simply be looking at the same data over again. > On Saturday, Austin voted 56% to 44% against Proposition 1, which would have allowed ride-hailing companies to continue using their own background check systems. The city will now go ahead with plans to require fingerprint background checks and other regulations.
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> since they would simply be looking at the same data over again. There's absolutely nothing in that article to support that claim.
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410,740 |
What about just a page or two here and there ? In the time it takes to lurk... :)
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My problem is that 1-2 pages is NEVER enough - maybe 1-2 chapters. :)
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410,741 |
Master and Commander. Glory. Saving Private Ryan. The Wind Also Rises. Grave of the Fireflies. Schindler's List. Off the top of my head these are the most accurate for their entertainment/quality. Master and Commander is definitely the most popcorn munching good time of the bunch. Edit: Also Argo. Edit 2: ok, maybe not Argo for accuracy. I still like it.
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Argo is not accurate. It completely rewrites the scenario to credit different people than those who actually did all the work.
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410,742 |
In this article they are talking about "marvel movies" eg movies made my Marvel Studios, eg the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Those movies do not include Spiderman, Xmen, Fantastic Four, or Kickass.
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*Yeeeeeeeeeees* I'm very aware of this, but its **STILL** a Marvel character, and I'm counting it.
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410,743 |
Some of my favorite audio books that I have read are celebrity memoirs when the author reads them. It often sounds like they are just talking to you, having a conversation. In this category I have read: Bossypants by Tina Fey. Yes Please by Amy Poehler. You're Never Weird on the Internet (almost) by Felicia Day. Insatiable-Porn:A Love Story by Asa Akira. The Art of Asking by Amanda Palmer
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Then I recommend Gumption by Nick Offerman. I am not sure I would like the book but the audio version was top notch.
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410,744 |
By that definition most ads are in fact spam as I never chose to watch them at all.
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> By that definition most ads are in fact spam as I never chose to watch them at all. But you choose to accept them in return for a free service. For example an online news paper that's ad supported, or Reddit. This Samsung "stunt" (read: idiocy) is spam as it's not supporting any free services you use while seeing the ad.
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410,745 |
4 million concurrent viewers on the falcon heavy test launch isn't enough?
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Interesting. You're suggesting Tesla reaches out to their customers sufficiently without buying national TV ads. And you think this isn't true of Chevy and the Bolt how? Chevy has about 30,000 Bolts to sell a year. They've managed to sell them. Why spend more on advertising if you don't have more product to sell?
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410,746 |
Better and/or flexible batteries, along with flexible electronics in general. Soon you may be able to roll up your smartphone/tablet.
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Batteries have been the bottleneck (well not 100% correct but in general) for mobile devices as far as I can remember.
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410,747 |
The bags on head scene is one of the funnier moments in any movie I have seen recently.
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That scene pulled me completely out of the film. Way to slapstickish.
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410,748 |
I really disliked the first third. The dog just seemed so cheesy to me. It was cornballin' times one thousand. I didn't like it. I didn't mind Riddick's preparation but just about everything involved the dog turned me off the movie. The second part with Riddick hunting them was pretty good, though the dialogue made it feel like a B-grade Syfy movie at times. The third part was decent. But the opening, I hated it. I felt awkward watching it.
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I just commented above about the same thing - the dog aspect ruined it for me.
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410,749 |
I would actually recommend "This Side of Paradise" for the next-best Fitzgerald book, and his short fiction ("Tales of the Jazz Age" on gutenberg) is amazing. One thing you have to keep in mind is that if you're looking for a similarly tight and controlled narrative you're kinda out of luck. Fitzgerald's earlier books are much bigger and more experimental than Gatsby, often to their detriment. Fitzgerald was working on a novel before he died, "The Last Tycoon," however it's unfinished. It would have been brilliant. May I recommend "Miss Lonelyhearts" and "Day of the Locust" by Nathaniel West, one of Fitzgerald's friends? They're a lot more surreal than Fitzgerald, almost like Gatsby on LSD, but they're amazing.
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*Day of the Locust* is amazing, and I'll second the incomplete *Tycoon* as being well worth your time. I don't think Fitzgerald wrote a bad book. Although he's an immensely popular author. I think he's a little underrated as a writer. Why *This Side of Paradise* isn't more widely studied for its insights (and its role in the creation of) modern youth culture is beyond me. If you're at all interested in Fitzgerald as a person, then all of his work is essential - all writing is autobiographical in a sense, but it's particularly true of him, I think.
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410,750 |
Google is in trouble in here, because their Chrome browser started to have super leaky memory, while processing Javascripts in the background. 4 GB for processing stupid Java-scrips is way out of hand Google.
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Are you sure it's truly leaking? Chrome has always been about caching things in memory so that it can serve content as fast as possible.
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410,751 |
And Jason's miserly plans paid off, because he referred to his stash in post-Metallica interviews as "squillions".
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I don't get it. Does this mean he is better off now? And do you have any of those interviews? I'd like to read about it too and his frugalness paying off or not.
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410,752 |
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” - *Kurt Vonnegut* (Mother Night) “I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.” - *Charles Bukowski* (Ham on Rye)
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Every time I see anything by Bukowski, I end up reading this short story: [The most Beautiful Woman in Town]
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410,753 |
Who's to say that Pandora is not being played over a computer's speakers to a room full of people? Just nit picking, but you can't assume that each play is to a single user.
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Very true - /u/NotWrongJustAnAsshol made a point about this. However, I don't have the statistics on how many listeners there are to the average Pandora stream. If there are 10, that obviously changes the numbers quite a bit, if there are 1.05, not so much.
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410,754 |
Pretty Lights is not even close to being in the same conversation as guys like Avicii and Skrillex in terms of their having brought EDM into the mainstream.
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Agreed, just saying that levels did not "start it all"
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410,755 |
> "Just because you can self-publish a book, doesn't mean you *should* self-publish a book." This should be the official self-publishing mantra.
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I'm trying to get it to catch on. I say it to everyone I meet that tells me they are thinking of self-publishing a book.
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410,756 |
You said it. If his books are anything like his responses to these questions I don’t think I’d make it more than one sentence. I come across enough pretentious people on accident, I don’t need to expose myself to it.
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I like Will Self :/ Caveat: haven't read any of the Potters.
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410,757 |
Quick que. I watched all 4 seasons. I want to read books aswell. Do you think I will enjoy the books ?
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yes. i have always loved reading, but they were some of the best books i read. the show may take some of it away, but it is a different medium
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410,758 |
Just a small warning have tagged NSFW as the video is fairly graphic.
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Yeah, the video is a bit WTF, but my gosh that song is good.
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410,759 |
The monsters represented parts of himself...as a child becoming an adult, he is fighting the darker parts of his psyche, the things that want to "eat" him
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I understood the allegory of facets of Max's personality bring shown as Monsters, just think the violence was over the top way too often. Such as one beast having their arm brutally torn off and then blamed by the abuser that it was his own fault; much like an abusive husband or father claims others gave him no choice but to be abusive. I got the inner Monster concept, I just don't think it worked for the film.
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410,760 |
Because it's software, already widely available, related to a specific platform which is known to be struggling in the market. If Nintendo were releasing Mario Bros on Xbox One and PS4, then it might belong here. It's game news. There's nothing about this which relates to technology. Edit: your account is two days old and you've posted dozens and dozens of links, like a spam bot fishing for that sweet karma lol
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You're getting down voted and I don't know why. If /r/tech got spammed with gaming news then it wouldn't be /r/tech. Plus this sub was made because /r/technology had shit moderation.
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410,761 |
Kindle. The paperwhite (I think that is what is it called) has a backlight which makes reading in the dark easy. There aren't many issues with formatting, but you can transfer ebooks to your kindle using a program called Calibre as well.
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iPads and phones are backlit. Kindles are frontlit meaning they're MUCH easier on the eyes.
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410,762 |
For £5,743.815 it's gotta be a bloody big box
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no. you know what they say: it's all about location!
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410,763 |
I wanted to try out being unreasonably mean on the internet and it didn't feel as good as I thought it would.
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That actually seemed pretty reasonably mean. Unreasonably mean would have probably involved telling him to kill himself because you disagree with him.
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410,764 |
All of those plays are from his last album. So damn good.
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First time listening to it now - I like it!
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410,765 |
their website is fucking trash. All it shows is a handful of morons interviewing anyone they can get ahold of about stupid shit.
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Just another example of the music industry being completely out of touch with people today. Who has cable anymore other than 40+ year olds?
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410,766 |
Thanks for the compliments. I've written a screenplay, The Griff, which got turned into a pretty aweful graphic novel. The process was fun, but it was a spec script, so I didn't have people telling me what to do. I haven't worked in stand-up, but I'm definitely influenced by stand-up comedians. I don't think you can learn comedy, but I think you can learn comic timing, and most of what I know and use, I learned from good stand-ups. I'm working on a play adaptation of Fool right now, so we'll see how my stuff holds up in front of a live audience.
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I'm no expert, but I'm sure Fool would work very well on stage.
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410,767 |
What if part of our progress is fixing those issues, too?
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What if it's driving ourselves to extinction to make way for AI? Or if it's to ruin this Earth so badly that we spread across the galaxy and ruin it too?
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410,768 |
Just like every mail you send has your return address so does every packet has your IP address.
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I have sent a few letters in my life (many years ago) but never ever put my return address on them... to my knowledge they always arrived, even internationaly....
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410,769 |
I hope they told you with respect. I was at a services ordering a Burger King after working 48 hours at a festival when my mum phoned me. Not really the best way to be told life changing news.
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It was handled pretty well. My parents sat me and my sister down and explained what was going on. That was the only time my father ever displayed any sort of tact
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410,770 |
Why not? Practically everything else they say to Fischer up till that point is a lie.
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Cobb says it to the rest of his team after Fischer is already out. One of the other team members says "Having Fischer go up against his own subconscious... brilliant!" What they tell Fischer is the lie that he is going into real-Browning's dream. In fact, they were all going into Fiscer's subconscious.
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410,771 |
The last scene in the movie, when Gyllenhall and Monaghan are walking around that big crazy sculpture. It's been a couple of years since I watched the movie, so I don't remember everything about it, but I remember really disliking it and thinking that there would be absolutely nothing lost by just excising it from the film.
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It was showing him continuing to live a life, and I think they were still reading some of his voiceover email to the LT
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410,772 |
Towers of Midnight was great, but Memory of Light was just too much battle and not enough story for me. I finished it and my predominant feeling was that I wasn't totally disappointed but also not blown away. It ticked the boxes and tied up the loose ends, but that's it for me.
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To be fair, with a dead author, this is still better closure than many series.
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410,773 |
I think he meant that the documentary is rare, and not that the YouTube video is rare. Meaning YouTube is one of the only places to find it.
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Yeah I get it, just one of those things that pops out at me. "Rarely seen" "rarely shown on tv" make more sense to me but who gives a shit, back to the Bond!
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410,774 |
I'm still confused how all these IOT devices are accessible at all. I would have assumed nearly 100% of such devices in homes are sitting behind standard consumer routers hiding everything behind NAT and now allowing arbitrary inbound ports like telnet and ssh to pass all the way through to devices on the local network. Edit: I see the article below blames uPNP, but then it goes on to talk about how the devices are being accessed via telnet and SSH, but I struggle to believe devices are setting up uPNP inbound port forwarding for SSH and telnet. I mean, I really don't want to believe that because that's monstrously stupid.
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I remember hearing some rumors a while back that UPnP can be exploited to arbitrarily map external ports to internal ip:port combinations. Of course, that assumes that you know know which IPs the internal devices have, but mapping SSH and telnet to all IPs in the 192.168.1.1/24 range would probably net you a lot of results.
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410,775 |
Where did you hear that? I only have anecdotes but everyone I know that works there enjoys it well enough.
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What I've heard from a cousin that works in Arizona and some people I know in New Mexico. Granted that second hand information but I'd also consider it pretty honest as you're talking to someone who isn't involved.
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410,776 |
But they're not looking for people who look like the ghostbusters-actors, they're looking for people who look like they did 30 years ago. Rather than stand-ins for promotional material, wouldn't it make more sense to presume this is for a possible flashback scene or photograph props?
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Yeah that's pretty clearly stated in the callout. I'm guessing DannyDesert (Daniel Baldwin) didn't actually read any of the text, just skimmed it and came to his conclusion. He's still hoping for a sequel to Attack of the 50 Foot Woman.
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410,777 |
Skylake is made by the Israelis, so there is some pretty high hope that there will be actual gains this time.
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I've heard they are going back to 1:1 on the cpu instead of the 1:2 they had for broadwell and 1:1.5 for Haswell and Ivy. That means we could see a very nice improvement in ipc.
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410,778 |
DO YOU HAVE THE MARS ATTACKS DEMOS? WOULD YOU BE WILLING TO EXCHANGE SOME RARE MISFITS SHIT? (Sorry for the caps, I'm very excited)
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I only really deal in Danzig era stuff, but I do have the Mars Attacks Demos from Cuts from the Crypt. Thats what your after right?
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410,779 |
This isn't true. Books come back into print all the time because of demand for the material. Second third fourth editions etc. If everything is in a database and accessible the book will never get reissued.
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I'm not sure about that -- suppose the work gets looked at online, a lot. It seems like, based on the deal, the publisher could then either a) set a price with Google that would reflect that demand or b) put the book back in print, and Google would have to pull the whole text.
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410,780 |
**spoilers** ...Setsuko is starving. Seita returns to find that she has made onigiri ("rice balls") from mud, and put marbles into her tin of candy drops. She lies down to take a nap, and never awakens. 火垂るの墓/*Grave of the Fireflies* Edit: [Ghibli images of Setsuko]
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Oh man. He saved up money to feed her a full meal and she dies...Then it rains ..on the food.
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410,781 |
I am not afraid of normalisation, no. I read books that are... "unconventional". And they made my skin creep, even though I thought they were very well written.
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I think that that is the point, i love that type of art that forces me to reevaluate my moral system, and movies like Die welle that force you to rethink what you thought about humanity
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410,782 |
What impact did Lamb have on you? I definitely enjoyed the book, but it just seemed like pointless humor with no real message. I'm curious if there's something I missed.
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I'm a moderately religious person, so I came at it from that perspective, and Lamb actually increased my faith somewhat. It presents a completely irreverent look at the life of Christ from the time he was a child up until he was crucified (why did nobody keep a journal about him?!), and yeah, there were some parts I didn't exactly enjoy - it kinda bogged down in the middle - but the impact for me was mostly the end, especially Mary Magdalene's line, paraphrased, "He came back, you know." For all the potty and sexual humor, the end really hit me hard, based on just those 3 words. "He came back."
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410,783 |
As far as fantasy goes, I *hate* reading people singing. It was my biggest pet peeve about the "Lord of the Rings" series: the fellowship is singing every other page. I can't make out a rhythm or melody through text alone, so I'm just reading words and trying to establish a beat of my own. Then I watch "Game of Thrones" and realize that my version of "Bear and a Maiden Fair" was completely off, and I almost have to re-learn it when reading.
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Why would you think your version was "off" or that you'd have to change how you read it in your head? Many songs have multiple melodies. Sometimes I incorporate the cinematic version of the song into my reading, but sometimes I stubbornly cling to my own version because I like it better. There really is no right or wrong.
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410,784 |
I've only read The Redbreast, and really enjoyed it. Would this be a sufficient introduction to the characters and style of the Harry Hole novels to read the Snowman?
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THW snowman is the 6th part of the series, the first one is "the bat". I recommend to start with it, but if you liked the red feast you will surely read them all. I enjoyed them really much (:
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410,785 |
So was the ending a paradox? None of the could have happened if the future didnt happen, right?
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Dan murrell thought the same thing. [This kinda helps. He talks to a screenwriter from the movie]
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410,786 |
interesting. DOwnloading it for later while I eat a nice meal. Always love Brendan Gleeson's acting. My favorite of his films is "The general". Any others I should know about?
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He was in a couple major movies: * Gangs of New York (all around awesome) * Safe-House (small part but he's good) * Kingdom of Heaven (all-around awesome, small part) * Troy (all-around awesome, small part) * Braveheart (if you don't know this one I am sad for you) I honestly haven't seen the smaller movies except "The General"
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410,787 |
Holy shit, my keyboard is gross. This is the truth of working in dark windowless rooms.
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I can't begin to explain how much I am chomping at the bit for [The Box Trolls] to come out…
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410,788 |
Mel Gibson IS mad Max, now more than ever. They missed a huge opportunity not having Mel reprise his role. It would of added another layer to the movie, if you have read the comic Old Man Logan - re Wolverine as an old guy, or Millers Old Batman you know how amazing this would of been.
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He was going to be in fury road in the 90s. The whole thin was that max being an old man wasn't ever supposed to be part of the story.
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410,789 |
They keep trying to use it as a tricky plot device. Like...oh...here's something bad happening that seems utterly unbelievable....oh yeah it's probably loki again. The bit with the hand was clever, but they really can't get away with it again.
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It's not a plot device if it's how the character is. He uses tricks and illusions for combat or manipulation. It's like saying there's Loki again wearing his green costume with a horned helmet again.
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410,790 |
That's the beauty of movies! I have strange movie tastes though, I'll be the first to admit it. I loved the prequels and I even like The Green Lantern movie. My judgement may be for shit. :-)
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I'm glad you're willing to put your opinions out there! Unfortunately, the opinions you have are going to get you a lot of hate. Keep on being yourself!
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410,791 |
If you love your siblings you want them to improve, so they don't go bumbling through life thinking dumbass shit. If his sister expressed that opinion in front of anyone who didn't drop out of high school she'll get laughed out of the room
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*Her sister. Yeah, but there’s a constructive way to do that. If you call her a dumbass (or a derivative), she’ll just get pissed off. Right, dumbass? Instead, if she has a conversation with her sister, she can iron out why the animosity exists. If you get someone talking long enough, they’ll spill their guts. Especially to someone they’re close to.
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410,792 |
Goddammit, my phone is fucked up. What I meant to say was this is my favorite album, but I still feel maladroit is underrated.
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Maladroit is the sneaky third best Weez album that nobody realizes.
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410,793 |
Network engineer here: 1. It's expensive, difficult, and time consuming. Google has so far been basically cherry-picking the easiest places that are begging them to come in. Kansas city helping you to come deploy is not the same as the unmitigated nightmare of trenching fiber through NYC. The closest major competitor would be Verizon FIOS, and they spent about $20 Billion rolling that out to a deployment that looks like this: 2. Google Fiber never really intended to "expand rapidly". They said from the beginning this was mostly dipping their toes in the water in order to prod the existing ISPs to compete better, rather than "defeating" those ISPs. - In other words this article is exactly what they were hoping for.
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> Google has so far been basically cherry-picking the easiest places that are begging them to come in. This allows them to get through the permitting process with ease and with little or no fees, which for people that have never done construction can take years and tons of money.
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410,794 |
Blame HDMI and it's patent holders. Displayport is awesome and should have been the defacto standard YEARS ago.
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My only beef with display port is that for some reason I have horrible luck getting linux to read edid data over it. I have to hook it up over dvi, pull the mode line, and reconfigure xorg manually just to get display port to work right. This has been multiple monitors from multiple brands, multiple gfx cards and multiple flavors of Linux. I can only conclude it's some non-standard quirk about how dp is implemented in hardware
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410,795 |
Final Fantasy 7 OST. Best video game ever made as well.
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upvoted. Though I'd put Castlevania SotN's soundtrack in there too.
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410,796 |
That Polonius you speak of? Everything that character says is to be regarded as utter bullshit. It amuses me when people quote "First, to thine own self be true" as though it were some great wisdom. Might as well just recite "I didn't pay attention in English class" and then nod sagely.
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No somebody said it to Osric I think? Cos Osric was trying to talk very ornately to everyone. Also I think Polonius' advice is solid but I think the comedy is in the fact that he isn't taking his own advice, cos its generic good advice that he just parrots.
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410,797 |
I disagree. Tool has had an impact on a lot of bands I'm my opinion.
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That's very vague and essentially not saying much. The only thing I would say that would make them remembered are their odd time signatures, polyrhythms, and maybe lyrics. Maynard is a great singer also, but I don't think people will classify the band on the same level as Mozart and Beethoven. In their defense, it would be incredibly hard to attain their status, so much so that I don't think attaining their status can be done in music, instead it must be done in some other art form or underground movement. I would say Wu Tang has a better chance than Tool.
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410,798 |
Right aliens mastering interstellar travel no problem. Can't make a waterproof suit?
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or... they can't find a world to invade that isn't 70% covered by water?
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410,799 |
He's awful. Chevy (and frankly all GM) commercials are so bright and smug it makes me sick. Buick is the worst offender because they throw in the worst pop songs they can find with the peppy smugness.
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The way the fucking Mazda guy talks drives me up the god damn wall. It feels like he's talking to a bunch of children, his enunciation is so incredibly grating.
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