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411,500 | After reading that, does anybody feel like famous musicians have much greater chances of dying in plane crashes than regular people? Edit: Typo. | They tend to fly in private jets so they can get between cities faster (and not have to travel on a bus), and their pilots are idiots who decide to do blow just before flying. Regular people tend to fly in jets piloted by responsible people, and jets that carry 100+ passengers. |
411,501 | I'm close to finishing the second Kingkiller chronicles book, dreading the thought of waiting for the third. I'm looking for a similar fantasy adventure book with a splash of romance if possible! | Do the Kingkiller Chronicles have "a splash of romance", I'm about to start them. |
411,502 | American's prefer Coke, not because its better (even if I think it is), but because of marketing. "This is it!", "The Real Thing, Baby". Apple does that here with images of Bono and Gandhi and a air of condescending superiority which matches the typical American psychology. | > Apple does that here with images of Bono and Gandhi. Neither of which they have ever used to advertise the iPhone or, indeed, used at all in the last nine years and seventeen years respectively. Indeed, most of the iPhone advertising has been a couple of disembodied hands using the phone. That's it. "This is what it looks like and this is how you use it. Do you want one?" (They've moved away from that more recently, of course.) |
411,503 | VR? I hardly argue that Pokémon Go is popular because of the tiny VR aspect. And when you look at Ingress it has very little to do with being a location-based game. The main factor why Pokémon Go is such a success is because of Pokémon. The exact same game without Pokémon would've never been anywhere near such a success. VR might still be a huge trend but I don't see Pokémon Go as an indication for that. | A huge fraction of people playing Pokemon Go are people who never played Pokemon before. Heck, most people over 35 |
411,504 | Fuck man I can't help it I'm super excited for this film. Huge Indy fan. The original trilogy are some of my favorite movies ever (Raiders is in a class of it's own though). Spielberg probably knows he let fans down with KOTC, and I hope they send out Indy on a high note. | So am I the only one who dislike the second film? Maybe I am just too sensitive, but to me it comes of as incredibly backwards and ignorant in its representation of women and Indians, like some scenes in that movie makes me cringe. The first and third movie are both a lot of fun though |
411,505 | I recently got into my forties but forget. I just feel younger. In the last six weeks I've had two people die of the flu, one more in a car accident, and a fourth we're waiting on the autopsy. All within 4 years younger or older than me. All were better health, wieghed less, ate better. This is just another one that is starting to freak me out. | Life is incredibly short and nearly all of us waste it. |
411,506 | How do you feel about your new song ft Juan Magan? | I'm super stoked! It's called *Echa Pa Aca* and I'm really excited to try out a record in the latin genre. My fans have been asking for one for a long time. |
411,507 | Having not seen this trailer (don't want to be spoiled anymore), what pushed you over the edge as opposed to the past marketing material? | lots of action, a few more plot points revealed, some great emotional moments. It hit all the right feels pretty much. |
411,508 | Nice Ender's Game reference. Edit: TIL "ansible" was around before Ender's Game but that's where I know it from | I used that as my ssid for years. Sadly it didn't increase my wireless speed any. |
411,509 | I did not even think about this. I won't feel so badly about loosey bananas, now. Thanks! | I buy the individual bananas because I can never eat more than 2-3 before they start getting too soft. |
411,510 | The Road is scifi? I mean, technically it takes place in the future, but nothing of it is futuristic. | Dystopian movies is a pretty blatant sci-fi subgenre. What else would you call it? An adventure movie? |
411,511 | Change the YYYY-MM-DD to play along. Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes. | I had to put the URL back to make it work, then navigate to the hot billboard again. was the link that worked for me. |
411,512 | The beautiful score in the trailer is [Confidential Music - View from the Voyager] | I just realized that the score from the main trailer is actually from Sunshine... |
411,513 | He's a pop artist, most pop songs nowadays have a ton of writers. That's not a knock on Drake, I love me some Drake. It's just weird people want to dismiss his talent when no one can dominate the charts like he can right now. Since we're in an Eminem thread, "But if the only reason I blowed is 'cause I'm white though. Why don't every other white rapper sell what I sold?" A lot of people would love to do what Drake does, including his ghost writers, it's not as easy as some people would have you believe. | He was inspired by JayZ to be a rapper, tried, but realized becoming a pop star is far easier. Pop stars just need charisma and a label willing to spend money on production. |
411,514 | What a bunch of noise. Who listens to this garbage? | People who enjoy hip hop and unorthodox instrumentals. Seems pretty obvious. |
411,515 | Or what about the people who spend half the concert going back and forth because they need a beer or a smoke or have to pee. I hate them and the people who feel the need to have very loud conversations (especially during slower/softer/less popular songs) while the band is playing. | Yeah, and if you need to leave to do whatever, don't fucking expect your place to be "saved" in a standing room only place. You leave because you just have to have another beer, you get in the back. Ugh. I've had many a rage moment at concerts. It's not like I'm against drinking, but I drive 4-8 hours and spend shit tons of money on ebay for good seats to go to concerts to see the band, you know, the people up on stage, not to be distracted by some shitfaced attention whore who slithered 15 minutes from their hole in the ground to have yet another drunken weekend thinking the world revolves around them. |
411,516 | Settle a bet. Which one would you say is more Sci-Fi: Gravity or Sharknado? | I haven't seen Sharknado so I couldn't tell you what kind of high concept sci-fi rigamarole it involves. |
411,517 | Because of the previous clue. "See through the eyes of death" or whatever it was. They had already dechipered the dante's hell picture. | So they took the mask for its clue to help Elizabeth find the virus, but Langdon got kidnapped and had his memory borked, then he had to retrace his steps and realized he took it and hid it, then he had to find it again to continue the search but not realize until later Elizabeth was even around or that he was helping her. I guess that makes sense. |
411,518 | It's just a stacked year. Redford, Hanks, and Isaac didn't make the cut either. Worthy performances were going to be left out no matter what, unfortunately. | Great point on Redford, he was amazing. Agreed. People were going to be left out. |
411,519 | I felt exactly the same way last month. It gets better. I immediately started to read a new book because I was so freaking depressed it scared me. I read "All the lights we cannot see". I don't think about "A little life" anymore, but when I look at my bookshelf, it's the first book that catches my eye every single time. | Because for a few short chapters Willem and. Jude are happy. Tbh the thought of JBs painting of the two of them mid conversation haunts me. I finished the book yesterday. |
411,520 | I dunno. I won't say that you're wrong, you could certainly be right. But wouldn't you say that these people are always willing to throw allies under the bus if it looks like they could advance? Saying that he's loyal to former employers seems silly. He's only as loyal as much as he believes he has something to get from them in the future. | >He's only as loyal as much as he believes he has something to get from them in the future. which if he repeals any of the laws they worked hard and spent a lot of money to get passed, he would have *nothing* from them in the future, which is why he would never do it. |
411,521 | Holy crap... I need to make this obligatory comment to revisit this awesomeness | I see people say this all the time. You know that's what the "Save" link is for, right? |
411,522 | I think he came up with fighter of the nightman didn't he? | Nope, that was Charlie. If you watch the episode where they come up with it--the name of which escapes me, but it's when Charlie shuts himself in his apartment in the dark--you can see the "development" of the song. |
411,523 | Peter Jacksons King Kong. Me and a friend were halfway through it, getting bored and hating almost everything in it and we decided to go to Wolf Creek the next theater over. So glad we did that instead. | It was the insect scene that did it for me. |
411,524 | * Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway parts I & II. * Melvins - Nude with Boots. * Baroness - Red Album. * Bathory - Bathory. * Bison B.C. - Dark Ages. * Black Tusk - Passage Through Purgatory. * Clutch - Strange Cousins from the West. * ISIS - Oceanic. * Kylesa - Spiral Shadow & Self-titled. * Mastodon - Blood Mountain. * Municipal Waste - The Art of Partying. * Skeletonwitch - Beyond the Permafrost. * Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain. * Valient Thorr - Legend of the World. * Wolfpack/Wolfbrigade - Lycanthro Punk. * Zoroaster - Matador. | The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway could be my favorite album. Absolutely incredible. |
411,525 | That was insane. Thanks for linking it. He really, really seems to wish he was Michael Jackson. | Like.. STILL... he STILL does. That's the thing. 1992 he's on the Howard Stern show acting like something that defies explanation. Fine. You're young. You're dumb. Ok, I can try my best to look the other way. But... this was in 2013! gtfo no way. |
411,526 | And so were the victims. You might as well point out that the attackers each had two arms. | Did you miss the part where the attack took place because the people in the venue were celebrating during Ramadan? This attack was conducted in the name of Islam, any way you spin it. |
411,527 | From the article: > The device also reads a QR code printed on the back of each produce pack and checks the source against an online database to ensure the contents haven’t expired or been recalled, the person said. The expiration date is also printed on the pack. | I really hope someone builds a QR scanner for water soon... I never have any idea when my water is going to expire and it drives me mad. |
411,528 | It just reminded me why reading the book before watching the film is rarely a good idea. | Sometimes films are great. The Green Mile film is considerably better than the book(s) for example. I also really liked the film of _Perks of Being a Wallflower_. |
411,529 | I think at the start of the year we *hoped* to see Arcade Fire, Daft Punk, Kanye West and Vampire Weekend in the top 5, I don't think they all earned that high a spot. I loved Modern Vampires of the Weekend (edit: I mean City) though, so I'm not arguing with that one. And of course Paul McCartney is in there to remind us this is a Rolling Stone list. | Spot on. This is a mediocre list from people who are required to talk up records no matter how bad they are. Reflektor is easily Arcade Fire's weakest album. But then again, several RS writers loved King of Limbs, despite the fact that there are only like two decent songs on the entire album. It's never a surprise when RS writers overrate non-debut albums. |
411,530 | "Retina" is a complete handwave. Human vision varies enormously, not just between individuals, but across the surface of the retina itself. Colour resolution in the eye is much lower than brightness resolution, and both vary from one part of the retina to another. Anything in the general vicinity of 300ppi for a tablet or small notebook is fine. But there are aspects of human vision that go far beyond "retina" resolution thanks to clever image processing in the brain, so to fully match human vision you'd need to go up past 1000ppi. (Which is why Retina displays still use anti-aliasing.) | Anything past 250 looks indistinguishable to me. It amazes me someone can notice a distinction much beyond 300 let alone 1000. |
411,531 | Something about that scene is always unsettling to me. The music is cheerful but there's something going on visually that makes me slightly uneasy. I still can't figure out what it is. | It's the "first day of school" type vibe, you don't know what to expect. |
411,532 | Apparently it was a common pet name at the time, according to my cursory research. Not that Lovecraft wasn’t a racist, but the cat name is one of the less offensive examples of it considering its context. | There was a pretty good war movie called The Dam Busters that you never see aired because the dog was so unfortunately named. |
411,533 | Amazon didn't carry it, barnes and nobles didn't carry it, Powell's didn't carry it, Ebay wanted $100+ for the couple of auctions that had it. It's insane how much people are trying to sell it for. | I saw it going for 2 grand on some sites |
411,534 | I'm thinking (hoping maybe) that it could be Hoffman AND Phoenix as lead actor contenders. | Phoenix would have more of a chance of actually winning as supporting, though. |
411,535 | Yeah 9th Wonder killed this. Most producers whip up one track using samples from all 3 vinyls, this guy shows up and makes a banger for each record including a country and western single. | Pretty sure Black Milk did something similar. Pulled out like three beats and a hook from some really whack shit. |
411,536 | seen 7m3 at least ten times around sc. thanks for not sharing lucky. | My band is playing with them next month. The shows are in Kentucky I believe. If you can make it out, tell me you're from the internet and I'll give you a CD. ;) |
411,537 | You guys are posting this ironically, right? Nobody ACTUALLY believes this is really the ending of the ice fishing story, right? Right? | It isn't. Louis's just trolling. The ending to the story was exactly what Bradley Cooper's character guessed it would be the first time, and even on subsequent guesses. The purpose of the story is to show that Cooper's character is intelligent enough to figure this out, but is impetuous and will rush ahead without fully thinking things through and will also reject potential wisdom from others because he believes he is more clever than he actually is. There are other similar elements to the movie like this such as the perfume that Jenifer Lawrence's character has that is brought up from time to time. This supposed ending from Louis C.K. is just his blend of humor to make up something ridiculous. |
411,538 | But we respect the wishes and requests that they made when they were not dead. That's why wills are a thing. | I am pretty sure that wills are not merely respecting the dead persons wish. Wills have a very practical use of dividing the possessions of the deceased among those who are alive and thereby preventing any disputes among the living persons. Also, my point being that in the context of this post, publishing letters do not create any dispute within the world of living. Although I am not very sure that on which side I am in this issue, but wills can't be reasonably compared with "respect for the dead". |
411,539 | Let the right one in. 11/10 movie all day long. Must have seen it 10-20 times (which considering I have kids and struggle to find time to watch most films once) is really saying something. | Yep, its easily the best horror movie of the past decade. |
411,540 | Lots of Ben Howard stuff. I saw him live and it was brilliant. Notably are Small Things and End of the Affair. | I love Ben Howard. "I Forget Where We Were" and "The Wolves" are my favorites from him. |
411,541 | Thank you for bringing a breath of fresh air to this thread. I recently worked for a big tech company and, like you said, it's not that simple. All code is reviewed by multiple engineers and tested rigorously before shipping. It would take a massive cover-up for something to slip in from the company side. Now, manufacturing is a different story. I don't know much about how secure plants are. | Depends on the company I suppose. But I agree, in manufacturing or in transit is where I could see these type of attack vectors originating - but even in manufacturing I think that's a stretch since there are typically multiple quality checks in place to catch this kind of thing, but it's certainly more feasible than it being there by design. Interception in transit from the factory to the distributor is much more likely in my opinion, evidence for which does exist (look at Cisco). But I just don't see how this functionality could be designed in from the start without that information getting out. |
411,542 | I wasn't disputing recessions you knob. It was a sarcastic rhetoric on the bullshit you spewed. Gen movies reflect all sorts of bullshit. It irks me how dumb downed people are because of their obsession with irrelevant bullshit. This includes myself. Because instead of doing something constructive, here I am argueing with another fucking Reddit virgin whacking off in moms basement. | >–]SuperNovaDude 0 points 4 hours ago. >I want to bounce nickles off your hot ass and catch them with my mouth. lol wtf man? Who puts coins in their mouth? |
411,543 | Because there's a cost involved in development and deployment. Verizon has the largest coverage so the impetus for additional expenditure on wifi calling is much lower than it would be for t-mobile which has a much smaller coverage area. | It's also cheaper for T-Mobile to just add in VoLTE now as they build their network out. It was similar for AT&T as they finally upgraded different sections of their network. |
411,544 | May I ask why? Intel are pretty comfortably superior right now. | They're technologically fantastic, but have and continue to indulge in the shadiest business practices imaginable to man. Unless I need an absolute top end machine which does something that AMD simply cannot, I will not support Intel by buying their products. Their behaviour is amply clear even now. AMD had decent tablet chips (Temash) that would have destroyed Clover Trail Atoms, and every OEM held back on actually releasing a Temash tablet until the Bay Trail Atoms arrived and made Intel look better. Every OEM puts AMD's thin-and-light laptop chips into 1366x768 15.6" monsters and their tablet chips into thin-and-light laptops. I can imagine a few OEMs doing this, but when every last one does it, that looks like a conspiracy to me. |
411,545 | She was good, but let us cast away from the circlejerk and broaden those horizons with movies reddit doesn't post about everyday. Here's a couple of memorable child actor performances: * **Tatum O'Neal** in Paper Moon (easily my favorite and she won an oscar for her role at 10 years old): * **Emily Alyn Lind** in Enter the Void (gut wrenching performance): * **Natalie Portman** (an easy one here) in The Professional (or Leon): * **Abigail Breslin** in Little Miss Sunshine: * and let's not forget little **Christian Bale** in Empire of the Sun: | I wasn't trying to suggest that she was unique is her ability at that age, just that I found her performance impressive (particularly since that was her first and last role). Oh and I wasn't very impressed by Christian Bale in Empire of the Sun. He overacted quite a bit and his character was annoying as hell (though that may have been intentional). |
411,546 | No he's not right. I've been able to transfer funds between banks online for like 15 years with no fees. Also, services like Chase quick pay are not limited to Chase. Just like PayPal, you can link literally any bank account to it. | Just went into my wells Fargo app. Looks like I can only transfer between people linked/ signed up to the service. In oz, we can't send to any account and even use BPAY to pay any bill etc. |
411,547 | Ssh! Don't say Microsoft three times or a BSOD will appear! | The only way to banish the BSOD once it appears is to trick it into saying "Microsoft" backwards: tfosorciM |
411,548 | >They obviously have very sophisticated tastes in film. Because calling Wes Anderson's worst film underrated is REALLY being sophisticated as well. | >Because calling Wes Anderson's worst film is REALLY being sophisticated as well. Do you even English? |
411,549 | I like the feel and smell of a book. I often flip pages around trying to find a previous mention of a character or something. I know you can do that with an ebook but not as convenient. I like knowing if I drop a book I don't worry about its screen breaking etc. I like the idea of a company not being able to make my copy of 1984 disappear, which happened with one of those dumb ereader thingies. | > find a previous mention of a character or something. I know you can do that with an ebook but not as convenient. Wouldn't being able to search within the book make it *more* convenient? On an e-reader you can touch a character's name and have it search for all previous mentions of them, displaying little excerpts as it does so. |
411,550 | Can you imagine how awesome it would have been if tarentinos first choice to play the bear Jew, Adam Sandler, had been available? | Well Travolta was a pretty big joke when he was cast in Pulp Fiction. So who knows. I think with his direction it would have been fine and kind of an easy target to just say it would have been terrible just because it's Adam Sandler. BJ Novak being in it didn't take me out of it just because he was in the office. |
411,551 | (Southern) America and Russia sound like great buddy's on paper. | No, all you need is way too many Baptists and similar fearful repressed and repressive types. |
411,552 | Agreed, not sure if it's unpopular opinion as much as it is fact though. She just fit an ideal image for the fan base she represented, and had one or two catchy melodies. | Exactly! Though I do disagree, the downvotes are speaking for themselves here. It's an unpopular opinion alongside fact. And to bring it full circle, nothing she wrote herself stood the test of time. She was just a raspy voice, fitting the hippie niche for the time. |
411,553 | Shut the front door. I'm so glad I cancelled last week. And my student loans are deferred and Comcast canceled my last bill. Folks, I am living the dream. Edit: Now I can listen to the Welcome to Nightvale audiobook that is out and two other books on my wish list. I probably won't even cancel - I'll likely have a job by the end of the three months. | Loans are a problem for future you. Fuck that guy, live it up. |
411,554 | "excellent for very high-frequency applications, like Ethernet audio," I'm lost for words by the ammount of stupidity in that sentence. | I can stream a YouTube video of goats screaming at high sound frequencies Does that count? |
411,555 | But that's the point! Kidding. I read it when I was a teenager and then as an adult and on both occasions I couldn't relate to Holden in the least, maybe because I have never thought that the world was out to get me or that I'm a precious little prince that life owes him and deserves to be compensated from it. | That's probably why people don't like him, if you never feel like life is just shitting on you, Holden wouldn't be sympathetic. Whereas the people who relate have felt like him at some point. Regardless, he's an interesting character, and people will be debating about him for a long time. |
411,556 | fam fam fam fam fam fam fam fam fam fam | you'd know my fam is LIT if you bought my mixtape. no_punch_line more like no_chill |
411,557 | Oh Hello is really terrific. I urge anybody who gets the chance to see it do so. | I've been thinking about seeing it, how much of it is Improv? |
411,558 | [Hyperbole much?] While I am against perpetual copyright etc., they have a bit of a case for a form of royalties under the current system. I may not agree with it but that doesn't mean you can ignore the similarities between the songs. They should have tried to contact them prior and treat it as more of an homage than an original work and perhaps this whole thing wouldn't have happened. They were trying to engineer a mega-hit and using someone else's work as the template. When you do that you should probably cover your bases in the current climate. | Literally the only thing they have in common is that they are in the same time signature. The melody is completely different. The bassline is completely different. I guess they do share some similarities. They both have prominent... drums? I don't even like Robin Thicke but clearly this is a case of Gaye's talent-less, money grubbing family going for any cash grab they possibly can. If you want songs that ACTUALLY sound like other songs, see this post: Pay attention specifically to. Ed Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud" vs. Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get it On" Exact same bassline. Exact same beat. Why isn't he being sued. To me, this is far more obvious than Blurred lines. |
411,559 | Just replying to this at work so I can bookmark at home | You can save threads by clicking the save option at the top of the page for future reference if you're using RES. |
411,560 | I already knew the Deftones and QOTSA songs, so i figured you have good taste in music. Looked up Boards of Canada and it was interesting and not what I expected at all. I guess we'll see how it drives tomorrow on the way to work :) | BoC can be very hit or miss for the uninitiated! Here's a quick "best of" - Olson (possibly my favorite song *ever*) / Chinook / Satellite Anthem Icarus / Peacock Tail / Julie and Candy / 1969 / Dawn Chorus (first Boards song I ever heard, also PERFECT for driving) / Everything You Do Is A Balloon / Turquoise Hexagon Sun / Roygbiv / Rue the Whirl / Left Side Drive / Melissa Juice / Smokes Quantity. Enjoy! :) |
411,561 | I wonder about the market for HDMI stick-PCs; there's always the enthusiast who wants to do something relatively specialised on his TV and doesn't want to use a wired box like a Raspberry Pi, but that audience will never be large enough to sustain a product on Google or Intel scales. So then you're left with the customer who wants fully-functional Smart TV features — like email, browsing & streaming — but doesn't have a (Funcional enough) Smart TV; or the know-how to plug-in and use an Android box, Pi, etc. That seems like a really small audience, and getting smaller every year as people phase out older TVs. Am I missing some really obvious consumer function? | This is a great option for businesses running VDI and a nice wireless infrastructure. |
411,562 | Sample size way too small. Kendrick is good, but good at less things. Drake has done rap, singing, soo many different styles of beats, diss tracks...the whole idea that makes music great is how many humans can relate and vibe to your music...isn't that the point? Drake is relatable to the most human beings. Kendrick makes music geared towards African-Americans whereas Drake has that demographic but has many other types of people as well. Can't even play Kendrick in the club bro?! Lol. If you're arguing best lyrical hip-hop of this era...I can see your argument. Remember I said *musician* ... needs to check more boxes than lyrical hip-hop mostly relatable to African-Americans | I'm willing to bet if you took a poll, more people would say Kendrick is overall better than Drake. And if we're only going on sheer popularity, there are going to be a lot of ridiculous "best" things out there. |
411,563 | There wasn't even a drought to try and blame of Stalin. The Ukraine Famine was intentionally caused by the Soviet government which sent the Red Army to seize the grain of the populace in punishment for its resistance to collectivized farms and to compel farmers to move to cities and work in factories. | The Aral Sea had already begun to shrink well before the revolution. Just an example. |
411,564 | This isn't really new. This is why the US Military banned all USB devices from network computers probably 6 years ago. They took the threat seriously enough that the moment you plug in a device, your account is locked, the computer is kicked off the network, and you face an Article 15 (non-judicial punishment, ie lost rank, lost pay, extra duty, etc). | I worked in a bank that filled the USB ports with glue. |
411,565 | you gotta do the whole rhyme: And every-thing's spinnin, you're beginnin to think women. are swimmin in pink linen, again in the sink. Then in a couple of minutes that bottle of Guinness is finished. You are now officially allowed to slap bitches. | Just wanted to see what that would look like with the different rhymes in bold and italics. And every-thing's **spinnin**, you're be**ginnin** to *think* **women** are **swimmin** in *pink* **linen**, **again** in the *sink* **Then in** a couple of minutes that bottle of Guinness is finished. You are now officially allowed to slap bitches |
411,566 | They are but are out of stock basically worldwide and marked up to insane levels in the secondary market. A 290x is over $250 used, and even my fairly ancient midrange 280x is worth over $150 right now on auction. | Whoa I've got a 290x sitting on a shelf now. |
411,567 | Since when do we run Microsoft propaganda articles here? This is Microsoft puppetry at its worst. | Hi lunk, Actually i am new here so i was not aware of that i just wrote the article and shared with you my research. I am not a Microsoft guy. So i will keep my writings neutral next time. Thanks for your feedback. |
411,568 | Every time I read my "original" copies (which I know still aren't actually original), I'm amazed at how Disney has managed to suck all of the charm out of them. | Disney manages to make everything they touch suck. I was lucky--my mother was a children's librarian, so I was raised on Pooh, Peter Rabbit, etc. Even today, I can enjoy reading these books. Their charm is timeless. Can't say the same for the drivel that the Disney mega-corporation churns out. |
411,569 | Which is why people should be using a name service and not hardcoding IP addresses...ever. | Try to give a router or switch interface a domain name for an address ;) |
411,570 | yup. if you can remember the key commands, its very useful. Like "dd" is to delete a whole line which is a lot easier than tap / holding down backspace. | ctrl-K in nano. i gave up on VIM, i couldnt find a single reason to use it |
411,571 | He's already the douche for vandalizing public property. I hope someone does gray it out to discourage further vandalism | You're already a douche for making the assumption that this was vandalism. And for making the effort to comment about this being "vandalism" twice. |
411,572 | Jesus that sound crazy. Any videos of it? The cards not the cat. | What's even better is you can replicate the design of the card on something larger, [like a whiteboard] |
411,573 | [Sweet Home Alabama] 1. At the beginning, one member of the band (lead singer?) can't hear the music in their monitor, so they ask the tech to "turn it up". Which made itself into the track. 2. This song is a response to Neil Young's [Southern Man] which calls out the south's salvery (I saw cotton and I saw black / Tall white mansions and little shacks. / Southern man when will you pay them back?). There is a line in Sweet Home Alabama that says *Well I heard Mr. Young sing about her*. Immediatly following that, you can hear someone in the background say "Southern-man" (~0:56 seconds in.) | i think the "turn it up" was intentional, its after the music starts and the tone does not sound conversational. as for the southern man thing, i first heard that when i got an ipod for the first time, i had never listened to it so loudly and with such clarity, i was walking down the street alone and it was getting dark, i had never heard that voice before and it scared the shit out of me initially lol |
411,574 | Shoot, take away writing and replace it with "yourself". Sit, listen, don't pigeon hole yourself with preconceived notions or ideas and the world opens to new possibilities. | Very true, I was asking in the context of writing so my mind went right to that. But good take away regardless. |
411,575 | I thought I was the only one who had this problem. Those drive me CRAZY! I feel so distracted every time I shift my attention and all of a sudden there are dashes of lights all over my peripheral vision | Man, I really want to follow some chevys around at night now |
411,576 | Yeah, that was a bad example. GoT is definitely full of people that are driven to do terrible things by nothing more than greed and lust for power. | True, but he said Brandon didn't finish it yet. If you stopped after the first book, Jamie is real piece of shit. As opposed to later on in Feast of Crows when you realize he's a somewhat sympathetic piece of shit. |
411,577 | In Antman, why could Falcon see Antman with his goggles? Because he needed goggles that let him see normal sized people from high up, when they're as small as ants. So naturally his goggles were designed to let him see ant-sized people. | I've seen threads where people describe this exact detail as one of the movie's "problems", saying it didn't make sense that he'd have that kind of tech because Ant-Man wasn't on Avengers' radar. This needs more upvotes. |
411,578 | If JK Simmons doesn't walk out with a Supporting Actor Oscar I will eat a hat | He's had it locked for many months, and he absolutely deserves it |
411,579 | I know it's popular to bash McG, but let's be fair - Terminator: Salvation sucked because of its problematic script, not the directing. The directing was a vast improvement over the shit that was Rise of the Machines. McG demonstrated a lot of respect for Cameron's films and I actually thought the directing was really good. | What revisions did Jonathan Nolan put into that script?? Because with his track record, I don't think he put too much into it. There were quite a few good parts in the movie, but with the bad parts, the good couldn't make up for them |
411,580 | Seeing as you and I have basically the same taste, I think I'll try and find time to read Catch-22 and maybe Harry Potter, the only two on your list I have yet to read. | Cathch-22 is great just be warned its style is very unique because the plot jumps around a lot it can be pretty confusing at first but by the end it all comes together perfectly. if you find its humor or style boring just set it down and maybe come back to it later but if you just find it hard understand whats going on keep reading because it will eventually all make sense |
411,581 | I hope they are self cleaning cars too since I'll be puking up my breakfast all over from getting motion sick by trying to read while moving. | Your comment was short but I still managed to assume you were talking about binge drinking half way through |
411,582 | Yes. Holy shit. I’m thought my brother and I️ ran that network from our parents landline tv. Always played what ever we called in | > always played what ever we called in. of course they did; you were paying for it lol |
411,583 | Yes, I threw 50 shades of Grey. It was shit. | Haha I barely made it through the first book in the series and made it halfway through the second before I gave up. Wish I did throw it. Edit: words. |
411,584 | It's in the fucking article. STARTTLS ist server-server. The ISP changes a flag which the servers send when they start to communicate, making them believe that the other one doesn't support encryption. Therefore they default to unencrypted communication. | StartTLS is used by clients as well. Incidentally, you can tell a client to use encrypted, and generally they will fail if they cannot do that. Fail-open is really poor design for an email client. |
411,585 | It's funny to hear about the guy who is remembered as the measuring stick for all future evil being so obsessed with good branding and optics | That's how they got people into buying his ideas. He had a logo, colors, philosophy, made public relations stunts, Hugo Boss designed the uniforms, basically a defined identity so people that wanted to belong and were out of options were fooled into thinking Nazis had it right. |
411,586 | Idk about it being *that* unrealistic. There are some pretty fucked up kids out there, haha. | You mean the school shooting part? That's not what I'm talking about, if anything the idea behind the book is frighteningly realistic, I'm talking about the rest of the class's reactions as the day goes on. |
411,587 | Guess what my favorite book is from the quote: "'That's what I mean. You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.' [Blank] knew what he meant. 'That's not what I meant,' [Blank] said as [Blank] began scratching his back." | I knew I recognized it, but had to google it 😬 Guess it's time to re-read that one! |
411,588 | Megadeth released an album of songs like “No Excuses?” When? | 1997, Cryptic Writings- people shit all over it when it came out. I think it was an attempt to keep Friedman happy and in the band but alas, he was really intent on getting to Japan and doing his thing there. |
411,589 | Examples? I haven't really heard anything negative said about him before. | Lol, a few Google searches should clear that up. He's been known to trash other bands, be a prima Donna at his own shows and other crap. I still like him though. It's a part of his personality for me |
411,590 | This doesn't seem as special to me as it seems to be for other people on here. 2 of the synth parts have a decent melody, other than that the song is pretty much an amalgamation of mediocre riffs. And the vocals that everyone seems to be clamouring over are tonally pleasing, sure...But they lack dynamics, or anything special really. Just a guy talking, and he doesn't say much. | Haha. Upvotes here and downvoted into oblivion higher up. I agree with you on all points but that misses the whole idea behind this. Bunch of people thru some ideas together and had a good time. |
411,591 | It's also a connection to the opening if her book about how language is the 'first weapon' resorted to by nations. Reinforces the idea that a weapon isn't necessarily a tool of destruction. | That's a good point, thank you. I need to watch it again because damn... |
411,592 | For anyone googling, it's Louis **L'Amour**. I worked in a library for a few of my college years and the guy had a whole section to himself. Pretty much more than half of the "western" catalogue. Can't say I read any though. | Oh yes, I'm a dolt and didn't catch the typo. Thanks! He is certainly prolific. |
411,593 | The technology that the optics engineer creates this year will allow the astronomer to gather higher resolution measurements allowing the physicist to theorize about quantum scale properies allowing the electrical engineer to reduce the minimum transistor size from 22 to 13 nanomemters. As an engineer myself i think alot of it really comes down to pseudo random technological improvements across the board which indirectly produce other technological improvements. | Isn't that how most science works? Not trying to be a dick or anything, but isn't most science (or technology advance) based on multiple small advances of other fields? All of which build on top of one another? |
411,594 | The Google Now thing is fucking awesome, albeit scary how much it pays attention. "You were here for an extended period of time, do you want Google to remember this place?" | Yep. My family went out of state on vacation, stayed at a hotel and then went about our family-vacation business. That evening as we left the park, it offered to give us directions back to the hotel we stayed at the previous night. Creepy, but very cool. |
411,595 | See my reply to the other poster. But almost the entire Dortmunder series, in particular The Hot Rock, Bank Shot, Good Behavior, and a few others are great. | Thank you. Crime is such a rich genre and I'm always on the lookout for great books. |
411,596 | that answers my question of what they intend to do with the exhaust. | That brings me to another issue that I had. Typically, the fuel with these types of fuel cells is wet hydrogen gas. You still have to feed the fuel cell with an explosive gas! Again, not suitable for cell phones... Although to your point - I believe that the exhaust is just water. Hydrogen gas and Oxygen from the air are combined to form water vapor. Carbon-less technology. |
411,597 | He was in Way of the Dragon. Not Bruce Lee's most popular movie, but still generally well regarded for the genre. | That's as a supporting actor and not as a lead though. *Way of the Dragon* is a Bruce Lee movie that stars Chuck Norris, not a Chuck Norris movie that stars Bruce Lee. |
411,598 | > Abrams shoots only on film (which makes native 3d impossible) That must come as a shock to Hitchcock and all the others who shot in 3D pre-digital... | It's possible, but there must be a reason why nobody does that anymore. Filming in 3d is already complicated, especially for a CG laden film like Star Wars. doing that on film would probably complicate things a lot. Bear in mind that Dial M for Murder was made in a time when even simple technologies like on set playback didn't exist, not to mention CGI or digital intermediates. |
411,599 | As someone who actually thinks Atlas Shrugged is worth reading (even if you don't agree with it, which I don't)... HOLY SHIT WOMAN GET A GODDAMN EDITOR! I swear you could easily shave off half of the book and lose nothing. | I handed my daughter the narration of how the motor company collapsed, told her not to bother with the rest. |
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