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600 | Are you for real? This remix is masterful. Glitch mob are pros. Do you even like electronic music? | Yeah I do, this just sounds all over the place, like as many effects are jammed into it as possible |
601 | The question doesn't call for a villain that we agree with, just a villain with a logical motive. And that character absolutely had a logical motive. | Without specifics about time travel, it's hard not to feel like there's a better solution. He's angry, not logical. His murder spree is probably not the only solution. |
602 | Right? I remember it being SO hard in 2007 to find this guy's music, and I just stumbled across this video that had <100 views by chance yesterday! | I remember seeing this video on MTV all the time back in the day. [Was even on Beavis & Butthead.] Hadn't heard this in so long! |
603 | You mean on the lack of net neutrality... but yeah, sure, agreed, it's nice to know what one is talking about. But why the hell wireless was somehow excluded from the NN discussion in the first place is bizarre, good god there is so much crap that needs to get straightened out, but the populace is still mired in antique wedge issues. | Because one person abusing a cell network to watch 4k will stop 16 from watching 1080 or 64 at 480. No one needs 4k on a cell phone. Land internet has far, far more room than cell. |
604 | Have you read I am the Messenger by Zusak? I actually preferred it to the Book Thief. | Few people seem to have read this one, but I actually read it before the Book Thief, and liked it just as much. I wish Zusak had more books! |
605 | Their whole album *This is War* has a bunch of moments when their fans are singing. When they were recording it they had a special concert where they performed the album in its entirety and made it so the audience could sing along. They recorded the audience and used it on the album. | They called it 'The Summit'. IIRC they did it 6 times, in major cities across the globe. Soon after they received an email from someone in Iran requesting that they do it digitally for those that couldn't go to the events. IMO this combined with the tremendous struggle they went through to produce the album is what really makes it a special album. |
606 | Back in the 70s I read some books on subliminal advertising - "Subliminal Seduction", "Media Sexploitation"... complete and utter bullshit, but at the time I was buying it. I was in High School, so perhaps I can be forgiven. I believed it when they told me Pluto was a planet, too :) | oh god, those are some really bad ones by pick up artists that are basically ...how to hypnotize women into sleeping with you variety.... |
607 | I loved it so much I know started the Wise Mans fear. It seems tho we will have to wait for the third and last one. | He wrote a book about Auri. It's called *The Slow Regard of Silent Things*. It's short and a bit different but it's well worth a read if you're a Rothfuss fan. |
608 | As I understand it, the raindrops cause some serious issues with the Lidar. Unless they find a way to make water drops stop refracting light, they're going to need some alternative kind of vision system. In the meantime, Google is building cars that will undoubtedly safely shut down in conditions that are too severe for it to navigate - and with no other controls available, they become roadside paperweights. | That would be my concern. Always need an override system somewhere for those times when the technology can't handle it. |
609 | Deadpool exists in a world where he's not a good guy, and most people would view him as something of a bad guy, but at the same time he's not nearly as vicious or as cruel as many of the other bad guys. | There's this scene. He's always trying to be a better person even if it's pointless. |
610 | Definitely. I *loved* looking at all of the real props and characters in LOTR, it just felt so real and physical. The Hobbit mostly uses CGI and now 3D is in the picture. Don't get me wrong I love the Hobbit films, I would've just liked it to stay in that physical state LOTR had. Then again, it is based off a children's book. | It probably doesn't help Jackson owns a large chunk of Weta. He's got all those talented people available and he can make money on every angle of production. I'd also have problems saying "no" to tens (hundreds?) of millions of dollars. |
611 | All right, the codes are coming up in a min. Be ready to take whatever movie you want, people! | > JBXXF6CHY47B. Thanks you so much! You the real MVP! |
612 | 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 checked, ok they put up a banner notifying me that they support more banks now. So this is a new feature in the past year. |
613 | So they go backwards, making it more iphone-like than ever before and it's suddenly awesome? | You're right, they should have made it worse than the iPhone. Hey, it would be a shit product, but at least it would be different. |
614 | Well I like metal and classical, so Trans-Siberian Orchestra is a favorite. Obviously "[Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24]" is the standard (Savatage cover by the way if you were unaware), but I'm quite partial to their songs featuring male choir like "[A Star to Follow]" and "[Anno Domine]" (which flows nicely into the nice little "[Christmas Concerto]" which I like since I play French Horn). I like most of their instrumental pieces, and *Christmas Eve and Other Stories* is probably my favorite Christmas album of theirs (*Beethoven's Last Night* is pretty great, especially "[The Lion's Roar]"). | I'm not sure if you are aware or not, but Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Savatage are very tightly wound together with TSO being Jon Olvia's labor of love as of late, but they also share guitarists and most band members in Savatage also work inside TSO, so it's hard to call this song a "cover" persay. Matter of fact, Chris Olvia's guitar is on the album art for "The Lost Christmas Eve" |
615 | >complete secret. I mean, anyone who wanted to know, knew. They'd do meet and greets after shows without masks. TF's picture came up the first time I even googled the band, which was 4 years ago. | I meant complete secret "officially". Like, obviously they weren't in character 100% of their life, so people had to know. Bit for the music world at large, that was their shtick. To remain anonymous |
616 | Politics would be doing its job: keeping social stability. It won't force the drivers, it'll allow them to keep their job and slow down the replacement enough for things to keep going. Trust me you don't want all those drivers loosing their job in the space of a year. A simple solution would be to tax self-driving vehicles and using that money to support the population loosing their job. So the self-driving vehicle won't be cheaper, but it would be more efficient, so the replacement would still happen but slowly. This would also give us the opportunity to solve unexpected social problems that would rise. | Crap on that. Hobbling progress in order protect jobs is an excuse for small minded politicians who don't know what else to do. There are solutions. It only requires that we start to think outside the same old box they keep handing everyone. And we better start adopting now. In 20 to 30 years the robots are going to start doing a lot more than drive. |
617 | I think I remember reading somewhere that the original cabin from The Evil Dead burned in a fire, so most likely not. | I was asking about the reboot cabin. I know CitW pretty much paid homage to the original ED, so I thought it would have been I cool little circle. |
618 | Lots of people (like me) still listen to vinyl. Amazon has a pretty good selection. You could always check comparevinyl.com for prices. Great gift idea! | Thanks for the suggestions, I've been looking on Amazon but the trouble is that I'm in the Netherlands (so if I want to have it shipped a bit quicker than 2 months, it adds up). I've been looking in online stores here and I've also scouted some record stores. Anything particular that I need to know should I buy the records second hand? |
619 | That's like saying water runs on soap. The internet would still be there if ad-driven businesses weren't. Besides that, who said anything about ethics? | Pretty clearly implied. And no shit the internet would still be there, much like the universe would still be there. But water without soap is not the same as water with soap, it will not do the same things or solve the same problems; an internet driven by a payment model (instead of ads) will not reach the same audience. |
620 | they classify themselves as hard rock so i just went with that. | They're widely regarded as the definitive heavy metal band, though. |
621 | Yes but that was also the bulk of classic rock stuff. | I love 70's Rock Stuff, but I like the 80's stuff better. Doesn't mean the 70's were bad, but I hear all this stuff about people just **hating** disco and I agree for the most part. |
622 | Based on the number of upvotes vs comments, I think a lot of us feel the same way. | Which part? The "not understanding" part or the I am "pretty smart/technically savvy" part? |
623 | The butterfly effect is very unsettling and i think Kutcher did a pretty good job. | Agreed, if by unsettling you mean shitty beyond imagination, and by pretty good job you mean a huge turd. |
624 | Doesn't the 3D part go without saying? Its not like people call paintings flat or 2D. | Actually, they do when the context calls for it. For example, if you go into pretty much any general-purpose CG forum, you'll find a section called "2D works in progress/finished work/techniques" or similar. |
625 | I think this is a great approach. Reddit has just the right balance of intelligent conversation and casual conversation. Though this has gone downhill in recent years. They should consider only using data from before 2013 or so. | Or just stay away from bigger subreddits (or those that are hardly moderated). Smaller ones are way more likely to have great discussions with proper language. |
626 | > you are leasing from them. This was overturned long ago if memory serves. Companies tried to prevent legal second sale of software by licensed users and courts intervened. It's the same with John Deere. The reason they publicly say the equipment is being sold is they'd be in for a lot of trouble if they are preventing owners from access their own equipment. | They can still say "it was not designed to run on hog manure, so any breakdown happening after you attempt that will be on you". |
627 | "Aim low kids. Aim so low that nobody will even care if you succeed." \- Marge Simpson | Maybe stick with that you, yourself will care ^_^ but otherwise yes! |
628 | I hate to be that guy, but i've had a few tube amps get hot enough to ignite paper. Please don't burn down your house. Sweet amp, I'd have let it speak for itself in beautiful distorted tones and kept the books. | the books were garbage. Yellowed and water damaged and falling apart. Better this than the recycling bin. Also, there's a fan in the back :) |
629 | Maybe current technology will change "gasp" and solar material could be simply sprayed on like tar. Personally I bet every static material in the future will have solar capturing tech, unless we get cold fusion or a space elevator or something | > Maybe current technology will change "gasp" and solar material could be simply sprayed on like tar. Sure. Although even then you'd almost certainly need this purely-hypothetical solar substance to be *cheaper than tar* in order for it to make sense. The fundamental problem remains that you're saying, "Instead of building a solar facility in one of the multitude of wide open spaces we have (or on top of roofs), let's have cars drive on top of it." It's not that you can't overcome the engineering problems inherent with having cars drive on top of your solar panels, it's that there's no clear reason why you would WANT to have cars driving on top of your solar panels. |
630 | I've never read past book 4 or so because I couldn't find them | You're missing a whole bunch of mildly amusing light reading! Very suitable for dentists' waiting rooms and intermediate-range air travel. |
631 | Does this seriously work? I'm soo damn scatter brained it's scary. Honest truth, I have NEVER finished a book in my entire life. I get 3 chapters in and lose interest, no matter how interesting it is. Same with video games and movies. | Yes, it seriously goddamn works. Vyvanse is better, though. Same active ingredient, different uptake mechanism. |
632 | Since the Princess Bride has been mentioned, I always liked the sword fight in Die Another Day. | That's the one I was thinking of. Not a stand out Bond movie, but that sword fight is pretty decent. |
633 | For me it depend on book. There are few that I left unfinished after 20 pages or so. That's the price of relying on internet reviews. | I’ve started previewing books, either in person or on Google Books. Some have promising beginnings and are duds, but it helps a lot and gets me excited about the books too. The problem is when I read 10-20 pages of preview and find re-reading it all tedious when I get to the book weeks or months later. |
634 | If they didn't have a commercial break after every award then this show wouldn't be dragging on for nearly 4 hours. | It's not just that. There's performances, then commercials, achievement awards, commercials, In Memoriam, commercials, actual award that someone wants to see.... after another commercial break. |
635 | Lies of Locke Lamora is such a baddass book. Good on you. | Sadly, I stopped about half way through to start Game of Thrones. I meant to read them both at once but...I found myself only reading Game of Thrones before too long. I finished it last night though so it's time for Locke Lamora some more! Have you read the second book in that series? How is it if so? |
636 | >His opinion is that Youtube Red is actually good for creators, stating that "More money in the system is good for creators at every level." Trickle down YouTubeconomics, eh? | Except a lot of these creators don't make their money off Google Checks. They make it off things within their programming. Rick Astley has gotten pocket change since Rickrolling began, though he's made money in indirect ways through shows, albums and iTunes purchases that otherwise may not have sold. |
637 | MY GOD! I have been working on a service just like this for half a year, and then Google goes ahead and fucking kicks me out of the ring, before I even get a chance to try.. Saturday ruined, mother fuckers! | How could you make a service like this? It only works because Google serves the ads to being with. |
638 | Why would we commute in a way that's incredibly more dangerous, extremely inefficient in terms of price per kilometre covered, and more inefficient. Flying cars aren't going to be a thing for at least the next 30 years, if ever. It's just so much more efficient to drive on the ground that there's almost no reason to use the air for an individual over already available better public transportation. | These are going to be for people/corporations that don't care about cost or efficiency. These are not intended to replace cars, they're intended to be airplanes that pilots can also drive on the streets. These are for people that need to go 200 miles for a meeting at lunch and get back by the afternoon sales call. This is not your daily beater, this is like having a Lamborghini; you do not commute daily through an hour of traffic with it. These are to get from one airport to another and have ground transport built in. |
639 | >But, if there were one book I would want kids to read it would be "Goodnight Mr Tom". Such a good book! It was one of those books that was completely different from what I usually read, but I ended up loving it, and still think about it sometimes to this day. *The Secret Garden* was another one like that. | I just finished rereading the secret garden with my six year old. Now we are on dr. Doolittle. The secret garden was one of my favorite books as a kid and I really like the way the author portrayed the magic of the garden. |
640 | I am just making a neutral statement. Does it sound like you have made up your mind? Yes, yes it does sound like that. I am not arguing whether your opinion is justifiable or not. | Your pointless repetition speaks of the troll. So I don't really care what you have to say. |
641 | For sure. Although it would be an interesting book that would be a prequel of sorts focusing on how and/or why Derry was the town to get terrorized. But I think we’re both being too analytical over a horror novel. | Well he did crash land in Derry and was awoken at the terrible shit that happens in Derry. Its explained in the books through the interludes. The book really isn’t about pennywise, but rather the characters relationship with each other. Pennywise is, in a sense, the ultimate bully against the losers club. As to pennywise lore, I enjoyed that part too, of course. I loved reading the passages of pennywise thinking to himself about the situation he is in. Cutting the story would get rid of the depth of the characters. That’s what the movie did, and it was just ok. |
642 | He always puts some awesome twist at the end of his movies to trick the audience. Like The Sixth Sense, you find out that the dude in the hairpiece, that's Bruce Willis the whole movie. | Way to steal someone else's joke and pretend like it was yours... |
643 | Life of Pi is criminally unknown? lolwut? It has more than 1 million votes on Goodreads and spawned a move that made more than 600 million bucks worldwie. | I just meant that since it’s taught in hs most younger people automatically have an aversion towards it. |
644 | Well how about Cable Internet? There is no content creation involved. | Cable internet is significantly cheaper for the performance than it used to be, in my experience. |
645 | If she writes a different book people will see that a lot of her talent was hype. By the time of the last book everyone had decided where they stood on the franchise. You either loved it entirely or not. Non HP books will separate people from the nostalgia and the critical success. People will look at Rowling's style and overuse of the MacGuffin or Deus Ex Machina and be ultimately disappointed. | >her talent was hype. She's a children's writer. People's mistake is in thinking she wasn't writing children's literature. |
646 | It's Singer's fault X3 was so bad. He should have stayed on instead of leaving to make a crappy Superman movie. | IIRC he wanted to do both, and Fox demanded a quick production for X3. |
647 | Otherwise Samsung actually make some of the best phones, so it's best to research about custom ROMs if you plan to get one, lineage OS is a great start. | I used to be all about that, but why big a phone that I need to essentially root when I can buy another with better features out of the box. Pixel just handles better imo |
648 | "Volvos are sure a great car, I make my own furniture lol, ES IST ZEIT FÜR RACHE!" | Reminded me of the [oh hi mark] scene from the room with the sudden change in tone |
649 | I just read this and holden resonated so with me so much im kind of re-evaluating my life. And i cant wait to get into some more novels im starting george orwell 1984 right now. | and the other side of the pillow kool book 'a brave new world' alduss huxley. read it después of 1984. |
650 | I'm guessing it's not a matter of one or the other, but more of timelines. Which is more practical now versus in another decade. Taxis driven by people would be difficult to replace without a powerful AI able to understand the passengers. Buses can be driven along a path with fewer difficulties. Not none, but fewer. | These are not insurmountable obstacles... They are merely the questions that YOU AND I don't have the answer for. And nobody's waiting on us to come up with the answer. When Google is ready to replace thousands of cabbies in NYC and plays the demo of their system that deals with all these questions, then you'll have the answer. |
651 | The entire movie is full of charicatures, I didn't see anyone jumping on a bandwaggon to denounce the film for it's portrayal of models as stupid. | It's literally the point of the movie. That everyone's a caricature. |
652 | I am of Native American descent. I think one mistake most people here are making is assuming the Indigenous people of North America naturally share the same opinion about everything. That we are some kind of unilateral movement that moves in lockstep with one another and speak with one voice. Throw out any issue into a room full of Native Americans and you will probably get ten different opinions. The whole issue of how Natives are portrayed by Rowlings will probably result in more than one reaction. Some will be indignant, some will like it and some will not care one way or the other. Pretty much the same reaction as any other group. Personally I'm going to wait and see before I pass judgement. | That's what I found so bizarre about the whole article: it talks about the appropriation and stereotyping of native cultures while simultaneously collapsing native perspectives into a single unit. I was especially surprised to see this quote from Dr. Keene: >Native communities use reciprocity, respect, and relationships as benchmarks. To me, that reeks of the whole romanticization of native people as more communal, spiritual, in touch with nature or authentic. I would expect that from the mainstream media, but not from a woman who is a) herself Cherokee and b) actually discusses the treatment of native stereotypes as part of her research. Just because it's positive, doesn't mean it isn't still a bullshit stereotype. |
653 | I enjoyed Wool, but thought it could have been more heavily edited. Parts of it just seemed to go on forever. | Maybe you were supposed to feel that way... Especially given the topic of the book. I don't remember feeling that way anyway. |
654 | He's said 3140MHz which I assume means 3140mAh... That's almost double any battery I've had. I imagine it's as big as batteries get. | you can order special batteries that exceed 8,000 mah for certain phones though they make your phone look like a brick. |
655 | Reading the wired.com article, the radar runs at 10Hz. Assuming two cars approaching at 60 mph relative speed (30 mph each), a missed detection equates about 8 feet. Let's hope the detection range is larger than 65 feet then (stopping distance plus 8 feet missed detection). But then again, they probably ran the numbers on that. | We'll part of the goal is to just reduce speed even if it can't stop the collision entirely. |
656 | Hey there! Technically, we classify "should I keep reading X," as recommendation requests. And per [Rule 3.3] we ask that recommendation requests be posted in r/suggestmeabook or [Our Weekly Recommendation Thread] Also, totally keep going. It's different from other Russian lit I've read, but it's *really* fascinating after a point, when the thing happens. You'll know exactly what I'm talking about when it happens (or maybe it's already happened; I'm fuzzy on the details, but I think it hasn't). Totally worth it. | Thank you! Sorry about the misapplied post. I do not know if the thing has happened yet. Doesn't feel like it. I will press on. |
657 | I didn't really care for it that much. They left so much out and Daniel Craig really felt out of place for me. Lisbeth was pretty much perfect tho. Dig the Swedish ones over the newer one personally. | Sorry, but I think the American TGWTDT was far closer to the source material than Oplev's was. Obviously everyone's entitled to their own opinion, and I like the Swedish film as well, but I wanted to put my 2 cents in. |
658 | Really good until the end. I wanted to see an actual filmed conclusion. The ending subtitles just felt lazy. Lots of awesome build up, zero payoff. | ...like what? What could they show to give any more of a conclusion? |
659 | Slack is great. New update brings posts in-app which is even better. | What concerns me about Slack is the pattern for these kinds of products. Something rises to the top and takes a large slice of the market. A corporate buys it out, bloats it, makes it slower, more restrictive and less usefull. So gradually people leave it and go to the next thing. It looks like Slack is where people go after Skype. So of course it will get purchased eventually. The general rule is that any system remains efficient, innovative and truly useful until a larget company buys it. I was looking at OK Cupid today, measuring how far its gone downhill since Match.com bought it. Skype will go, and then probably Dropbox when people settle on something else. |
660 | It's funny if you are the kind of person who lost their shit over peter wincing at his knee for a minute straight in Family Guy. :D | That fits pretty well, as I am not one of those people. |
661 | "Not that I'm against altruism" Good grief, we are in a morally bankrupt culture if you can say that with a straight face. Altruism is a fundamental part of humanity. (It appears to have biological support too. I.e. It's instinctive because our species is stronger if we care about each other.) How can it possibly be controversial that we should help others when we are already taken care of? | I didnt mean it like that, like I'm... against it or indifferent toward it. Trust me, it'd be cool if everyone was willing to jump at the opportunity to help others, but it's foolish to hope that everyone will share their wealth with people they don't know. Hell, some even sacrifice people for their wealth. |
662 | If you think Lego is expensive you should check out the cost of typical microfluidic connectors. This bog standard valve costs €97! | Why would it cost that much for such a simple part? |
663 | Coens and Roger Daekins are suckers for wide-angle even in close-ups. [Here is Roger Daekins on it. Full video is really decent as well as the channel (in case you don't know).] Just thought you might like to know :) | See, I don't notice it nearly as much in their films. Not sure which lenses The Revenant used, but it was almost fish-eye like at times. Their face was huge but the rest of the scene was tiny. |
664 | To be fair though, Disney fired Josh Trank from Star Wars when they heard about his tantrums on the FF set. | Yeah he sure fucked that up didn't he. Dudes 31. Could have just played ball for like 3 more years and been set for life and have gone down in history as a freaking Star Wars director |
665 | Agree, I felt as if the book was building to this huge crescendo. When finished it, I found myself utterly unsatisfied. | This is exactly how I felt. The premise is solid, the prose good... it just doesn't go anywhere, really. |
666 | And Zoe will be busy doing Marvel's Infinity Gaunlet, however big her part is in it. | Yeah, I am unsure how much she will be involved besides GotG. She is one of, if not the busiest actress in the industry. Cameron mentioned Avatar 4 too, I am not sure how many films or how long he will keep her occupied for. If they are going to keep the cast for ST together, then they will have to wait or work something out. |
667 | I read the hobbit and lotr ages ago and am just now reading the silmarilion, I am loving it and loving these comments. There's so much going on, reading (and understanding) this conversation makes me feel good about what I've learned so far. | I'm glad to know you are enjoying them. I had heard that their popularity has been on the decline for a long time. It's good to know that people are still reading and enjoying them. |
668 | I agree, especially the characters who use sex as a weapon (like Flagg in The Stand). Yet...man it’s real awful to read. | What, you don't like a gun barrel up the rear happy crappy? |
669 | Greta Van Fleet definitely deserves recognition! I haven't seen them live, but I like what I've heard. The best thing that could happen to rock as a genre is for those two bands to break through, IMO. | Greta van fleet is just a new Led Zeppelin, we need something new old blues rock won't make a comeback |
670 | (#s "Especially that part when every human was saved by deus ex machina helicarrier and the leftover from the city conveniently feel over the ocean.") | To be fair, the "deus ex machina" had been hinted at for weeks in AoS, of course not everyone watches that but still. [Link] |
671 | They're now number 1 in the UK Rock album chart. Their music is awesome. They deserve everything and more | They deserve everything, the ep is a banger and they put in so much work |
672 | Warren Buffet is far from an objectivist. He's a big philanthropist and has argued that he needs to be taxed more. | Objectivism doesn't necessarily preclude philanthropy, it just doesn't advocate for it to be compulsory, and condemns the mentality of relying it for success. Arguing that his taxes aren't high enough, however, certainly places him at the other end of the spectrum. |
673 | Empathy and Vanished are really good also. Crystal Castles were a part of that brief hipster electronic genre "chill wave." I think they're the only band that sort of survived. | > Crystal Castles were a part of that brief hipster electronic genre "chill wave." I think they're the only band that sort of survived. Uhh. Didn't really go anywhere. |
674 | I really feel the same, BUT i'll still read this Umbridge thing. There are millions of people out there that want a book 8. So frustrating not knowing if we'll ever get it. | I feel like a book 8 would be pointless. Honestly, there's nothing to tell looking forward. The book would have to be "Harry Potter and the Trials of PTSD" considering that's what most of the book would probably have to deal with. If she were to write full books of the Harry Potter universe again, I'd want her to go back in time. Prequels of Voldemort's first rise to power. The story would still have a lot of similarities, just replace the golden trio with the Marauders and Malfoy with Snape. Then have the kids talk of the horrors that are going on in the real world with Voldemort. |
675 | In Australia, he's known for a few more of his earlier songs, like "Heart's A Mess". His previous rep made Making Mirrors pretty popular, and then it went on to the states. | Yea I'd figure as much that he would've started his climb to fame in Australia. If you live there, is he still popular there? |
676 | I wouldn't even call it a philosophy - I'd file it away under ideology. | Oh, I wouldn't say that. It *does* have a certain logical merit. A flawed merit, but a merit nonetheless. |
677 | I watched that part and didnt realize what book he was talking about and thought he meant Catcher in the Rye, especially the part where the main character says the book perfectly portrays being a teenager | Thats another option... but i was hoping for something more... |
678 | It's not foolproof by any stretch, but it's miles above nothing, and is excellent as plan B. It would take a *simultaneous* failure of both your local storage, and your ability to recover your remote storage, to result in a loss of data. Given the relative unlikelihood of either event, protecting against both happening at the same time is for the extremely paranoid. | My original comment had more to do with trust of vendor than efficacy. Hope everyone's backups are encrypted! |
679 | Obviously. But I'm not talking about some hypothetical world where Intel is in league with Chinese spies. I'm asking whether anyone knows if *in real life* the BMC and ME are designed to accept control (presumably not authenticated) from an external component, because I can't see any reason why they would do that. It's very unlikely that you know the answer, but does anyone else? | > because I can't see any reason why they would do that. NSA, Chinese Communist Party, 5 eyes countries. Basically government back doors that seem to have been exploited |
680 | Looked up the sign for this and still don't understand. I figured it would be a masturbation joke. Care to explain? | I think it's a masturbation joke but the guy you replied to doesn't know asl and assumed pipe would be a jack off motion |
681 | I would love to see 11/22/63, but too long for a movie. | I really, really liked this book and think it would make a great movie (if done properly, which seems to be hit or miss with a lot of Stephen King movie adaptations). |
682 | This is like if the city you lived in said that only Honda's were allowed on the road because Toyota didn't build a factory in their city. This has to be illegal. Why isn't this illegal? | Because the current legal standing is that Verizon owns its equipment, so they can throttle whatever traffic they like. It's probably in their customer agreement. If ISPs weren't granted local exclusivity contracts, or gov't grants, they would be right. But the fact that there's no competition, and their networks were partially built with public money, muddies the waters. |
683 | Throwing Copper is in my top 10 of all time. Amazing from start to finish. | > Throwing Copper is in my top 10 of all time. Amazing from start to finish. yep that is one of those zero weak song albums |
684 | Kylo Ren's entire costume echoes the Kendogu, armor worn in Kendo sparring.... apropos, as kendo/kenjutsu was one of the core influences on the light sabre battle. | I wonder if that's intentional to show he's still learning. |
685 | Back up their opinion? God you're a fucking moron. | You say that like I just requested something absurd. So I'm the moron because I asked him to explain why he left feeling "pretty good" about the movie when it had a lot of obvious errors? Please shut the fuck up unless you actually have anything meaningful to add. |
686 | I *want* to use 2-factor authentication with my google accounts, but I fucking hate the idea of having to go fetch my phone from elsewhere in my home just because I want to check my email at the computer. Or y'know, my phone breaks. | as another commenter mentioned, you remember your commonly used computers and won't be prompted. Its when you (or a bad guy) login from a new host that will prompt for the 2fa piece. |
687 | That's got much more to do with your filesystem than your block device and should not require extra space, certainly not 56 gigs of extra space. | Over-Provisioning is a sure-fire (and well known) way to increase performance on solid-state drives independently of the filesystem. And i seriously doubt that there is actually 256GB of actual storage in this thing. There is really no technical reason why they need to stay within the "normal" sizes we are used to. 100, 200, 220, 240, and 400GB sizes on SSDs are common. The only reason many stay with the "normal" sizes is because of tradition. In this case i'd bet that it probably has around 10% overhead above the 200gb and that's it. Actually if they are using 31bit address space internally then i'll bet that there is actually 214GB of actual storage on the thing and it's over-provisioned to 200GB. |
688 | 100 yards may be a bit much for for a "reasonable viewing distance". Like I said, Disney Doesn't own a monopoly on general mouse caricature (although I'm sure they'd love to). | I'm sure they could buy one. They've bought several copyright extensions to keep Mickey out of the public domain. |
689 | I remember being a kid and having to get a permission slip from my parents so my elementary school could have a picture of me on their website. This was in the 90’s. I shudder to think what would happen in the future if a family refuses to have their child’s face recorded in a database. | I was on a team in HS and my dad hated the woman who ran the parents club. Cause she was so nasty. So we needed to get a permission slip for the online thing. He purposely waited till after the photo to decline so they had to Photoblend my siblings and I out. My friend got a good kick out of it. Since i was standing next to them |
690 | Depends on the type of Sci-fi that you read. I'll use Orson Scott Card for both examples. In his Ender's Game series, its more or less focused on the morality of the technology, thus its far more easy to follow. However, his Formic War series is far more technical and explores the technology that created the other Saga, thus is a bit harder to follow. Personally recommend both though, but read Ender's first, then the Formic Saga. | Even though it gets panned, I enjoy Card's "Empire" since he's the subject. I'd call it a historical fiction even though it's near future. I think some of the themes and comments he has about modern society is pretty correct |
691 | Apple jumped the shark with 2016 ~~MPB~~ MBP. Besides having different tiers of connectivity between the models there was no native way to connect current peripherals to the notebook without an adapter. Your product plan should never be *"I hope the 3rd party market makes up for our inadequacies."* | That was a tactical move to get people to use iCloud instead of USB cables. |
692 | I know there is sex in some of the books but not sure if the first one has any. | It has an orgy and mistresses. Also, it’s not that great of a book, a lot of dorkuses just like it. |
693 | Which alien in the new star wars? A ton of the aliens in the new star wars were practical, and I thought it was noticeable. | The big fat one that gives Rey the food, and the aliens in the Falcon with the tentacles. The other were practical as you said and didn't jump at me like that. |
694 | The stories were heavily changed over time. Yeah, I mean, they obviously drew on Mesopotamian mythology, but it isn't all that similar to it. | There are thematic elements that persist in both and similarities that are too frequent to be ignored completely. My point is that this theory that they drew from Plato's writings just isn't true as they can be traced back much farther. |
695 | I'm not so sure Jimmy Page "trumps all" when it comes to his technique. He was a pretty sloppy player. Like very sloppy. This is much more evident in live recordings than in the studio. Sure they were cool runs but he did sacrifice some cleanliness for speed. | Oh I agree. I think I meant more in the realm of guitarists in this particular discussion, the Late 60s/early 70s hard rock period. There were certainly more precise players before him and since the Zeppelin era. Live Page is certainly less precise and also a bit self-indulgent. I mean don't get me wrong, I think playing a Les Paul with a violin bow is awesome and all, but after 20 minutes it becomes a bit tiresome. But self-indulgent adulation of skill is sort of a mid-70s Rock staple and one of the things that made Punk/New Wave come about as a reaction in the first place. |
696 | Can someone explain the actual mechanics of how this could even happen?... | I am assuming that somone who is a carrier of the herpies virus was reading the book while masturbating and some bodily fluids containing the virus transfered to the book. I'm not an expert, but this is the only explanation that makes sense to me. |
697 | Have they been caught counting local traffic? Rogers in Canada was, at one point, saying that anything which touched their router counted. Absolutely hammered anyone with a NAS. | Most of the guys reporting sounded like they had dedicated modems and not combo boxes. I wouldn't really put it past any of these companies though, especially when they are already reporting up/down numbers as combined total. |
698 | Ted Leo performed at Funfunfun Fest the next day and did a damn good impersonation of Danzig for the last three songs of his set. When his set ended, I heard someone say "That was what the Danzig set was SUPPOSED to be!" | I love Ted Leo. Probably one of the friendliest shows I've been to. People were passing him notes all set and he seemed like he genuinely liked playing music and interacting with us. Probably would have enjoyed it more if my ex wasn't being a bitch that night. |
699 | Fucking google. I've finally gotten used to ~~sell~~ all the gimps they've already done to hangouts. Why can't they just leave it alone? I'm on Fi and it works absolutely perfectly and seamlessly. | Dude. I love Fi for this reason. This saved my ass when I worked in a computer lab and couldn't pull my phone out for shit, just have Hangouts on my laptop. I seriously am already contemplating switching to VZW unlimited and letting rip with data and this is only going to drive me further. |
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