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GameStop was offering free tryouts of the Vive, I tried to fire at some virtual ship and the aim was off. Pretty soon all the devices will be like the turret in Harry101UK's Defective song: "Noooo! I'm not defective." Other turrets: He is defective! https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Is this the same Sibanda? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

i don't know about MLB but here is what the NFL says

"This Broadcast has Copyrighted by NFL Productions for the Private use of our audience, Any other use of this telecast or any pictures, descriptions, or accounts of this game without the consent of NFL Productions is prohibited."

Just do this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Sure, hell, I can fool you into thinking a deck of cards changed color. have a look.

I hallucinate things on the road all the time when the sun is in my eyes. Peripheral vision, fast-moving scan (because I don't stare locked straight ahead), and dark spots caused by the sun being right-fucking-there will give enough data for my brain to imagine that smudge is that car skidding in front of me, and so render the car there, when in fact it hasn't moved. I have compensation systems to IGNORE THE EVIDENCE IN FRONT OF MY EYES because what's happening doesn't make logical sense.

Actually, their plan is to make planting the flag easier by bringing the Moon to North Korea.

Heck, you don't even need stereoscopic vision to detect that... A single camera is enough.. (MonoSLAM or similar)

Two examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If you want to see some really cool things just search for MonoSLAM on youtube... Some of the things they do is really cool.

Heck, you don't even need stereoscopic vision to detect that... A single camera is enough.. (MonoSLAM or similar)

Two examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If you want to see some really cool things just search for MonoSLAM on youtube... Some of the things they do is really cool.

Don't forget A Room with a View of Hell: Staircase of Satan, Pond of Death

With appolgoes to soylent green: STSTEMD is WINDOWS!!!

You're viewing the wrong demos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

A little over 10 years ago I wrote an article for Lxer about the Snakes and Rubies talk given by David Heinemeier Hansson and Adrian Holovaty (co-creator of Django) at DePaul University in Chicago.

It was quite a talk. Opened up quite a few opportunities for me over the following years. I don't think people even begin to realize what a profound effect efforts like RoR and Django had on the industry. Enterprise level web development was extremely painful with frameworks existing at the time. Getting well made sites that were robust and easily maintainable was a herculean task.

Please check out the article, although many of the links no longer exist. The snakes and rubies website is no longer supported, but the talk can be seen on youtube.

Strangely, David Heinemeier Hansson is from the Netherlands and lives in Chicago, while Adrian Holovaty is from Chicago and lives in the Netherlands.

David

If I had a hammer
I'd hammer in the mornin'
I'd hammer in the evenin'
All over this land...

shall be fined not more than $100

So, a privacy tax. Here's your $100. Now leave me alone.

"I nicked the census man."

Dorothy refused to sign IBM's nondisclosure agreement, on advice of their lawyer (who was there) without consulting her husband (who was not there).

Here you can get the story straight from Jack Sams of IBM who met with Dorothy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

In the recent Apple WWDC Keynote, Apple demonstrated the coming Update to their WatchOS (WatchOS 3). Performance across the board increased, with App Launches happening around EIGHT TIMES faster, and several other actions "snapified"(tm).

And that was WITHOUT changing the hardware.

So, clearly, Apple knows how to design a SmartWatch, and Intel needs to stick to desktop and server CPU design.

Let me explain to you something about China. China is what capitalism would look like if America/Europe removed all that social freedom/equality/justice/etc. stuff.

In particular, in China, if you knock someone over in the street, you're responsible for basically paying for the rest of their life.

Consequence?

It's fairly common to find that people have been deliberately run over after the initial accident to kill them, to prevent the driver from being identified.

It's also common to have people fake accidents by running into cars, so a dashcam is a necessity, viz. this sort of thing.

That should give you a basis for what traffic law is like in China.

Countries that think it's a good idea to move away from the American/European model of freedom (i.e. a good model) and to the Far Eastern one are fucking clueless about the consequences.

I'm not sure why you think a knife isn't a lethal threat.

Knife attack training video

I agree that just because someone has a knife doesn't mean they're a threat, just as someone having a gun isn't necessarily a threat just because of the gun. Someone on their feet behaving in a threatening manner with a knife is most certainly a lethal threat, though.

I am not sure where I specified that knives couldn't be lethal? So can just about everything else on the planet. Rocks, sticks, a piece of rope, etc.

A person in the street brandishing a knife at a distance is nowhere near the threat that a loaded gun is in the same hands. The cops knew this guy had a knife when they rolled up. They had plenty of distance from him. There were no civilians being threatened or even present. He did not attack the cops, but did refuse to put the knife down and was acting erratic. Who was he presenting a lethal threat to? Even if he threw the knife, the chance of killing someone with it are pretty fucking poor. If there's ever a good time to use a taser, that was probably it. A loaded 12 gauge, pointed at someone with a direct lethal threat (i.e. "if you don't leave i will kill you") to shoot is a completely different story.

If someone is literally attacking you with a knife, fine shoot em. If a perp is brandishing a knife and being uncooperative while not presenting any imminent threat to anyone, then no, a cop shouldn't take their life.

The whole mess with this particular guy ended up being ruled suicide by cop (and this was probably even his intent), but to me it was 100% trigger happy cops that used the excuse of a knife to kill a man.

Ever hear that old saying: don't bring a knife to a gun fight?

I'm not sure why you think a knife isn't a lethal threat.

Knife attack training video

I agree that just because someone has a knife doesn't mean they're a threat, just as someone having a gun isn't necessarily a threat just because of the gun. Someone on their feet behaving in a threatening manner with a knife is most certainly a lethal threat, though.

I don't know about Harry Potter, but I do remember Benny the Cab from Who Framed Roger Rabbit doing this stunt...

Some might argue the world of software has always been utter crap. :)

What I can't figure out is, with all the supposed focus on UX and interactive design, we still have such shitty interfaces. I mean, really.

I just helped my roommate replace her Dish Hopper (hard drive crash on the old one lost all our DVR recordings). We waited over an hour for the device to do a software update that it said should only take 20 minutes. We called tech support, and they told us to unplug it for 10 seconds. Worthless time-sucking crap.

The Onion got it right with "Sony's Stupid Box Thing."

Critics fail to understand a film. More news at 11.

A true connoisseur of movies recognises that what appears to be gentle shower of steaming baby shit to those that talk all faggy and read, is in fact cinematic brilliance.

Ass , by the way, is the ultimate in cinematic brilliance ("cause it's got electrolytes!"). I hear Trump is doing away with the traditional armoured limousine and going to ride a Harley tricycle.

When the Comic-Con 2015 teaser for Suicide Squad came out it was all dark and depressing and grownup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Then dark and depressing and grownup Batman v Superman: Yawn of Justice hit cinemas and tanked. So some marketing genius at DC looked over at Marvel rolling in cash from critical and commercial homeruns like Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy and sent down word that Suicide Squad would henceforth be a comedy buddy movie. Witness: official trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Same actors, same story, but now it's funny. Can't you tell?

Marvel managed to make a great movie starring a talking raccoon and a tree, and DC has managed to serve up steaming turds featuring Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Joker. Right now DC is to movies what Donald Trump is to twitter. You just feel like saying "stop".

When the Comic-Con 2015 teaser for Suicide Squad came out it was all dark and depressing and grownup.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Then dark and depressing and grownup Batman v Superman: Yawn of Justice hit cinemas and tanked. So some marketing genius at DC looked over at Marvel rolling in cash from critical and commercial homeruns like Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy and sent down word that Suicide Squad would henceforth be a comedy buddy movie. Witness: official trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Same actors, same story, but now it's funny. Can't you tell?

Marvel managed to make a great movie starring a talking raccoon and a tree, and DC has managed to serve up steaming turds featuring Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Joker. Right now DC is to movies what Donald Trump is to twitter. You just feel like saying "stop".

Eggs well done.

Bacon is not just for bacon and eggs any more.

• Egg, bacon, sausage and bacon
• bacon, bacon, sausage and bacon
• bacon, egg, bacon, bacon, spam and bacon
• bacon, bacon, bacon, egg and bacon
• bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, bacon, baked beans, bacon, bacon, bacon and bacon
• Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce, garnished with truffle pate, brandy and a fried egg on top, and bacon.
• Bacon and spam

For military contractor's, profit and loss are determined not by the market, but by a firm's ability to navigate politics. This leads to wasteful spending and delayed results, such as a F-35 Jet that’s still inferior to the F-16 which was invented in 1970. Professor Chris Coyne explains more in this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Michael J. Fox tried that.

My understanding (from a couple of people I know who were involved with the movie) was that the first pass (ie at the end of filming in July of 201) of the movie was disappointing, but serviceable (ie make its money back in the theatres and turn a profit on streaming and DVDs). Test audiences' biggest problem was that they didn't know many of the various minor villains (ie Killer Croc, Deadshot and Captain Boomerang) and were confused by Harley Quinn because in the cartoons, she has a definite costume and doesn't use a baseball bat.

Then the trailer was created which made it seem like a *much* different movie than it actually was. The trailer, (see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...) generated a lot of buzz due to the energy the characters gave off which wasn't in the original film. The Warner suits realized that there was a disconnect between the trailer and reality, so early last fall, they ordered a script update with reshoots so that the movie would better match the trailer.

The script changes were complete and new filming was finishing up in Vancouver when Deadpool came out and did not affect the final version of the film. It may have confirmed the Warner suits' that they were on the right track, but Deadpool didn't force the decision one way or another. I was told in December that Warner had managed to turn a fair movie that avid comic book readers will like into a "shitty" one that wouldn't work for anybody with the script and filming changes.

The DC Universe movie problems go a lot deeper than trying to copy Deadpool or Avengers movies - it basically comes from a lack of central planning that Marvel/Disney/Sony have in spades as well as difficulty in listening to the casual movie goer.

One of the friends, who's a PA on Suicide Squad, said that fanboys know the characters and that's who DC/Warner tends to listen to rather than somebody off the street who has heard of Batman and Superman but can't name anybody in their rogue's gallery other than The Joker and Lex Luthor and needs an introductory movie for them and the universe, the same way Marvel does.

Why is the truth modded down?

The DIEversity crowd constantly says things about whites, especially white men, that they would never say about any other group.

Some of them are openly calling for genocide... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This is war, there is no use hiding from it. /. is part of European male culture... your side in this battle is already chosen.

I thought groupthink was limited to /. and reddit but I see it is alive and well in new areas now:

/sarcasm Yeah, let's censor reviews we don't agree with!

Uh, No, "this movie sucks" is an opinion. You don't have to like it, or even agree with it, but trying to censor opinions you don't disagree just because it hurts your bottom line is just plain stupid. We already have the legal right to "voice" our opinion as long as it isn't slander nor libel.

As they say, Everyone is a critic.

Which ironically has this gem:

Harrison's Postulate: "For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism"

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I get all the arguments about declining buying power, wealth disparity and our media/online culture turning everybody into aloof nerds with no time for sex and the successful social interaction that is required for that, and it could very well be that that all factors into this development.

However, I don't think that that is the sole problem. In Germany I observe the women of my generation and a decade or so younger caught up in demands and expectations that can only be called patently absurd. And I think it is very much the same in the USA, as in certain dynamics and structures in society these two countries are very similar.

There are a lot of factors playing into this, such as women not yet completely atuned to having equal rights vis-a-vis their male peers and not yet having fully adjusted their expectations and their true responsibilities and 'duties' that come with it. Such as carefully balancing resource acquisition, mating and active survivaly strategies - by evolutionary and thus old-testatment definition a classic "mans job".
There are studies that women are actually more unhappy today than they were back in the sixties, when they basically were second-class citizens. This could be due to the fact that despite all the media hype about women wanting to lead corporations and earn the big bucks, the vast majority of women would maybe rather have a guy doing all that annoying external survival stuff and rather sit at home with the tribe nurturing little humans.

I very much think this is also due to some choice-effect coming up with equal rights and an abundance of goods needed for pure survival. For the first time in this planets history more people are obese than hungry or starving and a woman doesn't need a set of leader-warshipping willing-to-die-for-the-honor men close by to survive the other tribe warriors or the sabretooth lions roaming the area. She is free to choose when and if she takes a man and doesn't even need one to reproduce.

That a modern society that succsessfully has decoupled sex from reproduction and moves everyting concerning mating and reproduction squarely into the domain of conscious decision shouldn't be too surprised about the development described in TFA.

I expect this development to get worse and only change once society has moved into some sort of utopian mating-and-reproduction ritual or mechanism that tries to mitigate the effects of humanity moving further away from their mammal originins.

Then again, statistical analysis of humanities gene-pool show that throughout the history of mankind, 4 out of 5 men never got to reproduce whereas 4 out of 5 women did - which very much fits the fact that women take 9 months to build a human but men roughly 20 minutes to squirt one into a woman. In evolutionary terms a male individual is measurably less worth than a woman, which these numbers, odly enough, reflect again.

It's complicated, but I defenitely observe first-worlds women, equal rights and a choice effect with women playing into this. Especially after just having visited a classic macho-culture the last two weeks and observing mens and womens behaviour there. I was in moscow and my fairly recent new sweetheart is a russian lady. A difference of night and day in some aspects of socialisation vis-a-vis German or US women. No doubt. I wouldn't say it's all good that way, but until society fully grows up about these things I'd rather go 'classic couple' than have no stable relationship at all.

Bottom line concerning this aspect of the problem:
Women in the west need to emanzipate further and need to notice what work comes with being more independant. I'm sure us men can help by keeping a wide berth around women who aren't quite there yet and who's demands and expectations reflect that.

My 2 cents.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

It's not money but oversocialization and overpopulation.

In the 1960s John B. Calhoun conducted extensive experiments with mice, examining changes in their social behavior in an Utopian world.
Calhoun gave the mice clean housing and unlimited access to food.

After day 600, the social breakdown continued and the population declined toward extinction. During this period females ceased to reproduce. Their male counterparts withdrew completely, never engaging in courtship or fighting. They ate, drank, slept, and groomed themselves – all solitary pursuits. Sleek, healthy coats and an absence of scars characterized these males. They were dubbed "the beautiful ones." Breeding never resumed and behavior patterns were permanently changed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

A documentary on the subject:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

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There's also a controversial opinion piece that partly aligns with Calhoun's scientific findings.
Theodore Kaczynski's manifest "Industrial society and its future".
http://editions-hache.com/essa...

for the run of Babylon 5 on German TV channel Tele 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

No it didn't.

Yes it did. The Bajoran lightship was the first major use of CGI in s Star Trek series.

However, the battles in The Way of the Warrior weren't.

Do tell me how shit that looks compared to the battles in Babylon 5. Or how there are too few ships in one shot.

MundaneMatt Just had 2 of his videos false flagged by Sony of all people. Mind you, Sony is merely distributing the PS4 version of the game, so their right to DMCA mere discussion of the game before launch -- especially when it doesn't contain in game footage -- is a bit odd at best.

But yeah, this suppression of pre-release footage is worrying. Combine that with an apparent Review Embargo and, well... I haven't been on the hype train for this one, but I do hope it's good.

The strong-arm bully tactics strongly suggest that it's not good, otherwise it would be allowed to stand on its own merits and no publicity would be bad publicity, you dolt.

Well no friggin' duh. I'm hoping it turns out not to suck.

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You forgot the handy song

You're welcome :)

Kinda sad that all the bullshit that was made fun of with Win 8 still holds true on Windows "superspyware with Bing" 10.

Windows RG came out a while ago.

[warning -- second link uses flash]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

What does S stand for in every other iPhone from the 3GS on?

The "S" stands for "Speed". It was even the first thing they said after announcing the name.

Apple seems to generally try and offer up some sort of an explanation for new letters or modifiers that they attach to their products, such as Steve Jobs explaining back in 1997 that the "i" in the original iMac stood for "Internet", but after awhile, the letters seem to become brands unto themselves. After all, the original iPod had no way to get on the Internet, so what did the "i" stand for there? Or what does the "SE" stand for with the iPhone SE? We assume "Special Edition", but it really could be anything.

As for Microsoft, bear in mind that they are the company that thinks incrementing 8 and 360 will give you 10 and One, respectively. I don't really expect their product names to make a lot of sense.

here's an amusing video showing how simple it is to crack password hashes. teh NTLMv2 hash is only about 4 times slower than the hash he uses in the video.

It is common sense but, in the end, the person who tried to do this ended up being fired!

Keep in mind that the situation is way worse for the sailors, who will be competing inside of Guanabara Bay. This is what the water looks like. It is not unusual for sailors to get in contact with water - particularly, in the case of windsurfers. Check out what happened to this German sailor in a training event last year.

...and then, of course, there is the security situation.

The whole situation is absolutely ridiculous.

Poetic justice to South Park -- the Simpsons did it first.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRNwqVU70Q8

I beg to differ:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

I completely agree. One third of the human population has parasites inside of them. Ever wonder Brazilian women are so thin?

Take a look at this video. It looks like pasta. It's so yummy! The US Olympic athletes should be paying for that privilege if you ask me.

And when does the cleansing begin?

Actually, the South Park reference that immediately came to my mind was this.