I liked the movie a lot... it's probably up there on my top four or five of all Star Wars movies, and I enjoyed most of them (much much less so the prequels). And the other two who went with me also enjoyed it a lot.
Things that they did better than TLJ:
1. It was FUN. It was a fun movie above everything else, despite having some nice grit and darkness to certain scenes. One of the writers is the guy who did The Empire Strikes Back and Indiana Jones. The other writer was his son. 2. They didn't piss all over a beloved character, or even a beloved item (saber). 3. They didn't overdo the humor, it was the perfect mix and tone. 4. You enjoyed ALL of the characters. The good guys, the bad guys, the random side characters, the alien monsters, the sidekicks, you name it. All of them were very enjoyable. 5. There weren't 10 political agendas overtly telling you how to think. There might have been one, but it was sort of funny... maybe... mostly weird probably, but I can certainly not get hung up on it. 6. The CGI was done in good taste 95% of the time, a rarity lately. Actually TLJ did OK there, too.
What was missing from Solo that was in other Star Wars movies?
1. Don't go in expecting a bunch of Jedi duels- this is about Han before he gets involved in that world. 2. It was less explosion/laser lights/flashy than some of the newer movies. This appealed to me, you need diversity in movies or they get stale. 3. They weren't saving the galaxy per se. But for me it was nice to focus in on a smaller crowd who were after a smaller prize. 4. ? I'm sure there are other things, but this is what stands out to me.
Anyway, I'm sad to see it not doing great [yet]. But I have a lot of faith that giving DVD sales and whatnot, it will be a huge money maker.
People don't or shouldn't class action sue to make money or make lawyers rich. It is done for pure revenge on the perceived evil entity which screwed you over to begin with. All the other stuff is just annoying background noise.
Trees block traffic lights and GPS signals. Pedestrians aren't always seen by the bot-cars. So unless you live in a desert, once in a while your car is going to try to kill you or a pedestrian.
There is no way all traffic lights are going to be networked to talk to vehicles in the US. I predict "bot-car friendly roads" will be marked as such, and cars will have to shut down autopilot type driving in all other areas.
They mentioned since the 1970s, half the coral over the whole planet has been destroyed. Fucking not cool. One possible hope is that this lady with her team in Hawaii are trying to "speed up evolution" and introduce hardy coral types all over the world. 25% of sea life is around coral reefs... if we lose all of them I'm pretty sure it's going to cause a lot of problems.
I'll say that 15 years ago I was skeptical about the global warming thing. Then as more and more scientists became more sure, I realized there was absolutely something to it. This episode of Nova shows you tons and tons of evidence of why the majority of scientists seem to have no doubt. The worst thing is that we are now at atmospheric CO2 concentrations that are about double what the highest has ever been in the last 800,000 years as measured by air trapped in 2 mile deep ice in the arctic (or was it antarctic?). CO2 going up so violently quickly and heating going up so violently quickly is the real problem... we don't have a 10,000 years to adapt, we have a decade. Anything without a quick reproduction cycle is going to struggle in some areas. Don't worry, insects don't have this problem so you can bet no matter what we do there will be bugs left to eat our rotting corpses.
They say it has been estimated how much extra carbon we have put in the atmosphere from fossil fuels, and of that about 25% is absorbed by the ocean and another 25% is absorbed by trees on land. The other 50% is good old greenhouse gassing it up. The majority of the heat is absorbed by oceans too, which for now is keeping the atmosphere from changing as rapidly. Only problem is they predict by the year 2100 we'll have anywhere from 1 to 8 feet of higher ocean levels, which will screw up a lot of places along the coasts.
The only good news I got from this show was that wind and solar is cheaper than what anybody thought possible at this point in time, and usually cheaper than creating new coal operations. So at least the greedy types won't have more excuses to screw us over even more.
Whoever is saying "so they are almost monopolies, what is the big deal?". Well, it is a big deal. The government in the US is starting to pay more and more attention. They don't want to hurt business in general, but they also do not want these near-monopolies to rule the US and much less the planet.
Mozilla is making this statement to educate the people. As much as I hated history as a youngster, the cliche of history repeating itself is very real. Go see how the public eventually is guaranteed to get screwed when there is a monopoly. Basic econ 101 states that monopolies will eventually charge more for crappier services because there is no competition. Smaller businesses are snuffed out, so those guys hate monopolies. Employees are taken advantage of, think Walmart employing so many in the US and the poor wages. Consumers get less choice, worse service, and higher prices, think one ISP in your town.
It was a damn good movie. Apparently slashdot is a terrible place to talk about movies... I mean I'm all for complaining when CGI is a problem, but this movie was good or great all around.
My understanding is they have been hard core into training "penmanship" due to Japanese Kanji characters and such. It is not a surprise to me that a ton of people in Japan are good at drawing. This study makes me think the opposite is going to happen in America or wherever kids are using iPads to both learn and waste time instead of using a pencil or crayons.
Taiwan about to pass us up in the US for common sense stuff. Really, I always wonder at the crazy waste of 10 napkins for one burger and junk like that... who needs it?
Yep. It looks like crap. CGI only looks good when it's used to clean up or enhance actual real people and real objects. Less CGI is better, pretty much always. But when used correctly, it is fine. These guys aren't using their head, they are trying to use CGI for everything.
Fuck them fuck them and fuck them some more. That shit has no right to be there distracting and killing people. And the privacy issues are 10 times worse than browsing. Even the government might have enough sense to block this shit.
This is a completely stupid dick ass fucking move by Microsoft. How dare they screw this guy over, after all the good he has done. FUCK MICROSOFT for caring about a few pennies instead of the environment and the poor ass motherfuckers who want ancient refurbed computers.
1. We can stop bad guys better. 2. It doesn't "really" hurt the US public for us to spy on everybody's shit if they don't know.
The counter argument is:
1. Are you sure you can stop bad guys? 2. It DOES HURT untold millions of innocent US citizens.
The problem is, the cat is out of the bag. Everybody knows spying is the norm, and that screws with people, good people, in a bad way.
Is it as lethal as getting shot by a criminal? No. Is it as bad as having a mean boss looking over your shoulder questioning everything you do to the point that you are afraid to sneeze? Yes, for some people the resounding answer is yes.
Like somebody else already posted, Foxconn = Taiwan, and believe me last I heard they hate the People's Republic of China, the commie bastards that the US is, I think, simultaneously doing business with and keeping at arms length with all the cyber war stuff.
This makes perfect sense and the people out to do good would approve. The people who could care less as long as they make a buck otherwise are going to constantly block ideas like this.
Great write up BeauHD (if I understand Slashdot's author reference). There is exactly nothing wrong with email, it's one of the most useful and reliable things in the tech world. Junkmail is annoying, so sadly companies have to spend a lot dealing with it, but other than that I wouldn't touch it.
Google making it interactive is a step in the wrong direction. They know just how critical email is and just want a way to turn it into the next mini-Facebook. No way, no how.
I can't see any organization accepting this junk idea. Personal email? I sure hope people are smarter than that.
Sounds very much like they want to control what you see and who gets paid. I haven't met a single ad I like, so I'm skeptical that any "pro ad" committee is going to come up with a fair list.
If I am wrong, great. Somebody have the scoop on this?
When I say "and they stay at 100% charge for years" on laptops, I meant to say that I've seen laptops that were plugged into a wall for years (charge at 100%)and never used their battery, seem to have great batteries when you unplug them from the wall and use them. Whereas laptops that are on the road a lot definitely see their batteries worsen.
Knowing what to do with batteries to keep a good life on them stresses me out. Consider this. A nearly opposite position was taken by a drone battery "expert", who obsesses and lives by the "keep the charge at 50% when not in use" and acts like any amount of time at a high charge is bad for the battery. Double check me, but it also seems like he points to not allowing it to hang at 1% or 0% for any length of time, but any temporary drop to 5 or 10% isn't a big deal. I found the link:
Also, DJI drone manufactuer user "paper/owner" guides say do not drop below 20% for best battery life and store at 50% charge.
I'm with you on the laptop thing though. Many laptops that never use their battery seem to have good batteries, and they stay at 100% charge for years.
It's really hard to know what to believe, so I try to meet somewhere in the middle. I always store things long term at 50%, I try not to run many cycles on my batteries, and I try not to let them get below 20%.
Good info... I'm locked into iPhones due to the job (they pay for it so...). But when recommending devices to others, I often go with Androids. Knowing Samsung is going greedy with making things more breakable is an important consideration.
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I liked the movie a lot... it's probably up there on my top four or five of all Star Wars movies, and I enjoyed most of them (much much less so the prequels). And the other two who went with me also enjoyed it a lot.
Things that they did better than TLJ:
1. It was FUN. It was a fun movie above everything else, despite having some nice grit and darkness to certain scenes. One of the writers is the guy who did The Empire Strikes Back and Indiana Jones. The other writer was his son.
2. They didn't piss all over a beloved character, or even a beloved item (saber).
3. They didn't overdo the humor, it was the perfect mix and tone.
4. You enjoyed ALL of the characters. The good guys, the bad guys, the random side characters, the alien monsters, the sidekicks, you name it. All of them were very enjoyable.
5. There weren't 10 political agendas overtly telling you how to think. There might have been one, but it was sort of funny... maybe... mostly weird probably, but I can certainly not get hung up on it.
6. The CGI was done in good taste 95% of the time, a rarity lately. Actually TLJ did OK there, too.
What was missing from Solo that was in other Star Wars movies?
1. Don't go in expecting a bunch of Jedi duels- this is about Han before he gets involved in that world.
2. It was less explosion/laser lights/flashy than some of the newer movies. This appealed to me, you need diversity in movies or they get stale.
3. They weren't saving the galaxy per se. But for me it was nice to focus in on a smaller crowd who were after a smaller prize.
4. ? I'm sure there are other things, but this is what stands out to me.
Anyway, I'm sad to see it not doing great [yet]. But I have a lot of faith that giving DVD sales and whatnot, it will be a huge money maker.
People don't or shouldn't class action sue to make money or make lawyers rich. It is done for pure revenge on the perceived evil entity which screwed you over to begin with. All the other stuff is just annoying background noise.
Trees block traffic lights and GPS signals. Pedestrians aren't always seen by the bot-cars. So unless you live in a desert, once in a while your car is going to try to kill you or a pedestrian.
There is no way all traffic lights are going to be networked to talk to vehicles in the US. I predict "bot-car friendly roads" will be marked as such, and cars will have to shut down autopilot type driving in all other areas.
http://www.pbs.org/video/decod...
They mentioned since the 1970s, half the coral over the whole planet has been destroyed. Fucking not cool. One possible hope is that this lady with her team in Hawaii are trying to "speed up evolution" and introduce hardy coral types all over the world. 25% of sea life is around coral reefs... if we lose all of them I'm pretty sure it's going to cause a lot of problems.
I'll say that 15 years ago I was skeptical about the global warming thing. Then as more and more scientists became more sure, I realized there was absolutely something to it. This episode of Nova shows you tons and tons of evidence of why the majority of scientists seem to have no doubt. The worst thing is that we are now at atmospheric CO2 concentrations that are about double what the highest has ever been in the last 800,000 years as measured by air trapped in 2 mile deep ice in the arctic (or was it antarctic?). CO2 going up so violently quickly and heating going up so violently quickly is the real problem... we don't have a 10,000 years to adapt, we have a decade. Anything without a quick reproduction cycle is going to struggle in some areas. Don't worry, insects don't have this problem so you can bet no matter what we do there will be bugs left to eat our rotting corpses.
They say it has been estimated how much extra carbon we have put in the atmosphere from fossil fuels, and of that about 25% is absorbed by the ocean and another 25% is absorbed by trees on land. The other 50% is good old greenhouse gassing it up. The majority of the heat is absorbed by oceans too, which for now is keeping the atmosphere from changing as rapidly. Only problem is they predict by the year 2100 we'll have anywhere from 1 to 8 feet of higher ocean levels, which will screw up a lot of places along the coasts.
The only good news I got from this show was that wind and solar is cheaper than what anybody thought possible at this point in time, and usually cheaper than creating new coal operations. So at least the greedy types won't have more excuses to screw us over even more.
Whoever is saying "so they are almost monopolies, what is the big deal?". Well, it is a big deal. The government in the US is starting to pay more and more attention. They don't want to hurt business in general, but they also do not want these near-monopolies to rule the US and much less the planet.
Mozilla is making this statement to educate the people. As much as I hated history as a youngster, the cliche of history repeating itself is very real. Go see how the public eventually is guaranteed to get screwed when there is a monopoly. Basic econ 101 states that monopolies will eventually charge more for crappier services because there is no competition. Smaller businesses are snuffed out, so those guys hate monopolies. Employees are taken advantage of, think Walmart employing so many in the US and the poor wages. Consumers get less choice, worse service, and higher prices, think one ISP in your town.
It was a damn good movie. Apparently slashdot is a terrible place to talk about movies... I mean I'm all for complaining when CGI is a problem, but this movie was good or great all around.
My understanding is they have been hard core into training "penmanship" due to Japanese Kanji characters and such. It is not a surprise to me that a ton of people in Japan are good at drawing. This study makes me think the opposite is going to happen in America or wherever kids are using iPads to both learn and waste time instead of using a pencil or crayons.
https://www.cnn.com/2015/04/05...
Many studies show enough sunlight exposure during youth years prevents nearsightedness.
Taiwan about to pass us up in the US for common sense stuff. Really, I always wonder at the crazy waste of 10 napkins for one burger and junk like that... who needs it?
Yep. It looks like crap. CGI only looks good when it's used to clean up or enhance actual real people and real objects. Less CGI is better, pretty much always. But when used correctly, it is fine. These guys aren't using their head, they are trying to use CGI for everything.
Fuck them fuck them and fuck them some more. That shit has no right to be there distracting and killing people. And the privacy issues are 10 times worse than browsing. Even the government might have enough sense to block this shit.
Thanks. Had no idea they were that compatible.
This is a completely stupid dick ass fucking move by Microsoft. How dare they screw this guy over, after all the good he has done. FUCK MICROSOFT for caring about a few pennies instead of the environment and the poor ass motherfuckers who want ancient refurbed computers.
The argument for backdoors is:
1. We can stop bad guys better.
2. It doesn't "really" hurt the US public for us to spy on everybody's shit if they don't know.
The counter argument is:
1. Are you sure you can stop bad guys?
2. It DOES HURT untold millions of innocent US citizens.
The problem is, the cat is out of the bag. Everybody knows spying is the norm, and that screws with people, good people, in a bad way.
Is it as lethal as getting shot by a criminal? No. Is it as bad as having a mean boss looking over your shoulder questioning everything you do to the point that you are afraid to sneeze? Yes, for some people the resounding answer is yes.
Like somebody else already posted, Foxconn = Taiwan, and believe me last I heard they hate the People's Republic of China, the commie bastards that the US is, I think, simultaneously doing business with and keeping at arms length with all the cyber war stuff.
Who is to say? Sounds very much an opinion of who you ask, and only certain people would have full knowledge of what was behind the scenes.
I'm extremely glad privacy won for once. I just hope their crime doesn't go up because of it. The eternal trade off I suppose.
This makes perfect sense and the people out to do good would approve. The people who could care less as long as they make a buck otherwise are going to constantly block ideas like this.
Great write up BeauHD (if I understand Slashdot's author reference). There is exactly nothing wrong with email, it's one of the most useful and reliable things in the tech world. Junkmail is annoying, so sadly companies have to spend a lot dealing with it, but other than that I wouldn't touch it.
Google making it interactive is a step in the wrong direction. They know just how critical email is and just want a way to turn it into the next mini-Facebook. No way, no how.
I can't see any organization accepting this junk idea. Personal email? I sure hope people are smarter than that.
Sounds very much like they want to control what you see and who gets paid. I haven't met a single ad I like, so I'm skeptical that any "pro ad" committee is going to come up with a fair list.
If I am wrong, great. Somebody have the scoop on this?
Not reasonable when your employers are greedy bastards, that is. Paid sick or better yet personal days should be the norm.
But it does answer it. The engineers that deal with paper jams get off on torture! You don't think it ends at torture of paper do you? ;)
["Printers are essentially paper torture chambers," Warner said, smiling behind her glasses. "I thought, This is the coolest thing I've ever seen."]
If it says sandbox, it needs to be sandbox. They better fix this.
When I say "and they stay at 100% charge for years" on laptops, I meant to say that I've seen laptops that were plugged into a wall for years (charge at 100%)and never used their battery, seem to have great batteries when you unplug them from the wall and use them. Whereas laptops that are on the road a lot definitely see their batteries worsen.
Knowing what to do with batteries to keep a good life on them stresses me out. Consider this. A nearly opposite position was taken by a drone battery "expert", who obsesses and lives by the "keep the charge at 50% when not in use" and acts like any amount of time at a high charge is bad for the battery. Double check me, but it also seems like he points to not allowing it to hang at 1% or 0% for any length of time, but any temporary drop to 5 or 10% isn't a big deal. I found the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Also, DJI drone manufactuer user "paper/owner" guides say do not drop below 20% for best battery life and store at 50% charge.
I'm with you on the laptop thing though. Many laptops that never use their battery seem to have good batteries, and they stay at 100% charge for years.
It's really hard to know what to believe, so I try to meet somewhere in the middle. I always store things long term at 50%, I try not to run many cycles on my batteries, and I try not to let them get below 20%.
Good info... I'm locked into iPhones due to the job (they pay for it so...). But when recommending devices to others, I often go with Androids. Knowing Samsung is going greedy with making things more breakable is an important consideration.