Except for the little detail that the other country has data protection laws that make it illegal to do so. An American court should not be able to override the law where it seems to have had no intent to hide the data from the American authorities.
I agree. But MS is an American company and subject to American laws. I'd love for the outcome of this to be a finding of fact that states that MS is an American company despite pretending to be an Irish company, and American companies must abide by American law and court orders, regardless of physical location.
MS, Apple, and all the other little shits have their tax loopholes closed. The US stays out of actual foreign companies's shit. The rest of the world stops trusting Google, MS, Apple, etc. and we get some competition. Even shit like Gitmo and various PMCs could get spanked down.
This proxy shit, where a handful of shitsniffers in San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC, etc. own and run a company on the other side of the planet and claim to be beholden to whichever set of laws is best for them, pay whichever set of taxes is lowest, etc. needs to stop. We already go after individual travelers who commit perfectly legal acts in other countries that happen to be illegal in America. (Everything from medical procedures to doing drugs to fucking 17 year old ladyboys when you're from an 18 year old age of consent state.)
A link is a fucking link. You can type in any link into your browser manually. Of you can copy and paste the text of the link. Doing so makes NO difference. You end up at the same destination.
Clicking a link or manually navigating to some other page, then manually typing in a code is the same deal (actually a bit safer as the form data isn't exposed via the URL as in the link clicking/copying scenario). A MITM attack is useless if you're connected via SSL/TLS. (Unless you believe the MITM can break SSL/TLS, at which point you're fucked regardless.)
How would you be prompted to enter the second code into the site? "Durp, you never set up 2 factor authentication, but go ahead and enter the SMS you get from Google into this form field on a non-Google site."? Or perhaps "Uh, open your authenticator application and enter the code for the entry attached to the email account you just gave us."? Or even "Use your dedicated hardware token for your bank."?
This scheme, and it was a scheme, had nothing to do with US jobs. It was a method of stealing cash and often funneling it out of the country.
"Investors" find a mule with a shitty startup (or give them a phony one), bring them over, and pump a bit of cash and a lot of hot air into them. VCs are idiots and are TERRIFIED of not getting in on the ground floor of the next big thing (see Uber, Snapchat, etc.), so they come running to pump millions or billions into this hot new startup.
Then the startup goes bust, the mule absconds to their home country, and the money? Only a fraction of it was actually spent, and the initial investors who sponsored the mule now have a huge chunk of it sitting in foreign accounts, where Uncle Sam can't tax it.
The alternative is for the initial investors to simply funnel the VC sucker cash through the startup to their own companies. Your fancy new startup needs a super expensive, hip, office space matching your young, active, culture? I just happen to own a building you can rent. You guys need a crack team of interns and social media gurus? I happen to be an executive at a staffing agency. You can't attract the best, freshest millennials without an in-office Starbucks and a massage parlor. Let me hook you up with my brother-in-law.
Dampening makes something wet. Damping absorbs energy (friction). Unless you're adding moisture to slow down oscillations, you're damping rather than dampening.
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So when Captain Kirk showed Uhura his inertial dampener...
This is the only correct thing you've posted in this thread (and, I'm guessing, ever). But it proves our point, not yours. Dumbasses like you who don't understand that kilobytes, etc. are measured in powers of two are the fucking retards that cause confusion.
Good thing the units aren't Giga, Mega, etc. They're Gigabyte, Megabit, etc. The Byte or Bit (or B or b) means we're in the base 2 world, son.
Get used to it. It's how nearly every fucking digital computer processes shit, holds shit in memory, and ultimately stores shit in disk sectors or flash blocks or whatever. It's how we do digital math and logical operations. It's how we compute the number of states for a given storage size, it's how we fucking run the fucking world, at this point.
Take your SI bullshit, and your fucking "kibibyte" heresy and get the FUCK OUT.
No, you're just an idiot. 1 GB has always meant 1,073,741,824 bytes, and it always will. GB is not an SI unit. The B (or b) is part of the unit. It is not ambiguous. It absolutely and clearly means 1,073,741,824 bytes.
Marketers did this shit intentionally in the days of early storage devices. The "oopsie" then was counting sectors and "forgetting" digital storage was measured. The networking engineers of the day properly measured things using powers of 10 because they were talking about baud. The clownshoes generation after them were retarded, and forgot to convert when calculating bandwidth from baud rate and symbol size.
The fucking shitheel Frenchies at SI tried to take control and hijack existing terms like KB, MB, etc., and force everyone to use stupid shit like KiB and MiB. The problem is that establishing new terms and changing the meaning of existing terms CAUSES the fucking confusion in the first place. Now when you see "MB" you have to wonder: Is the author a fucking retard who uses MB to mean 1,000,000 bytes? If so, did they write this before or after the abomination of MiB?
Narrator: Han went to ask Chewie if he fixed the hyperdrive. Han: Chewie, did you remember to fix the hyperdrive? Chewbacca: Arrrororaaawr. Narrator: Chewie was lying.
Windows Update on Windows 7 simply doesn't work if you don't have enough RAM. There's a hotfix for it. Even with the hotfix and plenty of RAM, typical behavior is for Windows Update on a fresh install is to fail or just hang on "checking for updates". At that point you can shutdown the service and start it up again, or just reboot, and then check for updates again. I don't remember the last time I had to deal with it (probably around 2 years ago), but the update service eventually completes. The detection it does in the first attempt isn't lost when you restart the service or reboot (unless you manually clear out the files, which a lot of guides for fixing Windows Updates will tell you to do).
You can also use wsusoffline or similar services to get up to date once and then rely on Windows Update afterward. Windows 7 really needed a second service pack (or a third), but contractually MS has to extend support by X years after the last service pack. That's also why Windows 8.1 existed instead of Windows 8 SP1. They wanted to kill it and kill it fast. And that's why Windows 10 has abandoned the idea completely. There a half step away from formalizing it as Windows (Year) and moving to a full-on subscription model.
This "article" is horseshit. Windows 7 is still supported and still receiving patches, despite Microsoft's efforts. It is not ancient. Fuck you MS, and fuck Windows 10. Windows 10 has had nearly as many vulnerabilities as Windows 7 in recent months, and far more issues with the actual patches, driver updates, and the update process.
I didn't even know a Han Solo spinoff was coming next year.
But I did know that something was coming next year, because this year we're getting Episode VIII, and Disney is whoring Star Wars out for annual films, whether anyone wants them or not.
The fact that the directors have quit implies that we've got another unnecessary, unoriginal turd on our hands.
I'm hoping that Episode VIII falls well short of the box office watermark that Episode VII set. Disney needs a hard reality check. For my part, I won't be seeing it until the BluRay hits Redbox.
Episode VII was such a fucking turd. In a few years, the Empire has rebuilt itself, rebuilt another massive superweapon, lined up a bunch of fancy new toys, turned and enlisted a new force-using apprentice for a new big, bad, shadowy dude and paired him up with a new rank-and-file military type so they can fight the same old battles over plans/maps that, surprise surprise, are stored in a cute little droid.
Fuck off. It's basically a remake separated by a generation, just like Jurassic World was. And just like Jurassic World, it makes no fucking sense. Logistically, how did all of this happen in the short time since the last movie? How did no one learn from past mistakes? This isn't a failing to earn from history scenario, we've got characters who lived through the mistakes. And we're not talking about wishy washy lessons about human behavior. We're talking about simple practical fucking details.
Why design a third huge super weapon with a cartoonish "blow this lil bit up and destroy the whole thing"? Why not proactively guard that weak point? Why hide things in little droids? We know they have radios. If you have a map of where a missing person went, and then a missing chunk of that map where the trail cuts off, why not just search around the missing chunk of that map? Oh, because you didn't even have that part of the map because your droid was having a rest? When and how did the droid collect the data? You can't have a tech poke at the droid and wake it up?
And why the fuck do you need to find Luke Skywalker so badly? You need an army (that you control) and a functioning government. Or did you already forget the failures of the Jedi Council? Herp Derp, we're a religion and we kind of act as knights but also as political advisors but we also hate war and politics. Herp Derp, we're getting involved in politics and wars, might as well just trust this slimy politicians and use this army of clones we didn't know we bought to fight... wait, who are we fighting and why? Blockades? Communications disruptions? One little shit stain planet? OH JAR JAR U SO SILLY! Herp Derp, I guess the government turned on us and used that army against us, now we're all dead except for 2 special dudes who are key characters in the original movies.
Why design a dinosaur park without heavily armed guards at each exhibit? Hell, we managed to murder a gorilla in about 4 seconds because of some shitstain child with useless parents. Why have a cage for the new, super dangerous dinosaur that ONLY has a dinosaur-sized gate? Why not have a man-sized gate to the side, so you can have people enter and leave without risking the dinosaur escaping?
I've never seen a scenario where a finally block made sense. I almost never want to do the same fucking thing after a try block as I do after a catch block, and if I do, I'm going to explicitly do it in both or after the try/catch block.
Because it named its feature "Autopilot", which means it's supposed to be able to pilot itself.
Cue the idiots who will come in and say airline autopilot is incredibly limited and that people should similarly expect Tesla's Autopilot features to be extremely limited as well. The term autopilot has a meaning. It doesn't matter if you think you should apply airline autopilot features (which are much, much more involved than what Tesla offers) to what people should expect from a feature named "Autopilot". What matters is what a reasonable person expects a feature with that name and associated advertising to be able to handle.
Of course, the fact is it's not much more than cruise control, lane assist, and collision prevention that's increasingly present, as standard, on cars made for plebs.
"Arrival was fucking stupid. We start with aliens and some interesting premise about communicating with them, but we end up with political bullshit that gets solved with time travel, telepathy, and essentially magic. The whole premise is shot when that shit happens because: Why couldn't the aliens use their time travel telepathy bullshit to help themselves?"
You're not wrong, especially the way it was portrayed in the movie vs the original short story. IIR the short story Correctly, the alien's experience the entirety of their lifespan simultaneously (as much as that term has meaning in this context). They don't change the future because the future already is. They keep doing things they would have done regardless of knowing the outcome may be unfavorable because they wouldn't know the outcome if they hadn't done it/aren't doing it/aren't going to be doing it. The human linguist picks up this trait via strong-sapir-wharf, but part of the point, I think, is that experiencing the future in this way has less impact on decisions than you'd expect. In the story, she chooses to have her daughter even knowing that she will eventually die not of an incurable disease, but because of a perfectly preventable rock climbing accident.
I'll give the film credit though for finally making the experience of meeting alien life actually feel as unnerving and strange as it probably would in reality.
The thing with Passengers was that anyone he woke up was doomed to die with him on the ship because the pods just keep you in statis, they can't put you into it. He didn't know there was a reactor problem that would kill them all, so as far as he was concerned his decision was to die alone (and probably go mad in the process) or wake someone up who might keep him sane, but at the same time doom them to his fate.
I had forgotten about the awful dead daughter stripe than ran through Arrival. Ugh.
The whole thing about the pods only putting people into stasis once is fucking stupid. The ship was versatile enough to power up for him, feed him, serve him booze from a bar, etc. well before he was supposed to wake up. And they don't have a spare pod available? They can't be reprogrammed? No one on the ship has access to do such a thing? The fact that he woke up early told him there was a problem with the ship. Yet the ship is too dumb to expose a diagnostic screen? Access is restricted so hard that only people behind a locked door in one area of the ship can do anything, and they can't be woken up early in the event of a problem? Are you just shit out of luck if that section of the ship is damaged and they die?
I accept the whole plot about a problem on the ship, him waking up early, being unable to fix it, him not wanting to wake people up and struggling with that decision, etc. But it falls apart when you consider any of the details even within their established rules. Why was only his pod affected, for example? If he can't solve the problem, it doesn't mean no one else can.
And ultimately, he does decide to wake someone up. The struggle with ethics/morality is just as valid in the story whether you decide to wake someone up or not, but WHO you decide to wake up, and WHEN you decide to wake them up matters. I don't fault him for the whole "choosing love" thing, but he could've woken anyone else up (or multiple people up), and he could've done it much sooner to help work on the problem sooner. And yes, he should have known there was a problem that needed fixing - why else did he wake up early? And of course he was trying to get behind the security door for a long time, so he was trying to do something - get to the crew (likely to wake someone up, with no drawn out dilemma), get to ship controls and find out what the problem is, etc.
If the guy had months (or years) alone, he would have thought of a lot of things, and ultimately, I believe, ended up at the logical conclusion that he needs help (has to wake people up) and time is of the essence (ship has unknown
I liked Pandorum, but it was certainly more of a horror movie than a sci-fi movie. There's a psychological component to it as well, but it just boils down to a simple "Oh, he crazy." once stuff is revealed. It only serves as a superficial explanation of why there are crazy cannibal monster people things on a space ship and why Dennis Quaid is how he is. The madness isn't really explored in any interesting way, it's just the reason for the chaos.
A lot of movies and games follow this kind of formula for setting up the situation. There's a ship (of either the space or ocean variety) and something causes shit to go down. People start acting crazy, often killing and eating each other, etc. We often enter the situation as a separate ship responding to a distress beacon or someone on the first ship waking up.
It plays out in a few simple steps: 1: WTF happened and where's the crew? 2: OMG monsters/aliens/demons! 3: Actually, it was the crew! They went crazy! 4: OH NO it's happening to us! We're doomed to the same fate as them and I think our captain is kind of into it. 5: Oh, it's because they pissed off some aliens / stole an artifact / opened a hell portal, let's make them happy / dump the artifact / close the portal and escape with a few survivors.
See Doom, Dead Space, Event Horizon, The Sphere, Pandorum, etc. For an example that skips the sci-fi pretense, see The Descent.
At least with Pandorum the madness came from within (there was no alien orb or device that caused it, as far as I remember).
The rank and file / uniformed crew was behind that door, sure (even if you ignore the laughable error of putting all your eggs in one basket, the need for a locked security door when everyone's asleep, the inability of the ship's controls to be accessed in the event of such issues, etc.).
But there were surely civilians with skills and knowledge.of the ship. It was a seed ship. At the very least, a couple of dudes could've helped him pound away at the door and keep him sane. Of course, it would probably have been easier to go through the side of the wall than the reinforced door.
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Corporate structure only gets around laws like that because the government is corrupt and owned by the corporations.
Except for the little detail that the other country has data protection laws that make it illegal to do so. An American court should not be able to override the law where it seems to have had no intent to hide the data from the American authorities.
I agree. But MS is an American company and subject to American laws. I'd love for the outcome of this to be a finding of fact that states that MS is an American company despite pretending to be an Irish company, and American companies must abide by American law and court orders, regardless of physical location.
MS, Apple, and all the other little shits have their tax loopholes closed.
The US stays out of actual foreign companies's shit.
The rest of the world stops trusting Google, MS, Apple, etc. and we get some competition.
Even shit like Gitmo and various PMCs could get spanked down.
This proxy shit, where a handful of shitsniffers in San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC, etc. own and run a company on the other side of the planet and claim to be beholden to whichever set of laws is best for them, pay whichever set of taxes is lowest, etc. needs to stop. We already go after individual travelers who commit perfectly legal acts in other countries that happen to be illegal in America. (Everything from medical procedures to doing drugs to fucking 17 year old ladyboys when you're from an 18 year old age of consent state.)
Why the FUCK is this modded insightful?
A link is a fucking link. You can type in any link into your browser manually. Of you can copy and paste the text of the link. Doing so makes NO difference. You end up at the same destination.
Clicking a link or manually navigating to some other page, then manually typing in a code is the same deal (actually a bit safer as the form data isn't exposed via the URL as in the link clicking/copying scenario). A MITM attack is useless if you're connected via SSL/TLS. (Unless you believe the MITM can break SSL/TLS, at which point you're fucked regardless.)
How would you be prompted to enter the second code into the site? "Durp, you never set up 2 factor authentication, but go ahead and enter the SMS you get from Google into this form field on a non-Google site."? Or perhaps "Uh, open your authenticator application and enter the code for the entry attached to the email account you just gave us."? Or even "Use your dedicated hardware token for your bank."?
This scheme, and it was a scheme, had nothing to do with US jobs. It was a method of stealing cash and often funneling it out of the country.
"Investors" find a mule with a shitty startup (or give them a phony one), bring them over, and pump a bit of cash and a lot of hot air into them.
VCs are idiots and are TERRIFIED of not getting in on the ground floor of the next big thing (see Uber, Snapchat, etc.), so they come running to pump millions or billions into this hot new startup.
Then the startup goes bust, the mule absconds to their home country, and the money? Only a fraction of it was actually spent, and the initial investors who sponsored the mule now have a huge chunk of it sitting in foreign accounts, where Uncle Sam can't tax it.
The alternative is for the initial investors to simply funnel the VC sucker cash through the startup to their own companies. Your fancy new startup needs a super expensive, hip, office space matching your young, active, culture? I just happen to own a building you can rent. You guys need a crack team of interns and social media gurus? I happen to be an executive at a staffing agency. You can't attract the best, freshest millennials without an in-office Starbucks and a massage parlor. Let me hook you up with my brother-in-law.
Dampening makes something wet. Damping absorbs energy (friction). Unless you're adding moisture to slow down oscillations, you're damping rather than dampening.
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So when Captain Kirk showed Uhura his inertial dampener...
Weak millennial wrists.
Flash blocks chunked in powers of 2. You're seeing what the controller is presenting, not the underlying physical structure.
This is the only correct thing you've posted in this thread (and, I'm guessing, ever).
But it proves our point, not yours. Dumbasses like you who don't understand that kilobytes, etc. are measured in powers of two are the fucking retards that cause confusion.
Good thing the units aren't Giga, Mega, etc. They're Gigabyte, Megabit, etc. The Byte or Bit (or B or b) means we're in the base 2 world, son.
Get used to it. It's how nearly every fucking digital computer processes shit, holds shit in memory, and ultimately stores shit in disk sectors or flash blocks or whatever. It's how we do digital math and logical operations. It's how we compute the number of states for a given storage size, it's how we fucking run the fucking world, at this point.
Take your SI bullshit, and your fucking "kibibyte" heresy and get the FUCK OUT.
No, you're just an idiot. 1 GB has always meant 1,073,741,824 bytes, and it always will.
GB is not an SI unit. The B (or b) is part of the unit. It is not ambiguous. It absolutely and clearly means 1,073,741,824 bytes.
Marketers did this shit intentionally in the days of early storage devices. The "oopsie" then was counting sectors and "forgetting" digital storage was measured. The networking engineers of the day properly measured things using powers of 10 because they were talking about baud. The clownshoes generation after them were retarded, and forgot to convert when calculating bandwidth from baud rate and symbol size.
The fucking shitheel Frenchies at SI tried to take control and hijack existing terms like KB, MB, etc., and force everyone to use stupid shit like KiB and MiB. The problem is that establishing new terms and changing the meaning of existing terms CAUSES the fucking confusion in the first place. Now when you see "MB" you have to wonder: Is the author a fucking retard who uses MB to mean 1,000,000 bytes? If so, did they write this before or after the abomination of MiB?
Narrator: Han went to ask Chewie if he fixed the hyperdrive.
Han: Chewie, did you remember to fix the hyperdrive?
Chewbacca: Arrrororaaawr.
Narrator: Chewie was lying.
Windows Update on Windows 7 simply doesn't work if you don't have enough RAM. There's a hotfix for it.
Even with the hotfix and plenty of RAM, typical behavior is for Windows Update on a fresh install is to fail or just hang on "checking for updates". At that point you can shutdown the service and start it up again, or just reboot, and then check for updates again. I don't remember the last time I had to deal with it (probably around 2 years ago), but the update service eventually completes. The detection it does in the first attempt isn't lost when you restart the service or reboot (unless you manually clear out the files, which a lot of guides for fixing Windows Updates will tell you to do).
You can also use wsusoffline or similar services to get up to date once and then rely on Windows Update afterward. Windows 7 really needed a second service pack (or a third), but contractually MS has to extend support by X years after the last service pack. That's also why Windows 8.1 existed instead of Windows 8 SP1. They wanted to kill it and kill it fast. And that's why Windows 10 has abandoned the idea completely. There a half step away from formalizing it as Windows (Year) and moving to a full-on subscription model.
Source: MS download servers, my wsyncmgr.log files, the emails MS sends me every month about the CVEs and the affected software, etc.
This "article" is horseshit. Windows 7 is still supported and still receiving patches, despite Microsoft's efforts. It is not ancient.
Fuck you MS, and fuck Windows 10. Windows 10 has had nearly as many vulnerabilities as Windows 7 in recent months, and far more issues with the actual patches, driver updates, and the update process.
I didn't even know a Han Solo spinoff was coming next year.
But I did know that something was coming next year, because this year we're getting Episode VIII, and Disney is whoring Star Wars out for annual films, whether anyone wants them or not.
The fact that the directors have quit implies that we've got another unnecessary, unoriginal turd on our hands.
I'm hoping that Episode VIII falls well short of the box office watermark that Episode VII set. Disney needs a hard reality check. For my part, I won't be seeing it until the BluRay hits Redbox.
Episode VII was such a fucking turd. In a few years, the Empire has rebuilt itself, rebuilt another massive superweapon, lined up a bunch of fancy new toys, turned and enlisted a new force-using apprentice for a new big, bad, shadowy dude and paired him up with a new rank-and-file military type so they can fight the same old battles over plans/maps that, surprise surprise, are stored in a cute little droid.
Fuck off. It's basically a remake separated by a generation, just like Jurassic World was. And just like Jurassic World, it makes no fucking sense. Logistically, how did all of this happen in the short time since the last movie? How did no one learn from past mistakes? This isn't a failing to earn from history scenario, we've got characters who lived through the mistakes. And we're not talking about wishy washy lessons about human behavior. We're talking about simple practical fucking details.
Why design a third huge super weapon with a cartoonish "blow this lil bit up and destroy the whole thing"? Why not proactively guard that weak point? Why hide things in little droids? We know they have radios. If you have a map of where a missing person went, and then a missing chunk of that map where the trail cuts off, why not just search around the missing chunk of that map? Oh, because you didn't even have that part of the map because your droid was having a rest? When and how did the droid collect the data? You can't have a tech poke at the droid and wake it up?
And why the fuck do you need to find Luke Skywalker so badly? You need an army (that you control) and a functioning government. Or did you already forget the failures of the Jedi Council? Herp Derp, we're a religion and we kind of act as knights but also as political advisors but we also hate war and politics. Herp Derp, we're getting involved in politics and wars, might as well just trust this slimy politicians and use this army of clones we didn't know we bought to fight... wait, who are we fighting and why? Blockades? Communications disruptions? One little shit stain planet? OH JAR JAR U SO SILLY! Herp Derp, I guess the government turned on us and used that army against us, now we're all dead except for 2 special dudes who are key characters in the original movies.
Why design a dinosaur park without heavily armed guards at each exhibit? Hell, we managed to murder a gorilla in about 4 seconds because of some shitstain child with useless parents. Why have a cage for the new, super dangerous dinosaur that ONLY has a dinosaur-sized gate? Why not have a man-sized gate to the side, so you can have people enter and leave without risking the dinosaur escaping?
I'd rather be dead in California than alive in Arizona.
-Lucille Bluth
Uh, it was later proven that it was a software glitch. First it was user error, then it was floor mats, then the truth came out.
I've never seen a scenario where a finally block made sense.
I almost never want to do the same fucking thing after a try block as I do after a catch block, and if I do, I'm going to explicitly do it in both or after the try/catch block.
Because the feature is a piece of shit.
Watch it in action. https://youtu.be/uYav3_7miIc?t...
What is the name of the feature?
Because it named its feature "Autopilot", which means it's supposed to be able to pilot itself.
Cue the idiots who will come in and say airline autopilot is incredibly limited and that people should similarly expect Tesla's Autopilot features to be extremely limited as well. The term autopilot has a meaning. It doesn't matter if you think you should apply airline autopilot features (which are much, much more involved than what Tesla offers) to what people should expect from a feature named "Autopilot". What matters is what a reasonable person expects a feature with that name and associated advertising to be able to handle.
Of course, the fact is it's not much more than cruise control, lane assist, and collision prevention that's increasingly present, as standard, on cars made for plebs.
"Arrival was fucking stupid. We start with aliens and some interesting premise about communicating with them, but we end up with political bullshit that gets solved with time travel, telepathy, and essentially magic. The whole premise is shot when that shit happens because: Why couldn't the aliens use their time travel telepathy bullshit to help themselves?"
You're not wrong, especially the way it was portrayed in the movie vs the original short story. IIR the short story Correctly, the alien's experience the entirety of their lifespan simultaneously (as much as that term has meaning in this context). They don't change the future because the future already is. They keep doing things they would have done regardless of knowing the outcome may be unfavorable because they wouldn't know the outcome if they hadn't done it/aren't doing it/aren't going to be doing it. The human linguist picks up this trait via strong-sapir-wharf, but part of the point, I think, is that experiencing the future in this way has less impact on decisions than you'd expect. In the story, she chooses to have her daughter even knowing that she will eventually die not of an incurable disease, but because of a perfectly preventable rock climbing accident.
I'll give the film credit though for finally making the experience of meeting alien life actually feel as unnerving and strange as it probably would in reality.
The thing with Passengers was that anyone he woke up was doomed to die with him on the ship because the pods just keep you in statis, they can't put you into it. He didn't know there was a reactor problem that would kill them all, so as far as he was concerned his decision was to die alone (and probably go mad in the process) or wake someone up who might keep him sane, but at the same time doom them to his fate.
I had forgotten about the awful dead daughter stripe than ran through Arrival. Ugh.
The whole thing about the pods only putting people into stasis once is fucking stupid. The ship was versatile enough to power up for him, feed him, serve him booze from a bar, etc. well before he was supposed to wake up. And they don't have a spare pod available? They can't be reprogrammed? No one on the ship has access to do such a thing? The fact that he woke up early told him there was a problem with the ship. Yet the ship is too dumb to expose a diagnostic screen? Access is restricted so hard that only people behind a locked door in one area of the ship can do anything, and they can't be woken up early in the event of a problem? Are you just shit out of luck if that section of the ship is damaged and they die?
I accept the whole plot about a problem on the ship, him waking up early, being unable to fix it, him not wanting to wake people up and struggling with that decision, etc. But it falls apart when you consider any of the details even within their established rules. Why was only his pod affected, for example? If he can't solve the problem, it doesn't mean no one else can.
And ultimately, he does decide to wake someone up. The struggle with ethics/morality is just as valid in the story whether you decide to wake someone up or not, but WHO you decide to wake up, and WHEN you decide to wake them up matters. I don't fault him for the whole "choosing love" thing, but he could've woken anyone else up (or multiple people up), and he could've done it much sooner to help work on the problem sooner. And yes, he should have known there was a problem that needed fixing - why else did he wake up early? And of course he was trying to get behind the security door for a long time, so he was trying to do something - get to the crew (likely to wake someone up, with no drawn out dilemma), get to ship controls and find out what the problem is, etc.
If the guy had months (or years) alone, he would have thought of a lot of things, and ultimately, I believe, ended up at the logical conclusion that he needs help (has to wake people up) and time is of the essence (ship has unknown
I liked Pandorum, but it was certainly more of a horror movie than a sci-fi movie. There's a psychological component to it as well, but it just boils down to a simple "Oh, he crazy." once stuff is revealed. It only serves as a superficial explanation of why there are crazy cannibal monster people things on a space ship and why Dennis Quaid is how he is. The madness isn't really explored in any interesting way, it's just the reason for the chaos.
A lot of movies and games follow this kind of formula for setting up the situation. There's a ship (of either the space or ocean variety) and something causes shit to go down. People start acting crazy, often killing and eating each other, etc. We often enter the situation as a separate ship responding to a distress beacon or someone on the first ship waking up.
It plays out in a few simple steps: 1: WTF happened and where's the crew? 2: OMG monsters/aliens/demons! 3: Actually, it was the crew! They went crazy! 4: OH NO it's happening to us! We're doomed to the same fate as them and I think our captain is kind of into it. 5: Oh, it's because they pissed off some aliens / stole an artifact / opened a hell portal, let's make them happy / dump the artifact / close the portal and escape with a few survivors.
See Doom, Dead Space, Event Horizon, The Sphere, Pandorum, etc. For an example that skips the sci-fi pretense, see The Descent.
At least with Pandorum the madness came from within (there was no alien orb or device that caused it, as far as I remember).
The rank and file / uniformed crew was behind that door, sure (even if you ignore the laughable error of putting all your eggs in one basket, the need for a locked security door when everyone's asleep, the inability of the ship's controls to be accessed in the event of such issues, etc.).
But there were surely civilians with skills and knowledge.of the ship. It was a seed ship. At the very least, a couple of dudes could've helped him pound away at the door and keep him sane. Of course, it would probably have been easier to go through the side of the wall than the reinforced door.