Yeah I'm with you. Gorgeous movie, brilliantly shot (tho as you say at times it feels indulgent), and a wonderful exercise in futurism, bursting with interesting ideas.
But ultimately, the story itself just felt... lifeless.
Oh and btw the Economist does use the word "ponderous", just not in the title:
If “Blade Runner 2049” seems to be more artistic than a typical sci-fi blockbuster, that’s partly because its ponderous pacing and mournful tone demand that you take it seriously
Gen Y was another name for Millenials, not something different.
In August 1993, an Advertising Age editorial coined the phrase Generation Y to describe those who were aged 11 or younger as well as the teenagers of the upcoming ten years who were defined as different from Generation X.[4][5] According to journalist Bruce Horovitz, in 2012, Ad Age "threw in the towel by conceding that Millennials is a better name than Gen Y"
Also they don't divide "generations" into neat consistent 20 year parcels, they are defined by socioeconomic conditions and other variously defined characteristics. Which of course is subjective as hell and why there's no firm agreement on definitions.
Where the fuck did this 7.5 billion people, "every person on earth" come from?
The article clearly says they have coverage of 23 countries, and "millions" of people.
It now knows where millions of humans live, everywhere on Earth, to within 15 feet.
The company has created a data map of the human population by combining government census numbers with information it's obtained from space satellites, according to Janna Lewis, Facebook's head of strategic innovation partnerships and sourcing. A Facebook representative later told CNBC that this map currently covers 23 countries
1) People still take trains (and other fixed-schedule transports, like buses) all the time. Your post acts like public transit isn't a thing (and then proceeds to mention subways...)
2) Trains for long distance travel between cities (and countries!) are still very popular in many places in the world, like Europe. Let me guess, you're American and are only familiar with cities that are designed to be car-centric.
3) Expanding an underground subway line inside a dense city is not at all the same thing as running track above ground along existing transport corridors (that's the whole point of using pylons, the Hyperloop can re-use existing corridors without needing to clear a bunch of new land/dig tunnels)
4) As others have pointed out, this competes with airplanes, not trains. That's how fast it is.
5) I'd argue that people prefer cars not because they hate schedules, but simply because a car will get them from point A to point B faster (in PART because they don't have to stand around waiting at any point). When an airplane gets you from A to B faster, people take airplanes. When the hyperloop gets people from A to B faster, they'll take hyperloops.
It's true that people enjoy the freedom of a car, and they aren't going away. But it's not a binary either/or thing. Public transport thrives when implemented well in an area with demand. Look at the NY Subway or London Underground.
The well known problems with full vacuum tubes are the entire point of the Hyperloop's design, which uses low pressure (1 millibar) instead of full vacuum.
Yeah, I'm not going to waste my time getting into the weeds with you.
Because you know what? The onus is on YOU to explain how the iPhone DIDN'T completely transform the smartphone landscape. Because everyone else (without their head entirely up their own ass that is) recognizes that as a simple obvious fact.
Here's a few articles to get you started. (But don't worry, you're right and the rest of the world is wrong) https://www.google.com/search?...
There is a “constitutional requirement of a publicly observed count.”
“[T]he government substitution of its own check or what we’d probably call an ‘audit’ is no substitute at all for public observation.”
“A paper trail simply does not suffice to meet the above standards.
“As a result of these principles,’all independent observers’ conclude that ‘electronic voting machines are totally banned in Germany’ because no conceivable computerized voting system can cast and count votes that meet the twin requirements of being both ‘observable’ and also not requiring specialized technical knowledge.
So you're incapable of thinking on your feet or holding a conversation? If this were actually true you'd be completely unemployable.
Carving out time for uninterrupted work is of course important. If you have challenges with this where you work I suspect Slack is not the real problem.
Yes, there are other group communication protocols. So why has Slack taken off? (If your analysis is really, "uhh... hipsters" sorry but you're a fucking idiot) Because Slack has a great UI, and is very easy to use. It's really that simple.
Do you really think you're going to get everyone at a company using USENET or IRC? Seriously? EVERYONE, not just the techies.
Tech geeks tend to downplay the value of ease-of-use and good UX, because they'll happily wallow in a complex UI and tinker with configurations and setup. The vast majority of people just want something easy that works. Slack fits the bill.
Email is not optimal at back-and-forth *group* conversations, where Slack excels.
this manic quickness destroys the mind
This is a weird complaint. If someone chats with you in person, or you have an in-person meeting, does this immediacy "destroy your mind"? Email still has its place but sometimes you just need to have a quick chat about something.
makes it very hard to concentrate on project work when you are being distracted constantly by "chatters" (or i suppose, slackers)
Found the problem. Turn off notifications except for messages specifically mentioning you, and learn to ignore Slack when you're busy.
All of the above being said, Slack is a big fat resource hog and deserves all the criticism it gets for that. But group-focused messaging platforms have value.
Yes. And more importantly, they correctly anticipated that the emergence of ubiquitous multimedia-capable phones was the biggest threat to standalone MP3 players. So they beat everyone else to the punch and put out an iPod-killer. A lot of companies would've sat on their laurels and resisted cannibalizing their own sales.
It's hard to imagine that kind of boldness and confidence of direction from them today. I miss Jobs' Apple.
there is no legal distinction between "an anonymous scan" and a "hack"
Can you provide a source for this? Or an example of someone being prosecuted (and convicted of a crime) solely for port scanning with no malicious intent?
From what I can see, it's something of a grey area and intent matters.
This page says "no United States federal laws explicitly criminalize port scanning".
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Yeah I'm with you. Gorgeous movie, brilliantly shot (tho as you say at times it feels indulgent), and a wonderful exercise in futurism, bursting with interesting ideas.
But ultimately, the story itself just felt... lifeless.
Oh and btw the Economist does use the word "ponderous", just not in the title:
The film stated that Tyrell went bankrupt because the manufacture of replicants was outlawed.
One of my proudest comments from back in the day was getting a +5 for calling Katz out on his pretentious bullshit analysis of why Spiderman outperformed Attack of the Clones at the box office.
He left not too long after. I always wondered if it was possible I contributed to that.
Reading it now, I was pretty mean (I fully expected a -1 Flamebait). But his analysis is still pretentious bullshit.
Thank god for SkyUI
Right, because passing your locked phone around for people to stare at is a normal usage pattern.
You'd think how well TouchID was implemented would give people SOME confidence, but who am I kidding.
Maybe take 10 seconds to verify your assumptions before spewing ignorance? Just a thought.
http://gizmodo.com/how-apples-...
Gen Y was another name for Millenials, not something different.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Also they don't divide "generations" into neat consistent 20 year parcels, they are defined by socioeconomic conditions and other variously defined characteristics. Which of course is subjective as hell and why there's no firm agreement on definitions.
Where the fuck did this 7.5 billion people, "every person on earth" come from?
The article clearly says they have coverage of 23 countries, and "millions" of people.
The density is a gradient, not a constant. The lower you get, the denser the atmosphere gets.
It's like saying balloons can't work on Earth because the atmosphere is too thin 100km out.
your sew rung. apple's peach wreck ignition is red e 4 prime thyme
Man, where to even begin?
1) People still take trains (and other fixed-schedule transports, like buses) all the time. Your post acts like public transit isn't a thing (and then proceeds to mention subways...)
2) Trains for long distance travel between cities (and countries!) are still very popular in many places in the world, like Europe. Let me guess, you're American and are only familiar with cities that are designed to be car-centric.
3) Expanding an underground subway line inside a dense city is not at all the same thing as running track above ground along existing transport corridors (that's the whole point of using pylons, the Hyperloop can re-use existing corridors without needing to clear a bunch of new land/dig tunnels)
4) As others have pointed out, this competes with airplanes, not trains. That's how fast it is.
5) I'd argue that people prefer cars not because they hate schedules, but simply because a car will get them from point A to point B faster (in PART because they don't have to stand around waiting at any point). When an airplane gets you from A to B faster, people take airplanes. When the hyperloop gets people from A to B faster, they'll take hyperloops.
It's true that people enjoy the freedom of a car, and they aren't going away. But it's not a binary either/or thing. Public transport thrives when implemented well in an area with demand. Look at the NY Subway or London Underground.
The well known problems with full vacuum tubes are the entire point of the Hyperloop's design, which uses low pressure (1 millibar) instead of full vacuum.
See, I agree completely with this.
And that's more than simply marketing. Which is my point.
It encourages communication.
You're talking about needing isolation.
Requiring isolation to concentrate on your job does not mean communication is bad.
Yeah, I'm not going to waste my time getting into the weeds with you.
Because you know what? The onus is on YOU to explain how the iPhone DIDN'T completely transform the smartphone landscape. Because everyone else (without their head entirely up their own ass that is) recognizes that as a simple obvious fact.
Here's a few articles to get you started. (But don't worry, you're right and the rest of the world is wrong) https://www.google.com/search?...
You're a complete fucking idiot if you think all the iPhone brought to the table in 2007 was "better marketing".
Just because paper ballots aren't immune to tampering doesn't mean they're anywhere near as bad as electronic voting machines.
It is much harder to rig paper ballots *on a massive widespread scale* compared to electronic voting. Period.
Yes, that's the whole point. With paper ballots, the count can physically be observed IN PUBLIC by as many parties as are interested.
A number of years ago, Germany's highest court found that:
Smart people.
So you're incapable of thinking on your feet or holding a conversation? If this were actually true you'd be completely unemployable.
Carving out time for uninterrupted work is of course important. If you have challenges with this where you work I suspect Slack is not the real problem.
Yes, there are other group communication protocols. So why has Slack taken off? (If your analysis is really, "uhh... hipsters" sorry but you're a fucking idiot) Because Slack has a great UI, and is very easy to use. It's really that simple.
Do you really think you're going to get everyone at a company using USENET or IRC? Seriously? EVERYONE, not just the techies.
Tech geeks tend to downplay the value of ease-of-use and good UX, because they'll happily wallow in a complex UI and tinker with configurations and setup. The vast majority of people just want something easy that works. Slack fits the bill.
No. And I don't have people bothering me on Slack every 2 minutes either.
If you have people bothering you every 2 minutes, that's the problem. Not the medium.
Email is not optimal at back-and-forth *group* conversations, where Slack excels.
This is a weird complaint. If someone chats with you in person, or you have an in-person meeting, does this immediacy "destroy your mind"? Email still has its place but sometimes you just need to have a quick chat about something.
Found the problem. Turn off notifications except for messages specifically mentioning you, and learn to ignore Slack when you're busy.
All of the above being said, Slack is a big fat resource hog and deserves all the criticism it gets for that. But group-focused messaging platforms have value.
WOLBACHIA???
Vocal chord parasites... Metallica archaea... Diné... Copulation...
Looks like Konami had an Act 3 up their sleeve the whole time, and it's playing out in SoCal. Somebody call Keifer.
Yes. And more importantly, they correctly anticipated that the emergence of ubiquitous multimedia-capable phones was the biggest threat to standalone MP3 players. So they beat everyone else to the punch and put out an iPod-killer. A lot of companies would've sat on their laurels and resisted cannibalizing their own sales.
It's hard to imagine that kind of boldness and confidence of direction from them today. I miss Jobs' Apple.
Can you provide a source for this? Or an example of someone being prosecuted (and convicted of a crime) solely for port scanning with no malicious intent?
From what I can see, it's something of a grey area and intent matters.
This page says "no United States federal laws explicitly criminalize port scanning".
Even better, when I clicked on the headline from my feed it said "129C".
Yes that's right, Iran was so hot today the water in everyone's bodies spontaneously boiled. Fucking editors on this site...