Those are some really current innovative bands you listed there... lol
Do you seriously not listen to any current music? I like the 'classics' too but really, that is all you listen to? If so this discussion is not relevant to you.
A lot of people enjoy hearing new music by new bands, how do you find those new good groups? Based on the group you like, check out "Rival Sons - Pressure and Time", your welcome, please send my $5 when you can...
If they squander the goodwill by selling out to paid placements, so be it. Free market will take care of it.
BS. Just listen to the radio, there's hardly a good song to be found...
. If people are told enough times that something is good they will talk themselves into believing it as well.
This. The truth is most people don't know what a good music is, as long as it's melodic-ish sounding and features attractive people marketed well (easily found) they will consume what you tell them too.
Then there is the whole Finn and Rose sub-plot where they try to get a codebreaker. Their efforts are worse than useless. The codebreaker somehow figured out that the rebels were sneaking away and tipped off the First Order. (I really don't know how a codebreaker could figure this out; Finn couldn't have told him because Finn didn't know either.) The rebel plan to sneak away was working until the codebreaker tipped off the bad guys, so something like 90% of the surviving rebels died because of that codebreaker guy.
When you see it again, you will notice that as Finn and Rose are flying away on their mission, they get a call from Poe who tells them that the Vice Admiral is evacuating the ship sending off the pods, it's clear that the code breaker hears this as they pan to a shot of him.
And why did they take the risk of the whole codebreaker thing? Because the Vice Admiral didn't tell Poe that she actually had a plan, and she went out of her way to let him think she had no plan and everyone was going to die. Was this to "teach him a lesson"? Makes no sense, and that lesson came at a horrific cost.
Her opinion of him was that he was a reckless fly boy who was off the handle and would have probably rejected the plan, I think she was banking on the fact that we would at least fall in line with authority and not do what he did, I feel he thought he had a better plan anyway. I agree with you though, this part was a little "Gilligan's Island-ish".
But seriously, Star Wars has always been a soap opera in space, the writing/plot has never been really great, it was always the special effects/creativity/imagination that was such magic.
Given their recent passwordless root entry debacle, maybe they should be focusing on hiring high profile QA engineers... ref: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
On the newest version of chrome, Version 62.0.3202.94 (Official Build) (64-bit), if you scroll down on that page to the video section the browser window goes blank, just a white screen... lol
Equifax Blames Open-Source Software For Its Record-Breaking Security Breach
7. Disclaimer of Warranty. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, Licensor provides the Work (and each Contributor provides its Contributions) on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND... - Apache License
Interesting, there was a story recently on Fresh Air/NPR about how they caught the unabomber through linguistic work. It wasn't until his manifesto that they had enough writing to analyse. They didn't mention stylometry but the FBI interviewee discussed breaking down the writing into geographical location, writer's age, etc.
Not sure I agree with the article but it does remind me of a large company I worked for. I was looking to switch positions within the same company, the new position paid significantly more but company policy for a lateral move was that your salary stayed the same. So in order to actually make forward salary progress you had to quit.
it's widely thought in Silicon Valley that having users is the first step toward profitability
[user@home]$ dig site
[user@home]$ "Goood Morning, I see your using bash, can I help you with that? - oh and you look hungry, did you eat breakfast? IHOP has breakfast specials this week!"
[user@home]$
Sure, the credit card idea, seems sound, it's not like you can access valid credit card info anywhere online...after they complete this project they should solve Mozilla’s decentralize the internet challenge then figure out how to stream music online without it being downloadable, cheers mate!
Someone made a point earlier that is seems like Netflix cancels its most expensive shows regardless of quality.
Marco Polo - gone, expensive
Sense8 - gone, expensive (season 2, per episode price - 9 Million)
The Get Down - gone, expensive
I don't know the viewership of these shows but I know Sense8 had such a loyal and supportive following, that they finally pressured Netflix into producing a 2 hour final show to wrap up loose ends. (500K +) https://www.change.org/p/netfl...
Nielsen refuses to let it go so they can perpetuate the importance of advertisers.
Well, yes, that is their business model. They are in bed with the rest of these antiquated media monoliths. All of them will hold on until it's ripped from their cold-dead-hands...
Here is an interesting read from a few years ago, "Industry pros are asking if Nielsen botched radio ratings — and inadvertently forced stations off the air." https://fivethirtyeight.com/fe...
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Those are some really current innovative bands you listed there... lol
Do you seriously not listen to any current music? I like the 'classics' too but really, that is all you listen to? If so this discussion is not relevant to you.
A lot of people enjoy hearing new music by new bands, how do you find those new good groups? Based on the group you like, check out "Rival Sons - Pressure and Time", your welcome, please send my $5 when you can...
If they squander the goodwill by selling out to paid placements, so be it. Free market will take care of it.
BS. Just listen to the radio, there's hardly a good song to be found...
. If people are told enough times that something is good they will talk themselves into believing it as well.
This. The truth is most people don't know what a good music is, as long as it's melodic-ish sounding and features attractive people marketed well (easily found) they will consume what you tell them too.
They shouldn't be hard to find, they will be driving this https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DV...
Then there is the whole Finn and Rose sub-plot where they try to get a codebreaker. Their efforts are worse than useless. The codebreaker somehow figured out that the rebels were sneaking away and tipped off the First Order. (I really don't know how a codebreaker could figure this out; Finn couldn't have told him because Finn didn't know either.) The rebel plan to sneak away was working until the codebreaker tipped off the bad guys, so something like 90% of the surviving rebels died because of that codebreaker guy.
When you see it again, you will notice that as Finn and Rose are flying away on their mission, they get a call from Poe who tells them that the Vice Admiral is evacuating the ship sending off the pods, it's clear that the code breaker hears this as they pan to a shot of him.
And why did they take the risk of the whole codebreaker thing? Because the Vice Admiral didn't tell Poe that she actually had a plan, and she went out of her way to let him think she had no plan and everyone was going to die. Was this to "teach him a lesson"? Makes no sense, and that lesson came at a horrific cost.
Her opinion of him was that he was a reckless fly boy who was off the handle and would have probably rejected the plan, I think she was banking on the fact that we would at least fall in line with authority and not do what he did, I feel he thought he had a better plan anyway. I agree with you though, this part was a little "Gilligan's Island-ish".
But seriously, Star Wars has always been a soap opera in space, the writing/plot has never been really great, it was always the special effects/creativity/imagination that was such magic.
Given their recent passwordless root entry debacle, maybe they should be focusing on hiring high profile QA engineers... ref: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...
On the newest version of chrome, Version 62.0.3202.94 (Official Build) (64-bit), if you scroll down on that page to the video section the browser window goes blank, just a white screen... lol
A quiet and modest life brings more joy than a pursuit of success bound with constant unrest.
Thank you Einstein...
This Machine Kills Captchas
Yay! All hail that wonderful machine.
Heh, I see what you did there.
Just remember your windows need to be stronger than the windblows...
I don’t know,
Q: Why did the bat crash into windows?
A: It saw the Blue Screen of Death
Q: Why did the bat crash into windows?
A: Because the door was closed
Q: Why did the bat crash into windows?
A: Because the Mac was more secure
Q: Why did the bat crash into windows?
A: Because it ran l33t c0d3z scr1ptz
Q: Why did the bat crash into windows?
A: Because the batman is a master technologist
Your welcome!
(thank you, i’ll be here all night)
Equifax Blames Open-Source Software For Its Record-Breaking Security Breach
7. Disclaimer of Warranty. Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, Licensor provides the Work (and each Contributor provides its Contributions) on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND... - Apache License
Thanks for the info +1, sorry no mod points
Interesting, there was a story recently on Fresh Air/NPR about how they caught the unabomber through linguistic work. It wasn't until his manifesto that they had enough writing to analyse. They didn't mention stylometry but the FBI interviewee discussed breaking down the writing into geographical location, writer's age, etc.
Microsoft Will Never Again Sneakily Force Windows Downloads on Users
Ya got that right! - Ex-Windows user
Windows are great. They let light in and keep rain out. What have you got against windows?
;) I am of course referring to Microsoft Windows - In theory, a great idea... in reality, they haven't ever got it right
Smart guns & communism
Smart guns, Communism & Windows
Not sure I agree with the article but it does remind me of a large company I worked for. I was looking to switch positions within the same company, the new position paid significantly more but company policy for a lateral move was that your salary stayed the same. So in order to actually make forward salary progress you had to quit.
it's widely thought in Silicon Valley that having users is the first step toward profitability
[user@home]$ dig site
[user@home]$ "Goood Morning, I see your using bash, can I help you with that? - oh and you look hungry, did you eat breakfast? IHOP has breakfast specials this week!"
[user@home]$
+1 Gary Larson!
Sure, the credit card idea, seems sound, it's not like you can access valid credit card info anywhere online...after they complete this project they should solve Mozilla’s decentralize the internet challenge then figure out how to stream music online without it being downloadable, cheers mate!
So to summarize, Microsoft continues to dominate the market and release the same quality software we have come to expect...
...it's not only not clear that we want to do this... - Linus Torvalds (https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/6/577)
I don't know the cost of those shows.
Someone made a point earlier that is seems like Netflix cancels its most expensive shows regardless of quality.
Marco Polo - gone, expensive
Sense8 - gone, expensive (season 2, per episode price - 9 Million)
The Get Down - gone, expensive
I don't know the viewership of these shows but I know Sense8 had such a loyal and supportive following, that they finally pressured Netflix into producing a 2 hour final show to wrap up loose ends. (500K +) https://www.change.org/p/netfl...
Nielsen refuses to let it go so they can perpetuate the importance of advertisers.
Well, yes, that is their business model. They are in bed with the rest of these antiquated media monoliths. All of them will hold on until it's ripped from their cold-dead-hands...
Here is an interesting read from a few years ago, "Industry pros are asking if Nielsen botched radio ratings — and inadvertently forced stations off the air." https://fivethirtyeight.com/fe...
I'm totally gonna comment on this article in a few minutes
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oh sorry, can't get to it after all, cool? raincheck for sure thou...