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It's not a seminal work by any means. I expected the CG of the young Jeff Bridges to be flawless, but it ended up looking like the best efforts of 10 years ago. It was fine as long as he didn't try to speak or pull an expression. It dipped into Uncanny Valley too often.
I expected better stuff from Daft Punk for the soundtrack. I thought it was appropriate, but not mind blowing. The music had its moments, but the theme's predictable progression didn't leave much room for expression I guess.
Olivia Wilde was surprisingly good.
The original is unforgettable. This one is very Hollywood feeling, and forgettable.
YouTube is working on profit maximization (and thus minimization of annoyance) by showing you only the things you are probably interested in.
To rank ads in order or relevance for a particular user, they collect information on view, click through and abandonment. This data is part of a set that includes information about the video being watched, the users who have watched it, etc.
This allows them to figure out (theoretically) which ads you are likely to be interested in given a particular video by applying machine learning algorithms. This way YouTube and its advertisers get the most out of their money and your time.
There are different modes of release. CI makes sense where I work because we are on very short continuous release cycles. We don't have 6 months to engineer something that will be sent to Jupiter without the capability for updates.
I'm suggesting streaming rather than using branches.
Branching and merging is a huge waste of time. I'm not sure why continuous integration is considered just a delaying of the problem.
With a CI/streaming model merging happens continuously, not all at one time while trying to hit a moving target. And if CI is not allowed to break, no one has any problems downstream.
Domesticated dogs don't do things very well on their own; they need a handler to take care of them. This was a stupid tactic by the Russians which backfired badly for them. Dogs are best employed as sentries, sniffers, scouts, attack and retrieve. No program to train dogs for individual combat or suicide missions has succeeded, thankfully.
My cats are able to recognize patterns in body language, but they never understand spoken language. My dog(s) have all been more attuned to verbal prompts. Things like "git", "food", "go outside" etc are easily picked up by dogs. They especially respond to their names, even when not addressed directly.
My cats don't respond to names at all, and usually ignore talking in general, or just treat it as any other noise. They might tilt an ear back at you, but they won't bother turning around to look at you like a dog will. They do recognize patterns. If I am opening a door and I don't want them to follow, I look at them and pause, or wave them away with a gesture, and they get the idea. They also know what parts of the house they are not allowed in. As long as I'm in the house, they observe the rules. Once I leave, all bets are off.
The cats can open doors, but so can the dog when he wants to. They can't defeat round doorknobs of course.
Dogs also have a wide variance in intelligence. Some breeds are just dumb as bricks.
Well I think there are two ways the low noise can be achieved: move the AD part away from the noise source, or shield the whole thing in a Faraday cage. Professional broadcast equipment is going to need lots of shielding, and is usually out of a consumer's price range!
you can't afford it.
AD/DA conversion should happen in its own box, away from the mother board. An audio card that slots into the motherboard is just as bad as an audio processor with AD/DAs built into the motherboard.
Both are going to make a lot of noise. In this case, the difference between $30 and $230 is negligible.
You'd pretty much be a vegetable without them. There are no isolated components of the brain AFAIK. Removing or damaging anything will have multiple effects. If you damage the amygdala, you might lose the fear response. You'd also lose the ability to form long term memories. You'd lose any notion of protecting yourself from harm of any kind. You'd allow people to abuse you, and have no emotional response to the abuse or fear of it. It would be terrible, but you would have no clue.
The rich in India will just hire a new servant to take care of the owl. Some illiterate degenerate will get to live in a small room with this owl, feed it and provide it to the child any time the child wants.
EcoMotors needs to sponsor or provide engines to an endurance racing team. LMPC or LMP1 are probably the best candidate series. The engine has been through lots of prototyping, but it would be proven publicly by endurance racing a highly tuned version. If the engine is as efficient and powerful as they say it is, it will clean up in the Le Mans Prototypes. If it blows up and throws its opposed pistons all over the track every time its out...
Agreed. Oracle currently has the momentum to suck up everything in its path and wring out the profits. They've doubled their shareholder value over the last 2 years, which is exactly what investors like to see. Oracle doesn't like maintaining software, it likes selling it. They are a marketing engine, not a company who originates ideas. So basically, they don't need all of those intelligent, creative software developers as long as they can keep buying stuff to re-brand and sell. They are not concerned that these people are leaving. This kind of thing is bad for everyone except the shareholders who are in it for 2-5 year gains.
Games and porn... Seriously, I can't watch Netflix on my Ubuntu laptop? AW Jeezus!
"Our apologies — streaming is not supported for your operating system"
I looked at my social security statement and found that I actually was paid 10% less for the last two years. Nobody was really getting raises, and bonus payouts completely dried up.
YET, they did manage to hire new executives, and hire them at higher pay rates than the previous ones. Go figure.
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It's not a seminal work by any means. I expected the CG of the young Jeff Bridges to be flawless, but it ended up looking like the best efforts of 10 years ago. It was fine as long as he didn't try to speak or pull an expression. It dipped into Uncanny Valley too often. I expected better stuff from Daft Punk for the soundtrack. I thought it was appropriate, but not mind blowing. The music had its moments, but the theme's predictable progression didn't leave much room for expression I guess. Olivia Wilde was surprisingly good. The original is unforgettable. This one is very Hollywood feeling, and forgettable.
You are still asking the wrong question. What you should ask is "Why can't I get a job making robots?"
I'll take "The Penis Mightier" for 5000, Alec.
YouTube is working on profit maximization (and thus minimization of annoyance) by showing you only the things you are probably interested in. To rank ads in order or relevance for a particular user, they collect information on view, click through and abandonment. This data is part of a set that includes information about the video being watched, the users who have watched it, etc. This allows them to figure out (theoretically) which ads you are likely to be interested in given a particular video by applying machine learning algorithms. This way YouTube and its advertisers get the most out of their money and your time.
yeah I thought there must be some mistake. Games on a Mac? Forsooth!
There are different modes of release. CI makes sense where I work because we are on very short continuous release cycles. We don't have 6 months to engineer something that will be sent to Jupiter without the capability for updates. I'm suggesting streaming rather than using branches.
Branching and merging is a huge waste of time. I'm not sure why continuous integration is considered just a delaying of the problem. With a CI/streaming model merging happens continuously, not all at one time while trying to hit a moving target. And if CI is not allowed to break, no one has any problems downstream.
Domesticated dogs don't do things very well on their own; they need a handler to take care of them. This was a stupid tactic by the Russians which backfired badly for them. Dogs are best employed as sentries, sniffers, scouts, attack and retrieve. No program to train dogs for individual combat or suicide missions has succeeded, thankfully.
My cats are able to recognize patterns in body language, but they never understand spoken language. My dog(s) have all been more attuned to verbal prompts. Things like "git", "food", "go outside" etc are easily picked up by dogs. They especially respond to their names, even when not addressed directly. My cats don't respond to names at all, and usually ignore talking in general, or just treat it as any other noise. They might tilt an ear back at you, but they won't bother turning around to look at you like a dog will. They do recognize patterns. If I am opening a door and I don't want them to follow, I look at them and pause, or wave them away with a gesture, and they get the idea. They also know what parts of the house they are not allowed in. As long as I'm in the house, they observe the rules. Once I leave, all bets are off. The cats can open doors, but so can the dog when he wants to. They can't defeat round doorknobs of course. Dogs also have a wide variance in intelligence. Some breeds are just dumb as bricks.
Well I think there are two ways the low noise can be achieved: move the AD part away from the noise source, or shield the whole thing in a Faraday cage. Professional broadcast equipment is going to need lots of shielding, and is usually out of a consumer's price range!
you can't afford it. AD/DA conversion should happen in its own box, away from the mother board. An audio card that slots into the motherboard is just as bad as an audio processor with AD/DAs built into the motherboard. Both are going to make a lot of noise. In this case, the difference between $30 and $230 is negligible.
I hate whites|blacks|latinos. Done, can I go back to work now?
My sentiments exactly. You can tell because of his "Blue Steel" look in the photograph.
What the fuck is with his photo? I see the birth of a meme.
You'd pretty much be a vegetable without them. There are no isolated components of the brain AFAIK. Removing or damaging anything will have multiple effects. If you damage the amygdala, you might lose the fear response. You'd also lose the ability to form long term memories. You'd lose any notion of protecting yourself from harm of any kind. You'd allow people to abuse you, and have no emotional response to the abuse or fear of it. It would be terrible, but you would have no clue.
Is it any surprise that facebook addicts and serial SMS abusers are more likely to have sex? That's what socializing is about, really.
The history is Clint Eastwood, right? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefox_(film)
Did she then tell them she was pregnant, not knowing who the father could be, just to get attention and make their lives hell?
The rich in India will just hire a new servant to take care of the owl. Some illiterate degenerate will get to live in a small room with this owl, feed it and provide it to the child any time the child wants.
Really really bad PS job. Without real pictures, is this a story at all? Where is the actual prototype? Who's smoking crack here?
EcoMotors needs to sponsor or provide engines to an endurance racing team. LMPC or LMP1 are probably the best candidate series. The engine has been through lots of prototyping, but it would be proven publicly by endurance racing a highly tuned version. If the engine is as efficient and powerful as they say it is, it will clean up in the Le Mans Prototypes. If it blows up and throws its opposed pistons all over the track every time its out...
Agreed. Oracle currently has the momentum to suck up everything in its path and wring out the profits. They've doubled their shareholder value over the last 2 years, which is exactly what investors like to see. Oracle doesn't like maintaining software, it likes selling it. They are a marketing engine, not a company who originates ideas. So basically, they don't need all of those intelligent, creative software developers as long as they can keep buying stuff to re-brand and sell. They are not concerned that these people are leaving. This kind of thing is bad for everyone except the shareholders who are in it for 2-5 year gains.
Games and porn... Seriously, I can't watch Netflix on my Ubuntu laptop? AW Jeezus! "Our apologies — streaming is not supported for your operating system"
FFXII was the best to date IMO. I'm talking in terms of art, and mostly in terms of Fran. FF needs more Fran. I've never actually played the game.
I looked at my social security statement and found that I actually was paid 10% less for the last two years. Nobody was really getting raises, and bonus payouts completely dried up. YET, they did manage to hire new executives, and hire them at higher pay rates than the previous ones. Go figure.