Personally, I didnt care about the female-only cast and just figured it wasn't targeted to me.
That was mainly my reaction too. I was excited about the movie when it was first announced, but when the clips and trailers finally appeared, I realized this show wasn't for me so didn't watch it.
I think more people should do that- if a film doesn't look appealing to them- or doesn't look like it was supposed to appeal to them- just don't watch it!
A large subsection of the comic-book movie crowd are apparently intimidated by leading ladies.
The problem isn't leading ladies but plausibility. Women in general are not physiologically strong. An exceptional female is at the level of a merely above
average male. Superman is supernaturally strong, but he also looks like he works out. The same is true of Captain America. Much is made visually of his musculature. Same with Black Panther. Each of these presents an image that strong men have bodies that appear to have enlarged muscles.
So you have a problem with skinny spiderman too then? No one ever complains about Spiderman looking scrawny; that it "isn't realistic". In reality none of it is realistic. Super Man's muscles aren't big enough to do half the miracles he performs.
There is a reason Super Man is buff and Wonder Woman is feminine... it's all eye-candy. Not about realism. Nothing about comic-books is about realism- it's about the fantastical and magical.
Bad movie after bad movie has gone to this excuse, but it's largely bullshit. Yes, there's some tiny group like that. No, they don't matter. That's not why people didn't like the sad Ghostbusters reboot, That's not why people didn't like The Last Jedi.
As bad a movie as the Ghostbusters reboot may have been (I couldn't say, I didn't watch it)- people were grumbling about it long before anyone saw a scene. People were complaining about "political correctness gone wild" etc.
There is no doubt that the early Ghostbusters blasting was mainly about being anti-women. The later blasting was about it being a bad movie- but early on it was definitely about the gender of the stars.
I didn't realize that Captain Marvel was a woman (which probably explains the bad reviews- some juvenile Fedora wearing basement dwellers no doubt have a problem with female leads).
So I should amend my former post to say "Pretty women who need rescuing by men." A large subsection of the comic-book movie crowd are apparently intimidated by leading ladies.
It's a Marvel show, neither of those things matter. All that matters is how good the CGI is- that's all the majority of people who watch the film are going to go see. The writing and producing is backstage to that. Helps if they have a few pretty women in it too.
Corrected headline - Android is helping to spread pervasive tracking.
User name and password is "something you know", and as such is not something that can be used without your explicit consent. Seamless login is "something you have", and since it is part of your phone, it doesn't require your explicit consent to be checked.
Yes, and I use a dozen different e-mail accounts to make it slightly harder for different companies on the web to know that I am the same person if they try and share data. I don't want the same account ID on every site I go to.
I want Amazon and Slashdot, for example, to not know I'm the same person if they share databases. Or my bank and Google, etc. I know there are other ways of tracking and I'm probably not fooling the big guys much- but I want to log in different places as "different people".
I'm sure their downfall has nothing to do with bad customer service... like closing down someone's account because they haven't used it in a few months- despite paying for a LIFETIME no ad membership over a decade ago.
If I have a paid membership; whether I use the account on a regular basis or not is my business, I paid for it.
Biometrics can be stolen or faked. But there's no way for the legitimate owner of that body to replace them when that happens.
(posting this on the day my office is forcing a periodic password change on me)
Yes, because whatever biometric data is read- it is converted to some digital format. That digital format is then no different than a password- probably a lot longer, but if you can steal that array of data, you can copy it and send it from any device you desire.
Mel Brooks was a visionary... I'm trying to think what else he predicted... Was Hitler on Ice, Ice skating predicted for the future too- or am I remembering incorrectly?
I want to see Hitler reanimated and turned into a figure skater! Surely someone can do that with today's technology.
The best downloads per tomshardware are 85Mb which is not enough to meet the average 4g defintion. Verizon's average is 53.3, which is half the 4g definition.
And despite that, I can't think the last time I thought "this is taking too long to download" or "I wish I had faster download speeds" - on my phone at least. Faster is obviously better- and IF 5G is faster that will be great... but I'm not willing to fork out a lot of extra money for it. If costs are comparable I'm on board, if not... I'm not concerned.
I AM concerned though, if as some reports state, that 5G stops working when it rains. I'll stick with 4G if 5G is unreliable. I won't be a first adopter.
"If my tablet folded and I could carry it around in my pocket instead of my phone... that's a good thing."
It’s over twice the thickness as a standard phone, as you’ll notice late in Samsung's video that the hinge side doesn’t fold completely flat. Guess that’s the only way to avoid a crease in the screen.
Trying to pocket it will be interesting, and there's no way I'd ever put it into a back pocket where sitting down could put significant pressure on that hinge.
A phone being "too thick" has never been a concern of mine. "Normal phones" are half the thickness of the original smart phones now, and no-one ever thought they were too thick back in the day.
Thickness of a phone hasn't been a problem for over a decade.
Think of it as a foldable tablet that will replace your phone instead of a phone that becomes a tablet. I can see use in that. I never use my tablet because there are things a PC does better, and other things a phone is adequate for, and the phone is always charged and handy.
If my tablet folded and I could carry it around in my pocket instead of my phone... that's a good thing.
Not worth $2000 or even half that much to me- but it's still a good development. Give it a few years, apple will come out with one and be praised in the media for innovating and developing a new tech category and for keeping the price reasonable at $3000.
The whole Drain The Swamp mantra did not start with Donald Trump. He just latched onto it. Its a serious issue. The swamp has no particular party affiliation.
Unfortunately, we drained the swamp and turned it into a landfill instead.
Funny, I expected it'd be a Democrat. Take their guns, ridicule their religion, tax their sodas, "Think of the children" and all that.
The way I see it: Democrats want to own all your money and make you be a hippy. Republicans want to own your body and soul. They both want to tell you how to live.
Both parties have nasty flaws, but over-zealous policing has always been the Republican side of the vice bucket.
weaponizing space helps nobody except the Military Industrial Complex. We had treaties to prevent this sort of thing.
We HAD treaties. We've been tearing all our treaties up the last few years. The current mission is to treat the rest of the world as rivals rather than try and make them our allies and friends.
I agree it's a direction to take, but the name.. Space Force. I feel like I'm starting to live in a Mel Brooks film.
Whether or not it's needed, or what it's role actually will be, I think the motivation behind this is vanity. The wall fell through, so he's falling back on his other vanity project. As such, the whole creation of the Space Force probably DOES belong in a Mel Brooks film. One could certainly adapt this ridiculous vanity into a comedy project.
If you have military $$ behind it, it might give the regular NASA stuff a boost too.
Why not just make a division in NASA responsible for defending us from "space" too. There would certainly be overlap between what NASA does/can do and what the Space Cadets will be doing.
I don't think we're at a point justifying a whole new military division. Letting NASA have a few more responsibilities to monitor our "Space Defence Readiness" would be far more practical than creating more bureaucracy and institutions.
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Personally, I didnt care about the female-only cast and just figured it wasn't targeted to me.
That was mainly my reaction too. I was excited about the movie when it was first announced, but when the clips and trailers finally appeared, I realized this show wasn't for me so didn't watch it.
I think more people should do that- if a film doesn't look appealing to them- or doesn't look like it was supposed to appeal to them- just don't watch it!
A large subsection of the comic-book movie crowd are apparently intimidated by leading ladies.
The problem isn't leading ladies but plausibility. Women in general are not physiologically strong. An exceptional female is at the level of a merely above
average male. Superman is supernaturally strong, but he also looks like he works out. The same is true of Captain America. Much is made visually of his musculature. Same with Black Panther. Each of these presents an image that strong men have bodies that appear to have enlarged muscles.
So you have a problem with skinny spiderman too then? No one ever complains about Spiderman looking scrawny; that it "isn't realistic". In reality none of it is realistic. Super Man's muscles aren't big enough to do half the miracles he performs.
There is a reason Super Man is buff and Wonder Woman is feminine... it's all eye-candy. Not about realism. Nothing about comic-books is about realism- it's about the fantastical and magical.
Bad movie after bad movie has gone to this excuse, but it's largely bullshit. Yes, there's some tiny group like that. No, they don't matter. That's not why people didn't like the sad Ghostbusters reboot, That's not why people didn't like The Last Jedi.
As bad a movie as the Ghostbusters reboot may have been (I couldn't say, I didn't watch it)- people were grumbling about it long before anyone saw a scene. People were complaining about "political correctness gone wild" etc.
There is no doubt that the early Ghostbusters blasting was mainly about being anti-women. The later blasting was about it being a bad movie- but early on it was definitely about the gender of the stars.
Edit:
I didn't realize that Captain Marvel was a woman (which probably explains the bad reviews- some juvenile Fedora wearing basement dwellers no doubt have a problem with female leads).
So I should amend my former post to say "Pretty women who need rescuing by men." A large subsection of the comic-book movie crowd are apparently intimidated by leading ladies.
It should do okay, if well written and produced.
It's a Marvel show, neither of those things matter. All that matters is how good the CGI is- that's all the majority of people who watch the film are going to go see. The writing and producing is backstage to that. Helps if they have a few pretty women in it too.
Corrected headline - Android is helping to spread pervasive tracking.
User name and password is "something you know", and as such is not something that can be used without your explicit consent. Seamless login is "something you have", and since it is part of your phone, it doesn't require your explicit consent to be checked.
Yes, and I use a dozen different e-mail accounts to make it slightly harder for different companies on the web to know that I am the same person if they try and share data. I don't want the same account ID on every site I go to.
I want Amazon and Slashdot, for example, to not know I'm the same person if they share databases. Or my bank and Google, etc. I know there are other ways of tracking and I'm probably not fooling the big guys much- but I want to log in different places as "different people".
I'm sure their downfall has nothing to do with bad customer service... like closing down someone's account because they haven't used it in a few months- despite paying for a LIFETIME no ad membership over a decade ago.
If I have a paid membership; whether I use the account on a regular basis or not is my business, I paid for it.
Biometrics can be stolen or faked. But there's no way for the legitimate owner of that body to replace them when that happens.
(posting this on the day my office is forcing a periodic password change on me)
Yes, because whatever biometric data is read- it is converted to some digital format. That digital format is then no different than a password- probably a lot longer, but if you can steal that array of data, you can copy it and send it from any device you desire.
Anyone got the list of apps to avoid?
Yes... all of them. Always assume everything you post to an app CAN, and PROBABLY will find it's way into the wrong hands eventually.
Real cooks love gas, and despise electric.
Unless it is electric induction tops, which are even better than gas!
WTF is a "hob"?
It's what you get when you break a hobnob in half.
"Jews in Spaaaaaace!".....
Mel Brooks was a visionary... I'm trying to think what else he predicted... Was Hitler on Ice, Ice skating predicted for the future too- or am I remembering incorrectly?
I want to see Hitler reanimated and turned into a figure skater! Surely someone can do that with today's technology.
The best downloads per tomshardware are 85Mb which is not enough to meet the average 4g defintion. Verizon's average is 53.3, which is half the 4g definition.
And despite that, I can't think the last time I thought "this is taking too long to download" or "I wish I had faster download speeds" - on my phone at least. Faster is obviously better- and IF 5G is faster that will be great... but I'm not willing to fork out a lot of extra money for it. If costs are comparable I'm on board, if not... I'm not concerned.
I AM concerned though, if as some reports state, that 5G stops working when it rains. I'll stick with 4G if 5G is unreliable. I won't be a first adopter.
"If my tablet folded and I could carry it around in my pocket instead of my phone... that's a good thing."
It’s over twice the thickness as a standard phone, as you’ll notice late in Samsung's video that the hinge side doesn’t fold completely flat. Guess that’s the only way to avoid a crease in the screen.
Trying to pocket it will be interesting, and there's no way I'd ever put it into a back pocket where sitting down could put significant pressure on that hinge.
A phone being "too thick" has never been a concern of mine. "Normal phones" are half the thickness of the original smart phones now, and no-one ever thought they were too thick back in the day.
Thickness of a phone hasn't been a problem for over a decade.
It is like living in the future.
Yes, the very distant future, when I can afford $2000 for a phone.
Given enough time, inflation will ensure that $2000 is the same as $200 is today. Heck, that only takes 10 days with Venezuelan money.
The world does not need you.
Think of it as a foldable tablet that will replace your phone instead of a phone that becomes a tablet. I can see use in that. I never use my tablet because there are things a PC does better, and other things a phone is adequate for, and the phone is always charged and handy.
If my tablet folded and I could carry it around in my pocket instead of my phone... that's a good thing.
Not worth $2000 or even half that much to me- but it's still a good development. Give it a few years, apple will come out with one and be praised in the media for innovating and developing a new tech category and for keeping the price reasonable at $3000.
$1200? I pre-ordered one for $1980. Where did you see $1200?
Were you aware this wasn't a rotary phone before placing the order? Probably still time to cancel. :p
The whole Drain The Swamp mantra did not start with Donald Trump. He just latched onto it. Its a serious issue. The swamp has no particular party affiliation.
Unfortunately, we drained the swamp and turned it into a landfill instead.
Funny, I expected it'd be a Democrat. Take their guns, ridicule their religion, tax their sodas, "Think of the children" and all that.
The way I see it:
Democrats want to own all your money and make you be a hippy. Republicans want to own your body and soul. They both want to tell you how to live.
Both parties have nasty flaws, but over-zealous policing has always been the Republican side of the vice bucket.
This bill isn't going to fly.
Of course not. Sounds too much like illegal search and seizure.
44 here. My elbows are sore at 125. Keeping at 100.
I can do 1000's of push ups... as long as I do them one at a time.
weaponizing space helps nobody except the Military Industrial Complex. We had treaties to prevent this sort of thing.
We HAD treaties. We've been tearing all our treaties up the last few years. The current mission is to treat the rest of the world as rivals rather than try and make them our allies and friends.
I agree it's a direction to take, but the name.. Space Force. I feel like I'm starting to live in a Mel Brooks film.
Whether or not it's needed, or what it's role actually will be, I think the motivation behind this is vanity. The wall fell through, so he's falling back on his other vanity project. As such, the whole creation of the Space Force probably DOES belong in a Mel Brooks film. One could certainly adapt this ridiculous vanity into a comedy project.
Does that mean that they are going to have to rebuild The Pentagon as a six sided building of six nested hexagons each of which is six floors high ?
Could anyone suggest a nickname for this new building ?
Based on the proclivities of several Presidents throughout history I would suggest the Sechs-agon?
If you have military $$ behind it, it might give the regular NASA stuff a boost too.
Why not just make a division in NASA responsible for defending us from "space" too. There would certainly be overlap between what NASA does/can do and what the Space Cadets will be doing.
I don't think we're at a point justifying a whole new military division. Letting NASA have a few more responsibilities to monitor our "Space Defence Readiness" would be far more practical than creating more bureaucracy and institutions.