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  1. 2 - Film vs digital has nothing to do with home vs theater.

    Right. I don't get all this "but it's 70mm film!" stuff. Sure, if you want it to look a certain way... but then you're only doing so because of a certain convention that's become ingrained in us that if something is marred in a certain way with a certain kind of noise that it's somehow more "cinematic."

  2. Nolan's Cinematic Vision in 'Dunkirk' is Hollywood's Best Defense Against Netflix

    Just because he wants this particular film viewed in a certain way, doesn't mean there's something wrong about Netflix.

    Netflix can just as easily argue that Stranger Things is best viewed on a nice, fairly big TV in your living room.

    There's nothing fundamentally, objectively, "better" about going to a cinema and watching something projected through real film.

  3. Re: If the PS4 gets truly hacked on Sony Using Copyright Requests To Remove Leaked PS4 SDK From the Web (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know why you're telling me this.

  4. Re: If the PS4 gets truly hacked on Sony Using Copyright Requests To Remove Leaked PS4 SDK From the Web (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I never said it was. I was just correcting a factual error in your comment. And before that I was just addressing the non-sequitur nature of your comment on blu-ray drive prices.

  5. How is it not "not particular common"?

    The phrase implies no particular objective measure.

  6. As the PASSWORD? Huh? on AlphaBay Owner Used Email Address For Both AlphaBay and LinkedIn Profile. · · Score: 4, Informative

    [A]ccording to U.S. prosecutors, he used his real email address, albeit a Hotmail address -- Pimp_Alex_91@hotmail.com -- as the administrator password for the marketplace software

    Whut?

    Article says "contact."

  7. Re: If the PS4 gets truly hacked on Sony Using Copyright Requests To Remove Leaked PS4 SDK From the Web (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    PS4 launch price was $400.

  8. Re: If the PS4 gets truly hacked on Sony Using Copyright Requests To Remove Leaked PS4 SDK From the Web (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And how much does the PC which can play 4K games cost?

  9. Re:Sony doesn't want developers? on Sony Using Copyright Requests To Remove Leaked PS4 SDK From the Web (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not a story Shigeru Miyamoto would tell you.

  10. Re:Black Mirror on Dadbot: How a Son Made a Chatbot of His Dying Dad (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    and less than a dozen episodes in total so far.

    If by "less" you mean "more." There have been thirteen (one of which was an anthology).

    People don't realise that it started on Channel 4 before it moved to Netflix.

    San Junipero is my favourite, but also the least "black."

  11. Actually it's referring to the government consumer protection body.

  12. The reports spurred Russia's consumer protection agency, Rospotrebnadzor, into action, saying on Tuesday they would launch an investigation into the toy.

    That's who. Right there in the summary, should you have read the whole thing. A government body, hence "Russia." Just as when they refer to U.S Navy manouevres by saying "U.S. moves warships to Japanese waters," or what have you.

    This is a perfectly cromulent use of the name of the country to refer to the activities of its government or part thereof.

  13. Re:The Aurora Borealis? on The Aurora Borealis May Be Visible Tonight In The Northern US (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Posting to undo bad mod.

  14. Re:You can't have a female James T. Kirk on Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord Announced: Actress Jodie Whittaker (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Flashback to 1966...

    They've already ditched keeping the plots true to the show by adding a young doctor. The Doctor is an old man in a box. That's who the character is. You can't age-regress the character without fundamentally altering the dynamic.

  15. Re:I feel a disturbance in the time vortex. on Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord Announced: Actress Jodie Whittaker (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If you could the Doctor a Social Justice Warrior he'd take it as the ultimate compliment.

  16. Re:Gender issue narrative in the announcement. on Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord Announced: Actress Jodie Whittaker (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...what?

    the people doing the announcing have pushed a gender issue narrative.

    Citation needed. The announcement showed her face and her name. How is that a gender issue narrative?

  17. Re:I'm excited about this! Now make more than 10 e on Doctor Who's 13th Time Lord Announced: Actress Jodie Whittaker (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    My only complaint about Doctor Who (all BBC shows actually) is they don't make enough episodes per season.

    If you think they don't make enough, then they're making just the right amount.

    Always leave the audience wanting more.

  18. Re:Betteridge's Law bullshit on TechCrunch Urges Developers: Replace C Code With Rust (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 0

    Wrong story, numb nuts.

  19. Re: When it lies, or doesn't say what it wants on Ask Slashdot: What Software (Or Hardware) Glitch Makes You Angry? · · Score: 1

    Windows10: still treats the same piece of hardware (e.g., mouse) as a different device depending on the particular USB port to which it's connected. Same mouse, different port, must install new drivers, resets mouse speed settings, etc.

    I actually wish Linux did this by default. I tried to set up a little Dymo printing factory but when I add a second printer it doesn't treat it as a diffferent device, so there's no way to print to it.

    Apparently I can do it by I have to faff around with config files to change how USB devices are named internally.

  20. Re:init, or "init"? on In Which Linus Torvalds Makes An 'Init' Joke (lkml.org) · · Score: 2

    It's init, innit?

  21. Re:How did they get his searches? on Insider Trader Arrested After He Googled 'Insider Trading,' Authorities Allege · · Score: 1

    They got them after seizing his computer, after he was arrested on the charges. He wasn't arrested because of the searches.

  22. Re:A photon is not an "object" on First Object Teleported From Earth To Orbit (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Replied to wrong comment.

  23. Re:A photon is not an "object" on First Object Teleported From Earth To Orbit (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    It does not have mass. It has energy only because it has momentum, which does not imply mass as you claim.

    In any case, relativistic mass is an outdated concept. These days rest mass tends to be the only mass.

    (and yes in 5 minutes a Phd in Physics with similar bad education tries to contradict me

    So what are your qualifications?

  24. Re: A photon is not an "object" on First Object Teleported From Earth To Orbit (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Wrong. Gravitational forces curve spacetime. Photons follow geodesics (analagous to straight lines) in spacetime.

  25. They don't let the public into press briefings (I'm not sure if they let the press in these days), and they wouldn't put up with them heckling if they did, and when POTUS makes a televised address he isn't forced to take phone calls from viewers afterwards.