The after credit scene follows a trend I'm not sure I like -- that of changing the ending in a scene after the credits. I first noticed this in The Grey. If it becomes too prevalent it'll be more motivation to wait until the video, so I can fast forward through the credits to see the real end of the film.
I actually like how they're handling these scenes now. Back when Marvel first started dropping stingers at the end of each movie, you had to sit through *ALL* of the credits... all that scrolling text, calling out every single key grip that ever boomed a mic, before you heard Samual L Jackson say the word Avengers. But now, any plot-relevant scenes are put near the front of the credits (i.e. Thanos and the Collector) while the very very end is reserved for a little joke or funny riff (shwarma, Bruce Banner "I'm not that kind of doctor," or the Ice Troll thing still in London)
It definitely felt like they were going for a cartoon-ish, Scooby Doo or Loney Tunes vibe during the last fight scene.
Amid chaos, destruction, and a potentially universe ending threat... we have the intern smashing a platoon of mooks with a BMW, then randomly teleporting while kissing, Darcy dropping him, and everyone calling out each other names (with "mew-mew-" being the capstone)
Jane : Darcy?! Intern : Dr. Selvig? Selvig : JANE! Jane : Thor!! Darcy : Mew-Mew
(or something like that)
It was clearly an attempt at some juxtaposition, and whether it was pulled off convincingly or effectively is left as an exercise for the individual.
Just make it illegal for a company to donate massive quantities of money to a politician, PAC, Super PAC, Super-Duper PAC, or other political institution
If someone wants to tell me their political opinion : fine. If someone wants to get paid a million bucks to parrot someone else's political opinion : not fine.
Here's the thing: if Comcast made a product that was so fabulous that nobody would even want a government run version we wouldn't be having this discussion.
You're giving Comcast WAAY too much credit. That should read "if Comcast made a product that reached the heights of mediocrity, a politician wouldn't be making waves with a 'Fuck Comcast' platform."
Reading Printed directions Checking Paper maps In-dash GPS In-dash entertainment (the legal stuff, radio, CDs, etc) After market dash mounted GPS (Tom Tom, Garmin, Cell phone) Any method for tracking traffic ("Accident up ahead, rerouting") etc.
All of those things are deemed safe, or at least safe enough to be legal. So, how does Google Glass rate against them? Of course, it would be safest if we always knew exactly where we were going, and never got lost, and never ran into traffic, and never had to change CDs and.... but this isn't a perfect world, so we need to accept risk, and minimize it. I'm confident that Google Glass is, at very least, less dangerous and distracting than other already-legal options.
Tickets are a bit more pricey, just under $20 a seat... but it's a leather recliner, with plenty of elbow room. Some are positioned in pairs for couples, with small tables for ACTUAL food and drinks (to include beer and wine) delivered to your seat, at the push of a button.
It's the only way I watch movies these days. Totally worth it
I wouldn't be surprised if your hobby goes the way of horseback riding, in the none too distant future.
As much as I'd like to hitch up the wagon and take a trot down to the market, that's just not an option these days.
Not only will the robots be safer and more reliable drivers, but they aren't beholden to human-centric form factors. For instance, having a giant sheet of glass directly in front of you probably isn't the safest way to travel. It might also be safer to face rear while driving... etc etc etc. things that aren't possible with humans at the wheel.
If the president of Time Warner or Cox Comm takes a giant dump on customers, we have no recourse. "Vote with your money" doesn't work in a monopoly, so we're stuck with whatever crap they pull. If a mayor tries the same stunt, he/she can be kicked to the curb.
Why not make physical connectivity a municipal service? Aside from the physical lines to my house, what roles do ISPs actually fill? DNS and DHCP? I hear some of them offer email address or cloud storage, but those are optional and available elsewhere for free. Certainly doesn't sound like $50-100 a month worth of effort, especially considering companies like Google would likely offer DNS for (here look at this advertisement) free
The way ISPs are currently structured, it feels like someone standing at the edge of my driveway, demanding $10 every time I pull my car out onto the road... and we can't figure out why this is a bad thing.
I don't know about you, but I park my vehicle in my garage. That's inside.
Most apartment parking lots count as private property, too (owned by the landlord or parent company)
IANAL, and I don't have a legal answer for the microphone question, but I'd wager it would fall under "reasonable expectation of privacy" established in Katz v. United States. If I'm sitting in a public park, or at a restaurant, at the beach, etc... LEOs would be able to use high powered recording equipment to monitor my conversations. If I'm in my house, in my car, or anywhere else NOT in public, my reasonable expectation of privacy should protect from phone taps, or other recording devices secretly monitoring me.
Tailing a person is perfectly legal. There are two main differences. If the tailee goes into his/her house or other private property, the cop doesn't get to follow. GPS would still be attached.
Also, tailing people manually hits up against some serious logistical problems as it expands. You'd need at least 2 or 3 cops for round the clock surveillance of one person. Trying to track every single movement of any significant number of people starts to get cost prohibitive very quickly, unless you have a small army of LEO in rotation 24/7. Compare that to GPS, where a single LEO could easily stick 20 or 30 cars with magnetic GPS trackers -up in the wheel well maybe, so the driver doesn't notice it- and then have an underpaid intern track them all for a few weeks. You'd almost certainly find someone up to no good. At very least, you could find the habitual speeders, map out their routine, and catch them at the opportune moment.
Fun fact : there's a similarly unconventional and ridiculous piloting method in the game Wonderful 101.
You use a tablet to move your character around within the interior of a ship, stepping on and activating giant arrow keys that steer and activate weapons. The main problem being that you can't actually see the ship on the tablet, that's on the TV. So if you want to turn left, you have to watch the TV screen, figure how WHEN to initiate the turn, then look down, run your silly ass over to the left turn arrow, then go over to the right turn arrow, to straighten yourself out. Oh, and there are enemy ships in the air too, so you have to dodge their fire, dodge collisions, and return fire. Plus, because it's a video game, baddies attack you inside the ship while you're trying to execute this crazy dance number
I can't say the whole experience is great, but it's certainly entertaining... and unconventional as hell.
One of the big red/blue differences I see is the level of insistence that the old way is the right way, simply for being the old way. Conservatives tend to "stick to their guns" even if the guns are empty, rusted beyond usability, and gave you tetanus. Blues tend to change for the sake of change, on a whim. Part of the whole "prop 8" debacle in California was based on the fact that a liberal judge (who happened to be gay, and wanted to get married) basically decided to make gay marriage legal in the state.
Any truely conservative minded person (if you'll excuse the "no true Scotsman"), should look at the draconian laws and call them exactly what the are, liberal meddling, before unceremoniously dumping them.
The real problem is the attitude that we MUST decide which is best, and shun the failure of the other
Each have pros and cons : Virtual meetings are much cheaper, easier to setup on the fly, and are more malleable in size; able to accommodate two people without bogarting a conference room, or expandable beyond the number of bodies that can physically fit into a single conference room. Meanwhile, meatspace meetings must be setup months in advance to ensure everyone can make it, require a lot more expenses, potential arguments over the proper location, plus all of the potential pitfalls of travel (lost luggage, delayed/canceled flights, outdated GPS directions sending you to the wrong place, etc.)
But as previously discussed, actual human interaction has a LOT more potential to engender real ideas and changes. It allows us to better know our colleagues and understand each other. If a buddy of mine tells me that I dun goofed, I'm a lot more likely to take an honest look at my work and try to fix the problem than if I had received the same message from some random stranger on the other side of the country, to whom I've never before spoken. Maybe that's a problem on my part, but I'm certainly not the only one (as I've been the random stranger trying to correct someone else, only to receive a "Who the fuck are you" response.)
What needs to happen is utilizing both systems to their strengths. If you're a part of a big project, encompassing hundreds of workers across several geographical locations, and spanning several years, start with a big in-person conference. Make sure everyone knows their peers from different sectors, understands what roles everyone fills, how they operate, etc. Give it 2-3 days, include some after-hours meetups, and get things started right. Schedule these annually (or biannually) to introduce new team members, work through any major sticking points, and keep things flowing well. In between those, use virtual meetings for weekly status meetings, or 1 on 1 discussion between engineers at different locations.
There's also the subtler point that if someone tries to come to my house and destroy a physical book, that copy is my property and the law is on my side. If I have a copy of an ebook, that copy is the publisher's property and if I tamper with the device to prevent the publisher deleting the book, it is I who commit a felony.
There's also the less subtle point that if someone tries to come into my house and destroy a physical book, I'm going to notice someone in my house, stealing my books. And I'm probably going to beat that person about the head and shoulders with a rolling pin until they leave.
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The after credit scene follows a trend I'm not sure I like -- that of changing the ending in a scene after the credits. I first noticed this in The Grey. If it becomes too prevalent it'll be more motivation to wait until the video, so I can fast forward through the credits to see the real end of the film.
I actually like how they're handling these scenes now. Back when Marvel first started dropping stingers at the end of each movie, you had to sit through *ALL* of the credits... all that scrolling text, calling out every single key grip that ever boomed a mic, before you heard Samual L Jackson say the word Avengers. But now, any plot-relevant scenes are put near the front of the credits (i.e. Thanos and the Collector) while the very very end is reserved for a little joke or funny riff (shwarma, Bruce Banner "I'm not that kind of doctor," or the Ice Troll thing still in London)
It definitely felt like they were going for a cartoon-ish, Scooby Doo or Loney Tunes vibe during the last fight scene.
Amid chaos, destruction, and a potentially universe ending threat ... we have the intern smashing a platoon of mooks with a BMW, then randomly teleporting while kissing, Darcy dropping him, and everyone calling out each other names (with "mew-mew-" being the capstone)
Jane : Darcy?!
Intern : Dr. Selvig?
Selvig : JANE!
Jane : Thor!!
Darcy : Mew-Mew
(or something like that)
It was clearly an attempt at some juxtaposition, and whether it was pulled off convincingly or effectively is left as an exercise for the individual.
I'll let you in on a little tip.
Just the tip?
Because I'm pretty sure I know how that game ends ...
I'd offer a high five ... but I don't want to set a poor example for the children ...
www.imdb.com/title/tt0258470
Nope. 5th Amendment.
He doesn't have to testify against himself, and the cops have no way to actually prove that he was behind the wheel at any given time
Just make it illegal for a company to donate massive quantities of money to a politician, PAC, Super PAC, Super-Duper PAC, or other political institution
If someone wants to tell me their political opinion : fine. If someone wants to get paid a million bucks to parrot someone else's political opinion : not fine.
Here's the thing: if Comcast made a product that was so fabulous that nobody would even want a government run version we wouldn't be having this discussion.
You're giving Comcast WAAY too much credit. That should read "if Comcast made a product that reached the heights of mediocrity, a politician wouldn't be making waves with a 'Fuck Comcast' platform."
Yes. Especially as compared to :
Reading Printed directions
Checking Paper maps
In-dash GPS
In-dash entertainment (the legal stuff, radio, CDs, etc)
After market dash mounted GPS (Tom Tom, Garmin, Cell phone)
Any method for tracking traffic ("Accident up ahead, rerouting")
etc.
All of those things are deemed safe, or at least safe enough to be legal. So, how does Google Glass rate against them? Of course, it would be safest if we always knew exactly where we were going, and never got lost, and never ran into traffic, and never had to change CDs and .... but this isn't a perfect world, so we need to accept risk, and minimize it. I'm confident that Google Glass is, at very least, less dangerous and distracting than other already-legal options.
Maybe if the movie theater owners did more to make the experience better, more people would go to the theater.
Might I direct your attention to Cinepolis
Tickets are a bit more pricey, just under $20 a seat ... but it's a leather recliner, with plenty of elbow room. Some are positioned in pairs for couples, with small tables for ACTUAL food and drinks (to include beer and wine) delivered to your seat, at the push of a button.
It's the only way I watch movies these days. Totally worth it
I wouldn't be surprised if your hobby goes the way of horseback riding, in the none too distant future.
As much as I'd like to hitch up the wagon and take a trot down to the market, that's just not an option these days.
Not only will the robots be safer and more reliable drivers, but they aren't beholden to human-centric form factors. For instance, having a giant sheet of glass directly in front of you probably isn't the safest way to travel. It might also be safer to face rear while driving ... etc etc etc. things that aren't possible with humans at the wheel.
What does making it a municipal service get you?
We vote for them.
If the president of Time Warner or Cox Comm takes a giant dump on customers, we have no recourse. "Vote with your money" doesn't work in a monopoly, so we're stuck with whatever crap they pull. If a mayor tries the same stunt, he/she can be kicked to the curb.
Should we let the "suckers" starve to death, vis a vis Darwinism?
Or should we work to cure their foolishness? Enlighten them to the error of their logic.
Slashdot can't render English Unicode properly. Greek doesn't have a prayer.
Why not make physical connectivity a municipal service? Aside from the physical lines to my house, what roles do ISPs actually fill? DNS and DHCP? I hear some of them offer email address or cloud storage, but those are optional and available elsewhere for free. Certainly doesn't sound like $50-100 a month worth of effort, especially considering companies like Google would likely offer DNS for (here look at this advertisement) free
The way ISPs are currently structured, it feels like someone standing at the edge of my driveway, demanding $10 every time I pull my car out onto the road ... and we can't figure out why this is a bad thing.
I don't know about you, but I park my vehicle in my garage. That's inside.
Most apartment parking lots count as private property, too (owned by the landlord or parent company)
IANAL, and I don't have a legal answer for the microphone question, but I'd wager it would fall under "reasonable expectation of privacy" established in Katz v. United States. If I'm sitting in a public park, or at a restaurant, at the beach, etc ... LEOs would be able to use high powered recording equipment to monitor my conversations. If I'm in my house, in my car, or anywhere else NOT in public, my reasonable expectation of privacy should protect from phone taps, or other recording devices secretly monitoring me.
Tailing a person is perfectly legal. There are two main differences. If the tailee goes into his/her house or other private property, the cop doesn't get to follow. GPS would still be attached.
Also, tailing people manually hits up against some serious logistical problems as it expands. You'd need at least 2 or 3 cops for round the clock surveillance of one person. Trying to track every single movement of any significant number of people starts to get cost prohibitive very quickly, unless you have a small army of LEO in rotation 24/7. Compare that to GPS, where a single LEO could easily stick 20 or 30 cars with magnetic GPS trackers -up in the wheel well maybe, so the driver doesn't notice it- and then have an underpaid intern track them all for a few weeks. You'd almost certainly find someone up to no good. At very least, you could find the habitual speeders, map out their routine, and catch them at the opportune moment.
Fun fact : there's a similarly unconventional and ridiculous piloting method in the game Wonderful 101.
You use a tablet to move your character around within the interior of a ship, stepping on and activating giant arrow keys that steer and activate weapons. The main problem being that you can't actually see the ship on the tablet, that's on the TV. So if you want to turn left, you have to watch the TV screen, figure how WHEN to initiate the turn, then look down, run your silly ass over to the left turn arrow, then go over to the right turn arrow, to straighten yourself out. Oh, and there are enemy ships in the air too, so you have to dodge their fire, dodge collisions, and return fire. Plus, because it's a video game, baddies attack you inside the ship while you're trying to execute this crazy dance number
I can't say the whole experience is great, but it's certainly entertaining... and unconventional as hell.
Deutsch-bag
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I love little trivia like that.
Then why are they sticking with it?
One of the big red/blue differences I see is the level of insistence that the old way is the right way, simply for being the old way. Conservatives tend to "stick to their guns" even if the guns are empty, rusted beyond usability, and gave you tetanus. Blues tend to change for the sake of change, on a whim. Part of the whole "prop 8" debacle in California was based on the fact that a liberal judge (who happened to be gay, and wanted to get married) basically decided to make gay marriage legal in the state.
Any truely conservative minded person (if you'll excuse the "no true Scotsman"), should look at the draconian laws and call them exactly what the are, liberal meddling, before unceremoniously dumping them.
Better yet, I qualified USMC rifle expert (3rd award before I EAS'ed)
I've got the tools, I've got the talent. When can I expect my 4th amendment rights to be abused?
That means you turned off SafeSearch, or whatever it's called. By default, those are filtered by Google.
With the filter on, the most profane result is a book called Doggy Poo.
And this is, imo, the proper solution. Hide the naughty stuff by default, but let people have it back with a simple click or two.
The real problem is the attitude that we MUST decide which is best, and shun the failure of the other
Each have pros and cons : Virtual meetings are much cheaper, easier to setup on the fly, and are more malleable in size; able to accommodate two people without bogarting a conference room, or expandable beyond the number of bodies that can physically fit into a single conference room. Meanwhile, meatspace meetings must be setup months in advance to ensure everyone can make it, require a lot more expenses, potential arguments over the proper location, plus all of the potential pitfalls of travel (lost luggage, delayed/canceled flights, outdated GPS directions sending you to the wrong place, etc.)
But as previously discussed, actual human interaction has a LOT more potential to engender real ideas and changes. It allows us to better know our colleagues and understand each other. If a buddy of mine tells me that I dun goofed, I'm a lot more likely to take an honest look at my work and try to fix the problem than if I had received the same message from some random stranger on the other side of the country, to whom I've never before spoken. Maybe that's a problem on my part, but I'm certainly not the only one (as I've been the random stranger trying to correct someone else, only to receive a "Who the fuck are you" response.)
What needs to happen is utilizing both systems to their strengths. If you're a part of a big project, encompassing hundreds of workers across several geographical locations, and spanning several years, start with a big in-person conference. Make sure everyone knows their peers from different sectors, understands what roles everyone fills, how they operate, etc. Give it 2-3 days, include some after-hours meetups, and get things started right. Schedule these annually (or biannually) to introduce new team members, work through any major sticking points, and keep things flowing well. In between those, use virtual meetings for weekly status meetings, or 1 on 1 discussion between engineers at different locations.
There's also the subtler point that if someone tries to come to my house and destroy a physical book, that copy is my property and the law is on my side. If I have a copy of an ebook, that copy is the publisher's property and if I tamper with the device to prevent the publisher deleting the book, it is I who commit a felony.
There's also the less subtle point that if someone tries to come into my house and destroy a physical book, I'm going to notice someone in my house, stealing my books. And I'm probably going to beat that person about the head and shoulders with a rolling pin until they leave.