Whilst the movie took it's sweet darn time to tell it's story and blasted our eardrums with Tuvan throat singing, it hardly sucked. The vfx actually complemented the story and didn't get in the way, like any number of action films where the "action" becomes a pixel mess on the screen or the actors perform woodenly against a green drape with nothing to react to.
Was it a good story? It could probably have been told in less than half the time, but the story was good enough - even though the "meaningful, permanent change" K goes through is his death, and we don;t see the change he enabled in others. Too Neo for my taste, but then my tastes aren't necessarily everyone else's tastes.
But, it was an absolute visual delight to take us on that story, and well worth the two Oscars it won.
You know... mix that with the original Matrix concept of using human brains as processors and you'd have a decent premise for a sci-fi movie.
Especially that last part about the poor, but I'd also add in the uber-rich being augmented with 'cloud' processing they can skim from their poor workforce.
Then you need the poor guy/gal who gets disconnected - losing their only income - and ends up figuring out how to use their natural brain capacity to take down the system and save everyone.
There's a script in there. Maybe even a good one, if a bit derivative.
Wasn't that essentially the plot of Johnny Mnemonic?
I've been surprised several times by how free-software-averse the whole broadcasting industry is: They'd rather buy a commercial encoder for $bignum purchase + recurring $bignum2 support fee instead of using a superior setup that's based on x264, would cost them about $bignum/10 for the initial setup, and then nothing to run for as long as they'd like. I'd even deliver the whole documentation on how to run everything, so they wouldn't need me again.
Isn't the problem more the case of "if you want that particular camera then it emits xyz codec. Oh, you want to edit that video? Well, you need to license the codec."
The LoopX Team was formed in September 2016 of a core group of high performance professionals to build a new kind of trading software based on our own Loop-Algorithm. After testing our algorithm thoroughly over half a year with great profits continuously every month, we can now finally bring all this advantages of our LoopX – Trading Software to the public. We are here to help you make money in the emerging market of cryptocurrencies which is projected to grow up to 10 times the size of now until the next year. The LoopX System gives you guaranteed profits every week thanks to the most advanced Trading Software out there to date! We do not make daily payments since we consider that the margins are smaller. For us the priority is the safety of your investment. It took us little bit over a year to bring you the final product so you can benefit from the most advanced technology too.
This is from Bing's cached page of their website.
So honestly, if you read After testing our algorithm thoroughly over half a year with great profits continuously every month and didn't fall over laughing at the obvious Ponzi nature of the scheme, you kind of deserved what happened to you.
Makes sense. Off hand I can't find any fault in your logic. I can't say that I completely agree with it, but its a good point.
That's fair enough if you can't completely agree with it. I'm not sure I completely agree with my argument either. I would appreciate if someone offered a counter argument, just to see where I might be wrong.
If MS Office was completely unchanging, the subscription makes no sense. Why pay indefinitely for the same thing? But Office is evolving and getting better. With my annual subscription, I get two major refreshes a year - and it's cheaper than upgrading every two years. We tended to skip every other release, so our upgrade costs were't as often, but even then it's a break-even proposition.
So for my wife and I, we save money on the annual subscription, we see continual improvement, we get the cloud storage, and we get the $30/mth skype credits which we use (we live in the US, our parents are in Aus).
As for the Microsoft subscription module I've seen that is actually cheaper to pony up for a year in advance than to go month to month. $69 for a personal office license for 1 cpu, phone, and tablet. An $99 for 5 cpu, phones and tablets. The subscription module is still cheaper than just buying the office package off the shelf.
$69 for a terabyte of cloud storage AND $30/month Skype credits is actually pretty good...
You got one bit wrong. It doesn't invalidate your argument, though.
Flint adds chemicals to water supply to address one problem, but the chemical leeches lead off the old water mains in Flint.
Flint didn't add the necessary chemicals, which allowed the calcites that coated the pipes to break up. Then, other corrosive chemicals in the Flint River leached the lead out of the pipes.
Remember that GM stopped using Flint water because it was corroding the engines of their cars.
The media, politicians, and community leaders all try to find blame in everyone but the residents of Flint that were trying to save money on their water bill, apparently at any cost.
Completely unfair. The emergency manager of Flint didn't like the deal struck with Detroit Water, and instead of waiting for the Lake Huron plant to become operational, decided to use untreated water from the Flint River, despite the advice not to. It was also that rat fuck who ensure bottled water was made available to certain city workers months before they advised residents to boil water.
For a moderately lightweight drone intended to operate over water at low altitudes, 'crash-resistant' means able to fall a few dozen feet into water, and then bob on the surface without the electronics getting wet until it is recovered by the owner. Maybe even with battery-monitoring to have it auto-descend gently when it is nearing the end of its run time.
Waterproof drones do exist, but they are expensive. There is a lot of electronics that needs to breath whilst in flight (the ESCs spring to mind immediately), and the altimeter (actually a barometer) needs to know the outside air pressure in order to hold altitude. All decent drones have battery monitoring and do auto-land when the power gets too low.
As a drone user (I fly the Yuneec Typhoon H and the Blade Chroma as backup), the Karma offered absolutely nothing I wanted. For the price of a Karma + GoPro, you can buy a DJI Mavic and have a far better rectilinear camera than that fisheye junk the GoPro has. For less than the Karma+GoPro, there are decent offerings from Autel and Yuneec that have a fantastic camera and all the features the Karma has (minus, of course, the falling out of the sky and the flight performance of a $45 toy grade machine).
That doesn't give me confidence in the currency, if my money could be frozen at someone else's whim.
I know what you mean. Imagine if some (relatively) stable country were to pull it's 500 and 1000 rupee denomination notes suddenly. Chaos would ensue. But that would never happen, would it?
This will give Microsoft some time to fix those "oopsies" they missed in the first few month after release before they force me to update. Its only giving me a little over a month buffer this time, as opposed to a few months with the Creators Update, but it may save me some grief on my work PC.
Windows Insider here. The last almighty bork MS had win Win10 was a few months ago when an update to the slow ring messed up quite a few systems, and for me the rollback left me unable to apply the subsequent slow ring build. Since then, it's been very rock-solid.
Pausing is fine, but the Windows team is really getting into the swing of frequent updates.
No. He's saying that a century ago weather satellites didn't exist, instrumentation was more primitive, and we just don't know how big the storms were
We also didn't know how many storms spun up and died out that never saw land. Today, we count them. Years ago, we couldn't. Take Jose as example: it's central pressure a few days ago was 938 mb, so strong. The winds made it a Cat 4. Newsworthy by any standards - except it hasn't, and may not, come close to shore.
The F-35 has been in constant development for a quarter of a century and there is no sign whatsoever that it will ever be fully combat ready in any way shape or form. Certainly not in a way that meets its requirements. We're now into territory where you're looking at it being cancelled if some serious progress is not shown within a very short period of time.
For real? What government has the balls to back out of the F-35 now? Australia has pretty much decided not to buy anything else, so the existing fleet is getting older and older. The US (from what I can see) has gone the same way: if it's not F-35 then it's obsolete. Heck; look at the stink when the A-10's where being considered for mothballing.
In my personal, armchair general view of the fighters, the F-35 program is so far into escalation-of-commitment group-think territory the only way out is to cancel the fighter and dismiss every single person involved with the aircraft where ever they are in whatever capacity they serve. Well, maybe not dismiss; maybe reassign. But whatever. The "we can't start again because we're too far behind" argument must be drowned out by "you're so far behind the opposition is almost a generation ahead" at some point. But that's not going to happen.
The problem starts when people start getting uppity because the government doesn't recognize their chosen gender that month and that it's not on doctor forms and getting upset that their sex is male but they can't identify or list that they're female on the form because it's how they identify even though when it comes to medication your sex / genetics is what matters and I'm sick of the few individuals who think they deserve special treatment based on how they identify.
First, how many people actually choose their gender by the month? Unless you're talking some particular form of mental illness, that simply doesn't happen.
Next, how many people are asking for special treatment, as opposed to being treated like everyone else? I mean, look at the political / religious brain explosions regarding bathrooms. If you identify as male, use the mens. If you identify as female, you the ladies. I can't speak for you, but for me what is happening in your bathroom stall I don't want to think about but I'm vitally interested in my stall. Sure, there are people who demand special treatment for virtually anything, but they don't represent the majority, or even a significant minority. Mostly they need to have a pee.
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Whilst the movie took it's sweet darn time to tell it's story and blasted our eardrums with Tuvan throat singing, it hardly sucked. The vfx actually complemented the story and didn't get in the way, like any number of action films where the "action" becomes a pixel mess on the screen or the actors perform woodenly against a green drape with nothing to react to.
Was it a good story? It could probably have been told in less than half the time, but the story was good enough - even though the "meaningful, permanent change" K goes through is his death, and we don;t see the change he enabled in others. Too Neo for my taste, but then my tastes aren't necessarily everyone else's tastes.
But, it was an absolute visual delight to take us on that story, and well worth the two Oscars it won.
1. Announce new cryptocurrency
2. Get "investors"
3. ???
4. Profit!
5. Flee country
You know... mix that with the original Matrix concept of using human brains as processors and you'd have a decent premise for a sci-fi movie.
Especially that last part about the poor, but I'd also add in the uber-rich being augmented with 'cloud' processing they can skim from their poor workforce.
Then you need the poor guy/gal who gets disconnected - losing their only income - and ends up figuring out how to use their natural brain capacity to take down the system and save everyone.
There's a script in there. Maybe even a good one, if a bit derivative.
Wasn't that essentially the plot of Johnny Mnemonic?
I've been surprised several times by how free-software-averse the whole broadcasting industry is: They'd rather buy a commercial encoder for $bignum
purchase + recurring $bignum2 support fee instead of using a superior setup that's based on x264, would cost them about $bignum/10 for the initial setup, and then nothing to run for as long as they'd like. I'd even deliver the whole documentation on how to run everything, so they wouldn't need me again.
Isn't the problem more the case of "if you want that particular camera then it emits xyz codec. Oh, you want to edit that video? Well, you need to license the codec."
Why did they get rid of their website and all of their accounts?
Because leaving the website up with a single word displayed had already been done?
The LoopX Team was formed in September 2016 of a core group of high performance professionals to build a new kind of trading software based on our own Loop-Algorithm. After testing our algorithm thoroughly over half a year with great profits continuously every month, we can now finally bring all this advantages of our LoopX – Trading Software to the public. We are here to help you make money in the emerging market of cryptocurrencies which is projected to grow up to 10 times the size of now until the next year. The LoopX System gives you guaranteed profits every week thanks to the most advanced Trading Software out there to date! We do not make daily payments since we consider that the margins are smaller. For us the priority is the safety of your investment. It took us little bit over a year to bring you the final product so you can benefit from the most advanced technology too.
This is from Bing's cached page of their website.
So honestly, if you read After testing our algorithm thoroughly over half a year with great profits continuously every month and didn't fall over laughing at the obvious Ponzi nature of the scheme, you kind of deserved what happened to you.
Finally reality has caught up with this inflated bubble.
Bit quick to celebrate. Beware the "dead cat bounce".
Bitcoin doesn't require that new bitcoins continually need to be produced in order for it to work.
True, but it does require that network of computers running...
Don't forget, mining a coin is a reward for keeping the system running.
Things always continue upwards.
I've got some Enron shares in a shoebox somewhere.
Makes sense. Off hand I can't find any fault in your logic. I can't say that I completely agree with it, but its a good point.
That's fair enough if you can't completely agree with it. I'm not sure I completely agree with my argument either. I would appreciate if someone offered a counter argument, just to see where I might be wrong.
If MS Office was completely unchanging, the subscription makes no sense. Why pay indefinitely for the same thing? But Office is evolving and getting better. With my annual subscription, I get two major refreshes a year - and it's cheaper than upgrading every two years. We tended to skip every other release, so our upgrade costs were't as often, but even then it's a break-even proposition.
So for my wife and I, we save money on the annual subscription, we see continual improvement, we get the cloud storage, and we get the $30/mth skype credits which we use (we live in the US, our parents are in Aus).
That's for us, though. Your mileage may vary.
As for the Microsoft subscription module I've seen that is actually cheaper to pony up for a year in advance than to go month to month. $69 for a personal office license for 1 cpu, phone, and tablet. An $99 for 5 cpu, phones and tablets. The subscription module is still cheaper than just buying the office package off the shelf.
$69 for a terabyte of cloud storage AND $30/month Skype credits is actually pretty good...
You got one bit wrong. It doesn't invalidate your argument, though.
Flint adds chemicals to water supply to address one problem, but the chemical leeches lead off the old water mains in Flint.
Flint didn't add the necessary chemicals, which allowed the calcites that coated the pipes to break up. Then, other corrosive chemicals in the Flint River leached the lead out of the pipes.
Remember that GM stopped using Flint water because it was corroding the engines of their cars.
The media, politicians, and community leaders all try to find blame in everyone but the residents of Flint that were trying to save money on their water bill, apparently at any cost.
Completely unfair. The emergency manager of Flint didn't like the deal struck with Detroit Water, and instead of waiting for the Lake Huron plant to become operational, decided to use untreated water from the Flint River, despite the advice not to. It was also that rat fuck who ensure bottled water was made available to certain city workers months before they advised residents to boil water.
For a moderately lightweight drone intended to operate over water at low altitudes, 'crash-resistant' means able to fall a few dozen feet into water, and then bob on the surface without the electronics getting wet until it is recovered by the owner. Maybe even with battery-monitoring to have it auto-descend gently when it is nearing the end of its run time.
Waterproof drones do exist, but they are expensive. There is a lot of electronics that needs to breath whilst in flight (the ESCs spring to mind immediately), and the altimeter (actually a barometer) needs to know the outside air pressure in order to hold altitude. All decent drones have battery monitoring and do auto-land when the power gets too low.
As a drone user (I fly the Yuneec Typhoon H and the Blade Chroma as backup), the Karma offered absolutely nothing I wanted. For the price of a Karma + GoPro, you can buy a DJI Mavic and have a far better rectilinear camera than that fisheye junk the GoPro has. For less than the Karma+GoPro, there are decent offerings from Autel and Yuneec that have a fantastic camera and all the features the Karma has (minus, of course, the falling out of the sky and the flight performance of a $45 toy grade machine).
That doesn't give me confidence in the currency, if my money could be frozen at someone else's whim.
I know what you mean. Imagine if some (relatively) stable country were to pull it's 500 and 1000 rupee denomination notes suddenly. Chaos would ensue. But that would never happen, would it?
Oh wait: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wir...
There was a story about 10 years ago where antivirus companies acknowledged they skipped flagging signatures of US government spyware.
Citation? From a reliable new source, please.
This will give Microsoft some time to fix those "oopsies" they missed in the first few month after release before they force me to update. Its only giving me a little over a month buffer this time, as opposed to a few months with the Creators Update, but it may save me some grief on my work PC.
Windows Insider here. The last almighty bork MS had win Win10 was a few months ago when an update to the slow ring messed up quite a few systems, and for me the rollback left me unable to apply the subsequent slow ring build. Since then, it's been very rock-solid.
Pausing is fine, but the Windows team is really getting into the swing of frequent updates.
Embrace,. Check.
Extend. Check.
Will give you three guesses for what comes next.
$$$$$$$$$
No. He's saying that a century ago weather satellites didn't exist, instrumentation was more primitive, and we just don't know how big the storms were
We also didn't know how many storms spun up and died out that never saw land. Today, we count them. Years ago, we couldn't. Take Jose as example: it's central pressure a few days ago was 938 mb, so strong. The winds made it a Cat 4. Newsworthy by any standards - except it hasn't, and may not, come close to shore.
The F-35 has been in constant development for a quarter of a century and there is no sign whatsoever that it will ever be fully combat ready in any way shape or form. Certainly not in a way that meets its requirements. We're now into territory where you're looking at it being cancelled if some serious progress is not shown within a very short period of time.
For real? What government has the balls to back out of the F-35 now? Australia has pretty much decided not to buy anything else, so the existing fleet is getting older and older. The US (from what I can see) has gone the same way: if it's not F-35 then it's obsolete. Heck; look at the stink when the A-10's where being considered for mothballing.
In my personal, armchair general view of the fighters, the F-35 program is so far into escalation-of-commitment group-think territory the only way out is to cancel the fighter and dismiss every single person involved with the aircraft where ever they are in whatever capacity they serve. Well, maybe not dismiss; maybe reassign. But whatever. The "we can't start again because we're too far behind" argument must be drowned out by "you're so far behind the opposition is almost a generation ahead" at some point. But that's not going to happen.
Nobody goes out of business. ... So when MCI Worldcom declares bankruptcy, the services people buy from them aren't interrupted.
Tell that to the people who bought a Zeno smart drone. They now own a paperweight that at one stage could fly (albeit badly),
Trump's successes
Say what now?
Kind of like the French Military Victories from a few years back...
https://xkcd.com/927/
Illegal alien? I'll sign up!
The problem starts when people start getting uppity because the government doesn't recognize their chosen gender that month and that it's not on doctor forms and getting upset that their sex is male but they can't identify or list that they're female on the form because it's how they identify even though when it comes to medication your sex / genetics is what matters and I'm sick of the few individuals who think they deserve special treatment based on how they identify.
First, how many people actually choose their gender by the month? Unless you're talking some particular form of mental illness, that simply doesn't happen.
Next, how many people are asking for special treatment, as opposed to being treated like everyone else? I mean, look at the political / religious brain explosions regarding bathrooms. If you identify as male, use the mens. If you identify as female, you the ladies. I can't speak for you, but for me what is happening in your bathroom stall I don't want to think about but I'm vitally interested in my stall. Sure, there are people who demand special treatment for virtually anything, but they don't represent the majority, or even a significant minority. Mostly they need to have a pee.
They had a string of US hits: The Simpsons, Seinfeld, Friends, ...
Neighbours is still popular.