In the years since I've been incredibly much more selective. I never watch any of the brain dead CG fest superhero movies, or really any movie whose sole attraction is how much pointless eye candy they can put on the screen in each scene.
I agree with your first sentence, but not the second. The whole point of having a big and high quality screen like the movie theatre is to enjoy the eye candy. A good drama with little visuals is just as enjoyable on a small screen at home. As for comedies, the jury is out: it's nice to laugh together with other people, but I tend to laugh at completely different scenes than most people.
I used to never be late at movies because I loved to watch the trailers (40 years ago...). They'd give you a good idea on what the movie was about, and in most cases made you want to watch it with some hook or mystery about it.. Nowadays I hate the trailers: they contain all the best (often the only) jokes of the movies, or all the condensed action scenes, and very often reveal the entire plot and even the ending. And since the entire movie is condensed in there, it very often means you can tell the movie is complete crap and you don't want to go see it.
I don't understand why directors don't yell at the trailer makers.
I also give blood regularly, but let me be clear: if I learn that my blood would be used to prolong the life of rich oligarchs, I wouldn't give another drop and damn the consequences.
100% behind you. Did they add what I actually need ?
- readable fonts. The current font aliasing is horrible, horrible, horrible. Yes, they provide ways to tweak it, but it's useless gobshite. Even external tweakers can't seem to make them less fuzzy and more readable.
- a Win2K theme. WinXP if you want to go extra fancy (not me).
- a file explorer window without all the extra shit of 'anything goes' as virtual folders. And with proper indentation of trees, not just 2 pixels. And lines.
- actual buttons where there is something to press. Grey on grey without border doesn't fucking count. I have to click at random on your stupid shit of a user interface to figure out where the buttons are and where the comments are yah fucking cunts.
- a single button (or a single page) to disable all the spy stuff, instead of having to find 2 page-long list on forums and downloads utility progs to do it for me.
- give us an option to get rid of all the ribbons and replace them with old-style menus with accelerator keys, it saves a lot of vertical real estate and your icons look like shit. If I wanted to have stupid looking icons everywhere instead of plain text, I'd learn chinese (no offence to the chinese).
Yes, I hate it. All the good stuff has been replaced with wastes of time and ugly shit. If I hate it so much, why do I use it ? It's in a VM under Linux for the 3 windows programs I still need to use.
I've long wondered why models and simulations aren't used a lot more in economic and political matters. They're used everywhere in physics and engineering, even when there are many unknowns (look at the Lorenz equation of climate models and how much it's improved since then). So why aren't modelisations with positive outcomes OBLIGATORY before voting some new laws that nobody really knows if it'll improve things or not ? Models may not be perfect but they provide a starting point and WILL be improved.
The Sichuan University trial, it is important to note, does not edit the germ-line; its effects will not be hereditary.
This test run may not be, but this technique can not only be applied to germ-line cells, but also made 'super-hereditary'. When you change germ-line cells, they are transmitted only in half the cases, no matter if dominant or recessive. But they found a technique to have the modifications transmitted every time ! I don't remember the name of that technique though.
Computer graphics are part of the language of movies now; you can't make a sci-fi movie without them
I'm currently in the middle of watching Space Milkshake and I can tell you that there aren't any CGI in it more elaborate than matte paintings. And it's still very enjoyable. Will finish watching tonight.
Well, I'll take industrial food and water with minute amount of hormones any day over drinking water from the river upstream from my home and shitting in it downstream. Like all my neighbors...
The problem with that idea is that your DNA is most valuable when you are young. As you age its quality decreases, especially in men.
Which is EXACTLY why this method works at increasing lifespan. Those who CAN have healthy kids after 40 are healthier than average, thus selecting for positive traits.
There's no such thing as a temperature measurement to 4 decimal places (2 at the very most, 1 is still quite optimistic). And if you have such size constraints, why the fuck would you waste it on primitive units like Fahrenheit ?!?
There are several bug reports on variations of this problem (some about the position, some about the wrong desktop, some about programs that won't restart). Here's one of them.
KDE 4 was awesome for work. I could have tens of programs open on various desktops, plenty of konsole with tabs opened in bash in various directories, and after a reboot it would reopen everything in the same places (correct position and desktop) and even the same directories.
Not so with KDE5. A few programs reopen, placed completely randomly (wrong desktops). Most don't reopen. Konsole won't reopen. It's been buggy like that ever since. So IS IT FIXED NOW ?!?
It's hard to solve though because having children is expensive and makes it hard to also have a career.
Those are easy to solve if there's a will: provide full compensation for time off work after (and before) having children for both parents, provide easy (like with hours that match working hours of parents) and cheap access to kindergarden and such, make it difficult to fire pregnant women or new moms, etc... Many european countries have rules like that. Remember that even if they are not your kids, they'll pay your retirement,
Yeah, and also as someone who write (software instead of music), I get paid for what I write, and then next week I'll starve if I don't write anything. Why aren't they the same ? And don't give me the bullshit that song writing is 'creative'. Software is just as creative.
Can you imagine if you paid your plumber for a new toilet, but then you also had to pay him every time you used it ?!? Why do they want cake and the cake's money as well ?
There are many (?) compilers that place boundary spaces above and below arrays, so that access to ptr[256] or ptr[-1] will trigger a (manageable) runtime error, so it will catch runaway loops. But it won't catch things like your example. And C is for speed and this adds a check or two for every array access, so even if enabled in debug mode, it's usually removed in release mode.
Yup, as a software engineer working in research, sometimes I've had my name in papers because there was no way they could get their results without specifically crafted software. Of course they had to explain to me many times and very slowly what they wanted...
I you were surrounded with stamp collectors always bothering you about why you aren't collecting stamps, maybe sometimes you'd tell them to fuck off too.
THIS is what SECURITY agencies should be doing. Not weaponizing the Internet. Or spying with it, but SECURING it. They should identify weaknesses, report them, possibly fix them themselves if they can. They should have to power to coerce hard/software makers to fix them if the problems are important and the makers are not interested (outdated version, but still used by 20 million users...).
They should have the right to exploit a security hole for spying ONLY if it's in a foreign product and not used on national soil.
Case in point: ADSL line speed. I've had several different ADSL providers, and living somewhat far out, the speed is consistently bad, sometimes awful. But if I try one of the many 'ADSL speed test' websites, the results are always in line with the promised speed. I once routed one of those through a proxy, just for the name change, and the speed was one tenth, same if I accessed it simply by the IP number ! Benchmarks are too easy to cheat. Wasn't it Intel who was caught doing that a few years ago ?
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In the years since I've been incredibly much more selective. I never watch any of the brain dead CG fest superhero movies, or really any movie whose sole attraction is how much pointless eye candy they can put on the screen in each scene.
I agree with your first sentence, but not the second. The whole point of having a big and high quality screen like the movie theatre is to enjoy the eye candy. A good drama with little visuals is just as enjoyable on a small screen at home. As for comedies, the jury is out: it's nice to laugh together with other people, but I tend to laugh at completely different scenes than most people.
I don't understand why directors don't yell at the trailer makers.
I also give blood regularly, but let me be clear: if I learn that my blood would be used to prolong the life of rich oligarchs, I wouldn't give another drop and damn the consequences.
Swype can type plenty fast enough to write long emails in correct english, as long as you don't use too many terms not in the dictionary.
Yes, I hate it. All the good stuff has been replaced with wastes of time and ugly shit. If I hate it so much, why do I use it ? It's in a VM under Linux for the 3 windows programs I still need to use.
I've long wondered why models and simulations aren't used a lot more in economic and political matters. They're used everywhere in physics and engineering, even when there are many unknowns (look at the Lorenz equation of climate models and how much it's improved since then). So why aren't modelisations with positive outcomes OBLIGATORY before voting some new laws that nobody really knows if it'll improve things or not ? Models may not be perfect but they provide a starting point and WILL be improved.
The Sichuan University trial, it is important to note, does not edit the germ-line; its effects will not be hereditary.
This test run may not be, but this technique can not only be applied to germ-line cells, but also made 'super-hereditary'. When you change germ-line cells, they are transmitted only in half the cases, no matter if dominant or recessive. But they found a technique to have the modifications transmitted every time ! I don't remember the name of that technique though.
Title says it all.
Computer graphics are part of the language of movies now; you can't make a sci-fi movie without them
I'm currently in the middle of watching Space Milkshake and I can tell you that there aren't any CGI in it more elaborate than matte paintings. And it's still very enjoyable. Will finish watching tonight.
Didn't they have women in juries at the time ?
So for you true and false are just two sides of the same story ? Right... I hope you are not into programming !
Well, I'll take industrial food and water with minute amount of hormones any day over drinking water from the river upstream from my home and shitting in it downstream. Like all my neighbors...
The problem with that idea is that your DNA is most valuable when you are young. As you age its quality decreases, especially in men.
Which is EXACTLY why this method works at increasing lifespan. Those who CAN have healthy kids after 40 are healthier than average, thus selecting for positive traits.
There's no such thing as a temperature measurement to 4 decimal places (2 at the very most, 1 is still quite optimistic). And if you have such size constraints, why the fuck would you waste it on primitive units like Fahrenheit ?!?
There are several bug reports on variations of this problem (some about the position, some about the wrong desktop, some about programs that won't restart). Here's one of them.
I had a VW golf in the late 80s. Once in a parking lot I unlocked it, sat in, started it and went... he, this is not my car !
Not so with KDE5. A few programs reopen, placed completely randomly (wrong desktops). Most don't reopen. Konsole won't reopen. It's been buggy like that ever since. So IS IT FIXED NOW ?!?
It's hard to solve though because having children is expensive and makes it hard to also have a career.
Those are easy to solve if there's a will: provide full compensation for time off work after (and before) having children for both parents, provide easy (like with hours that match working hours of parents) and cheap access to kindergarden and such, make it difficult to fire pregnant women or new moms, etc... Many european countries have rules like that. Remember that even if they are not your kids, they'll pay your retirement,
Can you imagine if you paid your plumber for a new toilet, but then you also had to pay him every time you used it ?!? Why do they want cake and the cake's money as well ?
There are many (?) compilers that place boundary spaces above and below arrays, so that access to ptr[256] or ptr[-1] will trigger a (manageable) runtime error, so it will catch runaway loops. But it won't catch things like your example. And C is for speed and this adds a check or two for every array access, so even if enabled in debug mode, it's usually removed in release mode.
Yup, as a software engineer working in research, sometimes I've had my name in papers because there was no way they could get their results without specifically crafted software. Of course they had to explain to me many times and very slowly what they wanted...
And what about VIRGO in Italy which is also part of the collaboration ? It was offline during the 1st detection; did it catch it this time ?
I you were surrounded with stamp collectors always bothering you about why you aren't collecting stamps, maybe sometimes you'd tell them to fuck off too.
They should have the right to exploit a security hole for spying ONLY if it's in a foreign product and not used on national soil.
Case in point: ADSL line speed. I've had several different ADSL providers, and living somewhat far out, the speed is consistently bad, sometimes awful. But if I try one of the many 'ADSL speed test' websites, the results are always in line with the promised speed. I once routed one of those through a proxy, just for the name change, and the speed was one tenth, same if I accessed it simply by the IP number ! Benchmarks are too easy to cheat. Wasn't it Intel who was caught doing that a few years ago ?