Meanwhile we've seen superb foreign Japanese franchises, Ghost In The Shell, Death Note, or even Western ones like Avatar Legend Of Aang given the same good old US dumbing down treatment, followed by whitewashing. The result? Pure good old US shit. It's just business as usual for US moviemakers, get used to it - they're a sausage machine that takes other peoples good ideas in one end and spews out a shit sausage the other end. Has been as long as I've been alive.
not seen much of mainstream bollywood or chinawood movies?
the reason these movies are making money is chinese/asian market.
japan is only sort of part of it. also most anime that makes money is tripe and you know it.
or even the obvious idea of using said accelerator sensors for detecting free fall or falling over. I mean goddamn those are like the reference examples for said chips and so obvious it's not even funny.
by now I'm convinced that the guy is a hack. he doesn't know half the shit he talks about and does it mostly to keep his house of cards going on when he does it.
for him an invention is buying something and putting it on a product - then selling himself as the inventor. he would like to be tony stark, but he is so far off from that he doesn't understand the difference between AI and automation. seriously, he doesn't. he doesn't understand conceptually they are different things - for him and to the people he wants to sell to a lane follower is intelligence, not automation.
you can't buy candybar sized device for 200 off ebay. unless you want to buy some ancient nokia 5800 which would have been the last to be truly that size.
it's all 16:9 pda now. because thats cheap. and screen only without kb. because thats cheap.
..those who are computer literate anyways. however, I have seen plenty of people go from the industry.
though, late 1980s and 90's people.. all I can say is good luck fellas. you can't just npm or get gems for everything - or rather you can but so can everyone else...I don't particularly care if google recomends sqlite it's still a frigging bad idea to take that recommendation and use it for a database as backend for your realtime ui... that's just an example, but the millenials just look up what "google" or someone recommends, never mind the context of the recommendation. they look for a solution already made - even fir the simplest of things. even a 1 liner needs to come from some repo or it is infeasible to use it. and then you wonder why 100 user services with 8 kbyte of actual data per user take gigabytes to run.
anyways back to the subject of age discrimination... it's not so much that. it's just that its very unlikely you would get same amount of pay you would in the '90s with the same skillset that you had in the '90s. installing operating systems is now a job basically comparable to working at mcdonalds for example, so you can't really expect 100k for doing that.. not because it's any easier it's just that a lot more people can do it - and this is from personal experience from what I saw in big corporations when I was growing up, the IT folks usually could do just basic things and were still getting paid fairly, ridiculously actually, high, despite basically only having the skills to read the manual/instruction booklets - oh only if I had been a little older..
android and ios are awkward because both of them try to pretend that there is no difference in an app having been used recently vs. app actually still running in the background. what the designers at google/android who were smoking something strong were thinking was that app developers would make it basically just the same if the app was in one or the other state - of course this can't work when apps/games have loaded 500 megs+ of data and have to work fluidly. as another note those same guys had recommendation that you would kill your view(activity) if the screen orientation changed, to seralize all your data and then deserialize it back. this is a major PITA. also this is why on earlier android versions a lot of the FRIGGING BUILT IN SCREENS the data you had entered into some form or another (For login, whatever) disappears when you flick your wrist and the screen orientation changes! whats worse is that there is ABSOLUTELY no need to kill the activity - and even if you do absolutely no need to serialize the state of it, not even if you change layout!
the whole activity/services system is built so that it looks like it was meant for a networked system where the activity could be spawned on an entirely different device/physical machine. however how android is actually built and how it actually works completely negates this aspect.
And I don't know what you're babbling about not being able to kill them. it's goddamn easy for users to kill apps - swipe them away from the task history view which consequently is it's own dedicated button so it's not that easy to miss it(in symbian it was easy to miss the whole screen if you didn't think of doing a long press) - an app in the history might already have been killed though, you just have no way of knowing it.
as for quirks.. on huawei on defaults if the user kills the app, it goes on a blocklist, unless the app is facebook, line, snapchat etc that are on a default whitelist - the blocklist means blocking all incoming notifications/push messaging/everything to the app. this is very bad and consequently will come to bite your ass if you're an android developer.
what I would personally like to see, would be just actual HARDWARE BUTTONS for switching between previous/next apps..
still, android is a hell of a lot better overall deal than anything previously on the market.
1st. simpler the plot the better. have distinct bad guy, an inbetween guy and a bunch of good guys. ideally the inbetween guy would jump to good side for some moral dilemma or whatever. if there is a traitor he needs to get his comeuppance. just basic stuff really. the good guy can be some rogue character of sorts. Ideally they're after some magical item that might destroy the world in the wrong hands or whatever.
2nd. explosions are good.
3rd. acrobatics are better.
4th. don't try to explain magic. they'll take it as what it is, magic. it doesn't need to make any sense. just throw that stuff into the plot and don't explain away any of the paradoxes such stuff existing in the world makes for the plot.
5th. sequels to hollywood hits are okay. or just use historical characters. or mix both. plenty of asian hit movies are just retellings of the same tales again and again and again.
6th. don't spend too much time worrying if you can make your effects look good for the thing you are trying to show. as long as it gets the point across then it's enough. they don't care.
7th. have a ghost in the script. don't ask why, just have it.
a good example is the latest pirates and transfomers
I went to see the latest pirates of the caribbean dubbed in thai. it did seemingly not impair AT ALL understanding the movie. the plot is that simple and in addition to the simple to get plot there is just a bunch of action pieces. I would wager I did not miss a single detail about the plot, who was the son/daughter of who, who had an axe to grind for what reason and so forth. it had mediocre cgi. the thais loved it. they don't care about the flaws as long as it is entertaining and has some cool(to them) stuff.
covenant i don't see going down so well - even scott himself doesn't seem to actually have decided just wtf is going with the plot and where it is going. alien resurrection seems to be on reruns all the time on tv.
those bad superhero flicks and sequels? THAT IS EXACTLY CATERING FOR THE CHINESE MARKET!!! the pirates and transformers you're asking why they are still making them and the answer is ASIAN MARKET.
one another note: they even make remakes of soap operas here. the ghost rule applies. and what I mean with a remake is a plot twist by plot twist remake with just an updated cast. instead of having the same bold and the beautiful run for 30 years they can just remake same shorter plot every 4 years. they don't care if there isn't any surprises. I guess it's a cultural thing.
the marvel flicks work great for the because they are not too deeply interconnected and they do have their internal plots, which usually center around something grand like saving a planet or the entire universe. they don't try to force too much character development on the main characters either.
what you need to enjoy bladerunner (original directors cut)
1) big screen 2) no distractions, preferably alone 3) bottle of whiskey
then it is a brilliant movie. don't do this if you have thoughts about suicide. I'd imagine it would work better if you had your ass kicked the night before and were spitting blood though(a particular scene in the film manages to make that look good, especially so on a big screen).
it is very sad that they can't seem to fit science and plausability into their plot and instead of go what looks cool, same for new star trek movies..
which is kind of amazing considering what kind of pop fun the originals were. it's a real achievement that the old movies, even total recall, seem like "hard scifi" now. I mean, where the fuck do they recruit their writers nowadays? where do they find people who think that putting an elevator through the earth is good scifi? it makes no sense at all even if you could do it. mining on mars even makes more sense. meddling with the brain makes more sense. even global dystopia makes more sense but shuffling workers through the earth directly makes absolutely fucking no sense at all - just building housing in the first few km of the hole would make a lot more sense by itself!
where do they think that it's a good idea to introduce cellphones that can talk over lightyears and teleporters into star trek? once it is in there if you ignore their existence it just seems like having motorbikes in a western series and then just forgetting they exist for the rest of the show.
at least scott isnt directly involved in this - old ridley can't figure out the plot of his own movies until after few months AFTER it hit the theaters nowadays ffs (prome and cove are tripe - proven by the amount of theory videos on youtube about them, even the people who look them 100 times and ask from scott directly can't figure out the overall plots on how they would make sense so they make up theories on how they make sense, even if the stuff they make theories from are just stuff like what was changed only to look cool - also it's a proven fact that scott had not figured out how the overall plot over the prequels would go and is instead just making shit up as he goes).
So, not just another Android phone company. A really stupid Android phone company.
that apparently also thinks it takes years to contract an android phone to be manufactured.
it's almost at a line of ticking checkboxes by now(of course the trick is that it's really hard to compete with price with anyone else who is doing the same thing!) and receiving the phones 6 months later. all it takes is some free cash.
hehe well there is no need to agree to the new eula to get it automatically installed anyways.
people didn't "see" it coming because trying to forcibly install it and break applications of users, especially business users. is generally seen as such a big dick move that businesses change providers.
you think that boosts public perception of spacex and musk as much?
he doesn't care about mispresenting. it would be easy enough to argue that he deliberately makes misleading pr(more recently particularly about teslas financial affairs/state)
as far as hoses, I suppose it's hidden somewhere. since it's not for space walks and is just for sitting down basically while in flight to protect you if pressure drops or something.
and instant apps is probably just that * they're installed already. *...they already have that too. you can disable some of them, but they're there already.
I guess google has started to have had idiots take over the feature choosing department since they clearly have just added stuff that was already there..
oh well at least there is the thing where you will not be out of space to update because there's two copies of the os. but if you think about that for a while it just means that you're not going to be out of space because that space was taken up already.
as fucking long as they do something to make it worse. it's changing the deal after making the deal.
look, how about ford makes a patch for their old cars that bricks them if you don't sign up for their new "improved" brick-o-protex service? they would get sued, successfully.
anyways - maybe don't buy audio gear that requires the seller of said audio gear to stay in business in order to keep using it? I mean, if they were to go bankrupt or whatever, maybe due to pulling a stupid stunt like this.
lesson is that don't buy sonos shit. if they go belly up you will be just listening to your farts instead of streaming music.
oh and in the eu there is no end limit to the time that if a product has a design/manufacturing deficiency or a flaw when you bought it that they need to fix it back to what it was.
I seriously doubt that the package said that you would need to agree to conditions that they set after you bought the thing. nobody would do that. not even apple, you can still use your old ipod without it getting bricked if you don't upgrade the fw.
well not really. it's not a net neutrality thing, however if they did it like they describe then it's 100% against privacy and it's 100% against using https.
youtube defaults to https. they can't intercept that and re-encode it.so what tools do they have in their possession to do it?
however, they can just throttle it to say 1mbps or whatever they think that 1mbps is, which seems actually much more likely than anything else - that they throttle all long tcp connections. MAKING THEIR ENTIRE HIGH SPEED SALES PITCH UTTER LIES , because really they are not selling connections any faster than that. they don't know what you are streaming.
really, just ditch verizon. I'm visiting finland for 2 weeks. I pay 70 cents for prepaid 4g per day and have already transferred 200gigs give or take. it's so fast that I don't bother even looking for public wifis. and yes there are no limits - and yes it has had 4g coverage just as good in helsinki and literally in the sticks, where you have to drive 30 minutes to go to a shop(I would have expected it to drop to hsdpa or just old normal 3g in there).
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Meanwhile we've seen superb foreign Japanese franchises, Ghost In The Shell, Death Note, or even Western ones like Avatar Legend Of Aang given the same good old US dumbing down treatment, followed by whitewashing. The result? Pure good old US shit. It's just business as usual for US moviemakers, get used to it - they're a sausage machine that takes other peoples good ideas in one end and spews out a shit sausage the other end. Has been as long as I've been alive.
not seen much of mainstream bollywood or chinawood movies?
the reason these movies are making money is chinese/asian market.
japan is only sort of part of it. also most anime that makes money is tripe and you know it.
making the whole thing cost effective would have gone a long way. because then it would have been good business.
I don't buy that they invented the chips.
or even the obvious idea of using said accelerator sensors for detecting free fall or falling over. I mean goddamn those are like the reference examples for said chips and so obvious it's not even funny.
the only reason vivaldi matters vs. other chromekits is only because of the opera fame.
I find the whole browser quite unnecessary to be honest as is opera now in it's current guise.
another layout/render engine would be nice.
if it wasnt elon, I'd say it's a stretch.
by now I'm convinced that the guy is a hack. he doesn't know half the shit he talks about and does it mostly to keep his house of cards going on when he does it.
for him an invention is buying something and putting it on a product - then selling himself as the inventor. he would like to be tony stark, but he is so far off from that he doesn't understand the difference between AI and automation. seriously, he doesn't. he doesn't understand conceptually they are different things - for him and to the people he wants to sell to a lane follower is intelligence, not automation.
look, vivaldi is just another chromekit(tm) browser.
it is not terribly interesting.
last I tried, it didn't have any redeeming quality to it vs. using firefox or chrome.
and look, them using adwords as the advert choice should be a clue.
you can't buy candybar sized device for 200 off ebay. unless you want to buy some ancient nokia 5800 which would have been the last to be truly that size.
it's all 16:9 pda now. because thats cheap.
and screen only without kb. because thats cheap.
what brand you buy doesn't matter that much now..
..those who are computer literate anyways.
however, I have seen plenty of people go from the industry.
though, late 1980s and 90's people.. all I can say is good luck fellas. you can't just npm or get gems for everything - or rather you can but so can everyone else. ..I don't particularly care if google recomends sqlite it's still a frigging bad idea to take that recommendation and use it for a database as backend for your realtime ui... that's just an example, but the millenials just look up what "google" or someone recommends, never mind the context of the recommendation. they look for a solution already made - even fir the simplest of things. even a 1 liner needs to come from some repo or it is infeasible to use it. and then you wonder why 100 user services with 8 kbyte of actual data per user take gigabytes to run.
anyways back to the subject of age discrimination... it's not so much that. it's just that its very unlikely you would get same amount of pay you would in the '90s with the same skillset that you had in the '90s. installing operating systems is now a job basically comparable to working at mcdonalds for example, so you can't really expect 100k for doing that.. not because it's any easier it's just that a lot more people can do it - and this is from personal experience from what I saw in big corporations when I was growing up, the IT folks usually could do just basic things and were still getting paid fairly, ridiculously actually, high, despite basically only having the skills to read the manual/instruction booklets - oh only if I had been a little older..
android and ios are awkward because both of them try to pretend that there is no difference in an app having been used recently vs. app actually still running in the background. what the designers at google/android who were smoking something strong were thinking was that app developers would make it basically just the same if the app was in one or the other state - of course this can't work when apps/games have loaded 500 megs+ of data and have to work fluidly. as another note those same guys had recommendation that you would kill your view(activity) if the screen orientation changed, to seralize all your data and then deserialize it back. this is a major PITA. also this is why on earlier android versions a lot of the FRIGGING BUILT IN SCREENS the data you had entered into some form or another (For login, whatever) disappears when you flick your wrist and the screen orientation changes! whats worse is that there is ABSOLUTELY no need to kill the activity - and even if you do absolutely no need to serialize the state of it, not even if you change layout!
the whole activity/services system is built so that it looks like it was meant for a networked system where the activity could be spawned on an entirely different device/physical machine. however how android is actually built and how it actually works completely negates this aspect.
And I don't know what you're babbling about not being able to kill them. it's goddamn easy for users to kill apps - swipe them away from the task history view which consequently is it's own dedicated button so it's not that easy to miss it(in symbian it was easy to miss the whole screen if you didn't think of doing a long press) - an app in the history might already have been killed though, you just have no way of knowing it.
as for quirks..
on huawei on defaults if the user kills the app, it goes on a blocklist, unless the app is facebook, line, snapchat etc that are on a default whitelist - the blocklist means blocking all incoming notifications/push messaging/everything to the app. this is very bad and consequently will come to bite your ass if you're an android developer.
what I would personally like to see, would be just actual HARDWARE BUTTONS for switching between previous/next apps..
still, android is a hell of a lot better overall deal than anything previously on the market.
pirates and transfomers
How the fuck does that work?
they love pirated transformers toys so... yeah..
1st. simpler the plot the better. have distinct bad guy, an inbetween guy and a bunch of good guys. ideally the inbetween guy would jump to good side for some moral dilemma or whatever. if there is a traitor he needs to get his comeuppance. just basic stuff really. the good guy can be some rogue character of sorts. Ideally they're after some magical item that might destroy the world in the wrong hands or whatever.
2nd. explosions are good.
3rd. acrobatics are better.
4th. don't try to explain magic. they'll take it as what it is, magic. it doesn't need to make any sense. just throw that stuff into the plot and don't explain away any of the paradoxes such stuff existing in the world makes for the plot.
5th. sequels to hollywood hits are okay. or just use historical characters. or mix both. plenty of asian hit movies are just retellings of the same tales again and again and again.
6th. don't spend too much time worrying if you can make your effects look good for the thing you are trying to show. as long as it gets the point across then it's enough. they don't care.
7th. have a ghost in the script. don't ask why, just have it.
a good example is the latest pirates and transfomers
I went to see the latest pirates of the caribbean dubbed in thai. it did seemingly not impair AT ALL understanding the movie. the plot is that simple and in addition to the simple to get plot there is just a bunch of action pieces. I would wager I did not miss a single detail about the plot, who was the son/daughter of who, who had an axe to grind for what reason and so forth. it had mediocre cgi. the thais loved it. they don't care about the flaws as long as it is entertaining and has some cool(to them) stuff.
covenant i don't see going down so well - even scott himself doesn't seem to actually have decided just wtf is going with the plot and where it is going. alien resurrection seems to be on reruns all the time on tv.
those bad superhero flicks and sequels? THAT IS EXACTLY CATERING FOR THE CHINESE MARKET!!! the pirates and transformers you're asking why they are still making them and the answer is ASIAN MARKET.
one another note: they even make remakes of soap operas here. the ghost rule applies. and what I mean with a remake is a plot twist by plot twist remake with just an updated cast. instead of having the same bold and the beautiful run for 30 years they can just remake same shorter plot every 4 years. they don't care if there isn't any surprises. I guess it's a cultural thing.
the marvel flicks work great for the because they are not too deeply interconnected and they do have their internal plots, which usually center around something grand like saving a planet or the entire universe. they don't try to force too much character development on the main characters either.
hehe well the only other stores available in china are chinese.
maybe thats why they think 30 percent is excessive.
also. 15 years ago ANY developer would have yelled with joy to be fleeced only 30%. seriously.
what you need to enjoy bladerunner (original directors cut)
1) big screen
2) no distractions, preferably alone
3) bottle of whiskey
then it is a brilliant movie. don't do this if you have thoughts about suicide. I'd imagine it would work better if you had your ass kicked the night before and were spitting blood though(a particular scene in the film manages to make that look good, especially so on a big screen).
made me lose hope for 80s sequels or remakes.
it is very sad that they can't seem to fit science and plausability into their plot and instead of go what looks cool, same for new star trek movies..
which is kind of amazing considering what kind of pop fun the originals were. it's a real achievement that the old movies, even total recall, seem like "hard scifi" now. I mean, where the fuck do they recruit their writers nowadays? where do they find people who think that putting an elevator through the earth is good scifi? it makes no sense at all even if you could do it. mining on mars even makes more sense. meddling with the brain makes more sense. even global dystopia makes more sense but shuffling workers through the earth directly makes absolutely fucking no sense at all - just building housing in the first few km of the hole would make a lot more sense by itself!
where do they think that it's a good idea to introduce cellphones that can talk over lightyears and teleporters into star trek? once it is in there if you ignore their existence it just seems like having motorbikes in a western series and then just forgetting they exist for the rest of the show.
at least scott isnt directly involved in this - old ridley can't figure out the plot of his own movies until after few months AFTER it hit the theaters nowadays ffs (prome and cove are tripe - proven by the amount of theory videos on youtube about them, even the people who look them 100 times and ask from scott directly can't figure out the overall plots on how they would make sense so they make up theories on how they make sense, even if the stuff they make theories from are just stuff like what was changed only to look cool - also it's a proven fact that scott had not figured out how the overall plot over the prequels would go and is instead just making shit up as he goes).
So, not just another Android phone company. A really stupid Android phone company.
that apparently also thinks it takes years to contract an android phone to be manufactured.
it's almost at a line of ticking checkboxes by now(of course the trick is that it's really hard to compete with price with anyone else who is doing the same thing!) and receiving the phones 6 months later. all it takes is some free cash.
hehe well there is no need to agree to the new eula to get it automatically installed anyways.
people didn't "see" it coming because trying to forcibly install it and break applications of users, especially business users. is generally seen as such a big dick move that businesses change providers.
you think that boosts public perception of spacex and musk as much?
he doesn't care about mispresenting. it would be easy enough to argue that he deliberately makes misleading pr(more recently particularly about teslas financial affairs/state)
it's a flight suit.
not a space suit.
as far as hoses, I suppose it's hidden somewhere. since it's not for space walks and is just for sitting down basically while in flight to protect you if pressure drops or something.
and instant apps is probably just that * they're installed already. * ...they already have that too. you can disable some of them, but they're there already.
I guess google has started to have had idiots take over the feature choosing department since they clearly have just added stuff that was already there..
oh well at least there is the thing where you will not be out of space to update because there's two copies of the os. but if you think about that for a while it just means that you're not going to be out of space because that space was taken up already.
dunno but they are sure to get lots of trollish "EVERYONE MUST READ THIS AND SHARE!!!" and cutesy cat stuff articles from now on..
probably made some changes or made it to work after reset - or made it not optional to keep device manager with device admin rights.
as fucking long as they do something to make it worse.
it's changing the deal after making the deal.
look, how about ford makes a patch for their old cars that bricks them if you don't sign up for their new "improved" brick-o-protex service? they would get sued, successfully.
anyways - maybe don't buy audio gear that requires the seller of said audio gear to stay in business in order to keep using it? I mean, if they were to go bankrupt or whatever, maybe due to pulling a stupid stunt like this.
lesson is that don't buy sonos shit. if they go belly up you will be just listening to your farts instead of streaming music.
oh and in the eu there is no end limit to the time that if a product has a design/manufacturing deficiency or a flaw when you bought it that they need to fix it back to what it was.
I seriously doubt that the package said that you would need to agree to conditions that they set after you bought the thing. nobody would do that. not even apple, you can still use your old ipod without it getting bricked if you don't upgrade the fw.
well not really. it's not a net neutrality thing, however if they did it like they describe then it's 100% against privacy and it's 100% against using https.
youtube defaults to https. they can't intercept that and re-encode it.so what tools do they have in their possession to do it?
however, they can just throttle it to say 1mbps or whatever they think that 1mbps is, which seems actually much more likely than anything else - that they throttle all long tcp connections. MAKING THEIR ENTIRE HIGH SPEED SALES PITCH UTTER LIES , because really they are not selling connections any faster than that. they don't know what you are streaming.
really, just ditch verizon. I'm visiting finland for 2 weeks. I pay 70 cents for prepaid 4g per day and have already transferred 200gigs give or take. it's so fast that I don't bother even looking for public wifis. and yes there are no limits - and yes it has had 4g coverage just as good in helsinki and literally in the sticks, where you have to drive 30 minutes to go to a shop(I would have expected it to drop to hsdpa or just old normal 3g in there).
leave it outside of fridge and it's nasty long before..
the point is to provide ease of use..
fingerprint scanner works fine enough.