Yup. 17 minutes for the opening Gravity shot, versus a 3-minute birth, a 4-minute ambush and an 8-minute battle in Children of Men. Noted. Some degree of trickery was used in the 8-minute shot, but I haven't seen a breakdown on the 17-minute Gravity shot.
Regardless, we agree. Cuarón loves the long take, and you can't shoot that in the vomit comet.
The whole movie only has 156 shots - averaging 46 seconds each. An eternity in modern cinema.
Not quite the length and scope of the shots Cuarón gave us in Children of Men, but too long for Vomit Comet rides - once you factor in the time it takes to get scenes queued up.
While some shocks happen, by the time I make it to the polls, the news already knows which races are close. I those, I pick between Kang and Kodos - whichever one offers a less painful death.
In every other landslide category, I make sure the 3rd party candidate gets one more vote. Maybe that'll shift their percentage point to keep people thinking it's possible to ever elect one of them...
Also, I vote NO on every judge, school board member, corporation commission and every other stale face on the ballot seeking another term unless I know they're out there fighting a good fight.
"The Libertarians" don't want to make people sick against their will. We know where peoples' rights stop.
In public, sure, no lighting things on fire and blowing them at us. Your rights end at your nose (and lungs).
However, restaurant and bar owners (should) choose if they want you as a customer or not, or prefer smokers. You don't have any right to visit my business.
We've already got one fairly awesome nuclear plant -- located fairly close to these solar arrays, by the way -- but I wonder if the $5300/hW figure includes long-term storage and disposal costs.
I suppose salt tanks might, but there's also the pleasure of knowing that (a) your solar system can't go into meltdown, and (b) you can destroy people with your laser array.
Android desktops, those that can display multiple apps correctly (so you can look at your reference material while you work on your spreadsheet) are mostly a collection of kludges and hacks, with little support from the apps that are supposed to run in them.
As an Arizonan, I assure you, we have no use for any of the land between Phoenix and Yuma sans that which the Palo Verde nuclear plant sits on -- and there's a lot of it.
Few people here turn their cooling systems OFF during the day. Also, the hottest days of the year here are in the summer, where a lot of families have kids at home. YES, there's absolutely a spike in electricity around 4pm (when it's still hot and people come home), but businesses (which a lot of us go to during the day) have air conditioners too.
Covering your home in solar panels in Arizona can save you about $100/mo on your power bill, which for a single-family-residence runs about $200 in the winter and about $400 in the summer.
Those panels aren't free. They can take 10+ years to pay for themselves.
If it takes Solana 10 years to break even, that's $3,000 per year, per home served, or on par with their current power bills, and doesn't involve burning any fossils.
Interesting that the wholesale price of this electricity is 14c/kWh. The overnight residential rate in Phoenix is about 7c. I guess they're hoping to resell a lot of this to businesses during the day, or they're just going to eat the price difference (over nuclear, gas and coal) to meet the 15% renewable energy mandate for 2025.
Your system of morals dictates a system of punishment that imposes the death penalty on monsters. The morals system in other countries dictates that "monsters" get 20 or 30 years, maximum. Your idea of an appropriate punishment for a crime doesn't match everyone else's ideas. We probably agree that this sort of behavior (public nudity, lewd acts) likely deserves a slap on the wrist, maybe a fine, whatever......but we don't share the same moral values as everyone else on the planet.
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Yup. 17 minutes for the opening Gravity shot, versus a 3-minute birth, a 4-minute ambush and an 8-minute battle in Children of Men. Noted. Some degree of trickery was used in the 8-minute shot, but I haven't seen a breakdown on the 17-minute Gravity shot.
Regardless, we agree. Cuarón loves the long take, and you can't shoot that in the vomit comet.
The whole movie only has 156 shots - averaging 46 seconds each. An eternity in modern cinema.
Too many long, unbroken shots in Gravity.
Not quite the length and scope of the shots Cuarón gave us in Children of Men, but too long for Vomit Comet rides - once you factor in the time it takes to get scenes queued up.
Seriously? Eight WHOLE million? What percentage of their combined budgets is that again?
When you tell me something is important to you, I say, "Oh? Show me your budget -- I'll show you what's important to you."
Then their electric bills will rise by a barely negligible percent.
It costs about $19/mo to run a Nissan Leaf 1,000 miles/mo in Phoenix while charging off-peak -- that's NINE kWh per night.
I'm pretty sure the 3.3 gigawatts from the Palo Verde nuclear plant will cover our Teslas and Leafs.
"Card on file."
You mean, like every other person you gave your credit card or handed a check to?
Sorry boss, my doctor says I need to medicate every 2 hours while I'm awake.
A cat's terminal velocity is survivable for the cat. They can jump from basicly any height and be fine.
I'm willing to assist in the testing of this theory.
It's tricky voting 3rd party.
While some shocks happen, by the time I make it to the polls, the news already knows which races are close. I those, I pick between Kang and Kodos - whichever one offers a less painful death.
In every other landslide category, I make sure the 3rd party candidate gets one more vote. Maybe that'll shift their percentage point to keep people thinking it's possible to ever elect one of them...
Also, I vote NO on every judge, school board member, corporation commission and every other stale face on the ballot seeking another term unless I know they're out there fighting a good fight.
"The Libertarians" don't want to make people sick against their will. We know where peoples' rights stop.
In public, sure, no lighting things on fire and blowing them at us. Your rights end at your nose (and lungs).
However, restaurant and bar owners (should) choose if they want you as a customer or not, or prefer smokers. You don't have any right to visit my business.
I painted a fence once, but nobody calls me a painter.
I jumped out of a plane once, but nobody calls me a skydiver.
Five C's determine their value, mostly weighted by Cartel.
We've already got one fairly awesome nuclear plant -- located fairly close to these solar arrays, by the way -- but I wonder if the $5300/hW figure includes long-term storage and disposal costs.
I suppose salt tanks might, but there's also the pleasure of knowing that (a) your solar system can't go into meltdown, and (b) you can destroy people with your laser array.
Android launchers are a dime a dozen.
Android desktops, those that can display multiple apps correctly (so you can look at your reference material while you work on your spreadsheet) are mostly a collection of kludges and hacks, with little support from the apps that are supposed to run in them.
I assure you, ANYTHING could improve this scenery.
https://www.google.com/maps?q=32%C2%B055%E2%80%B2N+112%C2%B058%E2%80%B2W&ie=UTF8&t=m&z=13
As an Arizonan, I assure you, we have no use for any of the land between Phoenix and Yuma sans that which the Palo Verde nuclear plant sits on -- and there's a lot of it.
Most of the other Arizona plants under construction are already committed to sell solar to PG&E, so... ...wish granted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesquite_Solar_project
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agua_Caliente_Solar_Project
Few people here turn their cooling systems OFF during the day. Also, the hottest days of the year here are in the summer, where a lot of families have kids at home. YES, there's absolutely a spike in electricity around 4pm (when it's still hot and people come home), but businesses (which a lot of us go to during the day) have air conditioners too.
In Arizona, we use most of our power during the day, cooling homes.
And since they're selling the power to APS at 14c/kWh, it seems like a good plan...
Covering your home in solar panels in Arizona can save you about $100/mo on your power bill, which for a single-family-residence runs about $200 in the winter and about $400 in the summer.
Those panels aren't free. They can take 10+ years to pay for themselves.
If it takes Solana 10 years to break even, that's $3,000 per year, per home served, or on par with their current power bills, and doesn't involve burning any fossils.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solana_Generating_Station
Interesting that the wholesale price of this electricity is 14c/kWh. The overnight residential rate in Phoenix is about 7c. I guess they're hoping to resell a lot of this to businesses during the day, or they're just going to eat the price difference (over nuclear, gas and coal) to meet the 15% renewable energy mandate for 2025.
The challenge to Android on the desktop (or laptop) is mostly the desktop GUI, not app adoption.
Well, we tried, but we didn't ham-handedly mention the NSA in 100% of headlines today. There's always tomorrow, folks.
Of course it's relevant.
Your system of morals dictates a system of punishment that imposes the death penalty on monsters. The morals system in other countries dictates that "monsters" get 20 or 30 years, maximum. Your idea of an appropriate punishment for a crime doesn't match everyone else's ideas. We probably agree that this sort of behavior (public nudity, lewd acts) likely deserves a slap on the wrist, maybe a fine, whatever... ...but we don't share the same moral values as everyone else on the planet.
+1 Clever.