I would want that sound that the USS Enterprise makes as it whizzes through space. (emphasis mine)
Technically... It already does and that appears to be the "problem".:-)
This issue is ridiculous and assumes that the blind and inattentive notice any sound all the time. My Civic is super quite at slow speeds. Should it also be *required* to be louder?
Today digital data is stored in two main types of devices, magnetic hard disk drives, and solid state random access memories. The former stores data very cheaply but, since it relies on the mechanical rotation of a disk, is slow and somewhat unreliable. (emphasis mine)
Define "somewhat". Case in point, I've had a F/W SCSI drive in 24/7/365 operation on my home system for 10 years. Somewhat indeed.
Kia, Hyundai, Mitsubishi and GM all offer 10-year powertrain warranties (that's "engine parts, transmission, drive system") on new cars. Chrysler's powertrain is covered for "lifetime" [cars.com] as long as you keep a record of proper maintenance.
Assuming the Chrysler lasts longer than 10 years, you may have a point. I'm betting it won't.
I'm not trying to start a fight, but Chrysler cars generally are crap.
The alternative is to let Medicare bureaucrats, who are not doctors...
I'm sure many Insurance Company bureaucrats in places to decide your care are also not doctors. One difference, however, may be that Medicare bureaucrats have no profit motive.
I'm not trying to start an argument, it's something to consider.
"F22 fighter jets use this advanced radar that can read down the road and identify everything from trees to people,"
Dear god, I hope our (now canceled) fleet of Raptors aren't deployed actually on the nation's highways.
"We then added our own Ford algorithms to determine whether or not objects are a 'vehicle target'.
Not the word choice I'd use, but if the next phrase is "target locked, clear to fire", well that would certainly help with collision avoidance and traffic congestion.
...Microsoft apprentices enjoyed other perks -- such as a police escort to speed their way to a private museum party where they screened the most recent Harry Potter...
The escort was so they couldn't escape (possibly to watch a good movie).
...and were given a free Xbox 360.
Perk or punishment? I have a friend with a few scratched up disks that would argue the latter...
The quadruped Dish of the Day is an Ameglian Major Cow, a Ruminant specifically bred to not only have the desire to be eaten, but to be capable of saying so quite clearly and distinctly.
The reason the movie sucked was that it was a shitty love story, not because the story of the Titanic wasn't told well.
I concede your point and agree that is was a crappy love story and their story was Cameron's focus, but using the backdrop of the Titanic tragedy for this trivial, and poorly executed telling, was repugnant -- and poorly done. I never considered the story of Rose and Dawson of any consequence and contend he could have picked a better plot for focus.
See, NOW I understand why you think it sucked -- and I add that to my list of objections to the film. Thanks.
Yes, because he missed the gigantic market in socially conscious, gazing, protest tourist "anarchists" who went and spent their money on tickets to Seattle and "Rage Against the Machine" t-shirts.
I'm sorry, I don't understand your point here, or miss the reference. My point in mentioning the corporate and societal angles is that there were not enough lifeboats in the ship, the ship was traveling too fast for the icy conditions, the poor were locked below decks, lifeboats left half-full because the rich didn't want to mingle with the poor.
You don't have to be a 'socially conscious, gazing, protest tourist "anarchists"' to appreciate the tragedy of these things and how they contributed to the human loss and how a sub-story around any of these could be just as, if not more compelling as "Dawson meets Rose".
I am in 100% agreement that the movies sucked. Because it sucked, not because it could have been so much better if he did it MY way.
I'm confused. You agree that the movie sucked, but for the reason "it sucked"? Something a little more descriptive would be nice.
I don't dislike Titanic because Cameron didn't do it "my way"; I dislike it because it was poorly done the way he did it. He could have picked a better sub-plot to personalize the events or simply given us a couple (or people) I might care more about -- husband and wife, sister and brother, mother and child -- people with a history, an investment in each other.
Still, given the scope of the tragedy, a sub-plot embracing several people and their families would have been more appropriate. The love story of Dawson and Rose was a pure manipulation to sell tickets.
Fixed that for you. Or did you have an actual point in there somewhere? I may have missed it.
No, you didn't fix anything. My point was that the story was crap. It was pretty clearly stated, so, if you missed it, you must not read well.
The story of Rose and Dawson was a pure manipulation to sell tickets. The sub-story could have been much, much better. Why not a (possibly true) story of a husband and wife, or brother and sister, separated by the event - a couple with a history, people with something established to lose?
In addition, "clearly successful", while not disputed, doesn't make it good. In the end I didn't really care about either Dawson or Rose (in the past nor present), so their "suffering" was lost to me. Their fate was far less tragic than others that could have been portrayed.
No, Cameron doesn't do things w/o guns well. Even then, The Abyss had a ridiculous ending (and I liked that movie).
The technique of telling a story within a large event is acceptable and does not diminish the tragedy.
True, but the sub-story told could have been far, far better than the contrived love story of Rose and Dawson. Their story was a pure manipulation intended to fill seats and sell tickets and, personally, it wasn't even told/acted that well.
Why not tell a (possibly true) story of a husband and wife, or brother and sister, separated by the tragedy -- a couple with some time together, some emotional history?
No, Cameron doesn't do things w/o guns well. Even The Abyss had a ridiculous ending.
Sure, it made a metric f*ckload of money and women around the world cried, but it was a crap story. In the shadow of 1500 people dying needlessly in the freezing waters of the North Atlantic as a result of corporate short-sightedness and greed and societal dispassion for the poor working-class, we get some bullshit "love story" with sappy, contrived prose. Just thinking about final dialog between Rose and Dawson - while hundreds drowned and froze - still makes me gag. Talk about emetic. Don't get me started on the lame present-day story of the search for the diamond, that Rose has secretly kept all these years and simply tosses back into the ocean at the end.
I'm sure a LOT of people will disagree with my opinion, but I stand by it. The movie Titanic was complete crap and a disservice to the tragedy and loss of life that occurred.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go throw up...
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Well... Someone gets rewarded; it's not always you.
Fair? No. Reality? Yes.
Does this mean his code only probably runs correctly?
Technically... It already does and that appears to be the "problem". :-)
This issue is ridiculous and assumes that the blind and inattentive notice any sound all the time. My Civic is super quite at slow speeds. Should it also be *required* to be louder?
Isn't that true now? ("Schrödinger's car"?)
Define "somewhat". Case in point, I've had a F/W SCSI drive in 24/7/365 operation on my home system for 10 years. Somewhat indeed.
Twitter: I'm robbing house...
Or Forehead.
Obviously:
Assuming the Chrysler lasts longer than 10 years, you may have a point. I'm betting it won't.
I'm not trying to start a fight, but Chrysler cars generally are crap.
I'm sure many Insurance Company bureaucrats in places to decide your care are also not doctors. One difference, however, may be that Medicare bureaucrats have no profit motive.
I'm not trying to start an argument, it's something to consider.
Dear god, I hope our (now canceled) fleet of Raptors aren't deployed actually on the nation's highways.
Not the word choice I'd use, but if the next phrase is "target locked, clear to fire", well that would certainly help with collision avoidance and traffic congestion.
The escort was so they couldn't escape (possibly to watch a good movie).
Perk or punishment? I have a friend with a few scratched up disks that would argue the latter...
I believe people already do:
Enough said.
I agree with your comments, but lighten up; it was a joke [ notice I used a :-) ].
The quadruped Dish of the Day is an Ameglian Major Cow, a Ruminant specifically bred to not only have the desire to be eaten, but to be capable of saying so quite clearly and distinctly.
They shouldn't kid themselves. Waldo's been planning this escape for months...
Probably a Zune, but no one had one...
I concede your point and agree that is was a crappy love story and their story was Cameron's focus, but using the backdrop of the Titanic tragedy for this trivial, and poorly executed telling, was repugnant -- and poorly done. I never considered the story of Rose and Dawson of any consequence and contend he could have picked a better plot for focus.
See, NOW I understand why you think it sucked -- and I add that to my list of objections to the film. Thanks.
Thank you! (Though I don't think he directed those.) In any case. So much potential wasted. So much whining (paraphrasing):
Hello? Fate of the human race at stake. Man up pussies. Cameron (Summer Glau) was the only one who could consistently do what had to be done.
I'm sorry, I don't understand your point here, or miss the reference. My point in mentioning the corporate and societal angles is that there were not enough lifeboats in the ship, the ship was traveling too fast for the icy conditions, the poor were locked below decks, lifeboats left half-full because the rich didn't want to mingle with the poor.
You don't have to be a 'socially conscious, gazing, protest tourist "anarchists"' to appreciate the tragedy of these things and how they contributed to the human loss and how a sub-story around any of these could be just as, if not more compelling as "Dawson meets Rose".
I'm confused. You agree that the movie sucked, but for the reason "it sucked"? Something a little more descriptive would be nice.
I don't dislike Titanic because Cameron didn't do it "my way"; I dislike it because it was poorly done the way he did it. He could have picked a better sub-plot to personalize the events or simply given us a couple (or people) I might care more about -- husband and wife, sister and brother, mother and child -- people with a history, an investment in each other.
Still, given the scope of the tragedy, a sub-plot embracing several people and their families would have been more appropriate. The love story of Dawson and Rose was a pure manipulation to sell tickets.
No, you didn't fix anything. My point was that the story was crap. It was pretty clearly stated, so, if you missed it, you must not read well.
The story of Rose and Dawson was a pure manipulation to sell tickets. The sub-story could have been much, much better. Why not a (possibly true) story of a husband and wife, or brother and sister, separated by the event - a couple with a history, people with something established to lose?
In addition, "clearly successful", while not disputed, doesn't make it good. In the end I didn't really care about either Dawson or Rose (in the past nor present), so their "suffering" was lost to me. Their fate was far less tragic than others that could have been portrayed.
No, Cameron doesn't do things w/o guns well. Even then, The Abyss had a ridiculous ending (and I liked that movie).
True, but the sub-story told could have been far, far better than the contrived love story of Rose and Dawson. Their story was a pure manipulation intended to fill seats and sell tickets and, personally, it wasn't even told/acted that well.
Why not tell a (possibly true) story of a husband and wife, or brother and sister, separated by the tragedy -- a couple with some time together, some emotional history?
No, Cameron doesn't do things w/o guns well. Even The Abyss had a ridiculous ending.
One word: Titanic
Sure, it made a metric f*ckload of money and women around the world cried, but it was a crap story. In the shadow of 1500 people dying needlessly in the freezing waters of the North Atlantic as a result of corporate short-sightedness and greed and societal dispassion for the poor working-class, we get some bullshit "love story" with sappy, contrived prose. Just thinking about final dialog between Rose and Dawson - while hundreds drowned and froze - still makes me gag. Talk about emetic. Don't get me started on the lame present-day story of the search for the diamond, that Rose has secretly kept all these years and simply tosses back into the ocean at the end.
I'm sure a LOT of people will disagree with my opinion, but I stand by it. The movie Titanic was complete crap and a disservice to the tragedy and loss of life that occurred.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go throw up...
Replicators. First thing that popped into my mind.
Give those "Illuminato X Machina" things legs and we're all HOSED.