No challenge to any of those. A couple I didn't like but that's me, not the film.
I was about to ask which Metropolis, but both the old Lang one and the very different Japanese Manga version count as sci-fi, and are both worth seeking out.
The Japanese Manga one is extraordinarily rare in that it's pretty much the only non-English film for which I'd recommend watching the dubbed version rather than the original with subtitles.
At no point in that guide to making great films did "do lots of CGI" appear, pretty, shitty or otherwise.
If you really want beauty in a great film, try The Fountain. That's a beautiful film, and despite being made in the CGI era didn't need it. If Aronofsky can do it, why can't the cunts with massive budgets?
When you look at all of the films of the 80s you can pick out 3-4 really amazing ones that represent a film every 2-3 years and say "Look how great the 80s were!"
80 - Blues Brothers / Brubaker / The Long Good Friday 81 - Raiders of the Lost Ark 82 - Blade Runner / Ghandi 83 - Scarface 84 - This is Spinal Tap / The Terminator 85 - After Hours / Brazil 86 - Highlander / Top Gun / Ferris Bueller's Day Off / Aliens / Platoon (holy shit '86 was a hell of a year) 87 - Full Metal Jacket / The Princess Bride 88 - Die Hard / The Naked Gun / Rain Man / Akira 89 - When Harry Met Sally 90 - Goodfellas / Brain Dead
Seriously, the 80s had cinema that more than stands the test of time. The current decade may eventually prove equal, but your examples? Really?
Guardians of the Galaxy? Yeah, that was fun, and is as good as 1-2 of the films I've listed. Only 1-2. TED? Fucking awful film. Planet of the Apes remakes? I'd rather watch Heston. MIB3? Fucking hell, one of the star actors didn't even turn up for the film. Wolf of Wall Street? Poor.
It's easy to find good movies in the past six years but you're not succeeding. Black Swan / Senna in 2010, God Bless America / Tyrannosaur in 2011, Wyrmwood / Kingsman in 2014.
As you say, the films are out there, but shit, two of those are documentaries and the rest would be excellent films with no CGI.
The current use of CGI in place of plot, acting, cinematography and direction is fucking horrific.
Ah, c'mon. Apocalypse Now wasn't exactly short on explosions.
It's possible to do explosions and great dialog and plot. That Hollywood doesn't bother is pure fucking laziness. That they still make money is a sad indictment of western civilisation.
Could easily work. The gender of the jurors wasn't relevant, it was the interplay between them, the oppressive setting, the characterisations. You could do that with female actors too.
Come on, that video shows fire at a target. You can't see the target, you can't see who or what is at it, and there's certainly no signs it's a "crowd".
Not to mention that the banks already invested in data centres, so using them offsets that cost. It ignores the integration overheads. It ignores the inability of most/all cloud service providers to meet bank payment system uptime requirements. It comically mentions single point of failure as though going cloud magically prevents that, ignoring that it's pretty straightforward to avoid using on-premise technologies.
So overall, an article targeted at ill informed investors and managers and/or written by a fuckwit journalist. Who knows.
Which means you don't own your data
Surely a transparent shared blockchain means it's pretty much in the public domain anyway?
. It is obvious that there is a full on assault on all of Musk's businesses.
Is it? I don't see that.
I do see someone making ambitious and overly optimistic claims about their product's self-crashing feature.
Had Musk called it lane assist adaptive cruise control and sold it purely as a driving aid the comments would be lambasting idiots that trusted it.
Since he's marketed it as autopilot and makes grandiose statements about his products customers are misinterpreting its capabilities and it's causing accidents.
That's the only story I see here. Where's the full on fucking assault?
You can also (in addition to other answers provided) use game controllers (e.g. the XBox controller or the Steam controller) with PCs and PC games, quite apart from other control options (steering wheels, flight sticks, etc).
For the technically illiterate PC person the tech spec reads as: - Go to favourite high-tech website. Click on 'Gaming PCs'. Choose PC within budget range. Press 'Buy'
For people with a fucking brain (i.e. not the cunt that wrote this article) a Playstation or Xbox wont meet their needs, wont be configured the way they want, wont run the OS they want, wont give them the level of control they want, wont have the power that they want and wont let them pay for only the parts they want and need.
Comically the tech spec you quoted for a PC matches the custom spec PC I'm using, except I went for the 1070 and I did the overclocking myself - using the same motherboard the twattish author of the article bought, which incidentally has an extremely accessible, easy to read, understandable and useful manual and not "an inscrutable 160-page manual that didn't help me find out where to plug in anything".
Basically he's admitting he's a total fuckwit, as is anybody else that thinks self-spec self-build PCs are necessary for PC gaming. They're not. They're just an option that some of us are capable of taking.
I disagree. I've been fucked over far more by unions (and management in a heavily unionised environment) than I have at companies with minimal union presence.
Collective bargaining in particular damages those of us capable of demonstrating our own merits.
On average, over the past decade, 144 law enforcement officers died each year.
As opposed to the over 900 people killed by them in 2015.
Mostly from a failure to apply enough force.
This is ironic, as too often the police in the US apply too much force.
You are an idiot if you make a move for something on your person with a gun pointed at you. Don't blame the cop; blame natural selection.
The gun shouldn't have been out, let alone pointed at him. He was apparently asked for his ID; how exactly is he meant to provide it without moving? At no point did he threaten the safety (let alone the life) of the policeman.
Then you get the lack of medical assistance, the police deleting the video from Facebook, the wife being physically restrained so that she couldn't help him herself.
They especially need to take officers who served in combat to the side and reprogram their life and death response
They need to start before they get to combat - the US military have a very crude engagement policy and it's caused them issues in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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No challenge to any of those. A couple I didn't like but that's me, not the film.
I was about to ask which Metropolis, but both the old Lang one and the very different Japanese Manga version count as sci-fi, and are both worth seeking out.
The Japanese Manga one is extraordinarily rare in that it's pretty much the only non-English film for which I'd recommend watching the dubbed version rather than the original with subtitles.
Thing is that Avatar was just a shit film.
Fucking pretty, but shit.
Step 1 : Make a great film
At no point in that guide to making great films did "do lots of CGI" appear, pretty, shitty or otherwise.
If you really want beauty in a great film, try The Fountain. That's a beautiful film, and despite being made in the CGI era didn't need it. If Aronofsky can do it, why can't the cunts with massive budgets?
Waterworld flopped because it was shit.
When you look at all of the films of the 80s you can pick out 3-4 really amazing ones that represent a film every 2-3 years and say "Look how great the 80s were!"
80 - Blues Brothers / Brubaker / The Long Good Friday
81 - Raiders of the Lost Ark
82 - Blade Runner / Ghandi
83 - Scarface
84 - This is Spinal Tap / The Terminator
85 - After Hours / Brazil
86 - Highlander / Top Gun / Ferris Bueller's Day Off / Aliens / Platoon
(holy shit '86 was a hell of a year)
87 - Full Metal Jacket / The Princess Bride
88 - Die Hard / The Naked Gun / Rain Man / Akira
89 - When Harry Met Sally
90 - Goodfellas / Brain Dead
Seriously, the 80s had cinema that more than stands the test of time. The current decade may eventually prove equal, but your examples? Really?
Guardians of the Galaxy? Yeah, that was fun, and is as good as 1-2 of the films I've listed. Only 1-2.
TED? Fucking awful film.
Planet of the Apes remakes? I'd rather watch Heston.
MIB3? Fucking hell, one of the star actors didn't even turn up for the film.
Wolf of Wall Street? Poor.
It's easy to find good movies in the past six years but you're not succeeding.
Black Swan / Senna in 2010, God Bless America / Tyrannosaur in 2011, Wyrmwood / Kingsman in 2014.
As you say, the films are out there, but shit, two of those are documentaries and the rest would be excellent films with no CGI.
The current use of CGI in place of plot, acting, cinematography and direction is fucking horrific.
Ah, c'mon. Apocalypse Now wasn't exactly short on explosions.
It's possible to do explosions and great dialog and plot. That Hollywood doesn't bother is pure fucking laziness. That they still make money is a sad indictment of western civilisation.
12 Angry Women?
Could easily work. The gender of the jurors wasn't relevant, it was the interplay between them, the oppressive setting, the characterisations. You could do that with female actors too.
As with a remake with men though.. why?
I'd watch that.
Except.. even with that cast.. why remake a great film? Just watch the original.
All the people going 'read the book'..
I read the book. Shit, I read the book before I even knew there was a film.
It's still a shit film. If you have to read a book to understand a film, the film is shit.
Come on, that video shows fire at a target. You can't see the target, you can't see who or what is at it, and there's certainly no signs it's a "crowd".
Not to mention that the banks already invested in data centres, so using them offsets that cost. It ignores the integration overheads. It ignores the inability of most/all cloud service providers to meet bank payment system uptime requirements. It comically mentions single point of failure as though going cloud magically prevents that, ignoring that it's pretty straightforward to avoid using on-premise technologies.
So overall, an article targeted at ill informed investors and managers and/or written by a fuckwit journalist. Who knows.
Which means you don't own your data
Surely a transparent shared blockchain means it's pretty much in the public domain anyway?
Hmm. Jargon file and XKCD would disagree with you.
. It is obvious that there is a full on assault on all of Musk's businesses.
Is it? I don't see that.
I do see someone making ambitious and overly optimistic claims about their product's self-crashing feature.
Had Musk called it lane assist adaptive cruise control and sold it purely as a driving aid the comments would be lambasting idiots that trusted it.
Since he's marketed it as autopilot and makes grandiose statements about his products customers are misinterpreting its capabilities and it's causing accidents.
That's the only story I see here. Where's the full on fucking assault?
Of course, their car would be even safer it didn't fucking crash itself.
I dropped my multitool in my PC twice the other day. Was using the blade to cut cable ties.
But I'm a clumsy sod, and it was behind the motherboard so nothing got damaged.
You can also (in addition to other answers provided) use game controllers (e.g. the XBox controller or the Steam controller) with PCs and PC games, quite apart from other control options (steering wheels, flight sticks, etc).
Building and particularly tuning/overclocking PCs is a relatively niche hobby. Most people just buy one prebuilt.
Better yet, he admits he didn't want to shop for good prices for his parts then goes on about it being expensive.
He could've used that saved money to pay for someone competent to build the PC for him.
For the technically illiterate PC person the tech spec reads as:
- Go to favourite high-tech website. Click on 'Gaming PCs'. Choose PC within budget range. Press 'Buy'
For people with a fucking brain (i.e. not the cunt that wrote this article) a Playstation or Xbox wont meet their needs, wont be configured the way they want, wont run the OS they want, wont give them the level of control they want, wont have the power that they want and wont let them pay for only the parts they want and need.
Comically the tech spec you quoted for a PC matches the custom spec PC I'm using, except I went for the 1070 and I did the overclocking myself - using the same motherboard the twattish author of the article bought, which incidentally has an extremely accessible, easy to read, understandable and useful manual and not "an inscrutable 160-page manual that didn't help me find out where to plug in anything".
Basically he's admitting he's a total fuckwit, as is anybody else that thinks self-spec self-build PCs are necessary for PC gaming. They're not. They're just an option that some of us are capable of taking.
So blame Marxism, not atheism.
You appear to have a chip on your shoulder.
Well, I could easily get my company to H1B me to one of 2-3 different states but I'd rather live and work in my own country.
I disagree. I've been fucked over far more by unions (and management in a heavily unionised environment) than I have at companies with minimal union presence.
Collective bargaining in particular damages those of us capable of demonstrating our own merits.
Just walk up to the fucking car and hold a courteous conversation.
You'd be amazed how effective this can be.
On average, over the past decade, 144 law enforcement officers died each year.
As opposed to the over 900 people killed by them in 2015.
Mostly from a failure to apply enough force.
This is ironic, as too often the police in the US apply too much force.
You are an idiot if you make a move for something on your person with a gun pointed at you. Don't blame the cop; blame natural selection.
The gun shouldn't have been out, let alone pointed at him.
He was apparently asked for his ID; how exactly is he meant to provide it without moving?
At no point did he threaten the safety (let alone the life) of the policeman.
Then you get the lack of medical assistance, the police deleting the video from Facebook, the wife being physically restrained so that she couldn't help him herself.
How about you stop making excuses for the police.
They especially need to take officers who served in combat to the side and reprogram their life and death response
They need to start before they get to combat - the US military have a very crude engagement policy and it's caused them issues in Afghanistan and Iraq.
You forget the '45 day shelf life'.
That doesn't happen by magic ;)
Also, why would someone opt out of joining a union when the benefits are better, the pay is probably better, and the conditions are better.
Because unions are poisonous selfish entities that damage companies and the people that work in them?