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It is incredibly retarded to trust Microsoft, specially if you are familiar with them. They are inherently anti-competitive, so much so that they have [threatened one of their MVPs for releasing a plugin for VS Express edition] They threaten [other companies using different technologies to pay royalties to them for patent violations that they don't disclose] Microsoft is scum, it has always been. I would never use Microsoft products even if they paid me to.

I could be wrong, but these are from when basketball team owner Steve Ballmer, not the current CEO, and I agree with you if that's the case.

Home and Student 2007 was $125 and the license was good for 3 PCs. It is more convenient but you are definitely paying much more. I suffer with Google apps when I'm on a random PC. For home use, I don't need more.

Ah that sounds right. My memory is a bit rusty :D

Is that song super annoying? Which might be what they were going for, or is it just me?

You must be quite young? It's a cover of a Pixies song. Very popular (in an indie sense) in the late '80s and early '90s. Apple are cynically tugging at the nostalgia heartstrings to create "brand association" and make some money.

There's a list that was published inside one of his short story collections which shows the "universe" reading order for the universe in which the Foundation series is set. I read all the books in published order and then went back and read them in the universe order and oh my god was it epic. Stories that had nothing to do with each other built this huge complex world I had only been tangentially aware of my first time through. Definitely worth reading as much of his work as you can.

I started doing this a couple days ago. I finished the original Foundation trilogy and wanted to read more. I was going to start with Prelude but then decided to start with the beginning of the robot series and go from there all the way through Foundation.

Police in America generally use a flashing blue and red; is it often just a steady blue in other countries? I doubt it'll be confused, though. You probably won't see the color unless you're looking at the car windshield, whereas police generally have lights bright enough to reflect off of distant surfaces.

> Police in America generally use a flashing blue and red; is it often just a steady blue in other countries? Police in Washington, DC. [ride around with solid blue lights] VA State uses flashing blue only. I've seen multiple counties use flashing blue and red, and others use just flashing blue. In Virginia, at least, it's illegal for you to have ANY kind of blue light on your car in any position or state. They simply can't allow the spot device to be blue and not violate the law.

The difference is that both Google and Samsung are building this into their default texting/SMS app (the one just called "Messages" on your phone), just like Apple did with iMessage. You won't need to download any app or make an account, *every* Android phone will come with RCS (this new service) **built in**.

I been waiting for something like this for years now, and I feel like it’s been talked about before... but better late than never!

ITT: Armchair scientists know better than a company that's been doing engineering since 1854, has 15,000 employees and is one of the world's leading engineering and construction firms. This subreddit should merge with /r/luddites

Your attitude is far worse, insulting people that are skeptical about fairly surprising claims.

Okay, so I'm going to ask the stupid question, which I could probably Google. What is the difference between using a password manager and using the same password for everything? If your password manager is compromised, you're totally and completely hosed. Even worse, because you've put all of your password info in one place you've exposed *everything* you hold secure to the hacker who has invaded your system.

You password manager should be secure so it doesn't get compromised, and it should also be stored offline, and you should use one hell of a strong password and preferably 2 step authentication as well

Now somebody do the music from "Jump" with the lyrics from "Imagine".

Heh. I'm tempted but reckon it's best this way round. Ah sod it, be right back.... EDIT: Could only source a dodgy diy acapella that's pretty unworkable. Saying that I threw it together anyway so you get the gist. [ - better_the_other_way_round] Confirmed: It's better the way Mighty Mike did it.

I hope people like you and me make this a not-flop. I really do. You have fun when you go to the Big Dark Room!!

I shall buy an extra ticket so your super-hyperdimensional-parallel-multi-micro-macroverse self can sit next to me. Bring your own licorice. And keep your hand off my thigh. Well, bring your own licorice anyway...

Maybe we can finally get a bright DC movie or one that isn't so fucking dark at least...

Have we gotten to the point of this circlejerk where people think the complaint is about *literal* darkness?

What a mess from start to finish. Too bad, I quite enjoyed the film. Would've gladly watched another, especially if they fucked off with all the fan service and references.

We all know you enjoyed it... In fact we all knew you would enjoy it without even watching it. People like you are ruining the entertainment industry.

It was a nice little treat waking up this morning remembering that this dropped today. Flew to work on my bike listening to it. Solid album. Definitely an improvement on COPE.

I wish Cope was mixed better because I think that album would have been great but it sounded so bad.

I completely agree. I read once that the author liked to write scenes first, and then weave them together into a book. While the first two books had a good. overarching story and plot/character development, her style of writing became painful from voyager on. I finally stopped after the fifth or so book where the entire first third of the book had nothing to do with the rest of it. No plot development, no character development, just a historical scene that she wanted to put in. Sorry for the rant, I just loved the first books so much and then got thoroughly disappointed :(

UGH yes. I really enjoyed the first two but as I got into numbers three and four I was like "how can all of this happen to just one couple?!"

Well you can. a) still use 7.1. b) it will probably just get forked at infinium.

At infinium? Do you mean infinitely or is there a place called infinium I don't know about?

Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the 80s with You :)

Yup haha, though I do have some songs from the 90's and 70's (some even older) and though very few, there are songs from 2000's upwards

It's one of those shows that starts slow, and has its' lulls, but the overarching plot is definitely great. It's also got a lot of themes that are, obviously, more child friendly, but not insulting. How war can change someone, how learning about your idol can *vastly* change your views on them, how even good guys aren't infallible... It's a good show that isn't for everyone, but as far as storytelling themes, I'd put it alongside Avatar: The Last Airbender for a cartoon that can seriously change how cartoons are seen if people will pay attention.

Steven Universe is, sadly, a show that has been poisoned by its fanbase. The Steven Universe fandom can get downright toxic. There's a long video on youtube about it that I watched just recently, but I'm at work and don't have the link for it right now.

It's funny. I can't stand Frank Underwood. I watched the series because of (and simultaneously despite) him. I don't like that exploitative, murderous, vindictive kind of person, but it does make for good TV. It still annoys me because I have a bunch of friends who see him as the hero. Well, I guess I'll just have to watch my back around them when I go into politics.

Just to clarify: are you agreeing with me (you don't like F.U. as a person but find him interesting) or disagreeing with me (you don't like F.U. *and* don't find him interesting)? I absolutely despise him too. He embodies everything that's wrong with politics and human interaction (I'm pretty sure that's the point of his character), but I find him fascinating in much the same way that I imagine an oncologist finds cancer fascinating.

As an Australian watching our national fraudband network rollout, I promise you, if it ever gets started it will be delivered far, far below your expectations. Just stop wishing now.

Only because you guys elected a bunch of fuckbags. Elect assfaces to power and shit starts not getting done, funnily enough. Over here in NZ we have a national fibre network which has been nothing but a success. I live in a small town and I just got a free upgrade from 200/200 to 1000/500.

>and said Elon musk was using endangered children as a pr move. Was it anything but?

I’m not sure but the diver said this in an interview after Elon had been in contact with other people in the dive team who said a sub could be useful “He can stick his submarine where it hurts," he began. "It just had absolutely no chance of working. He had no conception of what the cave passage was like. "The submarine, I believe, was about 5ft-6in-long [and] rigid, so it wouldn't have gone round corners or round any obstacles. "It wouldn't have made the first 50 metres into the cave from the dive start point. Just a PR stunt.”

Is this a repost? I saw this a very long time ago, and was like who the fuck is this bubble guy.

yeah. this has been reposted a lot. I first saw it abour a year ago. Then again a couple of weeks ago. great clip though so Im almost not filled with complete rage about it being a repost. Almost.

Nothing is sexier about a bunch of random ass dudes throwing together some plays over time. Sexy is the idea of one man from humble origins with a tongue of velvet

No need to preach to the choir here. But Francis Bacon isn't really a random ass dude, and that's just one of the theories iirc.

Wow they did? So crispin glover isn't even in the sequels? I did not realize

He is because they use footage from the first movie (scenes of him in 1955) but the guy playing George in 2015 is an actor wearing old man make up and a Crispin Glover mask basically.

You didn't come up with an argument there either. You just tried to make a badass exit. And no, everything about his vocal performance screams of a sore or hoarse throat. Anyone who listens can hear it. I feel phlegm build up in my throat every time I hear it.

That doesn't mean you can just disregard the talents and sophistication of his art

As a former chronic nail/skin biter, I started carrying nail clippers at all times and every time I had the urge I used those instead of mouth biting. Eventually your cuticles are not so jagged and the urge is not as strong.

Tried this. Took all the skin off of the pads of my fingers and bled even more.

I couldn't get past the first 2 chapters. Please see me on my why i should pick it back up?

Only pick it back up if you have any interest in seeing ender broker peace between a misunderstood human-like alien race, the hive queen who survived, and a future human civilization with their finger on the trigger. The mystery behind the piggies and the people of lusitania, and particularly novinha's family, was enthralling though it took a few chapters to get going. TLDR: ender is the man

I've just hit chapter 55 on Swan Song. I had to stop listening to the audiobook at work and buy the paperback because it just got so hard to listen to in the best way. Have you read Boy's Life?

No, but I keep hearing about how good Boy's Life is! I should really read it soon!

Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward...

Whoever cannot take care of himself without that law is both...

Ehh, go fuck yourself. if you find perfection, come show us. Fiction is amazing and fun, but to base your life on fiction, you deny yourself the awe of simplicity and unpredictability. If she reads she reads, if she doesn't, it doesn't make her a two bit whore who sleeps with the first person who says hello. It's a nice piece, well written, but fiction, pure and simple.

It read like the opening chapter of a book about a struggling writer who's had enough of life.

he didnt really defeat ras al ghul, ras al ghul had him then was distarcted by the blowing up of the bridge.

Which means that he did defeat him though a combination of brain and brawn....

Pretty sure that was all "hollywood accounting". I believe they wrote off the cost of building Fox Studios Baja in the costs of the movie.

Makes sense. But my point was that even before the film was released, the haters were already out in full force and waiting for Cameron to fall flat on his face.

All trains are electric when you look at what spins the wheels. Even the lumbering American dinosaurs have electric drivetrains. Electric means it's getting electricity from an external source, Diesel means it's getting electricity from an internal diesel generator, etc.

are you certain? that actually sounds great. they should do that in cars too.

Insidious was great until the final third killed its spooky factor. Still love it though.

I didn't think the final third killed its spooky factor, in fact, I thought the scariest scene was the ending sequence with the camera/creepy old woman in black.

Uh there'd be no bots if the tickets were sold at market price.

How do the bots get around the anti bot software? Just curious

The author of the article made it very easy to understand the vulnerability of the intel chips, and covered how the supposed “30% performance hit” from the patches actually vary from program to program depending on kernel load, anywhere from 3% to 50%.

This is why I love Ars, they don't rush to print and instead take the time to actually write a useful article, and the writers tend to actually know what they're talking about. That and it's one of the rare internet comments sections that's actually worthwhile, sometimes even moreso than the article itself.

Predator 2 was amazing.. It should have got an oscar. Riggs shouting Jerrriiiiiiiiiiiee after it was game over for Jerry, as he was separated from his spinal cord, was so emotional.

The start alone where he just starts blasting dudes. Classic Murtaugh.

I could never get into this band. Seems to be trying really hard to be indie

If you want to look at it that way, then everyone else trying really hard to be indie was just trying really hard to be DCFC.

Honest question, as I know nothing about flying or drones: Are small drones colliding with aircraft an actual thing that happens, and if so, how dangerous is it?

If a drone gets sucked into an engine, it will FOD it enough to shut it down. Do it at climb-out to all engines - most airplanes only have two - and you've now got a 'Miracle on the Hudson' situation, just most likely without something like the Hudson, or a miracle.

As much as I love Kung Fu Panda, I'm going to have to disagree with you on it being Jack Black's greatest performance. That goes to School of Rock. That movie is classic.

Check out Bernie on Netflix, Jack Black is actually amazing in a very serious role

It's 1,000 pages of absolute horse shit. There's a reason used book stores can't give their copies away. Actually, I bought my copy used for ~$16. They reluctantly bought back for $1. I was like "That's pretty appropriate;" the book is a 16:1 drudgery to joy ratio.

Dang. It was really good to start then it just flatlined and I’m waiting for it to pick up. It’s pretty polarizing too. Either people love it or hate it. I’d like to hear why people live it so much.

In case you haven’t heard, Worm’s sequel, Ward, is just starting up.

Awesome, thanks for letting me know! It will be nice to read it as it goes... Catching up on a million word story was rather intimidating, lol.

> Last week, it was revealed that Reddit’s pro-Trump sub r/the_donald has long been infiltrated by Russian troll brigades. _checks date on article_ _Oct 7, 2018_ Are you sure about that "last week"? I thought this was common knowledge for .. years.

I didn’t realize that the sub was ‘infiltrated’ - I thought the whole point was to spread propaganda and disinformation?

Streetcars should only run in high throughout dedicated routes, cities that put them in mixed traffic are dumb

We have streetcars, busses and trolleybuses all mixed together in my town. They usually share then same street with cars. Works pretty well.

I mean, it'd be exactly like Cloverfield. I also think the whole home video thing is done. Documentary style like District 9 maybe.

Found footage movies make me cringe. I seriously hate that fucking gimmick. Chronicle looks really cool, but I refuse to see it because its fucking found footage.

You know what else is the 'cancer of our time'? (I mean besides real cancer.) Rich billionaire media giants.

they are very few and far between though... You could, technically speaking, rid the world of that cancer in a relatively short time if you'd put some effort into it. I'm not saying you should, but you could.

[Spoilers about Mistborn ending](#s "In the past you have stated that the Kandra were smart enough to regain their spikes. You've also stated that Sazed turned the remaining Koloss into a real, breeding race. With how much respect he had for the sacrifice of the Kandra people and their direct historical connection to Terrismen, why wouldn't he do the same for them? ")

I don't think he could do that, because technically the kandra were already a true-breeding race, it's just that any children produced would be a normal mistwraith unless they received some spikes. Something similar is true with the koloss following the Final Ascension. Yes koloss can now breed, but the children are human, generally referred to as "koloss-blooded", and they still need spikes to become full koloss.

Should I be concerned? There are so many passwords stolen that the chance of me being targeted is pretty small.

*If* you take the story at face value and assume that there now exists a file with a billion plain-text passwords (which may or may not be the case), then you should definitely be concerned. Even if you're 1 out of a billion, this file is going to be around forever. Someone will eventually try your log in information, it's just a matter of time.

Oh man, that was the most annoying one though. They really kept hammering in that "Gazelle" thing throughout the movie, and I was already kinda sick of it by the time I got to the concert. It felt pretty abrupt every single time she was mentioned, too. Like real-life product placement. They could have at least made the Gazelle character part of the plot or something.

I agree with the exception of Idris Elba's character using the app.

Isn't every movie an "art movie" on some level? How much of the art do you think is acceptable to sacrifice to maximize profits?

You're assigning the film a label of "art movie" then judging it when it doesn't follow the respect for the label you're randomly assigning it? Disney execs and movie goers don't want art they want entertainment so as far as anyone is concerned all of it can be sacrificed because it never existed to begin with

Actually, it’s not illegal to shout fire in a theatre. This is has been settled, and it’s free speech. What you can’t do is cause a panic in a public space with undue cause. But moving on. Free speech without restraint is not Moronic, and it’s literally something we accept in the US. We do not limit speech, we do however deal with the following consequences. This is why we don’t outlaw the use of the word fire, we punish people who use it in a way that could harm or kill people.

We do, in fact, restrain Free Speech in the United States. There are quite a few exceptions to Free Speech in the US, actually. This is kind of my entire point. Free Speech without exception is moronic, and even a country with Free Speech as one of its founding principles acknowledges that. [Do some reading.]

A young inexperienced scavneger going against the empire? Yes, we know it is a hero's journey and the good guy will win but the set up in the first act was really nice. Also, she may learned hot to use the force incredibly fast but she was really clumsy with it.

I enjoyed the pacing of the lightsaber duel at the end. She was obviously a poor fighter that was getting beaten around until she let the force in. But she was a little TOO force sensitive. Even if you know you're force sensitive, you don't know how to use a mind trick until someone tells you how.

**The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage, by Philip Pullman**

My copy finally arrived on Saturday, how are you finding it so far?

I just logged on because I couldn't remember my member number (in the 15,000 range) and I had system messages wishing me happy birthday, for 2011, 2012, 2014 and 2014. I'm guessing the last time I logged in was around 2010?

Oh man, I just did the same thing and got my birthday notices since 2009.

While I appreciate Green Day actually acting like punks again, I can't help but think he would have made more of a point by better articulating what was making him upset rather than just saying fuck a copious amount of times and deciding to go all Nirvana on his guitar. Just saying. Words are useful.

> While I appreciate Green Day actually acting like punks again. They're opening up for Usher...

Yes Im proud of Hardstyle what it has become, it became such a diverse style, from euphoric to raw, from Sub to Hardcore, which style can say that. What do you mean with commercial? You can't blame Q-dance for Hardstyle getting bigger in the world, or what do you mean? I love every Hardstyle artist out there, but I have extra magic on stage with Wildstylez, Headhunterz and D-block&Stefan

I meant if you are pleased with Q Dance becoming commercial, instead of what they used to be. I don't blame them either, it's where the money is at right?