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A real film / documentary … “The act of killing”

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best documentary I’ve seen this year … see this film … seriously, Though Indonesia is the canvas, this film portrays what happens when a society conducts purges of undesired groups the government make alliances with the worst kind of people and then are forever in bed with them complicit and also the government and power can be made of such people even , this documentary highlights the real incivility and poverty of being a human being still in 95% of the world, sadly it seems there are so few moral decent people in the world, the western world very much included in that statement, seriously how are human beings such bankrupt immoral things, but then the memory of year zero and pol pot balance this out in the sense, that atrocity and sadism are part of the human realm whichever side of the political fence, there is no god or retribution for immoral behaviour, except the judgement of our own conscience, and where the scale and scope of that consciousness is limited and weak, terrible things happen, hell is here on earth and its visible in those who commit evil and those who suffer its consequences are the canvas for its depiction, and every complicit silent person in between those two extremes. And how it goes on and on, even now and it seems it will in the future, bleak, but no truer film has yet been made.

Pacific Rim why am I one of the only persons who seems think this a terrible film

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its a kids film, so why do adult love it, its the same stock stereotyping hollywood always produces, if you ignore the holier than swiss cheese scientific authenticity issues which rule out the robots and the monsters even being physics based acceptable, then you your left with characters and plot and nothing stands up there either, its essentially and effects film like transformers. screw this Am i even deigning to justify why this film is shit … its shit super popcorn schlock.

App Store based software update crapping out again … waiting etc

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For some reason my software update seems to think it’s “waiting” for my brother printer 2.10 update forever, I also note that this brother 2.10 update is probably stalled, most likely because the driver updates software update is trying to install, are probably not as up-to-date as the mountain lion brother printer drivers that I quite recently installed manually from the brother website itself? and it cant quite deal in the background with the, the drivers already installed are more up to date etc ?

These App Store software update issues are a problem with Apple trying to simplify things too much and bind the software update system unnaturally into the App Store, when it doesn’t really run as smoothly as the old software update system, Which was far superior when it comes to updating the operating system, you once had the ability to store and download and retain installers permanently useful for very large, combo installers that you need to install on multiple machines, negating the necessity of re-downloading on every machine you needed to update, wasting both bandwidth and commercial time, obviously you can trawl the Apple website to find an update and downloaded and retain it, so you can install on many machines etc, but that used to be something that was easy to do do through the software update system without having to bother to trawl the Apple website which is better. You could do a specific noncontiguous selection of updates which were to be installed and which could be installed all in one hit, without much messing around or supernumerary restarts. Also there was a great deal more feedback as to what was going on, the word “waiting” and no petrol gauge doesn’t inform the users of much.

Also I note that you don’t get the ability to select individual updates to be done unless you click on the word “more” which isn’t used in such a way within gui’s or interfaces, except to refer to “more…” as in for extra textual description which has been truncated click here to see the whole text, rather than individual software install functionality etc, but in fact the individual update selection update buttons are hidden behind this “more” in non obvious manner. Additionally if you don’t want to install an update it will sit there for ever more in the list dangerously hidden behind the always reduced “more” text every time you launch software update within the App Store, leaving the potential danger of it being installed when you don’t want it to be, iTunes 11 anyone ? no thanks, or brother printer update I don’t need ? that will always fail to install, even if I accidentally set it to install, when I don’t want to, because it’s hidden behind the “more” text and I just clicked the main update button. It should be possible to remove printer updates if one doesn’t want them in the list.

I recommend the following article in order to sort these issues out, again allot of pissing about with websites and complicated things, in order to sort out the supposedly easy to use Apple software, sometimes it’s better to give the users more control rather than ask them to find out about how to resolve the problem, and find out what the real complexity looks like, behind the failing veneer of simplicity, this will usually involves lots and lots of forum searching, this guy has a really good article about how to resolve problems with software update on the App Store so I recommend you to have a look at his great post, rather than groping around in forums yourself.

app store stuck stopped waiting ? use this guide to sort it out

imac GPU die too high idling at 80 deg ? fan control solution

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I suggest you use

imac fan control

it enables you to set a fan speed slope profile min speed max speed and min and max temps etc for all three imac fans, CPU, optical hard drive, it also set the cpu and hard fans to 1200rpm minimum which now means my GPU die is operating at 68deg then playing 720p youtube video on a second screen.

donate to the guy if you like and use it

It works for me on an imac 27″ mid 2011 running mountain lion

Haswell Quad core stagnation

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intel’s subconsciously projected view of their users needs is “our quad core power is all you’ve needed for the last 5 years” which is why its stayed roughly in the same range for 5 years. most of their “designed in power increases” are subsumed and overtaken by overclocking the right CPU harder.

at same clocks haswell is proving 5-15% more than ivy … at most, the majority of the transistor count increase has gone into the iGPU which doesn’t much interest LGA socket users with discrete cards. quad core processor power hasn’t improved massively over the last 5 years, unless your OC’ing to 5ghz on an i5 2500k. Haswell & Ivy due to IHS issues won’t reach the speeds of an i5 2500k & have high core temp variability when OCed hard. little epeen to be had from haswell except energy savings.