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[KlaxonCow]

Mind you, why does a view counter ever need to be negative?

It should arguably have been an unsigned integer anyway, then it wouldn't be in danger of overflowing until over 4 billion views (and it wouldn't be wasting half the range on negative values that don't even make any logical sense anyhow).

But, yeah, just upping it to 64-bit to just make it a non-issue is the better solution, as it's possible - albeit deeply unlikely - that a massive viral video could, one day, even break 4 billion over time. Just kick it into the very, very long grass. That'll do.


Edit: Just noticed that Nixie Pixel has got a top comment on the video saying exactly the same thing.

[Baggypants]

Mind you, why does a view counter ever need to be negative?

It should arguably have been an unsigned integer anyway, then it wouldn't be in danger of overflowing until over 4 billion views (and it wouldn't be wasting half the range on negative values that don't even make any logical sense anyhow).

But, yeah, just upping it to 64-bit to just make it a non-issue is the better solution, as it's possible - albeit deeply unlikely - that a massive viral video could, one day, even break 4 billion over time. Just kick it into the very, very long grass. That'll do.


Edit: Just noticed that Nixie Pixel has got a top comment on the video saying exactly the same thing.

Databases.

[F-ZeroOne]

Yes, he says it.

[gumboot]

Tingly-wingly-woo!

Argh! It's exactly what I hate about noisy eaters, made 10x worse!

Or only 1x worse if you live with my father in law. You want him? I'll pay postage.

The first video was more tingly... the second one posted ironically, for the reasons stated.

Thanks for the offer, but having lived with someone who ate open mouthed - especially bananas which are among the worst offenders noise-wise due to their schloppy gloopy consistency which seems to amplify the mapping of the oral cavity and the drooling of saliva - I'd sooner jump off a cliff !

Not exactly a video, but this reminded me of that squelchy-squelchy shit... perhaps just for bad microphone placement or whatever (I know nothing about the recording industry):

In Chinese but you don't need any language skills to appreciate this:

Although it may colour things to know that chicken is slang for prostitute, and that karaoke bars double as brothels in China.

[Mark]

Setting off ALL of the firecrackers (skip to a minute 20 to cut to the chase):

[F-ZeroOne]

[pogo]

Although it may colour things to know that chicken is slang for prostitute, and that karaoke bars double as brothels in China.

I think you're reading too much into it; it's just people making music based on animal noises. And karaoke? If you mean the 'lyrics' posted below, all Chinese music videos, almost all TV programs have them. The reason is although Chinese is many spoken languages (Cantonese in Hong Kong, Mandarin in Beijing and Taiwan, etc.) it's one written language (to a first approximation anyway). So stick subtitles on something and you have a much easier job selling it to foreign TV stations.



The above is sort of political, and yes Brand's a bit to quick to say what he thinks sometimes. But this is one thing that's wrong with the British press in particular, and our approach to debate in general. It doesn't matter that Russel Brand is rich and can afford a nice house. If anything that he's well off but still prepared to campaign on others behalf is to be praised – though it really shouldn't matter. And the reporter is an idiot for bringing up Brand's wealth repeatedly, trying to get a reaction.

[gumboot]

And karaoke? If you mean the 'lyrics' posted below, all Chinese music videos, almost all TV programs have them.

I mean that the lyrics seem so repetetive it's easy to imagine exceedingly drunk businessmen staggering through them where they're nearly done with the singing part of the evening.

[pogo]

They're meant to be animal noises. But most Chinese pop songs are easily sung drunk anyway, or at least that's my experience from karaoke in China (no brothels, at least in the ones I visited, but lots of drugs).

[SuperMappy]

[pogo]

very NSFW:

[Cloudane]

Yes, he says it.

Holy shit, they've got it right this time? At least, this one has me thinking "I NEED TO SEE THIS NOW" and may be the only movie that isn't Star Trek, MLP or Harry Potter that I've seen at the cinema in recent years...

[pogo]

I thought it a bit meh to be honest. They're clearly going back to the template of the first two films - terminators and humans beating each other up and chasing each other across America. So there's a truck. And a helicopter. And a school bus. And like the new Star Trek they want to have their cake and eat it, reference the first two for continuity but say it's all changed (because it's time travel of course) so they can reboot it and e.g. stop judgement day, again.

But it just doesn't work for me. It looks like any other action film. If those are the best bits of the first 2/3 as you usually get in a trailer then they're nothing special. It adds much more in the future, and it's nice they can do that justice now but it's redundant; we especially don't need to see it it as we know the plot from the earlier films.

[F-ZeroOne]

I was honestly surprised, it was better than I'd been led to expect from the truly awful publicity stills they put out before this, but then again, I'm apparently one of the three people who liked "Terminator: Salvation". The one thing I'm a little down on is the "feel"; it looks a bit too glossy to be a "Terminator" film at times.

[SuperMappy]