Sexy Beast is a 2000 crime film directed by Jonathan Glazer (in his feature film directorial debut) and written by Louis Mellis and David Scinto. Starring Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, and Ian McShane, it follows Gary “Gal” Dove (Winstone), a retired criminal visited by a sociopathic gangster (Kingsley) who demands that he take part in a bank robbery in London.
Sexy Beast was critically acclaimed, and Kingsley’s performance earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.[3] Total Film named Sexy Beast the 15th best British film. It was the final film to feature Cavan Kendall, who died of cancer shortly after filming ended.[4]
British ex-criminal Gary “Gal” Dove is happily retired on the Costa del Sol with his beloved wife DeeDee, his best friend Aitch, and Aitch’s wife Jackie. An old criminal associate, the feared sociopath Don Logan, arrives at Gal’s villa, intent on enlisting Gal for a bank robbery in London planned by crime lord Teddy Bass. Teddy has learned about the bank vault from Harry, the bank’s chairman, whom he met at an orgy. Gal declines, but Don continues to pressure Gal, growing increasingly aggressive and violent.
After Gal suggests that Don’s real reason for visiting is his infatuation with Jackie, with whom he had a brief affair, Don grows furious and leaves. On the plane back to England, Don refuses to extinguish his cigarette prior to takeoff, is aggressive to staff and other passengers, and is ejected, but avoids punishment by claiming that a flight attendant sexually assaulted him. He returns to the villa screaming obscenities and attacks Gal with a glass bottle. DeeDee emerges with Gal’s hunting shotgun and shoots Don, incapacitating him; the group beat him, shoot him to death, and bury him under the swimming pool.
To avoid raising suspicion among Don’s associates, Gal decides to do the job in London. When Teddy questions Gal about Don’s whereabouts, Gal lies, claiming that Don returned to London and called him from Heathrow Airport, which arouses suspicion in Teddy. The heist involves using diving gear to drill into the bank vault from a pool in a neighbouring bath house. The pool water muffles the sound of the drilling equipment and also floods the vault and shorts its security system. As Teddy’s crew empties the vault’s safe deposit boxes, Gal secretly pockets a pair of ruby and diamond earrings.
After the job, Teddy insists on driving Gal to the airport. He stops at Harry’s home, where he shoots Harry and demands that Gal tell him where Don is. Gal responds that he is “not into this any more”. While dropping Gal off, Teddy indicates that he knows that Gal was involved in something happening to Don, and implies that Gal would be severely punished if Teddy cared at all about Don. He suggests he may visit Gal in Spain and humiliates him by paying him only 10 for the job.
Gal returns to his friends and family in Spain, where DeeDee wears the earrings and life has returned to normal. Gal still hears Don’s voice in his head; he responds that Don is dead now and can “shut up”.
Sexy Beast was shot in London and Agua Amarga, Spain in the summer of 1999. Ray Winstone travelled to Spain two weeks before filming commenced to get as deep a tan as he could in the time possible and to eat as much as he could to bulk up considerably. He later called this “the best rehearsal time I’ve ever had in my life”.[5] Winstone had originally been considered for the role of Don, along with Anthony Hopkins.[6]
“Sexy Beast was the beginning of a new phase for me of working with first-time filmmakers. Jonathan Glazer was a television commercials director in the UK, and a wonderful talent. We were sent this script which he was attached to, and out came this wonderful film. It was very stimulating having a first time talent… The dialogue as you see in this film is exceptional. I had never read a script like it, and I thought, this has got to be made. It was very difficult to get insurance on the film actually. When the American studio bought the film, their legal department said: “You cannot make this.” It has something like 300 uses of the word “cunt”, and 400 “fucks”, but somehow it passed the censorship and got out there.”
It received praise from writers at the San Francisco Chronicle,[10] Entertainment Weekly,[11] Slate,[12] Rolling Stone[13] and the Los Angeles Times.[14] Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post was less enthusiastic, describing the plot as “preposterous” and highlighting “Ben Kingsley spraying saliva-lubricated variants of the F-word into the atmosphere like anti-aircraft fire for 10 solid minutes” as the film’s “one guilty pleasure”.[15]
Kingsley’s performance received a majority of the accolades given to Sexy Beast, winning Best Supporting Actor awards from the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Boston Society of Film Critics, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association, Florida Film Critics Circle, San Diego Film Critics Society, Southeastern Film Critics Association and the Toronto Film Critics Association. He also was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award (losing to Ian McKellen for his performance in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring), a Golden Globe and an Academy Award (losing both to Jim Broadbent for his performance in Iris).
Original music for the film was composed by Spanish composer/saxophonist Roque Baos and English electronic band UNKLE in collaboration with South.[18] Dean Martin’s version of “Sway” accompanies the film’s end credits. The soundtrack also includes “Peaches” by The Stranglers, “Cuba” by The Gibson Brothers, “G-Spot” by Wayne Marshall, “Daddy Rollin’ Stone” by Derek Martin, and Henry Mancini’s “Lujon”.
A prequel television series based on the film was in development at Paramount Network, which was being produced by Paramount Television Studios and Anonymous Content. However, the series was scrapped by Paramount Network. On 15 February 2022, ViacomCBS Networks UK And Australia announced that the series was revived for Paramount+, but would instead be produced by Train a Comin’ Productions, Familystyle, Chapter One, Solas Mind, Anonymous Content and Paramount Television International Studios.[21] The eight-episode series was released on 25 January 2024.[22]
Sex scenes have been an essential part of Hollywood movies for a long time, sometimes to depict nuances of the storyline, other times to flesh out the characters, quite literally. Many movie sex scenes have gone down in history as being the most tasteful or the steamiest.
Unlike them, this list is all about sex scenes that went down like the Titanic, not so much because of the lack of chemistry, but because of the cheesiest, cringiest dialogues that accompanied them. So here are some of the least sexy lines that arguably ruined otherwise scintillating scenes, though maybe some of these cringe one-liners floats your boat.
Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh seem to have decent chemistry, but the reason behind the overhyped sex scene is a dialogue, taken from the holy Hindu scripture, the Bhagvad Gita. To have it said while Pugh mounts Murphy is awkward, to say the least:
It is a really exciting film from a technical perspective. Shot on a mix of IMAX and Ultra-Panavision 65mm film stocks, the film mixes an ultra-wide aspect ratio of 2.76:1 (last used a decade ago for The Hateful Eight) with an ultra-tall image of 1.43:1 for the select IMAX sequences. I saw this on IMAX 70mm opening day and the shifting from a ultra-wide to ultra-tall image was jaw-dropping, opening up the frame in some key sequences to make audiences who see it in IMAX feel as though they are being transported to another place entirely alongside the characters. It stays in the ultra-wide image for the whole runtime when seen on non-IMAX formats, and even then the film is so good that it utilises this rare ultra-widescreen image in really exciting and unique ways. It being shot on the highest quality celluloid film formats means the film retains a thoroughly gorgeous and deeply cinematic look. It is rare for modern blockbuster films to shoot on film, let alone this first-of-its-kind combination, and the results are truly marvellous. This was absolutely gorgeous on the big screen both times I have seen it.
Sinners is a fascinating product of the circumstances of its existence. With Christopher Nolan changing studio allegiances to Universal, Warner Brothers desperately sought to bring new auteur filmmakers to their side. To do so, they went around town giving original voices lots of money and lots of freedom to do whatever they wanted. One of those people was Ryan Coogler. Director of Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther and its sequel Wakanda Forever, Coogler was given $90 million to make whatever he wanted with total creative freedom and the rarest of contract clauses; after 25 years, the copyright ownership of the film will revert from Warner Bros back to Coogler, the kind of deal reserved only for the most respected of filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino. Coogler actually owns this movie, and circumstances such as this help to make Sinners all the more thematically rich.
When we are able to express ourselves so truly through art, we escape to another plane of existence entirely where time cannot hurt any of us, and Sinners expresses this with such optimism and hard-fought joy
I find it even more moving as a lifelong film lover to see another filmmaker express, via the medium of music within his cinematic medium, just how soul-enriching art is and can be, and how art is in many ways how human beings escape their mortality, even if just for a second. When we are able to express ourselves so truly through art, we escape to another plane of existence entirely where time cannot hurt any of us, and Sinners expresses this with such optimism and hard-fought joy. It does all this whilst also touching on ideas of assimilation, migrant identities and culture clashes in really fascinating ways through its unique twists on familiar supernatural lore. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PLXQ8na2bIsko7MA31HKjSlqV0j9fgia/view
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I have the same problem, but one of my cameras works fine the other does not display (same errors as above).What I have discovered is that the camera that works has not been updated to the latest firmware update.( )The one that fails has been updated twice.
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i forgot to update my bluestacks 5 wyze app to the required update recently released. i have the latest update and firmware on my cell. it works fine on that. is there any way i can stiil update my bluestacks wyze app? cause its not connecting now without on bluestacks 5.
For about two months, I had been using the bluestacks android emulator in a windows virtual machine. Specifically, I was using parallels and windows 7 32 bit, and was just using bluestacks to play some apps. During that time I was using an early version of OS X Yosemite.
Unfortunately, I have been unable to play apps ever since one of the later Yosemite updates, and the issue persists in the El Capitan update. I can open bluestacks and run the apps fine, but it doesn’t take long before my mac crashes for insufficient memory. I have 8 GB of RAM, which had been more than enough to run bluestacks in the past.
It was hard to determine what was causing this issue, but I’m almost certain now that it’s an OS X issue (not bluestacks, parallels, or windows). I have tried using vmware fusion, virtual box, all the different windows versions (7 through 10), and many different bluestacks versions. Also, I would prefer to not have to use Bootcamp Assistant, as I only have a 121 GB Hard Drive and I would like to run bluestacks in windows and mac applications simultaneously.
I tried another couple of different combinations, and actually was able to get it working again! It’s very funny how I hadn’t been able to get it working for the past month and a half, but was able to the day after posting this.
May I ask how you got this to work without crashing. My problem is similar. If i ran bluestacks on my Mac and want to then run VirtualBox to virtualise windows, i always have to restart otherwise my Mac crashes.
How can we block Bluestacks application because this app can avoid or FTG that can use Facebook youtube ……. many app in bluestacks, thus in our app in FTG don’t have this app so what’s should we do or need to create custom application ? please picture:
Hola Buntha, si bien es cierto aun no se puede bloquear el bluestack por aplicacin, pero lo que si puedes bloquear es todo el acceso dentro de la aplicacin, es decir bloquear el playstore, centro de aplicaciones, youtube, facebook, etc.
Con eso podrn ingresar a la aplicacin pero no podrn entrar a las redes sociales, es importante que por control de aplicacion este bloqueado el FB y Youtube. o las redes sociales que quieras bloquear, suerte espero te funcione.
Hello Buntha, although it is true that the bluestack cannot be blocked by application, but what can be blocked is all access within the application, that is to say, block the play store, application center, youtube, facebook, etc.
With that you can enter the application but you cannot enter the social networks, it is important that the FB and Youtube are blocked by application control. or the social networks you want to block, luckily I hope you operate.
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When I am using ipython or ipython3, I can use the %edit command to open up an editor to write my python scripts in. My problem is that the default editor is vim and I really do not get how to use that editor. What I would like to do is to change the editor to either nano or gedit. I think to stay with the terminal I would prefer to change it to the nano editor.
%edit runs IPython’s editor hook. The default version of this hook is set to call the editor specified by your $EDITOR environment variable. If this isn’t found, it will default to vi under Linux/Unix and to notepad under Windows. See the end of this docstring for how to change the editor hook.
If you wish to write your own editor hook, you can put it in a configuration file which you load at startup time. The default hook is defined in the IPython.core.hooks module, and you can use that as a starting example for further modifications. That file also has general instructions on how to set a new hook for use once you’ve defined it.
This will define the variable EDITOR for the current session and pass it into the environment of all its child processes. To set it permanently you must define it in one of the system configuration files. The highest level at which you can do this is to set it in /etc/environment. This defines it globally:
I still believe it would be possible to build a high quality editor based on the original design. But I also believe that this would be quite a complex system, and require significantly more work than necessary.
The original motivation for xi came from working on the Android text stack, and confronting two problems in particular. One, text editing would become very slow as the text buffer got bigger. Two, there were a number of concurrency bugs in the interface between the EditText widget and the keyboard (input method editor).
The culprit of the first problem turned out to be the SpanWatcher interface, combined with the fact that modern keyboards like to put a spelling correction span on each word. When you insert a character, all the successive spans bump their locations up by one, and then you have to send onSpanChanged for each of those spans to all the watchers. Combined with the fact that the spans data structure had a naive O(n) implementation, and the whole thing was quadratic or worse.
These problems have a unifying thread: in both cases there are small diffs to the text, but then the data structures and protocols handled these diffs in a less than optimal way, leading to both performance and correctness bugs.
When I started, I knew that Operational Transformation was a solution for collaborative editing, but had a reputation for being complex and finicky. I had no idea how deep the rabbithole would be of OT and then CRDT. Much of that story is told in the CRDT discussion previously linked.
There is an extremely long history of people trying to build software as composable modules connected by some kind of inter-module communication fabric. Historical examples include DCE/RPC, Corba, Bonobo, and more recently things like Sandstorm and Fuchsia Modular. There are some partial successes, including Binder on Android, but this is still mostly an unrealized vision. (Regarding Binder, it evolved from a much more idealistic vision, and I strongly recommend reading this 2006 interview about OpenBinder).
I think one of the strongest positive models was the database / business logic split, which is arguably the most successful example of process separation. In this model, the database is responsible for performance and integrity, and the business logic is in a separate process, so it can safely do things like crash and hang. I very much thought of xi-core as a database-like engine, capable of handling concurrent text modification much like a database handles transactions.
Building software in such a modular way requires two things: first, infrastructure to support remote procedure calls (including serialization of the requests and data), and second, well-defined interfaces. Towards the end of 2017, I saw the goal of xi-editor as primarily being about defining the interfaces needed for large scale text editing, and that this work could endure over a long period of time even as details of the implementation changed.
One of the bolder design decisions in xi was to have a process separation between front-end and core. This was inspired in part by Neovim, in which everything is a plugin, even GUI. But the main motivation was to build GUI applications using Rust, even though at the time Rust was nowhere near capable of native GUI. The idea is that you use the best GUI technology of the platform, and communicate via async pipes.
The original vision was to write plug-ins in any language, especially for things like language servers that would be best developed in the language of that ecosystem. This is the main reason I chose JSON, because I expected there would be high quality implementations in every viable language.
Many people complained about the fact that JSON escapes strings, and suggested alternatives such as MessagePack. But I knew that the speed of raw JSON parsing was a solved problem, with a number of extremely high performance implementations (simdjson is a good example).
Second, on the Rust side, while serde is quite fast and very convenient (thanks to proc macros), when serializing a large number of complex structures, it bloats code size considerably. The xi core is 9.3 megabytes in a Linux release build (debug is an eye-watering 88MB), and a great deal of that bloat is serialization. There is work to reduce this, including miniserde and nanoserde, but serde is still by far the most mainstream.
We knew going in that async was going to be a source of complexity. The hope is that we would be able to tackle the async stuff once, and that the complexity would be encapsulated, much as it was for the rope data structure.
The reality was that adding async made everything more complicated, in some cases considerably so. A particularly difficult example was dealing with word wrap. In particular, when the width of the viewport is tied to the window, then live-resizing the window causes text to rewrap continuously. With the process split between front-end and core, and an async protocol between them, all kinds of interesting things can go wrong, including races between editing actions and word wrap updates. More fundamentally, it is difficult to avoid tearing-style artifacts.
As a conclusion, while the process split with plug-ins is supportable (similar to the Language Server protocol), I now firmly believe that the process separation between front-end and core was not a good idea.
These facts influenced the design of xi in two important ways. First, I took it as a technical challenge to provide a high-performance editing experience even on large files, overcoming the performance problems through async. Second, the limitations of the regex-based approach argued in favor of a modular plug-in architecture, so that as better highlighters were developed, they could be plugged in. I had some ambitions of creating a standard protocol that could be used by other editors, but this absolutely failed to materialize. For example, Atom instead developed tree-sitter.
There was considerable complexity in the implementation. Text was synchronized between the main xi-core process and the plug-in, but for large files, the latter stores only a fixed-size cache; the cache protocol ended up being quite sophisticated. Updates were processed through a form of Operational Transformation, so if a highlighting result raced a text edit, it would never color an incorrect region (this is still very much a problem for language server annotations). https://sites.google.com/view/windows-media-playe-xylknic3a
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Sexy Beast is a 2000 crime film directed by Jonathan Glazer (in his feature film directorial debut) and written by Louis Mellis and David Scinto. Starring Ray Winstone, Ben Kingsley, and Ian McShane, it follows Gary “Gal” Dove (Winstone), a retired criminal visited by a sociopathic gangster (Kingsley) who demands that he take part in a bank robbery in London.
Sexy Beast was critically acclaimed, and Kingsley’s performance earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor.[3] Total Film named Sexy Beast the 15th best British film. It was the final film to feature Cavan Kendall, who died of cancer shortly after filming ended.[4]
British ex-criminal Gary “Gal” Dove is happily retired on the Costa del Sol with his beloved wife DeeDee, his best friend Aitch, and Aitch’s wife Jackie. An old criminal associate, the feared sociopath Don Logan, arrives at Gal’s villa, intent on enlisting Gal for a bank robbery in London planned by crime lord Teddy Bass. Teddy has learned about the bank vault from Harry, the bank’s chairman, whom he met at an orgy. Gal declines, but Don continues to pressure Gal, growing increasingly aggressive and violent.
After Gal suggests that Don’s real reason for visiting is his infatuation with Jackie, with whom he had a brief affair, Don grows furious and leaves. On the plane back to England, Don refuses to extinguish his cigarette prior to takeoff, is aggressive to staff and other passengers, and is ejected, but avoids punishment by claiming that a flight attendant sexually assaulted him. He returns to the villa screaming obscenities and attacks Gal with a glass bottle. DeeDee emerges with Gal’s hunting shotgun and shoots Don, incapacitating him; the group beat him, shoot him to death, and bury him under the swimming pool.
To avoid raising suspicion among Don’s associates, Gal decides to do the job in London. When Teddy questions Gal about Don’s whereabouts, Gal lies, claiming that Don returned to London and called him from Heathrow Airport, which arouses suspicion in Teddy. The heist involves using diving gear to drill into the bank vault from a pool in a neighbouring bath house. The pool water muffles the sound of the drilling equipment and also floods the vault and shorts its security system. As Teddy’s crew empties the vault’s safe deposit boxes, Gal secretly pockets a pair of ruby and diamond earrings.
After the job, Teddy insists on driving Gal to the airport. He stops at Harry’s home, where he shoots Harry and demands that Gal tell him where Don is. Gal responds that he is “not into this any more”. While dropping Gal off, Teddy indicates that he knows that Gal was involved in something happening to Don, and implies that Gal would be severely punished if Teddy cared at all about Don. He suggests he may visit Gal in Spain and humiliates him by paying him only 10 for the job.
Gal returns to his friends and family in Spain, where DeeDee wears the earrings and life has returned to normal. Gal still hears Don’s voice in his head; he responds that Don is dead now and can “shut up”.
Sexy Beast was shot in London and Agua Amarga, Spain in the summer of 1999. Ray Winstone travelled to Spain two weeks before filming commenced to get as deep a tan as he could in the time possible and to eat as much as he could to bulk up considerably. He later called this “the best rehearsal time I’ve ever had in my life”.[5] Winstone had originally been considered for the role of Don, along with Anthony Hopkins.[6]
“Sexy Beast was the beginning of a new phase for me of working with first-time filmmakers. Jonathan Glazer was a television commercials director in the UK, and a wonderful talent. We were sent this script which he was attached to, and out came this wonderful film. It was very stimulating having a first time talent… The dialogue as you see in this film is exceptional. I had never read a script like it, and I thought, this has got to be made. It was very difficult to get insurance on the film actually. When the American studio bought the film, their legal department said: “You cannot make this.” It has something like 300 uses of the word “cunt”, and 400 “fucks”, but somehow it passed the censorship and got out there.”
It received praise from writers at the San Francisco Chronicle,[10] Entertainment Weekly,[11] Slate,[12] Rolling Stone[13] and the Los Angeles Times.[14] Stephen Hunter of The Washington Post was less enthusiastic, describing the plot as “preposterous” and highlighting “Ben Kingsley spraying saliva-lubricated variants of the F-word into the atmosphere like anti-aircraft fire for 10 solid minutes” as the film’s “one guilty pleasure”.[15]
Kingsley’s performance received a majority of the accolades given to Sexy Beast, winning Best Supporting Actor awards from the Broadcast Film Critics Association, Boston Society of Film Critics, Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association, Florida Film Critics Circle, San Diego Film Critics Society, Southeastern Film Critics Association and the Toronto Film Critics Association. He also was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award (losing to Ian McKellen for his performance in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring), a Golden Globe and an Academy Award (losing both to Jim Broadbent for his performance in Iris).
Original music for the film was composed by Spanish composer/saxophonist Roque Baos and English electronic band UNKLE in collaboration with South.[18] Dean Martin’s version of “Sway” accompanies the film’s end credits. The soundtrack also includes “Peaches” by The Stranglers, “Cuba” by The Gibson Brothers, “G-Spot” by Wayne Marshall, “Daddy Rollin’ Stone” by Derek Martin, and Henry Mancini’s “Lujon”.
A prequel television series based on the film was in development at Paramount Network, which was being produced by Paramount Television Studios and Anonymous Content. However, the series was scrapped by Paramount Network. On 15 February 2022, ViacomCBS Networks UK And Australia announced that the series was revived for Paramount+, but would instead be produced by Train a Comin’ Productions, Familystyle, Chapter One, Solas Mind, Anonymous Content and Paramount Television International Studios.[21] The eight-episode series was released on 25 January 2024.[22]
Sex scenes have been an essential part of Hollywood movies for a long time, sometimes to depict nuances of the storyline, other times to flesh out the characters, quite literally. Many movie sex scenes have gone down in history as being the most tasteful or the steamiest.
Unlike them, this list is all about sex scenes that went down like the Titanic, not so much because of the lack of chemistry, but because of the cheesiest, cringiest dialogues that accompanied them. So here are some of the least sexy lines that arguably ruined otherwise scintillating scenes, though maybe some of these cringe one-liners floats your boat.
Cillian Murphy and Florence Pugh seem to have decent chemistry, but the reason behind the overhyped sex scene is a dialogue, taken from the holy Hindu scripture, the Bhagvad Gita. To have it said while Pugh mounts Murphy is awkward, to say the least:
It is a really exciting film from a technical perspective. Shot on a mix of IMAX and Ultra-Panavision 65mm film stocks, the film mixes an ultra-wide aspect ratio of 2.76:1 (last used a decade ago for The Hateful Eight) with an ultra-tall image of 1.43:1 for the select IMAX sequences. I saw this on IMAX 70mm opening day and the shifting from a ultra-wide to ultra-tall image was jaw-dropping, opening up the frame in some key sequences to make audiences who see it in IMAX feel as though they are being transported to another place entirely alongside the characters. It stays in the ultra-wide image for the whole runtime when seen on non-IMAX formats, and even then the film is so good that it utilises this rare ultra-widescreen image in really exciting and unique ways. It being shot on the highest quality celluloid film formats means the film retains a thoroughly gorgeous and deeply cinematic look. It is rare for modern blockbuster films to shoot on film, let alone this first-of-its-kind combination, and the results are truly marvellous. This was absolutely gorgeous on the big screen both times I have seen it.
Sinners is a fascinating product of the circumstances of its existence. With Christopher Nolan changing studio allegiances to Universal, Warner Brothers desperately sought to bring new auteur filmmakers to their side. To do so, they went around town giving original voices lots of money and lots of freedom to do whatever they wanted. One of those people was Ryan Coogler. Director of Fruitvale Station, Creed, Black Panther and its sequel Wakanda Forever, Coogler was given $90 million to make whatever he wanted with total creative freedom and the rarest of contract clauses; after 25 years, the copyright ownership of the film will revert from Warner Bros back to Coogler, the kind of deal reserved only for the most respected of filmmakers such as Quentin Tarantino. Coogler actually owns this movie, and circumstances such as this help to make Sinners all the more thematically rich.
When we are able to express ourselves so truly through art, we escape to another plane of existence entirely where time cannot hurt any of us, and Sinners expresses this with such optimism and hard-fought joy
I find it even more moving as a lifelong film lover to see another filmmaker express, via the medium of music within his cinematic medium, just how soul-enriching art is and can be, and how art is in many ways how human beings escape their mortality, even if just for a second. When we are able to express ourselves so truly through art, we escape to another plane of existence entirely where time cannot hurt any of us, and Sinners expresses this with such optimism and hard-fought joy. It does all this whilst also touching on ideas of assimilation, migrant identities and culture clashes in really fascinating ways through its unique twists on familiar supernatural lore. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PLXQ8na2bIsko7MA31HKjSlqV0j9fgia/view
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I have the same problem, but one of my cameras works fine the other does not display (same errors as above).What I have discovered is that the camera that works has not been updated to the latest firmware update.( )The one that fails has been updated twice.
I had the same problem with wzye on bluestacks 4 with hyper V. I could only see the recorded stuff. Once I enabled hardware decoding in the wyze account settings I was able to see the live stream. To do that in the Wyze app tap the Account button > App Settings > Enabled Hardware Decoder
i forgot to update my bluestacks 5 wyze app to the required update recently released. i have the latest update and firmware on my cell. it works fine on that. is there any way i can stiil update my bluestacks wyze app? cause its not connecting now without on bluestacks 5.
For about two months, I had been using the bluestacks android emulator in a windows virtual machine. Specifically, I was using parallels and windows 7 32 bit, and was just using bluestacks to play some apps. During that time I was using an early version of OS X Yosemite.
Unfortunately, I have been unable to play apps ever since one of the later Yosemite updates, and the issue persists in the El Capitan update. I can open bluestacks and run the apps fine, but it doesn’t take long before my mac crashes for insufficient memory. I have 8 GB of RAM, which had been more than enough to run bluestacks in the past.
It was hard to determine what was causing this issue, but I’m almost certain now that it’s an OS X issue (not bluestacks, parallels, or windows). I have tried using vmware fusion, virtual box, all the different windows versions (7 through 10), and many different bluestacks versions. Also, I would prefer to not have to use Bootcamp Assistant, as I only have a 121 GB Hard Drive and I would like to run bluestacks in windows and mac applications simultaneously.
I tried another couple of different combinations, and actually was able to get it working again! It’s very funny how I hadn’t been able to get it working for the past month and a half, but was able to the day after posting this.
May I ask how you got this to work without crashing. My problem is similar. If i ran bluestacks on my Mac and want to then run VirtualBox to virtualise windows, i always have to restart otherwise my Mac crashes.
How can we block Bluestacks application because this app can avoid or FTG that can use Facebook youtube ……. many app in bluestacks, thus in our app in FTG don’t have this app so what’s should we do or need to create custom application ? please picture:
Hola Buntha, si bien es cierto aun no se puede bloquear el bluestack por aplicacin, pero lo que si puedes bloquear es todo el acceso dentro de la aplicacin, es decir bloquear el playstore, centro de aplicaciones, youtube, facebook, etc.
Con eso podrn ingresar a la aplicacin pero no podrn entrar a las redes sociales, es importante que por control de aplicacion este bloqueado el FB y Youtube. o las redes sociales que quieras bloquear, suerte espero te funcione.
Hello Buntha, although it is true that the bluestack cannot be blocked by application, but what can be blocked is all access within the application, that is to say, block the play store, application center, youtube, facebook, etc.
With that you can enter the application but you cannot enter the social networks, it is important that the FB and Youtube are blocked by application control. or the social networks you want to block, luckily I hope you operate.
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When I am using ipython or ipython3, I can use the %edit command to open up an editor to write my python scripts in. My problem is that the default editor is vim and I really do not get how to use that editor. What I would like to do is to change the editor to either nano or gedit. I think to stay with the terminal I would prefer to change it to the nano editor.
%edit runs IPython’s editor hook. The default version of this hook is set to call the editor specified by your $EDITOR environment variable. If this isn’t found, it will default to vi under Linux/Unix and to notepad under Windows. See the end of this docstring for how to change the editor hook.
If you wish to write your own editor hook, you can put it in a configuration file which you load at startup time. The default hook is defined in the IPython.core.hooks module, and you can use that as a starting example for further modifications. That file also has general instructions on how to set a new hook for use once you’ve defined it.
This will define the variable EDITOR for the current session and pass it into the environment of all its child processes. To set it permanently you must define it in one of the system configuration files. The highest level at which you can do this is to set it in /etc/environment. This defines it globally:
I still believe it would be possible to build a high quality editor based on the original design. But I also believe that this would be quite a complex system, and require significantly more work than necessary.
The original motivation for xi came from working on the Android text stack, and confronting two problems in particular. One, text editing would become very slow as the text buffer got bigger. Two, there were a number of concurrency bugs in the interface between the EditText widget and the keyboard (input method editor).
The culprit of the first problem turned out to be the SpanWatcher interface, combined with the fact that modern keyboards like to put a spelling correction span on each word. When you insert a character, all the successive spans bump their locations up by one, and then you have to send onSpanChanged for each of those spans to all the watchers. Combined with the fact that the spans data structure had a naive O(n) implementation, and the whole thing was quadratic or worse.
These problems have a unifying thread: in both cases there are small diffs to the text, but then the data structures and protocols handled these diffs in a less than optimal way, leading to both performance and correctness bugs.
When I started, I knew that Operational Transformation was a solution for collaborative editing, but had a reputation for being complex and finicky. I had no idea how deep the rabbithole would be of OT and then CRDT. Much of that story is told in the CRDT discussion previously linked.
There is an extremely long history of people trying to build software as composable modules connected by some kind of inter-module communication fabric. Historical examples include DCE/RPC, Corba, Bonobo, and more recently things like Sandstorm and Fuchsia Modular. There are some partial successes, including Binder on Android, but this is still mostly an unrealized vision. (Regarding Binder, it evolved from a much more idealistic vision, and I strongly recommend reading this 2006 interview about OpenBinder).
I think one of the strongest positive models was the database / business logic split, which is arguably the most successful example of process separation. In this model, the database is responsible for performance and integrity, and the business logic is in a separate process, so it can safely do things like crash and hang. I very much thought of xi-core as a database-like engine, capable of handling concurrent text modification much like a database handles transactions.
Building software in such a modular way requires two things: first, infrastructure to support remote procedure calls (including serialization of the requests and data), and second, well-defined interfaces. Towards the end of 2017, I saw the goal of xi-editor as primarily being about defining the interfaces needed for large scale text editing, and that this work could endure over a long period of time even as details of the implementation changed.
One of the bolder design decisions in xi was to have a process separation between front-end and core. This was inspired in part by Neovim, in which everything is a plugin, even GUI. But the main motivation was to build GUI applications using Rust, even though at the time Rust was nowhere near capable of native GUI. The idea is that you use the best GUI technology of the platform, and communicate via async pipes.
The original vision was to write plug-ins in any language, especially for things like language servers that would be best developed in the language of that ecosystem. This is the main reason I chose JSON, because I expected there would be high quality implementations in every viable language.
Many people complained about the fact that JSON escapes strings, and suggested alternatives such as MessagePack. But I knew that the speed of raw JSON parsing was a solved problem, with a number of extremely high performance implementations (simdjson is a good example).
Second, on the Rust side, while serde is quite fast and very convenient (thanks to proc macros), when serializing a large number of complex structures, it bloats code size considerably. The xi core is 9.3 megabytes in a Linux release build (debug is an eye-watering 88MB), and a great deal of that bloat is serialization. There is work to reduce this, including miniserde and nanoserde, but serde is still by far the most mainstream.
We knew going in that async was going to be a source of complexity. The hope is that we would be able to tackle the async stuff once, and that the complexity would be encapsulated, much as it was for the rope data structure.
The reality was that adding async made everything more complicated, in some cases considerably so. A particularly difficult example was dealing with word wrap. In particular, when the width of the viewport is tied to the window, then live-resizing the window causes text to rewrap continuously. With the process split between front-end and core, and an async protocol between them, all kinds of interesting things can go wrong, including races between editing actions and word wrap updates. More fundamentally, it is difficult to avoid tearing-style artifacts.
As a conclusion, while the process split with plug-ins is supportable (similar to the Language Server protocol), I now firmly believe that the process separation between front-end and core was not a good idea.
These facts influenced the design of xi in two important ways. First, I took it as a technical challenge to provide a high-performance editing experience even on large files, overcoming the performance problems through async. Second, the limitations of the regex-based approach argued in favor of a modular plug-in architecture, so that as better highlighters were developed, they could be plugged in. I had some ambitions of creating a standard protocol that could be used by other editors, but this absolutely failed to materialize. For example, Atom instead developed tree-sitter.
There was considerable complexity in the implementation. Text was synchronized between the main xi-core process and the plug-in, but for large files, the latter stores only a fixed-size cache; the cache protocol ended up being quite sophisticated. Updates were processed through a form of Operational Transformation, so if a highlighting result raced a text edit, it would never color an incorrect region (this is still very much a problem for language server annotations). https://sites.google.com/view/windows-media-playe-xylknic3a
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