What detriment?? Studios are making money. Theater chains are making money. Actors and crew are making money. People are clearly being entertained and still going to the theaters in record numbers, despite all the home entertainment options that have cropped up in the last decade. What detriment?
I don't even know what the "kitchen" is supposed to represent in your analogy, and I don't think you do either.
The theaters are charging exactly the amount that people are willing to pay. If you think they'd lower the prices on concessions if the studios suddenly let them keep more than half of the ticket sales gross, you're a naive fool. The studios know that they make tons of money on concessions, and that's precisely why they can get away with keeping all the proceeds on a blockbuster, because they know the theater still won't go out of business.
In other words, you have it completely backwards, "FYI". And the only people that are to blame for "high" ticket prices AND concessions prices are... you guessed it, the people buying those things at those prices.
"ever increasing avarice of Hollywood." - as if AMC is any different.
There is a pie. Everyone wants a bigger slice than they currently have. Studios, AMC, actors, writers, cable pullers.... everyone. It's just a constant battle where everyone is pushing against everyone else.
They also still get $9 for a bucket of popcorn that costs.25 to make, or similar profit margins on anything that people buy at the concessions. Outside of opening weekend for blockbuster movies, there's tons of empty seats at every showing, so getting people inside, where most will spend extra money, is a huge side benefit to this supposed bargain.
Yeah, +1 to that. How is Lyft better than Uber? They seem about the same to me, except that there's more Uber drivers available near me, so 90% of the time I choose an Uber ride because it's the one that'll get to me quicker.
I don't think the word "illegal" means what you think it means.
Seriously, I'm kind of surprised by all the hate here in Slashdot for Uber. With the site populated heavily by neo-libertarians, you'd think the people defending taxis and their artificially inflated prices would be at a minimum. Can someone explain this to me?
I agree with this, and I actually do run with a medium-sized phone in my pocket that's logging miles using MapMyRun. I want a smartwatch, though, and I came here mainly to see if any Slashdotters were offering opinions on watches that are especially good for runners. I just haven't gotten one yet because none of them have really made me go "oh, yeah, I need that".
Just because you can't afford to live there, doesn't mean people with better educations and job prospects than you can't. In fact, it appears that millions of them do. Sorry you couldn't keep up.
NYC's population is about 8.5 million, the highest it's ever been. It's not in decline. That in itself is something of a minor miracle only because the city ran out of room to build new housing decades ago, and going up is the only way to increase housing now, unlike Atlanta, which continues to sprawl.
Whether or not Atlanta is "prospering" compared to NYC (Atlanta's GDP is about 1/5 of NYC's) you can debate, but you clearly know very little about NYC, its population, and its roads.
I don't think this matters much. Anyone likely to download the leaked episodes wouldn't pay for Netflix anyway; they're just getting the episodes earlier, and that's a small % of the viewing audience. Anyone who pays for Netflix and watches these episodes legit isn't likely to go figure out Bittorrent and get them early either. So who cares? Obviously not Netflix.
Anyway, you could have cited your source, if you really had one, and that would've more than likely been the end of it. If you didn't have a source to cite, then obviously the policy has to be to strike that info, because anyone can just say "I'm quoting an official source!" without backing it up.
In any case, while many Wikipedia pages are "shit", as you so eloquently explained, they are far outnumbered by the useful pages that have sources cited for most, if not all, of the information on them. Most of the the science pages are really good, which makes me wonder what bird you were adding info on, and what that info was.
I'm no super-sleuth, but it sounds like someone is angry about having their political opinions removed from edits that they've made to Wikipedia pages.
Yeah, you're right, there's no gamesave on the Switch because of a vast conspiracy to keep the public playing video games and not paying attention to the takeover by the New World Order.
Will you please shut the fuck up now and take your idiocy elsewhere?
He didn't say "everything worthwhile revolves around convenience", you condescending dick. He merely said when it comes to movies, it's far more convenient to stream it than keep a physical disc and player.
He may be off base when saying older people don't understand that, because the real reason might be "noooo I like the way I've always done it and I fear change." Either way, who cares? Young people buy more movies anyway.
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It's Wikipedia, you can create your own article, you lazy bastard!
Sounds like somebody saw his article about himself erased.
What detriment?? Studios are making money. Theater chains are making money. Actors and crew are making money. People are clearly being entertained and still going to the theaters in record numbers, despite all the home entertainment options that have cropped up in the last decade. What detriment?
I don't even know what the "kitchen" is supposed to represent in your analogy, and I don't think you do either.
The theaters are charging exactly the amount that people are willing to pay. If you think they'd lower the prices on concessions if the studios suddenly let them keep more than half of the ticket sales gross, you're a naive fool. The studios know that they make tons of money on concessions, and that's precisely why they can get away with keeping all the proceeds on a blockbuster, because they know the theater still won't go out of business.
In other words, you have it completely backwards, "FYI". And the only people that are to blame for "high" ticket prices AND concessions prices are... you guessed it, the people buying those things at those prices.
If you're a parent and you can't say no to a "screaming begging kid", you deserve to pay an 800% markup on Skittles.
You are not the target demographic.
Rape you?
Uh, just don't buy concessions. How hard is that?
"ever increasing avarice of Hollywood." - as if AMC is any different.
There is a pie. Everyone wants a bigger slice than they currently have. Studios, AMC, actors, writers, cable pullers.... everyone. It's just a constant battle where everyone is pushing against everyone else.
They also still get $9 for a bucket of popcorn that costs .25 to make, or similar profit margins on anything that people buy at the concessions. Outside of opening weekend for blockbuster movies, there's tons of empty seats at every showing, so getting people inside, where most will spend extra money, is a huge side benefit to this supposed bargain.
Yeah, +1 to that. How is Lyft better than Uber? They seem about the same to me, except that there's more Uber drivers available near me, so 90% of the time I choose an Uber ride because it's the one that'll get to me quicker.
I don't think the word "illegal" means what you think it means.
Seriously, I'm kind of surprised by all the hate here in Slashdot for Uber. With the site populated heavily by neo-libertarians, you'd think the people defending taxis and their artificially inflated prices would be at a minimum. Can someone explain this to me?
"People's ability to say racist shit without facing left-wing social repercussions has."
Fixed to say what you really meant.
Life must be difficult when you're reduced to posting political opinions in a story about Waluigi.
what the hell is this??
I agree with this, and I actually do run with a medium-sized phone in my pocket that's logging miles using MapMyRun. I want a smartwatch, though, and I came here mainly to see if any Slashdotters were offering opinions on watches that are especially good for runners. I just haven't gotten one yet because none of them have really made me go "oh, yeah, I need that".
Just because you can't afford to live there, doesn't mean people with better educations and job prospects than you can't. In fact, it appears that millions of them do. Sorry you couldn't keep up.
NYC's population is about 8.5 million, the highest it's ever been. It's not in decline. That in itself is something of a minor miracle only because the city ran out of room to build new housing decades ago, and going up is the only way to increase housing now, unlike Atlanta, which continues to sprawl.
Whether or not Atlanta is "prospering" compared to NYC (Atlanta's GDP is about 1/5 of NYC's) you can debate, but you clearly know very little about NYC, its population, and its roads.
We have enough racist assholes living here already (didn't you see our last election?), you should stay in Europe.
I don't think this matters much. Anyone likely to download the leaked episodes wouldn't pay for Netflix anyway; they're just getting the episodes earlier, and that's a small % of the viewing audience. Anyone who pays for Netflix and watches these episodes legit isn't likely to go figure out Bittorrent and get them early either. So who cares? Obviously not Netflix.
You have to admit I was pretty close.
Anyway, you could have cited your source, if you really had one, and that would've more than likely been the end of it. If you didn't have a source to cite, then obviously the policy has to be to strike that info, because anyone can just say "I'm quoting an official source!" without backing it up.
In any case, while many Wikipedia pages are "shit", as you so eloquently explained, they are far outnumbered by the useful pages that have sources cited for most, if not all, of the information on them. Most of the the science pages are really good, which makes me wonder what bird you were adding info on, and what that info was.
I'm no super-sleuth, but it sounds like someone is angry about having their political opinions removed from edits that they've made to Wikipedia pages.
You must be loads of fun at parties.
Yeah, you're right, there's no gamesave on the Switch because of a vast conspiracy to keep the public playing video games and not paying attention to the takeover by the New World Order.
Will you please shut the fuck up now and take your idiocy elsewhere?
16 minutes of exciting action is still better than 90 minutes of watching guys kick a ball back and forth to earn a 0-0 tie.
He didn't say "everything worthwhile revolves around convenience", you condescending dick. He merely said when it comes to movies, it's far more convenient to stream it than keep a physical disc and player.
He may be off base when saying older people don't understand that, because the real reason might be "noooo I like the way I've always done it and I fear change." Either way, who cares? Young people buy more movies anyway.