That is a bullshit comparison. Most of those films are available for RENTAL or PURCHASE on Amazon, not as a part Prime video. You might as well compare Netflix to Amazon's DVD/Blu-Ray selection while you're at it.
We may be talking past each other. Here's my line of thinking:
"Hmm, $(MOVIE) sounds like it might be pretty good. I'll give it a try. Bummer, not available on Netflix. Bummer, not available for free on Amazon. But they'll let me watch it for 48 hours for $3.99. Fine, whatever."
Here's yours, which is apparently shared with quite a few other people in this thread:
"Hmm, $(MOVIE) sounds like it might be pretty good. I'll give it a try. Bummer, not available on Netflix. Bummer, not available for free on Amazon. Wait, OMGWTFBBQ WHAT IS THIS BULLSHIT? $3.99 FOR A DRM-INFECTED STREAM THAT PROBABLY WON'T PLAY ON THE OVERCLOCKED PDP-11 I BOUGHT ON EBAY AND INSTALLED LUNIX ON? FUCK YOU JEFF BEZOS I'M TELLING RICHARD STALLMAN ON YOU"
One of us gets to watch the movie. The other gets admitted to the ER ahead of the guy with the broken collarbone and the lady whose kids have the flu, because hey, it's not every day they see a 260/195 blood pressure reading
(Shrug) I'm a Prime subscriber. I don't make a distinction between "Amazon" and "Amazon Prime," so that may be causing some confusion.
Are you suggesting that Netflix should offer the movies that Amazon offer for payment as inclusive in their all-you-can-eat plan or are you suggesting they introduce a mixed model where there are some premium movies on netflix?
The latter. They should offer 48-hour rentals of movies that aren't available for free streaming.
Basically I'm saying Amazon's model is more useful to me than Netflix's.
I don't expect something for nothing, and I don't expect everything for $12/month. But I when I want to watch something and am willing to pay for it, it would be nice if someone other than the Pirate Bay would make it available. Currently Amazon does the best job at this, and Netflix isn't even trying.
I'm not seeing that. In the top 20 films only one is available on both Netflix and Amazon Prime (Pulp Fiction) and then one is only netflix (Hoop Dreams) and one is only Amazon Prime (Apocalypse Now).
What are you not seeing? The list is composed of well-regarded films that are available on one or more of the popular streaming services, and it turns out that for all practical purposes, "one or more services" means Amazon and not Netflix.
If Netflix's management doesn't see that as a catastrophic risk to their business, then it's time for their board of directors to step in.
The real reason for people leaving Netflix is the blocking of VPNs and proxies and the dull nature of Netflix original content.
These are valid points to some extent. Netflix's original content isn't that bad, but the fact is that they were formed as a content distributor, not a content producer. And that's the real problem... they have no content to distribute. Netflix has jack shit to watch, whether you have a working VPN or not.
This really hit home about 5 minutes ago when I ran across http://www.cinesift.com/ via a link on HN. Look for the red "Netflix" buttons and you'll see maybe one or two in the first several dozen listings. Those are among the highest-ranked films of all time, across numerous genres. Almost none of them are available on Netflix. Meanwhile, Amazon Video lets you access almost all of them.
If Netflix is going to survive, they cannot simply rely on offering a pathetic assortment of B- and C-level movies for a flat rate of 12 bucks a month or whatever. What they are doing is not working, and it's time to stop trying. They have to start offering optional premium content. I see no other strategy that will keep Netflix from being destroyed by more clued-in players, including but not limited to Amazon.
Still no functional gonkulators. Still no encabulation templates. Still no dichroic monads or parameterized gussets. When will the C++ committee ever get around to adding modern language features that users actually want?
The choice of screw is dictated by the tooling and equipment used to carry out final assembly. If a $20 patented screwdriver with a proprietary head design saves one second of production time per iPhone by doing a better job at guiding itself into the slot or being less likely to cam out when tightened, it doesn't take too long for it to pay for itself.
That's not to justify Apple's active interference with third-party repair shops. Just pointing out that when you're producing things at this scale, your profitability is influenced by the sum of a very large number of very trivial-sounding choices. Not everything that looks like a conspiracy is one.
Don't do illegal things or commit civil torts, and you have nothing to worry about from anyone, whether rich or poor.
In practice that doesn't work, of course, because everybody breaks laws all the time. So the next best thing to do is to avoid calling attention to yourself by acting like a complete sociopath. Unfortunately Gawker's founder skipped kindergarten that day.
The definition of irony: people arguing with each other on Facebook -- a platform whose founder considers them all 'dumbfucks' and has said as much -- about whether or not Trump has "finally gone too far this time."
Yeah, the benefits (or lack thereof) will depend on register usage to a large extent.
A well-optimized math library is probably using SIMD operations that work the same in either 32-bit or 64-bit code, so even small penalties in code and pointer size may erase any performance gains when you move to x64. But most applications don't spend most of their time doing vectorized math, and I imagine that includes VS.
Honestly, I live at the CLI and only use the IDE when I need to debug something, so I couldn't say if it would actually be worthwhile to recompile it for x64 or not. It's not true that there is no performance benefit in doing so, but I agree that it's far from clear that anyone would notice or care.
The compiler itself (cl.exe) is already built as an x64 executable according to dumpbin, even though it still resides in the legacy c:\program files (x86) folder. That's where the performance really matters.
With a very few specific possible exceptions, x64 code is indisputably faster than x86. The reduction in register pressure buys you a speed increase of about 10% in my experience.
The code is somewhat larger, of course, but instruction caches have also grown in size since this was observed to be an issue.
Meanwhile, recompiling correctly-written C++ code to target x64 amounts to changing a couple of flags in the build script, so laziness is no real excuse.
They cited a December MSDN post that had argued "smaller is faster," and that no performance benefits would be realized for users whose code and data already fit into a 32-bit address space, while most other issues could be addressed with better data design.
Anyone who actually believes this has no business working on development tools.
One fairly compelling argument in support of Musk's viewpoint is that if it is possible to create a simulation capable of supporting our existence, then it is also likely that we're already living in such a simulation.
Otherwise, you'd need a specific reason to believe that we're living in the one true reality that underlies countless (possibly nested) simulations. Denying that we live in a simulation amounts to a special pleading fallacy.
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Due to human and animal behavior, all systems are 100% guaranteed to go crony ...as quickly as we let them.
Who's "we?" Oh, right... you and your cronies.
That is a bullshit comparison. Most of those films are available for RENTAL or PURCHASE on Amazon, not as a part Prime video. You might as well compare Netflix to Amazon's DVD/Blu-Ray selection while you're at it.
We may be talking past each other. Here's my line of thinking:
"Hmm, $(MOVIE) sounds like it might be pretty good. I'll give it a try. Bummer, not available on Netflix. Bummer, not available for free on Amazon. But they'll let me watch it for 48 hours for $3.99. Fine, whatever."
Here's yours, which is apparently shared with quite a few other people in this thread:
"Hmm, $(MOVIE) sounds like it might be pretty good. I'll give it a try. Bummer, not available on Netflix. Bummer, not available for free on Amazon. Wait, OMGWTFBBQ WHAT IS THIS BULLSHIT? $3.99 FOR A DRM-INFECTED STREAM THAT PROBABLY WON'T PLAY ON THE OVERCLOCKED PDP-11 I BOUGHT ON EBAY AND INSTALLED LUNIX ON? FUCK YOU JEFF BEZOS I'M TELLING RICHARD STALLMAN ON YOU"
One of us gets to watch the movie. The other gets admitted to the ER ahead of the guy with the broken collarbone and the lady whose kids have the flu, because hey, it's not every day they see a 260/195 blood pressure reading
(Shrug) I'm a Prime subscriber. I don't make a distinction between "Amazon" and "Amazon Prime," so that may be causing some confusion.
Are you suggesting that Netflix should offer the movies that Amazon offer for payment as inclusive in their all-you-can-eat plan or are you suggesting they introduce a mixed model where there are some premium movies on netflix?
The latter. They should offer 48-hour rentals of movies that aren't available for free streaming.
Basically I'm saying Amazon's model is more useful to me than Netflix's.
I don't expect something for nothing, and I don't expect everything for $12/month. But I when I want to watch something and am willing to pay for it, it would be nice if someone other than the Pirate Bay would make it available. Currently Amazon does the best job at this, and Netflix isn't even trying.
I'm not seeing that. In the top 20 films only one is available on both Netflix and Amazon Prime (Pulp Fiction) and then one is only netflix (Hoop Dreams) and one is only Amazon Prime (Apocalypse Now).
What are you not seeing? The list is composed of well-regarded films that are available on one or more of the popular streaming services, and it turns out that for all practical purposes, "one or more services" means Amazon and not Netflix.
If Netflix's management doesn't see that as a catastrophic risk to their business, then it's time for their board of directors to step in.
Their selection is really terrible, and if there's something good then chances are you may have to pay extra for it above and beyond the subscription.
No, their selection is most definitely not "really terrible."
But yes, you typically have to pay a couple of bucks to rent access to A-list movies for 48 hours. But at least you have that option with Amazon.
It's Hollyweed wanting to create an artificial scarcity of content to keep licensing fees far too high that is the problem.
Funny, that doesn't seem to be stopping Amazon.
Enough excuses from Netflix. Sign some deals, or go away already.
The real reason for people leaving Netflix is the blocking of VPNs and proxies and the dull nature of Netflix original content.
These are valid points to some extent. Netflix's original content isn't that bad, but the fact is that they were formed as a content distributor, not a content producer. And that's the real problem... they have no content to distribute. Netflix has jack shit to watch, whether you have a working VPN or not.
This really hit home about 5 minutes ago when I ran across http://www.cinesift.com/ via a link on HN. Look for the red "Netflix" buttons and you'll see maybe one or two in the first several dozen listings. Those are among the highest-ranked films of all time, across numerous genres. Almost none of them are available on Netflix. Meanwhile, Amazon Video lets you access almost all of them.
If Netflix is going to survive, they cannot simply rely on offering a pathetic assortment of B- and C-level movies for a flat rate of 12 bucks a month or whatever. What they are doing is not working, and it's time to stop trying. They have to start offering optional premium content. I see no other strategy that will keep Netflix from being destroyed by more clued-in players, including but not limited to Amazon.
Tell me more about this Luthor fellow. Does he have a campaign website? There's a lot of interest in third-party candidates this time around.
Still no functional gonkulators. Still no encabulation templates. Still no dichroic monads or parameterized gussets. When will the C++ committee ever get around to adding modern language features that users actually want?
Who the *$%* does this moron think he is?
Somebody who thinks human beings have a higher purpose in life than doing a robot's job badly?
Or Dropbox's "packrat" option? Yeah, good luck encrypting that.
The choice of screw is dictated by the tooling and equipment used to carry out final assembly. If a $20 patented screwdriver with a proprietary head design saves one second of production time per iPhone by doing a better job at guiding itself into the slot or being less likely to cam out when tightened, it doesn't take too long for it to pay for itself.
That's not to justify Apple's active interference with third-party repair shops. Just pointing out that when you're producing things at this scale, your profitability is influenced by the sum of a very large number of very trivial-sounding choices. Not everything that looks like a conspiracy is one.
Don't do illegal things or commit civil torts, and you have nothing to worry about from anyone, whether rich or poor.
In practice that doesn't work, of course, because everybody breaks laws all the time. So the next best thing to do is to avoid calling attention to yourself by acting like a complete sociopath. Unfortunately Gawker's founder skipped kindergarten that day.
"It looks like you're trying to generate coefficients for a finite impulse response filter. I am Steve from Montana, how may I be helping you today?"
The definition of irony: people arguing with each other on Facebook -- a platform whose founder considers them all 'dumbfucks' and has said as much -- about whether or not Trump has "finally gone too far this time."
Yeah, the benefits (or lack thereof) will depend on register usage to a large extent.
A well-optimized math library is probably using SIMD operations that work the same in either 32-bit or 64-bit code, so even small penalties in code and pointer size may erase any performance gains when you move to x64. But most applications don't spend most of their time doing vectorized math, and I imagine that includes VS.
Honestly, I live at the CLI and only use the IDE when I need to debug something, so I couldn't say if it would actually be worthwhile to recompile it for x64 or not. It's not true that there is no performance benefit in doing so, but I agree that it's far from clear that anyone would notice or care.
The compiler itself (cl.exe) is already built as an x64 executable according to dumpbin, even though it still resides in the legacy c:\program files (x86) folder. That's where the performance really matters.
With a very few specific possible exceptions, x64 code is indisputably faster than x86. The reduction in register pressure buys you a speed increase of about 10% in my experience.
The code is somewhat larger, of course, but instruction caches have also grown in size since this was observed to be an issue.
Meanwhile, recompiling correctly-written C++ code to target x64 amounts to changing a couple of flags in the build script, so laziness is no real excuse.
They cited a December MSDN post that had argued "smaller is faster," and that no performance benefits would be realized for users whose code and data already fit into a 32-bit address space, while most other issues could be addressed with better data design.
Anyone who actually believes this has no business working on development tools.
You still need to show how simulations can be nested one within the other.
Nope. You have to show that they can't be.
How could such nested process appear spontaneously
I'll leave this one to the usual religious debaters. It's the same question that they deal with.
One fairly compelling argument in support of Musk's viewpoint is that if it is possible to create a simulation capable of supporting our existence, then it is also likely that we're already living in such a simulation.
Otherwise, you'd need a specific reason to believe that we're living in the one true reality that underlies countless (possibly nested) simulations. Denying that we live in a simulation amounts to a special pleading fallacy.
So: puff, puff, pass, I guess.
Free as in beer, free as speech, or free as in herpes?
Gee, you'd almost think there was a difference between the operating system on my computer and a third-party website I don't have to use.
That you, Ballmer? Don't you have a basketball team to ru(i)n?
That's pretty small potatoes compared to what migrating mission-critical systems to an unsupported version of Windows would do around here.