I don't know how movies are being "made for the Chinese".
Many movies are. Transformers 4, for instance, had a number of concessions to Chinese culture and political norms. Its reward? It became the #1 highest grossing film in Chinese history (at the time).
The companies keep taking the handouts, doing a fraction of what they claimed they were going to do with the money and pocketing the rest, and then turn around with their hands out again the next time the citizens complain about lack of connectivity in remote areas.
Huh. Funny. Here in the US, we have a similar history. Companies were given billions to expand fiber optic connections, but there was no political will to enforce the agreements. AT&T deployed UVerse over old copper cables and said that as long as there was a "fiber node" without 1/2 mile of the location, that location was "fiber connected." Other companies sunk the money into cellular networks and said that cell phone services count as home broadband.
Wireless has been getting better, but it's still shit connectivity. Sure, their are cell towers everywhere, but they provide a fraction of the bandwidth that a wired connection has, usually with many many horrible restrictions (data caps, horrific data charges, movies now getting auto-downsampled on a wireless connection). The current cell companies would have to be forced out of the infrastructure, as they've proven themselves especially poor stewards. Hell, I can't believe even Comcast is better.
Wireless spectrum is shared. Unavoidably shared. There are limits to how much you can pack into it. If everyone switches to wireless, they'll have a slower Internet connection that cannot theoretically get faster.
P.S. These guys should really do a study on IMDB movie scores... they might learn a thing or two about the real world.
Speaking of which, I've found them to be -generally- ok for mainstream, but only for one+ year old stuff. IMDB scores are wildly skewed when movies first come out do to the self-selection and fanboy bias. If the movie is "political" or controversial in any way (like Ghostbusters 2016) expect the score to be way off as well.
The mouse was not required or particularly wanted or useful in text interfaces. As soon as you entered GUI-land, it was wanted by pretty much everyone. One went with the other.
Or do you think "Disney" when you say "Star Wars"?
I didn't used to, but I have for the last few years, sure. Disney purchasing Lucasfilm isn't a big secret among the public at large. It's pretty much the whole reason why Episode 7 happened at all.
Um, actually YOU are subsidizing the sports channels. A big bulk of everyones cable bill goes to ESPN.
ESPN is great if you're a New Yorker/Bostonian or live in LA or (just recently) Chicago. It absolutely sucks for everyone else. Most "sports fans" want their LOCAL teams and do not watch ESPN.
Then the market will decide the winners and losers.
No it won't. The market liked Netflix, where you could get a wide range of content at a good price. The content owners didn't like it, so they killed that model. The market wanted that model, but the market is easily manipulable and often has to choose between multiple poorer offerings.
Turning on the TV once a day means that you're wasting about an hour of your life every year waiting for the TV to boot up.
Maybe. Then again, when I turn the TV on, I'm not just standing in front of it staring blankly, hoping that it will come on sooner. That's the point when I get a drink, get comfortable, etc.
And presumably without the "smart" klunkiness. Really guys. There is no reason in this day and age that it should take 10 or 20 seconds for a solid state device to turn on and present one with an image.
Depends also on whether the "smart" device that is doing the video outputting (tivo/playstation/roku/PC) is actively outputting the right resolution, and that the appearance of an output device won't make that video signal reset and renegotiate. This is doubly true if HDCP copy protection is involved, which is often what takes video signals and output devices so long to sync. Putting an HDCP-aware EDID caching device on the output device ought to greatly reduce or eliminate that negotiation time.
Worst part for me is flipping through channels on the Tivo, where lots of HD channels will output in different resolutions. (Some will actually be SD, some will be 720p, some will be 1080i, etcetc) Each time the resolution changes, it makes the whole setup lock up as the TV or whatever tries to switch resolutions, which it does slowly, and I doubt the Tivo is fast at it either. It makes the whole "scan through TV channels" thing pretty frustrating.
As I hate all the HR crap that say other things besides money motivate workers.
If that's true, try getting people to work for free for you.
You have a very black-and-white mentality here. That's not how most people think, and it's not the way the world works. People have multiple motivations. Getting people to work for free is a no-go because just about everything in life costs money. I may 'love my job enough to do it for free', but then I can't pay the rent, afford anything to eat, travel, all those things that require $$$. But I have certainly turned down job offers that paid more, because I do have other motivations besides money.
I'm not really sure how you leap from "Nazis took advantage of the downtrodden to persecute the non-Aryans" to "the answer is to persecute the Aryans." Gay/genderfluid/whatever aren't inferior to straights on principle, but neither are they superior. I don't see why the reaction to the pendulum swinging to one extreme is to make it swing to the opposite extreme.
As long as you're actually fighting Nazis, and not just.. calling people whose politics you don't like a Nazi and then taking off the glove, because Nazis are fair game, right?
Our penchant is for fighting Nazis, confederates, racists, and Russian secret agents is what makes America great
You should add "fighting socialists and communists" to the list as well. That's a looong American tradition.
All I see is ugly, angry, and powerless rabble bitching at eachother and hating eachother.
What do you think the Nazis were? No, not the Nazi Party in the 30s and 40s, the Nazi Party and the NSDAP of the Weimer Republic. They slowly clawed together power because conditions in Germany after World War I were... not good, to say the least, and got much worse under the Great Depression. They managed to successfully scrape together popular support taking that poor, hateful rabble and giving them a target to their anger. Jews, homosexuals, non-Aryans in general, immigrants, lots of people, but those first two in particular. That's the thing about the ugly angry rabble -- they still have power together. Harness it, and you can do terrible things with it.
Perhaps it's actually a mistake to be overly reliant on the concept of left/right spectrum politics as an accurate conceptualization of the dynamics of human interaction.
Maybe. Those of us who are in the shrinking pool of moderates are annoyed at being labeled "right-wingers" by the far left and "left-wingers" (and worse) by the far right. Polarization sucks, identity politics sucks, insisting that you have to be in an extremist camp sucks.
As much as I hate even thinking about Vox Day, you'd have to be very short-sighted to not see he played it like a fiddle; having the works he advocated being No Awarded on grounds that he advocated them was exactly his plan.
If that was his plan, then he won nothing aside from showing that with enough people he can sabotage an awards process. Whoop-de-doo, he got nothing aside from throwing a spanner into the works in 2016. He made no point, he has no ground on which to claim victory.
All this has ever been is a giant Fuck You—one massive gesture of contempt
The problem is those "gestures of contempt" get you nothing, nothing long term except for disregard from anyone outside of your little enclave. Being a troll does not change make. It means you'll get your short term victory of annoying some people, and you won't actually DO anything otherwise.
It is mostly one side who disable comments on their videos
These days I can't blame anyone for doing this. Youtube comments sections are absolute shit -- they sure make Slashdot look like classical enlightenment in comparison.
Try SJH - "Social Justice" Hypocrite - instead. It's rather more fitting, and not yet tired.
I'd like to think so, and it's a more targeted attack at least. But I fear it's the "social justice" part that is the ruined/overused section of the term.
Advantages? Do you think white males are immune to mental illness, don't get sexually abused and always have stable home lives?
"Advantages" does not mean you're immune to any of these things. It means you might have a slight advantage over someone else of an equivalent situation -- that's all, nothing more. It doesn't mean you're going to have the good life. I'm not talking about these advantages as if it was like winning the lottery, where it overcomes most other problems. They don't. The effects, when they happen, are fairly mild.
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I don't know how movies are being "made for the Chinese".
Many movies are. Transformers 4, for instance, had a number of concessions to Chinese culture and political norms. Its reward? It became the #1 highest grossing film in Chinese history (at the time).
http://time.com/2965333/how-transformers-4-became-the-number-one-film-in-chinese-history/
The companies keep taking the handouts, doing a fraction of what they claimed they were going to do with the money and pocketing the rest, and then turn around with their hands out again the next time the citizens complain about lack of connectivity in remote areas.
Huh. Funny. Here in the US, we have a similar history. Companies were given billions to expand fiber optic connections, but there was no political will to enforce the agreements. AT&T deployed UVerse over old copper cables and said that as long as there was a "fiber node" without 1/2 mile of the location, that location was "fiber connected." Other companies sunk the money into cellular networks and said that cell phone services count as home broadband.
lol-k, you have just defined the trump-spin
1. Identify your dislike for Trump
2. Identify why you are going to roll over and let him do whatever he wants.
So.... Trump is the devil because he could never ever, even accidentally/negligently/unintentionally, do a good thing?
No, I wasn't saying anything of the sort. I was saying that your position that he doesn't defend companies against patent trolls is utter crap
Every large company has to defend against patent trolls. The real question is whether he was a patent troll himself, and he has that history as well.
Wireless has been getting better, but it's still shit connectivity. Sure, their are cell towers everywhere, but they provide a fraction of the bandwidth that a wired connection has, usually with many many horrible restrictions (data caps, horrific data charges, movies now getting auto-downsampled on a wireless connection). The current cell companies would have to be forced out of the infrastructure, as they've proven themselves especially poor stewards. Hell, I can't believe even Comcast is better.
Wireless spectrum is shared. Unavoidably shared. There are limits to how much you can pack into it. If everyone switches to wireless, they'll have a slower Internet connection that cannot theoretically get faster.
P.S. These guys should really do a study on IMDB movie scores... they might learn a thing or two about the real world.
Speaking of which, I've found them to be -generally- ok for mainstream, but only for one+ year old stuff. IMDB scores are wildly skewed when movies first come out do to the self-selection and fanboy bias. If the movie is "political" or controversial in any way (like Ghostbusters 2016) expect the score to be way off as well.
The mouse was not required or particularly wanted or useful in text interfaces. As soon as you entered GUI-land, it was wanted by pretty much everyone. One went with the other.
Crap, I forgot that doesn't work! Oh well, good luck!
What doesn't? Commenting anonymously? Works for me. You might need some sort of incognito mode though.
Or do you think "Disney" when you say "Star Wars"?
I didn't used to, but I have for the last few years, sure. Disney purchasing Lucasfilm isn't a big secret among the public at large. It's pretty much the whole reason why Episode 7 happened at all.
Um, actually YOU are subsidizing the sports channels. A big bulk of everyones cable bill goes to ESPN.
ESPN is great if you're a New Yorker/Bostonian or live in LA or (just recently) Chicago. It absolutely sucks for everyone else. Most "sports fans" want their LOCAL teams and do not watch ESPN.
Then the market will decide the winners and losers.
No it won't. The market liked Netflix, where you could get a wide range of content at a good price. The content owners didn't like it, so they killed that model. The market wanted that model, but the market is easily manipulable and often has to choose between multiple poorer offerings.
Turning on the TV once a day means that you're wasting about an hour of your life every year waiting for the TV to boot up.
Maybe. Then again, when I turn the TV on, I'm not just standing in front of it staring blankly, hoping that it will come on sooner. That's the point when I get a drink, get comfortable, etc.
"without the "smart" features."
And presumably without the "smart" klunkiness. Really guys. There is no reason in this day and age that it should take 10 or 20 seconds for a solid state device to turn on and present one with an image.
Depends also on whether the "smart" device that is doing the video outputting (tivo/playstation/roku/PC) is actively outputting the right resolution, and that the appearance of an output device won't make that video signal reset and renegotiate. This is doubly true if HDCP copy protection is involved, which is often what takes video signals and output devices so long to sync. Putting an HDCP-aware EDID caching device on the output device ought to greatly reduce or eliminate that negotiation time.
Worst part for me is flipping through channels on the Tivo, where lots of HD channels will output in different resolutions. (Some will actually be SD, some will be 720p, some will be 1080i, etcetc) Each time the resolution changes, it makes the whole setup lock up as the TV or whatever tries to switch resolutions, which it does slowly, and I doubt the Tivo is fast at it either. It makes the whole "scan through TV channels" thing pretty frustrating.
As I hate all the HR crap that say other things besides money motivate workers.
If that's true, try getting people to work for free for you.
You have a very black-and-white mentality here. That's not how most people think, and it's not the way the world works. People have multiple motivations. Getting people to work for free is a no-go because just about everything in life costs money. I may 'love my job enough to do it for free', but then I can't pay the rent, afford anything to eat, travel, all those things that require $$$. But I have certainly turned down job offers that paid more, because I do have other motivations besides money.
I'm not really sure how you leap from "Nazis took advantage of the downtrodden to persecute the non-Aryans" to "the answer is to persecute the Aryans." Gay/genderfluid/whatever aren't inferior to straights on principle, but neither are they superior. I don't see why the reaction to the pendulum swinging to one extreme is to make it swing to the opposite extreme.
Ain't nothing wrong with fighting Nazis
As long as you're actually fighting Nazis, and not just.. calling people whose politics you don't like a Nazi and then taking off the glove, because Nazis are fair game, right?
Our penchant is for fighting Nazis, confederates, racists, and Russian secret agents is what makes America great
You should add "fighting socialists and communists" to the list as well. That's a looong American tradition.
All I see is ugly, angry, and powerless rabble bitching at eachother and hating eachother.
What do you think the Nazis were? No, not the Nazi Party in the 30s and 40s, the Nazi Party and the NSDAP of the Weimer Republic. They slowly clawed together power because conditions in Germany after World War I were... not good, to say the least, and got much worse under the Great Depression. They managed to successfully scrape together popular support taking that poor, hateful rabble and giving them a target to their anger. Jews, homosexuals, non-Aryans in general, immigrants, lots of people, but those first two in particular. That's the thing about the ugly angry rabble -- they still have power together. Harness it, and you can do terrible things with it.
Obvious troll throwing up strawmen is obvious.
Perhaps it's actually a mistake to be overly reliant on the concept of left/right spectrum politics as an accurate conceptualization of the dynamics of human interaction.
Maybe. Those of us who are in the shrinking pool of moderates are annoyed at being labeled "right-wingers" by the far left and "left-wingers" (and worse) by the far right. Polarization sucks, identity politics sucks, insisting that you have to be in an extremist camp sucks.
As much as I hate even thinking about Vox Day, you'd have to be very short-sighted to not see he played it like a fiddle; having the works he advocated being No Awarded on grounds that he advocated them was exactly his plan.
If that was his plan, then he won nothing aside from showing that with enough people he can sabotage an awards process. Whoop-de-doo, he got nothing aside from throwing a spanner into the works in 2016. He made no point, he has no ground on which to claim victory.
The problem is those "gestures of contempt" get you nothing, nothing long term except for disregard from anyone outside of your little enclave. Being a troll does not change make. It means you'll get your short term victory of annoying some people, and you won't actually DO anything otherwise.
I'm fine with the horse porn, thank you, but you can't make me deny the Holocaust! That's filthy.
I don't think you bothered to think about my point at all.
It is mostly one side who disable comments on their videos
These days I can't blame anyone for doing this. Youtube comments sections are absolute shit -- they sure make Slashdot look like classical enlightenment in comparison.
Try SJH - "Social Justice" Hypocrite - instead. It's rather more fitting, and not yet tired.
I'd like to think so, and it's a more targeted attack at least. But I fear it's the "social justice" part that is the ruined/overused section of the term.
Advantages? Do you think white males are immune to mental illness, don't get sexually abused and always have stable home lives?
"Advantages" does not mean you're immune to any of these things. It means you might have a slight advantage over someone else of an equivalent situation -- that's all, nothing more. It doesn't mean you're going to have the good life. I'm not talking about these advantages as if it was like winning the lottery, where it overcomes most other problems. They don't. The effects, when they happen, are fairly mild.