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  1. They charge all apps 30% in the first year, 15% in successive years. Netflix doesn't get a special rate, and GP's comment about charging 30% is perfectly valid.

    Netflix does get a special rate for the first year, 15%. GP's comment about charging 30% is wrong.

  2. This chart shows you how they 'make sense'

    https://static.boredpanda.com/...

  3. New Horizons will speed past Ultima Thule at 31,500 miles per hour and pass within 2,200 miles of the surface

    what's that in units that make sense?

  4. Kiwi ingenuity on MPAA Wants Filmmakers To Pay Licenses, Not Rip Blu-rays (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 2

    When Taika Waititi was announced as the director for Thor: Ragnarok, the New Zealand native known for indie comedies seemed like an odd choice. That collision of two different filmmaking worlds is made clear by Waititi's story about how he put together the film's sizzle reel.

    This sizzle reel, a cut of clips to convey tone and concept to the higher-ups before the movie was officially greenlit, has been discussed before, by Waititi and Kevin Feige himself, who called Waititi's Ragnarok reel, scored by Led Zeppelin's Immigrant Song "amazing."

    But that sizzle reel, which may have gotten Waititi the gig, was not made by the most, ah, legal means. "There was no story when I went in, they didn't have a story or any ideas, really," he told Canadian radio station CBC Radio. "So I cut together little clips and shots. I, uh, basically illegally torrented and downloaded clips from a bunch of different movies."

    https://www.gizmodo.com.au/201...

  5. If that happens im sure all the apple fanatics in here will be blaming Netflix.

    because it will be Netflix's responsibility to fix.

  6. And what if Netflix changes the method to access its contents? Without iTunes Store there is no way to get an updated Netflix app.

    You write as if you have never actually used an AppleTV. The iTunes Store is where you buy or lease content, not apps.

    If Netflix changes the method to access its contents to one that is not backwards-compatible with the current AppleTV app, Netflix will need to write a new AppleTV app, provide it to Apple, and it have it pushed out in an OS update.

  7. Re:Garden on Apple To Suspend iTunes Store Support For 'Obsolete' First-Gen Apple TV (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This hardware is being sold like an "appliance" and it isn't failing as an appliance - it's being effectively remotely disabled.

    The iTunes store will no longer be accessible from the Gen 1 AppleTV. Whether or not that is an inconvenience depends on how often you use your Gen 1 AppleTV to connect to the iTunes store.

    I've got a Gen 3 AppleTV and it has been in use nearly 24/7 since the day I bought it in 2013. I think I've used it to access the iTunes store 4 times. If I were to lose access to the iTunes store tonight zero fucks would be given. I'd keep using it for streaming from my server, for Netflix, for Youtube, for Podcasts, for net radio, and all the other things that I use it for daily that aren't accessing the iTunes store.

  8. didn't you get the memo on Researchers Find Dozens of Genes Associated With Measures of Intelligence (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You're not allowed to talk about the possibility of there being a genetic basis for variations in intelligence. Because some genes are more common in certain ethnic groups than others, and then all hell will break loose and you'll get Bellcurved.

  9. Re: New cars != new drivers on All Fossil-Fuel Vehicles Will Vanish In 8 Years, Says Stanford Study (financialpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm in my forties and even to me 18K seems like a ridiculous amount of money to spend on a car of any sort, let alone a self-driving petrol-powered depreciationmobile. That's money I could use elsewhere in so many other productive ways.

  10. Re:Not in Africa and all of Asia on All Fossil-Fuel Vehicles Will Vanish In 8 Years, Says Stanford Study (financialpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Your perception will change, eventually, after the fines add up and the accumulated points on your licence will free you from bothering about that.

    Just wait until your health/life insurance payments go up by a factor of 10 as the insurance companies get enough data to compare the risk of injury or death in a self-driven car vs in an autonomous car.

  11. Re:Not in Africa and all of Asia on All Fossil-Fuel Vehicles Will Vanish In 8 Years, Says Stanford Study (financialpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Me needing a car with child restraints at my house, on days that aren't Saturday and Sunday, at 8am for a journey to school, and then outside the school at 3.30pm for a journey home, is pretty damn predictable. Big Data loves predictable.

  12. Re:Smoking gun of theft or go home on Oculus Accused of Destroying Evidence, Zuckerberg To Testify In $2 Billion Lawsuit (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Carmack admitted to copying thousands of e-mails to a personal hard drive on his last day working for ZeniMax

    oops

    http://arstechnica.com/gaming/...

  13. But if Carmack wrote code on a computer owned by id software, powered by electricity paid for by id software, in an office rented by id software, while sitting on a chair paid for by id software, with a salary paid for by id software.... come on, we all know how this works. Guess who owns the code.

  14. Re:Modern kids are retarded (literally) on Study: Most Students Can't Spot Fake News (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    you misspelled "american"

  15. Re:Weird that iOS has so many exclusive apps on Nearly 9 Out of 10 Smartphones Shipped Run On Android (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    Because when 90% percent of "the market" never purchases anything, it's not a market. It makes more sense to say

    "It's easy to understand why iOS has so many exclusive apps, it has nearly 100% market share".

  16. caught redhanded on Wordpress Founder Accuses Wix Of Stealing Code (ma.tt) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Mullenweg: your app uses GPL code so you have to obey the licence, which you're not doing.

    Abrahami: OH WE LOVE OPEN SOURCE WE PUT STUFF ON GITHUB ALL THE TIME

    what a prick

  17. "Australia's top banks" on Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'We're Going To Kill Cash' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Australia's top banks refused to support Apple Pay, saying that the company has been 'intransigent, closed and controlling'.

    Correction: a prima facie illegal cartel of some Australian banks are refusing to support Apple Pay because their "rape the customer and give shitty service" gravy train will be over.

  18. Re:There's something else he's going to kill - App on Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'We're Going To Kill Cash' (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Apple's standard lead time for a hardware device from commencement through design and prototyping and production to launch is 8 years.

  19. No one should be blamed for the spread of viruses on New Study Shows HIV Epidemic Started Spreading In New York In 1970, Clears the Name of 'Patient Zero' (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Except antivax retards

  20. That's not "using fake emails to hack into the computers of the Democratic National Committee" That's "using hack emails to trick gullible staff members".

    Without gullible staff members the computers would have been secure.

  21. Re:Could we also remember how he ran his company? on Apple CEO Tim Cook Remembers Steve Jobs On Fifth Anniversary of His Death (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Well we've had "IOS without Steve" longer than we had "IOS with Steve". Tried using an iPhone running IOS3 or 4 lately? It's fucking uuuuuuuugly.

  22. now imagine on Religion In US 'Worth More Than Google and Apple Combined' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    if they paid tax

  23. When the Comic-Con 2015 teaser for Suicide Squad came out it was all dark and depressing and grownup.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Then dark and depressing and grownup Batman v Superman: Yawn of Justice hit cinemas and tanked. So some marketing genius at DC looked over at Marvel rolling in cash from critical and commercial homeruns like Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy and sent down word that Suicide Squad would henceforth be a comedy buddy movie. Witness: official trailer.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Same actors, same story, but now it's funny. Can't you tell?

    Marvel managed to make a great movie starring a talking raccoon and a tree, and DC has managed to serve up steaming turds featuring Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and the Joker. Right now DC is to movies what Donald Trump is to twitter. You just feel like saying "stop".

  24. The fact that the TV execs are now crying about this in the media means that Eddy Cue walked away from those meetings as the winner.

  25. every time on Glassdoor Exposes 600,000 Email Addresses (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I have witnessed this sort of thing happen either at an employer or at a client business, it occurred shortly after the hiring of a bubbly new young marketing coordinator.