Binging new content is one of the worst things about Netflix.
Shows become a chore to get through. You have to get through them soon or you risk getting spoiled and can't talk about it with other people. Once you get through it, you've got nothing for a year or more. There are a finite number of shows any one person gives a shit about, so this quickly becomes a problem.
Those are personal problems, however. Dumping an entire season at once results in major problems that hurt all users.
Look at Netflix's original content - their own series mostly suck but still get 4-5 star reviews out the ass simply because there are people who feel the need latch onto SOMETHING to binge on, and Netflix keeps churning them out. On the other end of the spectrum, you get people who spend 2 minutes watching 1 episode giving the whole series a 1 star review. I don't know if they're sock puppeting, but the reviews for Netflix Originals are worse than useless.
Netflix seems to be going after quantity instead of quality. They let a few hits get to their head and now churn out mostly crap they gets overrated because it's from Netflix. (HBO had a similar thing going on 15 years ago or so - everything they put out got hyped and praised regardless of how shitty it was.)
Seriously, go look at House of Cards Season 1 and compare it to House of Cards Season Who Gives a Shit?. Compare Archer to Netflix's pathetic copy Pacific Heat. Everyone was masturbating loudly about Stranger Things, so I watched it. It's pretty poor substitute for The Goonies. Black Mirror Season 3 is incredibly worse than Seasons 1 and 2 (not made by Netflix) - and that says a lot because Seasons 1 and 2 were pretty bad themselves. People compared it to The Twilight Zone! How the FUCK are you going to do that and then expect me to believe you're sane and not being paid by Netflix to say such shit?
Even their non-fiction shit is pure crap. From The Grand Tour (which is somehow even more wooden and scripted than that other show) to The White Rabbit Project, Netflix has awful, awful shit with a few gems. Their good shit is usually their animated shit - from Bojack to F is for Family to Voltron. (Of course, we can't forget Pacific Heat.) Hell, Netflix even managed to fuck up Arrested Development!
Look at their films as well - ARQ, Coin Heist, The Ridiculous 6. It's a shithouse!
This all matters because Netflix is becoming more and more like another network/studio that churns out shit that I end up paying for. Dumping/Binging means they have more gaps to fill in the calendar and makes them run into the same problems as traditional networks/studios.
If I could pay for Netflix without funding production of a full season of Fuller House, or whatever failure gets 10 episodes up front but would've been shitcanned after 1 (PACIFIC HEAT) I would. And I say this as someone who has repeatedly said I would gladly give up Amazon Video / Amazon Pantry / Amazon Buttwiper / whatever to get a free shipping only, yet has turned to Amazon Video instead of Netflix because Netflix's library is 95% shit.
Tell that to MS who has to offer up a randomized list of browsers to choose from, can't bundle in a media player, etc.
Google is more guilty of antitrust shit than MS ever was, even if you include MS's tactics for bundling their OS in retail PCs (compare that to licensing Android and Google Play Services and Google's Apps).
I seriously doubt MS is going to hamstring Scorpio and treat it as the same generation as the Xbox One. We haven't even had an official reveal of it yet. All we've had is the announcement that it's coming. We'll get the full scoop this E3.
Scorpio isn't an upgraded Xbox One. The Xbox One S is. Just like the PS4 Pro is the upgraded PS4.
Scorpio is a new generation, though it'll likely be backward compatible, feature a similar UI/OS (Windows 10 everywhere...), tie into the same backend services, etc.
Outside of Nintendo, the days of console generations being completely new shit are likely dead. Development costs are too high, and established libraries (especially digital) are a huge consideration. Both Sony and MS are using AMD's shit for CPU and GPU. Staying on x86 (and AMD) makes perfect sense because it lowers cost, lets them maintain compatibility with older titles so people can keep their existing games as they upgrade to later versions of the console, and makes development easier. It also helps make maintaining the back end services (PSN and Xbox Live) simpler if you don't radically change things every few years.
Scorpio will almost certainly have games that ONLY play on Scorpio, but the PS4 Pro games are (for now, at least) all guaranteed to run on the PS4. This is what demarcates a generational divide. MS is trying hard to get marketshare back, and they had a great opportunity when Sony fucked up with the PS4 Pro (no 4K BluRay support), but they can't seem to get any traction. This is why they're making the first move with Scorpio.
Nintendo, as always, does its own thing on its own time.
No reason that a modern in car system could not be made to
With the way automobile manufacturers develop and update their "infotainment" systems, in 10 years half of the manufacturers will get this into half of their lines, enabled in half of the trims for half of the models, and it'll only half work.
Tesla will have a beta version next week, but will have to roll it back because it causes the car to drive into the nearest tree. Elon Musk will somehow blame both the driver and the tree in one fell tweet.
You don't need to be convicted or even charged with any crime or act to be pardoned. A pardon is essentially the head of the executive branch saying the executive branch will not execute laws in regards to a specific person, situation, etc.
In terms of employees taxi companies are highly exploitive of workers, vastly more so than Uber. Uber drivers can choose where and when they want to work with complete freedom. How is that not giving an inherent advantage to taxi companies that can order drivers to service unpopular locations?
Yup - I canceled within 20 minutes of signing up because it was pure trash. They refused to honor the 7 day cancel anytime free trial period. I had to file a charge back and then fight FedEx to take the fucking AppleTV (which I planned on selling) back to the sender.
DirecTV Now is shit, shit, shit, as are the assholes running the company.
Uh, the article on Consumer Reports's own website said they reenabled caching and were rerunning their tests. Are you suggesting they rereran the tests with caching redisabled?
I almost never post as AC (when I do it's because I'm on something.slashdot.org and don't realize it - I've got my shit set up such that my slashdot.org cookie for being logged in isn't accessible by subdomains).
I posted the GG shit today (as myself) because I missed seeing it. I'm glad someone else has picked it up. (Or maybe it's the original poster of it - anything's possible.)
I'm also not the original MOO/cows guy, though I often posted that one (again, as myself, not AC). For about a month people would accuse any AC Moo/cows poster of being me because they had seen some with my name attached, thinking I forgot to post as AC. Nope, not me.
I considered picking up on the "Who cares?/Thing Store/FairyDust-powered" one, but I got bored of it before I bothered to copy and paste it.
The proposal states that designers, producers and operators of robots should generally be governed by the "laws of robotics" described by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov.
Asimov's entire point was that such laws can't work. The robots will eventually run amok and bring about the downfall of society and our species.
What benefit does using a HOSTS file have over using a plugin to block JS/tracking shit/ads/etc? Is the HOSTS file more dependable? Is the HOSTS file faster?
Your post made me remember that Meg Whitman killed HP. I think I recently gave that honor to Fiorina by mistake. The 2 are so terrible in the same exact ways I get them confused.
LOL! That's all it EVER is with audio. Same with vinyl.
You don't see movie lovers going back to VHS/BETA/Laserdisc/8mm/etc. unless there's a specific release limited to those formats (Star Wars on LD, for example). And then it's a Herculean effort to transfer it faithfully to a modern format.
Macy's was dying long before that joke of a boycott.
If you believe the boycott had impacted Macy's sales severely enough to blame the loss of jobs on the boycott, then would you not also blame Macy's for not changing course in response? They had well over a year to do so.
Further, why would Trump take responsibility for the lost jobs? Trump wanted to sell his products in Macy's. Macy's was the one that removed the products. Trump asking for a boycott only makes him "responsible" for the shit he himself avoided buying at Macy's. I doubt he was a frequent customer.
The fact is people have been boycotting Macy's for over a decade because their prices are high and their service has been slipping. You used to be able to go to Macy's and be taken care of - proper fittings, jewelry cleaning, basic watch service and repair, staff that would advise you and help you find items to a degree that bordered on having personal shoppers, etc. Now they've got a handful of harpies that shoot perfume at you and try to drag you into a chair to be poorly plastered with overpriced makeup, inventory is sparse and what little there is is strewn about at near K-Mart levels of disorder. The quality of the actual clothing they carry has gone to shit - it's all hyper-marketed, threadbare French-ass-name shit that no one outside of Project Runway cares about. Fashion has always been a joke, but in the past the products at least used decent materials and had good construction.
So, Trump or not, why should anyone shop at Macy's? To quote Project Runway and the Macy's set: "Who's your girl? What's her story?" Is she a retard with a rich daddy (sugar/step/regular)? Rich girls Tweet and Snap and whatnot. They like kitch and "unique" shit they get online direct from the designer on etsy. The money has left the market Macy's is in, and Macy's didn't adapt. The mid-end market went online and to Target and WalMart (and to a lesser extent Old Navy).
Macy's did as most failed businesses do and desperately cut costs (and service/quality) because sales were falling, but never got sales healthy again. Even with 0 costs, 0 sales is still 0.
Exactly. I don't see Amazon beating Crunchyroll in that regard, and I don't see them putting shit out uncensored (Cruncyroll censors). For older stuff they add to pad out their catalog, they'll probably run into the typical issues with licensing the music (I'm not sure how Crunchyroll is in this regard, but I assume Amazon can't beat them).
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Binging new content is one of the worst things about Netflix.
Shows become a chore to get through. You have to get through them soon or you risk getting spoiled and can't talk about it with other people.
Once you get through it, you've got nothing for a year or more. There are a finite number of shows any one person gives a shit about, so this quickly becomes a problem.
Those are personal problems, however. Dumping an entire season at once results in major problems that hurt all users.
Look at Netflix's original content - their own series mostly suck but still get 4-5 star reviews out the ass simply because there are people who feel the need latch onto SOMETHING to binge on, and Netflix keeps churning them out. On the other end of the spectrum, you get people who spend 2 minutes watching 1 episode giving the whole series a 1 star review. I don't know if they're sock puppeting, but the reviews for Netflix Originals are worse than useless.
Netflix seems to be going after quantity instead of quality. They let a few hits get to their head and now churn out mostly crap they gets overrated because it's from Netflix. (HBO had a similar thing going on 15 years ago or so - everything they put out got hyped and praised regardless of how shitty it was.)
Seriously, go look at House of Cards Season 1 and compare it to House of Cards Season Who Gives a Shit?. Compare Archer to Netflix's pathetic copy Pacific Heat. Everyone was masturbating loudly about Stranger Things, so I watched it. It's pretty poor substitute for The Goonies. Black Mirror Season 3 is incredibly worse than Seasons 1 and 2 (not made by Netflix) - and that says a lot because Seasons 1 and 2 were pretty bad themselves. People compared it to The Twilight Zone! How the FUCK are you going to do that and then expect me to believe you're sane and not being paid by Netflix to say such shit?
Even their non-fiction shit is pure crap. From The Grand Tour (which is somehow even more wooden and scripted than that other show) to The White Rabbit Project, Netflix has awful, awful shit with a few gems. Their good shit is usually their animated shit - from Bojack to F is for Family to Voltron. (Of course, we can't forget Pacific Heat.) Hell, Netflix even managed to fuck up Arrested Development!
Look at their films as well - ARQ, Coin Heist, The Ridiculous 6. It's a shithouse!
This all matters because Netflix is becoming more and more like another network/studio that churns out shit that I end up paying for. Dumping/Binging means they have more gaps to fill in the calendar and makes them run into the same problems as traditional networks/studios.
If I could pay for Netflix without funding production of a full season of Fuller House, or whatever failure gets 10 episodes up front but would've been shitcanned after 1 (PACIFIC HEAT) I would. And I say this as someone who has repeatedly said I would gladly give up Amazon Video / Amazon Pantry / Amazon Buttwiper / whatever to get a free shipping only, yet has turned to Amazon Video instead of Netflix because Netflix's library is 95% shit.
Tell that to MS who has to offer up a randomized list of browsers to choose from, can't bundle in a media player, etc.
Google is more guilty of antitrust shit than MS ever was, even if you include MS's tactics for bundling their OS in retail PCs (compare that to licensing Android and Google Play Services and Google's Apps).
FYI: Quim means vagina.
I seriously doubt MS is going to hamstring Scorpio and treat it as the same generation as the Xbox One. We haven't even had an official reveal of it yet. All we've had is the announcement that it's coming. We'll get the full scoop this E3.
Scorpio isn't an upgraded Xbox One. The Xbox One S is. Just like the PS4 Pro is the upgraded PS4.
Scorpio is a new generation, though it'll likely be backward compatible, feature a similar UI/OS (Windows 10 everywhere...), tie into the same backend services, etc.
Outside of Nintendo, the days of console generations being completely new shit are likely dead. Development costs are too high, and established libraries (especially digital) are a huge consideration. Both Sony and MS are using AMD's shit for CPU and GPU. Staying on x86 (and AMD) makes perfect sense because it lowers cost, lets them maintain compatibility with older titles so people can keep their existing games as they upgrade to later versions of the console, and makes development easier. It also helps make maintaining the back end services (PSN and Xbox Live) simpler if you don't radically change things every few years.
Scorpio will almost certainly have games that ONLY play on Scorpio, but the PS4 Pro games are (for now, at least) all guaranteed to run on the PS4. This is what demarcates a generational divide. MS is trying hard to get marketshare back, and they had a great opportunity when Sony fucked up with the PS4 Pro (no 4K BluRay support), but they can't seem to get any traction. This is why they're making the first move with Scorpio.
Nintendo, as always, does its own thing on its own time.
Please cite their safety record controlled against miles driver and vehicle age. (Hint: It's not great.)
No reason that a modern in car system could not be made to
With the way automobile manufacturers develop and update their "infotainment" systems, in 10 years half of the manufacturers will get this into half of their lines, enabled in half of the trims for half of the models, and it'll only half work.
Tesla will have a beta version next week, but will have to roll it back because it causes the car to drive into the nearest tree. Elon Musk will somehow blame both the driver and the tree in one fell tweet.
it is not easy to make an argument for it.
It's within the President's constitutional powers to do so. No argument needed.
You don't need to be convicted or even charged with any crime or act to be pardoned. A pardon is essentially the head of the executive branch saying the executive branch will not execute laws in regards to a specific person, situation, etc.
In terms of employees taxi companies are highly exploitive of workers, vastly more so than Uber. Uber drivers can choose where and when they want to work with complete freedom. How is that not giving an inherent advantage to taxi companies that can order drivers to service unpopular locations?
Taxi drivers can actually earn a living wage.
after all Uber is already making lots of money from the cities where they are allowed to operate
No, they aren't. Unless you count "spending way more in costs than you generate in revenue" as "making money".
Yup - I canceled within 20 minutes of signing up because it was pure trash. They refused to honor the 7 day cancel anytime free trial period. I had to file a charge back and then fight FedEx to take the fucking AppleTV (which I planned on selling) back to the sender.
DirecTV Now is shit, shit, shit, as are the assholes running the company.
As someone who preordered $900 worth of shit after taxes, for the Switch, I completely agree.
Carmack was working on VR shit that directly went over with him to Oculus on ZeniMax's time and dime.
woosh
Uh, the article on Consumer Reports's own website said they reenabled caching and were rerunning their tests. Are you suggesting they rereran the tests with caching redisabled?
The cause is fracking.
Not me.
I almost never post as AC (when I do it's because I'm on something.slashdot.org and don't realize it - I've got my shit set up such that my slashdot.org cookie for being logged in isn't accessible by subdomains).
I posted the GG shit today (as myself) because I missed seeing it. I'm glad someone else has picked it up. (Or maybe it's the original poster of it - anything's possible.)
I'm also not the original MOO/cows guy, though I often posted that one (again, as myself, not AC). For about a month people would accuse any AC Moo/cows poster of being me because they had seen some with my name attached, thinking I forgot to post as AC. Nope, not me.
I considered picking up on the "Who cares?/Thing Store/FairyDust-powered" one, but I got bored of it before I bothered to copy and paste it.
Fake post about real articles about fake laws?
The proposal states that designers, producers and operators of robots should generally be governed by the "laws of robotics" described by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov.
Asimov's entire point was that such laws can't work. The robots will eventually run amok and bring about the downfall of society and our species.
What benefit does using a HOSTS file have over using a plugin to block JS/tracking shit/ads/etc?
Is the HOSTS file more dependable? Is the HOSTS file faster?
Your post made me remember that Meg Whitman killed HP. I think I recently gave that honor to Fiorina by mistake. The 2 are so terrible in the same exact ways I get them confused.
why it's not solely about retro hipsterism
LOL! That's all it EVER is with audio. Same with vinyl.
You don't see movie lovers going back to VHS/BETA/Laserdisc/8mm/etc. unless there's a specific release limited to those formats (Star Wars on LD, for example). And then it's a Herculean effort to transfer it faithfully to a modern format.
Macy's was dying long before that joke of a boycott.
If you believe the boycott had impacted Macy's sales severely enough to blame the loss of jobs on the boycott, then would you not also blame Macy's for not changing course in response? They had well over a year to do so.
Further, why would Trump take responsibility for the lost jobs? Trump wanted to sell his products in Macy's. Macy's was the one that removed the products. Trump asking for a boycott only makes him "responsible" for the shit he himself avoided buying at Macy's. I doubt he was a frequent customer.
The fact is people have been boycotting Macy's for over a decade because their prices are high and their service has been slipping. You used to be able to go to Macy's and be taken care of - proper fittings, jewelry cleaning, basic watch service and repair, staff that would advise you and help you find items to a degree that bordered on having personal shoppers, etc. Now they've got a handful of harpies that shoot perfume at you and try to drag you into a chair to be poorly plastered with overpriced makeup, inventory is sparse and what little there is is strewn about at near K-Mart levels of disorder. The quality of the actual clothing they carry has gone to shit - it's all hyper-marketed, threadbare French-ass-name shit that no one outside of Project Runway cares about. Fashion has always been a joke, but in the past the products at least used decent materials and had good construction.
So, Trump or not, why should anyone shop at Macy's? To quote Project Runway and the Macy's set: "Who's your girl? What's her story?" Is she a retard with a rich daddy (sugar/step/regular)? Rich girls Tweet and Snap and whatnot. They like kitch and "unique" shit they get online direct from the designer on etsy. The money has left the market Macy's is in, and Macy's didn't adapt. The mid-end market went online and to Target and WalMart (and to a lesser extent Old Navy).
Macy's did as most failed businesses do and desperately cut costs (and service/quality) because sales were falling, but never got sales healthy again. Even with 0 costs, 0 sales is still 0.
Exactly. I don't see Amazon beating Crunchyroll in that regard, and I don't see them putting shit out uncensored (Cruncyroll censors). For older stuff they add to pad out their catalog, they'll probably run into the typical issues with licensing the music (I'm not sure how Crunchyroll is in this regard, but I assume Amazon can't beat them).