The core problem is Netflix's original content costs grow without bounds the more successful it is. Netflix's subscriber count is asymptotic.
The more popular a Netflix series is, the more it costs to continue it for another "season". The same goes for the movies & sequels. Actors, writers, etc. tend to point to the success of a past project and demand a bigger paycheck to churn out another.
In the old model, success yields ticket sales, ad dollars, toy sales, etc. In Netflix's model, success yields nothing. The people who made it a success by watching it are already subscribed. You don't get more money for a second "season" or a sequel. Nor do you get more money by developing other content they might like, because their single subscription gives them everything. Nor do you get ad dollars since there are no ads.
Once you hit a certain point where everyone interested in Netflix has Netflix (or has a friend with Netflix), putting out MORE Netflix or BETTER Netflix doesn't generate more money.
In the long run, Netflix will have to run ads, charge a premium for certain content, stretch releases of "seasons" out over time (they're doing this with certain things already), keep increasing subscription costs, or some combination thereof.
Of course that strategy works. Nearly every other nation in the world NEEDS some combination of US trade or US military protection, either directly or indirectly (through shit like the UN). Most other nations in the world can't even feed themselves on their own.
Trump isn't winning because he's some genius. He's winning because he has the balls to say "fuck you" and walk away from a bad deal.
Frankly, he couldn't. He has neither the competence nor the desire to try.
Destroyed ISIS. Actively defusing shit across the Middle East. Avoided a war with Russia that Hillary was actively orchestrating. Began actual negotiations between North and South Korea, including getting North Korea to stop launching missiles and developing its nuclear weapons program.
Have you ever tried to design a UI that you and other people had to use later?
Yes.
It is harder to do right than it sounds.
No. It doesn't sound any degree of hard. How hard it is will depend on what type of UI you need, what type of tools (if any) are available to you to create it, and how familiar you are with them.
You may as well talk about needing to hire a professional writer to do your writing for you. Are you talking about writing your tweets? Your emails? Your memoirs? Can you not do it because you're lazy? Illiterate? Undisciplined?
On top of that, you have to hire a GOOD writer. Good luck finding a good UI/UX designer!!
Using a non-free font is a fucking minefield. Typically, you have to buy the right type of license (print, online, ads, logos only, video, etc.), then for most of those you have to agree to embed tracking bullshit in your distribution or work only with publishers that do, then you have to buy more licenses if you cross a threshold of impressions.
Fact: Nobody tracks it, and those who claim to know it doesn't work right, and no one know how much they're really supposed to pay. Nearly every single website elling legit font licenses is, in fact, just a different front (often just a domain name and a skin) that ties back into a single actual font whore house that draws up the draconian license agreements no one has ever read and just sues you if they THINK you might not have put in your pound of flesh.
I started seeing these BIRD scooters in my area recently. If I'm walking and I come across one, I'm chucking it in the nearest dumpster. They're fucking blocking the sidewalks.
No, it can't. There are laws requiring them to not discriminate
You can discriminate against opinions (particularly false or bad ones) all you want dipshit, so long as you're not discriminating against a protected class.
Unless those opinions are political in nature and you're in a state like CA. Or if those opinions are more widely held by a certain protected class, then discrimination against the opinion elevates to discrimination against the protected class, and you fucking lose again. This is why we still have decrepit ghettos in major cities. Can't enforce building codes or safety standards if they disproportionately affect protected classes.
Try quoting what Trump actually said regarding the DNA test. (Warren hasn't debated Trump and thus has not met the terms of the offer, nor has the result of the DNA test supported her claim. She's 1/1024th South American. No Native tribe on any continent will claim her.)
You are assigned one polling place. You can go to many others. If you go to one you are not assigned to, you cast a provisional ballot. It is verified and counted later. (In actuality, the odds are the provisional ballots are so few as to not possibly affect the outcome and your vote will not be counted before the election is confirmed, if at all.)
A private business can prohibit anything it wants.
No, it can't. There are laws requiring them to not discriminate, laws requiring them to not punish workers work going on strike, not retaliate against workers who report crimes, etc. Further, private businesses that are generally open to the public can't refuse to serve people of a certain race, sex, etc. In some locations, political views are protected as well. A private business that is generally open to the public, or a public entity like a city, also can't hire some other private entity to do something like "manage the city streets and sidewalks" and then have that entity ban people from the sidewalks outside their businesses.
That is not censorship.
Of course it is. It doesn't matter whether or not the government is doing the censoring, it's still censorship.
We've still got a bunch of TLS 1.0 stuff because vendors don't update shit, or their update path is strictly "buy the new version" (and even when we buy the new version, we have to schedule the installation/configuration, testing, and transition).
The CEOs of two of the world's most prominent tech companies
Twitter and Salesforce wouldn't be in my top 10 or 100 of "prominent" tech companies. Hell, neither of them are really tech companies. They're a micro blog company and a service company. They just happen to use computers.
You may as well call Domino's a tech company because they have that Pizza Tracker thing on their site / app / Facebook.
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The core problem is Netflix's original content costs grow without bounds the more successful it is. Netflix's subscriber count is asymptotic.
The more popular a Netflix series is, the more it costs to continue it for another "season". The same goes for the movies & sequels. Actors, writers, etc. tend to point to the success of a past project and demand a bigger paycheck to churn out another.
In the old model, success yields ticket sales, ad dollars, toy sales, etc. In Netflix's model, success yields nothing. The people who made it a success by watching it are already subscribed. You don't get more money for a second "season" or a sequel. Nor do you get more money by developing other content they might like, because their single subscription gives them everything. Nor do you get ad dollars since there are no ads.
Once you hit a certain point where everyone interested in Netflix has Netflix (or has a friend with Netflix), putting out MORE Netflix or BETTER Netflix doesn't generate more money.
In the long run, Netflix will have to run ads, charge a premium for certain content, stretch releases of "seasons" out over time (they're doing this with certain things already), keep increasing subscription costs, or some combination thereof.
Why is their long term debt so high?
Because they're stupid.
And isn't that a bad thing?
Very bad, unless they can keep the ROI ahead of the interest.
What are their gross and net profits?
https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/...
Or check out that cash flow, quarterly: https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/...
They're spending bigly.
Of course that strategy works. Nearly every other nation in the world NEEDS some combination of US trade or US military protection, either directly or indirectly (through shit like the UN). Most other nations in the world can't even feed themselves on their own.
Trump isn't winning because he's some genius. He's winning because he has the balls to say "fuck you" and walk away from a bad deal.
He could achieve permanent world peace
Frankly, he couldn't. He has neither the competence nor the desire to try.
Destroyed ISIS.
Actively defusing shit across the Middle East.
Avoided a war with Russia that Hillary was actively orchestrating.
Began actual negotiations between North and South Korea, including getting North Korea to stop launching missiles and developing its nuclear weapons program.
Yet Obama got a Nobel Prize for empty rhetoric.
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Have you ever tried to design a UI that you and other people had to use later?
Yes.
It is harder to do right than it sounds.
No. It doesn't sound any degree of hard. How hard it is will depend on what type of UI you need, what type of tools (if any) are available to you to create it, and how familiar you are with them.
You may as well talk about needing to hire a professional writer to do your writing for you. Are you talking about writing your tweets? Your emails? Your memoirs? Can you not do it because you're lazy? Illiterate? Undisciplined?
On top of that, you have to hire a GOOD writer. Good luck finding a good UI/UX designer!!
WRONG!
Using a non-free font is a fucking minefield. Typically, you have to buy the right type of license (print, online, ads, logos only, video, etc.), then for most of those you have to agree to embed tracking bullshit in your distribution or work only with publishers that do, then you have to buy more licenses if you cross a threshold of impressions.
Fact: Nobody tracks it, and those who claim to know it doesn't work right, and no one know how much they're really supposed to pay. Nearly every single website elling legit font licenses is, in fact, just a different front (often just a domain name and a skin) that ties back into a single actual font whore house that draws up the draconian license agreements no one has ever read and just sues you if they THINK you might not have put in your pound of flesh.
You could have just said you don't know what ux designers do.
Why would he have to? UX designers themselves don't know what they do.
It was an honest mistake, and I'll be sure to have my team follow up with you on the details, Congressman.
I started seeing these BIRD scooters in my area recently. If I'm walking and I come across one, I'm chucking it in the nearest dumpster. They're fucking blocking the sidewalks.
Hey Bic boy...
I don't go hiking/canoeing all that often but when I do, carrying a phone is PITA. And I feel compelled to carry one for emergency situations.
Ever hear of Ziploc bags?
No, it can't. There are laws requiring them to not discriminate
You can discriminate against opinions (particularly false or bad ones) all you want dipshit, so long as you're not discriminating against a protected class.
Unless those opinions are political in nature and you're in a state like CA. Or if those opinions are more widely held by a certain protected class, then discrimination against the opinion elevates to discrimination against the protected class, and you fucking lose again. This is why we still have decrepit ghettos in major cities. Can't enforce building codes or safety standards if they disproportionately affect protected classes.
Try again, please.
For any useful definition of censorship, it is not.
Wrong. Useful to your narrative, maybe. Useful to the language, factually correct, etc., no.
Yet somehow we don't feel bad, or think about us having "wiped out" our ancestors. Almost as if fear of change isn't logical.
Unless you're white, then you're expected to bear the burden of every atrocity your ancestors may or may not have been involved in.
Most Americans on "social media" are NPCs anyway.
Try quoting what Trump actually said regarding the DNA test. (Warren hasn't debated Trump and thus has not met the terms of the offer, nor has the result of the DNA test supported her claim. She's 1/1024th South American. No Native tribe on any continent will claim her.)
You are assigned one polling place. You can go to many others. If you go to one you are not assigned to, you cast a provisional ballot. It is verified and counted later. (In actuality, the odds are the provisional ballots are so few as to not possibly affect the outcome and your vote will not be counted before the election is confirmed, if at all.)
A private business can prohibit anything it wants.
No, it can't. There are laws requiring them to not discriminate, laws requiring them to not punish workers work going on strike, not retaliate against workers who report crimes, etc. Further, private businesses that are generally open to the public can't refuse to serve people of a certain race, sex, etc. In some locations, political views are protected as well. A private business that is generally open to the public, or a public entity like a city, also can't hire some other private entity to do something like "manage the city streets and sidewalks" and then have that entity ban people from the sidewalks outside their businesses.
That is not censorship.
Of course it is. It doesn't matter whether or not the government is doing the censoring, it's still censorship.
We've still got a bunch of TLS 1.0 stuff because vendors don't update shit, or their update path is strictly "buy the new version" (and even when we buy the new version, we have to schedule the installation/configuration, testing, and transition).
The CEOs of two of the world's most prominent tech companies
Twitter and Salesforce wouldn't be in my top 10 or 100 of "prominent" tech companies.
Hell, neither of them are really tech companies. They're a micro blog company and a service company. They just happen to use computers.
You may as well call Domino's a tech company because they have that Pizza Tracker thing on their site / app / Facebook.
RSS/Atom? FTP? Nah, fuck you.
Pocket? Hello? DRM? Hell ya boi!!!
Who gives a shit what the IAU says, or worse, what they said before and what they'll say next week?
Terra, Luna, and Sol. Suck it.
I already told you:
Yes, "large" and "spheroid" are vague, deal with it.
Are you dealing with it?