Besides, anything they can do to maintain a wide array of content is good, doubly good if they don't have to pay another studio/producer licensing fees.
Nope. As a Netflix customer, I do NOT want to be paying for shit like Bright, the 47 new stand up comedy tapings they add every week, or any of the other trash that Netflix pumps out (and there's a lot of it). Will Smith doesn't come cheap. The worst part is that Netflix is gaming its own system. They have notifications and ads (with auto playing videos) on the main page for new and upcoming shit they want to promote. The New, Popular, and Trending sections are all manipulated, and of course these are now shown first (instead of my "continue watching" list).
No, Netflix, I don't want to watch Okja again. I watched it once I didn't like it. But Netflix will count that watch as me liking it. We can't even rate shit anymore. You can thumbs up or thumbs down, but no 1-5 * rating like they used to have. And you have to dig into the details page to thumbs something down if you didn't like it. By default, a view counts as a positive impression, so Netflix things I like Okja and will spend more of my money to make more shit like it. Meanwhile I'm waiting for more of the shit I do like and Netflix is bleeding good content left and right.
I get that Netflix is at the mercy of content owners and that they couldn't keep The X Files at the price Fox was asking (or maybe Fox wouldn't let them keep it at any price), but the answer isn't to fill the void with a steaming pile of shit, nor is it to pay $$$ for shit like Will Smith, Rogue One, etc. (I imagine they got the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie for a low price). Take a look at the Netflix library sometime. It's 90% D-list shit with a few gems sprinkled around, and finding them is increasingly difficult. Netflix raising the subscription price to fund their mediocre "originals" and a smattering of big-ticket 3rd party stuff (Rogue One, the latest Marvel/DC movies, etc.) just resulted in me dropping my subscription down a tier.
I'll watch just about anything so long as it doesn't cost me extra and I'm sufficiently bored. Occasionally that pays off and I find something I actually enjoy. Recent examples include 1922 and The Great British Baking Show. But when the good content (original or otherwise) starts to thin out, I'm not going to value the service at the same price they're asking.
The tricky part is that Netflix's own content will kill itself off if it's successful I didn't care for Stranger Things, but I didn't mind paying for it either. Season 2, though? I'm throwing a flag on that play. They need to pump the brakes. It was shit. The kicker is that it undoubtedly cost a hell of a lot more than the first season, because the first season was successful. And we're getting season 3. The cost to produce this shit goes up the more popular it is. Every single agent in the industry will demand more money when something is a proven success. With Netflix, we don't have ticket sales or ad buys for individual movies / shows to feed that. Every show on Netflix is paid for out of the same pot of subscription fees. So if you like something but it's not the latest hype train, the latest hype train could end up killing it off.
This will ultimately lead to a few pieces of content crowding out everything else, as well as a lot of content being cut early due to unsustainable costs. HBO has a similar problem. They're basically the Game of Thrones network now, and once that's over in 2019, they're gonna bleeeeeeeeed subscribers.
John Oliver isn't gonna keep them there. Westworld isn't gonna keep them there without Anthony Hopkins. What is Netflix going to do to avoid the same fate?
Nah, they're paid shills and bots. Plenty of social media sites were flooded with near-identical posts about it after it came out.
It was particularly annoying and blatant on imgur. Every day there were multiple posts that got boosted to the front page. They all followed a basic script: "Critics are wrong or out to get Netflix. Give it a chance - it's on Netflix now. I was surprised that it wasn't too bad!"
Batman vs. Superman was ass. Bright was also ass. The difference is Netflix paid for a big "grass roots" marketing campaign. Shills and bots were all over social media pimping the trash movie with nearly identical posts. I assume they gamed the viewer ratings on sites like RT as well, but I didn't see that myself.
Bright was trash. It's as if a 14 year old wrote it, starting out with a pathetic attempt to address race relations in the most ham-fisted way imaginable, but quickly devolving into a shitty fantasy drama that forgets what it was doing 2 minutes ago. Elves are oppressive whites, orcs are repressed minorities, and humans are just along for the ride to give you some sort of juxtaposition / reference point / grounding in "reality".
The movie is filled with blunt, show-stopping moments of "BEING RACIST IS BAD" while simultaneously ignoring all human race relations. At no point does Will Smith's character show one iota of insight over the prejudice and treatment his Orc partner is subjected to. If you're unfamiliar with Will Smith, he is black (as is his character). Maybe his character is completely oblivious to race? No, his daughter directly references that shit early on in the movie (despite seconds earlier exposing herself as a duplicitous speciest herself). He also has opinions about his neighbors who, along with the gang that sort of shows up in the middle of the movie to make threats and do nothing else, are an incredibly lazy stereotype of latinos that runs absolutely counter to the message the movie is trying to shove down your throat. It's up there with the Wayans brothers trying to make a statement with White Chicks.
But don't think I just hate it because it's SJW trash. I hate it because it's trash through and through, in all aspects. The overall plot has to do with elves, orcs, and humans caught in between. The elves and their human toadies run the joint, and live in high society. The 99% of humans and the orcs are basically the dirty poor. Magic wands are basically WMDs, and when one is rumored to be around all hell breaks loose. Only 1 in a million people can touch a wand without exploding. Spoiler: Will Smith is the chosen one, I mean, "Bright". That doesn't stop everyone in a 50 mile radius from fighting over the thing, including the elves and the humans in the men-in-black / ministry of magic. Are they some secretive shadow organization? Corrupt? Merely incompetent? No one knows, and you never find out. There's a group trying to reanimate Dracula or whatever they call their Big Bad, and there's a group trying to prevent it. Our plucky heroes get caught in the middle and end up saving the day, and the elves/government people pay them a visit later and everyone agrees to sweep it all under the rug as if nothing happened.
And that's exactly what happens to the characters in the film. Nothing. Despite Will Smith learning he's a "Bright", he doesn't do shit with it. Despite the revelation that a evil super villain is being brought back by a group of cultists, the elves and human government are content to wallow in ignorance / incompetence. Despite everything Will Smith's partner (the orc) has gone through, no one accepts orcs. He gets a brief "hero ceremony" along with a bunch of dead, crooked cops (who tried to kill him and Will Smith earlier), but there's no indication that anyone accepts an orc in polite (human/white) society. At best, he's an Uncle Tom on that front. Of course, you'd then have to ignore the fact that the biggest thing to happen to him in the movie was getting "blooded". This is when a bunch of orcs cut their palm and raise it in the air as a symbol of their acceptance of another. Basically, he got hos street cred, and he's a "real orcca" now.
Despite how simple and cliched the main plot is, it never really makes sense and you never learn any character's actual motivations. There aren't any hints dropped about the back story of this big bad evil or the elves and government running the show. There's no filler or reference to flesh anything out. Everyone acts in the moment in a haphazard fashion. The "cut to the chase" style of writing / directing is fine if you don't want anyone to think about the plot, but to do that while simultaneously trying to shoehorn in some shitty race relations message or some swiss cheese backstory is bizarre
Policy doesn't mean shit. "Grounds for" doesn't mean shit. Policy is there to give them an excuse to fire people when they want to. Enforcement is 100% optional.
"A Lyft spokesperson issued the following statement..."
Which noticeably didn't end with "...and any and all employees who have violated that policy will be immediately fired for cause, with no termination benefits."
Probably because the spokesman started with "...would be a violation of Lyft's policies and a cause for termination..."
Those aren't the same thing.
"Oh, that would be awful! Someone could get fired for doing that! All of our employees are required to comply with policy and have taken a shitty online training course where they click "next" every 30 seconds and ignore all the content."
You don't understand. Livestock raised and slaughtered doesn't add or remove any energy from the planet, nor does it permanently use up water, land, etc. It doesn't matter how "efficient" anything is as long as you have the operational overhead to cover instantaneous demand (needing x gallons of feed and fresh water now vs. waiting for the shit and piss on the back end).
As a food source, calorie for calorie, meat is way more resource-intensive than pants.
Bullshit. You may need more of x resources to get a given amount (by weight) of meat than you would with plants, but you get all that back out at the end. It's a closed-loop. The most common comparison I see is for water. Water doesn't disappear when you use it to grow crops to feed to livestock to butcher for meat.
Even if you imagine that pigs and cows and chickens are unnecessary middlemen for the human diet, where are they taking their cut from, exactly? Does a slaughtered pig abscond to piggy heaven with a gallon of water and a small plot of land? Or does the whole damn thing get reincorporated into the environment in one way or another?
Meat is vastly more nutritious than plants are, meat is critical for human development, and meat is delicious. If you don't like it, don't eat it. Meat isn't doing you any harm. And if you're worried about the rest of us not having enough water or land to raise livestock to keep up with our current diets, you can relax. If we ever get to such a point it will self-correct via economic pressures well before anyone has to go hungry for lack of production. And even if we somehow got to that point, you'll be there to show us all how to eat shitty vegetables like kale and quinoa and enjoy the resulting hard poops interspersed with pockets of the foulest gases imaginable.
With the gradual merging of iOS and OS X (macOS), there's simply no room for the MacBook Air between iPads and MacBooks. My guess is they'll prune the iPad line next.
You can currently buy the iPad Mini 4 (7.9"), the iPad (9.7"), and the iPad Pro (10.5" and 12.9"). The iPhone 8 comes in 4.7" or 5.5" sizes, and the iPhone X is 5.8". That's 7 current "mobile" form factors.
The price points of all of these devices make no sense either, especially as the phone price creeps up and up. Then there's the pressure from the iMac line, which is essentially not much more than a MacBook Pro with a larger display sitting on your desk.
Plus, as Apple forces people down the path of connecting all peripherals wirelessly or via thunderbolt dongles an iMac, a docked MacBook, and a docked iPad become more and more similar. Maybe they'll shit out an "iPad Book" - an iPad running iOS but in a 2-in-1 / convertible form factor with the MacBook Air keyboard. Such a device would allow them to clean up the product lines on both the iPad and MacBook side while getting people ready for the iOS / macOS convergence (you know it's coming). See how Microsoft morphed the Surface into the Surface Book.
I think you mean 24000/1001 and 30000/1001. Of course, you'll also have to handle 23.976 and 29.97 and (multiples thereof) since so much has been built around those approximations.
we are so thrilled with the progress made by these teams over the last ten years
They're thrilled they get to keep the money after getting the essentially free PR for the last decade. No fucking progress has been made.
Sputnik flew in 1957. 12 years later we had humans on the moon. And we brought them all back. We're nearing 5 decades with no real progress in human space flight. We've had some progress in sending little robots to other planets and getting data back, but not by private industry. The private space has only made progress in launching shit into LEO.
The Crimean public opinion clearly regarded Crimea as Russian. Not all of it, sure. But the majority. Crimea was illegally separated from Russia. Russia just took it back.
You argue that the electoral college is not a bug, when it makes a persons vote in one state of different value to a persons vote in another state.
Exactly, you fucking shit brained imbecile.
This is a loose union of mostly-sovereign states. People in one state do NOT count the same as people in another state for voting. See the bicameral legislature for another example.
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Besides, anything they can do to maintain a wide array of content is good, doubly good if they don't have to pay another studio/producer licensing fees.
Nope. As a Netflix customer, I do NOT want to be paying for shit like Bright, the 47 new stand up comedy tapings they add every week, or any of the other trash that Netflix pumps out (and there's a lot of it). Will Smith doesn't come cheap. The worst part is that Netflix is gaming its own system. They have notifications and ads (with auto playing videos) on the main page for new and upcoming shit they want to promote. The New, Popular, and Trending sections are all manipulated, and of course these are now shown first (instead of my "continue watching" list).
No, Netflix, I don't want to watch Okja again. I watched it once I didn't like it. But Netflix will count that watch as me liking it. We can't even rate shit anymore. You can thumbs up or thumbs down, but no 1-5 * rating like they used to have. And you have to dig into the details page to thumbs something down if you didn't like it. By default, a view counts as a positive impression, so Netflix things I like Okja and will spend more of my money to make more shit like it. Meanwhile I'm waiting for more of the shit I do like and Netflix is bleeding good content left and right.
I get that Netflix is at the mercy of content owners and that they couldn't keep The X Files at the price Fox was asking (or maybe Fox wouldn't let them keep it at any price), but the answer isn't to fill the void with a steaming pile of shit, nor is it to pay $$$ for shit like Will Smith, Rogue One, etc. (I imagine they got the latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie for a low price). Take a look at the Netflix library sometime. It's 90% D-list shit with a few gems sprinkled around, and finding them is increasingly difficult. Netflix raising the subscription price to fund their mediocre "originals" and a smattering of big-ticket 3rd party stuff (Rogue One, the latest Marvel/DC movies, etc.) just resulted in me dropping my subscription down a tier.
I'll watch just about anything so long as it doesn't cost me extra and I'm sufficiently bored. Occasionally that pays off and I find something I actually enjoy. Recent examples include 1922 and The Great British Baking Show. But when the good content (original or otherwise) starts to thin out, I'm not going to value the service at the same price they're asking.
The tricky part is that Netflix's own content will kill itself off if it's successful I didn't care for Stranger Things, but I didn't mind paying for it either. Season 2, though? I'm throwing a flag on that play. They need to pump the brakes. It was shit. The kicker is that it undoubtedly cost a hell of a lot more than the first season, because the first season was successful. And we're getting season 3. The cost to produce this shit goes up the more popular it is. Every single agent in the industry will demand more money when something is a proven success. With Netflix, we don't have ticket sales or ad buys for individual movies / shows to feed that. Every show on Netflix is paid for out of the same pot of subscription fees. So if you like something but it's not the latest hype train, the latest hype train could end up killing it off.
This will ultimately lead to a few pieces of content crowding out everything else, as well as a lot of content being cut early due to unsustainable costs. HBO has a similar problem. They're basically the Game of Thrones network now, and once that's over in 2019, they're gonna bleeeeeeeeed subscribers.
John Oliver isn't gonna keep them there. Westworld isn't gonna keep them there without Anthony Hopkins. What is Netflix going to do to avoid the same fate?
Nah, they're paid shills and bots. Plenty of social media sites were flooded with near-identical posts about it after it came out.
It was particularly annoying and blatant on imgur. Every day there were multiple posts that got boosted to the front page. They all followed a basic script: "Critics are wrong or out to get Netflix. Give it a chance - it's on Netflix now. I was surprised that it wasn't too bad!"
Anyone who leaves any balance of coins or fiat currency in an online exchange is a moron.
If you want to speculate, mine / buy your coins, store them in you OWN wallet, then move them to the exchange when you want to sell them.
Batman vs. Superman was ass.
Bright was also ass. The difference is Netflix paid for a big "grass roots" marketing campaign. Shills and bots were all over social media pimping the trash movie with nearly identical posts. I assume they gamed the viewer ratings on sites like RT as well, but I didn't see that myself.
Bright was trash. It's as if a 14 year old wrote it, starting out with a pathetic attempt to address race relations in the most ham-fisted way imaginable, but quickly devolving into a shitty fantasy drama that forgets what it was doing 2 minutes ago. Elves are oppressive whites, orcs are repressed minorities, and humans are just along for the ride to give you some sort of juxtaposition / reference point / grounding in "reality".
The movie is filled with blunt, show-stopping moments of "BEING RACIST IS BAD" while simultaneously ignoring all human race relations. At no point does Will Smith's character show one iota of insight over the prejudice and treatment his Orc partner is subjected to. If you're unfamiliar with Will Smith, he is black (as is his character). Maybe his character is completely oblivious to race? No, his daughter directly references that shit early on in the movie (despite seconds earlier exposing herself as a duplicitous speciest herself). He also has opinions about his neighbors who, along with the gang that sort of shows up in the middle of the movie to make threats and do nothing else, are an incredibly lazy stereotype of latinos that runs absolutely counter to the message the movie is trying to shove down your throat. It's up there with the Wayans brothers trying to make a statement with White Chicks.
But don't think I just hate it because it's SJW trash. I hate it because it's trash through and through, in all aspects. The overall plot has to do with elves, orcs, and humans caught in between. The elves and their human toadies run the joint, and live in high society. The 99% of humans and the orcs are basically the dirty poor. Magic wands are basically WMDs, and when one is rumored to be around all hell breaks loose. Only 1 in a million people can touch a wand without exploding. Spoiler: Will Smith is the chosen one, I mean, "Bright". That doesn't stop everyone in a 50 mile radius from fighting over the thing, including the elves and the humans in the men-in-black / ministry of magic. Are they some secretive shadow organization? Corrupt? Merely incompetent? No one knows, and you never find out. There's a group trying to reanimate Dracula or whatever they call their Big Bad, and there's a group trying to prevent it. Our plucky heroes get caught in the middle and end up saving the day, and the elves/government people pay them a visit later and everyone agrees to sweep it all under the rug as if nothing happened.
And that's exactly what happens to the characters in the film. Nothing. Despite Will Smith learning he's a "Bright", he doesn't do shit with it. Despite the revelation that a evil super villain is being brought back by a group of cultists, the elves and human government are content to wallow in ignorance / incompetence. Despite everything Will Smith's partner (the orc) has gone through, no one accepts orcs. He gets a brief "hero ceremony" along with a bunch of dead, crooked cops (who tried to kill him and Will Smith earlier), but there's no indication that anyone accepts an orc in polite (human/white) society. At best, he's an Uncle Tom on that front. Of course, you'd then have to ignore the fact that the biggest thing to happen to him in the movie was getting "blooded". This is when a bunch of orcs cut their palm and raise it in the air as a symbol of their acceptance of another. Basically, he got hos street cred, and he's a "real orcca" now.
Despite how simple and cliched the main plot is, it never really makes sense and you never learn any character's actual motivations. There aren't any hints dropped about the back story of this big bad evil or the elves and government running the show. There's no filler or reference to flesh anything out. Everyone acts in the moment in a haphazard fashion. The "cut to the chase" style of writing / directing is fine if you don't want anyone to think about the plot, but to do that while simultaneously trying to shoehorn in some shitty race relations message or some swiss cheese backstory is bizarre
Policy doesn't mean shit. "Grounds for" doesn't mean shit.
Policy is there to give them an excuse to fire people when they want to. Enforcement is 100% optional.
"A Lyft spokesperson issued the following statement..."
Which noticeably didn't end with "...and any and all employees who have violated that policy will be immediately fired for cause, with no termination benefits."
Probably because the spokesman started with "...would be a violation of Lyft's policies and a cause for termination..."
Those aren't the same thing.
"Oh, that would be awful! Someone could get fired for doing that! All of our employees are required to comply with policy and have taken a shitty online training course where they click "next" every 30 seconds and ignore all the content."
You don't understand. Livestock raised and slaughtered doesn't add or remove any energy from the planet, nor does it permanently use up water, land, etc.
It doesn't matter how "efficient" anything is as long as you have the operational overhead to cover instantaneous demand (needing x gallons of feed and fresh water now vs. waiting for the shit and piss on the back end).
Are you familiar with the law of conservation of energy?
Yes, I am. You clearly are not. We don't lose any energy due the the "inefficiency" of raising meat. Nor do we lose any water.
As a food source, calorie for calorie, meat is way more resource-intensive than pants.
Bullshit. You may need more of x resources to get a given amount (by weight) of meat than you would with plants, but you get all that back out at the end. It's a closed-loop. The most common comparison I see is for water. Water doesn't disappear when you use it to grow crops to feed to livestock to butcher for meat.
Even if you imagine that pigs and cows and chickens are unnecessary middlemen for the human diet, where are they taking their cut from, exactly? Does a slaughtered pig abscond to piggy heaven with a gallon of water and a small plot of land? Or does the whole damn thing get reincorporated into the environment in one way or another?
Meat is vastly more nutritious than plants are, meat is critical for human development, and meat is delicious. If you don't like it, don't eat it. Meat isn't doing you any harm. And if you're worried about the rest of us not having enough water or land to raise livestock to keep up with our current diets, you can relax. If we ever get to such a point it will self-correct via economic pressures well before anyone has to go hungry for lack of production. And even if we somehow got to that point, you'll be there to show us all how to eat shitty vegetables like kale and quinoa and enjoy the resulting hard poops interspersed with pockets of the foulest gases imaginable.
A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out arbitrary sequences of arithmetic or logical operations automatically.
You fail CS100. A computer is a device that has input, output, storage, and processing. An iPad is a computer.
No, u fail. A computer is a fancy clock.
Is science advanced enough to understand why you can't use a simple apostrophe instead of the curly, "smart" bastardization?
Ultrasound also speeds up the healing process for broken bones dramatically.
With the gradual merging of iOS and OS X (macOS), there's simply no room for the MacBook Air between iPads and MacBooks. My guess is they'll prune the iPad line next.
You can currently buy the iPad Mini 4 (7.9"), the iPad (9.7"), and the iPad Pro (10.5" and 12.9"). The iPhone 8 comes in 4.7" or 5.5" sizes, and the iPhone X is 5.8". That's 7 current "mobile" form factors.
The price points of all of these devices make no sense either, especially as the phone price creeps up and up. Then there's the pressure from the iMac line, which is essentially not much more than a MacBook Pro with a larger display sitting on your desk.
Plus, as Apple forces people down the path of connecting all peripherals wirelessly or via thunderbolt dongles an iMac, a docked MacBook, and a docked iPad become more and more similar. Maybe they'll shit out an "iPad Book" - an iPad running iOS but in a 2-in-1 / convertible form factor with the MacBook Air keyboard. Such a device would allow them to clean up the product lines on both the iPad and MacBook side while getting people ready for the iOS / macOS convergence (you know it's coming). See how Microsoft morphed the Surface into the Surface Book.
23.976Hz or 29.97Hz?
They're both industry standard frame rates.
I think you mean 24000/1001 and 30000/1001.
Of course, you'll also have to handle 23.976 and 29.97 and (multiples thereof) since so much has been built around those approximations.
Correct.
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I love this guy's videos.
A thousand times, this!
Opening up Pokemon GO as I walk out the door is a nightmare.
Late.
Stiff.
Bought the farm.
Bit the dust.
Kicked the bucket.
Pushing up daisies.
Taking a dirt nap.
Sleeping with the fishes.
No. 2018 is the year of Meltdown/Spectre and massive performance penalties.
we are so thrilled with the progress made by these teams over the last ten years
They're thrilled they get to keep the money after getting the essentially free PR for the last decade. No fucking progress has been made.
Sputnik flew in 1957. 12 years later we had humans on the moon. And we brought them all back. We're nearing 5 decades with no real progress in human space flight. We've had some progress in sending little robots to other planets and getting data back, but not by private industry. The private space has only made progress in launching shit into LEO.
MATLAB puts all Adobe products to shame.
The Crimean public opinion clearly regarded Crimea as Russian. Not all of it, sure. But the majority. Crimea was illegally separated from Russia. Russia just took it back.
You argue that the electoral college is not a bug, when it makes a persons vote in one state of different value to a persons vote in another state.
Exactly, you fucking shit brained imbecile.
This is a loose union of mostly-sovereign states. People in one state do NOT count the same as people in another state for voting. See the bicameral legislature for another example.
No evidence no charges, just bullshit conspiracy theories. Fucking hopeless Wumpus, you moron.
Plenty of evidence, with the FBI director publicly stating she got no charges because of who she is.