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  1. Re:physical media shall die on Netflix's DVD Rental Business Is Still Profitable (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Why not try a Blu-Ray and see what you were missing not having 50Mbps to encode with.

  2. Re:I still use it on Netflix's DVD Rental Business Is Still Profitable (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if it's to keep any one set of actors being able to negotiate higher salaries as the become more and more popular.

    I'd bet it's more likely they sign a multi-year contract out of the gate with no room for negotiation - only renewal if not cancelled. Token "raises" maybe. Who knows, I'm sure there's an NDA attached.

  3. Re:I still use it on Netflix's DVD Rental Business Is Still Profitable (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    And if they bought it before their deal (where they get "rental" versions), they may have the special features disc, just not the main movie.

  4. Re:Fun while it lasted on MoviePass' Days Look Limited (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I've never had that experience.

  5. Re:I still use it on Netflix's DVD Rental Business Is Still Profitable (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course - they only have a disc or two of each in stock. And what they have is damaged/cracked/scratched

  6. Re:And it will be for a long time on Netflix's DVD Rental Business Is Still Profitable (fortune.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    They're flushing it - it's sabotage. They got rid of most of their inventory a year or more ago. Most movies are a very long wait. But they killed off all the competition, so there's nothing left for the people who want access to the scraps. Don't say Redbox, because they only carry the bigger budget films alongside cheap garbage films.

  7. Re:Fun while it lasted on MoviePass' Days Look Limited (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    If I didn't have a baby at home I would have been blowing through dumb investor money myself. None of the movies are worth the regular along price anyway.

  8. Re:Sigh. on MoviePass' Days Look Limited (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    That's $5.6 million a month funneled directly to Hollywood to make 15 more Avengers movies. I hardly think that was money well spent on the economy.

  9. Re:Sigh. on MoviePass' Days Look Limited (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    living in scawler

    Was that really a serious attempt at saying squalor?

  10. Re:Simple math on MoviePass' Days Look Limited (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Realizing that the majority stake owner had "analytics" in its name, the subscriber fees may be a red herring in understanding the whole financial model. Is likely just selection criteria, while customer data is the actual product. It seems like they are failing to monetize that product, but you'd hope nobody would be dumb enough to think this idea would suddenly be profitable by scaling.

  11. Re:Only got 150 baud on Scientists Transfer Memory Between Snails (scientificamerican.com) · · Score: 1

    Your linked article says that it's still considered plural in scientific contexts...

  12. Re:Good. Arrest =/= guilt on Alleged Owners of Mugshots.com Have Been Arrested For Extortion (lawandcrime.com) · · Score: 1

    That's not how suspicion works.

  13. Re:Digital controls on The Internet of Trash: IoT Has a Looming E-Waste Problem (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    What we need is the open standard equivalent of a smart hub. And sure, that hub could be designed for Google Home or Alexa or Crestron or something custom.
      Something that allows appliances to never need security updates and allows them to never need feature updates to remain compatible (or at least handle increasing security capability progressively and in a backward-compatible way). And not dependent on outside servers being maintained. The problem is a secure protocol for information and controls exchange that won't be affected by certificate expiration or anything else too shortsighted. Something between Zigbee and Bluetooth Low Energy.

    There's no reason that smart appliances should be designed without a way to theoretically run them forever. Theoretically, because it will likely only be outliers that last very long.

  14. Re:Officers should be liable for libel; not these on Alleged Owners of Mugshots.com Have Been Arrested For Extortion (lawandcrime.com) · · Score: 1

    An accusation is neither libel nor slander.

    But no, an arrest is not an accusation. No charges are even filed until after you are brought in. The barrier to arrest is simply probably cause.

  15. Re:Good. Arrest =/= guilt on Alleged Owners of Mugshots.com Have Been Arrested For Extortion (lawandcrime.com) · · Score: 2

    If you have a right to be presumed innocent during the arrest too - as in, maybe police shouldn't ever draw their guns unless there's a very real threat.

  16. Re:What leverage? on Fed Up With Apple's Policies, App Developers Form a 'Union' (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    People have already bought the phones. Who owns what phone won't change very quickly.

  17. bullshit self-destructive telomere timeout feature

    Otherwise known as delaying the onset of cancer by not replicating from overused source material.

  18. Re:What leverage? on Fed Up With Apple's Policies, App Developers Form a 'Union' (wired.com) · · Score: 2

    If they are "app developers" then their livelihood and entire career depends on app sales. It would hurt them way more than it would hurt Apple, because unlike an employee union - you can't just find another employer. Apple has all the leverage, even still.

  19. What leverage? on Fed Up With Apple's Policies, App Developers Form a 'Union' (wired.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    These developers gain no leverage by forming a union. They remove their apps from the store forever, Apple doesn't care. There is no power to be gained except maybe in media coverage.

  20. Re:Maybe that explains something on 'Yanny vs. Laurel' Reveals Flaws In How We Listen To Audio (theproaudiofiles.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently you're right, but at 128kbps even on the site it sounds so mechanical and fake:

    Yes, by an opera singer! We've collaborated with New-York based opera singers to pronounce every word in our dictionary.

    https://www.vocabulary.com/dic...

  21. Re:Maybe that explains something on 'Yanny vs. Laurel' Reveals Flaws In How We Listen To Audio (theproaudiofiles.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not a recording at all. It just illustrates the imperfection of speech synthesis.

  22. Re:Anybody hear "Yarry"? on 'Yanny vs. Laurel' Reveals Flaws In How We Listen To Audio (theproaudiofiles.com) · · Score: 1

    The average full-range harpsichord tops out at around F6, or 1396Hz (while an 88-key piano can reach 4KHz+). Human hearing, on average, can hear up to around 15KHz-20KHz at your age.

    tl;dr Experience with a harpsichord has nothing on this range of frequencies. Neither does owning high-end audio equipment if your hearing is failing.

  23. Re:Wow! The "internet" is buzzing about it! on 'Yanny vs. Laurel' Reveals Flaws In How We Listen To Audio (theproaudiofiles.com) · · Score: 1

    Neither choice was correct. The dress was black and blue, but with an orange color cast due to it being taken with outdoor white balance and overexposed. Objective reality is Laurel and blue/black. Yanny or white/gold is a signal vs. noise.

  24. Not pitch shifting on 'Yanny vs. Laurel' Reveals Flaws In How We Listen To Audio (theproaudiofiles.com) · · Score: 1

    I have no idea why the summary/article calls the slider "pitch shifting":

    Pitch shifting the audio clip up seems to accentuate "laurel" whereas shifting it down accentuates "yanny."

    It's EQ shifting. Sliding to the left is a low-pass filter, while sliding to the right is a high-pass filter.

  25. Re:Scottish National Standardized Assessments on Scottish Students Used Spellchecker Glitch To Cheat In Literacy Test (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I think Microsoft Plus only came with 1.0. IE4 was bundled with Windows 98, while version 2 and 3 were with later releases of Windows 95.