Because certain influential groups got behind it and religious about it and decided to shove it down everyone's throats. Also there is a religious cult who steps in any time someone does this and says everyone opposed to a bad idea is a luddite. It's sort of like how denying you are an addict automatically makes you an addict. s/addict/circular_logic_label_of_the_day/i
"back in the early 2000's. Back then Uptime was a big deal, because system crashes were common. Linux at the time, you can get about a year of uptime"
What were you doing on a Linux box that only allowed you to get a year of uptime? Several of the systems I deployed in the early OO's were replaced 6-7yrs later without a reboot.
That said, you are absolutely right. This is one of those outdated dick measuring contests that is doing nobody any good. Ideally, reboot every system on a rotation no longer than 60 days.
""The ecosystems in East Asia have seen some of the largest decline in fisheries productivity," Dr. Free said. "And that region is home to some of the largest growing human populations and populations that are highly dependent on seafood."
So make the dubbed local language versions or just don't do business in places with draconian laws that regulate what streaming services their citizens can use. Places that make their bed like that should have to lie in it. I'm advocating voting with ones dollar not legislating entertainment.
I'm normally first in line to support this concept. Even to a fault, supporting the rights of groups that are the antithesis of my personal beliefs but the anti-vax movement is the heart of a growing public health crisis.
Stop lumping the guy who went home with a pen (literally anyone) alongside the chick stealing boxes of pens and selling them online.
There is a very big difference between the person who just doesn't sweat their location when they print something and the person who deliberately prints and binds copies of books from project guttenberg to resell.
Agreed, that is the problem. They would have been really good if they'd made them in English as well and not be a pain in the arse to watch. Now, I'm not talking about content that was made by the movie industry in country X or similarly some tv series that Netflix bought. I get that. I'm talking about Netflix making a deliberate choice to produce a crappy dubbed or subtitled experience when they could have made it in English in the first place.
That is different. I mean it gets annoying at some point if there is going to be a ton of it and at some point it is nice if they switch to English after a period of that to establish the scene or whatever but for a few sketches of audio here and there the native speech and subtitling can add to rather than detract from the viewing experience.
That is all the normal stuff. More and more though Netflix is producing films natively in foreign languages and in the US we are getting crappy dubbed or subtitled versions. I'm not talking about some classic indian or chinese story or what have you where it makes sense. I'm just talking about normal generic plot ideas that could have been produced wherever in any language mysteriously have dubbed English when you play them. It's like a flash back to old kung fu movies.
Exactly, a non-profit that still needs to keep the lights and isn't funded by some grant or angel has pretty much all the strengths of a free market for profit in terms of running lean and pressure to perform without the extra overhead of greedy profiteers. Many of things people suggest making public could in fact be run through a few competing non-profits instead and with some government backing on credit to get them over startup cost hurdles.
I use Playstation Vue for the regular TV stuff. Amazon ties you into their app, which was fine with a FireTV since it was what you booted into but is really annoying when it's just an app you load. Also they censor the shit out of everything.
"$15/month puts Netflix in line with HBO - are they equal? hard hmmmm!"
Which is sad, they used to better, hands down with a much more massive catalog. HBO has added most of the killer app features of netflix AND grown their catalog. Some of the netflix original content is good but who wants to watch a good plot made into a foreign language film?
"The question is whether their original content is something most of their customers will be willing to pay more for, and while I think they are, I think that for Netflix to continue to grow as another-HBO-on-the-Internet, they're going to start to be doing it at the expense of the companies from whom they previously licensed content."
I doubt it, their original content was good, then plentiful with a few good gems mixed in, now it is 99% crap and it is more and more frustrating finding an interesting plot made into a foreign language film instead of domestic content. Every 10 years or so I don't mind discovering some foreign produced film worth watching subtitles for but I hardly want that to be the norm or worse, crappy dubbing.
I understand more and more of their income is from foreign sources but I think they're going to have to figure out if they can afford to lose their domestic sources as well. Foreign interest for American content has always been pounding on Netflix door... American interest for foreign content, nah. I wish they'd give me a way to block it. I might watch these things once in awhile if I want to see the movie bad enough but I resent it... I open netflix less and less except for shows for the kids and pretty much any service can replace that.
"people were tired of that model and wanted a less immense set of content for far less money."
huh? No, no they don't. They want an immense set which includes all the good content from all the offerings for the price of any one of the offerings. Hell, I'd pay as much as $50 (without bullshit add on fees/taxes) for a one stop shop that includes streaming of all the new release movies (high grade remux quality) and commercial free shows including the premiums as well as sports with titles never disappearing from the catalog. The shows could even keep the commercials so long as everything is fast-forwardable.
The last thing I want is 14 little mini apps I have to hunt between looking for what I want each nickel and diming me and adding up to more than I paid for cable.
I don't think people would object so much if they had good content. For a minute Netflix at least made some good original content. Then it seemed like they went crazy and flung shit at the wall hoping something would stick. Now they produced all kinds of foreign crap and mix it up with real content. It's one thing if they carry foreign content and that content is foreign language but I have a serious issue with them spending the money I'm paying on foreign language crap.
If they use only foreign funds to produce foreign content and let me block the crap then I don't care but I don't want to subsidize what could have been a good movie ruined because it is dubbed or subtitled.
They did for a minute. Now it seems like everything is foreign language and subtitled or dubbed and they aren't clearly labeled as such either. They don't even provide a good way to block that crap.
My argument remains the same, one guy is not representative of a group. He is hardly typical of Indians and Indians hardly represent all the foreign imports nor are all the foreign workers required to be opposed for my point to stand. In fact my point doesn't even require a majority, only a substantial vocal subset. A single exception is logically meaningless.
The guy went off the deep end at some point there. But most of his post stands and your ad hominem attack doesn't logically detract from his argument.
"Actual facts beat alternative-history "facts".
There's no reason why that spending has to be military.
Yes there is. It already happened. The past can't be changed.
It may even be the case that, had the money been spent on non-military applications, then the taxpayers would have received an even better bang-for-buck.
Care to write a paper, have it peer-reviewed, published, and then we can discuss it here once it hits the front page.
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You lost me at GNU. Linux is not a GNU project.
Because certain influential groups got behind it and religious about it and decided to shove it down everyone's throats. Also there is a religious cult who steps in any time someone does this and says everyone opposed to a bad idea is a luddite. It's sort of like how denying you are an addict automatically makes you an addict. s/addict/circular_logic_label_of_the_day/i
Yeah but you should be rebooting regularly anyway on a planned cycle. It was fun collecting high uptimes in the day but stupid.
"back in the early 2000's. Back then Uptime was a big deal, because system crashes were common. Linux at the time, you can get about a year of uptime"
What were you doing on a Linux box that only allowed you to get a year of uptime? Several of the systems I deployed in the early OO's were replaced 6-7yrs later without a reboot.
That said, you are absolutely right. This is one of those outdated dick measuring contests that is doing nobody any good. Ideally, reboot every system on a rotation no longer than 60 days.
You should be rebooting regardless. Excessive uptimes are NOT a good thing. How do you even know your box can come back up from a power cycle?
""The ecosystems in East Asia have seen some of the largest decline in fisheries productivity," Dr. Free said. "And that region is home to some of the largest growing human populations and populations that are highly dependent on seafood."
Sounds like a natural correction cycle.
So make the dubbed local language versions or just don't do business in places with draconian laws that regulate what streaming services their citizens can use. Places that make their bed like that should have to lie in it. I'm advocating voting with ones dollar not legislating entertainment.
I'm normally first in line to support this concept. Even to a fault, supporting the rights of groups that are the antithesis of my personal beliefs but the anti-vax movement is the heart of a growing public health crisis.
Sad but true.
Stop lumping the guy who went home with a pen (literally anyone) alongside the chick stealing boxes of pens and selling them online.
There is a very big difference between the person who just doesn't sweat their location when they print something and the person who deliberately prints and binds copies of books from project guttenberg to resell.
"Some of those are really good"
Agreed, that is the problem. They would have been really good if they'd made them in English as well and not be a pain in the arse to watch. Now, I'm not talking about content that was made by the movie industry in country X or similarly some tv series that Netflix bought. I get that. I'm talking about Netflix making a deliberate choice to produce a crappy dubbed or subtitled experience when they could have made it in English in the first place.
That is different. I mean it gets annoying at some point if there is going to be a ton of it and at some point it is nice if they switch to English after a period of that to establish the scene or whatever but for a few sketches of audio here and there the native speech and subtitling can add to rather than detract from the viewing experience.
That is all the normal stuff. More and more though Netflix is producing films natively in foreign languages and in the US we are getting crappy dubbed or subtitled versions. I'm not talking about some classic indian or chinese story or what have you where it makes sense. I'm just talking about normal generic plot ideas that could have been produced wherever in any language mysteriously have dubbed English when you play them. It's like a flash back to old kung fu movies.
Exactly, a non-profit that still needs to keep the lights and isn't funded by some grant or angel has pretty much all the strengths of a free market for profit in terms of running lean and pressure to perform without the extra overhead of greedy profiteers. Many of things people suggest making public could in fact be run through a few competing non-profits instead and with some government backing on credit to get them over startup cost hurdles.
I use Playstation Vue for the regular TV stuff. Amazon ties you into their app, which was fine with a FireTV since it was what you booted into but is really annoying when it's just an app you load. Also they censor the shit out of everything.
"filmed it in black and white"
Just makes it annoying to watch. They need to get their heads out of their asses and stop with the artistic, foreign language, and sjw content.
Stop making the foreign crap and sjw special interest crap. That will cut costs dramatically.
"$15/month puts Netflix in line with HBO - are they equal? hard hmmmm!"
Which is sad, they used to better, hands down with a much more massive catalog. HBO has added most of the killer app features of netflix AND grown their catalog. Some of the netflix original content is good but who wants to watch a good plot made into a foreign language film?
"The question is whether their original content is something most of their customers will be willing to pay more for, and while I think they are, I think that for Netflix to continue to grow as another-HBO-on-the-Internet, they're going to start to be doing it at the expense of the companies from whom they previously licensed content."
I doubt it, their original content was good, then plentiful with a few good gems mixed in, now it is 99% crap and it is more and more frustrating finding an interesting plot made into a foreign language film instead of domestic content. Every 10 years or so I don't mind discovering some foreign produced film worth watching subtitles for but I hardly want that to be the norm or worse, crappy dubbing.
I understand more and more of their income is from foreign sources but I think they're going to have to figure out if they can afford to lose their domestic sources as well. Foreign interest for American content has always been pounding on Netflix door... American interest for foreign content, nah. I wish they'd give me a way to block it. I might watch these things once in awhile if I want to see the movie bad enough but I resent it... I open netflix less and less except for shows for the kids and pretty much any service can replace that.
"people were tired of that model and wanted a less immense set of content for far less money."
huh? No, no they don't. They want an immense set which includes all the good content from all the offerings for the price of any one of the offerings. Hell, I'd pay as much as $50 (without bullshit add on fees/taxes) for a one stop shop that includes streaming of all the new release movies (high grade remux quality) and commercial free shows including the premiums as well as sports with titles never disappearing from the catalog. The shows could even keep the commercials so long as everything is fast-forwardable.
The last thing I want is 14 little mini apps I have to hunt between looking for what I want each nickel and diming me and adding up to more than I paid for cable.
not the way those kids hit it
Really? Then why don't seem to have the content that goes with it?
I don't think people would object so much if they had good content. For a minute Netflix at least made some good original content. Then it seemed like they went crazy and flung shit at the wall hoping something would stick. Now they produced all kinds of foreign crap and mix it up with real content. It's one thing if they carry foreign content and that content is foreign language but I have a serious issue with them spending the money I'm paying on foreign language crap.
If they use only foreign funds to produce foreign content and let me block the crap then I don't care but I don't want to subsidize what could have been a good movie ruined because it is dubbed or subtitled.
They did for a minute. Now it seems like everything is foreign language and subtitled or dubbed and they aren't clearly labeled as such either. They don't even provide a good way to block that crap.
https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem
My argument remains the same, one guy is not representative of a group. He is hardly typical of Indians and Indians hardly represent all the foreign imports nor are all the foreign workers required to be opposed for my point to stand. In fact my point doesn't even require a majority, only a substantial vocal subset. A single exception is logically meaningless.
The guy went off the deep end at some point there. But most of his post stands and your ad hominem attack doesn't logically detract from his argument.
"Actual facts beat alternative-history "facts".
There's no reason why that spending has to be military.
Yes there is. It already happened. The past can't be changed.
It may even be the case that, had the money been spent on non-military applications, then the taxpayers would have received an even better bang-for-buck.
Care to write a paper, have it peer-reviewed, published, and then we can discuss it here once it hits the front page.
Until then, this statement is more likely true:"