I'm sure the majority of actors would love what you're saying. Most actors don't get anything close to a living wage.
Now, sure, a few lead actors do, but then they're worth it. They pull people in to watch the movie so that it's capable of making its money back and paying something slightly less shitty to the other actors.
The other problem with the "We don't want actors earning outrageous salaries like $250,000 per movie!" (seriously, that's actually not unusual for a headliner) argument is it ignores context. Acting is a shitty career. If you're unsuccessful - and you probably will be - you'll end up leaving penniless. If you succeed, well, you have an expiration date (not a massive market for older people in Hollywood) after which you'll probably be incapable of useful employment because you just wasted ten years on a combination pretending to be someone else, and serving customers at cafes to make ends meet. You'll have next to no useful skills, beyond being available for bit roles in TV shows.
I'm not saying Hollywood is the most efficient of money making industries, but the salaries, at least, are, if anything, too small, largely because it relies upon unrealistic eager dreamers hoping they'll win the popularity lottery and get to be the next Brandon Routh or Kate Bosworth.
They know.;-) You're paying for instant gratification.
Some DVDs even come with the HD version as the "Digital Download", FWIW. It's a little crazy unless you realize that to a majority of people, the bought-online-for-immediate-viewing is the superior version.
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I wasn't being harsh, I was being charitable. "New and recent releases" are the ones studios are most guarded about. Those are the movies they're expecting to still make quite a bit on DVD sales and TV payments. Commercially so-so movies from the 1980s (think "They Live" rather than "Blade Runner") are exactly the kind of thing you'd expect them to give away licenses at low cost.
I have Amazon Prime and we did some trials of Netflix and Hulu, and I can honestly say that it was disappointing finding nothing I was actively looking for on any of the systems. I remember spending an evening just going through a list of movies I've been wanting to watch for a while, being utterly astounded when none of them showed up on each list. Some movies were classics, some were cult movies, some were "just movies I saw in the 1980s that I'd like to watch again", some were blockbusters that hadn't been in the cinema for a couple of years. And... none were there.
Now, sure, I can find something to watch with all three, but in terms of the "I want to watch X, I haven't watched it in a while" itch, we're a long way away from having services (or even a combination thereof) that do that.
I'd be very surprised if Netflix + Hulu + Amazon Prime = 5% of mainstream movies made since 1976.
Oh, and for anyone who doesn't think it was a big deal: what if Senator Ted Cruz kept his own private email server that was promptly rooted by several foreign countries, and routed classified emails through there? Kind of puts the right perspective on Hillary's crimes, don't you think?
Uh, no. No it doesn't. Ted Cruz might have his judgment questioned, but only the most partisan idiot would say he'd done something illegal. If George W. Bush had done the same thing, it might have been something for the Daily Show to laugh at, but not even Salon would have called for impeachment.
Right now, a group of avowed Clinton haters is still trawling through Clinton's emails trying to find some case where she might have accidentally mislabeled an email or sent it to the wrong person. That's how pathetic this is.
To most of the world, it looks like yet another witch-hunt against a political couple that, for some reason, many on the far right in the US decided they actively hated in 1992 and as a result have held the couple to a bizarrely high standard they'd never do with any other politician.
And before you make assumptions: I'm not a fan of the woman. Her politics are far from mine. I'm depressed the current primaries are between her and someone I suspect isn't what he claims to be, and who, in any case, would probably result in four years of ideological gridlock if he won.
As I've said before, the day the urban legends about Windows 10 installing itself, unprompted, with no user interaction, become true, is the day Microsoft will face billions of dollars in lawsuits.
FWIW, recommended updates aren't installed just because you have updates installed automatically. You still need to manually go into Windows Update to install them.
In fact, IIRC, you may be in more danger doing manual updates, as I believe "recommended" updates are selected by default when you manually update. If you miss the fact Windows 10 is selected, you'll be one step closer to installing it.
Pretty much every basic phone with 4Gb comes with a micro SD card slot, which you're expected to fill. A 4Gb Android phone is barely usable without one.
I bought a $30 Android phone the other week to replace my Galaxy Nexus. I was staggered to find the megabudget phone was actually a much more useful device, having, as it did, an microSD card slot, a battery that could last more than 24 hours (the GN couldn't last seven with standard use, I had to buy an "extended" battery that required a special cover to make it "fit"), and the standard buttons on the outside of the device rather than using up the screen display (and changing place whenever you accidentally change phone orientation...)
Yes, I'm aware time has passed, but the budget phone cost 10% of the cost of the GN (plus another $8 for a 16Gb microSD card), supports more recent phone standards, and its CPU and RAM seem to be comparable/the same.
I'm not saying the Nexus didn't have some nice features, I will miss the better screen (that device also had NFC and HDMI but I never used them), but truth is... I just can't see myself buying Nexus hardware as long as it's form over functionality. I mean, I hated Android for a long time because of that piece of utter #@(! and seriously was considering switching to Windows phone.
Google can take control if they want, but I don't trust the words of execs who justified the shitty battery life of the GN by saying they always carried a spare (I'm serious, go look it up) - I genuinely think they're more concerned about it looking sleek in a TV ad than it being useful.
That doesn't seems like a very good use of tax money, for something that can be nondestructively reused once created.
True, but it's a relatively small amount of money. It's not completely out of whack with what commercial enterprises pay for non-free fonts. And, to be honest, if someone invested in this project thinking "Hmm, if I invest on research into improving something with a direct affect on road safety and transportation efficiency, I'll make money!" that's... not a bad thing. Beats "Hmm, if I invest in research on blowing people up, the government will give me money!" anyway.
Copyright isn't a terrible idea, just one that's abused from time to time. The target audience for this font can easily afford the money they're asking for, and it's a worthy product if the font does what it's designed to do. (Whether that's true is a separate issue from "Should we occasionally pay for fonts?")
Are you in the habit of accidentally typing "sudo rm -rf/"? (From memory AND PLEASE DON'T TRY IT IIRC many implementations of rm actually refuse to execute that particular command because it's so dangerous, they figure if you really need to, you can always try rm -rf/* or something like that.)
Just so you're aware, if you do type rm -rf/, you will bork your system and destroy all your data, together with any on attached network shares, regardless of whether you have a sucky BIOS or not. It's just in the latter case, you might also physically brick the computer.
I think the objection is that unrelated channels get bundled, not unrelated programs. You'd expect a single TV channel to show a variety of different programs.
And if that's not what you want, if you really just want to subscribe to specific TV programs, there's always Amazon Video.
Kinda a mix of everything. It's worth noting that, according to ex-kernel hacker Matthew Garrett, you can achieve the same bricking using a 20 line program in Windows. So it's not a Linux (or systemd! Seriously, don't we have enough hate against systemd without TFS adding fuel to the fire?) issue, it's more a design fault.
Clearly UEFI variables are expected to be written to by suitably privileged programs under consumer operating systems, otherwise Windows and Linux wouldn't expose them the way they're exposed. Yet clearly variables are being exposed like this that shouldn't be written to under normal circumstances.
That's for the Macbook Air, that's one model in Apple's line. You'd expect each manufacturer to occasionally have a star product.
In general though, I've seen both Apple and its competitors hover around the 10% return mark for their PCs in aggregate. Which is really what you'd expect, given most - including Apple - are sharing most of the components and supply chains.
The Apple store point is reasonable, but do you really think third party app support for Mac OS X is better than for Windows?
And, to be honest, when reliability stats have been quoted here, the numbers have tended to be within a margin of error - ie "9% return rate for Apple vs 10% for Dell" rather than "1% return rate for Apple vs 25% for Dell". I'm not convincedaverage users pick a Mac over a PC for that reason for for security, even if they may claim that afterwards.
In fairness, people bought Commodore Amigas (well, those who didn't buy them for games) because they were the most technically advanced computers available at a decent price at that time. You needed to get something from NEXT or Sun to get a more advanced operating system and more advanced integrated hardware (and the machines from those weren't as fun!)
So Commodore releasing, for the same price as its predecessor, a mostly cut down version of the 500+ (mostly because at least it contained a hard drive controller) was always going to be an absolute disaster. (It's even worse when you consider the fact the 500+ was a slightly enhanced 500 - supporting higher video scan rates and more chip RAM - and the 500 was a repackaged/refactored, cheaper, 1000, the Amiga that came out in 1985!)
People aren't buying Macs because they're the most technically advanced computers in their price range. They're buying them for aesthetics and user friendliness.
I'm not saying that it'll not ultimately bite them in the rear that their producing unexpandable 2002 era hardware for the same cost as a modern mid-range slim desktop if they continue to do so. But they can afford to let some models fall behind a little bit in a way that was never open to Commodore.
Well, to be fair, at the time it was unusual for any device maker to include a super-high DPI screen in their product. I don't know if the industry would have gone there anyway, but it seemed like, for a long time, the focus was on just including a standard grid in number of pixels, rather than high DPI. So, for example, most laptops had 136?x768 screens, be they 15" or 12". Most monitors were 136?x768 or 1960x1080.
Would it have happened anyway? I have a feeling phones with 720p screens would have happened anyway. But it's impossible to know either way. And that wouldn't have necessarily translated into high DPI laptop screens.
Leftist? I think the Republicans are actually more terrified of Trump at the moment!
Unless he directly harasses a named, tagged, individual (and I don't just mean saying "Fuck you @berniesanders"), I don't see any legitimate reason to ban him from Twitter, however much of a douchebag he is.
So, just to be clear, you can't actually name anyone who was banned from Twitter for saying "I disagree with you"?
Also, why did you put the word "Victim" in quotes? Are you saying that someone on the receiving end of the messages being sent is not being victimized?
The comma may be physically bigger, but in usage it's smaller. Commas separate parts of a sentence. Sentences end in a period/stop/full stop/dot.
So if you're being consistent with where else those symbols are used, the period is right.
I can't believe I'm actually writing a comment on this. I mean, I seriously don't actually care. If I'd grown up with the other usage, I'd probably comment on the discrepancy between sentences and numbers but otherwise feel the comma as decimal is totally the right thing. Is there anything else of complete unimportance we can have an argument about? Personally I thought Abram's Star Trek was better than ST:TMP, but The Wrath of Kahn was way better than his sequel. Anyone care to put in a counter argument, preferably someone who both believes ST:TMP AND After Darkness were better than Star Trek and The Wrath of Kahn? I mean, at least that'd be more appropriate for this website.
A sizable amount of what you perceive in the industry (and thus confusions/false assumptions/etc) is about your own experience. My guess is that we're actually quite segmented in IT, even if we don't want to admit it. I had the benefit of working for a company that started smallish, had some major corporate customers (whose sites we had to visit and whose IT systems we had to work with), and transitioned through mergers and acquisitions into the kind of anonymous megacorp where you really don't want to work long term because to the CEO you're just a drone to get rid of when the company cannot make its numbers that quarter.
Which, of course, is ultimately why I'm not working there any more. The company had a bad quarter. Still, a 15 year redundancy payment certainly helps soften the blow.
And until I moved out of that company, I had no idea that PHP - FUCKING PHP I HATE IT - was the #1 programming language in the entire universe. And that if you want a job, PHP is where it's at.
But, in any case, if you're jumping from LAMP stack company to LAMP stack company, as much of Slashdot's programmers are, I suspect you end up with a very weird view of what Java is used for, just as I did PHP. And.net for that reason (which really does seem to be used everywhere in all kinds of configurations.)
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I'm sure the majority of actors would love what you're saying. Most actors don't get anything close to a living wage.
Now, sure, a few lead actors do, but then they're worth it. They pull people in to watch the movie so that it's capable of making its money back and paying something slightly less shitty to the other actors.
The other problem with the "We don't want actors earning outrageous salaries like $250,000 per movie!" (seriously, that's actually not unusual for a headliner) argument is it ignores context. Acting is a shitty career. If you're unsuccessful - and you probably will be - you'll end up leaving penniless. If you succeed, well, you have an expiration date (not a massive market for older people in Hollywood) after which you'll probably be incapable of useful employment because you just wasted ten years on a combination pretending to be someone else, and serving customers at cafes to make ends meet. You'll have next to no useful skills, beyond being available for bit roles in TV shows.
I'm not saying Hollywood is the most efficient of money making industries, but the salaries, at least, are, if anything, too small, largely because it relies upon unrealistic eager dreamers hoping they'll win the popularity lottery and get to be the next Brandon Routh or Kate Bosworth.
They know. ;-) You're paying for instant gratification.
Some DVDs even come with the HD version as the "Digital Download", FWIW. It's a little crazy unless you realize that to a majority of people, the bought-online-for-immediate-viewing is the superior version. .
I wasn't being harsh, I was being charitable. "New and recent releases" are the ones studios are most guarded about. Those are the movies they're expecting to still make quite a bit on DVD sales and TV payments. Commercially so-so movies from the 1980s (think "They Live" rather than "Blade Runner") are exactly the kind of thing you'd expect them to give away licenses at low cost.
I have Amazon Prime and we did some trials of Netflix and Hulu, and I can honestly say that it was disappointing finding nothing I was actively looking for on any of the systems. I remember spending an evening just going through a list of movies I've been wanting to watch for a while, being utterly astounded when none of them showed up on each list. Some movies were classics, some were cult movies, some were "just movies I saw in the 1980s that I'd like to watch again", some were blockbusters that hadn't been in the cinema for a couple of years. And... none were there.
Now, sure, I can find something to watch with all three, but in terms of the "I want to watch X, I haven't watched it in a while" itch, we're a long way away from having services (or even a combination thereof) that do that.
I'd be very surprised if Netflix + Hulu + Amazon Prime = 5% of mainstream movies made since 1976.
Technically true. I find I usually get modded down for expressing popular perspectives...
Uh, no. No it doesn't. Ted Cruz might have his judgment questioned, but only the most partisan idiot would say he'd done something illegal. If George W. Bush had done the same thing, it might have been something for the Daily Show to laugh at, but not even Salon would have called for impeachment.
Right now, a group of avowed Clinton haters is still trawling through Clinton's emails trying to find some case where she might have accidentally mislabeled an email or sent it to the wrong person. That's how pathetic this is.
To most of the world, it looks like yet another witch-hunt against a political couple that, for some reason, many on the far right in the US decided they actively hated in 1992 and as a result have held the couple to a bizarrely high standard they'd never do with any other politician.
And before you make assumptions: I'm not a fan of the woman. Her politics are far from mine. I'm depressed the current primaries are between her and someone I suspect isn't what he claims to be, and who, in any case, would probably result in four years of ideological gridlock if he won.
As I've said before, the day the urban legends about Windows 10 installing itself, unprompted, with no user interaction, become true, is the day Microsoft will face billions of dollars in lawsuits.
It's not going to happen.
FWIW, recommended updates aren't installed just because you have updates installed automatically. You still need to manually go into Windows Update to install them.
In fact, IIRC, you may be in more danger doing manual updates, as I believe "recommended" updates are selected by default when you manually update. If you miss the fact Windows 10 is selected, you'll be one step closer to installing it.
Pretty much every basic phone with 4Gb comes with a micro SD card slot, which you're expected to fill. A 4Gb Android phone is barely usable without one.
I bought a $30 Android phone the other week to replace my Galaxy Nexus. I was staggered to find the megabudget phone was actually a much more useful device, having, as it did, an microSD card slot, a battery that could last more than 24 hours (the GN couldn't last seven with standard use, I had to buy an "extended" battery that required a special cover to make it "fit"), and the standard buttons on the outside of the device rather than using up the screen display (and changing place whenever you accidentally change phone orientation...)
Yes, I'm aware time has passed, but the budget phone cost 10% of the cost of the GN (plus another $8 for a 16Gb microSD card), supports more recent phone standards, and its CPU and RAM seem to be comparable/the same.
I'm not saying the Nexus didn't have some nice features, I will miss the better screen (that device also had NFC and HDMI but I never used them), but truth is... I just can't see myself buying Nexus hardware as long as it's form over functionality. I mean, I hated Android for a long time because of that piece of utter #@(! and seriously was considering switching to Windows phone.
Google can take control if they want, but I don't trust the words of execs who justified the shitty battery life of the GN by saying they always carried a spare (I'm serious, go look it up) - I genuinely think they're more concerned about it looking sleek in a TV ad than it being useful.
True, but it's a relatively small amount of money. It's not completely out of whack with what commercial enterprises pay for non-free fonts. And, to be honest, if someone invested in this project thinking "Hmm, if I invest on research into improving something with a direct affect on road safety and transportation efficiency, I'll make money!" that's... not a bad thing. Beats "Hmm, if I invest in research on blowing people up, the government will give me money!" anyway.
Copyright isn't a terrible idea, just one that's abused from time to time. The target audience for this font can easily afford the money they're asking for, and it's a worthy product if the font does what it's designed to do. (Whether that's true is a separate issue from "Should we occasionally pay for fonts?")
The fact that distribution makers (who configure systemd) would have configured sysvinit to do exactly the same damned thing doesn't bother you?
Are you in the habit of accidentally typing "sudo rm -rf /"? (From memory AND PLEASE DON'T TRY IT IIRC many implementations of rm actually refuse to execute that particular command because it's so dangerous, they figure if you really need to, you can always try rm -rf /* or something like that.)
Just so you're aware, if you do type rm -rf /, you will bork your system and destroy all your data, together with any on attached network shares, regardless of whether you have a sucky BIOS or not. It's just in the latter case, you might also physically brick the computer.
I think the objection is that unrelated channels get bundled, not unrelated programs. You'd expect a single TV channel to show a variety of different programs.
And if that's not what you want, if you really just want to subscribe to specific TV programs, there's always Amazon Video.
Kinda a mix of everything. It's worth noting that, according to ex-kernel hacker Matthew Garrett, you can achieve the same bricking using a 20 line program in Windows. So it's not a Linux (or systemd! Seriously, don't we have enough hate against systemd without TFS adding fuel to the fire?) issue, it's more a design fault.
Clearly UEFI variables are expected to be written to by suitably privileged programs under consumer operating systems, otherwise Windows and Linux wouldn't expose them the way they're exposed. Yet clearly variables are being exposed like this that shouldn't be written to under normal circumstances.
That's for the Macbook Air, that's one model in Apple's line. You'd expect each manufacturer to occasionally have a star product.
In general though, I've seen both Apple and its competitors hover around the 10% return mark for their PCs in aggregate. Which is really what you'd expect, given most - including Apple - are sharing most of the components and supply chains.
The Apple store point is reasonable, but do you really think third party app support for Mac OS X is better than for Windows?
And, to be honest, when reliability stats have been quoted here, the numbers have tended to be within a margin of error - ie "9% return rate for Apple vs 10% for Dell" rather than "1% return rate for Apple vs 25% for Dell". I'm not convincedaverage users pick a Mac over a PC for that reason for for security, even if they may claim that afterwards.
In fairness, people bought Commodore Amigas (well, those who didn't buy them for games) because they were the most technically advanced computers available at a decent price at that time. You needed to get something from NEXT or Sun to get a more advanced operating system and more advanced integrated hardware (and the machines from those weren't as fun!)
So Commodore releasing, for the same price as its predecessor, a mostly cut down version of the 500+ (mostly because at least it contained a hard drive controller) was always going to be an absolute disaster. (It's even worse when you consider the fact the 500+ was a slightly enhanced 500 - supporting higher video scan rates and more chip RAM - and the 500 was a repackaged/refactored, cheaper, 1000, the Amiga that came out in 1985!)
People aren't buying Macs because they're the most technically advanced computers in their price range. They're buying them for aesthetics and user friendliness.
I'm not saying that it'll not ultimately bite them in the rear that their producing unexpandable 2002 era hardware for the same cost as a modern mid-range slim desktop if they continue to do so. But they can afford to let some models fall behind a little bit in a way that was never open to Commodore.
Well, to be fair, at the time it was unusual for any device maker to include a super-high DPI screen in their product. I don't know if the industry would have gone there anyway, but it seemed like, for a long time, the focus was on just including a standard grid in number of pixels, rather than high DPI. So, for example, most laptops had 136?x768 screens, be they 15" or 12". Most monitors were 136?x768 or 1960x1080.
Would it have happened anyway? I have a feeling phones with 720p screens would have happened anyway. But it's impossible to know either way. And that wouldn't have necessarily translated into high DPI laptop screens.
Leftist? I think the Republicans are actually more terrified of Trump at the moment!
Unless he directly harasses a named, tagged, individual (and I don't just mean saying "Fuck you @berniesanders"), I don't see any legitimate reason to ban him from Twitter, however much of a douchebag he is.
So, just to be clear, you can't actually name anyone who was banned from Twitter for saying "I disagree with you"?
Also, why did you put the word "Victim" in quotes? Are you saying that someone on the receiving end of the messages being sent is not being victimized?
Care to elaborate where I said anything about typography?
The comma may be physically bigger, but in usage it's smaller. Commas separate parts of a sentence. Sentences end in a period/stop/full stop/dot.
So if you're being consistent with where else those symbols are used, the period is right.
I can't believe I'm actually writing a comment on this. I mean, I seriously don't actually care. If I'd grown up with the other usage, I'd probably comment on the discrepancy between sentences and numbers but otherwise feel the comma as decimal is totally the right thing. Is there anything else of complete unimportance we can have an argument about? Personally I thought Abram's Star Trek was better than ST:TMP, but The Wrath of Kahn was way better than his sequel. Anyone care to put in a counter argument, preferably someone who both believes ST:TMP AND After Darkness were better than Star Trek and The Wrath of Kahn? I mean, at least that'd be more appropriate for this website.
A sizable amount of what you perceive in the industry (and thus confusions/false assumptions/etc) is about your own experience. My guess is that we're actually quite segmented in IT, even if we don't want to admit it. I had the benefit of working for a company that started smallish, had some major corporate customers (whose sites we had to visit and whose IT systems we had to work with), and transitioned through mergers and acquisitions into the kind of anonymous megacorp where you really don't want to work long term because to the CEO you're just a drone to get rid of when the company cannot make its numbers that quarter.
Which, of course, is ultimately why I'm not working there any more. The company had a bad quarter. Still, a 15 year redundancy payment certainly helps soften the blow.
And until I moved out of that company, I had no idea that PHP - FUCKING PHP I HATE IT - was the #1 programming language in the entire universe. And that if you want a job, PHP is where it's at.
But, in any case, if you're jumping from LAMP stack company to LAMP stack company, as much of Slashdot's programmers are, I suspect you end up with a very weird view of what Java is used for, just as I did PHP. And .net for that reason (which really does seem to be used everywhere in all kinds of configurations.)
Forget keyboard shortcuts, cut and paste would benefit hugely from being able to use the actual characters...