Verizon and the rest of the cable/telco cartel have succeeded in extorting rents from Netflix, so now they have no need for an alternate service. A content play was never a natural move for Verizon. Much easier and much more profitable to simply shake down the two or three leading streaming services -- but until they were able to do that, having something like Redbox streaming was an important part of their threat.
Redbox streaming likely only existed to use as a threat: "nice little business you've got here. Pity if anything started happening to your deliveries and our company took all your customers."
...but I'm finding it hard to really get too worked up about.
We are planning to buy almost F-35s at a price of approx. $188 million per. This is a plane that in the words of Rand corp (hardly an anti-military outfit) "can't turn, can't climb, can't run" well enough to dogfight.
We are planning to buy a total of 10 Ford class aircraft carriers, at a cost of more than $11 billion per ship. The Chinese seem to think they can neutralize our carriers with cheap ballistic missiles and attack subs. Lots of experts think they may be right. But even if they aren't that will leave us with twice as many fleet carriers as the rest of the world combined.
Compared to that, I think a million bucks to study the life cycle of memes is a bargain.
It's a bill sponsored by members of the minority party in the House of Representatives. It has zero chance of becoming law, and a nearly zero chance of ever making it out of committee. Why are the editors wasting our time with this? Do they not understand the first thing about how congress works?
Sure, but is "intuitive user interface for capacitive touchscreen device" actually patentable? If it is, then Apple's got a case and the patent system is even worse than I thought. If it's not, then Apple's just scum trying to manipulate the legal system to win what they can't win in the market.
As for nuking Apple from orbit? I'd happily do it even if there was no such thing as iOS, Android or even cell phones. I'd nuke them even if I had to give the launch order over a landline with a rotary phone.
And as for the "what if this is the only gun you can buy" counterargument: there are a few hundred million guns in the USofA, and the people that make them have considerable clout. The notion that suddenly all those other, conventional firearms will disappear, and that gun manufacturers will be forced to make only this type of gun, is delusional.
Ruger has already been forced to quit selling new guns in California because of a requirement that all new pistols include 'bullet stamping' technology -- technology that is not near ready for regular use and will make pistols at least two to three times more expensive than they are now when it is finally reliable.
Other manufacturers will be affected by the new regulations as they refresh their model lines (and in Cali, that can include things like a different color finish).
Looks nice...but still not as dense as what I'd expect under HIDs...I really want to be excited about LEDs but I just haven't seen them work well enough on a per watt or per sqft basis...yet. They've gotten a lot better in just the last couple of years....and someday soon they'll be ready for prime time.
If you've got evidence to show, please share....our electric bills will thank you... but so far every person I've seen tell me LEDs work great has been full of it and usually trying to sell LED grow lights.
Except for that's not how it's panning out in places like Colorado and the Netherlands, where it's largely smaller growers who are making money....
Sure, as long as it remains illegal enough that no legitimate corporation is willing to touch it. The minute you've got real legalization, as opposed to just decriminalization or some sort of nebulous status like Colorado (legal state, illegal under federal law) then it'll be a whole different type of criminal running the show...the same business a$$hole$ who run the rest of the economy.
LEDs aren't there yet. You can't get cannabis to flower properly under LED lighting, nor can you get the sort of growth rates you'll get under HID lights. It might be useful for cloning...but flourescents work fine for that.
Also, the newer digital HID ballasts are silent. Even older magnetic ballasts don't make much noise, especially if they're installed properly. Your biggest noise issue is going to come from exhaust fans, but that can be minimized as well if you know what you're doing. Or so I've heard..."
...if weed is legalized. It's mom and pop growers who will be hurt. Serious organized crime groups will just make up any lost weed money with other drugs. People who have turned to growing because the economy sucks so bad, like pretty much everyone in my hometown, will be the losers from legalization.
About 15 years ago a partner and I did a large-ish scale guerilla-style marijuana grow on timber company land in SE Humboldt County. Spent almost 10 months hiking through dense brush and scrub forest every day, often working or walking along the streams -- prime territory for ticks and mosquitos.
My partner was a serious hippie. He was vegitarian and ate macrobiotic, grew his own wheat grass, didn't smoke (tobacco, anyway), body was his temple. He got eaten alive. Every day he'd have a half dozen or more ticks take a bite, mosquitos swarmed him every chance they got.
Meanwhile, I was living on Mountain Dew, McDonalds and Marlboros. Anytime I saw a mosquito I'd light a cigarette and they'd go away. I think I got three tick bites the whole season.
Of course I was 18 and could get away with it....but still
As several people noted, this is super obvious: Netflix can do whatever it wants with DVDs, the studios don't 'let' them do anything. That isn't true for streaming. It's an obvious answer that required less than two seconds of thought.
Why did any./ editor think this was a good pick for the site?
How many people who read tech news sites wouldn't know this?
Perhaps more on point: who actually works professionally as an editor of a tech news site and didn't know this?
Whoever moved this story from the firehose/pitch queue and onto the page itself should be fired. It was a worse decision than beta.
Doesn't take an army of minions....common knowledge that whatever region Tennessee is in has shortest wait for liver transplant. The idea that money makes any difference in the allotment of organs is reprehensible. Jobs, in this case, is a symptom of a diseased system. But, as usual with that scumbag, he sure manages to be example A of how corrupt and evil the system is.
He would have easily got on the transplant list by actually moving to Tennessee, if he hadn't had much money. It would have been less convenient for him, but not at all a problem.
Not likely. Most people aren't moving from California to Tennessee while sick enough to be fairly high up on the list. And it's not like you can just drop everything and move because finances are explicitly considered when evaluating candidates for transplant.
The theory is that if you don't have the resources to make sure you'll be able to keep up with the extensive pre- and post-operative regieme -- including anti-rejection drugs that cost big money -- then they don't want to waste an organ on you. The practice is that the poor have a tougher time getting on the transplant list.
To be sick enough to even be on California's liver transplant list you've got to be sick enough that you're probably not able to hold a job, much less land a new one across the country.
One more reason to hate Jobs. He was able to get on the transplant list in Tennessee only because he had the money to fly out there (to a house bought just for that purpose) whenever he needed to for the various pre-op and post op appointments necessary. There are a TON of these for any organ transplant. Most people don't have the resources to do this. California is the worst place in the nation to need an organ transplant. The region Tennessee is part of is the best. Without his money, Jobs would have died waiting for a transplant -- as would most people in that position. Jobs is scum, but the fault here is America.
Can we get a ban on IT World stories please....
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Verizon and the rest of the cable/telco cartel have succeeded in extorting rents from Netflix, so now they have no need for an alternate service. A content play was never a natural move for Verizon. Much easier and much more profitable to simply shake down the two or three leading streaming services -- but until they were able to do that, having something like Redbox streaming was an important part of their threat.
Redbox streaming likely only existed to use as a threat: "nice little business you've got here. Pity if anything started happening to your deliveries and our company took all your customers."
...but I'm finding it hard to really get too worked up about.
We are planning to buy almost F-35s at a price of approx. $188 million per. This is a plane that in the words of Rand corp (hardly an anti-military outfit) "can't turn, can't climb, can't run" well enough to dogfight.
We are planning to buy a total of 10 Ford class aircraft carriers, at a cost of more than $11 billion per ship. The Chinese seem to think they can neutralize our carriers with cheap ballistic missiles and attack subs. Lots of experts think they may be right. But even if they aren't that will leave us with twice as many fleet carriers as the rest of the world combined.
Compared to that, I think a million bucks to study the life cycle of memes is a bargain.
That's actually a really good point, and it's been a pain point for me for years without realizing the why of it.
But then you go and ruin it with this: To cover a span of 1" or 24mm.
1" = 25.4mm, IIRC.
I got a cheap drill press from Harbor Freight for $56 on sale.
...for the affluent. Wondeful. I'm so sick of California.
It's a bill sponsored by members of the minority party in the House of Representatives. It has zero chance of becoming law, and a nearly zero chance of ever making it out of committee. Why are the editors wasting our time with this? Do they not understand the first thing about how congress works?
The police are not going to be feeding hints to a witness during a line up.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahah. Oh wait, were you serious?
At this point, why would anyone give any cop the benefit of the doubt about anything?
Sure, but is "intuitive user interface for capacitive touchscreen device" actually patentable? If it is, then Apple's got a case and the patent system is even worse than I thought. If it's not, then Apple's just scum trying to manipulate the legal system to win what they can't win in the market.
As for nuking Apple from orbit? I'd happily do it even if there was no such thing as iOS, Android or even cell phones. I'd nuke them even if I had to give the launch order over a landline with a rotary phone.
I had no idea you could still get cable descramblers that work worth a damn. Anyone know if they're legit? Anyone wanna point me toward a good source?
I used to get hacked DirectTV access cards back in the day and they were awesome...but I thought those days were over for good.
I've sworn to never pay for cable again, but I would sign up for a basic package if I could get everything else for free like back in the day.
Thank you DOJ; without your stupid initiative I woulda never known.
And as for the "what if this is the only gun you can buy" counterargument: there are a few hundred million guns in the USofA, and the people that make them have considerable clout. The notion that suddenly all those other, conventional firearms will disappear, and that gun manufacturers will be forced to make only this type of gun, is delusional.
Ruger has already been forced to quit selling new guns in California because of a requirement that all new pistols include 'bullet stamping' technology -- technology that is not near ready for regular use and will make pistols at least two to three times more expensive than they are now when it is finally reliable.
Other manufacturers will be affected by the new regulations as they refresh their model lines (and in Cali, that can include things like a different color finish).
Looks nice...but still not as dense as what I'd expect under HIDs...I really want to be excited about LEDs but I just haven't seen them work well enough on a per watt or per sqft basis...yet. They've gotten a lot better in just the last couple of years....and someday soon they'll be ready for prime time.
Opportunity costs, mostly.
If you've got evidence to show, please share....our electric bills will thank you... but so far every person I've seen tell me LEDs work great has been full of it and usually trying to sell LED grow lights.
Except for that's not how it's panning out in places like Colorado and the Netherlands, where it's largely smaller growers who are making money....
Sure, as long as it remains illegal enough that no legitimate corporation is willing to touch it. The minute you've got real legalization, as opposed to just decriminalization or some sort of nebulous status like Colorado (legal state, illegal under federal law) then it'll be a whole different type of criminal running the show...the same business a$$hole$ who run the rest of the economy.
LEDs aren't there yet. You can't get cannabis to flower properly under LED lighting, nor can you get the sort of growth rates you'll get under HID lights. It might be useful for cloning...but flourescents work fine for that.
Also, the newer digital HID ballasts are silent. Even older magnetic ballasts don't make much noise, especially if they're installed properly. Your biggest noise issue is going to come from exhaust fans, but that can be minimized as well if you know what you're doing. Or so I've heard..."
...if weed is legalized. It's mom and pop growers who will be hurt. Serious organized crime groups will just make up any lost weed money with other drugs. People who have turned to growing because the economy sucks so bad, like pretty much everyone in my hometown, will be the losers from legalization.
....is that I need to start forging the ID cards, too. Cool. I'm on it.
Actually, Cali has one of if not the lowest rates of donation in the country.
About 15 years ago a partner and I did a large-ish scale guerilla-style marijuana grow on timber company land in SE Humboldt County. Spent almost 10 months hiking through dense brush and scrub forest every day, often working or walking along the streams -- prime territory for ticks and mosquitos.
My partner was a serious hippie. He was vegitarian and ate macrobiotic, grew his own wheat grass, didn't smoke (tobacco, anyway), body was his temple. He got eaten alive. Every day he'd have a half dozen or more ticks take a bite, mosquitos swarmed him every chance they got.
Meanwhile, I was living on Mountain Dew, McDonalds and Marlboros. Anytime I saw a mosquito I'd light a cigarette and they'd go away. I think I got three tick bites the whole season.
Of course I was 18 and could get away with it....but still
And what idiot actually shops for a new laptop at Best Buy?
As several people noted, this is super obvious: Netflix can do whatever it wants with DVDs, the studios don't 'let' them do anything. That isn't true for streaming. It's an obvious answer that required less than two seconds of thought.
Why did any ./ editor think this was a good pick for the site?
How many people who read tech news sites wouldn't know this?
Perhaps more on point: who actually works professionally as an editor of a tech news site and didn't know this?
Whoever moved this story from the firehose/pitch queue and onto the page itself should be fired. It was a worse decision than beta.
Doesn't take an army of minions....common knowledge that whatever region Tennessee is in has shortest wait for liver transplant. The idea that money makes any difference in the allotment of organs is reprehensible. Jobs, in this case, is a symptom of a diseased system. But, as usual with that scumbag, he sure manages to be example A of how corrupt and evil the system is.
He would have easily got on the transplant list by actually moving to Tennessee, if he hadn't had much money. It would have been less convenient for him, but not at all a problem.
Not likely. Most people aren't moving from California to Tennessee while sick enough to be fairly high up on the list. And it's not like you can just drop everything and move because finances are explicitly considered when evaluating candidates for transplant.
The theory is that if you don't have the resources to make sure you'll be able to keep up with the extensive pre- and post-operative regieme -- including anti-rejection drugs that cost big money -- then they don't want to waste an organ on you. The practice is that the poor have a tougher time getting on the transplant list.
To be sick enough to even be on California's liver transplant list you've got to be sick enough that you're probably not able to hold a job, much less land a new one across the country.
One more reason to hate Jobs. He was able to get on the transplant list in Tennessee only because he had the money to fly out there (to a house bought just for that purpose) whenever he needed to for the various pre-op and post op appointments necessary. There are a TON of these for any organ transplant. Most people don't have the resources to do this. California is the worst place in the nation to need an organ transplant. The region Tennessee is part of is the best. Without his money, Jobs would have died waiting for a transplant -- as would most people in that position. Jobs is scum, but the fault here is America.
....they've always been worthless content free clickbait, but it seems like we're seeing them more often lately.