It makes sense to pull a movie that's not making money because the exhibitor can make more money by filling that theater with another movie. And the investment in a movie's release ends at its release. Even if you do pull it from theaters you have secondary markets in TV, video, and on-demand services. You only need to provide one copy and many people can consume it.
With a manufactured product you have a large productive system built to make only that product, and shutting it down before giving its product a chance to catch on is wasting the cost you put into it, and the cost you'll incur by shutting it down.
That said, these days it may be much cheaper to rip up a production line, if your business model is to buy your product from a big manufacturer that makes a lot of different products and will absorb no capital loss by shutting down production of your product and selling the capacity to another.
If it walks like Foxconn, quacks like Foxconn, and lets you treat a new technology like an internet posting, it must be the giant sucking sound of jobs moving to China.
I don't click a link then just go look at it. I find a few interesting things then go through the tabs I've opened. More efficient than waiting for loading from slashdotted sites.
There's an earthen dam about 10 miles east of the epicenter. Right next to a town called Bumpass. Bumpass, Virginia. Lovely part of the world. Soon to be under water.
Tension builds along a fault until one of the tense spots gives way. This releases the rock on either side of the fault to slide. It may catch on something as it does, creating tension again. Usually, the thing that catches is a lot less sticky than the original thing that broke free, and the things behind it aren't as stable either, so it breaks sooner, generally within minutes, hours, or days. The resulting swarm of earthquakes is called aftershocks. Their timing and size is no more predictable than the original quake. There will likely be none that can be felt in NYC, though.
If, however, the thing that broke was holding back a much bigger sticking point that was also on the verge of breaking free, it may have been a foreshock for a quake that will really make the news. The east coast does zero, or nearly zero, building for earthquake survivability, unlike the California coast or Japan. A 5.0 in NYC would be like a 7.0-8.0 in SF.
Shortly after the 9.0 off the Japanese coast in March, there was a 6.8 just a few miles from Tokyo. Almost nobody knows about the latter quake. Partly because they were all being mesmerized by the Tsunami at that point, and partly because there was a swarm of 6-7 magnitude quakes from the southern end of Japan to well north of the original quake, and partly because that sort of thing happens all the time there. People focus on just the big one.
God wants them to tax the rich (never God's favorite folks) and spend more money on poor people so they stop blaming God for how fucked up their lives are under the plutocracy.
I have likely downloaded things from them in the past year, but I hardly notice whether it's download.com, tucows.com, or anonymous-er-we-mean-trusted-source.com.
What bookstore has ever had every book you ever wanted?
You'll buy what you find there. You'll go elsewhere if they don't have it. In one out of a few million instances, Shopper A will try to order Book B through a particular outlet C. And if they say "we don't have it and we can't even get it," shopper A will move on to outlet D and come back to outlet C because it's still better than outlet D.
Thing is, outlet D is Amazon, and there aren't many that are better at just being an outlet.
Slashdot Mirror
It's pretty irrelevant now that Google owns patents on basic cellphone technology.
Gonna be a bad day for Apple when they have to send every iPhone owner a software update and a sticker that says "iPod Touch".
no "like" or "+1" buttons.
If only I had mod points...
It makes sense to pull a movie that's not making money because the exhibitor can make more money by filling that theater with another movie. And the investment in a movie's release ends at its release. Even if you do pull it from theaters you have secondary markets in TV, video, and on-demand services. You only need to provide one copy and many people can consume it.
With a manufactured product you have a large productive system built to make only that product, and shutting it down before giving its product a chance to catch on is wasting the cost you put into it, and the cost you'll incur by shutting it down.
That said, these days it may be much cheaper to rip up a production line, if your business model is to buy your product from a big manufacturer that makes a lot of different products and will absorb no capital loss by shutting down production of your product and selling the capacity to another.
If it walks like Foxconn, quacks like Foxconn, and lets you treat a new technology like an internet posting, it must be the giant sucking sound of jobs moving to China.
He'll be back.
I stole his spacebar.
They probably say something closer to bumpus.
This was not a slip fault like CA or a subduction fault like Japan.
Yet.
I don't click a link then just go look at it. I find a few interesting things then go through the tabs I've opened. More efficient than waiting for loading from slashdotted sites.
opening half a dozen tabs in a spurt, then trying to find the one that started playing a video in the background, is annoying and intrusive
i'll start the video myself, thanks.
NoScript kept it from playing until I clicked.
Browser add-ons are q00l.
Man. That's got to be a fun time. Sitting at your desk in the freaking nuclear plant when the entire planet starts moving.
I hope they keep clean pants in a file drawer.
Slashcode randomly inserts factual errors into submissions. It does this by allowing dumb people to post. This is a known bug in Web 2.0.
People in so-cal tie their computer racks to the wall with Earthquake Straps.
People on the east coast are about to find out why they're called that.
There's an earthen dam about 10 miles east of the epicenter. Right next to a town called Bumpass. Bumpass, Virginia. Lovely part of the world. Soon to be under water.
Tension builds along a fault until one of the tense spots gives way. This releases the rock on either side of the fault to slide. It may catch on something as it does, creating tension again. Usually, the thing that catches is a lot less sticky than the original thing that broke free, and the things behind it aren't as stable either, so it breaks sooner, generally within minutes, hours, or days. The resulting swarm of earthquakes is called aftershocks. Their timing and size is no more predictable than the original quake. There will likely be none that can be felt in NYC, though.
If, however, the thing that broke was holding back a much bigger sticking point that was also on the verge of breaking free, it may have been a foreshock for a quake that will really make the news. The east coast does zero, or nearly zero, building for earthquake survivability, unlike the California coast or Japan. A 5.0 in NYC would be like a 7.0-8.0 in SF.
Shortly after the 9.0 off the Japanese coast in March, there was a 6.8 just a few miles from Tokyo. Almost nobody knows about the latter quake. Partly because they were all being mesmerized by the Tsunami at that point, and partly because there was a swarm of 6-7 magnitude quakes from the southern end of Japan to well north of the original quake, and partly because that sort of thing happens all the time there. People focus on just the big one.
God wants them to tax the rich (never God's favorite folks) and spend more money on poor people so they stop blaming God for how fucked up their lives are under the plutocracy.
0 damage would be highly improbable
83% likelihood of $1 million to $1 billion in damage
22% likelihood it killed someone
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/pager/events/us/c0005ild/index.html
It was trojaned in a submission about condom thickness.
I'm guessing you're in the Back Bay. It's an old landfill, and it sloshes when the bedrock moves even a little. It's like living on a seismometer.
The sad part is, Rick Perry may be their natural leader...
Whoa. Your post only appears when I wear polarized glasses.
I have likely downloaded things from them in the past year, but I hardly notice whether it's download.com, tucows.com, or anonymous-er-we-mean-trusted-source.com.
The cloud isn't just an API, any more.
No, and he'll be done reviewing Netscape Navigator 4.0 and installing it next week.
So you want meta-cokebottle-shift-lol
s/gener/sensation
FTFY
What bookstore has ever had every book you ever wanted?
You'll buy what you find there. You'll go elsewhere if they don't have it. In one out of a few million instances, Shopper A will try to order Book B through a particular outlet C. And if they say "we don't have it and we can't even get it," shopper A will move on to outlet D and come back to outlet C because it's still better than outlet D.
Thing is, outlet D is Amazon, and there aren't many that are better at just being an outlet.