This is horrible. You can rationalize various aspects of it until it seems like a good idea, but it isn't.
It's bad enough that when someone tells a story, they already have to be aware of lines they may cross that change the demographics they'll be able to hit. Violent movies become more violent, tame movies become more tame, and everything becomes compartmentalized into it's own little segment. Stories gravitate towards the cookie-cutters that they seem closest to, and adapt to their form.
But now, if writers/directors/editors have to be aware of editing of their films, they'll have to make sure that stories have a continuity even without key scenes. Even more "explaining of the plot" will happen, to make sure everything is clear for those who didn't want to see the naked woman in scene 29.
In fact, if you guess that a reboot takes 5 minutes (?), and you had a system to automate the reboot process, 99.9% uptime means that the machine can go down about once every 3-4 days.. so someone claiming 99.9% uptime can just bring the system down that often, to "refresh" the system.. I personally don't think that qualifies as "stable". 99.9% uptime is not impressive.
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This is horrible. You can rationalize various aspects of it until it seems like a good idea, but it isn't.
It's bad enough that when someone tells a story, they already have to be aware of lines they may cross that change the demographics they'll be able to hit. Violent movies become more violent, tame movies become more tame, and everything becomes compartmentalized into it's own little segment. Stories gravitate towards the cookie-cutters that they seem closest to, and adapt to their form.
But now, if writers/directors/editors have to be aware of editing of their films, they'll have to make sure that stories have a continuity even without key scenes. Even more "explaining of the plot" will happen, to make sure everything is clear for those who didn't want to see the naked woman in scene 29.
Ugh.. Not good.
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11. Post an article describing the Sequence for a typical Tivo article on slashdot.
In fact, if you guess that a reboot takes 5 minutes (?), and you had a system to automate the reboot process, 99.9% uptime means that the machine can go down about once every 3-4 days.. so someone claiming 99.9% uptime can just bring the system down that often, to "refresh" the system.. I personally don't think that qualifies as "stable". 99.9% uptime is not impressive.