tl;dr Marx was right that an over-production would leave the majority in poverty, and the only economically sustainable solution is sharing. It's not "desperation", but an inevitable and rational necessity.
It's called the sharing economy, but there's not actually sharing co-op style. It's more finding use of idle assets. If you own a car but you only drive 1 hr each day, then it goes unused 23 hrs. And if you're unemployed, you have idle time that you're not using. Get some money here.
this is the same thing they do for amazon instant streaming. in the app you can watch all of the free streaming and all of the movies you have already rented, but you can't rent any movies. to rent a movie you can only do that from their website. and the app itself doesn't have links to renting on the website. it's a pain in the ass and a big reason to not use amazon instant streaming. I only rent from amazon when something isn't on netflix, hbogo, iTunes, or amazon prime. canistream.it is priceless.
For the record: despite all its story consistency failings, Episodes 2 & 3 were NOT THAT BAD. Episode 3, in fact, was a genuinely enjoyable movie! Episode 1 was exactly the steaming shitpile that everyone makes it out to be, except for the first 15 minutes, the pod races and Darth Maul's battle with Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon.
interesting... i agree the movies got better from 1 to 3. 3 still had its problems - noooooo! do not want! but 1 was abysmal. interesting you call out the moments you chose. the first 15 mins were a super let down for me. trade dispute with the trading guild the fuck? CGI droids? the only cool part here was when they plunged their lightsabers into the metal wall to cut a door. the pod race went on about 10 mins too long, and featured that kid which made it even more annoying. the darth maul battle was pretty awesome. generally speaking, both obi won and qui go were awesome and saved the movie.
I recently discovered polygon and am really enjoying it. i find it has higher journalistic work than most gaming sites. What they call "features" are actually magazine-quality features, not the SEO stuff you find elsewhere. also, i like the "inside baseball" look at how AAA titles come together (or go off the rails).
In short, I am intrigued by their ideas and subscribed to their newsletter.
a mcguffin doesn't mean there isn't a plot. there are some great movies that have mcguffins. off the top of my head, the suitcase in pulp fiction (the one that glowed gold when they opened it). it was an important item that everybody wanted but you never found out what it is. The second is the "rabbit's foot" in mission impossible III. Everybody wants it but you never find out what it is. I don't remember if they ever even uncover it!
point is, you can have rich plots even with a mcguffin.
for the purpose of video games, I'm a huge fan of assassin's creed, and am currently kicking pirate ass in ACIV. at first i was disappointed in the story, because it appears to be not directly tied to the whole assassin/templar thing and just a tacked on pirate adventure. but now I'm completely embracing it. I'm thinking of it as "Assassin's Creed Caribbean Vacation". And it's fscking awesome and fun.
there's a difference between structuring your business to avoid taxes, and not paying taxes that you owe. Goog is the latter. but I feel bad beating up on them lately, especially after the moto thing and their last quarterly report. desktop revenue down 9% even though clicks are up 26%...
but it takes 2 or 3 years from story origination to opening day. do they do focus groups of precogs to see what people will be panicking about in the future?
i assume the old cast will all have 2 minute cameos, not major parts. you're right about lame indiana jones 4... which was created by lucas and produced by lucasfilm. i have a lot of faith in this sequel.
totally 100% wrong. this is some jj abrams star-trek-style reinvention, where he breaks free of old conventions to tell a new story. thank goodness that movies 7-9 won't be stuck in a little narrative box that was delineated 30 years ago. 1-3 were a disappointment to me, but I have big expectations here.
no way man. if you have a siphon that is 2 inches tall, there is no way there's a meaningful difference in atmospheric pressure between the top and the bottom. if that were the case you could hold a straw vertically and wind would rush through it.
it's like a chain hanging from a ladder, just gravity.
i didn't realize there was any confusion about this. obviously it's because of gravity. it's like when you have a long chain suspended from above with both sides hanging down. when the two sides are the same length it is stable, but when one side becomes longer than the other then the weight of gravity pulls the whole chain down. duh?
this is horrible, imagine if they could build out for peak capacity in the right locations for the right times so there wouldn't be anymore rolling blackouts in july and august
presumably the next step is for the power companies to control your thermostat to cut back your A/C during peak times.
The USA Criticises other countries democratic processes when their own is corrupt , they use the courts to deny people (particularly Black people) the right to vote
Will the US ever nuke another nation, yes I believe they will because they believe they have the right to bully other nations.
actually, there are other minorities that are disenfranchised more than african americans. the greatest disenfranchisement is among non-english speakers and populations who move around a lot - latinos. Nobody wants to "deny people the right to vote", but plenty of people want to erect enough hoops to jump through that make some voters give up and not vote. Survey says, it disproportionately affects minorities.
It's not the 'US' doing this, it's republican parties in several southern states. And the courts have mostly struck down these voter laws. although the current supreme court is swinging to the right...
To be clear, FTA staff wrote a blog posting in which they approve of new ways in which consumers can shop for goods. They have not approved any new regulations related to Tesla. The summary is accurate, but the headline is a little off.
The problem with beta is it was announced too early. People got alarmed that they were changing the character of the site. Beta is more mature now, and looks fine. I think the point is to retain the featured for the old people but make it a more attractive site for the new people
For accessing sequential data, serial interfaces do pretty well. You send an address once, and just keep on clocking out (or in) high speed serial data and the flash controller in the card increments the address automagically.
true but why did they rip off the HTC One name? best case it makes them look unoriginal, and worst case they get shut down in the courts.
The problem comes with XIF implementations that are highly random, and change access addresses often. That is not fast on a serial flash where address setups take a long time.
agreed but I think this can be solved in software.
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I thought the republic fell when Marcus Aurelius joined the dark side, with Brutus as an apprentice.
tl;dr Marx was right that an over-production would leave the majority in poverty, and the only economically sustainable solution is sharing. It's not "desperation", but an inevitable and rational necessity.
It's called the sharing economy, but there's not actually sharing co-op style. It's more finding use of idle assets. If you own a car but you only drive 1 hr each day, then it goes unused 23 hrs. And if you're unemployed, you have idle time that you're not using. Get some money here.
Vaporware! I'll believe it when I see it.
this is the same thing they do for amazon instant streaming. in the app you can watch all of the free streaming and all of the movies you have already rented, but you can't rent any movies. to rent a movie you can only do that from their website. and the app itself doesn't have links to renting on the website. it's a pain in the ass and a big reason to not use amazon instant streaming. I only rent from amazon when something isn't on netflix, hbogo, iTunes, or amazon prime. canistream.it is priceless.
For the record: despite all its story consistency failings, Episodes 2 & 3 were NOT THAT BAD. Episode 3, in fact, was a genuinely enjoyable movie! Episode 1 was exactly the steaming shitpile that everyone makes it out to be, except for the first 15 minutes, the pod races and Darth Maul's battle with Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon.
interesting... i agree the movies got better from 1 to 3. 3 still had its problems - noooooo! do not want! but 1 was abysmal. interesting you call out the moments you chose. the first 15 mins were a super let down for me. trade dispute with the trading guild the fuck? CGI droids? the only cool part here was when they plunged their lightsabers into the metal wall to cut a door. the pod race went on about 10 mins too long, and featured that kid which made it even more annoying. the darth maul battle was pretty awesome. generally speaking, both obi won and qui go were awesome and saved the movie.
I recently discovered polygon and am really enjoying it. i find it has higher journalistic work than most gaming sites. What they call "features" are actually magazine-quality features, not the SEO stuff you find elsewhere. also, i like the "inside baseball" look at how AAA titles come together (or go off the rails). In short, I am intrigued by their ideas and subscribed to their newsletter.
a mcguffin doesn't mean there isn't a plot. there are some great movies that have mcguffins. off the top of my head, the suitcase in pulp fiction (the one that glowed gold when they opened it). it was an important item that everybody wanted but you never found out what it is. The second is the "rabbit's foot" in mission impossible III. Everybody wants it but you never find out what it is. I don't remember if they ever even uncover it!
point is, you can have rich plots even with a mcguffin.
for the purpose of video games, I'm a huge fan of assassin's creed, and am currently kicking pirate ass in ACIV. at first i was disappointed in the story, because it appears to be not directly tied to the whole assassin/templar thing and just a tacked on pirate adventure. but now I'm completely embracing it. I'm thinking of it as "Assassin's Creed Caribbean Vacation". And it's fscking awesome and fun.
there's a difference between structuring your business to avoid taxes, and not paying taxes that you owe. Goog is the latter. but I feel bad beating up on them lately, especially after the moto thing and their last quarterly report. desktop revenue down 9% even though clicks are up 26%...
your grammar makes no sense
george lucas has no say here. for better or for worse, he sold it all off. his opinion counts just as much as that of any blowhard in these comments.
but it takes 2 or 3 years from story origination to opening day. do they do focus groups of precogs to see what people will be panicking about in the future?
i assume the old cast will all have 2 minute cameos, not major parts. you're right about lame indiana jones 4... which was created by lucas and produced by lucasfilm. i have a lot of faith in this sequel.
totally 100% wrong. this is some jj abrams star-trek-style reinvention, where he breaks free of old conventions to tell a new story. thank goodness that movies 7-9 won't be stuck in a little narrative box that was delineated 30 years ago. 1-3 were a disappointment to me, but I have big expectations here.
no way man. if you have a siphon that is 2 inches tall, there is no way there's a meaningful difference in atmospheric pressure between the top and the bottom. if that were the case you could hold a straw vertically and wind would rush through it.
it's like a chain hanging from a ladder, just gravity.
i didn't realize there was any confusion about this. obviously it's because of gravity. it's like when you have a long chain suspended from above with both sides hanging down. when the two sides are the same length it is stable, but when one side becomes longer than the other then the weight of gravity pulls the whole chain down. duh?
why doesn't con ed upgrade their infrastructure? don't they have an obligation to serve? duh.
this is horrible, imagine if they could build out for peak capacity in the right locations for the right times so there wouldn't be anymore rolling blackouts in july and august
presumably the next step is for the power companies to control your thermostat to cut back your A/C during peak times.
The USA Criticises other countries democratic processes when their own is corrupt , they use the courts to deny people (particularly Black people) the right to vote
Will the US ever nuke another nation, yes I believe they will because they believe they have the right to bully other nations.
actually, there are other minorities that are disenfranchised more than african americans. the greatest disenfranchisement is among non-english speakers and populations who move around a lot - latinos. Nobody wants to "deny people the right to vote", but plenty of people want to erect enough hoops to jump through that make some voters give up and not vote. Survey says, it disproportionately affects minorities.
It's not the 'US' doing this, it's republican parties in several southern states. And the courts have mostly struck down these voter laws. although the current supreme court is swinging to the right...
Will the US ever nuke another nation, yes I believe they will because they believe they have the right to bully other nations.
to be precise, the US is the only nation that has ever nuked another nation. God willing never again.
To be clear, FTA staff wrote a blog posting in which they approve of new ways in which consumers can shop for goods. They have not approved any new regulations related to Tesla. The summary is accurate, but the headline is a little off.
No it's a bright line. Smart phones make phone calls. PDAs do not make phone calls. If you called a PDA a "smart phone" you would be wrong.
The problem with beta is it was announced too early. People got alarmed that they were changing the character of the site. Beta is more mature now, and looks fine. I think the point is to retain the featured for the old people but make it a more attractive site for the new people
PDA's done make phone calls.
I imagine these will be great for express elevator to the upper floors, but bad for short hops, because it probably takes lots of time to start stop.
For accessing sequential data, serial interfaces do pretty well. You send an address once, and just keep on clocking out (or in) high speed serial data and the flash controller in the card increments the address automagically.
true but why did they rip off the HTC One name? best case it makes them look unoriginal, and worst case they get shut down in the courts.
The problem comes with XIF implementations that are highly random, and change access addresses often. That is not fast on a serial flash where address setups take a long time.
agreed but I think this can be solved in software.