at some point the general public has to reach some critical mass wrt noticing the levels of hypocrisy and knee-jerk stupidity coming out from corporateville (and governmentberg too really).
One has to wonder if the average American is as stupid as these celluloid prison guards would think, or if they are so apathetic that people get away with making these outrageous claims - which later get sold to congress and enacted into idiot legislation./me goes to hork down a gallon of coffee...this shit requires me to be lucid before ranting further
this moves beyond the threshold of farcical. they are either knee-jerkingly making these bizarre statements in order to deliberatly make waves and jolt the stock price because they know they should "get what they can while they can" (ergo, knowing their days are numbered) or they are arguably completely off their rockers and thinking "well, we made it this far, lets see how much more of reality we can warp"
it is just staggering at the level of idiocy inertia this whole thing is gathering...
one can hope they can make a real comeback, but I am not entirely hopeful. Cray has a notoriously cantankerous culture (much of the acrimony when they fell under SGI was of their own doing, as they even refused to get SGI business cards for ages, spending more time being defiant to SGI than anything else - like finding customers).
I am curious as to how they are under Tera's custody.
the whole scenario seems strikingly Pythonesque. SCO (Stupid Crappy Operation) seems to have become the DPRK of tech, a seemingly isolated, insular fringe player on the scene that is in a steep decline and has resorted to a twisted form of brinkmanship to keep in play, leaving the rest of the players somewhere between arggravated and bemused.
well, wal-mart probably will not stock much of what Netflix does outside fo the obvious big titles(foreign films, art films, documentaries that arent about battlebot lookalikes or other such ilk). Whether Netflix wishes to consign themselves to such a small et of niche markets remains to be seen. They certainly will not carry things like uncut anime or even good fmous foreign directors like Akira Kurosawa I would wager...
I think the folks at openculture (http://www.openculture.org) were trying to do just that. I think it was Ted T'so that mentioned them to me, and I am surprised they have not received more attention.
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at some point the general public has to reach some critical mass wrt noticing the levels of hypocrisy and knee-jerk stupidity coming out from corporateville (and governmentberg too really). One has to wonder if the average American is as stupid as these celluloid prison guards would think, or if they are so apathetic that people get away with making these outrageous claims - which later get sold to congress and enacted into idiot legislation. /me goes to hork down a gallon of coffee...this shit requires me to be lucid before ranting further
this moves beyond the threshold of farcical. they are either knee-jerkingly making these bizarre statements in order to deliberatly make waves and jolt the stock price because they know they should "get what they can while they can" (ergo, knowing their days are numbered) or they are arguably completely off their rockers and thinking "well, we made it this far, lets see how much more of reality we can warp" it is just staggering at the level of idiocy inertia this whole thing is gathering...
one can hope they can make a real comeback, but I am not entirely hopeful. Cray has a notoriously cantankerous culture (much of the acrimony when they fell under SGI was of their own doing, as they even refused to get SGI business cards for ages, spending more time being defiant to SGI than anything else - like finding customers). I am curious as to how they are under Tera's custody.
the whole scenario seems strikingly Pythonesque. SCO (Stupid Crappy Operation) seems to have become the DPRK of tech, a seemingly isolated, insular fringe player on the scene that is in a steep decline and has resorted to a twisted form of brinkmanship to keep in play, leaving the rest of the players somewhere between arggravated and bemused.
well, wal-mart probably will not stock much of what Netflix does outside fo the obvious big titles(foreign films, art films, documentaries that arent about battlebot lookalikes or other such ilk). Whether Netflix wishes to consign themselves to such a small et of niche markets remains to be seen. They certainly will not carry things like uncut anime or even good fmous foreign directors like Akira Kurosawa I would wager...
there is still hope.
I think the folks at openculture (http://www.openculture.org) were trying to do just that. I think it was Ted T'so that mentioned them to me, and I am surprised they have not received more attention.
when I started reading this I thought I was back in 1999. But, that being said, it certainly can't hurt to raise more attention to sites like it.