This is a very bleak future if you are correct. Advertising generates a lot of money. More importantly it generates a lot of money up front. If you take this away from the network they are going to start doing what we are currently seeing in the film industry: They are going to stop taking any chances and only put out shows that they know will sell.
Now, you are probably thinking "That's exactly what I want, good TV! No more crap!"
Have you ever asked yourself why there are so many shows you don't like on TV? It's because those shows are profitable. Your future is a recipe for more reality TV, cookie cutter procedurals, and formulaic laugh-track enhanced multicam comedies. Sure we'll get a hand full of shows like The Walking Dead, but they will be even fewer and farther between than they are today. Why take a chance on something unique when you can dump out something crappy and cheap that you know will make money?
Cable companies will love your scheme as well, since you essentially remove the only completely free way for anyone to watch television. Under your model everyone must have internet to watch television. Decent internet at that. Plus you are replacing a one-to-many broadcast model with a one-to-one model. This is going to require massive back-end upgrades for most ISPs. We all know that the big ISPs love investing in their infrastructure, and even when they do, it's not a charity. It is going to be paid for by their subscribers.
And no, there would not be enough spectrum freed up to supply everyone with wireless internet at a decent cost that would cover all that usage either. Yes it's a good bit of spectrum, but again, you've moved us to a one-to-one video model. It's not enough.
imagine a faucet that, when turned off, instead of stopping the flow of water it simply closed the loop in the sink, storing the water somewhere locally for further reuse.
People would not appreciate the fact that it is not letting the water go away because they want the faucet to stop running water when off.
People pay a premium for faucets like that. Google hot water recirculating facet.
The consoles are, basically, the same. There are a few exclusives on each but the major franchises play the same on both. The biggest consideration when picking between the two is to get the one most of their friends use, so they can play online with them (and they will, even if you swear now you will never buy PSN/Gold).
For syndicated shows/reruns on cable nets, they will put back the bits cut out to squeeze in more commercials. New shows will either shoot more material and/or add time back to the opening/closing credits. Opening credits have shrunk over the years from over a minute for a 30 minute sitcom to around 25-30 seconds these days for most shows. End credits have practically disappeared as squeeze credits have turned them into basically network commercial time to promo the next show in the series or the next one to come on that night.
"U.S. law requires that anyone seeking to influence American policy or public opinion on behalf of a foreign government must register
How can this possibly be compatible with the US Constitution? Anyone should be free to say whatever they want.
It's the "on behalf of a foreign government" part that makes it legal. We, like most countries, have laws in place to put checks on foreign political influence over our own government. Your personal beliefs and speech are protected but if you are essentially a citizen proxy for a foreign power that's a different situation.
Thank you. I can't believe GGP is at +4. I really don't understand what the fucking problem is for the/. crowd when it comes to dark matter.
Might as well argue that time dilation is handwavium and not being able to accelerate to the speed of light is a liberal conspiracy.
Fucking scientists. What do they know?
You must be new here. Everyone on/. is a Nobel laureate in waiting and knows more about physics from reading/. summaries and making quick, 30 second snap judgements than the people who write the papers the summaries are based on.
There is nothing in that 2014 article to support that assertion that they started using a laugh track in 2015. Either way, I'm not saying they don't. If you bothered to pay attention to context, I was answering someone who said they wished that they filmed in front of a studio audience. They do. It's indisputable.
DEA helicopter nightly fly 300 or so feet above my fathers dairy farm nightly. So low that things rattle in his house and it scares the cattle.
You don't own 1 inch above your land.
Someone can be on your land without permission in most states, unless you have your land posted. Then you have to ask them to leave, if they do not, you can make a complaint to the police. IIRC case law says its not trespassing unless its walled in on 4 sides or a building.
Actually you own up to 500 feet currently, at least in the US.
Wait a moment. There's at least EIGHT people who appear twice in that photo, and it's not a simple stitch together either. Check it out. Definitely the "live studio audience" isn't all that it's made out to be.
Do you really think they have trouble filling the studio audience for a popular show like BBT? There are plenty of photos taken by audience members of the audience and line to get in to a taping on Google.
I think that's the main reason I can't watch that show, and to this date haven't watched a full episode yet. Every time I hear the laugh track I want to gag. What is this, 1965? If they're going to do it that way, at least have a live studio audience like Married with Children had that actually responds appropriately to what's happening when it's genuinely funny.
date after which merchants are supposed to be liable for fraudulent purchases made with old-style cards, and are supposed to have point of sale terminals that accept "chip and PIN" cards.
It's the date after which merchants are supposed to be liable for fraudulent purchase made with New-style chip and Signature cards which
are made as swipe transactions (e.g. with an old terminal).
TFIFY. The new US cards are chip and signature, not chip and PIN. At least, they are not required to be chip and PIN. Which is very unfortunate.
Despite the physical similarity to the European chip&pin system, the US one is different. It's basically the same thing as a magstripe, but different form factor. It's security through obsurity, in that the fraudsters haven't figured it out yet and the equipment to skim and clone a chip card is not yet common. It's a jump ahead in the race, but does nothing to stop the race.
Not exactly. The new US cards use a one time token for the transaction like other PIN and chip cards, but MC/Visa have not required issuers to force PINs. So no 2-factor but still much safer for physical transactions than magstripe, provided you don't lose the card itself. Doesn't do shit if the card itself is stolen or for online transactions though.
Where I live (a rather affluent suburb of Vienna, Austria) trash collection is done by unskilled, lowly-educated workers who don't have much chance at any other type of job. I would hate to think of these poor people being pushed out of about the only job they could get by... robots.
There definitely is an ethical side to employing - or not employing - robots. I truly do hope we get that one right, for once.
Don't worry. If/. has taught us anything, it's that there will be plenty of jobs services those robots to replace the ones they take away.
There is essentially no difference between RO and Distilled water besides the process used, provided the RO membranes are quality and properly maintained. But yea, that is why. Like I said, this is a recent change around where I live. Previously Distilled water was all over the place. Now it's almost always "purified" . Maybe RO has reached the point that it's cheaper than distilling now so every one is starting to swap over to it.
Based on how good we are at producing greenhouse gasses here on Earth, I'd wager we'd have little trouble keeping up with the losses due to solar wind.
I'll take that wager, since our issue with green house gasses here on earth comes from our burning of fossil fuels.
On the other hand, that external drive is another unsightly box taking up space under your TV and will likely need external power, meaning it is yet another power-cable and socket you need to fit into the viper's nest behind your TV.
Or use a 2TB portable drive. USB 3.0 cable is all that's connected and it's the size of a pack of cards. This is what I did with mine. Works like a champ.
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There already is a taco emoji. It's in Unicode 8.0.
The Taco Bell petition was from 2014 before it was added. Whoever submitted the summary wasn't paying attention I guess.
This is a very bleak future if you are correct. Advertising generates a lot of money. More importantly it generates a lot of money up front. If you take this away from the network they are going to start doing what we are currently seeing in the film industry: They are going to stop taking any chances and only put out shows that they know will sell.
Now, you are probably thinking "That's exactly what I want, good TV! No more crap!"
Have you ever asked yourself why there are so many shows you don't like on TV? It's because those shows are profitable. Your future is a recipe for more reality TV, cookie cutter procedurals, and formulaic laugh-track enhanced multicam comedies. Sure we'll get a hand full of shows like The Walking Dead, but they will be even fewer and farther between than they are today. Why take a chance on something unique when you can dump out something crappy and cheap that you know will make money?
Cable companies will love your scheme as well, since you essentially remove the only completely free way for anyone to watch television. Under your model everyone must have internet to watch television. Decent internet at that. Plus you are replacing a one-to-many broadcast model with a one-to-one model. This is going to require massive back-end upgrades for most ISPs. We all know that the big ISPs love investing in their infrastructure, and even when they do, it's not a charity. It is going to be paid for by their subscribers.
And no, there would not be enough spectrum freed up to supply everyone with wireless internet at a decent cost that would cover all that usage either. Yes it's a good bit of spectrum, but again, you've moved us to a one-to-one video model. It's not enough.
Oh well at least it's doing some good.
imagine a faucet that, when turned off, instead of stopping the flow of water it simply closed the loop in the sink, storing the water somewhere locally for further reuse. People would not appreciate the fact that it is not letting the water go away because they want the faucet to stop running water when off.
People pay a premium for faucets like that. Google hot water recirculating facet.
The consoles are, basically, the same. There are a few exclusives on each but the major franchises play the same on both. The biggest consideration when picking between the two is to get the one most of their friends use, so they can play online with them (and they will, even if you swear now you will never buy PSN/Gold).
TIL Children are not civilians...
TV shows are now 23 minutes long.
For syndicated shows/reruns on cable nets, they will put back the bits cut out to squeeze in more commercials. New shows will either shoot more material and/or add time back to the opening/closing credits. Opening credits have shrunk over the years from over a minute for a 30 minute sitcom to around 25-30 seconds these days for most shows. End credits have practically disappeared as squeeze credits have turned them into basically network commercial time to promo the next show in the series or the next one to come on that night.
So a Gawker property is posting an article about ethics and journalism? Wow. Pot meet Kettle.
You are not too smart. 4 HARDWARE THREADS in an I5. Get it?
Not all i5's have 4 physical cores. Neither do all i7's (5500u for example).
"U.S. law requires that anyone seeking to influence American policy or public opinion on behalf of a foreign government must register
How can this possibly be compatible with the US Constitution? Anyone should be free to say whatever they want.
It's the "on behalf of a foreign government" part that makes it legal. We, like most countries, have laws in place to put checks on foreign political influence over our own government. Your personal beliefs and speech are protected but if you are essentially a citizen proxy for a foreign power that's a different situation.
Thank you. I can't believe GGP is at +4. I really don't understand what the fucking problem is for the /. crowd when it comes to dark matter.
Might as well argue that time dilation is handwavium and not being able to accelerate to the speed of light is a liberal conspiracy.
Fucking scientists. What do they know?
You must be new here. Everyone on /. is a Nobel laureate in waiting and knows more about physics from reading /. summaries and making quick, 30 second snap judgements than the people who write the papers the summaries are based on.
Reading comprehension is not your strong suit is it?
You do realize in 2015 they added a laugh track http://variety.com/2014/tv/awa...
There is nothing in that 2014 article to support that assertion that they started using a laugh track in 2015. Either way, I'm not saying they don't. If you bothered to pay attention to context, I was answering someone who said they wished that they filmed in front of a studio audience. They do. It's indisputable.
Um, that does not preclude the use of a laugh track.
No, it doesn't but if you bother to read the post I replied to, and quoted even, you'll see that is not what I was arguing.
Google is your friend: big bang theory studio audience image search
DEA helicopter nightly fly 300 or so feet above my fathers dairy farm nightly. So low that things rattle in his house and it scares the cattle.
You don't own 1 inch above your land.
Someone can be on your land without permission in most states, unless you have your land posted. Then you have to ask them to leave, if they do not, you can make a complaint to the police. IIRC case law says its not trespassing unless its walled in on 4 sides or a building.
Actually you own up to 500 feet currently, at least in the US.
Wait a moment. There's at least EIGHT people who appear twice in that photo, and it's not a simple stitch together either. Check it out. Definitely the "live studio audience" isn't all that it's made out to be.
Do you really think they have trouble filling the studio audience for a popular show like BBT? There are plenty of photos taken by audience members of the audience and line to get in to a taping on Google.
I think that's the main reason I can't watch that show, and to this date haven't watched a full episode yet. Every time I hear the laugh track I want to gag. What is this, 1965? If they're going to do it that way, at least have a live studio audience like Married with Children had that actually responds appropriately to what's happening when it's genuinely funny.
Um, they do have a live studio audience
date after which merchants are supposed to be liable for fraudulent purchases made with old-style cards, and are supposed to have point of sale terminals that accept "chip and PIN" cards.
It's the date after which merchants are supposed to be liable for fraudulent purchase made with New-style chip and Signature cards which are made as swipe transactions (e.g. with an old terminal).
TFIFY. The new US cards are chip and signature, not chip and PIN. At least, they are not required to be chip and PIN. Which is very unfortunate.
Despite the physical similarity to the European chip&pin system, the US one is different. It's basically the same thing as a magstripe, but different form factor. It's security through obsurity, in that the fraudsters haven't figured it out yet and the equipment to skim and clone a chip card is not yet common. It's a jump ahead in the race, but does nothing to stop the race.
Not exactly. The new US cards use a one time token for the transaction like other PIN and chip cards, but MC/Visa have not required issuers to force PINs. So no 2-factor but still much safer for physical transactions than magstripe, provided you don't lose the card itself. Doesn't do shit if the card itself is stolen or for online transactions though.
Where I live (a rather affluent suburb of Vienna, Austria) trash collection is done by unskilled, lowly-educated workers who don't have much chance at any other type of job. I would hate to think of these poor people being pushed out of about the only job they could get by... robots.
There definitely is an ethical side to employing - or not employing - robots. I truly do hope we get that one right, for once.
Don't worry. If /. has taught us anything, it's that there will be plenty of jobs services those robots to replace the ones they take away.
There is essentially no difference between RO and Distilled water besides the process used, provided the RO membranes are quality and properly maintained. But yea, that is why. Like I said, this is a recent change around where I live. Previously Distilled water was all over the place. Now it's almost always "purified" . Maybe RO has reached the point that it's cheaper than distilling now so every one is starting to swap over to it.
"Oil could form with no organic matter, but probably not in commercial quantities"
Based on how good we are at producing greenhouse gasses here on Earth, I'd wager we'd have little trouble keeping up with the losses due to solar wind.
I'll take that wager, since our issue with green house gasses here on earth comes from our burning of fossil fuels.
On the other hand, that external drive is another unsightly box taking up space under your TV and will likely need external power, meaning it is yet another power-cable and socket you need to fit into the viper's nest behind your TV.
Or use a 2TB portable drive. USB 3.0 cable is all that's connected and it's the size of a pack of cards. This is what I did with mine. Works like a champ.