The only real reason is because movies come out there first.
If you care about movies, your home setup is probably more comfortable and customized and to your liking than a theater anyway. And if you don't care that much, then you probably don't care how much better a theater is either.
You can posture all you want, but we watched Blockbuster, an empire rise and fall on the backs of people willing to watch ~333 pixel tall half-worn-out VHS tapes every damn weekend.
4k digital cinemas have almost no resolution gap with a 4k tv, and 2k digital cinemas are barely higher resolution than 1080p... Compare that to the gap between a 35mm cinema and a VHS tape.
When you scuttle a fleet of ships, typically you lash them all together, so that there are less likely to be floaters: Deadweight pulls other deadweight down. It is nice to see the ships lashing themselves together here, so they can all sink faster.
It will be a harsh, bloody, social uprising, perhaps even resulting in the destruction of the human race, when we finally realize the consequence of our extreme "productivity" as a species.
To put it simply, it doesn't take 7 billion people to house, clothe, feed, and entertain 7 billion people. So... now what?
The patrons of exploration aren't spending what we need to in order to open up new frontiers, and Capitalism/Imperialism need frontiers to be successful. Since there is not new territory, the new frontier is efficiency/productivity, which isolates capitalism from the labor force more and more.
We need lots of people to die, or we need a different understanding of a human's worth other than what they can produce. I love productivity and automation, but unless it is accompanied by social change, it will be the death of a whole lot of people.
It is ironic that a program called circle of life is what is accelerating the natural death of the brick and mortar game store. Since used games are nearly 100% profit, and new games are closer to 20% profit, stores were given quotas in terms of the percentage of total sales dollars that needed to be from used merchandise. These quotas all but forced employees to lie about stock, and to discourage sales of lower margin items.
When you put your employees in a position where a 0 dollar customer transaction is less likely to put their job in jeopardy than a 500 dollar transaction, you dun fucked up your business model.
I have pirated a book that I wrote (Amazon won't let you buy it twice, and I couldn't get it to download without buying... I could have made a new account, but a quick google search turned up a pirated copy.
I have bought an ebook on my phone because I accidentally left the physical book at home and I wanted to read it, for many of my favorite books I have bought a physical copy to loan out and an ebook copy to read on my kindle.
Basically I love books and don't consider my causal nonchalant piracy to be immoral or a threat to the industry, it isn't like if I suddenly stopped pirating I would be spending any more or less on books. that line item in my budget will probably always be "the rest."
- a "wealthy" (by this article's standards) guy in his late 30s.
Trillian already solved this, so did pidgin, and nimbuzz, and whatever else. And they all suck, for various reasons. See the thing is, you think you have a really good idea for an app, but you don't. You have a tired old idea that will never work.
Apple "iMessage" which cheats to hijack text messaging is really the only successful multimessenger client, and that is because it exploits market position, and impossible access to devices and services.
A new standard would be a great idea if any of the messenger platforms had any motivation whatsoever to follow it. It is 100% downside for them to do that.
"Oops, hold on, I have to switch back to yahoo messenger because Trillian doesn't support that yet."
"Sorry I am on pidgin, what is that emoji supposed to be, I can't tell if you wanted to get dinner or not"
"Hey, sorry, I got disconnected and my client doesn't always save messages, could you copy/paste the last half-hour for me please"
It's weird that 32 out of the 33 developed countries in the world consider healthcare to be an important right of citizenship. But that 33rd country, they don't even believe in it for national heroes, soldiers, or public servants.
It's almost like the cognitive dissonance exists at a fundamental level such that no progress can be made.
I connect to webex presentations all the time, the picture comes through data, but you can route the call through voice.
I google search stuff all the time if there is a question in a call... I add stuff to the grocery list while talking to my wife about it... I have my tablet connected to my wifi hotspot while I order Chinese food... I mean, constant and ubiquitous internet access is expected, why would it halt just because I am using the phone?
It doesn't take 7 billion people to feed, clothe, shelter, and entertain 7 billion people. So, now what? What is the solution to that fundamental problem caused by our technological advancements and medically enhanced longevity?
Do the people who are unnecessary to societal function deserve a death sentence? Deserve to be tortured to death? Live on the brink of starvation? Live in constant medical/dental/emotional pain?
The real problem with people not "deserving" a living wage is that people are real, actual living humans, and most people do not want to live in a society which treats human beings as disposable.
I have worked for giant global conglomerates and small startups, and I can tell you in my experience, that 11+ hour time difference matters. As we work as an industry to get away from 6 month release cycles to 1 week sprints or whatever you want to label "continuous delivery" that 9-13 hour time difference between US markets and "outsource" markets starts to really hurt.
Back when there was a 6 month release cycle, you could lose 1 day to communication lag and it would be no big deal... now that amounts to losing 20% of your dev time.
Modern software is expected to add features or fix bugs quickly (days not weeks). In my experience Javascript developers and fickle customers will all quit if you don't rewrite your front-end every 6 weeks (hopefully we are at peak javascript right now, but who knows, maybe once every javascript developer has had a chance to figure out that React/Angular/Bootstrap/Knockout all suck, they will stop seeing the grass is greener on the other side and just pick something). You can't do any of that with a time and culture gap.
The culture gap is significant too. Everybody in the US sees some of the same ads, some of the same "viral" apps, memes, etc. They share the same slang and vocabulary, that kind of stuff is important in software development, and it can't be exported, no matter how hard we try. When you have ONE developer that can talk to your sales/marketing/client relations teams, your product quality goes way up... when you have a whole team of them, you can knock it out of the park. When you have to hire 5 Business Analysts just to write documents that will always be wrong, in order to get any work out of your geographically diverse team, you lose that magic.
When building a grass-roots marketing campaign for god-knows-what, how exactly do you choose which sites to grace with your presence and marketing dollars, and how in god's name did you decide that Slashdot was a forum for this sort of marketing?
What is he winning? Are you talking about his projected sweep of just 36% of the electoral vote?
Or are you talking about the projected loss of the Senate majority? I guess it is a "Win" if he gets petty revenge on his own party while crashing and burning in a presidential landslide.
Encryptions is for criminals. Ordinary people don't need military grade encryption to protect themselves. It's primarily used to hide illicit activities from the police and serves no legitimate purpose.
so true! illicit behavior like logging in to my toddler's Disney Junior account, or transferring money between my bank account and the electric company.
Mars and titan have atmosphere and water. That makes them vastly more ideal for colonization than the moon. The moon is close, and has some He3 but all fuel, propellant, and nitrogen needed for, well everything would need to make the round trip from Earth. A real attempt would need to have at least SOME resources come from the place being colonized.
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The only real reason is because movies come out there first.
If you care about movies, your home setup is probably more comfortable and customized and to your liking than a theater anyway. And if you don't care that much, then you probably don't care how much better a theater is either.
You can posture all you want, but we watched Blockbuster, an empire rise and fall on the backs of people willing to watch ~333 pixel tall half-worn-out VHS tapes every damn weekend.
4k digital cinemas have almost no resolution gap with a 4k tv, and 2k digital cinemas are barely higher resolution than 1080p... Compare that to the gap between a 35mm cinema and a VHS tape.
I side-loaded Kodi on my amazon fire stick... and I use an Alexa skills hack to play movies on my TV with voice control.
Maybe they should limit sales of the Echo dot and fire stick?
just like every other law congress passes, it doesn't apply to them.
Just because their ISPs can sell their information doesn't mean they will.
Oh you sweet summer child.
When you scuttle a fleet of ships, typically you lash them all together, so that there are less likely to be floaters: Deadweight pulls other deadweight down. It is nice to see the ships lashing themselves together here, so they can all sink faster.
the patrons of exploration I was talking about? They are not colonizing.
It will be a harsh, bloody, social uprising, perhaps even resulting in the destruction of the human race, when we finally realize the consequence of our extreme "productivity" as a species.
To put it simply, it doesn't take 7 billion people to house, clothe, feed, and entertain 7 billion people. So... now what?
The patrons of exploration aren't spending what we need to in order to open up new frontiers, and Capitalism/Imperialism need frontiers to be successful. Since there is not new territory, the new frontier is efficiency/productivity, which isolates capitalism from the labor force more and more.
We need lots of people to die, or we need a different understanding of a human's worth other than what they can produce. I love productivity and automation, but unless it is accompanied by social change, it will be the death of a whole lot of people.
It is ironic that a program called circle of life is what is accelerating the natural death of the brick and mortar game store. Since used games are nearly 100% profit, and new games are closer to 20% profit, stores were given quotas in terms of the percentage of total sales dollars that needed to be from used merchandise. These quotas all but forced employees to lie about stock, and to discourage sales of lower margin items.
When you put your employees in a position where a 0 dollar customer transaction is less likely to put their job in jeopardy than a 500 dollar transaction, you dun fucked up your business model.
I don't really care much about Peta's talking points. I would gladly eat cheaper meat, though.
I have pirated a book that I wrote (Amazon won't let you buy it twice, and I couldn't get it to download without buying... I could have made a new account, but a quick google search turned up a pirated copy.
I have bought an ebook on my phone because I accidentally left the physical book at home and I wanted to read it, for many of my favorite books I have bought a physical copy to loan out and an ebook copy to read on my kindle.
Basically I love books and don't consider my causal nonchalant piracy to be immoral or a threat to the industry, it isn't like if I suddenly stopped pirating I would be spending any more or less on books. that line item in my budget will probably always be "the rest."
- a "wealthy" (by this article's standards) guy in his late 30s.
Trillian already solved this, so did pidgin, and nimbuzz, and whatever else. And they all suck, for various reasons. See the thing is, you think you have a really good idea for an app, but you don't. You have a tired old idea that will never work.
Apple "iMessage" which cheats to hijack text messaging is really the only successful multimessenger client, and that is because it exploits market position, and impossible access to devices and services.
A new standard would be a great idea if any of the messenger platforms had any motivation whatsoever to follow it. It is 100% downside for them to do that.
"Oops, hold on, I have to switch back to yahoo messenger because Trillian doesn't support that yet."
"Sorry I am on pidgin, what is that emoji supposed to be, I can't tell if you wanted to get dinner or not"
"Hey, sorry, I got disconnected and my client doesn't always save messages, could you copy/paste the last half-hour for me please"
These are the joys of multi-messenger.
It's weird that 32 out of the 33 developed countries in the world consider healthcare to be an important right of citizenship. But that 33rd country, they don't even believe in it for national heroes, soldiers, or public servants.
It's almost like the cognitive dissonance exists at a fundamental level such that no progress can be made.
It just goes to show you, if you work hard and help to ruin a massively powerful brand, you too can get paid millions to leave.
I connect to webex presentations all the time, the picture comes through data, but you can route the call through voice.
I google search stuff all the time if there is a question in a call... I add stuff to the grocery list while talking to my wife about it... I have my tablet connected to my wifi hotspot while I order Chinese food... I mean, constant and ubiquitous internet access is expected, why would it halt just because I am using the phone?
It doesn't take 7 billion people to feed, clothe, shelter, and entertain 7 billion people. So, now what? What is the solution to that fundamental problem caused by our technological advancements and medically enhanced longevity?
Do the people who are unnecessary to societal function deserve a death sentence? Deserve to be tortured to death? Live on the brink of starvation? Live in constant medical/dental/emotional pain?
The real problem with people not "deserving" a living wage is that people are real, actual living humans, and most people do not want to live in a society which treats human beings as disposable.
I have worked for giant global conglomerates and small startups, and I can tell you in my experience, that 11+ hour time difference matters. As we work as an industry to get away from 6 month release cycles to 1 week sprints or whatever you want to label "continuous delivery" that 9-13 hour time difference between US markets and "outsource" markets starts to really hurt.
Back when there was a 6 month release cycle, you could lose 1 day to communication lag and it would be no big deal... now that amounts to losing 20% of your dev time.
Modern software is expected to add features or fix bugs quickly (days not weeks). In my experience Javascript developers and fickle customers will all quit if you don't rewrite your front-end every 6 weeks (hopefully we are at peak javascript right now, but who knows, maybe once every javascript developer has had a chance to figure out that React/Angular/Bootstrap/Knockout all suck, they will stop seeing the grass is greener on the other side and just pick something). You can't do any of that with a time and culture gap.
The culture gap is significant too. Everybody in the US sees some of the same ads, some of the same "viral" apps, memes, etc. They share the same slang and vocabulary, that kind of stuff is important in software development, and it can't be exported, no matter how hard we try. When you have ONE developer that can talk to your sales/marketing/client relations teams, your product quality goes way up... when you have a whole team of them, you can knock it out of the park. When you have to hire 5 Business Analysts just to write documents that will always be wrong, in order to get any work out of your geographically diverse team, you lose that magic.
When building a grass-roots marketing campaign for god-knows-what, how exactly do you choose which sites to grace with your presence and marketing dollars, and how in god's name did you decide that Slashdot was a forum for this sort of marketing?
This is why Trump is winning.
What is he winning? Are you talking about his projected sweep of just 36% of the electoral vote?
Or are you talking about the projected loss of the Senate majority? I guess it is a "Win" if he gets petty revenge on his own party while crashing and burning in a presidential landslide.
there is a data cap unless you also subscribe to a shitty TV service.
Encryptions is for criminals. Ordinary people don't need military grade encryption to protect themselves. It's primarily used to hide illicit activities from the police and serves no legitimate purpose.
so true! illicit behavior like logging in to my toddler's Disney Junior account, or transferring money between my bank account and the electric company.
I own a large form factor monitor with integrated speakers, sold as a "Television" yes.
actually it looks like I may be paying a quintillionteen jillion percent more for TV than I was 5 years ago.
Since I haven't paid a television bill since 2004.
This is insane, please don't compare Trump to Hitler.
Hitler never EVER had a 40% chance of gaining control of a world-ending nuclear arsenal within the year
Mars and titan have atmosphere and water. That makes them vastly more ideal for colonization than the moon. The moon is close, and has some He3 but all fuel, propellant, and nitrogen needed for, well everything would need to make the round trip from Earth. A real attempt would need to have at least SOME resources come from the place being colonized.
Edge is super efficient, because nobody uses it, and nobody supports it. It accounts for 0% of the battery usage on my windows tablet.