"I wanted the money." -- some Hollywood writer, through the mouth of Sean Connery
They probably get paid for the work. Doing the work might be against the guild's interests, but be for that writer's interests. I don't think it makes sense to assume that guilds and members necessarily have the same strategic goals. Isn't part of the whole point of these contracts, to put writers out of work unless they join the guild?
I know people who are members of unions. It's just another expense, required as a condition for the job. It's not on your side; if it were, then you wouldn't be required to join. Presumably the writers have a similar relationship with the guild, so the money you make rushing to complete scripts more than outweighs whatever nebulous benefit the guild will get in its negotiations -- and then take a percentage of.
Writers and Writers Guild are two totally different things, perhaps even somewhat adversarial. (Though presumably not so adversarial that the writers would be willing to ally with the producers to defeat this third party. If it were that adversarial, then the alliance would have already happened. So I guess the situation is a bit complicated.)
"IoT devices designed to get you to use someone's services, are making it impossible to tell the difference between real products and parodies." -- Cajun Hell
For several years now, Amazon really has been leading the way toward making it impossible to tell the difference between joke product ideas and the real ones. Google/Apple/Microsoft have had some bad ideas too, but they all get totally left in the dust by Amazon. I mean, this is the company that sells buttons for buying stuff.
Is there a Poe's Law of consumer electronics yet? We're getting close to needing one.
I want to know why the fuck he chose to attack a company he voluntarily resigned from.
To this day (wow, has it really been 50 years?), I still don't know why Number Six resigned. Perhaps the reason he was kidnapped and taken to The Village, was that the government had serious concerns about what he was going to do next. Until you know why he resigned, it's really hard to guess anything else.
It's even less bad than that! It's no badness at all.
Even with Ubuntu, you can run whatever desktop you want to. The switch to GNOME means nothing, just like the past switch to Unity meant nothing. (Did anyone really use Unity anyway?) Complaining about which desktop it uses, is like complaining about which text editor gets installed by default. If you don't like it, install one of the other ones, and it isn't as though you aren't still running Ubuntu.
I don't have any passion (or even a side) in the systemd debate, and yet, that's way more of an important aspect of Ubuntu than the default desktop is.
Sure, if you're talking long distances. And it really depends on your particular situation..
Agreed. Ok?:-)
(It has become apparent that my jetsetter/snob remark could have used smilies; getting lots of confused feedback on that one. I'm not really a "jetsetter" like a 1950s movie star, and as for the snob remark, I refuse to move beyond the implied smiley!)
I'm really confused here. From your tone, it sounds like you're identifying as a "jetsetter," but then you say "NOW we see" only from the present story that overbooking is a serious thing?
It's not like I'm flying every week, like some people here. But I do it sometimes, and it's always gone fairly well; the worst reliability problem being a few hours lateness.
As it happens, I have never been bumped. I've gotten offers to get bumped, but always declined and watched people eagerly run up to the desk to volunteer. This particular story is the first time I ever heard of someone being bumped involuntarily. Maybe it happens often, but I hadn't heard of it.
Until this story, overbooking never presented itself as a reliability problem. So, it wasn't a "serious thing." It was merely an amusing game that certain people played with the airlines to get freebies.
For the rare case of someone who really needs to run Windows software, they aren't going to buy this accidentally, because they'd already have to check what version of Windows it comes with. People don't just assume "oh, I'm sure it comes with Windows 7, not 10," do they?
If they have legacy requirements, they're going to be very focused on getting the legacy part right. They're going to be looking for that part, even harder than they're looking at the price.
One test for this is as follows: Can one practically develop an app for a Chromebook on a Chromebook?
The Chromebook point of view would be to say, "Yes. You can run my app. It's at.." and then they give you an URL.
It's not what you're thinking, but it's what they're thinking. That is the market for Chromebooks.
I think instead of thinking of them as terminals, people ought to think of them as full PCs, which come preloaded only with a terminal emulator. "WTF do you want that x86 box for? You're just going to hook it up to the VAX anyway. You should have gotten a VT100. Wait, your terminal understands the escape codes for.. OMFG. You have color?! Coool!!"
Why would anyone fly unless they absolutely had to?
Because it usually works out just fine, and it's so incredibly fast compared to driving. Days turn into just a few hours. Fewer hotel nights means it's cheaper than driving too, sometimes enormously so.
If you're rich and can afford to drive everywhere because you don't mind more nights in hotels and there's no limit to the time you can be away, I understand why you don't fly. But when you look down on jetsetters, you're being an insensitive snob.
We jump through hoops like trained animals, no longer having the dignity of humans, and now from this story we see that it's unreliable and a carrier might not keep its word. Yet even still, it comes out on top. Look at it this way: Airplanes were such a great technological advancement, that we'll put up with so much bullshit.
Look at the unapologetic baby-lover. You probably think they're cute. That's great for you, but the rest of us hate babies, and we don't appreciate you bringing needless publicity to our perfectly-justified culling campaign. Look: babies are assholes, and the sooner they're gone, the better off we'll all be. Let's make America old again!
Publish an API. Other people can make the plugins.
The only thing really wrong with all these streaming services, is that you have to run their software on your computer. That is weird, abnormal, and definitely highly undesirable. I am not going to run your "app" or plugin. I may decide to buy your service, though, if it has a well-defined interface.
Look at Mr Pessimist here, whose risk aversion shows that he obviously does not live in a movie.
Have you ever thought about the upsides to real life? You aren't going to be killed by 1) velociraptors, 2) alien chestburster, 3) death ray from flying saucer, 4) kaiju falling into your office building after being punched by a jaeger, 5) death star demonstrating its power to the princess, and are very likely not going to be killed by 6) Terminators, 7) a meteor the size of Texas.
It's not all bad, man. So get on with your death by heart disease, cancer, auto accident or weird auto-immune-system disease like the rest of us. Or a taser, yes, that's on the list too (though way way down), but it's not like getting torn apart by zombies, is it?!?
And those people should be coming to America because?
Possibly the same reason you are in America, whatever that may be. People gotta be somewhere, and America (in spite of our embarrassing fuckwittery) has a lot of great things going for it. I realize it's subjective and we all have different opinions, but it's not unreasonable for people to prefer America. (And yes, it's not unreasonable for someone to prefer somewhere else instead.) We really do have our attractions. If you don't think those attractions make us the right choice for you (or someone else), that's fine, but if you don't think they exist then you're too dumb to be talking to.
If you can't think of a reason for choosing America, go ahead and leave. Plenty of people will be happy to take your place. Everyone can be a winner, even you.
The claim is that if we exist in a reality that can be simulated accurately, it is pure hubris to assume that we are the top tier attempting to perform such a simulation.
I think it's funny how you people call it "hubris" whenever other people stay within the limits of what they know. You sound just like the people who are sure there are intelligent aliens on other planets somewhere out in the mind-boggling vastness of the universe. The rest of us say "I don't know," but you say you know (despite utter lack of evidence) and accuse us of hubris.
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Voters say otherwise. I'm hearing that over half of voters distrust Trump and over half distrusted Clinton too. Didn't these two get about 97% of the vote?
We don't need government we trust; in fact, we prefer government that we think is constantly lying to us. If you don't seem dishonest, we don't want you.
what's the problem with setting the same rules for everybody ????
People don't all want the same things. Non-uniform rules means they don't have to pretend to agree on things they don't agree on. Diversity is good; tyranny is bad.
I want the same rules for everybody on our planet.
Let me guess: do you want their values forcefully imposed on you, or your values forcefully imposed on them?
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Ok, I'm finally going to bring this up. And I suppose I'm about to make some friends or enemies, but I don't know which.
Is it just me, or does Canadian TV suck? (I'm not talking about Australia or Britian. Just singling out Canada.)
"I wanted the money." -- some Hollywood writer, through the mouth of Sean Connery
They probably get paid for the work. Doing the work might be against the guild's interests, but be for that writer's interests. I don't think it makes sense to assume that guilds and members necessarily have the same strategic goals. Isn't part of the whole point of these contracts, to put writers out of work unless they join the guild?
I know people who are members of unions. It's just another expense, required as a condition for the job. It's not on your side; if it were, then you wouldn't be required to join. Presumably the writers have a similar relationship with the guild, so the money you make rushing to complete scripts more than outweighs whatever nebulous benefit the guild will get in its negotiations -- and then take a percentage of.
Writers and Writers Guild are two totally different things, perhaps even somewhat adversarial. (Though presumably not so adversarial that the writers would be willing to ally with the producers to defeat this third party. If it were that adversarial, then the alliance would have already happened. So I guess the situation is a bit complicated.)
"IoT devices designed to get you to use someone's services, are making it impossible to tell the difference between real products and parodies." -- Cajun Hell
For several years now, Amazon really has been leading the way toward making it impossible to tell the difference between joke product ideas and the real ones. Google/Apple/Microsoft have had some bad ideas too, but they all get totally left in the dust by Amazon. I mean, this is the company that sells buttons for buying stuff.
Is there a Poe's Law of consumer electronics yet? We're getting close to needing one.
It's a type of Fitbit which won't fall off. They starting selling them a few days before Easter.
To this day (wow, has it really been 50 years?), I still don't know why Number Six resigned. Perhaps the reason he was kidnapped and taken to The Village, was that the government had serious concerns about what he was going to do next. Until you know why he resigned, it's really hard to guess anything else.
It's even less bad than that! It's no badness at all.
Even with Ubuntu, you can run whatever desktop you want to. The switch to GNOME means nothing, just like the past switch to Unity meant nothing. (Did anyone really use Unity anyway?) Complaining about which desktop it uses, is like complaining about which text editor gets installed by default. If you don't like it, install one of the other ones, and it isn't as though you aren't still running Ubuntu.
I don't have any passion (or even a side) in the systemd debate, and yet, that's way more of an important aspect of Ubuntu than the default desktop is.
I'll remember you, whenever anyone claims our society has abolished slavery. It's not true; we've only abolished involuntary slavery.
Agreed. Ok? :-)
(It has become apparent that my jetsetter/snob remark could have used smilies; getting lots of confused feedback on that one. I'm not really a "jetsetter" like a 1950s movie star, and as for the snob remark, I refuse to move beyond the implied smiley!)
It's not like I'm flying every week, like some people here. But I do it sometimes, and it's always gone fairly well; the worst reliability problem being a few hours lateness.
As it happens, I have never been bumped. I've gotten offers to get bumped, but always declined and watched people eagerly run up to the desk to volunteer. This particular story is the first time I ever heard of someone being bumped involuntarily. Maybe it happens often, but I hadn't heard of it.
Until this story, overbooking never presented itself as a reliability problem. So, it wasn't a "serious thing." It was merely an amusing game that certain people played with the airlines to get freebies.
For the rare case of someone who really needs to run Windows software, they aren't going to buy this accidentally, because they'd already have to check what version of Windows it comes with. People don't just assume "oh, I'm sure it comes with Windows 7, not 10," do they?
If they have legacy requirements, they're going to be very focused on getting the legacy part right. They're going to be looking for that part, even harder than they're looking at the price.
The Chromebook point of view would be to say, "Yes. You can run my app. It's at .." and then they give you an URL.
It's not what you're thinking, but it's what they're thinking. That is the market for Chromebooks.
I think instead of thinking of them as terminals, people ought to think of them as full PCs, which come preloaded only with a terminal emulator. "WTF do you want that x86 box for? You're just going to hook it up to the VAX anyway. You should have gotten a VT100. Wait, your terminal understands the escape codes for .. OMFG. You have color?! Coool!!"
"Responsive design."
That's easy as an amateur, but try making a good web page when have a boss.
A reference for a related statistic (though the numbers are different).
If that's the problem, then we have pretty light problems. What are the consequences of this problem? Basically nothing.
As far as bad things happening with/at prisons go, this is easy mode.
Because it usually works out just fine, and it's so incredibly fast compared to driving. Days turn into just a few hours. Fewer hotel nights means it's cheaper than driving too, sometimes enormously so.
If you're rich and can afford to drive everywhere because you don't mind more nights in hotels and there's no limit to the time you can be away, I understand why you don't fly. But when you look down on jetsetters, you're being an insensitive snob.
We jump through hoops like trained animals, no longer having the dignity of humans, and now from this story we see that it's unreliable and a carrier might not keep its word. Yet even still, it comes out on top. Look at it this way: Airplanes were such a great technological advancement, that we'll put up with so much bullshit.
Look at the unapologetic baby-lover. You probably think they're cute. That's great for you, but the rest of us hate babies, and we don't appreciate you bringing needless publicity to our perfectly-justified culling campaign. Look: babies are assholes, and the sooner they're gone, the better off we'll all be. Let's make America old again!
NO , don't make a Kodi plugin.
Publish an API. Other people can make the plugins.
The only thing really wrong with all these streaming services, is that you have to run their software on your computer. That is weird, abnormal, and definitely highly undesirable. I am not going to run your "app" or plugin. I may decide to buy your service, though, if it has a well-defined interface.
Look at Mr Pessimist here, whose risk aversion shows that he obviously does not live in a movie.
Have you ever thought about the upsides to real life? You aren't going to be killed by 1) velociraptors, 2) alien chestburster, 3) death ray from flying saucer, 4) kaiju falling into your office building after being punched by a jaeger, 5) death star demonstrating its power to the princess, and are very likely not going to be killed by 6) Terminators, 7) a meteor the size of Texas.
It's not all bad, man. So get on with your death by heart disease, cancer, auto accident or weird auto-immune-system disease like the rest of us. Or a taser, yes, that's on the list too (though way way down), but it's not like getting torn apart by zombies, is it?!?
Possibly the same reason you are in America, whatever that may be. People gotta be somewhere, and America (in spite of our embarrassing fuckwittery) has a lot of great things going for it. I realize it's subjective and we all have different opinions, but it's not unreasonable for people to prefer America. (And yes, it's not unreasonable for someone to prefer somewhere else instead.) We really do have our attractions. If you don't think those attractions make us the right choice for you (or someone else), that's fine, but if you don't think they exist then you're too dumb to be talking to.
If you can't think of a reason for choosing America, go ahead and leave. Plenty of people will be happy to take your place. Everyone can be a winner, even you.
I think it's funny how you people call it "hubris" whenever other people stay within the limits of what they know. You sound just like the people who are sure there are intelligent aliens on other planets somewhere out in the mind-boggling vastness of the universe. The rest of us say "I don't know," but you say you know (despite utter lack of evidence) and accuse us of hubris.
I don't think that word means what you think it means.
Voters say otherwise. I'm hearing that over half of voters distrust Trump and over half distrusted Clinton too. Didn't these two get about 97% of the vote?
We don't need government we trust; in fact, we prefer government that we think is constantly lying to us. If you don't seem dishonest, we don't want you.
If it's already installed for them, then there isn't anything more to learn than they'd have to learn with Windows 10 anyway.
People don't all want the same things. Non-uniform rules means they don't have to pretend to agree on things they don't agree on. Diversity is good; tyranny is bad.
Let me guess: do you want their values forcefully imposed on you, or your values forcefully imposed on them?
So many people say that, but then...
Fine, I'll ask. What was your reason for voting against Johnson?