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im not sure that's a comment in your favor ;) ww84 was pretty bad. i imagine it drove some signups, but not as many as hbo would have hoped for
> People did signup to watch that movie and therefore their subscribers were a self selected group who are not a representative sample that we can just multiple by 5.
Yeah, my bad. It's actually * 12.
"HBO Max accounts jump to 17.2 million"
At the time, netflix had 208 mil. So, it gets even more believable that netflix is accurately representing their numbers - their audience is so much larger than competitive streaming services, that they can in fact drive record breaking traffic.
Yeah, but that was on HBO max. That had, at the time, less than 1/5 the users of netflix. Wonder Woman was clearly a marquee title designed to get signups, but that strategy is always risky and not super effective as a one-off - registration funnels are very hard. So, it's not as much a 1:1 comparison as you thought it was.
14.9 wonder woman streams * 5 increased audience = 74 mil. That puts it well within the realm of netflix' numbers. I mean obv that's not perfect because not everyone wants to watch it.
Also, using wonder woman as an example isn't great, because the general buzz on its release was that frankly, it wasn't a good movie. Critical and audience reviews suggest it's a markedly "less popular" movie than red notice.
The numbers are well within the realm of possibility. Although, I wouldn't be surprised to find out netflix is being very favorable to themselves - in fact, I'd expect it.
Is it? It's much easier than going to the movies. You could literally watch it on the toilet.
I can imagine that if, for $20, you were magically and instantly transported to a personal showing (in which you didnt have to wear pants and your cat was there), movie theaters would have a lot more users.
A better number might be star wars theater+home video, but even then that'll be depressed because it's not "free" with a subscription.
In this case, the "power strip" is passing 50kw and needs active cooling.
To address a common complaint? Frankly, I have no trouble at all and I think most people are complaining due to change - a tale of software developing old as time
> unsuitable for consumer devices that need computing power a SBC offers
PLC is not "consumer". "for industry" devices often have service contracts and dedicated staff whose job it is to ensure reliability and spares, and vastly different requirements than a plug and play "consumer" device.
You've compared two very different use cases as if they were alike.
Consumer devices actually have much stricter reliability requirements than many industrial applications - if you look at margins, you'll see that any return is a huge dent. Versus industrial, where swapping out a $50~ sbc part once a year is still vastly cheaper than "high reliability" solutions which cost into the thousands. Maybe you lost half a day of work, but that's probably acceptable for a small shop running a lathe that saved $$$$ on upfront capex.
And, there's no way anyone's using raspberry pis for high availability, such as in manufacturing.
But back to those consumer requirements - there's a lot of software and hardware requirements that you get "for free" with more expensive, traditional solutions. For example,
- verified boot (pre-boot checksum/signing verification, and chain of trust)
- multiple boot partitions with fallback to prevent against bad updates
- image based updates and recovery
- out of band network recovery modes
- guaranteed flash failure rate and yield
- minimal form factor with reduced components for unneeded features
and a bunch of other small stuff that all shaves off failure rates by .5% here and there, and yet is completely worth it to anyone deploying consumer devices. Some of that you could probably implement yourself, but make a mistake versus using a tried and tested solution... well, that's more margins and profit lost.
By the way, in another comment you said "Pi is better suited for less portable products like NAS, or TV boxes". Well, yeah, 'cause it's basically a set-top box SOC that was put into a hobbyist board. ;) The Pi has a TON of "undocumented" features and modes around being a set top box. Broadcom will sell you basically the same GPU/CPU package with a lot of those features listed above.
Before you even mentioned falcond, I immediately knew that it was clownstrike
Also, it's not just satellite imagery, but street view. I'm referring to the google strategy of selling the maps as a service, something that microsoft took a while to catch up on.
> involved with satellite imagery back in the 90’s
Yes, they partnered with the USGS to distribute already collected map imagery. They didn't, for example, purchase/build a whole fleet of imaging cars and planes like Google did.
Also, because google had their eyes on a different prize than microsoft, the licensing terms of the map imagery had language baked in around reselling.
Google put a ton of money into acquiring mapping visuals themselves, as did apple. Microsoft simply licensed the hell out of it.
When Google was ready, they were able to sell their mapping solution. Microsoft, on the other hand, was short sighted and only copying Google.
Another example of Microsoft playing copycat to Google, and having it pay off poorly in the long term is bing411: Google launched goog411 to gather voice data, Microsoft spent a ton of money and copied and used their top tier voice recognition service. Google shut down goog411 not long after: it was never about offering a service.
I arrange all of the conditions in my head and then logically and rapidly resolve them. In your example, I wouldn't engage my inner voice for something that simple.
If it was planning much more steps than that, I would separate them into blocks and use my inner voice to mentally arrange the inner blocks.
I don't have the voice when reading or writing, but I do when I'm planning around what to write. Incidentally, I read at over 800wpm with an extremely high retention rate, which makes me an outlier.
I have an inner voice, but it slows me down, and I choose to engage it when I need to really work something through accurately and with lots and lots of steps.
I've only recently started paying attention to how I think and I think it's really quite a bit different than the binary "has or doesnt have" that these articles portray. I can't imagine I'm the only person like this. I wonder if the question itself misleads people into overthinking their use of it: "do you have an inner voice?" "yes!"