romnempire

hey, they could probably buy the implementation from iran!

I mean, it's sort of obvious. If a movie has a big enough pull for you to go drive to a theatre to watch it, the company that owns the movie realises you're willing to pay a direct rental fee for the movie off itunes or something. I'm going to wing it and say the studio might make 2-3 dollars on a single movie digital rental, but maybe 20-30 cents of your 8 dollars a month if they stuck it into a streaming service.

Do you really expect to get a pile of movies and TV you'd willingly pay, idk, 30-40$ a month for if bought individually in an 8$ streaming package? Netflix doesn't have big films because the people who own big films know that on the bottom line, their product has enough draw to be worth more when sold alone. And I mean, sure, a subscription model has more reliable cashflow sometimes, and maybe they can trade product worth for popularity and bulk sales and make more money, but who knows what might happen? Combined with the fact some of these studios have enough content to make their own web distribution services and remain in control of their web presence, and the worry that putting too much content on the web might kill the money they make from TV, it's just an iffy decision to shake up everything and put stuff on the streaming web until somebody comes around and makes a netflix people are willing to pay 20$ a month for - maybe even the 40-50$ you'd pay for a nice cable package, and can offer them some real royalties.

I would join.

what how god how do you think corporations work? do they have magic money trees?

we, in conglomerate, purchase THQ, give their games away for free and then what, fire all their developers, close all their studios and sell all the buildings, revelling in our destruction of the future of gaming so everyone can gave some games today for free?

there was much better discussion on this topic on reddit.

i mean, i don't see what's wrong with it, even by today's standards. she probably didn't work, so it's practically just a relaxed maid contract. i mean, hiring a woman you shared kids with solely as your maid would be weird by today's standards, but bigoted? don't see it.

uh, cheap thing sell good?

...whaaaat a neckbeard. really, what sane commentator says unequivocally to not buy something because of (present, yes, and bothersome, yes) but niggling issues that really don't interfere with the core functionalities of an operating system?

stopped listening when he said NC. NC already has two damn gerrymandered democratic districts, it doesn't need to gerrymander any more.

nah, redesign's been around for a while.

right, so people in the past are able to predict the future of software markets and sysadmins have complete control over where a company's development resources go. okay, got it.

i can't understand any part of your argument that would be legally supportable that wouldn't make every single kind of embedded system illegal. consoles? right out. dumbphones? illegal. gps? nope. atms? gotta be hackable. mp3 players? can't.

i use bing because they basically give you money to use it. (bing rewards -> amazon gift cards -> weeeee). It works out to like 2.50 a month at most, so it's only worth it for penny pinchers, buuuuuuuuut, for just switching search engines, money is money is money (rewards is giftcards is useless-shit-i-would-have-spent-money-on).

i don't understand how that makes things secure. You are connecting to your own endsystem using ssh, and then your endsystem, on the server side, must send out an http/bittorrent/whatever packet to the content distributor over the same insecure channel your original application would have had to, right?

can someone please explain to me exactly how running your traffic through a local proxy serves to protect it? I'm very confused.

My willingness to listen to a bush-era stooge is very low.

the bottom line is that america's eternal quest for a teacher metric is failing in relation to systems like the (perhaps overly touted) finnish one, where the discriminating factor for teacher quality is much more a measure of trust in the intuition of experienced teachers.

I think the 'I NEED MORE NUMBERS' mentality of empiricism you're using here has neutralised the prospective utility of the intuition of experienced teachers who would make effective consultants, if they ever come across something that works that they simply can't explain. Obviously, questioning their suggestions and looking for answers is the next step, but to insult their ability to think and view their opinions with derison? How are you helping anything talking that way?

...that's a hardly useful protest idea. the obvious protest would be to switch social networks. if you can get a good number of 'locked-in' un-tech savvy users to jump ship, facebook will get worried.

i actually liked hacker evolution, so i might get the gala. thanks!

copy cat bundles? can I get some info on those?

anyone else bummed that this one didn't include desura keys?

I mean, there was the whole thing about the novo7 going for 99$ yesterday. It feels like it's only going to be a short time before 99$ tablet opportunities are everywhere.

I believe it's targetted at the textbook market.

Actually it _might_ still be true. This paper could be just one of the false 50%.

publically available scans are infinitely more useful than publically available text translations for purposes of research, as well as for coolness.