The business model in that anecdote is as dated as Licensed to Ill.

I suspect, anyway.

IMS, you can't count projected revenue, so it must be a function of cost. At that point, you're talking depreciation schedules, I suspect.

Maybe the delisting would be whatever you haven't written off from the production costs? For a 2023 film, probably most of it. Note that there's probably some earnings massaging, too. Once you're writing off Rings of Power, you're already having a bad quarter, so you might as well pile on, um, -something else Amazon did-.

Corrections welcome, of course. Well outside my element here.

Investments are pre-tax, so the money never gets to your account.

Can't miss what you never had to begin with. Then forget about it.

Thanks. The Frame nearly got me. :)

mckwant

This. Given a stable position, (networking + job hunting) approaches zero.

You can go either way with this, but I can't remember the last time I updated my resume.

This. ... and we sorta need to reframe "Chromebook". $430 gets you a 14" HD touchscreen 10th gen i3. 4G of RAM is presumably fixable, but fine, and what's on local storage, save the OS?

Am I compiling all day? No. Remote Desktop? SSH client? VPN to corporate network resources? Absolutely.

Searching "32 + 5" shows "37" on the result screen. Pretty high, too, IMS.

[Are we excluding | Can we exclude] those? That filtering might get weird, esp. considering "+" is a value indicator for the term that follows. I think. Been a while.

20-ish year history with TiVo here. Modded the early ones for more drive space, generally loved it, but we're done after this set of HW breaks. The end result for me was realizing how terrible "cloud dvrs" are.

We could have TB of space on a local device, but God forbid we buffer more than 25 seconds on a streaming app. 30 second skip isn't fine enough for some things (free throws in basketball, between football plays). You NEED a visual clue when fast forwarding, and the network simply cannot keep up with local storage. Spoiler alert.

Also: Why do I have a 75" TV, when the stream I'm watching tops out at 720p? It's fine for most purposes, but noticeable. Notably, a lot of the OTA broadcasts are no longer 1080, either.

Of course, we passed "get off my lawn" a couple exits back. Bah.

That's a lot of real estate. Events off the top of my head, let's say rights get worked out, and they take up the entire week to keep the arithmetic simple:

Film (10):
2 Star Wars
2 MCU
maybe 4-6 other major releases/yr, let's be generous, call it 6.

TV (7):
GoT or similar, maybe, but there's no zeitgeist any more to drive enough volume.
Reality Shows: Bachelor, and the like. Let's say 6 (Kardashians? Project Runway? NBA Wives? RPDR? Out of my element here...)

Sports (7):
March Madness
Super Bowl
College FB Championship
College FB Bowls (NYear's Day, anyway)
World Series, maybe?
Maaaybe two others, but I can't think what they would be.

Retro/Revival (8):
LOTR/Hobbit marathons
I'd have to ask my daughter, but Insurgent/Hunger Games/Twilight/...? Summer film festival type stuff (West Side Story, et al). Again, let's guess 6 total.

That's 32 weekends filled, only 20 to go. eSports, maybe cosplay, virtual gaming conventions, but I don't know that you'd have national audiences for that.

God help you during the summer.

This happened in You Only Live Twice.

Fool me once...

"Wear a mask" seems pretty simple and easy to comply with. As does "Large groups are a bad idea."

The complexity of the rule is irrelevant.

I feel your frustration, but thanks for the effort.

My educational background is PoliSci/Economics. I thought our statistics were tricky, but Education must be ridiculous.

Thanks again,
mckwant.

Most folks are facing a choice about returning their younger kids, and you sound like an informed opinion.

- What's the earliest age for effective distance learning?
- If "in person progress" is 100%, where should our expectations be for distanced learning?

We're going "online + augmenting with a virtual pod," but at 11 and 14, a year of ineffective education isn't disastrous, it just delays when they graduate HS.

Just curious,
mckwant

https://www.nintendo.com/switc...

Not everything has to be 4k. Hell, they're probably making more money on the Lite version.

I hear you, I do, but even if you only believe 40% of this, it should be a pretty wicked box:

https://www.gizchina.com/2020/...

Whether they're actually going to manage an AI that doesn't run straight at your gun is a different matter.