It was one film, to test the waters. A pilot if you will. Netflix didn't really start heavily investing in shows until they had made it big by buying other shows.

Solar Star (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Star) has a net otuput of 1.6TWh/year for 13 sq km.

The U.S. needs 4,090 TWh a year (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States#Summary) for Electricity.

That's 33,228 sq km at the same density of Solar Star

The Mojave Desert alone is 124,000 sq km.

The world's energy requirements (elecricty and non-electricity) is around 150,000 TWh, or 1.3m sq km.

The Sahara Desert is 9.2m sq km.

> I compare and contrast against Netflix, which built it's way to the top of the streaming market, rather that just buying other people's content.

Netflix worked its way to the top by
1) Renting out DVDs of other peoples content via mail, which turned out far better than blockbuster
2) Building on that to stream other peoples movies, because they understood the future and the beomouths didn't

However now the content producers are catching up, Netflix has to pay more for the streaming rights, and has a lot of cash from investments, so has been building its own shows in the hopes people will stick with netflix.

Netflix didn't start to produce their own shows until mid 2013 (aside from one film in 2012).

I'm sure you remember the days of sites that only worked in IE6, and how 2 decades later we're still paying for that.

I suspect far more people will lie on a poll than change their user agent string

Sure, Ive isn't indispensible, but that's not the argument. The role is indispensible. You need a top level manager in charge of your product, separate from your operations team.

Why does your president need such? Cameron popped over to the States the other week, he flew back in business on BA, not even in first (my wife would not be impressed if I sent her in business). He has his finger on 180 nuclear warheads, but seems to be able to do that from a civilian plane just as well.

I tried Beta. Fuck Beta.

I bet they got comprehensive access to beta and ran away screaming!

Lighting. Multi camera shoots.

Then things like props and costumes, makeup, etc, all need to be on set.

It was banned decades ago, aside from a tiny number of old cars.

And no Beta!

And that plays when I drop the stick into my bluray player?

Japan's per capita energy use is similar to that of Europe, and about half that of the USA, but twice that of china, and 4 times that of India, Indonesia, etc.

That ignores externalised energy though - manufactured goods consumed in the west are made in the east which skews the energy usage levels to mean the west is lower than it should be based on consumption.

It's bad regardless, even if the u.s. dropped down to Japan or France levels, and china, India, Indonesia, brazl, and Africa were brought up to Japan levels.

In 24th century Star Trek gold is worthless (outside of primitive cultures). I can't believe I have to say this on slashdot. Latinum is valuable, as it can't be replicated, but given its not a practical means of exchange they suspended liquid Latinum in worthless gold.