Its true that as stated there are very few plot directions and in truth you don't see much variation. Where originality comes in is all the in between stuff, the jokes used, the character development, the world they are in. You may say Star Wars was just the story of King Author but King Author did not have light sabers in it. This ability to insert truly original content in to something that at its base has been done before is what sets movies apart from each other. If you really walk out of a Avatar and all you got was, "ohh that was a man vs nature narrative" then I really feel sorry that you (for lack of a better word) fail at watching movies.

I agree that they are looking at it from a business view, but just as its dumb for consumers to ignore the business point of view its dumb for the provider to ignore the consumer point of view.

I really don't know what was happening behind the scenes, maybe they really couldn't sustain themselves without this price increase. Still they could have done it better. Offer some sort of silver lining, wait till you make a deal with ESPN to stream sports, make a deal with some channels to get tv series posted at the same rate as Hulu, or just save up a bunch of movies you already got the rights to stream and post them today.

From the user point of view the price did not gradually increase to make up for costs, it doubled and they aren't getting anything new out of it. Not to mention Netflix seemed a little cocky with the announcement, they might as well have said, "Ya we know you don't like it but in the end your not going to cancel so why should we give a ****."

Exactly, I would agree that NASA needs to take a look at their management chain but part of the chain they cant do anything about. The government is constantly readjusting their budget and not following through on promised funds. The politicians make the argument that there is work that needs to be done to bring jobs back. Yet despite all these cuts I don't see them doing anything useful, all the funding just heads to the military or bailing out some big business with worse management than NASA.

Now don't get me wrong I am not an anti military guy and I am all for them receiving a large budget but not if it means cutting other important programs to the point where they can not longer function. Military has made huge strides in R&D but it takes decades for it to reach the public. NASA brings the images and information about things light years from earth right to our computers as they discover it. But the government doesn't care about that they know most people wont notice a one or two decade gap in any new information about the universe outside earth.

Dinosaurs became extinct because they had laser eyes and they killed each other. No one has yet been able to disprove this theory.

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It will be funny how many jokes these guys will have to put up with when they get back to earth.

Its not our fault if Hollywood doesn't want to jump on, I will be happy to see their death.

There is almost no excuse why a tv show shouldn't be available almost instantly after it airs. I love Hulu and I am glad to sit through the few commercials if I am supporting the shows I like, but for the shows that take weeks to post their episodes or refuse to post them at all then if I miss it on tv I see no better option than to torrent it. Not to mention prices, sometimes I want to start a new series, but fat chance I'm going to pay $100+ for a series I'm not sure I will enjoy.

As for movies Netflix is improving but they aren't there yet with their watch instantly stuff. New movies take too long to become available and there are some movies that were barely known and have been out for years and still aren't up. RedBox is great for the price, and sometimes when me and my friends decide we want to watch a movie late at night when stores are closed grabbing a movie from one of these is faster than downloading it.

Hollywood could easily start their own online distribution, something like Netflix but instead you rent the movie for $1 for 24hr, it would cut my downloading in to a small fraction. Obviously RedBox has found a way to make a profit off low prices and Hulu and Netflix has shown the success of instant streaming. Torrents are appealing do to low cost and high availability, both could be easily beaten or at least competed by Hollywood if they were smart.

That's not really the topic being debated, obviously clean energy has to be viable to some extent, the problem is they just aren't at a point where they can replace current power generation. The problem is so many people are pushing this technology to the market so fast that they are crippling it. Rather than spending money just experimenting and building on prototypes the money is all being put in to developing a implementable version of an unfinished product.

The point of the article was that on our current path these new sources of energy will never be truly viable as a replacement. The solution is simple, for a decade just stop pushing out these new technologies and send all the money to researching them and making them even more efficient. I would like an electric car for the gas mileage but I don't want to have to stop and find a place to recharge my car constantly on road trips, some of the research in capacitors could easily solve this problem but instead the research is slowed by the marketing cost of the cars on the market right now.

Someone needs to take the stand. I don't want to sound the the "stick it to the man" guy, but these are the only companies who can really make the stand for the users. Apple tried to play nice and make deals and there were a number of labels that outright refused. The record companies while actually relatively small have one of the biggest legal bites. As this cloud stuff moves forward soon some people will virtually be storing and hosting their entire computers remotely. If these three big companies bend over now it will just open the window for all the other digital medium providers to attack the issue until cloud computing is killed all but completely.

Now some may make the argument that these companies are just being cheap an not making a stand for the users rights. That may be true but I still say indirectly this has a huge effect for me. I already have a lot of music on my own private server and I sometimes log in remotely to listen to stuff. Google is technically just providing me with a dumbed-down server hosting service. If they have a case against Google then they technically have a case against me. I don't see how they would find me but its a little ridiculous that I need to keep music I bought a secret.

I love where in the attached article it said, "The main reason Blu-Ray took off was because the adult entertainment industry chose the format over HD." When the very opposite was true, they chose HD and while everyone expected that would be the home run hit, HD failed not long after.

While I believe the adult entertainment industry is big and powerful at its core, it simply follows the trends and doesn't really set them. I think this was a perfect example where the head of the industry thought that they would throw their hat in to the ring on the side of HD but without all the people who support the industry directly behind it, there was no weight behind the decision. It is an industry that tends to be pushed to the very front of technology but it is never actually leading.

Sorry for my being extra nerdy here but its true how they both exist because of each other. The hacker groups claim to exist because governments are cracking down on freedom, and the governments claim they are cracking down because of the hackers. I don't think either side is to be praised because neither side seems to be making much progress and it is the middle users freedom and privacy that suffers. However, sadly i see it more likely that if the government would back down the hackers would disband, where as if the government had no friction against them they might start moving slower but still in the same direction.

True but I don't think its as simple as that. I work in IT and we are constant looking for ways of improving security. One of the biggest problems is that the software or devices that would improve security the most tend to cost unreasonable amounts of money and require you to keep multi-thousand dollar contracts with the companies who make them. Not to mention a week before a new security software is released the hackers are already hard at work finding the holes in it so before you know it your system is unsecured again.

If you work in a government agency where people could have important information saved on a flash drive are you just supposed to destroy the drive for fear of it being infected.

As far as opening it at work I might take some precautions when opening the files but why would I open it on my home computer that has my personal information on it. Its not really the OS's fault, a government agency a normal users account should be very limited in how much access it has to network files and how much damage it can do. I don't windows popping up with a bunch of "are you sure?" prompts every time I am working with a flash drive. Besides the idiots will still just disregard the warning boxes and directly install the virus.

Sure I have seen animals treated badly but I would think the vast majority a treated well, much better than if they were strays or in the wild. I think its funny that he really thinks that people don't think their animals have feeling and don't care about them when any pet owner knows that owning a pet is not cheap. Feeding it alone can cost hundreds of dollars a year. Add in it getting sick and buying it toys, people end up spending a lot of money on the comfort and well being of something they think has no feelings.

Right after getting my dog he ate a marble, if it was in the wild it would have died but we spent $1000 to get it surgically removed. Somehow I think my dog would agree with me more than these so call Animal Activists.

True, looking past all the loop holes people will find in the law there is just no way it could be enforced. All it would do is shut down pet stores (thus taking money out of the cities small business economy). Now all pets would just be sold more secretly out of people homes, I mean when your dog has a bunch of puppies do they expect you to keep them all. At least in a pet store laws require you to keep the animals vaccinated and semi well taken care of, private sales sorta throw that out the window. That or as stated people will just drive one city over to buy their dog.

Not to mention I see this costing a lot more of tax payer dollars than it would save. I really don't see a ton of tax money going towards watching how pet stores run. This will not at all diminish the number of animals owned by people. Now however a lot more money will be going in to the tracking down and prosecuting people selling animals in the city.