The high-income households are just going to get pay-per-view in HD. The goal for Netflix/Amazon is to have as much content as possible available, as soon as possible for newer items, and a huge past collection.

The online services could destroy Redbox if it could pay for earlier access to new content. All it takes is money, probably on a per-movie basis at first, and after other contractual isses expire or are otherwise mitigated.

I would pay $10 at home for a HD version of a movie 2-4 weeks after theatrical release. Give me 48 hours and I am happy. I have kids...

The existing contracts are the issue (theaters primarily, 2nd run may have to happen before an online release).

These things will come to pass, but it will probably take a few years.

And it was a very good article (book excerpt actually, now I want the book). Actually worth reading...

You must have considerably more navel lint that I do.

Here's a guy (who I believe is available for hire) that does a bunch of 2D tutorials.

http://2dgameartforprogrammers...

Website is crap design (seriously, you put the historical browsing tool 2-3 pages down on the page???) but the tutorials are good (I suck at graphics but am able to do some of the stuff he talks about).

Lately I've been loving the pixalized game Corporate Lifestyle Simulator (as well as FTL). But I like all types of games, Fallout 3 is probably my favorite of all time.

This does not appear to be so. Dragon V2 is the manned version and isn't set for flight testing until late 2015, per Wikipedia (there is more info, and marketing, on Space X's website):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...

As well, for pure cargo missions maximizing cargo is the goal, especially for critical missions.

I want far more windows, so I can take in the scene.

Having an auto-drive vehicle take me and my wife down country roads at night would be heaven.

I realize we are far off from that point, but one can dream.

Which states don't do driver's training in high school? I had to have a number of hours on the road, in the terrible, comical simulator, and class time (plus tests). If you missed a day you had to make it up.

And then I turned 16, and walked to the DMV and got a license with an awesome score of 666 (out of 672) on my driving exam. I got a terrible 240Z the next weekend, much fun was had.

Very much Iron Maiden was listened to in the car.

So let's punish the NSA first, because we know they have it all. And they are watching.

Decent human beings... Insightful.

Off topic, but I love your current sig.

Orwell presented a situation where the populace knew they were being monitored. Snowden showed that we were being monitored, but without our knowledge or consent. There is a massive gap between the two, represented by the population's awareness (and possibly acceptance, unfortunately).

Anyway, very insightful.

Having been bitten by a brown recluse as a child, I find your link to be utterly terrifying.

I can handle bees and wasps, I've been teaching my kids to be still when they are around. But spiders is where I draw the line and declare war. And I win.

The structures are fine, it's just that turnover at the higher level is low.

There are usually as many manager as lead level developers in IT (at least there should be, where lead is the technical equivalent of director). The leads manage specific development activities (and should not be micro-managed). And if the manager/director and the lead(s) are competent (or in with upper management, or good at manipulation, I've seen it all), no one else can move up.

So, the senior developers will probably leave, after a few years, to seek increased salary or a lead position elsewhere.

In order to retain knowledge (this is very, very important), the leads should be carefully selected and compensated well. Then, turnover at the junior and senior level isn't that painful. Promote internal staff to leads, they will have the institutional knowledge that needs to be retained.

I thought you were referring to the companies themselves, and not public action persuading the government to create/enforce certain labor laws.

Sorry for any confusion.

No. That would be "vote with your wallet".

But, in the case of public companies, the shareholders could do this. But it would hurt the share prices.

And for private companies "vote with your wallet" is the only viable approach (and by viable I mean there is no approach actually).

Since all that was lost was supplies (while critical, there are future shipments and I'm sure they have emergency procedures to send up supplies if needed), it's not crass to say "Go Space-X".

There are multiple players in the game of space, and Space-X is the one I root for, they get me excited and are very ambitious.

I watched a few space shuttle launches live while telecommuting, and watching Space-X attempt a rocket recovery is just as exciting. Maybe even more so since it is something that has never been tried. They didn't fail by much last time, and there were explosions!!!

Anyway, I wish the crew of the ISS health and no need for good luck (planning, prep, and execution, but please no need for luck).