Comment Re:Smart guns & communism (Score 1) 501
Smart guns & communism
Smart guns, Communism & Windows
Smart guns & communism
Smart guns, Communism & Windows
it's widely thought in Silicon Valley that having users is the first step toward profitability
[user@home]$ dig site
[user@home]$ "Goood Morning, I see your using bash, can I help you with that? - oh and you look hungry, did you eat breakfast? IHOP has breakfast specials this week!"
[user@home]$
...it's not only not clear that we want to do this... - Linus Torvalds (https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/7/6/577)
I don't know the cost of those shows.
Someone made a point earlier that is seems like Netflix cancels its most expensive shows regardless of quality.
Marco Polo - gone, expensive
Sense8 - gone, expensive (season 2, per episode price - 9 Million)
The Get Down - gone, expensive
I don't know the viewership of these shows but I know Sense8 had such a loyal and supportive following, that they finally pressured Netflix into producing a 2 hour final show to wrap up loose ends. (500K +) https://www.change.org/p/netfl...
Nielsen refuses to let it go so they can perpetuate the importance of advertisers.
Well, yes, that is their business model. They are in bed with the rest of these antiquated media monoliths. All of them will hold on until it's ripped from their cold-dead-hands...
Here is an interesting read from a few years ago, "Industry pros are asking if Nielsen botched radio ratings — and inadvertently forced stations off the air." https://fivethirtyeight.com/fe...
He said the company has doubled its revenue over the past 12 months -- without providing specifics -- and that the cuts put it on a path to profitability.
So, they have finally figured out how to profit as an escort service. In my experience a majority of messages are like this, "I am sweet and sxxy ge with big heart who want to spend great time with you...", "I LOVE HAVING FUN with a REAL MAN!!!", etc...
Following allegations that drugged babies from poor households were being used as "jockeys," or passengers for hire
Holy crap, if this is true I would think that congestion traffic is the least of your worries...
depicts an even more depressing situation for Microsoft. According to the report, Edge sits at 3.89%...
when it comes to desktop operating systems, Windows has 91.51% of all users...
Depicts an even more depressing situation for the world...
Ruby is the worst performer, consistently.
Yet, in web apps, language execution speed is almost never the bottleneck, it's almost always database related, network, dns, etc.
Amazon Prime Video has four times as many films available for streaming.
Which doesn't matter if you have a new LG or Samsung Smart TV in which Amazon Streaming no longer works... https://www.amazon.com/forum/a...
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