Comment Re:There are too many 'bots all ready (Score 1) 124
Why wouldn't you deposit cash into your own bank account and transfer it, rather than acting like a money launderer?
Why wouldn't you deposit cash into your own bank account and transfer it, rather than acting like a money launderer?
> ThanosHadAPoint
Not really. He bought a given planet 40 years at most. Earth Population is 7.7b right now, it was have that in the 1970s.
Banks like Smile (1999) and First Direct (1989) are rather last century. Modern banks are those like Monzo and Atom Bank.
That makes them what... flat with rounded corners?
They'd better not cross Apple then!
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.
Beta tested ESO, Looks good but hasn't grabbed me.
I tried Beta. Fuck Beta.
I bet they got comprehensive access to beta and ran away screaming!
I think what a lot of people (particularly Slashdotters) fail to realize is the cost to produce some of these shows. Take a show like Portlandia - You'd think you could shoot it with a handycam and a Macbook, but in fact there is a large crew of professionals behind the scenes -
That's not a large crew of "professionals". That's a large crew of people standing around doing nothing of value. You need a director, somebody to hold the camera and somebody of hold the microphone. Everything else is all Hollywood bullshit. Assistants and assistants to assistants. Lackeys and assistant lackeys.
Lighting. Multi camera shoots.
Then things like props and costumes, makeup, etc, all need to be on set.
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
