The think $10M per episode is costly / risky for Stargate because it *might* not have mass appeal, but have churned out Rings of Power for $58M per episode that nobody likes or watches in any numbers - purely it seems for streaming-service trailer-bait. Pure insanity. Time to cancel my Prime subscription.

None of those devices were leaking radioactive polonium, or stabbing people with neurotoxins, so they got off lightly, based on their own track record.

Having engineered a hardware shortage and price-gouging the likes of which we've never seen before, now, NOW, Nvidia want to sell us stuff? For the PCs we can no longer source the parts for, or afford to build? Genius. Pure genius. All so we can host our own Hallupedia (https://halupedia.com/) I assume...

They gave torrenting the best possible publicity, while inadvertently showing everyone Hollywood as the greedy manipulative mafia they are. Since the pandemic, Hollywood have eaten their own young, flogging VFX artists near to death, replacing writers with AI, replacing dead actors with AI, churning out mostly high-budget slop that fails hard at the cinema (*Disney* *cough*). Replacing the lucrative DVD / Blu-ray market with a streaming-service war that everybody lost. Ironically, The Pirate Bay is still here, but there's very little coming out of the film industry WORTH downloading anymore. I would imagine the stats show a huge slowdown in piracy.

..who cares anymore? Some truly obsessed fans, but they don't exist in the numbers needed to fill cinemas. We are well aware Disney needed to pump out a new film after an eight year gap and turned series four of the Mandalorian into a film. A streaming show does not a Star Wars blockbuster make. 20 minutes of action followed by 1 hour 10 minutes of "meh". Not a shocker it's flopped. Disney had the opportunity to make a Han, Luke & Leia film and then pass the torch introducing a new trio, but they (apparently) knew better than everyone else and burned the franchise to ground instead. Now most people that grew up with Star Wars want nothing to do with it and new audiences can see there's nothing of merit there, since the easter eggs & nostalgia bait don't work on them. Disney seem to have a habit of buying billion dollar franchises and then hollowing them out, removing everything beloved about them, favouring political messaging over plot or characters. Marvel, Star Wars, Pixar; all hollow shells of what they were.

That keep using that word, but I do not think it means what they think it means. e.g. "Playstation exlcusive" would mean a title was exclusive to the Playstation. If it was ALSO available on PC, then it's NOT exclusive, now is it?

.. these are enjoyed mainly by the super-rich, who have the money & leisure to take care of themselves, eat well and live longer anyway.

I'm pretty sure, if I've paid for a game, the payment record (which goes through some pretty stringent bank checks) doesn't "vanish" after 30 days. Check that. Yep. You bought the game. Job done. Nothing to see here... SONY, stealing game purchases back from customers won't achieve anything, but lost sales & bad (well, worse) reputation.

Jonathan Nolan said when they made the first series of "Person Of Interest", it was science fiction, but by the last series, it was a documentary. Looks like he wasn't wrong. I wonder who plays Finch in the real world, as it's unlikely the real one would have the same idea of building ethics and morality into their A.I. "machine".

It's about the very real possibility of replacing live actors. They might look uncanny valley NOW, but then so did early CGI. 1992's Lawnmower Man looks absurd, but by 1999 The Matrix had CGI character animation that still holds up now. What will A.I. generated actors look like in seven years? Probably as good as real actors. THAT is why Hollywood is upset. Sets? Actors? Lighting? No longer needed. Generate it all. In a computer. From the script. Which could also be written by A.I. (judging by recent films, that part could be a step up).

About a decade ago there was a scam email you'd see now and then that went along the lines of "I've hacked your PC and recorded you doing dirty stuff and I've got passwords, videos and screenshots, so pay up! Here's my bitcoin account" with variations on that theme. Now it's governments attempting to pull the same scam. That's what it essentially boils down to.

The F150 lightning, as I understood it, was being discontinued because of poor sales. And that wasn't because of foreign rivals (nobody else wants or makes these large trucks, except for the US market), or domestic competitors - let's face it, the Cybertruck wasn't going to give any truck a run for it's money and while the Rivian R1 is good, Rivian are a start-up not equipped to take on Ford. The reason America buys foreign cars is quite simply because it has, for many decades, consumed far more than they could ever make, affordable workforce or not. Trump's protectionism is more like living in denial. Demand is simply too high for any domestic supply to meet. Even Ford's domestically made vehicles are more than 50% foreign parts. US Unions objecting to automation and at the same time demanding higher wages just makes it cheaper to produce elsewhere. It all boils down to if the American consumer is patriotic enough to want to pay extra for that "made in the USA" sticker. And past history suggests not.

Since I paid a premium for an OS that didn't pull this crap, can I expect the price to drop sharply? If not, my next phone/tablet won't be Apple. ARE YOU LISTENING APPLE? This is the hill your market share dies on. You have been warned.

No. I never use MS account login and I never will. Way too many red flags and security issues. The day there isn't a workaround, is the day I stop using Windows all together and that day seems to be fast approaching.

This cartoon from 2005 applies just as much today. https://www.reddit.com/r/Propa...