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Comment Define "Our" (Score 1) 206

The movie goer is not the consumer of a movie trailer. It's the movie producers that pay for them, and to whom they are designed to appeal. And the use of high budget content in the trailer allows producers to squeeze more value out of that content. If your shelling out Millions for a Blockbuster, it's cheaper and easier to use prime movie content for the trailer. Movie goers dislike it and you'd think that should be enough to stop the practice, but it's not the movie producers that make the trailer. That's a subcontractor. In the subcontractor is just doing Simple cost-benefit analysis. How cheap can I bid on a project that will make the biggest splash. Because of that, they're not going to film additional content. They're going to use the content that exists and the best of it to boot. Because the producer will only buy the cheapest trailer that makes the biggest splash.

Comment Tough talk, but not unwarranted. (Score 2, Insightful) 88

This is true. The US has burned some bridges with it's foreign policy regarding China. But, before we lament what that means for future opportunities, it's worth recalling why; from the outright theft of IP, to humanitarian concerns regarding political prisoners, religious persecution, Tibet, freedom of navigation in the Global Commons that is the South China Sea, and including their tolerance for the North Korean situation. China may become a player in space exploration, that's unavoidable at this point, but that doesn't mean the US should regret the hard lines it's taken over the years.

Submission + - SPAM: The race for autonomous cars is over. Silicon Valley lost.

schwit1 writes: Up until very recently the talk in Silicon Valley was about how the tech industry was going to broom Detroit into the dustbin of history. Companies such as Apple, Google, and Uber — so the thinking went -were going to out run, out gun, and out innovate the automakers. Today that talk is starting to fade. There's a dawning realization that maybe there's a good reason why the traditional car companies have been around for more than a century.

Last year Apple laid off most of the engineers it hired to design its own car. Google (now Waymo) stopped talking about making its own car. And Uber, despite its sky high market valuation, is still a long, long way from ever making any money, much less making its own autonomous cars.

To paraphrase Elon Musk, Silicon Valley is learning that "Making rockets is hard, but making cars is really hard." People outside of the auto industry tend to have a shallow understanding of how complex the business really is. They think all you have to do is design a car and start making it. But most startups never make it past the concept car stage because the move to mass production proves too daunting.

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