Sammael

This is their big long term danger. I saw the early season of the walking dead on netflix, it was great, easy access and very enjoyable. The season ended, there were more episodes that were not yet available either there or hulu at the time, my choice? record to the dvr and wade through commercials, a custom I no longer want to bother with, specifically the endless stream that floods network tv, or go pirate. Some of the earlier episodes had already aired so I could not pre record if I wanted to, the option then? perhaps download the seasons episodes ala carte?

No thanks, not doing that for tv, Not, Doing it. Again, it’s easier to pirate. What would make that activity less attractive is let more content be allowed onto services like netflix and hulu.

They may not need to worry about the cord cutters now, but sooner or later, the paint sniffing masses enslaved to their specific times and tv schedules and episode downloads are not going to be the norm.

I’d happily pay an added fee to netflix or hulu for the express purpose of directing towards the shows I actually watch and spend time on, same goes for higher quality streams. My monitor supports 1440p resolution, how about a higher than 720p/1080p stream option for some content? Want a few more bucks? then offer something with higher quality.

how much are the ads worth anyway? If I paid a 4 dollar a month surcharge for access to current season shows that were in demand, and that money went specifically to what was watched, that is real money given to networks and content creators. Pandora has ads but if you pay a yearly fee those ads go away, and they probably make more money with the fee for most people than the ads, so WHY DON’T THEY @#$king do something obvious like that, I am a god damn lay person spouting nonsense on the internet and I have better solutions than these morons.

It can’t be hard to calculate. There must be a dollar amount the average viewer consumes each month in ad sales. What is that average number?

Of course that can’t compete with the kick backs from cable subscriber royalties, that is the real money, but too effing bad. No business model is supposed to have ultra high margins for all eternity, who do they think they are?

According to this post:

honestly, the 650m based kepler is pretty effing powerful too, its stronger than the nvidia 560m which was previously housed in notebooks like the Asus G70 series and their 15" versions, granted it’s not the highest end they had, but the fact that a gpu designed for midrange chasis size notebooks like a standard 15" can beat out a 560m… that is damn impressive.

Increases my appreciation for these guys work, did not know it could be so… extreme. That last video looked like the guy was staring down from a skyscraper, I did not know cell towers were built that tall.

small point, about the “growing sect” part. That’s entirely vertical transmission, i.e., they have more kids and raise them to be orthodox. This is not a case of the ideas and beliefs being compelling enough to attract followers on their own merits. Just because a belief system was inherited does not make it bad of course, but that style of acquisition is inherently less… objective than a person following some Siddhartha Gautama Buddha type of spiritual journey to seek the best answers.

I was raised in a christian family, not devout, we did not attend church weekly, but we did attend. I believed in god as a child as well, and feared for my ultimate soul because I was self aware enough to know that I did not buy into the entire christian belief project as others around me seemed to. But that all faded away, like my childhood belief that professional wrestling was real, I stopped believing in god, and here I am. This is a frightening thing, some would say an arrogant thing being OPEN and HONEST about the fact that I am taking a stance as the ultimate arbiter of right and wrong in my life, about the best way to live, but at the end of the day, that style of choice and life is inherently more respectable, than simply submitting to the dictates and beliefs of others.

To me the most frightening rationale for beliefs and action of all is, “Because God Said So.” There is so weaker or more brittle foundation of ethics than that.

there are good reasons for clothing besides modesty…. you seen the fitness levels of the average american lately? we don’t want to see clothing go away, too frightening.

I’m kind of curious whether separating men and women actually has some sort of benefit? It’s easier to imagine separating girls and boys in school might have a beneficial effect on lowering distractions, especially boys through high school years… but what is the rational for separating men and women as adults? If you want to mold behavior, do it in the more formative years, when you are an adult, why not stop trying to micromanage peoples choices and lives?

in buddhism, the goal is achieving the state of nirvana, for orthodox jews, nirvana is achieving duncans beard from dragon age.

that scene looks totally reasonable

whatever it is, it will involve school girls and tentacles

For anyone who wants to get a bit more into the avengers/marvel universe, an easy path is the new avengers animated series, the first season is on netflix in full now, and the second season is airing now. It’ actually pretty good unless you consider animated series designed for younger kids beneath you. You shouldn’t, you are missing out.

Gene Hackman disagrees:

Serenity only sucked if you see how compare it to how much was lost in translation compared to firefly. This is why a good tv series will always be more engrossing than a good movie.

I think the only way is to get Paul to respond directly. Someone needs to trick Paul into viewing this post or at least the video and get a response from him.

[Possibility] Verge staffers blast the song sung over some office speakers, Paul can choose to look away but he can’t decide not to hear something. Verge staffers must then look at Paul to see if they can detect any looks of horror. If yes, it’s Paul.

The other problem is that it seems a shrink from 32 to 22 is much less of a shrink than 32 to 22 nm… it’s kind of like why even bother with such a small shrink? Because TSMC has shown they can at least crank out some 28nm kepler parts?

I don’t see how amd can possibly keep up on the cpu front with such a gap in process technology. Even if they designed a chip with superior performance and efficiency and potential, because intels die size will continue to be so much smaller, they have that much more headroom to brute force to even more performance… how the hell can they compete?

Same goes for intel vs arm long term. I suppose there may be a point at which the process shrinkage race will slow to the point where intel can’t keep using that as a bludgeoning tool to dominate everyone else in the market.

Right now, especially in x86, intel is like Toger Woods pre fall

yes ugly, the way the corner of the screen has such a small space before the phone goes into those radical curves, is jarring and fugly. If you like that fine, but know that you are the kind of person that sees lime green paint on a house and says, “that’s hot”

ford had its products devalued when other car manufacturers started their own assembly lines, that is natural. You stave that off by always innovating and coming up with newer stuff that entices people to buy, not crying foul that you don’t get monopoly control over your ideas. If it really pisses you off that some of these basic UI ideas are not totally restricted to apple branded devices, go suck a lemon.

I am almost certain it was your age that made diablo 2 scary. I still think the lighting for many areas is a bit too dark for my tastes, and the entire world seems drab and dull, but I suppose that was the intent.

Comparing the visuals of D3 to a game like trine 2 though… it is night and day, you cannot possibly understand how dark d3 is in comparison until you play trine 2, the most visually stunning 2d game I have ever seen.

MEGAMUSTACHIO

@ verizon caring about loyalty, so much innocence.

I bet he has a Dr. Who complex

I saw the first season of the walking dead on netflix, I discovered a new show I liked. It ended. I go online to see if more seasons were shown, there was a second season in progress with multiple back episodes that already aired. I might have been able to by each past episode a la carte, but I could also head to some pirate torrent site and get them all to see with a few clicks.

I won’t say what I did, just know that I would NEVER, EVER download tv shows to catch up. I have also never lied, and I’m Jesus.

Yes, better availability is a good thing, stream it on your site if you want to get some more ad revenue, the alternative is to get NOTHING. And for gods sakes, put it up for streaming the INSTANT it airs, this is not live tv, you can queue it up before hand.

I just finished listening to their first podcast, the singularity… it’s the nerdiest podcast I have ever heard, its like a round table of grad students and post docs.

I need to check that out, they kind of focus on more in depth reporting so they might have some interesting insights.

Verge staffers should just let verge groupies buy them stuff. That is probably against some policy, but you never know.

Forgotten point. This may be more of a personal taste thing, but people like me are much more into these sort of escapist, fantastical movies when I go to a theater. I don’t want to see 500 days of summer on a big theater screen (loved that movie btw), what I want to see is a larger than life, other worldly escapist fantasy world. Think Lord of the rings, star trek, x-men, prometheus, etc. For people where the over the top fantasy/sci fi escapist worlds are less of a draw, they may just be at a disadvantage when it comes to enjoying a movie like this as much as I can. Again, they are a little more dead on the inside when it comes to the genre. Their loss, because these are the one type of movie that truly shine and warrant the big screen.

You know, I am beginning to think anyone who can’t see why the Avengers shines is dead on the inside.

The movie was the purest, most distilled chunk of entertainment I’ve seen in the theater in a long long time. It was not some stellar plot, it was all storytelling, the dialog, the action. It’s alot like kill bill in that way. And unlike kill bill, the moments of humor are so over the top fantastic it bowled me over harder than I have ever been in a theater, the kind of gut reaction that stops breathing for a few moments. It was that good. The fan service was phenomenal, especially the credits scene that showcased a being that could potentially provide an even more spectacular romp than the first avengers movie.

They do if designed right, and they look the best. There is a reason most phones are black slabs, that is the design and color most people gravitate towards.