Yeah, I fell for this once a year ago and was dumbfounded to only get 480p when I paid for “UHD”. Never paying again. Great job, bean counters.
Yeah, I fell for this once a year ago and was dumbfounded to only get 480p when I paid for “UHD”. Never paying again. Great job, bean counters.
Do investors really love it? Is there anyone as stupid as the group-think whole that believes that will stop even one act of piracy?
All these idiotic measures have clearly driven more people to piracy…
No, they pay money for Younger Brother, the capitalist version of Big Brother to watch them. Big Bro is always watching regardless.
Yikes! That’ can’t have been easy to replace.
Yep, that’s the stuff! They tried to fish the new PEX line through by pulling it with the old stuff, but it broke apart in several places when trying to pull it out.
I recently had to have my 1980s house’s water main connection replaced because they used some experimental flexible hose material from the late 80s and it’s all starting to embrittle and fail now. Wouldn’t have happened with PEX…
I’ve been reading about PEX now and it sounds like it only became commercially viable to produce in large volumes in the 1990s, even thought it’s existed as a form of polyethylene since the 1930s. It’s just now becoming cheap enough to be used everywhere because it’s obviously better and we have lots of material performance data on it.
I thought PEX was just an industry term for HDPE pipes, but no, you’re right. The X stands for crosslinked and irradiation is one of (the more expensive) ways of achieving it. It sounds like most common PEX is made by adding peroxides to the HDPE or LDPE before extrusion and the chemical causes the thermoplastic to become a thermoset after the heat and pressure of the extruder. Neat stuff.
It’s surely sturdy, but it also looks like a death trap in a storm. But mostly it looks like he never came up with a solution to his drifting-backwards-faster-than-he-can-paddle-forwards problem that plagued his previous attempts. It’s got so much sail area and so little control surface that even a little wind will blow him around.
He’s never making it to Europe in that.
It’s a real shame that communities like that couldn’t more easily uproot and move en masse to a new instance on Lemmy or similar.
Sir, this is the Internet and Godwin’s rule is law.
Haven’t you been around Reddit before this? The overwhelming opinion is pro-nuclear and nothing has changed here.
It’s probably a small percent of what ends up in the oceans daily.
Read by a horrendous AI voice and shared by far too many kids.
In the few months before the end I kept seeing people inexplicably complimenting other people’s avatars. I wasn’t sure what that was about until this, and now I wonder if they had people intentionally doing so to make others jealous or something.
Just like Digg before them.
I know they weight the ratings, but is there any data to support the idea of 2 stars having more impact than 1?
While it may be arrogant to insist it’s all mankind’s doing, it’s foolish to assume it isn’t.
I think the main argument is that this isn’t the way to go about that. The universities are totally out of control and need to be forced to curb their spending to make things more affordable before we just start handing them public funding like this.
How is it hard to root for the anonymity of people? This is pretty cut-and-dry.