I suggest they got tens of extra multi-hundred million dollar contracts throughout the pandemic.
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21st Century Fox also owned the rights to hundreds of movies (Avatar, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Dr. Seuss) and plenty of television (1/3 of Hulu, The Simpsons).
They also had the movie rights to some of the Marvel characters. I don't know how much that was worth to Igor, but it seems that he really wants to get the family all back under one roof.
It's interesting that you mention the ABC acquisition - in today's money that would cost $36.09 billion - just roughly half of the Fox acquisition.
A good overview can be found on this video essay: https://youtu.be/w-4k9c8LZU4?t=377
Disney's long term debt for 2020 was $52.917B, a 38.78% increase from 2019.
Disney's long term debt for 2019 was $38.129B, a 123.19% increase from 2018.
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/DIS/disney/long-te...
Yes, Disney is slowly throwing money at the problem and reducing it's debt, but it's still a pretty high load.
Still not as bad as Warner Bro's Discovery though.
Warner Bros Discovery long term debt for the quarter ending September 30, 2022 was $48.612B, a 236.74% increase year-over-year.
https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WBD/warner-bros-di...
Every trivial variation is another if/switch statement.
Everyone should follow RFC 3339.
It even shipped with GUILT - Microsoft's Graphical User Interface command-Line Technology /s
It's probably nowhere near as good as Apple's emulation. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-on-arm-this-is-...
Even their 'higher end' 4k UHD media releases are missing features that Disney+ has, like Dolby Vision. https://www.flatpanelshd.com/focus.php?subaction=showfull&id...
YouTrack specifically comes to mind here. It's a fantastic bug tracker, but the UI is missing a certain... jeu ne se quoi
The point of ranking is not to have your vote redistributed many times, but rather for your #1 preference to go to your preferred candidate.
If your preferred candidate does not win, your vote gets a second chance (or more!) to get counted.
In the case your describing here, the only way that C wins, is that he gets more votes than A or B.
I think you have no idea how deep the hole goes here.
I can only speak of my local experience, but it was so hard getting off the ground. Convincing artists and promoters to use an unknown site, convincing users that they should place fair bids (no, you don't want to pay $9999 for a ticket...)
The number of venues that had exclusive deals with Ticketmaster or Ticketek to be the sole seller of tickets for the venue also made selling tickets in larger venues impossible.
I ended up winding down the platform after running it only for a few months. Maybe if I had more capital, and some better connections inside the entertainment community, things could have been different.
Synergy/Barrier is not horrible, but I find the latency a little painful.
Ended up getting an industrial HDMI switch, with a KVM. Built a server in Go that connects to the serial port of all the devices.
A companion client that runs on all the machines tells the server when the mouse moves to the edge of the screen, so the USB inputs can be switched to the correct computer. Basically, it allows you to have multiple computers connected, to multiple displays, sharing one keyboard and mouse. (You can define layouts on the server, so the displays can move around on the matrix HDMI switcher).
It appears this has come to pass. https://hnpredictions.github.io/?p=3625
I'm really sad that Microsoft put all thier eggs in the Chrome/Chromium basket, instead of continuing thier own engine, or supporting Firefox.
Elijah Wood and Christopher Cantwell are behind the reboot, so it should be quite fun to watch!
As a beside, I still think Halt and Catch Fire is the most underappreciated TV series ever!
The next search engine will never be made by a few kids playing around in the shed.
The latest Common Crawl is roughly 120TB, enough to fit on 48 LTO-6 tapes. LTO-6 is the perfect middle ground expense-wise if you did want to play with the entire dataset at home. The tapes cost ~$30 (AUD) each, a cheap loader from eBay can be had for around ~$1000-4000 (like a Dell PowerVault or Fujitsu Eternus).
Your looking at around $8k just to have your data close to your computer. Either that, or you are going to just run everything on AWS/Google Cloud/Azure. Two of these are your competitors.
No one is going to copy 48 tapes for you, either :)
120TB would take around three months to download - if my ISP didn't cut me off first for probably being the heaviest consumer user of bandwidth.
https://www.chatnoir.eu/ has a search engine that is built from the CommonCrawl data running on Elasticsearch, and it runs on 130 nodes [0].
I would love to be able to run my own search engine, but unless there are a number of breakthrough algorithms, I don't see how it can be easily achieved.
I did ask some guys from the Internet Archive if they would be happy to copy some data for me onto some tapes. I wonder if there is a service for this?
[0] https://webis.de/downloads/publications/papers/bevendorff_20...
Completely forgot that I installed this extension years earlier.
Crazy extension!