Showing posts with label Turned. Show all posts
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Sunday, September 11, 2011

How San Diego Looks With the Lights Turned off [Image Cache]

How San Diego Looks With the Lights Turned offYesterday, a sweeping power outage left six million people without power in the Southwest—including a huge swath of San Diegans. The result? An Emerald City that shined in patches, not flares. And it's actually kind of beautiful.

Also fun: turns out that the outage was the fault of a single electrical worker for Arizona utility APS. He apparently removed the wrong monitoring equipment at the wrong time, which set off a domino effect that reached as far as, well, San Diego. Power has since been restored in most areas, but the city might want to coordinate a lights out night again some time soon. It's just so much easier—in so many ways—on the eyes. [Photo credit: justininsd/Flickr via The Daily What]

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Saturday, September 3, 2011

Starz Turned Down $300 Million to Stay on Netflix [Video]

Starz Turned Down $300 Million to Stay on NetflixSo you know how Starz and Netflix broke up, which, sad! But did you further know that Netflix offered up a whopping $300 million per year to make the third-rate movie channel stay? That's ten times their current deal. Yowza.

Starz, according to the LA Times, refused to sign off on any deal that didn't involved a tiered pricing plan. That way the movie network could save face with its cable cronies while still making bank on Netflix streaming. Nice try, Starz! But also not a negotiation so much as a round of Hungry Hungry Hippos.

Netflix, obviously, refused to adjust its pricing, which is in the long-run a hopeful sign for consumers. And that's how we got here: come March, you're going to have to live without streaming second-tier first-run movies Tangled and The Expendables. And Starz is going to have to live without hundreds of millions of dollars. [LA Times]

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