I understand why they did it (specter of higher licensing fees, postal prices rising, having fine tuned their warehouse and distribution processes to lower costs as much as possible), but they probably could have softened the blow a bit. This is the wrong way to boil a frog.
This isn't about the use of disposable income. It's about having a huge increase in cost with absolutely nothing in return.
Huge in percentiles, small in actual dollars. Remember that Netflix's costs have risen as well. The US Postal Service has been raising rates over the years, it's not like Netflix can just print money to cover the difference.
Your comments highlight your ignorance of well known issues with the US Postal Service. The USPS has raised prices quite frequently over the past decade, and that cuts into netflix's profits. As you said, big media likely wants a bigger slice as well. The USPS is also looking to do away with saturday service as well. A good read is found at about the details that are pressuring Netflix. Enlighten yourself.
The prosecutor in the case has insisted that the defendant would not be forced to disclose her passphrase, but only to enter the passphrase into a computer to decrypt the drive."
Of course this will happen ONLY after the court ordered key-logger is installed.
My employer just changed providers away form AT&T, precisely for that reason. Our new vendor is more then twice as fast, at half the price. I feel sorry for those in areas where AT&T is the only provider...
Same time frame as mine. Strange. Even stranger, I found this guy's exact same review on about 5 different items, when it only applied to one. *facepalm*
I agree -- it's true in such obvious cases, but I think in most of the reviews it's more subtle than that. Words that refer to things someone has no direct experience with are often relegated to a common "gobbledygook" bin. If someone doesn't have a car, is not interested in cars, doesn't care about car brands (a car is a car is a car), and never saw a Prius, then they may well see not much of a difference. Call it a mental block if you will.
Which is EXACTLY why I view Amazon's failure to moderate their reviews as a large problem. I can read through and ferret out the whiney, stupid, or misplaced reviews on products that I am very familiar and experienced with. I can't do that with the products that I am not experienced with, so I have to depend on Amazon's policies being enforced on their reviewers. Except that they aren't being enforced (at least not reliably). So it bankrupts the process.
the lack of integrity in the Amazon review process when obviously false or misplaced reviews are allowed to remain
So someone in Amazon's customer service department disagreed with you once, and now you're discrediting their entire process? I would like to call this a slight case of overreaction.
3 times. Each responder had a different name.
Personally, I've filed a few complaints with Amazon and they were well received. They once really surprised me even when I pointed out that for a product there were a lot of 5- star reviews by people with just this one review. Amazon pulled them all, seriously affecting the overall rating.
I guess if they outsource their customer service, you're dealing with people who not only never saw the product that's reviewed, but also don't have the cultural background and social norms needed to correctly judge the reviews in our culture. That's probably all there's to it.
To the car analogy! No matter what country you are in, a V-8 engine will have 8 cylinders. Air conditioning (and whatever it's translated to) will heat or cool the interior of the car. Wheels measured in inches can be easily converted to metric. These are the specs of the car. Culture and social norms are not going to change these, even if the units of measurement are different. When there is a review of a Toyota Prius (hybrid car) claiming to apply to the purchase page of a Toyota Tundra (large truck), and you can't see how this is misplaced or wrong, you've got issues in your review process.
Probably because Amazon isn't going to take down a review because one person complains. This could be considered a good thing about the review process. How do they know that you don't have an agenda?
If you think a review is bad, you can mark it as unhelpful and write a a better review. Amazon expects that their are going to be bad reviews so it provides a mechanism to regulate it.
A: There were multiple complaints in the comments of this review, from multiple people. This was pointed out.
B: It's not a "bad" review in that it's poorly written, or uses bad grammar, it's a review for a product in the same category, but with completely different specs, and so that user's experience with their product doesn't apply.
C: When Amazon ignores their own policies, they lose all credibility. When they claim there is nothing wrong with an obviously misplaced or misrepresented review, they are either inept or don't care, and it bankrupts their review process.
I wrote a few Amazon reviews, then noticed a review that had absolutely no bearing on the item being reviewed. I reported it and Amazon stated that they found no reason to remove the review. I replied with full detail outlining how unrepresentative the review was and how misleading it was to consumers. I received a reply stating that it didn't violate their review policies, and that they wouldn't hear any more complaints about the issue. I forwarded the specific details out of their own publicly posted review policy that were violated, and received a "We'll take a look at this", which was obviously a brush off. Months later, no response and the fraudulent review remains.
I've henceforth removed all of my reviews, and I forward my clients to Newegg instead. Newegg's customer service has been better anyway.
While this may not be directly related to the story presented in TFA, it does speak to the lack of integrity in the Amazon review process when obviously false or misplaced reviews are allowed to remain, even when pointed out and explained to a human being (as opposed to a automatic responder).
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I'll probably get marked a troll, but, I thought they introduced this nationwide months ago. They've had games at our local Redbox's for going on a year.
Why would he have to upgrade all those machines for himself to use the SDK?
I was assuming that if the SDK didn't run on Windows pre-7, then applications built using the SDK would likewise not run on Windows pre-7.
You were also assuming that every computer at the workplace would be using the kinect. That's a lot of assumptions, and you know the saying about assuming...
Considering how long it took them to even acknowledge the first iteration gives me a little guideline. While there may be "daily updates", that doesn't mean that they develop the resolution in 24 hours. Granted, 30 days is a little excessive, but I'd be surprised if it showed up by the 20th.
And I don't guard the bridge, I live UNDER it, you insensitive clod =]
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Realize that Netflix would rather not lose money on that part of the service you rarely used and was likely costing them money.
I understand why they did it (specter of higher licensing fees, postal prices rising, having fine tuned their warehouse and distribution processes to lower costs as much as possible), but they probably could have softened the blow a bit. This is the wrong way to boil a frog.
FTFY.
This isn't about the use of disposable income. It's about having a huge increase in cost with absolutely nothing in return.
Huge in percentiles, small in actual dollars. Remember that Netflix's costs have risen as well. The US Postal Service has been raising rates over the years, it's not like Netflix can just print money to cover the difference.
Your comments highlight your ignorance of well known issues with the US Postal Service. The USPS has raised prices quite frequently over the past decade, and that cuts into netflix's profits. As you said, big media likely wants a bigger slice as well. The USPS is also looking to do away with saturday service as well. A good read is found at about the details that are pressuring Netflix. Enlighten yourself.
The prosecutor in the case has insisted that the defendant would not be forced to disclose her passphrase, but only to enter the passphrase into a computer to decrypt the drive."
Of course this will happen ONLY after the court ordered key-logger is installed.
My employer just changed providers away form AT&T, precisely for that reason. Our new vendor is more then twice as fast, at half the price. I feel sorry for those in areas where AT&T is the only provider...
Here comes the onslaught of Sony security jokes...
Same time frame as mine. Strange. Even stranger, I found this guy's exact same review on about 5 different items, when it only applied to one. *facepalm*
I agree -- it's true in such obvious cases, but I think in most of the reviews it's more subtle than that. Words that refer to things someone has no direct experience with are often relegated to a common "gobbledygook" bin. If someone doesn't have a car, is not interested in cars, doesn't care about car brands (a car is a car is a car), and never saw a Prius, then they may well see not much of a difference. Call it a mental block if you will.
Which is EXACTLY why I view Amazon's failure to moderate their reviews as a large problem. I can read through and ferret out the whiney, stupid, or misplaced reviews on products that I am very familiar and experienced with. I can't do that with the products that I am not experienced with, so I have to depend on Amazon's policies being enforced on their reviewers. Except that they aren't being enforced (at least not reliably). So it bankrupts the process.
the lack of integrity in the Amazon review process when obviously false or misplaced reviews are allowed to remain
So someone in Amazon's customer service department disagreed with you once, and now you're discrediting their entire process? I would like to call this a slight case of overreaction.
3 times. Each responder had a different name.
Personally, I've filed a few complaints with Amazon and they were well received. They once really surprised me even when I pointed out that for a product there were a lot of 5- star reviews by people with just this one review. Amazon pulled them all, seriously affecting the overall rating.
How long ago was this?
I guess if they outsource their customer service, you're dealing with people who not only never saw the product that's reviewed, but also don't have the cultural background and social norms needed to correctly judge the reviews in our culture. That's probably all there's to it.
To the car analogy! No matter what country you are in, a V-8 engine will have 8 cylinders. Air conditioning (and whatever it's translated to) will heat or cool the interior of the car. Wheels measured in inches can be easily converted to metric. These are the specs of the car. Culture and social norms are not going to change these, even if the units of measurement are different. When there is a review of a Toyota Prius (hybrid car) claiming to apply to the purchase page of a Toyota Tundra (large truck), and you can't see how this is misplaced or wrong, you've got issues in your review process.
Probably because Amazon isn't going to take down a review because one person complains. This could be considered a good thing about the review process. How do they know that you don't have an agenda?
If you think a review is bad, you can mark it as unhelpful and write a a better review. Amazon expects that their are going to be bad reviews so it provides a mechanism to regulate it.
A: There were multiple complaints in the comments of this review, from multiple people. This was pointed out.
B: It's not a "bad" review in that it's poorly written, or uses bad grammar, it's a review for a product in the same category, but with completely different specs, and so that user's experience with their product doesn't apply.
C: When Amazon ignores their own policies, they lose all credibility. When they claim there is nothing wrong with an obviously misplaced or misrepresented review, they are either inept or don't care, and it bankrupts their review process.
I wrote a few Amazon reviews, then noticed a review that had absolutely no bearing on the item being reviewed. I reported it and Amazon stated that they found no reason to remove the review. I replied with full detail outlining how unrepresentative the review was and how misleading it was to consumers. I received a reply stating that it didn't violate their review policies, and that they wouldn't hear any more complaints about the issue. I forwarded the specific details out of their own publicly posted review policy that were violated, and received a "We'll take a look at this", which was obviously a brush off. Months later, no response and the fraudulent review remains.
I've henceforth removed all of my reviews, and I forward my clients to Newegg instead. Newegg's customer service has been better anyway.
While this may not be directly related to the story presented in TFA, it does speak to the lack of integrity in the Amazon review process when obviously false or misplaced reviews are allowed to remain, even when pointed out and explained to a human being (as opposed to a automatic responder).
Checkmate?
With the re-re-remake of the original Star Wars Trilogy, you can experience your favorite scenes like never before! Enjoy the musky unbathed scent of a "walking carpet"! Writhe in fear and stench in the garbage compactor! Remember the revelation of Luke's father with the smell of cauterized flash floating through your living room! Ever wonder what ewoks smell like? Now you can find out in Star Wars Smell-D!
I rent RPG's all the time. But I use Gamefly, the exception to the rule.
I'll probably get marked a troll, but, I thought they introduced this nationwide months ago. They've had games at our local Redbox's for going on a year.
Same here in California.
Shoplifting? Big deal -- he was (and is) a total fraud.
He's a politician. Isn't being a total fraud implied?
Why would he have to upgrade all those machines for himself to use the SDK?
I was assuming that if the SDK didn't run on Windows pre-7, then applications built using the SDK would likewise not run on Windows pre-7.
You were also assuming that every computer at the workplace would be using the kinect. That's a lot of assumptions, and you know the saying about assuming...
Be sure to tell Doc Brown. He's about to sell them some Plutonium.
Calm down, he's only going to make them a fake bomb with pinball machine parts...
Well shit that sucks.
Well there's a good chance he might forget the whole idea...
Real families and parents actually raise their child.
I've heard of such things, but only in fairy tales...
And I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those meddling kids and that single piece of electrical tape on that camera...
And actually, as it turns out, we're both wrong.
Not the first time you've been wrong:
Notice the "absurd notion" being repeated.
If Apple can’t take over for more traditional AV vendors and security researchers, though, iOS and the Mac App Store may provide clues to how Apple may deal with the malware problem in future versions of Mac OS X. iOS is essentially a closed ecosystem, where software can only be installed via the App Store. Applications must be digitally signed by the developer, and iOS will refuse to install or run software that is modified in any way. Apple further randomly checks applications submitted to the App Store to make sure they don’t gather user data or perform other nefarious tricks.
Considering how long it took them to even acknowledge the first iteration gives me a little guideline. While there may be "daily updates", that doesn't mean that they develop the resolution in 24 hours. Granted, 30 days is a little excessive, but I'd be surprised if it showed up by the 20th.
And I don't guard the bridge, I live UNDER it, you insensitive clod =]