That's the big push, Netflix wants to push people to streaming, saving the people and them money.
Unfortunately for Netflix, the streaming side is lackluster at best. They need a little more sugar with their medicine me thinks.
They should ( and maybe will) increase the quality of their streaming service, people who don't want to pay $16 will drop the disks, save $2 and go to streaming. win-win...
Disks are becoming an antiquated delivery mechanism anyway. Hell I'm ripping my dvds to my HTPC just so I don't have to get my lazy ass up to change the disk in the player.
This reminds me though, I should change my netflix subscription, I'm still at 3 disks at a time, should bump that down to 2. Save a couple bucks.
That sounds like you had poor coders, not a VB6 issue if the coders aren't professional. I've written/debug plenty of VB6 code. Compared to VS 2010 Visual Basic.Net yeah, it's not as easy in some respects. But there's a familiarity there to "pre-objected oriented" code that a lot of older programmers are used to.
Just because something is new and shiny doesn't mean it's automatically better than the older version. VB.Net 2002 sucked donkey balls compared to VB6, it took them to 2008 to get it good enough for me. I know a few coders now who are just starting to get into.NET and away from VB6, it's not a simple switch for all.
Now with a full life, Wife, Child, career, house, etc etc, I'm happy at 8pm (after the kid is in bed) just to chill. I may get 2 hours to actually relax, if I'm lucky.
I loved working on PCs, I still like building my own. But the thrill of digging through a pile of old PCs an stripping out the memory for my use later...meh..thrills gone.
You have to go to History International for hitler now....
Reality-based TV is cheap and easy, and must make them a ton of money.
It's sad, when you turn on the History channel and the only thing they show that I learn something from has Larry the Cable guy on it. He at least deals with some of everyday history.
But then that's amortized out over millions of subscribers. The envelopes take manual intervention. someone to open and dump the disk. hourly employee +benefits. Servers, on 24 hours a day, no bennies....in the long run the servers are the better investment.
Slick Willy apparently made a huge impression on the Northern Ireland/IRA battles.
From what I heard he'd be a nearly a saint over there if he was catholic.
Clinton: 1
Dubya: -6
I'm not a fan of Clinton, but Dubya and Cheney just fucked this country up.
It was those damn Puritans that the English sent over.
They screwed the country up for everyone.
I for one would rather see naked women on TV than another "terrorist" getting whacked or car exploding.
I have a cat that nags and had a dog that scolded.
Pets can give you just as much shit (literally and figuratively) as any other member of the family.
But they keep coming back...
Now they can keep coming back forever.
Sean D.
Slashdot Mirror
That's the big push, Netflix wants to push people to streaming, saving the people and them money.
Unfortunately for Netflix, the streaming side is lackluster at best. They need a little more sugar with their medicine me thinks.
They should ( and maybe will) increase the quality of their streaming service, people who don't want to pay $16 will drop the disks, save $2 and go to streaming. win-win...
Disks are becoming an antiquated delivery mechanism anyway. Hell I'm ripping my dvds to my HTPC just so I don't have to get my lazy ass up to change the disk in the player.
This reminds me though, I should change my netflix subscription, I'm still at 3 disks at a time, should bump that down to 2. Save a couple bucks.
"Special Edition" wine....
Works surprisingly well.
That sounds like you had poor coders, not a VB6 issue if the coders aren't professional. I've written/debug plenty of VB6 code. Compared to VS 2010 Visual Basic.Net yeah, it's not as easy in some respects. But there's a familiarity there to "pre-objected oriented" code that a lot of older programmers are used to.
Just because something is new and shiny doesn't mean it's automatically better than the older version. VB.Net 2002 sucked donkey balls compared to VB6, it took them to 2008 to get it good enough for me. I know a few coders now who are just starting to get into .NET and away from VB6, it's not a simple switch for all.
He's dead , Jim...
Same boat....
literally. Was the go to guy. left, now they are hurting,
Mean while I'm where the grass in greener. (though slightly bored by it.) But I'll soak up all I can, for as long as I can stand it and move on.
Thus the need for better schools.
I'm right there with you, except on the PC side.
Now with a full life, Wife, Child, career, house, etc etc, I'm happy at 8pm (after the kid is in bed) just to chill. I may get 2 hours to actually relax, if I'm lucky.
I loved working on PCs, I still like building my own. But the thrill of digging through a pile of old PCs an stripping out the memory for my use later...meh..thrills gone.
Sounds like it to me.
You have to go to History International for hitler now....
Reality-based TV is cheap and easy, and must make them a ton of money.
It's sad, when you turn on the History channel and the only thing they show that I learn something from has Larry the Cable guy on it. He at least deals with some of everyday history.
What a world...what a world...
The problem is filtering alone isn't enough. A lot of times the chemicals in the water actually eat the filtering equipment.
They either need water trucked in or use cisterns.
Sean D.
But then that's amortized out over millions of subscribers. The envelopes take manual intervention. someone to open and dump the disk. hourly employee +benefits. Servers, on 24 hours a day, no bennies....in the long run the servers are the better investment.
Depends on the barcode.
2D. Datamatrix.
You driver's License, barcode contains info, not just you license #.
This is not an issue of hating users.
This is an issue of people simply not, , reading the error in from of them to the tech support.
Even if the user does not understand the error, the should be able to read it to the tech. They aren't being asked to fix it themselves.
I like the idea of the puppy error and such.
People remember stupid things, they'll remember the puppy error or the baby error, or the Homer error.
Sean D
All slabs crack...
you don't need frozen pipes to cause that.
yes...for littering.
Slick Willy apparently made a huge impression on the Northern Ireland/IRA battles. From what I heard he'd be a nearly a saint over there if he was catholic. Clinton: 1 Dubya: -6 I'm not a fan of Clinton, but Dubya and Cheney just fucked this country up.
Hit 'F' and put in it in 3rd person mode... It gives you head a break. I have to do that every so often otherwise I'll puke my brains out too.
Obama just said, "I screwed up." I hear that Hell is expecting it first blizzard shortly.
It was those damn Puritans that the English sent over. They screwed the country up for everyone. I for one would rather see naked women on TV than another "terrorist" getting whacked or car exploding.
I have a cat that nags and had a dog that scolded. Pets can give you just as much shit (literally and figuratively) as any other member of the family. But they keep coming back... Now they can keep coming back forever. Sean D.
Um, strawman. "God, Rest ye merry Gentleman" is not Dogma.
Or a Torchwood episode...
It took 40 years for the change in case.
it took till just recently to get VOIP.
I'd give it a week and some skilled firefox hacker will create some addon to put it back in from the user side.
Sean D.
They can.