Since the lists of what they have is public there are several web sites that help you find things on Netflix. Some sites tell you what is vanishing that month and what new programs are arriving, and so forth. For example, flicksurfer.com, not great in my view but it has a lot of ways to search for offerings.
Had a relative that tried Amazon Prime for video only, and said it really sucked as the selection was not very large and the few things that he did want to watch there very often included an extra charge beyond the normal Prime subscription.
I don't need sports, and it's a serious racket all about exclusivity and marketing and merchandising, you're better off just reading the scores online. And I can get news on the web (BBC is one of the better ones and not inundated with ads). There's also streaming Sky TV for news, Roku at least has it available by default. I suspect BBC is planning a streaming service (since they pulled Dr Who off of everyone else's service) and I would suspect it would have news. Newspapers are still useful too. I have no interest in seeing the typical American news as it's gone so far downhill that you get dumber just watching them (CNN, Fox, NBC, etc).
Seriously, saying "did not even know how to do HTML" is supposed to mean someone doesn't know technology? Using HTML is to technology like using a belt sander is to building a house. It's the lowest of low tech. Some of the best minds in science and technology don't know HTML.
We had a panic over communism which spurred on education and research. There was very serious concern that our schools were falling behind and so tax dollars flowed into the schools. There was worry that the Russkies were making better weapons than us and so money flowed to defense industries. The whole space program was about competing against the enemy. Today though the panic is over terrorists so there's no worry about being better educated or having better technology. Though if the public's panic was over China conquering us economically (a likely outcome) we'd probably see a lot more public spending.
Research is hard to do at corporations. Research does not make profits in the short term, and in the long term it makes profits for other companies. So the bottom line from the board of directors almost always says to do very little research. Broad based research is even more rare. The few exceptions to this are companies that are either extremely rich or which have a monopoly position (IBM, Bell). So there is a reliance on universities and government funding to keep research alive. That taxpayer money pays for itself over time.
I wish I could go back to my old Nokia. The sound quality was better than any new phone, and the battery could last more than a week before recharging. It only died because they changed the protocols. New phones don't have any useful features beyond what a feature phone or tablet could have, and the features I do want have been degraded and don't work as well.
When the radio gets boring, and it often does, I can use the podcasts. Plus the podcast is the only way to time shift listening to the NPR shows I like. But radio... isn't that even more out of data and dusty than podcasts?
I don't need it on android, I don't listen to music on a phone. So itunes on my pc is fine, then I sync it to the ipod and the ipod goes back in the car's glove box for a few weeks.
Something like this happened in a theater I was at. An opening week for a Star Wars movie, packed theater. Guy had been talking on the phone at the end of the previews and into the start of the movie. He was speaking loud enough for people to hear, not even a whisper. People were standing up and telling the guy to hang up the phone. I was expecting the thrown popcorn, but vventually he says "I gotta go, I'm watching a movie right now."
I have seen quite a few movies and television shows in the last 5 years where the phone is used as a flashlight by people who logically should have real flashlights. Ie, a police investigator looking for clues, someone exploring a cave, etc.
Also notice that the largest corporations today are essentially advertising distributors, along the lines of the older advertisement funded radio and television. Those were always big industries in the past but not the biggest.
It would be interesting to see the ratio of money spent overall on advertising to the amount of money spent purchasing products and see how that ratio has changed over time.
Lack of regulations also reduce productivity. Let's say those barrels of potassium ferricyanide are leaking and the workers get sick or die, then production drops to a crawl. Or the towns people show up with torches and pitchforks because the river flowing through town is yellow. Freedom is LOST if the towns people are told to go home because the company's profits are more important than their children's health. When all effort is focused solely on making money that society is sick.
Saying "it was just that one guy" is the wrong message too. University should say "sorry, we are in the wrong, we apologize, we are investigating how this could even happen" and so forth. Otherwise it looks like passing the blame even if it really was just one dysfunctional cop at fault.
Part of the goal of many peaceful protests is to goad the other side into their worst behavior. This is not a bad thing. It's how we got civil rights starting to roll a century after we supposedly granted equal rights to former slaves. Non-violent protesters resonded to with violence, it sends a bad image and shames some people into reevaluating which side they support.
What UC Davis should have done is come right out and apologize, admit that they screwed up, then institute some sort of reforms or retraining of the police, etc. Get the dirty laundry out in the fresh air. Then people would have forgotten about it, maybe thinking it was only a problem with a few police officers. But instead they tried to sweep it away, like hiding the dirty laundry in the bottom drawer until it starts to grow mold and then it's hard to get rid of that smell.
I was at a company that did this, at least we think they paid it. We were in the wrong quadrant for a long time. Then we had a new marketing campaign with a new slogan ("Synergy"). That week were were suddenly in the correct quadrant, and Gartner said "XYZ finally gets it!". But we changed no line of code, did not change any customer support process, added no new products, etc. Nothing at all had changed in the company except for the marketing campaign. Then my boss mentioned that it was possible that we bought our way up, after which I never again paid any attention to whatever the morons at Gartner said (unless I needed a laugh).
Thats a method used to help someone understand what subtraction is, it's something you do in lower grades. It's not a method taught about how to actually do this in real life.
In the 60s this is how we did it, drew circles on the board, drew diagonals in them to represent fractions. For subtraction it was "if you have 20 pennies and I take away 7, how many do you have?" And so forth. Teach the concepts, then teach how to make use of it.
I like the announcement that Alamo Drafthouse theaters give before the start of the show, which was the voice mail from a drunk and self entitled patron who used the phone during the movie and got kicked out for it, which inevitably has the audience cheering.
Doesn't matter if the theater allows texting or not, the kids will get the soda poured over their heads if they keep texting during the movie. You can't control the audience from exacting their own revenge.
If the existing market refuses to go to AMC anymore, then AMC will be out a lot of money while they wait for the growth market to grow.
I've not been in a theater where the typical audience was 22 years old, for anything adult the average is 30 or 40, anything family oriented is 10-15 on average.
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Since the lists of what they have is public there are several web sites that help you find things on Netflix. Some sites tell you what is vanishing that month and what new programs are arriving, and so forth. For example, flicksurfer.com, not great in my view but it has a lot of ways to search for offerings.
Had a relative that tried Amazon Prime for video only, and said it really sucked as the selection was not very large and the few things that he did want to watch there very often included an extra charge beyond the normal Prime subscription.
I don't need sports, and it's a serious racket all about exclusivity and marketing and merchandising, you're better off just reading the scores online. And I can get news on the web (BBC is one of the better ones and not inundated with ads). There's also streaming Sky TV for news, Roku at least has it available by default. I suspect BBC is planning a streaming service (since they pulled Dr Who off of everyone else's service) and I would suspect it would have news. Newspapers are still useful too. I have no interest in seeing the typical American news as it's gone so far downhill that you get dumber just watching them (CNN, Fox, NBC, etc).
Seriously, saying "did not even know how to do HTML" is supposed to mean someone doesn't know technology? Using HTML is to technology like using a belt sander is to building a house. It's the lowest of low tech. Some of the best minds in science and technology don't know HTML.
We had a panic over communism which spurred on education and research. There was very serious concern that our schools were falling behind and so tax dollars flowed into the schools. There was worry that the Russkies were making better weapons than us and so money flowed to defense industries. The whole space program was about competing against the enemy. Today though the panic is over terrorists so there's no worry about being better educated or having better technology. Though if the public's panic was over China conquering us economically (a likely outcome) we'd probably see a lot more public spending.
Research is hard to do at corporations. Research does not make profits in the short term, and in the long term it makes profits for other companies. So the bottom line from the board of directors almost always says to do very little research. Broad based research is even more rare. The few exceptions to this are companies that are either extremely rich or which have a monopoly position (IBM, Bell). So there is a reliance on universities and government funding to keep research alive. That taxpayer money pays for itself over time.
The article basically says "update when your Internet masters tell you to, you luddite slacker!"
Well, sure. But what about all those who don't really believe in Jehovah but they do want to to get time off on all high holy days?
Newer is not better.
I wish I could go back to my old Nokia. The sound quality was better than any new phone, and the battery could last more than a week before recharging. It only died because they changed the protocols. New phones don't have any useful features beyond what a feature phone or tablet could have, and the features I do want have been degraded and don't work as well.
When the radio gets boring, and it often does, I can use the podcasts. Plus the podcast is the only way to time shift listening to the NPR shows I like.
But radio... isn't that even more out of data and dusty than podcasts?
What else do you listen to in the car?
I don't need it on android, I don't listen to music on a phone. So itunes on my pc is fine, then I sync it to the ipod and the ipod goes back in the car's glove box for a few weeks.
Something like this happened in a theater I was at. An opening week for a Star Wars movie, packed theater. Guy had been talking on the phone at the end of the previews and into the start of the movie. He was speaking loud enough for people to hear, not even a whisper. People were standing up and telling the guy to hang up the phone. I was expecting the thrown popcorn, but vventually he says "I gotta go, I'm watching a movie right now."
I have seen quite a few movies and television shows in the last 5 years where the phone is used as a flashlight by people who logically should have real flashlights. Ie, a police investigator looking for clues, someone exploring a cave, etc.
Also notice that the largest corporations today are essentially advertising distributors, along the lines of the older advertisement funded radio and television. Those were always big industries in the past but not the biggest.
It would be interesting to see the ratio of money spent overall on advertising to the amount of money spent purchasing products and see how that ratio has changed over time.
Lack of regulations also reduce productivity. Let's say those barrels of potassium ferricyanide are leaking and the workers get sick or die, then production drops to a crawl. Or the towns people show up with torches and pitchforks because the river flowing through town is yellow. Freedom is LOST if the towns people are told to go home because the company's profits are more important than their children's health. When all effort is focused solely on making money that society is sick.
Saying "it was just that one guy" is the wrong message too. University should say "sorry, we are in the wrong, we apologize, we are investigating how this could even happen" and so forth. Otherwise it looks like passing the blame even if it really was just one dysfunctional cop at fault.
Part of the goal of many peaceful protests is to goad the other side into their worst behavior. This is not a bad thing. It's how we got civil rights starting to roll a century after we supposedly granted equal rights to former slaves. Non-violent protesters resonded to with violence, it sends a bad image and shames some people into reevaluating which side they support.
What UC Davis should have done is come right out and apologize, admit that they screwed up, then institute some sort of reforms or retraining of the police, etc. Get the dirty laundry out in the fresh air. Then people would have forgotten about it, maybe thinking it was only a problem with a few police officers. But instead they tried to sweep it away, like hiding the dirty laundry in the bottom drawer until it starts to grow mold and then it's hard to get rid of that smell.
I was at a company that did this, at least we think they paid it. We were in the wrong quadrant for a long time. Then we had a new marketing campaign with a new slogan ("Synergy"). That week were were suddenly in the correct quadrant, and Gartner said "XYZ finally gets it!". But we changed no line of code, did not change any customer support process, added no new products, etc. Nothing at all had changed in the company except for the marketing campaign. Then my boss mentioned that it was possible that we bought our way up, after which I never again paid any attention to whatever the morons at Gartner said (unless I needed a laugh).
Chrome shows Google ads, so Google is Google's customer.
Thats a method used to help someone understand what subtraction is, it's something you do in lower grades. It's not a method taught about how to actually do this in real life.
In the 60s this is how we did it, drew circles on the board, drew diagonals in them to represent fractions. For subtraction it was "if you have 20 pennies and I take away 7, how many do you have?" And so forth. Teach the concepts, then teach how to make use of it.
Just an accident officer. The other patrons will back me up.
I like the announcement that Alamo Drafthouse theaters give before the start of the show, which was the voice mail from a drunk and self entitled patron who used the phone during the movie and got kicked out for it, which inevitably has the audience cheering.
Doesn't matter if the theater allows texting or not, the kids will get the soda poured over their heads if they keep texting during the movie. You can't control the audience from exacting their own revenge.
If the existing market refuses to go to AMC anymore, then AMC will be out a lot of money while they wait for the growth market to grow.
I've not been in a theater where the typical audience was 22 years old, for anything adult the average is 30 or 40, anything family oriented is 10-15 on average.