> Specifically: Why do movie studios allow Netflix to send out DVDs to their subscribers by mail
I didn't read beyond that. The movie studios, at the core, do not "allow" Netflix to send DVDs through the mail.
This is specifically legal due to the First Sale doctrine.
I say "at the core", because Netflix has *voluntarily* signed agreements with various movie companies to get CHEAPER DVDs (the "rental" DVDs) from the studios. The fact that the "rental" DVDs typically do not have the extra content (once in a while there is a tiny proportion of the extra content, sometimes there is JUST the movie), and the rental DVDs seem to have become a large proportion of the DVDs I got, is why I cancelled Netflix sometime last year.. I was a VERY longtime customer. I am not against streaming, but the extras are largely why I kept with the DVDs. (Though I also think the idea that the streaming is inherently more convenient isn't necessarily true.. No buffering, video glitches, more reliable subtitles, you can skip back/FF easier, etc.. That doesn't mean I don't ALSO use streaming, through my Amazon Prime acct, which is another reason I cancelled Netflix.. But I am likely to take them up on their free month to see their various original series and a few other things.)
But anyway, even after that long ramble, even though Netflix currently has agreements, the very idea of renting DVDs is legally protected.
Hmm, there used to be a way bigger list. Maybe that's still available somewhere else. I definitely bought my own router, which paid for itself after a few months, instead of paying to rent one forever.
except when you are this unfortunate class called 'exempt' but lets not talk about that right now, its too depressing a concept to bring up in this thread
I suspect most of the people reading this thread are exempt employees.
Will there be a rewritable variant? (Skimmed the article linked to and I didn't see it mentioned.)
While I realize people mostly picked on this, I like(d) using DVD-RW and DVD-RAM for video archiving. Yeah, now I mostly just download (non-copy-protected) things to a computer, but it was much handier having it built into the recorder.
OK, maybe later (than I have listened to so far) Planet Money episodes will cover the same thing your article did (which I admit I haven't read.. maybe I will). The 2008-2009 episodes I've listened to that did talk about FDIC had interviews saying they WERE in good shape and had well more than needed even as banks were failing left and right.
Its that the old stuff is still around...because something happened along the way, and nothing really great or unifying in music happened much after my younger years, and the old stuff is still strong enough to keep a following. It hasn't been supplanted yet.
I think you still have your rose colored glasses on.
That's the stuff I listen to too, but remember, you are listening to the best of the 70s.. Just like people are "still" listening to the best of the 50s and 60s..
There's still lots of popular (literally) music. I don't listen to it, but I know it's out there. Some of it may be the "they're still listening to it" in 40 years. (Pink maybe? Adele, though you'll probably just mention that she's in the style of older music.)
That's why you have the desktop, with all your traditional desktop applications and the metro interface when using the device in tablet mode, and if you never do that - say your device is a desktop - then you just don't use it in metro mode at all, frankly why would you want to?
You seem to be completely AGREEING with what you attempting to be disagreeing with.
You're stating that the system should have two modes, desktop mode and tablet mode.
Which is basically exactly what saying the workflows are different means, except it doesn't mean cramming the two apps (tablet + desktop) together, likely diminishing the quality of one side in some way. (This doesn't mean you couldn't have shared back end code from the developer's point of view.)
Why not charge overnight at home, or during the day at work (if you happen to have EVSEs there)? There's PLENTY of time when your car isn't being used that it could be being charged.
Even the lowest range electric cars have far more range than the average commute.. (I recently got one with one of the lowest ranges -- smart electric.)
Take for example the latest Mortgage Backed Securities, that ended up being nothing but phoney scam to leverage profits, and hence the housing bubble that resulted.
The *idea* of mortgage backed securities isn't a scam. If they had been properly rated (THAT part is the scam part), they would have been priced properly and some mortgage backed securities could be a safe investment.
Plus, why does nobody seem to put any onus on the PEOPLE who took loans at interest rates they weren't able to pay back?
BTW, no, I have nothing to do with banks except being a user of one (though I haven't set FOOT in a bank in many many many many years.. I even rarely have to use an ATM).
Bitcoin isn't failing, rather the exchanges are, just like if the crooks had robbed a physical bank of all your paper money.
But if crooks rob a physical bank, your money is insured to the legal limit.
BTW, I've been listening to the old Planet Money podcast episodes (I started at the beginning and am now in early 2009), and the FDIC insurance isn't provided by the government, it's provided by payments the banks make to be FDIC insured.
Hope you enjoy not having ANY government services.
BTW, I usually argue for lowering a lot of taxes (Social Security, Medicare, and a zillion other examples), but hiding money from taxes is something the government SHOULD go after.
Also, you're totally screwed when hackers break in and steal your Bitcoins.. great.. You'd be FDIC insured to the limit if it were in standard currency.
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Should have been thrown out before it went to trial.
People really do not understand the Constitution, especially the First Amendment.
> Specifically: Why do movie studios allow Netflix to send out DVDs to their subscribers by mail
I didn't read beyond that. The movie studios, at the core, do not "allow" Netflix to send DVDs through the mail.
This is specifically legal due to the First Sale doctrine.
I say "at the core", because Netflix has *voluntarily* signed agreements with various movie companies to get CHEAPER DVDs (the "rental" DVDs) from the studios. The fact that the "rental" DVDs typically do not have the extra content (once in a while there is a tiny proportion of the extra content, sometimes there is JUST the movie), and the rental DVDs seem to have become a large proportion of the DVDs I got, is why I cancelled Netflix sometime last year.. I was a VERY longtime customer. I am not against streaming, but the extras are largely why I kept with the DVDs. (Though I also think the idea that the streaming is inherently more convenient isn't necessarily true.. No buffering, video glitches, more reliable subtitles, you can skip back/FF easier, etc.. That doesn't mean I don't ALSO use streaming, through my Amazon Prime acct, which is another reason I cancelled Netflix.. But I am likely to take them up on their free month to see their various original series and a few other things.)
But anyway, even after that long ramble, even though Netflix currently has agreements, the very idea of renting DVDs is legally protected.
So you think nobody should be able to protect the look and style of their products? So anybody should be able to make a knockoff of ANYTHING?
So fake Rolexes are just fine even though they damage the Rolex brand?
(BTW, I think anybody who buys a Rolex, real or fake, has rocks in their head.. It's a freaking watch, it's not worth many thousands of dollars.)
Presumably not every one in existence has a trademark on their distinctive look.
Some links from the Straight Dope... entertaining reading..
http://www.straightdope.com/co...
http://www.straightdope.com/co...
The message close below yours, http://tech.slashdot.org/comme..., claims that it does.
Yeah, definitely not Comcast-wide.
http://customer.comcast.com/he...
Hmm, there used to be a way bigger list. Maybe that's still available somewhere else. I definitely bought my own router, which paid for itself after a few months, instead of paying to rent one forever.
Presumably everybody here knows this, but "The Cuckoo's Egg" started with a $.75 accounting error.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...
I suspect most of the people reading this thread are exempt employees.
Will there be a rewritable variant? (Skimmed the article linked to and I didn't see it mentioned.)
While I realize people mostly picked on this, I like(d) using DVD-RW and DVD-RAM for video archiving. Yeah, now I mostly just download (non-copy-protected) things to a computer, but it was much handier having it built into the recorder.
OK, maybe later (than I have listened to so far) Planet Money episodes will cover the same thing your article did (which I admit I haven't read.. maybe I will). The 2008-2009 episodes I've listened to that did talk about FDIC had interviews saying they WERE in good shape and had well more than needed even as banks were failing left and right.
I think you still have your rose colored glasses on.
That's the stuff I listen to too, but remember, you are listening to the best of the 70s.. Just like people are "still" listening to the best of the 50s and 60s..
There's still lots of popular (literally) music. I don't listen to it, but I know it's out there. Some of it may be the "they're still listening to it" in 40 years. (Pink maybe? Adele, though you'll probably just mention that she's in the style of older music.)
No, our ethical code is to pay the taxes we owe. Why isn't following the law to pay minimum required fine?
So you pay more tax than you have to? Why?
Based upon the Olympics, some of that is fiction too.. (e.g. biased "judging")
But they already had, around 5 years before the iPhone.. Even earlier, if my brief searching didn't find the earliest, the Treo 180, from 2002.
You seem to be completely AGREEING with what you attempting to be disagreeing with.
You're stating that the system should have two modes, desktop mode and tablet mode.
Which is basically exactly what saying the workflows are different means, except it doesn't mean cramming the two apps (tablet + desktop) together, likely diminishing the quality of one side in some way. (This doesn't mean you couldn't have shared back end code from the developer's point of view.)
Less buggy stuff, better thought out/consistent (or at least MORE consistent) interfaces.
I admit I can't provide a citation, except it being mentioned in one of the other early Planet Money episodes. The banks *want* FDIC insurance.
So you'd rather they be completely like loan sharks?
Why do you have to drive *200 miles in one single trip* so often?
How often do you go to the gas station?
Why not charge overnight at home, or during the day at work (if you happen to have EVSEs there)? There's PLENTY of time when your car isn't being used that it could be being charged.
Even the lowest range electric cars have far more range than the average commute.. (I recently got one with one of the lowest ranges -- smart electric.)
The *idea* of mortgage backed securities isn't a scam. If they had been properly rated (THAT part is the scam part), they would have been priced properly and some mortgage backed securities could be a safe investment.
Plus, why does nobody seem to put any onus on the PEOPLE who took loans at interest rates they weren't able to pay back?
BTW, no, I have nothing to do with banks except being a user of one (though I haven't set FOOT in a bank in many many many many years.. I even rarely have to use an ATM).
But if crooks rob a physical bank, your money is insured to the legal limit.
BTW, I've been listening to the old Planet Money podcast episodes (I started at the beginning and am now in early 2009), and the FDIC insurance isn't provided by the government, it's provided by payments the banks make to be FDIC insured.
Hope you enjoy not having ANY government services.
BTW, I usually argue for lowering a lot of taxes (Social Security, Medicare, and a zillion other examples), but hiding money from taxes is something the government SHOULD go after.
Also, you're totally screwed when hackers break in and steal your Bitcoins.. great.. You'd be FDIC insured to the limit if it were in standard currency.
I've said it before, but kids already do simple algebra in elementary school.
3 + [] = 5
and you fill in the box.