Ironically, the net effect of all of this from Netflix's side is that that they're going to lose $2/mo from me which somebody else will probably get (Amazon VOD perhaps -- all depends on who has what I want available).
Ironically, you're doing exactly what they want you to do. Cancel the lesser profitable DVD delivery for the "next to nothing" streaming.
What's with everything being "military grade" nowadays, from motherboards to video projectors? Is it some kind of fashion, or did US army have a huge sale?
I have two items that touted military grade components. A radar detector and an amp.
The radar detector has handled the punishing heat of a car window in the desert for nearly 9 years now.
The amp I bought 25 years ago. Still working to spec even though it has seen thousands of heat cycles.
So, maybe nowadays military grade is crap. But at one time, you were assured that whatever that item was, it could go to the Antarctica or Death Valley and work to spec and not become too brittle to use or melt.
Electrical specs are also held to greater tolerances. That amp, while every other amp's THD varied wildly, held a very respectable number across their lineup.
It's sad if military grade doesn't mean that any more.
We don't need gimmicks. Want to know what the US really needs on the roads? Turbo diesels.
Additionally...
Diesels last so much longer, that the expense of producing said vehicle is distributed across a longer life span, as those vehicles can stay in the market for a much longer amount of time. That helps to reduce dependence on materials for manufacturing.
Plus, right now, electric's need 'rare earth elements', that unfortunately create a new dependence on another country (or countries).
While we are actually managing to produce bio-diesels and have the infrastructure and work-force to produce diesels til the cows come home.
A non-stop expense of energy like lights and AC (to say nothing of heating) will be a much more significant fraction of an electric car's energy expenses than it would be for a gas-fuelled vehicle that has to idle.
It would be nice if most... some... ANY of you people commenting, would have EVER been in a hybrid or all electric vehicle.
The lights... the accessories... the AC, the heater... DO NOT RUN OFF THE SAME BATTERIES AS THE PROPULSION MOTORS DO.
You should look into what parts of the country are growing. The flight from city center ended and has reversed in the past decade. People are moving back to the cities and loving it. Even downtown Detroit has seen growth...
I have looked into this as I've been concerned with the lack of fuel efficiency in bikes for a long time, and hope someone will bring out a larger capacity bike tuned for efficiency and not power. Honda are you listening???
I might be feeding a troll here... but if you take ANY carb'd bike and rejet the carbs, you'll get better gas mileage.
My CB900C could get me 40+mpg. And when the weekend came, instead of rejetting, I just swapped one set of carbs for another, already tuned. MPG dropped to half but the fun jumped to 400%.
Furthermore, if you take any of the 'popular' bikes now, you can get ECU dumps and flash new ECUs. I have a project car with a LT1 in it. I can flash it for a drive to an event and get mid 20's mpg. Flash it at the track and punch a 10s down the quarter. Flash it for the drive home and get my mileage back.
My current project car, is carb'd with the ability to change jets and rods. 15min and I have a whole new 'identity' to the car's fuel consumption.
So you're not an early adopter for this technology, so what? Most people aren't. I remember when I first bought a computer back in 1982, most people couldn't imagine that they'd ever have a reason to buy a computer of their own.
Sad thing is... that thought process lasted for the next 15+ years.
Fun, of course. The problem with this is that unless you take especial pleasure from being 'green', these cars aren't enjoyable.
You've never driven an all-electric car have you?
All-electric plus quiet tires, makes for a CRAPLOAD of fun. Especially in parking lots, parking decks, high pedestrian areas. I find it enjoyable. If I had a spare 15k lying around, I would consider electric for my next project car, instead of dino-juice.
They are expensive because of the recession. It is common for people to move their money into "safer" investments like silver and gold during a recession. That leads to a precious metals bubble making these investments highly dangerous, which of course, attracts even more money.
True 'precious metals' or ones used by governments and countries as an exchange medium for debt and a hedge against inflation, cannot truly bubble. That is why we use them.
An economic bubble (sometimes referred to as a speculative bubble, a market bubble, a price bubble, a financial bubble, a speculative mania or a balloon) is “trade in high volumes at prices that are considerably at variance with intrinsic values”.[1][2] It could also be described as a trade in products or assets with inflated values. {snip} Because it is often difficult to observe intrinsic values in real-life markets, bubbles are often conclusively identified only in retrospect, when a sudden drop in prices appears. Such a drop is known as a crash or a bubble burst. Both the boom and the burst phases of the bubble are examples of a positive feedback mechanism, in contrast to the negative feedback mechanism that determines the equilibrium price under normal market circumstances. Prices in an economic bubble can fluctuate erratically, and become impossible to predict from supply and demand alone.
If you look at the long term growth of gold, http://www.kitco.com/LFgif/au3650nyb.gif you'll see it is experiencing healthy overall growth without having any "out of curve" spikes.
If you were to use that chart in a program that has indicators and signals you would see that while you'll get an overbought signal, it is far from being in a bubble state.
That is also not to say that at some point it might not relax... maybe lose 20%. But that is far from a bubble.
If you were alive long enough to remember the problems with gasoline that the US had, you'll see that gold saw a very healthy spike as a hedge against the cost of the barrel of oil in the 70's. As well as the US being taken off the gold standard and presented with fiat currency at the beginning of the 70's.
The slump in the late 90's was caused by our leadership trimming the national (US) debt.
And the explosion of a real bubble, plus the start of a war in the Middle east, helped to bring gold right back from its slump.
The hiccup at the end of 07 was in response to the bank and real estate bubble bursting and the economies becoming destabilized.
I'm sure we are at a higher than graphed level now because of the depression but that too will be absorbed and the price of gold will find its level again.
Also since I am not an electronics person how does one make connections to it since I would think that solder would burn paper?
I am an "electronics person" and have accidentally managed to rest my soldering iron against a piece of paper every now and then. Surprisingly it takes quite a lot of heat to make paper burn when you don't have an open flame to begin with.
It takes right around 451 deg Fahrenheit, sustained.
my brother immediately tagged himself on the photo. I should have asked why. Aren't you just giving Facebook extra information that you don't need or want them to have?
Not enough people were doing it, you insensitive clod!
I'm just surprised that they don't still implement "What is the 6th word in the second paragraph of page 36 of the game manual?" copy-protection and 16-bit graphics.
'memba the wheel from Star Con? Still have mine somewhere, well, I have to... wouldn't be able to play the game without it, lol.
Slashdot Mirror
Ironically, the net effect of all of this from Netflix's side is that that they're going to lose $2/mo from me which somebody else will probably get (Amazon VOD perhaps -- all depends on who has what I want available).
Ironically, you're doing exactly what they want you to do.
Cancel the lesser profitable DVD delivery for the "next to nothing" streaming.
Good job I say... carry on!
The writing has been on the wall for a LONG time.
http://gigaom.com/video/netflix-the-future-is-streaming/
That's why I cancelled my Netflix account... without rage, the LAST time
they increased their prices.
-AI
My cost of bandwidth has increased 20% in the past 3 years for the same goddamn connection. What fantasy world do you live in?
In the United States, prices have not "decreased dramatically" for consumer broadband. In fact, they have remained largely stable with a mild increase.
http://www.techpolicyinstitute.org/news/show/23252.html
See figure 6 in the linked document which shows that the 25Mbps to 100Mbps plans have *increased* 25% from 2007 to 2009.
My price has gone down and my connection speed has quadrupled.
Maybe I'm lucky there's good competition between the leading broadband
providers.
-AI
What's with everything being "military grade" nowadays, from motherboards to video projectors? Is it some kind of fashion, or did US army have a huge sale?
I have two items that touted military grade components. A radar detector and an amp.
The radar detector has handled the punishing heat of a car window in the desert
for nearly 9 years now.
The amp I bought 25 years ago. Still working to spec even though it has seen
thousands of heat cycles.
So, maybe nowadays military grade is crap. But at one time, you were assured
that whatever that item was, it could go to the Antarctica or Death Valley and
work to spec and not become too brittle to use or melt.
Electrical specs are also held to greater tolerances. That amp, while every other
amp's THD varied wildly, held a very respectable number across their lineup.
It's sad if military grade doesn't mean that any more.
-AI
Ok, wow... did I miss it, or did they completely avoid using any
real numbers, that could be tallied and put in a spreadsheet?
Everything seemed to be something of something else.
RTFA is a horrible idea. RTFPDF, well, that's up to you, it's
214 pages long.
Anyone rationalize those numbers out yet?
-AI
Not really. Each of those years more and more people found enough reasons to justify the ever decreasing cost of buying a computer.
No... really... in fact, specifically.
15 years to reach 20% penetration? I hope electric car adoption comes quicker.
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/fttn99/App_III/Chart-A-8.html
-AI
We don't need gimmicks. Want to know what the US really needs on the roads? Turbo diesels.
Additionally...
Diesels last so much longer, that the expense of producing said vehicle
is distributed across a longer life span, as those vehicles can stay in
the market for a much longer amount of time. That helps to reduce
dependence on materials for manufacturing.
Plus, right now, electric's need 'rare earth elements', that unfortunately
create a new dependence on another country (or countries).
While we are actually managing to produce bio-diesels and have the
infrastructure and work-force to produce diesels til the cows come home.
-AI
A non-stop expense of energy like lights and AC (to say nothing of heating) will be a much more significant fraction of an electric car's energy expenses than it would be for a gas-fuelled vehicle that has to idle.
It would be nice if most... some... ANY of you people commenting,
would have EVER been in a hybrid or all electric vehicle.
The lights... the accessories... the AC, the heater...
DO NOT RUN OFF THE SAME BATTERIES AS THE PROPULSION MOTORS DO.
They have a separate 12V battery for accessories.
-AI
Slashdotters, in their rush to denounce everything that is new and different (cough ipod cough), seem to forget that a lot.
Wow, you were doing good there til the Apple troll.
Would you like to see the receipt of the MP3 player that I bought...
YEARS before the "creation" of the all-hallowed iPod?
How... was the iPod, new and different? New for Apple maybe
and different for people with blinders on.
-AI
You should look into what parts of the country are growing. The flight from city center ended and has reversed in the past decade. People are moving back to the cities and loving it. Even downtown Detroit has seen growth...
You sound like the Mayor of Detroit...
Mayor?
lol
-AI
I have looked into this as I've been concerned with the lack of fuel efficiency in bikes for a long time, and hope someone will bring out a larger capacity bike tuned for efficiency and not power. Honda are you listening???
I might be feeding a troll here... but if you take ANY carb'd bike
and rejet the carbs, you'll get better gas mileage.
My CB900C could get me 40+mpg. And when the weekend
came, instead of rejetting, I just swapped one set of carbs
for another, already tuned. MPG dropped to half but the fun
jumped to 400%.
Furthermore, if you take any of the 'popular' bikes now, you
can get ECU dumps and flash new ECUs. I have a project
car with a LT1 in it. I can flash it for a drive to an event and
get mid 20's mpg. Flash it at the track and punch a 10s down
the quarter. Flash it for the drive home and get my mileage
back.
My current project car, is carb'd with the ability to change
jets and rods. 15min and I have a whole new 'identity' to
the car's fuel consumption.
-AI
So you're not an early adopter for this technology, so what? Most people aren't. I remember when I first bought a computer back in 1982, most people couldn't imagine that they'd ever have a reason to buy a computer of their own.
Sad thing is... that thought process lasted for the next 15+ years.
-AI
what's the financial point of a porsche?
Fun, of course. The problem with this is that unless you take especial pleasure from being 'green', these cars aren't enjoyable.
You've never driven an all-electric car have you?
All-electric plus quiet tires, makes for a CRAPLOAD of fun.
Especially in parking lots, parking decks, high pedestrian
areas. I find it enjoyable. If I had a spare 15k lying around,
I would consider electric for my next project car, instead
of dino-juice.
-AI
Nah someone will forge a document and then try to sue him for copying their idea.
-AI
And the roller variants don't work well on PCBs actually.
I think that's why everything in the article was pointing
in every direction EXCEPT rigid PCBs., ie, paper.
You are correct about everything else tho.
-AI
They are expensive because of the recession. It is common for people to move their money into "safer" investments like silver and gold during a recession. That leads to a precious metals bubble making these investments highly dangerous, which of course, attracts even more money.
True 'precious metals' or ones used by governments
and countries as an exchange medium for debt and
a hedge against inflation, cannot truly bubble. That
is why we use them.
An economic bubble (sometimes referred to as a speculative bubble, a market bubble, a price bubble, a financial bubble, a speculative mania or a balloon) is “trade in high volumes at prices that are considerably at variance with intrinsic values”.[1][2] It could also be described as a trade in products or assets with inflated values.
{snip}
Because it is often difficult to observe intrinsic values in real-life markets, bubbles are often conclusively identified only in retrospect, when a sudden drop in prices appears. Such a drop is known as a crash or a bubble burst. Both the boom and the burst phases of the bubble are examples of a positive feedback mechanism, in contrast to the negative feedback mechanism that determines the equilibrium price under normal market circumstances. Prices in an economic bubble can fluctuate erratically, and become impossible to predict from supply and demand alone.
If you look at the long term growth of gold,
http://www.kitco.com/LFgif/au3650nyb.gif
you'll see it is experiencing healthy overall
growth without having any "out of curve"
spikes.
If you were to use that chart in a program
that has indicators and signals you would
see that while you'll get an overbought signal,
it is far from being in a bubble state.
That is also not to say that at some point
it might not relax... maybe lose 20%. But
that is far from a bubble.
If you were alive long enough to remember
the problems with gasoline that the US had,
you'll see that gold saw a very healthy spike
as a hedge against the cost of the barrel of
oil in the 70's. As well as the US being taken
off the gold standard and presented with fiat
currency at the beginning of the 70's.
http://www.kitco.com/LFgif/au75-pres.gif
The slump in the late 90's was caused by
our leadership trimming the national (US)
debt.
And the explosion of a real bubble, plus the
start of a war in the Middle east, helped to
bring gold right back from its slump.
The hiccup at the end of 07 was in response
to the bank and real estate bubble bursting
and the economies becoming destabilized.
I'm sure we are at a higher than graphed level
now because of the depression but that too
will be absorbed and the price of gold will find
its level again.
-AI
Also since I am not an electronics person how does one make connections to it since I would think that solder would burn paper?
I am an "electronics person" and have accidentally managed to rest my soldering iron against a piece of paper every now and then.
Surprisingly it takes quite a lot of heat to make paper burn when you don't have an open flame to begin with.
It takes right around 451 deg Fahrenheit, sustained.
-AI
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_451
http://hypertextbook.com/facts/2003/LewisChung.shtml
Next week, graphite in a wooden cylinder that can make marks on pressed and dried wood pulp.
Dear sir,
Am intrigued by graphite in wooden cylinder. Please send more information and purchasing requirements.
-AI
This is not really new stuff... Silver pens for "circuit repair" have been available for ages... They made a ballpoint version.
This is not really new stuff... Silver pens for "circuit repair" have been available for ages... They copied a ballpoint version.
FTFY.
-AI
Goodbye, Slashdot.
How much are you auctioning off that 6 digit ID for? =)
-AI
So you put a sheet of plastic in front of the panel. No different then stopping hail.
You have a solar panel powered by hail?
-AI
And apparently kids these days aren't very good at learning fundamental concepts from older adults.
Problem is... not enough adults with knowledge of fundamental concepts to go around.
-AI
We have an even better delivery mechanism for photos if you want to send high-resolution photos to your friends. It's called "email".
Haven't you heard... email is out. We're just old and set in our ways.
-AI
my brother immediately tagged himself on the photo. I should have asked why. Aren't you just giving Facebook extra information that you don't need or want them to have?
Not enough people were doing it, you insensitive clod!
That's why this happened...
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=facebook+face+recognition+%2Btagging
-AI
I'm just surprised that they don't still implement "What is the 6th word in the second paragraph of page 36 of the game manual?" copy-protection and 16-bit graphics.
'memba the wheel from Star Con? Still have mine somewhere,
well, I have to... wouldn't be able to play the game without it, lol.
-AI
5. No more profit.
Sigh... really?
What's happened to this place, that comment deserves at least a 3 or a 4.