OK. Let's imagine that there's a base pi. The numbers still would not be rational without changing the definition of rational. How many digits would a base pi numbering system have? You certainly wouldn't want to use integer digit symbols to represent them (they wouldn't, by definition, be integers), no matter how much that would help you convince yourself you came up with a rational number.
That was a rhetorical question, shorthand for "Have you seen them? They're awfully hard to read." Of course they exist. But your linked one is especially awful for not having any tick lines at all.
I'd love to set my own schedule - but I have a job. And they follow the state/federal mandated time schedule. We all saw what happen when Seinfeld's neighbor Kramer set his watch an hour ahead of everyone else and set his own schedule. Nothing but chaos.
I don't know about that. Maybe it's my E-W position within my timeline, but I find daylight time to be preferable to standard time. I'd even prefer the whole year to fit that. In the depths of winter, it's sunset when I get done with work. I could have at least an hour of daylight to myself every day of the year.
In other words, the convenience can by overcome by making it an inconvenience. Part of the stated convenience would be not having to decide your queue in advance.
Netflix does have deals with studios for cheaper disc prices in exchange for a wait period before renting out the studio's newest DVD releases. But even if no studio is willing to deal with Netflix, they can still rent out DVD's they buy anywhere else.
You say in other comments that Netflix can't just buy their DVD's anywhere and rent them out, and yet you acknowledge exactly that:
Disney refused to sell Netflix the DVDs so Netflix just bought them retail and rented them out. This was legal, but it's not how it's usually done.)
The studios sell directly to Netflix to cut out the middle men - even while giving Netflix a slight discount. If they don't make a deal they get an even smaller piece of Netflix's profit by letting a distributor/retailer make a cut.
I have a so-called 30Mbps connection, that only hits those speeds on a speed test. Netflix rarely sends an HD picture, and I've never seen their Super HD. But Blu-Ray is 30Mbps of high-quality video and uncompressed audio that just works.
8 at a time? Either you have spent the last 14 years on a couch, or you are paying more for DVD rental than it would cost to buy only the ones that you actually watch.
And they're crazy. Conflating the "personal use" license claim on the video itself. If you can legally sell it, then you can also rent it out. The person renting it would be the owner at the time for purposes of copyright. The person who buys/rents it will be subject to the same "personal viewing" restriction (The DVD/VHS "EULA").
The studios have some pretty big legal teams. They would find some way of saying that using the "analog hole" is a violation of the DMCA. And any DVD playing software that would allow its video stream to be captured/encoded directly would have its DVD CCA membership revoked. So it's either capturing analog output or by using software like FRAPS. In doing this and transcoding the resulting stream, the studios have another attack angle - this is an illegal "copy" (no more than the stream on the HDMI cable from dvd player to TV is a "copy" but that won't stop them).
Netflix can't just buy the DVD at Walmart for $10 and rent it out to their subscribers, they have to pay the special higher price for a DVD that can be rented out.
No, this is not true at all. You completely missed the parent post regarding first sale doctrine. However, Wal-Mart doesn't offer bulk sales - they would have to find a different distributor.
This. Netflix may have an agreement with some studios for discount prices, but they are free to rent whatever they want. I thought this long, LONG essay completely missed the obvious.
"All digital" as time goes on only means that all of their paper documents will be scanned as images into a digital file system. Aside from the storage space, going all-digital saves nothing else with their current methods. It does not transcribe the data into a computer-readable format. At best, they would be manually typing data into a computer system from a digital scan instead of from physical paper. And it appears every agency has their own documents - nothing is standardized.
Even brand new records are coming in on paper if you'd bothered to read the article.
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It's all too small - requires a much bigger clock to make it easily readable, but mentally 24 divisions just isn't convenient.
Ratio of integers is what makes it rational. Since those digits wouldn't be integers, it wouldn't be rational.
OK. Let's imagine that there's a base pi. The numbers still would not be rational without changing the definition of rational. How many digits would a base pi numbering system have? You certainly wouldn't want to use integer digit symbols to represent them (they wouldn't, by definition, be integers), no matter how much that would help you convince yourself you came up with a rational number.
What numbering system and what ratio gives you a rational pi?
That was a rhetorical question, shorthand for "Have you seen them? They're awfully hard to read." Of course they exist. But your linked one is especially awful for not having any tick lines at all.
That really can't even be determined. At least if you're calculating that by using the Planck Constant - which may or may not be rational.
anachronistic
I see what you did there.
AM/PM redundant? Have you ever seen a 24-hour analog wall clock?
set their own schedules
I'd love to set my own schedule - but I have a job. And they follow the state/federal mandated time schedule. We all saw what happen when Seinfeld's neighbor Kramer set his watch an hour ahead of everyone else and set his own schedule. Nothing but chaos.
I don't know about that. Maybe it's my E-W position within my timeline, but I find daylight time to be preferable to standard time. I'd even prefer the whole year to fit that. In the depths of winter, it's sunset when I get done with work. I could have at least an hour of daylight to myself every day of the year.
I'm not really sure who you're arguing with, but whatever you're saying has nothing to do with what I said.
Neither - just annoyed at all the leechers in the entertainment industry. This is why we can't have nice things.
In other words, the convenience can by overcome by making it an inconvenience. Part of the stated convenience would be not having to decide your queue in advance.
While I agree with your point that DVD's really are convenient, this is not true:
If not for compulsory ads, there would be no real reason to seek out something else for a rental.
There's a certain convenience in not having a 2-3 day round trip with the postal service.
Netflix does have deals with studios for cheaper disc prices in exchange for a wait period before renting out the studio's newest DVD releases. But even if no studio is willing to deal with Netflix, they can still rent out DVD's they buy anywhere else.
You say in other comments that Netflix can't just buy their DVD's anywhere and rent them out, and yet you acknowledge exactly that:
Disney refused to sell Netflix the DVDs so Netflix just bought them retail and rented them out. This was legal, but it's not how it's usually done.)
The studios sell directly to Netflix to cut out the middle men - even while giving Netflix a slight discount. If they don't make a deal they get an even smaller piece of Netflix's profit by letting a distributor/retailer make a cut.
I have a so-called 30Mbps connection, that only hits those speeds on a speed test. Netflix rarely sends an HD picture, and I've never seen their Super HD. But Blu-Ray is 30Mbps of high-quality video and uncompressed audio that just works.
8 at a time? Either you have spent the last 14 years on a couch, or you are paying more for DVD rental than it would cost to buy only the ones that you actually watch.
Additionally, it must pay each time the DVD is "rented"
Only if they have some sort of special agreement - not normally true. No license fees are owned for renting under the first sale doctrine.
And they're crazy. Conflating the "personal use" license claim on the video itself. If you can legally sell it, then you can also rent it out. The person renting it would be the owner at the time for purposes of copyright. The person who buys/rents it will be subject to the same "personal viewing" restriction (The DVD/VHS "EULA").
The studios have some pretty big legal teams. They would find some way of saying that using the "analog hole" is a violation of the DMCA. And any DVD playing software that would allow its video stream to be captured/encoded directly would have its DVD CCA membership revoked. So it's either capturing analog output or by using software like FRAPS. In doing this and transcoding the resulting stream, the studios have another attack angle - this is an illegal "copy" (no more than the stream on the HDMI cable from dvd player to TV is a "copy" but that won't stop them).
Netflix can't just buy the DVD at Walmart for $10 and rent it out to their subscribers, they have to pay the special higher price for a DVD that can be rented out.
No, this is not true at all. You completely missed the parent post regarding first sale doctrine. However, Wal-Mart doesn't offer bulk sales - they would have to find a different distributor.
This. Netflix may have an agreement with some studios for discount prices, but they are free to rent whatever they want. I thought this long, LONG essay completely missed the obvious.
"All digital" as time goes on only means that all of their paper documents will be scanned as images into a digital file system. Aside from the storage space, going all-digital saves nothing else with their current methods. It does not transcribe the data into a computer-readable format. At best, they would be manually typing data into a computer system from a digital scan instead of from physical paper. And it appears every agency has their own documents - nothing is standardized.
Even brand new records are coming in on paper if you'd bothered to read the article.
Arguably, they kept the company funded well enough to create a profit. You're confusing actual investing with high-frequency trading.
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