I'll freely admit that streaming is the future. It's not the present, though. Big business moving and changing faster than the market is rare, but it's just as bad as moving too slowly. They're getting way ahead of themselves, and they're going to take as much as they can from your wallet while they prove themselves wrong.
kill the functionality of auto-adding DVD queue videos to the stream, kill the prediction service, kill the history service
That says it. I'm likely to be dropping streaming once this hits. Netflix DVD was really the only thing that mattered. I like having a one-stop place to look for all the rarer discs (or even popular movies that are never in-stock at Redbox). It was never about renting Rio or seeing the latest college comedy film. I don't really see anyone ready to take over their one-of-a-kind niche. The local video rental place sure isn't it - anything older than 2 years or made outside the USA is nowhere to be seen. And that's not even a chain rental place.
Which half? Streaming, to me, looks like the sinking ship. Once the content producers realize how successful Netflix has been, they'll all be demanding higher rates. Then, Netflix is going to cost as much as cable, often delivered over cable Internet to make it even sillier.
I add movies to my DVD queue now and they magically sometimes appear on my Instant Queue without any effort on my part. I don't search for streaming content. Their catalog isn't that extensive. Sometimes I browse, but I never search it.
This might make me cancel my streaming service. I kept both during the price transition.
I'm not even sure if it's that. I think it's that Metro HTML5 apps won't use plugins, but I could be wrong. I certainly can't use Flash on the Metro IE right now.
Try VirtualBox. I had to enable a lot of things - PAE, APIC, and so on just to get it not to stop there. This was on Windows, but that shouldn't really make a difference.
My motherboard lets me just read the new BIOS image file off the usb drive directly - no booting required. There's an update BIOS option in the config screen.
Yes, that's mostly true. I wouldn't quite call it analog, since there's a checksum algorithm and all that (which still fails). But we have quite a number of redundancy in our non-cancerous cells to "restore from backup," so to speak.
RAM was definitely too expensive when Windows Vista came out. Most of the people that hated Vista most ended up with a machine with 1GB of RAM. Performance was crap without SP1 and a bare, bare minimum of 2GB of RAM. Being a Mac user at the time, I didn't have the problem. But if I were a Windows user, I probably would have skipped Vista.
Wow - that looks like every job I saw during my last job search. Since I couldn't figure out what was actually part of the job, I just gave up applying.
Not quite - if the brain is deterministic, then it can be reliably brainwashed to rehabilitation as well. Prison sentences are a deterrent, not a solution. If one won't be deterred, their brain must be altered to truly rehabilitate them. Brains damaged beyond repair are locked away for life.
And the insanity defense is no longer going to be a not-guilty. How can it be? If your brain made you do it, then your brain made you do it. Insanity, in this regard, would just be an extreme version of the same.
Not a scientific argument. A rational/philosophical one. If the existence of "free will" somehow violates causality, then it's inherently disprovable by science. There's only so much you can do with science (i.e. find out every last piece of causality and determinism, and build your case on that). Just like we can't observe the universe 4 billion years ago. We have lots of evidence about what things were like, but we will NEVER have first-hand observation.
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I'll freely admit that streaming is the future. It's not the present, though. Big business moving and changing faster than the market is rare, but it's just as bad as moving too slowly. They're getting way ahead of themselves, and they're going to take as much as they can from your wallet while they prove themselves wrong.
That says it. I'm likely to be dropping streaming once this hits. Netflix DVD was really the only thing that mattered. I like having a one-stop place to look for all the rarer discs (or even popular movies that are never in-stock at Redbox). It was never about renting Rio or seeing the latest college comedy film. I don't really see anyone ready to take over their one-of-a-kind niche. The local video rental place sure isn't it - anything older than 2 years or made outside the USA is nowhere to be seen. And that's not even a chain rental place.
Which half? Streaming, to me, looks like the sinking ship. Once the content producers realize how successful Netflix has been, they'll all be demanding higher rates. Then, Netflix is going to cost as much as cable, often delivered over cable Internet to make it even sillier.
I add movies to my DVD queue now and they magically sometimes appear on my Instant Queue without any effort on my part. I don't search for streaming content. Their catalog isn't that extensive. Sometimes I browse, but I never search it.
This might make me cancel my streaming service. I kept both during the price transition.
You could still do encrypted P2P over 443, couldn't you?
And for every business like your father-in-law's, there's at least 2 or 3 cheating and getting the residential pricing.
I'm not even sure if it's that. I think it's that Metro HTML5 apps won't use plugins, but I could be wrong. I certainly can't use Flash on the Metro IE right now.
Try VirtualBox. I had to enable a lot of things - PAE, APIC, and so on just to get it not to stop there. This was on Windows, but that shouldn't really make a difference.
My motherboard lets me just read the new BIOS image file off the usb drive directly - no booting required. There's an update BIOS option in the config screen.
BIOS Config != BIOS
I remember when disabling Active Desktop freed up 16MB of my 32MB of RAM.
Yes, that's mostly true. I wouldn't quite call it analog, since there's a checksum algorithm and all that (which still fails). But we have quite a number of redundancy in our non-cancerous cells to "restore from backup," so to speak.
I know this is off-topic, but is that why lobster tastes so good? It's like the veal of the sea?
As long as they don't try to plug in a USB scanner.
RAM was definitely too expensive when Windows Vista came out. Most of the people that hated Vista most ended up with a machine with 1GB of RAM. Performance was crap without SP1 and a bare, bare minimum of 2GB of RAM. Being a Mac user at the time, I didn't have the problem. But if I were a Windows user, I probably would have skipped Vista.
OLE part II.
Who knows, maybe they'll buy up GEOS, and release it as GeoMetro.
With those particular colors, it simply looks like geometric shapes, not a microphone.
Wow - that looks like every job I saw during my last job search. Since I couldn't figure out what was actually part of the job, I just gave up applying.
Put the magnet on the other side of his head and, "No, she will not, in fact, be coming around the mountain when she comes."
Not quite - if the brain is deterministic, then it can be reliably brainwashed to rehabilitation as well. Prison sentences are a deterrent, not a solution. If one won't be deterred, their brain must be altered to truly rehabilitate them. Brains damaged beyond repair are locked away for life.
And the insanity defense is no longer going to be a not-guilty. How can it be? If your brain made you do it, then your brain made you do it. Insanity, in this regard, would just be an extreme version of the same.
Not a scientific argument. A rational/philosophical one. If the existence of "free will" somehow violates causality, then it's inherently disprovable by science. There's only so much you can do with science (i.e. find out every last piece of causality and determinism, and build your case on that). Just like we can't observe the universe 4 billion years ago. We have lots of evidence about what things were like, but we will NEVER have first-hand observation.
And don't forget that they were given permission to lie, making morality even less of a factor.
No, I'm saying that it's a band-aid. And it warns you on every boot that you're in Selective Startup last I knew.