I like Netflix, but I watch movies on my computer and they don't offer streaming for Linux users. I seriously don't like Walmart to the point where I don't want to give them my business if I have an alternative.
Would anyone care to suggest a streaming movie alternative ( Linux friendly ) to Netflix that is comparable in selection and price?
If large amounts of people abandon Facebook for G+ they will be motivated by having more control over their privacy. Taking that motivation away, before G+ is even out of beta is a fairly stupid thing for Google to do.
Given what happened with Buzz I'm starting to think that Google has some decision makers who are either very stupid or very out of touch with how people think. I suggest leaving the office and geek circles to get to know some regular people.
I'm glad I created my G+ account with a faux name that sounds like a real name if this is the way they are going to be.
I think it is too early to tell if Twitter is threatened, especially with the power of inertia on the internet. If people are used to socializing in one place, they tend to stay there even when a better alternative comes along.
G+ will take a big hit out of Facebook for sure. People have many strong complaints with Facebook, but Facebook can survive.
However, Twitter users don't have any complaints with Twitter, it is more simple than G+ and the users generally like it.
However, my Facebook friends are slow to follow me over to G+, despite hating Facebook.
It is human nature to see the familiar as safe and the new as risky, despite knowing how crappy the familiar is.
My friends are turned off by G+ copyrighting their pictures and are scared of their privacy. Google needs to do more to reassure people that they aren't going to "Facebook them"
I could see Google buying Java ( though maybe at the time it wasn't an obvious benefit ), but Google isn't the kind of company to be interested in the other things Sun did or Sun's corporate culture.
As a Linux user I could not use their streaming service due to their use of Microsoft Silverlight. Yet I paid the same as other Netflix users who could.
Netflix never offered me a discount nor apologized for this inequity. This has been going on for years.
I was on the $10 a month plan --- 1 DVD out at a time.
Now I pay about $8 a month for the same service -- 1 DVD out at a time.
That happened because Netflix's new plan structures gave me a choice of $16 a month for DVD delivery and streaming.....with the option to buy DVD delivery or streaming separtley.
At last the inequity is settled.
I learned to like streaming from hulu and some other assorted sites.......that run just fine with Linux. If I find a streaming site that plays nice with Linux, does things as well as Netflix and is close in price I am dumping Netflix.
Too many years in paying the same as other Netflix customers who got more soured me.
People only hate businesses when they are stuck using them...no other choice. Facebook is hated, because until recently they had no competition. Hopefully competition will force Facebook to improve its policies, software and its regard for its users.
People also hate Facebook and social networks, in general ( none others are as successful as Facebook to be worth hating ) because of the price they are paying: their information, and their dignity in being able to control their information.
People look the other way at this price they pay in exchange for using Facebook, but it doesn't mean they like it.
This is good news, but as we all know companies don't always want "better", often they are happy to settle for "good enough" when that is cheaper and easier to push around..........like younger employees often are.
It has been at least 9 years since I used Red Hat. Why is there a CentOS? Wasn't Fedora supposed to be RedHat with all of the proprietary stuff removed?
The "Buzz fiasco" wasn't a fiasco because they rolled out Buzz too quickly. It was a fiasco because someone who is out of touch with people enough to think people wouldn't mind having everyone who ever emailed them privy to their web doings also had enough authority at Google to release Buzz that way.
Seriously, there are loads of articles about Google+, what is going with people using it, 3rd party tools, etc........and it hasn't been released to the general public.
Google should send thank you notes for the free promotions.
"Roundabouts" are nothing new in the U.S.. They were called "traffic circles" when I was a kind in New Jersey. Eventually the state went to considerable expense to tear them out and put intersections with traffic lights back in. They led to a lot of accidents.
I hate to see other people have to relearn a lesson that an entire state already figured out.
My area has a chapter of an electric vehicle fan group. Many members are gearheads who have modded conventional compact cars to be purely electric running off of many conventional car batteries. 50 miles on a charge is about what their hacked vehicles do. My expectation is that Toyota with its engineers could have done better.
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What does that mean? You might just sell me
I like Netflix, but I watch movies on my computer and they don't offer streaming for Linux users. I seriously don't like Walmart to the point where I don't want to give them my business if I have an alternative.
Would anyone care to suggest a streaming movie alternative ( Linux friendly ) to Netflix that is comparable in selection and price?
Is there such a beast?
I've used CVS and Visual Source Safe ( with SQLServer the only two pieces of MS Software I will ever praise ).
VSS was easy and intuitive to use. Like everyone CVS is a PITA and I feel like I manage my files instead of it managing for me.
What does GIT have over other version management systems?
Easier to use? Easier to install?
If large amounts of people abandon Facebook for G+ they will be motivated by having more control over their privacy. Taking that motivation away, before G+ is even out of beta is a fairly stupid thing for Google to do.
Given what happened with Buzz I'm starting to think that Google has some decision makers who are either very stupid or very out of touch with how people think. I suggest leaving the office and geek circles to get to know some regular people.
I'm glad I created my G+ account with a faux name that sounds like a real name if this is the way they are going to be.
I think it is too early to tell if Twitter is threatened, especially with the power of inertia on the internet. If people are used to socializing in one place, they tend to stay there even when a better alternative comes along.
G+ will take a big hit out of Facebook for sure. People have many strong complaints with Facebook, but Facebook can survive.
However, Twitter users don't have any complaints with Twitter, it is more simple than G+ and the users generally like it.
That is my policy now too.
However, my Facebook friends are slow to follow me over to G+, despite hating Facebook.
It is human nature to see the familiar as safe and the new as risky, despite knowing how crappy the familiar is.
My friends are turned off by G+ copyrighting their pictures and are scared of their privacy. Google needs to do more to reassure people that they aren't going to "Facebook them"
I could see Google buying Java ( though maybe at the time it wasn't an obvious benefit ), but Google isn't the kind of company to be interested in the other things Sun did or Sun's corporate culture.
Seriously.
As a Linux user I could not use their streaming service due to their use of Microsoft Silverlight. Yet I paid the same as other Netflix users who could.
Netflix never offered me a discount nor apologized for this inequity. This has been going on for years.
I was on the $10 a month plan --- 1 DVD out at a time.
Now I pay about $8 a month for the same service -- 1 DVD out at a time.
That happened because Netflix's new plan structures gave me a choice of $16 a month for DVD delivery and streaming.....with the option to buy DVD delivery or streaming separtley.
At last the inequity is settled.
I learned to like streaming from hulu and some other assorted sites.......that run just fine with Linux. If I find a streaming site that plays nice with Linux, does things as well as Netflix and is close in price I am dumping Netflix.
Too many years in paying the same as other Netflix customers who got more soured me.
As much as I hate Google as a company, I wish ownership of Java went to them instead of Oracle when Sun died.
Oracle has a culture of making everything needlessly complicated. Sun did too and that always hurt Java, but Oracle is far worse.
As a long time Java developer I feel like a Parisian in Nazi held France.
People only hate businesses when they are stuck using them...no other choice. Facebook is hated, because until recently they had no competition. Hopefully competition will force Facebook to improve its policies, software and its regard for its users.
People also hate Facebook and social networks, in general ( none others are as successful as Facebook to be worth hating ) because of the price they are paying: their information, and their dignity in being able to control their information.
People look the other way at this price they pay in exchange for using Facebook, but it doesn't mean they like it.
Gee for windmills all you need is a wrench
Is it just me or do the names for Apple's OS versions, hardware sound a lot like the name for sneakers?
Nike air, Apple, air, etc
That has been the story with every innovation after Windows was created.
This is good news, but as we all know companies don't always want "better", often they are happy to settle for "good enough" when that is cheaper and easier to push around..........like younger employees often are.
I will be interested when it is actually finished and incorporated in a distro as end-user friendly as Ubuntu.
Microsoft trying to do a social media site makes me picture Bob Dole dressing like a 23 years old and trying to blend in at a dance club
It has been at least 9 years since I used Red Hat. Why is there a CentOS? Wasn't Fedora supposed to be RedHat with all of the proprietary stuff removed?
The "Buzz fiasco" wasn't a fiasco because they rolled out Buzz too quickly. It was a fiasco because someone who is out of touch with people enough to think people wouldn't mind having everyone who ever emailed them privy to their web doings also had enough authority at Google to release Buzz that way.
What happened to them, I'm still on 5 :)
don't require retirees to go in and shut down a breeze.
Seriously, there are loads of articles about Google+, what is going with people using it, 3rd party tools, etc........and it hasn't been released to the general public.
Google should send thank you notes for the free promotions.
Google+ isn't even open to the general public yet, but there are already 3rd utils, web sites, etc..
Feeling left out.
"Roundabouts" are nothing new in the U.S.. They were called "traffic circles" when I was a kind in New Jersey. Eventually the state went to considerable expense to tear them out and put intersections with traffic lights back in. They led to a lot of accidents.
I hate to see other people have to relearn a lesson that an entire state already figured out.
My area has a chapter of an electric vehicle fan group. Many members are gearheads who have modded conventional compact cars to be purely electric running off of many conventional car batteries. 50 miles on a charge is about what their hacked vehicles do. My expectation is that Toyota with its engineers could have done better.
Same here, for non-fiction books I go to the negative reviews first and for tech books the negative reviews sometimes sell me on the book.