The quality actually varies based on your connection speed. When I was on slow DSL the quality was pretty poor but since I got cable and have been able to pull 10mbps pretty consistently, I've noticed much higher quality streams. Not quite 720p of course, but easily on par with or better than broadcast TV.
The overwhelming bulk of their library works just fine on your Mac, and will play on your TV. Netflix is a DVD rental company that offers streaming movies as a sideline- not a streaming video company. Suggesting that they'll go out of business because 7% of their audience can't use a tiny portion of their service that actually doesn't earn them any extra money is ludicrous.
ah ok let me just look this up on the vulnerability chart here
ok, your server is Linux... very good, very good
your databases are all only accessible to localhost, ok
looks like you are EXACTLY as vulnerable to SQL injection as everyone else. Running Linux and preventing remote users on your database does NOT protect you. If you have a script on your server that doesn't sanitize even one input, you are just asking for trouble. you WILL get hacked sooner or later.
I would be so bold to say that the buzz which I (incorrectly or otherwise) attribute in large part to perceived "exclusivity" of the device easily offsets those actually lost sales by generating revenue in new markets previously untouched by console gaming.
Nope, sorry. $250 from your mom is exactly the same as $250 from a hardcore gamer. If anything Nintendo would make more by getting Wiis to the gamers- All of those retired people who've bought Wiis probably don't have more than one, maybe two games (Wii Sports, maybe Cooking Mama or something awful like that) -- whereas "traditional" gamers tend to shell out $50 every couple of weeks for new games.
That's stupid. Nintendo is leaving literally BILLIONS of dollars on the table because they simple don't have the inventory to meet demand.
It wouldn't make any sense to create buzz when you couldn't monetize on that buzz.
So new stuff is never broken? Seriously it sounds like you got a battery with a dead cell or two. Call the store you got your phone from and ask them if a six to twelve hour battery life is normal, they'll probably swap it for free.
Of course you won't do that, will you? You're the kind of person who thrives on being angry, so you'll probably either post a snarky comeback, or make up a story about how you did call the cell phone store but the guy said that if you complained again he'd break into your house and drown your cat.
You're either lying or there's something wrong with your battery. I use mine heavily and I can get two days on a charge. I plug it in every night and that's all it takes.
and it's great with the Wii, where you're holding the remote up to click on the button- For its celebrated ease of use, I have seen a lot of people who push the A button so hard that they move the cursor away from the button. The neutral state of the Wii's remotes are "sitting in your lap".
A mouse has a neutral state of "Staying exactly where it was", so it's not as difficult to click with pixel-perfect accuracy.
A friend of mine used to have a mouse that worked just like you describe... any time you rolled over a button or link (configurable through the control panel) it would give just a little snap of the vibrating motor, and it literally felt like you had gone over a little bump on the mouse pad. Absolutely useless gimmick, but cool nonetheless.
What have they screwed up besides the unreasonably high price? I wouldn't want them to scrub the PS3 and start over, the replacement would just be MORE expensive.
Universal already has the option of going DRM-free with iTunes, and they haven't taken the bait. Anyway, they don't have an exclusive contract with iTunes. Your whole post makes no sense.
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The quality actually varies based on your connection speed. When I was on slow DSL the quality was pretty poor but since I got cable and have been able to pull 10mbps pretty consistently, I've noticed much higher quality streams. Not quite 720p of course, but easily on par with or better than broadcast TV.
The overwhelming bulk of their library works just fine on your Mac, and will play on your TV. Netflix is a DVD rental company that offers streaming movies as a sideline- not a streaming video company. Suggesting that they'll go out of business because 7% of their audience can't use a tiny portion of their service that actually doesn't earn them any extra money is ludicrous.
See that really sounds more like your friend's router crashed for about an hour. I haven't heard ANYONE say that they kill the connection entirely.
I'm on Comcast, I have a normal residential account afaik, but I can download torrents fine. Pretty speedy too.
I don't doubt some people are having problems but how is it I'm not?
It was there when I read it. Presumably it was there when the poster I replied to made his reply.
Not my problem either way. It's pretty much common sense that though- they wouldn't pony up $10 * (millions) to make $11 * (tiny fraction of millions)
RTFA. If the user doesn't buy in a few days, they delete the domain- doesn't cost them anything.
ah ok let me just look this up on the vulnerability chart here ok, your server is Linux... very good, very good your databases are all only accessible to localhost, ok looks like you are EXACTLY as vulnerable to SQL injection as everyone else. Running Linux and preventing remote users on your database does NOT protect you. If you have a script on your server that doesn't sanitize even one input, you are just asking for trouble. you WILL get hacked sooner or later.
Why? I've seen both, and not a huge amount has changed in bringing it across the ocean (if we ignore the William Shatner episodes).
That's stupid. Nintendo is leaving literally BILLIONS of dollars on the table because they simple don't have the inventory to meet demand. It wouldn't make any sense to create buzz when you couldn't monetize on that buzz.
No it isn't.
Did this seriously go for this long without anyone mentioning Captain Pike?
Give her the buzzer from a game of Taboo or something and tell her one beep for yes and two beeps for no.Correction: people buy the Wii because it's fun, pure and simple.
So new stuff is never broken? Seriously it sounds like you got a battery with a dead cell or two. Call the store you got your phone from and ask them if a six to twelve hour battery life is normal, they'll probably swap it for free.
Of course you won't do that, will you? You're the kind of person who thrives on being angry, so you'll probably either post a snarky comeback, or make up a story about how you did call the cell phone store but the guy said that if you complained again he'd break into your house and drown your cat.
I await your apology.
You're either lying or there's something wrong with your battery. I use mine heavily and I can get two days on a charge. I plug it in every night and that's all it takes.
and it's great with the Wii, where you're holding the remote up to click on the button- For its celebrated ease of use, I have seen a lot of people who push the A button so hard that they move the cursor away from the button. The neutral state of the Wii's remotes are "sitting in your lap".
A mouse has a neutral state of "Staying exactly where it was", so it's not as difficult to click with pixel-perfect accuracy.
A friend of mine used to have a mouse that worked just like you describe... any time you rolled over a button or link (configurable through the control panel) it would give just a little snap of the vibrating motor, and it literally felt like you had gone over a little bump on the mouse pad. Absolutely useless gimmick, but cool nonetheless.
What have they screwed up besides the unreasonably high price? I wouldn't want them to scrub the PS3 and start over, the replacement would just be MORE expensive.
Universal already has the option of going DRM-free with iTunes, and they haven't taken the bait. Anyway, they don't have an exclusive contract with iTunes. Your whole post makes no sense.
All the iPhone plans come with unlimited data. Next, please.
well, it lived for another hundred years, so it can't have been too devastating.
To a whale, it probably felt about like a splinter.
Then why is non-volatile flash memory so much slower and more expensive?
I know that by the way the article is written we're supposed to think it's an evil invasion of our privacy but honestly this sounds kind of cool.