Here we go again. Netflix (streaming) is going to follow the same path as Tivo. Innovate at the beginning, then get to a point where you have trouble growing your audience. Then bigger companies, such as the cable companies, come in with a comparable product, and eat your lunch, because they already have a relationship with the customer, and deeper pockets than you which will help them bid up content license prices. This makes the streaming side of NFLX negative growth in the middle term, as they have the same problem in other countries, despite their efforts to expand.
The disk mailing side of the company is already saturated from a customer base side. Increasing postal rates and the eventual end to saturday delivery will make the service less viable. Eventually the postal service will go to every-other-day delivery of first-class mail, in order to reduce the number of carriers and mail trucks by 30 to 40 percent. The disk mailing side of NFLX is therefore a revenue stock now (with that revenue being eatten by the streaming side), and negative growth in the future. Sell...
On top of that, it's not even like they're sniffing out packets on a public network. As I understand it, Skype uses YOUR computer to route / connect calls you may not be involved in. It seems to me that if someone sends an IP packet to your PC, you should be able to do anything with it you please. Sending malicious packets to another PC may be another story...
You're off by like 10^ 8th. It's actually not "billion". It's Brazillion. We told them, "sure we're going to continue to subsidize our farmers. But don't worry, we'll also give you guys Fifty Brazillion Dollars a year to make up for it."
Or if the drones can't talk to the earlier version. It's common with embedded systems to upgrade the remote firmware and PC software at the same time as your protocols change.
If someone this incompetent was running a corporate network they'd have their ass on the street faster than they could say "network traffic analysis."
You don't know that. They're not Bank Of America. They may not be able to decide to take everything offline at once, or sufficiently partition the system to prevent reinfection. If the damage done by the virus is less important than keeping the systems online and keeping the drones flying, you keep them online, while you figure it out, even if it means you have to backtrack. Remember that Stuxnet was infecting computers from the PLC boxes outward. Not a typical infection vector.
They actually already make these. They're designed to fit on your window. You put this thing on the top of the window, and roll up the window until it's snug. The solar panels run a little fan that vents air out of the car, and a hole in the thing lets fresh air in. Whether this is actually better at cooling the car than just leaving the windows cracked is up for discussion...
Also interesting... If it is indeed, 2.5 watts, that's 1/400 of a killowat. If your window generates that for an hour, you get 1/400th of of a kilowatt-hour. At 10 cents per kWH, you earn roughly 1/40th of a cent worth of electricity per hour. Even if you get 8 good hours out of the thing a day, it takes 5 days to generate a penny worth of electricity...
If you want to block 80 percent of visible light, why exactly did you have a window installed there in the first place? Just asking. Wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't ask...
plug a small power plant into their house's electrical system
A very very small power plant. TFA says it's enough to "Charge an iPhone". Assuming you're charging over USB, an iPhone pulls a max of 500ma at 5V, or 2.5 watts. Not enough energy to warrant upconverting it to AC, given that there's efficiency losses there. Given that you can only charge your iPhone under the best of circumstances, this seems like yet another not-market-viable solar technology. But, ya gotta start somewhere. Maybe they'll make it better. None the less, the applications are on windows, most of which aren't oriented to maximize direct sunlight angle anyways, so it's probably even worse in application than they're talking about here.
They don't want the the brand name. Not on the Discs. Discs are so 5 years ago. Just like AT&T doesn't want you to think of Telephones or Telegraphs. They want you to think of them in terms of a communication company.
You hit the nail on the head with the IBM PC (at least the 2000's version of the story). Lots of people trashed IBM's sale of its PC unit to levono. But it turns out that IBM was just 5 years ahead of their competition in realizing that the margins on most PCs made them not worth dealing with. This is a reality that HP is finally coming to. DVDs are the same way. Five years from now, this may well look as forward looking as IBMs decision. Look for Netflix to sell off the DVD business in a year or less, and focus on online (regardless of what they say).
Also, look for the game disc rental business to implode in less than 2 years. This move by netflix will push publishers to rapidly move to more 1-time code / pay for extra content / etc business models. When that happens, the game rental by mail business will be nearly useless.
represent a key new source of revenue from a demographic—self-described geeks—they hadn't attracted before.
Geek 1: Wow. That was a great match. Should we get out of there?
Geek 2: yeah. My treat. I'll pick up the food. You tip the waitress.
Geek 1: Cool. Let's see, Current exchange rates are about 25:1, and we bought 12 dollars in apetizers, times my customary 8%... That makes.0384 BitCoins for her.
Geek 2: I don't think they take those here.
Geek1: Fuck 'em then. No tip for you, luddite! Let's roll.
Who put you in charge to say? People have picked random mishmash from the beginning. IMHO, Christianity is like a Chili cook-off. Every one is a little different recipie, but you can look at all of 'em, and and say, yeah, that's chili. And most of them will be pretty good. I personally don't care for some of the really spicy versions of Christia..er..chili, but that's my point of view. The important part is that your chili help you feed yourself, and that your Christianity help you build a relationship with God and Christ.
Why even bother with history, when you must admit it contains errors? Which part of History Books contain facts, and which doesn't?
A good history book will include source references for its claims, and give an indication of which are known and which are more speculative.
A good modern history book. Nobody shits on the Greek classics for not including footnotes. The Bible is like 2000 years old. Cut it some slack, and take it for what it is worth to you. That's the point I'm making.
Friends (Quakers). Although similar to the evangelical small churches, you can't speak for the entire denomination, as prevailing views vary from Meeting (church) to Meeting. Dissenting views within a Meeting are encouraged, as each person should be seeking an individual relationship with God, and an understanding of faith that comes from within, not outside. Members and Attenders (you don't have to plege membership to be recognized as a postivie contributor to the group) at my meeting tend to have a wide variation on the value of the Bible, from 100% word of God (a few), to Mostly mythology inspired by a view of God (a few), and a lot of people in between. From the pamphlet in the pew : "We emphasize personal experience with God over religious dogma".
The general view of our Meeting is that Christianity requires faith in Jesus, and his sacrifice to Save you. You don't have to buy the whole Bible in order to believe in that. One prominent Quaker has been making waves lately by asking Challenges (you are encouraged to challenge your beliefs, and consider why you believe them) such as "What if Mary wasn't a virgin? What if Jesus was concieved in a typical way, but was endowed with the Spirit by God? How does that change your understanding? Does it really matter?" Questions like this can help us get to the root of what we really mean to be Christians.
Why even bother with a theology you must admit contains errors? Which part of the Bible contains the facts, and which doesn't? And if you don't know, then what's the point of your faith?
Why even bother with history, when you must admit it contains errors? Which part of History Books contain facts, and which doesn't? Then what's the point of history?
Same with the bible. The problem with the Bible, as I see it, is the fact that it's been hijacked by the all-or-nothing crowd. Read it. Decide what part of it (none, some, most, all) you believe. My denomination tends to see it as one of the leading human efforts to record a combination of history, myth, and philosophy. Other texts, including ones not yet written, may prove equally useful for exploring your faith, and relationship with God.
BTW, even if you're a dyed-in-the-wool athiest, take a thumb through Proverbs sometimes. Theres a lot of good stuff in there (although some of it is a bit trite).
I don't know if they can, but they're already trying. Pump and dump of penny stocks via email has been around as long as I've been on the Internet. No reason to think they won't use other media. However, getting one hedge fund to buy or not buy a particular stock is unlikely to drive the overall market enough to profit much from it. At least not in the quantities I picture a hedge fund based on twitter moving.
Fuck that guy. I've written a program that models the monkeys with a high degree of accuracy, and it's for sale now. Equally accurate results, with no bannanas necessary, and no monkey shit to clean up.
Not really. There is no correlation between darts and the stock market. Twitter stuff is based on the hive mind of humanity. The stock market is also based on the hive mind of humanity. It's resonable to expect that there is some correlation. But the correlation is only useful if some attribute of twitter can be shown to lead the market. If there's not a predictable correlation, it's worthless. If there's a correlation, but the market reacts first, and twitter lags, then its' worthless.
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Maybe he's a bricklayer. My cousin is one. He works like hell 3 seasons a year, then takes the winter off.
Here we go again. Netflix (streaming) is going to follow the same path as Tivo. Innovate at the beginning, then get to a point where you have trouble growing your audience. Then bigger companies, such as the cable companies, come in with a comparable product, and eat your lunch, because they already have a relationship with the customer, and deeper pockets than you which will help them bid up content license prices. This makes the streaming side of NFLX negative growth in the middle term, as they have the same problem in other countries, despite their efforts to expand.
The disk mailing side of the company is already saturated from a customer base side. Increasing postal rates and the eventual end to saturday delivery will make the service less viable. Eventually the postal service will go to every-other-day delivery of first-class mail, in order to reduce the number of carriers and mail trucks by 30 to 40 percent. The disk mailing side of NFLX is therefore a revenue stock now (with that revenue being eatten by the streaming side), and negative growth in the future. Sell...
On top of that, it's not even like they're sniffing out packets on a public network. As I understand it, Skype uses YOUR computer to route / connect calls you may not be involved in. It seems to me that if someone sends an IP packet to your PC, you should be able to do anything with it you please. Sending malicious packets to another PC may be another story...
You're off by like 10^ 8th. It's actually not "billion". It's Brazillion. We told them, "sure we're going to continue to subsidize our farmers. But don't worry, we'll also give you guys Fifty Brazillion Dollars a year to make up for it."
Yeah. They tried that already with the no-buttons iPod Shuffle a generation or two ago. Apparently the 11 people who bought them didn't like it.
I hope you were joking. Didn't they learn from Firewire?!
No. And they didn't learn from iLink either.
Or if the drones can't talk to the earlier version. It's common with embedded systems to upgrade the remote firmware and PC software at the same time as your protocols change.
If someone this incompetent was running a corporate network they'd have their ass on the street faster than they could say "network traffic analysis."
You don't know that. They're not Bank Of America. They may not be able to decide to take everything offline at once, or sufficiently partition the system to prevent reinfection. If the damage done by the virus is less important than keeping the systems online and keeping the drones flying, you keep them online, while you figure it out, even if it means you have to backtrack. Remember that Stuxnet was infecting computers from the PLC boxes outward. Not a typical infection vector.
Look for Apple's iBomb to be delivered in time for Christmas to address these concerns.
I expect the 4GS to arrive well before Christmas. Oh...wait.. you literally meant a bomb.
In that case "Remind me to drop a bomb next time I'm in Tora Bora".
They actually already make these. They're designed to fit on your window. You put this thing on the top of the window, and roll up the window until it's snug. The solar panels run a little fan that vents air out of the car, and a hole in the thing lets fresh air in. Whether this is actually better at cooling the car than just leaving the windows cracked is up for discussion...
Also interesting... If it is indeed, 2.5 watts, that's 1/400 of a killowat. If your window generates that for an hour, you get 1/400th of of a kilowatt-hour. At 10 cents per kWH, you earn roughly 1/40th of a cent worth of electricity per hour. Even if you get 8 good hours out of the thing a day, it takes 5 days to generate a penny worth of electricity...
If you want to block 80 percent of visible light, why exactly did you have a window installed there in the first place? Just asking. Wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't ask...
plug a small power plant into their house's electrical system
A very very small power plant. TFA says it's enough to "Charge an iPhone". Assuming you're charging over USB, an iPhone pulls a max of 500ma at 5V, or 2.5 watts. Not enough energy to warrant upconverting it to AC, given that there's efficiency losses there. Given that you can only charge your iPhone under the best of circumstances, this seems like yet another not-market-viable solar technology. But, ya gotta start somewhere. Maybe they'll make it better. None the less, the applications are on windows, most of which aren't oriented to maximize direct sunlight angle anyways, so it's probably even worse in application than they're talking about here.
They don't want the the brand name. Not on the Discs. Discs are so 5 years ago. Just like AT&T doesn't want you to think of Telephones or Telegraphs. They want you to think of them in terms of a communication company.
You hit the nail on the head with the IBM PC (at least the 2000's version of the story). Lots of people trashed IBM's sale of its PC unit to levono. But it turns out that IBM was just 5 years ahead of their competition in realizing that the margins on most PCs made them not worth dealing with. This is a reality that HP is finally coming to. DVDs are the same way. Five years from now, this may well look as forward looking as IBMs decision. Look for Netflix to sell off the DVD business in a year or less, and focus on online (regardless of what they say).
Also, look for the game disc rental business to implode in less than 2 years. This move by netflix will push publishers to rapidly move to more 1-time code / pay for extra content / etc business models. When that happens, the game rental by mail business will be nearly useless.
Was that in his last movie? I missed that one. It just looked like a less good version of Borat to me.
represent a key new source of revenue from a demographic—self-described geeks—they hadn't attracted before.
Geek 1: Wow. That was a great match. Should we get out of there?
.0384 BitCoins for her.
Geek 2: yeah. My treat. I'll pick up the food. You tip the waitress.
Geek 1: Cool. Let's see, Current exchange rates are about 25:1, and we bought 12 dollars in apetizers, times my customary 8%... That makes
Geek 2: I don't think they take those here.
Geek1: Fuck 'em then. No tip for you, luddite! Let's roll.
You're not a true Christian...
Who put you in charge to say? People have picked random mishmash from the beginning. IMHO, Christianity is like a Chili cook-off. Every one is a little different recipie, but you can look at all of 'em, and and say, yeah, that's chili. And most of them will be pretty good. I personally don't care for some of the really spicy versions of Christia..er..chili, but that's my point of view. The important part is that your chili help you feed yourself, and that your Christianity help you build a relationship with God and Christ.
Why even bother with history, when you must admit it contains errors? Which part of History Books contain facts, and which doesn't?
A good history book will include source references for its claims, and give an indication of which are known and which are more speculative.
A good modern history book. Nobody shits on the Greek classics for not including footnotes. The Bible is like 2000 years old. Cut it some slack, and take it for what it is worth to you. That's the point I'm making.
Friends (Quakers). Although similar to the evangelical small churches, you can't speak for the entire denomination, as prevailing views vary from Meeting (church) to Meeting. Dissenting views within a Meeting are encouraged, as each person should be seeking an individual relationship with God, and an understanding of faith that comes from within, not outside. Members and Attenders (you don't have to plege membership to be recognized as a postivie contributor to the group) at my meeting tend to have a wide variation on the value of the Bible, from 100% word of God (a few), to Mostly mythology inspired by a view of God (a few), and a lot of people in between. From the pamphlet in the pew : "We emphasize personal experience with God over religious dogma".
The general view of our Meeting is that Christianity requires faith in Jesus, and his sacrifice to Save you. You don't have to buy the whole Bible in order to believe in that. One prominent Quaker has been making waves lately by asking Challenges (you are encouraged to challenge your beliefs, and consider why you believe them) such as "What if Mary wasn't a virgin? What if Jesus was concieved in a typical way, but was endowed with the Spirit by God? How does that change your understanding? Does it really matter?" Questions like this can help us get to the root of what we really mean to be Christians.
Why even bother with a theology you must admit contains errors? Which part of the Bible contains the facts, and which doesn't? And if you don't know, then what's the point of your faith?
Why even bother with history, when you must admit it contains errors? Which part of History Books contain facts, and which doesn't? Then what's the point of history?
Same with the bible. The problem with the Bible, as I see it, is the fact that it's been hijacked by the all-or-nothing crowd. Read it. Decide what part of it (none, some, most, all) you believe. My denomination tends to see it as one of the leading human efforts to record a combination of history, myth, and philosophy. Other texts, including ones not yet written, may prove equally useful for exploring your faith, and relationship with God.
BTW, even if you're a dyed-in-the-wool athiest, take a thumb through Proverbs sometimes. Theres a lot of good stuff in there (although some of it is a bit trite).
I don't know if they can, but they're already trying. Pump and dump of penny stocks via email has been around as long as I've been on the Internet. No reason to think they won't use other media. However, getting one hedge fund to buy or not buy a particular stock is unlikely to drive the overall market enough to profit much from it. At least not in the quantities I picture a hedge fund based on twitter moving.
Fuck that guy. I've written a program that models the monkeys with a high degree of accuracy, and it's for sale now. Equally accurate results, with no bannanas necessary, and no monkey shit to clean up.
Not really. There is no correlation between darts and the stock market. Twitter stuff is based on the hive mind of humanity. The stock market is also based on the hive mind of humanity. It's resonable to expect that there is some correlation. But the correlation is only useful if some attribute of twitter can be shown to lead the market. If there's not a predictable correlation, it's worthless. If there's a correlation, but the market reacts first, and twitter lags, then its' worthless.
And I'm not looking forward to his next project