I'm not sure it has much to do with DRM. If the stream is protected by DRM it will still be protected if it's saved locally. Obviously streaming makes it harder but it's very possible and Netflix shows like House of Cards on thepiratebay show it is being done.
I think one of the reasons for the absence of the feature is simplicity. When people ask me how to get movies for free I always recommend bittorrent, but most think that is too cumbersome, they just want to pick a movie and click play. If Netflix was to add the option they'd have to use a more complicated UI. They'd have people calling up complaining "It's not working" when they run out of storage, a lot of the non technical people I know still think RAM and storage are the same thing. I'd guess that the majority of Netflix users are non technical, stream from home, and not enough would use the feature to justify the development costs and complicating the UI.
If you know someone nearby with decent internet point an antenna at their house and use theirs. With the right antenna on each end you can get a decent connection over a mile away.
If not you could pay to have fiber run to your house and charge the neighbors for wireless access.
"conspiratorial" and "money making scheme" are your loaded words not mine.
And the idea that when regulators are corrupt it means "regulation wasn't happening anymore" is ridiculous. You fear business people will abuse their power without regulations but don't fear the people trusted to make and enforce regulations will. People are the problem and you shouldn't put too much faith in any of them.
If you don't believe people make money from regulations you are either uninformed or willfully blind.
In my state all license testing is done by a private company. Needless to say this state created monopoly makes someone a lot of money.
Regulations can also be used to create barriers to entry and there are plenty of well documented cases of regulations being used to keep out competition.
Also in my state they recently legalized medical marijuana but they are only issuing a very few licenses to sell it. Who's getting one? A state senators wife.
If the market rate for a 1br apartment is $2800/month no one is going to build $500/month apartments. Prices aren't going to come down until supply catches up with demand. They could approve every building permit and it would still take years to get to a reasonable level.
Exactly, and I get why they don't want to build more high rises, it's a beautiful city, but you can't limit the supply of something in high demand and get upset when the price goes up.
Why don't they build a bunch of high rises downtown and keep the rest of the city the same?
There was a study that is often used to make the claim that "minimum wage doesn't cause unemployment" which came to it's conclusion by looking at the difference in unemployment rates between counties with different minimum wage rates despite the fact that the difference in minimum wage in these areas was negligible.
That's the thing though, this 51% pool is made up of a bunch of individuals. Getting them all to go along with your scheme would be difficult wouldn't it??
And yeah, it's high time we started doing that with the PC/monitor power cables as well. Almost every computer owner has at least an extra half dozen of them. There's no reason for manufacturers to include something that's been standard forever. I'm surprised it hasn't already been done for the cost savings.
What's the cost savings? $1? What's the cost? 10 - 50% of your customers losing their shit when they can't plug in their new PC/monitor and complaining to the retailer, calling the manufacturers support line, and/or leaving bad reviews online. Yeah, I wonder why they don't do that.
Wealth was concentrated in those areas long before modern economic policy. Hell a map of the northeast from 1813 probably wouldn't look all that different, wealth concentrated in and around the major cities.
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I'm not sure it has much to do with DRM. If the stream is protected by DRM it will still be protected if it's saved locally. Obviously streaming makes it harder but it's very possible and Netflix shows like House of Cards on thepiratebay show it is being done.
I think one of the reasons for the absence of the feature is simplicity. When people ask me how to get movies for free I always recommend bittorrent, but most think that is too cumbersome, they just want to pick a movie and click play. If Netflix was to add the option they'd have to use a more complicated UI. They'd have people calling up complaining "It's not working" when they run out of storage, a lot of the non technical people I know still think RAM and storage are the same thing. I'd guess that the majority of Netflix users are non technical, stream from home, and not enough would use the feature to justify the development costs and complicating the UI.
Comcast IPs only change every 6 months - 1 yr+ as it is.
Is this a Backblaze ad or a Hitachi ad?
Lots of generic cola companies use the red can white cursive text.
Like this one: http://farm4.static.flickr.com...
If you know someone nearby with decent internet point an antenna at their house and use theirs. With the right antenna on each end you can get a decent connection over a mile away.
If not you could pay to have fiber run to your house and charge the neighbors for wireless access.
Iron lungs and horseshoes are still way down.
Who doesn't like a game of horseshoes? These kids with their Upset Birds. They need to go outside more.
and who wouldn't want iron lungs? These pink ones get sore after the first pack of cigarettes.
"conspiratorial" and "money making scheme" are your loaded words not mine.
And the idea that when regulators are corrupt it means "regulation wasn't happening anymore" is ridiculous. You fear business people will abuse their power without regulations but don't fear the people trusted to make and enforce regulations will. People are the problem and you shouldn't put too much faith in any of them.
If you don't believe people make money from regulations you are either uninformed or willfully blind.
In my state all license testing is done by a private company. Needless to say this state created monopoly makes someone a lot of money.
Regulations can also be used to create barriers to entry and there are plenty of well documented cases of regulations being used to keep out competition.
Also in my state they recently legalized medical marijuana but they are only issuing a very few licenses to sell it. Who's getting one? A state senators wife.
If the market rate for a 1br apartment is $2800/month no one is going to build $500/month apartments. Prices aren't going to come down until supply catches up with demand. They could approve every building permit and it would still take years to get to a reasonable level.
Well the city isn't getting anymore land so it's either build up or not at all.
Exactly, and I get why they don't want to build more high rises, it's a beautiful city, but you can't limit the supply of something in high demand and get upset when the price goes up.
Why don't they build a bunch of high rises downtown and keep the rest of the city the same?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory_capture#United_States_examples
There was a study that is often used to make the claim that "minimum wage doesn't cause unemployment" which came to it's conclusion by looking at the difference in unemployment rates between counties with different minimum wage rates despite the fact that the difference in minimum wage in these areas was negligible.
Have you heard of litecoin?
The problem is that the cheapest 1brs in SF cost $2800/month.
Build more housing.
I think he was referencing Android.
Regulation is often a money making scheme and experts can massage data to come to any conclusion they wish.
That's the thing though, this 51% pool is made up of a bunch of individuals. Getting them all to go along with your scheme would be difficult wouldn't it??
It doesn't take much to beat the US government when it comes to trusting it to not manipulate the currency: http://dollardaze.org/blog/pages/00024/usd.png
Not that I think Bitcoin is the solution, cause I don't. I think egold made more sense but the US through that guy in prison.
If only there were a third option...
If they get to the point where they have their own space program I say we just surrender in the war on drugs and let them run things.
Ironically it would be cheaper to put a kilo heroin or cocaine into space than smuggle it into the US.
"Angelina chose the color of the walls, the textures, the ambient sound track."
Yep. Bullshit.
And yeah, it's high time we started doing that with the PC/monitor power cables as well. Almost every computer owner has at least an extra half dozen of them. There's no reason for manufacturers to include something that's been standard forever. I'm surprised it hasn't already been done for the cost savings.
What's the cost savings? $1? What's the cost? 10 - 50% of your customers losing their shit when they can't plug in their new PC/monitor and complaining to the retailer, calling the manufacturers support line, and/or leaving bad reviews online. Yeah, I wonder why they don't do that.
Wealth was concentrated in those areas long before modern economic policy. Hell a map of the northeast from 1813 probably wouldn't look all that different, wealth concentrated in and around the major cities.
Now there's a marketing scam - selling long-life incandescent as heaters!
You could even cook with them!
I'm pretty sure they're using: Public-key_cryptography so no.
It actually doesn't sound that bad, 400,000 web pageviews pays nowhere near $3,000.