What county is the operations center going in to? I bet it's in a large county that he didn't carry last time, but could now use to win an election next term. 3500 jobs + 2000 jobs is closer to 10,000 people (5000 households). The parents of those people getting those entry-level jobs at the warehouse are more likely to vote for the governor in the next election so that they don't have to support their kids if they lose their warehouse jobs due to the next governor.
Second, this brings in a semi-permanent stream of long term tax revenue, both sales tax and property taxes. It's one thing to trumpet green manufacturing, but green manufacturing is a temporary cause and already is proving to not be a permanent industry here (see also: china).
Finally, order fulfillment centers, especially from places like Amazon are politically neutral and guarantee income and money, plus encourages other order fulfillment companies to expand to Tennessee as well to piggy back off of the infrastructure Amazon is bringing to the area. You know that Newegg, J&R, Target and Walmart are going to have land speculators on the next plane to Tennessee to see how they can wrangle this new transportation hub to their own advantage.
Well, would you say that FireWire "succeeded"? Apple pushed Firewire pretty hard for about 12 years before giving up on it due to high prices and consumer apathy. There was a brief 2-4 year window when most every PC came with a FW400 port. I think that window closed in 2009. Firewire has dropped in price, but nobody ever bought in to the technology. My apple laptop came with FW400 in 2001, but it never really caught traction due to the cheaper, slower competing standard - USB 1.0 and USB 2.0. Sure, I owned two FW400 drives, but in the end, I felt like I got burnt trying to use the better/more expensive standard.
HDMI + USB 3.0 is a pretty convincing set of connectors for consumers. They're largely backwards compatible and many devices have both ports on them already. It's hard to jump ship to a controversial new technology unless you don't have a problem that existing connectors can't solve.
This is the one feature that would convince me to buy in to this technology. I want to be able to stuff my PC in the garage or laundry room in between the washing machine and dryer with all the other noisy things, and keep the noise in my home office to a minimum. With a powerful enough computer (probably about the same time fiber becomes available, in 2-4 years), you should be able to set up a VM for a HTPC instance and run a separate line to your living room.
Here we are in 2011, the digital camera revolution is over and everyone (and their mother!) owns a digital camera, most of which will do 720p, the rest will do 640x480, even the crapy vivitar walmart ones for $20. It's difficult to find a cell phone or MP3 player that doesn't record video these days. I was part of a very technology/photography oriented group of friends growing up, and now many of us are starting families. Not once has any of them said "gosh, I am spending too much time transferring all this raw footage!". The great thing about pictures is that no post-processing is needed and can be shared instantly on facebook. Video is time consuming and only 2-3 people ever watch your home videos. "Consumer HD video" is the "video phone" technology of our generation. Everybody has access to it, but nobody actually wants to use it. You have a few amateur die-hards who actually put their products through their paces, but the vast majority of people will probably record 6-8 hours of memorable video throughout their child's life.
Sure, your new display technology can stream 2048p video at 4x realtime speed, but the use for that feature to the average consumer is vanishingly small. Daisy-chaining expensive prehiprials to a single port is a neat feature, but by generation 3 or 4 (think usb, firewire) you end up with 4-6 ports on the back, and another 2 on the front. The fact that the cable is limited to 3m doesn't help.
This would be neat if they released the fiber version, and I could keep my PC in the closet in the basement, far away from my mouse, keyboard, and two silent monitors. But instead we're tethered within 8 feet of the big PC box yet again.
Google+ doesn't offer anything I want - not having to re-import all of my friends from facebook manually, not having an intuitive interface, not having granular control over anything. It also doesn't offer any incentive to go back and check what's happening in the G+ universe. I'll check FB 1-2 times a day, but the only time I'll visit G+ is to see what random stranger has added me on G+ today that I should ignore. The lack of people I know that are on G+ compared to FB is a big detractor, as is the 2-3 people I don't know who do add me on G+ daily.
To further your point, within a week of installing the new CEO at Yahoo, they signed on Microsoft to do both their search and advertising for them. This is snarky to say, but it's true - Microsoft already owns them. Yahoo is a revenue stream for Microsoft, without any of the risk involved for Microsoft's share price or litigious liability. Next to installing their own executive at Nokia last year, this was the ultimate un-acquisition. All of the benefits with no downsides and zero long term liability.
Reading that, I don't think you understand the market Yahoo is in, or whoever told you about them was lying to you. Or you have significant interests in Yahoo's stock price.
Looking at their quarterly statistics without looking at their product and the market as a whole is pretty short sighted. I don't think they've been "trendy" for quite a while, and I think this reflects on the fact that they haven't innovated in a market that for the last 10 years has been expected to drive bleeding edge web technologies. Google keeps pressing on with innovations in social networking despite failing spectacularly at it by my count at least twice, Wave and Buzz; Google+ seems to be sticking in comparison. Microsoft is presenting at TED talks. Where is Yahoo in all this? You get email, news, and games. I can't remember the last time someone showed me printed directions from yahoo maps. Is there even a yahoo maps app for the android and iphone? This is what I'm getting at. Yahoo is firmly grounded in 2003. They're almost a decade behind Google and Microsoft, and they dismantled their R&D departments. This is not something healthy tech companies do. Apple has retail stores. Sony keeps reinventing theirs. Google announced a retail store in Europe. Microsoft has been selling computer accessories since I was a child. Yahoo is a name. They sell advertising, but have contracted out the search and advertising(!) to Microsoft. They will have a steady revenue stream for the foreseeable future, but without an R&D department (where their profits came from!) and a budget to fund it, their baby-boomer user base is going to lose interest eventually, and I don't think the younger generation (6-21) values their name brand any more than ask jeeves or alta vista at this point.
This isn't a retail sector where you can slash prices, hire a new spokesmodel, introduce a redesigned product lineup and buy some ad time on national TV and see sales spike through the roof for your mall retail stores. For a car analogy, Google and Microsoft are building (at a profit) mass-production hybrid hatchback vehicles that get 55mpg and have prototype fully electric plugin cars on the road. By comparison, Yahoo no longer makes cars and still only builds trucks and SUBS that only run on leaded gas, need their carburetors adjusted regularly and don't have emissions controls; the only way their cars are still sold are through government lobbying to ease emissions controls and an act of congress to give their customers tax breaks.
They're a revenue stream for some hedge fund or conglomerate, sure. You can bank on them having level revenue for the next 2-5 years, but there's no growth left there. R&D got the axe years ago, and they haven't developed a noteworthy product or championed a cause that anyone can remember since free email (yahoo mail) and yahoo maps... which are third rate backwaters these days. All that is left is a bunch of degree mill MBAs looking to pump up the company to sell it to investors... same as AOL. The trade name doesn't hold the glamour or instill the brand pride it did in the first half of the 00's.
Sure, profits are UP, but at what cost? Employee morale must be at an all time low, they are hemorrhaging long time employees, the board of directors is directionless and they have had no CEO with a sense of direction since they kicked out Jerry Yang. The soul of the company is dead and the product they sell is a commodity; no one has faith that you could reasonably improve the shareholder value by 20% in five years.
They could bring back Jerry Yang, but that would involve scrubbing the entire board of directors to get him back; not likely. Yahoo is circling the drain, investors are looking for a way to cash out without alarming anyone, but nobody is buying, which only drives their stock price lower. So long, Yahoo, and thanks for all the free email!
I don't mean to offend, ant this is completely a value judgement on each person's part, but perhaps this will make you look more carefully at the games you buy, and consequently spend your time on? I play games with the same group of ~150 people that I've played with for about four years now. We're pretty picky about the games we invest in, because we know that if it's a crap game, the player base will evaporate within a month of release (duke nukem, brink, anyone?). There just aren't five multiplayer games a year that come out with a staying power of three months or more. Probably less than three quarters of those titles are actually worth playing for more than 100 hours. I can't see the use in buying 6-20 multiplayer titles, putting the effort of playing the singleplayer portion to learn the game and then play the multiplayer portion for a few hours before you have to go buy another game and start the process all over again. And count on your multiplayer buddies to be in exact synch with you through the whole process.
Alternatively, if you've got the cash for both consoles and are purchasing 6+ used games for your PS3 alone, in addition to owning both consoles, I can't see this being a huge additional annual cost for your hobby. Additionally, as some others mentioned, the market will correct for this and PS3 games will probably end up $3-8 per title cheaper than they are currently. There's a good chance that this will accelerate the price drop of used games for the PS3 (at least for the single player portion).
The multiplayer is still free.... as long as you buy the game new.
If you buy the game used, you pay a one time "used game tax" of $10 per title. This isn't a reoccurring fee like it is with Xbox Live. That's a dramatic difference.
I was a little put off by this too. The advances in web browsers were exciting when IE 4, 5 were pushing out major changes like Active Desktop and file manager integration, and then later when they sandboxed them off from the rest of the operating system. Online bookmark syncing is a pretty neat feature, but for the most part browsers are pretty homogenized and well... boring. Unless you work in online advertising, I think most geeks' interest in browser tech has waned quite a bit now that the playing field is relatively level "against"* Microsoft these days.
*I cringe a little saying that; bet way I could word it.
I thought all sunglasses had UV protection because the cheapest plastics aren't transparent to UV light. I was under the impression that UV filtration was easy because very few materials are UV transparent.
Yup; the break even point (assuming a 50% profit margin on ebooks for amazon) is about four books. I would imagine the average kindle owner buys at least 10 books. This is the same sort of math you see for consoles.
a 'fashion statement', 'gay', etc. These emotional rants
This isn't really what I would use to describe the average poster's comments about apple on slashdot. Slashdot nerds are pretty stoic for the most part. That's great that you like Apple products, but your arguments were redundant five years ago. This is coming from a previous Powerbook/Apple owner.
Considering the current alternative is a radio flyer wagon, one could argue this is better than no self-righting option. Off-road jeeps aren't terribly easy to right, but they weigh considerably more, and don't have a self-righting mode.
I can see dog and cow-sized versions of this on the battlefield in 10 years, but I think the ultimate goal is to put a.50 cal mounted machine gun on one of these things, or some sort of light artillery, so you can remotely place light artillery on top of a rocky hill, far from convenient roads. Self righting a walking vehicle designed to replace a 12,000 lb towed artillery gun/trailer and the truck needed to tow it, in the field - baking in a self-righting system this early in the design phase seems like a good idea, no matter how crude. You can always expand later. Many insects in my garden don't have a self-righting mechanism, so one might say we're already one-upping nature.
You mean "continuing the product, because canceling the Playbook at this point would torpedo what's left of shareholder value"?
Granted, the Blackberry name is a strong one, but every phone they release causes their stock price to drop due to low confidence that they will produce a next-gen phone. The Blackberry platform is incredible.... for 2005. By 2009 my 2007 model Curve looked woefully outdated, and 2011 models don't look a whole lot different from my 2007 model blackberry. Between the choice of a very favorable Blackberry unlimited plan and a $300 blackberry, or an unfavorable plan with about half as many minutes and a $600 Nexus S... I jumped ship.
If RIM ever develops a next gen Blackberry, I'd consider it, but I am wary that they'll even produce consumer handsets in five years.
I suspect someone wants to build a call center in his district. Making robo calls legal = hiring people to answer when people pick up. Pass law, get 1000 new jobs in district, get re-elected in their next term.
I'm really curious why nobody has brought another 9" tablet to the market. AFAIK, Apple is the only name-brand manufacturer to bring out a 9" 1024x768 tablet. Everyone else is pushing 5/6/7" tablets. Surely screen size is something most people consider when comparison shopping? It's not like screens are terribly expensive any more. I read somewhere that the iPad screen is less than $50 in bulk.
Youtube has had desktop HTML5 support (i.e. replaces flash) for at least a year, probably closer to two at this point. I've been using it for that period because my old N470 atom netbook (linux) struggles with full screen flash video, but runs HTML5 video acceptably in chrome. You can enable it somewhere deep inside the ever-changing youtube interface.
It's for when EA's system gets hacked and everyone who orders Battlefield 3, Need For Speed and whatever else is coming out this fall that needs Origin and their (likely) security hole-riddden battlelog and racelog facebook-like systems get compromised.
If the EULA wasn't going to cause a boatload of controversy, why did they bury the story in the trash by updating the EULA on a Friday afternoon? Journalists are hung over on saturday morning and the news releases for the weekend have already been mapped out through monday. Nerds will rage, but journalists will only skim Reddit over the weekend.
A friend of mine pointed this out - if you're working > 50 hrs a week (+10-15 hrs a week commuting), is the value there at your pay grade? i.e. are they paying you enough for your time, and also enough to pay other people to do things for you? If you don't get home until 7, 8pm every day and work saturdays, will you need to hire someone else to mow the lawn for you? Will you have to pay for a weekly laundry service? Are you going to have to eat out for lunch and dinner because you don't have the time to cook or shop for basic things like food? Purchase a new car so the dealership can handle maintenance for you?
I think they were able to negotiate equitable terms; it's just that both TV and Movie studios want to kill Netflix as quickly as possible to stay in control. Netflix is driving a lot of people away from traditional TV, but if they manage to cut enough videos from their streaming selection, they might just be able to woo people back to cable TV again.
Something like 20 ft. You could pick out a row of houses, new factory construction, new warship construction, tank battalion movements, etc; but if you wanted to say, take a picture of Brezhnev's motorcade every tuesday from his house at 6am, that might be difficult (depending on the size of the motorcade). But if he moved, you wouldn't know until the next batch of film was dropped and developed.
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What county is the operations center going in to? I bet it's in a large county that he didn't carry last time, but could now use to win an election next term. 3500 jobs + 2000 jobs is closer to 10,000 people (5000 households). The parents of those people getting those entry-level jobs at the warehouse are more likely to vote for the governor in the next election so that they don't have to support their kids if they lose their warehouse jobs due to the next governor.
Second, this brings in a semi-permanent stream of long term tax revenue, both sales tax and property taxes. It's one thing to trumpet green manufacturing, but green manufacturing is a temporary cause and already is proving to not be a permanent industry here (see also: china).
Finally, order fulfillment centers, especially from places like Amazon are politically neutral and guarantee income and money, plus encourages other order fulfillment companies to expand to Tennessee as well to piggy back off of the infrastructure Amazon is bringing to the area. You know that Newegg, J&R, Target and Walmart are going to have land speculators on the next plane to Tennessee to see how they can wrangle this new transportation hub to their own advantage.
Well, would you say that FireWire "succeeded"? Apple pushed Firewire pretty hard for about 12 years before giving up on it due to high prices and consumer apathy. There was a brief 2-4 year window when most every PC came with a FW400 port. I think that window closed in 2009. Firewire has dropped in price, but nobody ever bought in to the technology. My apple laptop came with FW400 in 2001, but it never really caught traction due to the cheaper, slower competing standard - USB 1.0 and USB 2.0. Sure, I owned two FW400 drives, but in the end, I felt like I got burnt trying to use the better/more expensive standard.
HDMI + USB 3.0 is a pretty convincing set of connectors for consumers. They're largely backwards compatible and many devices have both ports on them already. It's hard to jump ship to a controversial new technology unless you don't have a problem that existing connectors can't solve.
This is the one feature that would convince me to buy in to this technology. I want to be able to stuff my PC in the garage or laundry room in between the washing machine and dryer with all the other noisy things, and keep the noise in my home office to a minimum. With a powerful enough computer (probably about the same time fiber becomes available, in 2-4 years), you should be able to set up a VM for a HTPC instance and run a separate line to your living room.
Here we are in 2011, the digital camera revolution is over and everyone (and their mother!) owns a digital camera, most of which will do 720p, the rest will do 640x480, even the crapy vivitar walmart ones for $20. It's difficult to find a cell phone or MP3 player that doesn't record video these days. I was part of a very technology/photography oriented group of friends growing up, and now many of us are starting families. Not once has any of them said "gosh, I am spending too much time transferring all this raw footage!". The great thing about pictures is that no post-processing is needed and can be shared instantly on facebook. Video is time consuming and only 2-3 people ever watch your home videos. "Consumer HD video" is the "video phone" technology of our generation. Everybody has access to it, but nobody actually wants to use it. You have a few amateur die-hards who actually put their products through their paces, but the vast majority of people will probably record 6-8 hours of memorable video throughout their child's life.
Sure, your new display technology can stream 2048p video at 4x realtime speed, but the use for that feature to the average consumer is vanishingly small. Daisy-chaining expensive prehiprials to a single port is a neat feature, but by generation 3 or 4 (think usb, firewire) you end up with 4-6 ports on the back, and another 2 on the front. The fact that the cable is limited to 3m doesn't help.
This would be neat if they released the fiber version, and I could keep my PC in the closet in the basement, far away from my mouse, keyboard, and two silent monitors. But instead we're tethered within 8 feet of the big PC box yet again.
Google+ doesn't offer anything I want - not having to re-import all of my friends from facebook manually, not having an intuitive interface, not having granular control over anything. It also doesn't offer any incentive to go back and check what's happening in the G+ universe. I'll check FB 1-2 times a day, but the only time I'll visit G+ is to see what random stranger has added me on G+ today that I should ignore. The lack of people I know that are on G+ compared to FB is a big detractor, as is the 2-3 people I don't know who do add me on G+ daily.
To further your point, within a week of installing the new CEO at Yahoo, they signed on Microsoft to do both their search and advertising for them. This is snarky to say, but it's true - Microsoft already owns them. Yahoo is a revenue stream for Microsoft, without any of the risk involved for Microsoft's share price or litigious liability. Next to installing their own executive at Nokia last year, this was the ultimate un-acquisition. All of the benefits with no downsides and zero long term liability.
Reading that, I don't think you understand the market Yahoo is in, or whoever told you about them was lying to you. Or you have significant interests in Yahoo's stock price.
Looking at their quarterly statistics without looking at their product and the market as a whole is pretty short sighted. I don't think they've been "trendy" for quite a while, and I think this reflects on the fact that they haven't innovated in a market that for the last 10 years has been expected to drive bleeding edge web technologies. Google keeps pressing on with innovations in social networking despite failing spectacularly at it by my count at least twice, Wave and Buzz; Google+ seems to be sticking in comparison. Microsoft is presenting at TED talks. Where is Yahoo in all this? You get email, news, and games. I can't remember the last time someone showed me printed directions from yahoo maps. Is there even a yahoo maps app for the android and iphone? This is what I'm getting at. Yahoo is firmly grounded in 2003. They're almost a decade behind Google and Microsoft, and they dismantled their R&D departments. This is not something healthy tech companies do. Apple has retail stores. Sony keeps reinventing theirs. Google announced a retail store in Europe. Microsoft has been selling computer accessories since I was a child. Yahoo is a name. They sell advertising, but have contracted out the search and advertising(!) to Microsoft. They will have a steady revenue stream for the foreseeable future, but without an R&D department (where their profits came from!) and a budget to fund it, their baby-boomer user base is going to lose interest eventually, and I don't think the younger generation (6-21) values their name brand any more than ask jeeves or alta vista at this point.
This isn't a retail sector where you can slash prices, hire a new spokesmodel, introduce a redesigned product lineup and buy some ad time on national TV and see sales spike through the roof for your mall retail stores. For a car analogy, Google and Microsoft are building (at a profit) mass-production hybrid hatchback vehicles that get 55mpg and have prototype fully electric plugin cars on the road. By comparison, Yahoo no longer makes cars and still only builds trucks and SUBS that only run on leaded gas, need their carburetors adjusted regularly and don't have emissions controls; the only way their cars are still sold are through government lobbying to ease emissions controls and an act of congress to give their customers tax breaks.
They're a revenue stream for some hedge fund or conglomerate, sure. You can bank on them having level revenue for the next 2-5 years, but there's no growth left there. R&D got the axe years ago, and they haven't developed a noteworthy product or championed a cause that anyone can remember since free email (yahoo mail) and yahoo maps... which are third rate backwaters these days. All that is left is a bunch of degree mill MBAs looking to pump up the company to sell it to investors... same as AOL. The trade name doesn't hold the glamour or instill the brand pride it did in the first half of the 00's.
Sure, profits are UP, but at what cost? Employee morale must be at an all time low, they are hemorrhaging long time employees, the board of directors is directionless and they have had no CEO with a sense of direction since they kicked out Jerry Yang. The soul of the company is dead and the product they sell is a commodity; no one has faith that you could reasonably improve the shareholder value by 20% in five years.
They could bring back Jerry Yang, but that would involve scrubbing the entire board of directors to get him back; not likely. Yahoo is circling the drain, investors are looking for a way to cash out without alarming anyone, but nobody is buying, which only drives their stock price lower. So long, Yahoo, and thanks for all the free email!
I don't mean to offend, ant this is completely a value judgement on each person's part, but perhaps this will make you look more carefully at the games you buy, and consequently spend your time on? I play games with the same group of ~150 people that I've played with for about four years now. We're pretty picky about the games we invest in, because we know that if it's a crap game, the player base will evaporate within a month of release (duke nukem, brink, anyone?). There just aren't five multiplayer games a year that come out with a staying power of three months or more. Probably less than three quarters of those titles are actually worth playing for more than 100 hours. I can't see the use in buying 6-20 multiplayer titles, putting the effort of playing the singleplayer portion to learn the game and then play the multiplayer portion for a few hours before you have to go buy another game and start the process all over again. And count on your multiplayer buddies to be in exact synch with you through the whole process.
Alternatively, if you've got the cash for both consoles and are purchasing 6+ used games for your PS3 alone, in addition to owning both consoles, I can't see this being a huge additional annual cost for your hobby. Additionally, as some others mentioned, the market will correct for this and PS3 games will probably end up $3-8 per title cheaper than they are currently. There's a good chance that this will accelerate the price drop of used games for the PS3 (at least for the single player portion).
The multiplayer is still free.... as long as you buy the game new.
If you buy the game used, you pay a one time "used game tax" of $10 per title. This isn't a reoccurring fee like it is with Xbox Live. That's a dramatic difference.
I was a little put off by this too. The advances in web browsers were exciting when IE 4, 5 were pushing out major changes like Active Desktop and file manager integration, and then later when they sandboxed them off from the rest of the operating system. Online bookmark syncing is a pretty neat feature, but for the most part browsers are pretty homogenized and well... boring. Unless you work in online advertising, I think most geeks' interest in browser tech has waned quite a bit now that the playing field is relatively level "against"* Microsoft these days.
*I cringe a little saying that; bet way I could word it.
I thought all sunglasses had UV protection because the cheapest plastics aren't transparent to UV light. I was under the impression that UV filtration was easy because very few materials are UV transparent.
Yup; the break even point (assuming a 50% profit margin on ebooks for amazon) is about four books. I would imagine the average kindle owner buys at least 10 books. This is the same sort of math you see for consoles.
This isn't really what I would use to describe the average poster's comments about apple on slashdot. Slashdot nerds are pretty stoic for the most part. That's great that you like Apple products, but your arguments were redundant five years ago. This is coming from a previous Powerbook/Apple owner.
Considering the current alternative is a radio flyer wagon, one could argue this is better than no self-righting option. Off-road jeeps aren't terribly easy to right, but they weigh considerably more, and don't have a self-righting mode.
.50 cal mounted machine gun on one of these things, or some sort of light artillery, so you can remotely place light artillery on top of a rocky hill, far from convenient roads. Self righting a walking vehicle designed to replace a 12,000 lb towed artillery gun/trailer and the truck needed to tow it, in the field - baking in a self-righting system this early in the design phase seems like a good idea, no matter how crude. You can always expand later. Many insects in my garden don't have a self-righting mechanism, so one might say we're already one-upping nature.
I can see dog and cow-sized versions of this on the battlefield in 10 years, but I think the ultimate goal is to put a
You mean "continuing the product, because canceling the Playbook at this point would torpedo what's left of shareholder value"?
Granted, the Blackberry name is a strong one, but every phone they release causes their stock price to drop due to low confidence that they will produce a next-gen phone. The Blackberry platform is incredible.... for 2005. By 2009 my 2007 model Curve looked woefully outdated, and 2011 models don't look a whole lot different from my 2007 model blackberry. Between the choice of a very favorable Blackberry unlimited plan and a $300 blackberry, or an unfavorable plan with about half as many minutes and a $600 Nexus S... I jumped ship.
If RIM ever develops a next gen Blackberry, I'd consider it, but I am wary that they'll even produce consumer handsets in five years.
I suspect someone wants to build a call center in his district. Making robo calls legal = hiring people to answer when people pick up. Pass law, get 1000 new jobs in district, get re-elected in their next term.
Welp; I did not have the actual display size of an Apple iPad memorized -- should I turn in my nerd card now?
I'm really curious why nobody has brought another 9" tablet to the market. AFAIK, Apple is the only name-brand manufacturer to bring out a 9" 1024x768 tablet. Everyone else is pushing 5/6/7" tablets. Surely screen size is something most people consider when comparison shopping? It's not like screens are terribly expensive any more. I read somewhere that the iPad screen is less than $50 in bulk.
Youtube has had desktop HTML5 support (i.e. replaces flash) for at least a year, probably closer to two at this point. I've been using it for that period because my old N470 atom netbook (linux) struggles with full screen flash video, but runs HTML5 video acceptably in chrome. You can enable it somewhere deep inside the ever-changing youtube interface.
It's for when EA's system gets hacked and everyone who orders Battlefield 3, Need For Speed and whatever else is coming out this fall that needs Origin and their (likely) security hole-riddden battlelog and racelog facebook-like systems get compromised.
If the EULA wasn't going to cause a boatload of controversy, why did they bury the story in the trash by updating the EULA on a Friday afternoon? Journalists are hung over on saturday morning and the news releases for the weekend have already been mapped out through monday. Nerds will rage, but journalists will only skim Reddit over the weekend.
A friend of mine pointed this out - if you're working > 50 hrs a week (+10-15 hrs a week commuting), is the value there at your pay grade? i.e. are they paying you enough for your time, and also enough to pay other people to do things for you? If you don't get home until 7, 8pm every day and work saturdays, will you need to hire someone else to mow the lawn for you? Will you have to pay for a weekly laundry service? Are you going to have to eat out for lunch and dinner because you don't have the time to cook or shop for basic things like food? Purchase a new car so the dealership can handle maintenance for you?
I think they were able to negotiate equitable terms; it's just that both TV and Movie studios want to kill Netflix as quickly as possible to stay in control. Netflix is driving a lot of people away from traditional TV, but if they manage to cut enough videos from their streaming selection, they might just be able to woo people back to cable TV again.
This reads like something i might have written my sophmore year of college.
Something like 20 ft. You could pick out a row of houses, new factory construction, new warship construction, tank battalion movements, etc; but if you wanted to say, take a picture of Brezhnev's motorcade every tuesday from his house at 6am, that might be difficult (depending on the size of the motorcade). But if he moved, you wouldn't know until the next batch of film was dropped and developed.