Spot on. I'm long past giving a fuck. It's a minor inconvenience when my card numbers get stolen and I try to not use a debit card ever since getting that stolen would be a lot worse.
Yeah i'm sort of the same way. If i can watch something I want then I don't really care if i have to pay extra for it.
Still it's a big enough departure from Netflix' established business model that I can see them not being comfortable with it. Abandoning all-you-can-eat is a really big shift.
But you should be comparing "Amazon Prime" and "Netflix" since they are both all-you-can eat streaming services.
I think you are comparing "Amazon Video" which is amazons premium pay-per-movie model with "Netflix" which is unfair. Are you suggesting that Netflix should offer the movies that Amazon offer for payment as inclusive in their all-you-can-eat plan or are you suggesting they introduce a mixed model where there are some premium movies on netflix?
The pretty much have a billion dollars of cash on hand. Plus you are assuming all of their costs are fixed, when in fact things like bandwidth needs surely scale with the number of subscribers. Would take more than a second for them to declare bankruptcy.
I'm not seeing that. In the top 20 films only one is available on both Netflix and Amazon Prime (Pulp Fiction) and then one is only netflix (Hoop Dreams) and one is only Amazon Prime (Apocalypse Now).
I suppose it's inevitable that Netflix will start offering premium content like Amazon, but once it's got a vast library that you can rent on a pay-per-movie basis their all-inclusive streaming selection will go from bad to worse.
Has anyone ever accomplished much of value in their two week period? It's rarely enough time to replace you, let alone give you any time to transition any worthwhile knowledge to them.
Usually it seems to mostly involve them groveling and offering more money, but I've never known anyone that said "you know what, that sounds great I'll just stay"
That's the irony of the current situation. i'm in a city where there's municipal fiber going in, and consequently comcast beat them to the punch and have 2gig service available nearly everywhere. Now ever centurytel is realizing that they need fiber if they want to compete.
In theory by the end of this year I'll have three fiber choices, each offering at least 1 gig symmetric (and i actually spotted in a locate that AT&T have fiber less than 50' from my house so that's another potential option).
Of course people who live in areas with no competition get 5mbit dsl and they fucking like it.
I think homelessness does need to be addressed at a national level. Our area has reasonable services for the homeless (as i understand it) but the fear is that if we provide further services then we'll essentially create more homeless people who come here because they can get a hot meal and a bed on a cold night.
If everywhere provided a similar standard then there wouldn't be the same incentive for people to migrate to areas of the country that take better care of them.
I'm not necessarily sure if it's because there are more shares or just because there isn't as much original content.
Ultimately for me facebook has become a lot less useful as more people are on it. It used to be mostly my siblings, a few immediate friends and some of the more tech minded people i knew from work. That was great, I could ask a technical question there and have a discussion about it. Now if i post something like that the first response is usually "lulz i have no idea what you talking 'bout", so I don't bother with stuff like that. I use dropbox to share family photos with my immediate family since I don't want them to have distribution as wide as facebook. I know I *could* set up privacy rules to maintain that stuff better but I can't be bothered.
I strongly believe they are in a downward spiral and think it'll be hard to claw back from that. As the utility it provides to me drops, there's less incentive for me to provide value to them.
I'm also not sure it's in Boulder. I live right by NIST and was always under the impression that they transmitted somewhere out east to avoid the rocky outcroppings behind their facility. I think it's transmitted from tinmuth near fort collins.
I do think it should be incumbent upon cities to make sure their employees can afford to live there.
I strongly feel the majority of teachers, firefighters and city employees should live in the city they serve. There's no way that san fran can't raise the tax revenue to make that happen and I strongly believe they should. (My own city is less extreme but has a lot of the same issues where the only teachers, I know of, who live in the city proper have partners with tech jobs)
Perhaps i'm showing my age here, but is anyone else floored that you can buy a battery powered device that can fit in your pocket that outperforms something like ASCI Red. Obviously it lacks the same memory and memory bandwidth but that's still astounding to me. Of course ASCI Red would now be 20 years old, so maybe not that surprising.
Can you recommend a zigbee sensor that can do that? I'd love one, and like you agree that it's probably possible on paper but in reality i've tried a few and haven't found anything that can deliver that from a coin cell.
It's mostly to do with the low battery utilization of zigbee sensors. From what I can tell of the ones I have in my house, they basically use a reed relay to trip an interrupt on the microcontroller that causes it to transit that the sensor state has changed. In sleep mode then seem to run about a year on a coincell so it's obviously not in regular radio communication with the base station.
Obviously the sensors could wait for acknowledgement of their state change and otherwise continue sending it until they come, but that'd also mean if the base station was offline for a few days all the batteries in the sensors would be dead. Even in that case you could still disrupt the sensor by wrapping it in foil.
Despite all that it's still likely fine for a home security system. I highly doubt the average crooks would use a radio jammer or take the time to wrap sensors in tin foil. For most home owners the deterrent value is just fine.
But then you'd be as well not signing up for the binge on service. If you run your traffic through a VPN then all the benefits of binge on (Netflix streaming that doesn't count against your data usage) will vanish.
We're slowly working towards building out a genetic algorithm to plan factory resources. It works on some small tasks but scaling it up to plan our whole operation is going to require more compute power than a single server can provide and is also well suited to being processed in a distributed environment.
The nature of the task is that there's no "right" answer so I can see us doing something where we have 10 servers that run for 4 hours at night making a plan for the next few days, then after 4 hrs is over we take the best candidate and run with it. If one of those servers goes offline at some point, the chances are good that we'll still find the same solution and even if we don't it'll probably only be slightly-more-sub-optimal
It also seems challenging to find another example because most of the time it's completely unreported. Around my group of friends maybe 1 in 10 seem to have taken electronic projects to school, but that's probably more like 1 in 1000 in the general population. And who knows what the number is in podunk texas.
Perhaps not, but if this was staged then I actually wonder if there is another example. Perhaps some clipping from a local newspaper about another student making something similar and getting praise for it.
I graduated in the late 90s and was a straight A student. I'm sure i pushed a few boundaries but other than a few "i'll pretend i didn't see that" responses from teachers nobody really seemed to mind.
If what you say is true then i'm sure the district will have lots of comparable examples to draw on. However, my gut feeling is that someone made the decision of "he's fucking with us, let's teach this little shit a lesson". They acted like the children in this situation and are now going to have to defend that in court against someone who claims that they did it because of his race.
I think he's in the right (though certainly not $15M in the right), however I feel firmly that the school district is in the wrong and frowning on this kind of tinkering is a massive blow to that whole generation.
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Spot on. I'm long past giving a fuck. It's a minor inconvenience when my card numbers get stolen and I try to not use a debit card ever since getting that stolen would be a lot worse.
The US hasn't done chip and pin.
It's chip and signature, effectively the worst of both worlds. Very little extra security and much slower.
Yeah i'm sort of the same way. If i can watch something I want then I don't really care if i have to pay extra for it.
Still it's a big enough departure from Netflix' established business model that I can see them not being comfortable with it. Abandoning all-you-can-eat is a really big shift.
But you should be comparing "Amazon Prime" and "Netflix" since they are both all-you-can eat streaming services.
I think you are comparing "Amazon Video" which is amazons premium pay-per-movie model with "Netflix" which is unfair. Are you suggesting that Netflix should offer the movies that Amazon offer for payment as inclusive in their all-you-can-eat plan or are you suggesting they introduce a mixed model where there are some premium movies on netflix?
The pretty much have a billion dollars of cash on hand. Plus you are assuming all of their costs are fixed, when in fact things like bandwidth needs surely scale with the number of subscribers. Would take more than a second for them to declare bankruptcy.
I'm not seeing that. In the top 20 films only one is available on both Netflix and Amazon Prime (Pulp Fiction) and then one is only netflix (Hoop Dreams) and one is only Amazon Prime (Apocalypse Now).
I suppose it's inevitable that Netflix will start offering premium content like Amazon, but once it's got a vast library that you can rent on a pay-per-movie basis their all-inclusive streaming selection will go from bad to worse.
I believe that'd be Mandatory Inseverability
Has anyone ever accomplished much of value in their two week period? It's rarely enough time to replace you, let alone give you any time to transition any worthwhile knowledge to them.
Usually it seems to mostly involve them groveling and offering more money, but I've never known anyone that said "you know what, that sounds great I'll just stay"
That's the irony of the current situation. i'm in a city where there's municipal fiber going in, and consequently comcast beat them to the punch and have 2gig service available nearly everywhere. Now ever centurytel is realizing that they need fiber if they want to compete.
In theory by the end of this year I'll have three fiber choices, each offering at least 1 gig symmetric (and i actually spotted in a locate that AT&T have fiber less than 50' from my house so that's another potential option).
Of course people who live in areas with no competition get 5mbit dsl and they fucking like it.
Which for netflix is actually entirely possible. It'll also draw more attention to ISP shenanigans if fast.com doesn't agree with speedtest.net
I think homelessness does need to be addressed at a national level. Our area has reasonable services for the homeless (as i understand it) but the fear is that if we provide further services then we'll essentially create more homeless people who come here because they can get a hot meal and a bed on a cold night.
If everywhere provided a similar standard then there wouldn't be the same incentive for people to migrate to areas of the country that take better care of them.
I'm not necessarily sure if it's because there are more shares or just because there isn't as much original content.
Ultimately for me facebook has become a lot less useful as more people are on it. It used to be mostly my siblings, a few immediate friends and some of the more tech minded people i knew from work. That was great, I could ask a technical question there and have a discussion about it. Now if i post something like that the first response is usually "lulz i have no idea what you talking 'bout", so I don't bother with stuff like that. I use dropbox to share family photos with my immediate family since I don't want them to have distribution as wide as facebook. I know I *could* set up privacy rules to maintain that stuff better but I can't be bothered.
I strongly believe they are in a downward spiral and think it'll be hard to claw back from that. As the utility it provides to me drops, there's less incentive for me to provide value to them.
I tried to use it to get craftsman parts for a push lawn mower built in the 20s. They tried to claim the other lifetime was the applicable one.
I'm also not sure it's in Boulder. I live right by NIST and was always under the impression that they transmitted somewhere out east to avoid the rocky outcroppings behind their facility. I think it's transmitted from tinmuth near fort collins.
Wow, are they still around? I remember ving cards in the 90s but haven't seen one in probably 15 years.
I do think it should be incumbent upon cities to make sure their employees can afford to live there.
I strongly feel the majority of teachers, firefighters and city employees should live in the city they serve. There's no way that san fran can't raise the tax revenue to make that happen and I strongly believe they should. (My own city is less extreme but has a lot of the same issues where the only teachers, I know of, who live in the city proper have partners with tech jobs)
Perhaps i'm showing my age here, but is anyone else floored that you can buy a battery powered device that can fit in your pocket that outperforms something like ASCI Red. Obviously it lacks the same memory and memory bandwidth but that's still astounding to me. Of course ASCI Red would now be 20 years old, so maybe not that surprising.
Can you recommend a zigbee sensor that can do that? I'd love one, and like you agree that it's probably possible on paper but in reality i've tried a few and haven't found anything that can deliver that from a coin cell.
It's mostly to do with the low battery utilization of zigbee sensors. From what I can tell of the ones I have in my house, they basically use a reed relay to trip an interrupt on the microcontroller that causes it to transit that the sensor state has changed. In sleep mode then seem to run about a year on a coincell so it's obviously not in regular radio communication with the base station.
Obviously the sensors could wait for acknowledgement of their state change and otherwise continue sending it until they come, but that'd also mean if the base station was offline for a few days all the batteries in the sensors would be dead. Even in that case you could still disrupt the sensor by wrapping it in foil.
Despite all that it's still likely fine for a home security system. I highly doubt the average crooks would use a radio jammer or take the time to wrap sensors in tin foil. For most home owners the deterrent value is just fine.
But then you'd be as well not signing up for the binge on service. If you run your traffic through a VPN then all the benefits of binge on (Netflix streaming that doesn't count against your data usage) will vanish.
We're slowly working towards building out a genetic algorithm to plan factory resources. It works on some small tasks but scaling it up to plan our whole operation is going to require more compute power than a single server can provide and is also well suited to being processed in a distributed environment.
The nature of the task is that there's no "right" answer so I can see us doing something where we have 10 servers that run for 4 hours at night making a plan for the next few days, then after 4 hrs is over we take the best candidate and run with it. If one of those servers goes offline at some point, the chances are good that we'll still find the same solution and even if we don't it'll probably only be slightly-more-sub-optimal
It also seems challenging to find another example because most of the time it's completely unreported. Around my group of friends maybe 1 in 10 seem to have taken electronic projects to school, but that's probably more like 1 in 1000 in the general population. And who knows what the number is in podunk texas.
Perhaps not, but if this was staged then I actually wonder if there is another example. Perhaps some clipping from a local newspaper about another student making something similar and getting praise for it.
I've taken my own half-assed version of a taser to school, only to have my physics teacher one-up with me with a far simpler circuit.
Culturally that may no longer be acceptable, but I think that's a great shame.
I graduated in the late 90s and was a straight A student. I'm sure i pushed a few boundaries but other than a few "i'll pretend i didn't see that" responses from teachers nobody really seemed to mind.
If what you say is true then i'm sure the district will have lots of comparable examples to draw on. However, my gut feeling is that someone made the decision of "he's fucking with us, let's teach this little shit a lesson". They acted like the children in this situation and are now going to have to defend that in court against someone who claims that they did it because of his race.
I think he's in the right (though certainly not $15M in the right), however I feel firmly that the school district is in the wrong and frowning on this kind of tinkering is a massive blow to that whole generation.