Or does it learn how long it takes me to get dressed and walk from the bedroom to the thermostat?
If it's occurred to you in the few minutes between learning about the device and posting here, why would you imagine that it hasn't occurred to them? There's no reason why it can't work out which is the morning increase, and assume that in future you want that temperature 10 minutes earlier in the day, or 5, or 20, depending on what their research in the field has found to be satisfactory for most people.
That's my point - they don't know so they have to guess. So it's somewhere between 5 or 30 minutes so it's either going to be too short or too long for many people.
And if it uses motion sensors to decide whether or not I'm home, it's either going to think I'm never home since I don't go past the thermostat much in my day-to-day activities, or it's going to think I'm always home when it senses the dog going to her food dish.
They say the best place for thermostat is in a hallway. People should be passing that from time to time. But they do say to turn it down yourself hen leaving and up when you return, at least for the first week, to give it a good start on working out your patterns.
My thermostat *is* in a hallway, but it's a little used hallway that leads to the front door, I'm much more likely to bypass the hallway and go to the kitchen when I'm working at home.
And placed at the normal thermostat height, the detector isn't set off by dogs. That's a FAQ.
A FAQ is not quite the same as a fact. My alarm installer told me the same thing when he installed motion sensors, and he had to come take them out after my dog proved him wrong. this thermostat may fare better since it's not trying to detect someone trying to sneak by.
I'd much rather have a thermostat with an easy to use UI than something that tries to be smart.
I've never seen an easier UI than this one. There's only one control and that's a temperature dial. Personally I'd far prefer one that's smart.
It's simple as long as you trust the thermostat to know your patterns better than you do.
I don't see how a thermostat on a wall can do a good job.
Ah well, if you can't see it, then obviously it doesn't work.
Or maybe different people live in different homes, so one product doesn't work everywhere?
I don't know if you saw the nest - but it's just a knob. You turn it until it's at the temperature you want. That's it. No fan control, no heat/cool setting. It just makes it the temperature you want. Then, as you turn it up and down, it learns *when* you want it to be a certain temperature. It also checks via wifi what the temperature outside is, so it learns the delta between preferred indoor and outdoor temperatures (we keep our thermostat at 68, but if it's 65 and sunny outside we turn the furnace off)
It seems pretty nifty, if for no other reason you can set it via the web if you aren't coming home as scheduled.
That's my point - it thinks it knows when I want the temperature to be set - but instead, it has to guess based on incomplete information. Just because I don't put on my clothes and come down to the thermostat until 7:20 doesn't mean that I don't want my bedroom to be warm when I jump out of bed at 7am. Likewise, just because I don't walk past the thermostat from 9am to 5pm doesn't mean that I'm not upstairs working in my office.
My thermostat doesn't need to know what the weather is like outside because it, like I, don't care what the outside temperature is when I step out of bed. If I want it to be 70 degrees at 7am, when I step out of bed, I don't care if it's 38, 68, or 98 degrees outside. If the sun is streaming into my windows and making my house warm, my thermostat knows that.
Sounds overly complicated. With my current thermostat, I set it to make the temperature to 70 degrees at 6:55am (just before my alarm goes off). It learns how fast the house heats up, so the house really is at the right temperature when I want it to be and it does a pretty good job of that, even on unusually cold days.
If I have to manually adjust the temperature to help it learn, then it's going to lag my preferred time by 5 or 10 minutes (the time it takes me to get out of bed and go down to the thermostat and reset it). Or does it learn how long it takes me to get dressed and walk from the bedroom to the thermostat? And if it uses motion sensors to decide whether or not I'm home, it's either going to think I'm never home since I don't go past the thermostat much in my day-to-day activities, or it's going to think I'm always home when it senses the dog going to her food dish.
I'd much rather have a thermostat with an easy to use UI than something that tries to be smart. Maybe if I had a true smart-home with sensors in every room, it could automatically figure out what time I wake up and when I leave the house, but I don't see how a thermostat on a wall can do a good job.
At the very least, carriers should be required to let me drop the voice/data contract and pay only the phone subsidy ($15 - $20/mo?) if I want to end the contract.
That's what the prorated ETF is supposed to be for.
Yeah, you'd think so, and if the ETF decreased by (ETF / Months in Contract), then that's exactly what I'm asking for.
However, with Verizon's $350 smartphone ETF and $10/month proration, by month 23 you're still facing a $120 ETF.
I don't care about having the latest/greatest Android OS, but I wish the carriers were required to provide warranty support for the full 2 year term of your contract.
My droid 1 stopped working 19 months into my contract. I had bought the WPP wireless protection plan and figured it would have me covered, but when I called Verizon, they said that it only covered accidental damage and that I wouldn't be covered. They did offer to sell me a refurb phone for $150 or something like that, and offered me an early upgrade with a new 2 year contract term. I thought about "accidentally" dropping the phone into the sink and then making a damage claim with WPP, but I found a used one on eBay for a bit less than the WPP deductable.
If the carriers are going to lock me into a 2 year contract that I can't cancel, why aren't they required to make sure that the equipment they sold me works throughout the entire contract?
At the very least, carriers should be required to let me drop the voice/data contract and pay only the phone subsidy ($15 - $20/mo?) if I want to end the contract.
Folks who love Microsoft products but not IE? People who don't trust Google with their search data but think it's safe with Bing? Who would want this?
I assume that this is for the Mozilla Foundation and they are the ones that want it because MS is paying them for it. MS probably promised them a larger share of the advertising revenue than they were getting from Google.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but they should just come out and say it.
You are correct in the "not in significant amounts" aspect. However, we are still piping energy from one side to the other. No the infrastructure for high capacity lines does not necessarily exists, but we're still piping it, just over smaller infrastructure.
So you agree that there's currently no infrastructure for piping significant amounts of electricity across the country thus insignificant amounts of power flow cross country, but you disagree with what I wrote?
Actually, we don't. At least not significant amounts.
You've obviously never managed a large implementation - cost overruns always happen. Vendors oversell the capabilities of the project and companies underestimate their needs.
Well fucking hold them accountable when that happens. If they sign a contract, hold them to it. If what's in the contract turns out to be insufficient for your needs, don't just bend the contract. Negotiate a new one.
How is negotiating a new contact better than signing a change order and paying more money?
How do you envision this working? Do you think the vendor will say "Ok, that will cost $50K to implement, but if you make me stop work and go through another contract negotiation, I'll cut it to $13.50 since I love contract negotiations". I think what he'll say is "Ok,what you asked for will cost $50K in labor to implement, I'll just send my 37 people home while we spend a couple months renegotiating the entire contract which will end up with you paying an extra $50K and then we'll get both of our legal teams to sign off on it. Then in another 6 months or so after I can reschedule the resources, we'll start work again. Sound good? Oh, and I'll need you to pay an extra $75K for the costs of delaying the project and rescheduling the resources". Wouldn't it be easier for him to say "Ok, what you asked for will cost $50K, sign this change order approving the spec change and price and I can get another 3 guys here in 2 weeks to start working on implementing it." (that's not to say that there is no negotiation in a large change order, but it's not the same as renegotiating the entire contract)
it's impossible to spec everything out at the beginning
That's no reason you shouldn't get what you specced for the price it was promised.
I haven't worked on an implementation yet where the client has been able to fully spec out what they want. The vendor is always willing to provide what's in the contract and then fix it up later, but usually the client wants a system that does what they need. Sometimes they just didn't know what they wanted when they wrote the specs because they didn't realize how this poduct would change the way they do business. Sometimes their business changed due to external factors. Sometimes they assumed the product would work one way because that's how it worked at some other company, but they found out that that company wrote a custom module to get it to work that way. Sometimes the client sees a new feature that we're rolling out that they want integrated into their implementation. We can either fit in a change order during implementation or deliver the product as spec'ed, then make the changes afterwards. It's usually cheaper to do the former.
There are enough lawyers on both sides to (usually) make a breach of contract lawsuit unattractive - the vendor will show exactly why the solution he provided meets the letter of the contract, and the client will show exactly why it doesn't meet the contract and they'll spend the next year in court debating technicalities.
But humans did roam the earth at the same time as dinosaurs! Don't you watch Terra Nova?
And don't forget Land of the Lost. Even if you disregard the time-traveling modern humans, the show clearly documented early cavemen (i.e. Cha-Ka) living with dinosaurs.
There's no force-feedback yet. You can interact with object in the environment, but you can't feel them. So this is of no interest to Picard, or the porn industry, for now.
Not on this one, but the University of Tokyo is coming closer to force feedback using ultrasound:
Let's say I go to Procter&Gamble, and offer them an HR system. I say to them, it will cost $30 million and 3 years. Then after 3 years, I try to bill them $40 million and say it will take another 2 years to deliver.
I'm pretty sure that's when either:
1) PG sues me for breach of contract, and refuses to pay anything
You've obviously never managed a large implementation - cost overruns always happen. Vendors oversell the capabilities of the project and companies underestimate their needs. It's not until the project gets underway that the business realizes that the HR plan they spec'ed out at the beginning won't work anymore because it can't accommodate the needs of their new Asian division. So, the project drags on and the vendor keeps billing (justified by the change orders that the company initiated).
It's not all the fault of the software vendor, it's just that large, complex software deployments are large and complex and it's impossible to spec everything out at the beginning... and even if you could, the needs of the business can change in the 3 years it takes to implement the project.
You're almost right, except that the "proposed" lines are all the ones that are already in planning and already being built. Those are not part of whatever new things we would need to plan for.
Also if you turn off proposed lines, you'll see it is all actually connected. Not by the highest voltage lines, but then again, those higher voltage lines don't go to most places regionally, either. And they still wouldn't.
So by "almost right" you mean that I'm completely right? Power lines that are "in planning and being built" are not in operation.
That map shows over 6000 miles of proposed new 765KV power lines - what's the timeline to complete them and is the whole proposed network funded?
I see a single 345KV - 500KV line connecting the east and west grids, which is what I meant when I said "At least not in significant amounts". A single power plant can exceed the carrying capacity of that line.
Removing any large amounts of energy from these plumes will make no difference in the core temperature. (about as much change as a fart in a hurricane).
I lived through a hurricane once in a small beach house. Someone in the house farted and conditions suddenly were far worse for all of us.
If what you say is true, then the entire earth will take on a distinct odor of brimstone if this plan continues.
You do realize that we already pipe energy from one side of the country to the other right? The "Long Wires" are for the most part already there. Upgrade, enhancements will be need but the framework is in place.
Actually, we don't. At least not significant amounts.
The USA is essentially 3 main power grids without much interconnection between them (but it's planned).
I think you missed the grandparent of the posting I was replying to -- why doesn't Netflix list their prices? Why should it be neccessary to go to a third party site to find out their full pricing? If they are so proud of their new pricing model, why do they make it so hard to find?
in a few months netflix went from being very profitable, growing earnings and literally printing money to losing money
but i guess on slashdot it's now an excuse to buy the stock
In a few months, Netflix increased their profit and revenue over last year:
Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) reported third quarter 2011 diluted earnings of $1.16 per share, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 96 cents per share and increasing 65.7% from the prior-year quarter. Earnings surpassed management’s guidance range of 72 cents to $1.07.
Total revenue of $821.8 million not only increased 48.6% from the year-ago quarter, but also beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $813.0 million. The total revenue was in the higher end of management’s guidance range of $799.5 million to $828.5 million.
For only $7.99 a month, you get unlimited movies & TV episodes instantly over the Internet to your TV or computer. There are no commercials, and you can pause, rewind, fast forward or rewatch as often as you like. It's really that easy!
Can I get DVDs by mail from Netflix?
Yes. During sign up, you can add unlimited DVDs (1 DVD out-at-a-time plan) for only $7.99 more a month. With DVDs by mail, you'll get an even broader selection of movies & TV episodes. You can exchange each DVD as often as you want with no due dates or late fees — ever! You can add access to Blu-ray discs to your account at any time for an additional $2 a month.
If they needed the physical disk company to be a separate entity, then they should have broken it into 3 pieces - streaming, DVD's, and queue management and billing.
As soon as they announced the Qwikster split, I dropped the streaming service to save money and moved to Amazon prime free streaming. Netflix's streaming catalog sucks, its only saving grace was that the integrated DVD+streaming queue meant that when I was searching for a movie, I only had once place to look to see if it's something I've already seen. Sometimes I'll stream or rent a little known movie and stop watching after a few minutes, then in a year I can't remember if I'd already tried watching it or not.
It's nice that Netflix changed their mind about the Quikster split, but since I've already invested in a media PC so I can watch Amazon movies on my TV (Netflix is built-in to my Bluray player) I'm going to stick with Amazon unless Netflix gets a lot better streaming catalog.
I would have told Netflix all of this, but they apparently have no way to accept emails to customer service.
All of the above worked out of the box on my Thinkpad T520 with Ubuntu 10.04, 11.04, and 11.10. (depending on how you define "long battery life" -- my battery lasts about 20% longer with Win7 than on Ubuntu.)
I don't know what all "Applecare" gives you, but you can buy a Desktop support contract from Canonical for around $100/year:
So tip to geeks -- if you want speed, turn off your 2.5G radios when you are in range of a 5G AP. Even in cases where you can't get a 54Mbps signal, as long as you aren't down in the 1-4mbps range, you'll be one of like three people using the band so it will be faster for you.
I split my SSID's across frequencies - I advertise one 802.11b/g SSID at 2.4Ghz and a different 802.11a SSID at 5Ghz, so I connect to the 5Ghz SSID with devices that can take advantage of it, and let the devices that can only handle 2.4Ghz use the other SSID. I regularly experience network drops at 2.4Ghz, but no problems at at all on 5Ghz. I can see about 30 - 40 AP's on 2.4Ghz from my apartment.
About the only thing I use Wireless for is to connect to the internet, so 802.11a works fine for me, I don't need the extra speed 802.11n would provide.
WHen I took my MSF course, the most valuable I learned was that steering is counter intuitive. Well, I take that back - steering is 100% intuitive since my body knows how to do it, even if it doesn't always make sense to my brain.
When doing a panic turn in obstacle avoidance, if you want to move the bike to the left to avoid the obstacle, you push the handlebar on the left side (i.e. you steer to the right). That quickly tips the bike over into a lean toward the left and your bike moves to the left. Even though you steered to the right. Oh, and make sure that your looking at the opening where you want to go and not the obstacle itself or you may steer yourself right into it.
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Or does it learn how long it takes me to get dressed and walk from the bedroom to the thermostat?
If it's occurred to you in the few minutes between learning about the device and posting here, why would you imagine that it hasn't occurred to them? There's no reason why it can't work out which is the morning increase, and assume that in future you want that temperature 10 minutes earlier in the day, or 5, or 20, depending on what their research in the field has found to be satisfactory for most people.
That's my point - they don't know so they have to guess. So it's somewhere between 5 or 30 minutes so it's either going to be too short or too long for many people.
And if it uses motion sensors to decide whether or not I'm home, it's either going to think I'm never home since I don't go past the thermostat much in my day-to-day activities, or it's going to think I'm always home when it senses the dog going to her food dish.
They say the best place for thermostat is in a hallway. People should be passing that from time to time. But they do say to turn it down yourself hen leaving and up when you return, at least for the first week, to give it a good start on working out your patterns.
My thermostat *is* in a hallway, but it's a little used hallway that leads to the front door, I'm much more likely to bypass the hallway and go to the kitchen when I'm working at home.
And placed at the normal thermostat height, the detector isn't set off by dogs. That's a FAQ.
A FAQ is not quite the same as a fact. My alarm installer told me the same thing when he installed motion sensors, and he had to come take them out after my dog proved him wrong. this thermostat may fare better since it's not trying to detect someone trying to sneak by.
I'd much rather have a thermostat with an easy to use UI than something that tries to be smart.
I've never seen an easier UI than this one. There's only one control and that's a temperature dial. Personally I'd far prefer one that's smart.
It's simple as long as you trust the thermostat to know your patterns better than you do.
I don't see how a thermostat on a wall can do a good job.
Ah well, if you can't see it, then obviously it doesn't work.
Or maybe different people live in different homes, so one product doesn't work everywhere?
"No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame."
Huh?
or it's going to think I'm always home when it senses the dog going to her food dish.
Good lord, how big is your dog?!?
She's around 95 lbs / 45 kg.
I don't know if you saw the nest - but it's just a knob. You turn it until it's at the temperature you want. That's it. No fan control, no heat/cool setting. It just makes it the temperature you want. Then, as you turn it up and down, it learns *when* you want it to be a certain temperature. It also checks via wifi what the temperature outside is, so it learns the delta between preferred indoor and outdoor temperatures (we keep our thermostat at 68, but if it's 65 and sunny outside we turn the furnace off)
It seems pretty nifty, if for no other reason you can set it via the web if you aren't coming home as scheduled.
That's my point - it thinks it knows when I want the temperature to be set - but instead, it has to guess based on incomplete information. Just because I don't put on my clothes and come down to the thermostat until 7:20 doesn't mean that I don't want my bedroom to be warm when I jump out of bed at 7am. Likewise, just because I don't walk past the thermostat from 9am to 5pm doesn't mean that I'm not upstairs working in my office.
My thermostat doesn't need to know what the weather is like outside because it, like I, don't care what the outside temperature is when I step out of bed. If I want it to be 70 degrees at 7am, when I step out of bed, I don't care if it's 38, 68, or 98 degrees outside. If the sun is streaming into my windows and making my house warm, my thermostat knows that.
I wish they'd go back to making high quality calculators!
Sounds overly complicated. With my current thermostat, I set it to make the temperature to 70 degrees at 6:55am (just before my alarm goes off). It learns how fast the house heats up, so the house really is at the right temperature when I want it to be and it does a pretty good job of that, even on unusually cold days.
If I have to manually adjust the temperature to help it learn, then it's going to lag my preferred time by 5 or 10 minutes (the time it takes me to get out of bed and go down to the thermostat and reset it). Or does it learn how long it takes me to get dressed and walk from the bedroom to the thermostat? And if it uses motion sensors to decide whether or not I'm home, it's either going to think I'm never home since I don't go past the thermostat much in my day-to-day activities, or it's going to think I'm always home when it senses the dog going to her food dish.
I'd much rather have a thermostat with an easy to use UI than something that tries to be smart. Maybe if I had a true smart-home with sensors in every room, it could automatically figure out what time I wake up and when I leave the house, but I don't see how a thermostat on a wall can do a good job.
At the very least, carriers should be required to let me drop the voice/data contract and pay only the phone subsidy ($15 - $20/mo?) if I want to end the contract.
That's what the prorated ETF is supposed to be for.
Yeah, you'd think so, and if the ETF decreased by (ETF / Months in Contract), then that's exactly what I'm asking for.
However, with Verizon's $350 smartphone ETF and $10/month proration, by month 23 you're still facing a $120 ETF.
I don't care about having the latest/greatest Android OS, but I wish the carriers were required to provide warranty support for the full 2 year term of your contract.
My droid 1 stopped working 19 months into my contract. I had bought the WPP wireless protection plan and figured it would have me covered, but when I called Verizon, they said that it only covered accidental damage and that I wouldn't be covered. They did offer to sell me a refurb phone for $150 or something like that, and offered me an early upgrade with a new 2 year contract term. I thought about "accidentally" dropping the phone into the sink and then making a damage claim with WPP, but I found a used one on eBay for a bit less than the WPP deductable.
If the carriers are going to lock me into a 2 year contract that I can't cancel, why aren't they required to make sure that the equipment they sold me works throughout the entire contract?
At the very least, carriers should be required to let me drop the voice/data contract and pay only the phone subsidy ($15 - $20/mo?) if I want to end the contract.
Folks who love Microsoft products but not IE? People who don't trust Google with their search data but think it's safe with Bing? Who would want this?
I assume that this is for the Mozilla Foundation and they are the ones that want it because MS is paying them for it. MS probably promised them a larger share of the advertising revenue than they were getting from Google.
Not that there's anything wrong with that, but they should just come out and say it.
You are correct in the "not in significant amounts" aspect. However, we are still piping energy from one side to the other. No the infrastructure for high capacity lines does not necessarily exists, but we're still piping it, just over smaller infrastructure.
So you agree that there's currently no infrastructure for piping significant amounts of electricity across the country thus insignificant amounts of power flow cross country, but you disagree with what I wrote?
Actually, we don't. At least not significant amounts.
Is that different from what you just said?
You've obviously never managed a large implementation - cost overruns always happen. Vendors oversell the capabilities of the project and companies underestimate their needs.
Well fucking hold them accountable when that happens. If they sign a contract, hold them to it. If what's in the contract turns out to be insufficient for your needs, don't just bend the contract. Negotiate a new one.
How is negotiating a new contact better than signing a change order and paying more money?
How do you envision this working? Do you think the vendor will say "Ok, that will cost $50K to implement, but if you make me stop work and go through another contract negotiation, I'll cut it to $13.50 since I love contract negotiations". I think what he'll say is "Ok,what you asked for will cost $50K in labor to implement, I'll just send my 37 people home while we spend a couple months renegotiating the entire contract which will end up with you paying an extra $50K and then we'll get both of our legal teams to sign off on it. Then in another 6 months or so after I can reschedule the resources, we'll start work again. Sound good? Oh, and I'll need you to pay an extra $75K for the costs of delaying the project and rescheduling the resources". Wouldn't it be easier for him to say "Ok, what you asked for will cost $50K, sign this change order approving the spec change and price and I can get another 3 guys here in 2 weeks to start working on implementing it." (that's not to say that there is no negotiation in a large change order, but it's not the same as renegotiating the entire contract)
it's impossible to spec everything out at the beginning
That's no reason you shouldn't get what you specced for the price it was promised.
I haven't worked on an implementation yet where the client has been able to fully spec out what they want. The vendor is always willing to provide what's in the contract and then fix it up later, but usually the client wants a system that does what they need. Sometimes they just didn't know what they wanted when they wrote the specs because they didn't realize how this poduct would change the way they do business. Sometimes their business changed due to external factors. Sometimes they assumed the product would work one way because that's how it worked at some other company, but they found out that that company wrote a custom module to get it to work that way. Sometimes the client sees a new feature that we're rolling out that they want integrated into their implementation. We can either fit in a change order during implementation or deliver the product as spec'ed, then make the changes afterwards. It's usually cheaper to do the former.
There are enough lawyers on both sides to (usually) make a breach of contract lawsuit unattractive - the vendor will show exactly why the solution he provided meets the letter of the contract, and the client will show exactly why it doesn't meet the contract and they'll spend the next year in court debating technicalities.
But humans did roam the earth at the same time as dinosaurs! Don't you watch Terra Nova?
And don't forget Land of the Lost. Even if you disregard the time-traveling modern humans, the show clearly documented early cavemen (i.e. Cha-Ka) living with dinosaurs.
There's no force-feedback yet. You can interact with object in the environment, but you can't feel them. So this is of no interest to Picard, or the porn industry, for now.
Not on this one, but the University of Tokyo is coming closer to force feedback using ultrasound:
http://www.gizmag.com/tactile-holographic-display/12466/
Let's say I go to Procter&Gamble, and offer them an HR system. I say to them, it will cost $30 million and 3 years. Then after 3 years, I try to bill them $40 million and say it will take another 2 years to deliver.
I'm pretty sure that's when either:
1) PG sues me for breach of contract, and refuses to pay anything
You've obviously never managed a large implementation - cost overruns always happen. Vendors oversell the capabilities of the project and companies underestimate their needs. It's not until the project gets underway that the business realizes that the HR plan they spec'ed out at the beginning won't work anymore because it can't accommodate the needs of their new Asian division. So, the project drags on and the vendor keeps billing (justified by the change orders that the company initiated).
It's not all the fault of the software vendor, it's just that large, complex software deployments are large and complex and it's impossible to spec everything out at the beginning... and even if you could, the needs of the business can change in the 3 years it takes to implement the project.
You're almost right, except that the "proposed" lines are all the ones that are already in planning and already being built. Those are not part of whatever new things we would need to plan for.
Also if you turn off proposed lines, you'll see it is all actually connected. Not by the highest voltage lines, but then again, those higher voltage lines don't go to most places regionally, either. And they still wouldn't.
So by "almost right" you mean that I'm completely right? Power lines that are "in planning and being built" are not in operation.
That map shows over 6000 miles of proposed new 765KV power lines - what's the timeline to complete them and is the whole proposed network funded?
I see a single 345KV - 500KV line connecting the east and west grids, which is what I meant when I said "At least not in significant amounts". A single power plant can exceed the carrying capacity of that line.
Removing any large amounts of energy from these plumes will make no difference in the core temperature. (about as much change as a fart in a hurricane).
I lived through a hurricane once in a small beach house. Someone in the house farted and conditions suddenly were far worse for all of us.
If what you say is true, then the entire earth will take on a distinct odor of brimstone if this plan continues.
You do realize that we already pipe energy from one side of the country to the other right? The "Long Wires" are for the most part already there. Upgrade, enhancements will be need but the framework is in place.
Actually, we don't. At least not significant amounts.
The USA is essentially 3 main power grids without much interconnection between them (but it's planned).
Check out this map:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=110997398
(turn off the "proposed" lines to see what the grid looks like today)
Here you go.
I think you missed the grandparent of the posting I was replying to -- why doesn't Netflix list their prices? Why should it be neccessary to go to a third party site to find out their full pricing? If they are so proud of their new pricing model, why do they make it so hard to find?
in a few months netflix went from being very profitable, growing earnings and literally printing money to losing money
but i guess on slashdot it's now an excuse to buy the stock
In a few months, Netflix increased their profit and revenue over last year:
Netflix Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX) reported third quarter 2011 diluted earnings of $1.16 per share, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate of 96 cents per share and increasing 65.7% from the prior-year quarter. Earnings surpassed management’s guidance range of 72 cents to $1.07.
Total revenue of $821.8 million not only increased 48.6% from the year-ago quarter, but also beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $813.0 million. The total revenue was in the higher end of management’s guidance range of $799.5 million to $828.5 million.
They do have a list of their prices for other plans, it on their pricing page.
Can you post a link to their pricing page? I can't find it.
ON their how it works page, they have two FAQs that give some pricing, but not pricing for multiple DVD's at a time:
http://www.netflix.com/HowItWorks
How much does it cost?
For only $7.99 a month, you get unlimited movies & TV episodes instantly over the Internet to your TV or computer. There are no commercials, and you can pause, rewind, fast forward or rewatch as often as you like. It's really that easy!
Can I get DVDs by mail from Netflix?
Yes. During sign up, you can add unlimited DVDs (1 DVD out-at-a-time plan) for only $7.99 more a month. With DVDs by mail, you'll get an even broader selection of movies & TV episodes. You can exchange each DVD as often as you want with no due dates or late fees — ever! You can add access to Blu-ray discs to your account at any time for an additional $2 a month.
If they needed the physical disk company to be a separate entity, then they should have broken it into 3 pieces - streaming, DVD's, and queue management and billing.
As soon as they announced the Qwikster split, I dropped the streaming service to save money and moved to Amazon prime free streaming. Netflix's streaming catalog sucks, its only saving grace was that the integrated DVD+streaming queue meant that when I was searching for a movie, I only had once place to look to see if it's something I've already seen. Sometimes I'll stream or rent a little known movie and stop watching after a few minutes, then in a year I can't remember if I'd already tried watching it or not.
It's nice that Netflix changed their mind about the Quikster split, but since I've already invested in a media PC so I can watch Amazon movies on my TV (Netflix is built-in to my Bluray player) I'm going to stick with Amazon unless Netflix gets a lot better streaming catalog.
I would have told Netflix all of this, but they apparently have no way to accept emails to customer service.
Great, just another privacy violating way that everything in our life is tracked.
Who's going to sue God for this clear violation of privacy?
All of the above worked out of the box on my Thinkpad T520 with Ubuntu 10.04, 11.04, and 11.10. (depending on how you define "long battery life" -- my battery lasts about 20% longer with Win7 than on Ubuntu.)
I don't know what all "Applecare" gives you, but you can buy a Desktop support contract from Canonical for around $100/year:
http://shop.canonical.com/product_info.php?currency=USD&products_id=667
You can do UbuntuOne cloud based backups (depending on how much data you want to back up), or something like Dejadup or Flyback for local backups.
So tip to geeks -- if you want speed, turn off your 2.5G radios when you are in range of a 5G AP. Even in cases where you can't get a 54Mbps signal, as long as you aren't down in the 1-4mbps range, you'll be one of like three people using the band so it will be faster for you.
I split my SSID's across frequencies - I advertise one 802.11b/g SSID at 2.4Ghz and a different 802.11a SSID at 5Ghz, so I connect to the 5Ghz SSID with devices that can take advantage of it, and let the devices that can only handle 2.4Ghz use the other SSID. I regularly experience network drops at 2.4Ghz, but no problems at at all on 5Ghz. I can see about 30 - 40 AP's on 2.4Ghz from my apartment.
About the only thing I use Wireless for is to connect to the internet, so 802.11a works fine for me, I don't need the extra speed 802.11n would provide.
WHen I took my MSF course, the most valuable I learned was that steering is counter intuitive. Well, I take that back - steering is 100% intuitive since my body knows how to do it, even if it doesn't always make sense to my brain.
When doing a panic turn in obstacle avoidance, if you want to move the bike to the left to avoid the obstacle, you push the handlebar on the left side (i.e. you steer to the right). That quickly tips the bike over into a lean toward the left and your bike moves to the left. Even though you steered to the right. Oh, and make sure that your looking at the opening where you want to go and not the obstacle itself or you may steer yourself right into it.
Japan != Tokyo.
busy sidewalks != Tokyo