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  1. Re:Consumers pay on Netflix Gets What It Pays For: Comcast Streaming Speeds Skyrocket · · Score: 1

    netflix offered to set up a direct connection to comcast before at netflix's expense. but comcast declined, saying that netflix must pay.

  2. Re:Consumers pay on Netflix Gets What It Pays For: Comcast Streaming Speeds Skyrocket · · Score: 1

    this won't eat into their margins, it'll eat into their content budget, which directly affects me - a non-comcast customer. i'm pissed.

  3. Re:that was quick! on Netflix Gets What It Pays For: Comcast Streaming Speeds Skyrocket · · Score: 1

    they offered to do that, and comcast declined.

  4. Re:huh? on Netflix Gets What It Pays For: Comcast Streaming Speeds Skyrocket · · Score: 1

    ... subsidized by those that steam netflix on NOT(comcast).

  5. Re:Seriously on Netflix Gets What It Pays For: Comcast Streaming Speeds Skyrocket · · Score: 1

    did you try sonic.net or other local providers? you might be able to get a decent DSL connection at a good price.

  6. Re:So Netflix wants to change how it connects on Netflix Gets What It Pays For: Comcast Streaming Speeds Skyrocket · · Score: 1

    netflix should charge the comcast customers extra for every byte of data sent via a comcast connection.

  7. Re:Netflix makes bad choices on Netflix Gets What It Pays For: Comcast Streaming Speeds Skyrocket · · Score: 1

    actually, they should have paid, and then passed that charge directly on to comcast users as an additional 'comcast bandwidth guarantee' charge on their monthly netflix bill.

    that way the rest of us don't have to pay for comcast's shitty policies.

  8. I'm pissed on Netflix Gets What It Pays For: Comcast Streaming Speeds Skyrocket · · Score: 1

    I'm pissed about this. I'm a netflix subscriber, but not a comcast user, but presumably my netflix subscription is going to suffer because of this. or are netflix going to charge comcast subscribers more?

  9. Re:Never understood the modes on Neovim: Rebuilding Vim For the 21st Century · · Score: 1

    Why can't we just be in insert mode constantly and use Ctrl+something for all the commands

    CTRL-O is your friend.

  10. Re:New IDEs on Does Relying On an IDE Make You a Bad Programmer? · · Score: 1

    Only the most ignorant would be fooled like this. And for them, until they learn otherwise, the tools at least will make them productive. For everyone else, like I said, there's no illusion, only utility.

  11. Re:New IDEs on Does Relying On an IDE Make You a Bad Programmer? · · Score: 1

    i'm not sure what you're talking about. for vs, at least, there's no illusion - you move controls around in the designer and the code changes. or, you change the code and the controls move on the designer. nothing is hidden. you want to write custom positioning code? go ahead. you want flow layout, there are controls that provide that (usable from code or within the designer).

    crap tools are crap, yes. not all tools are crap, though.

  12. Re:Is it going to be paved? on Navy Won't Investigate Nuclear Pollution At San Francisco's Treasure Island · · Score: 1

    red paint isn't going to stop the gammas from Ba137.

  13. Re:New IDEs on Does Relying On an IDE Make You a Bad Programmer? · · Score: 1

    The ui builder in vs generates (and parses) code that you would have had to write anyway. It doesn't hide anything from you any more than photoshop hides the work of setting pixel values. Does having to calculate and type in coordinate values by hand make you a better programmer?

  14. Re:Start Screen on Microsoft Confirms Windows 8.1 Spring Update, To Focus On Non-touch Devices · · Score: 1

    The metro search is significantly slower than the old win7 start menu search.
    It's cluttered with metro and web results so sometimes it doesn't even show what you're looking for.
    You can't choose just files and settings to search for.
    The sort order is reset every time you boot.

  15. Re: why not? on Will Microsoft IIS Overtake Apache? · · Score: 1

    Infrequently rebooting boxes is a problem for you? You're doing it wrong.

  16. Re:By reef... on Australia OKs Dumping Dredge Waste In Barrier Reef · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Given that matter is significantly more mobile in water it's more like dumping a million tons of crap 25 meters from your house. You'd be ok with that, would you?

  17. Re:Replusive on The JavaScript Juggernaut Rolls On · · Score: 1

    yeah, hardly an unbiased source, that.

    the truth is that MS's JVM was more compatible and faster than any other VM (although the Semantec VM eventually caught up) at running 100% java-compatible applet code. sure, it was also capable of running non-compatible code but you could say the same about the browser, the OS and the machine in general.

  18. Re:Replusive on The JavaScript Juggernaut Rolls On · · Score: 1

    Java applets failed because Microsoft did everything in their power to kill them.

    Really? For a long time the MS JVM was the fastest and most compatible (according to Sun's own verification suite) VM available for any browser on any OS.

  19. Re:haxe language on The Schizophrenic State of Software In 2014 · · Score: 1

    It's derived from Actionscript3, which itself is derived from JavaScript which is loosely derived from C. If you don't like squiggly bracket and full-featured type systems, then it's not for you.

  20. Re:If MS wrote dart for IE instead on Google Releases Dart 1.1 · · Score: 1

    Yeah just like Typescript which is open-source and distributed as a node package.

    Oh, wait...

  21. Re:Mavericks really isn't a new OS on Many Mac OS Users Not Getting Security Updates · · Score: 1

    it's "new" enough that it doesn't run on 3 of the Macs in my household.

  22. Re:Yes, they are. on Many Mac OS Users Not Getting Security Updates · · Score: 1

    solaris boxes don't tend to run web browsers used by idiots that like to download the latest puppy screensaver from russia.

  23. Wuxga on PC Shipments In 2013 See the Worst Yearly Decline In History · · Score: 1

    I'd eagerly buy a 15" Wuxga laptop.

  24. Re:That Explains the Peace in Egypt on Ancient Egyptian Brewer's Tomb Found · · Score: 1

    Beer is a perfect nutrition for many bacteria

    but how many of those will make you sick?

  25. Re:That Explains the Peace in Egypt on Ancient Egyptian Brewer's Tomb Found · · Score: 1

    don't viruses require living host cells in order to propagate?