Yeah, and with Netflix you are specifically buying a certain number of screens to watch on. It encourages people to share. I am usually the sort of guy who would not use someone else's service, but I let my parents use my Netflix login because I cannot watch two screens at the same time! Plus, on the rare occurrences when my wife's watching one thing and I'm watching something else, Netflix will tell my parents that both screens are in use.
I've got the same problem and I live in Minneapolis. I canceled my Prime membership because maybe 30-50% of the time, the shipping was not actually two-day shipping. I don't use the other features, so the shipping was pretty crucial for them to get right. Now, as a non-Prime customer, they usually take a few days to ship my order. My wife had something take a week before it left the warehouse! We've got an Amazon warehouse about 30 minutes from us, too, so one would expect better service.
Every airline I've ever flown already does this. Parents with kids get to board before anyone else, including first class.
I used to think this was standard as well. Then, two years ago, I had the misfortune of trying to bring my two-year-old to Hawaii. United Airlines does not let parents with small children board first! I recommend not flying with them.
They're not QUITE there yet, but Pluto TV is kind of like this. I found it on my Roku and was impressed. They take a bunch of content from various websites and create channels and a programming schedule from it, and then present it to you much like a cable TV schedule is laid out. It's possible to flip channels like the old analog cable boxes would let you do. The content is mostly crap, but the presentation and idea are fantastic.
I checked out the comments to say the same thing. There's only one airline that I've had consistently bad enough service with to feel like complaining about it, and that is United Airlines. Hawaiian Airlines is fantastic! They make flying darn near close to enjoyable. It was the horrible flights across the continental USA and to Hawaii that caused me to put UAL on my personal blacklist.
Seriously, is this what it takes these days? Fly an R/C plane around and post a video of it on the Internet, get on Slashdot's front page? Thanks for the yuletide, Slashdot.
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What the heck is the point of this? Sometimes I hate artists. Here's an idea, just give someone a USB drive when you want to share files with them. Or mail it. Or I guess call it art and attach USB drives to walls. Move over Van Gogh, there's a new master in town!
Unfortunately, I still find myself with a 2 Mbps download speed tops. This technology needs to be actually utilized! It's killing me to read this stuff and then never see it in action.
After the illogical, unsupported and self-contradicting post you just made, you have as much right to talk about "sane" as King Herod does to talk about "child care"
This is a great phrase. It made my day. Thank you.
The nice thing about magazines like Byte is that they had editors. The Internet's nice, but without editors who cut out the crap and point us at the good parts, it's not that great. Slashdot is pretty close, but it all relies on good editing.
I agree. Training skills to the point that they become second nature is how to get REALLY good at the skills. I read a really good article on Larry Fitzgerald's ability to catch footballs, based on extensive training.
You're probably right. I think it's an unfounded "lean and mean" mentality that's keeping me from pulling the trigger on downloading the extra libraries. I mean, I've got broadband and a couple of monstrous hard drives, so it's not like I'd really notice the extra libraries.
Those libraries are what's keeping me away from Amarok. There are a TON of libraries that need to be installed in order to get Amarok going. I'd rather not install all the libraries for the sake of getting a music player working.
Please read no tone of anger, flaming, attitude, or other negative vibes in this post. Lately, I notice that if I reply to someone as if I'm having a normal conversation with them, I get at least one, and often several, angry replies.
Tell me about it! I didn't want to have to resort to this type of disclaimer, but it seems like it's starting to become necessary. Having an opinion that differs from someone else's is starting to be synonymous with personally attacking the validity of their opinion.
I did read, and there's a slight difference between his point and what you think his point is. He's actually against Web 2.0, not the web in general. According to the article, his point is basically that the modern Internet has taken the interesting parts of the early Internet away and left it sort of homogenized. Remixes have taken the place of new creations, basically. I kind of agree with him. I occasionally get "sick of the Internet" and after reading this article, I understand that it's more like I'm getting sick of the way the Internet is right now. Anyway, hopefully this piqued your interest and you skim the article. As for the book, it's probably filled with ideas you've heard elsewhere explained better. At least, that's what the author of the article indicates.
I agree. If enough people were that concerned about the volume of commercials, they wouldn't watch the shows and the problem would fix itself. No need to legislate something that can be dealt with by the nature of the market.
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Yeah, and with Netflix you are specifically buying a certain number of screens to watch on. It encourages people to share. I am usually the sort of guy who would not use someone else's service, but I let my parents use my Netflix login because I cannot watch two screens at the same time! Plus, on the rare occurrences when my wife's watching one thing and I'm watching something else, Netflix will tell my parents that both screens are in use.
Long story short, this is a dumb article.
I've got the same problem and I live in Minneapolis. I canceled my Prime membership because maybe 30-50% of the time, the shipping was not actually two-day shipping. I don't use the other features, so the shipping was pretty crucial for them to get right. Now, as a non-Prime customer, they usually take a few days to ship my order. My wife had something take a week before it left the warehouse! We've got an Amazon warehouse about 30 minutes from us, too, so one would expect better service.
I used to think this was standard as well. Then, two years ago, I had the misfortune of trying to bring my two-year-old to Hawaii. United Airlines does not let parents with small children board first! I recommend not flying with them.
I believe that's a feature of the T-Mobile network. I don't know how it works, but I like it!
They're not QUITE there yet, but Pluto TV is kind of like this. I found it on my Roku and was impressed. They take a bunch of content from various websites and create channels and a programming schedule from it, and then present it to you much like a cable TV schedule is laid out. It's possible to flip channels like the old analog cable boxes would let you do. The content is mostly crap, but the presentation and idea are fantastic.
I checked out the comments to say the same thing. There's only one airline that I've had consistently bad enough service with to feel like complaining about it, and that is United Airlines. Hawaiian Airlines is fantastic! They make flying darn near close to enjoyable. It was the horrible flights across the continental USA and to Hawaii that caused me to put UAL on my personal blacklist.
GitLab. It's basically a fork of GitHub and does the same sort of stuff.
Seriously, is this what it takes these days? Fly an R/C plane around and post a video of it on the Internet, get on Slashdot's front page? Thanks for the yuletide, Slashdot.
What the heck is the point of this? Sometimes I hate artists. Here's an idea, just give someone a USB drive when you want to share files with them. Or mail it. Or I guess call it art and attach USB drives to walls. Move over Van Gogh, there's a new master in town!
Unfortunately, I still find myself with a 2 Mbps download speed tops. This technology needs to be actually utilized! It's killing me to read this stuff and then never see it in action.
This is a great phrase. It made my day. Thank you.
Ha ha ha! That's perfect. Maybe they'll give Kim Komando an editor position.
Yeah, but I'm drunk.
The nice thing about magazines like Byte is that they had editors. The Internet's nice, but without editors who cut out the crap and point us at the good parts, it's not that great. Slashdot is pretty close, but it all relies on good editing.
Balloon knot.
I agree. Training skills to the point that they become second nature is how to get REALLY good at the skills. I read a really good article on Larry Fitzgerald's ability to catch footballs, based on extensive training.
You're probably right. I think it's an unfounded "lean and mean" mentality that's keeping me from pulling the trigger on downloading the extra libraries. I mean, I've got broadband and a couple of monstrous hard drives, so it's not like I'd really notice the extra libraries.
Those libraries are what's keeping me away from Amarok. There are a TON of libraries that need to be installed in order to get Amarok going. I'd rather not install all the libraries for the sake of getting a music player working.
Oh, why did you have to remind me of that? That was the most infuriating thing.
That's classic! I was thinking the same thing.
Good timing! I was just working on a Perl project at home and now I'm at work on Windows and needed a Perl install.
Tell me about it! I didn't want to have to resort to this type of disclaimer, but it seems like it's starting to become necessary. Having an opinion that differs from someone else's is starting to be synonymous with personally attacking the validity of their opinion.
I did read, and there's a slight difference between his point and what you think his point is. He's actually against Web 2.0, not the web in general. According to the article, his point is basically that the modern Internet has taken the interesting parts of the early Internet away and left it sort of homogenized. Remixes have taken the place of new creations, basically. I kind of agree with him. I occasionally get "sick of the Internet" and after reading this article, I understand that it's more like I'm getting sick of the way the Internet is right now. Anyway, hopefully this piqued your interest and you skim the article. As for the book, it's probably filled with ideas you've heard elsewhere explained better. At least, that's what the author of the article indicates.
Not all channels do this, and the issue hasn't existed for 60 years.
I agree. If enough people were that concerned about the volume of commercials, they wouldn't watch the shows and the problem would fix itself. No need to legislate something that can be dealt with by the nature of the market.