For sports...the NBA, NFL, MLB, and NHL all have apps. A little pricy (the NBA Showtime subscription is 30 bucks a month), but you only need it while the season is going.
If Hulu takes this route, I will be cancelling my subscription and have to go back to pirating...which I have not done for ~6-7 years. I like Netflix, but Hulu has a lot of newer content...and about any mainstream TV show imaginable. You would think they would learn from Netflix about cutting off their nose to spite their face.
Judging by the comments on this, I notice all the longer term Slashdotters are coming out of the woodwork against this. I think many of these recent changes are worthless too, and add no value. The stories are becoming more political and less geeky, and the new addons are useless and do attract me to the site at all. I've been coming here since the late 90's as well, and if this continues, the site will lose me too. Slashdot needs to get to get back to its roots...now get off our lawns and fix the site.
This bill was introduced by Rep. Michael “Mike” Rogers [R-MI8] with the 112 cosponsors. Isn't it great when both parties work together? Brought us the Patriot Act, and now this. If one is yours, feel free to contact them.
Seems like my point was made in all the replies. Some are hostile towards religion, some are hostile towards atheists. My point was simply that rather than be fervently insulting those who do not think like you, realize that many are willing to accept a belief in a deity of their choice, while still maintaining that mankind has unlocked many of the mysteries of the world. I see no reason why a deity could not use the laws of nature to create things, and no reason to instantly discount the possibility of a supreme being.
Thank you, I'll third your opinion. My 5 year old Ford Escape is doing just well. I have an SUV that gets me 30-36 miles per gallon, that runs great. I have no reason to buy another one. Contrary to the FUD, I paid off the "premium" extra price over the non-hybrid version in 2 years due to the gas price spike in 08. The car is paid off, and I get almost twice the fuel efficiency of the standard gas only version. There is so much FUD about hybrids out there...seems only the owners really can see the benefits of them. On a side note, no, I did not buy one to be "green". I bought one for the fuel efficiency.
I know this article will generate legions of flamewars and hostility. However, i would like to mention that belief in a God is not mutually exclusive with belief in science. Many religious worshipers don't think the world was literally created in 6 days, nor is 6000 years old, nor discard evolution.
I understand the sporting thing. However, I have a 6 and 2 year old. I dropped DirecTV over a year ago. I subscribed to Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix, and bought an OTA antenna and perpetual Playon License. The kids watch Disney Junior with Playon, and all the Nickelodeon and PBS stuff they could want from Netflix. I use the WD TV Live devices on the TV's, which have SEC sports, college XO sports, and MLB. Playon provides the NFL, NHL, and NBA apps (although I think the NFL one requires a cable subscription). My wife watches shows on Hulu and Netflix...no one has complained since we dropped the dish service. My monthly bill went from 85 a month to 27 a month (dividing Amazon Prime over 12 months), and the WD devices and Playon paid themselves off within months. It was well worth it....but as a disclaimer, I use a local ISP that has no data caps.
I like the bottom sentence of your post. I agree wholeheartedly, and try to do the same for my team as well. All I can hope is that what I am producing is an effective team that gets things done on time and correctly.
Some of us don't mind taking the heat off our employees, making sure they get recognition, budget, performance raises and bonuses. I had no idea how much work there was in management until I joined them. Most of my peers questioned why I would take this route...I always felt that the best way to repair broken management, is to fix it from the inside. More ontopic, I have zero issues with my team working from home, provided they are being productive and accomplishing the tasks given. I find myself more productive as I don't have the constant "drive-by's" at my desk, last minute meeting requests, nor the distractions of chit chat around work. Unfortunately, managment still reports to senior management, who will not make an official work from home policy to cover regularly scheduling such shifts (who wouldn't want to work from home for the half the week every week?). That was due to a few employees long ago abusing the privilege, and the executives have not forgotten.
1. Amazon/Netflix/Hulu/etc. don't have all (not even close) the movies that I own. 2. I prefer to not carry cases of DVD's when I travel, it takes up space and I don't have my full collection. 3. I don't have the hours of time each week to rip my collection to a digital format. Copying my VHS tapes to a digital format took a few months to complete. 4. I would prefer to not have to set up a separate NAS and machine to rip and save movies all day along. Also, if my house burns or is robbed, I don't want to lose all my movies. 4. I would like to have my owned DVD/Bluray collection available anywhere I go, not all of us go from work to home every day of our life. Some of us travel, vacation, visit others, etc.
That is why $2 per is a small amount to me. I already have a Vudu account, so I could see that that issue may not appeal to others.
Glad to see I wasn't the only one wondering why they left out the WD line. WD has the best hybrid of local playback and online apps. I have yet to have a file format thrown at it that it can't handles. It also can play from SMB shares, uPnP media servers, and lots of online apps. How did the reviewer fail to add that to their queue? The newest model even has the builtin wifi. I tend to recommend the WD line to people over the Roku, Boxee, Apple TV, or Google TV.
Might want to look at the transcript as well. He specifically stated the monkeys they were using were infected with other agents and could not be used. They were told to import ones from West Africa. No conspiracy, the imported ones were infected. You are also referencing a case from the 50's, when vaccination technology and research was still developing. Now, we have an enormous statistical sampling of people worldwide who are vaccinated. As for life flourishing, you may want to consider mortality rates and life spans. Look at where we are at now compared to the pre-vaccine days. It seems odd to have so many on a supposedly pro-technology site going against medical technology.
To be fair, just because a disease is extinct in the US, that does not mean you can't get it. Look at how many travellers from around the world are cruising through the US right now. I would worry about whether diseases are extinct worldwide, not just in one country. Getting infected is rare, because the majority of people started getting vaccinated long ago, preventing mass pandemics of these diseases. Doctors don't want unquestioned obedience, they are there to do as you wish. You arrive with "x" problem, their job is to provide "y" solution. You can say no if you would like, or go elsewhere for a second opinion. As for challenging their authority...how do you feel about someone in a different profession challenging your experience in your profession? For instance, what do you think of a sales guy questioning a software developer's ideas on how to write a certain software module just because they can search a few topics online or in a library?
Even us lowly guys flying in C-130 variants could plug in Toughbooks and charge them. Hilarious that people don't think the military would give a thought about charging and electronic device in flight...
I am sure that won't be an issue shortly. The Department of Defense is already moving toward a switch to Android with "secure" smartphones. RIM is losing its corporate base...and more importantly, now they are losing their lucrative government base.
Microsoft sold their shares of Apple in 04 as I recall. The EU was looking at antitrust allegations and it did not look good to hold a big share in the same company that you are claiming is your major competitor.
While I own no Apple products and use none of their services, I find this article to have no content. Why would a competitor praise their service? As a CEO of Box.net, it is his job to say why his service is better than Apple's. We can argue amongst ourselves whether those omissions noted are important for a cloud service or not, but this article has no point.
Probably many more. I admit, I was seriously thinking of leaving Netflix...just waiting to see how the Qwikster thing looked and worked before judging it. I think the split would have been more detrimental to them than the price increase. At least we will never know...
To be fair, they only lost 1 million out of an original 25 million. I would hardly call that a mass exodus. Unfortunately, investors panicked and their share price did plummet. Shame that we punish Netflix for a 6 dollar increase, and do nothing about the movie studios requiring significantly larger contracts that Netflix needs to find the cash for.
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For sports...the NBA, NFL, MLB, and NHL all have apps. A little pricy (the NBA Showtime subscription is 30 bucks a month), but you only need it while the season is going.
If Hulu takes this route, I will be cancelling my subscription and have to go back to pirating...which I have not done for ~6-7 years. I like Netflix, but Hulu has a lot of newer content...and about any mainstream TV show imaginable. You would think they would learn from Netflix about cutting off their nose to spite their face.
Judging by the comments on this, I notice all the longer term Slashdotters are coming out of the woodwork against this. I think many of these recent changes are worthless too, and add no value. The stories are becoming more political and less geeky, and the new addons are useless and do attract me to the site at all. I've been coming here since the late 90's as well, and if this continues, the site will lose me too. Slashdot needs to get to get back to its roots...now get off our lawns and fix the site.
Well, they beat the oppressed onion rings or the monarchy milkshakes. The machiavellian mozzarella sticks might not be as bad...
with at most a slight variation in rooms which you never spend any time in anyway, as I saw on my honeymoon cruise some years ago.
So you barely spent time in your room on your honeymoon? Either you're doing it wrong...or you are very creative...
This bill was introduced by Rep. Michael “Mike” Rogers [R-MI8] with the 112 cosponsors. Isn't it great when both parties work together? Brought us the Patriot Act, and now this. If one is yours, feel free to contact them.
Seems like my point was made in all the replies. Some are hostile towards religion, some are hostile towards atheists. My point was simply that rather than be fervently insulting those who do not think like you, realize that many are willing to accept a belief in a deity of their choice, while still maintaining that mankind has unlocked many of the mysteries of the world. I see no reason why a deity could not use the laws of nature to create things, and no reason to instantly discount the possibility of a supreme being.
Thank you, I'll third your opinion. My 5 year old Ford Escape is doing just well. I have an SUV that gets me 30-36 miles per gallon, that runs great. I have no reason to buy another one. Contrary to the FUD, I paid off the "premium" extra price over the non-hybrid version in 2 years due to the gas price spike in 08. The car is paid off, and I get almost twice the fuel efficiency of the standard gas only version. There is so much FUD about hybrids out there...seems only the owners really can see the benefits of them.
On a side note, no, I did not buy one to be "green". I bought one for the fuel efficiency.
I know this article will generate legions of flamewars and hostility. However, i would like to mention that belief in a God is not mutually exclusive with belief in science. Many religious worshipers don't think the world was literally created in 6 days, nor is 6000 years old, nor discard evolution.
Agreed, as my post indicates, I did get an OTA antenna too. Amusingly enough, I get more local channels with my antenna than I got from DirectTV.
I understand the sporting thing. However, I have a 6 and 2 year old. I dropped DirecTV over a year ago. I subscribed to Hulu, Amazon Prime, Netflix, and bought an OTA antenna and perpetual Playon License. The kids watch Disney Junior with Playon, and all the Nickelodeon and PBS stuff they could want from Netflix. I use the WD TV Live devices on the TV's, which have SEC sports, college XO sports, and MLB. Playon provides the NFL, NHL, and NBA apps (although I think the NFL one requires a cable subscription). My wife watches shows on Hulu and Netflix...no one has complained since we dropped the dish service. My monthly bill went from 85 a month to 27 a month (dividing Amazon Prime over 12 months), and the WD devices and Playon paid themselves off within months. It was well worth it....but as a disclaimer, I use a local ISP that has no data caps.
I like the bottom sentence of your post. I agree wholeheartedly, and try to do the same for my team as well. All I can hope is that what I am producing is an effective team that gets things done on time and correctly.
Some of us don't mind taking the heat off our employees, making sure they get recognition, budget, performance raises and bonuses. I had no idea how much work there was in management until I joined them. Most of my peers questioned why I would take this route...I always felt that the best way to repair broken management, is to fix it from the inside.
More ontopic, I have zero issues with my team working from home, provided they are being productive and accomplishing the tasks given. I find myself more productive as I don't have the constant "drive-by's" at my desk, last minute meeting requests, nor the distractions of chit chat around work. Unfortunately, managment still reports to senior management, who will not make an official work from home policy to cover regularly scheduling such shifts (who wouldn't want to work from home for the half the week every week?). That was due to a few employees long ago abusing the privilege, and the executives have not forgotten.
1. Amazon/Netflix/Hulu/etc. don't have all (not even close) the movies that I own.
2. I prefer to not carry cases of DVD's when I travel, it takes up space and I don't have my full collection.
3. I don't have the hours of time each week to rip my collection to a digital format. Copying my VHS tapes to a digital format took a few months to complete.
4. I would prefer to not have to set up a separate NAS and machine to rip and save movies all day along. Also, if my house burns or is robbed, I don't want to lose all my movies.
4. I would like to have my owned DVD/Bluray collection available anywhere I go, not all of us go from work to home every day of our life. Some of us travel, vacation, visit others, etc.
That is why $2 per is a small amount to me. I already have a Vudu account, so I could see that that issue may not appeal to others.
Glad to see I wasn't the only one wondering why they left out the WD line. WD has the best hybrid of local playback and online apps. I have yet to have a file format thrown at it that it can't handles. It also can play from SMB shares, uPnP media servers, and lots of online apps. How did the reviewer fail to add that to their queue? The newest model even has the builtin wifi. I tend to recommend the WD line to people over the Roku, Boxee, Apple TV, or Google TV.
Might want to look at the transcript as well. He specifically stated the monkeys they were using were infected with other agents and could not be used. They were told to import ones from West Africa. No conspiracy, the imported ones were infected. You are also referencing a case from the 50's, when vaccination technology and research was still developing. Now, we have an enormous statistical sampling of people worldwide who are vaccinated.
As for life flourishing, you may want to consider mortality rates and life spans. Look at where we are at now compared to the pre-vaccine days.
It seems odd to have so many on a supposedly pro-technology site going against medical technology.
To be fair, just because a disease is extinct in the US, that does not mean you can't get it. Look at how many travellers from around the world are cruising through the US right now. I would worry about whether diseases are extinct worldwide, not just in one country. Getting infected is rare, because the majority of people started getting vaccinated long ago, preventing mass pandemics of these diseases.
Doctors don't want unquestioned obedience, they are there to do as you wish. You arrive with "x" problem, their job is to provide "y" solution. You can say no if you would like, or go elsewhere for a second opinion.
As for challenging their authority...how do you feel about someone in a different profession challenging your experience in your profession? For instance, what do you think of a sales guy questioning a software developer's ideas on how to write a certain software module just because they can search a few topics online or in a library?
Even us lowly guys flying in C-130 variants could plug in Toughbooks and charge them. Hilarious that people don't think the military would give a thought about charging and electronic device in flight...
I am sure that won't be an issue shortly. The Department of Defense is already moving toward a switch to Android with "secure" smartphones. RIM is losing its corporate base...and more importantly, now they are losing their lucrative government base.
Even better, you can still get motherboards with ISA slots on them...
Microsoft sold their shares of Apple in 04 as I recall. The EU was looking at antitrust allegations and it did not look good to hold a big share in the same company that you are claiming is your major competitor.
While I own no Apple products and use none of their services, I find this article to have no content. Why would a competitor praise their service? As a CEO of Box.net, it is his job to say why his service is better than Apple's. We can argue amongst ourselves whether those omissions noted are important for a cloud service or not, but this article has no point.
they pull a major fat rabbit out of their ass
Blackberry has some weird apps for their phones...
Probably many more. I admit, I was seriously thinking of leaving Netflix...just waiting to see how the Qwikster thing looked and worked before judging it. I think the split would have been more detrimental to them than the price increase. At least we will never know...
To be fair, they only lost 1 million out of an original 25 million. I would hardly call that a mass exodus. Unfortunately, investors panicked and their share price did plummet. Shame that we punish Netflix for a 6 dollar increase, and do nothing about the movie studios requiring significantly larger contracts that Netflix needs to find the cash for.