It's the content. Netflix realized they need cash to throw at the studios who are now demanding significantly more. Even tossing a %1,000 percent increase at Starz was not enough to keep their contract. Look at how much they inked a deal with Dreamworks. Why didn't the customer base get upset at the studios for not allowing their titles can stream to a larger audience? Slashdot tends to get upset quickly at the music studios, but do we collectively give the movie studios a free pass? Netflix was the best company at providing a legal alternative to unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows.
Usually, getting raises for the team consists of proving their worth to the upper management or finance types. It is not fun. Doable, but certainly not fun. When someone comes to you with the leverage of an offer suddenly, it is difficult knowing you cannot promise anything right away and risk losing the employee. I prefer keeping team cohesiveness, and so do try to improve good performers' situation monetarily when I can. It is more difficult to replace a good employee than retain the ones you have. As a manager, you need to learn the art of convincing the senior management or finance types of your team's value, rather than let them walk out the door.
Get a good consumer NAS for storage that can mirror. Then backup offsite (cloud storage or Blu Ray disks). If you lost your backups, create new ones from your NAS. If you lose your NAS, use your offsite backup. Cheap and elegant.
This was introduced by the Republican Congressman from Nebraska. Are people in that state not caring if they get autodialers hitting their cell phones all day?
I have no desire to pay 40 dollars a month, plus a 10 dollar addon when my Netflix/Hulu/Amazon combinations costs about 24 a month. I also have no desire to place a dish on my house again and get TV services, not do I think an online service that only works with Dish receivers is truly a competitor in the streaming space. Isn't DirectTV's on demand service already just like this without the Blockbuster name. Now, if Blockbuster offered unlimited streaming for a price through Blockbuster On Demand...that would threaten Netflix.
Some Dlink routers are not bad at all. I had a WBR2310 that was absolute garbage. Switched for a Linksys, then later got a Dlink DIR655 which is fantastic. Their newer model the DIR855 has horrible reviews and is probably not worth it. I would say Dlink is not bad as long as you properly research user forums about the model you are looking at first.
Wow...just wow. I was ok with the price hike, and figured I would deal with their horrible new interface they just rolled out. However, this appears to have finally pushed it too far. Are they determined to alienate their entire userbase? They lost a lot of mainstream content (Starz pulling all Sony films...and soon pulling completely out in February), made a horrible interface, made a 60% increase in price, and are now splitting the DVD service out (resulting in 2 websites and queues). Are the board going to do anything about this guy? He is driving the brand into the ground.
For those of us who don't bother with cable/satellite TV, an increase of 6 dollars still places their service under 25% of the cost of a basic TV plan. That is why the rate increase did not bother me and I have no plans on cancelling.
If anyone wants to let Starz know what they think, Liberty Media's contact information is here. Netflix was willing to offer up to 250 million...yet that was not enough to Starz who previously was providing their library for 30 million. Seems blatantly obvious who is at fault for the lack of renewal here.
That was my take on this as well and what was most glaring. They admit to knowing what the problem is, yet take no steps to fix it. Instead, resorting to questionable legal tactics. Is there any business roadblocks to having movies/ TV shows released globally at the same time?
I worked at Caldera when the buyout occured. There was a complete shift of focus away from the OpenLinux line. I gladly left a few months after the purchase, but I do recall in the immediate aftermath, many of the SCO eployees came in and many of the developers/staff from Caldera leaving. Ransom Love was respected and created a great company (OpenLinux bunlded in Grub, Webmin, and a graphical installer before the other major distros at the time), but that buyout of SCO was a fiasco.
Reminds me of the expose piece done by the VBS media crew in Pakistan. They found people making clones of high powered rifles and pistols in dirt floor machine shop shacks in Pakistan to resell. The VBS guys tried some out too I recall and found they are very excellent replicas. How much does the US military spend on a single M4 or M16?
What are you talking about? I see no western-looking types in the video. That said, I wouldn't doubt it if the Transition Council in Libya has contracted with Xe (formerly Blackwater) or some other such group for training and advisors.
The fragmentation already exists. Need a stable, supported release? Use RHEL. Need to use it without the Red Hat strings attached but still have the stability? Use CentOS. Want the hobbyist bleeding edge? Use Fedora.
Video tutorials? I still have Red Hat 7, Caldera eDesktop 2.4, Caldera eServer 2.3, and Mandrake (don't recall the version but it was from 98) disk sets sitting in my desk near the computer. I actually installed eDesktop 2.4 (kernel version was 2.2.16 out of the box I believe) a year ago on an old HP Omnibook laptop that was designed for Win98. Found a mirror for updates for Caldera and updated it as much as I could...including Netscape. The experience did not feel all that slow on a P2 processor and 128MB of RAM...and I do appreciate those who keep mirrors of very old distributions on hand.
That's interesting, how are firmware updates for it? I do have a Blu Ray player from Panasonic...updates stopped after a year from when I purchased it. These small boxes seem to have a better lifespan. Also, how does surround sound work from these tv's? TV's are a bit more expensive to buy than a 100 dollar box, so I would prefer a TV not become obsolete within a year or two of purchase because it can no longer support the content out there.
I have WD TV boxes. They can stream online content, but can do more which I think no TV or Blu Ray device can. I can stream media from any uPnP stream, from any network share, and can plug in hard drives to it. As far as I can tell, TV's and whatnot can only stream internet content.
Just stick to a store that does pdf books and you are fine. I prefer epub which everything in that matrix supports except Kindle. Any other format does seem that you need to match your device to it as you mentioned. However, I am probably biased. I have an Android-powered tablet, Android phone, run Windows and Linux, and a Nook and have no problems with portability with my ebooks.
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It's the content. Netflix realized they need cash to throw at the studios who are now demanding significantly more. Even tossing a %1,000 percent increase at Starz was not enough to keep their contract. Look at how much they inked a deal with Dreamworks. Why didn't the customer base get upset at the studios for not allowing their titles can stream to a larger audience? Slashdot tends to get upset quickly at the music studios, but do we collectively give the movie studios a free pass? Netflix was the best company at providing a legal alternative to unlimited streaming of movies and TV shows.
Usually, getting raises for the team consists of proving their worth to the upper management or finance types. It is not fun. Doable, but certainly not fun. When someone comes to you with the leverage of an offer suddenly, it is difficult knowing you cannot promise anything right away and risk losing the employee. I prefer keeping team cohesiveness, and so do try to improve good performers' situation monetarily when I can. It is more difficult to replace a good employee than retain the ones you have. As a manager, you need to learn the art of convincing the senior management or finance types of your team's value, rather than let them walk out the door.
inside the house, in a valley, under enormous trees
How big is your house?
Get a good consumer NAS for storage that can mirror. Then backup offsite (cloud storage or Blu Ray disks). If you lost your backups, create new ones from your NAS. If you lose your NAS, use your offsite backup. Cheap and elegant.
This was introduced by the Republican Congressman from Nebraska. Are people in that state not caring if they get autodialers hitting their cell phones all day?
I have no desire to pay 40 dollars a month, plus a 10 dollar addon when my Netflix/Hulu/Amazon combinations costs about 24 a month. I also have no desire to place a dish on my house again and get TV services, not do I think an online service that only works with Dish receivers is truly a competitor in the streaming space. Isn't DirectTV's on demand service already just like this without the Blockbuster name. Now, if Blockbuster offered unlimited streaming for a price through Blockbuster On Demand...that would threaten Netflix.
I half expect Mr. Packard himself to rise up out the grave and eat the board's brains (as little as they have between them).
I would love to see that movie...
Some Dlink routers are not bad at all. I had a WBR2310 that was absolute garbage. Switched for a Linksys, then later got a Dlink DIR655 which is fantastic. Their newer model the DIR855 has horrible reviews and is probably not worth it. I would say Dlink is not bad as long as you properly research user forums about the model you are looking at first.
Wow...just wow. I was ok with the price hike, and figured I would deal with their horrible new interface they just rolled out. However, this appears to have finally pushed it too far. Are they determined to alienate their entire userbase? They lost a lot of mainstream content (Starz pulling all Sony films...and soon pulling completely out in February), made a horrible interface, made a 60% increase in price, and are now splitting the DVD service out (resulting in 2 websites and queues). Are the board going to do anything about this guy? He is driving the brand into the ground.
Looks like the Romulan warbird from Balance of Terror. Am I that old?
For those of us who don't bother with cable/satellite TV, an increase of 6 dollars still places their service under 25% of the cost of a basic TV plan. That is why the rate increase did not bother me and I have no plans on cancelling.
If anyone wants to let Starz know what they think, Liberty Media's contact information is here. Netflix was willing to offer up to 250 million...yet that was not enough to Starz who previously was providing their library for 30 million. Seems blatantly obvious who is at fault for the lack of renewal here.
You forgot to add the WD TV Live series, Samsung devices, and Vizio TV's to that list. They all support subtitles as well.
I've said this before, but the tagline of that movie is extremely relevant to all these lawsuits.
No matter who wins...we lose..
That was my take on this as well and what was most glaring. They admit to knowing what the problem is, yet take no steps to fix it. Instead, resorting to questionable legal tactics. Is there any business roadblocks to having movies/ TV shows released globally at the same time?
I worked at Caldera when the buyout occured. There was a complete shift of focus away from the OpenLinux line. I gladly left a few months after the purchase, but I do recall in the immediate aftermath, many of the SCO eployees came in and many of the developers/staff from Caldera leaving. Ransom Love was respected and created a great company (OpenLinux bunlded in Grub, Webmin, and a graphical installer before the other major distros at the time), but that buyout of SCO was a fiasco.
This seems very relevant to this article...
"No matter who wins, we lose"
All these patent lawsuits only result in settlements and royalties paid which then creates more costs to pass on to us consumers.
Reminds me of the expose piece done by the VBS media crew in Pakistan. They found people making clones of high powered rifles and pistols in dirt floor machine shop shacks in Pakistan to resell. The VBS guys tried some out too I recall and found they are very excellent replicas. How much does the US military spend on a single M4 or M16?
What are you talking about? I see no western-looking types in the video. That said, I wouldn't doubt it if the Transition Council in Libya has contracted with Xe (formerly Blackwater) or some other such group for training and advisors.
Apple Music
iPhone
iCloud
I think Apple's marketing crew in charge of branding needs to do some more up front research.
The fragmentation already exists. Need a stable, supported release? Use RHEL. Need to use it without the Red Hat strings attached but still have the stability? Use CentOS. Want the hobbyist bleeding edge? Use Fedora.
Video tutorials? I still have Red Hat 7, Caldera eDesktop 2.4, Caldera eServer 2.3, and Mandrake (don't recall the version but it was from 98) disk sets sitting in my desk near the computer. I actually installed eDesktop 2.4 (kernel version was 2.2.16 out of the box I believe) a year ago on an old HP Omnibook laptop that was designed for Win98. Found a mirror for updates for Caldera and updated it as much as I could...including Netscape. The experience did not feel all that slow on a P2 processor and 128MB of RAM...and I do appreciate those who keep mirrors of very old distributions on hand.
That's interesting, how are firmware updates for it? I do have a Blu Ray player from Panasonic...updates stopped after a year from when I purchased it. These small boxes seem to have a better lifespan. Also, how does surround sound work from these tv's? TV's are a bit more expensive to buy than a 100 dollar box, so I would prefer a TV not become obsolete within a year or two of purchase because it can no longer support the content out there.
I have WD TV boxes. They can stream online content, but can do more which I think no TV or Blu Ray device can. I can stream media from any uPnP stream, from any network share, and can plug in hard drives to it. As far as I can tell, TV's and whatnot can only stream internet content.
Just stick to a store that does pdf books and you are fine. I prefer epub which everything in that matrix supports except Kindle. Any other format does seem that you need to match your device to it as you mentioned. However, I am probably biased. I have an Android-powered tablet, Android phone, run Windows and Linux, and a Nook and have no problems with portability with my ebooks.