I tend to stay in moreso than I go out, so I can watch a movie a day if I feel like it. If you don't have time to watch movies that often, or even more than 4-5/month, then maybe Netflix isn't for you.
I'm all about no late fees or due dates, moreso than I am being able to rent as many movies as I can churn in a month, although that is nice.
Also, if you live near one of the distro centers, then feasibly it should only take 1-2 days to receive the movies.
Now granted, impulse renting isn't possible, but impulse renting has gotten me some real stinker movies, so I stopped doing that anyway.
Yeah, but with Netflix, if you don't use it, it's your own fault.
There's a lot of movies in my Netflix queue that I wouldn't see otherwise (not something I'd think of at Blockbuster, not stocked, etc). I just signed up a few weeks ago, and already have close to 200 movies in my queue. I figure I can justify $20 with 3 movies a month, and I'll probably turn them around faster than that.
Yes, in a very generic way, most people on the interstates know where they are going, at least after a period of time.
They may, however, not understand the specifics of how to get to a certain location, and may get off the interstate several exits too early or too late, or even if they get off at the right place, they may not take the proper surface streets.
Using the DNS::Interstate analogy is somewhat flawed.
It wasn't so much as a merger with EarthLink as it was a buyout. All the old MindSpring employees knew it, as did the old customers. It was just called a 'merger' to ease the stockholders from selling out.
Not typically when in contact with any electrical conductivity. Silver jewelry doesn't tarnish as long as it is worn constantly, since the electric current traveling through the body, as light as it is, is sufficient to prevent tarnishing.
I'm not afraid to name names here. Joi Internet (aka Hawk Communications), is the IT equivalent of a sweatshop.
They pay $2-3 less than the market value for so-called "tier 2" representatives, that take all incoming sales/service/support calls.
There are no cubicles, you're forced to sit at a desk with another person, two pc's on the desk, two chairs crammed next to each other, with all the cables strung across the floor waiting for you to trip over them. The AC/Heating cuts off at 10pm nightly, and doesn't come on at all on weekends.
The doors are keylocked to get in *or* out, and most access cards stop working at 2am (locking the overnight people in the call center until 8am, preventing bathroom breaks)
The half hour of breaktime per day is all you get, and they make you split it up into two 15 minute breaks, which doesn't give you time to run out and get food. They make you pay $50/month for parking, or $3.50/day to take mass transit round trip.
They promise benefits (crap medical) 90 days after hire, but rarely follow through, even when harrassed.
Some of the desks are hand made from 2x4's and countertop (such as you'd buy at home depot), and are quite splintery/rickety.
The so-called 'kb' is Chasm's help desk page that was wget'd, then edited out to remove all of his logos.
No one at the company except the president and vp, and a few select others, has any power to cancel accounts. Customers must email, fax, or write a letter to cancel, they cannot do so over the phone. Billing issues are always sent to the black void of billing@domain, and are mostly ignored until the user contacts the bbb.
Server outages are common, usually happening nightly, with no explainable cause, and no communication from the network admins as to when they expect it to be fixed.
They provide nothing other than a water cooler and instant coffee (no cream/sugar) for refreshment. There is also no eating at the desks, so you have to blow your breaktime to eat in the closet of a breakroom.
They don't offer direct deposit, and the day you get your checks is questionable, as is the amount you're going to get paid (they use an electric time clock, but don't round up or down to a quarter, they get you down to the minute), and the checks are mailed from Israel, so if you expect to come in on the first and get paid, you may be out of luck.
The article and video in question was demonstrating poor AMD design quality, in that the AMD proc kept on going until the point of meltdown once the heatsink was removed, the p3 locking up completely, but no damage to the processor, and the p4 clocking itself down.
Of course you can't run a pc without at the very least a heatsink on the CPU, but some die more gracefully than others.
Signed, A Dedicated AMD FanBoy, regardless of heat issues.
All come with the various side effects (halos, light sensitivity, nausea, etc), but I've had clinical migraines that range from severe discomfort and no intrusion into my daily activity, to migraines that make me supremely annoyed, but able to function, all the way to migraines that make me lock myself in the bedroom, put towels over the windows, and cry for a week.
Quitting cold turkey worked for me. The physical addiction is gone in 24-72 hours, after that it's all psychological, which is all nicorette really helps with, to be honest.
The Opteron isn't meant as a desktop chip. It's meant to be in mid to high end servers and possibly workstations with CAD development, not running Photoshop or After Effects.
Not to mention the fact that the Opteron was running in 32 bit mode. When XP-64 comes out, I'd like to see this comparison redone.
They're actually not too horribly bad. I've been reading them since I'm a fan of pseudo-religious fiction (Year Zero, The DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons, etc)
No, he's saying you're not being objective, which you're not being. You're applying personal belief in God to the matter, which means you're taking it to a subjective opinion.
IBM is also a very proud beast, and its honor has been besmirched by this case. I wouldn't be surprised to see IBM litigate SCO into a blood mess over this, just to prove a point.
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I tend to stay in moreso than I go out, so I can watch a movie a day if I feel like it. If you don't have time to watch movies that often, or even more than 4-5/month, then maybe Netflix isn't for you.
I'm all about no late fees or due dates, moreso than I am being able to rent as many movies as I can churn in a month, although that is nice.
Also, if you live near one of the distro centers, then feasibly it should only take 1-2 days to receive the movies.
Now granted, impulse renting isn't possible, but impulse renting has gotten me some real stinker movies, so I stopped doing that anyway.
Yeah, but with Netflix, if you don't use it, it's your own fault.
There's a lot of movies in my Netflix queue that I wouldn't see otherwise (not something I'd think of at Blockbuster, not stocked, etc). I just signed up a few weeks ago, and already have close to 200 movies in my queue. I figure I can justify $20 with 3 movies a month, and I'll probably turn them around faster than that.
firebird has a google search box in the upper right, and innate popup blocking.
Yes, in a very generic way, most people on the interstates know where they are going, at least after a period of time.
They may, however, not understand the specifics of how to get to a certain location, and may get off the interstate several exits too early or too late, or even if they get off at the right place, they may not take the proper surface streets.
Using the DNS::Interstate analogy is somewhat flawed.
It wasn't so much as a merger with EarthLink as it was a buyout. All the old MindSpring employees knew it, as did the old customers. It was just called a 'merger' to ease the stockholders from selling out.
Not typically when in contact with any electrical conductivity. Silver jewelry doesn't tarnish as long as it is worn constantly, since the electric current traveling through the body, as light as it is, is sufficient to prevent tarnishing.
I'm not afraid to name names here. Joi Internet (aka Hawk Communications), is the IT equivalent of a sweatshop.
They pay $2-3 less than the market value for so-called "tier 2" representatives, that take all incoming sales/service/support calls.
There are no cubicles, you're forced to sit at a desk with another person, two pc's on the desk, two chairs crammed next to each other, with all the cables strung across the floor waiting for you to trip over them. The AC/Heating cuts off at 10pm nightly, and doesn't come on at all on weekends.
The doors are keylocked to get in *or* out, and most access cards stop working at 2am (locking the overnight people in the call center until 8am, preventing bathroom breaks)
The half hour of breaktime per day is all you get, and they make you split it up into two 15 minute breaks, which doesn't give you time to run out and get food. They make you pay $50/month for parking, or $3.50/day to take mass transit round trip.
They promise benefits (crap medical) 90 days after hire, but rarely follow through, even when harrassed.
Some of the desks are hand made from 2x4's and countertop (such as you'd buy at home depot), and are quite splintery/rickety.
The so-called 'kb' is Chasm's help desk page that was wget'd, then edited out to remove all of his logos.
No one at the company except the president and vp, and a few select others, has any power to cancel accounts. Customers must email, fax, or write a letter to cancel, they cannot do so over the phone. Billing issues are always sent to the black void of billing@domain, and are mostly ignored until the user contacts the bbb.
Server outages are common, usually happening nightly, with no explainable cause, and no communication from the network admins as to when they expect it to be fixed.
They provide nothing other than a water cooler and instant coffee (no cream/sugar) for refreshment. There is also no eating at the desks, so you have to blow your breaktime to eat in the closet of a breakroom.
They don't offer direct deposit, and the day you get your checks is questionable, as is the amount you're going to get paid (they use an electric time clock, but don't round up or down to a quarter, they get you down to the minute), and the checks are mailed from Israel, so if you expect to come in on the first and get paid, you may be out of luck.
Outlook 2003 has no problems opening links in Mozilla.
The clocking down, sure. The p3 locks up, but doesn't fry itself.
The Athlon, however, did.
The article and video in question was demonstrating poor AMD design quality, in that the AMD proc kept on going until the point of meltdown once the heatsink was removed, the p3 locking up completely, but no damage to the processor, and the p4 clocking itself down.
Of course you can't run a pc without at the very least a heatsink on the CPU, but some die more gracefully than others.
Signed,
A Dedicated AMD FanBoy, regardless of heat issues.
there are various degrees of migraine pain.
All come with the various side effects (halos, light sensitivity, nausea, etc), but I've had clinical migraines that range from severe discomfort and no intrusion into my daily activity, to migraines that make me supremely annoyed, but able to function, all the way to migraines that make me lock myself in the bedroom, put towels over the windows, and cry for a week.
Quitting cold turkey worked for me. The physical addiction is gone in 24-72 hours, after that it's all psychological, which is all nicorette really helps with, to be honest.
The Opteron isn't meant as a desktop chip. It's meant to be in mid to high end servers and possibly workstations with CAD development, not running Photoshop or After Effects.
Not to mention the fact that the Opteron was running in 32 bit mode. When XP-64 comes out, I'd like to see this comparison redone.
They're actually not too horribly bad. I've been reading them since I'm a fan of pseudo-religious fiction (Year Zero, The DaVinci Code, Angels and Demons, etc)
I usually don't respond to AC's, but meh.. the answer is 'I have nothing better to do, and it's double time'
Can anyone possibly tell me why the hell this site is listed in my company's web filter as pornography?
No, he's saying you're not being objective, which you're not being. You're applying personal belief in God to the matter, which means you're taking it to a subjective opinion.
HTML doesn't use brackets, buddy, it uses ;)
1) The current version of Office is 2003.
2) They're only retiring office 2000 Professional. Office 2002/XP is not on the list that I could see.
Proof of concept?
If I hadn't lost the ability to mod in this discussion by posting, you sir, would have +1 funny.
Honda has, it's called the Element. Or haven't you seen that commercial yet? ;)
You mean like the Apple eMac?
Yes, because people who install computer games don't make money off of them running 24/7 in production environments.
:P
And anyone who installs driver updates the day they are released is smoking something.
IBM is also a very proud beast, and its honor has been besmirched by this case. I wouldn't be surprised to see IBM litigate SCO into a blood mess over this, just to prove a point.