Stop. I've used NetFlix. It has an impressive collection of old content I've already seen before. It's got a microscopic amount of current content compared to Hulu.
So you pay 9.99, and then still have ads on top of it?
Absurd.
This seems true, however at present, Hulu does ads in 'the right way'. They're exceedingly brief, rarely if ever over thirty seconds, and there's exactly one of them at any given time. An hour long show will play less than half a dozen.
I'd prefer ads done in this way and a lower cost, then a higher cost with no ads at all.
The insidious thing is, I actually watch the ads on Hulu, since, unlike normal TV, their commercial breaks aren't long enough to really get up and go do something else. Advertisers are watching money on TV ads, but Hulu ads are actually watched. And will continue to be, as long as Hulu doesn't start making the breaks too long.
Welcome to Slashdot. An assumption that the headline reflects the contents of the article, or that the summary reflects the contents of the article, are things you eventually learn is rarely true around here.
If this was the National Review Online, or Free Republic, or what have you, there would be a huge push to cover this up and blame the "liberal media"(whatever the hell THAT is) for any accusations that they did something wrong.
I doubt they would have questioned the results to begin with, much less investigated...
What a silly-looking "invention". The actuators they've developed may indeed be useful but this video makes it hard to imagine a single real application. Dynamically-resizing folding cups? I can't wait!
The need for this was anticipated and articulated a couple decades ago by George Carlin:
Some people say the glass is half empty, some people say the glass is half full. I say the glass is too big!
lately I started to observe this: the stronger you think you are, the stronger you are. and the smarter you think you are, the dumber you are.
Indeed, and the number one reason someone disagrees with you is not because they don't understand what you do, but they understand all that fully, plus they understand some other things you don't. An intelligent man asks such a person why they think what they do, in light of this or that. An idiot tells such a person that they are the idiot, and explains what he or she knows without even asking what the other person knows that they don't, assuming simply that the other person must be dull for not having reached the same conclusion as themselves. And they encounter this so often, they soon convince themselves that the world is full of idiots. There's probably a direct correlation between how stupid someone is and how widespread they believe stupidity is among other people.
But now that we know it's a placebo effect, it won't work anymore. Thanks for nothing science.
Actually, recent evidence suggests that placebos are still effective, even if the doctor tells the patient they're placebos, as long as the doctor tells the patient, in his professional opinion, they'll probably work anyhow. Which isn't a lie, because they do. Neat, eh? Has some interesting implications about just how deep our tendency to submit to authority goes, though.
"Is too".. "is not"... can either of you put the quote in context?
Without knowing the context, but knowing other Sun Tzu quotes, I'm inclined to believe that it's not about belief. Sun Tzu was, IIRC, the man who said you win a war before you start fighting it. "Putting themselves beyond the possibility of defeat" would be part of preparing and positioning such that you simply can't lose when the war comes. At which point, you can wait for the opportunity to start the war when you're guaranteed a win. The good general wins the war, then begins it, whereas the bad general begins a war, then strives to win. Or something to that effect...
Nazi war machine was so poorly organized that it lost to USSR in spite of the fact that Germany had much more industrial potential. I'd say that's pretty neutral evil. (since it's still organized better than some shame of a war effort like Italy had made.
Hmm. I'd say you have a pretty shallow understanding of WWII, myself. I imagine, much like the Nazis, you're vastly underestimating the potential of the Soviet Union.
If I recall correctly CPT presumes the correctness of Lorentz invariance. And Lorentz invariance is one of the bedrocks of relativity. In other words CPT comes about from assuming your theory is Lorentz invariant and if CPT were violated it would mean Lorentz invariance is violated as well (check out Physical Review Letters 89: 231602 by Greenberg, O.W, which shows CPT violation implies Lorentz violation).
THANK YOU! Why couldn't they have just said that in the article? Sheesh...
I don't regret learning a ton of languages because you learn new techniques and ideas from each one...
Eventually you reach the point where that's not really true anymore because you're pretty much seen it all. At that point, it doesn't matter which languages you "know" or don't, and have used in the past or not, you can sit down and write code in anything, even stuff you've never seen before, as long as you have a minimal syntax reference or some sample code handy.
Fair enough -- lower speed but even lower price, proportionally. Of course, it should be noted that this is speed of daily browsing. You'd see much more dramatic speed increases while downloading music or the like. But if you don't do that very much, heck, I wouldn't pay $50/mo. for that either. I'm just glad rates are a lot cheaper than that where I live.
If that's true then there's no reason for me to upgrade from dialup or DSL. My dialup uses image and text compression to achieve an equivalent web page load of 400-500 kbit/s. My DSL is 750 kbit/s. There's no reason for me to upgrade if, according to this PC World magazine, I'll only get ~1100 kbit/s in a browser
Assuming you don't want a 47%-175% speed increase, then no, there's no reason. If you do want a speed increase, then yes, there is.
Fair point, but it still sucks that the figure is even that low.
I honestly thought it would be much higher - here in the UK, iChoons tells me it pulls songs from the music store at about 16Mbps, and that's on what's advertised as 20Mbps.
Would you expect a measurement of the speed of car driving through downtown on a busy day while obeying all traffic laws to be anything close to the car's maximum speed? Why would you expect a the number to be higher?
Cost of operation should be in the ballpark for a typical aircraft. Granted, that's a lot more than a car, but it's a non-issue here, since this isn't intended to be a car replacement. Despite hype in headlines, this is meant to be used as a roadable aircraft, not a flyable car. No one will be looking to buy one who wasn't already looking at buying an airplane, and will expect it to cost as much as it actually does to operate. They're competing with Cessna, not Toyota, and they have an advantage that will be worth a little extra dough for some people.
With one dimension, you cannot avoid hitting what's in front of you. With two dimensions, it's a lot easier. With three dimensions, it's even easier still. Flying through a 3D space with a dozen other people flying utterly randomly is WAY SAFER than driving across a 2D plane with a dozen other people driving utterly randomly. You have MUCH lower odds of a collision. Although in both cases, it helps immensely if people follow some sort of pattern rather than just flit about randomly...
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He sounds hysterical in the video and has an attitude problem from the very beginning.
No, he doesn't. Unless by attitude problem you mean he informs the cops that what he's doing is legal when they claim it isn't.
The police demonstrate, in the face of an aggressive asshole, a supreme amount of calm and reason.
lol -- the police demonstrate a supreme lack of reason, actually.
netflix is $8.99, is ad-free, has more content...
Stop. I've used NetFlix. It has an impressive collection of old content I've already seen before. It's got a microscopic amount of current content compared to Hulu.
Because we have all this stuff right now:
Full seasons...check (just finished season 8 of Stargate)
Uncheck. There are full seasons of some shows (usually very old shows). Almost nothing even remotely current offers full seasons.
s/watching money/wasting money/
So you pay 9.99, and then still have ads on top of it?
Absurd.
This seems true, however at present, Hulu does ads in 'the right way'. They're exceedingly brief, rarely if ever over thirty seconds, and there's exactly one of them at any given time. An hour long show will play less than half a dozen.
I'd prefer ads done in this way and a lower cost, then a higher cost with no ads at all.
The insidious thing is, I actually watch the ads on Hulu, since, unlike normal TV, their commercial breaks aren't long enough to really get up and go do something else. Advertisers are watching money on TV ads, but Hulu ads are actually watched. And will continue to be, as long as Hulu doesn't start making the breaks too long.
Not only that, but at $10/month, why wouldn't I just get Netflix?
Because it doesn't have any current content.
I had it for free for a month. Barely used it after watching a couple old movies. It wasn't worth more than free.
How is that any different from the $33/month people are currently paying for cable TV?
It costs 70% less?
are rarely true... *sigh* What can I say, I just got up...
Welcome to Slashdot. An assumption that the headline reflects the contents of the article, or that the summary reflects the contents of the article, are things you eventually learn is rarely true around here.
Actually, I do. And now They're suing the pants off of R2K.
If this was the National Review Online, or Free Republic, or what have you, there would be a huge push to cover this up and blame the "liberal media"(whatever the hell THAT is) for any accusations that they did something wrong.
I doubt they would have questioned the results to begin with, much less investigated...
/. moderation is srsbzns XD
What a silly-looking "invention". The actuators they've developed may indeed be useful but this video makes it hard to imagine a single real application. Dynamically-resizing folding cups? I can't wait!
The need for this was anticipated and articulated a couple decades ago by George Carlin:
Some people say the glass is half empty, some people say the glass is half full. I say the glass is too big!
lately I started to observe this: the stronger you think you are, the stronger you are. and the smarter you think you are, the dumber you are.
Indeed, and the number one reason someone disagrees with you is not because they don't understand what you do, but they understand all that fully, plus they understand some other things you don't. An intelligent man asks such a person why they think what they do, in light of this or that. An idiot tells such a person that they are the idiot, and explains what he or she knows without even asking what the other person knows that they don't, assuming simply that the other person must be dull for not having reached the same conclusion as themselves. And they encounter this so often, they soon convince themselves that the world is full of idiots. There's probably a direct correlation between how stupid someone is and how widespread they believe stupidity is among other people.
But now that we know it's a placebo effect, it won't work anymore. Thanks for nothing science.
Actually, recent evidence suggests that placebos are still effective, even if the doctor tells the patient they're placebos, as long as the doctor tells the patient, in his professional opinion, they'll probably work anyhow. Which isn't a lie, because they do. Neat, eh? Has some interesting implications about just how deep our tendency to submit to authority goes, though.
"Is too".. "is not"... can either of you put the quote in context?
Without knowing the context, but knowing other Sun Tzu quotes, I'm inclined to believe that it's not about belief. Sun Tzu was, IIRC, the man who said you win a war before you start fighting it. "Putting themselves beyond the possibility of defeat" would be part of preparing and positioning such that you simply can't lose when the war comes. At which point, you can wait for the opportunity to start the war when you're guaranteed a win. The good general wins the war, then begins it, whereas the bad general begins a war, then strives to win. Or something to that effect...
Nazi war machine was so poorly organized that it lost to USSR in spite of the fact that Germany had much more industrial potential. I'd say that's pretty neutral evil. (since it's still organized better than some shame of a war effort like Italy had made.
Hmm. I'd say you have a pretty shallow understanding of WWII, myself. I imagine, much like the Nazis, you're vastly underestimating the potential of the Soviet Union.
If I recall correctly CPT presumes the correctness of Lorentz invariance. And Lorentz invariance is one of the bedrocks of relativity. In other words CPT comes about from assuming your theory is Lorentz invariant and if CPT were violated it would mean Lorentz invariance is violated as well (check out Physical Review Letters 89: 231602 by Greenberg, O.W, which shows CPT violation implies Lorentz violation).
THANK YOU! Why couldn't they have just said that in the article? Sheesh...
I don't regret learning a ton of languages because you learn new techniques and ideas from each one...
Eventually you reach the point where that's not really true anymore because you're pretty much seen it all. At that point, it doesn't matter which languages you "know" or don't, and have used in the past or not, you can sit down and write code in anything, even stuff you've never seen before, as long as you have a minimal syntax reference or some sample code handy.
Of course. There's only ever the one project going on...
Fair enough -- lower speed but even lower price, proportionally. Of course, it should be noted that this is speed of daily browsing. You'd see much more dramatic speed increases while downloading music or the like. But if you don't do that very much, heck, I wouldn't pay $50/mo. for that either. I'm just glad rates are a lot cheaper than that where I live.
If that's true then there's no reason for me to upgrade from dialup or DSL. My dialup uses image and text compression to achieve an equivalent web page load of 400-500 kbit/s. My DSL is 750 kbit/s. There's no reason for me to upgrade if, according to this PC World magazine, I'll only get ~1100 kbit/s in a browser
Assuming you don't want a 47%-175% speed increase, then no, there's no reason. If you do want a speed increase, then yes, there is.
Fair point, but it still sucks that the figure is even that low. I honestly thought it would be much higher - here in the UK, iChoons tells me it pulls songs from the music store at about 16Mbps, and that's on what's advertised as 20Mbps.
Would you expect a measurement of the speed of car driving through downtown on a busy day while obeying all traffic laws to be anything close to the car's maximum speed? Why would you expect a the number to be higher?
Cost of operation should be in the ballpark for a typical aircraft. Granted, that's a lot more than a car, but it's a non-issue here, since this isn't intended to be a car replacement. Despite hype in headlines, this is meant to be used as a roadable aircraft, not a flyable car. No one will be looking to buy one who wasn't already looking at buying an airplane, and will expect it to cost as much as it actually does to operate. They're competing with Cessna, not Toyota, and they have an advantage that will be worth a little extra dough for some people.
With one dimension, you cannot avoid hitting what's in front of you. With two dimensions, it's a lot easier. With three dimensions, it's even easier still. Flying through a 3D space with a dozen other people flying utterly randomly is WAY SAFER than driving across a 2D plane with a dozen other people driving utterly randomly. You have MUCH lower odds of a collision. Although in both cases, it helps immensely if people follow some sort of pattern rather than just flit about randomly...
This is good advice, as everyone knows that one mechanic's anecdotes are worth a heck of a lot more than any controlled studies. /sarcasm