> Further, I see a lot of pessimism on Slashdot regarding super-longevity. I don't get it.
You don't understand that super-longevity would be bad both due to over-population and entrenched interests that will not allow progress, or you don't understand how hard a problem life extension is?
Why would you want to rent awful 480p DVDs when you can stream 1080p? DVDs have been obsolete for years now. Your fellow citizens weren't stupid to stop going to video stores, they moved on. You were left behind, and now oddly call the more advanced people "stupid."
I have Prime for the shipping, but the streaming is pretty terrible. You can start watching a series on Prime, then after a few episodes to get you hooked, they'll want something like $3 an episode in addition to the Prime membership. With Netflix, there's never an attempt to add fees for particular shows or movies.
Correct. I was paying about $100/mo for DirecTV many years ago. NetFlix could raise their rate to $40/mo, and it would still be worthwhile to me. I use the service almost every day, so it'll still be a bargain at $10.
The media reports on the deal with Comcast turned out to be complete bullshit.
A friend did some research on this:
There are three companies involved:
Netflix (Content provider)
Cogent (Transit provider)
Comcast (Internet service provider)
It was Cogent, not Comcast that was the bottle neck.
Here’s how the industry works. These companies negotiate with each other to use each other’s services.
So, Netflix agrees to pay A for Cogent to provide B amount of bandwidth. Cogent agrees to pay C to Comcast for D amount of bandwidth.
What happened is that Cogent ran out of bandwidth. Under normal industry standards, Cogent is expected to pay E for F additional bandwidth. In what appears to be some pretty underhanded and sneaky business practices, Cogent demanded that Comcast provide the additional bandwidth for free and tried to make it look like it was Comcast’s fault.
Basically, Cogent was getting money from Netflix to provide a service that it couldn’t provide.
The Comcast-Netflix deal is basically, that Netflix decided to replace Cogent and hire a new vendor. Comcast is a large company and offers multiple services. Netflix could have gone with any vendor they wanted. They choose to go with Comcast apparently because Comcast was offering them a better deal than anyone else. I don’t know if that means they are charging less than Cogent or perhaps there’s some technical advantage (such as better performance or more reliability) with hiring the same vendor for two different services.
So, the reason why Netflix is paying Comcast is because Comcast is now providing a new service (transit provider).
Also, this money is not a brand new fee that Netflix has to pay someone. This is the money (A) that they were going to give to Cogent.
Again, Netflix could have used any transit provider they wanted. They choose Comcast because apparently, they offered the best deal.
What a weird thing to say. It's not the Democrats that filled their party with religious extremists with zero critical thinking skills, and drove all the thinking people out with derp about RINOs.
Of course video looks better than film because of the higher frame rate, and anything you watch at home that started on film has been transferred to video anyway, so has the shortcomings of both formats combined. It's silly to pretend that film is better unless you're talking about IMAX seen at the theater.
> it's charms and nuances that haven't been reproduced digitally.
Is that true, or is it really about some old people not being to adapt to newer and better technologies? Printing on dead trees and sending them to people via snail-mail just so they can get a nostalgic feeling is terribly inefficient. Magazines don't even offer basic features like moving pictures or keyword-search.
No, he also revealed state secrets to competing governments. You'd have to be an idiot to overlook his treachery just because a small part of the info he revealed demonstrated government wrongdoing.
His reputation was destroyed as soon as he ran to China and Russia. Just because some idiots still can't see through the self-promoting douche Glenn Greenwald, and his dupe Snowden, doesn't mean that the rest of us can't see what's up.
I do my taxes and file via TurboTax. Their fee to do state taxes is outrageous, but I'm pretty lazy, and it saved me the hassle of filling out the form, buying stamps and snail-mailing my form and check.
Please define "VB" as used in your post. It usually stands for Visual Basic, but that hasn't been destroyed - even going all the way back to the pre-DotNet VB6 the apps run fine on Windows 8, so that can't be it.
By the way I actually like the idea of snapping the Modern apps to the side of the desktop. It's a good way to utilize a widescreen monitor by docking Twitter or something else there. I wouldn't care about Modern apps otherwise, but this is a fun feature.
Of course. The whole problem with Metro/Modern was that they set their user-interface back to the DOS days with only a single application displayed at a time. As long as Metro apps work in Windows, Metro is no longer a huge step back.
Microsoft *thought* the desktop should lean toward touch. They seem to have revised their opinion on that.
Of course touch can be useful on a desktop. I was able to start my father on Android as his first internet-connected device, and he was easily able to transition to Windows 8 on a desktop PC because of the touch interface. A mouse isn't intuitive to us all like touching a visible object with a finger is.
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Not liking someone isn't a good enough reason to put them in jail.
Then why are people in jail for smoking pot, or being in the wrong location while black?
People go to jail all the time just because some idiot with power didn't like them.
You're dealing with Conservative Christians. Don't expect them to be rational or intelligent. They've gone tribal, circled the wagons, and are now locked into toxic beliefs and unable to learn better.
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> Further, I see a lot of pessimism on Slashdot regarding super-longevity. I don't get it.
You don't understand that super-longevity would be bad both due to over-population and entrenched interests that will not allow progress, or you don't understand how hard a problem life extension is?
Some lunatics will. People lose their minds over trivial changes, and make bad decisions all the time.
Why would you want to rent awful 480p DVDs when you can stream 1080p? DVDs have been obsolete for years now. Your fellow citizens weren't stupid to stop going to video stores, they moved on. You were left behind, and now oddly call the more advanced people "stupid."
I have Prime for the shipping, but the streaming is pretty terrible. You can start watching a series on Prime, then after a few episodes to get you hooked, they'll want something like $3 an episode in addition to the Prime membership. With Netflix, there's never an attempt to add fees for particular shows or movies.
Correct. I was paying about $100/mo for DirecTV many years ago. NetFlix could raise their rate to $40/mo, and it would still be worthwhile to me. I use the service almost every day, so it'll still be a bargain at $10.
The media reports on the deal with Comcast turned out to be complete bullshit.
A friend did some research on this:
There are three companies involved:
Netflix (Content provider)
Cogent (Transit provider)
Comcast (Internet service provider)
It was Cogent, not Comcast that was the bottle neck.
Here’s how the industry works. These companies negotiate with each other to use each other’s services.
So, Netflix agrees to pay A for Cogent to provide B amount of bandwidth. Cogent agrees to pay C to Comcast for D amount of bandwidth.
What happened is that Cogent ran out of bandwidth. Under normal industry standards, Cogent is expected to pay E for F additional bandwidth. In what appears to be some pretty underhanded and sneaky business practices, Cogent demanded that Comcast provide the additional bandwidth for free and tried to make it look like it was Comcast’s fault.
Basically, Cogent was getting money from Netflix to provide a service that it couldn’t provide.
The Comcast-Netflix deal is basically, that Netflix decided to replace Cogent and hire a new vendor. Comcast is a large company and offers multiple services. Netflix could have gone with any vendor they wanted. They choose to go with Comcast apparently because Comcast was offering them a better deal than anyone else. I don’t know if that means they are charging less than Cogent or perhaps there’s some technical advantage (such as better performance or more reliability) with hiring the same vendor for two different services.
So, the reason why Netflix is paying Comcast is because Comcast is now providing a new service (transit provider).
Also, this money is not a brand new fee that Netflix has to pay someone. This is the money (A) that they were going to give to Cogent.
Again, Netflix could have used any transit provider they wanted. They choose Comcast because apparently, they offered the best deal.
>and if they can't they end up voting Democrat
What a weird thing to say. It's not the Democrats that filled their party with religious extremists with zero critical thinking skills, and drove all the thinking people out with derp about RINOs.
Of course video looks better than film because of the higher frame rate, and anything you watch at home that started on film has been transferred to video anyway, so has the shortcomings of both formats combined. It's silly to pretend that film is better unless you're talking about IMAX seen at the theater.
> it's charms and nuances that haven't been reproduced digitally.
Is that true, or is it really about some old people not being to adapt to newer and better technologies? Printing on dead trees and sending them to people via snail-mail just so they can get a nostalgic feeling is terribly inefficient. Magazines don't even offer basic features like moving pictures or keyword-search.
This will be awesome for anyone who's into Linux, but has no computer. All 2 of them.
No, he also revealed state secrets to competing governments. You'd have to be an idiot to overlook his treachery just because a small part of the info he revealed demonstrated government wrongdoing.
His reputation was destroyed as soon as he ran to China and Russia. Just because some idiots still can't see through the self-promoting douche Glenn Greenwald, and his dupe Snowden, doesn't mean that the rest of us can't see what's up.
I don't know a single developer that's dumb enough to still be a tobacco smoker.
I do my taxes and file via TurboTax. Their fee to do state taxes is outrageous, but I'm pretty lazy, and it saved me the hassle of filling out the form, buying stamps and snail-mailing my form and check.
>Microsoft 'supports' VB6 just enough that shills and sycophants like you can write posts saying they still support it.
Why didn't you just say that you're an idiot?
Please define "VB" as used in your post. It usually stands for Visual Basic, but that hasn't been destroyed - even going all the way back to the pre-DotNet VB6 the apps run fine on Windows 8, so that can't be it.
By the way I actually like the idea of snapping the Modern apps to the side of the desktop. It's a good way to utilize a widescreen monitor by docking Twitter or something else there. I wouldn't care about Modern apps otherwise, but this is a fun feature.
Of course. The whole problem with Metro/Modern was that they set their user-interface back to the DOS days with only a single application displayed at a time. As long as Metro apps work in Windows, Metro is no longer a huge step back.
Microsoft *thought* the desktop should lean toward touch. They seem to have revised their opinion on that.
Of course touch can be useful on a desktop. I was able to start my father on Android as his first internet-connected device, and he was easily able to transition to Windows 8 on a desktop PC because of the touch interface. A mouse isn't intuitive to us all like touching a visible object with a finger is.
Not liking someone isn't a good enough reason to put them in jail.
Then why are people in jail for smoking pot, or being in the wrong location while black?
People go to jail all the time just because some idiot with power didn't like them.
>the Bible is "God-inspired"
Of course gods are imaginary, and you can't really say that the imagined central character inspired a piece of fiction. That would be crazy.
You're right, I was painting with an extremely broad brush. Have an excellent evening.
You're dealing with Conservative Christians. Don't expect them to be rational or intelligent. They've gone tribal, circled the wagons, and are now locked into toxic beliefs and unable to learn better.
Marriage is a civil institution. People with religious delusions want everything to be about their cults, but reality doesn't work that way.
Of course the courts have the power to redefine civil marriage.
That's the 1st thing I thought of, and it's been decades since I read Ringworld.
Most likely that life will be giant spiders.