I was a few weeks away from cancelling. The Qwikster thing spurred me to explore other options and question how and in what way I spend my entertainment dollars. Let's face it, once you begin to give a good hard look at entertainment spending it is easy to come to the conclusion that you don't need much of it. My Netflix instant and dvd queue is about 90% 3-star movies, things that I'd add but put off to watch other better things. But now I've watch all those other things. Yes, Netflix did add some new content recently, but they also took away some content as I found out when I went to watch The Sting (5-stars) on Instant. Now that the summer is over, network TV is back. That's free OTA, and you can catch eps for free on Hulu.
I suppose I'll refrain from cancelling now, but I don't have much confidence in Netflix's future. They seem schizophrenic at the moment.
Me also. They do sell things I want to buy (desktop computer, laptop, mp3 player, phone, etc). Whenever I comparison shop I always feel like the Apple product is less functional and more costly than something else.
This seems to be a general practice of business. Isn't that how the banks have been explaining minimum balance fees? It costs them so much to maintain these particular accounts that they are forced into charging onerous fees.
And there's people like me. I'm hanging on a little while longer just to see what happens. Right now I'm scrapping the bottom of the barrel on my Instant queue. In the next few weeks I'll probably quit or suspend my Instant service and go disc only.
Does Dreamworks have that much stuff? I look at the Netflix top 100 and only 6 of the movies are streaming. Netflix appears to be circling the drain to me. http://www.netflix.com/Top100?lnkctr=mhT100
Sith who train in the stalwart arts of the Juggernaut boast unrivaled stamina in battle. Through diligence and clarity, the Juggernaut shapes the Force to his will to become nearly invulnerable. Damage that would destroy others is shrugged off, and futility fills the Juggernaut's foes with doubt and despair. Protecting their allies and punishing their adversaries, they charge into the thick of any fray, and take the brunt of the assault and are even able to drain the energy of their enemies to further strengthen their resolve
Weren't each of those companies circling the drain when they were taken over? Shame about Palm though. If they had made a 7in Palm Vx it would have beat the Kindle to the market by 5 years or so as an ereading device? With Indiglo!
I'm a newbie and slowly learning RoR right now, so I'm interested to learn that it is on it's way out. What has replaced it? What do you suggest learning for web development currently?
Agree. I have an 900A eee pc and it's great, but somewhat showing it's age with a 4gb SSD. I think I bought it on sale for $149. In order to upgrade the ram and the SSD I'd be paying ~$100, so what I'd really rather is to just buy a more recent $200 netbook.
Like you, I also want a keyboard. And netbooks are a great size for throwing into a backpack and heading off to the library or someplace.
Same here. HP provides our servers, printers, desktops and laptops. And an HP support contract for all that. Eliminating PCs is taking a leg off the stool. Our office will probably shift back to Dell would be my guess.
You are right, that's more like it. It mystifies that there are people on Slashdot who are supportive of this. Intel or whoever has an incentive to sell you a barely functional mystery box. You only find out what you actually bought as they decide to roll out new features and upgrades.
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I was a few weeks away from cancelling. The Qwikster thing spurred me to explore other options and question how and in what way I spend my entertainment dollars. Let's face it, once you begin to give a good hard look at entertainment spending it is easy to come to the conclusion that you don't need much of it. My Netflix instant and dvd queue is about 90% 3-star movies, things that I'd add but put off to watch other better things. But now I've watch all those other things. Yes, Netflix did add some new content recently, but they also took away some content as I found out when I went to watch The Sting (5-stars) on Instant. Now that the summer is over, network TV is back. That's free OTA, and you can catch eps for free on Hulu.
I suppose I'll refrain from cancelling now, but I don't have much confidence in Netflix's future. They seem schizophrenic at the moment.
Me also. They do sell things I want to buy (desktop computer, laptop, mp3 player, phone, etc). Whenever I comparison shop I always feel like the Apple product is less functional and more costly than something else.
This seems to be a general practice of business. Isn't that how the banks have been explaining minimum balance fees? It costs them so much to maintain these particular accounts that they are forced into charging onerous fees.
Not now maybe, but what about in the future?
PDFs. None of the ways to get PDFs to fit on a 7in screen work very well.
Fail.
And there's people like me. I'm hanging on a little while longer just to see what happens. Right now I'm scrapping the bottom of the barrel on my Instant queue. In the next few weeks I'll probably quit or suspend my Instant service and go disc only.
Does Dreamworks have that much stuff? I look at the Netflix top 100 and only 6 of the movies are streaming. Netflix appears to be circling the drain to me.
http://www.netflix.com/Top100?lnkctr=mhT100
I was thinking, was KOTOR the last great Star Wars game? There have been plenty games since but they all seem to range from poor to mediocre.
I was looking over the classes and they basically named one Tank.
http://www.swtor.com/info/holonet/classes/sith-warrior
Guess that explains all the Jedi too. Would be hard to make an MMO where being a Jedi was rare.
There is Blizzard's Titan MMO. I think that is supposed to be scifi.
Would have rathered KOTR III.
I'm curious as to how big a game this will be. Is it fair to compare it with WOW or Star Trek Online?
Ok. Put it on cows to make them look like tanks.
Or is this more for some imagined future conflict with tanks rolling around China or Russia?
Weren't each of those companies circling the drain when they were taken over? Shame about Palm though. If they had made a 7in Palm Vx it would have beat the Kindle to the market by 5 years or so as an ereading device? With Indiglo!
Maybe it's just me, but I don't want or need a tablet with a camera or GPS. Although, I used to say that about cell phones too once...
All I'd like in a tablet is to be able to read web pages, read PDFs & ebooks, and watch Netflx.
The Nook appears to be doing well.
If it can't do PDFs without reflowing then I don't see how it is worth it.
I'm a newbie and slowly learning RoR right now, so I'm interested to learn that it is on it's way out. What has replaced it? What do you suggest learning for web development currently?
Agree. I have an 900A eee pc and it's great, but somewhat showing it's age with a 4gb SSD. I think I bought it on sale for $149. In order to upgrade the ram and the SSD I'd be paying ~$100, so what I'd really rather is to just buy a more recent $200 netbook.
Like you, I also want a keyboard. And netbooks are a great size for throwing into a backpack and heading off to the library or someplace.
Same here. HP provides our servers, printers, desktops and laptops. And an HP support contract for all that. Eliminating PCs is taking a leg off the stool. Our office will probably shift back to Dell would be my guess.
We are doing you a favor by punching you in the nose. We could have punched you in the balls instead!
Or how many releases have to go by before it is supported again?
You are right, that's more like it. It mystifies that there are people on Slashdot who are supportive of this. Intel or whoever has an incentive to sell you a barely functional mystery box. You only find out what you actually bought as they decide to roll out new features and upgrades.