As are all other canon DSLRs for the last 4 or 5 years, including the 1Ds Mark II (16.7 MP), 1Ds, 1D, 1D Mark II, 10D, 20D, 30D, Rebel, Rebel XT, D60, and D30 (3.2 MP).
I can't speak about the accuracy of his figures for the dev kits (I haven't a clue about that issue), but the comment you quoted doesn't seem to be talking about the dev kits to me. It seems to be talking about the expense of purchasing upgraded game engines or developing the upgrades to in-house game engines in order for them to take advantage, as well as related upgrades to development tools (editors, modeling tools, stock resource libraries, etc).
it's the BSD licence that restricts me from seeing the Nokia OS source code
I disagree. The base code is already open, regardless of how it's used. The modified code which is allowed to be closed under BSD would not suddenly have been open had it been under GPL, because the vendor would have almost certainly chose some other code under a (from their point of view) less restrictive license. Had nothing like that existed, they would probably have written it from scratch. So in either case you didn't lose access to anything.
To say that the BSD license is MORE restrictive because you "lost" access to the modified code seems, to me, to be an argument similar to "every download is a lost sale".
Not sure how out of date that was. There was a list included on Wikipedia at one time, but it was removed (due to the "wikipedia is not a directory" rule). I don't remember quite when it was removed (ie: if it's any more up to date than the list linked above) but it should be in Wiki's history archives somewhere.
I was actually referring to the netflix distribution center. As for the USPS, not sure where it is, but detroit being as large as it is (11 largest city in the US) I can't imagine they don't have one nearby.
If you did it right, you'd get the results you want
People keep claiming this, but as I've already posted here a few times, I've seen movies that start out on release day as a short wait, increase to a long wait, and sometimes even increase to a very long wait. How does my short wait turn into a very long wait unless they let people cut in line? A number of people have reported such a problem. Their user agreement explicitly gives them the right to prioritize movies shipments to customers how they see fit. Put it all together, and it seems quite clear to me what's going on.
Well, it definitely is standing out in my mind...mostly because it's still sitting at the top of my queue. However, this is the third new release I've seen my wait time actually increase.
I've definitely read online (blogs, forums, etc) several people who experience the same sort of thing.
Yeah, well if only it were that simple. Try explaining what I mentioned in my other post. I had King Kong in my queue. Morning of release it tells me I have a short wait. Later that evening of release it tells me LONG wait. The next morning it says VERY LONG wait. Still think they queue everyone up in order?
That's what I've been doing when I don't have time to watch it right away (except I rip them to my mythbox...no need to burn anything).
The problem I'm having is that I'm unprofitable for Netflix, so rather than just canning me outright, they are doing their best to slow me down. After the first couple months of 8 movies per month, many of my returns started taking 2 days to get back to them (the return center is very local, so they have to be sitting on it for a day). That slows my down to under 2 per week. I kept that rate up for a couple more months, and occasionally got 2 a week by mailing back the same day I received it (or when my return actually got processed next day). Now the latest trick is 3 of the last 4 movies have been being shipped from across the country. Thats never happened before, and these aren't old/rare movies, nor are they movies in high demand. They are couple of year old movies that had their run. I never had any problems before with movies being shipped across the country, so it seems more than coincidence.
Anyway, those 2 acts have my rental rate just over 1 per week. That doesn't make it very worthwhile to use Netflix. On top of that, they've been shoving me to the back of the queue for new movies. I added King Kong to my queue the week before it was released. The morning of release, I checked my queue and it said short wait. Later that day it changed to long wait. The next morning it was now a VERY long wait. It's been 4 or 5 weeks now since King King came out, and I'm still at a long wait.
Anyway, my Netflix subscription is just about renew, so I'm planning on cancelling and switching to blockbuster. Well see how they are, but the one real advantage I see there is that they give you coupons for 2 free store rentals per month. That means even if they do the same sort of profiling of high use customers, I can still run out and get the movie from the local Blockbuster in a timely manner.
I'm quite concerned about the [growing epidemic of obese children/declining faith in God of the children] in America today. I really would like to be a responsible parent and make sure my kid [maintains a healthy diet/grows up with a belief in God]. The problem is, my kid can run into any [corner/book] store and buy [a box of twinkies/books about evolution, atheism, and non-christian religions]. This really makes it difficult for me to be a responsible parent. I think it would be great if we could pass a law making it a crime to sell [unhealth food/these types of books] to minors. That would make it easier to be a responsible parent.
Have fun substituting your own terms for the ones in brackets. Nobody said raising children was easy, but it's not the government's responsibility to do it for you.
You ignored the other half of his comment about minimizing cost. The system you described involved using 2 envelopes per DVD (1 sending & 1 returning). The netflix envelopes only use 1.5 envelopes per mailing (it's the same envelope both ways, with the original shipping address on an extra paper sheet attached over top of the return address...essentially an extra half of an envelope). According to this articles claim of 1.4 million per day, thats about 500 million DVD's shipped per year. That saves them the cost equivelent of about 250 million envelopes per year. I'd bet in a single year that would more than cover the cost of the time spent engineering it.
Why would netflix care? Their customers don't pay by the movie. Quite the opposite. The faster they ship a movie out to a given number of customers, the more it costs them for shipping and handling.
The fact that the envolope SAYS "nearest" doesn't actually mean it gets sent to the nearest. Those envolopes have a preprinted barcode at the bottom which determines where it gets mailed to. Whatever text is printed on the envelope is irrelevant..the USPS sorting machines won't even bother trying to read the text if the barcode is present.
I can back this up with my past experience. My local netflix center gets my DVD's overnight in about 90% of the cases, and occasionally it takes 2 days. Never more. On the other time, EVERY time I get a DVD shipped from a different center, it takes 3 days for netflix to receive it after I mail it back. That's enough to convince me.
Yes. I have a DLink wireless router. A couple years ago I started using a dyndns hostname for my home machine. I was getting tired of manually updating it every month, and then I noticed there was built in support for dyndns in my router. I configured it all and thought "great, now I don't have to worry about that".
A couple days or a week later I got an abuse email from dyndns stating that I had violated their service by flooding them with updates. They indicated it was probably my router, and if I disabled it and the flooding stopped, all would be forgiven. I disabled the dlink's dyndns updates and all was good. (I ended up writing a simple perl script to handle the updates instead.)
Interesting. I've experienced this before and always assumed it was caused by the CPU fan. I figured the reason it changed with CPU load was due to the fan adjusting its speed based on CPU load.
Your post reminds me of the arrogant programmer who will quickly dismiss a bug report....Instead of thinking objectively this programmer will attack the bug reporter for being misinformed.
Yeah, well those questions have been asked over and over and over again. And they've been answered over and over and over again. Yet they still get asked again.
To use your bug report analogy...when the bug has been reported 100 times, thoroughly investigated, proven that the bug is not in fact a bug but a misunderstanding about how the process works, and been documented in 100 different places, then of course the bug report is going to be dismissed. If I were to tell you I observed a problem with the known laws of gravity because the water from the sprinkler is going up into the air, how much investigation would you put into it?
Well, I'm not sure about people who actually have been executed and then found innocent, but there have been plenty sentenced to death but luckily found exonerating evidence before they ran out of ways to stall the system. Read about them here:
The reasons run the whole gamut: DNA evidence, prosecution destroying or withholding evidence, witnesses who lied or were coorced, coerced confessions, the real criminal confessing, etc.
An entire 123 people on that list, all found innocent after being sentenced to death. So now let me ask you a question. Do you really think that every person wrongly convincted was lucky enough to find the proof before being put to death? Don't you think that there were probably at least a few (if not a bunch) who were not so lucky as to find the evidence in time?
Remember, in most cases, once the suspect has been executed, there isn't a whole lot of motivation to continue devoting the time and expense required to find the exonerating evidence. Don't take a lack of documented cases as evidence that it's never happend.
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According to Lisa Simpson, it's specious reasoning.
You mean my sole reason for existence is now opening jars for the missus?
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Ohhhhhh..I have a bad feeling you aren't going to like this:
http://www.blackanddeckerappliances.com/category-
That page is just about as Hollywood as you can get. "Ninjas fight all the time!" What crap.
Wow...you sure can take a joke seriously.
You're thinking of Hollywood ninjas.
No, he's thinking of this website....particularly "fact" #3:
http://www.realultimatepower.net/ninja/ninja2.htm
The 5D, with a 13.1 MP full-frame sensor is CMOS
As are all other canon DSLRs for the last 4 or 5 years, including the 1Ds Mark II (16.7 MP), 1Ds, 1D, 1D Mark II, 10D, 20D, 30D, Rebel, Rebel XT, D60, and D30 (3.2 MP).
I second that recommendation for xajax. Quite powerful, yet extremely simple. I've been using it for all of my ajax development since I found it.
I can't speak about the accuracy of his figures for the dev kits (I haven't a clue about that issue), but the comment you quoted doesn't seem to be talking about the dev kits to me. It seems to be talking about the expense of purchasing upgraded game engines or developing the upgrades to in-house game engines in order for them to take advantage, as well as related upgrades to development tools (editors, modeling tools, stock resource libraries, etc).
it's the BSD licence that restricts me from seeing the Nokia OS source code
I disagree. The base code is already open, regardless of how it's used. The modified code which is allowed to be closed under BSD would not suddenly have been open had it been under GPL, because the vendor would have almost certainly chose some other code under a (from their point of view) less restrictive license. Had nothing like that existed, they would probably have written it from scratch. So in either case you didn't lose access to anything.
To say that the BSD license is MORE restrictive because you "lost" access to the modified code seems, to me, to be an argument similar to "every download is a lost sale".
The point remains that we would have sold millions more copies of that movie if not for the illegal downloads.
Sound familiar?
Sony has done the right thing by making a system that is basic for basic gaming needs
Yeah. Now if only we could get Dodge to make a basic viper...you know, one with a 3 speed transmission, crank windows, and a base price of only $82K.
As a followup to my previous post, lots of people have also been posting netflix addresses on this page (some as recent as this year):
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http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2004/09/help_compil
Well, I found out where mine was from the return envelope that most of my dvds come in.
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There is a list a few years old here:
http://netflixfan.blogspot.com/2004/01/known-netf
Not sure how out of date that was. There was a list included on Wikipedia at one time, but it was removed (due to the "wikipedia is not a directory" rule). I don't remember quite when it was removed (ie: if it's any more up to date than the list linked above) but it should be in Wiki's history archives somewhere.
I was actually referring to the netflix distribution center. As for the USPS, not sure where it is, but detroit being as large as it is (11 largest city in the US) I can't imagine they don't have one nearby.
If you did it right, you'd get the results you want
People keep claiming this, but as I've already posted here a few times, I've seen movies that start out on release day as a short wait, increase to a long wait, and sometimes even increase to a very long wait. How does my short wait turn into a very long wait unless they let people cut in line? A number of people have reported such a problem. Their user agreement explicitly gives them the right to prioritize movies shipments to customers how they see fit. Put it all together, and it seems quite clear to me what's going on.
Well, it definitely is standing out in my mind...mostly because it's still sitting at the top of my queue. However, this is the third new release I've seen my wait time actually increase.
I've definitely read online (blogs, forums, etc) several people who experience the same sort of thing.
Do you live in a rural area
Nope...Detroit. Distribution center is in Lansing, which is less than 1 hour from here, and is definitely an overnight delivery location.
First queue, first serve
Yeah, well if only it were that simple. Try explaining what I mentioned in my other post. I had King Kong in my queue. Morning of release it tells me I have a short wait. Later that evening of release it tells me LONG wait. The next morning it says VERY LONG wait. Still think they queue everyone up in order?
That's what I've been doing when I don't have time to watch it right away (except I rip them to my mythbox...no need to burn anything).
The problem I'm having is that I'm unprofitable for Netflix, so rather than just canning me outright, they are doing their best to slow me down. After the first couple months of 8 movies per month, many of my returns started taking 2 days to get back to them (the return center is very local, so they have to be sitting on it for a day). That slows my down to under 2 per week. I kept that rate up for a couple more months, and occasionally got 2 a week by mailing back the same day I received it (or when my return actually got processed next day). Now the latest trick is 3 of the last 4 movies have been being shipped from across the country. Thats never happened before, and these aren't old/rare movies, nor are they movies in high demand. They are couple of year old movies that had their run. I never had any problems before with movies being shipped across the country, so it seems more than coincidence.
Anyway, those 2 acts have my rental rate just over 1 per week. That doesn't make it very worthwhile to use Netflix. On top of that, they've been shoving me to the back of the queue for new movies. I added King Kong to my queue the week before it was released. The morning of release, I checked my queue and it said short wait. Later that day it changed to long wait. The next morning it was now a VERY long wait. It's been 4 or 5 weeks now since King King came out, and I'm still at a long wait.
Anyway, my Netflix subscription is just about renew, so I'm planning on cancelling and switching to blockbuster. Well see how they are, but the one real advantage I see there is that they give you coupons for 2 free store rentals per month. That means even if they do the same sort of profiling of high use customers, I can still run out and get the movie from the local Blockbuster in a timely manner.
This makes it easier to be a responsible parent
I'm quite concerned about the [growing epidemic of obese children/declining faith in God of the children] in America today. I really would like to be a responsible parent and make sure my kid [maintains a healthy diet/grows up with a belief in God]. The problem is, my kid can run into any [corner/book] store and buy [a box of twinkies/books about evolution, atheism, and non-christian religions]. This really makes it difficult for me to be a responsible parent. I think it would be great if we could pass a law making it a crime to sell [unhealth food/these types of books] to minors. That would make it easier to be a responsible parent.
Have fun substituting your own terms for the ones in brackets. Nobody said raising children was easy, but it's not the government's responsibility to do it for you.
You ignored the other half of his comment about minimizing cost. The system you described involved using 2 envelopes per DVD (1 sending & 1 returning). The netflix envelopes only use 1.5 envelopes per mailing (it's the same envelope both ways, with the original shipping address on an extra paper sheet attached over top of the return address...essentially an extra half of an envelope). According to this articles claim of 1.4 million per day, thats about 500 million DVD's shipped per year. That saves them the cost equivelent of about 250 million envelopes per year. I'd bet in a single year that would more than cover the cost of the time spent engineering it.
Why would netflix care? Their customers don't pay by the movie. Quite the opposite. The faster they ship a movie out to a given number of customers, the more it costs them for shipping and handling.
The fact that the envolope SAYS "nearest" doesn't actually mean it gets sent to the nearest. Those envolopes have a preprinted barcode at the bottom which determines where it gets mailed to. Whatever text is printed on the envelope is irrelevant..the USPS sorting machines won't even bother trying to read the text if the barcode is present.
I can back this up with my past experience. My local netflix center gets my DVD's overnight in about 90% of the cases, and occasionally it takes 2 days. Never more. On the other time, EVERY time I get a DVD shipped from a different center, it takes 3 days for netflix to receive it after I mail it back. That's enough to convince me.
Yes. I have a DLink wireless router. A couple years ago I started using a dyndns hostname for my home machine. I was getting tired of manually updating it every month, and then I noticed there was built in support for dyndns in my router. I configured it all and thought "great, now I don't have to worry about that".
A couple days or a week later I got an abuse email from dyndns stating that I had violated their service by flooding them with updates. They indicated it was probably my router, and if I disabled it and the flooding stopped, all would be forgiven. I disabled the dlink's dyndns updates and all was good. (I ended up writing a simple perl script to handle the updates instead.)
Interesting. I've experienced this before and always assumed it was caused by the CPU fan. I figured the reason it changed with CPU load was due to the fan adjusting its speed based on CPU load.
Your post reminds me of the arrogant programmer who will quickly dismiss a bug report....Instead of thinking objectively this programmer will attack the bug reporter for being misinformed.
Yeah, well those questions have been asked over and over and over again. And they've been answered over and over and over again. Yet they still get asked again.
To use your bug report analogy...when the bug has been reported 100 times, thoroughly investigated, proven that the bug is not in fact a bug but a misunderstanding about how the process works, and been documented in 100 different places, then of course the bug report is going to be dismissed. If I were to tell you I observed a problem with the known laws of gravity because the water from the sprinkler is going up into the air, how much investigation would you put into it?
Well, I'm not sure about people who actually have been executed and then found innocent, but there have been plenty sentenced to death but luckily found exonerating evidence before they ran out of ways to stall the system. Read about them here:
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http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=
The reasons run the whole gamut: DNA evidence, prosecution destroying or withholding evidence, witnesses who lied or were coorced, coerced confessions, the real criminal confessing, etc.
An entire 123 people on that list, all found innocent after being sentenced to death. So now let me ask you a question. Do you really think that every person wrongly convincted was lucky enough to find the proof before being put to death? Don't you think that there were probably at least a few (if not a bunch) who were not so lucky as to find the evidence in time?
Remember, in most cases, once the suspect has been executed, there isn't a whole lot of motivation to continue devoting the time and expense required to find the exonerating evidence. Don't take a lack of documented cases as evidence that it's never happend.