by claiming their service is unlimited, Netflix is lying
But they're not. The article is just flat out wrong. They use a fairness algorithm to handle *high-demand* movies. It makes sense.. they can't send a movie that just came out on tuesday to every single subscriber. They don't have enough copies.
I'm a fairly heavy user, and am not a new user. I balance out the high-demand new movies with low-demand older movies. I have about 10 movies in my queue that are available "now". I also have about 5 movies that are "very long wait".
The people who see a delay are only adding brand new movies to their queue.
Consumers don't want to be confused by products who do more than one thing. Just look at the abysmal PC market (including Macs).
No, PC's have a lot of features, but those features come free. Look at the abysmal Media Center PC market for a better example. Sure they do much more than TiVo, but they also cost $1200.
Blu-ray is going to literally double the price of the PS3. I'd rather have the option of getting the PS3 without blu-ray for 50% off.
Playing movies and music, that's free. Integrating a DVR, a 5 port switch, and multiple component outputs.. that's extra crap that drive up the price of the PS3.
I dare say that spelling is a very poor metric of overall intelligence, esp. considering that correct spelling is not essential for useful communication.
It is essential for programming however. Which, considering how many programmers are purportedly on slashdot, I find ironic.
The GIMP, as good as it is^H^Hwas, has stalled in the stoneage, while Photoshop has evolved.
That's not true, the Gimp is moving along.. maybe not as fast as it should though.
Photoshop is indeed a moving target. People talk about "needing 16-bit color channels", but photoshop itself only got them a few years ago.
One thing the author touched on was that the de facto standard is often the standard du jour.
Yesterday Quark dominated the newspaper industry, today it's Adobe inDesign. (Although inDesign still doesn't have a route-based workflow management).. something integrators have offered for quark for over a decade now. Tomorrow it could be Scribus.
Yesterday all pre-press was done with PageMaker, today it's done with photoshop, tomorrow, who knows, it could be the gimp.
You can't say which way the industry will tilt.. photoshop won't be king of the hill forever.
It is a precedent. Imagine for example giving the police the right to arrest anybody they deem necessary
Woah woah woah, Google isn't the government. This is more like a bar that kicks out unruly patrons. Google is a company, google's site is their own to do with as they please. They have a right to kick anyone out for any reason.
One, use references not pointers. The compiler is very good at detecting wonky things when you're actually dealing with objects and not just pointers to objects.
So, if Perl is good enough to manage Slashdot and Wiki, I imagine it's good enough to manage any "enterprise" site and is very much worth knowing.
It's not though. MediaWiki switched to PHP, and slashdot is written so poorly that it took them years to separate the content from the presentation in order to add CSS.
Of course they still have that "impossible to fix" threaded page bug.
Maybe I give you a session where your shipping address is my house.
How would that work? You seem to assume that sites store information in a cookie. That's not how most of them do it. They generate a random md5, set that as a cookie, and save a copy in their database. A session key maps to an entire account, not to a piece of an account.
However, the game got hard for me (the difficulty REALLY shot up fast for me at a specific part). I basically can't play on hard mode (5 buttons) past the few two or three songs. I'll practice more when I get more time.
This is the one thing that pisses me off about Guitar Hero (well, one of three things really). There is no way to practice. I don't want to play the same 2 minute chorus over and over again just to get the solo that I always fail on!
The fact that there is no practice mode really sucks. I've gotten up to the Fret Burners on Hard mode, and it seems ironic that Spanish Castle Magic is the only one I can beat. (Ironic because I can't even come close to playing that on a real guitar, but I can play the others)
The other 2 things that annoy me about guitar hero is that you can't do arpeggios on a 1 string guitar so the fake version is actually harder to play than the real version, and the fret buttons are pretty cheap.
I'd kill for a pressure sensitive fretboard instead of plastic buttons that feel cheap.
I'm guessing that when they designed Guitar Hero, they expected their core audience would be 15 years old. I doubt they expected a lot of adults would play.
Here's hoping they come out with a sequel that contains more variety, as well as a practice mode.
Ground Control to Major Tom Ground Control to Major Tom Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
Ground Control to Major Tom Commencing countdown, engines on Check ignition and may God's love be with you
This is Ground Control to Major Tom You've really made the grade And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare
"This is Major Tom to Ground Control I'm stepping through the door And I'm floating in a most peculiar way And the stars look very different today
For here Am I sitting in a tin can Far above the world Planet Earth is blue And there's nothing I can do
Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles I'm feeling very still And I think my spaceship knows which way to go Tell my wife I love her very much she knows"
Ground Control to Major Tom Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you hear me, Major Tom? Can you....
"Here am I floating round my tin can Far above the Moon Planet Earth is blue And there's nothing I can do."
I mean, what if Europe demanded to know the secret ingredients to certain food products. That may be a bad comparison
Here's a better comparison. What if they demanded that Apple release the specs for FairPlay? After all, isn't this all about interoperability? How can I play the songs I bought from iTMS on Linux if Apple keeps the format a secret?
Obviously $.99/song IS great. Just look at the millions of songs that have been downloaded at that price. I don't think any consumer would mind lower prices, but why would a company lower them if they have the most successful product on the market?
Spoken like a record exec! Obviously $17.99/album IS great, just look at the *billions* of albums that have been sold at that price.
you quoted a claim that there is an unsubstantiated, unnamed hole. You really should try critical thought sometime.
It wasn't too long ago that we derided microsoft for calling virtually *every* security vulnerability "theoretical". I find it interesting that Apple apologists are so quick to resort to the same microsoftian tactics.
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by claiming their service is unlimited, Netflix is lying
But they're not. The article is just flat out wrong. They use a fairness algorithm to handle *high-demand* movies. It makes sense.. they can't send a movie that just came out on tuesday to every single subscriber. They don't have enough copies.
I'm a fairly heavy user, and am not a new user. I balance out the high-demand new movies with low-demand older movies. I have about 10 movies in my queue that are available "now". I also have about 5 movies that are "very long wait".
The people who see a delay are only adding brand new movies to their queue.
If only he was playing Minesweeper. He could've claimed to be looking for WMDs.
Why does that take so much horsepower? I'm running OSX on an old Imac G3 450.
Yeah, but you don't get all the eye candy.
OSX has the same 'high-end nvidia card' requirement for its eye candy... like the ripples on dashboard.
because if ya gotta buy a new box to run Vista
You don't.. you'd just have to buy a $50 video card.
Consumers don't want to be confused by products who do more than one thing. Just look at the abysmal PC market (including Macs).
No, PC's have a lot of features, but those features come free. Look at the abysmal Media Center PC market for a better example. Sure they do much more than TiVo, but they also cost $1200.
Blu-ray is going to literally double the price of the PS3. I'd rather have the option of getting the PS3 without blu-ray for 50% off.
Playing movies and music, that's free. Integrating a DVR, a 5 port switch, and multiple component outputs.. that's extra crap that drive up the price of the PS3.
Sweet! Time to update the big board!
[ ] Common Cold
[ ] Cancer
[*] AIDS
[ ] Male pattern baldness
[ ] Stupidity
Considering that the PS3 doesn't have any video inputs, I'd call this 100% Grade A Sony Branded bullshit.
It is also a mini-fridge, and a toaster oven!
I dare say that spelling is a very poor metric of overall intelligence, esp. considering that correct spelling is not essential for useful communication.
It is essential for programming however. Which, considering how many programmers are purportedly on slashdot, I find ironic.
The GIMP, as good as it is^H^Hwas, has stalled in the stoneage, while Photoshop has evolved.
That's not true, the Gimp is moving along.. maybe not as fast as it should though.
Photoshop is indeed a moving target. People talk about "needing 16-bit color channels", but photoshop itself only got them a few years ago.
One thing the author touched on was that the de facto standard is often the standard du jour.
Yesterday Quark dominated the newspaper industry, today it's Adobe inDesign. (Although inDesign still doesn't have a route-based workflow management).. something integrators have offered for quark for over a decade now. Tomorrow it could be Scribus.
Yesterday all pre-press was done with PageMaker, today it's done with photoshop, tomorrow, who knows, it could be the gimp.
You can't say which way the industry will tilt.. photoshop won't be king of the hill forever.
It is a precedent. Imagine for example giving the police the right to arrest anybody they deem necessary
Woah woah woah, Google isn't the government. This is more like a bar that kicks out unruly patrons. Google is a company, google's site is their own to do with as they please. They have a right to kick anyone out for any reason.
You can't read 8 point text on a 1680x1050 monitor
8 point text is the same size regardless of resolution.
Two tips:
One, use references not pointers. The compiler is very good at detecting wonky things when you're actually dealing with objects and not just pointers to objects.
Two, use STL wherever possible.
So, if Perl is good enough to manage Slashdot and Wiki, I imagine it's good enough to manage any "enterprise" site and is very much worth knowing.
It's not though. MediaWiki switched to PHP, and slashdot is written so poorly that it took them years to separate the content from the presentation in order to add CSS.
Of course they still have that "impossible to fix" threaded page bug.
You can legally say no, and the officer must let you go due to the lack of a warrant. This happens on a daily basis.
Actually, what happens is you say no, and the officer holds you until the K9 unit arrives.
Maybe I give you a session where your shipping address is my house.
How would that work? You seem to assume that sites store information in a cookie. That's not how most of them do it. They generate a random md5, set that as a cookie, and save a copy in their database. A session key maps to an entire account, not to a piece of an account.
However, the game got hard for me (the difficulty REALLY shot up fast for me at a specific part). I basically can't play on hard mode (5 buttons) past the few two or three songs. I'll practice more when I get more time.
This is the one thing that pisses me off about Guitar Hero (well, one of three things really). There is no way to practice. I don't want to play the same 2 minute chorus over and over again just to get the solo that I always fail on!
The fact that there is no practice mode really sucks. I've gotten up to the Fret Burners on Hard mode, and it seems ironic that Spanish Castle Magic is the only one I can beat. (Ironic because I can't even come close to playing that on a real guitar, but I can play the others)
The other 2 things that annoy me about guitar hero is that you can't do arpeggios on a 1 string guitar so the fake version is actually harder to play than the real version, and the fret buttons are pretty cheap.
I'd kill for a pressure sensitive fretboard instead of plastic buttons that feel cheap.
I'm guessing that when they designed Guitar Hero, they expected their core audience would be 15 years old. I doubt they expected a lot of adults would play.
Here's hoping they come out with a sequel that contains more variety, as well as a practice mode.
There is no laughter track, its filmed infront of an audiance.
Practically the same thing. The audience laughs when the Laughter sign lights up.
Or maybe the stock price had something to do with the office fire...
I think it was caused by a combination of a salami scam and the theft of a swingline stapler.
As the great poet D. Bowie once wrote:
Ground Control to Major Tom
Ground Control to Major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
Ground Control to Major Tom
Commencing countdown, engines on
Check ignition and may God's love be with you
This is Ground Control to Major Tom
You've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare
"This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
For here
Am I sitting in a tin can
Far above the world
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do
Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles
I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much she knows"
Ground Control to Major Tom
Your circuit's dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you hear me, Major Tom?
Can you....
"Here am I floating round my tin can
Far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there's nothing I can do."
I mean, what if Europe demanded to know the secret ingredients to certain food products. That may be a bad comparison
Here's a better comparison. What if they demanded that Apple release the specs for FairPlay? After all, isn't this all about interoperability? How can I play the songs I bought from iTMS on Linux if Apple keeps the format a secret?
Being gratitously reminded of it is not appreciated.
It's not gratuitous. It's the 20th aniversary, and it is important to make sure that history is as accurate as possible.
Obviously $.99/song IS great. Just look at the millions of songs that have been downloaded at that price. I don't think any consumer would mind lower prices, but why would a company lower them if they have the most successful product on the market?
Spoken like a record exec! Obviously $17.99/album IS great, just look at the *billions* of albums that have been sold at that price.
I imagine that's why they just added the A-Team... I'm going to buy an episode or two against my better judgement. Who can resist?
Anyone with cable?
Any crack that relies on memory in the stack being overwritten will not be cross platform.
The exploit won't be cross platform, but the vulnerability sure can be.
you quoted a claim that there is an unsubstantiated, unnamed hole. You really should try critical thought sometime.
It wasn't too long ago that we derided microsoft for calling virtually *every* security vulnerability "theoretical". I find it interesting that Apple apologists are so quick to resort to the same microsoftian tactics.