Well that's just it. I don't watch a lot of TV. this is precisely why I target just a few shows. If I was a couch potatoe then bellying up to the HBO buffet and scarfing down General Tso's chicken or whatever slop was served would be an all you can eat nirvana. but I just want one show because I don't wathc that much TV.
for $13 a month. Even if you were optimal about this it would be hard to get more than 10 disks a month. And even if you did that means you have to actually watch 10 dvd's to get your money's worth. Plus you have to wait, and don't get what you want. You get what's available. So you cant watch what your mood is when you have the mood.
On the other hand with vidAngle, it's $1 per movie. whatever movie (of what they have of course). And I get it NOW. I don't have to watch 13 a month to get my money's worth. I could watch just one some month and 40 another month.
By the way. I thought I'd mention that an alternative to netflix for DVD content is an interesting new service called VidAngel. Their model is you "buy" the DVD from them, they play it for you (stream), then you sell it back for $1 less than you bought it for. Thus you can get things only available on DVD sooner as a stream.
This scheme was developed for another purpose, buy having you own the media, even if it's temprorary, this allows you to Bowlderize it (remove anything offensive). Streaming companies are not allowed to alter the movies. But if the movie is owned by the end user they can do as they please. So one if effectively paying VidAngel to Bowlderize your videos professionally for you. You of course don't have to edit. You can watch it raw too.
Thus VidAngel gets you DVDs at a price less than netflix DVD and they come instantly when you want to stream them rather than wait for the mail to come or the disk to be available. Their limitation seems to be selection is more like Redbox and they don't have a deep catalog like netflix.
Soon you will choose your phone by the content you want. Like ESPN, well that's a Sprint Exclusive. Like HBO, well only on android Phones.
As it is I have Netflix (canceled my DVD after the price hike) and amazon because I want prime anyhow. But it galls me to then have to shell out for HBO to see one show (GOT). And Starz to see one show (Black sails). etc... Splintered content.
Verizon, At&T, Tmobile, comcast are all trying to defeat net neutrality. Things like binge-on that don't count against data caps are just a way to play the gatekeeper to their private internet. Same with facebooks internet.org.
If someone told me that this is how they finally make a profit after years of loss leaders to build market share I'd like to hear that argument. Is it really the case that paying $1.99 an episode would not get me something like Game of Thrones or the other golden age of "TV" shows? Or is it that they just see they can make money by splintering things?
Too bad things like popcorn time are illegal. It sure takes the frustration out of this. I want one market place for everything be it amazon, or itunes or google play.
Let's see now. suppose they have oversized axles so we'll estimate 200 metric tonnes per car, then a 2000 meter mountain difference, and 100 cars long. we'll round g off to 10.
E= mgh = 200*200E3*2000*10 = 800E9
If they could release that in 1 hour then they could have 200 megawattHr
I found an old estimate that by 2015 Las vegas would need 10,000 megawatts of power on a summer day. Thus 50 trains could power it for an hour.
Or roughtly speaking 1 train would power las vegas for 1 minute
I suspect the logic for this idea comes from considering an elastic collision between a heavy and light object. for a car with mass M, and intial velocity Vi and pedestrian of mass m, with initially no velocity and then final velocity Vp we can write:
MVi = MVf + mVp
MVi^2 = MVf^2 + mVp^2
for conservation of momentum and energy.
Solving these equations for Vp we get
Vp = 2 Vf *M/(M+m) ~ 2Vf
so an elastic collision throws the pedestrian off at a speed of twice the car's velocity, who then hits the ground.
If the pedestrian sticks to the car their final velocity if half that and four times less energtic.
Even if it's not a fully elastic collision the point is taken it's better to stick to the car.
Fast.com reported > 30% faster speed than speedtest.net for me (18 versus 22) so I don't think they are sandbagging this. On the other hand it's not prime movie watch time of day either.
But for me, amazon is able to stream shows in HD better than Netflix is. My neflix connection rarely acheives HD quality even though I have it set to request that. Since this is on all my idevices it's not a matter of the computer or client software.
So either netflix has shitty servers or they get throttled at some peering level.
I will be very interested to see how this tool works when I'm experiencing a bad netflix movie stream. If it can help them prove throttling I'm all for it.
The thing is the patents and copyrights these companies hold don't go away when the company dies. Like Bilbo's ring these things just go to the next person that finds them irresistible and the cycle starts over. Even if some large company, say microsoft, scoops them up in the name of protecting themselves, eventually it becomes a cudgel again.
Beats did not have a P/E of 16. It has a lot of competition, is easily replicated and is threatened by people who own their own pipes like comcast or t-mobile binge-on into forced revenue sharing models. Beats had buzz.
I can listen to any copyrighted song I want pretty much just by using Youtube. I'm actually surprised that I've never found a service that has a way to construct song libraries by scouring youtube for a play list and possibly even autoripping them. Seems like a good bussiness model since youtube is the one guilty of making available copyrighted works if it comes to a legal battle.
Buffet doesn't make bets like that. His strategy is buy and hold. So ephemeral events don't matter to him, is trends. The real news here is buffet is buying into the tech sector at all. Apple has a P/E ratio below the s/p 500 average. That factors of four below your typical growth stock in the tech sector . Amazon and Facebook have p/e of 80 to 100 or more. Thus Apple is no longer a growth stick it is now a very stable value stock whose price reflects its actual earnings. Icahn's strategey is the opposite of buffet where he looks for the quick pop in price by leveraging a companies cash reserves or salable assets. Apple did do a stock buy back but not a wasteful one. Icahn was not happy .
Apples foray into buying expensive things like Didi or Beats shares is weird. It's the reverse play many growth companies do. A overvalued growth company will often buy a cheap value company outside its area of expertise to give it delve revenue and to take advantage of its anomalous p:E . Apple is buying risky companies using its enormous unspent revenue. The idea I think is to raise the p/e which would have made Icahn happy I guess. Too late.
My computer has been freezing a lot since I installed el capitan. But I figured it was because the hardware was dieing. So I'm so happy to hear it might not be the hardware!!!
another thing it started doing is it can't remember my icloud password more than a day. keeps asking me.
It's "free" for the insurance companies to give women birth control pills because the baseline cost without them includes the risk of covering your pregnancy.
Like wise for the ISPs they'd rather you were watching TV mulit-cast than streaming netflix on demand.
So they can offer you a bundle for less cost than they could sell you uncapped internet.
I don't think they are trying to bribe "the chinese" they are probably trying to bribe a particular chniese person(s). Presumably those people buy didi stock at apple's "suggestion". Apple announces the investment. stock rises and they sell. They also get to tell their minions this tip as well.
this is just the old bandwidth comparison between a staionwagon full of mag tapes versus the internet. yes the station wagon wins on carry more with less effort. but it loses on latency. Hyperloop is for people, freight trains are for freight.
is 4.5g forces. That's the lower bound on how many g's it pulled in the test. if you accelerated that fact to 750 miles per hour that's 7 seconds. You would pass out unless you were in a g-suite, and maybe even then.
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Well that's just it. I don't watch a lot of TV. this is precisely why I target just a few shows. If I was a couch potatoe then bellying up to the HBO buffet and scarfing down General Tso's chicken or whatever slop was served would be an all you can eat nirvana. but I just want one show because I don't wathc that much TV.
for $13 a month. Even if you were optimal about this it would be hard to get more than 10 disks a month. And even if you did that means you have to actually watch 10 dvd's to get your money's worth. Plus you have to wait, and don't get what you want. You get what's available. So you cant watch what your mood is when you have the mood.
On the other hand with vidAngle, it's $1 per movie. whatever movie (of what they have of course). And I get it NOW. I don't have to watch 13 a month to get my money's worth. I could watch just one some month and 40 another month.
By the way. I thought I'd mention that an alternative to netflix for DVD content is an interesting new service called VidAngel. Their model is you "buy" the DVD from them, they play it for you (stream), then you sell it back for $1 less than you bought it for. Thus you can get things only available on DVD sooner as a stream.
This scheme was developed for another purpose, buy having you own the media, even if it's temprorary, this allows you to Bowlderize it (remove anything offensive). Streaming companies are not allowed to alter the movies. But if the movie is owned by the end user they can do as they please. So one if effectively paying VidAngel to Bowlderize your videos professionally for you. You of course don't have to edit. You can watch it raw too.
Thus VidAngel gets you DVDs at a price less than netflix DVD and they come instantly when you want to stream them rather than wait for the mail to come or the disk to be available. Their limitation seems to be selection is more like Redbox and they don't have a deep catalog like netflix.
Soon you will choose your phone by the content you want. Like ESPN, well that's a Sprint Exclusive. Like HBO, well only on android Phones.
As it is I have Netflix (canceled my DVD after the price hike) and amazon because I want prime anyhow. But it galls me to then have to shell out for HBO to see one show (GOT). And Starz to see one show (Black sails). etc... Splintered content.
Verizon, At&T, Tmobile, comcast are all trying to defeat net neutrality. Things like binge-on that don't count against data caps are just a way to play the gatekeeper to their private internet. Same with facebooks internet.org.
If someone told me that this is how they finally make a profit after years of loss leaders to build market share I'd like to hear that argument. Is it really the case that paying $1.99 an episode would not get me something like Game of Thrones or the other golden age of "TV" shows? Or is it that they just see they can make money by splintering things?
Too bad things like popcorn time are illegal. It sure takes the frustration out of this. I want one market place for everything be it amazon, or itunes or google play.
Let's see now.
suppose they have oversized axles so we'll estimate 200 metric tonnes per car, then a 2000 meter mountain difference, and 100 cars long. we'll round g off to 10.
E= mgh = 200*200E3*2000*10 = 800E9
If they could release that in 1 hour then they could have 200 megawattHr
I found an old estimate that by 2015 Las vegas would need 10,000 megawatts of power on a summer day. Thus 50 trains could power it for an hour.
Or roughtly speaking 1 train would power las vegas for 1 minute
Except buy a taxi company share for 1Billion?
yes, when choosing between certain death and a lower chance death, man up and choose the former.
I suspect the logic for this idea comes from considering an elastic collision between a heavy and light object.
for a car with mass M, and intial velocity Vi and pedestrian of mass m, with initially no velocity and then final velocity Vp we can write:
MVi = MVf + mVp
MVi^2 = MVf^2 + mVp^2
for conservation of momentum and energy.
Solving these equations for Vp we get
Vp = 2 Vf *M/(M+m) ~ 2Vf
so an elastic collision throws the pedestrian off at a speed of twice the car's velocity, who then hits the ground.
If the pedestrian sticks to the car their final velocity if half that and four times less energtic.
Even if it's not a fully elastic collision the point is taken it's better to stick to the car.
And android phones never had any impact on the iphone market.
Fast.com reported > 30% faster speed than speedtest.net for me (18 versus 22) so I don't think they are sandbagging this. On the other hand it's not prime movie watch time of day either.
But for me, amazon is able to stream shows in HD better than Netflix is. My neflix connection rarely acheives HD quality even though I have it set to request that. Since this is on all my idevices it's not a matter of the computer or client software.
So either netflix has shitty servers or they get throttled at some peering level.
I will be very interested to see how this tool works when I'm experiencing a bad netflix movie stream. If it can help them prove throttling I'm all for it.
The thing is the patents and copyrights these companies hold don't go away when the company dies. Like Bilbo's ring these things just go to the next person that finds them irresistible and the cycle starts over. Even if some large company, say microsoft, scoops them up in the name of protecting themselves, eventually it becomes a cudgel again.
Beats did not have a P/E of 16. It has a lot of competition, is easily replicated and is threatened by people who own their own pipes like comcast or t-mobile binge-on into forced revenue sharing models. Beats had buzz.
I can listen to any copyrighted song I want pretty much just by using Youtube. I'm actually surprised that I've never found a service that has a way to construct song libraries by scouring youtube for a play list and possibly even autoripping them. Seems like a good bussiness model since youtube is the one guilty of making available copyrighted works if it comes to a legal battle.
in the sense that it costs more?
Yogi said " nobody goes to that bar any more, it's too crowded".
You call a company with decades of sustained Earnings growth a failure simply because it's rate of growth is slowing.
Buffet doesn't make bets like that. His strategy is buy and hold. So ephemeral events don't matter to him, is trends. The real news here is buffet is buying into the tech sector at all. Apple has a P/E ratio below the s/p 500 average. That factors of four below your typical growth stock in the tech sector . Amazon and Facebook have p/e of 80 to 100 or more. Thus Apple is no longer a growth stick it is now a very stable value stock whose price reflects its actual earnings. Icahn's strategey is the opposite of buffet where he looks for the quick pop in price by leveraging a companies cash reserves or salable assets. Apple did do a stock buy back but not a wasteful one. Icahn was not happy .
Apples foray into buying expensive things like Didi or Beats shares is weird. It's the reverse play many growth companies do. A overvalued growth company will often buy a cheap value company outside its area of expertise to give it delve revenue and to take advantage of its anomalous p:E . Apple is buying risky companies using its enormous unspent revenue. The idea I think is to raise the p/e which would have made Icahn happy I guess. Too late.
$1.75 with free shipping and pin headers is effectively less than $1.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Pr...?
Since I can buy an arduino or ESP8266 for essentially the same price what is this getting me besides some new unsupported hardware?
My computer has been freezing a lot since I installed el capitan. But I figured it was because the hardware was dieing. So I'm so happy to hear it might not be the hardware!!!
another thing it started doing is it can't remember my icloud password more than a day. keeps asking me.
It's "free" for the insurance companies to give women birth control pills because the baseline cost without them includes the risk of covering your pregnancy.
Like wise for the ISPs they'd rather you were watching TV mulit-cast than streaming netflix on demand.
So they can offer you a bundle for less cost than they could sell you uncapped internet.
I don't think they are trying to bribe "the chinese" they are probably trying to bribe a particular chniese person(s). Presumably those people buy didi stock at apple's "suggestion". Apple announces the investment. stock rises and they sell. They also get to tell their minions this tip as well.
hey fox news has Colmes.
"We have found no evidence that this report is true" may be the contrapositive of we have found evidence it is false but it's not the same thing
this is just the old bandwidth comparison between a staionwagon full of mag tapes versus the internet. yes the station wagon wins on carry more with less effort. but it loses on latency. Hyperloop is for people, freight trains are for freight.
is 4.5g forces. That's the lower bound on how many g's it pulled in the test. if you accelerated that fact to 750 miles per hour that's 7 seconds. You would pass out unless you were in a g-suite, and maybe even then.