Seattle has the early adopter problem. We got full Mbps DSL before most of the country but now aging equipment and wiring means that original 1.5 Mbps we had originally no longer often works. I have ISDN at home, and the per minute charges suck.
people left due to there shrinking library months of the same stuff may 1 or 2 new movies etc.
This story is not about people leaving. It's about them not getting as many NEW customers as they thought.
Of all the streaming services, Netflix has the highest member retention.
Rate of growth is slowing down. Market economy requires growth to accelerate. Slowing growth give investors the heebie jeebies and they get frightened and run away.
Likely their crackdown on VPNs and foreign subscribers has also contributed somewhat to the churn.
If they'd let paying customers, you know, be paying customers then maybe they'd be in a better position now.
Probably not their decision. Netflix would love not to have any regional restrictions. Content owners and governments have other ideas.
I wonder if Netflix is trying to force the content owners hands on this. By going along with them they will be forcing many Netflix customers to start torrenting again. The content owners should be able to detect the rise in piracy and, possibly, realise that they have to allow content to be viewed globally.
But there are a few things wrong with this picture:
1. The content owners aren't in a position to simply relax the regional restrictions. In many cases there are extremely intricate and complex contractual issues. Every person who appears in the credits may have a contract which includes residual earnings from the show they appeared in and these contracts may mention things about regions etc. In cases like these the content owner would be legally obligated to renegotiate the contract with EVERY SINGLE person whose name is in the credits. Thats a fucking huge amount of work and would be very expensive.
2. Netflix has forced people to think hard about whether Netflix actually has content they are interested in. Many of these people are realising that Netflix content is pretty dull, backward, incomplete and unreliable (ie things just get removed at random).
The real reason for people leaving Netflix is the blocking of VPNs and proxies and the dull nature of Netflix original content.
And since it appears that most all movies today are remakes, and often not that good, why buy into that?
Plus I'm getting sick of virtually everything I watch being US propaganda. I just finished watching Falling Skies (not available on Netflix) and, while it has interesting concepts, its just a rampant 'Murcan propaganda show.
Different strokes. Personally, I'm loving their original content!
House of Cards Orange is the New Black Daredevil Jessica Jones Sense8 Marco Polo Love Peaky Blinders and now Stranger Things
I've heard Bloodline is good, and Luke Cage is coming. Some of their comedy specials aren't too bad either. Ali Wong's "Baby Cobra"...I haven't laughed that hard in a while.
For me, it's been a long time since I've been this happy with video content. I recently ditched cable and I'm not going back. Netflix is, at the very least, doing it as well as most anybody else is and without the support of commercial sponsors.
How much time do you want to spend in front of a television anyway?
Yeah all those ones you mention, I find pretty dull. Especially Dare Devil and Jessica Jones, normally I love action hero stuff but those just bore the pants off me. I tried Stranger Things recently, couldn't get past the first 30 minutes.
Market economy depends on accelerating growth; not only must their subscriber base grow but the rate of growth must grow. The fact that rate of growth has declined is utterly terrifying to investors.
Cripes, it's an open carry state, with an open carry believers, for a candidate that encouraged his followers to beat up protestors.
If some one doesn't take a shot at them, then they will take a shot at the protestors.
I would offer odds, 2:1 that someone attending the convention or a protesting against the convention will end up trying to shoot someone
I would be more worried about those unlawfully carrying than those who are legally open carrying or those who are legally carrying concealed (with a permit). My guess is that most folks who are open carrying are doing so to promote / exercise their rights and are being responsible about it. The last thing folks emphasizing their rights want to do is perform an action (shoot someone in this case) that has the effect of generating negative public opinion.
A big subtext of open carry is they think they look really cool, authoritative, and intimidating with their big guns. On their own you can just kind of ignore them and let them do their thing, but they're walking into a scenario where there's a lot of people on both sides who are brimming for a fight and trying to show they won't back down.
All you need is a few open carry folks who really want to show they're in charge, some protesters who want to call their bluff, and things escalating into violence. It might not happen, but there's an unusual number of bad factors at work.
When you look at the list of banned items at the RNC it becomes clear that Americans are not convinced that their guns can protect them from people armed with knives, nunchuks or tennis balls.
This makes it even more obvious that the purpose of carrying guns is to show virility and penis size.
Seriously; they are permitting guns and banning tennis balls. They are so terrified that their guns won't be of any use in defending themselves that they have to ban tennis balls. CLEARLY the real purpose of carrying guns is not self defense.
Yeah, because people with OPEN carry shoot others all the time for no reason. Meanwhile, anti-cop racist assholes have killed and shot over a dozen cops in the last couple weeks, and you're scared about Trump supporters? Yeah, Liberalism has no bias at all. SMH
People have right to defend themselves, don't they?
Apparently guns are no use in defending yourself from people with knives, nunchuks or TENNIS BALLS.
I'm not sure why you seem to think that a volatile high stress situation like this, with lots of firearms thrown into the mix, somehow isn't a situation where someone is likely to get shot, one way or another. The GP even noted that it could occur on either side. I'd hate to be a cop in that mix, or a protester, nevermind some poor jerk just trying to go to my regular job.
I'm just glad I'm not anywhere near there, but it sure must suck to be those people.
Apparently people with tennis balls can overpower and kill people with guns, because while guns are going to be permitted, tennis balls are considered too dangerous.
I guess the old adage is true; never take a gun to a tennis ball fight.
Cripes, it's an open carry state, with an open carry believers, for a candidate that encouraged his followers to beat up protestors.
If some one doesn't take a shot at them, then they will take a shot at the protestors.
I would offer odds, 2:1 that someone attending the convention or a protesting against the convention will end up trying to shoot someone
I would be more worried about those unlawfully carrying than those who are legally open carrying or those who are legally carrying concealed (with a permit). My guess is that most folks who are open carrying are doing so to promote / exercise their rights and are being responsible about it. The last thing folks emphasizing their rights want to do is perform an action (shoot someone in this case) that has the effect of generating negative public opinion.
The reason you should be worried about the people legally open carrying is because of what is likely to happen if a single shot is fired by someone illegally carrying and intending mayhem; the well-meaning, legally open carrying folks will likely start shooting all around themselves and, totally not meaning to, kill and wound everyone else.
What they should do is have EVERYONE compulsory wearing full body kevlar armor!
Go watch 2001, a Space Odyssey again. It was done with miniatures and painted glass mattes. It still feels a lot more real than a lot of modern movies.
Gerry Anderson. Not only actual models but actual pyrotechnics! Theres nothing like stuff actually catching fire and exploding!
Of course, these days, in Hollywood there would be some major insurance and litigation issues to cover so use of real pyrotechnics in movie making has to be a thing of the past in North America.
Yeah, my advice to Netflix would be don't bother, we already have access thanks. Torrents plus Plex is better than Netflix by a long way.
LOL I just got an email from Netflix saying that season 7 of Archer is NOW AVAILABLE! Hah well bad news, Netflix, I downloaded it and watched it already. Until Netflix can get updates on time they are second rate.
Go Kiwi ! Real proud to call this country my home, and of the people who make it the way it is.
I used to like living in NZ too, but theres two things that made me leave;
Geographic isolation. I like living on a large continental landmass rather than a small island at the bottom of the planet. The feeling of connectedness with the world, the ability to, if I so desired, get in a car and drive from Europe to Asia or travel by train from London to Saigon. Just wow. The NZ equivalent would involve blue water sailing. Airline flights and cruise liners are pretty expensive.
Geological instability. NZ regularly gets paved over by volcanic activity and earthquakes. Taupo is a crater lake, the whole North Island is a gigantic volcano; Ruapehu and Taranaki are VENTS from this huge volcano. Very very large vents. The reason NZ has very few native freshwater fish (IIRC there are two native species, both very very small) is because the rivers and streams are regularly purged out.
I think long term. If my descendants are all in NZ then they are quite likely to all die.
I wish I could live in NZ, its a nice enough place with nice enough people (though I often found the NZ friendliness a bit forced, as if Kiwis feel like they MUST appear to be happy and friendly at all times, even if they hate you or are really miserable inside so they walk down the street with fixed grins on their faces. The more friendly a Kiwi is toward you, the more likely it is that they really don't like you at all).
Kind of sounds like an unwise investment with the expected sea level rise to be between 1 and 3 metres. I hope that beach is deep because they likely have bought something that will become nothing. Investing in underwater front properties at this time is likely not the wisest decision. In fact much of the underwater front market will likely end up in investment funds and sold onto to pension funds (long leased back to current owners at and then abandoned once flooded and the lease broken, bad luck for the pension funds). I wonder how many other buy back the beach crowd funding scams will kick off. There is billions of dollars of property that needs to be dumped on the public purse and I am sure all sorts of scams will be kicked off to do it, the wildest of which will be in Florida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (Florida the ocean wants it swamps back and it will get them).
Yeah indeed.
What you do is invest in properties a bit back from the beach and, simultaneously, invest in stuff that makes global warming worse!
Big fan of the UBI, and yet I think this guy's not entirely wrong. People talk about phase-in's like "we start with $5,000 for everybody, then ramp up year over year by x dollars. This guy is saying something more, I think, like start with a livable amount for the very poor, and work your way up the income ladder. Think it'll peter out before it gets to the rich? You don't know any rich folks, do you? Wealth trickles up, anyhow...
I think that the real problem, for democracies, is the long term nature of this. No democracy can plan more than an election cycle ahead. China, on the other hand, may be able to do this.
maybe she gave the job to boris to keep him out of the country for as long as possible. i wouldn't have liam fox anywhere near a government post as he's already proved he has no clue by taking his "boyfriend" to security meetings
She gave the job to Boris because she hates foreigners!
Slashdot Mirror
Then how do you fix it and remove the Malware/corruption?
Maybe:
fastboot flash system system.img
I'm wondering what effect this will have on people building their own ROM!
Netflix is at $85 after this big after-hours drop. On June 27, they were...$85.
Technical traders (the ones who use charts to predict, no matter the news) will buy like crazy tomorrow.
Wow so it hasn't increased! Thats going to scare the crap out of investors!
Seattle has the early adopter problem. We got full Mbps DSL before most of the country but now aging equipment and wiring means that original 1.5 Mbps we had originally no longer often works. I have ISDN at home, and the per minute charges suck.
Its not just early adopter problem.
Its also that the city forbids upgrades.
The new Netflix original show Stranger Things is fantastic. Give the first episode a watch before canceling.
Better option; Cancel Netflix, download it and watch it.
This story is not about people leaving. It's about them not getting as many NEW customers as they thought.
Of all the streaming services, Netflix has the highest member retention.
Rate of growth is slowing down. Market economy requires growth to accelerate. Slowing growth give investors the heebie jeebies and they get frightened and run away.
Likely their crackdown on VPNs and foreign subscribers has also contributed somewhat to the churn.
If they'd let paying customers, you know, be paying customers then maybe they'd be in a better position now.
Probably not their decision. Netflix would love not to have any regional restrictions. Content owners and governments have other ideas.
I wonder if Netflix is trying to force the content owners hands on this. By going along with them they will be forcing many Netflix customers to start torrenting again. The content owners should be able to detect the rise in piracy and, possibly, realise that they have to allow content to be viewed globally.
But there are a few things wrong with this picture:
1. The content owners aren't in a position to simply relax the regional restrictions. In many cases there are extremely intricate and complex contractual issues. Every person who appears in the credits may have a contract which includes residual earnings from the show they appeared in and these contracts may mention things about regions etc. In cases like these the content owner would be legally obligated to renegotiate the contract with EVERY SINGLE person whose name is in the credits. Thats a fucking huge amount of work and would be very expensive.
2. Netflix has forced people to think hard about whether Netflix actually has content they are interested in. Many of these people are realising that Netflix content is pretty dull, backward, incomplete and unreliable (ie things just get removed at random).
That's certainly why this user in the UK left them.
The UK catalogue is pathetic.
Ugh I grew up in the UK, I can imagine, especially if its mainly UK content!
The real reason for people leaving Netflix is the blocking of VPNs and proxies and the dull nature of Netflix original content.
And since it appears that most all movies today are remakes, and often not that good, why buy into that?
Plus I'm getting sick of virtually everything I watch being US propaganda. I just finished watching Falling Skies (not available on Netflix) and, while it has interesting concepts, its just a rampant 'Murcan propaganda show.
Jessica Jones dull? David Tenant plays one of the most vile and twisted villains I've ever seen.
Unfortunately I find David Tenant utterly detestable.
and the dull nature of Netflix original content
Different strokes. Personally, I'm loving their original content!
House of Cards
Orange is the New Black
Daredevil
Jessica Jones
Sense8
Marco Polo
Love
Peaky Blinders
and now Stranger Things
I've heard Bloodline is good, and Luke Cage is coming. Some of their comedy specials aren't too bad either. Ali Wong's "Baby Cobra"...I haven't laughed that hard in a while.
For me, it's been a long time since I've been this happy with video content. I recently ditched cable and I'm not going back. Netflix is, at the very least, doing it as well as most anybody else is and without the support of commercial sponsors.
How much time do you want to spend in front of a television anyway?
Yeah all those ones you mention, I find pretty dull. Especially Dare Devil and Jessica Jones, normally I love action hero stuff but those just bore the pants off me. I tried Stranger Things recently, couldn't get past the first 30 minutes.
Maybe I'm just strange.
Pay attention to the summaries, you nitwit!
Market economy depends on accelerating growth; not only must their subscriber base grow but the rate of growth must grow. The fact that rate of growth has declined is utterly terrifying to investors.
Cripes, it's an open carry state, with an open carry believers, for a candidate that encouraged his followers to beat up protestors.
If some one doesn't take a shot at them, then they will take a shot at the protestors.
I would offer odds, 2:1 that someone attending the convention or a protesting against the convention will end up trying to shoot someone
I would be more worried about those unlawfully carrying than those who are legally open carrying or those who are legally carrying concealed (with a permit). My guess is that most folks who are open carrying are doing so to promote / exercise their rights and are being responsible about it. The last thing folks emphasizing their rights want to do is perform an action (shoot someone in this case) that has the effect of generating negative public opinion.
A big subtext of open carry is they think they look really cool, authoritative, and intimidating with their big guns. On their own you can just kind of ignore them and let them do their thing, but they're walking into a scenario where there's a lot of people on both sides who are brimming for a fight and trying to show they won't back down.
All you need is a few open carry folks who really want to show they're in charge, some protesters who want to call their bluff, and things escalating into violence. It might not happen, but there's an unusual number of bad factors at work.
When you look at the list of banned items at the RNC it becomes clear that Americans are not convinced that their guns can protect them from people armed with knives, nunchuks or tennis balls.
This makes it even more obvious that the purpose of carrying guns is to show virility and penis size.
Seriously; they are permitting guns and banning tennis balls. They are so terrified that their guns won't be of any use in defending themselves that they have to ban tennis balls. CLEARLY the real purpose of carrying guns is not self defense.
Yeah, because people with OPEN carry shoot others all the time for no reason. Meanwhile, anti-cop racist assholes have killed and shot over a dozen cops in the last couple weeks, and you're scared about Trump supporters? Yeah, Liberalism has no bias at all. SMH
People have right to defend themselves, don't they?
Apparently guns are no use in defending yourself from people with knives, nunchuks or TENNIS BALLS.
I'm not sure why you seem to think that a volatile high stress situation like this, with lots of firearms thrown into the mix, somehow isn't a situation where someone is likely to get shot, one way or another. The GP even noted that it could occur on either side. I'd hate to be a cop in that mix, or a protester, nevermind some poor jerk just trying to go to my regular job.
I'm just glad I'm not anywhere near there, but it sure must suck to be those people.
Apparently people with tennis balls can overpower and kill people with guns, because while guns are going to be permitted, tennis balls are considered too dangerous.
I guess the old adage is true; never take a gun to a tennis ball fight.
The real reason for people leaving Netflix is the blocking of VPNs and proxies and the dull nature of Netflix original content.
Cripes, it's an open carry state, with an open carry believers, for a candidate that encouraged his followers to beat up protestors.
If some one doesn't take a shot at them, then they will take a shot at the protestors.
I would offer odds, 2:1 that someone attending the convention or a protesting against the convention will end up trying to shoot someone
I would be more worried about those unlawfully carrying than those who are legally open carrying or those who are legally carrying concealed (with a permit). My guess is that most folks who are open carrying are doing so to promote / exercise their rights and are being responsible about it. The last thing folks emphasizing their rights want to do is perform an action (shoot someone in this case) that has the effect of generating negative public opinion.
The reason you should be worried about the people legally open carrying is because of what is likely to happen if a single shot is fired by someone illegally carrying and intending mayhem; the well-meaning, legally open carrying folks will likely start shooting all around themselves and, totally not meaning to, kill and wound everyone else.
What they should do is have EVERYONE compulsory wearing full body kevlar armor!
Cripes, it's an open carry state, with an open carry believers, for a candidate that encouraged his followers to beat up protestors.
If some one doesn't take a shot at them, then they will take a shot at the protestors.
I would offer odds, 2:1 that someone attending the convention or a protesting against the convention will end up trying to shoot someone
All it will take is one person firing one shot.
Then everyone else with their guns will all start shooting and there will be a major bloodbath.
Thats what makes 'Murca great.
Go watch 2001, a Space Odyssey again. It was done with miniatures and painted glass mattes. It still feels a lot more real than a lot of modern movies.
Gerry Anderson. Not only actual models but actual pyrotechnics! Theres nothing like stuff actually catching fire and exploding!
Of course, these days, in Hollywood there would be some major insurance and litigation issues to cover so use of real pyrotechnics in movie making has to be a thing of the past in North America.
torrent
Yeah, my advice to Netflix would be don't bother, we already have access thanks. Torrents plus Plex is better than Netflix by a long way.
LOL I just got an email from Netflix saying that season 7 of Archer is NOW AVAILABLE! Hah well bad news, Netflix, I downloaded it and watched it already. Until Netflix can get updates on time they are second rate.
Go Kiwi ! Real proud to call this country my home, and of the people who make it the way it is.
I used to like living in NZ too, but theres two things that made me leave;
Geographic isolation. I like living on a large continental landmass rather than a small island at the bottom of the planet. The feeling of connectedness with the world, the ability to, if I so desired, get in a car and drive from Europe to Asia or travel by train from London to Saigon. Just wow. The NZ equivalent would involve blue water sailing. Airline flights and cruise liners are pretty expensive.
Geological instability. NZ regularly gets paved over by volcanic activity and earthquakes. Taupo is a crater lake, the whole North Island is a gigantic volcano; Ruapehu and Taranaki are VENTS from this huge volcano. Very very large vents. The reason NZ has very few native freshwater fish (IIRC there are two native species, both very very small) is because the rivers and streams are regularly purged out.
I think long term. If my descendants are all in NZ then they are quite likely to all die.
I wish I could live in NZ, its a nice enough place with nice enough people (though I often found the NZ friendliness a bit forced, as if Kiwis feel like they MUST appear to be happy and friendly at all times, even if they hate you or are really miserable inside so they walk down the street with fixed grins on their faces. The more friendly a Kiwi is toward you, the more likely it is that they really don't like you at all).
Kind of sounds like an unwise investment with the expected sea level rise to be between 1 and 3 metres. I hope that beach is deep because they likely have bought something that will become nothing. Investing in underwater front properties at this time is likely not the wisest decision. In fact much of the underwater front market will likely end up in investment funds and sold onto to pension funds (long leased back to current owners at and then abandoned once flooded and the lease broken, bad luck for the pension funds). I wonder how many other buy back the beach crowd funding scams will kick off. There is billions of dollars of property that needs to be dumped on the public purse and I am sure all sorts of scams will be kicked off to do it, the wildest of which will be in Florida https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... (Florida the ocean wants it swamps back and it will get them).
Yeah indeed.
What you do is invest in properties a bit back from the beach and, simultaneously, invest in stuff that makes global warming worse!
LOL
Butthead
'Regulatory approval' LOL
WTF should there be any need for 'regulatory approval'?
Big fan of the UBI, and yet I think this guy's not entirely wrong. People talk about phase-in's like "we start with $5,000 for everybody, then ramp up year over year by x dollars. This guy is saying something more, I think, like start with a livable amount for the very poor, and work your way up the income ladder. Think it'll peter out before it gets to the rich? You don't know any rich folks, do you? Wealth trickles up, anyhow ...
I think that the real problem, for democracies, is the long term nature of this. No democracy can plan more than an election cycle ahead. China, on the other hand, may be able to do this.
maybe she gave the job to boris to keep him out of the country for as long as possible.
i wouldn't have liam fox anywhere near a government post as he's already proved he has no clue by taking his "boyfriend" to security meetings
She gave the job to Boris because she hates foreigners!
TL;DR, she's a cunt... a right old school authoritarian one...
Big Sister is watching!