Both, the vast majority of everything ever is garbage.
This includes streaming selections.
I know you will mention you and your children enjoy child molester ball, I mean handegg, I mean football. I can honestly do without sports if they don't want my money. I am not so emotionally attached to the accomplishments of others.
At minimum wage cheap entertainment is a key thing. He cannot afford many of the amusements I have and enjoy. He has a hard enough life without you trying reduce him to a machine. Humans need entertainment as surely as they need food and water.
A roku or better yet a used one would be something he would be well served to have. It is costs no more than a trip to the movies for two people and will let him use services far cheaper than cable television. While I was not at minimum wage I remember when $50 was a large purchase for me and at that time I needed entertainment and escape more than ever.
That is not a technical reason. That is the same bullshit that keeps netflix from streaming every video ever recorded.
I do not want a kindle. I like having real android tablets. I dislike e-ink. It refreshes slowly, flickers badly when it does refresh, lacks lighting and in general looks like phonebook print. I know the e-ink fanbois will now flame me, but I just looked at some devices last weekend and they still look this crappy.
1. they commonly do not have any discs but make it appear as though they do 2. if you do not have an available item in the top 15 it will mail out nothing. 3. blockbuster sucks
They have and they are. The current show Lillyhammer is pretty good, assuming you can read. Some people seem to not be able to, thus subtitled programs are too complicated for them.
The next big thing is new episodes of Arrested Development, which I am very interested in.
I believe only the package deal, which is what I have.
They screw you on the kindle books if you don't own a kindle brand device. Which is almost enough to make me cancel it. There is no reason why any android device cannot get the free books.
If the costs were reasonable I would pay for it but they are not so I will not.
To me reasonable would be 50% of the DVD price to buy and competitive with redbox for rental. Meaning a typical TV series should not cost more than $4 to rent, since they rarely take up more than 4 DVDs.
Netflix works fine on original Droid phones. If you upgrade it to an aftermarket OS you might have to do some work to get it to work well, but not very hard.
I get amazon streaming with prime as well. Which finally works on the PS3, that only took years. They still will not stream prime videos to my android device for free, unless I use flash.
The netflix selection is much better than it was a year ago, still not great but good enough vs what is on TV anyway.
I would not have it, if I had not gotten a PS3 for free. If Amazon ever gets a real selection for prime streaming I will switch to that. I will not pay $1 to rent a half hour show. $0.25/hour would be about the most i would pay.
This and streaming are the only ways I watch TV shows. If dvd by mail were to end I would just use streaming. It would be a loss but nothing for me to worry over.
If they had any idea what the private sector was going through they would be spending even more. When governments can borrow at negative rates they should do so and use that money to build infrastructure.
I went the other way. Bought a Macbook air and had to install linux. Even after getting FFM to work using a pay for product and installing fink and iterm2 it was still a pain in the ass. I could never get the 10 key input working in vim on any server I connected to, lack of X style highlighting and middle click paste, and so on.
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Both, the vast majority of everything ever is garbage.
This includes streaming selections.
I know you will mention you and your children enjoy child molester ball, I mean handegg, I mean football. I can honestly do without sports if they don't want my money. I am not so emotionally attached to the accomplishments of others.
Why fill up my house with discs I will never watch again? Or hassle with reselling them?
There is another solution one we already adopted, most people do not live in rural areas.
For those people that do, DVD by mail will be around a long time.
Or just rip ones you already own.
Handbrake is free and easy to use.
At minimum wage cheap entertainment is a key thing. He cannot afford many of the amusements I have and enjoy. He has a hard enough life without you trying reduce him to a machine. Humans need entertainment as surely as they need food and water.
A roku or better yet a used one would be something he would be well served to have. It is costs no more than a trip to the movies for two people and will let him use services far cheaper than cable television. While I was not at minimum wage I remember when $50 was a large purchase for me and at that time I needed entertainment and escape more than ever.
Clearly we define work differently. I hate when I lose 4G on my smartphone, 3G is just so damn slow.
I would never use anything more demanding than ssh over dialup.
That is not a technical reason. That is the same bullshit that keeps netflix from streaming every video ever recorded.
I do not want a kindle. I like having real android tablets. I dislike e-ink. It refreshes slowly, flickers badly when it does refresh, lacks lighting and in general looks like phonebook print. I know the e-ink fanbois will now flame me, but I just looked at some devices last weekend and they still look this crappy.
Hastings is on the MS board. Netflix chose silverlight to promote silverlight. It really is that simple.
It works on linux if MS would hand over the DRM binary, they will not ever do that.
The blockbuster service is not near identical.
1. they commonly do not have any discs but make it appear as though they do
2. if you do not have an available item in the top 15 it will mail out nothing.
3. blockbuster sucks
The rest of your comment I agree with
They have and they are. The current show Lillyhammer is pretty good, assuming you can read. Some people seem to not be able to, thus subtitled programs are too complicated for them.
The next big thing is new episodes of Arrested Development, which I am very interested in.
A roku costs $50, even at minimum wage that is less than a days worth of earnings.
The dialup is indeed an issue, but for any use of the internet not just streaming video.
I believe only the package deal, which is what I have.
They screw you on the kindle books if you don't own a kindle brand device. Which is almost enough to make me cancel it. There is no reason why any android device cannot get the free books.
If the costs were reasonable I would pay for it but they are not so I will not.
To me reasonable would be 50% of the DVD price to buy and competitive with redbox for rental. Meaning a typical TV series should not cost more than $4 to rent, since they rarely take up more than 4 DVDs.
Netflix works fine on original Droid phones.
If you upgrade it to an aftermarket OS you might have to do some work to get it to work well, but not very hard.
For $20 I can pay for netflix for a month.
I do not watch very many cartoons.
I get amazon streaming with prime as well. Which finally works on the PS3, that only took years. They still will not stream prime videos to my android device for free, unless I use flash.
The netflix selection is much better than it was a year ago, still not great but good enough vs what is on TV anyway.
Because Amazon has far less selection?
I would not have it, if I had not gotten a PS3 for free. If Amazon ever gets a real selection for prime streaming I will switch to that. I will not pay $1 to rent a half hour show. $0.25/hour would be about the most i would pay.
This and streaming are the only ways I watch TV shows. If dvd by mail were to end I would just use streaming. It would be a loss but nothing for me to worry over.
Who says LCDs are bad for your eyesight?
Lets see some studies, otherwise I am calling that an old wives tale.
Purpose built ereaders use eink because it is cheap and low power usage. Any impact on human vision is only anecdotal as far as I know.
How will that make defense contractors rich?
How do I use this slide lock when I leave my things in the room but I wish to leave?
Should I hire someone to operate that for me?
If they had any idea what the private sector was going through they would be spending even more. When governments can borrow at negative rates they should do so and use that money to build infrastructure.
Many of those safes have backup passwords, hotels generally do not change the default one.
I went the other way. Bought a Macbook air and had to install linux. Even after getting FFM to work using a pay for product and installing fink and iterm2 it was still a pain in the ass. I could never get the 10 key input working in vim on any server I connected to, lack of X style highlighting and middle click paste, and so on.
To each his own.
I do not know and I do not care. I would assume plenty though, has its own version of ubuntu.
XFCE if you really care.