Actually I do try as much as possible to find out who I am supporting with my dollars. There are lots of places I will not shop for one reason or another like this. That is called voting with your dollars. Something capitalists seem quite fond of normally. I would not buy a house from a known bigot.
These set top boxes support multiple competing vendors, also I have an HTPC.
Streaming to DVD sounds crazy, stream to HD at least makes some sense for your issue. I don't see buffering, at least none that is not hidden by the interface.
Data caps are stupid and do not address the issue at all. If too many are streaming at peak times then peak bandwidth is what you want to cap not total data transferred.
Then pick one from streaming if you can't plan for anything.
Me personally I put a bunch of things in my DVD queue and mix them up pretty randomly. Since I have 3 disks at a time I always have something I would watch.
I will try to use small words. Card was paid for the rights to this movie already. This is based on the producer expecting a profit. If the producer makes that profit he may decide to give Mr.Card more money for sequels.
Was that simple enough for you?
Even if there were no sequels I would not see it, I don't want to enrich anyone who gives Mr.Card money.
With remote desktop like connections Mars would be out of the question, as that is minutes away. For something like gaming hundreds of miles is the effective limit before a human notices.
The game caring about timing is not what I am saying.
The wait between button press and the action appearing on screen would be painful. Do you really want to select units then wait 200ms for that to happen?
I have not seen a buffering message in years. I have no interest in commentary tracks and the making of BS, but those are available more and more. The compression artifacts I see are far less noticeable than on cable TV.
You have to remember that for a growing number of people this replaces cable TV. I don't rent anything, I just pay Netflix ~$20, they mail me DVDs and I watch whatever they have on streaming. So I replaced cable for a fraction of the cost.
My ISP charges the same if I use my connection or not.
He got that money based on the assumption that this movie will make money. If people go see it, he will get more money for the sequels. So people who see the movie are in fact making him more money if enough of them do so.
I will not be seeing it, and encouraging others to do the same so that he does not get any more money for the sequels.
So? I for the same reason will not be voting for this with my dollars. People who associate with him are not people I want to encourage to continue to do so.
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That is the point of capitalism. We can all buy what we want from who we want.
Actually I do try as much as possible to find out who I am supporting with my dollars. There are lots of places I will not shop for one reason or another like this. That is called voting with your dollars. Something capitalists seem quite fond of normally.
I would not buy a house from a known bigot.
Plug them into something else?
These set top boxes support multiple competing vendors, also I have an HTPC.
Streaming to DVD sounds crazy, stream to HD at least makes some sense for your issue. I don't see buffering, at least none that is not hidden by the interface.
Data caps are stupid and do not address the issue at all. If too many are streaming at peak times then peak bandwidth is what you want to cap not total data transferred.
I have not seen any buffering delay in quite some time, years. Besides it would be done before the unskippable previews on your disk end.
Oh noes netflix knows what programs I watched! The horror, the horror. Yeah your tinfoil hat is on way too tight.
All they can do with that data is use it to figure out what to recommend.
Then pick one from streaming if you can't plan for anything.
Me personally I put a bunch of things in my DVD queue and mix them up pretty randomly. Since I have 3 disks at a time I always have something I would watch.
No, but my experience likely is similar to most people who leave near (within 500 miles) either coast. Which is most Americans.
I think your tinfoil hat is on too tight.
My TV does not have a camera.
How does waiting a long time, driving to a store, and returning a disk beat pressing play?
Fine so call it $16/month and now netflix will mail you DVDs as well.
They actually have some new movies and lots of fairly new TV shows. Hell, I don't have cable so it's all new to me.
I will try to use small words. Card was paid for the rights to this movie already. This is based on the producer expecting a profit. If the producer makes that profit he may decide to give Mr.Card more money for sequels.
Was that simple enough for you?
Even if there were no sequels I would not see it, I don't want to enrich anyone who gives Mr.Card money.
Why would anyone not fish out all the fish if they owned them?
I will only live another ~70 years. I might as well take my money now.
You are letting your ideology blind you to reality.
With remote desktop like connections Mars would be out of the question, as that is minutes away. For something like gaming hundreds of miles is the effective limit before a human notices.
Yup.
I would have an internet connection no matter what, and I don't pay for using it.
The game caring about timing is not what I am saying.
The wait between button press and the action appearing on screen would be painful. Do you really want to select units then wait 200ms for that to happen?
What TV is it? Because for that price I find that pretty surprising. Even the $850 LG 60"s have netflix.
Not really, I do it all the time waiting for Drs and the like.
You can get a $35 box to connect to anything with HDMI to do this.
What exactly is more convenient than picking up the TV remote and selecting the next video to play?
How in the hell are DVDs cheaper than a flat $7.99/month?
I have not seen a buffering message in years. I have no interest in commentary tracks and the making of BS, but those are available more and more. The compression artifacts I see are far less noticeable than on cable TV.
You have to remember that for a growing number of people this replaces cable TV. I don't rent anything, I just pay Netflix ~$20, they mail me DVDs and I watch whatever they have on streaming. So I replaced cable for a fraction of the cost.
My ISP charges the same if I use my connection or not.
Yes, or they own a $35 machine that plugs into the TV for this purpose.
Maybe you should learn something.
He got that money based on the assumption that this movie will make money. If people go see it, he will get more money for the sequels. So people who see the movie are in fact making him more money if enough of them do so.
I will not be seeing it, and encouraging others to do the same so that he does not get any more money for the sequels.
How hard is it for you to grasp that I don't want to support a bigot?
I will be happy to separate the artist from the art when he is not being paid for it.
So?
I for the same reason will not be voting for this with my dollars. People who associate with him are not people I want to encourage to continue to do so.
Only ones that have no idea what they are talking about.
You are running that game locally, with a network connection to your friend. This means the game can cheat in many ways to cover up latency.
If you were instead running the game on a server some place and using something like remote desktop you would find 200ms pretty much intolerable.