i have the single disc at a time plan in my household and i'm lucky - really lucky - if i turn around 2 discs per week. it requires watching the movie the day i get it and putting it in the post the very next day religiously - and having never-fail post office pick ups and drop offs. some weeks i manage it, most weeks not. i probably avg 5 discs per month on this plan, so netflix is spending 5 bucks a month in postage on my account. big difference between that and 25 cents for streaming the same content right?
not so fast. while i may watch one or two dvds by mail each week, there's no end to how many shows i can stream. it's really limited only by how much junk i can stand consuming. a family could effortlessly go through 2 or three movies a day. more even. if as hoped internet tv begins to replace typical american ota and cable tv viewing habits of 5-6 hours per person per day then netflix is looking at streaming 3-4 programs per night per household member. call it 100 shows per month, bringing their streaming costs to five dollars. or the same they're paying to service my mail account right now.
i'm sure they know all this but within a short while i have no doubt their streaming costs will exceed their previous postage costs, and then these huge and growing content licensing fees will weigh them down like a shipping container filled with obsolete vhs cut outs.
they may even look back on their old snail mail model with envy.
i just picked mark twain's "new" autobiography from amazon, after calling border's only to be told it was "in the warehouse."
border's price? $35.99 plus tx
amazon? $19.99 no tx, no s/h.
connecticut's 6% tax would have barely changed the fact that amazon is overwhelmingly competitive v/v the other chain. after hearing border's price i felt like they were trying to take advantage of me. matter of fact, in comparison to amazon even with the tax, they were.
as for the writer's contention that in locales where amazon has physical presences but doesn't pay for fire, police and other services they avail themselves of, i don't know how they do things in those places but here in ct the towns charge property owners property taxes on physical assets stranded at the local level and those services are delivered at the local level by the towns collecting the cash, not by the state, and the inter city services like highway (construction and maintenance) come from user fees such as gas taxes, and of course income and payroll taxes on workers.
leaving aside the fact that buyers are responsible for sales taxes in the first place, not sellers, if amazon itself is arguably enjoying some sort of tax advantage anyway, the statement that they "don't pay for services" or somehow get them for free is false, at least in my state. they pay, they may not distribute as much, but they pay. every quarter a whole bunch of funds having nothing to do with point of sale taxes pour into the coffers of the cities and states from which amazon and similar online merchants operate.
since according to tfa nobody really needs onboard storage anymore, they'll be perfectly fine paying 20 times more for the storage they won't use.
otoh, since i didn't get that particular memo, i just bought a 2tb outboard drive for $99.99. that's 5 cents a gb, or 1/20 the cost of an ssd. and believe me, i need all that and more the way my media's piling up, when every time i "tivo" a netflix dvd to my drive i lose another four gigs.
hey, a quarter here, a quarter there and pretty soon i have enough money to send bainwol and glickman greeting cards.
so true. i pick up 4-5 yo 3 gig p4s for twenty bucks or less at tag sales. that seems to be the going rate (craigslist is a ripoff). the dells with the ghost partition are the easiest. 5 mins and you're back to factory xp settings. then two sticks of mem if you like, sp3 and k-lite and it's basically up to the minute for anything but gaming. it really is a huge change from a decade ago when boxes were underwhelming soon after purchase.
and so am I, it's a funny article and an easy target. But when the science being reported on turns out to be dodgy (sugar causes diabetes, salt causes high blood pressure, high fructose corn syrup causes etc), the write-by-numbers approach with its rote opposing opinions and seemingly spineless journalistic waffling can remind readers not to get too caught up in the latest theory du jour.
Sure, I love the exuberant decisiveness and manic clarity of the Weekly World News (who doesn't?) but all in all I think major us newspapers do a pretty good job in presenting this admittedly complicated and theoretical stuff, particularly when read with a bit of skepticism.
and pronto. Hydraulic fracturing of shale is an absolutely legitimate health and environmental concern. There is no place for his behavior in Penn or any other state. The Justice Dept should get on this and him.
Besides, technically the EPB doesn't produce power either, it's the middleman for the TVA.
That's where we're at in Connecticut now, at least technically. The long established utility spun off its generation assets and became a distribution only entity. It's not working in any way as competitively as was described by regulators prior to deregulation. We have after all, the highest rates in the continental US. Still, I have to think selling access to info is even more lucrative than selling access to power, regardless of who generates it.
In any event, this is file-sharing heaven.
Even if those symmetrical speeds exist only within the confines of the EPB service area, we're looking at a mesh that when fully subscribed would be nearly 500 times bigger than a KaZaa node, and more than 15 times larger than one from a circa 2000 Napster server. A giant, city-wide WAN of tremendous throughput.
That's lot of content potential, and with theoretical transfer times of 3 1/2 mins for an average Blu-Ray, a profound amount P2P potential.
I can see this subscribed to by small businesses with data heavy uploads (film production companies, ad agencies etc). Spread across an office of 20 employees, $350 is peanuts when each worker is getting 50mps, assuming it's symmetrical.
However I think the price for the gigabit service will drop to something hotly competitive like $99 within 36 months as the electric utility begins poaching customers from the established players when it hits home that selling access to information is more profitable than burning coal.
It wouldn't surprise me if shareholders and even regulators eventually order a spinoff of this tail-wagging-the-dog broadband division, and it winds up with a cable co, where it all gets dialed back to the current offerings.
when the science in favor of it began to get overwhelming i started drinking again after having stopped after college. several years ago i began posting stories here http://www.p2p-zone.com/underground/showthread.php?t=23462
because it simply was a tide too large to ignore.
i don't particularly like drinking, and getting those daily drinks down after years of passing them up proved a lot more difficult than i had initially thought.
it's been about 10 years since i started and while it's easier to drink than it was and i often find myself looking forward to it, it still requires some effort.
i hope it's worth it
the joke will really be on me if these studies turn out to be wrong.
easily done. probably a bunch of hardcore roommates sharing a connection. something along the lines of a frat house.
i did 100 gigs in ten days with 1250 down when oink had a free leach, by myself. i'm adsl 5000 down now so i could do 1.2TB/mo if i had a reason, and free leach at a good private tracker is a great one. with higher speed cable in a houseshare i could see this this happening occasionally, and unremarkably.
the minuscule totals of their least active customers never seem to garner headlines (or refunds), nor do isps offer rollover gigs when their breathless pr results in the inevitable capping. instead we get shocking press releases of gluttonous subscribers making life hell for hapless oligarchs.
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Some good news for a change.
geez i hope they don't do this to movies. it will sabotage all those netflix dvds i "tivo to my harddrive" for "research purposes."
That'll save Hollywood!
Steve jobs or no, if they can shove one of those into an iPad I might just break down and buy one.
i have the single disc at a time plan in my household and i'm lucky - really lucky - if i turn around 2 discs per week. it requires watching the movie the day i get it and putting it in the post the very next day religiously - and having never-fail post office pick ups and drop offs. some weeks i manage it, most weeks not. i probably avg 5 discs per month on this plan, so netflix is spending 5 bucks a month in postage on my account. big difference between that and 25 cents for streaming the same content right?
not so fast. while i may watch one or two dvds by mail each week, there's no end to how many shows i can stream. it's really limited only by how much junk i can stand consuming. a family could effortlessly go through 2 or three movies a day. more even. if as hoped internet tv begins to replace typical american ota and cable tv viewing habits of 5-6 hours per person per day then netflix is looking at streaming 3-4 programs per night per household member. call it 100 shows per month, bringing their streaming costs to five dollars. or the same they're paying to service my mail account right now.
i'm sure they know all this but within a short while i have no doubt their streaming costs will exceed their previous postage costs, and then these huge and growing content licensing fees will weigh them down like a shipping container filled with obsolete vhs cut outs.
they may even look back on their old snail mail model with envy.
- js.
It's "Content Protection"
Which of course is, entirely different.
Assange is dangerous because he makes our Masters mad and that makes it hard for the rest of us.
i just picked mark twain's "new" autobiography from amazon, after calling border's only to be told it was "in the warehouse."
border's price? $35.99 plus tx
amazon? $19.99 no tx, no s/h.
connecticut's 6% tax would have barely changed the fact that amazon is overwhelmingly competitive v/v the other chain. after hearing border's price i felt like they were trying to take advantage of me. matter of fact, in comparison to amazon even with the tax, they were.
as for the writer's contention that in locales where amazon has physical presences but doesn't pay for fire, police and other services they avail themselves of, i don't know how they do things in those places but here in ct the towns charge property owners property taxes on physical assets stranded at the local level and those services are delivered at the local level by the towns collecting the cash, not by the state, and the inter city services like highway (construction and maintenance) come from user fees such as gas taxes, and of course income and payroll taxes on workers.
leaving aside the fact that buyers are responsible for sales taxes in the first place, not sellers, if amazon itself is arguably enjoying some sort of tax advantage anyway, the statement that they "don't pay for services" or somehow get them for free is false, at least in my state. they pay, they may not distribute as much, but they pay. every quarter a whole bunch of funds having nothing to do with point of sale taxes pour into the coffers of the cities and states from which amazon and similar online merchants operate.
- js.
since according to tfa nobody really needs onboard storage anymore, they'll be perfectly fine paying 20 times more for the storage they won't use.
otoh, since i didn't get that particular memo, i just bought a 2tb outboard drive for $99.99. that's 5 cents a gb, or 1/20 the cost of an ssd. and believe me, i need all that and more the way my media's piling up, when every time i "tivo" a netflix dvd to my drive i lose another four gigs.
hey, a quarter here, a quarter there and pretty soon i have enough money to send bainwol and glickman greeting cards.
- js.
so true. it's not like the whole ipod business was built on piracy or anything. i mean ask anyone with a few thousand tracks on their players.
so true. i pick up 4-5 yo 3 gig p4s for twenty bucks or less at tag sales. that seems to be the going rate (craigslist is a ripoff). the dells with the ghost partition are the easiest. 5 mins and you're back to factory xp settings. then two sticks of mem if you like, sp3 and k-lite and it's basically up to the minute for anything but gaming. it really is a huge change from a decade ago when boxes were underwhelming soon after purchase.
Yours is really an argument against DRM more than anything else, and around here you're preaching to the choir, myself included.
is what the boys want, and what those pipestem arms and little waist whisper.
Too bony.
and so am I, it's a funny article and an easy target. But when the science being reported on turns out to be dodgy (sugar causes diabetes, salt causes high blood pressure, high fructose corn syrup causes etc), the write-by-numbers approach with its rote opposing opinions and seemingly spineless journalistic waffling can remind readers not to get too caught up in the latest theory du jour.
Sure, I love the exuberant decisiveness and manic clarity of the Weekly World News (who doesn't?) but all in all I think major us newspapers do a pretty good job in presenting this admittedly complicated and theoretical stuff, particularly when read with a bit of skepticism.
- js.
Just another brown floater in a long depressing stream of never ending draconian legislative BS from big media's favorite strap-on(TM) tool.
It's dead in the water I'm afraid.
It may have been funny in the Swedish dorms, but it's holding you back and globally now.
Time to get serious. And this from a pirate. So have a burial at sea, make it walk the plank, whatever. But jettison the moniker.
- js.
and pronto. Hydraulic fracturing of shale is an absolutely legitimate health and environmental concern. There is no place for his behavior in Penn or any other state. The Justice Dept should get on this and him.
Besides, technically the EPB doesn't produce power either, it's the middleman for the TVA.
That's where we're at in Connecticut now, at least technically. The long established utility spun off its generation assets and became a distribution only entity. It's not working in any way as competitively as was described by regulators prior to deregulation. We have after all, the highest rates in the continental US. Still, I have to think selling access to info is even more lucrative than selling access to power, regardless of who generates it.
In any event, this is file-sharing heaven.
Even if those symmetrical speeds exist only within the confines of the EPB service area, we're looking at a mesh that when fully subscribed would be nearly 500 times bigger than a KaZaa node, and more than 15 times larger than one from a circa 2000 Napster server. A giant, city-wide WAN of tremendous throughput.
That's lot of content potential, and with theoretical transfer times of 3 1/2 mins for an average Blu-Ray, a profound amount P2P potential.
- js.
I can see this subscribed to by small businesses with data heavy uploads (film production companies, ad agencies etc). Spread across an office of 20 employees, $350 is peanuts when each worker is getting 50mps, assuming it's symmetrical.
However I think the price for the gigabit service will drop to something hotly competitive like $99 within 36 months as the electric utility begins poaching customers from the established players when it hits home that selling access to information is more profitable than burning coal.
It wouldn't surprise me if shareholders and even regulators eventually order a spinoff of this tail-wagging-the-dog broadband division, and it winds up with a cable co, where it all gets dialed back to the current offerings.
- js.
But this one's bitchin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8kQbGa72tM&feature=related
muwahaha
ahem
when the science in favor of it began to get overwhelming i started drinking again after having stopped after college. several years ago i began posting stories here http://www.p2p-zone.com/underground/showthread.php?t=23462 because it simply was a tide too large to ignore.
i don't particularly like drinking, and getting those daily drinks down after years of passing them up proved a lot more difficult than i had initially thought.
it's been about 10 years since i started and while it's easier to drink than it was and i often find myself looking forward to it, it still requires some effort.
i hope it's worth it
the joke will really be on me if these studies turn out to be wrong.
- js.
easily done. probably a bunch of hardcore roommates sharing a connection. something along the lines of a frat house.
i did 100 gigs in ten days with 1250 down when oink had a free leach, by myself. i'm adsl 5000 down now so i could do 1.2TB/mo if i had a reason, and free leach at a good private tracker is a great one. with higher speed cable in a houseshare i could see this this happening occasionally, and unremarkably.
the minuscule totals of their least active customers never seem to garner headlines (or refunds), nor do isps offer rollover gigs when their breathless pr results in the inevitable capping. instead we get shocking press releases of gluttonous subscribers making life hell for hapless oligarchs.
please.
- js.
"We don't know the guy." - Rick Falkvinge
well, it's not like you haven't met.
http://imgur.com/xbDef.jpg
- js.
crystal set? can i get duluth on it?