My first computer for my software development had 2 x 1MB 8 inch diskette drives. I enhanced that by adding another pair of drives. The first hard drive that I owned was 16MB.
I think that's the point. Holy hell, how is someone shipping something with only 16MB of storage in a new product today? Your first hard drive was probably massive for the time, but that was back when memory was measured in bytes or Kb. This thing has FOUR TIMES as much memory as storage!
I do think it probably has some extremely good use cases, and it may eat into the Pi market a little bit, but it's not a significant overlap there.
Do any of the carriers (or MVNO's, but I'd rather it be the actual carrier) formally allow you to bring your own android device and put it on a plan with no data (just talk and text)?
Desktops matter if we believe the summary: "Google is aiming to solve this dilemma", where dilemma refers to fragmentation such as Facetime being iOS only, and skype being buggy and clunky.
Personally, I think this is more like that xkcd comic about standards: https://xkcd.com/927/
I was doing video chats in the late 90's, and others were doing it before that. Two decades later and it's still a PITA to get everyone on the same thing and working.
..which we can purchase, open, and connect the two wires that run to the speakers to a headphone jack instead.
That's part of the point of this. I don't think anyone said this would make anything impossible. It's about what it turns this very simple task into for the average person.
Then some poor SOB will upload a How-To video and end up a felon serving hard time for it.
Exactly. And anyone selling a device that goes from their interface to audio out would also be doing so illegally (unless they get permission first, etc) as they would be creating an circumvention device. Just giving instructions on how to create one would be illegal. How is that not a horrible thing? Not the end of the world, but it's awful.
Linux/BSD/etc.are so far into the single-digits of market share as to be irrelevant outside of a server niche and the remaining hardcore hobbyist market.
In the context of your history lesson, this part doesn't make sense. If you use a count of users or installs, those "single-digits of market share" are WAAAAY more users/installs than total units of Commodore 64 ever managed to ship.
Commodore 64 shipped about 12.5 million units (http://www.pagetable.com/?p=547) Percentage of OS market share for Linux in 2015 is roughly 3% (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Operatingsystem_market_share.svg) Windows shipped 283 million units in 2015 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems), and 1.3 billion android, 21 million OSX, 520 million other. None of these numbers exactly correlate. But, OSX has roughly the same market share as Linux (so 21 million "shipped" in 2015?), and 3% of the windows shipments would be 8.5 million in 2015. Any way you cut that, there's certainly more active Linux users than C64 units ever shipped... so that's enough of a market to drop the "hobbyist" slant.
I'm not the GP, and I don't see any benefit to the curved screen edge(s). However, IF (HUGE IF) it is a matter of either water resistance or a user replaceable battery, I'll take water resistance. Otherwise, I'd agree... I don't need to shave off half a mm; let me replace the battery easily.
Both Hillary and Trump are part of a world ruling class that believes that the people are completely incapable of learning to rule themselves and furthermore that any attempt must be undermined.
Assuming that's true (and I'm not arguing), maybe that notion is correct.
In the US, we had some pretty discriminatory laws not too long ago. However, in the very early years (which weren't all that long ago), the right to vote was restricted to land owners (and further restricted to white males, etc). The land owner restriction did have a good argument for existing - only those with a significantly invested interest could vote, and they were likely to be somewhat educated because they owned land, blah blah blah. It was a way of preventing a massive amount of ignorant people from screwing up an otherwise good voting system. That lasted 52 years (or more in many states)!
There's lots of things that were wrong about those systems (ex. IMO, as a starter, woman and all races should have equal rights with those white males), but that notion that there are people that may not have enough sense to be voting.,.. we all know there's some sense to that, but we're not sure how to draw that line. In the US, it's still not a democracy; we're a republic. The presidential race is decided by the electoral college, not the popular vote; representatives decide many other votes, not the popular vote.
I'm just glad we have 3 branches of government, and it's very difficult for any one president to change very much within one or two terms. Hopefully the chaos will balance itself out:-/
That's the case for the US chip+signature - after _(I forget the date)_, merchants are on the hook for fraud unless they implement the chip support. Once chip support is enabled, the merchant is no longer on the hook for fraud.
What caseih is talking about is the users responsibility. If someone makes CC transactions at terminals (ex. at walmart) with a stolen card, the merchant wasn't on the hook in the old days, and isn't on the hook if they updated to support chip; That leaves the CC company or bank and the end user. Prior to chip+pin, the banks couldn't really say it wasn't stolen, so they took the financial risk. After chip+pin, if a chip+pin was used, they assume the user is completely on the hook for whatever is purchased with the chip+pin.
I think that's a relatively safe default assumption. With chip+sig, I'm not sure where that leaves us, but it shouldn't be considered the same as chip+pin IMO.
Isn't that what chip and PIN was supposed to bring us? Something you have (the card) and something you know (the PIN)?
Exactly. However, the chip *should* make it more difficult for the issues such as those that Target had. AFAICT, there is now a transaction with your chip, instead of your card simply passing on the CC number. So this won't help at all if someone steals your card, and this won't help at all for stolen card numbers that get used online, but it should make the POS transaction more secure.
I don't understand any of the arguments for why the US didn't go with chip and pin. I've heard that people aren't used to it, and that they're used to signatures, but those are useless arguments IMO. Nearly everyone with a card also has a bank card that has a pin, so it'd just come down to them having to have a means for users to register their PIN for the credit card - ie. they (cc companies) are just minimizing their costs in the transition.
SSDs frequently encrypt everything on the drive. If you want to ensure everything is gone, destroy the key. Granted, if someone can restore the key, they can decrypt everything, but that's the tradeoff they took.
I suspect the same though was had for WhatsApp's use of SQLite. The messages (I assume) are encrypted at rest. So, an unlinked DB record (deleted but not zero'd out) is just a random binary blob that's only useful if you have the encryption key.
Even if WhatsApp DID zero out the SQLite record, if it's running on a modern smartphone, then the underlying storage probably didn't overwrite the raw data either, and zeros wouldn't actually get written anywhere (SSD's use a fake allocation for all zeros).
Essentially, while things could be better, this isn't *that* big a deal.
Whether or not it graphics card makers have to do more or less work to keep their binary drivers working on linux (which is arguable anyway) makes no difference at all to game developers offering their games on linux. You can babble on and on about that, but the fact is that the binary drivers for both Nvidia and ATI/AMD cards has been kept well up to date and working on a variety of popular linux distros, and the majority of distros provide very easy to use utilities to get those drivers installed with very very little effort (arguably easier than on Windows).
That issue hasn't been holding up gaming on Linux for ages.
This would be SUCH a perfect time for Apple to start selling an OSX version that can officially be installed on any/most x86_64 machines!!! I bet they could snap up several percent of the market within the first week.
Tell the kernel developers to take their heads out of their asses and accept that graphics card makers have proprietary shit to protect. Until the FOSS people learn to play nice with others gaming on Linux will be complete shit.
Only replying cause you have low uid, or I'd think you were just trolling (and you probably are).
How has the way the Linux kernel is managed negatively affected proprietary graphics card drivers? On windows, you have to install proprietary drivers as admin. Same thing on Linux. Both ship with some level of built in support that usually isn't the latest and greatest, but works well enough.
The proprietary binary blob on Linux has performed on par with the Windows drivers for over a decade, and has even outperformed it at times. That part of the equation is not the problem.
I'm not sure who had it first, but Amazon has had "Amazon Household" including "Family Library" for quite some time. This isn't really copying; it's just addressing some awful limitations that get imposed on everyone.
They can't simply allow you to share your music (for example) with anyone and everyone, or they won't be allowed to sell music anymore. If they allow you to share with a small group, it may be enough to curb massive external sharing, especially for movies. The fewer people use things like torrents and such, the less value they'll have, and they may be able to control that smaller set of the population to at least keep it smallish.
I'm not saying I agree with any of that, but it's their only real shot. There's no way I'm going to pay full price to "buy" a movie on itunes or google play or amazon video, and then not be able to loan it to a friend. It's bad enough that there is no resale.
Netflix is becoming yet another old school media company (and I use that phrase with contempt).
I suspect this is part of the next steps as well.
Netflix is gaining more and more of their own content. It seems unlikely that they won't eventually license that out to others (ex. Orange is the New Black licensed to HBO).
I think it'd be good if they split their platform from their media generation, and also licensed the platform to others, along with some built in cross licensing whenever the platform is licensed to others. For example: * netflix spilt to netflix-media and neflix-platform * license netflix-platform to CBS, or HBO, etc * part of that license deal would say that they must offer all their content for licensing to netflix-media within X days of initial release (that could vary for movies versus series/etc).
If they could pull that off, it could create a bunch of netflix clones, essentially, and they'd all have all the content, and each would make extra money by producing their own content. It'd also block out all new tiny competitors, and it would be awful for that, but that's what the big media companies have been doing forever, so it won't surprise me if they take a little hit and let netflix join their club.
Chuck Yeager's Bell X-1 That broke the sound barrier. Wasn't useful for fighting or carrying cargo. All it did was go faster than sound.
Still 70 years later we only break the sound barrier on a limited bases. As its cost and safety are still large concerns.
Uhhh... is your point that, 70 years from now, we will only use solar for flight on a limited basis because the cost to performance and weight ratio still sucks?
I think it's a neat achievement, but to attempt to tout that it is ecological or uses zero fuel is BS. The support crew still needs to travel from place to place on each landing point it made, effectively burning up way more fuel that it would take for one or two pilots to fly around the world using conventional aircraft. When it can do it all on its own, and hopefully non-stop, that will be a huge feat. Feel free to go unmanned for that - having a person on board shouldn't make much difference these days.
OMFG. Are you fucking kidding me? Where's Microsoft Office for Ubuntu (or any linux distro)?
You can use it through MS Office online. Why bother to create a native product for a platform that virtually nobody uses?
Whoosh! That's my whole point! The guy I replied to said:
These are the new days, where Google refuses to allow any YouTube apps on Windows Phones. But Microsoft puts its apps everywhere.
Him expecting google to make a youtube app for windows phone is exactly like expecting microsoft to make a native port of Office for one or more linux distro's. Google has a web version of youtube (which IS the primary version of youtube, and the app is just an extra add on bonus they added later).
Its better than nothing I suppose, but a better step might be to get manufacturers to build in hardware based cut offs of the transmission hardware and maybe hardwired LEDs showing when the mic/camera is active.
Forget LED's. Put in hardware disconnects for: * mic(s) * camera(s) * bt/wifi * cell * gps * NFC
It'd be an entirely different phone, but it's not that crazy a thought. Push to talk was in widespread use by nextel folks for a long time, and also in CB and radio forever. I already start out every conference call I'm on by hitting mute... just make it easier to do that with a real button that actually ties to a circuit (maybe a slide, so I can slide it on/off). The others could also be put on one hardware airplane mode switch.
These are the new days, where Google refuses to allow any YouTube apps on Windows Phones. But Microsoft puts its apps everywhere.
OMFG. Are you fucking kidding me? Where's Microsoft Office for Ubuntu (or any linux distro)? They are not putting their apps everywhere, and they're doing the same shit they've always done. They took the time to get some bastard version of Ubuntu running in Windows 10, but all Linux gets is a really broken alpha version of Skype. You can argue that they don't need to do that all you want, but then there is no reason Google/YouTube should support Windows Phones either - that's an even smaller market than Linux.
This warning thing is in bad form. I don't know how they managed to get away with the windows 10 update stuff getting forced down everyones throats, but they have thus far, so this will probably stay in place (or get worse) for a long time.
It is not streaming only. It will be streamed 1 day behind broadcast. If you have CBS OTA (ex. via antenna), you can watch it there. If you have CBS via a cable or sat provider, you can watch it there. If you have CBS All Access (I'm not sure what all restrictions are there for that... I think you have to have an existing cable/sat account with it), you can stream from them in the US. If you have Netflix and are not in the US or CA, you can stream it there.
IMO, I have no idea why they don't have all access open wide (paid for by lots of commercials), and license to netflix/others at the same time. I really hope that's what it comes to someday - the content producers making the content available for "free" + commercials, and the aggregates (netflix, amazon, etc) charging for content but providing a better experience. As it is, it looks like the content producers are also going to charge a fee, and also add commercials, and maybe add subscription requirements to some other service as well.
What?! Are you telling me I can't scavenge enough power from background RF noise to broadcast a signal stronger than the background RF noise?!
Actually, by harnessing the harmonic frequency of the incoming waves of disparate sources, they are capable of amplifying the power generated enough that they can sustain a stable and comparably strong signal generation.
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My first computer for my software development had 2 x 1MB 8 inch diskette drives. I enhanced that by adding another pair of drives. The first hard drive that I owned was 16MB.
I think that's the point. Holy hell, how is someone shipping something with only 16MB of storage in a new product today? Your first hard drive was probably massive for the time, but that was back when memory was measured in bytes or Kb. This thing has FOUR TIMES as much memory as storage!
I do think it probably has some extremely good use cases, and it may eat into the Pi market a little bit, but it's not a significant overlap there.
Do any of the carriers (or MVNO's, but I'd rather it be the actual carrier) formally allow you to bring your own android device and put it on a plan with no data (just talk and text)?
Desktops matter if we believe the summary:
"Google is aiming to solve this dilemma", where dilemma refers to fragmentation such as Facetime being iOS only, and skype being buggy and clunky.
Personally, I think this is more like that xkcd comic about standards: https://xkcd.com/927/
I was doing video chats in the late 90's, and others were doing it before that. Two decades later and it's still a PITA to get everyone on the same thing and working.
..which we can purchase, open, and connect the two wires that run to the speakers to a headphone jack instead.
That's part of the point of this. I don't think anyone said this would make anything impossible. It's about what it turns this very simple task into for the average person.
Then some poor SOB will upload a How-To video and end up a felon serving hard time for it.
Exactly. And anyone selling a device that goes from their interface to audio out would also be doing so illegally (unless they get permission first, etc) as they would be creating an circumvention device. Just giving instructions on how to create one would be illegal. How is that not a horrible thing? Not the end of the world, but it's awful.
and I went into a dream
she, laughing and weeping at once
"take me away"
That was just a Calgon commercial you left playing on your old VHS recording of Murder She Wrote.
Linux/BSD/etc.are so far into the single-digits of market share as to be irrelevant outside of a server niche and the remaining hardcore hobbyist market.
In the context of your history lesson, this part doesn't make sense. If you use a count of users or installs, those "single-digits of market share" are WAAAAY more users/installs than total units of Commodore 64 ever managed to ship.
Commodore 64 shipped about 12.5 million units (http://www.pagetable.com/?p=547)
Percentage of OS market share for Linux in 2015 is roughly 3% (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Operatingsystem_market_share.svg)
Windows shipped 283 million units in 2015 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems), and 1.3 billion android, 21 million OSX, 520 million other.
None of these numbers exactly correlate. But, OSX has roughly the same market share as Linux (so 21 million "shipped" in 2015?), and 3% of the windows shipments would be 8.5 million in 2015.
Any way you cut that, there's certainly more active Linux users than C64 units ever shipped... so that's enough of a market to drop the "hobbyist" slant.
Why on fucking earth so many Americans insist on this idiotic claim that somehow democracy is the opposite of a republic?
Where the fuck did I say that it was the opposite?
I'm not the GP, and I don't see any benefit to the curved screen edge(s).
However, IF (HUGE IF) it is a matter of either water resistance or a user replaceable battery, I'll take water resistance. Otherwise, I'd agree... I don't need to shave off half a mm; let me replace the battery easily.
Both Hillary and Trump are part of a world ruling class that believes that the people are completely incapable of learning to rule themselves and furthermore that any attempt must be undermined.
Assuming that's true (and I'm not arguing), maybe that notion is correct.
In the US, we had some pretty discriminatory laws not too long ago. However, in the very early years (which weren't all that long ago), the right to vote was restricted to land owners (and further restricted to white males, etc). The land owner restriction did have a good argument for existing - only those with a significantly invested interest could vote, and they were likely to be somewhat educated because they owned land, blah blah blah. It was a way of preventing a massive amount of ignorant people from screwing up an otherwise good voting system. That lasted 52 years (or more in many states)!
There's lots of things that were wrong about those systems (ex. IMO, as a starter, woman and all races should have equal rights with those white males), but that notion that there are people that may not have enough sense to be voting.,.. we all know there's some sense to that, but we're not sure how to draw that line. In the US, it's still not a democracy; we're a republic. The presidential race is decided by the electoral college, not the popular vote; representatives decide many other votes, not the popular vote.
I'm just glad we have 3 branches of government, and it's very difficult for any one president to change very much within one or two terms. Hopefully the chaos will balance itself out :-/
... in the five boroughs of New York City ...
That's the case for the US chip+signature - after _(I forget the date)_, merchants are on the hook for fraud unless they implement the chip support. Once chip support is enabled, the merchant is no longer on the hook for fraud.
What caseih is talking about is the users responsibility. If someone makes CC transactions at terminals (ex. at walmart) with a stolen card, the merchant wasn't on the hook in the old days, and isn't on the hook if they updated to support chip; That leaves the CC company or bank and the end user. Prior to chip+pin, the banks couldn't really say it wasn't stolen, so they took the financial risk. After chip+pin, if a chip+pin was used, they assume the user is completely on the hook for whatever is purchased with the chip+pin.
I think that's a relatively safe default assumption. With chip+sig, I'm not sure where that leaves us, but it shouldn't be considered the same as chip+pin IMO.
What is needed is decent 2 factor authentication.
Isn't that what chip and PIN was supposed to bring us? Something you have (the card) and something you know (the PIN)?
Exactly.
However, the chip *should* make it more difficult for the issues such as those that Target had. AFAICT, there is now a transaction with your chip, instead of your card simply passing on the CC number. So this won't help at all if someone steals your card, and this won't help at all for stolen card numbers that get used online, but it should make the POS transaction more secure.
I don't understand any of the arguments for why the US didn't go with chip and pin. I've heard that people aren't used to it, and that they're used to signatures, but those are useless arguments IMO. Nearly everyone with a card also has a bank card that has a pin, so it'd just come down to them having to have a means for users to register their PIN for the credit card - ie. they (cc companies) are just minimizing their costs in the transition.
SSDs frequently encrypt everything on the drive. If you want to ensure everything is gone, destroy the key. Granted, if someone can restore the key, they can decrypt everything, but that's the tradeoff they took.
I suspect the same though was had for WhatsApp's use of SQLite. The messages (I assume) are encrypted at rest. So, an unlinked DB record (deleted but not zero'd out) is just a random binary blob that's only useful if you have the encryption key.
Even if WhatsApp DID zero out the SQLite record, if it's running on a modern smartphone, then the underlying storage probably didn't overwrite the raw data either, and zeros wouldn't actually get written anywhere (SSD's use a fake allocation for all zeros).
Essentially, while things could be better, this isn't *that* big a deal.
Whether or not it graphics card makers have to do more or less work to keep their binary drivers working on linux (which is arguable anyway) makes no difference at all to game developers offering their games on linux. You can babble on and on about that, but the fact is that the binary drivers for both Nvidia and ATI/AMD cards has been kept well up to date and working on a variety of popular linux distros, and the majority of distros provide very easy to use utilities to get those drivers installed with very very little effort (arguably easier than on Windows).
That issue hasn't been holding up gaming on Linux for ages.
This would be SUCH a perfect time for Apple to start selling an OSX version that can officially be installed on any/most x86_64 machines!!! I bet they could snap up several percent of the market within the first week.
They sued Wizards of the Coast for using a symbol that could not possibly have been mistaken for the Olympic rings.
#OoOoO ridiculous trademark
Tell the kernel developers to take their heads out of their asses and accept that graphics card makers have proprietary shit to protect. Until the FOSS people learn to play nice with others gaming on Linux will be complete shit.
Only replying cause you have low uid, or I'd think you were just trolling (and you probably are).
How has the way the Linux kernel is managed negatively affected proprietary graphics card drivers?
On windows, you have to install proprietary drivers as admin. Same thing on Linux. Both ship with some level of built in support that usually isn't the latest and greatest, but works well enough.
The proprietary binary blob on Linux has performed on par with the Windows drivers for over a decade, and has even outperformed it at times. That part of the equation is not the problem.
I'm not sure who had it first, but Amazon has had "Amazon Household" including "Family Library" for quite some time.
This isn't really copying; it's just addressing some awful limitations that get imposed on everyone.
They can't simply allow you to share your music (for example) with anyone and everyone, or they won't be allowed to sell music anymore.
If they allow you to share with a small group, it may be enough to curb massive external sharing, especially for movies. The fewer people use things like torrents and such, the less value they'll have, and they may be able to control that smaller set of the population to at least keep it smallish.
I'm not saying I agree with any of that, but it's their only real shot. There's no way I'm going to pay full price to "buy" a movie on itunes or google play or amazon video, and then not be able to loan it to a friend. It's bad enough that there is no resale.
Netflix is becoming yet another old school media company (and I use that phrase with contempt).
I suspect this is part of the next steps as well.
Netflix is gaining more and more of their own content. It seems unlikely that they won't eventually license that out to others (ex. Orange is the New Black licensed to HBO).
I think it'd be good if they split their platform from their media generation, and also licensed the platform to others, along with some built in cross licensing whenever the platform is licensed to others. For example:
* netflix spilt to netflix-media and neflix-platform
* license netflix-platform to CBS, or HBO, etc
* part of that license deal would say that they must offer all their content for licensing to netflix-media within X days of initial release (that could vary for movies versus series/etc).
If they could pull that off, it could create a bunch of netflix clones, essentially, and they'd all have all the content, and each would make extra money by producing their own content. It'd also block out all new tiny competitors, and it would be awful for that, but that's what the big media companies have been doing forever, so it won't surprise me if they take a little hit and let netflix join their club.
Chuck Yeager's Bell X-1 That broke the sound barrier. Wasn't useful for fighting or carrying cargo. All it did was go faster than sound.
Still 70 years later we only break the sound barrier on a limited bases. As its cost and safety are still large concerns.
Uhhh... is your point that, 70 years from now, we will only use solar for flight on a limited basis because the cost to performance and weight ratio still sucks?
I think it's a neat achievement, but to attempt to tout that it is ecological or uses zero fuel is BS. The support crew still needs to travel from place to place on each landing point it made, effectively burning up way more fuel that it would take for one or two pilots to fly around the world using conventional aircraft. When it can do it all on its own, and hopefully non-stop, that will be a huge feat. Feel free to go unmanned for that - having a person on board shouldn't make much difference these days.
OMFG. Are you fucking kidding me? Where's Microsoft Office for Ubuntu (or any linux distro)?
You can use it through MS Office online. Why bother to create a native product for a platform that virtually nobody uses?
Whoosh! That's my whole point! The guy I replied to said:
These are the new days, where Google refuses to allow any YouTube apps on Windows Phones. But Microsoft puts its apps everywhere.
Him expecting google to make a youtube app for windows phone is exactly like expecting microsoft to make a native port of Office for one or more linux distro's. Google has a web version of youtube (which IS the primary version of youtube, and the app is just an extra add on bonus they added later).
Its better than nothing I suppose, but a better step might be to get manufacturers to build in hardware based cut offs of the transmission hardware and maybe hardwired LEDs showing when the mic/camera is active.
Forget LED's. Put in hardware disconnects for:
* mic(s)
* camera(s)
* bt/wifi
* cell
* gps
* NFC
It'd be an entirely different phone, but it's not that crazy a thought. Push to talk was in widespread use by nextel folks for a long time, and also in CB and radio forever. I already start out every conference call I'm on by hitting mute... just make it easier to do that with a real button that actually ties to a circuit (maybe a slide, so I can slide it on/off). The others could also be put on one hardware airplane mode switch.
These are the new days, where Google refuses to allow any YouTube apps on Windows Phones. But Microsoft puts its apps everywhere.
OMFG. Are you fucking kidding me? Where's Microsoft Office for Ubuntu (or any linux distro)? They are not putting their apps everywhere, and they're doing the same shit they've always done. They took the time to get some bastard version of Ubuntu running in Windows 10, but all Linux gets is a really broken alpha version of Skype.
You can argue that they don't need to do that all you want, but then there is no reason Google/YouTube should support Windows Phones either - that's an even smaller market than Linux.
This warning thing is in bad form. I don't know how they managed to get away with the windows 10 update stuff getting forced down everyones throats, but they have thus far, so this will probably stay in place (or get worse) for a long time.
It is not streaming only.
It will be streamed 1 day behind broadcast.
If you have CBS OTA (ex. via antenna), you can watch it there.
If you have CBS via a cable or sat provider, you can watch it there.
If you have CBS All Access (I'm not sure what all restrictions are there for that... I think you have to have an existing cable/sat account with it), you can stream from them in the US.
If you have Netflix and are not in the US or CA, you can stream it there.
IMO, I have no idea why they don't have all access open wide (paid for by lots of commercials), and license to netflix/others at the same time. I really hope that's what it comes to someday - the content producers making the content available for "free" + commercials, and the aggregates (netflix, amazon, etc) charging for content but providing a better experience. As it is, it looks like the content producers are also going to charge a fee, and also add commercials, and maybe add subscription requirements to some other service as well.
What?! Are you telling me I can't scavenge enough power from background RF noise to broadcast a signal stronger than the background RF noise?!
Actually, by harnessing the harmonic frequency of the incoming waves of disparate sources, they are capable of amplifying the power generated enough that they can sustain a stable and comparably strong signal generation.