There'd still be people that matched your tastes. The problem is that people rating for themselves and also for their kids are basically merging two viewpoints, and as a result it's applying those recommendations to other people that share one of those viewpoints. I think dividing the two groups is an easy solution that lets everyone get what they want.
You don't really rate disks though, you rate entire seasons of shows unless they're somehow not sold as season collections. Most shows are only going to go about 5 seasons or so, so you'd really have to go overboard to get to 50,000 ratings even that way.
If I had rated every children's show (Barney for example) with one star instead of simply clicking "not interested", I would easily have over 4,000 rated by now & it's only my second month of Netflix.
The children's show recommendations are out of hand. It's natural for someone to rate their kids' favorite shows high so that they get recommendations for them, but it's really easy for someone with very similar taste that doesn't have any kids at all to not show even a whisper of the same interest in children's shows. They need to have a checkbox in the account settings that says "have kids" or "don't have kids", and then just not even try to equate ratings between the two groups.
I've been a member for 4 or 5 years and have something like 2500 ratings, because I try not to rate things that I saw long enough ago to not remember very well. I also haven't bothered to rate most of the TV shows that I saw prior to joining Netflix, and I rate different seasons individually where someone else might just throw down 10 ratings on Smallville based on their feeling about the one episode they saw. So 5000 ratings isn't surprising to me. 50,000 is a lot though, and anyone with that kind of a ratings count has some sort of a twist to how they're doing things that might even make their ratings less useful to the algorithm.
The real problem is that the carriers/handset-makers don't want you to just keep upgrading your old device with OS updates without ever needing to buy a new one. Buying a new phone brings them money and it keeps you locked into new contracts rather than continuing an old contract month-to-month with the termination fee expired.
The other problem is that Android is offered by all the carriers which puts them all in direct competition, and the carriers don't want to compete on service alone since discussions of service quality are abstract to most people. They used to differentiate themselves by getting exclusive contracts with the handset makers, and they still do but a unified OS tends to level that playing field. So they compete with tack-on features like MotoBlur and SenseUI, which is exactly the kind of stuff that people are complaining about fragmenting the system. Apple only has AT&T, so they don't have an AT&T iPhone that needs to be differentiated from a Verizon iPhone.
apple DEFINED what was ok and what was not. google said 'hey as long as we can insert ads, we don't really CARE what you do mr. vendor.'
There is definitely a back-and-forth between Apple and AT&T, you just don't see it as much because there is only one US carrier. For instance overseas carriers had tethering way before AT&T offered it. Some apps that are blocked like Google Voice are most likely being blocked because of the wishes of AT&T and the other carriers, but we can't really ever know for sure who is responsible for that.
That's not my experience, as we saw wait times well over a week for trivial updates as recently as June. I'm sure it goes up and down, but I think you're minimizing a very real problem.
I was thinking Bill Cosby, but this does sound like Will Farrell and Chris Kattan:
Better dancers are "nodding their head, they're turning the head to one side, they're turning their head to the other side, there's a large nod, there's a small nod, there's a nod to the left," Neave says.
Can't you buy any of the non-Droid phones, jailbreak it, and install android 2.2 from Google? The Nexus One had its own set of issues, so if you had one you might be one of the many owners that gets crappy reception and no customer service response.
Android uses Java-the-language but not Java-the-platform, so is not covered by the patent grant. This was intentional on the part of Sun: the aim of Java was 'write once, run anywhere' and this is not possible if various implementations have incompatible standard library implementations.
wasn't this also what got Microsoft's Visual J++ killed?
I've seen multiple comments by Facebook to the media that make it sound like customer privacy is something that can be put back in a box after a breach has taken it out. I'm not sure if they actually believe that they can compel the scrapers to delete all copies of the data, or if they are just posturing.
No police state is ever absolute. Even in the former DDR (in my limited knowledge the freakiest control freaks yet) you were able to get away with some things.
It's true, the DDR was quite secretive and tyrannical. After all, wasn't it their motto that "The Dance Dance Revolution will not be televised"?
It seems like there have been lots of incidents of Eve developers playing the game in various alliances. It'd be interesting if an Eve developer destroyed a ship that was carrying PLEX, since they'd essentially be directly increasing their subscriber income.
Apparently you've never been in an Apple Store. You essentially need an appointment to ask a store employee even the most trivial question that would take 20 seconds to answer. The only way he's going to get caught doing something like this is if he's doing it next to someone who has an appointment and therefore has one employee helping him while two other employees look on.
You don't do it after the fact, you do it via an XSS attack on Facebook (or similar site) users and then watch for those kinds of updates. The point is that people use their PCs to send notifications to friends that they won't be home, which is very valuable information when combined with your address
The truth is they don't want you to have a disc that you can use to easily do a clean install in order to remove the crapware they shipped on the PC. Recovery partitions let you recover the base installation including all the crapware, Windows OS discs let you do a clean install.
That's not true. A custom tailored dress/suit can cost thousands, but will fit much better than a $400 dress/suit, let alone a 99$ JC/Penney special.
"Custom tailored" means someone doing alterations so that it fits you. You pay extra for that because of that person doing the work. Counterfeits are going to be off-the-rack copies of off-the-rack originals, and while there may or may not be a difference in the materials most of the savings are in the name. They're often made in the same factory with the same materials, so the only difference is not having the markup.
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There'd still be people that matched your tastes. The problem is that people rating for themselves and also for their kids are basically merging two viewpoints, and as a result it's applying those recommendations to other people that share one of those viewpoints. I think dividing the two groups is an easy solution that lets everyone get what they want.
You don't really rate disks though, you rate entire seasons of shows unless they're somehow not sold as season collections. Most shows are only going to go about 5 seasons or so, so you'd really have to go overboard to get to 50,000 ratings even that way.
where did it go? the stuff that mattered used to be around here somewhere.
anyone see it?
If staying at home and watching 50,000 movies isn't News for Nerds, than I don't know what is
If I had rated every children's show (Barney for example) with one star instead of simply clicking "not interested", I would easily have over 4,000 rated by now & it's only my second month of Netflix.
The children's show recommendations are out of hand. It's natural for someone to rate their kids' favorite shows high so that they get recommendations for them, but it's really easy for someone with very similar taste that doesn't have any kids at all to not show even a whisper of the same interest in children's shows. They need to have a checkbox in the account settings that says "have kids" or "don't have kids", and then just not even try to equate ratings between the two groups.
I've been a member for 4 or 5 years and have something like 2500 ratings, because I try not to rate things that I saw long enough ago to not remember very well. I also haven't bothered to rate most of the TV shows that I saw prior to joining Netflix, and I rate different seasons individually where someone else might just throw down 10 ratings on Smallville based on their feeling about the one episode they saw. So 5000 ratings isn't surprising to me. 50,000 is a lot though, and anyone with that kind of a ratings count has some sort of a twist to how they're doing things that might even make their ratings less useful to the algorithm.
The real problem is that the carriers/handset-makers don't want you to just keep upgrading your old device with OS updates without ever needing to buy a new one. Buying a new phone brings them money and it keeps you locked into new contracts rather than continuing an old contract month-to-month with the termination fee expired.
The other problem is that Android is offered by all the carriers which puts them all in direct competition, and the carriers don't want to compete on service alone since discussions of service quality are abstract to most people. They used to differentiate themselves by getting exclusive contracts with the handset makers, and they still do but a unified OS tends to level that playing field. So they compete with tack-on features like MotoBlur and SenseUI, which is exactly the kind of stuff that people are complaining about fragmenting the system. Apple only has AT&T, so they don't have an AT&T iPhone that needs to be differentiated from a Verizon iPhone.
The $10/month "4G fee" is only Sprint I think (and so far just one model?), $30/month is what the carriers are charging for mobile hotspot features
apple DEFINED what was ok and what was not. google said 'hey as long as we can insert ads, we don't really CARE what you do mr. vendor.'
There is definitely a back-and-forth between Apple and AT&T, you just don't see it as much because there is only one US carrier. For instance overseas carriers had tethering way before AT&T offered it. Some apps that are blocked like Google Voice are most likely being blocked because of the wishes of AT&T and the other carriers, but we can't really ever know for sure who is responsible for that.
I wonder how that breaks down within that week, because I would consider some time periods that fall "within a week" to be "a long time."
That's not my experience, as we saw wait times well over a week for trivial updates as recently as June. I'm sure it goes up and down, but I think you're minimizing a very real problem.
Can't you buy any of the non-Droid phones, jailbreak it, and install android 2.2 from Google? The Nexus One had its own set of issues, so if you had one you might be one of the many owners that gets crappy reception and no customer service response.
That's a risky strategy. While Linux is very effective at reducing sex and therefore unwanted pregnancies, it's not nearly as effective as a condom.
he mistyped 1200 sq ft
Yup, Google says that there are 5B shares, and $113B market cap
Android uses Java-the-language but not Java-the-platform, so is not covered by the patent grant. This was intentional on the part of Sun: the aim of Java was 'write once, run anywhere' and this is not possible if various implementations have incompatible standard library implementations.
wasn't this also what got Microsoft's Visual J++ killed?
I've seen multiple comments by Facebook to the media that make it sound like customer privacy is something that can be put back in a box after a breach has taken it out. I'm not sure if they actually believe that they can compel the scrapers to delete all copies of the data, or if they are just posturing.
No police state is ever absolute. Even in the former DDR (in my limited knowledge the freakiest control freaks yet) you were able to get away with some things.
It's true, the DDR was quite secretive and tyrannical. After all, wasn't it their motto that "The Dance Dance Revolution will not be televised"?
That's what I thought when I saw this video
It seems like there have been lots of incidents of Eve developers playing the game in various alliances. It'd be interesting if an Eve developer destroyed a ship that was carrying PLEX, since they'd essentially be directly increasing their subscriber income.
That's what I was thinking, it'd be like the opening scene of Christmas Vacation
It seems like caramel would be more appropriate
Apparently you've never been in an Apple Store. You essentially need an appointment to ask a store employee even the most trivial question that would take 20 seconds to answer. The only way he's going to get caught doing something like this is if he's doing it next to someone who has an appointment and therefore has one employee helping him while two other employees look on.
You don't do it after the fact, you do it via an XSS attack on Facebook (or similar site) users and then watch for those kinds of updates. The point is that people use their PCs to send notifications to friends that they won't be home, which is very valuable information when combined with your address
The truth is they don't want you to have a disc that you can use to easily do a clean install in order to remove the crapware they shipped on the PC. Recovery partitions let you recover the base installation including all the crapware, Windows OS discs let you do a clean install.
That's not true. A custom tailored dress/suit can cost thousands, but will fit much better than a $400 dress/suit, let alone a 99$ JC/Penney special.
"Custom tailored" means someone doing alterations so that it fits you. You pay extra for that because of that person doing the work. Counterfeits are going to be off-the-rack copies of off-the-rack originals, and while there may or may not be a difference in the materials most of the savings are in the name. They're often made in the same factory with the same materials, so the only difference is not having the markup.