Really i think they are trying to curtail the costly part of the business, DVD rentals. I know i'll be keeping the streaming and dropping the DVDs. If i want a DVD seems like my local redbox(1/4 mile away) will work just fine.
Just don't ever return them late, and you're all set.
You're damn right! Latte? Latte? Arrogant little shit, people (like me) are pinching pennies cancelling even basic cable in the tight economy already trying to keep a "normal" life going with a $10 spot to Netflix. I can go to Redbox, Steve Swasey, you little asshole and get almost 3 DVDs a week! Netflix was mostly to keep my CHILD entertained with kids shows, but fuck it, it's just a latte to you, right?
Sorry for the cursing, but that mother... needs to read The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk and get some goddamn manners! This is a less for how NOT to conduct business when everyone has a direct line to 500 friends on Facebook, Twitter, G+, etc! What a retard! I hope the fact that he is spokesman for Netflix will make future employers go, "Ah, so I guess I don't have to ask why you're now looking for new employment. Well, we don't find you qualified for spokesman, but we do have janitorial."
And if you go to Redbox three days a week, you're spending at LEAST $12 a month - and that's if you *never* return them late.
Some of us have full Linux distributions there and various Windows tools for fixing busted Windows machines.
Where's yours?
I haven't used Windows since 2003, so I have no more need for a flash drive for fixing them than I have a need for a smithy to make replacement horse shoes.
Funny - I know loads of people who still need a "smithy to make replacement horseshoes"
It wasn't until CentOS 6.0 was delayed beyond reasonable expectation did I find out CentOS was managed by a very small, closed group. The closed part was a little unnerving considering the open source nature of the project.
Lots of opensource projects are managed by a "small, closed group" - are they ALL unnerving?
I do remember the days of real-time text. I don't want it back. I make too many typos and other such mistakes. I'd rather not let others watch me type.
OTOH, if you run ytalk, you can share a command-line session and use it as a teaching tool
Spoken like someone whose experiences with different platforms goes all the way from WinXP to Win7.
Or maybe spoken like someone who, like myself, has used more-or-less every release of Windows (save for Vista, praise the Lord!) going back to 3.0 (consumer and server). And just about every release of the Mac OS (or, pre-renaming, "System") back to the 512k. And releases of Linux from Red Hat 3.3 (not RHEL), Mandrake 6+, Mandriva, Ubuntu back to Badger, SuSE 7-10. Solaris 9-10, AIX 4.1, 5.3, and 6.1, HPUX (though I *wish* I could say I hadn't). And BeOS from early Dev releases through PR versions to RCs to the "real" versions, and now into Haiku.
If you DON'T get that the OS is merely a platform for doing work on, then you're still in the religious wars, and need to grow up.
Do I like some platforms over others? Yep.
Does it matter what platform you run if you can get your work done in an efficient and timely fashion? No.
What would you suggest as a better free replacement? It doesn't even have to be free, cheap is enough, as long as it does not involve me giving them my credit card details.
This is serious question. And no, I don't want to take personal responsibility of keeping my own personal web mail service secure and up to date, so any suggestion must not include continuous administration of a server connected to the Internet.
What do you use? The webhosts I've used have terrible email support - low mailbox sizes, no way to enable catch-all, etc.
Since he suggested setting up your own server, my *guess* is that he has as much space (more or less) as he wants. I do. I use a VPS and could, theoretically, have 50GB of email. I use that server for several other things as well, but that doesn't mean I'm really "limited" in how much I can store.
I've been using DuckDuckGo for about a year now. Occasionally it doesn't find anything useful and suggests I try Google. Every time I've done so, Google has given me a load of irrelevant results. I've not yet come across a search where Google gives me helpful results but DDG doesn't. It has a nicer user interface, a better privacy policy, and defaults to HTTPS, so I'm not sure why I'd want to switch back to Google for search.
Same here - it's my default on every firefox install (takes a moment to setup, but it's worth it). I'm still using Chrome for some stuff, but have been having performance issues with it a lot recently, and am about ready to throw-in the towel on it.
google is worse than facebook? have you ever seen what facebook does with your data even when you delete your profile?
nice though, we love the whole "GOOGLE IS EVIL" line. keep trottin out the lies all you want.
Google worse than facebook? Doubtful. Either being better than the other? Even more improbable. Fact is, if you're posting personal information to a public or semi-public forum like facbook or Google+, it can be used however the company decides - if you don't like it, don't use it. Or follow the old adage: "if you wouldn't put it on a billboard, don't put it on a webpage".
Oracle has been alienating its customer base (particularly small to mid-level organizations) since they acquired Sun. Our university (mid-size 'business,' fairly large university) is jettisoning Oracle as a hardware/software platform, and I know other organizations that have already done so. Previously we were Sun/Oracle across the board, hardware (including SAN), software, and DB. While our hardware refresh cycle wouldn't be hurt by this decision, I can easily see many organizations which would be hampered to adopt new functionality in perfectly functional hardware. Adieu, Oracle, adieu.
I was instrumental in getting my old university to start moving off *both* HPUX and Solaris while a student worker in the sysadmin group 5 years ago: I didn't expect Sun to be bought-out, I just expected it to die, but either way - Sun is gone, and Oracle's acquisition and recent activity against other platforms (HPUX comes to mind) shows that Larry's got his eyes on one thing... money, and taking everything he can from his customers along the way.
Planned Obsolescence in hindsight. This may not seem a big deal in the USA....We need to stop seeing support of legacy tech purely through the eyes of rich nations.
And we need to stop expecting companies to support unbearably-old platforms with new software, handicapping the new environments, when those older pieces of hardware can continue to run the older software successfully.
IBM will welcome them with open arms to AIX, if those customers want to remain on UNIX proper (I know several companies already migrating Sun to AIX and Linux (a split between P, X, and Z variants).
Laptop 13-17" with more than double the power $300-$800. Screw a 7-10" netbook and tablets with fairly limited function. I'll spend the extra $100 for the extra 3gb ram bigger HDD, better processor and video card. I never understood paying more for less.
Let's see - longer battery life, lighterweight, easier to carry, no CD drive... there's a huge host of reasons to go with a netbook: if that's what you want. If it's not, then keep buying laptops or desktops:)
All of the WoW players I have yet met are adults: most workin professionals of some sort (tech, health, etc). So their interactions being mediated by their mum is not too common... Though by their wife/husband/SO is pretty common:)
Couldn't agree more: certifications probably won't hurt, but they'll rarely help (in my experience) finding/retaining a job. Show what you have *DONE*, and employers will be more impressed than what tests you were able to cram for and pass.
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Really i think they are trying to curtail the costly part of the business, DVD rentals. I know i'll be keeping the streaming and dropping the DVDs. If i want a DVD seems like my local redbox(1/4 mile away) will work just fine.
Just don't ever return them late, and you're all set.
I cancelled basic cable three years ago, cancelled my phone last month and had my slow 5 mbps cable modem downgraded to 2mbps to save even more.
Only rich pricks can afford to waste $3 on a fucking drink in 2011. That Netflix guy is completely out of touch with reality.
So - how much do you spend on eating out, drinks, etc? $3 is not that much to *anyone* I know: and none of my friends are "rich pricks".
You're damn right! Latte? Latte? Arrogant little shit, people (like me) are pinching pennies cancelling even basic cable in the tight economy already trying to keep a "normal" life going with a $10 spot to Netflix. I can go to Redbox, Steve Swasey, you little asshole and get almost 3 DVDs a week! Netflix was mostly to keep my CHILD entertained with kids shows, but fuck it, it's just a latte to you, right?
Sorry for the cursing, but that mother... needs to read The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk and get some goddamn manners! This is a less for how NOT to conduct business when everyone has a direct line to 500 friends on Facebook, Twitter, G+, etc! What a retard! I hope the fact that he is spokesman for Netflix will make future employers go, "Ah, so I guess I don't have to ask why you're now looking for new employment. Well, we don't find you qualified for spokesman, but we do have janitorial."
And if you go to Redbox three days a week, you're spending at LEAST $12 a month - and that's if you *never* return them late.
Some of us have full Linux distributions there and various Windows tools for fixing busted Windows machines. Where's yours?
I haven't used Windows since 2003, so I have no more need for a flash drive for fixing them than I have a need for a smithy to make replacement horse shoes.
Funny - I know loads of people who still need a "smithy to make replacement horseshoes"
It wasn't until CentOS 6.0 was delayed beyond reasonable expectation did I find out CentOS was managed by a very small, closed group. The closed part was a little unnerving considering the open source nature of the project.
Lots of opensource projects are managed by a "small, closed group" - are they ALL unnerving?
I do remember the days of real-time text. I don't want it back. I make too many typos and other such mistakes. I'd rather not let others watch me type.
OTOH, if you run ytalk, you can share a command-line session and use it as a teaching tool
The OS is merely a platform.
Spoken like someone whose experiences with different platforms goes all the way from WinXP to Win7.
Or maybe spoken like someone who, like myself, has used more-or-less every release of Windows (save for Vista, praise the Lord!) going back to 3.0 (consumer and server). And just about every release of the Mac OS (or, pre-renaming, "System") back to the 512k. And releases of Linux from Red Hat 3.3 (not RHEL), Mandrake 6+, Mandriva, Ubuntu back to Badger, SuSE 7-10. Solaris 9-10, AIX 4.1, 5.3, and 6.1, HPUX (though I *wish* I could say I hadn't). And BeOS from early Dev releases through PR versions to RCs to the "real" versions, and now into Haiku.
If you DON'T get that the OS is merely a platform for doing work on, then you're still in the religious wars, and need to grow up.
Do I like some platforms over others? Yep.
Does it matter what platform you run if you can get your work done in an efficient and timely fashion? No.
What would you suggest as a better free replacement? It doesn't even have to be free, cheap is enough, as long as it does not involve me giving them my credit card details.
This is serious question. And no, I don't want to take personal responsibility of keeping my own personal web mail service secure and up to date, so any suggestion must not include continuous administration of a server connected to the Internet.
Yahoo's webmail, imo, has a better interface.
What do you use? The webhosts I've used have terrible email support - low mailbox sizes, no way to enable catch-all, etc.
Since he suggested setting up your own server, my *guess* is that he has as much space (more or less) as he wants. I do. I use a VPS and could, theoretically, have 50GB of email. I use that server for several other things as well, but that doesn't mean I'm really "limited" in how much I can store.
I've been using DuckDuckGo for about a year now. Occasionally it doesn't find anything useful and suggests I try Google. Every time I've done so, Google has given me a load of irrelevant results. I've not yet come across a search where Google gives me helpful results but DDG doesn't. It has a nicer user interface, a better privacy policy, and defaults to HTTPS, so I'm not sure why I'd want to switch back to Google for search.
Same here - it's my default on every firefox install (takes a moment to setup, but it's worth it). I'm still using Chrome for some stuff, but have been having performance issues with it a lot recently, and am about ready to throw-in the towel on it.
google is worse than facebook? have you ever seen what facebook does with your data even when you delete your profile?
nice though, we love the whole "GOOGLE IS EVIL" line. keep trottin out the lies all you want.
Google worse than facebook? Doubtful. Either being better than the other? Even more improbable. Fact is, if you're posting personal information to a public or semi-public forum like facbook or Google+, it can be used however the company decides - if you don't like it, don't use it. Or follow the old adage: "if you wouldn't put it on a billboard, don't put it on a webpage".
Sounds like something that'll show up in an arcade before too long.
Oracle has been alienating its customer base (particularly small to mid-level organizations) since they acquired Sun. Our university (mid-size 'business,' fairly large university) is jettisoning Oracle as a hardware/software platform, and I know other organizations that have already done so. Previously we were Sun/Oracle across the board, hardware (including SAN), software, and DB. While our hardware refresh cycle wouldn't be hurt by this decision, I can easily see many organizations which would be hampered to adopt new functionality in perfectly functional hardware. Adieu, Oracle, adieu.
I was instrumental in getting my old university to start moving off *both* HPUX and Solaris while a student worker in the sysadmin group 5 years ago: I didn't expect Sun to be bought-out, I just expected it to die, but either way - Sun is gone, and Oracle's acquisition and recent activity against other platforms (HPUX comes to mind) shows that Larry's got his eyes on one thing ... money, and taking everything he can from his customers along the way.
Planned Obsolescence in hindsight. This may not seem a big deal in the USA....We need to stop seeing support of legacy tech purely through the eyes of rich nations.
And we need to stop expecting companies to support unbearably-old platforms with new software, handicapping the new environments, when those older pieces of hardware can continue to run the older software successfully.
IBM will welcome them with open arms to AIX, if those customers want to remain on UNIX proper (I know several companies already migrating Sun to AIX and Linux (a split between P, X, and Z variants).
pros: cheap!
Is it more than meets the eye?
Laptop 13-17" with more than double the power $300-$800. Screw a 7-10" netbook and tablets with fairly limited function. I'll spend the extra $100 for the extra 3gb ram bigger HDD, better processor and video card. I never understood paying more for less.
Let's see - longer battery life, lighterweight, easier to carry, no CD drive... there's a huge host of reasons to go with a netbook: if that's what you want. If it's not, then keep buying laptops or desktops :)
... Apple being a hardware company cares little about software when it is driving their hardware sales.
If Apple *were* a hardware company, I might agree with you. But they're not - they use hardware as an enabler to sell content.
apple doesn't vet third party apps - you think they vet the browsers or MS office on mac
Yes, the article is lame, but it's about iOS, and not Mac OS X
There's a name for that: your IT department.
Wow - you *ARE* uninformed
If you're drawing that much of a vacuum, then you'd have a good insulator for your superconducting magnet
Nobody said it has to be the public cloud: private and hybrids exist, too
All of the WoW players I have yet met are adults: most workin professionals of some sort (tech, health, etc). So their interactions being mediated by their mum is not too common... Though by their wife/husband/SO is pretty common :)
Couldn't agree more: certifications probably won't hurt, but they'll rarely help (in my experience) finding/retaining a job. Show what you have *DONE*, and employers will be more impressed than what tests you were able to cram for and pass.