You'd think, but DVRs have only so many inputs, requiring one to pick amongst shows that are played at the same time. You say two shows, but what about three or four? No, seriously: my interests extend beyond the big four to the more obscure networks like History, Book TV, AMC and SyFy.
Those networks that do make their shows available online do so for a limited time, making it difficult to catch up if you aren't a dedicated viewer. Many networks also go out of their way to make it difficult for anyone not using a legendarily vulnerable OS to view shows online.
It looks like the networks will still schedule all the shows I like at the same time on the same night, forcing me to choose which ones to ignore. Don't be stupid. Let me decide what to watch and when; then we can talk.
How about this? Schedule first-run when your generic focus groups tell you, then leave it available so real people can watch whenever we get around to it. I have better things to do than schedule my life around you.
No, but it sure would be nice to replace DVDs with flash drives. The disks I get from netflix are often unreadable. Recently, I went through seven replacements for a particular disk and eventually just gave up.
Exactly. When you sell stuff like this, you set yourself up as the most accessible responsible party for these hapless "consumers" who fell for the latest marketing gimmick. I sure hope you made some profit on these sell-under-cost-and-make-it-up-in-volume scams, because you are the fall guy.
Be sure to demand a refund for all the games you bought too. After all, they're going to be even less useful once you've turned in the the ps3 for the refund. Best get rid of them now anyway, before sony realizes what a good idea MS had in killing off multiplayer support.
It depends upon whether the volcano was set off on purpose. If so, then they probably did so as an excuse so the mothership could land without being seen.
Those offers to compensate the airlines is just politicians feeling guilty. wait!what? Politicians feeling guilty? Something doesn't add up here. Now I'm curious.
Google's good actions distract me too from their other actions that I would normally condemn with vigor.
Take a non-google example. IBM is a good FOSS citizen, at least in the parts of IBM that interface with the FOSS community. Unfortunately, they also take some very anti-FOSS stands, for instance in their support for patents on software. It's harder to condemn the parts I don't like because we're on friendly terms, allies even, in other areas. They're so big that such duplicity isn't even seen as inconsistency.
Anyway, the complaint doesn't mention too big to fail, just big enough to bother the also-rans so much that they'll spend money to drum up public sentiment. Thankfully, even the US public doesn't always fall for that, not even when the Media expresses their wish to halt progress by giving time to what would otherwise be a bunch of whiners in the corner sucking their thumbs.
Do they have a legitimate complaint? Maybe in there somewhere they might, but they way they're going about it is distasteful so it's hard to lend them any credence. They do bring up privacy though. Maybe this is a good opportunity to point out how horribly the whole industry ignores privacy?
Speaking of companies getting too big, what say a determination of "too big to fail" automatically gets it broken up? Too big to fail is not good for the economy, even if they got that way by being saints.
Good idea. Maybe linux-kernel too. Is there a better example of large scale teamwork? For coding, I mean. Not for documenting the downfall of the US legal system.
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What, you got something against my crontab? :)
I gave up on cable and DVR and am using just netflix DVDs. Now if they would stream to a native linux app...
You'd think, but DVRs have only so many inputs, requiring one to pick amongst shows that are played at the same time. You say two shows, but what about three or four? No, seriously: my interests extend beyond the big four to the more obscure networks like History, Book TV, AMC and SyFy.
Those networks that do make their shows available online do so for a limited time, making it difficult to catch up if you aren't a dedicated viewer. Many networks also go out of their way to make it difficult for anyone not using a legendarily vulnerable OS to view shows online.
It looks like the networks will still schedule all the shows I like at the same time on the same night, forcing me to choose which ones to ignore. Don't be stupid. Let me decide what to watch and when; then we can talk.
How about this? Schedule first-run when your generic focus groups tell you, then leave it available so real people can watch whenever we get around to it. I have better things to do than schedule my life around you.
What, with the batty old fruit?
Value FOSS softwares the same as equivalent non-FOSS packages. The piracy rate will drop to almost zero.
Bit depth is great. Let's use it for greyscale by getting large pixel qi monitors on my desk.
As I understand it, only in a small, relatively isolated Northern population. And it's not for yellow. Still cool though.
If only that were remotely true.
No, but it sure would be nice to replace DVDs with flash drives. The disks I get from netflix are often unreadable. Recently, I went through seven replacements for a particular disk and eventually just gave up.
Much S&M is consensual, consequently not abuse.
Wait for the dust to clear from the forthcoming Bilski ruling. Then you'll see sparks flying.
Exactly. When you sell stuff like this, you set yourself up as the most accessible responsible party for these hapless "consumers" who fell for the latest marketing gimmick. I sure hope you made some profit on these sell-under-cost-and-make-it-up-in-volume scams, because you are the fall guy.
Be sure to demand a refund for all the games you bought too. After all, they're going to be even less useful once you've turned in the the ps3 for the refund. Best get rid of them now anyway, before sony realizes what a good idea MS had in killing off multiplayer support.
Why do you keep coming back?
Remind me never to do the right thing ever again.
Yes, as you observe, Iceland doesn't have a monopoly on smart people with a motive.
Raise your hand if you think this wasn't already known to and in use by one or more government agencies.
It depends upon whether the volcano was set off on purpose. If so, then they probably did so as an excuse so the mothership could land without being seen.
Those offers to compensate the airlines is just politicians feeling guilty. wait!what? Politicians feeling guilty? Something doesn't add up here. Now I'm curious.
Google's good actions distract me too from their other actions that I would normally condemn with vigor.
Take a non-google example. IBM is a good FOSS citizen, at least in the parts of IBM that interface with the FOSS community. Unfortunately, they also take some very anti-FOSS stands, for instance in their support for patents on software. It's harder to condemn the parts I don't like because we're on friendly terms, allies even, in other areas. They're so big that such duplicity isn't even seen as inconsistency.
My guess is they didn't account for environmental factors like the logic-destroying effect of polarized politics.
I was broadening the subject...
Anyway, the complaint doesn't mention too big to fail, just big enough to bother the also-rans so much that they'll spend money to drum up public sentiment. Thankfully, even the US public doesn't always fall for that, not even when the Media expresses their wish to halt progress by giving time to what would otherwise be a bunch of whiners in the corner sucking their thumbs.
Do they have a legitimate complaint? Maybe in there somewhere they might, but they way they're going about it is distasteful so it's hard to lend them any credence. They do bring up privacy though. Maybe this is a good opportunity to point out how horribly the whole industry ignores privacy?
Speaking of companies getting too big, what say a determination of "too big to fail" automatically gets it broken up? Too big to fail is not good for the economy, even if they got that way by being saints.
Sure, sounds great, so long as we get to retroactively break up microsoft while we're at it.
alt.binaries too
Good idea. Maybe linux-kernel too. Is there a better example of large scale teamwork? For coding, I mean. Not for documenting the downfall of the US legal system.