I have only a basic-cable subscription, and that's only because it produces a slight -drop- in my total bill compared with just having Internet. I suspect that will not be considered 'paying enough' to permit me to watch Hulu streaming after they turn 'authentication' on.
It's all right, I guess. I'm already getting tired of seeing Hulu streaming interrupted 4 or 5 times for a 1 hour broadcast, with as many as 3 thirty second commercials for each interruption. And one of those interruptions tends to come -right before the credits- these days, which is annoying if I can't be sure there's anything I want to watch during the credits. I also don't like the way Hulu shows me -all- the episodes for the current season of a program, with just a tiny green icon beside most episodes, to indicate that I can only watch two or three of them because I don't have Hulu plus.
Sorry, I'm willing to buy only one streaming package, and for now that's Netflix. If the studios think they're going to split all the content into multiple streaming packages that reproduces the effect of cable TV's price tiers all over again, they've got another thing coming. I don't need their product that much.
One frustration of mine, related to this, is lack of release notes. On my Kindle Fire, updates from the Amazon App store don't provide any explanation of the update at all. Your strategy is a good one, but in my case it will only work if other people have reported problems with the update AND I can find those reviews in the whole review history (reviews seem to be presented in an arbitrary order).
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To provide more detail, a COM program was literally 'what's in the file is what you get'. The entire COM program was loaded into memory at offset 100H from the start of a segment, byte for byte with no 'fixups'. I believe those 100H bytes were available for your program to use as scratch RAM, but you could use INT 21 calls to request more memory from DOS. DOS would load the COM file and then jump to the very first instruction at offset 100H.
This is consistent with my understanding of 'tiny' model in that there's only one segment, CS, DS and ES are all expected to point to the same place at program start, and addressing is generally 16-bit.
An EXE file on the other hand was not 'pure code'. It had a header that specified -stuff I don't know anymore if I ever did-, allowing things such as multiple segments and data regions that are specified by size vs. actually filling up a file with zero bytes. Various memory models ('near' and 'far' pointers for instance) were supported.
That's a good one. I was taught years ago that the pressure of the blade on the ice momentarily melts the water beneath, but since then I've read that there isn't enough pressure to do that (and I always wondered by the skater wouldn't leave thin puddles behind). We really don't know for sure how ice skating works.
I hardly consider the suburbs where I live in eastern MA to be 'large cities', but our libraries are generally excellent. They are actually busy places. One of them near me has hundreds of DVDs and keeps the collection fairly up to date. CD's are a bit older. And the libraries are grouped into online networks so if the library in your town doesn't have something there are about 20 other towns it might be able to pull the item from for you.
And if you want to see sanctimonious, maybe you just live somewhere that doesn't value education and intelligence enough to invest in decent libraries.
My family watches almost nothing but TV on Netflix streaming and we're fine with that. Several other slashdotters have pointed out all they great things they find on Netflix streaming. I think $8 a month for what you get is a great deal. I can Redbox the rare new release I just have to see now.
Instead of lots of anecdotes either way, is there any data to prove that Netflix streaming needs new releases to be a viable business?
I'd assume that they DID have a plan. Whether it was a good plan or not is another question. And they're not telling what the real plan was so all we can do is speculate. Like others I believe they were hoping that a streaming-only Netflix would be in a stronger bargaining position with the studios, and also have much lower expenses.
Look around and you'll find that MOST lighted business signs are red. Very few are blue. There's a reason for that as you've discovered. It's not just you.
As others have pointed out, it's a great upgrade from the 3G or 3GS. My 3G is 3+ years old now, and it's showing its age (literally, it's beaten up to heck). Why assume that everyone ordering the 4S is dumping a one year old 4?
This, this and more this. I've been holding on to an aging 3G since 2008 (gee three years I must be some kind of backwoods luddite). I am happy with the feature set that's been announced and I'm almost certain to upgrade sometime this month.
It's already been stated that Kindle Fire will have access to apps from Pandora, Twitter, Facebook, and Netflix. If they go back on this then I'm sure many people will be disappointed.
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I have only a basic-cable subscription, and that's only because it produces a slight -drop- in my total bill compared with just having Internet. I suspect that will not be considered 'paying enough' to permit me to watch Hulu streaming after they turn 'authentication' on.
It's all right, I guess. I'm already getting tired of seeing Hulu streaming interrupted 4 or 5 times for a 1 hour broadcast, with as many as 3 thirty second commercials for each interruption. And one of those interruptions tends to come -right before the credits- these days, which is annoying if I can't be sure there's anything I want to watch during the credits. I also don't like the way Hulu shows me -all- the episodes for the current season of a program, with just a tiny green icon beside most episodes, to indicate that I can only watch two or three of them because I don't have Hulu plus.
Sorry, I'm willing to buy only one streaming package, and for now that's Netflix. If the studios think they're going to split all the content into multiple streaming packages that reproduces the effect of cable TV's price tiers all over again, they've got another thing coming. I don't need their product that much.
One frustration of mine, related to this, is lack of release notes. On my Kindle Fire, updates from the Amazon App store don't provide any explanation of the update at all. Your strategy is a good one, but in my case it will only work if other people have reported problems with the update AND I can find those reviews in the whole review history (reviews seem to be presented in an arbitrary order).
Does this remind anybody else of this Monty Python Sketch: http://www.montypython.net/scripts/tunnel.php
To provide more detail, a COM program was literally 'what's in the file is what you get'. The entire COM program was loaded into memory at offset 100H from the start of a segment, byte for byte with no 'fixups'. I believe those 100H bytes were available for your program to use as scratch RAM, but you could use INT 21 calls to request more memory from DOS. DOS would load the COM file and then jump to the very first instruction at offset 100H.
This is consistent with my understanding of 'tiny' model in that there's only one segment, CS, DS and ES are all expected to point to the same place at program start, and addressing is generally 16-bit.
An EXE file on the other hand was not 'pure code'. It had a header that specified -stuff I don't know anymore if I ever did-, allowing things such as multiple segments and data regions that are specified by size vs. actually filling up a file with zero bytes. Various memory models ('near' and 'far' pointers for instance) were supported.
Terrans would be capitalized.
And so we learn that of all the parts of the human body, the one subject to the most random mutation is the bridge of the nose.
That's a good one. I was taught years ago that the pressure of the blade on the ice momentarily melts the water beneath, but since then I've read that there isn't enough pressure to do that (and I always wondered by the skater wouldn't leave thin puddles behind). We really don't know for sure how ice skating works.
Or perhaps they want a physical keyboard (a friend of mine has chosen Android over iPhone for exactly this reason).
Land there with care or become lost at sea, so to speak.
This has already been considered: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fall_of_Moondust
You can configure your own servers to not require account validation.
Any engineer knows that Duct Tape would work better.
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Actually the ISPs could do this pretty well by intercepting port 80 on gov't request.
I hardly consider the suburbs where I live in eastern MA to be 'large cities', but our libraries are generally excellent. They are actually busy places. One of them near me has hundreds of DVDs and keeps the collection fairly up to date. CD's are a bit older. And the libraries are grouped into online networks so if the library in your town doesn't have something there are about 20 other towns it might be able to pull the item from for you.
And if you want to see sanctimonious, maybe you just live somewhere that doesn't value education and intelligence enough to invest in decent libraries.
It's newts all the way down.
My family watches almost nothing but TV on Netflix streaming and we're fine with that. Several other slashdotters have pointed out all they great things they find on Netflix streaming. I think $8 a month for what you get is a great deal. I can Redbox the rare new release I just have to see now.
Instead of lots of anecdotes either way, is there any data to prove that Netflix streaming needs new releases to be a viable business?
I'd assume that they DID have a plan. Whether it was a good plan or not is another question. And they're not telling what the real plan was so all we can do is speculate. Like others I believe they were hoping that a streaming-only Netflix would be in a stronger bargaining position with the studios, and also have much lower expenses.
bah, you fill in the rest.
No petabytes, because peta would object to the exploitation of shrimp.
There are people who already say dub-dub-dub. I don't encourage it.
Look around and you'll find that MOST lighted business signs are red. Very few are blue. There's a reason for that as you've discovered. It's not just you.
As others have pointed out, it's a great upgrade from the 3G or 3GS. My 3G is 3+ years old now, and it's showing its age (literally, it's beaten up to heck). Why assume that everyone ordering the 4S is dumping a one year old 4?
This, this and more this. I've been holding on to an aging 3G since 2008 (gee three years I must be some kind of backwoods luddite). I am happy with the feature set that's been announced and I'm almost certain to upgrade sometime this month.
It's already been stated that Kindle Fire will have access to apps from Pandora, Twitter, Facebook, and Netflix. If they go back on this then I'm sure many people will be disappointed.
Ah good times... You could actually figure out what a call to the BIOS was going to do because you had the BIOS source code (not just a disassembly).