I don't recall being asked what I thought about that. I remember when more than half of Americans thought getting involved with Iraq was a good idea. Or when they thought that Obamacare was a bad idea.
Just because more than half of Americans want something, doesn't mean it's a good idea. What's more, thanks to gerrymandering, it can take nearly 75% or so to actually ensure anything gets done.
I don't generally go looking for newer releases for streaming. Even movies from the '70s, '80s and '90s that they should have, they're missing most of the ones I want to see.
Perhaps you're not lacking in anything to watch, but I'm not exactly looking for obscure lesbian love stories here. The selection of Schwarzenegger films is laughable, not to mention their horror films, missing most of the good ones. And they can't get a license to stream Bill & Ted, seriously?
I keep hearing people say that the selection is fine, but I can't believe that my tastes are so niche and obscure that there aren't plenty of other people that want the same films. And BTW, if you're torrenting the ones you can't find on Netflix, then of course you're not going to mind the fact that the selection sucks. You still get to watch those movies online. I have to get the disc sent to me if I want to watch those films.
How is this a mortal wound? Gamefly is an incredibly good deal as it is, even if you just play a couple games a month, you've still more than made up for the cost of membership. Even if they have to double their rates, it's still an incredibly good deal.
The market isn't going to dry up just because of a little postage increase. Netflix is going to be far more affected by this, as people generally watch more movies per month than they play video games. Unless it's an epically bad game like Epic Mickey, you're probably going to want to play for a few days. Whereas the folks watching movies are likely to be watching at least 10 a month.
The reason for the USPS financial problems is that the congress mandated that the pensions be 100% funded within 10 years. The reason for that was to protect the competition that wasn't able to compete on price or service.
And they have a monopoly, it's just on the use of mailboxes. They're the only ones that can legally leave things in mailboxes, everybody else has to use their own box or leave it on the doorstep.
For me, the time it takes to download a new game is not much less than the time it takes to ship a game from the next town over. What's more, while I'm waiting for the game to arrive, I'm not having to deal with the increased load on the network. What's more, I'm lucky enough not to have a cap, for those on a cap, the download size makes a difference.
I feel for those that have 1.5mbps connections around here as their only option. I'm lucky enough to have one that's nominally 5mbps, even though it doesn't feel like it.
No, they didn't. Netflix envelopes have been hand sorted for most of their existence. I think they did eventualy change the format to go through the machines, but they weren't designed specially to reduce costs. The USPS just chose not to charge the cost of the hand sort.
Except that UPS and FedEx are usually more expensive than the USPS is and the breakage isn't necessarily going to be lower.
What's more, the USPS is an amazingly efficient organization over all. How do you think that the USPS keeps their prices from increasing as quickly as inflation? I'll give you a hint, they take automation and efficiency very seriously.
Then again, I'm guessing you hate all the other services that the US government provides, because being cheated by a corporation adds to the benefits of overpaying and generally being treated poorly.
You mean drop Netflix in general, their online catalog is complete garbage. I literally spent an hour last weekend trying to find something to watch and wound up giving up because everything I wanted to watch wasn't available for streaming.
Sure it is cheap, but the selection online blows and if they increase the prices much more, you may as well take Redbox's offer of $8 a month for 4 DVD pickups and streaming.
They tried using a regular mailer like Netflix, but the breakages were substantially higher. What's more, Netflix was supposed to be paying for the special treatment as the envelopes wouldn't work with the automated machinery.
As a result of that, Gamefly started using better envelopes to avoid the substantial losses due to breakage in mail.
Had the USPS charged Gamefly the same as Netflix and provided the same level of service, this would never have gotten to this point.
Not really, sure people are sending less mail, but mail isn't the only thing that the USPS delivers. I keep hearing people declare the USPS dead because of the internet, and the only reason they're having financial problems at all is because they were given a decade to fund their pensions 100%, which is more than what even responsible companies do.
What's more, the internet can't do things like have proper signature requirements, there's no guarantee of privacy like there is with things mailed within the US.
I know it's popular to badmouth the postal service, but seriously, how are physical things going to be transported without something filling that niche? And the USPS is pretty much the most cost effective way of doing that in the US.
This sounds a lot like people prior to video cameras becoming ubiquitous. If you've ever seen a Beatles film you'll know what I mean, it's all awkward because they're paying a ton of attention to the camera rather than just ignoring it and going about their business.
The video conferencing equipment is the same way, you're not supposed to be changing your behavior to suit the device, you're supposed to be looking on screen. I'm not sure how that would look weird, because it's never looked weird on any device I've used.
And yeah, Kinnect is great if you don't mind MS or random crackers invading your privacy, at least my webcam has a light on, and the laptop is supposed to be closed when not in use.
Because if you contribute something of value to society, you're supposed to be poor and grateful for what you have. If you're a member of the leech class, IE the rich, then you can sit around all day because having a lot of money is the justification for being allowed to sit on your ass. Never mind that you probably inherited the money rather than contributing to society.
It's harder, but you can give them the prerequisites at the top of the article along with the relevant page numbers. With dead tree manuals people could always skip the background information. And with manuals that's more likely than with novels.
Some people? Unless the developer has gone out of his way to make the basics self explanatory, nobody is going to become an advanced user without one. Unless of course your program is the only one that does what it does.
I was screwing around with Kdenlive a couple days ago, and it completely lacks any intuitive way of cutting files up. You can save zones, but I have yet to find any corresponding restore function. And there isn't any obvious way of cutting sections of a clip out other than just the first clip you do.
There presumably is a way of doing it, but without proper documentation a person is never going to figure it out. I haven't read the documentation yet, so I don't know if that's going to help, but good luck caring enough about the software to get to the point where tutorials aren't mandatory.
I've never had a problem with it, I just look at the screen as one is intended and focus on communicating. It's really freaky to be on video chat and focusing on the camera, it sounds like you were sitting too close to a camera with a screen that's too large. With my 11.6" screen, the difference between looking at the camera and looking at the screen is minimal.
If you've got a larger screen then you're likely going to have to sit further away in order for the effect to disappear.
Still, it's a damned sight better than having my computer spying on me via Kinnect.
The main reason they don't do that is time. That and the fact that you really need to be able to do the difference quotients as an underpinning to calculus. Especially since those always work, if there's a derivative, even if they are horribly ugly.
Doing some derivation is of course wise, but realize that the ability to derive formulas is almost completely worthless outside of the world of applied mathematics.
When I was in High School we were still doing proofs, and it was a complete waste of time. A much better use of time would have been to do a bunch of story problems and some dimensional analysis as that covers most real world math anyways.
If you have a good textbook, and a bad teacher, the students can learn anyways. If you have a bad textbook and a good teacher, good luck with that. A teacher gets like 5 hours a week with students, and usually no more. Also, that's with the entire class, so answering individual questions is limited by time. Compare that with the time students spend outside of class studying and you'll see what I mean.
Bottom line is that in the long run, students are going to spend far more time learning outside of school than inside of it, so blaming the teachers makes little sense. Just because you've got your diploma or degree, does not let you off the hook for any new information that comes into being after graduation. It just means that you likely won't have anybody to walk you through it.
I disagree, not looking at people in the eye during chat isn't weird at all. It's the way that video chat is done.
By permitting the computer to change your eyes, you solve one problem, while taking away the meaning with which your eyes communicate with people. Suddenly, you can't just roll your eyes without telling the computer that you want to roll your eyes as the computer isn't going to know that it should break eye contact.
If you happen to live in a culture where eye contact is maintained through out, that might be fine, but for those of us that are used to maintaining eye contact for short periods and breaking it as a part of effective communication, this is just going to make that more complicated.
I've yet to see a competently written math book. Most of them are written by and for people with PhDs in mathematics. They'll show one example, fail miserably to explain what they did in any clear way, then later they will refer back to it as what they did in example 3. And the student is expected to be able to figure out what they did. Sure, given sufficient time, a student could reverse engineer the problem, but it's also trendy for teachers to hand out way too many problems as homework, without permitting the students time to understand.
I remember when I was in middle school and high school, the schools were using "integrated math." Which is to say we didn't have algebra, geometry or trig, we had all of them at once and we would start over again the next year. The problem is that just as we were beginning to grasp one of them, we'd move onto the next subject, and the next year, we'd have to start over as we hadn't mastered the material the last time we saw it.
Perhaps, but you're ignoring the architecture. Intel beat AMD to 64-bit as well, but AMD had the first implementation that people wanted in that it could run x86 code. In this case, the APU implementation is more than just a GPU on a chip, it's the first step towards having a chip that can use the best units on the chip for the appropriate task, and permit programmers to use them as an integrated chip.
More than that, the GPU that Intel was using, was complete garbage whereas the ones that AMD is using are actually fairly good.
It's a chicken and egg problem. Until it's necessary to see all of the web, it's not going to be adopted. But, it's not going to be necessary to see all of the web until sites are only on IPv6.
And as long as the kludges work, it's going to remain that way. Around here,my ISP doesn't offer it, although CenturyLink has been experimenting with it for over a decade, so they should be able to do it, when they are forced to.
I would have hoped with the Government requiring it for contractors, that things would be picking up the pace a bit, but I'm not seeing any evidence of that around here.
I spent last summer hanging out with a woman that had just graduated college. I have never felt so old in all my life. It seemed like most of the cultural references I was using, elicited a blank stare.
I don't know about that AMD seems to be doing a fair amount of innovating on their own. I can't recall anybody talking about APUs before AMD threw their money at making it happen. AMD was also the party that brought 64-bit computing to the masses. Sure, DEC and Sun both had 64-bit offerings before AMD did it, but none of them were useful for the home user.
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I don't recall being asked what I thought about that. I remember when more than half of Americans thought getting involved with Iraq was a good idea. Or when they thought that Obamacare was a bad idea.
Just because more than half of Americans want something, doesn't mean it's a good idea. What's more, thanks to gerrymandering, it can take nearly 75% or so to actually ensure anything gets done.
I don't generally go looking for newer releases for streaming. Even movies from the '70s, '80s and '90s that they should have, they're missing most of the ones I want to see.
Perhaps you're not lacking in anything to watch, but I'm not exactly looking for obscure lesbian love stories here. The selection of Schwarzenegger films is laughable, not to mention their horror films, missing most of the good ones. And they can't get a license to stream Bill & Ted, seriously?
I keep hearing people say that the selection is fine, but I can't believe that my tastes are so niche and obscure that there aren't plenty of other people that want the same films. And BTW, if you're torrenting the ones you can't find on Netflix, then of course you're not going to mind the fact that the selection sucks. You still get to watch those movies online. I have to get the disc sent to me if I want to watch those films.
How is this a mortal wound? Gamefly is an incredibly good deal as it is, even if you just play a couple games a month, you've still more than made up for the cost of membership. Even if they have to double their rates, it's still an incredibly good deal.
The market isn't going to dry up just because of a little postage increase. Netflix is going to be far more affected by this, as people generally watch more movies per month than they play video games. Unless it's an epically bad game like Epic Mickey, you're probably going to want to play for a few days. Whereas the folks watching movies are likely to be watching at least 10 a month.
The reason for the USPS financial problems is that the congress mandated that the pensions be 100% funded within 10 years. The reason for that was to protect the competition that wasn't able to compete on price or service.
And they have a monopoly, it's just on the use of mailboxes. They're the only ones that can legally leave things in mailboxes, everybody else has to use their own box or leave it on the doorstep.
For me, the time it takes to download a new game is not much less than the time it takes to ship a game from the next town over. What's more, while I'm waiting for the game to arrive, I'm not having to deal with the increased load on the network. What's more, I'm lucky enough not to have a cap, for those on a cap, the download size makes a difference.
I feel for those that have 1.5mbps connections around here as their only option. I'm lucky enough to have one that's nominally 5mbps, even though it doesn't feel like it.
No, they didn't. Netflix envelopes have been hand sorted for most of their existence. I think they did eventualy change the format to go through the machines, but they weren't designed specially to reduce costs. The USPS just chose not to charge the cost of the hand sort.
Except that UPS and FedEx are usually more expensive than the USPS is and the breakage isn't necessarily going to be lower.
What's more, the USPS is an amazingly efficient organization over all. How do you think that the USPS keeps their prices from increasing as quickly as inflation? I'll give you a hint, they take automation and efficiency very seriously.
Then again, I'm guessing you hate all the other services that the US government provides, because being cheated by a corporation adds to the benefits of overpaying and generally being treated poorly.
You mean drop Netflix in general, their online catalog is complete garbage. I literally spent an hour last weekend trying to find something to watch and wound up giving up because everything I wanted to watch wasn't available for streaming.
Sure it is cheap, but the selection online blows and if they increase the prices much more, you may as well take Redbox's offer of $8 a month for 4 DVD pickups and streaming.
They tried using a regular mailer like Netflix, but the breakages were substantially higher. What's more, Netflix was supposed to be paying for the special treatment as the envelopes wouldn't work with the automated machinery.
As a result of that, Gamefly started using better envelopes to avoid the substantial losses due to breakage in mail.
Had the USPS charged Gamefly the same as Netflix and provided the same level of service, this would never have gotten to this point.
Not really, sure people are sending less mail, but mail isn't the only thing that the USPS delivers. I keep hearing people declare the USPS dead because of the internet, and the only reason they're having financial problems at all is because they were given a decade to fund their pensions 100%, which is more than what even responsible companies do.
What's more, the internet can't do things like have proper signature requirements, there's no guarantee of privacy like there is with things mailed within the US.
I know it's popular to badmouth the postal service, but seriously, how are physical things going to be transported without something filling that niche? And the USPS is pretty much the most cost effective way of doing that in the US.
This sounds a lot like people prior to video cameras becoming ubiquitous. If you've ever seen a Beatles film you'll know what I mean, it's all awkward because they're paying a ton of attention to the camera rather than just ignoring it and going about their business.
The video conferencing equipment is the same way, you're not supposed to be changing your behavior to suit the device, you're supposed to be looking on screen. I'm not sure how that would look weird, because it's never looked weird on any device I've used.
And yeah, Kinnect is great if you don't mind MS or random crackers invading your privacy, at least my webcam has a light on, and the laptop is supposed to be closed when not in use.
Because if you contribute something of value to society, you're supposed to be poor and grateful for what you have. If you're a member of the leech class, IE the rich, then you can sit around all day because having a lot of money is the justification for being allowed to sit on your ass. Never mind that you probably inherited the money rather than contributing to society.
It's harder, but you can give them the prerequisites at the top of the article along with the relevant page numbers. With dead tree manuals people could always skip the background information. And with manuals that's more likely than with novels.
Some people? Unless the developer has gone out of his way to make the basics self explanatory, nobody is going to become an advanced user without one. Unless of course your program is the only one that does what it does.
I was screwing around with Kdenlive a couple days ago, and it completely lacks any intuitive way of cutting files up. You can save zones, but I have yet to find any corresponding restore function. And there isn't any obvious way of cutting sections of a clip out other than just the first clip you do.
There presumably is a way of doing it, but without proper documentation a person is never going to figure it out. I haven't read the documentation yet, so I don't know if that's going to help, but good luck caring enough about the software to get to the point where tutorials aren't mandatory.
I've never had a problem with it, I just look at the screen as one is intended and focus on communicating. It's really freaky to be on video chat and focusing on the camera, it sounds like you were sitting too close to a camera with a screen that's too large. With my 11.6" screen, the difference between looking at the camera and looking at the screen is minimal.
If you've got a larger screen then you're likely going to have to sit further away in order for the effect to disappear.
Still, it's a damned sight better than having my computer spying on me via Kinnect.
The main reason they don't do that is time. That and the fact that you really need to be able to do the difference quotients as an underpinning to calculus. Especially since those always work, if there's a derivative, even if they are horribly ugly.
Doing some derivation is of course wise, but realize that the ability to derive formulas is almost completely worthless outside of the world of applied mathematics.
When I was in High School we were still doing proofs, and it was a complete waste of time. A much better use of time would have been to do a bunch of story problems and some dimensional analysis as that covers most real world math anyways.
If you have a good textbook, and a bad teacher, the students can learn anyways. If you have a bad textbook and a good teacher, good luck with that. A teacher gets like 5 hours a week with students, and usually no more. Also, that's with the entire class, so answering individual questions is limited by time. Compare that with the time students spend outside of class studying and you'll see what I mean.
Bottom line is that in the long run, students are going to spend far more time learning outside of school than inside of it, so blaming the teachers makes little sense. Just because you've got your diploma or degree, does not let you off the hook for any new information that comes into being after graduation. It just means that you likely won't have anybody to walk you through it.
I disagree, not looking at people in the eye during chat isn't weird at all. It's the way that video chat is done.
By permitting the computer to change your eyes, you solve one problem, while taking away the meaning with which your eyes communicate with people. Suddenly, you can't just roll your eyes without telling the computer that you want to roll your eyes as the computer isn't going to know that it should break eye contact.
If you happen to live in a culture where eye contact is maintained through out, that might be fine, but for those of us that are used to maintaining eye contact for short periods and breaking it as a part of effective communication, this is just going to make that more complicated.
I've yet to see a competently written math book. Most of them are written by and for people with PhDs in mathematics. They'll show one example, fail miserably to explain what they did in any clear way, then later they will refer back to it as what they did in example 3. And the student is expected to be able to figure out what they did. Sure, given sufficient time, a student could reverse engineer the problem, but it's also trendy for teachers to hand out way too many problems as homework, without permitting the students time to understand.
I remember when I was in middle school and high school, the schools were using "integrated math." Which is to say we didn't have algebra, geometry or trig, we had all of them at once and we would start over again the next year. The problem is that just as we were beginning to grasp one of them, we'd move onto the next subject, and the next year, we'd have to start over as we hadn't mastered the material the last time we saw it.
Perhaps, but you're ignoring the architecture. Intel beat AMD to 64-bit as well, but AMD had the first implementation that people wanted in that it could run x86 code. In this case, the APU implementation is more than just a GPU on a chip, it's the first step towards having a chip that can use the best units on the chip for the appropriate task, and permit programmers to use them as an integrated chip.
More than that, the GPU that Intel was using, was complete garbage whereas the ones that AMD is using are actually fairly good.
It's a chicken and egg problem. Until it's necessary to see all of the web, it's not going to be adopted. But, it's not going to be necessary to see all of the web until sites are only on IPv6.
And as long as the kludges work, it's going to remain that way. Around here,my ISP doesn't offer it, although CenturyLink has been experimenting with it for over a decade, so they should be able to do it, when they are forced to.
I would have hoped with the Government requiring it for contractors, that things would be picking up the pace a bit, but I'm not seeing any evidence of that around here.
I spent last summer hanging out with a woman that had just graduated college. I have never felt so old in all my life. It seemed like most of the cultural references I was using, elicited a blank stare.
Tell that to the ISPs. Sure you can tunnel your traffic through a service, but there's still a fair number of services that aren't available on IPv6.
I don't know about that AMD seems to be doing a fair amount of innovating on their own. I can't recall anybody talking about APUs before AMD threw their money at making it happen. AMD was also the party that brought 64-bit computing to the masses. Sure, DEC and Sun both had 64-bit offerings before AMD did it, but none of them were useful for the home user.