*If you're being throttled, if you send back 3 dvds - even 3 dvds in the same envelope - netflix will receive 2 a couple minutes apart and then "receive" the last one several hours later. Try it out;)
Possibly, that could be happening no matter wether you're being 'throttled' or not. One would have to examine their processing methods. They could have one staffer who opens all the parcels and dumps them into a bin. They might then be scanned into the system at varying time intervals. It's even possible that they have 'pickers' who pull popular and much-requested disks out of that bin earlier, if they are trying to 'expedite' popular selections.
There doesn't necessarily have to be a conspiracy behind it.
I would call Multicasting (known as 'broadcasting' in the wireless (radio) industry) a third class 1970's technology.
The pollution cost of postal service delivery of a disk is rather low, considering the delivery infrastructure is running the truck along the route wether the disk happens to be on it or not.
Not really. Business and Education markets (where the glut of hardware comes from, really) haven't rolled out anything newer than W2K yet, except where required. My desk at work has an old Dell Optiplex PII system on it.
The curse of Microsoft is that businesses upgrade very slowly. The only way MS can get much revenue at all from big Corps is by crippling them with the horrendous Microsoft Server technology that always hobbles along poorly, but just good enough that Management doesn't pitch it for something (anything!) better.
I checked recently, and progman.exe (the Windows 3.x program manager) is still included in Windows 2000. I know in Windows 95 you can select that as your default GUI. Not so sure about Windows 2000...
Apple seems to be the only company actually treating their computers as a high-quality appliance and not a box of cobbled parts to run Office on.
There are, and always have been highly integrated and expensive Windows-based machines with 'nice' features and extensions like you speak of. They exist in the same price tier as Apple hardware, and sell in about the same volume. But in the Windows market they are drowned out by the less expensive models that that 'the rest of us' can justify spending our money on.
A lot of Mac users switched over to Windows 2000 rather than languish in pre MacOS 10. Some switched back when Apple trashed classic MacOS and adopted NeXT technology. They'll switch back and forth to whatever is most suitable. There really isn't as big a 'religion' as there once was.
When the tech is all you're really interested in, who's making it is irrelevant.
When the tech is all you're really interested in, what a bunch of 'graphic design' flakes think becomes instantly irrelevant. So you continually install more and better apps, and add them to your GUI by editing ~/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc . Or ~/.twm if you really are only interested in the tech.
The Chinese engineering school grad is a cookie-cutter clone. Believe me. I've worked in the tech industry long enough to know. The most valuable technical employees in any innovative company are the ones who 'drifted around' long enough in their earlier years to not be cubicle-bound clones. And stuff like that is verboten in China.
Is there a new rule here that if it isn't complimentary to Microsoft, and there might be a risk the Manager there in charge of purchasing banner advertising might see it (i.e. it's an early comment in the thread) that it needs to be marked down?
I remember one of the early trojans that ran on the PC. It featured a colorful animated clown that danced amusingly on your machine, with the intent of distracting you from the sound of your hard drive being erased. The new eye candy isn't quite that bad.
Why are 'oooh, shiny!' features the main selling feature of Vista?
I must be missing something. Maybe they're putting something hallucinogenic in the XP interface, which I have completely missed, up to this time. It sure looks hippy dippy from a distance...
You wouldn't run Linux on them, I hope. When you're running a classic UNIX box with high end graphics, you don't want whatever graphics support 'the hackers' have come up with, particularly when you're running a formerly rare expensive framebuffer. The same is true when running Sun's classic 'High End' framebuffers. The cg14 just isn't hacker friendly without the full docs that Sun won't provide.
My DVDs all have one simple menu at the front. You click on the icon and view whatever video recording is behind it.
At least that's the case on the videos we watch on the Television set. The ones on the DVD player plugged into a video capture card on my PC are sometimes more complicated. But since they're usually rented or from the library, I don't complain.
More likely, if you are anyone other than a Fortune 500 company, you're email will never be answered. Or unless you pay some cash.
Certainly.
Google is a publicly held company now.
'Do No Evil' is a registered trademark. Do you believe Coca-Cola really means it when they say 'It's The Real Thing'? How about 'I Want To Be An Oscar-Mayer Weiner'? Do you think the kid REALLY wants that??
I could argue that libraries make it easier for someone to get their hands on a book (for free) long enough to scan and possibly OCR it, then share it online via P2P. Just because something can be abused doesn't mean it should be forbidden.
Are you somehow of the impression that libraries are forbidden from loaning out books??
Libraries have to purchase as many copies of a book or periodical as they want to keep 'in circulation' at any one time. It's really not a very complex distinction, though you seem to not get it.
The high end Linux box can run the same office, browser, e-mail, etc. as the low end Linux desktop.
You mean: they can both run the same low end office, browser, email, etc.? I dunno. The browsers, at least, on Linux, aren't really low end. The rest... maybe.
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*If you're being throttled, if you send back 3 dvds - even 3 dvds in the same envelope - netflix will receive 2 a couple minutes apart and then "receive" the last one several hours later. Try it out ;)
Possibly, that could be happening no matter wether you're being 'throttled' or not. One would have to examine their processing methods. They could have one staffer who opens all the parcels and dumps them into a bin. They might then be scanned into the system at varying time intervals. It's even possible that they have 'pickers' who pull popular and much-requested disks out of that bin earlier, if they are trying to 'expedite' popular selections.
There doesn't necessarily have to be a conspiracy behind it.
I would call Multicasting (known as 'broadcasting' in the wireless (radio) industry) a third class 1970's technology.
The pollution cost of postal service delivery of a disk is rather low, considering the delivery infrastructure is running the truck along the route wether the disk happens to be on it or not.
Not really. Business and Education markets (where the glut of hardware comes from, really) haven't rolled out anything newer than W2K yet, except where required. My desk at work has an old Dell Optiplex PII system on it.
The curse of Microsoft is that businesses upgrade very slowly. The only way MS can get much revenue at all from big Corps is by crippling them with the horrendous Microsoft Server technology that always hobbles along poorly, but just good enough that Management doesn't pitch it for something (anything!) better.
But do you run Media Player? Do you view and utilize any of the multimedia content on the Web?
I don't like IE or Outlook, either. I run Mozilla and Eudora on my Windows system. But I thought I should ask...
I checked recently, and progman.exe (the Windows 3.x program manager) is still included in Windows 2000. I know in Windows 95 you can select that as your default GUI. Not so sure about Windows 2000...
Apple seems to be the only company actually treating their computers as a high-quality appliance and not a box of cobbled parts to run Office on.
There are, and always have been highly integrated and expensive Windows-based machines with 'nice' features and extensions like you speak of. They exist in the same price tier as Apple hardware, and sell in about the same volume. But in the Windows market they are drowned out by the less expensive models that that 'the rest of us' can justify spending our money on.
well pcs might go up in price now that they must include real video cards.
More likely, Vista will 'commodify' what you term 'real' video cards.
Microsoft GUI releases have done that in the past. Some of us remember PC video technology from before Windows, ya know.
jcr does. He works for Apple.
A lot of Mac users switched over to Windows 2000 rather than languish in pre MacOS 10. Some switched back when Apple trashed classic MacOS and adopted NeXT technology. They'll switch back and forth to whatever is most suitable. There really isn't as big a 'religion' as there once was.
When the tech is all you're really interested in, who's making it is irrelevant.
When the tech is all you're really interested in, what a bunch of 'graphic design' flakes think becomes instantly irrelevant. So you continually install more and better apps, and add them to your GUI by editing ~/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc . Or ~/.twm if you really are only interested in the tech.
The recent H.S. grad, who is saving for college.
The Chinese engineering school grad is a cookie-cutter clone. Believe me. I've worked in the tech industry long enough to know. The most valuable technical employees in any innovative company are the ones who 'drifted around' long enough in their earlier years to not be cubicle-bound clones. And stuff like that is verboten in China.
We'd much rather be here, but we have an obligation to our employees ...
Let's stop right there, class. Get out your dictionarys and look up the word 'irony.'
Soylent green is people. Not the people writing crapfloodware for Oracle, though.
Flamebait?
Is there a new rule here that if it isn't complimentary to Microsoft, and there might be a risk the Manager there in charge of purchasing banner advertising might see it (i.e. it's an early comment in the thread) that it needs to be marked down?
I remember one of the early trojans that ran on the PC. It featured a colorful animated clown that danced amusingly on your machine, with the intent of distracting you from the sound of your hard drive being erased. The new eye candy isn't quite that bad.
Not quite.
Why are 'oooh, shiny!' features the main selling feature of Vista?
I must be missing something. Maybe they're putting something hallucinogenic in the XP interface, which I have completely missed, up to this time. It sure looks hippy dippy from a distance...
have pretty skechy Linux support,
You wouldn't run Linux on them, I hope. When you're running a classic UNIX box with high end graphics, you don't want whatever graphics support 'the hackers' have come up with, particularly when you're running a formerly rare expensive framebuffer. The same is true when running Sun's classic 'High End' framebuffers. The cg14 just isn't hacker friendly without the full docs that Sun won't provide.
Just room for one big poseur up on top, eh?
My DVDs all have one simple menu at the front. You click on the icon and view whatever video recording is behind it.
At least that's the case on the videos we watch on the Television set. The ones on the DVD player plugged into a video capture card on my PC are sometimes more complicated. But since they're usually rented or from the library, I don't complain.
Just imagine, losing all the BattleStar Galactica episodes by scratching 1 disc.
Whoo!
. . .
Oh! You mean, you like BattleStar Galactica??
Google isn't forbidden from loaning out books.
They are forbidden to make copies of books and distribute said copies.
More likely, if you are anyone other than a Fortune 500 company, you're email will never be answered. Or unless you pay some cash.
Certainly.
Google is a publicly held company now.
'Do No Evil' is a registered trademark. Do you believe Coca-Cola really means it when they say 'It's The Real Thing'? How about 'I Want To Be An Oscar-Mayer Weiner'? Do you think the kid REALLY wants that??
Are you somehow of the impression that libraries are forbidden from loaning out books??
Am I to presume Google is hiring philosophy PhDs as well as computer science ones?
Lately, it seems like they've been mostly hiring Marketing types.
(the diametrical opposite of techie 'geeks.')
And they're doing a durn fine job of shilling their bull to (some of) the geeks in the process.
Libraries have to purchase as many copies of a book or periodical as they want to keep 'in circulation' at any one time. It's really not a very complex distinction, though you seem to not get it.
The high end Linux box can run the same office, browser, e-mail, etc. as the low end Linux desktop.
You mean: they can both run the same low end office, browser, email, etc.? I dunno. The browsers, at least, on Linux, aren't really low end. The rest... maybe.