To me, the only way Netflix is going to be able to sustain this new pricing is if they get a similar set of movies in their streaming system as on DVD. I have Netflix, and so many of the movies I want to watch (or parts of a series -- ugh) are on DVD that I have no choice but to keep both.
So, when the price goes up, I'm just going to cancel the whole service. If I can't give you money to watch a movie I want to see, what good does it do me? I'll just have to run down to Redbox or some other competitor and get the movie some other way.
Do I think Netflix is going to kill the DVD? Not if they cannot get the studios to expand their streaming library.
Sorry, but my wife loves her Kindle, and much prefers it over "dead tree" format. Lighter, easier to carry around, don't have to worry about losing your bookmark. I prefer dead-tree-format books, but I've read some on her Kindle. But, I also like to swap books (PaperBackSwap.com) to make it cheaper to feed my habit.
In fact, on her side of the family, they have 4 Kindles that get well-used (her, both parents, and sister). If you read a lot of new books, it is much cheaper than even paperbacks, and the Kindle versions are coming out with the hardbacks, so you don't have that 6 month to 1 year wait for the paperback version. They are great for people that would like to read (airplane, car ride) but can't stand to cart around books. Me, I like having a paperback -- many of the fast food places recognize me, and ask me when they DON'T see me with a book.
PS: I don't care if you like Harry Potter / Rowling or Twilight / Meyers, but you have to love them if they can get non-readers to read books! I almost wish they had not made the movies, to get more people to read.
Ever have your Outlook lock up for minutes at a time because you didn't realize your system emailed you a stack dump of over 3MB? In GMail, it sees it has an attachment, but doesn't try to download/open it with the rest of the email. No, I don't know how Thunderbird handles overly large attachments; I like my GMail UI (via computer, phone, or parents' computer when I'm visiting) too much.
There are good and bad things to each (native / web), you just have to understand them to get around the issues. Need to access your GMail offline? Search through it while on the airplane?
On the other hand, gotten emails saying your mailbox is full because Outlook doesn't delete mails, it just moves them to the "Trash?" And then, when you delete them, you can still un-delete them? If you can un-delete them, then they weren't really deleted, were they? Where is that space being taken up?
This guys has been going since 2006, and I just heard about it yesterday.
http://www.wikispeedia.org/
He's trying to map all of the speed limit signs, so you can then have a database of what your current speed SHOULD be. Now, whether you obey it is another issue altogether;) . Seems like a worthwhile endeavor. I know I have gotten a speeding ticket because I mis-took a white "speed limit" sign for a yellow "speed suggestion" sign (on a long exit ramp).
I have AT&T UVerse, and when I upgraded to FF5, I got a "your browser is not certified to work, please upgrade to FF3+, IE...". I clicked the "don't tell me this any more and try to work" (and it does, of course).
So, it's not just enterprises, it is the websites that are trying to be pretty forward-thinking.
I clicked, I clicked. I got a web page with similar words to what you wrote, with diagrams about SWT (and RWT), but nothing that gives me warm fuzzies, just platitudes that, "RAP runs out of the box in all common web browsers. No browser add-ons are required."
I've seen that kind of stuff before (from MS and others), and there is either a catch (oh, we forgot, you have to be in IE; limited functionality in certain browsers) or they just expect something to be pre-installed (like Java, or Flash, or something else). Or, in the case of MS, it's an ActiveX control that I can't bring myself to install, even if it *IS* digitally signed.
Forgive me for not being very trusting. To much marketing-abuse in the past.
I'm confused. First, you say "Java", then you say, "no plugins" -- isn't Java technically a plug-in? I don't *have* to have Java installed, and when I hit web pages that run a Java program, my browser hangs for several seconds while it spins up (or whatever Java does).
<rant>Plus, every month or three I get these very annoying popups about, "New java version is available! Do you want to upgrade?" If you don't, you get the same popup the next day... and the day after.... We use ColdFusion, which runs on Java, so it is sensitive to which Java version, so I can't upgrade -- but I can't turn off the Java message, either.</rant>
First, your response is hard to read with the curse words. Nothing with more power than an f-bomb? Reasoned sentences (with punctuation!) can get your point across much better than random profanities. But I do appreciate the CAPS for emphasis.
Second, "releasing information on evils?" I thought they were publishing user names, emails, and passwords. Are you saying that everyone that signed up with a Sony account are evil? For example, everyone who bought music, signed up for a newsletter to keep up with their favorite music artist (Weird Al FTW!), or wanted to play an online game with a far-off friend are evil?
Finally, "standing for freedoms, against wars" is quite the oxymoron. If you aren't willing to fight for your liberties, then they will be taken from you. Should the US just give up let Al-Quaida / Iran / (insert group here) take over? Let them start doing more suicide bombings within the US borders, instead of keeping them busy at home? Help them to establish Sharia law here? Instead of listing some examples, which would seem like trolling, I'll just let you do a Google / Bing / heck, even an Alta Vista search.
I think you have your states mixed up -- more "militant vegans" and those types wanting to nanny me in the northwest than in Texas. Texas just wants to teach all facets of the evolution / creation / whatever debate.
Is there a term for "slashdotted-the-cacher"? I tried your link, and it timed out twice. Someone else (above) had posted another mirror link, and that one worked.
Cache-dotted?
Sorry, that argument "any life has unlimited value" doesn't hold water. By NOT killing UBL, you are in effect leaving him to kill more people. Even in a jail (or jail-like compound), he has enough influence to order others to their death.
So, killing UBL is like NOT killing hundreds (or thousands) of others. The math geek in me sees the beauty of that equation.
Except you are cheating. "Developer Edition" means that a developer can use it on his development machine all s/he wants, but in a production environment it should be licensed. If you are using it to run some things for yourself that aren't really considered "in production," I'd agree with you. But this sounds like a production monitoring / testing situation, which is a little gray (to me... YMMV... IMHO... ).
If you don't want to pay for CF, use a free option: Railo.
I agree that CF is a great choice for web development, but a scripting engine? Seems like overkill.
Actually, we did catch a House problem, only because my son had been diagnosed with C-Dif (http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/c-difficile/DS00736). On one episode, House came up with his diagnosis of c-dif partially because the person was constipated. Having seen my son with c-dif, he had the exact OPPOSITE problem. Like projectile vomiting, but wrong orifice.
So, yes, sometimes other shows get it completely wrong.
Son, if you are reading this, you know we love you! And I didn't say anything to identify you. Oh wait, maybe someone here can create a GUI interface in VB to track my IP address -- Best. Line. Ever!!
Here's a bonus one, nothing to do with computers. My dad was a helicopter mechanic, so he knew a lot about them. On a David Copperfield special, he had a helicopter circling the Statue of Liberty, and was going to make it disappear. The statue disappears, and my dad blurts out, "it's a different helicopter!" Elapsed time, 1 second. Completely destroyed the illusion (something about 2-rotor versus 4-rotor, or some other meaningless drivel to me). I mean, Copperfield can't hire the same model of helicopter to circle the Statue of Liberty and his empty field? Come on!
True, and capitalism = U.S.A., which is where they are based. Seems simple enough to me.
So, if evil = capitalism, then I guess I'm evil too. I don't like people who make money in a short-term basis (deforestation without replanting, Madoff / Ponzi schemes, etc.), but long-term goals (making customers happy so they come back and buy more / next generation) are definitely not evil to me. Do I buy Apple? I have an iPod Nano, but I don't like QuickTime installed on my PC, so I have songs that it takes a bunch of work to update -- I usually use a VM. Have I purchased at the Apple Store? Sure, to support my favorite artists; then I burn to a CD, rip to MP3s, and I can play them with FooBar (or insert favorite MP3 player).
Just because capitalism *can* become evil doesn't mean it *IS* evil. Any "-ism" can become evil.
Hey, who is judging this? One of the robots just crossed through the middle to get to the other side! Wow, those Japanese are good, they even built in cheating circuits!!
We are not CMMI anything. However, we moved from an internally-developed package to JIRA a few years ago, and it definitely helped. Instead of always needing to add new features (attachments, etc.), JIRA holds a lot of that stuff. I tracks what changes were made to each project, and you can even tag each project (and move it later) to a specific delivery / version.
I know some people that really hate JIRA, but it is great at keeping track of changes and such. It even has ways to integrate with your version management system (including code reviews, via an add-on). Yes, I like it. Yes, I've used quite a few different internally-developed or external packages; JIRA has a bigger footprint than some others, but once you get used to how to move from one step to another, it really makes a lot of sense. And the notifications are great; whenever someone ELSE makes a change, you get an email if you are attached to the project (developer, analyst, etc.) or if you have marked it as "I want to watch this project."
I setup my browsers to not use the built-in PDF render within my browser, but force an external application launch. This way I always have the full Adobe Reader viewing the PDF, and not just whatever "fits" into my browser.
So, does anyone who understands the vulnerability know if this setup is any more protected? Is the vulnerability based on being in the browser, or is it really independent?
I ask this because I won't ever get to a webpage with an IFrame and a PDF within it, or some wierd construct like that, without knowing it is opening a PDF. So, in a way, this is *like* a PDFblock. With or without Firefox.
You have to understand how they did this. First, they identified where THEY THOUGHT forests were, then they used the results from their height-measuring lasers.
I personally live in NE Florida, and regularly drive down to middle Florida (mickey mouse's house) -- there are LOTS of trees around, but none of them show up on the map in the article. So, telling me to plant a tree makes me want to ask, "Where? There are tons of trees around already." Could there be more? Sure, but they wouldn't show up on their map.
I could almost tag this as, "picture not related."
Google is being very forward-thinking now. My dad got a new laptop, with IE 8 pre-installed. The homepage is iGoogle, which shows news articles -- that don't work when you click on them! He brought it over for me to "fix."
Suggestions? Yes, you in the back? (mumble mumble) Oh, good idea.
Yes, I installed Firefox, replaced his pinned icon (Windows 7) and told him to use that instead. Problem solved, one less IE user, so when IE 8 is the black sheep (8-10 years from now?), we'll have one less user to migrate.
Slashdot Mirror
To me, the only way Netflix is going to be able to sustain this new pricing is if they get a similar set of movies in their streaming system as on DVD. I have Netflix, and so many of the movies I want to watch (or parts of a series -- ugh) are on DVD that I have no choice but to keep both.
So, when the price goes up, I'm just going to cancel the whole service. If I can't give you money to watch a movie I want to see, what good does it do me? I'll just have to run down to Redbox or some other competitor and get the movie some other way.
Do I think Netflix is going to kill the DVD? Not if they cannot get the studios to expand their streaming library.
Sorry, but my wife loves her Kindle, and much prefers it over "dead tree" format. Lighter, easier to carry around, don't have to worry about losing your bookmark. I prefer dead-tree-format books, but I've read some on her Kindle. But, I also like to swap books (PaperBackSwap.com) to make it cheaper to feed my habit.
In fact, on her side of the family, they have 4 Kindles that get well-used (her, both parents, and sister). If you read a lot of new books, it is much cheaper than even paperbacks, and the Kindle versions are coming out with the hardbacks, so you don't have that 6 month to 1 year wait for the paperback version. They are great for people that would like to read (airplane, car ride) but can't stand to cart around books. Me, I like having a paperback -- many of the fast food places recognize me, and ask me when they DON'T see me with a book.
PS: I don't care if you like Harry Potter / Rowling or Twilight / Meyers, but you have to love them if they can get non-readers to read books! I almost wish they had not made the movies, to get more people to read.
640K? We used to DREAM of having that much memory. We had 48K, if we were lucky and had maxed out our Trash-80!
Run an assembler? Nope, I had to POKE the values into memory from a string of comma-separated numbers, and jump to it. Hand-coded Z80, baby!
Ah, those were the good old days. ;)
Ever have your Outlook lock up for minutes at a time because you didn't realize your system emailed you a stack dump of over 3MB? In GMail, it sees it has an attachment, but doesn't try to download/open it with the rest of the email. No, I don't know how Thunderbird handles overly large attachments; I like my GMail UI (via computer, phone, or parents' computer when I'm visiting) too much.
There are good and bad things to each (native / web), you just have to understand them to get around the issues. Need to access your GMail offline? Search through it while on the airplane?
On the other hand, gotten emails saying your mailbox is full because Outlook doesn't delete mails, it just moves them to the "Trash?" And then, when you delete them, you can still un-delete them? If you can un-delete them, then they weren't really deleted, were they? Where is that space being taken up?
This guys has been going since 2006, and I just heard about it yesterday.
http://www.wikispeedia.org/
He's trying to map all of the speed limit signs, so you can then have a database of what your current speed SHOULD be. Now, whether you obey it is another issue altogether ;) . Seems like a worthwhile endeavor. I know I have gotten a speeding ticket because I mis-took a white "speed limit" sign for a yellow "speed suggestion" sign (on a long exit ramp).
I have AT&T UVerse, and when I upgraded to FF5, I got a "your browser is not certified to work, please upgrade to FF3+, IE...". I clicked the "don't tell me this any more and try to work" (and it does, of course).
So, it's not just enterprises, it is the websites that are trying to be pretty forward-thinking.
I clicked, I clicked. I got a web page with similar words to what you wrote, with diagrams about SWT (and RWT), but nothing that gives me warm fuzzies, just platitudes that, "RAP runs out of the box in all common web browsers. No browser add-ons are required."
I've seen that kind of stuff before (from MS and others), and there is either a catch (oh, we forgot, you have to be in IE; limited functionality in certain browsers) or they just expect something to be pre-installed (like Java, or Flash, or something else). Or, in the case of MS, it's an ActiveX control that I can't bring myself to install, even if it *IS* digitally signed.
Forgive me for not being very trusting. To much marketing-abuse in the past.
I'm confused. First, you say "Java", then you say, "no plugins" -- isn't Java technically a plug-in? I don't *have* to have Java installed, and when I hit web pages that run a Java program, my browser hangs for several seconds while it spins up (or whatever Java does).
<rant>Plus, every month or three I get these very annoying popups about, "New java version is available! Do you want to upgrade?" If you don't, you get the same popup the next day ... and the day after .... We use ColdFusion, which runs on Java, so it is sensitive to which Java version, so I can't upgrade -- but I can't turn off the Java message, either.</rant>
Wow, so much to respond to.
First, your response is hard to read with the curse words. Nothing with more power than an f-bomb? Reasoned sentences (with punctuation!) can get your point across much better than random profanities. But I do appreciate the CAPS for emphasis.
Second, "releasing information on evils?" I thought they were publishing user names, emails, and passwords. Are you saying that everyone that signed up with a Sony account are evil? For example, everyone who bought music, signed up for a newsletter to keep up with their favorite music artist (Weird Al FTW!), or wanted to play an online game with a far-off friend are evil?
Finally, "standing for freedoms, against wars" is quite the oxymoron. If you aren't willing to fight for your liberties, then they will be taken from you. Should the US just give up let Al-Quaida / Iran / (insert group here) take over? Let them start doing more suicide bombings within the US borders, instead of keeping them busy at home? Help them to establish Sharia law here? Instead of listing some examples, which would seem like trolling, I'll just let you do a Google / Bing / heck, even an Alta Vista search.
LulzSec just showed their hand that they are operating like a schoolyard bully. "Do what we want / act like we want, or we'll hack you."
You might think they are standing up to a bully (USA), but taking down 3 different Sony companies smells of a bully, kicking them while they are down.
I think you have your states mixed up -- more "militant vegans" and those types wanting to nanny me in the northwest than in Texas. Texas just wants to teach all facets of the evolution / creation / whatever debate.
No, I don't live in Texas.
Is there a term for "slashdotted-the-cacher"? I tried your link, and it timed out twice. Someone else (above) had posted another mirror link, and that one worked. Cache-dotted?
Mod parent up, funny!
Sorry, that argument "any life has unlimited value" doesn't hold water. By NOT killing UBL, you are in effect leaving him to kill more people. Even in a jail (or jail-like compound), he has enough influence to order others to their death.
So, killing UBL is like NOT killing hundreds (or thousands) of others. The math geek in me sees the beauty of that equation.
"Can't beat the price."
Except you are cheating. "Developer Edition" means that a developer can use it on his development machine all s/he wants, but in a production environment it should be licensed. If you are using it to run some things for yourself that aren't really considered "in production," I'd agree with you. But this sounds like a production monitoring / testing situation, which is a little gray (to me ... YMMV ... IMHO ... ).
If you don't want to pay for CF, use a free option: Railo.
I agree that CF is a great choice for web development, but a scripting engine? Seems like overkill.
Actually, we did catch a House problem, only because my son had been diagnosed with C-Dif (http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/c-difficile/DS00736). On one episode, House came up with his diagnosis of c-dif partially because the person was constipated. Having seen my son with c-dif, he had the exact OPPOSITE problem. Like projectile vomiting, but wrong orifice.
So, yes, sometimes other shows get it completely wrong.
Son, if you are reading this, you know we love you! And I didn't say anything to identify you. Oh wait, maybe someone here can create a GUI interface in VB to track my IP address -- Best. Line. Ever!!
Here's a bonus one, nothing to do with computers. My dad was a helicopter mechanic, so he knew a lot about them. On a David Copperfield special, he had a helicopter circling the Statue of Liberty, and was going to make it disappear. The statue disappears, and my dad blurts out, "it's a different helicopter!" Elapsed time, 1 second. Completely destroyed the illusion (something about 2-rotor versus 4-rotor, or some other meaningless drivel to me). I mean, Copperfield can't hire the same model of helicopter to circle the Statue of Liberty and his empty field? Come on!
it's capitalism. <snip rant>
True, and capitalism = U.S.A., which is where they are based. Seems simple enough to me.
So, if evil = capitalism, then I guess I'm evil too. I don't like people who make money in a short-term basis (deforestation without replanting, Madoff / Ponzi schemes, etc.), but long-term goals (making customers happy so they come back and buy more / next generation) are definitely not evil to me. Do I buy Apple? I have an iPod Nano, but I don't like QuickTime installed on my PC, so I have songs that it takes a bunch of work to update -- I usually use a VM. Have I purchased at the Apple Store? Sure, to support my favorite artists; then I burn to a CD, rip to MP3s, and I can play them with FooBar (or insert favorite MP3 player).
Just because capitalism *can* become evil doesn't mean it *IS* evil. Any "-ism" can become evil.
Hey, who is judging this? One of the robots just crossed through the middle to get to the other side! Wow, those Japanese are good, they even built in cheating circuits!!
I know some people that really hate JIRA, but it is great at keeping track of changes and such. It even has ways to integrate with your version management system (including code reviews, via an add-on). Yes, I like it. Yes, I've used quite a few different internally-developed or external packages; JIRA has a bigger footprint than some others, but once you get used to how to move from one step to another, it really makes a lot of sense. And the notifications are great; whenever someone ELSE makes a change, you get an email if you are attached to the project (developer, analyst, etc.) or if you have marked it as "I want to watch this project."
I setup my browsers to not use the built-in PDF render within my browser, but force an external application launch. This way I always have the full Adobe Reader viewing the PDF, and not just whatever "fits" into my browser.
So, does anyone who understands the vulnerability know if this setup is any more protected? Is the vulnerability based on being in the browser, or is it really independent?
I ask this because I won't ever get to a webpage with an IFrame and a PDF within it, or some wierd construct like that, without knowing it is opening a PDF. So, in a way, this is *like* a PDFblock. With or without Firefox.
whoosh
You have to understand how they did this. First, they identified where THEY THOUGHT forests were, then they used the results from their height-measuring lasers.
I personally live in NE Florida, and regularly drive down to middle Florida (mickey mouse's house) -- there are LOTS of trees around, but none of them show up on the map in the article. So, telling me to plant a tree makes me want to ask, "Where? There are tons of trees around already." Could there be more? Sure, but they wouldn't show up on their map.
I could almost tag this as, "picture not related."
Google is being very forward-thinking now. My dad got a new laptop, with IE 8 pre-installed. The homepage is iGoogle, which shows news articles -- that don't work when you click on them! He brought it over for me to "fix."
Suggestions? Yes, you in the back? (mumble mumble) Oh, good idea.
Yes, I installed Firefox, replaced his pinned icon (Windows 7) and told him to use that instead. Problem solved, one less IE user, so when IE 8 is the black sheep (8-10 years from now?), we'll have one less user to migrate.
Eep! Should I call the police myself, or ... wait, who's at the door? (&(*@ofiw9* [signal lost]
WHAT?? Hamlet stabs Polonius? Where's the *^@%^*&@# SPOILER tags in these posts?
That's what I hate about the Internet, people spoiling things for others just to prove a point.
Yeesh.