For mail-delivered DVDs that would be greencine.com, which has a much larger selection (or did back when I watched a lot of films).

There were probably 20-30 movies at this year's Seattle International Film Festival I could see myself watching over the year. Trouble is, they're not available at Netflix, or Hulu. There's plenty out there worth watching but most media companies cater to the lowest-common-denominator customer.

It's $8 a month for those two movies. That's $4 a movie. How much did blockbuster charge? How much more time was it to go to blockbuster and back home? It seems we keep wanting more and more for our dollar. Most of the time we get it, but then later when we fall a little short of more and more we're annoyed. Goes to show that you give someone a much better value and they adapt and take it for granted, then reduce their value by a little bit and it's the sky falling. (That last comment was more about the OP, not you specifically--it was your invocation of 2 movies a month being a bad deal that got me to comment in the first place.)

That's true of keys, but misplacing optimism is placing it in a faulty idea rather than not having it altogether.

Yes! Do something notable. Most notable people are still findable on the internets, even hundreds of years later.

He implied he did not have optimism. Not sure how one misplaces what one does not have.

So is there a conclusive way on the Amazon website to tell before making a purchase that a file is not DRM protected? From what I've read of the mobi documentation there is a new DRM scheme that requires client-side account verification which does not use device ids encoded in the file by the server, which would imply "unlimited" devices permitted but the book would still be tied to an account. Does Amazon notate the distinction somehow?

I don't think we ever weren't good. I was just learning because what I learned in signals and systems did not jive with what you claimed. It turns out you and I were using latency differently.

If you live in a democracy, you might want to lobby your city to change this stance. It'll make for a more desirable and livable city.

If a book says unlimited, is the file actually DRM free, or is the DRM just permissive. Can a publisher, or Amazon, later change that number from unlimited to something more restrictive and push out the update to terms to devices just like they can push out deletion commands to devices?

I solved a similar problem by time-shifting my reading a little. When I want to read a book, I reserve it at the library. When my place in line comes up, I read it. With a sufficiently flexible schedule I read everything I want to read, just not immediately. That's okay though because my reading list is long enough that I'm not without things to read.

That's why I said it has little effect. I'm convinced that latency has a large effect on throughput but I am unconvinced that throughput has a large effect on latency. I get 16ms latency on my ADSL connection, which is 1.5Mb/s. I don't know anyone with 20+ Mb/s cable connections that has much lower latency than my connection. On the other hand, if you go to something like a 2400 baud modem then latencies are up noticeably.

So, am I misunderstanding? Gigabit fibre should have significantly better latency than a lowly 1.5Mb/s ADSL link? I am not sure it does (haven't tested one).

I did not realize you were specifically talking about the NHL, your original statement was more generic. One would think that telecasts would be cheaper as they can accommodate more people than a rink.

Latency is the measure of how long a signal takes to reach the other end, no? High latency will reduce your throughput, but throughput has little (not none) effect on your latency. Is my thinking incorrect?

Could you explain how that is, please?