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Comment Re: Good Grief (Score 1) 39

I am thinking about it.

I have my hbo go through someone else right now, but I would prefer to go legit.

I currently have Netflix and hulu. I suspect hulu will lose out here, as with the daily show change, I question whether I'll want to keep paying (there were a couple shows I watched as they aired last season, but the back catalog overlaps immensely with netflix).

I'll probably make a list of criterion movies I wanna watch, burn through them, and cancel hulu. Netflix has decent original content, and will likely keep my money. This is going to really put the pinch on them I suspect though.

Hbo moved quicker than I thought, I really thought it'd be another year until this happened, or the price would be punitively high.

Comment Re: data caps (Score 1) 39

I suspect those people don't overlap with would be cord cutters.

The people I know that do this like having the throw away channels for the background, because it doesn't take attention. They don't wanna pick a show, they wanna tune to channel x and tune out.

By the time something similar is offered, hopefully ipv6 (ok, I lol a touch as I type that) will fill the need (it has multi cast I think).

Comment Re: OK, we've seen this before (Score 1) 379

It's actually why they codified it. They found it was a technique effectove teachers taught, and how people do it in their head.

I personally think it gets too much focus, it doesn't work for everyone, and different tricks work for different people, but I assume most people that struggle woth getting it are not "math people". I also don't think teaching math people techniques to everyone is necessarily going to work.

Comment Re: Someone is doing something really wrong (Score 1) 167

Certainly Spotify has less staff per a station, but someone needs to keep the equipment running, ans I suspect more than one person is involved in programming their literally infinite stations, trying to keep the radio features, and the new music discovery better than that of Pandora, Google, and Beats. The app needs to be maintained and kept better than the others too. I could be wrong though, Wikipaedia says 1500 employees.

They are not one radio station, but infinite radio stations, and they need to negotiate for their music, in multiple jurisdictions.

The real problem they will have though, is that unlike radio, the [Spotify] stations are good enough that they replace owning a collection. Streaming services aren't a substitute for radio, they're a substitute for a music collection, and it's a business model that's having trouble taking off. Early systems were too restricted (both by technology of the time, and contracts) with too limited a selection, then came services that really work, but they provided it all for essentially free (less ads than real life radio). The internet streaming can't extract enough money to keep the labels happy, while simultaneously cutting into their sales. I don't know what the solution is, because people are going to be hard pressed to buy a track at a time when they had access to almost everything.

Nobody will pay Spotify to play this or that single, because Spotify won't generate sales for them.

I know I'm done buying CDs and tracks (I do pay for Google's service though), if they kill streaming, I'll be a pirate.

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