I'm glad you were moderated 'insightful' rather than 'funny' because there's nothing funny about the truism of upgrading Windows 8.1 with Windows 7 SP1.

I think you may be missing the point here - they are actually paying for that content right now and they want to continue to pay for that content.

Have you ever put a Blackberry owner in a room with a Google or iPhone zealot? Certainly the majority of people use their phone and plenty think it's great without trying to convince everyone they need to switch immediately, but this woman comes from Google's Google Glass division, so of course she'll claim that moving anyone towards Google is an 'upgrade'. I'm certainly interested to hear her explain how moving from, arguably, the most secure phone, to the phone with the most malware is an 'upgrade'.

Yea, constructing that paragraph was a bit rough on limited sleep. I believe the options for most of the folks I know are American Netflix vs. Pirating content. It wasn't uncommon for older folks to ask a younger relative to give them a year's worth of shows on an external hard drive to plug into their TV / Blu-ray / WD TV Live but Netflix became so popular that requests for pirated content diminished. Basically, cheap legal streaming replaced piracy since it was easier to legally obtain content... why not, it was only $8 a month or some such. A 'young feller' would come by and setup a VPN or DNS service on a router and see-ya-later, around $150 a year and they had access to plenty of content without a hassle.

Yea, folks that live within a few hours of the border are used to American content since 99% of their TV comes from the US. There are millions of Canadians that primarily consume US content since there's more of it available. I knew as much about the United States gubernatorial elections as I did about our domestic elections.

Your question is irrelevant as you're presenting two options that are not the only two options on the table.

They could easily not block IP addresses that are sourced from within the country of the target content and simply leave it at "we're not responsible for policing this" and see what happens. They are certainly testing this option with the CRTC here in Canada.

Haha! The thing is, plenty of us work long hours followed by family life and have a short period of time to relax our brains before bed. We can pop on Netflix to casually watch some good shows, TV that we're interested in, without worrying about PVRs or commercials or what have you. At 9 PM the last thing I want to do is read a book, I'd rather have a glass of wine and let my brain melt in front of an episode of Peaky Blinders (not available on Canadian Netflix).

As a Canadian I know all too well how many people are using services to access American Netflix content that far surpasses the Canadian content in terms quality and quantity (or at least greater quantity of what people want). I expect the majority of my friends that are using these services to access American Netflix will cancel the service outright if they can no longer access it and furthermore, they'll stop suggesting Netflix as a viable option to cable / satellite.

Thanks for the elaboration, so there's basically four different styles of glasses? Is there another 'professional' or 'official' name for normal glasses or they're basically just 'glasses' and we refer to everything else with those names? I expect there's probably a more professional name than 'coke bottle'.

Interesting, thank you. Based on your description I'm not entirely sure what my wife uses as she is near sighted, as in she can read a book with or without glasses but she cannot legally drive and cannot see the signs. I'm going to assume that 'coke-bottles' also work for near-sighted people as well in the reverse of your explanation.

Can you or someone elaborate on the differences between 'coke-bottle glasses', progressive glasses and bifocals? I'm not a glasses-wearer while my significant other is, but her response to this question was, 'I don't know, I just wear glasses' so no help there.

Strangely enough, it doesn't feel weird when I'm in a foreign country or out of town. When you think of the movie going experience, with the exception of comedies and perhaps romcoms, you're fully focused on the screen in an independent way so it seems the greatest aspect of what 'feels weird' is the consideration for what perception others may have for 'you' going to the movies by yourself.

My wife and I stopped going to the cinemas a year or so ago because every movie we wanted to see, there was no option within a 45 minute drive to see these movies in anything but 3D.

I'm not sure what it is and maybe it's not the same everywhere else, but on both our Cineplex Odeon and Landmark Cinemas screens at three theatres, the action on a 3D movie is blurry and not at all as enjoyably clear as the normal version. It took weeks for Guardians of the Galaxy to have a non-3D release at our closest (15 away) location and by that point all the excitement was minimized to the point where we figured we'd just wait to watch it at home since it was downgraded to a smaller cinema room with no 3D and lesser quality audio. If we have 60" TV at home and 5.1 audio, why watch the movie at the higher price for a lesser experience when I could buy the blu ray for the cost of 2 tickets?

We also have AVX options from time to time and I actually prefer this and prefer the option to pick a preferential seat but this higher cost option may not be on par with what people want to experience.

So in summary, if you want more people heading to the movies, drop all the gimmicky BS and just give people the movies or at the very least, get rid of 2 x 3D screenings and have 1 x 3D and 1 x normal big screen with good audio.

Germany, Austria and Switzerland for three. Throughout many joint projects I've worked with self-motivated people that crush through a work day focused on their tasks and the work environment is irrelevant. They could be in a private office or a conference room packed with people, these Europeans are still doing what they need to do. Americans on the other hand, give them a private room and they may do their work but their web logs often show otherwise. Anyone ever evaluated and stacked up web logs of Germans to those of Americans? The latter always encourages me to wonder why 1 out of 7 men can't obtain porn on a home computer and how they can feel comfortable viewing it in a work environment.

I've been hearing this since at least the 90's, that we need to plant more trees to offset the increasing carbon, yet here we are in 2014 and we're still cutting down the amazon and we're still turning northern forests into subdivisions. Echoing previous suggestions may influence a person here or there to plant an extra tree in their back yard but this suggestion isn't working for our planet.