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Comment Re: Netflix DVD is the best service out there (Score 3, Interesting) 78

Here is a list of the 100 best American films according to the AFI. Less than 5% of them are available to stream over Netflix, but over 95% are available through Netflix DVD. If you limit yourself to Netflix or Hulu or Amazon Prime streaming, you are watching the results of the best ROI for production investment for their shareholders, not the best art. I'd rather get a great story than a cost effective one, even if it means I have to put in two minutes of physical effort every 90 minutes.

Comment Re:Netflix DVD is the best service out there (Score 1, Troll) 78

You are confused between two products: "Netflix" which is their streaming service with about 6,000 titles, and "Netflix DVD" which has over 100,000 titles.

Consider understanding what someone has stated before you dive into personal attacks. It makes you look ignorant and petty.

Comment Re: Netflix DVD is the best service out there (Score 3, Interesting) 78

Netflix DVD is the original version of the Netflix product. You get so many DVD/Blu-ray discs at a time, and drop them in the mail after you watch them. No lag/jitter problems and better audio/video quality across the board. It's not an option for people with phones and tablets only, but a much better experience if you have a TV with an HDMI input.

Comment Netflix DVD is the best service out there (Score 5, Interesting) 78

Every month I spend an hour or two looking for movie recommendations, and 10-15 minutes filling my queue. I rarely lose time scrolling through the endless, mostly bland choices on six different streaming services. I have seen more fantastic movies and television in the last six months than I have in the last five years of slogging through broken interfaces.

Comment Re:Love the landings (Score 1) 31

I used to play Moon Lander and remember wondering myself which was more efficient: a careful landing, or freefall and a solid burn at the last minute. My experimentation, now confirmed by Spacex, indicates that the minimal-fuel approach is indeed...

The Suicide Burn(tm).

But only if a computer is flying! It can afford to wait until the very last minute -- its reaction time will always be quicker, and it doesn't feel stress or apprehension.

Us humans (forgive me for assuming, but I feel it's safe to do so) always need to do the careful landing.

Comment Aren't Mega Files Encrypted? (Score 1) 30

I'll admit it's been a few years since I even used the Mega account I signed up for, but if IIRC, during the setup process there was a part where I had to download my key that would be used for encryption, with the UI notifying me in bold font that "WITHOUT THIS KEY YOU CANNOT DECRYPT YOUR FILES -- WE DO NOT HAVE ACCESS TO YOUR KEY AND CANNOT ACCESS YOUR FILES".

If this is so, what is the danger to an attacker getting access to Mega's servers?

Did 1) something change with the way Mega was run, or 2) The attackers were somehow grabbing these keys, or 3) I didn't understand how the encryption was working?

Comment Re:Edubuntu (Score 1) 179

install windows games like Wizard101 through wine.

Those poor kids. Wine was the thing that nearly made me stop using Linux at all and go back to Windows.

It wasn't until I stopped mucking about with it that I begin to truly enjoy using Ubuntu.

It turns out trying to shoehorn in applications build for another OS onto Linux is not fun!

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