Comment Re:And yet somehow sears is not dead yet (Score 1) 101
It has been for a few years in Canada.
It has been for a few years in Canada.
Then Rogue One came out, and I was very pleasantly surprised... enough so that I decided to give The Force Awakens a try when that came out. But TFA gave me that sinking feeling again, just like TPM had years before.
Raeally? That's interesting because TFA came out in 2015 while Rogue One came out a whole year later in 2016.
Yes, because once a movie is no longer playing in theaters there is absolutely no way to go back and watch it? Yeah, that must be it...
Their 17.99$ family plan price point is completely off base IMO (Canadian prices). Considering that for much less than that, I can get Netflix family plans, Spotify family plans and Disney+. You can even get all the perks of Amazon Prime for much less. Yet, 17.99$ a month just to not have ads, and watch stuff offline (which you can do with one of hundreds of browser plugins) and have access to a limited music selection, a price point that's considerably higher than your 'competition'? No thanks. Offer it to me for 5$/month or less and I MIGHT think about it. Until then, it isn't worth it for me or my family.
My desktop PC stays on 24/7. No sleep or hibernation mode. Just on all the time. Overnights I run backups to my NASes, antivirus checks, windows updates, etc.. The only time that it gets turned off is when I leave the house for more than 2 days. My laptops I only power on as needed.
There's advantages and disadvantages to both.
Sure, services like Netflix have tons of choice, but they rotate their selection. Or movies get pulled to be put on a competing service (IE: Disney+). Heck, even some movies that people bought the viewing rights to on iTunes were pulled, so you could no longer watch the movie that you paid for. There's also the odd time that the internet might go down. With physical media, you never have to worry about where to watch it, what service to register to or if it will get pulled. You'll always have access to that content. And you can do like a lot of folks, rip the movie, put it on a NAS, and get the best of both worlds.
"Put 1-4 screens to watch behind the same ISP service"
So when I take my phone/table to Starbucks, to a hotel, to a friend's place, I would be locked out from using Netflix that I pay for simply because those places are probably on different ISPs? Heck, assuming that my cellphone service is with another provider other than my ISP, this would also lock me out from streaming over a cellular network. Your reasoning makes 0 sense.
I have a couple of videos on Youtube that have classical music in the background, the music being under Creative Commons/Royalty Free releases. I've probably received 10-12 DOZEN copyright claims
Forget about the old pranks.. What I want is the old Simpsons Screensaver, complete with flying toasters!
And people wonder why (and sometimes snicker at the fact that) I still buy physical blurays and music CDs. I rip them (still legal here), put them on my NAS and store them away. I never have to worry about DRM crap.
I have a couple of videos that use classical music that falls under Creative Common licenses. Every week I get a warning from Youtube saying that some company is claiming that I infringe on their copyright. I contest and always win... Then repeat again the following week, sometime from the same 'company' for the same song! I've so far had about 40 different companies claim copyright on songs that are not theirs. It's beyond frustrating. Youtube's process is clearly broken.
Or a... nude bomb?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...
Or you know, Netflix now allows you to download locally for offline viewing.
My first was a Commodore Vic20, complete with tape drive and hooked up to an old 14 inch black & white TV. I remember writing my own version of 'extended DOS', and hours typing in pages of peeks and pokes from the back of computer magazines to program in some games or application.
I have a few buddies in France and Italy that are affected by this DDOS. So far in my part of Canada I don't seem to be affected *knock on wood*
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion