Starz content on Netflix Streaming has always been horrible quality. Fire up Tangled, skip to the scene where the dam breaks, and listen in horror to the audio compression artifacts. I've got pretty low standards of quality, and even I'm embarrassed for Starz.
Close, but no cigar. It's capital-s-spider-dash-capital-m-man. Spider-Man.
Netflix contracts with companies such as Akamai, called content delivery networks. These companies pay ISPs to co-locate their servers so that each ISP gets its own local cache of the content served by their clients. And yes, this means that the Netflix content you watch, which counts towards your monthly cap, is being served *locally*.
Customers pay ISPs to access their network. The CDN pays the ISP for the bandwidth they use to transfer their data to their servers, and the CDNs are paid by the content providers, who are, in turn, also paid by customers.
Every step of the delivery between Netflix and the customers is completely paid for, yet ISPs want to whine and cry about how Netflix is harming their network. More like anti-competitive posturing, since the ISPs doing the biggest whining happen to be owned by big media corporations.
Netflix already does this. Or rather, they contract with companies who do this (that's what a CDN is -- Content Delivery Network). The problem is that, in implementing the caps, ISPs are lumping in last-mile bandwidth that has almost no marginal cost with actual Internet-bound traffic that does have a marginal cost via upstream provider bandwidth charges.
I know for myself, that between an OTA antenna, Netflix Instant, and Hulu, I have everything I need. My Netflix sub is the closest I have ever come to paying for TV.
As more and more ISPs implement caps, I think the next step is going to be a home caching server. I.e. for Netflix, you could set your monthly cap and tell it what % to use, then it would download shows from your Instant Queue to the cache server during off-peak hours. Then, streaming devices would get the data over your LAN rather than across the Internet. The only traffic generated during viewing would be the DRM exchanges to ensure you are authorized.
However, if ISPs were honest (ha!) they would exempt content that is delivered via CDN (i.e. Akamai) because the only bandwidth used is "last mile" bandwidth--the bandwidth between the CDN server and the Internet is already paid for by the CDN provider!
Does this mean we can finally get an iTunes-alike that can work with iTunes 7+ library sharing?
I did the calculations, and the volume of New Jerusalem that is described as descending to Earth toward the end of Revelation is roughly half the volume of the moon. Thus the "moon turning to blood" earlier in Revelation is, in fact, New Jerusalem breaking out of its lunar shell and beginning its descent through the atmosphere.
YHBT. YHL. HAND.
See if you can see the pattern:
That wooshing sound? That's the sound of the joke going right over your head.
No 4G. Less capacity than my thumb drive. Lame.
I always get them switched. Thanks for the info, even though I'm sure to forget and make the same mistake again, probably soon.
Like forgetting to tick the "post anonymously" button and accidently outing yourself as the OP?
I resent that! Slander is spoken. In print, it's libel.
--J.J. Jameson, Spider-Man
"Tetra" is a numerical prefix that means "four." The name "Tetrada" isn't any more a trademark infringement than "tetrahedron" would be, unless you really think '-da' is closer to '-is' than '-hedron'.
Game rules are not copyrightable, but the presentation of the game is. It doesn't take a lot of work to avoid copying a presentation, since all you have to do is develop your own artwork and game layout. I don't have a WP7 and I haven't looked at screenshots, but I'm (perhaps naively) trusting that the developer did this.
The only other copyright the Tetris company could hope to leverage would be on the code itself, which is incredibly unlikely because the formula for Tetris is simple and fairly transparent (compared to, say, the AI decisions in Warcraft).
The Tetris Company really doesn't have any recourse, and I'm enough of a bastard that I would simply reply to the takedown letter telling them to pound sand.
Hey, grammar Nazis. I can already tell that your evil little hearts are thumping with excitement around this article.
I just wanted to tell you one thing, since you're all congregated in one place: fuck off! No one gives a shit if you are going around and correcting people with a snarky little "FTFY." You think you're intellectually superior or something, but you're not. I hear people complaining, "You should proof read!" or, "Pay more attention to misspelled words." Short answer: NO! This is not school. This is not a job. I derive no benefit from spending more time proof reading a post.
So in the future, you should post logged in. That way, I can down mod you off-topic.
FTFY.
Holy shit, that goes back to 2004. 7 years. In the time it's taken to get anywhere on it, two major versions of Windows have been released. It's like the Duke Nukem Forever of FireFox bugs.
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky
