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Re:Inside a Netflix Warehouse on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @07:30PM (#742431)
Tiny sales compared to DVD players, almost all download uses require you to do something 'techy' Netflix market is families and film fans - not people that know what HDMI stands for.

Netflix will definitely be online only one day, probably before Amazon goes the same way, but not for a few years.

Re:Inside a Netflix Warehouse on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @06:14PM (#742322)
Warehouse with million * untraceable, easily sold, small items worth $10 each. Security costs = $$$.
Re:Inside a Netflix Warehouse on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @06:11PM (#742317)
But: number of customers that want to sit on couch in front of TV and watch rented movie with family > number of people who want to watch download on computer * (1 - fraction of computer capable watchers do this for free)
Re:Inventor's Bike Folds Into Its Own Wheel on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @02:39PM (#741815)
No, the chain is internal to the designer's head. If you can't do the tricky part, just ignore it and hope for the publicity.
Re:'Teach Naked' Effort Strips Computers From Classrooms on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @02:33PM (#741796)
Isn't that one of those history of education things:

60s - write a 5000 word essay on the causes of the civil war

70s - write a 500 word essay on why the civil war was bad

80s - write a poem about how you feel about the civil war

90 - draw a picture about how the civil war was bad

00s - Copy the PowerPoint slide, make CIVIL WAR bold.

Oxford called about some prior art. They have evidence that Harvard has copies of it's top secret word list codenamed 'OED'
Re:Britain To Put CCTV Cameras Inside Private Homes on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @11:05AM (#741333)
The "Daily Express" is not an unreliable tabloid. It's very reliable - I can guarantee every edition will contain an editorial about illegal immigrants and a Princess Di conspiracy. Reliable as clockwork
Re:Britain To Put CCTV Cameras Inside Private Homes on Tuesday August 04, 2009 @11:02AM (#741328)
Tell them it's a reality TV show and there would be 1000s queueing up for the chance?
Re:Hacking keystroke logger into Apple Keyboard Firmware on Monday August 03, 2009 @02:52PM (#739841)
Or with a USB key and 18seconds alone with a machine you can undetectably infect it in such a way that a full disk wipe and reinstall doesn't clean it.

More interesting now?

Re:Microsoft Word, RIP: 1983 - 2009 on Monday August 03, 2009 @02:47PM (#739827)
And yet are happy to type them on an OS that is connected to the internet but that they don't have the source code to