The Future. On my laptop.
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The Future. On my laptop.
So, I have a Netflix membership. They've started offering increasing numbers of movies as streaming video. Free with the membership. So, I'm trying to catch up with "Heroes" season 1 which I lost track of in mid-season. Catching up via Netflix streaming. I had to download some kind of IE browser plug-in that allows me to watch. Even though I'm using a MacBook with an ordinary wireless connection (not even hardwired to my Internet connection), it's like watching a DVD on my laptop. Full screen, glitch free, sharp as it can be. No buffering. Astounding. How is such a thing possible?
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The cool thing with NetFlicks streaming videos is: If you're tech savvy, you can actually download the file that get streamed and watch it later when you might have more time and be offline, like on an airplane.
As far as I can tell, it's not illegal, since the file has rights management, and when you connect to watch the file, it connects to netflix to authorize 24 hour access to the file. After 24 hours is up, you can't watch it until you renew your license...which you can pretty much do any time as long as you're a NetFlicks member and can get access to the internet.
As far as I can tell, it's not illegal, since the file has rights management, and when you connect to watch the file, it connects to netflix to authorize 24 hour access to the file. After 24 hours is up, you can't watch it until you renew your license...which you can pretty much do any time as long as you're a NetFlicks member and can get access to the internet.
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Re: The Future. On my laptop.
My guess would be "Honking big local caches"--with a limited menu, they could do something like this.Dale wrote: How is such a thing possible?
Second guess would be "a built-in bit-torrent client/server in the browser they made you install. Did you read the AUP, or just click OK without reading, like everyone else?
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
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Re: The Future. On my laptop.
"Or"? There's an alternative to clicking without reading?s1m0n wrote:Dale wrote:...or just click OK without reading, like everyone else?
I'm an idiot. I never read Ts & Cs. I just click-click-click...
And whether the blood be highland, lowland or no.
And whether the skin be black or white as the snow.
Of kith and of kin we are one, be it right, be it wrong.
As long as our hearts beat true to the lilt of a song.
And whether the skin be black or white as the snow.
Of kith and of kin we are one, be it right, be it wrong.
As long as our hearts beat true to the lilt of a song.
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That's cool technology fer sure, but I still can't get the appeal of sitting in a desk chair and watching a movie on a small (compared to our 42" plasma) computer monitor. Even harder to comprehend is watching a movie on an iPod screen.
I guess in Dale's case he's doing it for the utilitarian purpose of seeing stuff that he missed and might not be able to see otherwise, but all in all I'd rather get the DVD and watch it in comfort.
I guess in Dale's case he's doing it for the utilitarian purpose of seeing stuff that he missed and might not be able to see otherwise, but all in all I'd rather get the DVD and watch it in comfort.
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I used bittorrent to download the entire first season, but now I need to find time to watch them.
Btw, I run GNU/Linux Fedora Core 6 rather than Windows, but I can dual boot Linux and Windows XP Home edition. Boy, Windows is so sluggish compared to Linux. I only boot Windows only if I absolutely have to.
As I am continually downloading stuff, so streaming has lots of breaks. I usually put them on pause until the entire video is downloaded before I watch it.
I can't put my new whistles down, though.
Btw, I run GNU/Linux Fedora Core 6 rather than Windows, but I can dual boot Linux and Windows XP Home edition. Boy, Windows is so sluggish compared to Linux. I only boot Windows only if I absolutely have to.
As I am continually downloading stuff, so streaming has lots of breaks. I usually put them on pause until the entire video is downloaded before I watch it.
I can't put my new whistles down, though.
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Re: The Future. On my laptop.
Don't read Ts&Cs or EULAs. Or the Romantic Poets. Or Nicholas Sparks.buddhu wrote:s1m0n wrote:"Or"? There's an alternative to clicking without reading?Dale wrote:...or just click OK without reading, like everyone else?
I'm an idiot. I never read Ts & Cs. I just click-click-click...