I can’t wait for Adobe Flash to die. It was really cool in the 90s, but its become so bloated and slow. Not to mention its full of holes.
Netflix Rant… Sort of.
No this rant isn’t about the price increase. In fact i think people who complained about the price increase need to get their priorities straight. It was a $6 increase. If you can’t afford $6 a month then you should probably cancel the service all together. Netflix raised the prices because they want to improve their streaming service and phase out their disk service. Simple as that. Change is good. Welcome to the 21st century.
With that said, my main problem with Netflix lately has been the reliability of the disks. They just can’t seem to send me disks that work. That irritates the crap out of me simply because the ONLY reason i have the disk service is because they don’t stream new content. If they did I, along with most everyone else i believe, would cancel the disk service immediately.
The problem i’m having actually exemplifies why Netflix is phasing out their disk service. It’s costly, it’s unreliable, and it’s based on OLD technology. The internet is THE future of content delivery. The only reason we can’t stream everything right now is because of the monopoloy on good content. The entertainment industry is fighting tooth and nail to milk every penny out of the legacy disk business before it finally dies.
People who bash streaming services such as Netflix are obviously out of touch with reality. In 5 or 10 years Disks will be viewed the same way we view cassette tapes, vinyl records, and the phonograph; Irrelevant old technology.
That said, with all of the problems i have with Netflix’s disks i still have the greatest respect for the company. I think they are heading in the right direction. I just hope they can hold out and win the battle against the old farts who control the Entertainment business. I think we will all be better off when that day comes.
Anyways, that’s just my 2 cents. Take it for whatever you think its worth.
I’m flashing my Dell Streak 7 with HoneyStreak as we speak. This should be fun. The install process was way easier than i anticipated. Steps included:
1) Turn on device while holding volume buttons.
2) Install APX driver.
3) Click batch file.
4) $$$.
Here’s the link for anyone interested: http://goo.gl/uzMmR
Every large website has this problem. A while ago Google proposed an extension to the DNS protocol to include part of the user’s IP address in the DNS lookup packet. Having a general idea of the ultimate user’s address would allow DNS load balancers to give out more intelligent answers. But convincing the whole world to adopt your protocol is hard. Fortunately, there is a cheap and cheerful way to do almost the same thing.
Remember that unique hostname, xyzzy? That can also be thought of as a unique ID for a Doppler measurement. Doppler actually results in two server-side logs. The first is the one we’ve been talking about, which contains the measurement ID, user IP, data center, and various measurements. The other comes from our DNS server. Normally, people don’t log DNS traffic but it’s easy enough to do. This second log contains the experiment’s ID paired with the resolver’s IP address.
If you were to join those logs together on the ID, then roll up by data center and resolver IP, you get a direct measurement of Internet latency between your users and your data centers, but indexed by resolver. And that’s what we’re building right now: an alternate map of the world based not on geographic distance, but on pure network latency.
- Doppler: Internet Radar (via irq)
Source: facebook.com
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