Netflix for magazines sounds like a horrible idea, but I refuse to believe that magazines are totally screwed; computers are much harder to take into the bathroom. #media
@DahlELama: Once the world finally runs out of old magazines, dentists everywhere will be scrambling to find something else to read in their waiting rooms. #media
I've never used Netflix - so please tell me: if you sent back the DVD, and someone steals it, how do they know you're not lying "I sent it back - promise!"? Do they take you at your word?
Thanks. Amazing how many people this has happened to - that is a lot of discs. There must be quite a few postal workers/regional warehouse center employees with bangin' DVD collections.
@FormerEnglishMajor: I imagine there's some sort of tracking system, a la packages... but if so many had to go missing before anyone decided to question the mail carriers, the system is more than a little flawed.
I had this problem at my last address. At first it happened once or twice, but then it became more frequent so I just started having them sent to my office.
@Oxycontin Merry-go-round: I'm a girl and I like Sands of Iwo Jima, Star Wars and I wouldn't mind checking out Twilight,just to see what all the fuss was about.WHAT NOW?!
What's sad is that my group, Merlin's Perpetual Nadir, only improved the system by 6.46%. Of course, we drank lots of soda and talked about our girlfriends who live in Canada too.
I walked into someone's house a few weeks ago. They were cooking up Spam and Eggs. I thought: "Aha! Evidence." Turns out that the cook is Hawaiian. Still could be evidence, but it taught me that if people are embarrassed about eating Spam, they can always claim they're cooking Island-style.
Netflix is really one of the best-managed companies around. And Reed Hastings deserves every penny he gets. The guy's just on point. He's like the Steve Jobs of content delivery. A couple years ago everybody was all like "DVD by mail?! Nobody's gonna keep renting DVD's by mail" and then it was "itunes! itunes is gonna kill Netflix!" and he was all like "simmer down now!" and today they've got Xbox Live and streaming through their web site and LG set-top boxes and whatever and their subscriber numbers just keep growing.
I actually sold my Netflix just before the stock market tanked and made a nice little profit but now I wish I'd bought it back when it was down to like 18 or whatever the low was. It's back over 30 now. (I sold at 31.)
They're doing well during the recession and they're going to do even better when the economy rebounds. They beat expectations pretty much every quarter especially considering that everybody always expects them to tank and they never do. It's like Apple with the iPod which is another product people have been saying was pretty much over basically since the day it was first launched. At what point do you have to just admit that the product and services this company offers actually are a viable business model for the medium to long term?
@minou: I got your point anyhow. But I would have to be surprised by the stat [comma] because I have no idea what the alternative to those utilities would be (for people who can also afford McDonalds).
@Colander: I don't think it has much to do with what people can afford. It is easier to come up with $3 a day than to get utility services set up or to pay the security deposit on an apartment with decent facilities etc etc. Eating at McDonalds solves the immediate problem of a person being hungry which always takes priority until at some point it's not really a choice anymore.
@hypocriteoath: I live in Oregon and I just heard on the radio his morning that the state is creating 200 jobs in the unemployment department in order to process the increased number of unemployment applications.
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if (user.sex == female) {
if (user.age < 18) recommend("Twilight");
else if (user.age > 64) recommend("The Notebook");
else recommend("Titanic");
}
else if (user.sex == male) {
if (user.age < 18) recommend("Transformers");
else if (user.age > 64) recommend("Sands of Iwo Jima");
else recommend("Star Wars");
}
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I actually sold my Netflix just before the stock market tanked and made a nice little profit but now I wish I'd bought it back when it was down to like 18 or whatever the low was. It's back over 30 now. (I sold at 31.)
They're doing well during the recession and they're going to do even better when the economy rebounds. They beat expectations pretty much every quarter especially considering that everybody always expects them to tank and they never do. It's like Apple with the iPod which is another product people have been saying was pretty much over basically since the day it was first launched. At what point do you have to just admit that the product and services this company offers actually are a viable business model for the medium to long term?
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also debt consolidators should be thriving.
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Actually no! Debt collectors are getting slaughtered.
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