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Posted by Citizen Bob on 12/05/06 14:17
On Mon, 04 Dec 2006 18:22:34 -0800, Haddatten Huttendrut
<none@nothing.net> wrote:
>Netflix is dandy for most folks with reasonable viewing habits - amazing
>selection and prompt service other than temporary bottlenecks for popular new
>releases. The folks who complain the most seem to be those who want some
>maximized ideal of throughput so that they can copy as many titles as possible
>to build a library (they can't possibly watch that many flicks, if they have a
>job and/or a life). They don't want to pay for more than the 3-out "unlimited"
>plan, and look forward to the on-demand download model, but will be disappointed
>when that has (as it must) an even more rigid "throttling" or pay-per-download
>scheme.
Netflix is capable of feeding you all the DVDs you need if you use
your mailbox to return them. You can get three DVDs twice per week if
Netflix cooperates, which is most of the time.
Here's a typical schedule:
Receive 3 on Monday, send them back in your mailbox on Tuesday, they
receive them on Wednesday and ship for Thursday delivery, which you
return Friday and they ship on Friday for Monday delivery - and the
cycle repeats.
That's 6 DVDs per week, assuming an ideal schedule on the part of
Netflix and the USPS. In reality a less than perfect schedule
including holidays, you get an average of 20 per month for which you
pay $20 with tax. That's $1 per DVD. And you do not waste gas going to
a brick and mortar store where they likely do not have the DVDs you
want.
It is possible to watch 3 DVDs in the 24 hours between arrival and
return, so you do not have to copy them. If you copy them and run them
to an afternoon drop at the post office, you can in principle get 9
per week but that's when Netflix begins to throttle you so it is
cheaper to return them via mailbox.
--
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ends, there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or
alter the legislative, when they find the legislative act contrary to
the trust reposed in them....And thus the community perpetually retains
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any body, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish
or so wicked as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and
properties of the subject."
--John Locke
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