Posted by Derek Janssen on 02/25/06 01:26

Justin wrote:

> Stan Brown wrote on [Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:49:24 -0500]:
>
>>Fri, 24 Feb 2006 14:27:37 -0500 from Derek Janssen
>><ejanss@nospam.comcast.net>:
>>
>>>wunnuy wrote:
>>>
>>>>The bottom line is whether the apologists want to believe it or not,
>>>>Netflix admits to throttling, plain and clear. There is no excuse for
>>>>it.
>>>
>>>Put it this way:
>>>Your 7:30 restaurant reservation doesn't REALLY get you in one second
>>>past 7:29:59, now, does it?
>>
>>Irrelevant. You don't make a reservation for lots of meals at that
>>time, but for one.
>>
>>If you want dining analogies, take one of those all-you-can-eat
>>places. All you can eat means just that -- if they tried to limit you
>>they'd get nailed for false advertising.
>>
>>When "unlimited" doesn't actually mean unlimited, Netflix is
>>cheating.
>
> Not when say you want all the Beef & Broccoli you can eat yet they never
> refill that tray and you have to have something else.

And it's like, you have to WAIT for them to cook some more!...

I mean, who pays money to *wait*?--They've got a kitchen, they should
have whole pots full of it that they can trot right out, whenever the
customers ask!

Derek Janssen (and then their staff gives you this snotty thing about
how they're <quote-fingers> "serving other customers right now"?)
ejanss@comcast.net

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