2009-03-31T22:02:34Z Photos, electronics, cnc, and more Jeff Eplerjepler@unpythonic.net 2009-03-31T22:02:34Z 2009-03-31T22:02:34Z https://gamma.unpythonic.net/01238536954 Netflix has gotten a lot of praise for a polished experience using their website. Well, &quot;Watch Instantly&quot; could benefit from some polish. <ul> <li>No Linux support <li>.. in fact, Microsoft Silverlight is now a requirement on Windows, so you can see who they're in bed with <li>.. which turns out to be such a dog that it can't run in virtualbox without maxing out the CPU and dropping frames (on a Core 2 Duo 2.2GHz with 960x600 display resolution) <li>No subtitles or closed captions available <li>No choice of audio languages <li>&quot;Buffering&quot;? What is this, realaudio in the year 1999? (of course, network logging shows the problem is remote, not local) <li>.. and after buffering, which can take several minutes, it goes directly back to &quot;play&quot; regardless of whether you've walked away <li>.. the play/pause button is not available during buffering to avoid this <li>.. and if you walk away for too long with the video paused, it chews you out for it <li>.. hitting reload may not actually take you back to where you were, despite the onscreen promise that it will. (this happens when you've navigated to a different episode of a series with the next/previous buttons) <li>Every seek requires buffering again <li>.. even if that segment of the video is already watched or is in the preloaded grey bar <li>The Windows screensaver activates while watching the video <li>.. and on deactivation, the player leaves fullscreen mode (only in virtualbox) <li>Inactive buttons (such as play/pause during buffering) are indistinguishable from non-hovered buttons (such as fullscreen) <li>Video quality is about on-par with a mediore divx rip, not with dvd (on a 3.0mbps connection) </ul> 2007-08-28T01:44:31Z 2007-08-28T01:44:31Z https://gamma.unpythonic.net/01188265471 With 3 days left in my billing cycle, I finally got around to <a href="https://gamma.unpythonic.net/01185467033">cancelling gamefly</a>. Instead I'll start heading to the local used games store... 2007-07-26T16:23:53Z 2007-07-26T16:23:53Z https://gamma.unpythonic.net/01185467033 I bought a wii a few months ago. Keeping in mind that most games are duds, and because I've enjoyed video rentals through netflix, I decided to sign up for gamefly since it sounded like &quot;netflix for video games&quot;. <p>Well, the reality is that gamefly is no netflix. Let me list some of the shortcomings: 2005-06-29T02:41:26Z 2005-06-29T02:41:26Z https://gamma.unpythonic.net/01120012886-new-netflix-subscriber Partly due to that little bit of guilt I felt about regularly bittorrenting a few TV shows, I recently became a <a href="http://netflix.com">Netflix</a> subscriber.