Re: Netflix & IE

2007-04-14 Thread Ben Scott
On 4/14/07, brk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If I had to guess, Netflix probably doesn't really care all that much about it ... "Netflix" is is a corporation, and as such, is incapable of having "caring" or "not caring". :) Now, working for Netflix are doubtless people who care, as well as peo

Re: Netflix & IE

2007-04-14 Thread Bill McGonigle
On Apr 14, 2007, at 12:14, Tech Writer wrote: "Currently, this content is viewable only through Internet Explorer 6 or above on PCs running Windows XP Service Pack 2 or Windows Vista operating systems. " I noticed this tutorial for getting IE running on Ubuntu the other day. I have no i

Re: Netflix & IE

2007-04-14 Thread brk
If I had to guess, Netflix probably doesn't really care all that much about it, they have to make an attempt to enforce some sort of content protection if they want to be able to deliver movies in this manner. I doubt that they specifically wanted to exclude any group of users, and I'm pr

Re: Netflix & IE

2007-04-14 Thread Kjel Anderson
Thanks for posting that. This sort of thing pisses me off too. Kjel On 4/14/07, Tech Writer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just discovered that Netflix is starting a new on-demand feature that will allow you to watch videos from your home computer, without waiting for them to arrive in the mail

Netflix & IE

2007-04-14 Thread Tech Writer
I just discovered that Netflix is starting a new on-demand feature that will allow you to watch videos from your home computer, without waiting for them to arrive in the mail. This seemed like a cool concept, so I went to select a movie, but it wouldn't play on my Firefox browser. I sent a not

Re: Increasing occurrence of platform problems

2007-04-14 Thread Ben Scott
On 4/13/07, Seth Cohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Apples and Oranges... video card firmware wasn't the topic. It was Bios we were discussing. Um, video cards have to provide BIOS services (INT10). They also have to interface with the various firmware standards for device discovery, power mana