Too bad keyboard shortcuts have been pretty much removed. 90% of the fast keyboard shortcuts you could use in Windows 7 and before are now significantly more difficult to use, slower to access, more confusing to use, etc.

NSFW images in replies please? Not saying it's not funny, but yeah I'm at work so... lol

Yup, that's why you see so many .COM license plates driving around in Sterling (yeah I live there too)

Well shit, I used to date a girl in the Mirror Ridge area...

Hey I can see my house from here! (Seriously, it's on that map)

This ^

Videomapping is the art of using projectors to portray a 3D image onto an already 3D surface. An artistic and technical difficulty if you ask me, as you're trying to portray a 3D image using a 2D technology onto a 3D surface.

I took a similar path. I got extremely overweight after high school because I worked retail where I relied on others to grab lunch because I couldn't leave the store. This left me with McDonalds and Taco Bell almost every shift.

They never really had a streaming option, but they originally marketed it as such. It was always a progressive download, and the best way to compare it is to Amazon video and iTunes rentals. I used to work for blockbuster, and I can attest to their horrible and confusing advertising and plan structures...

They tried to change it, but it took several iterations before they got it right. If I remember correctly, they solved the problem by allowing unlimited in store exchanges (an upgraded option), but when you swap them out the in-store rentals tie up your queue. This was their best trade-off that made people happy.

It disappeared because Blockbuster was losing money in store (and inherently company wide). When you swapped out your rental in store for free, it took a disk of the shelf that normally would rent out for $4, which when it added up it had cost the company something around $23 million in lost revenue in the first…

Regarding blockbuster: They switched to a tiered pricing structure to accommodate a lot of demand. The $4 rental for new releases was actually for 5 days, which was still cheaper per rental period in comparison to Redbox. They did this because most customers kept movies that long. It would have been nice to have a one…

Literal translation: Very few people like short term rental models aimed at earning money. It's not the library, it's not paid for by taxes. The idea of having a low cost object for a limited amount of time is too much of a constraint for most people. They often forget, and when they do, and we charged them and became…

I agree that Blockbuster had no intention of adapting, and that was the greatest downfall. My response was targeted mostly at the statement in the article:

Regarding the Blockbuster hate: I used to be an employee, and I can guarantee that from 2006-2007, they did what they could to make the customer happy, and that was probably the beginning of their downfall.

Precisely. We ran similar security controls. Looks like we're on the same page now.

No I got you, and I agree. I'm just adding to my discussion above. I'd worked IT in this field before, so I've had a little background knowledge into the field. I don't take anything Anon says at face value anymore. Especially when they tweet "Hacked the (insert governemnt website here)" and all they did was DDoS the…

I can imagine they have access to one or more sensitive systems that are outward facing on the internet, like something used for transferring data between networks, contractor facing systems etc, but even those systems aren't very large, and have minimal amounts of sensitive information in case of a leak such as this.

Classified systems are actually very spread out, and some are located at contractor locations. It's very difficult to have a single person "in the pentagon" who has access to every classified government database when they're all over the country in locations that even government workers don't inherently have access…

Regardless, I doubt that anon has access to "every classified database". Considering NIST guidelines for data of that sensitivity, the network should be separated both physically and logically from external networks. Most data is transferred between networks using old methods (physical hard drive transport, ect) and…