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Though competitors' devices can play music purchased from iTunes Store since DRM was dropped in 2009, virtually no non-Apple device can play videos purchased from iTunes Store. Videos still use FairPlay digital restrictions management, which is compatible only with Apple devices and x86-64 Windows PCs running the iTunes application. And the only remotely pocket-sized x86-64 Windows PC that I'm aware of is the 5.5" GPD Win laptop.

LOL didn't make your numbers, huh creimer?

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Applicable in this case, I think.

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>"Its amazing rechargeable cells had any market at all when you look at the total cost and convenience. "

Like you, I have messed with them all. The ONLY system that is worth it has been the Sanyo Eneloop cells (I think now owned by Panasonic) combined with a smart charger like the LaCrosse BC-700 or BC-1000

https://www.amazon.com/Crosse-...

THOSE batteries actually last significantly LONGER than Alkaline, they are more reliable than Alkaline, they charge tons of times, and they hold their charge for a very long time when idle/stored. After many years now, I have not had a single battery fail in any way. If you haven't tried those- do so, you WILL be impressed.

The caveat is that it is not necessarily worth it except for devices which you use often. For a DSLR flash, or any type of tool, they are great. Although they work fine in flashlights, radios, and such, the cost/benefit doesn't shine as much.

If the CIA is really meddling in the affairs of as many countries as you lot seem to think, where are the success stories then?

Well, you usually don't hear about them until many decades later of course. But, in fairness, the CIA has been pretty successful at defending the value of the Dollar and representing U.S. business interests (including defending the Dollar against anyone stupid enough to challenge it). But their attempts at regime change have been a series of disasters with often horrific unintended consequences. Here, read all about it.

But here's is a question for you. What do you think the CIA does all day? You don't seem to think they ever have a hand in anything, so what exactly do you think they *do* with their $15 billion every year? Do you think it costs $15 billion to produce a world factbook each year? Do they just hire a shit-ton of people to sit around their offices to stare at the walls all day? Are they using it to buy blackjack and hookers for the world's largest office party?

Make the company bleed out a little bit. Nothing makes a company act straight other than the threat of losing money.

No. This is useless and false, and does nothing to deter future crimes. Megacompanies think nothing of paying a slap-on-the-wrist fine as they merely see it as the cost of doing business. The deal as it stands is much better as long as the executives actually go to PMIA prison

This is the first time (in a very, very long while) that I have seen a notable example of a white collar criminal doing hard time. The reason why it's so important is that boardroom executives need to see that there is a very real consequence of them going to jail for being criminals and knowingly breaking the law.

The huge problem with the 2007 banking collapse is we didn't see a single banker do hard time. Instead, we saw large fines that were written off by the companies that they worked for and it was given nary a thought. The message is out, you can go ahead and break the law, and get away with it by having your company pick up the tab.

Until now, that is. Though it is a "plea deal" and not a trial, I consider this groundbreaking now not unlike the arrival of EV vehicles even.

If we saw more white collar jail-time prosecution of crime on Wall Street our financial system would be much more stable and better.

Were? They're still the hottest thing out there: Casio CA53W. 4.5 stars and over 1700 reviews.

For anyone interested, here's a good read on the subject. A little out of date now, but as timely as ever.

"Memiors [sic] is a popular literary category,"

Only if you're someone people care about.

De-creimified link

" Her worse [sic] nightmare came true"

Just couldn't resist posting, you living Snuffleupagus?

I think you'd find this useful.

a - Dude, it's Disney. You don't outlawyer the House of the Mouse.

b - Portals and various teleportation gates are older than dirt.
It's a generic concept of a magical doorway into another world. And you can't copyright that.
There's a reason Disney slapped a TM on EVERYTHING Star Wars once they bought it. Cause all the shit in Star Wars is generic.
Only thing they CAN do is slap a name on "Generic Storm Trooper" and add a TM to it.
You can still make your own "Generic Storm Trooper" - just not one which is called and looks like exactly like the one trademarked by Disney.

c - Trope of portals to another world is literally from pre-burial times.
Pick up When They Severed Earth from Sky when you find the time.
But not before you go through The Hero with a Thousand Faces if you haven't already and are planning to.
Cause while there are SOME useful things in Campbell's work, his basic premises are Jungian bullshit.
Thus, it sounds like ramblings of a loon after going through work which explains actual historical purpose of myths.

There's always some old crank with too much time on his hands

Except in this case the "researcher" is SELLING BOOKS, and actually profiting from her viewpoint. But I am sure her high integrity keeps the profit motive from interfering with her objectivity.

OTA DVRs? Nah, can't find those anywhere.

OTA DVRs? Nah, can't find those anywhere.

Here is the de-whored link. Don't support creimer and his narcissistic nonsense!

A lot of people don't have $750 in a single month to pay for a $200 TiVo DVR and a $550 All-In Plan. The All-In Plan alone could pay for several years of the difference between home Internet-only service and home Internet with bundled TV.

Not sure what your'e talking about.

The Tivo Roamio, 1TB with lifetime plan was only about $399 for me awhile back.

Just checked on amazon Tivo same $399 price.

Looking at the Tivo website: Yep, scroll down to bottom of page, only Same $399 all inclusive price...

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008... Although it might fail on the "not attractive to toddlers" front.

Yeah, I'd been looking at that one. This route would be to buy this for $220, buy a cheap laptop or headless computer to plug it into, buy a flat TV, mount them all together out of reach. Then I'd power on the computer, use a mouse to launch skype (or set up an init script to launch Skype automatically).

I think the standalone webcam+android set-top boxes looked more convenient and a lot cheaper. But for some reason all the ones I saw had amazon reviews that said they have poor wifi. I'm also very reluctant to trust privacy of my home to a company whom I don't trust to write secure devices or to offer updates to their version of Android, especially for a device whose only function is to connect to the internet. "The 'S' in IOT stands for Security."

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There are any number of cheap amplified antennas, most of which are powered by the USB jack that most modern TVs have in back. Adding this to our TV bumped it from two or three sketchy-at-best channels to upward of 70 crystal clear ones. If you're at all interested in trying out OTA again, you might have better luck with something like that.

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Or, for the more enterprising among us, you can search Google for "masters of doom pdf" and download a free copy of the book. But I wouldn't recommend that, since I think the author should be paid fairly for his work - I just want Creimer to not get any money for it.

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Although it might fail on the "not attractive to toddlers" front.

The price has dropped quite a bit.

$1,318.45 for PC + oculus + touch controllers -
https://www.amazon.com/A80CJ-D...

The oculus headset and touch package is currently $399 on the summer of rift sale - https://www.oculus.com/blog/ri...

The problem with content is being addressed -
Current higher budget games e.g.
Robo Recall - https://youtu.be/shiKcsjZnH0
Lone Echo - https://youtu.be/2pmV2mwAV9k
The Mages Tale - https://youtu.be/MKIr9-zrkI8

Upcoming examples -
Arktika.1 - https://youtu.be/KLkvbAFIOJc
Killing Floor: Incursion - https://youtu.be/i3SinWPbXnw
MARVEL Powers United VR - https://youtu.be/qcUbC1aQpeY

To help fund developers the following steps are being taken.

Facebook has spent $250 million on VR content last year and will spend another $250 million this year (Source : https://www.roadtovr.com/faceb... )

Oculus will pay Unreal Engine royalty fees for titles on their store.
https://www.vrfocus.com/2016/1...

There are quite a few mediocre titles out there, however you could say that about most platforms/ formats.

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These are much cheaper, $15.47 for a 2-pack.

So many freaking stupid comments on this question.

The simple answer is either (a) leave it alone or (b) make use of it.

I moved into a house that had at one point been a four-unit. During the conversion to single-family though I left all the coax in place... and there's a LOT of it (since at least one of the tenants had satellite and others had cable). I figured at the time that I could use the cable to pull through cables I did want in walls I didn't demolish.

Well, two years later I decided to just use it. I have cable internet, so the coax is obviously used for that... but did you know you can also bridge gigabit Ethernet across coax?

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These are the exact units I bought... I got two of these two-packs. Using the existing coax I was able to hook up to my rack in the basement (my lab) and run Ethernet directly to the two bedrooms on my third floor which are primarily for (a) my son and (b) guest room. Yeah, I have great WiFi as well thanks to also running a pair of Ubiquiti Unifi AP's (one run off my core switch on the second floor of the house and the other run off my switch in my basement rack) but especially with brick houses like mine (130 years old) sometimes the WiFi can be a bit slower than I'd like. As a result, I have hard wires where I want them.

I also have one of these bridges still sitting in a box if and when I need it.

As for the performance... the speeds aren't quite gigabit. I get around 850Mb/s or so pretty consistently to my basement. I haven't tested the performance in the bedrooms but my son never complains about his Internet speeds on his gaming rig and it's plenty fast that I have all my Windows computers set up to do their "File History" to my ZFS-based file server.

Get yourself a few of these:

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(They can be sold in single packs)

And you can use that coax to save you the trouble of pulling CAT5/6 to parts of your house.

The preferred response (the one I teach in my gun classes) is to gather your family in a room with only one entrance, cover the door with your gun, and call 911.

If I had a panic room I might consider it, but that's quite expensive and I'm not going to trap myself and the ones I love in a room that could become a crematorium if someone drops a cigarette on the carpet. When seconds count, the police are over ten minutes away in the best case, and my road is paved! Plenty of people who live within shootin' distance of me live on dirt.

If a room in your house is likely to be a crematorium in the event of a fire, you have another problem. Every room where people live should have windows that enable escape (building codes have required this for decades), and if they're too high you should keep a fire escape ladder handy (e.g. this).

Also, obviously, if you smell smoke it's time to get out and if that means shooting the intruders, so be it.

This is what happens when developers make business decisions. Seriously, why is Mozilla focused on promoting/using/developing Rust, when they could be focused on making their browser suck less? Probably because they have no business concerns, at all, about making a viable product (or company.) I spent two weeks exclusively using Firefox, right when Google was found to be recording everything I said, in the event I happened to say "OK Google" without a way to turn this off. After two weeks, I realized I'd rather be bugged than use Firefox any longer.

This is exactly what Joel Spolsky wrote about, when Netscape did a complete rewrite here, or in his awesome book Joel on Software . Netscape focused on a rewrite, instead of making their browser suck less.

It sounds like Netscape made this mistake and then became Firefox. Now, it seems like Firefox is making the exact same mistake. This has to be the funniest business case study ever.

Blue? HA! That's NOTHIN'! This guy on Amazon has seeds that turn RAINBOW:

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Amazing what a bit of photoshop and some gullible people will do for your pocket book, eh?

I find it ironic that Google invests so heavily in online education programs, but only hires people who have gone through the higher education song and dance.

Disclaimer: I work for Google, and interview people for software engineering positions at Google, but what I'm going to say represents only my own perspective and is in no way an official company statement.

The irony you see doesn't actually exist. Outside of research positions (of which there are quite a few, and those really do require research credentials), Google does not care about your degrees or lack thereof. Many of my co-workers do have PhDs. A majority have master's degrees. But there are plenty (like me) with nothing beyond a BS, and I have one colleague who has an associate's degree, a couple more who took some classes in college but have no degree, and one who never graduated from high school. He did earn a GED at age 29.

The Google interview and hiring process (for software engineers, at least) pays no attention whatsoever to academic credentials. It's all about how you perform in the interviews. That said, performing well in the interviews requires a pretty solid education in computer science. In a decent CS program, you'll acquire the knowledge you'll need by the end of your junior year, but unless you're really exceptional, odds are that you'll need some more time and practice for it to become sufficiently "second nature" that you don't have to think about the CS and can focus on the problems you're being asked to solve. From there, it's all about whether or not you have the problem solving ability.

So, a degree is in no way required, but most self-taught programmers never get the education in CS fundamentals that's needed in the interview process. This is not because the purpose of the interview is to verify knowledge of CS. The purpose of the interview is to test problem solving ability, but data structures and algorithms are the language of the conversation, and if you don't speak the language you can't participate effectively.

There is one other thing that a degree does for you, though: Get you the interview. Google recruiters, like recruiters everywhere, are inundated with resumes and they have to figure out how to filter them down. If your resume doesn't have an appropriate degree on it, it had better contain ample job experience that shows that it's worth taking an hour out of a working engineer's day to interview you on the phone.

Since most of the interviews I do are that first "phone screen" I can tell you that Google recruiters aren't too selective, because I get all sorts of people who can't think or code their way out of a paper bag.

For example, yesterday I interviewed a guy with an MSCS (allegedly), who couldn't figure out how many 16-bit numbers there are. That wasn't my actual question, of course, but I was trying to gently guide him through the process of analyzing the tradeoffs between several implementation options, one of which would have required creating and initializing an array to hold a histogram of the values from an input stream. Clearly, the array needs to have a cell to hold the count of each value that might occur, and the values were 16 bits in size. I wanted him to think about the time and space cost of creating and initializing that array, to compare it with another option. He had no clue how to figure out how large the array might need to be. Even after I told him the answer (2**16, which he oh-so-helpfully plugged into his calculator, and informed me was 65,536), he still seemed to have no clue about why it was the answer.

Tip for anyone considering interviewing at Google: Get this book and work through all of the problems in it. You should find them challenging, but not terribly difficult, and be able to solve most problems (including coding your solution) in under an hour.

I'm thinking about getting one of these sheets of solar filter for my dSLR and making a pipe fitting like the top rated review shows. Looks like it should hopefully be dark enough since they use it for certified viewers too.
I might save a bit of this sheet for my smartphone camera, though - but there'd be no safe way to look at the screen to see if I aimed that camera correctly since the shades would be too dark to see the screen with.

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having "unique" plug types for particular purposes is a *feature*, not a bug - simply by looking at the plug, we know what the cable and the port does

You're trying to make a virtue of a problem. The right solution is that the cable and port should do everything. There's no need to figure out what it does or doesn't do, because anything the devices in question are capable of doing can be done via that port and plug.

So you see a Type C plug - is it Thunderbolt or not? Is it a DisplayPort?

Yes, it's all of the above, assuming it makes sense that the device can be a source/sink of the relevant data.

What voltages/amps can it provide?

The cable (unless it's non-compliant crap; don't buy non-compliant crap) can handle the full range of voltages and amperages in the specification.

This is incredibly convenient. My laptop, phone and tablet all have USB-C ports, for both data and power. I now travel with only one power adapter, the one for my laptop, which I can also use for my phone and tablet. I also carry a USB-C to USB-C cable, which enables me to charge any of the devices from any other device. Charging my laptop from my phone would be silly, charging it from the tablet is slightly less so and I have actually had occasion to do exactly that. Charging tablet from phone or phone from tablet both make sense sometimes, and I do both often when traveling.

I also occasionally use my phone charger to power my laptop. It doesn't provide enough power to maintain the battery level while I'm using it, but it does stretch battery life, and will recharge the laptop if left connected overnight. I do this mainly because I have a phone charger plugged in next to my bed. I'm waiting for wall outlets like this one to become better and cheaper, and then I'll replace many of my home outlets with them, mostly eliminating the need for wall warts.

That will be a great day. Actually, I hope that before too long we start building DC power distribution networks in homes, the way data centers have gone. At moderate voltages (e.g. 48V) resistive line losses are easily offset by the power savings provided by larger, more efficient central converters. Then each wall outlet should have a couple of simple step-down transformers to provide 20V and 5V over USB, per the power delivery specification.

While we're at it, we should add network over USB as well. So any device plugged into any wall outlet with a simple USB-C to USB-C cable will have both power and data (with 802.1X authentication for security). 20 Gbps should be enough bandwidth for the next couple of decades.

just look at e.g. the many forum posts of people who connected "the wrong type" of USB-C-to-HDMI connectors because they didn't know their USB C wasn't the USB C that they thought USB C was supposed to be.

Yes, there is crap hardware being sold. The USB implementer's forum needs to start enforcing its trademark and shutting down sales of non-compliant crap. In the absence of that, just make sure that the stuff you're buying has been tested by someone who knows what they're doing (on Amazon, check for Benson Leung's comments). No, this state of affairs is not good, but it's an implementation problem, not a problem with the fundamental concept of one plug that does everything.

That fundamental concept is awesome.

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Or this:
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If you spent $800 on a cell phone and $500 on an airplane ticket then an extra $10 or $15 isn't going to kill you. Buy a bottle of water instead of your usual Starbucks coffee and muffin, you'll come out even after that. I have a suspicion the reduction in calories wouldn't hurt. After you've bought this adapter then just keep it plugged into your headphones. Trust me, after a while you won't even notice it's there.

With this:
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Or this:
https://www.amazon.com/Yeworth...

If you spent $800 on a cell phone and $500 on an airplane ticket then an extra $10 or $15 isn't going to kill you. Buy a bottle of water instead of your usual Starbucks coffee and muffin, you'll come out even after that. I have a suspicion the reduction in calories wouldn't hurt. After you've bought this adapter then just keep it plugged into your headphones. Trust me, after a while you won't even notice it's there.

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OEM copies of Windows 7 are readily available (see https://www.amazon.com/OEM-Win..., for example), and the major computer companies (e.g., Dell, HP) offer a range of models with Windows 7 pre-installed - or, you can generally downgrade a Win 10 to Win 7 at no charge.

Not sure if it sucks more and more every year or what... last year's Prime Day was pretty good, though. This year really didn't have many sales...

I thought last year's Prime Day was garbage, but this year, I bought a PS4 Slim w/Uncharted 4 for $229, and it came with a free download code for The Last of Us Remastered. I was able to convince my wife to let me buy it since I told her we'd drop Comcast & get PlayStation Vue instead.

Not sure if it sucks more and more every year or what... last year's Prime Day was pretty good, though. This year really didn't have many sales...

I thought last year's Prime Day was garbage, but this year, I bought a PS4 Slim w/Uncharted 4 for $229, and it came with a free download code for The Last of Us Remastered. I was able to convince my wife to let me buy it since I told her we'd drop Comcast & get PlayStation Vue instead.

FYI For some reason Camel doesn't seem to include prime day prices(or lightning deals) in the history. Not sure why but may have something to do with the way the prices on prime day show as a subtraction(lightning deal) from the regular price. So Camel may not pick it up. For example these binoculars were 50 dollars on this last prime day. But camel says lowest price ever was 59 dollars https://www.amazon.com/gp/prod...

I only read a preview of this book When Computers Can Think: The Artificial Intelligence Singularity. They give a good overview of current accomplishments in the field and the logical prediction of the trend. The AI already beats us in Chess, Starcraft and (the scariest one) Rock Paper Scissors. Why is it scary? Because you cannot defeat robots that are both more intelligent than you and move orders of magnitude faster than you.

Get T-Mobile Unlimited data plan, 4 for $160. Then on one of the lines, pay $25 to add the unlimited tethering option so you can use your laptops and streaming devices.

Then add a cell booster antenna onto your vehicle.
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