'Marshmallow' is the perfect word for a label that carries no content, is all fluff, and whose sole purpose is to appeal to people with simple tastes.
(Note that I'm not talking about the OS, but the practice of giving each version a cute name. Android is not alone in this practice, but with 'Marshmallow' they seem to have achieved the pinnacle of its banality.)
scientists from the University of California, Berkeley, the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) and the University of Chicago
But properly prepared octopus is yummy! Too bad "properly prepared" means you have to beat the damn thing against a rock for half an hour and then grill it until it's toast.
Agree. I had one of the RAZR V3s, and I loved it. Worked great, and reasonably ergonomic. And it was small and rugged... well, rugged enough, assuming you didn't treat it like you were Captain Kirk calling Scotty for a beam-up.
Unfortunately it got stolen from my car one day, probably by a junkie who needed 5 bucks for a hit.
I got a KRZR as a replacement, but it wasn't as well made, and the sound quality was worse, even though they were both GSM phones.
And after reading the comments here, I believe what the young folk need is a direct hit from a nice big solar flare to take out the networks for a few days so they can appreciate what the real world is like.
Hell, not just cell phones, but tablets and laptops too. My 11-yo son spends 90% of his waking hours with his nose glued to a screen, and sulks the other 10% when it isn't. His only interest in earning an allowance (from doing chores and assisting me or my wife with minor vocational tasks) is to buy another device or some app to put on it.
Hell, we take him camping every summer for a week at one of the most beautiful sites on Lake Tahoe (no, I'm NOT telling you where) to get away, and last year he discovered that Verizon has a 4G signal there. This year, he snuck off to the car or into the tent every chance he got to play on his tablet, and the entire drive between here and there, he spent with his laptop open, connected to my wife's hotspot. A solar flare would be good for him.
Unfortunately, it'd take out all the power distribution networks, too... I like air conditioning and electric lights too much. My great-great-grandfather from the 19th century calls me spoiled.
A special peeve of mine is cellular callers on the radio, whether listener callers, or arranged guests on talk shows or NPR stories.
Especially the latter two. Where the hell are the audio engineers with an equalizer to filter out the everpresent ringing, distortion and adjust the levels so I don't have to crank up the volume to understand the caller, cringe at the hyper-resonant frequencies, and then slap at the volume knob when an in-studio person speaks?
Especially when you're a nationally distributed program with pre-arranged "expert" guests and time to at least minimally adjust the audio quality, I just don't understand how anyone thinks that is an acceptable audio quality.
Seconded. My calls between me and my wife, both on the Same. Fucking. Contract. get dropped all the time. And when one of us hangs up, the other phone can't detect it's a hang-up, but shows that the call failed.
And oftentimes, at least in engineering, the facts communicated in such a conversation are a) much easier to draw in symbols or sketches that just can't be done in email or chat, and b) make their way into a final drawing or specification and don't need to be published as a transcript or sketch or markup.
$100 to $200 will buy you a decent quality tuner/encoder - anything from the plug and play EyeTV options to the MythTV-geeks-only HDHomeRun... just search on Amazon.
I moved two months ago and learned I had an option between AT&T Uverse and Charter Digital. AT&T was 25Mbps for $50 a month with a free phone number and I didn't have to buy television services if I didn't want them. Charter was (reportedly) 600 Mbps (right...), forced you to include phone and TV, and cost well over $100 a month. Both companies wanted install fees nearly $100. Both companies report you to the copyright cartels if you torrent shit.
I went with AT&T. Why? I know from experience that a decent real-time speed necessary for acceptable HD streaming is between 3 and 6 Mbps (depends on format, encoding, etc.). So even the slower of the two was five times what I needed. I don't plan on torrenting terabytes of files, though I do want to be able to download a few favorite shows now that I don't have a cable box and a tuner. AT&T costs me half as much, even counting the $50 a year for VPN.
Also, I HATE Charter with a passion. They've been a dick of a company ever since I've patronized them, starting 25 years ago. They'll cut you off if you're late paying for service in advance -- that's right, their bill says you're paying for service in the upcoming month. But if you're a week late, they cut you off and charge to reconnect. And after multiple instances of that, they'll cut you off the day after the due date. (These experiences are decades old and three addresses ago, but true ones.) To this day, they have constant outages during business hours, are assholes on the phone, and their equipment quality is crap. Not to mention the conflicts of interest that exist between content providers and cable companies, and the accusations of bandwidth throttling (not specifically against Charter... yet).
While AT&T are no angels, they're at worst the equivalent of a lumbering corporate behemoth from the users' perspective. And I was impressed by the tech who came out to install my service. He found an unexpected problem, and I immediately thought oh no, I'm not getting internet today but the guy actually busted his ass to get the job done. (He had to run back and forth two blocks to test each end of 25 pairs of wires to find the right pair at the fiber transciever. What should have been a 30 minute job turned into a 2.5 hour one that involved a lot of sweating.) My first bill payment was three weeks late (I had to travel on business and forgot) and I didn't even hear a peep out of them. The next bill had a $5 late payment charge. And the charges are for the past month's services. And the reliability of the service has been excellent... Netflix, Hulu and Amazon all stream fantastically, with better quality than I had using Charter at my previous residence (admittedly, a sorta remote one), and always instant play. Even porn streaming sites are better. (Yea, you betcha that's one of the first thing I tried...)
TL;DR: I cut the cable, dumped the least favorite corporation I was forced to patronize, and I am SO HAPPY. The only programming I can't get are daily game shows (I'm a Jeopardy addict) and sporting events (meh... I'll go to a bar if I need to watch a game, which is seldom).
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'Marshmallow' is the perfect word for a label that carries no content, is all fluff, and whose sole purpose is to appeal to people with simple tastes.
(Note that I'm not talking about the OS, but the practice of giving each version a cute name. Android is not alone in this practice, but with 'Marshmallow' they seem to have achieved the pinnacle of its banality.)
Did any of the lawyers for either NOAA or the aquarium have BULBOUS BOUFFANTS?
Cuz, if you grew up in the 70s and 80s like me, then you know how cool that would be if they did.
Crap. Actually yes.
Just derping.
No.
Just answering.
Would that be the kind that pleasures Japanese ladies, as depicted on rice paper?
Well, it's more like a brown cloud.
Actually, that's squid.
But properly prepared octopus is yummy! Too bad "properly prepared" means you have to beat the damn thing against a rock for half an hour and then grill it until it's toast.
But it is indeed yummy!
Like a Bond film?
Oooh. GIS result me likey:
http://www.the007dossier.com/0...
Gotta love that Eighties big hair.
Agree. I had one of the RAZR V3s, and I loved it. Worked great, and reasonably ergonomic. And it was small and rugged... well, rugged enough, assuming you didn't treat it like you were Captain Kirk calling Scotty for a beam-up.
Unfortunately it got stolen from my car one day, probably by a junkie who needed 5 bucks for a hit.
I got a KRZR as a replacement, but it wasn't as well made, and the sound quality was worse, even though they were both GSM phones.
Congratulations, you just summarized TFA.
The only thing the article left out is that oftentimes, using a bluetooth headset to ergonomicize the feature makes even a decent connection suck.
My Plantronics only performs acceptably when the battery is more than 75% charged, and it's priced mid-range.
I have a coworker in an adjacent office whose voice my *brain* rejects as noise.
I think she learned to speak from watching reruns of The Nanny.
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Exactly my thoughts reading the article.
And after reading the comments here, I believe what the young folk need is a direct hit from a nice big solar flare to take out the networks for a few days so they can appreciate what the real world is like.
Hell, not just cell phones, but tablets and laptops too. My 11-yo son spends 90% of his waking hours with his nose glued to a screen, and sulks the other 10% when it isn't. His only interest in earning an allowance (from doing chores and assisting me or my wife with minor vocational tasks) is to buy another device or some app to put on it.
Hell, we take him camping every summer for a week at one of the most beautiful sites on Lake Tahoe (no, I'm NOT telling you where) to get away, and last year he discovered that Verizon has a 4G signal there. This year, he snuck off to the car or into the tent every chance he got to play on his tablet, and the entire drive between here and there, he spent with his laptop open, connected to my wife's hotspot. A solar flare would be good for him.
Unfortunately, it'd take out all the power distribution networks, too... I like air conditioning and electric lights too much. My great-great-grandfather from the 19th century calls me spoiled.
Agree with you on call quality.
A special peeve of mine is cellular callers on the radio, whether listener callers, or arranged guests on talk shows or NPR stories.
Especially the latter two. Where the hell are the audio engineers with an equalizer to filter out the everpresent ringing, distortion and adjust the levels so I don't have to crank up the volume to understand the caller, cringe at the hyper-resonant frequencies, and then slap at the volume knob when an in-studio person speaks?
Especially when you're a nationally distributed program with pre-arranged "expert" guests and time to at least minimally adjust the audio quality, I just don't understand how anyone thinks that is an acceptable audio quality.
Seconded. My calls between me and my wife, both on the Same. Fucking. Contract. get dropped all the time. And when one of us hangs up, the other phone can't detect it's a hang-up, but shows that the call failed.
WTF, Verizon?
Since the people in control of the politicians decided to defund public schools to the point where our children can't even fucking spell anymore.
Call them what? A dipshit?
Clearly an editing error - he had another noun there and edited it out, and forgot to change the adj. to a n.
I do that kind of error of hasty all the time.
Born on the Boomer/Gen-X cusp, I don't understand the aversion to the phone call and the addiction to texting, either.
However, I *do* understand the aversion to voice mail. For the same reason I'd rather read an article than watch a video: It's a waste of time.
I can read a news article in half the time it takes me to watch a news clip on the same story, and often times the written article is more fact-dense.
And voicemail is even worse, because people take forever to get to the point, ramble on, and often are generally awkward and uncomfortable.
If you ring me and get voice mail, hang up and send a text or an email. I'll see it within 10 minutes, generally... if I'm awake.
Doesn't anybody use handwritten notes anymore?
And oftentimes, at least in engineering, the facts communicated in such a conversation are a) much easier to draw in symbols or sketches that just can't be done in email or chat, and b) make their way into a final drawing or specification and don't need to be published as a transcript or sketch or markup.
Replying to my own comment just to say whoever modded me "insightful" deserves a metamod of "funny."
That sounds like a lot of bull...
$100 to $200 will buy you a decent quality tuner/encoder - anything from the plug and play EyeTV options to the MythTV-geeks-only HDHomeRun... just search on Amazon.
Mod points. If I'd had some, you'd have some.
I agree with you. Everytime I have to use one at a house with full-up cable, I'm like all "what the hell is running this thing, an 8086??"
I moved two months ago and learned I had an option between AT&T Uverse and Charter Digital. AT&T was 25Mbps for $50 a month with a free phone number and I didn't have to buy television services if I didn't want them. Charter was (reportedly) 600 Mbps (right...), forced you to include phone and TV, and cost well over $100 a month. Both companies wanted install fees nearly $100. Both companies report you to the copyright cartels if you torrent shit.
I went with AT&T. Why? I know from experience that a decent real-time speed necessary for acceptable HD streaming is between 3 and 6 Mbps (depends on format, encoding, etc.). So even the slower of the two was five times what I needed. I don't plan on torrenting terabytes of files, though I do want to be able to download a few favorite shows now that I don't have a cable box and a tuner. AT&T costs me half as much, even counting the $50 a year for VPN.
Also, I HATE Charter with a passion. They've been a dick of a company ever since I've patronized them, starting 25 years ago. They'll cut you off if you're late paying for service in advance -- that's right, their bill says you're paying for service in the upcoming month. But if you're a week late, they cut you off and charge to reconnect. And after multiple instances of that, they'll cut you off the day after the due date. (These experiences are decades old and three addresses ago, but true ones.) To this day, they have constant outages during business hours, are assholes on the phone, and their equipment quality is crap. Not to mention the conflicts of interest that exist between content providers and cable companies, and the accusations of bandwidth throttling (not specifically against Charter... yet).
While AT&T are no angels, they're at worst the equivalent of a lumbering corporate behemoth from the users' perspective. And I was impressed by the tech who came out to install my service. He found an unexpected problem, and I immediately thought oh no, I'm not getting internet today but the guy actually busted his ass to get the job done. (He had to run back and forth two blocks to test each end of 25 pairs of wires to find the right pair at the fiber transciever. What should have been a 30 minute job turned into a 2.5 hour one that involved a lot of sweating.) My first bill payment was three weeks late (I had to travel on business and forgot) and I didn't even hear a peep out of them. The next bill had a $5 late payment charge. And the charges are for the past month's services. And the reliability of the service has been excellent... Netflix, Hulu and Amazon all stream fantastically, with better quality than I had using Charter at my previous residence (admittedly, a sorta remote one), and always instant play. Even porn streaming sites are better. (Yea, you betcha that's one of the first thing I tried...)
TL;DR: I cut the cable, dumped the least favorite corporation I was forced to patronize, and I am SO HAPPY. The only programming I can't get are daily game shows (I'm a Jeopardy addict) and sporting events (meh... I'll go to a bar if I need to watch a game, which is seldom).