I saw another person mention this setup. I've run WDTV, mythtv, several windows media boxes, xbmc, and other I can't remember how many others since the late 90s.
FireTV + Kodi blows them all out of the water. I also have the Logitech Harmony Hub + the cheap remote and they work great together. By far the snappiest UI, and easiest to use of any media box I've had previously. Very flexible because it's kodi (I typically either use a streaming service (prime/netflix) or play media off a SMB share on my network), and it's super easy to setup. We cancelled Directv a couple months ago and haven't looked back.
I hear you. I agreed to let them monitor our activity but during the initial setup over the phone they started bemoaning about streaming video to my chromebook and trying to say that I can't play video files form my personal library over my network via kodi (vs streaming from the web), so I said forget about it. You'd have to be really hard up for money and not tech savvy at all to work inside their monitoring program successfully.
Say we stop making carbon dioxide for industrial and transportation needs (not going to happen but lets hypothesize). Sweet. Well, the global population is still going ~double over the next 50 years. By 2250 there will likely be over ~20 billion people on this planet. At that point human beings will have to stop breathing to keep CO^2 levels from rising. What will we do then?
There will be a time when humans start to die off due to overpopulation. Whether it's CO^2, pollution, starvation, etc. It's going to happen, and most likely the poor will be the ones that suffer. My children may even live long enough to see it start happening. Our generation could be the last one where we can spend everything we make in our lifetime, and not have to worry about the survival of our young because we didn't leave them a large endowment.
I don't see why musicians deserve any money if they aren't practicing their craft. When I write an automation script for my employer, I don't expect to get a check every time it gets run. I expect to go write new code, fix new problems, and get paid for working on that stuff. Likewise, an musician should get paid for practicing their craft and they should have to continue working if they want to continue to get paid. There is a thing called "live concerts" where this practice takes place, and the more people that appreciate your art via services like youtube, the more people that will come to your "live concerts" and pay you to work at your art.
All those royalties have gone to Reznor's head. Like Lars and the other RIAA nobles, now Trent thinks he is actual royalty and he is mad that the peasants aren't compelled to pay every tax he dreams up.
This is the kind of stuff that belongs on tmz. The saddest part (other than it making it to/.) is that a bunch of other renowned journalists praised the original article about trump's hairpiece.
"drawing praise from staffers at the Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic; and at least three winners of the Pulitzer Prize."
Actually no. Your stats are bullshit. This is what commodities traders pay for beef stock http://www.tradingeconomics.com/commodity/beef
The price of beef has tripled in the last 10 years. Better yet, just go to the grocery store and look at the prices. You can't find tri tip for less than $4.99 lb anymore. It was regularly $2.99 lb a couple years ago (which is supported in the link I provided).
Parent is absolutely correct. The official indices that gauge inflation keep changing what they count, resulting in bad statistics like the ones you linked. There is a big economic problem in this country and it is actively being swept under the rug.
Last time I checked,, lossless 4K streaming with a modern codec (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC) requires ~720 Mbps of throughput. So yeah.. you aren't gonna see much real 4k streaming for a long time. In my experience, pretty much all the "1080p" or "hd" streams (youtube, netflix, prime, etc) and cable/satellite video services use compression that hurts PQ and are comparable to sub-720p lossless quality (otherwise they'd be sucking up ~12 Mbps of throughput). Put on a dark movie and watch for the macro blocking, it's definitely there and it definitely looks like shit.
Thanks to marketing types, the words "4k" and "1080p" don't actually mean anything when it comes to picture quality anymore. You have to say "lossless" first, and then watch all the non-engineers roll their eyes and act like you are being a pedantic asshole.
It wasn't over the data cap thing (a host of other issues with their service and billing), but it was a nice coincidence. Also coincidentally, Time Warner Cable is bumping their top tier internet package from 50mbps to 300mbps in our neighborhood this month for the same price (which is cheaper than Uverse's top tier 60mbps service).
All I'm saying is that there are new features in win10 vs win7 (other than the privacy concerns) and I like some of them. Dunno what that has to do with a weird fetish analogy about making people watch you take a dump. If you are that worried about your activity being tracked, don't use windows.
Don't knock it before you get used to it. Obivously there is the privacy intrusion etc, and I resisted for a while but now prefer windows 10 over windows 7. Probably my favorite upgrade is the way it handles remote desktop sessions (I do a lot of them for work), especially the window auto-scaling feature.
Like Stuxnet, any attack that the government launches has the potential to affect computers that are not owned by ISIS terrorists (or in Stuxnet's case, Iranian centrifuges).
The more success that Cyber Command has, the more comfortable they will be with with launching cyber bombs. At some point there will be significant collateral damage.
Seeing as how most drone radio frequency communication operate at 2.4 or 5.8 Ghz, the FCC would likely have a problem with allowing the jamming capabilities.
I no longer consider things like my name, address, social security number, ip address, bank acct number, etc to be "my data." The only things I still consider to be mine are my pictures, films, and music which I back to to external USB drives that I store in a fireproof safe. I leave the bulk of the security of my personal information up to my providers and try to use hard to crack passwords. If there is a leak (I'm sure there will be, if not already) and it affects my livelyhood, I will hold the company that compromised my data responsible. I don't believe that I have any assets that could be attacked that aren't covered by FDIC or identity theft protection, and none (other than title for my house/cars and my 401k/IRA) are worth more than what I can get back in small claims court, so I just don't worry about it.
At a higher frequency, every computation occurs faster. CPU utilization has no bearing on how fast the processor is performing operations until you get to 100% and the queueing starts.
What I'm getting at is that a overclock would make your computer faster (likely not percievably however) even if you aren't seeing 100% CPU utilization.
Well it used to say "expidited handling" but they may have dropped that. My problem is that I will make 5 orders over the course of a month and they will arrive in 2 days (awesome!) so I will get an expectation of quick delivery times. Then I will make the mistake of depending on something arriving in 3-4 days, but it will take 6 or 7 (or way more!) and I end up having to go buy the thing somewhere else because I needed it, and then return the one from Amazon. All of this is a pain in my ass. As someone else noted, using USPS on the weekends has boned me a couple times already (one package, a mothers day gift, took 4 months!).
Basically I'm cutting back how much stuff i order because I can't depend on Amazon for reliable delivery times, and prime doesn't seem worth it if I'm not ordering as much stuff.
Our household spends a lot of money on Amazon, but we are not going to renew Prime this year. I ahve been rodering thing from Amazon since the 90s but my satisfaction level with the company peaked a couple years ago adn has been sliding down since. The reasons we are cancelling are varied:
- Items listed as having Prime often do not arrive for 5-6 business days. This is typical for larger items. It annoys me that Amazon lists tham as prime (to me this means item will arrive 2-3 business days), and their practice of having fine print about extra handling time for some prime items is abrasive. Just don't list it as Prime if it won't be shipped for 3-4 days!
- The streaming video options are weak and I don't like the picture quality
- "Prime day" is a joke
- They raised the annual price of Prime 3x since I signed up
- Items shipped prime from Amazon have shown up obivously used or broken multiple many times over the past year (much more often than before)
- Amazon's support people were really hard to deal with when things in the above bullet point happened
- As far as I can tell "super saver" shipping usually only takes one additional day (and sometimes none) to arrive compared to prime
- I have been finding better prices on many things from retailers like Costco and Walmart compared to what Amazon offers
- Amazon uses a variety of tactics to make the camelcamlcamel plugin not work relably to show price history on an item.
Maybe I will regret the decision and we will sign back up, but we are definitely going to try living without it.
We used an old 386 Compaq desktoip for a DNS server at my first IT job. That thing was manufactureed in 1991 and we were still using it wen I left the company in 2001... It was funny the day I asked "Hey whats this thing doing here?" and tapped the space bar and my boss freaked out a little. He said something along the lines of 'we really need to upgrade that..."
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I saw another person mention this setup. I've run WDTV, mythtv, several windows media boxes, xbmc, and other I can't remember how many others since the late 90s.
FireTV + Kodi blows them all out of the water. I also have the Logitech Harmony Hub + the cheap remote and they work great together. By far the snappiest UI, and easiest to use of any media box I've had previously. Very flexible because it's kodi (I typically either use a streaming service (prime/netflix) or play media off a SMB share on my network), and it's super easy to setup. We cancelled Directv a couple months ago and haven't looked back.
It is relevant if government agencies have access too (article says they do) and are acting against US citizens based on the list.
I hear you. I agreed to let them monitor our activity but during the initial setup over the phone they started bemoaning about streaming video to my chromebook and trying to say that I can't play video files form my personal library over my network via kodi (vs streaming from the web), so I said forget about it. You'd have to be really hard up for money and not tech savvy at all to work inside their monitoring program successfully.
The problem is overpopulation not "denialists"
Say we stop making carbon dioxide for industrial and transportation needs (not going to happen but lets hypothesize). Sweet. Well, the global population is still going ~double over the next 50 years. By 2250 there will likely be over ~20 billion people on this planet. At that point human beings will have to stop breathing to keep CO^2 levels from rising. What will we do then?
There will be a time when humans start to die off due to overpopulation. Whether it's CO^2, pollution, starvation, etc. It's going to happen, and most likely the poor will be the ones that suffer. My children may even live long enough to see it start happening. Our generation could be the last one where we can spend everything we make in our lifetime, and not have to worry about the survival of our young because we didn't leave them a large endowment.
I don't see why musicians deserve any money if they aren't practicing their craft. When I write an automation script for my employer, I don't expect to get a check every time it gets run. I expect to go write new code, fix new problems, and get paid for working on that stuff. Likewise, an musician should get paid for practicing their craft and they should have to continue working if they want to continue to get paid. There is a thing called "live concerts" where this practice takes place, and the more people that appreciate your art via services like youtube, the more people that will come to your "live concerts" and pay you to work at your art.
All those royalties have gone to Reznor's head. Like Lars and the other RIAA nobles, now Trent thinks he is actual royalty and he is mad that the peasants aren't compelled to pay every tax he dreams up.
This is the kind of stuff that belongs on tmz. The saddest part (other than it making it to /.) is that a bunch of other renowned journalists praised the original article about trump's hairpiece.
"drawing praise from staffers at the Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic; and at least three winners of the Pulitzer Prize."
Ugh.
I'm pretty sure the most prominent contemporary proponents are the Wachowski borthers... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Comparing a commodity market to a small grass fed beef farm's outdated website. Wheat and potatoes. Hahahaha
Thanks for the laughs.
Actually no. Your stats are bullshit. This is what commodities traders pay for beef stock
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/commodity/beef
The price of beef has tripled in the last 10 years. Better yet, just go to the grocery store and look at the prices. You can't find tri tip for less than $4.99 lb anymore. It was regularly $2.99 lb a couple years ago (which is supported in the link I provided).
Parent is absolutely correct. The official indices that gauge inflation keep changing what they count, resulting in bad statistics like the ones you linked. There is a big economic problem in this country and it is actively being swept under the rug.
Last time I checked,, lossless 4K streaming with a modern codec (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC) requires ~720 Mbps of throughput. So yeah.. you aren't gonna see much real 4k streaming for a long time. In my experience, pretty much all the "1080p" or "hd" streams (youtube, netflix, prime, etc) and cable/satellite video services use compression that hurts PQ and are comparable to sub-720p lossless quality (otherwise they'd be sucking up ~12 Mbps of throughput). Put on a dark movie and watch for the macro blocking, it's definitely there and it definitely looks like shit.
Thanks to marketing types, the words "4k" and "1080p" don't actually mean anything when it comes to picture quality anymore. You have to say "lossless" first, and then watch all the non-engineers roll their eyes and act like you are being a pedantic asshole.
It wasn't over the data cap thing (a host of other issues with their service and billing), but it was a nice coincidence. Also coincidentally, Time Warner Cable is bumping their top tier internet package from 50mbps to 300mbps in our neighborhood this month for the same price (which is cheaper than Uverse's top tier 60mbps service).
There was a typo in the original post, the word "detect" was missing. It's been fixed since.
"The breathalyzer connects to a smartphone and is able to lung cancer early from a single breath"
All I'm saying is that there are new features in win10 vs win7 (other than the privacy concerns) and I like some of them. Dunno what that has to do with a weird fetish analogy about making people watch you take a dump. If you are that worried about your activity being tracked, don't use windows.
Don't knock it before you get used to it. Obivously there is the privacy intrusion etc, and I resisted for a while but now prefer windows 10 over windows 7. Probably my favorite upgrade is the way it handles remote desktop sessions (I do a lot of them for work), especially the window auto-scaling feature.
Or you could wage war in the Middle East for less than three months. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Like Stuxnet, any attack that the government launches has the potential to affect computers that are not owned by ISIS terrorists (or in Stuxnet's case, Iranian centrifuges).
The more success that Cyber Command has, the more comfortable they will be with with launching cyber bombs. At some point there will be significant collateral damage.
It's a Ruby library to help you run regression testing... Big deal. Not /. worthy thats for sure.
Those basic functionalities could be created in any language/tool in a short period of time by any decent automation engineer.
Seeing as how most drone radio frequency communication operate at 2.4 or 5.8 Ghz, the FCC would likely have a problem with allowing the jamming capabilities.
I no longer consider things like my name, address, social security number, ip address, bank acct number, etc to be "my data." The only things I still consider to be mine are my pictures, films, and music which I back to to external USB drives that I store in a fireproof safe. I leave the bulk of the security of my personal information up to my providers and try to use hard to crack passwords. If there is a leak (I'm sure there will be, if not already) and it affects my livelyhood, I will hold the company that compromised my data responsible. I don't believe that I have any assets that could be attacked that aren't covered by FDIC or identity theft protection, and none (other than title for my house/cars and my 401k/IRA) are worth more than what I can get back in small claims court, so I just don't worry about it.
At a higher frequency, every computation occurs faster. CPU utilization has no bearing on how fast the processor is performing operations until you get to 100% and the queueing starts. What I'm getting at is that a overclock would make your computer faster (likely not percievably however) even if you aren't seeing 100% CPU utilization.
Well it used to say "expidited handling" but they may have dropped that. My problem is that I will make 5 orders over the course of a month and they will arrive in 2 days (awesome!) so I will get an expectation of quick delivery times. Then I will make the mistake of depending on something arriving in 3-4 days, but it will take 6 or 7 (or way more!) and I end up having to go buy the thing somewhere else because I needed it, and then return the one from Amazon. All of this is a pain in my ass. As someone else noted, using USPS on the weekends has boned me a couple times already (one package, a mothers day gift, took 4 months!). Basically I'm cutting back how much stuff i order because I can't depend on Amazon for reliable delivery times, and prime doesn't seem worth it if I'm not ordering as much stuff.
I thought it was $109 now...
Our household spends a lot of money on Amazon, but we are not going to renew Prime this year. I ahve been rodering thing from Amazon since the 90s but my satisfaction level with the company peaked a couple years ago adn has been sliding down since. The reasons we are cancelling are varied:
- Items listed as having Prime often do not arrive for 5-6 business days. This is typical for larger items. It annoys me that Amazon lists tham as prime (to me this means item will arrive 2-3 business days), and their practice of having fine print about extra handling time for some prime items is abrasive. Just don't list it as Prime if it won't be shipped for 3-4 days!
- The streaming video options are weak and I don't like the picture quality
- "Prime day" is a joke
- They raised the annual price of Prime 3x since I signed up
- Items shipped prime from Amazon have shown up obivously used or broken multiple many times over the past year (much more often than before)
- Amazon's support people were really hard to deal with when things in the above bullet point happened
- As far as I can tell "super saver" shipping usually only takes one additional day (and sometimes none) to arrive compared to prime
- I have been finding better prices on many things from retailers like Costco and Walmart compared to what Amazon offers
- Amazon uses a variety of tactics to make the camelcamlcamel plugin not work relably to show price history on an item.
Maybe I will regret the decision and we will sign back up, but we are definitely going to try living without it.
We used an old 386 Compaq desktoip for a DNS server at my first IT job. That thing was manufactureed in 1991 and we were still using it wen I left the company in 2001... It was funny the day I asked "Hey whats this thing doing here?" and tapped the space bar and my boss freaked out a little. He said something along the lines of 'we really need to upgrade that..."