Putting that aside, it's storage. On the iOS device, I have to associate everything with a particular application. I can't even use the stupid thing to transfer inert data (that I already had to add through iTunes since the device can't meaningfully interact with SMB, FTP or NFS) that for one reason or other doesn't match up with file size limits on my cloud storage provider's service.
Unfortunately Google and Samsung have been moving towards this model as well. Recent changes in Android (4.something) means I now can no longer access the external SD Card as generic storage; limitations have been added so that only approved media apps can access the external card now. Google also recently disabled USB audio support which was working just fine for many people. Now, only my iphone can output audio via the USB cable to my car stereo. And on Samsung's side, with the Galaxy S6, the battery is no longer removable, and the there is no option to add an SD card for storage. None. All so they can make the phone another half-millimeter thinner, as if that was some holy goal worth shooting for. Both Samsung and Google are nipping at Apple's heels now, making devices that aren't quite as functional, but have all the restrictions that iPhones have.
The iron lung was so mid 20th century. Propaganda pictures? Hospital wards were packed with iron lungs during the polio outbreaks of the 1940s to the 1960s. Iron lungs disappeared for two reasons. First the polio virus nearly wiped out the disease. Second, we now use positive pressure (tubes into the lungs inflate them) instead of the negative pressure (the lung creating a vacuum around the body) to make the lungs work. No need for a bulky and restrictive iron lung when there are more portable and lightweight medical ventilators.
I'm sorry, but there are quite a few diseases out there that will kill the strongest, yet the already sickly might survive. Very frequently a "strong" or "weak" immune system has little to do with whether you catch a disease.
Who cares if it isn't true? Obviously, the parents don't care. Either for science or their children.
That will only embolden them. They will latch onto anything that supports what fits what they want to believe, misrepresenting the results of the study will be another arrow in their quiver they'll trot out in every discussion, just like the 9/11 Truthers do.
I am in close personal touch with my feelings. Anger is said she's making life hell for others. Sadness is telling me that it feels pity for her. Happiness doesn't have a comment.
Fear worries that she convinces other dullards who harm innocent children. And Disgust lords over all, annoyed that anyone would listen to her just because she's JENNY MCCARTHY.
And taking her clothes off in front of cameras. Don't forget that, because that's the equivalent of having a PhD in biochemistry, only better. Just ask her.
And eating her own vomit on camera. That should qualify her for an honorary degree in biochemistry!
I originally liked Ralph Nader and planned to vote for him (when he ran in 2000) because of his consumer activism. He was saying the right things to me, but then I looked into what he and the Green Party actually believed in (from their own websites) and ran away in horror.
I think my favorite/least favorite part was the statement that if you made over some level of income ($50k? $100k?), it was probably done through fraudulent/illegal/immoral means, so they saw no issue with taxing 100% of income above that level.
Isn't Liberal Elite an oxymoron? Liberals are typically blue collar or white collar worker with families, while conservatives are the elite moneyed types seeking to an ever larger slice of the pie.
Oh, I see. So, as long as you wrap a pretty word like "sharing" around theft, it's cool and considered free advertising...but the minute someone charges 25 cents to cover the cost of the blank media for that "shared" copy, oh they're suddenly now a professional pirate. Throw the fucking book at them.
It's more than that, it's probably a contract violation as well. HBO doesn't send screeners to reviewers out of the goodness of their hearts. Reviewers gain something in exchange for giving up something. What they gain is advanced access to the content, but what they give up is the ability to speak of it before the episodes air. Tit for tat, except this particular reviewer violated the arrangement, likely a legal agreement that he/she signed.
Soon watching shows online will be like taking a book out of the library (except there will be unlimited copies).
I'd love to believe that, but it doesn't look like the direction we're moving towards.
You'll get a subscription to the service and will have access to everything they ever offered.
The problem with this is that the media companies own the distribution rights. They always have, they always will. They HATE the Netflix model, but there's really nothing they can do to stop it for physical media. Netflix by mail is a fantastic, fantastic series. Netflix streaming is terrible thanks to their shitty selection. Everyone has a shitty selection, but Netflix is hit particularly hard because most Hollywood studios and other various media conglomerates detest the Netflix subscription model. They don't want subscriptions, they want high-cost pay-per-view. They want demand-based pricing, so you don't know what you'll have to pay until it's time to order. They want you to pay $6 for a 24-hour dvd-quality stream, and $9 for an hd-quality stream (or more, or less, based on popularity, remember).
The online streaming situation is fucked up because power has shifted back to the media companies. Legally, they can't really stop Netflix from renting out discs under Netflix's terms. But online streaming is something they control entirely, and they want the age of Netflix-style subscription services to end.
If they would just cut out the DRM I would buy it from them. I want my media to play on my devices and I want to own it not rent it.
So I stream it (using a friend's account..), and buy it in Blu-Ray when it comes out 9 months later for permanent watching and extras (which are actually pretty interesting..).
Yeah, but I want to enjoy GoT. Suffering GRRM's atrociously pseudo-victorian prose to gather a few gleanings of actual story amongst the flowery descriptions of dishes present at luncheon isn't something I want to waste time on. HBO did ASoFaI better than GRRM did.
For almost every epic fantasy I've read, I've read the book first, then watched the adaptation. GoT is the big exception, and I found I just.. I just couldn't get through book 1. Somehow there's a disconnect for me that I don't get from other series, even the much-more-boring Wheel of Time.
Both. There are certain events in the book (Lady Stoneheart, for instance) that the show has announced it either won't cover, or it will cover very differently.
The biggest problem, however, is the books in the series come out years apart. Game of Thrones is one season per year. Season Five is overtaking certain plot points in the series, especially since the order of events in the show doesn't always match the publication order of the books. Season Four even had a few events that were canon, yet haven't yet been featured in the book series. And it seems pretty clear that the show is going to finish before the book series does. The only question is when one will completely overtake the other.
I'm not sure why this would be modded Troll. Actually, I know full why. Slashdot needs some more meta-modding.
For awhile, I could tell when I was reading Russian troll-spam, because they would constantly refer not to the Ukraine but to "Kiev." No one in the Western Hemisphere calls the country that, but it's a semi-subtle dig, the implication that it's only the high leadership of Ukraine who opposes Russia's takeover.
Slashdot Mirror
Write-in. And if there are no options for that, completely abstain.
But let me ask you, does a soldier who signed up after the WTC attack get a free pass to desert when he is unwittingly deployed to Iraq?
He doesn't, but he should. No man, regardless of situation, should be compelled against his will to kill other men.
He didn't ever raise anything with his supervisors
And your source for this is... ?
You're just... swallowing the official NSA reports as if they were somehow credible?
I don't know about 1845 - they may have had a little baby boom.
Maybe. It was a time of territorial expansion. Manifest Destiny and all that such.
Many probably died in the Civil War. They would have been about the right age.
Putting that aside, it's storage. On the iOS device, I have to associate everything with a particular application. I can't even use the stupid thing to transfer inert data (that I already had to add through iTunes since the device can't meaningfully interact with SMB, FTP or NFS) that for one reason or other doesn't match up with file size limits on my cloud storage provider's service.
Unfortunately Google and Samsung have been moving towards this model as well. Recent changes in Android (4.something) means I now can no longer access the external SD Card as generic storage; limitations have been added so that only approved media apps can access the external card now. Google also recently disabled USB audio support which was working just fine for many people. Now, only my iphone can output audio via the USB cable to my car stereo. And on Samsung's side, with the Galaxy S6, the battery is no longer removable, and the there is no option to add an SD card for storage. None. All so they can make the phone another half-millimeter thinner, as if that was some holy goal worth shooting for. Both Samsung and Google are nipping at Apple's heels now, making devices that aren't quite as functional, but have all the restrictions that iPhones have.
Do people still say this? I thought this was a 90's thing?
yeah, the nineties were the last time cars were worth a shit, too.
I still drive my 1997 car. It's rock solid.
Lol. Nazis did it! Now Godwin should happy.
No, Godwin would still be sad.
YOU are a nazi. Now Godwin is pleased.
The iron lung was so mid 20th century. Propaganda pictures? Hospital wards were packed with iron lungs during the polio outbreaks of the 1940s to the 1960s. Iron lungs disappeared for two reasons. First the polio virus nearly wiped out the disease. Second, we now use positive pressure (tubes into the lungs inflate them) instead of the negative pressure (the lung creating a vacuum around the body) to make the lungs work. No need for a bulky and restrictive iron lung when there are more portable and lightweight medical ventilators.
I'm sorry, but there are quite a few diseases out there that will kill the strongest, yet the already sickly might survive. Very frequently a "strong" or "weak" immune system has little to do with whether you catch a disease.
Who cares if it isn't true? Obviously, the parents don't care. Either for science or their children.
That will only embolden them. They will latch onto anything that supports what fits what they want to believe, misrepresenting the results of the study will be another arrow in their quiver they'll trot out in every discussion, just like the 9/11 Truthers do.
I am in close personal touch with my feelings. Anger is said she's making life hell for others. Sadness is telling me that it feels pity for her. Happiness doesn't have a comment.
Fear worries that she convinces other dullards who harm innocent children. And Disgust lords over all, annoyed that anyone would listen to her just because she's JENNY MCCARTHY.
Inside Out 2015!
Are you from a Michael Bay movie?
And taking her clothes off in front of cameras. Don't forget that, because that's the equivalent of having a PhD in biochemistry, only better. Just ask her.
And eating her own vomit on camera. That should qualify her for an honorary degree in biochemistry!
I originally liked Ralph Nader and planned to vote for him (when he ran in 2000) because of his consumer activism. He was saying the right things to me, but then I looked into what he and the Green Party actually believed in (from their own websites) and ran away in horror.
I think my favorite/least favorite part was the statement that if you made over some level of income ($50k? $100k?), it was probably done through fraudulent/illegal/immoral means, so they saw no issue with taxing 100% of income above that level.
I recall Married With Children had an episode where Al's men-only group "NO MA'AM" incorporated as a religion to avoid paying beer taxes.
Ah, you missed the part where I said I was streaming off a friend's account.
But is it really that odd an idea anyway? I go to the movie theater, I like it, I buy it on Blu-Ray, paying twice for the same content.
Isn't Liberal Elite an oxymoron? Liberals are typically blue collar or white collar worker with families, while conservatives are the elite moneyed types seeking to an ever larger slice of the pie.
Clearly you've never been to Marin County.
Oh, I see. So, as long as you wrap a pretty word like "sharing" around theft, it's cool and considered free advertising...but the minute someone charges 25 cents to cover the cost of the blank media for that "shared" copy, oh they're suddenly now a professional pirate. Throw the fucking book at them.
It's more than that, it's probably a contract violation as well. HBO doesn't send screeners to reviewers out of the goodness of their hearts. Reviewers gain something in exchange for giving up something. What they gain is advanced access to the content, but what they give up is the ability to speak of it before the episodes air. Tit for tat, except this particular reviewer violated the arrangement, likely a legal agreement that he/she signed.
Soon watching shows online will be like taking a book out of the library (except there will be unlimited copies).
I'd love to believe that, but it doesn't look like the direction we're moving towards.
You'll get a subscription to the service and will have access to everything they ever offered.
The problem with this is that the media companies own the distribution rights. They always have, they always will. They HATE the Netflix model, but there's really nothing they can do to stop it for physical media. Netflix by mail is a fantastic, fantastic series. Netflix streaming is terrible thanks to their shitty selection. Everyone has a shitty selection, but Netflix is hit particularly hard because most Hollywood studios and other various media conglomerates detest the Netflix subscription model. They don't want subscriptions, they want high-cost pay-per-view. They want demand-based pricing, so you don't know what you'll have to pay until it's time to order. They want you to pay $6 for a 24-hour dvd-quality stream, and $9 for an hd-quality stream (or more, or less, based on popularity, remember).
The online streaming situation is fucked up because power has shifted back to the media companies. Legally, they can't really stop Netflix from renting out discs under Netflix's terms. But online streaming is something they control entirely, and they want the age of Netflix-style subscription services to end.
If they would just cut out the DRM I would buy it from them. I want my media to play on my devices and I want to own it not rent it.
So I stream it (using a friend's account..), and buy it in Blu-Ray when it comes out 9 months later for permanent watching and extras (which are actually pretty interesting..).
Yeah, but I want to enjoy GoT. Suffering GRRM's atrociously pseudo-victorian prose to gather a few gleanings of actual story amongst the flowery descriptions of dishes present at luncheon isn't something I want to waste time on. HBO did ASoFaI better than GRRM did.
For almost every epic fantasy I've read, I've read the book first, then watched the adaptation. GoT is the big exception, and I found I just.. I just couldn't get through book 1. Somehow there's a disconnect for me that I don't get from other series, even the much-more-boring Wheel of Time.
Fortunately, Game of Thrones is a Spring series. No Winter for another eight months, thank you!
Both. There are certain events in the book (Lady Stoneheart, for instance) that the show has announced it either won't cover, or it will cover very differently.
The biggest problem, however, is the books in the series come out years apart. Game of Thrones is one season per year. Season Five is overtaking certain plot points in the series, especially since the order of events in the show doesn't always match the publication order of the books. Season Four even had a few events that were canon, yet haven't yet been featured in the book series. And it seems pretty clear that the show is going to finish before the book series does. The only question is when one will completely overtake the other.
I'm not sure why this would be modded Troll. Actually, I know full why.
Slashdot needs some more meta-modding.
For awhile, I could tell when I was reading Russian troll-spam, because they would constantly refer not to the Ukraine but to "Kiev." No one in the Western Hemisphere calls the country that, but it's a semi-subtle dig, the implication that it's only the high leadership of Ukraine who opposes Russia's takeover.
Glenn Beck and Fox news has more ratings than anything else besides the superbowl on TV.
You're kidding, right?