The news here is that a minuscule percentage of the original supposed functionality is a "new" feature.
What "original supposed functionality"? Seriously.
Based on following this (I haven't played it), the hype/mistaken expectations seems to have all been fan driven, and (admittedly anecdotal), I've read people who said that the original E3 videos aren't more off from the end result than tons of other projects. (The most recent one I read was yesterday on the Giant Bomb Facebook group.)
and he called for a halt to immigration of Muslims from certain nations until we can better determine their reason for wanting to come to this country.
(Ignoring for now if even that there would be problems even with that..)
Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on.
Donald Trump called Monday for a "total and complete shutdown" of the entry of Muslims to the United States "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on."
No "certain nations". Total and complete shutdown.. BASED ON RELIGION. That's by definition prejudiced.
BTW, I am probably far far far more right wing than you on many issues.. This and many other of his ideas/statements, are just evil.
I realize that talks about copyright, but it seems like you're essentially renting out what you bought, and with some limits (e.g. computer software), that's been ruled as legal.
And there are laws prohibiting these surcharges in 10 states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, New York, Oklahoma and Texas.
So yes, there are laws. Just not federal laws like I had thought.
There ALSO were agreements between the credit card providers and merchants.
In the United States, there is exactly such a law. There is a loophole where you can give a "cash discount", but the main posted price has to be the same.. and the only place I've ever actually seen the cash discount used was at some gas stations (back when I was a Luddite and drove a gasoline powered car). Even then, there were other gas stations very close by that were in effect the same price after the cash back (plus you get the convenience of using credit card).
It costs less to put information online for free than it does to configure it behind a pay wall.
Sure, as a raw index.html file.. But what about a decent search algorithm, a decent index of issues/stories, etc.? Who pays for that?
(BTW, I don't know if the site behind this particular "pay wall" does have those.. But they're some reasons why it might be even preferable from the end user's standpoint... I say that even though I ALSO think that since my tax money apparently paid for it, it should be freely available.)
Only if you can get it WITHOUT ADS... and things are available for a LONG time (full seasons available for YEARS).
(yes, technically there are still ads via onscreen bugs, and I have to skip the existing ads with 30 second skip or SkipMode, available on some shows.. but it's still far far far far far better than the forced ads on other services.)
The very little bit of research I've done seems to say you need the 'play' versions ('play' is in the name) to do Plex re-encoding. Others can work as media servers if no reencoding is needed. At least based on what I saw on Amazon in the past few days, the non-Play Synology 4 or 5 drive boxes are a bit under $300 at best price, the play ones are a couple hundred more.
Could I stream a non-reencoded HD show to an iPhone or iPad out of the house? At least VLC can play raw MPEG files (the old one, before Dolby Digital support was removed), and there's at least one pay app that can too. Since unfortunately the Tivo streaming/downloading is so broken, I'd think about doing it with Plex if I didn't have to reencode things. (Disclaimer: yes, I know the Tivo Stream hardware does hardware reencoding.. But as I said, I can manually download shows and play them in VLC with no reencoding.)
I realize this is indirect, and not directly related to switching to chip cards.. The new readers ALSO allow (if the business has the functionality turned on) NFC based payment (e.g. Apple Pay, etc.). With that, the business gets the lower fee version due to lower fraud possibility PLUS it's faster than the insert-chip-card-and-wait, or even the swipe method (due to not having to take out your card).
Any contract is designed to benefit each side (in their opinion) the most.
I don't care what their contracts are for the most part (within legal, moral, etc., concerns), as long as their products and prices are appealing to me.
But I showed you how 'connecting a wire' isn't as foolproof as you think it is.
Plus, using Bluetooth, after setting it up ONCE, is really easy. It auto-reconnects to my car the vast vast vast majority of the time (literally 2-3 times ever it hasn't reconnected).
For my cheap Bluetooth headphones, I usually go through the menus, just so I don't accidentally do the dial (which IIRC is 3 button pushes or something)... but that's a problem with those specific headphones IMHO..
You say perfectly good, I say horrible. I use a Bluetooth adapter (under $7 on Amazon, one of the best electronics devices I've ever bought) in my car.. It uses a wire with 3.5mm connections on both ends in between the main electronics chunk that plugs into the USB port in the car (so it has no batteries to charge).. The headphone jack connections get flaky, so I have to wiggle/twist them.
It's not unique to this device either, it's definitely happened to my iPod & iPhone connections over the years (and I'm almost positive Walkman-like devices before that).
BTW, I'm not saying you have to buy expensive headphones either. I have what are to me perfectly usable Bluetooth headphones that were $20. (I also had previously bought ones that _looked_ like the old iPhone earbuds with just a wire between them, and 2 of them broke within weeks.. they were crap)
What do you mean no extra machine? Do you mean you can use SnapRAID on something like a Synology 4 disk NAS? (Just one of the ones I was looking at today..)
I just looked at the FAQ for SnapRAID. Looks fairly complex. Especially since it is "just" media files, I theoretically wanted something I could basically set up once and then would survive one disk failure.. If I lost it all, I wouldn't be too bummed.
Also, wouldn't you need another machine up and doing the snap raid 'backup' or sync or whatever you all it? (A NAS is all in one, the other machines can be off/asleep.) and/or would a Raspberry PI or somesuch be adequate for that?
I can see your cynical side, but the current price is $100/year total.
I seem to spend at least that upgrading drives in my Tivos or buying external drives anyway.
So if the "unlimited" truly is unlimited, this could be a way at least as cheap as doing it myself, and potentially easier.. (There is a Plex app for Tivo, I think..)
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What "original supposed functionality"? Seriously.
Based on following this (I haven't played it), the hype/mistaken expectations seems to have all been fan driven, and (admittedly anecdotal), I've read people who said that the original E3 videos aren't more off from the end result than tons of other projects. (The most recent one I read was yesterday on the Giant Bomb Facebook group.)
(Ignoring for now if even that there would be problems even with that..)
Nope.
From https://www.donaldjtrump.com/p...
(and whois shows that The Trump Organization registered it).
https://www.washingtonpost.com... says the same thing
No "certain nations". Total and complete shutdown.. BASED ON RELIGION. That's by definition prejudiced.
BTW, I am probably far far far more right wing than you on many issues.. This and many other of his ideas/statements, are just evil.
I don't care who wins/won, yes, we should get rid of it. (i.e I thought this long before the recent election.)
We already have 2 Senators for each state, regardless of size, to deal with the "big states would rule everything" issue.
Yes, but you have to live in Missouri!
I'd rather wear shorts & T shirt all year round here in the Bay Area.
Plus, even though I admit I email people in offices next to me (instead of going to talk to them), not being local is _sometimes_ a problem.
...or the first one, depending on the way most people ([citation needed]-ing myself) count them.
Explain how it's a better choice.
You pay tax now and can invest the lump sum payment and live off the proceeds. It seems like it's a far better choice to take the lump sum.
Doesn't this violate the First Sale Doctrine?
I realize that talks about copyright, but it seems like you're essentially renting out what you bought, and with some limits (e.g. computer software), that's been ruled as legal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Yes there is, if the "siphoning" (scare word) is FAR FAR FAR less than the cost of the original fraud being prevented.
OK, starting in 2013, merchants could start charging, EXCEPT in 10 states..
from http://business.time.com/2013/...
So yes, there are laws. Just not federal laws like I had thought.
There ALSO were agreements between the credit card providers and merchants.
In the United States, there is exactly such a law. There is a loophole where you can give a "cash discount", but the main posted price has to be the same.. and the only place I've ever actually seen the cash discount used was at some gas stations (back when I was a Luddite and drove a gasoline powered car). Even then, there were other gas stations very close by that were in effect the same price after the cash back (plus you get the convenience of using credit card).
You have to subsidize fraud happening. If you prevent that fraud in the first place, there's nothing to subsidize.
Sure, as a raw index.html file.. But what about a decent search algorithm, a decent index of issues/stories, etc.? Who pays for that?
(BTW, I don't know if the site behind this particular "pay wall" does have those.. But they're some reasons why it might be even preferable from the end user's standpoint... I say that even though I ALSO think that since my tax money apparently paid for it, it should be freely available.)
Then start a company to provide it.. or pay for companies that provide at least some of what you want, and convince them to provide more of it.
Couldn't Netflix go against these VPN companies legally? (Especially in a country like Australia..)
Only if you can get it WITHOUT ADS... and things are available for a LONG time (full seasons available for YEARS).
(yes, technically there are still ads via onscreen bugs, and I have to skip the existing ads with 30 second skip or SkipMode, available on some shows.. but it's still far far far far far better than the forced ads on other services.)
The very little bit of research I've done seems to say you need the 'play' versions ('play' is in the name) to do Plex re-encoding. Others can work as media servers if no reencoding is needed. At least based on what I saw on Amazon in the past few days, the non-Play Synology 4 or 5 drive boxes are a bit under $300 at best price, the play ones are a couple hundred more.
Could I stream a non-reencoded HD show to an iPhone or iPad out of the house? At least VLC can play raw MPEG files (the old one, before Dolby Digital support was removed), and there's at least one pay app that can too. Since unfortunately the Tivo streaming/downloading is so broken, I'd think about doing it with Plex if I didn't have to reencode things. (Disclaimer: yes, I know the Tivo Stream hardware does hardware reencoding.. But as I said, I can manually download shows and play them in VLC with no reencoding.)
I realize this is indirect, and not directly related to switching to chip cards.. The new readers ALSO allow (if the business has the functionality turned on) NFC based payment (e.g. Apple Pay, etc.). With that, the business gets the lower fee version due to lower fraud possibility PLUS it's faster than the insert-chip-card-and-wait, or even the swipe method (due to not having to take out your card).
What's with your prejudice against a company that became big by providing what its customers want?
Any contract is designed to benefit each side (in their opinion) the most.
I don't care what their contracts are for the most part (within legal, moral, etc., concerns), as long as their products and prices are appealing to me.
But I showed you how 'connecting a wire' isn't as foolproof as you think it is.
Plus, using Bluetooth, after setting it up ONCE, is really easy. It auto-reconnects to my car the vast vast vast majority of the time (literally 2-3 times ever it hasn't reconnected).
For my cheap Bluetooth headphones, I usually go through the menus, just so I don't accidentally do the dial (which IIRC is 3 button pushes or something)... but that's a problem with those specific headphones IMHO..
You say perfectly good, I say horrible. I use a Bluetooth adapter (under $7 on Amazon, one of the best electronics devices I've ever bought) in my car.. It uses a wire with 3.5mm connections on both ends in between the main electronics chunk that plugs into the USB port in the car (so it has no batteries to charge).. The headphone jack connections get flaky, so I have to wiggle/twist them.
It's not unique to this device either, it's definitely happened to my iPod & iPhone connections over the years (and I'm almost positive Walkman-like devices before that).
BTW, I'm not saying you have to buy expensive headphones either. I have what are to me perfectly usable Bluetooth headphones that were $20. (I also had previously bought ones that _looked_ like the old iPhone earbuds with just a wire between them, and 2 of them broke within weeks.. they were crap)
What do you mean no extra machine? Do you mean you can use SnapRAID on something like a Synology 4 disk NAS? (Just one of the ones I was looking at today..)
I just looked at the FAQ for SnapRAID. Looks fairly complex. Especially since it is "just" media files, I theoretically wanted something I could basically set up once and then would survive one disk failure.. If I lost it all, I wouldn't be too bummed.
Also, wouldn't you need another machine up and doing the snap raid 'backup' or sync or whatever you all it? (A NAS is all in one, the other machines can be off/asleep.) and/or would a Raspberry PI or somesuch be adequate for that?
I can see your cynical side, but the current price is $100/year total.
I seem to spend at least that upgrading drives in my Tivos or buying external drives anyway.
So if the "unlimited" truly is unlimited, this could be a way at least as cheap as doing it myself, and potentially easier.. (There is a Plex app for Tivo, I think..)
Where do you get a NAS for $150? Is it one with 4 drives and RAID?
I was watching one under $200 for a while on Amazon, but never ended up buying it.. (I think it may have been a slightly older model too).
They seem WAY more expensive than that.
Then garnish their wages $5/month or whatever for life. /9 you're basically admitting I'm subsidizing other people wrongly going to the er.