TiVo as well because it allows me to timeshift and 30 second skip through commercials.
and current Tivos (Roamio and above) have a feature where you skip the entire commercial break _for a significant number of shows_ (but definitely not all) just by hitting one key when the commercial break starts.
Bizarre that Grimm is included, since the first 4 seasons are commercial free on Amazon Prime Video. (..and presumably the 5th season will be added sometime around the beginning of the new TV season, which has happened for the previous seasons.)
In other words, it's weird that the different streaming services have such a different experience with the same show.
There are plenty of optical illusions for people, too.
Unless this was done on purpose/malevolently (and that could be prosecuted regardless), this seems to me far different from things like hacking into the car's computer itself.
I'm in the USA btw. I didn't have to write a letter, but IIRC had to give a bit more account details upon getting my mortgage since I had recently moved money _between my own accounts_ to make the down payment.
because "begs" and "demands" mean the same damn thing.
They do?
You can beg your boss to give you a raise, but you can't demand it. (You can give an ultimatum and quit if you don't get it, but that's still not demanding a raise, in that your demand is succeeding.)
That's funny, because this page: http://www.techinvestornews.co... sometimes has non-Apple Inc. related articles on it. Their scanner doesn't reject pages well enough. IIRC, they're usually companies in other industries with Apple in the name, not actual produce-related articles. In my very quick skim of the first page right now, I don't see any non-Apple Inc. related articles.
HUH? It was just as easy to do, if not easier, as recording on VCRs.. (BTW, I used 2 VCRs for a long time to be able to either record 2 things at once, or more likely, watch one tape/skip ads while recording something else.. The dual Go-Video ones never seemed worth it though.)
There were plenty of standalone DVD recorders, and even some combo hard drive/DVD recorders.. I have one of them, the Toshiba XS32. (I still route one of my Tivos through it, though dub to it much less nowadays.. still once in a while, usually for temporary use, since it can play back faster than realtime.)
Basically, they are/were "VCR-like" in that they had timers and such. Though at least this one (and I believe similar ones without a hard drive) had enable/disable-able timers, and you could manually give the timers titles so they would show up with titles rather than just date/channel... Also, you can edit recordings before dubbing to DVD. Unfortunately, the Tivo/DVD recorder had NO editing functionality, so I never got that. If I could've edited out commercials on it, then dubbed to DVD, it would have been far superior to timer-like recordings on others.
Even though I now transfer recordings to an external hard drive (through Tivo supported means), it's kind of a shame that recordable & re-recordable BluRays never got big enough to become relatively cheap, IMHO.
likely not to the extent of pied piper in the show though
Not "likely". Absolutely. In the show, they have a compression algorithm that compresses _ANY_ data some ridiculously high percentage.
Real world example: Put data through compression.. then put the resulting compressed data through compression again... and so on and so on.. To get impossibly good compression...
I *don't* own a collection of NES games, and even though I have way more PS2 & PS3 (and likely this Black Friday, a PS4) games than I have time to play.. have always thought of "eventually" getting a Wii or Wii U or something like that -- MOSTLY to play the old games.
This is a good way for them to get a bunch of money out of me when it comes out.. I'm definitely interested in at least 15 of the games (though I guess I have one of them on the PS2 Mega Man collection).
But isn't it also very limited by how many people try to do the "RF Energy Harvesting"? and line of sight? The guy 'behind' the other one who did the RF harvesting won't have as much energy to harvest..
I would pay a small fee for podcasts, in some cases, not even for ad free versions, just to have a _complete_ feed of podcasts available.
Most podcasts have only a short feed (amount of podcasts currently available), even if they've been going on for years. Some others have long or even complete feeds (e.g. the "Giant Bombcast" video game podcast). If I find out about a new podcast, I'd like to be able to start at the beginning. EVEN if some of the info deals with (then-) current events, I'd still like to be the one to choose whether to listen to the 'old' ones or not.
As much as I hate ads, I usually listen to live reads in podcasts, partially because they're often so short they're hard to skip (at 2x).. and partially because they often make jokes and such (e.g. Adam Carolla) during the read. More "standard" commercial breaks, I still skip past.
But just the ability to have full feeds of these various podcasts (but still listenable in my current app, or at least in an app that will still let me play at 2x and keep track of which ones I've listened to), would be something for which I'd pay a couple bucks a month at most.
I learn a lot _AND_ am entertained, sometimes by the same podcasts, sometimes by different podcasts. Just like TV shows, movies, books, etc., there's far more interesting podcasts than I can keep up with (even at 2x).
There are ALSO video podcasts (which this new service isn't really).. e.g. various CNET video podcasts that I subscribe to and watch (at 2x, just like I listen to podcasts at 2x).
Driving manual makes far more sense than letting software decide what gear to be in (usually the wrong one).
Which is wrong, since nowadays, automatics are at least as efficient, if not more efficient, than manual transmissions. They're also more reliable (a Car Talk newspaper article I read over the weekend said he'd be surprised to do a transmission rebuild after even 150K miles, but clutches would have to be replaced in a manual).
Hulu has the most currently run shows.. but even the higher end commercial free option only has 5 episodes for some shows, right? Not even the full _current_ season, much less previous seasons..
I would give up having a DVR and even pay slightly _more_ than cable _IF_ it were completely commercial free, AND had a big backlog -- but including current shows. Yes, I do/have watched _years_ old shows I had recorded, then caught up. (I'm almost caught up with MasterChef, after having not watched for I think 3 seasons, but I kept recording it.. It's a good "light" show I can watch at 1.75x on the treadmill and still have gotten everything.)
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and current Tivos (Roamio and above) have a feature where you skip the entire commercial break _for a significant number of shows_ (but definitely not all) just by hitting one key when the commercial break starts.
Bizarre that Grimm is included, since the first 4 seasons are commercial free on Amazon Prime Video. (..and presumably the 5th season will be added sometime around the beginning of the new TV season, which has happened for the previous seasons.)
In other words, it's weird that the different streaming services have such a different experience with the same show.
There are plenty of optical illusions for people, too.
Unless this was done on purpose/malevolently (and that could be prosecuted regardless), this seems to me far different from things like hacking into the car's computer itself.
I'm in the USA btw. I didn't have to write a letter, but IIRC had to give a bit more account details upon getting my mortgage since I had recently moved money _between my own accounts_ to make the down payment.
They do?
You can beg your boss to give you a raise, but you can't demand it. (You can give an ultimatum and quit if you don't get it, but that's still not demanding a raise, in that your demand is succeeding.)
That's funny, because this page:
http://www.techinvestornews.co...
sometimes has non-Apple Inc. related articles on it.
Their scanner doesn't reject pages well enough. IIRC, they're usually companies in other industries with Apple in the name, not actual produce-related articles. In my very quick skim of the first page right now, I don't see any non-Apple Inc. related articles.
HUH? It was just as easy to do, if not easier, as recording on VCRs.. (BTW, I used 2 VCRs for a long time to be able to either record 2 things at once, or more likely, watch one tape/skip ads while recording something else.. The dual Go-Video ones never seemed worth it though.)
There were plenty of standalone DVD recorders, and even some combo hard drive/DVD recorders.. I have one of them, the Toshiba XS32. (I still route one of my Tivos through it, though dub to it much less nowadays.. still once in a while, usually for temporary use, since it can play back faster than realtime.)
Basically, they are/were "VCR-like" in that they had timers and such. Though at least this one (and I believe similar ones without a hard drive) had enable/disable-able timers, and you could manually give the timers titles so they would show up with titles rather than just date/channel... Also, you can edit recordings before dubbing to DVD. Unfortunately, the Tivo/DVD recorder had NO editing functionality, so I never got that. If I could've edited out commercials on it, then dubbed to DVD, it would have been far superior to timer-like recordings on others.
Even though I now transfer recordings to an external hard drive (through Tivo supported means), it's kind of a shame that recordable & re-recordable BluRays never got big enough to become relatively cheap, IMHO.
AKA de facto standard.
Proprietary and standard are orthogonal.
I don't have an Xbox, but I thought the HDMI input was clever -- allows passthrough rather than switching inputs on the TV/receiver.
They have been trying, sure, but aren't they not in the same league at all regarding CPU power/watt?
Not "likely". Absolutely. In the show, they have a compression algorithm that compresses _ANY_ data some ridiculously high percentage.
Real world example: Put data through compression.. then put the resulting compressed data through compression again... and so on and so on.. To get impossibly good compression...
I *don't* own a collection of NES games, and even though I have way more PS2 & PS3 (and likely this Black Friday, a PS4) games than I have time to play.. have always thought of "eventually" getting a Wii or Wii U or something like that -- MOSTLY to play the old games.
This is a good way for them to get a bunch of money out of me when it comes out.. I'm definitely interested in at least 15 of the games (though I guess I have one of them on the PS2 Mega Man collection).
But isn't it also very limited by how many people try to do the "RF Energy Harvesting"? and line of sight? The guy 'behind' the other one who did the RF harvesting won't have as much energy to harvest..
Do the gyms & pokemon locations change from day to day (or sporadically)?
In other words, does one end up collecting all of them from a certain area, and HAVE to go to new physical locations?
I'm just wondering if for example someone walks the same route to work every day, if they could keep getting something new out of the game.
Ironically, you did the same thing here. Apparently you meant to say "doesn't" make them right.
Yes, I can infer from the paragraph what you (probably) meant.. But clear & proper language would make your point blatantly obvious.
I accept that language changes, and there are probably some of the changes that I once grit my teeth when hearing/reading that I finally accept.
Saying basically(*) the opposite of what you actually mean isn't one of those cases (for me at least), however.
(*) Not completely the opposite, since that would be "I care the most it is possible to care."
I would pay a small fee for podcasts, in some cases, not even for ad free versions, just to have a _complete_ feed of podcasts available.
Most podcasts have only a short feed (amount of podcasts currently available), even if they've been going on for years. Some others have long or even complete feeds (e.g. the "Giant Bombcast" video game podcast). If I find out about a new podcast, I'd like to be able to start at the beginning. EVEN if some of the info deals with (then-) current events, I'd still like to be the one to choose whether to listen to the 'old' ones or not.
As much as I hate ads, I usually listen to live reads in podcasts, partially because they're often so short they're hard to skip (at 2x).. and partially because they often make jokes and such (e.g. Adam Carolla) during the read. More "standard" commercial breaks, I still skip past.
But just the ability to have full feeds of these various podcasts (but still listenable in my current app, or at least in an app that will still let me play at 2x and keep track of which ones I've listened to), would be something for which I'd pay a couple bucks a month at most.
That's completely bogus.
I learn a lot _AND_ am entertained, sometimes by the same podcasts, sometimes by different podcasts. Just like TV shows, movies, books, etc., there's far more interesting podcasts than I can keep up with (even at 2x).
There are ALSO video podcasts (which this new service isn't really).. e.g. various CNET video podcasts that I subscribe to and watch (at 2x, just like I listen to podcasts at 2x).
So you DO care about them, then.
Which is wrong, since nowadays, automatics are at least as efficient, if not more efficient, than manual transmissions. They're also more reliable (a Car Talk newspaper article I read over the weekend said he'd be surprised to do a transmission rebuild after even 150K miles, but clutches would have to be replaced in a manual).
Well, there's your problem.
Perhaps a cage instead... a Faraday cage.. and put the robot inside.
"Most anything out there"?
Hulu has the most currently run shows.. but even the higher end commercial free option only has 5 episodes for some shows, right? Not even the full _current_ season, much less previous seasons..
I would give up having a DVR and even pay slightly _more_ than cable _IF_ it were completely commercial free, AND had a big backlog -- but including current shows. Yes, I do/have watched _years_ old shows I had recorded, then caught up. (I'm almost caught up with MasterChef, after having not watched for I think 3 seasons, but I kept recording it.. It's a good "light" show I can watch at 1.75x on the treadmill and still have gotten everything.)
You can use pyTivo to watch your external library on a Tivo.
Autocorrect "learns", at least on some platforms. Fix the mis-correction once or twice, and it won't keep doing that particular "correction" anymore.
So you're too lazy, and don't care about your communications skills, to "go back and correct.."?