We cut cable years ago. At a hotel this weekend my 3-year-old complained every time a commercial came on, because she thought I'd changed the show on her. It was hard trying to explain why hotel TV was so obnoxious.
On the other hand, even without commercials the kids never seem to run out of things to ask for, so I'm not sure it's that much of a benefit. Just not having to see/listen to the commercials is still the biggest perk, for me.
I like sports, but I don't need them. I mostly don't like TV, but do miss it a little, sometimes. Netflix, for $9/month does maybe 80% of what I want. Compared to the $50 I'd be paying for TV, it's an acceptable tradeoff, but not quite a full replacement. The Netflix exclusives like Daredevil and Longmire help make up a little bit of that difference.
You'll be in for a surprise when you find out it's not zombies, the lasers let the demons in. Totally different set of properties and weaknesses. That's the tagline for my new screenplay, by the way: "The Lasers Let the Demons In." It'll sell like hotcakes, I'm sure.
Yes, it's only you. Trappist is an actual word already, referring to a type of monk. Those monks brew beer. Obviously you don't drink enough Belgian beer, or you wouldn't have any trouble with the word. I recommend you work on that.
Speaking of beer, the mis-reading I had (and no, I'm not just joking, I really did misread this way) with the headline was that they discovered "three hobbitable pints". Presumably pint mugs full of beer, suitable for hobbits, like Frodo, Merry, and Pippin.
One of my favorite movies when younger. Always angried up the blood, in a good way.
Whatever happened to that conclusion? They wrapped up the movie making it sound like everyone and their cat could have a private radio station. Was that fake? Or have times changed on me?
All you really teach is that you knew better; you had all the information to see that there was nothing to the claim; people only remember it because songs were written making fun of it and calling out Tipper Gore by name.
I remember Tipper Gore because if you put Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and the authors of the Illuminatus! books in a room together they couldn't come up with a name more odd-catchy-seemingly-meaningful-but-probably-pulled-from-a-dictionary than Tipper Gore.
As a counter-anecdote, I really enjoyed Ulysses (and actually even read Finnegans Wake -- not that I claim to have understood it) but never got through Frankenstein. It's been too long to say for sure, but I've been pinning it on a distaste for novels written in "someone's old journal" format.
You forgot that you can go with Genius, which will churn for an hour and then auto-sync the list heavily weighted with all the things you don't want and very little that you do. I gave Genius a whirl once, several years ago, right before my old, half-broken old iPhone that's no good for anything except being a media player stopped syncing for whatever reason. Now it's two-thirds full of stuff I don't want to listen to, and no way to change it other than buying a new device. I'm too cheap to do that, and just skip a lot of songs instead.
How many times did you copy and paste this same comment? Regardless, I haven't experienced the same thing. I had an issue maybe 5 years ago where I couldn't run Photoshop and iTunes at the same time without the music blipping every time I performed a large operation, but otherwise I don't notice major performance issues on the PC.
The interface and features, now, that leaves something to be desired, but it's been a decade since I can remember it being a significant resource hog.
Worse, if you try to actually think about it, and don't always stick to a single party's platform, you're penalized by the system for being independent. At least in my state I can't vote in the primary unless I register with one of the two big parties.
Other than preferring a cell phone to a landline phone, I mostly agree. I don't like intermediate devices. Never could get into tablets, for instance, and when I want to use a computer I generally want to set down with a large screen and a keyboard and use a proper computer.
That said, there are a couple of things that a smart phone does that I wouldn't use for a computer, like an interactive map as I travel. I also occasionally find it useful for on-the-fly information gathering, such as if I'm already out and want to know if a store or restaurant is open, or see what a movie time is, or if I'm directed someplace new and need to look up an address. Much easier to just look it up than either try to get the information from someone else, or take a detour back home before heading out again.
One of the oddest uses has been while standing in a hardware store, unable to find what I want, sometimes it's more efficient to use the phone to look up the aisle/bay location than it is to track down an employee to show me the way.
The purpose? A very technical but uncreative planet was bored. They invented our universe, where we creative people would invent books and movies, which the people in the original universe export and enjoy for themselves.
I'm not big on game obsolescence, either. I've got a PS2 in the closet, with a pile of games that I might like to replay sometime, but it's not worth hooking up. I've got the PS3 attached to the TV, with another pile of games I still occasionally play, but I'd have to put in the closet if I bought a PS4, and then I'd have to buy new games that, given time, would also be destined for the closet.
Lately it seems like the longevity of games on the PC is considerably better. Especially with places like GOG that are resurrecting and even improving old titles that might have been dicey to get running five years ago but work perfectly when repackaged.
It does help that I'm not attached to many console-specific titles, and I'm not a graphics snob, and I do appreciate the inexpensive. There are many times more games than I've got time for, so I'm more likely to go digging for old gems on the computer than expensive new games on expensive new consoles.
I've done this a little. I've also enjoyed seeing the music videos to old favorites where, either it's been so long I'd completely forgotten them, or maybe the particular song never got much airplay, and I'd never seen it at all. It adds something new to an old favorite.
A friend of mine spent a semester in Japan and came back with a "Best Techno of '93" compilation from some club (Juliana's Tokyo) he'd been to. Double album, so maybe 50 songs total. I had a copy on tape and listened to it daily, and then lost it during the move after college in '97. I would have gladly bought a copy, but it wasn't for sale. Since it was a compilation I could occasionally find one or two items if the artist had their own album, but many songs weren't available at all. Eventually I turned to Napster, and finally tracked down the missing 30 or so of the 50 songs, ending up maybe one short of the complete album.
About the time Napster got sued and went under I was organizing some files and accidentally over-wrote my entire music folder, losing everything. I tried again with some other tools, but never had as much luck with the obscure ones. I'm probably still missing 20 of them today.
The judge hence inherently presumes, and rightfully so, that someone who is informed of a religion as part of the plot in a novel will most likely not have a genuine belief in it.
I know someone who says in his childhood his religion was based entirely on the precepts given in Ultima IV. Admittedly that's interactive fiction rather than a novel, and the game likes to pretend you, the player, are the Avatar, but it's not far removed. Probably a very rare exception.
"But what if the other religions are also satire?"
There's a Gael Baudino novel where the source document for a religion was a typography manual for stonecutters, used initially as something of a hoax, that gradually became modified and expanded into a full religion. I don't know what the odds are that it's happened in real life, though.
The same principle makes it generally difficult for writers to copy-edit their own work. Their brains know what's supposed to be there, and their eyes don't notice that it's not.
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We cut cable years ago. At a hotel this weekend my 3-year-old complained every time a commercial came on, because she thought I'd changed the show on her. It was hard trying to explain why hotel TV was so obnoxious.
On the other hand, even without commercials the kids never seem to run out of things to ask for, so I'm not sure it's that much of a benefit. Just not having to see/listen to the commercials is still the biggest perk, for me.
I like sports, but I don't need them. I mostly don't like TV, but do miss it a little, sometimes. Netflix, for $9/month does maybe 80% of what I want. Compared to the $50 I'd be paying for TV, it's an acceptable tradeoff, but not quite a full replacement. The Netflix exclusives like Daredevil and Longmire help make up a little bit of that difference.
You'll be in for a surprise when you find out it's not zombies, the lasers let the demons in. Totally different set of properties and weaknesses. That's the tagline for my new screenplay, by the way: "The Lasers Let the Demons In." It'll sell like hotcakes, I'm sure.
Yeah. I assumed this was a browser upgrade issue on my end. Glad to know it's the site instead.
"Songs of Distant Earth" by Arthur C Clarke.
Yes, it's only you. Trappist is an actual word already, referring to a type of monk. Those monks brew beer. Obviously you don't drink enough Belgian beer, or you wouldn't have any trouble with the word. I recommend you work on that.
Speaking of beer, the mis-reading I had (and no, I'm not just joking, I really did misread this way) with the headline was that they discovered "three hobbitable pints". Presumably pint mugs full of beer, suitable for hobbits, like Frodo, Merry, and Pippin.
One of my favorite movies when younger. Always angried up the blood, in a good way.
Whatever happened to that conclusion? They wrapped up the movie making it sound like everyone and their cat could have a private radio station. Was that fake? Or have times changed on me?
All you really teach is that you knew better; you had all the information to see that there was nothing to the claim; people only remember it because songs were written making fun of it and calling out Tipper Gore by name.
I remember Tipper Gore because if you put Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and the authors of the Illuminatus! books in a room together they couldn't come up with a name more odd-catchy-seemingly-meaningful-but-probably-pulled-from-a-dictionary than Tipper Gore.
As a counter-anecdote, I really enjoyed Ulysses (and actually even read Finnegans Wake -- not that I claim to have understood it) but never got through Frankenstein. It's been too long to say for sure, but I've been pinning it on a distaste for novels written in "someone's old journal" format.
It's butter pecan.
No, I can't explain it, it just is.
You forgot that you can go with Genius, which will churn for an hour and then auto-sync the list heavily weighted with all the things you don't want and very little that you do. I gave Genius a whirl once, several years ago, right before my old, half-broken old iPhone that's no good for anything except being a media player stopped syncing for whatever reason. Now it's two-thirds full of stuff I don't want to listen to, and no way to change it other than buying a new device. I'm too cheap to do that, and just skip a lot of songs instead.
How many times did you copy and paste this same comment? Regardless, I haven't experienced the same thing. I had an issue maybe 5 years ago where I couldn't run Photoshop and iTunes at the same time without the music blipping every time I performed a large operation, but otherwise I don't notice major performance issues on the PC.
The interface and features, now, that leaves something to be desired, but it's been a decade since I can remember it being a significant resource hog.
The only unit I respect is kiloton per fortnight.
Worse, if you try to actually think about it, and don't always stick to a single party's platform, you're penalized by the system for being independent. At least in my state I can't vote in the primary unless I register with one of the two big parties.
Other than preferring a cell phone to a landline phone, I mostly agree. I don't like intermediate devices. Never could get into tablets, for instance, and when I want to use a computer I generally want to set down with a large screen and a keyboard and use a proper computer.
That said, there are a couple of things that a smart phone does that I wouldn't use for a computer, like an interactive map as I travel. I also occasionally find it useful for on-the-fly information gathering, such as if I'm already out and want to know if a store or restaurant is open, or see what a movie time is, or if I'm directed someplace new and need to look up an address. Much easier to just look it up than either try to get the information from someone else, or take a detour back home before heading out again.
One of the oddest uses has been while standing in a hardware store, unable to find what I want, sometimes it's more efficient to use the phone to look up the aisle/bay location than it is to track down an employee to show me the way.
Once VR gets a little more immersive, we will.
The purpose? A very technical but uncreative planet was bored. They invented our universe, where we creative people would invent books and movies, which the people in the original universe export and enjoy for themselves.
I'm not big on game obsolescence, either. I've got a PS2 in the closet, with a pile of games that I might like to replay sometime, but it's not worth hooking up. I've got the PS3 attached to the TV, with another pile of games I still occasionally play, but I'd have to put in the closet if I bought a PS4, and then I'd have to buy new games that, given time, would also be destined for the closet.
Lately it seems like the longevity of games on the PC is considerably better. Especially with places like GOG that are resurrecting and even improving old titles that might have been dicey to get running five years ago but work perfectly when repackaged.
It does help that I'm not attached to many console-specific titles, and I'm not a graphics snob, and I do appreciate the inexpensive. There are many times more games than I've got time for, so I'm more likely to go digging for old gems on the computer than expensive new games on expensive new consoles.
Or mood. Or sobriety.
I've done this a little. I've also enjoyed seeing the music videos to old favorites where, either it's been so long I'd completely forgotten them, or maybe the particular song never got much airplay, and I'd never seen it at all. It adds something new to an old favorite.
A friend of mine spent a semester in Japan and came back with a "Best Techno of '93" compilation from some club (Juliana's Tokyo) he'd been to. Double album, so maybe 50 songs total. I had a copy on tape and listened to it daily, and then lost it during the move after college in '97. I would have gladly bought a copy, but it wasn't for sale. Since it was a compilation I could occasionally find one or two items if the artist had their own album, but many songs weren't available at all. Eventually I turned to Napster, and finally tracked down the missing 30 or so of the 50 songs, ending up maybe one short of the complete album.
About the time Napster got sued and went under I was organizing some files and accidentally over-wrote my entire music folder, losing everything. I tried again with some other tools, but never had as much luck with the obscure ones. I'm probably still missing 20 of them today.
The thing that really bugs me about FSM is that it somehow manages to make puns distasteful.
The judge hence inherently presumes, and rightfully so, that someone who is informed of a religion as part of the plot in a novel will most likely not have a genuine belief in it.
I know someone who says in his childhood his religion was based entirely on the precepts given in Ultima IV. Admittedly that's interactive fiction rather than a novel, and the game likes to pretend you, the player, are the Avatar, but it's not far removed. Probably a very rare exception.
"But what if the other religions are also satire?"
There's a Gael Baudino novel where the source document for a religion was a typography manual for stonecutters, used initially as something of a hoax, that gradually became modified and expanded into a full religion. I don't know what the odds are that it's happened in real life, though.
The same principle makes it generally difficult for writers to copy-edit their own work. Their brains know what's supposed to be there, and their eyes don't notice that it's not.