We had bought our vehicle just before we drove from Saskathewan to New Brunswick. I was definitely happy we had the trial for that. If I was traveling all the time, I may consider it.
Yeah it's a preference thing. Personally I basically like a totally different playlist sometimes by the hour so I find the rigidity of the SiriusXM channels a little frustrating. I realize this is just me.
I find advertising unreasonable on anything I pay a premium price for. I can't honestly recall if I have heard advertising on music channels or not, just that a lot of the channels seem to have advertising.
I'm not a Pandora shill.. But Pandora is the only one that considers the quality of a song. If you're listening to southern rock you might get a one-off cover of a song by a country artist. Other services seem to break it down in terms of genres, which i find really brutal because I might want to hear one country song because of the way it is, not because I like country. My favorite playlist on Pandora right now is one it made from all my thumbs-ups ever.
I tried the Spotify interface recently, I really didn't like it; and it didn't help that I was looking for Barenaked Ladies (the band, you jokester) and they weren't in the library. It's hard to tell how big the SiriusXM library is, but in some genres like the 80's they play a lot of the 'hit songs' and less of the obscure stuff and there seems to be a lot of repeats. The trick on SiriusXM is definitely to find a channel you are into when you get bored of the old one. They were doing a special Beatles channel and it was very interesting because they would tell you about the background to each song beforehand.
You can listen to the comedy standup channels for around a week before you have heard most of it and then you have to leave for a month and come back.
Pandora has an app, a website, and also links through surprising things such as Kodi and Squeezebox. I don't remember seeing SiriusXM though squeezebox or seeing a Kodi plugin.
Still, he's right what it's not worth $15/month, especially since most of those channels have advertising. If I was a road warrior and was out of internet and radio range a lot, I would buy it. But not worth it otherwise in my opinion.
When I bought my last new vehicle, I got that deal twice and they never offered it again. On current new vehicle I got it once. I can't bring myself to pay $15/month for a radio that only works in my vehicle, especially since there is advertising on almost every channel.
I do like Pandora at $5 a month because it works on all kinds of devices. I have a friend that had been working on her playlist for months.... I entered her favorite band into Pandora and had it make a playlist, and it had anticipated so many songs that she liked and had in her playlist she kept looking at her phone to confirm it wasn't playing from hers. So, let's hope SiriusXM doesn't destroy Pandora.
I've never really understood the hate for Firefox. I use it on Macbook Pro, Windows Thinkpads, down to my puny Atom linux box and it always does what it is supposed to. I got fed up with Chrome early on because it seemed to be plain broken with a lot of websites, though that may have got better with time.
I wasn't making any comment against any other system. All I said was that capitalism was inherently bad for that reason. Why does an attack on capitalism have to mean an endorsement of socialism or communism? Those are just the list of systems that have been tried and have failed.
The basic tenets of capitalism are for the company to make the most money possible and for the consumer to pay the least as possible. There is no reward for working harder towards any ethical or moral goal. You cannot escape from this without changing the system.
Now you're just being ridiculous. The point is, if you pay less taxes other people have to pay more. That's all. Public property and private property are funded differently, if you need to have it spelled out for you.
So when they need $10K for a road, and you could have paid $10K in taxes but, no, you wrote off $5K of it. Who has to pay the other $5K? Other people? I thought so.
It's fine if you only go to work and back; but hardly anyone does that. People don't want to be scrambling for a place to charge just because they decide to go to a store on the other side of town after work.
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di.fm only has electronic music though. I subscribe there as well, but I love electronic music.
We had bought our vehicle just before we drove from Saskathewan to New Brunswick. I was definitely happy we had the trial for that. If I was traveling all the time, I may consider it.
Well you could always pay $400 per speaker and get Apple devices with "multi-room support" (snicker)
Yeah it's a preference thing. Personally I basically like a totally different playlist sometimes by the hour so I find the rigidity of the SiriusXM channels a little frustrating. I realize this is just me.
I find advertising unreasonable on anything I pay a premium price for. I can't honestly recall if I have heard advertising on music channels or not, just that a lot of the channels seem to have advertising.
I'm not a Pandora shill.. But Pandora is the only one that considers the quality of a song. If you're listening to southern rock you might get a one-off cover of a song by a country artist. Other services seem to break it down in terms of genres, which i find really brutal because I might want to hear one country song because of the way it is, not because I like country. My favorite playlist on Pandora right now is one it made from all my thumbs-ups ever.
I tried the Spotify interface recently, I really didn't like it; and it didn't help that I was looking for Barenaked Ladies (the band, you jokester) and they weren't in the library. It's hard to tell how big the SiriusXM library is, but in some genres like the 80's they play a lot of the 'hit songs' and less of the obscure stuff and there seems to be a lot of repeats. The trick on SiriusXM is definitely to find a channel you are into when you get bored of the old one. They were doing a special Beatles channel and it was very interesting because they would tell you about the background to each song beforehand.
You can listen to the comedy standup channels for around a week before you have heard most of it and then you have to leave for a month and come back.
Pandora has an app, a website, and also links through surprising things such as Kodi and Squeezebox. I don't remember seeing SiriusXM though squeezebox or seeing a Kodi plugin.
Still, he's right what it's not worth $15/month, especially since most of those channels have advertising. If I was a road warrior and was out of internet and radio range a lot, I would buy it. But not worth it otherwise in my opinion.
Pandora would be helped by new content. Their playlist generation is awesome, but agreed it could have more variety to work with.
Howard Stern revolutionized shock media, and that's about it. He is a hero of free speech like Donald Trump is.
When I bought my last new vehicle, I got that deal twice and they never offered it again. On current new vehicle I got it once. I can't bring myself to pay $15/month for a radio that only works in my vehicle, especially since there is advertising on almost every channel.
I do like Pandora at $5 a month because it works on all kinds of devices. I have a friend that had been working on her playlist for months.... I entered her favorite band into Pandora and had it make a playlist, and it had anticipated so many songs that she liked and had in her playlist she kept looking at her phone to confirm it wasn't playing from hers. So, let's hope SiriusXM doesn't destroy Pandora.
I've never really understood the hate for Firefox. I use it on Macbook Pro, Windows Thinkpads, down to my puny Atom linux box and it always does what it is supposed to. I got fed up with Chrome early on because it seemed to be plain broken with a lot of websites, though that may have got better with time.
Funny, I'm using Firefox and Slashdot takes less than 15 seconds to open for me. Closer to 1 second in fact.
I've never used the dev tools on Chrome, but Firefox integrated Firebug awhile ago and it seems to do almost everything.
This isn't really news. Chrome has sent more information to Google than other browsers for ever. Why people use it is beyond me.
IBM and HP make tractors???
I think it's time for teleporters, holodecks, and replicators. Is everyone with me??
I wasn't making any comment against any other system. All I said was that capitalism was inherently bad for that reason. Why does an attack on capitalism have to mean an endorsement of socialism or communism? Those are just the list of systems that have been tried and have failed.
The basic tenets of capitalism are for the company to make the most money possible and for the consumer to pay the least as possible. There is no reward for working harder towards any ethical or moral goal. You cannot escape from this without changing the system.
The difference with all those other cars you mentioned is the fact that parent companies are actually profiting off of them, of course.
Now you're just being ridiculous. The point is, if you pay less taxes other people have to pay more. That's all. Public property and private property are funded differently, if you need to have it spelled out for you.
So when they need $10K for a road, and you could have paid $10K in taxes but, no, you wrote off $5K of it. Who has to pay the other $5K? Other people? I thought so.
A rich person has to accept repercussions for his behavior? This isn't Trump's America!
It's fine if you only go to work and back; but hardly anyone does that. People don't want to be scrambling for a place to charge just because they decide to go to a store on the other side of town after work.