We didn't give Equifax our info. We gave our info to banks, lenders, stores. They in turn gave our info to Equifax.
It may seem like a minor point, but there it is -- We the People usually don't give the credit bureaus our info directly.... unless it's in the guise of "free credit reports!!!OMG!ZOMG!" in which case then we did.
ClearChannel owns and operates billboards and doesn't have the radio business anymore. You should really update your slashbot talking points.
So now they're called iheartmedia. a rose, by any other name. You should really become more resilient to Silly Name Changes to Obscure Piss Poor Performance.
FM a threat to streaming? Hardly. In USA, FM is a wasteland of Clearchannel-controled homogenous superficial pop garbage, interspersed with talk radio.
NPR is a lone shining beacon, and is usually my power-out news outlet... until the hurricane either kills their power or topples the transmitter's antenna.
As for built-in antenna, I bet the older iPhones (and others) were using the headphone cable as antenna, just like old Walkman-type radios.
But now? Due to Courage there's no more headphone cable.
Huh. I wonder if the dongle adaptor + headphone would work.
Simpering pussies, just curl up and die and leave the rest of us in peace already, will you?
Instead of wishing us such outstanding good wishes, you could perhaps encourage us to suck it up, learn from the past 40-ish years, mobilize, identify some decent people on both sides of political divide and try to start putting it back together?
Ever been unemployed? Underemployed? It ain't easy.
It's all about the jobs unless one is filthy rich and able to spend time and money doing worthwhile things that may or may not pay the rent and food.
So yes, hurrah for all the science! things Cassini did, but also be cognizant of all the roofs it put over people's heads and how many mouths it fed, directly and indirectly.
We need another impossible dream like apollo. Maybe direct similar energies and funds to cancer research.
You'll keep the internet and they will use cable style methods to extract the lost revenue.
Had I a choice, I'd exercise it. As it is, AT&T already lost my business 2 years ago - their DSL simply can't go faster than barely 1.25 mbps down at my location. uVerse wasn't an option due to my distance from the CO. So, my options are.. Comcast, Comcast and more Comcast. And maybe carrier pigeon.
I'm about to do the same to Comcast.. I'll just keep their internet.
Honestly, the only things I watch on "TV" (and these are DVR'd, due to this and that are.. The Amazing World of Gumball, Mighty Magiswords, Formula One racing, the odd thing on Science, and CNN's The "insert decade here"...
I'm *this* close to doing it.. to cutting the cord. Why haven't I done so yet? Dunno.. inertia? Nostalgia? Certainly nothing *rational* that I can think of..
Sorry, network / cable guys.. TV lost. It has become irrelevant.
For those of us who live in hot / temperate places where air conditioning is a way of life, going to LED lights and LED-backlit TVs have a knock-on effect -- much less energy is wasted as heat - heat that then has to be dealt with by the air conditioning systems.
Surely the power companies knew this was coming, right?
On a related tangent, I'm old enough to remember the first wave of solar euphoria euphoria in the 70's. That wave really didn't go anywhere fast. Solar panels aren't efficient enough to power tungsten and CRT, and fluorescent lighting isn't that much more efficient.. but with LED? Yeah, solar now really does have a chance.. but not because solar.. but because LED... oh and modern batteries / capacitors to hold stored energy.
...reading maps while driving / biking is asinine. Before satnav I used to plot a route to a new destination using a map,. and distill that to a single 3x5" (approx) piece of paper (a crib) I'd tape to the steering wheel hub or handle bars. Worked fine, but wouldn't adapt to real-time changes.
If you ask me, GPS satnav is the best thing to come out of the Cold War. It's still fallible... but it sure beats spending 15 minutes at a stop-n'-rob parking lot with a map unfolded over the car's hood plotting your next move.. can of Coke in one hand and lit marlboro in the other.. yeah.. I just god a good memory of a trip across the SE USA in a 1984 Rx-7, reading paper maps in parking lots =o)
But... I agree.. map-reading is a skill that must be preserved and taught. AB-so-lute-ly. I am a firm believer in first learning the tried-and-true paper-and-pencil methods. Even in meteorology school in the early 90's I understood it -- learn to do it the old way, and when the new way fails, you'll still be able to perform. And... y'know? Many times doing it the pencil and paper way showed me things that computers just glossed over.. things that made a huge difference.
True story... back in the Stone Age, BI (Before Internet) I was at my first weather school in the USAF, at Chanute AFB IL, on a smoke break (remember those?), it was an instructor and a few us students.. we were on a side of the building that faced a sub-station.
There was a small explosion, we felt a very slight disturbance, a teeny tiny shockwave I guess. People started pouring out of the school -- the power had gone out at the school and surrounding buildings. After assessment, we were told "Go home, it'll be hours before it's fixed." A squirrel had gone and shorted out a transformer.. a big transformer, not those little ones you see up on poles. We later heard there was spalling around the transformer. Yea buddy, a squirrel and some metal made for shrapnel!
Second one, in North Miami - our building had only one way in for power, a 3-phase feed off a pole (!), then buried underground (!!) and into the power. Power goes out, but it was only one phase. The boss and I go to where the noise came from.. and there was a dead squirrel on the floor, with charred fur and a blown-out left hindleg. I still have the picture. It took FPL 3 hours to come and replace one fuse on the pole. Our 90 KVA UPS took the phones and network gear through those 3 hours with plenty to spare. No, we had no generator. Just a mondo UPS.
Word of God: Biff Tannen in Back to the Future II was modeled on 1980's Donald Trump.
I can't wait for the White House to be decorated in gold and tigerstripe / leopard print, with vulgar paintings of what seems to be B-movie characters. Oh wait, the Obama's style wasn't too far off, all that red and gold French Provincial Whorehouse Rococo like some african dictator.
So.. is this 2017-A now? Oh well whatever.. bring it.. 2016 was an absolute disaster for me, I think from here things can only go up.. i hope...
I almost bought into this. Sounded like just the tool to record form and technique for later analysis without the need to have someone film you -- and from a higher POV.
My instinct said "Wail until shipment." Glad I listened.
Okay, I accept this premise. Most programs have failed. They are not sufficient to be the sole focus of my attention for an hour or two. But you know, sometimes they're good enough to have on in the background while I'm doing something else that's *also* not sufficient to be the sole focus of my attention.
Disclamer: I have a 3-d capable projector and 3-d glasses. I didn't buy it because of 3-d, I bought it for 2-D. I did buy a few 3-d discs, all of them Pixar or Disney animations and the synthesized Titanic 3-d.
Result: I don't use 3D at all. I had a month-long fling with it and then tossed the glasses in a drawer, where they remain. I'm 100% 2-D and enjoy a bright, contrasty, downright spectacular image that does a fairly good job of showing whatever depth the content creator put in the image.
Because we're a multitasking generation. The need to wear special equipment to watch TV, then to take it off to check messages on a phone, then put in on again, then take it off to go to a quick piss break during commercials then back on again to go back to the show...
If I'm checking messages / emails / whatnots while watching a movie or tv program, the movie or program has failed.
That said, for me, 3-D failed because gimmick, because glassess because it doesn't really add anything more to live-action material.
The good thing: Learning stereoscopic production has led to much more realistic foreground-background interaction in animated material. This is especially noticable when comparing pre-3D Pixar works with post 3D works. Brave, in particular, shows this very well.
"Many consumers" does not equal "Apple customers". That, right there, is the fundamental problem. Apple customers want thinness at all costs. And so many companies, like Samsung, are sooo jealous and envious of Apple's cultist customer base that they somehow think that they can replicate this level of success by copying Apple's impractical and user-hostile design decisions.
So this is why Apple decided to build the SE, which is a short, fat 5S that needs no case to be usable. Maybe Apple knows what their customers want better than you and Samsung. Just a thought.
I offer an anecdote: I have a 5S, bought the year it came out. It's a 3 year old phone now. I find the 6 and beyond to be obscenely, grotesquely big and thin. While a recent visit to the Fruit Cart (apple store) so a friend could get his 6s+'s face sensor looked at I chatted up an employee. I told him how much I liked that Apple had decided to build a short, thick fat phone, and if he had any way to float that thought back to the mothership, it'd be nice. His reply? "Oh, they know. A bunch of us went to the SE the day it arrived."
So.. when's Samsung short, fat thick phone coming out? I mean, if they indeed are sooooooooo jealous of Apple, they MUST have their own little phone, no?
Luke playing with a starfighter, in one of his first scenes, is cringe-worthy.
Oh c'mon, you've never done it? FWIW, that wasn't a "starfighter,' that was a scale model of the speeder parked *right behind Luke.* That is his T-16, the one he bullseyes womp rats with. Seriously, you can see the ass end of his real T-16 right behind him.
One is never too old to play with toys. Never. I have a fair collection of 1:400 diecast aircraft, and when I clean house I *always* "land" the Pan Am 707-321 on its display place.
The day one becomes "too old" for such frippery, one is ready for the pine box. The kind with rope handles and no wheels.
Oh. SFTU and spare me. Where is the "This isn't news!!!!ZOMG!!!" brigade when legit, nerd-worthy material is posted? I'll tell you where: NOWHERE to be found!
Real nerdy news in this joint tend to get a couple dozen posts at most.
As it happens, I arrived to Star Wars a bit late, about half a reel late. As I walked up the ramp in Plaza 1 theater in Plaza Las Americas, PR, the screen came into view, just as R2 and 3P0 were climbing up a dune in Tatooine. Now that I think on it, it was curious timing.
Having missed half the first reel, I stayed for the next show, and saw the whole thing. The movie changed something in me. Changed my mind. I won't say it saved or changed my life, but it awoke something in me, something that I guess eventually led to my attraction to technology of all sorts.
I didn't know shit from shinola back then, and I still don't now, but the character of Leia stuck with me to this day. The Plaza twins 1 & 2 are gone, Leia is gone, but the sweet memories of that moviehouse and that film, I'll take to the grave. "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope" -- that phrase, that voice, that hologram still resound in my mind, in a place close to my heart.
How odd, since I unplugged from pop culture sometime like 25 years ago, I didn't know of her struggle with bipolar disorder. I must read her books on this... because it is a cross I bear, and have bore, since before I saw the film. Yes, I found treatment, no, i'm not "cured," yes, it's a cast-iron bitch to live with. So maybe her passing will introduce yet more people to how she dealt with it, and that is a good thing.
When I heard the news, my mind immediately played that bit of the soundtrack, her leitmotif, with that reedy little oboe. Yes, it struck tears.
RIP Carrie Fisher, long live Princess Leia Organa Solo.
Lithium-ion and lithium-polymer batteries have significantly reduced capacity after 300-400 charge-discharge cycles.
That's full charge-discharge cycles.
With lithium ion it is best to charge early and often -- a total reversal of how NiCd worked. (I grew up with NiCd and had to re-train my brain to maximize lithium ion.)
By charging early and often you make shallower cycles that don't kill the battery. This is how my camera battery is 8 years old and still gets me 300 shots, this is how my iPhone 5S is 3 years old and still gets to the end of the day around 60-80%, 35-50 if I use it heavy.
So people, don't drain your phones to death. Charge early and often!
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Um, no.
We didn't give Equifax our info. We gave our info to banks, lenders, stores. They in turn gave our info to Equifax.
It may seem like a minor point, but there it is -- We the People usually don't give the credit bureaus our info directly.... unless it's in the guise of "free credit reports!!!OMG!ZOMG!" in which case then we did.
ClearChannel owns and operates billboards and doesn't have the radio business anymore. You should really update your slashbot talking points.
So now they're called iheartmedia. a rose, by any other name. You should really become more resilient to Silly Name Changes to Obscure Piss Poor Performance.
FM a threat to streaming? Hardly. In USA, FM is a wasteland of Clearchannel-controled homogenous superficial pop garbage, interspersed with talk radio.
NPR is a lone shining beacon, and is usually my power-out news outlet... until the hurricane either kills their power or topples the transmitter's antenna.
As for built-in antenna, I bet the older iPhones (and others) were using the headphone cable as antenna, just like old Walkman-type radios.
But now? Due to Courage there's no more headphone cable.
Huh. I wonder if the dongle adaptor + headphone would work.
Simpering pussies, just curl up and die and leave the rest of us in peace already, will you?
Instead of wishing us such outstanding good wishes, you could perhaps encourage us to suck it up, learn from the past 40-ish years, mobilize, identify some decent people on both sides of political divide and try to start putting it back together?
Ever been unemployed? Underemployed? It ain't easy.
It's all about the jobs unless one is filthy rich and able to spend time and money doing worthwhile things that may or may not pay the rent and food.
So yes, hurrah for all the science! things Cassini did, but also be cognizant of all the roofs it put over people's heads and how many mouths it fed, directly and indirectly.
We need another impossible dream like apollo. Maybe direct similar energies and funds to cancer research.
You'll keep the internet and they will use cable style methods to extract the lost revenue.
Had I a choice, I'd exercise it. As it is, AT&T already lost my business 2 years ago - their DSL simply can't go faster than barely 1.25 mbps down at my location. uVerse wasn't an option due to my distance from the CO. So, my options are .. Comcast, Comcast and more Comcast. And maybe carrier pigeon.
I'm about to do the same to Comcast.. I'll just keep their internet.
Honestly, the only things I watch on "TV" (and these are DVR'd, due to this and that are.. The Amazing World of Gumball, Mighty Magiswords, Formula One racing, the odd thing on Science, and CNN's The "insert decade here"...
I'm *this* close to doing it.. to cutting the cord. Why haven't I done so yet? Dunno.. inertia? Nostalgia? Certainly nothing *rational* that I can think of..
Sorry, network / cable guys.. TV lost. It has become irrelevant.
Capt Kirk, Capt. James T. Kirk, you're wanted at Turbolift 1.
The original had a red arrow piercing the "H."
Red = Republican, no?
For those of us who live in hot / temperate places where air conditioning is a way of life, going to LED lights and LED-backlit TVs have a knock-on effect -- much less energy is wasted as heat - heat that then has to be dealt with by the air conditioning systems.
Surely the power companies knew this was coming, right?
On a related tangent, I'm old enough to remember the first wave of solar euphoria euphoria in the 70's. That wave really didn't go anywhere fast. Solar panels aren't efficient enough to power tungsten and CRT, and fluorescent lighting isn't that much more efficient.. but with LED? Yeah, solar now really does have a chance.. but not because solar.. but because LED... oh and modern batteries / capacitors to hold stored energy.
...reading maps while driving / biking is asinine. Before satnav I used to plot a route to a new destination using a map,. and distill that to a single 3x5" (approx) piece of paper (a crib) I'd tape to the steering wheel hub or handle bars. Worked fine, but wouldn't adapt to real-time changes.
If you ask me, GPS satnav is the best thing to come out of the Cold War. It's still fallible... but it sure beats spending 15 minutes at a stop-n'-rob parking lot with a map unfolded over the car's hood plotting your next move.. can of Coke in one hand and lit marlboro in the other.. yeah.. I just god a good memory of a trip across the SE USA in a 1984 Rx-7, reading paper maps in parking lots =o)
But... I agree.. map-reading is a skill that must be preserved and taught. AB-so-lute-ly. I am a firm believer in first learning the tried-and-true paper-and-pencil methods. Even in meteorology school in the early 90's I understood it -- learn to do it the old way, and when the new way fails, you'll still be able to perform. And ... y'know? Many times doing it the pencil and paper way showed me things that computers just glossed over.. things that made a huge difference.
True story... back in the Stone Age, BI (Before Internet) I was at my first weather school in the USAF, at Chanute AFB IL, on a smoke break (remember those?), it was an instructor and a few us students.. we were on a side of the building that faced a sub-station.
There was a small explosion, we felt a very slight disturbance, a teeny tiny shockwave I guess. People started pouring out of the school -- the power had gone out at the school and surrounding buildings. After assessment, we were told "Go home, it'll be hours before it's fixed." A squirrel had gone and shorted out a transformer.. a big transformer, not those little ones you see up on poles. We later heard there was spalling around the transformer. Yea buddy, a squirrel and some metal made for shrapnel!
Second one, in North Miami - our building had only one way in for power, a 3-phase feed off a pole (!), then buried underground (!!) and into the power. Power goes out, but it was only one phase. The boss and I go to where the noise came from.. and there was a dead squirrel on the floor, with charred fur and a blown-out left hindleg. I still have the picture. It took FPL 3 hours to come and replace one fuse on the pole. Our 90 KVA UPS took the phones and network gear through those 3 hours with plenty to spare. No, we had no generator. Just a mondo UPS.
Fucking squirrels!
Word of God: Biff Tannen in Back to the Future II was modeled on 1980's Donald Trump.
I can't wait for the White House to be decorated in gold and tigerstripe / leopard print, with vulgar paintings of what seems to be B-movie characters. Oh wait, the Obama's style wasn't too far off, all that red and gold French Provincial Whorehouse Rococo like some african dictator.
So.. is this 2017-A now? Oh well whatever.. bring it.. 2016 was an absolute disaster for me, I think from here things can only go up.. i hope...
I almost bought into this. Sounded like just the tool to record form and technique for later analysis without the need to have someone film you -- and from a higher POV.
My instinct said "Wail until shipment." Glad I listened.
Okay, I accept this premise. Most programs have failed. They are not sufficient to be the sole focus of my attention for an hour or two. But you know, sometimes they're good enough to have on in the background while I'm doing something else that's *also* not sufficient to be the sole focus of my attention.
Disclamer: I have a 3-d capable projector and 3-d glasses. I didn't buy it because of 3-d, I bought it for 2-D. I did buy a few 3-d discs, all of them Pixar or Disney animations and the synthesized Titanic 3-d.
Result: I don't use 3D at all. I had a month-long fling with it and then tossed the glasses in a drawer, where they remain. I'm 100% 2-D and enjoy a bright, contrasty, downright spectacular image that does a fairly good job of showing whatever depth the content creator put in the image.
What are these "advertisements" you speak of?
I DVR the vast majority - I'd say 99% - of TV I watch. I skip over ads. Problem solved.
Because we're a multitasking generation. The need to wear special equipment to watch TV, then to take it off to check messages on a phone, then put in on again, then take it off to go to a quick piss break during commercials then back on again to go back to the show...
If I'm checking messages / emails / whatnots while watching a movie or tv program, the movie or program has failed.
That said, for me, 3-D failed because gimmick, because glassess because it doesn't really add anything more to live-action material.
The good thing: Learning stereoscopic production has led to much more realistic foreground-background interaction in animated material. This is especially noticable when comparing pre-3D Pixar works with post 3D works. Brave, in particular, shows this very well.
Hillary wins -> jobs go to Mexico
Trump wins -> jobs stay in the US
You mean.. BILL wins (twice) , jobs went to mexico. And oh boy, did they!
But let's not forget that NAFTA was drafted under Reagan's terms in office, so.. yeah buddy, both sides are taking turns at fscking us.
So when the starving mob are at the ruling elites' gates with torches and pitch forks, they'll surely find the resources to do the right thing.
Brexit and El Trumpo seem to be The People doing pitchforks and torches, but with the vote instead of actual pitchforks and torches.
That comes next, if this coming Great Experiment doesn't work. (It probably won't work.)
"Many consumers" does not equal "Apple customers". That, right there, is the fundamental problem. Apple customers want thinness at all costs. And so many companies, like Samsung, are sooo jealous and envious of Apple's cultist customer base that they somehow think that they can replicate this level of success by copying Apple's impractical and user-hostile design decisions.
So this is why Apple decided to build the SE, which is a short, fat 5S that needs no case to be usable. Maybe Apple knows what their customers want better than you and Samsung. Just a thought.
I offer an anecdote: I have a 5S, bought the year it came out. It's a 3 year old phone now. I find the 6 and beyond to be obscenely, grotesquely big and thin. While a recent visit to the Fruit Cart (apple store) so a friend could get his 6s+'s face sensor looked at I chatted up an employee. I told him how much I liked that Apple had decided to build a short, thick fat phone, and if he had any way to float that thought back to the mothership, it'd be nice. His reply? "Oh, they know. A bunch of us went to the SE the day it arrived."
So.. when's Samsung short, fat thick phone coming out? I mean, if they indeed are sooooooooo jealous of Apple, they MUST have their own little phone, no?
Luke playing with a starfighter, in one of his first scenes, is cringe-worthy.
Oh c'mon, you've never done it? FWIW, that wasn't a "starfighter,' that was a scale model of the speeder parked *right behind Luke.* That is his T-16, the one he bullseyes womp rats with. Seriously, you can see the ass end of his real T-16 right behind him.
One is never too old to play with toys. Never. I have a fair collection of 1:400 diecast aircraft, and when I clean house I *always* "land" the Pan Am 707-321 on its display place.
The day one becomes "too old" for such frippery, one is ready for the pine box. The kind with rope handles and no wheels.
Oh. SFTU and spare me. Where is the "This isn't news!!!!ZOMG!!!" brigade when legit, nerd-worthy material is posted? I'll tell you where: NOWHERE to be found!
Real nerdy news in this joint tend to get a couple dozen posts at most.
As it happens, I arrived to Star Wars a bit late, about half a reel late. As I walked up the ramp in Plaza 1 theater in Plaza Las Americas, PR, the screen came into view, just as R2 and 3P0 were climbing up a dune in Tatooine. Now that I think on it, it was curious timing.
Having missed half the first reel, I stayed for the next show, and saw the whole thing. The movie changed something in me. Changed my mind. I won't say it saved or changed my life, but it awoke something in me, something that I guess eventually led to my attraction to technology of all sorts.
I didn't know shit from shinola back then, and I still don't now, but the character of Leia stuck with me to this day. The Plaza twins 1 & 2 are gone, Leia is gone, but the sweet memories of that moviehouse and that film, I'll take to the grave. "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope" -- that phrase, that voice, that hologram still resound in my mind, in a place close to my heart.
How odd, since I unplugged from pop culture sometime like 25 years ago, I didn't know of her struggle with bipolar disorder. I must read her books on this... because it is a cross I bear, and have bore, since before I saw the film. Yes, I found treatment, no, i'm not "cured," yes, it's a cast-iron bitch to live with. So maybe her passing will introduce yet more people to how she dealt with it, and that is a good thing.
When I heard the news, my mind immediately played that bit of the soundtrack, her leitmotif, with that reedy little oboe. Yes, it struck tears.
RIP Carrie Fisher, long live Princess Leia Organa Solo.
Any vehicle in Florida doing the speed limit -- even in the "slow lane" -- the far-right lane -- will become roadkill.
Tesla, the best thing you could do is adaptive cruise. Just go with the flow, man...
Lithium-ion and lithium-polymer batteries have significantly reduced capacity after 300-400 charge-discharge cycles.
That's full charge-discharge cycles.
With lithium ion it is best to charge early and often -- a total reversal of how NiCd worked. (I grew up with NiCd and had to re-train my brain to maximize lithium ion.)
By charging early and often you make shallower cycles that don't kill the battery. This is how my camera battery is 8 years old and still gets me 300 shots, this is how my iPhone 5S is 3 years old and still gets to the end of the day around 60-80%, 35-50 if I use it heavy.
So people, don't drain your phones to death. Charge early and often!