If you try to recreate a cable package through multiple streaming services it will end up costing just as much
As recent cord-cutters We already had Amazon Prime for free delivery etc. and will keep it We have a Netflix subscription which we will keep. We have an antenna and DVR for over the air broadcasts (Networks/PBS/Spanish stations for soccer games with Spanish commentary)
Then we will probably just have one other active service at a time. At the moment it is HBO through Amazon (we are binge watching Game of Thrones and Veep to catchup) and we will probably get rid of it and switch to something else. eg we might go with Hulu and binge watch a few series from them and then move on to something else
An area where this falls down a little is if there are multiple shows on different providers that are still producing new shows and which you "must" watch as they are first aired, at the moment that is not an issue for us.
Also a lot of live sport is spread over multiple different cable stations so attempting to get them all would be expensive.
Back in 1990 the company I worked for had a problem when a 10 year contract with scheduled payments was entered into the system in 1990. All the programmers in the company spent weeks working through source code searching for places where dates were stored with a 2 digit year. I assume the Y2038 bug has already hit systems where future dates are used,
"Starting earlier this week, a certain section of the internet -- for whatever reason"
What a disingenuous comment
The reason is clear. In this remake Captain Marvel is a woman, so a certain immature troll section of the internet want to make sure lots of people know how traumatic that has been for them.
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/21......And then a mere 33 seconds into the game, on a routine play, Williamson dribbled near the foul line when his left leg buckled, his left blue-and-white Nike sneaker ripped apart at the seams and he tumbled to the floor, grabbing his right knee in pain....
I have had a GMail account since the invitation only days. I actually got an invite from someone giving them away on slashdot. I am careful about where I use the address and I get very little spam (about 10 / month or less).
When I read about GMail's great spam filters I wonder does that mean that the spam emails are actually blocked (ie. never make it to me at all) or just filtered to my Spam folder.
I got my gmail address quite early, back in the invite days from another slashdot poster, so my address is firstname.lastname@gmail.com.
There is a doctor whose gmail adress is drfirstnamelastname@gmail.com but who must forget about the initial "dr" occasionally, as do some people he works with. I have never gotten any patient related stuff but I have received a few travel, visa and medical business related emails. Also emails directed to a plumber in London, someone who left their passport in a youth hostel, someone whose online order for a tie was messed up and someone who was being chased for some unpaid bill.
I have a friend in New York who knows almost the whole life story of her Florida namesake because Florida woman always forgets that she had to use a middle initial in her gmail account.
If Pluto identifies as a planet then I think we should respect that decision. Maybe Pluto is astronomical body fluid, one day a planet, the next day not.
Almost all the time there will not be any useful alternatives to get to your destination. If you are already on the subway there is most likely no quicker alternative. If you check the app before you travel and you happen to be somewhere where there are multiple lines it might be useful but if the delay happens after you start you are probably stuck.
I was not able to see the option when using Firefox but I was able to when using Chrome. However once I chose the option I had the new version in Chrome, Firefox and Edge
"Regular Gmail users You can enable the new look and features by clicking on the Settings cog in the top-right corner, then selecting Try the new Gmail option."
"We need a law...there's no reason we should let them exist if the price is knowing everything about us."
So Richard Stallman wants to ban websites that allow you to enter information about yourself. Facebook is just one of millions of sites where you can add personal information. It just happens to be the most used.
Most people don't want to go through the weird wget nonsense that Stallman uses https://stallman.org/stallman-... "I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/g...) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it (using konqueror, which won't fetch from other sites in such a situation). "
"Bandwidth throttling for customers in those areas who have connected thermostats could mean the difference between sickness and health, or even life and death."
Complete bullshit, how much bandwidth is required to adjust a thermostat?
"That is was (in the case of beer, not wine) the boiling step in the preparation of the drink that provided the benefit is irrelevant. They didn't know that and never ran the experiment."
Slashdot Mirror
Are there any programming languages in Latin?
10 COGITO ERGO SUM
20 Romanes eunt domus*
*The John Cleese compiler might object
If you try to recreate a cable package through multiple streaming services it will end up costing just as much
As recent cord-cutters
We already had Amazon Prime for free delivery etc. and will keep it
We have a Netflix subscription which we will keep.
We have an antenna and DVR for over the air broadcasts (Networks/PBS/Spanish stations for soccer games with Spanish commentary)
Then we will probably just have one other active service at a time.
At the moment it is HBO through Amazon (we are binge watching Game of Thrones and Veep to catchup) and we will probably get rid of it and switch to something else.
eg we might go with Hulu and binge watch a few series from them and then move on to something else
An area where this falls down a little is if there are multiple shows on different providers that are still producing new shows and which you "must" watch as they are first aired, at the moment that is not an issue for us.
Also a lot of live sport is spread over multiple different cable stations so attempting to get them all would be expensive.
The Y2K bug hit well before the year 2000.
Back in 1990 the company I worked for had a problem when a 10 year contract with scheduled payments was entered into the system in 1990. All the programmers in the company spent weeks working through source code searching for places where dates were stored with a 2 digit year. I assume the Y2038 bug has already hit systems where future dates are used,
"W3C Approves WebAuthn as the Web Standard For Password-Free Logins"
"WebAuthn is now an open standard for password-free logins on the web"
So is there one standard or many?
"Starting earlier this week, a certain section of the internet -- for whatever reason"
What a disingenuous comment
The reason is clear. In this remake Captain Marvel is a woman, so a certain immature troll section of the internet want to make sure lots of people know how traumatic that has been for them.
So is that what happened to Zion Williamson?
https://www.npr.org/2019/02/21... ...And then a mere 33 seconds into the game, on a routine play, Williamson dribbled near the foul line when his left leg buckled, his left blue-and-white Nike sneaker ripped apart at the seams and he tumbled to the floor, grabbing his right knee in pain....
The Japanese sport of Kendo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... using a bamboo sword called a shinai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is very close to lightsaber fighting.
Their accountants report huge profits to Wall Street and losses to the IRS and their auditors sign off on both
Wow, they've invented insurance.
I have had a GMail account since the invitation only days. I actually got an invite from someone giving them away on slashdot. I am careful about where I use the address and I get very little spam (about 10 / month or less).
When I read about GMail's great spam filters I wonder does that mean that the spam emails are actually blocked (ie. never make it to me at all) or just filtered to my Spam folder.
" picked up for delivery back to a cleaning and sterilization facility "
Pickup, delivery, cleaning and sterilization all require energy use.
I use T-Mobile and recently they have been marking some incoming calls as "Scam Likely"
If you owe someone something (even if it is a percentage of your earnings) that is a debt.
I, for one, welcome our new lack of insect overlords
I got my gmail address quite early, back in the invite days from another slashdot poster, so my address is firstname.lastname@gmail.com.
There is a doctor whose gmail adress is drfirstnamelastname@gmail.com but who must forget about the initial "dr" occasionally, as do some people he works with. I have never gotten any patient related stuff but I have received a few travel, visa and medical business related emails. Also emails directed to a plumber in London, someone who left their passport in a youth hostel, someone whose online order for a tie was messed up and someone who was being chased for some unpaid bill.
I have a friend in New York who knows almost the whole life story of her Florida namesake because Florida woman always forgets that she had to use a middle initial in her gmail account.
If Pluto identifies as a planet then I think we should respect that decision. Maybe Pluto is astronomical body fluid, one day a planet, the next day not.
Almost all the time there will not be any useful alternatives to get to your destination. If you are already on the subway there is most likely no quicker alternative. If you check the app before you travel and you happen to be somewhere where there are multiple lines it might be useful but if the delay happens after you start you are probably stuck.
I was not able to see the option when using Firefox but I was able to when using Chrome. However once I chose the option I had the new version in Chrome, Firefox and Edge
The linked article doesn't actually explain how to enable the new version. This CNET article does https://www.cnet.com/how-to/ho...
"Regular Gmail users
You can enable the new look and features by clicking on the Settings cog in the top-right corner, then selecting Try the new Gmail option."
"We need a law...there's no reason we should let them exist if the price is knowing everything about us."
So Richard Stallman wants to ban websites that allow you to enter information about yourself. Facebook is just one of millions of sites where you can add personal information. It just happens to be the most used.
Most people don't want to go through the weird wget nonsense that Stallman uses https://stallman.org/stallman-...
"I generally do not connect to web sites from my own machine, aside from a few sites I have some special relationship with. I usually fetch web pages from other sites by sending mail to a program (see https://git.savannah.gnu.org/g...) that fetches them, much like wget, and then mails them back to me. Then I look at them using a web browser, unless it is easy to see the text in the HTML page directly. I usually try lynx first, then a graphical browser if the page needs it (using konqueror, which won't fetch from other sites in such a situation). "
"Google is implementing smart replies for Gmail on the web, the same feature from mobile Gmail that provides suggestions to quickly reply to emails."
I don't like that but if is easy to switch off I could live with it.
"Bandwidth throttling for customers in those areas who have connected thermostats could mean the difference between sickness and health, or even life and death."
Complete bullshit, how much bandwidth is required to adjust a thermostat?
"That is was (in the case of beer, not wine) the boiling step in the preparation of the drink that provided the benefit is irrelevant. They didn't know that and never ran the experiment."
Tea drinkers in Asia worked it out
"A friend sent me part of a BTC a few years, but I don't know where it is."
It's in the cloud.
GCSEs are exams given to 16 year olds in the UK, not that you would know that from the summary
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...