I really miss speakers that are made with real wood enclosures they sounded so much fuller, crisper, and bigger. Then again I have a tube stack with a 4x12 oak slant back offset classic and greenback Celestions that sounds like it's a crisp 300 watts (it's only 200) compared to the new stuff anyway.
84% sounded fairly high to me as well. This would make me assume that most people who purchase and use DVRs are sports fans. This would be the opposite of "calling sports programming 'DVR-proof'".
How many people does it take to run robot factories that makes products for the largely irrelevant unemployed people who used to work in those factories to buy?
I don't have cable TV the options I use in order is (a) Netflix (no commercials) (b) Channel Streams (with ads) (c) buy the dvd (or redbox I do this a lot for movies) or paid stream (d) I don't really care enough to want to watch it.
(b) has plenty of options available on the roku if you can find the good ones buried in the random garbage
I'm sure that other companies have already figured out that free and legal streams offer an addition avenue for advertising look at CW they have a lot of their current content provided as a free stream with ads then when it goes to netflix or dvd at the begging of the next season they take down the old content.
My brother bought an rpi 3b cana kit and brought it over for me to help him setup. There are cell phones with better processors, more ram, and the pi ran really well with raspbian... I wouldn't be surprised if it's android that makes better spec cell phone run like crap.
The closest airport is already 120 miles away unless you count little private airports and then after I land I'm 100 miles past my sister's home I may as well drive.
I could probably book a small charter but it would be far more expensive and take almost as long as driving.
Probably because it's easy to setup and supports streaming for most of your devices out of the box cell phones, roku, fire TV, apple TV, chromecast, xbox, playstation, and a lot of smart TVs. one click mobile sync....
If I'm flying it's for business and the business has a car and tickets waiting for me, I assume they use a credit card, but that's not me paying for or arranging those things. It's not that I never use a credit card, I just prefer to use cash.
If I'm visiting my sister that lives about 350 miles away it's faster an easier to just drive. I've never had a reason to fly personally.
I was saying that from experience. Accidents and long term illness are not that uncommon and even if you think you've planed well that's not always how things work out. It's not that you shouldn't try to, at least that what I tell my kids... Don't blow all our money on things you don't need and save some for a rainy day, work smarter not harder, and don't pay someone else to do the things you can do yourself.
It's not the things you plan for that get you it's things that you thought you planned for like multiple surgeries in just a couple years that even after your insurance pays the majority of the cost is still far more expensive than you think it should ever be as you now have a new $100k debt.
There is no HOA where I purchased my home but the city/county still has it's own regulations that annoy me. No wind turbines {but a 12-20ft functional decorative windmill is fine so long as it's not generating power or pumping a well}, You can have solar panels {just not any big enough to go off grid}, can't build a retaining wall or put up a fence without a permit.
I didn't think the CD would ever become popular because of how poorly they were designed and prone to failure, they became popular anyway and people bitched about scratched discs purchasing the white album multiple times. If a driverless car hits the market in the next few years it's going to be the same, poorly designed and prone to failure which in this case holds some serious real world problems.
I don't know about the other city's listed but Illinois doesn't have that requirement it's the city of Chicago that has it's own outrageously expensive regulations on top of the states minimum requirements.
My brother received a copy infringement notice on his bands domain from a company claiming to represent a third party that owned the copyright. They are signed to a small indie label and register copyright for everything before it's released to the public.
He scanned the copyright confirmation and registration and sent it to his hosting provider.
Except when that commercial use is to file law suites against people using those public domain images claiming copyright infringement and attempting to take down and/or receive payment based on copyrights that they don't posses.
It's the deregulation that suddenly makes it much less expensive although you don't want to live near that factory. Ad to that a nice fat tax break and few subsidies....
Exactly the point, needing to subscribe to multiple services using multiple devices just to get a good selection of the content you want is a pain that no one wants to pay extra for.
I never did any of those things.... Not to say the cops didn't pick me up for underage drinking and drop me off at home letting my parents know and knowing full well it was likely I would get a beating from my father but they didn't arrest me. Today they press charges against the kids and give them community service where all the bad kids get together and go clean the park or something. Next thing you know they are all hanging out together and getting into more trouble and doing more community service.
If it's available ad free on one of the services I subscribe to I'll watch it there instead but I don't mind watching the ad supported free content from places like cwtv or cbs.
It's not necessarily the cost of a single service like netflix, hulu, or amazon prime that's prohibitive it's the cost of subscribing to many different services to get the content you want and even then it may not be available.
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I really miss speakers that are made with real wood enclosures they sounded so much fuller, crisper, and bigger. Then again I have a tube stack with a 4x12 oak slant back offset classic and greenback Celestions that sounds like it's a crisp 300 watts (it's only 200) compared to the new stuff anyway.
84% sounded fairly high to me as well. This would make me assume that most people who purchase and use DVRs are sports fans. This would be the opposite of "calling sports programming 'DVR-proof'".
How many people does it take to run robot factories that makes products for the largely irrelevant unemployed people who used to work in those factories to buy?
I don't have cable TV the options I use in order is (a) Netflix (no commercials) (b) Channel Streams (with ads) (c) buy the dvd (or redbox I do this a lot for movies) or paid stream (d) I don't really care enough to want to watch it.
(b) has plenty of options available on the roku if you can find the good ones buried in the random garbage
I'm sure that other companies have already figured out that free and legal streams offer an addition avenue for advertising look at CW they have a lot of their current content provided as a free stream with ads then when it goes to netflix or dvd at the begging of the next season they take down the old content.
My brother bought an rpi 3b cana kit and brought it over for me to help him setup. There are cell phones with better processors, more ram, and the pi ran really well with raspbian... I wouldn't be surprised if it's android that makes better spec cell phone run like crap.
The closest airport is already 120 miles away unless you count little private airports and then after I land I'm 100 miles past my sister's home I may as well drive.
I could probably book a small charter but it would be far more expensive and take almost as long as driving.
Probably because it's easy to setup and supports streaming for most of your devices out of the box cell phones, roku, fire TV, apple TV, chromecast, xbox, playstation, and a lot of smart TVs. one click mobile sync....
If I'm flying it's for business and the business has a car and tickets waiting for me, I assume they use a credit card, but that's not me paying for or arranging those things. It's not that I never use a credit card, I just prefer to use cash.
If I'm visiting my sister that lives about 350 miles away it's faster an easier to just drive. I've never had a reason to fly personally.
I don't even keep location services turned on except when I need to use my phone as a GPS, never mind allow any apps to access it.
This and bluetooth is disabled unless in the very rare case I'm using it... all it does is run the battery down.
Oddly enough, everywhere I do business still takes cash.
There are already tablets and cell phones with micro hdmi ports, bluetooth that will accept a keyboard and mouse, and can connect to wifi.
I was saying that from experience. Accidents and long term illness are not that uncommon and even if you think you've planed well that's not always how things work out. It's not that you shouldn't try to, at least that what I tell my kids... Don't blow all our money on things you don't need and save some for a rainy day, work smarter not harder, and don't pay someone else to do the things you can do yourself.
It's not the things you plan for that get you it's things that you thought you planned for like multiple surgeries in just a couple years that even after your insurance pays the majority of the cost is still far more expensive than you think it should ever be as you now have a new $100k debt.
There is no HOA where I purchased my home but the city/county still has it's own regulations that annoy me. No wind turbines {but a 12-20ft functional decorative windmill is fine so long as it's not generating power or pumping a well}, You can have solar panels {just not any big enough to go off grid}, can't build a retaining wall or put up a fence without a permit.
I didn't think the CD would ever become popular because of how poorly they were designed and prone to failure, they became popular anyway and people bitched about scratched discs purchasing the white album multiple times. If a driverless car hits the market in the next few years it's going to be the same, poorly designed and prone to failure which in this case holds some serious real world problems.
I don't know about the other city's listed but Illinois doesn't have that requirement it's the city of Chicago that has it's own outrageously expensive regulations on top of the states minimum requirements.
Haven't you ever heard the saying "A happy customer will tell no one but an unhappy customer will tell everyone." ?
I'm not writing a dissertation.... piss people. That's Applied Arts... yes music.
My brother received a copy infringement notice on his bands domain from a company claiming to represent a third party that owned the copyright. They are signed to a small indie label and register copyright for everything before it's released to the public.
He scanned the copyright confirmation and registration and sent it to his hosting provider.
Except when that commercial use is to file law suites against people using those public domain images claiming copyright infringement and attempting to take down and/or receive payment based on copyrights that they don't posses.
It's the deregulation that suddenly makes it much less expensive although you don't want to live near that factory. Ad to that a nice fat tax break and few subsidies....
Exactly the point, needing to subscribe to multiple services using multiple devices just to get a good selection of the content you want is a pain that no one wants to pay extra for.
I never did any of those things.... Not to say the cops didn't pick me up for underage drinking and drop me off at home letting my parents know and knowing full well it was likely I would get a beating from my father but they didn't arrest me. Today they press charges against the kids and give them community service where all the bad kids get together and go clean the park or something. Next thing you know they are all hanging out together and getting into more trouble and doing more community service.
If it's available ad free on one of the services I subscribe to I'll watch it there instead but I don't mind watching the ad supported free content from places like cwtv or cbs.
It's not necessarily the cost of a single service like netflix, hulu, or amazon prime that's prohibitive it's the cost of subscribing to many different services to get the content you want and even then it may not be available.