I tried to avoid "smart" TVs. I'm on my second one, but with the "smart" features turned off as much as possible. It was one of those things that was kind of a ding against the attractiveness of the TV but they otherwise had the features and connectivity (jacks) that I wanted.
I was talking to someone that couldn't find a TV that wasn't "smart" lately. Apparently you have to look for non-consumer devices such as monitors for signage, lobby displays and such.
I think it's worse than that. The guy's movie netted big and yet he feels his movie should have been entitled even bigger windfall despite having plot holes that Superman can throw a container ship through.
Rotten Tomatoes has a Critics score *and* an Audience score. A lot of popular movies have a higher audience score. BvS has a 63% audience score. Iron Man 3 got 78% audience score. Lest it be a Marvel v. DC thing, The Dark Knight got 94% audience score *and* 94% critic score, so it's not like so many reviewers are snobs about comic book super hero movies.
I don't either. I don't intend to buy such appliances. They'll be woefully out of date for most of their useful life. They're often insecure as shipped and I doubt a notable number of them will ever get updates.
This is why people should be very wary of crowdfunding because so many of the crowdfund campaigns are exactly that. So much bullshit. There's quite a few legit companies that do get started this way but enough failures that people shouldn't be backing projects as carelessly as they do.
Recent regulation was changed to allow for "crowdfunding" startups this way, where you can actually get shares of the business this way. I haven't heard of anyone doing this yet, though I understand the option is legally available now.
That works if you do have the means to defend it. But the means to defend it get pretty thin when you're talking about clones selling on Alibaba. Even if you have legal resources in China, they're going to use your brand. Even those only selling very different competing designs will use your brand.
Yeah, I think Cameron has a case of rose-colored glasses on how great the theater going experience supposedly is. But maybe that's what theaters are like in Hollywood. That said, nine times out of ten, I do enjoy going, it's the one time out of ten that really tanks it, then there's the cost.
I really think offering something that allows families and groups of friends to watch from home is more likely to help save the theater going experience than hurt it, provided it's not punitively priced.
Yes, it's pretty simple, it just raises the question why a simple one-line statement wasn't included with the story summary for a rarely mentioned project. A search on this site for Vulkan shows only a small number of stories about it, so it's not like a regular reader would necessarily have an idea what the topic is.
Yeah, I can sympathize that web sites need money, but if you're allowing ad services to serve scam ads then you've really lost your footing. If there's more ads than content by screen area, then you're not in the content business, you're merely an ad pusher.
And most ad networks are trying to show me the same ads on every site. They also use photos that have nothing to do with the allegedly advertised service, like they picked a random viral photo and stuck their ad under it. Then there's so many ads for various kinds of woo that won't solve the problem they claim to solve. Then there's the ad that "people from your nearby town(s) are scandalized by this one web site". "Don't eat this one food" showing a banana, which is false. Video ads on a site only offering static content is also wildly out of place.
Reed Hastings has been gone from that board for a couple of years now.
I get annoyed with the notices from other sites that are asking for Silverlight. It's usually stuff on the login page. eBay and Tumblr (I think) are notable examples, but I've encountered several others.
Sometimes it helps to at least read the abstract. The complaint was about the speed.
"Since the middle of December......only now has Google itself managed to track down the villains and ban them from the service."
Another issue is Google's ad system being vulnerable to being bait and switched, even allowing advertisers any opportunity to do that seems a poor decision.
Yeah, I don't get it. Most of the commercial stations are Clear Channeled, even some "non commercial" stations are following the general model. Basically the same rotation of the same small pool of songs every day, If we're lucky, a song gets changed out in the pool once a month, and songs you'd think were played out from the incessant repetition are still playing a couple years later. I don't understand how people can stand that.
Yes, the ruggedness is the main priority. Once a piece of hardware is certified and flight-tested, you have so much invested in the computer design that you don't want to just throw away the design because there are faster chips for sale.
And there's the question of whether the extra processing power is beneficial for the task at hand. Why pay more for extra processing power that isn't used anyway? There's likely a finer degree of control and timing now, but it's not like reentry physics has gotten more complicated in the past 12 years.
Airbus has many plants around the world building parts for them. Sometimes air is the best way to go. If it had to go by boat, you have a lot of money invested in airframes stuck on a boat for a month or two. Assuming you didn't need custom cargo ships, I don't think those fuselages can fit in a container.
There are a lot of factors that affect fuel mileage, but it's been suggested that the ECM can detect whether they're on a standardized emissions or efficiency test and change the settings accordingly. I wish I remembered where I had seen that article.
Well, knowing that amount of information about the children extends well to the parents.
The organization response does appear to be tone-deaf. I wouldn't care if they had perfect security. I care about what they're going to do with the information.
Without the glamor of our own human transport though.
Yeah, there's been problems, and there is increasing budget pressure. It seems NASA is the only government organization that actually get consistently cut. I kind of agree with Ares I getting cut, it was a boondoggle and suffing some problems that weren't well-publicized.
I wonder if you're citing end of sales with OS X "died" dates, not end of support. End of support (updates, etc.) is different from no longer offering for sale. For example, OS X 10.7 still seems to get security updates. Going by end of sales, Windows XP "died" June 2008.
Ars Technica just did an article suggesting that 10.6 isn't getting security updates anymore. The same article says 10.7 just got an update too.
So your figures for OS X might be exaggerated. That said, you're correct that XP has gotten unusually long support.
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There's some truth to that, but being on a salary is very different from fabricating fraudulent payment documents.
I think the thing to buy swung back and forth between AMD and Intel a few times since then though.
I tried to avoid "smart" TVs. I'm on my second one, but with the "smart" features turned off as much as possible. It was one of those things that was kind of a ding against the attractiveness of the TV but they otherwise had the features and connectivity (jacks) that I wanted.
I was talking to someone that couldn't find a TV that wasn't "smart" lately. Apparently you have to look for non-consumer devices such as monitors for signage, lobby displays and such.
Lose your wallet all the cards and IDs in it are at risk.
Sad that so many backers thought this was something. NFC can do this job. I just don't see a viable future for a separate digital card.
But then, if you lose your phone you've lost a lot.
He also dodged a reader question on his opinion of George Lucas by referring the question to someone else.
I think it's worse than that. The guy's movie netted big and yet he feels his movie should have been entitled even bigger windfall despite having plot holes that Superman can throw a container ship through.
Rotten Tomatoes has a Critics score *and* an Audience score. A lot of popular movies have a higher audience score. BvS has a 63% audience score. Iron Man 3 got 78% audience score. Lest it be a Marvel v. DC thing, The Dark Knight got 94% audience score *and* 94% critic score, so it's not like so many reviewers are snobs about comic book super hero movies.
I don't either. I don't intend to buy such appliances. They'll be woefully out of date for most of their useful life. They're often insecure as shipped and I doubt a notable number of them will ever get updates.
They also said other browsers support same but didn't say anything more specific, such as who and what versions they started supporting it.
This is why people should be very wary of crowdfunding because so many of the crowdfund campaigns are exactly that. So much bullshit. There's quite a few legit companies that do get started this way but enough failures that people shouldn't be backing projects as carelessly as they do.
Recent regulation was changed to allow for "crowdfunding" startups this way, where you can actually get shares of the business this way. I haven't heard of anyone doing this yet, though I understand the option is legally available now.
That works if you do have the means to defend it. But the means to defend it get pretty thin when you're talking about clones selling on Alibaba. Even if you have legal resources in China, they're going to use your brand. Even those only selling very different competing designs will use your brand.
Yeah, I think Cameron has a case of rose-colored glasses on how great the theater going experience supposedly is. But maybe that's what theaters are like in Hollywood. That said, nine times out of ten, I do enjoy going, it's the one time out of ten that really tanks it, then there's the cost.
I really think offering something that allows families and groups of friends to watch from home is more likely to help save the theater going experience than hurt it, provided it's not punitively priced.
Yes, it's pretty simple, it just raises the question why a simple one-line statement wasn't included with the story summary for a rarely mentioned project. A search on this site for Vulkan shows only a small number of stories about it, so it's not like a regular reader would necessarily have an idea what the topic is.
Yeah, I can sympathize that web sites need money, but if you're allowing ad services to serve scam ads then you've really lost your footing. If there's more ads than content by screen area, then you're not in the content business, you're merely an ad pusher.
And most ad networks are trying to show me the same ads on every site. They also use photos that have nothing to do with the allegedly advertised service, like they picked a random viral photo and stuck their ad under it. Then there's so many ads for various kinds of woo that won't solve the problem they claim to solve. Then there's the ad that "people from your nearby town(s) are scandalized by this one web site". "Don't eat this one food" showing a banana, which is false. Video ads on a site only offering static content is also wildly out of place.
Reed Hastings has been gone from that board for a couple of years now.
I get annoyed with the notices from other sites that are asking for Silverlight. It's usually stuff on the login page. eBay and Tumblr (I think) are notable examples, but I've encountered several others.
Sometimes it helps to at least read the abstract. The complaint was about the speed.
"Since the middle of December... ...only now has Google itself managed to track down the villains and ban them from the service."
Another issue is Google's ad system being vulnerable to being bait and switched, even allowing advertisers any opportunity to do that seems a poor decision.
Yeah, I don't get it. Most of the commercial stations are Clear Channeled, even some "non commercial" stations are following the general model. Basically the same rotation of the same small pool of songs every day, If we're lucky, a song gets changed out in the pool once a month, and songs you'd think were played out from the incessant repetition are still playing a couple years later. I don't understand how people can stand that.
Yes, the ruggedness is the main priority. Once a piece of hardware is certified and flight-tested, you have so much invested in the computer design that you don't want to just throw away the design because there are faster chips for sale.
And there's the question of whether the extra processing power is beneficial for the task at hand. Why pay more for extra processing power that isn't used anyway? There's likely a finer degree of control and timing now, but it's not like reentry physics has gotten more complicated in the past 12 years.
Airbus has many plants around the world building parts for them. Sometimes air is the best way to go. If it had to go by boat, you have a lot of money invested in airframes stuck on a boat for a month or two. Assuming you didn't need custom cargo ships, I don't think those fuselages can fit in a container.
Indeed, Comcast is trying to throttle people that use more than a third of a terabyte a month.
There are a lot of factors that affect fuel mileage, but it's been suggested that the ECM can detect whether they're on a standardized emissions or efficiency test and change the settings accordingly. I wish I remembered where I had seen that article.
Well, knowing that amount of information about the children extends well to the parents.
The organization response does appear to be tone-deaf. I wouldn't care if they had perfect security. I care about what they're going to do with the information.
Without the glamor of our own human transport though.
Yeah, there's been problems, and there is increasing budget pressure. It seems NASA is the only government organization that actually get consistently cut. I kind of agree with Ares I getting cut, it was a boondoggle and suffing some problems that weren't well-publicized.
How is that not disturbing?
I wonder if you're citing end of sales with OS X "died" dates, not end of support. End of support (updates, etc.) is different from no longer offering for sale.
For example, OS X 10.7 still seems to get security updates. Going by end of sales, Windows XP "died" June 2008.
Ars Technica just did an article suggesting that 10.6 isn't getting security updates anymore. The same article says 10.7 just got an update too.
So your figures for OS X might be exaggerated. That said, you're correct that XP has gotten unusually long support.