I hate the fact that they split the apps out of iTunes: it was one-stop convenience for me. Every morning I'd update apps and podcasts, then sync my phone, and everything was updated. I refuse to have my iPhone auto-update because I like to see what is updating and downloading. So now I update apps on the weekend and download podcasts daily. Only now it looks like, well, I don't know what. I don't listen to music a lot right now, so I guess I'll have the podcast app open all the time for downloading and syncing and iTunes open when I want to listen to music?
I buy one or two new DVDs/Blu-Rays a month and used ones whenever my fancy is struck. They are my physical disc and shall remain mine. Last year went through the trouble of registering them all through Ultraviolet and all the other streaming services, only to receive an email from Ultraviolet that they're shutting down and all that is going away.
One of these days I'll buy a little storage network and rip my library, but I'll keep the discs - gotta figure out a backup strategy. Meanwhile, I'll keep my Amazon Prime and Netflix subscriptions and pay for HBO when John Oliver is in-season. But Disney and CBS and all these boutique streaming services will never get a dime from me. I found just how shallow the streaming pool was when I went looking for certain obscure movies (The Return of the Tall Blonde Man With One Black Shoe anyone? Bueller?) and with the death of Criterion's service, that's it. Amazon and Netflix plus HBO occasionally does me quite well - I don't need more TV viewing.
Spielburg's problem is that he's never lived in an underserved area. I have one 10 screen theater 20 minutes from my house, there's a lot of stuff that never comes near me. If I want a broad selection of theaters, it's 2 hours to El Paso, we don't make that drive very often. The town an hour north of me has 4 screens! I was a movie junkie when I lived in Phoenix 14 years ago, and now I just have to accept that there's a ton of stuff that I'll never see until it's released on one of my streaming services or DVD, if I bother.
I look at his entry on IMDB and he's executive producer on so much television and on so many marginal projects that it's laughable. He needs to give Netflix a break. Maybe things shouldn't be eligible for both an Emmy and an Oscar, but by that standard then a song in a movie shouldn't be eligible for an Oscar and a Grammy.
Legend of Buster Scruggs. Granted, it wasn't worth either IMO, but it was shown in theaters for a week(?) before being released on Netflix. But I agree with your point.
Rats. I knew about Devotion a few days ago and forgot to try and buy a copy then, it's now not available in the USA. *sigh* I really wanted to buy a copy before it was "fixed".
I was working for a fairly large police department, and our mobile data terminals (MDTs) were not Y2K compliant. They were 386's running Windows 3, I can't remember if it was Windows for Workgroups, and Moto told us they wouldn't roll over properly and would cost on the order of $300+ per terminal to update, and we had over 1000 cars.
After researching further, we learned that when the officers logged on to our dispatch system that it downloaded the correct date/time from the Unisys mainframe, overriding the Windows clock. Y2K endrun, Motorola doesn't get a trunkfull of money from us. Everybody working 3rd shift on 31 December 1999 were instructed to log off just before midnight and sign back in just after. Everything worked just fine. The MDTs continued working properly for years until they were eventually replaced.
The only Y2K casualty that we had was the Dispatch system on the HP minis! A patch was supposed to self-deploy at midnight: it was compiled and ready to go, but someone didn't run the link/edit step, and when it deployed, crashed it crashed the whole shebang. At least our Windows network was flawless.
While I can understand the guy not wanting to pay Motorola a ridiculous amount of money to update the radios, if you sign the contract, you're obligating yourself to the licensing fees. Motorola was infamous for this, so either read the fine print and negotiate a better contract, or find a vendor that will give you a better deal - you don't have to deal with Motorola directly to buy Motorola equipment!
I decided a few years back that I'm not going to buy anything newer than a 2012 MacBook Pro, it's the last year that was assembled with screws. Get 16 gig of ram and a 2 TB SSD and it's really nice laptop. I don't know what I'll do for a desktop, right now I'm on a 2015 iMac which should be good for a few more years,so that decision is down the road a bit. If an employer wants me to have equipment newer than that, they can pay and maintain it - my personal equipment will be a bit more 'vintage'.
According to the bio info that I could find, Garber is a high school graduate, spent 20 years in the Navy, and a retired construction worker. So no higher education to speak of aside form whatever training the Navy gave him. Here's a list of the legislation he's sponsored in Kansas in the eight years he's been in the House from his Kansas legislature web page. And if you look at the bill numbers on the last six bills, they were probably all submitted in the same session, if not on the same day.
Sponsored Bills
HB2274 - Requiring notification to patients that the effects of a medication abortion may be reversible.
HB2288 - Creating the Kansas student and educator freedom of religious speech act.
HB2318 - Constitutional restrictions on taxpayer funding for abortions.
HB2319 - Enacting the human trafficking and child exploitation prevention act.
HB2320 - Enacting the marriage and constitution restoration act.
HB2321 - Creating the optional elevated marriage act.
HB2322 - Creating a cause of action for censorship or suppression of social media speech.
HB2323 - Imposing an excise tax on admission to adult-oriented businesses.
My wife did exactly this when her dad died. She flew El Paso -> Phoenix -> Cleveland, I joined her in Phoenix. When we returned I told her she was spending a few days with me in Phoenix (I was finishing up a contract) and I was driving her home.
Screw the airlines. We just let that final leg go unused and eventually expire.
The problem is volume, and people like my wife who receives calls from people outside the observatory who need to get ahold of her whom she doesn't have in her contacts. And as she's an astronomer, she has weird sleeping hours and Do Not Disturb hours don't work well for her.
But our major scourge of robocalls, like many, are forged from our local area code and prefix. I'm really hoping that this service will help with that. Had I known about the $3 service, I would have subscribed to it ages ago for her! Me, I let any unrecognized number go to voicemail, the look it up on 800notes.com then deal with it as appropriate. I have a VERY long block list on my phone.
Tough shit, Apple. I'm content with my iPhone 6 and see no need to upgrade to something beyond a 6S as I don't want to lose my headphone jack. Plus, I may upgrade to a 5S as I like the smaller form factor. YOU. ARE. NOT. MAKING. A. NEW. PHONE. THAT. I. WANT. Fix that and include a headphone jack and I may consider buying a new phone.
Further proof that Apple has been taken over and is being ruled by MBAs rather than innovators.
My problem is with Notes and Contacts. I won't be able to find a note on my phone, but it'll still be on my iMac, so I'll update it there and it'll automagically reappear on my phone. And don't get me started on contacts! Major PITB with my Christmas card list this year! They need an option where I can declare 'This device is the master, push it out to all my other devices'. Music works OK for me, it's the Podcast app that's the biggest pain in my experience, but it's also the one that I use the most. I had to abandon it when 11.0 came out and it broke the 'play the next episode when this one is done' mode, something that some people might consider fundamental. Their inability to flag an episode on the phone as played is a stupid feature removal.
I doubt I'm going to move beyond a 6S (currently on a 6) because of the headphone jack issue. My wife's car doesn't have BT and we're not going to replace the car, or its stereo, or start messing with a firk-ding-blast BT dongle to make my phone work in her car for trips. I'm considering going back to a 5S because I prefer the smaller form factor.
Myself, I think things have gone downhill since Jobs died. I think MBAs have taken over and the company has shifted to Profit Uber Alles rather than making products that can be the best that they can be.
I do have a 1 pound note in my wallet, it sits there next to my $2US bill. I've been curious to see if I could anything with it if I ever get to England.
A lot of libraries, in addition to digital services, now have Maker Spaces of varying capabilities. There's many different ways of engaging people to stimulate knowledge and critical thinking.
What's ticking me off with the iPhone is that, aside from removing the headphone jack, is their size bias. I want a smaller form factor. I want the 5-series form factor back, and they're showing no inclination to go in that direction. I loved my 4S, which is now used by my wife, but Verizon is turning off their 3G network in '09 so that will have to be retired. I can give her my 6, which has a headphone jack which will work in her Subaru which doesn't have Bluetooth. So what then, I look for a used 5S?
We're not replacing my wife's car in the near future, and we're not interested in putting in a BT adapter to sync with her phone. I didn't like Apple's decision to get rid of the headphone jack then and nothing has shown me a compelling reason to like it now.
As much as Kansas went through its little tax-slashing mania a few years ago, I wouldn't bet that they have in-house expertise to correctly secure such an enterprise. And now it's old equipment. Yeah, dumping it is probably the best route. Maybe some of the networking gear would be good to keep, but probably wise to get ride of the servers and SANs.
56" Ecuadoran green iguana that was almost as long as she was tall. Heck of a lizard. Or maybe she wasn't that hot of a database developer, I don't remember.
I was quite amused when Epic was the first system mentioned: only a few days ago it was mentioned in a/. article as failing a DST rollover and losing everything entered in the hour shift.
A friend of mine suffered a lizard crash when her iguana walked across her keyboard tray: the power switch for the buss strip that everything was plugged in to was attached upside down under the top of the desk, and the iguana brushed the switch and killed everything. She lost a few hours of database development when that happened.
In our case, our standard poodle is adept at conducting Google searches on my wife's work laptop. We have not yet decoded the results, our having failed to break the secret poodle code.
Unlikely to happen. The guy in Australia who is doing all this is apparently a rather infamous blowhard. From what I read, he was elected to parliament but didn't participate much. Lots of business failures, the funding for Titanic 2 is predicated on winning and settling several lawsuits against Chinese companies. Ain't gonna happen. Unfortunately I can't find the source of what I read.
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I hate the fact that they split the apps out of iTunes: it was one-stop convenience for me. Every morning I'd update apps and podcasts, then sync my phone, and everything was updated. I refuse to have my iPhone auto-update because I like to see what is updating and downloading. So now I update apps on the weekend and download podcasts daily. Only now it looks like, well, I don't know what. I don't listen to music a lot right now, so I guess I'll have the podcast app open all the time for downloading and syncing and iTunes open when I want to listen to music?
Well, I did install an electric starter in my car so my wife doesn't have to turn that handle of a mornin'. :-)
I buy one or two new DVDs/Blu-Rays a month and used ones whenever my fancy is struck. They are my physical disc and shall remain mine. Last year went through the trouble of registering them all through Ultraviolet and all the other streaming services, only to receive an email from Ultraviolet that they're shutting down and all that is going away.
One of these days I'll buy a little storage network and rip my library, but I'll keep the discs - gotta figure out a backup strategy. Meanwhile, I'll keep my Amazon Prime and Netflix subscriptions and pay for HBO when John Oliver is in-season. But Disney and CBS and all these boutique streaming services will never get a dime from me. I found just how shallow the streaming pool was when I went looking for certain obscure movies (The Return of the Tall Blonde Man With One Black Shoe anyone? Bueller?) and with the death of Criterion's service, that's it. Amazon and Netflix plus HBO occasionally does me quite well - I don't need more TV viewing.
Spielburg's problem is that he's never lived in an underserved area. I have one 10 screen theater 20 minutes from my house, there's a lot of stuff that never comes near me. If I want a broad selection of theaters, it's 2 hours to El Paso, we don't make that drive very often. The town an hour north of me has 4 screens! I was a movie junkie when I lived in Phoenix 14 years ago, and now I just have to accept that there's a ton of stuff that I'll never see until it's released on one of my streaming services or DVD, if I bother.
I look at his entry on IMDB and he's executive producer on so much television and on so many marginal projects that it's laughable. He needs to give Netflix a break. Maybe things shouldn't be eligible for both an Emmy and an Oscar, but by that standard then a song in a movie shouldn't be eligible for an Oscar and a Grammy.
Legend of Buster Scruggs. Granted, it wasn't worth either IMO, but it was shown in theaters for a week(?) before being released on Netflix. But I agree with your point.
Rats. I knew about Devotion a few days ago and forgot to try and buy a copy then, it's now not available in the USA. *sigh* I really wanted to buy a copy before it was "fixed".
I was working for a fairly large police department, and our mobile data terminals (MDTs) were not Y2K compliant. They were 386's running Windows 3, I can't remember if it was Windows for Workgroups, and Moto told us they wouldn't roll over properly and would cost on the order of $300+ per terminal to update, and we had over 1000 cars.
After researching further, we learned that when the officers logged on to our dispatch system that it downloaded the correct date/time from the Unisys mainframe, overriding the Windows clock. Y2K endrun, Motorola doesn't get a trunkfull of money from us. Everybody working 3rd shift on 31 December 1999 were instructed to log off just before midnight and sign back in just after. Everything worked just fine. The MDTs continued working properly for years until they were eventually replaced.
The only Y2K casualty that we had was the Dispatch system on the HP minis! A patch was supposed to self-deploy at midnight: it was compiled and ready to go, but someone didn't run the link/edit step, and when it deployed, crashed it crashed the whole shebang. At least our Windows network was flawless.
While I can understand the guy not wanting to pay Motorola a ridiculous amount of money to update the radios, if you sign the contract, you're obligating yourself to the licensing fees. Motorola was infamous for this, so either read the fine print and negotiate a better contract, or find a vendor that will give you a better deal - you don't have to deal with Motorola directly to buy Motorola equipment!
I decided a few years back that I'm not going to buy anything newer than a 2012 MacBook Pro, it's the last year that was assembled with screws. Get 16 gig of ram and a 2 TB SSD and it's really nice laptop. I don't know what I'll do for a desktop, right now I'm on a 2015 iMac which should be good for a few more years,so that decision is down the road a bit. If an employer wants me to have equipment newer than that, they can pay and maintain it - my personal equipment will be a bit more 'vintage'.
I prefer "Everybody is someone else's weirdo." I pride myself on being able to fulfill that role for many people simultaneously.
According to the bio info that I could find, Garber is a high school graduate, spent 20 years in the Navy, and a retired construction worker. So no higher education to speak of aside form whatever training the Navy gave him. Here's a list of the legislation he's sponsored in Kansas in the eight years he's been in the House from his Kansas legislature web page. And if you look at the bill numbers on the last six bills, they were probably all submitted in the same session, if not on the same day.
Sponsored Bills
HB2274 - Requiring notification to patients that the effects of a medication abortion may be reversible.
HB2288 - Creating the Kansas student and educator freedom of religious speech act.
HB2318 - Constitutional restrictions on taxpayer funding for abortions.
HB2319 - Enacting the human trafficking and child exploitation prevention act.
HB2320 - Enacting the marriage and constitution restoration act.
HB2321 - Creating the optional elevated marriage act.
HB2322 - Creating a cause of action for censorship or suppression of social media speech.
HB2323 - Imposing an excise tax on admission to adult-oriented businesses.
Southeast Oregon. Looks a lot like Arizona desert.
My wife did exactly this when her dad died. She flew El Paso -> Phoenix -> Cleveland, I joined her in Phoenix. When we returned I told her she was spending a few days with me in Phoenix (I was finishing up a contract) and I was driving her home.
Screw the airlines. We just let that final leg go unused and eventually expire.
The problem is volume, and people like my wife who receives calls from people outside the observatory who need to get ahold of her whom she doesn't have in her contacts. And as she's an astronomer, she has weird sleeping hours and Do Not Disturb hours don't work well for her.
But our major scourge of robocalls, like many, are forged from our local area code and prefix. I'm really hoping that this service will help with that. Had I known about the $3 service, I would have subscribed to it ages ago for her! Me, I let any unrecognized number go to voicemail, the look it up on 800notes.com then deal with it as appropriate. I have a VERY long block list on my phone.
Tough shit, Apple. I'm content with my iPhone 6 and see no need to upgrade to something beyond a 6S as I don't want to lose my headphone jack. Plus, I may upgrade to a 5S as I like the smaller form factor. YOU. ARE. NOT. MAKING. A. NEW. PHONE. THAT. I. WANT. Fix that and include a headphone jack and I may consider buying a new phone.
Further proof that Apple has been taken over and is being ruled by MBAs rather than innovators.
My problem is with Notes and Contacts. I won't be able to find a note on my phone, but it'll still be on my iMac, so I'll update it there and it'll automagically reappear on my phone. And don't get me started on contacts! Major PITB with my Christmas card list this year! They need an option where I can declare 'This device is the master, push it out to all my other devices'. Music works OK for me, it's the Podcast app that's the biggest pain in my experience, but it's also the one that I use the most. I had to abandon it when 11.0 came out and it broke the 'play the next episode when this one is done' mode, something that some people might consider fundamental. Their inability to flag an episode on the phone as played is a stupid feature removal.
I doubt I'm going to move beyond a 6S (currently on a 6) because of the headphone jack issue. My wife's car doesn't have BT and we're not going to replace the car, or its stereo, or start messing with a firk-ding-blast BT dongle to make my phone work in her car for trips. I'm considering going back to a 5S because I prefer the smaller form factor.
Myself, I think things have gone downhill since Jobs died. I think MBAs have taken over and the company has shifted to Profit Uber Alles rather than making products that can be the best that they can be.
I do have a 1 pound note in my wallet, it sits there next to my $2US bill. I've been curious to see if I could anything with it if I ever get to England.
A lot of libraries, in addition to digital services, now have Maker Spaces of varying capabilities. There's many different ways of engaging people to stimulate knowledge and critical thinking.
What's ticking me off with the iPhone is that, aside from removing the headphone jack, is their size bias. I want a smaller form factor. I want the 5-series form factor back, and they're showing no inclination to go in that direction. I loved my 4S, which is now used by my wife, but Verizon is turning off their 3G network in '09 so that will have to be retired. I can give her my 6, which has a headphone jack which will work in her Subaru which doesn't have Bluetooth. So what then, I look for a used 5S?
We're not replacing my wife's car in the near future, and we're not interested in putting in a BT adapter to sync with her phone. I didn't like Apple's decision to get rid of the headphone jack then and nothing has shown me a compelling reason to like it now.
If they want them to accidentally fall into a hole, they should be sent to Oklahoma or Florida.
As much as Kansas went through its little tax-slashing mania a few years ago, I wouldn't bet that they have in-house expertise to correctly secure such an enterprise. And now it's old equipment. Yeah, dumping it is probably the best route. Maybe some of the networking gear would be good to keep, but probably wise to get ride of the servers and SANs.
And surely 640k is enough memory for a database server.
56" Ecuadoran green iguana that was almost as long as she was tall. Heck of a lizard. Or maybe she wasn't that hot of a database developer, I don't remember.
;-)
I was quite amused when Epic was the first system mentioned: only a few days ago it was mentioned in a /. article as failing a DST rollover and losing everything entered in the hour shift.
A friend of mine suffered a lizard crash when her iguana walked across her keyboard tray: the power switch for the buss strip that everything was plugged in to was attached upside down under the top of the desk, and the iguana brushed the switch and killed everything. She lost a few hours of database development when that happened.
In our case, our standard poodle is adept at conducting Google searches on my wife's work laptop. We have not yet decoded the results, our having failed to break the secret poodle code.
Unlikely to happen. The guy in Australia who is doing all this is apparently a rather infamous blowhard. From what I read, he was elected to parliament but didn't participate much. Lots of business failures, the funding for Titanic 2 is predicated on winning and settling several lawsuits against Chinese companies. Ain't gonna happen. Unfortunately I can't find the source of what I read.