Sadly, no. I've downloaded several podcast apps and even bought a couple, to no avail. I live in an area where once I'm 5 miles from home I have no signal, thus I have zero interest in streaming. So I'm dusting off my programming skills and intend to write my own with no support for streaming. A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
I don't own an Android device, I tried using it on my Nook HD+ and didn't like it, but I have friends who own Android phones. They like them, good for them. It seems to me that Apple watches Android to see what shakes out as a good improvement and then implements it. For me, I don't like the security problems with Android malware (not that iPhone is impregnable) and there were some usability things that I just didn't like. I switched to an Apple ecosystem in 2008 when I just got sick and tired of updating Windows machines every week or more, I like the ease of use.
The one thing that I really wish Apple had added in iOS 8 was the ability to turn on the hotspot on the swipe-up screen. To me, that would have been an awesome feature.
I wonder if you upgraded on your phone or via iTunes? I have about 4 gig free on my 64 gig 4S and it upgraded fine and doesn't bog down too much, seems to be mainly when I'm hitting the home button and it's zooming back to the icon display. I probably don't have more than 100 or so pictures.
I upgraded my iPad Mini Retina on Friday and it was kinda weird. After it was done updating and rebooted, it went into recovery mode. I did a restore from iTunes and it came up as an uninitialized iPad under 8, another restore took care of putting my apps back in place. I was afraid it was bricked and that I'd have to drive to El Paso to get it serviced, fortunately I didn't have to make the trip. The thing that I found very curious was that my iPhone 4S updated seamlessly.
Performance seems the same. I love the one swipe delete for email and the ability to receive iMessages on both it and my phone at the same time. And I ordered an iPhone 6 yesterday, my 4S is out of warranty and my wife wants it.
I updated my 64 gig 4S on Friday, and it's been stable and crash-free. I especially liked the Health app as it's accessible from the lock screen, assuming emergency responders know that it's there and how to get to it. I have an immune disorder so this is of interest to me, obviously not to everyone. I really like the one motion swipe delete for mail, and the Siri voice dictation in real-time is pretty cool. The funny thing is that I had more trouble upgrading my new iPad Mini Retina than I did my 4S. One other thing that was interesting, and I need to verify this: I was listening to some podcasts yesterday and when I got home, before syncing, they were already marked as played on my iMac. I'm not sure what's up with that as I try to have my phone to only sync music and podcasts via cable.
Issues: first and biggest, battery life. I noticed this yesterday when I got up and last night when I went to bed, I logged that my battery was at 66%. Eight hours later, 54%ish. I already turned off most of the background stuff that eats juice that was posted when iOS 7 came out, so I'm not sure what's up. I'm going to try putting it in airplane mode when I go to bed tonight to see if that stops whatever is eating it. Also, I'm still pissed at the way they screwed up the podcast app when 7 came out last year. I need to get back to studying Objective C/Swift and write my own.
That's about what I was considering. When I was working I'd store my off-site backups at work and rotate them every month. Now that I'm not, rotating them at my wife's office works just fine. If I ever get to the point that I can afford two enclosures, I have a friend in Colorado who pays for outrageous bandwidth that I could probably host the second unit with.
That has not been my observation over many years of observation, and we started watching closely after the news of this came out months ago. Including when our dog is off the leash in the back yard.
The advantage of tape is capacity, the advantage of Bluray is cost. I used to use tapes extensively for my home systems, but hard drive growth just blew past affordable tape capacity, so I abandoned it. Even at its theoretical max density of 128 gig, it'd take 16 discs to back up my system. Not worth it for me.
I use an iMac with 2TB internal, I keep a 3TB external for Time Machine backups, and every couple of months or before we go out of town for any length of time I swap it with its companion at my wife's work place. The problem is that I'd like to go to 3-4TB internal, at which point my process breaks down. I freed up some space recently and now have about 40 gig free, but there were times when I had less than 10.
I think I'm going to get 3x1 TB USBs and move my photo archive to it, my pix take up almost 400 gig, then just do full copies when I plan to rotate my backups. I don't think I'm ready for NAS yet, though I am looking in to it.
I saw a bumpersticker in Colorado a few day ago that said "Buy a gun, piss off a liberal." I immediately thought of "I'm not a conservative and I own guns. Questions?" My friend came up with "Pro-gun, anti-NRA".
Except Kickstarter is a division of Amazon. If you run a Kickstarter and it funds, KS takes a percentage of your pledges, as does Amazon for being the funding source.
Law-abiding citizens? There ain't no such thing. Everybody occasionally breaks the speed limit, on purpose or inadvertently. I knew a preacher in Tucson who jokingly confessed in front of a congregation that he'd occasionally let the speedometer creep up to 60 when he was driving to Phoenix (back during the Arab Oil Embargo and the 55 MPH speed limit days). So I guess guns mostly do that right now.
Even though it would have violated Iraqi territoriality, such as it is, the US should have sent over a few B-52s to just bomb the hell out of those bases after they were overrun. Easier to ask forgiveness than permission. Three divisions worth of hardware? Geez.
I really hate this as a direction the industry is going: stream everything! That's fine for a lot of people who live in major metropolitan areas with lots of cell coverage. Here's the problem: we don't have reliable cellular service where we live. Yes, I have it in my house. But once I leave home to go to my wife's work place or down to town, half an hour to either place, no cell service. If I'm driving SE to Texas or Carlsbad, forget it. North to Ruidoso? Nada.
Apple is making their podcast app an increasing exercise in frustration with every iteration. If people want to stream, fine. I want to download apps and music and podcasts when I sync my phone in the morning, and that should be all there is to it. Everything that I've selected should be on the phone at that point, and NOTHING should say 'You have to turn on cellular service to play this podcast.' I DON'T CARE that there are other podcasts that I could stream, I have plenty to listen to and will download those others the next time I sync.
It's driven me to get books on Objective C and Swift and dust off the cobwebs on my C et al skills and roll my own podcast app. Yes, I occasionally look at various iTunes podcast apps in the store, haven't yet found one that did what I want. I'll gladly entertain suggestions for new apps.
While the number of guns has increased, the number of households and people with guns have decreased. What you have is a small(ish) group of individuals buying as many guns as they can possibly afford while the broad public sentiment seems to be eschewing gun ownership.
And I have owned probably 20 guns cumulatively and over 10 at the same time at one point. I haven't owned any in over a decade for various reasons. And I don't feel particularly uncomfortable not owning any, though I do miss target and trap & skeet shooting at the range. Still, I have plenty of other entertainments and hobbies to keep me occupied.
I'm not being sarcastic, I'd just like some more info. It's hard for me to do research myself right now as I had cataract surgery and certain types of computer work can be intensely frustrating.
I was taking a refresher algebra course at NMSU, not advanced stuff. Used copies of the text were in the campus bookstore at over $100 a pop. Looking up the ISBN on Amazon? Nothing. Turns out that NMSU provided about 10 pages of additional questions at the end of the book, making it unique.
Remember the kid who was taking AP English and writing a paper on 1984? Amazon yanked the book because they screwed up their licensing, and the kid lost all his notes that were on his Kindle.
And considering the strong-arming that Amazon is attempting to do with Hachette and did with Time-Warner Video, they definitely ain't no saints.
I'm taking classes in library science right now, and this is a big problem. I remember using a reference online in class that listed all book stores in the world. It's revised every couple of years, I thought it would be pretty cool (dunno why) to own a copy. The new book is over $500 for a physical copy, you can buy the previous edition on Amazon, ex-libris, for $5 or so.
I don't have a problem, per se, with companies wanting to make a profit. But there's a difference between making a profit and gouging for as much money as you can. Libraries never have as much money as they need, and pricing online material like this is going to move them one step closer to extinction for both the companies making the resources and the libraries themselves.
I had an amazingly weird college book store experience while taking a New Mexico State University class on a military base. I went to the store, on-base, to buy the book for the class. It was a window where you told the worker what class you were taking and they went and got your book. I thought it was maybe because they offered a small number of courses on-base, so they didn't have the room for a big bookstore. Then I take a class in Las Cruces at a large facility: same thing. Zero opportunity to browse shelves and discover new things to learn, something that I loved to do when I lived in Phoenix. New Mexico is a weird place in a lot of ways, but Arizona has gotten even more strange in the last decade.
Today's Dictionary.Com word of the day was 'philology: the love of learning and literature'.
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Sadly, no. I've downloaded several podcast apps and even bought a couple, to no avail. I live in an area where once I'm 5 miles from home I have no signal, thus I have zero interest in streaming. So I'm dusting off my programming skills and intend to write my own with no support for streaming. A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
I don't own an Android device, I tried using it on my Nook HD+ and didn't like it, but I have friends who own Android phones. They like them, good for them. It seems to me that Apple watches Android to see what shakes out as a good improvement and then implements it. For me, I don't like the security problems with Android malware (not that iPhone is impregnable) and there were some usability things that I just didn't like. I switched to an Apple ecosystem in 2008 when I just got sick and tired of updating Windows machines every week or more, I like the ease of use.
The one thing that I really wish Apple had added in iOS 8 was the ability to turn on the hotspot on the swipe-up screen. To me, that would have been an awesome feature.
I wonder if you upgraded on your phone or via iTunes? I have about 4 gig free on my 64 gig 4S and it upgraded fine and doesn't bog down too much, seems to be mainly when I'm hitting the home button and it's zooming back to the icon display. I probably don't have more than 100 or so pictures.
I upgraded my iPad Mini Retina on Friday and it was kinda weird. After it was done updating and rebooted, it went into recovery mode. I did a restore from iTunes and it came up as an uninitialized iPad under 8, another restore took care of putting my apps back in place. I was afraid it was bricked and that I'd have to drive to El Paso to get it serviced, fortunately I didn't have to make the trip. The thing that I found very curious was that my iPhone 4S updated seamlessly.
Performance seems the same. I love the one swipe delete for email and the ability to receive iMessages on both it and my phone at the same time. And I ordered an iPhone 6 yesterday, my 4S is out of warranty and my wife wants it.
I updated my 64 gig 4S on Friday, and it's been stable and crash-free. I especially liked the Health app as it's accessible from the lock screen, assuming emergency responders know that it's there and how to get to it. I have an immune disorder so this is of interest to me, obviously not to everyone. I really like the one motion swipe delete for mail, and the Siri voice dictation in real-time is pretty cool. The funny thing is that I had more trouble upgrading my new iPad Mini Retina than I did my 4S. One other thing that was interesting, and I need to verify this: I was listening to some podcasts yesterday and when I got home, before syncing, they were already marked as played on my iMac. I'm not sure what's up with that as I try to have my phone to only sync music and podcasts via cable.
Issues: first and biggest, battery life. I noticed this yesterday when I got up and last night when I went to bed, I logged that my battery was at 66%. Eight hours later, 54%ish. I already turned off most of the background stuff that eats juice that was posted when iOS 7 came out, so I'm not sure what's up. I'm going to try putting it in airplane mode when I go to bed tonight to see if that stops whatever is eating it. Also, I'm still pissed at the way they screwed up the podcast app when 7 came out last year. I need to get back to studying Objective C/Swift and write my own.
That's about what I was considering. When I was working I'd store my off-site backups at work and rotate them every month. Now that I'm not, rotating them at my wife's office works just fine. If I ever get to the point that I can afford two enclosures, I have a friend in Colorado who pays for outrageous bandwidth that I could probably host the second unit with.
That has not been my observation over many years of observation, and we started watching closely after the news of this came out months ago. Including when our dog is off the leash in the back yard.
I wonder if the study was peer reviewed.
The advantage of tape is capacity, the advantage of Bluray is cost. I used to use tapes extensively for my home systems, but hard drive growth just blew past affordable tape capacity, so I abandoned it. Even at its theoretical max density of 128 gig, it'd take 16 discs to back up my system. Not worth it for me.
I use an iMac with 2TB internal, I keep a 3TB external for Time Machine backups, and every couple of months or before we go out of town for any length of time I swap it with its companion at my wife's work place. The problem is that I'd like to go to 3-4TB internal, at which point my process breaks down. I freed up some space recently and now have about 40 gig free, but there were times when I had less than 10.
I think I'm going to get 3x1 TB USBs and move my photo archive to it, my pix take up almost 400 gig, then just do full copies when I plan to rotate my backups. I don't think I'm ready for NAS yet, though I am looking in to it.
I have the original trilogy on Laserdisc from before Lucas starting mucking with it.
I saw a bumpersticker in Colorado a few day ago that said "Buy a gun, piss off a liberal." I immediately thought of "I'm not a conservative and I own guns. Questions?" My friend came up with "Pro-gun, anti-NRA".
Except Kickstarter is a division of Amazon. If you run a Kickstarter and it funds, KS takes a percentage of your pledges, as does Amazon for being the funding source.
It'll never die.
I wonder if the people who crafted the statement knew that their own IT department probably/hopefully uses VPN regularly?
Law-abiding citizens? There ain't no such thing. Everybody occasionally breaks the speed limit, on purpose or inadvertently. I knew a preacher in Tucson who jokingly confessed in front of a congregation that he'd occasionally let the speedometer creep up to 60 when he was driving to Phoenix (back during the Arab Oil Embargo and the 55 MPH speed limit days). So I guess guns mostly do that right now.
Another case of cranial/rectal inversion, eh?
Even though it would have violated Iraqi territoriality, such as it is, the US should have sent over a few B-52s to just bomb the hell out of those bases after they were overrun. Easier to ask forgiveness than permission. Three divisions worth of hardware? Geez.
I'll have to take a look at it. I have a 64 gig iPhone and am quite happy with the mix. Interface matters a lot to me, so we shall see.
I really hate this as a direction the industry is going: stream everything! That's fine for a lot of people who live in major metropolitan areas with lots of cell coverage. Here's the problem: we don't have reliable cellular service where we live. Yes, I have it in my house. But once I leave home to go to my wife's work place or down to town, half an hour to either place, no cell service. If I'm driving SE to Texas or Carlsbad, forget it. North to Ruidoso? Nada.
Apple is making their podcast app an increasing exercise in frustration with every iteration. If people want to stream, fine. I want to download apps and music and podcasts when I sync my phone in the morning, and that should be all there is to it. Everything that I've selected should be on the phone at that point, and NOTHING should say 'You have to turn on cellular service to play this podcast.' I DON'T CARE that there are other podcasts that I could stream, I have plenty to listen to and will download those others the next time I sync.
It's driven me to get books on Objective C and Swift and dust off the cobwebs on my C et al skills and roll my own podcast app. Yes, I occasionally look at various iTunes podcast apps in the store, haven't yet found one that did what I want. I'll gladly entertain suggestions for new apps.
Hawaii is a classic case. They took away pot, and crack and meth entered the vacuum. Violent crime skyrocketed.
Thank you for the post! Very interesting stuff.
While the number of guns has increased, the number of households and people with guns have decreased. What you have is a small(ish) group of individuals buying as many guns as they can possibly afford while the broad public sentiment seems to be eschewing gun ownership.
And I have owned probably 20 guns cumulatively and over 10 at the same time at one point. I haven't owned any in over a decade for various reasons. And I don't feel particularly uncomfortable not owning any, though I do miss target and trap & skeet shooting at the range. Still, I have plenty of other entertainments and hobbies to keep me occupied.
I'm not being sarcastic, I'd just like some more info. It's hard for me to do research myself right now as I had cataract surgery and certain types of computer work can be intensely frustrating.
I was taking a refresher algebra course at NMSU, not advanced stuff. Used copies of the text were in the campus bookstore at over $100 a pop. Looking up the ISBN on Amazon? Nothing. Turns out that NMSU provided about 10 pages of additional questions at the end of the book, making it unique.
Rat bastards, all of 'em.
Remember the kid who was taking AP English and writing a paper on 1984? Amazon yanked the book because they screwed up their licensing, and the kid lost all his notes that were on his Kindle.
And considering the strong-arming that Amazon is attempting to do with Hachette and did with Time-Warner Video, they definitely ain't no saints.
I'm taking classes in library science right now, and this is a big problem. I remember using a reference online in class that listed all book stores in the world. It's revised every couple of years, I thought it would be pretty cool (dunno why) to own a copy. The new book is over $500 for a physical copy, you can buy the previous edition on Amazon, ex-libris, for $5 or so.
I don't have a problem, per se, with companies wanting to make a profit. But there's a difference between making a profit and gouging for as much money as you can. Libraries never have as much money as they need, and pricing online material like this is going to move them one step closer to extinction for both the companies making the resources and the libraries themselves.
I had an amazingly weird college book store experience while taking a New Mexico State University class on a military base. I went to the store, on-base, to buy the book for the class. It was a window where you told the worker what class you were taking and they went and got your book. I thought it was maybe because they offered a small number of courses on-base, so they didn't have the room for a big bookstore. Then I take a class in Las Cruces at a large facility: same thing. Zero opportunity to browse shelves and discover new things to learn, something that I loved to do when I lived in Phoenix. New Mexico is a weird place in a lot of ways, but Arizona has gotten even more strange in the last decade.
Today's Dictionary.Com word of the day was 'philology: the love of learning and literature'.