Do you really think that ala-carte channels will actually reduce your cable fees? Please. Those BS channels you talk about, most of them are commercial driven and don't cost the cable company much. It's the prime channels that cost the money.
Russia, Ukraine, and the rest of East Europe have been a kind of internet's wild west since the beginning of the web popularity. When credit card numbers or email account passwords are stolen by thousands or millions, chances are good that they will be traded in the murky chatrooms among those east Europeans. Russia still has the best torrent and tor sites. "Hactivism" is still a common phenomenon in Russia, just recently somebody broke into a bunch of Kremlin official email accounts and leaked their communications.
Please. They tell us that "17 agencies" agreed that Russians meddled in the US election, yet the DNC did not allow FBI to do forensics on their hacked server. Instead, the DNC hired a private company (see a bit of conflict of interest here?) called Crowdstrike whoe conclusions that Russians hacked the DNC lingered on assumptions that were already debunked by a whole lot of experts.
Russia did not invade Georgia in 2008. Contrary, on 08.08.08 Georgians invaded the South Ossetia in a surprise attack, indiscriminately shelled civilian population and killed Russian peacekeeping troops in their sleep.
It's shocking how many Americans still believe the lies spread by CNN and the State Department on this issue. Russia's military involvement in 2008 was actually legally justified, unlike in the takeover of Crimea in 2014.
I would really love to know where you got those numbers from. Considering polling of Trump voters shows an approval rating somewhere in the low 40s consistently, how do you come up with the notion that 96% of them would vote for him again?
That's because a whole lot of people who voted at all were choosing "the least worst" candidate among two BAD candidates, so I think it's entirely possible that a lot of people who voted for Trump, do not approve him, but they would still vote for him again. Go figure..
I didn't expect them to be updated for long. But then again, it's a surprise that PS3 was being sold until now. There is a whole lot of those consoles out there. I assume the apps will continue being updated.
I don't know if I'd buy a new one, but I am certainly not getting rid of the one I have. It's basically my media entertainment center. I use it for these things:
1. Media streaming: Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, HBO, and Youtube, Tunein 2. Audio player for my vast mp3 collection. 3. Video player for any H264 files. It's easy to get them onto the PS3 by the means of USB or through the web browser connecting to a home server.
This really beats the modern "smart TVs" which spy on your web activities and even record your conversations.
There is plenty of games and other high performance apps that do scale well to the quad core Core i5. The Core i5 is basically the golden standard in the enthusiast community right now. Buy an eight-core or eight thread core i7, and you're probably wasting some money. On the other hand, the dual core i3 is clearly inferior.
But selling 18-core CPU to enthusiasts is just insane. Those people who will buy it are not "enthusiasts". They're just rich idiots.
18 cores? Please. It has already established that not even eight cores buy you a whole lot over decent four core CPU, such as the desktop Core i5. But 18 cores? please. Call me when you figure out the Amdahl's law.
Thanks for pointing out the obvious. Surface is basically a fancy laptop, and a poor one. Surface sucks as a tablet. It's thick, it's heavy, and it's clumsy to use. The Windows 10 UI and its apps leave a lot to be desired in the tablet mode.
I have to add that Surface Pro is also a very clumsy laptop. The keyboard bends and feels like it is made from recycled walmart plastics. It is not really a "laptop" because try to use it on your laps. Forget it! The screen is too unstable.
Basically, the Surface Pro 4 line is a lousy laptop and a BAD tablet. I don't know how to describe the popularity of this line of products without resorting to the iSheeple or MsLemming phenomenons.
I think people criticizing this phone doesn't seem to get the point of Android. The greatest thing about Android phones is the amount of CHOICES and INNOVATION that are happening right now. Apple, which was producing effectively the same phone for the last three iterations, is now falling behind.
Want a smartphone with a physical keyboard? Get Blackberry Keyone. What a phone with no bezels? Get the Samsung S8. Want a phone with modular expansion? Get the Moto X. Want a Chinese phone with near flagship specs at one half of price? Get a Huawei Honor 8. etc. Want a phone that runs a lean Android ROM and monthly security updates? Get a Pixel. In the Android marketplace, there is now a smartphone for every taste and desire. None of those phones are meant to appeal to everyone, but each has its small niche.
A similar story here. The humble LG Nexus 5X is still my daily driver. Despite its flaws, it does everything I need. It will get Android O. It will get monthly security updates until at least September of 2018. The screen and camera are great, it has a fingerprint scanner in the right place (on the back), and its CPU is fast enough for all things I need to do. Best thing, I got it for just 250USD last year. Now, I am not convinced that the new flagship phones that cost 2.5-3 times the price are three times better.
That report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and National Intelligence Council only contains wild accusations or speculations without showing any evidence or proofs whatsoever. That document is a joke and was debunked many times.
I think the problem with all the people, politicians, and governments accusing the Russian state of hacking for the most part think that to charge Kremlin with such a crime it is sufficient only to make a case that Kremlin would benefit from it, and then pretty much stopping there.
Take for example the break-ins into the DNC server in the summer of 2016. Politicians (mostly the democrats or pro-war wing of republicans) and highly politically motivated executives fed us the lie that "17 intelligence agencies agree that Russians interfered in the US presidential elections". And yet it turns out that none of those agencies studied the DNC computers because DNC would not let FBI touch them, so the forensics were outsourced to Crowdstrike, which was paid by DNC, an interested party.
CrowdStrike's argument that Russian state was behind the hack lingered on a couple of veery lose assumptions, at least one of which was already debunked.
But to prove the interference in the election, it is not sufficient to prove that Russian state broke into someone's server (heck, many many states are hacking into each others systems as I type this), but to prove the _interference_ in the election, one also needs to show the evidence that it was Russians who leaked the email archive, and as far as I recall, we haven't heard of any evidence implicating the Russians in that. In fact, there have been already been parties, other than Russians, claiming that they leaked the emails to wikileaks, Julian Assange also denied it was Russians.
Anyways. all this talk that "Russia hacked the USA elections" is simply an insult to the intelligence of the American citizens so far.
I think people are now suffering these days from the embarrassment of riches.
For a large household, something like our 120USD a month Uverse TV package should be a must. So what do we get?
Pretty much every movie channel. Every news channel Every sports channel Every pet, travel, cooking, comedy, music, and cartoon channel, and tons of other special interest channels.
We can watch it live, record on the DVR, or stream the premium channels to a table or phone, often free of data charges.
In fact, there is so much content to see, we barely ever rent discs, and hardly every go to movie theater (maybe once or twice a year). What's the point if all the latest films will hit the cable's premium TV channels a year since release.
The cord-cutting streaming options don't come close to this. I understand that a single guy or a young couple won't necessarily cough out so much money for cable subscription, but for a large household it works out pretty nicely.
Netflix does not even close to the coverage you get from a full service cable package.
There is always someone in my household who likes politics. So we gotta have CNN. Fox, BBC, MSNBC, OneAmerica, etc. There is always someone who likes movies and shows, so we gotta have AMC, FX, HBO, Cinemax, at very least. There are people who enjoy soccer, NBA, winter sports, and Formula 1. So we gotta have pretty much every sports channel. There are people who like cartoons, comedy, travel, nature, pet, and cooking shows, so we gotta have all those special interest channels too. So in the end having a full menu of channels for 120bucks isn't so bad for a large household. And you can still stream it all, or pre-record on DVR.
I have netflix and amazon prime accounts too, and I know they don't even close to variety of the cable.
Sounds like you don't watch cable a lot. One-sided politics is mostly on CNN, Fox, and MSNBC. There is of course lots of entertainment, news, sports, and movies on the cable. In fact, the cord cutting options don't even come close to replace a full service TV package I receive from Uverse about 120 a month.
There is always someone in my household who likes politics. So we gotta have CNN. Fox, BBC, MSNBC, OneAmerica, etc. There is always someone who likes movies and shows, so we gotta have AMC, FX, HBO, Cinemax, at very least. There are people who enjoy soccer, NBA, winter sports, and Formula 1. So we gotta have pretty much every sports channel. There are people who like travel, nature, pet, and cooking shows, so we gotta have all those special interest channels too. So in the end having a full menu of channels for 120bucks isn't so bad. And you can still stream it all, or pre-record on DVR.
A lot of my Uverse channels now allow streaming. They have Android apps for HBO, Cinemax, AMC, FX, NBC, Fox, ESPN, etc which show reruns, and the "Uverse" app for showing live content. Moreover, streaming over Uverse app does not count against your cellular data. The only issue I have with all of these streaming apps is that none of them allows to skip the commercials, which serves as a incentive for me to get off myass and go downstairs to the living room where I can see a 40-minute recorded show on the DVR without having to watch 20 minutes of commercials.
Gosh, I swear if the smartphone kills me while driving, it's not because of texting and driving. It will be because of tinkering with the BT settings. Every second car with bluetooth unit I have tried using has _serious_ bugs. Sometimes the bluetooth connection is not made at all when you start the car, sometimes it is made, but audio continues playing through the phone, sometimes the audio controls on the car stereo don't function properly with the phone, and sometimes when everything works, the incoming phone call crashes the stereo unit, and then you need to answer the phone the old-fashioned way.
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Do you really think that ala-carte channels will actually reduce your cable fees? Please. Those BS channels you talk about, most of them are commercial driven and don't cost the cable company much. It's the prime channels that cost the money.
To be fair, RT often slaps poor ratings on comedies that the fans of the genre still find to be entertaining and worth of watching.
Russia, Ukraine, and the rest of East Europe have been a kind of internet's wild west since the beginning of the web popularity. When credit card numbers or email account passwords are stolen by thousands or millions, chances are good that they will be traded in the murky chatrooms among those east Europeans. Russia still has the best torrent and tor sites. "Hactivism" is still a common phenomenon in Russia, just recently somebody broke into a bunch of Kremlin official email accounts and leaked their communications.
Please. They tell us that "17 agencies" agreed that Russians meddled in the US election, yet the DNC did not allow FBI to do forensics on their hacked server. Instead, the DNC hired a private company (see a bit of conflict of interest here?) called Crowdstrike whoe conclusions that Russians hacked the DNC lingered on assumptions that were already debunked by a whole lot of experts.
Russia did not invade Georgia in 2008. Contrary, on 08.08.08 Georgians invaded the South Ossetia in a surprise attack, indiscriminately shelled civilian population and killed Russian peacekeeping troops in their sleep.
Russian peacekeepers were in charge of pacifying and separating both of the fighting sides from each other after the violent separatist conflict of 1991-1992, when the separatists, Georgians, and the Russian Federation agreed to cease fire and designated Russian troops as the peacekeepersagreed to cease fire and designated Russian troops as the peacekeepers in the separatist region.
It's shocking how many Americans still believe the lies spread by CNN and the State Department on this issue. Russia's military involvement in 2008 was actually legally justified, unlike in the takeover of Crimea in 2014.
I would really love to know where you got those numbers from. Considering polling of Trump voters shows an approval rating somewhere in the low 40s consistently, how do you come up with the notion that 96% of them would vote for him again?
That's because a whole lot of people who voted at all were choosing "the least worst" candidate among two BAD candidates, so I think it's entirely possible that a lot of people who voted for Trump, do not approve him, but they would still vote for him again. Go figure..
I didn't expect them to be updated for long. But then again, it's a surprise that PS3 was being sold until now. There is a whole lot of those consoles out there. I assume the apps will continue being updated.
I don't know if I'd buy a new one, but I am certainly not getting rid of the one I have. It's basically my media entertainment center. I use it for these things:
1. Media streaming: Netflix, Hulu, Amazon, HBO, and Youtube, Tunein
2. Audio player for my vast mp3 collection.
3. Video player for any H264 files. It's easy to get them onto the PS3 by the means of USB or through the web browser connecting to a home server.
This really beats the modern "smart TVs" which spy on your web activities and even record your conversations.
There is plenty of games and other high performance apps that do scale well to the quad core Core i5. The Core i5 is basically the golden standard in the enthusiast community right now. Buy an eight-core or eight thread core i7, and you're probably wasting some money. On the other hand, the dual core i3 is clearly inferior.
But selling 18-core CPU to enthusiasts is just insane. Those people who will buy it are not "enthusiasts". They're just rich idiots.
18 cores? Please. It has already established that not even eight cores buy you a whole lot over decent four core CPU, such as the desktop Core i5. But 18 cores? please. Call me when you figure out the Amdahl's law.
Thanks for pointing out the obvious. Surface is basically a fancy laptop, and a poor one. Surface sucks as a tablet. It's thick, it's heavy, and it's clumsy to use. The Windows 10 UI and its apps leave a lot to be desired in the tablet mode.
I have to add that Surface Pro is also a very clumsy laptop. The keyboard bends and feels like it is made from recycled walmart plastics. It is not really a "laptop" because try to use it on your laps. Forget it! The screen is too unstable.
Basically, the Surface Pro 4 line is a lousy laptop and a BAD tablet. I don't know how to describe the popularity of this line of products without resorting to the iSheeple or MsLemming phenomenons.
I think people criticizing this phone doesn't seem to get the point of Android. The greatest thing about Android phones is the amount of CHOICES and INNOVATION that are happening right now. Apple, which was producing effectively the same phone for the last three iterations, is now falling behind.
Want a smartphone with a physical keyboard? Get Blackberry Keyone. What a phone with no bezels? Get the Samsung S8. Want a phone with modular expansion? Get the Moto X. Want a Chinese phone with near flagship specs at one half of price? Get a Huawei Honor 8. etc. Want a phone that runs a lean Android ROM and monthly security updates? Get a Pixel. In the Android marketplace, there is now a smartphone for every taste and desire. None of those phones are meant to appeal to everyone, but each has its small niche.
A similar story here. The humble LG Nexus 5X is still my daily driver. Despite its flaws, it does everything I need. It will get Android O. It will get monthly security updates until at least September of 2018. The screen and camera are great, it has a fingerprint scanner in the right place (on the back), and its CPU is fast enough for all things I need to do. Best thing, I got it for just 250USD last year. Now, I am not convinced that the new flagship phones that cost 2.5-3 times the price are three times better.
Every smartphone runs a custom version of Android. Nobody gets updates from google, except Google phones.
Wait, are you saying Windows Update is now just as broke on Windows 7 as it always was on 10?
That report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and National Intelligence Council only contains wild accusations or speculations without showing any evidence or proofs whatsoever. That document is a joke and was debunked many times.
And no a single gram of evidence to back up those ridiculous accusations. What else did we expect from Clinton appointees in the security agencies?
Let's just call everyone who doesn't agree with the mainstream media a useful idiot, or wait, a Kremlin bot. Wait, it has already been done:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com...
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I think the problem with all the people, politicians, and governments accusing the Russian state of hacking for the most part think that to charge Kremlin with such a crime it is sufficient only to make a case that Kremlin would benefit from it, and then pretty much stopping there.
Take for example the break-ins into the DNC server in the summer of 2016. Politicians (mostly the democrats or pro-war wing of republicans) and highly politically motivated executives fed us the lie that "17 intelligence agencies agree that Russians interfered in the US presidential elections". And yet it turns out that none of those agencies studied the DNC computers because DNC would not let FBI touch them, so the forensics were outsourced to Crowdstrike, which was paid by DNC, an interested party.
CrowdStrike's argument that Russian state was behind the hack lingered on a couple of veery lose assumptions, at least one of which was already debunked.
But to prove the interference in the election, it is not sufficient to prove that Russian state broke into someone's server (heck, many many states are hacking into each others systems as I type this), but to prove the _interference_ in the election, one also needs to show the evidence that it was Russians who leaked the email archive, and as far as I recall, we haven't heard of any evidence implicating the Russians in that. In fact, there have been already been parties, other than Russians, claiming that they leaked the emails to wikileaks, Julian Assange also denied it was Russians.
Anyways. all this talk that "Russia hacked the USA elections" is simply an insult to the intelligence of the American citizens so far.
I think people are now suffering these days from the embarrassment of riches.
For a large household, something like our 120USD a month Uverse TV package should be a must. So what do we get?
Pretty much every movie channel.
Every news channel
Every sports channel
Every pet, travel, cooking, comedy, music, and cartoon channel, and tons of other special interest channels.
We can watch it live, record on the DVR, or stream the premium channels to a table or phone, often free of data charges.
In fact, there is so much content to see, we barely ever rent discs, and hardly every go to movie theater (maybe once or twice a year). What's the point if all the latest films will hit the cable's premium TV channels a year since release.
The cord-cutting streaming options don't come close to this. I understand that a single guy or a young couple won't necessarily cough out so much money for cable subscription, but for a large household it works out pretty nicely.
Netflix does not even close to the coverage you get from a full service cable package.
There is always someone in my household who likes politics. So we gotta have CNN. Fox, BBC, MSNBC, OneAmerica, etc. There is always someone who likes movies and shows, so we gotta have AMC, FX, HBO, Cinemax, at very least. There are people who enjoy soccer, NBA, winter sports, and Formula 1. So we gotta have pretty much every sports channel. There are people who like cartoons, comedy, travel, nature, pet, and cooking shows, so we gotta have all those special interest channels too. So in the end having a full menu of channels for 120bucks isn't so bad for a large household. And you can still stream it all, or pre-record on DVR.
I have netflix and amazon prime accounts too, and I know they don't even close to variety of the cable.
Sounds like you don't watch cable a lot. One-sided politics is mostly on CNN, Fox, and MSNBC. There is of course lots of entertainment, news, sports, and movies on the cable. In fact, the cord cutting options don't even come close to replace a full service TV package I receive from Uverse about 120 a month.
There is always someone in my household who likes politics. So we gotta have CNN. Fox, BBC, MSNBC, OneAmerica, etc. There is always someone who likes movies and shows, so we gotta have AMC, FX, HBO, Cinemax, at very least. There are people who enjoy soccer, NBA, winter sports, and Formula 1. So we gotta have pretty much every sports channel. There are people who like travel, nature, pet, and cooking shows, so we gotta have all those special interest channels too. So in the end having a full menu of channels for 120bucks isn't so bad. And you can still stream it all, or pre-record on DVR.
A lot of my Uverse channels now allow streaming. They have Android apps for HBO, Cinemax, AMC, FX, NBC, Fox, ESPN, etc which show reruns, and the "Uverse" app for showing live content. Moreover, streaming over Uverse app does not count against your cellular data. The only issue I have with all of these streaming apps is that none of them allows to skip the commercials, which serves as a incentive for me to get off myass and go downstairs to the living room where I can see a 40-minute recorded show on the DVR without having to watch 20 minutes of commercials.
Operating system choices? Are you smoking pot?
Gosh, I swear if the smartphone kills me while driving, it's not because of texting and driving. It will be because of tinkering with the BT settings. Every second car with bluetooth unit I have tried using has _serious_ bugs. Sometimes the bluetooth connection is not made at all when you start the car, sometimes it is made, but audio continues playing through the phone, sometimes the audio controls on the car stereo don't function properly with the phone, and sometimes when everything works, the incoming phone call crashes the stereo unit, and then you need to answer the phone the old-fashioned way.