Speaking of which, Slashdot itself it unusable without an ad blocker. Every time I've tried without one I get redirected to some crap site. Literally every single time. I even tried from the gym on the ellipticals. Can't even read Slashdot there.
I'm constantly amazed at how many crap scripts ABP blocks. 34 on Slashdot today. That's insane.
For any mass-produced product, this will likely be significantly more expensive than including an ARM processor on a single logic board that controls the other functions of the product, e.g. a TV. People want cheap electronics that look cool, not upgradable ones. Apple understands this, although I personally hate it. I just don't see much potential for this, although it's cool.
Not sure what the article is referring to, we've had DTS:X and Atmos enabled Blu-rays and receivers for quite a while already...
That's likely just a bit stream which has no meaning per the spec. I think the spec is allowing for a higher-level way of sending that sort of audio, such that you could decode Atmos into some number of PCM streams placed in 3D space vs an Atmos bit stream. Not really sure how that helps anyone.
I know my AppleTV decodes surround sound into straight PCM surround which it sends to my receiver. I guess this would be similar, but with N spatial channels.
It's a well known open secret in Washington that the Obamas don't like the Clintons and particular Hillary.
Obama's legacies are for the most part going to be washed away. Obamacare, the TPP, and other policy initiatives will be undone the second Trump comes into office. It would be an insult to Obama's memory for him to pardon Hillary and even Barack knows this.
I don't expect him to let her off of the hook.
Seems people either are 100% in love with the Clintons or 100% hating them.
I don't really understand Obama's strategy with his presidency. He came in with such grand promises. The first thing he does is to shove ACA down everyone's throats without even letting the Republicans add a single amendment or really even debate it. That torpedoed any credibility he had to work across the isle and made the Republicans only want to seek revenge. Granted the entirety of his 8 year term they did nothing useful as a result and looked like fools. So Ohama then decided to do everything through executive orders, which will now be all wiped away. Leaving his legacy as what?
Even the ACA as written left most of the actually policy up to the discretion of the executive branch. Trump can't overturn the law without Congress, but he sure can sink it in a single day by rewriting the implementation details that Congress abdicated. That whole thing is a train wreck form the beginning.
I am thinking in this case Obama is getting a twofer : that is to say, he not only gets to not pardon Snowden (who has embarrassed Obama) but also gets to signal to Hillary that she is not getting.a pardon either without explicitly saying so, without making it look like there is strife within the Democratic Party.
That would be pretty savvy on his part if that's how it plays out. I never believed he'd pardon Snowden, and his statements in Germany were misleading at best, but a subtle signal to Hillary via this interview would be pretty genius.
I wanted to ship an older computer to my parents. USPS was significantly more expensive that UPS for some reason. USPS wanted $60 to ship it and I'd bet it was only worth $80. UPS took care of it for $40.
My employer is staffed 24/7 and I usually send everything to work since there's always someone to sign for it, if needed. USPS and Amazon will always claim they tried but no one was there for Saturday delivery. They couldn't have possibly even tried, given Saturday is just like any other day here.
We generally do better on time than you. Here's my experience:
FedEx: delivers in front of the garage door. Lies and said they put it by the front door. You leave in a hurry and run over it. I've got a number of free things as a result. Packages are often squashed.
Amazon Delivery: late about 15% of the time. They give you nothing for being late. Their tracking indicates it took 12 hours to go 8 miles in south Jersey. Traffic isn't that bad. For home delivery, they sure to deliver late. I've had them come at 8pm.
USPS: generally decent, unless it's via that idiotically pathetic Smart Post which almost guarantees you will have problems.
UPS: generally on time and delivered in good shape.
This was the first year I was prime and could take advantage of prime day. I was very disappointed. The few things I wanted sold out in minutes or even seconds. Gift cards, in particular, sell out in less than one second. I think I bought one kitchen thermometer that wasn't really even that cheap, but I needed one and it was reasonable.
Most of the stuff seemed to be crap that they wanted to get rid of. I browsed several categories, and it was just such random crap that I'd never buy. Why don't they just call it "prime clearance" since that's mostly what it is, plus a few decent items that sell out in short order.
I actually had several things I wanted to get (bed sheets, some electronic devices, household goods, etc.), but couldn't get any on prime day. Either nothing on sale or they sold out too fast. Pretty lame.
I'm not sure how well done those were. My kid can be falling asleep and I'll give him some sugary food. He's literally running in circles around the kitchen after eating it. I'd say that eating easily digested foods (sugar) boosts the blood sugar, which provides and immediate boost.
I would assume the reasons were more technical. Apple was fully capable of working out a deal if they thought it would be of value. The problem with ZFS is that it consumes more hardware resources. This is fine for a server because with additional hardware it performs quite well. People buying a server generally do not care about a couple gigs of RAM. But considering that Apple was selling laptops outfitted with 512MB - it was not a good fit. Any filesystem supported by Apple would also have to operate well over USB. If FreeBSD support for ZFS over USB is any indication, it is a bad idea (as I experienced with FreeNAS.)
That's probably one reason. Apple stated that APFS will run on the Apple Watch on up to the Mac Pro. Their cloning functions seem taylor designed for their Time Machine backup. It's also optimized for flash and SSD storage, and supports flexible encryption. I heard no mention of volume concatenation or redundancy features like many modern file systems offer, but most Mac users would never need that.
I've used both Concrete 5 and Drupal. Concrete 5 isn't as powerful, but is easier to use for normal users. I'll set up a web site for coworkers and but I definitely don't want to be involved every time they want a new page. Granted it's been a few years since I've used Drupal, but it was a confusing mess of crap before. I used Jooma as well, and while it looked nice, it was rather convoluted. Concrete 5 seems easier for newer users and is very easy to maintain. Concrete 5 isn't perfect, but neither are the others.
But honestly, picking from any of those three would be a decent choice. I'd stay clear of wordpress since it's just too basic for doing anything but a blog. Anything I wanted to do required some skanky plugin. And being a top target, you really have to stay on top of security updates.
Here here! I can't believe Abyss is not available on Blu-Ray. That's just pathetic and insulting to fans. I'd buy it today as a super-deluxe ultimate edition for $80 if I could. Seems others would and why wouldn't they want money? It's one of the few films I think about many years after I saw it.
Desktop apps compete with Google's main business model: selling advertising in could-based services, search being the prime example. I'd imagine photos and mail are thought of similarly.
I've found that searching for components on NewEgg is much easier. It's almost impossible to search for anything on Amazon that's not totally mainstream. I just put together a PC for a media server, and I purchased everything from NewEgg. They were either cheaper or I could actually find the products quickly. I don't really want to read page "1 of 234" containing random products with no relation to what I searched for. Thanks amazon.
I hate all their "marketplace" sellers (although NewEgg is doing this crap, too.) Amazon is becoming crap of late. Reviews are useless in many cases, partly because they group tons of similar products into a single "product" (especially bad with movies.) I was searching last night for LotR on Blu-Ray and their descriptions don't even say what's on the extra discs. Useless. And marketplace sellers sell cheap knockoffs that mess up reviews of genuine products. I've ordered a product based the description only to get something else. The seller then says "oh some other seller changed the description." What's the point of having descriptions, then, if any idiot can change them?
NewEgg is still pretty decent to deal with and getting someone to help you is MUCH easier than with Amazon. Everyone I've done a chat with at amazon was totally clueless. One even re-ordered my order for no apparent reason, which I then had to return. Amazon is becoming the Mos Eisley of shopping anymore: a wretched hive of scum and villainy. Good luck trying to find decent coin batteries, Lion batteries, chargers, etc. They sell them, you'll just never find them.
I'd just leave them blank. Blockbuster used to ask for that, and I left it blank. Oddly, I had a card from a store well after it went out of business ages ago and they still accepted it at other ones. I hadn't been at that address for 15 years, but that's a different story.
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Speaking of which, Slashdot itself it unusable without an ad blocker. Every time I've tried without one I get redirected to some crap site. Literally every single time. I even tried from the gym on the ellipticals. Can't even read Slashdot there.
I'm constantly amazed at how many crap scripts ABP blocks. 34 on Slashdot today. That's insane.
For any mass-produced product, this will likely be significantly more expensive than including an ARM processor on a single logic board that controls the other functions of the product, e.g. a TV. People want cheap electronics that look cool, not upgradable ones. Apple understands this, although I personally hate it. I just don't see much potential for this, although it's cool.
Not sure what the article is referring to, we've had DTS:X and Atmos enabled Blu-rays and receivers for quite a while already...
That's likely just a bit stream which has no meaning per the spec. I think the spec is allowing for a higher-level way of sending that sort of audio, such that you could decode Atmos into some number of PCM streams placed in 3D space vs an Atmos bit stream. Not really sure how that helps anyone.
I know my AppleTV decodes surround sound into straight PCM surround which it sends to my receiver. I guess this would be similar, but with N spatial channels.
It's a well known open secret in Washington that the Obamas don't like the Clintons and particular Hillary.
Obama's legacies are for the most part going to be washed away. Obamacare, the TPP, and other policy initiatives will be undone the second Trump comes into office. It would be an insult to Obama's memory for him to pardon Hillary and even Barack knows this.
I don't expect him to let her off of the hook.
Seems people either are 100% in love with the Clintons or 100% hating them.
I don't really understand Obama's strategy with his presidency. He came in with such grand promises. The first thing he does is to shove ACA down everyone's throats without even letting the Republicans add a single amendment or really even debate it. That torpedoed any credibility he had to work across the isle and made the Republicans only want to seek revenge. Granted the entirety of his 8 year term they did nothing useful as a result and looked like fools. So Ohama then decided to do everything through executive orders, which will now be all wiped away. Leaving his legacy as what?
Even the ACA as written left most of the actually policy up to the discretion of the executive branch. Trump can't overturn the law without Congress, but he sure can sink it in a single day by rewriting the implementation details that Congress abdicated. That whole thing is a train wreck form the beginning.
I am thinking in this case Obama is getting a twofer : that is to say, he not only gets to not pardon Snowden (who has embarrassed Obama) but also gets to signal to Hillary that she is not getting.a pardon either without explicitly saying so, without making it look like there is strife within the Democratic Party.
That would be pretty savvy on his part if that's how it plays out. I never believed he'd pardon Snowden, and his statements in Germany were misleading at best, but a subtle signal to Hillary via this interview would be pretty genius.
I wanted to ship an older computer to my parents. USPS was significantly more expensive that UPS for some reason. USPS wanted $60 to ship it and I'd bet it was only worth $80. UPS took care of it for $40.
My employer is staffed 24/7 and I usually send everything to work since there's always someone to sign for it, if needed. USPS and Amazon will always claim they tried but no one was there for Saturday delivery. They couldn't have possibly even tried, given Saturday is just like any other day here.
We generally do better on time than you. Here's my experience:
FedEx: delivers in front of the garage door. Lies and said they put it by the front door. You leave in a hurry and run over it. I've got a number of free things as a result. Packages are often squashed.
Amazon Delivery: late about 15% of the time. They give you nothing for being late. Their tracking indicates it took 12 hours to go 8 miles in south Jersey. Traffic isn't that bad. For home delivery, they sure to deliver late. I've had them come at 8pm.
USPS: generally decent, unless it's via that idiotically pathetic Smart Post which almost guarantees you will have problems.
UPS: generally on time and delivered in good shape.
This was the first year I was prime and could take advantage of prime day. I was very disappointed. The few things I wanted sold out in minutes or even seconds. Gift cards, in particular, sell out in less than one second. I think I bought one kitchen thermometer that wasn't really even that cheap, but I needed one and it was reasonable.
Most of the stuff seemed to be crap that they wanted to get rid of. I browsed several categories, and it was just such random crap that I'd never buy. Why don't they just call it "prime clearance" since that's mostly what it is, plus a few decent items that sell out in short order.
I actually had several things I wanted to get (bed sheets, some electronic devices, household goods, etc.), but couldn't get any on prime day. Either nothing on sale or they sold out too fast. Pretty lame.
I'm not sure how well done those were. My kid can be falling asleep and I'll give him some sugary food. He's literally running in circles around the kitchen after eating it. I'd say that eating easily digested foods (sugar) boosts the blood sugar, which provides and immediate boost.
Probably because of all the activist shareholders who sue (and win) companies for not maximizing profits above all else.
I would assume the reasons were more technical. Apple was fully capable of working out a deal if they thought it would be of value. The problem with ZFS is that it consumes more hardware resources. This is fine for a server because with additional hardware it performs quite well. People buying a server generally do not care about a couple gigs of RAM. But considering that Apple was selling laptops outfitted with 512MB - it was not a good fit. Any filesystem supported by Apple would also have to operate well over USB. If FreeBSD support for ZFS over USB is any indication, it is a bad idea (as I experienced with FreeNAS.)
That's probably one reason. Apple stated that APFS will run on the Apple Watch on up to the Mac Pro. Their cloning functions seem taylor designed for their Time Machine backup. It's also optimized for flash and SSD storage, and supports flexible encryption. I heard no mention of volume concatenation or redundancy features like many modern file systems offer, but most Mac users would never need that.
I've used both Concrete 5 and Drupal. Concrete 5 isn't as powerful, but is easier to use for normal users. I'll set up a web site for coworkers and but I definitely don't want to be involved every time they want a new page. Granted it's been a few years since I've used Drupal, but it was a confusing mess of crap before. I used Jooma as well, and while it looked nice, it was rather convoluted. Concrete 5 seems easier for newer users and is very easy to maintain. Concrete 5 isn't perfect, but neither are the others.
But honestly, picking from any of those three would be a decent choice. I'd stay clear of wordpress since it's just too basic for doing anything but a blog. Anything I wanted to do required some skanky plugin. And being a top target, you really have to stay on top of security updates.
Liar and thief. Which is which again?
Here here! I can't believe Abyss is not available on Blu-Ray. That's just pathetic and insulting to fans. I'd buy it today as a super-deluxe ultimate edition for $80 if I could. Seems others would and why wouldn't they want money? It's one of the few films I think about many years after I saw it.
Desktop apps compete with Google's main business model: selling advertising in could-based services, search being the prime example. I'd imagine photos and mail are thought of similarly.
Why would they want to create more competition?
I've found that searching for components on NewEgg is much easier. It's almost impossible to search for anything on Amazon that's not totally mainstream. I just put together a PC for a media server, and I purchased everything from NewEgg. They were either cheaper or I could actually find the products quickly. I don't really want to read page "1 of 234" containing random products with no relation to what I searched for. Thanks amazon.
I hate all their "marketplace" sellers (although NewEgg is doing this crap, too.) Amazon is becoming crap of late. Reviews are useless in many cases, partly because they group tons of similar products into a single "product" (especially bad with movies.) I was searching last night for LotR on Blu-Ray and their descriptions don't even say what's on the extra discs. Useless. And marketplace sellers sell cheap knockoffs that mess up reviews of genuine products. I've ordered a product based the description only to get something else. The seller then says "oh some other seller changed the description." What's the point of having descriptions, then, if any idiot can change them?
NewEgg is still pretty decent to deal with and getting someone to help you is MUCH easier than with Amazon. Everyone I've done a chat with at amazon was totally clueless. One even re-ordered my order for no apparent reason, which I then had to return. Amazon is becoming the Mos Eisley of shopping anymore: a wretched hive of scum and villainy. Good luck trying to find decent coin batteries, Lion batteries, chargers, etc. They sell them, you'll just never find them.
Well, I'm allergic to IP V6 packets on WiFi only.
(Unfortunately, I feel I need to mention that's a joke, due to the deafening sound of whooshing here of late.)
Well, if you average out all the articles on slashdot recently, you'd likely get goatse. Or maybe a dice job listing.
No, they all use 123-45-6789.
I'd just leave them blank. Blockbuster used to ask for that, and I left it blank. Oddly, I had a card from a store well after it went out of business ages ago and they still accepted it at other ones. I hadn't been at that address for 15 years, but that's a different story.
The real fun will be to see how many of these people are active politicians.
Or match with Ashley Maddison accounts who were looking for a non-white girl to hook up with. That would be seriously funny.
And Mythbusters demonstrated you can cool beer with a fire extinguisher. A rather expensive way to cool something, but still effective.
Most people print their boarding passes at home. Due to the outage, they couldn't do everyone had to wait in line at the airport.