I was a developer, more of a sysadmin nowadays. I just have the compulsion to send everything to the NAS, has then I can share between all my machines, tablets and smartphones. It is really a shame SSD drives are so overpriced. Back here Stapes is a ripoff and their pick of machines is dubious, their assistance even more suspect, we are much better served with FNAC or the actual Apple representation. I know for instance a couple of years ago they were selling notebooks HP with faulty motherboards, never owned up to it, and people lost their machines and their money.
Hi have a 250GB SSD with 60GB used. Documents, films, musics, photos, everything is in my NAS. I also use the NAS to stream movies to my TV in my iphone or iPad. SSD good for you, news for nerds? meh
There is a vested interest of the big guys to pay patent rights no matter how stupid they are. If they pay, they create precedents for others to pay, and thus create a barrier for small players to arrive to the market, due to have to pay the patents too. Microsoft is known for actively encouraging this, either directly or via proxying.
Yep, back here the local bus and taxis were too worried about the competition of the emergent car sharing market for people arriving/departing, they were strong arming them and trying to forbid them to do that at the regular pickup places that cabs and normal cars use. Finally after much racket, they established a "parking" zone, which of course only can be used by the companies that pay fees to the airport.
Very interesting comment about losing about because of (the lack) of preservatives, made me think reality about my priorities and the food I am choosing. Thank you sir for the insight. Would mod you up if I were allowed to do it in my threads.
The way we feed has changed radically in a few decades. Nowadays we can only find often GMO sources of some foods, not talking about plastic food and MGS sources... cookies, potato chips, bread... As a pure anecdotal "evidence" I was recently with my wife in the Philippines two and half weeks, and despite eating far much more, she lost weight, and I lost my belly.
Nobody moving whatever goalposts, I am entitled to have an opinion that differs from yourself and the article, and the fact is that for many of us, DVD is dead and long gone.
Again the streaming talk. Who said streaming is the only alternative? With Apple when you buy a film, you can download it, or a real alternative is to download a file. Our cable provider also provides has with a huge library of VOD movies, and all the channels with have in the TV, and has it is local traffic, it doesnt lag. People seem to be brainwashed into associating Internet with streaming; I often also watch old films in youtube and the speeds are pretty acceptable.
On the other hand some teachers, specially professors are like addicts in a power trip, and forgot why their salaries are paid, or who are their customers.
The teaching is not only at school mind you. CSI grosses me out because it is conditioning/brainwashing people police forces are justified to do whatever pleases them , lie, and not respect anything and anybody as long that produces results.
There is more of getting a movie from Internet than streaming, and it works even with weak Internet service. The thing is, you download it and watch later on.
Or so you say. When faced with a lengthy trial, that can go for years, costs of lawyers, and even if you are quite sure you are capable of winning, the possibility of 2 or 3 recourses, often you will settle for an x sum of money. You will be much saner, will go on with your life, and pocket some money on top of that. I did it a few year ago, and even if it would be easy to combat the clown lies my opponent was making up, with plenty of documentation to support my case, at the end of the day, I never regretted it.
It is not the act of popping a disc. Is having to have the hardware for it, and/or carrying an extra weight and not so thing laptop for it; going out to buy it, and pay outrageous prices for movies. Not forgetting the scam that it is BluRay. I no longer own myself a DVD player in any of my computing devices.
Plug-in for facebook? Lets see those "devout Muslims" with a revolution at hands because people are not stupidified with twitter and facebook and go to the streets...
I have a NAS with 3.5 TB at home that I can access from anywhere via all my mobile equipments, 100Mbps at home, 1000Mbps at work, and my wifi at home can go to 150Mbps and at work 100Mbps. Most of my friends have high speed at home. I also have a roaming profile in my ISP which gives me a 20-30Mbps access pretty anywhere in the big cities. So yes, I can live very well with wifi only. Last full retail price DVD I bought was maybe Star Wars (30 euros?) The Phantom Menace, and after that, I may have bought 10 of them (all legal) at the supermarket for 1.5 Euro each, all old movies. I dont even remember when I bought a music CD last time. Maybe a bootleg copy back in 2001, and in a store, legal, maybe in 2002 for a present. I do not plan *ever* to buy a Blu-ray DVD. I may went to a cinema three years ago, and because a friend wanted to; I dont see the point of going there and pay a premium to see something I can see at home, it is not like we only dont have TVs at home, and then without that pesky strangers around, in a much cleaner environment, and without 1 hour of forceful adverts. The younger generation with all our prevalent high-speed Internet here is more into youtube than TV or DVDs, also. Even when I had the DVD in the last MacBook Pro, I didnt use it much, maybe once in every 6 months for having a look at some CD/DVD some vendor gave me; and actually I was longing for a time when the damn machine had less 100-150 g without one. So, it is not an *apple* thing me believing DVDs/Blurays are a thing in the past. As you say, their blood line is just being artificially extended by predatory market forces.
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The local delicacy is disgusting, much better a grilled bacalhau or even bife na pedra. (e sim, tb sou do Porto).
I was a developer, more of a sysadmin nowadays. I just have the compulsion to send everything to the NAS, has then I can share between all my machines, tablets and smartphones. It is really a shame SSD drives are so overpriced. Back here Stapes is a ripoff and their pick of machines is dubious, their assistance even more suspect, we are much better served with FNAC or the actual Apple representation. I know for instance a couple of years ago they were selling notebooks HP with faulty motherboards, never owned up to it, and people lost their machines and their money.
Funny sir, funny. A Deviant?
Corn plantation is heavily paid with subsidies...
Hi have a 250GB SSD with 60GB used. Documents, films, musics, photos, everything is in my NAS. I also use the NAS to stream movies to my TV in my iphone or iPad. SSD good for you, news for nerds? meh
There is a vested interest of the big guys to pay patent rights no matter how stupid they are. If they pay, they create precedents for others to pay, and thus create a barrier for small players to arrive to the market, due to have to pay the patents too. Microsoft is known for actively encouraging this, either directly or via proxying.
I have 100/100 at home and 1000Mbps at work. I live in Portugal, far better weather and food ;) So come again, why going so far?
Yep, back here the local bus and taxis were too worried about the competition of the emergent car sharing market for people arriving/departing, they were strong arming them and trying to forbid them to do that at the regular pickup places that cabs and normal cars use. Finally after much racket, they established a "parking" zone, which of course only can be used by the companies that pay fees to the airport.
Very interesting comment about losing about because of (the lack) of preservatives, made me think reality about my priorities and the food I am choosing. Thank you sir for the insight. Would mod you up if I were allowed to do it in my threads.
Sorry, MSG sources. And soda pops. My ex used to drink about 10 litres of coke a week, even when pregnant.
The way we feed has changed radically in a few decades. Nowadays we can only find often GMO sources of some foods, not talking about plastic food and MGS sources ... cookies, potato chips, bread... As a pure anecdotal "evidence" I was recently with my wife in the Philippines two and half weeks, and despite eating far much more, she lost weight, and I lost my belly.
Nobody moving whatever goalposts, I am entitled to have an opinion that differs from yourself and the article, and the fact is that for many of us, DVD is dead and long gone.
Yes, this seems a lot like the script of Pandorum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P...
Again the streaming talk. Who said streaming is the only alternative? With Apple when you buy a film, you can download it, or a real alternative is to download a file. Our cable provider also provides has with a huge library of VOD movies, and all the channels with have in the TV, and has it is local traffic, it doesnt lag. People seem to be brainwashed into associating Internet with streaming; I often also watch old films in youtube and the speeds are pretty acceptable.
I tried to google that part about the bells, did not find much of interest. Care to provide some links or explain it better?
On the other hand some teachers, specially professors are like addicts in a power trip, and forgot why their salaries are paid, or who are their customers.
The teaching is not only at school mind you. CSI grosses me out because it is conditioning/brainwashing people police forces are justified to do whatever pleases them , lie, and not respect anything and anybody as long that produces results.
There is more of getting a movie from Internet than streaming, and it works even with weak Internet service. The thing is, you download it and watch later on.
Or so you say. When faced with a lengthy trial, that can go for years, costs of lawyers, and even if you are quite sure you are capable of winning, the possibility of 2 or 3 recourses, often you will settle for an x sum of money. You will be much saner, will go on with your life, and pocket some money on top of that. I did it a few year ago, and even if it would be easy to combat the clown lies my opponent was making up, with plenty of documentation to support my case, at the end of the day, I never regretted it.
It is not the act of popping a disc. Is having to have the hardware for it, and/or carrying an extra weight and not so thing laptop for it; going out to buy it, and pay outrageous prices for movies. Not forgetting the scam that it is BluRay. I no longer own myself a DVD player in any of my computing devices.
Talk for yourself. Back here Internet is prevalent and it is becoming the norm to have 50-100Mbps in the big cities.
I dont buy them, and so dont have to endure unskippable "previews" in adverts in something that is MINE. Boycott them...
Plug-in for facebook? Lets see those "devout Muslims" with a revolution at hands because people are not stupidified with twitter and facebook and go to the streets...
A new form of teen bullying, giving bad scores to the classmate you do not like...
I have a NAS with 3.5 TB at home that I can access from anywhere via all my mobile equipments, 100Mbps at home, 1000Mbps at work, and my wifi at home can go to 150Mbps and at work 100Mbps. Most of my friends have high speed at home. I also have a roaming profile in my ISP which gives me a 20-30Mbps access pretty anywhere in the big cities. So yes, I can live very well with wifi only. Last full retail price DVD I bought was maybe Star Wars (30 euros?) The Phantom Menace, and after that, I may have bought 10 of them (all legal) at the supermarket for 1.5 Euro each, all old movies. I dont even remember when I bought a music CD last time. Maybe a bootleg copy back in 2001, and in a store, legal, maybe in 2002 for a present. I do not plan *ever* to buy a Blu-ray DVD. I may went to a cinema three years ago, and because a friend wanted to; I dont see the point of going there and pay a premium to see something I can see at home, it is not like we only dont have TVs at home, and then without that pesky strangers around, in a much cleaner environment, and without 1 hour of forceful adverts. The younger generation with all our prevalent high-speed Internet here is more into youtube than TV or DVDs, also. Even when I had the DVD in the last MacBook Pro, I didnt use it much, maybe once in every 6 months for having a look at some CD/DVD some vendor gave me; and actually I was longing for a time when the damn machine had less 100-150 g without one. So, it is not an *apple* thing me believing DVDs/Blurays are a thing in the past. As you say, their blood line is just being artificially extended by predatory market forces.