When you rotated the barrel of the camera, physical blades would block the lens completely.
Nowadays you have to use a piece of tape to accomplish that simple task. Why not just have a little physical slider, built into the laptop, which would obscure the lens?
Bought a (second) refurbished 2015 MacBook Pro from Apple several months ago. Every product announcement reinforces my conviction that I made the right decision.
While the number of games sounds imppressive, how many of those titles are actually novel or unique and how many are simply variants on the small number of 30 year-old concepts?
I fail to see how this is a critique of gaming on Linux versus gaming in general...
I just finished setting up a NAS/DLNA server for my home.
We’ve got an old 2006 MacBook Pro we use for this purpose. It doesn’t take much horsepower to stream video, and it sure makes finding the movie you want to watch a lot easier when you don’t have to dig through a couple hundred DVD/Blu-Ray cases sitting on a shelf somewhere!
I’m like you - if I like a movie enough that I’ll want to see it again, I buy it. And if I’d have known about this service, I’d certainly have subscribed. But overall the golden age of movie access is over.
For a number of years, Netflix was the perfect service for us. We put together a queue of all the movies that we wanted to watch, and Netflix pretty much had them all on DVD. We kept plugging away at the queue, which despite our best efforts somehow managed to keep growing as we added new releases and whatnot. 99% of the time we’d watch one of the movies, and whether we liked it or not, had no plans to watch it again. The other 1% we might buy right away, or it might get added to a birthday or Christmas list.
But as Netflix has moved on to streaming and then to focusing on their own content, their catalog has degraded horribly. Seems like a quarter of our DVD queue is “long wait” or “availability unknown”. Our streaming queue is less than half what it was three years ago. I can’t remember the last time we added something to the queue. We are still subscribed mainly because my wife won’t agree to stop... but she doesn’t seem to watch much either.
Anyway, I realize that’s all tangential at best to this story, except to again demonstrate that the initial promise of the internet to us movie lovers has mostly fizzled out - this is just another example. Maybe it’s what the old guys running the studios had planned, all along.
It sucks their rocket didn't make it, but remember too, SpaceX's early rockets didn't make it to orbit either. The whole company almost went bust before they got one to work.
Given how much Chinese tech is believed to be stolen from established players, though, you’d think they could’ve avoided the early failed stages of rocket development.
Funny how those same people are absolutely silent when the con artist gives away national secrets every day over an unsecured phone.
This is nothing new... and people on both sides of the political spectrum are equally guilty of the practice. Whether it’s Bill Clinton’s behavior towards women (vs. Trump’s), or Democratic delay tactics with the Kavanaugh nomination (versus Republicans refusing to hold hearings for Merrick Garland) - lots of people only see behavior as wrong if it is convenient for them to do so.
Most of my DVDs and Blu-Ray discs are broken - whenever I play them, they insist on running 6-10 minutes of unskippable commercials before I can watch the main feature! I guess this means I can legitimately rip them to fix the Macromedia (or whatever it's called now) infection.
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When you rotated the barrel of the camera, physical blades would block the lens completely.
Nowadays you have to use a piece of tape to accomplish that simple task. Why not just have a little physical slider, built into the laptop, which would obscure the lens?
I was going to reply with *rimshot* but then realized that might not be the best choice, given the context.
Bought a (second) refurbished 2015 MacBook Pro from Apple several months ago. Every product announcement reinforces my conviction that I made the right decision.
But this dude apparently thought he worked for the United States Gynecological Survey.
Every company’s software has bugs. I’m sure Google will release a patch within days.
As soon as the patch is released, Pixel 3 XL owners will be able to enjoy notches on all four sides of their displays - rather than just the two.
This monolithic kernel bloat simply has to stop...
While the number of games sounds imppressive, how many of those titles are actually novel or unique and how many are simply variants on the small number of 30 year-old concepts?
I fail to see how this is a critique of gaming on Linux versus gaming in general...
And Tux Racer. Don't forget Tux Racer.
I just finished setting up a NAS/DLNA server for my home.
We’ve got an old 2006 MacBook Pro we use for this purpose. It doesn’t take much horsepower to stream video, and it sure makes finding the movie you want to watch a lot easier when you don’t have to dig through a couple hundred DVD/Blu-Ray cases sitting on a shelf somewhere!
I’m like you - if I like a movie enough that I’ll want to see it again, I buy it. And if I’d have known about this service, I’d certainly have subscribed. But overall the golden age of movie access is over.
For a number of years, Netflix was the perfect service for us. We put together a queue of all the movies that we wanted to watch, and Netflix pretty much had them all on DVD. We kept plugging away at the queue, which despite our best efforts somehow managed to keep growing as we added new releases and whatnot. 99% of the time we’d watch one of the movies, and whether we liked it or not, had no plans to watch it again. The other 1% we might buy right away, or it might get added to a birthday or Christmas list.
But as Netflix has moved on to streaming and then to focusing on their own content, their catalog has degraded horribly. Seems like a quarter of our DVD queue is “long wait” or “availability unknown”. Our streaming queue is less than half what it was three years ago. I can’t remember the last time we added something to the queue. We are still subscribed mainly because my wife won’t agree to stop... but she doesn’t seem to watch much either.
Anyway, I realize that’s all tangential at best to this story, except to again demonstrate that the initial promise of the internet to us movie lovers has mostly fizzled out - this is just another example. Maybe it’s what the old guys running the studios had planned, all along.
Was that headline copied-and-pasted directly from Google Translate?
It sucks their rocket didn't make it, but remember too, SpaceX's early rockets didn't make it to orbit either. The whole company almost went bust before they got one to work.
Given how much Chinese tech is believed to be stolen from established players, though, you’d think they could’ve avoided the early failed stages of rocket development.
I'm going to have to switch to Ubuntu.
Why? Is there some specific IBM behavior you object to? If so, please explain it here.
If it’s just a dislike of corporate involvement with Linux... Red Hat was the wrong distro for you in the first place.
Henceforth, it’ll be known as “Big Blue Hat”.
Funny how those same people are absolutely silent when the con artist gives away national secrets every day over an unsecured phone.
This is nothing new... and people on both sides of the political spectrum are equally guilty of the practice. Whether it’s Bill Clinton’s behavior towards women (vs. Trump’s), or Democratic delay tactics with the Kavanaugh nomination (versus Republicans refusing to hold hearings for Merrick Garland) - lots of people only see behavior as wrong if it is convenient for them to do so.
Once I went on a trip with a boy-scout crew where we spent a week on an island with no services.
Yes, yes, we’re all familiar with Lord of the Flies.
Children should not be allowed to use computers until they are able to design and fab a microprocessor.
You both make persuasive arguments.
How’s the Hurd coming along?
But remember - at the end of the day, you’ll be living in Boise.
Parts of Idaho are quite lovely... but there’s also Boise.
I imagine, in Poettering’s long-term plan, systemd is eventually going to include its own X server and its own graphical desktop manager.
Wish I was joking.
Ugarte might still be alive, and Victor Laszlo might’ve had an easier time getting out of there.
That's a perfect, and reasonable, explanation.
I agree - there's no place for that sort of thing on Slashdot.
I laughed when I saw the phrase “touting Microsoft as the industry leader in design”.
Apple does have significant problems, though - I’ll grant the author that.
Most of my DVDs and Blu-Ray discs are broken - whenever I play them, they insist on running 6-10 minutes of unskippable commercials before I can watch the main feature! I guess this means I can legitimately rip them to fix the Macromedia (or whatever it's called now) infection.