Some cassette decks had the tech to fast-forward to the next silence (end of song), but if the music had significant silent parts it could get frustrating.
I had an 8-track player in my quadrophonic system.
Frankly, for all their faults, I liked Compact Cassettes. 8-Tracks? Not so much.
Sure, Amazon has way more. But (at least through the ROKU app) good luck trying to find an interesting movie, even if it's not top-rated, that's free through Prime membership.
Almost any worthwhile film, even old black and white movies, is usually for rent or sale, rather than free through Prime. And browsing through the entire mess is more trouble than it's worth.
Great. Outsource more government activities to private industry. 'Cause that always works out well. I mean, look how swimmingly the prison industrial complex is working out. Or logistics for the military.
The point is, there are more people (voters) in a neighborhood in Chicago than in the entire state of Wyoming or Idaho.
For example, Illinios has a population of 12.8 million. The Chicago metro area has a population of 9.5 million.
Why should policies that affect a huge cosmopolitan urban population be driven by a handful of retrograde hicks who consistently vote against their own best interests.
I (half) joke that my unofficial title is "Electron Wrangler", since anything that that gets plugged in seems to become my responsibility. From desktop support, to liaison with vendors, central IT, & telecomm.
Eh. "More power than most PC laptops" doesn't necessarily mean anything, except the machine has a CPU & RAM that rivals "most PC laptops". Does that mean you should expect it to do notebook computer things? Maybe. Or maybe it suggests that you can do tablet-y things with more power? I dunno.
You mean the public water system in Flint that wasn't in control of duly elected officials? You mean the public water system in Flint that had its source switched by a Republican policy "emergency manager"? All driven by business ideals.
Business has no fucking place in governance. Business people are stupid, greedy assholes who think they're much smarter than they are. Look at our fucking Whitehouse.
Everywhere privatization has been put in place it's failed to delivery on its promises.
Not the hack sequel by that hack Cameron, just Alien. Not Alien: the Indigestion, or Alien: Truthseeker. Alien. Period. The rest of the sequels, and Prometheus, are lame bullshit.
And Bladerunner. Ridley Scott was on fire with those two movies. They stand alone, and they need no sequels.
"Netflix does best in the documentaries category, where users rate non-original content, on average, at 3.54."
Great. Once the exec$ hear that that'll be the only original content we'll get. Why? Because just like reality TV, documentaries cost a lot less than original drama productions. And Crom knows, American business always goes for the cheap, easy, short-term, high profit product.
While I like a good documentary as much as the next person, sometimes I just don't give a shit about The Ancient Aliens of Macchu Pichu, and I just want to watch a couple of episodes of Luke Cage.
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Some cassette decks had the tech to fast-forward to the next silence (end of song), but if the music had significant silent parts it could get frustrating.
I had an 8-track player in my quadrophonic system.
Frankly, for all their faults, I liked Compact Cassettes. 8-Tracks? Not so much.
Sure, Amazon has way more. But (at least through the ROKU app) good luck trying to find an interesting movie, even if it's not top-rated, that's free through Prime membership.
Almost any worthwhile film, even old black and white movies, is usually for rent or sale, rather than free through Prime. And browsing through the entire mess is more trouble than it's worth.
Great. Outsource more government activities to private industry. 'Cause that always works out well. I mean, look how swimmingly the prison industrial complex is working out. Or logistics for the military.
What's next? Outsourcing the IRS? Hoo boy.
Pffft! I've been dismissing VR since Jaron Lanier & Mondo2000. It's a bunch of hokum.
"You really don't know that many rural people."
Just most of my family, but hey, your experience clearly... trumps mine, right?
"Many of the social safety nets that are there to help people in overpopulated areas do not properly help people in lower cost of living areas."
So maybe instead of being a bunch of hateful fucks, those yokels could work together with the hated city folks to address those issues.
Instead, they'd rather be spiteful shitheels doing shit like rolling coal.
Sorry, citing Idaho was hyperbole. But you get my drift, right?
The point is, there are more people (voters) in a neighborhood in Chicago than in the entire state of Wyoming or Idaho.
For example, Illinios has a population of 12.8 million. The Chicago metro area has a population of 9.5 million.
Why should policies that affect a huge cosmopolitan urban population be driven by a handful of retrograde hicks who consistently vote against their own best interests.
Many of these people are the same people who give money to prosperity ministries.
Rubes. Yokels. Marks. Suckers. Dupes. Chumps.
Trump is playing them for the fools they are. He's not conservative, he's a damn con man & thief.
That's what they (the octopuses) want you to think.
Suddenly Skynet!
Wow, ice zombies, dire wolves, incest, boobies, what more could you want? Pirates! I gotta get HBO one of these days.
Cue the misogynistic, micropenis wielding, death & rape threatening trolls to come out of the woodwork. Morons.
I (half) joke that my unofficial title is "Electron Wrangler", since anything that that gets plugged in seems to become my responsibility. From desktop support, to liaison with vendors, central IT, & telecomm.
Never a dull moment.
Eh. "More power than most PC laptops" doesn't necessarily mean anything, except the machine has a CPU & RAM that rivals "most PC laptops". Does that mean you should expect it to do notebook computer things? Maybe. Or maybe it suggests that you can do tablet-y things with more power? I dunno.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of iPad Pros!
You mean the public water system in Flint that wasn't in control of duly elected officials? You mean the public water system in Flint that had its source switched by a Republican policy "emergency manager"? All driven by business ideals.
Business has no fucking place in governance. Business people are stupid, greedy assholes who think they're much smarter than they are. Look at our fucking Whitehouse.
Everywhere privatization has been put in place it's failed to delivery on its promises.
Stop picking on Ivanka!
Alien.
Not the hack sequel by that hack Cameron, just Alien. Not Alien: the Indigestion, or Alien: Truthseeker. Alien. Period. The rest of the sequels, and Prometheus, are lame bullshit.
And Bladerunner. Ridley Scott was on fire with those two movies. They stand alone, and they need no sequels.
"Eh, it's secure enough. They've got a firewall, right?"
"WANKERS, call your self, high tech and mighty, nahhh, just a bunch of loosers who cant code for shit."
Of course, writing in English is a type of coding. Tell us again about the losers who can't code?
They should just reverse the hand gesture and show the camera their fingernails.
I recommend the Seiko 5 line. Waterproof, shockproof, day/date, and mechanical self-winding. And they run the gamut from plain to elegant.
That said, they're jewelry, as opposed to a necessity to tell time, since like most have pointed out, there are clocks everywhere these days.
When I was a kid, you either wore a watch, or looked at the nearest bank or dry cleaners for the time. Or asked someone who was wearing a watch.
Ask Bill Belichick just how great Surface tablets are.
Apple is consistently moving forward, adopting and integrating new technologies and standards.
Being backwardly compatible for too long gets you the steaming pile of horseshit that is the Windows environment.
"Netflix does best in the documentaries category, where users rate non-original content, on average, at 3.54."
Great. Once the exec$ hear that that'll be the only original content we'll get. Why? Because just like reality TV, documentaries cost a lot less than original drama productions. And Crom knows, American business always goes for the cheap, easy, short-term, high profit product.
While I like a good documentary as much as the next person, sometimes I just don't give a shit about The Ancient Aliens of Macchu Pichu, and I just want to watch a couple of episodes of Luke Cage.