Have you guys tried Crackle? Because I have and even though it's free I absolutely hate it. There's ads. Okay, that's the price of free I suppose, but the problem is with the ads themselves:
1. The ads will cut the TV show or movie without warning, right in the middle of a scene. It's like the ads are on a fixed timer instead of knowing where they can be played. Whoever thought this was a good idea is a complete idiot. Strike one.
2. There's only half a handful of ads that play over and over. Last time I tried Crackle, there was only three ads during the movie. I'm not saying I watched three ads, I'm saying I watched something like 12 or 15 ads but it was always the same three. What kind of moron thinks showing the same ads multiple times will make us want to buy the products? It has the opposite effect on me. I hate the products shown in the ads because I'm annoyed at seeing the same crap ads multiple times. Strike two.
3. Most of the time there's so few different ads to be played that they'll stream the same ad twice during a block of ads. As if seeing the same two or three ads multiple times wasn't annoying enough! Strike three!
Until they fix these issues, I won't be using Crackle. Only business suits can make stupid decisions that will drive people away from something free.
Except that for something like Netflix, I know and understand that I'm basically paying a renting/streaming service and I'm not buying the TV shows and movies.
What would help is if Netflix could get off their arses and implement all the ideas I've sent them. One of them is adding a coloured corner on the posters to tell us that a TV show/movie will be removed soon with green, yellow and red corners to further indicate how much time is left. Red = less than 90 days left, yellow = less than 30 days left, red = only 7 days left or less.
That's what I said. Everything else was pretty much Sound Blaster copies. Like it or not, the PAS-16 was a SB-16 clone, it didn't bring anything new to sound cards.
PC Speaker Covox Speech Thing Disney Sound Source IBM PC Jr. / Tandy 1000 Creative Music System / Game Blaster Ad Lib Ad Lib Gold Sound Blaster Sound Blaster Pro Sound Blaster 16 Sound Blaster AWE64 Roland LAPC-1 / MT-32 / CM-32L / CM-64 Gravis Ultrasound
Everything else was pretty much Sound Blaster copies.
And yet they had no problem ripping off from Ad Lib. Remember the Creative Music System, a.k.a. Game Blaster? What a sorry excuse of a soundcard that was.
At one point, everyone who wanted an iPad and is able to afford one will already have done so. After that, these people will only buy a new one to upgrade once in a while.
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Would you play the racist card if I could elect her as president? (NSFW, I guess?)
Oh wait, did you say groceries? Carry on, then.
That may be, but those diamonds won't hug you back and kiss you good night.
You could always combine spam and video streaming.
Have you guys tried Crackle? Because I have and even though it's free I absolutely hate it. There's ads. Okay, that's the price of free I suppose, but the problem is with the ads themselves:
1. The ads will cut the TV show or movie without warning, right in the middle of a scene. It's like the ads are on a fixed timer instead of knowing where they can be played. Whoever thought this was a good idea is a complete idiot. Strike one.
2. There's only half a handful of ads that play over and over. Last time I tried Crackle, there was only three ads during the movie. I'm not saying I watched three ads, I'm saying I watched something like 12 or 15 ads but it was always the same three. What kind of moron thinks showing the same ads multiple times will make us want to buy the products? It has the opposite effect on me. I hate the products shown in the ads because I'm annoyed at seeing the same crap ads multiple times. Strike two.
3. Most of the time there's so few different ads to be played that they'll stream the same ad twice during a block of ads. As if seeing the same two or three ads multiple times wasn't annoying enough! Strike three!
Until they fix these issues, I won't be using Crackle. Only business suits can make stupid decisions that will drive people away from something free.
Except that for something like Netflix, I know and understand that I'm basically paying a renting/streaming service and I'm not buying the TV shows and movies.
What would help is if Netflix could get off their arses and implement all the ideas I've sent them. One of them is adding a coloured corner on the posters to tell us that a TV show/movie will be removed soon with green, yellow and red corners to further indicate how much time is left. Red = less than 90 days left, yellow = less than 30 days left, red = only 7 days left or less.
That's what I said. Everything else was pretty much Sound Blaster copies. Like it or not, the PAS-16 was a SB-16 clone, it didn't bring anything new to sound cards.
Ad Lib didn't "rip off" Yamaha, they bought their chips. Yamaha wasn't even making computer sound cards, they were only making keyboard synths.
But Sound Blaster went ahead and copied Ad Lib's choice of chip and even used the same adresses for it, i.e. 388h and 389h. That's ripping off.
PC Speaker
Covox Speech Thing
Disney Sound Source
IBM PC Jr. / Tandy 1000
Creative Music System / Game Blaster
Ad Lib
Ad Lib Gold
Sound Blaster
Sound Blaster Pro
Sound Blaster 16
Sound Blaster AWE64
Roland LAPC-1 / MT-32 / CM-32L / CM-64
Gravis Ultrasound
Everything else was pretty much Sound Blaster copies.
And yet they had no problem ripping off from Ad Lib. Remember the Creative Music System, a.k.a. Game Blaster? What a sorry excuse of a soundcard that was.
At one point, everyone who wanted an iPad and is able to afford one will already have done so. After that, these people will only buy a new one to upgrade once in a while.
We will not stop calling them "Trojans". So basically, you're fucked.
/KnowWhatIMeanNudgeNudgeWinkWinkSayNoMore
So it's a freakin' gun? What happens to these micro-particles? You'll be filling your bloodstream with micro-bullets?
I'd still choose the needle, thank you very much.
Sounds like a mix of quotes from The Matrix and Back to the Future:
VR means fasten your seat belt Dorothy, 'cause where we're going, we don't need roads.
Hello, Archer.
I have one account with fiat money, one with Bitcoins.
And one with Dogecoins, one with Litecoins, etc.
Every time I hear "spoilers", I think about time travel.
What was the point of advertising Xbox to the clones anyway? Weren't they given everything they needed? Until they were needed, anyway?
All your data are belong to us.
That would have worked if you hadn't stopped me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I've done it before. It's quite easy actually.
It happened before and it will happen again.
With enough speed and friction it can happen, so it just means you've never seen anyone skate really hard.
What if it's impossible for life to form in a binary star system? That would change the probabilities of alien life quite a lot, wouldn't it?