My non-smart thermostat is programmable. I can set it to 70F before I get home, and it's at least close to that by the time I get there. That part is good. I don't need remote capability. Just being able to set it to crank up the heat at a given time is "complex" enough for me.
At home, I drink less than half that during a typical movie (12 oz can). And it tastes better than the ice-watered down stuff at the theater. Plus, a better chance of sitting through the whole thing, and if I don't, I can pause the movie while I get rid of what I drank.
This! By no possible stretch could my 32" tube be called a "Home Theater", but it works for me. What it lacks in picture/sound, it more than makes up for in control, price, lack of distractions, lack of ads, etc.
Probably part of my problem with eating at the theater is that it sets my GF off. On my own, it might not bug me as much. But the phones lighting up like those "Winky-Blinky" lights they used to have at the circus DO bug me.
Heh! Once I told a friend, in a fit of "moral superiority" that I never pirated software. Unfortunately, he remembered, and threw in my face, several occasions when I snuck coke & snacks into the theater.
Absolutely this!! There are a number of reasons I don't go to the theater anymore, but that was the deathknell. And my ad tolerance was much higher then than it is now, after 15 years getting used to a DVR. Now they'd probably turn me into an insane shooter!!
I have several complaints about phone/tablet OSs vs those on a REAL computer, but the full-screen stuff is the worst. On a real computer, I'm always copying from one window to another. I don't even try it on my phone; I just wait until I get home to my PC.
I do live alone. I think if I didn't, I'd be paranoid about backups regardless of what OS I was using. The thought of someone else messing up my machine gives me the shivers.
That's what I did. Lately, I've been watching more on Hulu than Netflix, and with summer approaching, I expect my Huluing to exceed my regular TV. The extra money to get rid of commercials is well worth it, and I haven't encountered any show with that one ad yet.:)
Lets see, I could spend an obscene amount for the ticket, sit through 30 minutes of ads + 15 of more ads for upcoming movies, pay another obscene amount for stale popcorn and flat coke, sit in front of that person who talks on the phone while crunching loud chip, and have to rush to the bathroom, elbowing people out of the way and find that I missed the best part of the movie.
Or I could sit in my living room, no tickets, no ads, food of my choice that I've already paid for, the only one crunching chips is me, and I can pause when I have to pee and not miss a thing.
This last election cycle turned me away from all national TV news. Local news is as close as you can get to unbiased news and even then you need to be skeptical.
At this point, I don't even trust the local news. I haven't caught them in actual lies (either commission or, as often happens, omission), but I've often caught them making errors that a little research would have found. Mostly minor, but how much can I trust them with the big stuff when they screw up the small stuff?
Yeah, that's one of the gaps. I'd love to see local news and weather without the commercials. Though, even Netflix couldn't do much about the news/weather people acting like idiots.:p
OTA has commercials which is why Netflix wins. Commercials don't seem like a big deal until you have gone several years without them. Then it seems like an insane waste to spend 30 minutes watching a 20 minute show while getting pummeled by ads that make you annoyed, hungry, thirsty, etc. Worth $10 a month to skip the ads. If you view paying for Netflix as only to get rid of ads it works out to less than 1 cent a minute of ads to pay Netflix if you watch 2 hours of TV a day.
Totally agree! When I first got a Tivo, I got because I was way too busy to watch shows when they aired. I wasn't that bothered by the commercials. Maybe the ads have gotten worse in the last decade, or maybe I'm just spoiled, but I couldn't stand to go back to commercial TV now. Even a good DVR isn't as good as Netflix which doesn't have them in the first place.
One of my gripes with regular TV was that they replaced (relatively) good shows with their (un)reality & sitcom crap. I wouldn't give a !@#$ if Netflix had that crap, as long as they don't replace better stuff with it.
True, Netflix was a game changer there. If I missed an episode, my DVR would probably catch it, but it only had so much space, and if I had a lot of unwatched eps, I'd probably decide to let them get deleted to make room for the stuff I was watching. With NF, I don't have to worry about disk space, as long as NF keeps the shows.
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I bet your non-smart thermostat can't switch between cool and heat automatically. That usually requires the press of a button.
True, but that's only a couple times in the spring and fall. Not enough to bother me.
That might not be bad news. Depends on the mom.
My non-smart thermostat is programmable. I can set it to 70F before I get home, and it's at least close to that by the time I get there. That part is good. I don't need remote capability. Just being able to set it to crank up the heat at a given time is "complex" enough for me.
Yet another variation of Murphy's Law: You'll have to pee during the only good part of the whole movie.
At home, I drink less than half that during a typical movie (12 oz can). And it tastes better than the ice-watered down stuff at the theater. Plus, a better chance of sitting through the whole thing, and if I don't, I can pause the movie while I get rid of what I drank.
This! By no possible stretch could my 32" tube be called a "Home Theater", but it works for me. What it lacks in picture/sound, it more than makes up for in control, price, lack of distractions, lack of ads, etc.
Probably part of my problem with eating at the theater is that it sets my GF off. On my own, it might not bug me as much. But the phones lighting up like those "Winky-Blinky" lights they used to have at the circus DO bug me.
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Heh! Once I told a friend, in a fit of "moral superiority" that I never pirated software. Unfortunately, he remembered, and threw in my face, several occasions when I snuck coke & snacks into the theater.
Absolutely this!! There are a number of reasons I don't go to the theater anymore, but that was the deathknell. And my ad tolerance was much higher then than it is now, after 15 years getting used to a DVR. Now they'd probably turn me into an insane shooter!!
If we have a writer's strike, we'll get endless s#itcoms, (un)reality shows, reruns, sequels, and remakes!
Oh, wait!
Something else funny. One of Windows 10's problems is you can't turn updates off. One of Androids is, you can't get updates!
I have several complaints about phone/tablet OSs vs those on a REAL computer, but the full-screen stuff is the worst. On a real computer, I'm always copying from one window to another. I don't even try it on my phone; I just wait until I get home to my PC.
I do live alone. I think if I didn't, I'd be paranoid about backups regardless of what OS I was using. The thought of someone else messing up my machine gives me the shivers.
That's what I did. Lately, I've been watching more on Hulu than Netflix, and with summer approaching, I expect my Huluing to exceed my regular TV. The extra money to get rid of commercials is well worth it, and I haven't encountered any show with that one ad yet. :)
Okay, I'm not really religious, but for this I'd convert! Enemy of the enemy.
I don't see why this is a big deal. I have a black belt.
It helps hold my pants up.
Lets see, I could spend an obscene amount for the ticket, sit through 30 minutes of ads + 15 of more ads for upcoming movies, pay another obscene amount for stale popcorn and flat coke, sit in front of that person who talks on the phone while crunching loud chip, and have to rush to the bathroom, elbowing people out of the way and find that I missed the best part of the movie.
Or I could sit in my living room, no tickets, no ads, food of my choice that I've already paid for, the only one crunching chips is me, and I can pause when I have to pee and not miss a thing.
Tough choice!
This last election cycle turned me away from all national TV news. Local news is as close as you can get to unbiased news and even then you need to be skeptical.
At this point, I don't even trust the local news. I haven't caught them in actual lies (either commission or, as often happens, omission), but I've often caught them making errors that a little research would have found. Mostly minor, but how much can I trust them with the big stuff when they screw up the small stuff?
I've always thought that "you'all" or "y'all" would be a better choice for a plural.
Yeah, that's one of the gaps. I'd love to see local news and weather without the commercials. Though, even Netflix couldn't do much about the news/weather people acting like idiots. :p
So, MS named it better than I thought?
And we'll all have access to the file system from the native iOS UI right? Riiiiiiight?
Bwahaha!
OTA has commercials which is why Netflix wins. Commercials don't seem like a big deal until you have gone several years without them. Then it seems like an insane waste to spend 30 minutes watching a 20 minute show while getting pummeled by ads that make you annoyed, hungry, thirsty, etc. Worth $10 a month to skip the ads. If you view paying for Netflix as only to get rid of ads it works out to less than 1 cent a minute of ads to pay Netflix if you watch 2 hours of TV a day.
Totally agree! When I first got a Tivo, I got because I was way too busy to watch shows when they aired. I wasn't that bothered by the commercials. Maybe the ads have gotten worse in the last decade, or maybe I'm just spoiled, but I couldn't stand to go back to commercial TV now. Even a good DVR isn't as good as Netflix which doesn't have them in the first place.
One of my gripes with regular TV was that they replaced (relatively) good shows with their (un)reality & sitcom crap. I wouldn't give a !@#$ if Netflix had that crap, as long as they don't replace better stuff with it.
True, Netflix was a game changer there. If I missed an episode, my DVR would probably catch it, but it only had so much space, and if I had a lot of unwatched eps, I'd probably decide to let them get deleted to make room for the stuff I was watching. With NF, I don't have to worry about disk space, as long as NF keeps the shows.