Sure bicycles are an okay hobby and have an emoji, sure taking a dump has a turd emoji dedicated to it, but going to the range is a hobby that gets Tim Cook's panties in a twist.
Microsoft is just as bad, but everyone considers them evil anyways.
I don't have a credit card. My first marriage left a bad taste in my credit was concerned, I canceled all my cards and was pretty much done with credit. I made a couple of exceptions, I'm making payments on my van, and I only did that because I had little choice.
I actually contemplated the "doing it while everyone is broke on purpose" thought to keep from pushing their systems beyond the limit. It seemed reasonable, but I've been around too much management that wasn't reasonable to take that thought seriously.
Every other week is common, at one point in history I had a roommate where we both got paid every-other week, and we were on opposite schedules, it was great when it came to keeping the kitchen stocked and shared expenses paid. Under this setup most people get paid towards the end of the week, but it could really be at any time.
The other option is 1st and 15th, probably a little less common. In this case the time during the week is sort of randomish but if one of those dates falls on a weekend you often get paid early, meaning Friday - late in the week. I guess you could have a place pay you late, but I don't think that would pass the legal test.
Most people have to pay rent and big expenses at the beginning of the month.
When was Prime Day? On a Tuesday (near the beginning of a week), on the 12th. Basically Prime Day was held right before most people get paid and the twice a month folks are nearing the end of the really expensive half of the month. Brilliant! I'll bet they would have sold loads more if they would have made it the 16th.
Netflix deals with my bandwidth fluctuations much better and has more/better content. I don't dismiss Amazon outright, there's some really good stuff there as well, it's just harder to browse for and it's much more difficult to play back on a living room device that isn't Android based.
Which has more staying power?
Amazon - for reasons completely unrelated to their video streaming.
My Amazon Prime account paid for itself inside of a few months on shipping bicycle parts alone. I've gotten some great Prime only deals from time to time, I have music streaming in addition to my video streaming and I've got the Kindle lending library.
I couldn't see canceling my Prime regardless of how good or bad their streaming service is, and I find it interesting that enough people got it just for mixed free/rental/buy streaming service that compares closest to Google Play.
Just like every other online forum the left wingers are the most vocal and "authoritative" in their voice (pretending like being noisy is support) which gives the illusion of dominance. I've found most middle of the road types and even the opposition is just tired of left-wing shrieking and ignore it in the hopes it will go away. Overall Slashdot has one of the most even mixes I've ever seen. The previous owners were obvious pro NWO shills, but the new guys have backed off of that a bit, it's not quite "classic Slashdot" all over again, but it's much improved. As for the participants it's one of the most even mixes I've ever seen - even not meaning left/right mix, but as I've seen pointed out there's a fairly high count of "Libertarian Aspies" participating, and I've seen comments from outright proud fascist. Nope, Slashdot is one of the most even mixing grounds I've seen,
Gosh if it's not doing anything visibly then by definition it's not doing anything at all!
I guess magician use real magic then too.
I've used Chromium, I liked it. I don't want to deploy it in our organization due to the way that Chromium isn't exactly on a release cycle and did take a little intervention to get plugins working and what have. Easy enough for me, not easy enough for me x200 with systems elsewhere and I'm using a deployment system.
I'll check with the boss man and make sure it's okay to post the video he made proving what happened.
I was on Netscape when IE came out and I didn't jump ship to IE. Mozilla then Firefox where the natural evolution of things, all you IE people are the ship-jumping hipsters.
I use Firefox for Android almost exclusively. I use Brave occasionally for a few things, I tried switching to Brave, but I just keep finding myself back on Firefox. Being able to check my history from my work machine while mobile or at home - vice/versa is nice too.
We don't want our users on Chrome. Chrome runs processes even when it's not started that can peg a CPU - we've seen it happen. We don't trust what it's doing - especially while it's not running. Chrome is out for security reasons.
Also certain client pages require real versions of plugins like Flash and Java that Chrome won't use. Easier to keep the users corralled into one arena.
Flash already existed. It didn't need something else to compete with it - it needed to go away.
Flash at least has an out of date Linux version. Don't tell me moonlight is Silverlight - too many issues.
Did we really need ANOTHER browser plugin?
Remember how IBM was the only company making well- IBM PC's? Then they went away and opened up the platform for other people to start making them. Then they decided to "take it back" and introduced the PS/2 platform to do so which was incompatible with all the rest of the hardware out there but would still run the software? I feel like Silverlight is the PS/2 of browser plugins and while most of us stood back and gave Microsoft the middle finger - just like we did to IBM - Amazon and Netflix didn't do as they should have.
Back when I had a Mac Mini I could play HD South Park from the website (before the contract put it on Hulu) and it looked beautiful. When I tried to use Hulu I couldn't go full-screen because that puny little processor (Core 2 I think - early Mac Mini Intel). I blamed the encryption 100% and I'm fairly sure I was right.
It's a plugin that should never have existed to compete where no competition was needed, and it sucks all around. I don't like Chrome either and for some ungodly reason Chrome is the only thing those two will respect where Linux is concerned, despite the fact Firefox will do HTML 5 video.
There's been many things I haven't touched for years and year that I've picked up again.
With very few exceptions - if they're something I was once good at I get good at them again.
I'll occasionally mess with an OS I haven't touched in a decade - because I booted up an old Novel server or something (less frequent lately). In half an hour I'm working again, in a couple of days I'm nearly as good as I was when I was doing it all the time. I've played video games that I haven't touched in 12 years, before long all the hidden stuff pops back into mind. I'm not actually a proper coder, but when I do write code almost everything I knew before comes back to me - except for a few obscure things that really annoy me and I have to relearn.
Nah, these concepts are fully ingrained. They aren't "use it or loose it" they're "shake the rust off".
Either this article is bullshit or this guy doesn't remember how to ride a bike after a while.
Yeah, I name my stuff "Name from the Scrapper Site.year.m4v" and that works nearly all the time. Oddly it sill has some glitches with that, but rarely.
The fact I contribute to the scrapper and the fact I buy my disk legally makes me feel rather secure about my way of doing things.
after-all how many people would really download kodi with out that functionality?
Me for one. Most of my Kodi use centers on my own legitimately obtained collection. I do have a couple of legal streaming plugins - PBS, ABC, and many other channels have open API's for accessing certain content they put out there legally and developers have provided access to those API's in the form of plugins. I don't need pirate plugins.
I switched to XBMC from MythTV. I originally had a home-built DVR with some of my own files on it, but when the world went stupid, quit supporting NTSC and didn't actually switch to QAM I gave up on messing with it. XBMC was better when you took actual live TV out of the equation.
I am interested in a couple of legit plugins. For a while there was an Amazon video plugin that I used which was great, it worked with my paid Amazon Prime account, but it's useless now. I would like a Netflix plugin that worked more like the Wii or Bluray player version of Netflix, but the best I have is a Chrome launcher which leaves a lot to be desired. I've tried using Dolphin to run the Wii version - dead end - and I've yet to find anything that will let you run the Java version meant for a Bluray player. I'm running thing off of a Mac Pro 1,1 but I'm seriously considering switching to one of the Android things just for Netflix and Amazon support.
Notice - pirating stuff is legal. Doing things legitimately is unsupported.
I don't blame the developers for being upset about users trashing them. They've made a very reliable and likable program.
As an avid Kodi user I know the developers of Kodi do not encourage piracy. They forbid the use of their name on any install that deviates from the defaults (sort of like the Firefox license) when offering a device for sale - you must fork. Plugins that make infringement easy aren't even allowed in the official repositories - all of those are in 3rd party repositories.
Kodi is a lot like a torrent or gnutella setup. Nothing wrong with it on it's own, in fact Window Media Center is one of the best closed source comparison products to come to mind, but it's an open source project without child safety locks, just like Linux and BSD are as a whole. The fact third party sellers about the product should not be used against the developers - ever.
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Sure bicycles are an okay hobby and have an emoji, sure taking a dump has a turd emoji dedicated to it, but going to the range is a hobby that gets Tim Cook's panties in a twist.
Microsoft is just as bad, but everyone considers them evil anyways.
I don't think the official NES catalog (including region and language variants) is anywhere NEAR 7 GB total.
Zelda is about 128 KB, Castlevania 3 is about 512 KB and it's on the large size.
It's going to take a LOT of ROMs to get anywhere near 7GB.
I don't have a credit card. My first marriage left a bad taste in my credit was concerned, I canceled all my cards and was pretty much done with credit. I made a couple of exceptions, I'm making payments on my van, and I only did that because I had little choice.
I actually contemplated the "doing it while everyone is broke on purpose" thought to keep from pushing their systems beyond the limit. It seemed reasonable, but I've been around too much management that wasn't reasonable to take that thought seriously.
How do most people get paid?
Every other week is common, at one point in history I had a roommate where we both got paid every-other week, and we were on opposite schedules, it was great when it came to keeping the kitchen stocked and shared expenses paid. Under this setup most people get paid towards the end of the week, but it could really be at any time.
The other option is 1st and 15th, probably a little less common. In this case the time during the week is sort of randomish but if one of those dates falls on a weekend you often get paid early, meaning Friday - late in the week. I guess you could have a place pay you late, but I don't think that would pass the legal test.
Most people have to pay rent and big expenses at the beginning of the month.
When was Prime Day? On a Tuesday (near the beginning of a week), on the 12th. Basically Prime Day was held right before most people get paid and the twice a month folks are nearing the end of the really expensive half of the month. Brilliant! I'll bet they would have sold loads more if they would have made it the 16th.
I know this as a user of both.
Netflix deals with my bandwidth fluctuations much better and has more/better content. I don't dismiss Amazon outright, there's some really good stuff there as well, it's just harder to browse for and it's much more difficult to play back on a living room device that isn't Android based.
Which has more staying power?
Amazon - for reasons completely unrelated to their video streaming.
My Amazon Prime account paid for itself inside of a few months on shipping bicycle parts alone. I've gotten some great Prime only deals from time to time, I have music streaming in addition to my video streaming and I've got the Kindle lending library.
I couldn't see canceling my Prime regardless of how good or bad their streaming service is, and I find it interesting that enough people got it just for mixed free/rental/buy streaming service that compares closest to Google Play.
Yes you have said enough.
Moron.
Just like every other online forum the left wingers are the most vocal and "authoritative" in their voice (pretending like being noisy is support) which gives the illusion of dominance. I've found most middle of the road types and even the opposition is just tired of left-wing shrieking and ignore it in the hopes it will go away. Overall Slashdot has one of the most even mixes I've ever seen. The previous owners were obvious pro NWO shills, but the new guys have backed off of that a bit, it's not quite "classic Slashdot" all over again, but it's much improved. As for the participants it's one of the most even mixes I've ever seen - even not meaning left/right mix, but as I've seen pointed out there's a fairly high count of "Libertarian Aspies" participating, and I've seen comments from outright proud fascist. Nope, Slashdot is one of the most even mixing grounds I've seen,
may as well drive the car with felt padding on all the seats and panels and chrome rims.
The other unintentional amphibious car.
The newer Beetle is nothing compared to it's ancestor.
Is it really "not U.S. chips" if they completely reverse engineered the Alpha and started developing it again?
You realize that this just makes you an apologist right?
Especially since the system we used as the proof didn't have anything that was going to call on Chrome.
Gosh if it's not doing anything visibly then by definition it's not doing anything at all!
I guess magician use real magic then too.
I've used Chromium, I liked it. I don't want to deploy it in our organization due to the way that Chromium isn't exactly on a release cycle and did take a little intervention to get plugins working and what have. Easy enough for me, not easy enough for me x200 with systems elsewhere and I'm using a deployment system.
I'll check with the boss man and make sure it's okay to post the video he made proving what happened.
Fuck you.
I was on Netscape when IE came out and I didn't jump ship to IE. Mozilla then Firefox where the natural evolution of things, all you IE people are the ship-jumping hipsters.
I use Firefox for Android almost exclusively. I use Brave occasionally for a few things, I tried switching to Brave, but I just keep finding myself back on Firefox. Being able to check my history from my work machine while mobile or at home - vice/versa is nice too.
In our company Firefox is the official browser.
We don't want our users on Chrome. Chrome runs processes even when it's not started that can peg a CPU - we've seen it happen. We don't trust what it's doing - especially while it's not running. Chrome is out for security reasons.
Also certain client pages require real versions of plugins like Flash and Java that Chrome won't use. Easier to keep the users corralled into one arena.
For starters:
Flash already existed. It didn't need something else to compete with it - it needed to go away.
Flash at least has an out of date Linux version. Don't tell me moonlight is Silverlight - too many issues.
Did we really need ANOTHER browser plugin?
Remember how IBM was the only company making well- IBM PC's? Then they went away and opened up the platform for other people to start making them. Then they decided to "take it back" and introduced the PS/2 platform to do so which was incompatible with all the rest of the hardware out there but would still run the software? I feel like Silverlight is the PS/2 of browser plugins and while most of us stood back and gave Microsoft the middle finger - just like we did to IBM - Amazon and Netflix didn't do as they should have.
Back when I had a Mac Mini I could play HD South Park from the website (before the contract put it on Hulu) and it looked beautiful. When I tried to use Hulu I couldn't go full-screen because that puny little processor (Core 2 I think - early Mac Mini Intel). I blamed the encryption 100% and I'm fairly sure I was right.
to kick their Silverlight habit?
It's a plugin that should never have existed to compete where no competition was needed, and it sucks all around. I don't like Chrome either and for some ungodly reason Chrome is the only thing those two will respect where Linux is concerned, despite the fact Firefox will do HTML 5 video.
I could get behind this for some programs - especially games.
It might be a little space-wasting for "core" stuff.
There's been many things I haven't touched for years and year that I've picked up again.
With very few exceptions - if they're something I was once good at I get good at them again.
I'll occasionally mess with an OS I haven't touched in a decade - because I booted up an old Novel server or something (less frequent lately). In half an hour I'm working again, in a couple of days I'm nearly as good as I was when I was doing it all the time. I've played video games that I haven't touched in 12 years, before long all the hidden stuff pops back into mind. I'm not actually a proper coder, but when I do write code almost everything I knew before comes back to me - except for a few obscure things that really annoy me and I have to relearn.
Nah, these concepts are fully ingrained. They aren't "use it or loose it" they're "shake the rust off".
Either this article is bullshit or this guy doesn't remember how to ride a bike after a while.
Yeah, I name my stuff "Name from the Scrapper Site.year.m4v" and that works nearly all the time. Oddly it sill has some glitches with that, but rarely.
The fact I contribute to the scrapper and the fact I buy my disk legally makes me feel rather secure about my way of doing things.
after-all how many people would really download kodi with out that functionality?
Me for one. Most of my Kodi use centers on my own legitimately obtained collection. I do have a couple of legal streaming plugins - PBS, ABC, and many other channels have open API's for accessing certain content they put out there legally and developers have provided access to those API's in the form of plugins. I don't need pirate plugins.
Doh! Pirating stuff is easy I meant to say.
I switched to XBMC from MythTV. I originally had a home-built DVR with some of my own files on it, but when the world went stupid, quit supporting NTSC and didn't actually switch to QAM I gave up on messing with it. XBMC was better when you took actual live TV out of the equation.
I am interested in a couple of legit plugins. For a while there was an Amazon video plugin that I used which was great, it worked with my paid Amazon Prime account, but it's useless now. I would like a Netflix plugin that worked more like the Wii or Bluray player version of Netflix, but the best I have is a Chrome launcher which leaves a lot to be desired. I've tried using Dolphin to run the Wii version - dead end - and I've yet to find anything that will let you run the Java version meant for a Bluray player. I'm running thing off of a Mac Pro 1,1 but I'm seriously considering switching to one of the Android things just for Netflix and Amazon support.
Notice - pirating stuff is legal. Doing things legitimately is unsupported.
I don't blame the developers for being upset about users trashing them. They've made a very reliable and likable program.
As an avid Kodi user I know the developers of Kodi do not encourage piracy. They forbid the use of their name on any install that deviates from the defaults (sort of like the Firefox license) when offering a device for sale - you must fork. Plugins that make infringement easy aren't even allowed in the official repositories - all of those are in 3rd party repositories.
Kodi is a lot like a torrent or gnutella setup. Nothing wrong with it on it's own, in fact Window Media Center is one of the best closed source comparison products to come to mind, but it's an open source project without child safety locks, just like Linux and BSD are as a whole. The fact third party sellers about the product should not be used against the developers - ever.