OH MY GOD YOU HAVE TO PLUG IT IN!!! STEP ONE KILLS IT FOR ME RIGHT THERE!!!
It's ten minutes of setup when you first buy it, and then when you put in a game for the first time you have to wait a few minutes (which, granted, is kind of a bummer), and every few months when you turn it on you have to wait a few minutes. Sure, waiting a few minutes every once in a while is kind of a drag, but in no way does that come close to the annoyances of PC gaming.
Don't most people not live paycheck-to-paycheck? Don't most people buy things off Amazon with Credit Card, rather than cashing in their paychecks for cash and then mailing Amazon a handful of bills?
FWIW my wife and I both get paid every other week (7th and 22nd for both of us, oddly - I guess it gives accounting departments a week after the 1st and 15th).
The S5 was advertised as being waterproof as well, and advertisements had people taking selfies underwater. Mine didn't survive a single splash of water that must've gotten it rather wet for several seconds.
I took it to the repair guy (screen needed to be replaced, if I recall). He told me he was repairing the s5 for water damage all the time.
Because I have to drive too much every day. Having a self-driving car that lets me sleep or do something interesting instead of driving myself up and down 680 for the 3000th time would effectively give me hundreds of extra hours in a year.
Yet another vote for Plex. I have a server running on an old Mac Mini, I stream it to my phone, or my laptop, or my Vizio TVs, or Rokus, or whatever the heck. Very easy.
Interface still has issues, but is continually changing and occasionally improving.
Personally, my friend wanted to keep using a 10 year old laptop with a Celeron processor missing some instruction set that Xubuntu wouldn't work on trivially. I got Peppermint to install fine (maybe you had to use a year-old version, it's been a year and I forget the details). Additionally, Peppermint comes with applications that are server-heavier rather than processor intensive.
Of course, there are 300 variations of Linux and more than one will work for any given purpose. But it's not like Peppermint is something brand new, hasn't it been around for like three or four years now?
Intellectual property is the only hope for anybody anywhere. Shipping thing is so efficient that manufacturing is a race to the bottom; nobody is as efficient as a robot or as cheap as a Shenzhen factory slave.
I have an XBox One and I game on it and sometimes I browse the menus, and I don't know if Bing has ever come up once. Why would I search for something on my console?
It's a meaningless coincidence. Silver prices fluctuate wildly, much more than the price of gas. It's mostly driven by speculation, although in the long run precious metals are just about the worst investment one can make.
Canadian manufacturing is barely a blip on the radar compared to the natural resource extraction. That ship has sailed, manufacturing is never going to seriously help the Canadian economy.
Yep! To join the gang, they have to kill the first person who flashes their lights at them. Then they have to drink a Snapple bottle that depicts a Klan lynching, and forward a mail from Bill Gates 10 times to receive a $200 gift certificate.
Jesus Christ, we get it. Microsoft recommends people upgrade their operating system to the newest one. Big fucking deal, let it go. Reading Slashdot means like I'm continually kept updated on whenever Microsoft recommends people to upgrade. I don't need to be in on the loop about it.
Also, women, foreigners, minorities, point-haired bosses, liberal arts majors, and really anybody who isn't an old white man with an interest in science/math! They're all the worst!
Give the Europeans something. "We designed better cellphones, up until nine years ago" is just so precious.
It wasn't Windows that killed them - it just failed to revive their fortunes. Elop came in because the company had fallen apart under the previous CEO.
LibreOffice kind-of works in a pinch, but it fucking sucks for easy little one-person projects, and is basically broken for an organization. How much is Office on a big license? $75 a year? How much are the salaries they pay? $37.50 an hour? Using a much higher quality product will save an employee more than two hours per week.
LibreOffice (with OpenOffice before it) is one of those projects which has had great potential and is about to be usable for like ten years now.
Why should people who live in populated areas subsidize the quality of Netflix for people who live in one-horse towns? Should we pay for people who live in the middle of nowhere to have eight-lane freeways and decent Chinese takeout?
That's just eating weird. Science isn't done by only observing yourself. After all your opinion is going to be colored by desired outcomes, confirmation biases, yada yada yada. Valid medical trials are done with double-blind placebos.
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I wish they could have gotten the CEO of Pan Am, Zenith, or RCA to speak up on the subject.
OH MY GOD YOU HAVE TO PLUG IT IN!!! STEP ONE KILLS IT FOR ME RIGHT THERE!!!
It's ten minutes of setup when you first buy it, and then when you put in a game for the first time you have to wait a few minutes (which, granted, is kind of a bummer), and every few months when you turn it on you have to wait a few minutes. Sure, waiting a few minutes every once in a while is kind of a drag, but in no way does that come close to the annoyances of PC gaming.
Don't most people not live paycheck-to-paycheck? Don't most people buy things off Amazon with Credit Card, rather than cashing in their paychecks for cash and then mailing Amazon a handful of bills?
FWIW my wife and I both get paid every other week (7th and 22nd for both of us, oddly - I guess it gives accounting departments a week after the 1st and 15th).
The S5 was advertised as being waterproof as well, and advertisements had people taking selfies underwater. Mine didn't survive a single splash of water that must've gotten it rather wet for several seconds.
I took it to the repair guy (screen needed to be replaced, if I recall). He told me he was repairing the s5 for water damage all the time.
Because I have to drive too much every day. Having a self-driving car that lets me sleep or do something interesting instead of driving myself up and down 680 for the 3000th time would effectively give me hundreds of extra hours in a year.
That business where Pandora lets people stream music for free isn't making much money? Holy crap!
Yet another vote for Plex. I have a server running on an old Mac Mini, I stream it to my phone, or my laptop, or my Vizio TVs, or Rokus, or whatever the heck. Very easy.
Interface still has issues, but is continually changing and occasionally improving.
Personally, my friend wanted to keep using a 10 year old laptop with a Celeron processor missing some instruction set that Xubuntu wouldn't work on trivially. I got Peppermint to install fine (maybe you had to use a year-old version, it's been a year and I forget the details). Additionally, Peppermint comes with applications that are server-heavier rather than processor intensive.
Of course, there are 300 variations of Linux and more than one will work for any given purpose. But it's not like Peppermint is something brand new, hasn't it been around for like three or four years now?
The idea is, you have a slow old computer and you want to install Linux on it and make it usable.
Intellectual property is the only hope for anybody anywhere. Shipping thing is so efficient that manufacturing is a race to the bottom; nobody is as efficient as a robot or as cheap as a Shenzhen factory slave.
So....Bing doesn't come up unless you decide to use the XBox One as a web browser? Or use the XBox One to do social networking?
Sounds like no real problem for 90% of users.
I have an XBox One and I game on it and sometimes I browse the menus, and I don't know if Bing has ever come up once. Why would I search for something on my console?
Do you really know what "Orwellian" means?
It's a meaningless coincidence. Silver prices fluctuate wildly, much more than the price of gas. It's mostly driven by speculation, although in the long run precious metals are just about the worst investment one can make.
Canadian manufacturing is barely a blip on the radar compared to the natural resource extraction. That ship has sailed, manufacturing is never going to seriously help the Canadian economy.
Yep! To join the gang, they have to kill the first person who flashes their lights at them. Then they have to drink a Snapple bottle that depicts a Klan lynching, and forward a mail from Bill Gates 10 times to receive a $200 gift certificate.
Jesus Christ, we get it. Microsoft recommends people upgrade their operating system to the newest one. Big fucking deal, let it go. Reading Slashdot means like I'm continually kept updated on whenever Microsoft recommends people to upgrade. I don't need to be in on the loop about it.
Foxconn operates factories in the USA.
Millenials are the worst!
Also, women, foreigners, minorities, point-haired bosses, liberal arts majors, and really anybody who isn't an old white man with an interest in science/math! They're all the worst!
89, what what! At home on Comcast/XFINITY with their cheapo plan.
Give the Europeans something. "We designed better cellphones, up until nine years ago" is just so precious.
It wasn't Windows that killed them - it just failed to revive their fortunes. Elop came in because the company had fallen apart under the previous CEO.
The rate of crime has steadily decreased over the last twenty five years, while unemployment has had its ups and major downs. You couldn't be more wrong.
LibreOffice kind-of works in a pinch, but it fucking sucks for easy little one-person projects, and is basically broken for an organization. How much is Office on a big license? $75 a year? How much are the salaries they pay? $37.50 an hour? Using a much higher quality product will save an employee more than two hours per week.
LibreOffice (with OpenOffice before it) is one of those projects which has had great potential and is about to be usable for like ten years now.
Why should people who live in populated areas subsidize the quality of Netflix for people who live in one-horse towns? Should we pay for people who live in the middle of nowhere to have eight-lane freeways and decent Chinese takeout?
That's just eating weird. Science isn't done by only observing yourself. After all your opinion is going to be colored by desired outcomes, confirmation biases, yada yada yada. Valid medical trials are done with double-blind placebos.