Four days ago I would have disagreed. And then youtube did an update that broke my scraper and I haven't been able to figure out how yet.
That said, I'd much rather that approach than, say, apple. Google won't have a problem with you doing weird shit with their services for the most part. As long as it's not scaming or triggers their automated warnings in some way. But you're shit out of luck if your unsupported method breaks. While apple just plain does everything they can to lock you out of doing anything in a way they didn't intend.
Agreed. I pretty much lost interest in it as a flash video replacement the second it became clear there wasn't going to be a set standard for codecs. I remember what it was like pre flash video on linux. A crappy situation of piggybacking on windows codecs and just hoping the site didn't have measures in place to prevent video from working at all in linux. I don't think it'll be that bad, but I can see a shadow of that in html5.
Backgrounder's probably the single biggest reason I have mine jailbroken. I'm always amazed at the people freaking out like multitasking would cause the thing to explode. People have been multitasking on it for years now. I've had a couple issues with backgrounding and sound, but that's about it. For the most part it's worked great for me.
For what it's worth, bugs the hell out of me as well. The worst is when it's some subject the geek crowd is obviously familiar with. Like ten links explaining "what a linux is" without a link to the actual download for some patch.
I think you might be surprised how many of us there are. It seemed so simple at first, jailbreak it and then you've got a nifty unix based phone. Got a little more annoyed with apple every day though.
Man, let me tell you, as a linux user I really miss the pre flash video days. It's so annoying facing a somewhat heavy processor load while watching videos online, compared to not being able to see them at all. To getting codec errors, and redirects because the browser detection was windows-centric or because they actually booted people away that were using linux. Glad to see those wonderful days might be making a comeback!
I wonder what accounts for the difference. I'd say in general most people who call me come out 99% perfect on the transcripts. Except one friend, with a Texan accent, who usually is closer to 50% accurate.
Five minute? It takes more than that just to back up the data on the phone before updating. I'd say it's closer to a full half hour, with the download factored in. More if you take time to read other peoples experiences before doing it. Bricking it might not be a huge danger, but winding up with a half functional system is. So all in all I'd put it closer to 45 minutes. And it's 45 minutes that you'll be repeating over, and over, and over again. While finding some apps don't work, waiting for others to catch up, etc.
I shrugged it off for the first half year I had an iphone. But there's not a chance in hell I'd put myself through it again. You shouldn't have to fight your system just to use it.
I'd still need hulu in addition to netflix. Then add in orb for local files, and I think it'd be an ok media device once it was jailbroken to allow for backgrounding. Still, all in all if I was going for something like that I'd really just rather go with an android based device.
i think most professional athletes would take issue with Physiotherapy being much of a muchnes
Bully for them. Unless they've demonstrated experience with experimental methodology and have researched the subject with peer reviewed medical journals I really don't care. Anecdotal evidence is next to worthless for a good reason.
A large amount of professional athletes will also be happy to explain how their charms and talismans give them magic powers, and that Jesus shoots magic rays down at them to allow them victory.
Not only normal, as far as I know they've never deviated from that as their normal practice. Hell, grand central was closed to new registration for what, a year or two while they worked on it?
That's pretty much my opinion of the linux team as well. Far too often on the blog there'd be something that I could easily see one person getting wrong. But which at the same time I find difficult to believe an actual group of people would all be in the dark about.
It's not just the slashdot consensus though. Everybody I talk to agrees that it's horrible. I was shocked when even non-techy people brought it up to me to confirm that it really is as bad as they thought.
I'd ask the same of you. Everyone knows about project gutenberg, that's not what he's asking. He's asking about stores with current content which have cheaper prices alongside comparable selections. I don't know the answer to that, but I can still tell his question is valid.
If he's planning on using his nerd cred to an advantage, I think he's in for a surprise. Every time I've seen the topic of fat people on planes come up on the internet, the rage is overwhelming. Geeks have a reputation for being fat, but I think it's a somewhat undeserved one. Geeks like problem solving, and once we decide being fat is a problem we usually do something about it. Unlike most people. Which makes us really, really, unsympathetic to people who choose to not only remain inactive about it but also complain.
Most sites with flash players just feed the iPhone/iPad h.264 video directly.
Eh? I've seen that on youtube and dailymotion. In something like two years of using the iphone, those are the only ones I've ever seen that happening with. Some, possibly. But nowhere even close to "most".
The problem is that they made something that will disappoint both technies and average people. When a normal person sees a computer media tablet thing, they're going to expect hulu and the like.
I suspect your friends might have thick regional accents. The voicemail transcriptions are the main reason I use it. Perfect, no. But I'd say it usually only messes up about one or two words per paragraph of text, on average. Except for one friend with a really noticeable Texas accent. It has serious trouble with his.
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Four days ago I would have disagreed. And then youtube did an update that broke my scraper and I haven't been able to figure out how yet. That said, I'd much rather that approach than, say, apple. Google won't have a problem with you doing weird shit with their services for the most part. As long as it's not scaming or triggers their automated warnings in some way. But you're shit out of luck if your unsupported method breaks. While apple just plain does everything they can to lock you out of doing anything in a way they didn't intend.
Agreed. I pretty much lost interest in it as a flash video replacement the second it became clear there wasn't going to be a set standard for codecs. I remember what it was like pre flash video on linux. A crappy situation of piggybacking on windows codecs and just hoping the site didn't have measures in place to prevent video from working at all in linux. I don't think it'll be that bad, but I can see a shadow of that in html5.
Backgrounder's probably the single biggest reason I have mine jailbroken. I'm always amazed at the people freaking out like multitasking would cause the thing to explode. People have been multitasking on it for years now. I've had a couple issues with backgrounding and sound, but that's about it. For the most part it's worked great for me.
Please do, that's kind of how this thing works.
For what it's worth, bugs the hell out of me as well. The worst is when it's some subject the geek crowd is obviously familiar with. Like ten links explaining "what a linux is" without a link to the actual download for some patch.
I think you might be surprised how many of us there are. It seemed so simple at first, jailbreak it and then you've got a nifty unix based phone. Got a little more annoyed with apple every day though.
Man, let me tell you, as a linux user I really miss the pre flash video days. It's so annoying facing a somewhat heavy processor load while watching videos online, compared to not being able to see them at all. To getting codec errors, and redirects because the browser detection was windows-centric or because they actually booted people away that were using linux. Glad to see those wonderful days might be making a comeback!
I wonder what accounts for the difference. I'd say in general most people who call me come out 99% perfect on the transcripts. Except one friend, with a Texan accent, who usually is closer to 50% accurate.
Five minute? It takes more than that just to back up the data on the phone before updating. I'd say it's closer to a full half hour, with the download factored in. More if you take time to read other peoples experiences before doing it. Bricking it might not be a huge danger, but winding up with a half functional system is. So all in all I'd put it closer to 45 minutes. And it's 45 minutes that you'll be repeating over, and over, and over again. While finding some apps don't work, waiting for others to catch up, etc.
I shrugged it off for the first half year I had an iphone. But there's not a chance in hell I'd put myself through it again. You shouldn't have to fight your system just to use it.
I'd still need hulu in addition to netflix. Then add in orb for local files, and I think it'd be an ok media device once it was jailbroken to allow for backgrounding. Still, all in all if I was going for something like that I'd really just rather go with an android based device.
Oh xcd, you're like a window into a world where 99% of firefighters are women and 99% of nurses are men.
i think most professional athletes would take issue with Physiotherapy being much of a muchnes
Bully for them. Unless they've demonstrated experience with experimental methodology and have researched the subject with peer reviewed medical journals I really don't care. Anecdotal evidence is next to worthless for a good reason.
A large amount of professional athletes will also be happy to explain how their charms and talismans give them magic powers, and that Jesus shoots magic rays down at them to allow them victory.
Not only normal, as far as I know they've never deviated from that as their normal practice. Hell, grand central was closed to new registration for what, a year or two while they worked on it?
That's pretty much my opinion of the linux team as well. Far too often on the blog there'd be something that I could easily see one person getting wrong. But which at the same time I find difficult to believe an actual group of people would all be in the dark about.
It's not just the slashdot consensus though. Everybody I talk to agrees that it's horrible. I was shocked when even non-techy people brought it up to me to confirm that it really is as bad as they thought.
Woosh indeed! It's almost like different people might have different needs than you! But that's obviously a ridiculous idea.
Are you brainwashed or a shill?
I'd ask the same of you. Everyone knows about project gutenberg, that's not what he's asking. He's asking about stores with current content which have cheaper prices alongside comparable selections. I don't know the answer to that, but I can still tell his question is valid.
If he's planning on using his nerd cred to an advantage, I think he's in for a surprise. Every time I've seen the topic of fat people on planes come up on the internet, the rage is overwhelming. Geeks have a reputation for being fat, but I think it's a somewhat undeserved one. Geeks like problem solving, and once we decide being fat is a problem we usually do something about it. Unlike most people. Which makes us really, really, unsympathetic to people who choose to not only remain inactive about it but also complain.
On expressing interest to my elected representatives. "We already have internet in this state. We don't need any more."
Most sites with flash players just feed the iPhone/iPad h.264 video directly.
Eh? I've seen that on youtube and dailymotion. In something like two years of using the iphone, those are the only ones I've ever seen that happening with. Some, possibly. But nowhere even close to "most".
The problem is that they made something that will disappoint both technies and average people. When a normal person sees a computer media tablet thing, they're going to expect hulu and the like.
We? Personally I consider privacy a somewhat dated concept, and don't really care.
I suspect your friends might have thick regional accents. The voicemail transcriptions are the main reason I use it. Perfect, no. But I'd say it usually only messes up about one or two words per paragraph of text, on average. Except for one friend with a really noticeable Texas accent. It has serious trouble with his.
Going by the description, I think it's some new kind of popcorn.
I'd assume he meant streaming music. Which you can't multitask without jailbreaking and using backgrounder.