I wish but damn the sports. My hope is that the cable companies will be forced into ala carte channel choices by competition with online sources. Or hell, maybe I could subscribe to individual TV shows.
I'm told that wife is watching football (she's a real fanatic) on her laptop. I remember her complaining that the website uses flash, so it doesn't work on her tablet. There may be something you can do there. I don't have any specifics, as I actively avoid sports.
. I currently keep my photos on a separate, privately run website, (the developer/owner of which I know personally) and occasionally link my account back to my facebook account so that friends and family who are still using facebook can still stay in the loop. It seems like one could do the same for Diaspora. (Plus an invitation to migrate.)
Facebook is getting to be a mashup of email hoaxes and questionable applications anyway. Maybe it's time to drop it. If they're getting set to adopt the Windows 8 "one interface on every type of device" mindframe, it's way past time.
Ok, you may put Yesmail out of business (which is not necessarily a bad thing) but you will never collect from the worst of the spammers, because they're offshore and don't want to be found, and let's face it -- the tax collectors are going to go after the easiest marks, which is us.
We need to face this -- what is being proposed is not really a big industry-destroying tax on spammers. That's just marketing. It's a tax on the legitimate users. And the delicious part is that the purpose of the tax is to prop up a service we no longer use, apparently so that we can continue getting junk mail made from dead trees.
The fundamental question is, do we really need to "save" the US post office? That service was so last century. Cue discussion on buggy whips.
If you're in the US there probably haven't been any takers because that would be illegal.
Yes. Communications act of 1994, I believe. But that didn't stop the homeowner's association from trying to get people to take down those new mini dishes that were starting to crop up. I'm told in some cases homeowner's associations put liens on houses for fines, and the homeowners had to fight them in court. Ultimately successfully, but it's a huge pain in the meantime.
Our association made noises about how the CC&R document we signed when we bought the house superseded the communications act (which came later) but a bunch of homeowners responded with the equivalent of MOLON LABE and the board backed down. It was a beautiful thing.
This strategy generally works. However, not when you think the primary purpose of a TV is for sports. For those that don't watch sports, why would you have a TV subscription at all?
One possible answer for sports is go to the bar to watch the game.
This strategy generally works. However, not when you think the primary purpose of a TV is for sports. For those that don't watch sports, why would you have a TV subscription at all?
That's a good question, and I don't know the answer. I've avoided sports ever since they stopped showing the cheerleaders. My wife is a rabid sports fan -- she'll watch Rugby and Golf if there's nothing else on. However, given the setup above (only live channels are off-air) I don't know how she does it.
Oh, sorry, part of the answer is that she subscribes to some things that she watches on her laptop. That might be it. But she definitely watches football (every...single...game...) on her TV.
Enh.... rabbit ears are not "digital" or "analog". The "digital" on the package is marketing for the uninformed. Like "color" used to be.
Also, those set top antennas that are shaped like a dish? They're not really satellite antennas. Sorry.
One Christmas I bought the wife a large farmhouse-style antenna, put it on a tall mast (suitably protected against lightning) and DARED the homeowner's association to try to make me take it down. It's been five years; no takers so far. We get thirteen digital channels off the antenna, although many of them are crap.
This reminds me of the chicken phenomenon, where a chicken caught in an intolerable situation where every possible choice involves risk and/or loss, will instead perform an act that is entirely separate from the issue at hand -- preening her feathers. This is feather preening. Because dealing with the important issues is too hard.
...but it'll be interesting to see what happens when this passes. Of primary interest will be the legal theater as they try to figure out (a) what is porn and absolutely most vital, (b) who gets to decide. Personally I'm voting for adopting the society of THX1138 and be done with it.
Every time we go through, they take wife's clippers from her. And every time she makes a big deal about it. And after the first couple of times, daughter and I sidle away from her, whistling tunelessly and staring at the ceiling...
It's good your wife doesn't let people walk all over her. Don't complain.
I understand. It is the principle, with her. On the other hand, I really don't want to piss off people who can force an anal exam.
I swear this is true... The second time it happened, I waited for the drama to play out, and it continued to escalate, and then I noticed that daughter was nonchalantly shuffling away. And I'm ashamed to say, at the time that sounded like a good idea, so I started shuffling away, and we both ended up at the first slideway several yards away, and looked at each other... "Do we leave her?" "Well," pause... "Well,"... "How much time before our flight?"
My understanding is that it's the principle of the thing, with her. I admire her for that, and at the same time I really don't want to piss off TSA officials. They're probably bored and just itching for someone to screw with.
Every time we go through, they take wife's clippers from her. And every time she makes a big deal about it. And after the first couple of times, daughter and I sidle away from her, whistling tunelessly and staring at the ceiling...
Yeah, but the first impressions are only made to the people whose money they already have.
True! And if we were all isolated and never talked to each other, (like, there was no such thing as this intertube thingy) that might be a way to be profitable.
And this is EA's what... 500th impression and we still are not impressed.
I was thinking per game, but you're right. I don't buy many EA games -- the last one was Spore, and was very annoyed by EA's then-policy to only allow the game to be moved twice to new installations. As I recall, they caught a lot of heat for that, and rescinded the rule.
It's not just EA -- a lot of software companies are releasing new products with horrendous requirements and limitations, then retracting as they gauge the bad reaction from consumers. (See article in today's Slashdot regarding Office 2013, for instance.) What they're missing, I think, is that first impressions for a particular product *are* important, and initial problems and bad implementation and licensing decisions are what get spread via word-of-mouth, more (I think) than the solutions that come later.
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> They are unrepentant about the always-online requirement though.
And I am equally unrepentant about not buying any more of their stuff.
Moon mining and huge advances in cloning announced on the same day.... Maybe Duncan Jones was onto something?
I wish but damn the sports. My hope is that the cable companies will be forced into ala carte channel choices by competition with online sources. Or hell, maybe I could subscribe to individual TV shows.
I'm told that wife is watching football (she's a real fanatic) on her laptop. I remember her complaining that the website uses flash, so it doesn't work on her tablet. There may be something you can do there. I don't have any specifics, as I actively avoid sports.
.
I currently keep my photos on a separate, privately run website, (the developer/owner of which I know personally) and occasionally link my account back to my facebook account so that friends and family who are still using facebook can still stay in the loop. It seems like one could do the same for Diaspora. (Plus an invitation to migrate.)
Facebook is getting to be a mashup of email hoaxes and questionable applications anyway. Maybe it's time to drop it. If they're getting set to adopt the Windows 8 "one interface on every type of device" mindframe, it's way past time.
This.
Ok, you may put Yesmail out of business (which is not necessarily a bad thing) but you will never collect from the worst of the spammers, because they're offshore and don't want to be found, and let's face it -- the tax collectors are going to go after the easiest marks, which is us.
We need to face this -- what is being proposed is not really a big industry-destroying tax on spammers. That's just marketing. It's a tax on the legitimate users. And the delicious part is that the purpose of the tax is to prop up a service we no longer use, apparently so that we can continue getting junk mail made from dead trees.
The fundamental question is, do we really need to "save" the US post office? That service was so last century. Cue discussion on buggy whips.
> Why cable? Cause Good Eats wasn't on TPB or Usenet when i last Iooked.
I've never heard of the show, but checked just now and it definitely is on TPB.
One possible answer for sports is go to the bar to watch the game.
Not if you live in a 21-to-enter state and have kids. Or what chain of all-ages sports restaurants do you recommend?
a) Hooters (You don't have to be 21 to eat there. My daughter likes it there -- the waitresses treat her like a princess.)
b) Buffalo Wild Wings
c) Lil' Cooperstown
There are probably others. These are the ones in my area, your mileage may vary.
Now all they need is a "natural" arrangement, and it'd be the perfect keyboard.
Many of any commercial thing are crap. Ok, let's say I missed your point. Illuminate me.
For those of us trying to use Facebook who don't play Farmville, this is not a selling point.
If you're in the US there probably haven't been any takers because that would be illegal.
Yes. Communications act of 1994, I believe. But that didn't stop the homeowner's association from trying to get people to take down those new mini dishes that were starting to crop up. I'm told in some cases homeowner's associations put liens on houses for fines, and the homeowners had to fight them in court. Ultimately successfully, but it's a huge pain in the meantime.
Our association made noises about how the CC&R document we signed when we bought the house superseded the communications act (which came later) but a bunch of homeowners responded with the equivalent of MOLON LABE and the board backed down. It was a beautiful thing.
This strategy generally works. However, not when you think the primary purpose of a TV is for sports. For those that don't watch sports, why would you have a TV subscription at all?
One possible answer for sports is go to the bar to watch the game.
This strategy generally works. However, not when you think the primary purpose of a TV is for sports. For those that don't watch sports, why would you have a TV subscription at all?
That's a good question, and I don't know the answer. I've avoided sports ever since they stopped showing the cheerleaders. My wife is a rabid sports fan -- she'll watch Rugby and Golf if there's nothing else on. However, given the setup above (only live channels are off-air) I don't know how she does it.
Oh, sorry, part of the answer is that she subscribes to some things that she watches on her laptop. That might be it. But she definitely watches football (every...single...game...) on her TV.
b) Erect old fashion antenna. (We get 13 digital channels off the antenna, although many of them are crap.
I get 130 digital channels off cable, although many of them are crap.
But I suspect you only watch a fraction of them, and of those you watch, the content eventually will show up on the Roku.
> Get a pair of digital rabbit ears
Enh.... rabbit ears are not "digital" or "analog". The "digital" on the package is marketing for the uninformed. Like "color" used to be.
Also, those set top antennas that are shaped like a dish? They're not really satellite antennas. Sorry.
One Christmas I bought the wife a large farmhouse-style antenna, put it on a tall mast (suitably protected against lightning) and DARED the homeowner's association to try to make me take it down. It's been five years; no takers so far. We get thirteen digital channels off the antenna, although many of them are crap.
a) Cancel cable service. Retain or sign up for broadband.
b) Erect old fashion antenna. (We get 13 digital channels off the antenna, although many of them are crap.
c) Buy roku box. ($99 Amazon), less than the cost of 1 month of cable.
d) Subscribe to Netflix streaming, and/or Hulu +, Amazon streaming (Any combination still a tiny fraction of the cost of cable/satellite)
e) Whatever you can't get via above, torrent, or maybe read a book, go walk the dog, try to remember what your kids look like.
f) When all else fails, remember, It's Only TV. It's quite a ways down on Maslow's hierarchy of needs.
Yes, I've seen that, and it's absolutely brilliant.
This reminds me of the chicken phenomenon, where a chicken caught in an intolerable situation where every possible choice involves risk and/or loss, will instead perform an act that is entirely separate from the issue at hand -- preening her feathers. This is feather preening. Because dealing with the important issues is too hard.
Scanned the report. No pictures.
Every time we go through, they take wife's clippers from her. And every time she makes a big deal about it. And after the first couple of times, daughter and I sidle away from her, whistling tunelessly and staring at the ceiling...
It's good your wife doesn't let people walk all over her. Don't complain.
I understand. It is the principle, with her. On the other hand, I really don't want to piss off people who can force an anal exam.
I swear this is true... The second time it happened, I waited for the drama to play out, and it continued to escalate, and then I noticed that daughter was nonchalantly shuffling away. And I'm ashamed to say, at the time that sounded like a good idea, so I started shuffling away, and we both ended up at the first slideway several yards away, and looked at each other... "Do we leave her?" "Well," pause... "Well," ... "How much time before our flight?"
My understanding is that it's the principle of the thing, with her. I admire her for that, and at the same time I really don't want to piss off TSA officials. They're probably bored and just itching for someone to screw with.
Every time we go through, they take wife's clippers from her. And every time she makes a big deal about it. And after the first couple of times, daughter and I sidle away from her, whistling tunelessly and staring at the ceiling...
Yeah, but the first impressions are only made to the people whose money they already have.
True! And if we were all isolated and never talked to each other, (like, there was no such thing as this intertube thingy) that might be a way to be profitable.
And this is EA's what... 500th impression and we still are not impressed.
I was thinking per game, but you're right. I don't buy many EA games -- the last one was Spore, and was very annoyed by EA's then-policy to only allow the game to be moved twice to new installations. As I recall, they caught a lot of heat for that, and rescinded the rule.
It's not just EA -- a lot of software companies are releasing new products with horrendous requirements and limitations, then retracting as they gauge the bad reaction from consumers. (See article in today's Slashdot regarding Office 2013, for instance.) What they're missing, I think, is that first impressions for a particular product *are* important, and initial problems and bad implementation and licensing decisions are what get spread via word-of-mouth, more (I think) than the solutions that come later.