zenni's the bomb alright. i buy a pair or two each year. between $65-120 per. not what you pay, but cheaper by far than the oligarchs. nevertheless, if e. dean butler's correct and the chinese wholesale $2.50 lenses and $10 frames i'm still getting totally hosed.
I think the religious fundamentalists and critics who are trying to stop Second Coming aren't interested in protecting Christ so much as their ability to control his narrative... They probably (correctly) suspect that it's not Christ who's being parodied, but themselves and how they've twisted his teachings of mercy for the powerless into a self-serving tool of the powerful. - Comic's Author Mark Russell
just a reminder: ALL sound transducers, speakers and mics, do double duty. 50 years ago when sennheiser debuted their legendary 414s, they introduced headphone drivers to the world that were essentially microphones repurposed as tiny on-the-ear lightweight speakers and personal sound reproduction would never be the same. before long there wasn't a radio station or recording studio without the lightweight little hi fidelity wonders. and the reverse is also true. the "regular" consumer speaker products installed in your laptops, tablets, internet radios and smart tvs make dandy microphones and are often used as such by hobbyists and modifiers. if somebody is clever enough and is motivated enough, they can listen in on you through your supposedly micless gear via your speakers, with transmissibility approaching microphones, because that's what they essentially are.
this. brought me right back to die hard and harry ellis' egotistical little putz with his ingratiating "hans, bubby..." and no less irritating (kudos to hart bochner for nailing it). like hart, it made my skin crawl. unlike hart, it wasn't entertaining. there's just no hope for civilization with these narcissists controlling the technosphere. god help us all.;)
i really can't imagine amazon et al shuts down the entire smart speaker network a la lavabit because a gag order warrant ordered them to record everything from a particular subscriber.
you know, it's like "private" vpns. the gov't shows up demanding visitor ips to a particular site and the service says we don't keep them. "ok, here's your warrant. start."
perfect for traveling i'd think, for camping, rvs, or any time weight and bulk are issues. i often have several hardcovers stuffed in a beach bag and they do crowd things. i'd grab these instead for sure.
Pai: "The broader problem is that California's micromanagement poses a risk to the rest of the country. For if individual states like California regulate the Internet, this will directly impact citizens in other states."
the darkening age: the christian destruction of the classical world - catherine nixey...highly recommended for fundies;). you know, for a scholar she moves things right along
bad blood: secrets and lies in a silicon valley startup - john carreyrou...elizabeth holmes is a very bad girl. but we knew that
amity and prosperity: one family and the fracturing of america - eliza griswold...fracking can be very hazardous to your and your neighbors' health
perhaps. no telling where speeds will be down the road, but yeah, you'll eventually have the entire output of the mpaa, riaa, library of congress and every smokin southern gal's bitchin fried green tomaters and mint julep recipes on your single little homedrive, all waiting to be cloned in person by your new found pals, all more than willing to return the favor of course. viva the new p2p sneakernet.
forget about retooling hbo. if you need the legitimacy of the brand that desperately, create a parallel channel, something like hbo light, and call it if you must hbolitening. there's your product for the smartphone obsessed! cat vids, car cams, czech councilmen throwing chairs...in the meantime leave the parent channel alone. shiela nevins bailed like rasputin.
I manage properties. It's a business I know well. Rental applicants have been "ghosting" forever. Until now we just called it blowing us off. It's so common in this arena that I'll occasionally tell the clearly ambivalent to do it if they decide to pass on the space. "You don't have to tell me no or let me down easy," I'll say, "I only need to know if you're going to take the place. Otherwise good luck." But tell them or not, almost all do it anyway. Now I say go ahead and ghost me, which generally earns a wry smirk. That's not so bad but when they blow off reserved showings and typically around half do, it's a little irritating when you've set aside valuable time just for them. I imagine it's commonplace in sales.
Been using an OLED equipped smartphone for four years and have in the last few weeks begun to notice what may be slight and I mean extremely slight ghosting in the status bar area while looking at certain photos, under certain conditions and I mean I really have to work at actually seeing this. I've been hearing about the effect forever so I've been looking for it but friends can't detect it. Despite the fud it's a non issue in daily use. Nothing like a bad pixel, not even close. Not obvious is an understatement. I know it's there now, so I can usually find it if I really try; some exceedingly subtle shading showing up at the 4 year mark, caused by a bright white static image (the status bar is almost always displayed). The colorful widgets on the home screen cause no ghosting whatsoever and had my status bar been slightly off white I doubt even this subtle effect would have occurred. It might even be temporary but since I keep displaying the status bar I'll never know. OTOH the image quality is so freaking superior to any non OLED screen that when acquaintances first see it they do little more than gawk. Their expressions are priceless. I may have forgotten how much better it is to anything else out there but nobody else has. For those viewing it for the first time it's nearly an emotional distraction. I show them something on it and instead of grasping the content they just try to process the powerfully rich imagery. It's simply the best display I've ever seen in my life, and still is without any doubt even after 4 years of constant use.
browsers are now basically scaffolds for my extensions. 57 borked them all. every single one - it was actually impressive in a perverse way. i rolled back to 56.
like broadcast and cable, i've already dumped fb and haven't looked back; obviously don't need google for search, youtube? not a big fan, gmail-i have plenty of alternatives; ms can be swapped with linux and a word equivalent; android can bow to whatever and amazon, well, that's a bit tougher but doable. i use it a lot, meaning serveral times a week but i won't need prime if i'm not shopping there, have not allowed alexa in the house and it's been months since i watched one of their shows so i'll use another internet shopping service and actual brick 'n' mortar purchasing. honestly manjoo, it's not the first time i've noticed but seriously, you need a life. a real life. there's an actual world out there. you kinda depress me.
sure, but you'd need nodes and supernodes and ultimately ultranodes to handle traffic distribution (probably one supernode per 350 users handling id handshakes and content cross filing) and although the each node would be network-selected on a adhoc basis they would generally be sticky (central server-like) and would be voluntary, in as much your personal node, if you were running one, would be saturated, swamped as it were with boring traffic and housekeeping duties as opposed to the fun stuff of p2p chit chat, file transfers and your general stick it to the man type outlaw activities. meanwhile there really wouldn't be all that much communication outside the local node neighborhoods (internodes), certainly no bandwidth heavy file sharing throughput across nodes and across the country. but hey, 350 pcs linked up can pump a lot swag. i've run a global waste mesh for a decade, serverless, stealthy and bulletproof, piggybacked on the internet of course, but i could set up something similar using personal device wi-fi only and go all off grid, at least within a few miles of any central node.
They can't improve fast enough. Between the increasingly long waits for long tail content and the increasing likelihood those titles will simply drop off the list entirely and enter the Netflix twilight zone they cynically call "Saved" never to return, and the increasingly long turn-around times for their mailers, when once you could rely on 2 films per week, now you're literally lucky to get only one, which doubles my costs and halves theirs, I'm seriously longing for the old life-in-the-slow-lane video stores they killed off. It really does amaze me a competitor hasn't emerged to challenge this ambivalent giant. Some optimism but mostly sheer inertia keeps me from cancelling. I really try to cut down on torrenting but they keep pulling me back...
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zenni's the bomb alright. i buy a pair or two each year. between $65-120 per. not what you pay, but cheaper by far than the oligarchs. nevertheless, if e. dean butler's correct and the chinese wholesale $2.50 lenses and $10 frames i'm still getting totally hosed.
- js.
I think the religious fundamentalists and critics who are trying to stop Second Coming aren't interested in protecting Christ so much as their ability to control his narrative... They probably (correctly) suspect that it's not Christ who's being parodied, but themselves and how they've twisted his teachings of mercy for the powerless into a self-serving tool of the powerful. - Comic's Author Mark Russell
breath of fresh air that.
- js.
been using it for the better part of a year. very happy with it.
- js.
just a reminder: ALL sound transducers, speakers and mics, do double duty. 50 years ago when sennheiser debuted their legendary 414s, they introduced headphone drivers to the world that were essentially microphones repurposed as tiny on-the-ear lightweight speakers and personal sound reproduction would never be the same. before long there wasn't a radio station or recording studio without the lightweight little hi fidelity wonders. and the reverse is also true. the "regular" consumer speaker products installed in your laptops, tablets, internet radios and smart tvs make dandy microphones and are often used as such by hobbyists and modifiers. if somebody is clever enough and is motivated enough, they can listen in on you through your supposedly micless gear via your speakers, with transmissibility approaching microphones, because that's what they essentially are.
- js.
this. brought me right back to die hard and harry ellis' egotistical little putz with his ingratiating "hans, bubby..." and no less irritating (kudos to hart bochner for nailing it). like hart, it made my skin crawl. unlike hart, it wasn't entertaining. there's just no hope for civilization with these narcissists controlling the technosphere. god help us all. ;)
- js.
i really can't imagine amazon et al shuts down the entire smart speaker network a la lavabit because a gag order warrant ordered them to record everything from a particular subscriber.
you know, it's like "private" vpns. the gov't shows up demanding visitor ips to a particular site and the service says we don't keep them. "ok, here's your warrant. start."
- js.
perfect for traveling i'd think, for camping, rvs, or any time weight and bulk are issues. i often have several hardcovers stuffed in a beach bag and they do crowd things. i'd grab these instead for sure.
- js.
wanna bet those numbers increase?
- js.
Pai: "The broader problem is that California's micromanagement poses a risk to the rest of the country. For if individual states like California regulate the Internet, this will directly impact citizens in other states."
Kissinger would approve.
- js.
the darkening age: the christian destruction of the classical world - catherine nixey...highly recommended for fundies ;). you know, for a scholar she moves things right along
bad blood: secrets and lies in a silicon valley startup - john carreyrou...elizabeth holmes is a very bad girl. but we knew that
amity and prosperity: one family and the fracturing of america - eliza griswold...fracking can be very hazardous to your and your neighbors' health
perhaps. no telling where speeds will be down the road, but yeah, you'll eventually have the entire output of the mpaa, riaa, library of congress and every smokin southern gal's bitchin fried green tomaters and mint julep recipes on your single little homedrive, all waiting to be cloned in person by your new found pals, all more than willing to return the favor of course. viva the new p2p sneakernet.
forget about retooling hbo. if you need the legitimacy of the brand that desperately, create a parallel channel, something like hbo light, and call it if you must hbolitening. there's your product for the smartphone obsessed! cat vids, car cams, czech councilmen throwing chairs...in the meantime leave the parent channel alone. shiela nevins bailed like rasputin.
I manage properties. It's a business I know well. Rental applicants have been "ghosting" forever. Until now we just called it blowing us off. It's so common in this arena that I'll occasionally tell the clearly ambivalent to do it if they decide to pass on the space. "You don't have to tell me no or let me down easy," I'll say, "I only need to know if you're going to take the place. Otherwise good luck." But tell them or not, almost all do it anyway. Now I say go ahead and ghost me, which generally earns a wry smirk. That's not so bad but when they blow off reserved showings and typically around half do, it's a little irritating when you've set aside valuable time just for them. I imagine it's commonplace in sales.
Pay no attention to them Buddists, sez the boffin from Catholic U.
Been using an OLED equipped smartphone for four years and have in the last few weeks begun to notice what may be slight and I mean extremely slight ghosting in the status bar area while looking at certain photos, under certain conditions and I mean I really have to work at actually seeing this. I've been hearing about the effect forever so I've been looking for it but friends can't detect it. Despite the fud it's a non issue in daily use. Nothing like a bad pixel, not even close. Not obvious is an understatement. I know it's there now, so I can usually find it if I really try; some exceedingly subtle shading showing up at the 4 year mark, caused by a bright white static image (the status bar is almost always displayed). The colorful widgets on the home screen cause no ghosting whatsoever and had my status bar been slightly off white I doubt even this subtle effect would have occurred. It might even be temporary but since I keep displaying the status bar I'll never know. OTOH the image quality is so freaking superior to any non OLED screen that when acquaintances first see it they do little more than gawk. Their expressions are priceless. I may have forgotten how much better it is to anything else out there but nobody else has. For those viewing it for the first time it's nearly an emotional distraction. I show them something on it and instead of grasping the content they just try to process the powerfully rich imagery. It's simply the best display I've ever seen in my life, and still is without any doubt even after 4 years of constant use.
browsers are now basically scaffolds for my extensions. 57 borked them all. every single one - it was actually impressive in a perverse way. i rolled back to 56.
- js.
c'est exact, and in three years we'll be reading how they invented the category, and probably right here. -j/k
- js.
like broadcast and cable, i've already dumped fb and haven't looked back; obviously don't need google for search, youtube? not a big fan, gmail-i have plenty of alternatives; ms can be swapped with linux and a word equivalent; android can bow to whatever and amazon, well, that's a bit tougher but doable. i use it a lot, meaning serveral times a week but i won't need prime if i'm not shopping there, have not allowed alexa in the house and it's been months since i watched one of their shows so i'll use another internet shopping service and actual brick 'n' mortar purchasing. honestly manjoo, it's not the first time i've noticed but seriously, you need a life. a real life. there's an actual world out there. you kinda depress me.
- js.
sure, but you'd need nodes and supernodes and ultimately ultranodes to handle traffic distribution (probably one supernode per 350 users handling id handshakes and content cross filing) and although the each node would be network-selected on a adhoc basis they would generally be sticky (central server-like) and would be voluntary, in as much your personal node, if you were running one, would be saturated, swamped as it were with boring traffic and housekeeping duties as opposed to the fun stuff of p2p chit chat, file transfers and your general stick it to the man type outlaw activities. meanwhile there really wouldn't be all that much communication outside the local node neighborhoods (internodes), certainly no bandwidth heavy file sharing throughput across nodes and across the country. but hey, 350 pcs linked up can pump a lot swag. i've run a global waste mesh for a decade, serverless, stealthy and bulletproof, piggybacked on the internet of course, but i could set up something similar using personal device wi-fi only and go all off grid, at least within a few miles of any central node.
- js.
...honest.
...starting whenever they want.
while going forwards they just put a sheet behind the girl.
but hey, it's all good. cause you know, children.
another manipulative con promoted by your friends in law enforcement.
- js.
They can't improve fast enough. Between the increasingly long waits for long tail content and the increasing likelihood those titles will simply drop off the list entirely and enter the Netflix twilight zone they cynically call "Saved" never to return, and the increasingly long turn-around times for their mailers, when once you could rely on 2 films per week, now you're literally lucky to get only one, which doubles my costs and halves theirs, I'm seriously longing for the old life-in-the-slow-lane video stores they killed off. It really does amaze me a competitor hasn't emerged to challenge this ambivalent giant. Some optimism but mostly sheer inertia keeps me from cancelling. I really try to cut down on torrenting but they keep pulling me back...
not sure i can wait until february 2016
nothing more odious than a plutocrat whining about the rising cost of peons.
yep. mixplorer, but you'll have to side load it.