person who cares checking in. streaming services are sadly lacking; i buy and rent lots. my physical discs (with extras) go right to hard drive so the next time they're watched they're backed up and just a few lazy clicks away. ymmv but storing 1500-2000 studio dvds today will generally run about 35 cents per movie per 10 tb hd. 15 cents each if you don't mind using a 5tb. double that when you clone the drive. expect that to fall by a third, maybe a half next year. it can add up perhaps but the per film financials are negligable.
Personally I think dead reckoning is innate. At least it feels that way to me. Like knowing it's about to rain, I "sense" I should be heading that way or this, instinctively I suppose, almost as if I'm being pulled, and if practice (or lack thereof) alters the effect, I haven't noticed anything so far, and I've been using using GPS for over a decade (props to HERE btw, best app for the phone, especially beyond towers). There are the odd minor digressions, like on the Vinyard last summer when my phone was constantly routing me around Obamajams onto sketchy dirt roads etc, but I told it to. Anytime things get really weird alarms go off and I reassess.
I think it's all positive, and while I'm all for model maps and peer reviewed papers, I doubt that particular spidey sense will atrophy anymore than I'll lose the ability to eat with my hands because I've been using utensils for too long. Spatial localizing isn't just a time saver, it's survival, and thanks to fuckups by the ancients we've evolved from those that were pretty damn good at it. It's ingrained, it appears, and we got it free.
Actually it will, and does. My very old rotary phone, pulse code and all, metal dial and all, works fine incoming and outgoing. So too the DSL, Netflix, Prime, torrents etc...even my Republic Moto X, with automatic wi-fi offloading of cell voice, text, SMS and data all via that ballsy little POTS line that's been supporting squirrels since my parents were kids.
Bought the Tablet the week of release and paid around $250.00 w/handsome flip cover. It's fits in my suit pocket so it actually goes to meetings. Great screen - easy to read, displays AV content pleasingly (charts, pics, NetFlix etc), good sound. Has page numbers! With format-shifting Calibre I can load any content out there and the expandable memory let's me add all I need. Mine's nearly two years old so the idea of "doing it again" is basically moot. Technology marches etc...I'd buy something up to the 2013 minute now, like the new Nexus 7 with faster page loading maybe, but I have no need to replace my Nook. It's still doing what I paid it to do in '11. It's bulletproof. Battery holding up...It's a real GLU, a great little unit.
"And just how strong is the Model S roof, which is secured with aerospace-grade bolts? It broke a testing machine that was pushing down on the roof with the equivalent of the weight of four cars."
Four cars? Pshaw. Forty years ago my Volvo could bench press 6.
Written like a true geekster. Look, shopping isn't particularly about distribution...that may indeed be what selling is about (although I doubt it), but shopping is a whole nuther animal. When I'm stuck behind my tesla 19" wonderwindow for hours, I often lunge at any excuse to get out of the home office. If that means heading to Trader Joes for some fresh ciabatta bread (squeezed by me to be sure) or a taste of that new sauce the nice lady hands me I'm winning on two levels. I'm out of the house and in control of buying and perusing. Bumping into somebody cute is icing on the cake. I can't do any of that from my desk. Certainly for many commodities online shopping has real merit, and it's possible that by chipping away at the margins Amazon may render less enlightened establishments vulnerable, but the breathless prose of the writer is more wishful thinking than anything truly predictive.
as a politician in a small northeastern city yours is i think the best reason for strongly supporting our public libraries in two critical areas; keeping the hours of operation as liberal as possible, especially during what may be generally difficult financial times, and keeping the facilities technologically up to date. your story is a reason to continue doing so, a primer on the results and, really, an inspiration.
I'm jumping on the first decent tablet that fully renders free, OTA broadcasts - like HD radio and local HD TV - to watch on those increasingly gorgeous screens. If they added shortwave and public service bands to their chip I'd buy two.
Interesting article for its limitations but it misses what I think is the real trend - multi purpose devices.
On Black Friday I was all set to purchase some sort of consumer streaming machine when I stumbled across a Sony display at Walmart featuring a Blu-Ray player that also connected to the web via LAN and streamed video content for what I thought was a reasonable 99 dollars. After a little research back home I found a really good deal: a Sony 3D Blu-Ray player (BDP-S580) from Best Buy that also streams dozens of additional internet channels, some free (the 3 Stooges!) via both LAN and inboard Wi-Fi, with resolution up to 1080p, and plays 3D Blu-rays as well. The 109 dollar unit also included 2 USB ports for outboard content and a browser although it doesn't yet support flash. Hook up was a cinch even if Wi-Fi synching did take some time. It's stable however and I haven't had to redo anything in three months of operation including the occasional power outage.
I watch NetFlix and downloaded movie files on my living room TV almost every evening and it's just a much better experience over staring at a desktop PC or laptop which I'd done for years (cord cutter here). NetFlix looks beautiful by the way.
The easy to use device is a game changer for me (no doubt it passes the baby sitter test). I only wish I had it ten years ago.
...once it's rooted and open. Even then, these consume-er devices hold little interest (so far anyway - I used my iTouch for about a month). But if it's walled? Forget it.
Google is the modern equivalent of a huge, integrated television network, perhaps what in the past might have been a combined NBC/CBS.
It's pricey output, the things it spends its money on, from Google Maps to search to Google + to bandwidth are today's equivalent of tentpole programming like Ed Sullivan, Bonanza, The Tonight Show, Roots etc,. Its product of course, is viewers, us in other words, who are bundled and sold to advertisers in essentially the same fashion the TV networks did in the sixties.
Surely at this point in time this can't be up for debate or even news.
We "watch" Google all day long. Sometimes for hours, sometimes for moments. The fact that we interact a bit more with it doesn't alter the business equation or the reality of our relationship with the company.
i've noticed it depends on the definition of "features" and the newness of the movie. back catalog dvds have everything, but i'm not that into most of it like director's commentary and endless, behind the scenes self congratulatory fluff about how brilliant they all were to have been able to pull off this impossibly difficult film. i really do like the alternate language tracks, subtitles, audio options and chapters and these are almost always on the discs, even the new ones, while none of it is available in the stream, with the possible exception of english for the hearing impaired on a minority of content, which itself is a minority of catalog dvd titles. so it's discs for me from now on. then there's amazon prime, so much more than movies but $17/year cheaper than netfix's streaming only option.
It'll be full DVDs for me. Menus, x-tra features (RIPPABLE! - ahem) various languages & subs for the hearing impaired etc. Never streamed that much anyway. I'll stick to discs-by-mail, thanks.
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person who cares checking in. streaming services are sadly lacking; i buy and rent lots. my physical discs (with extras) go right to hard drive so the next time they're watched they're backed up and just a few lazy clicks away. ymmv but storing 1500-2000 studio dvds today will generally run about 35 cents per movie per 10 tb hd. 15 cents each if you don't mind using a 5tb. double that when you clone the drive. expect that to fall by a third, maybe a half next year. it can add up perhaps but the per film financials are negligable.
Personally I think dead reckoning is innate. At least it feels that way to me. Like knowing it's about to rain, I "sense" I should be heading that way or this, instinctively I suppose, almost as if I'm being pulled, and if practice (or lack thereof) alters the effect, I haven't noticed anything so far, and I've been using using GPS for over a decade (props to HERE btw, best app for the phone, especially beyond towers). There are the odd minor digressions, like on the Vinyard last summer when my phone was constantly routing me around Obamajams onto sketchy dirt roads etc, but I told it to. Anytime things get really weird alarms go off and I reassess.
I think it's all positive, and while I'm all for model maps and peer reviewed papers, I doubt that particular spidey sense will atrophy anymore than I'll lose the ability to eat with my hands because I've been using utensils for too long. Spatial localizing isn't just a time saver, it's survival, and thanks to fuckups by the ancients we've evolved from those that were pretty damn good at it. It's ingrained, it appears, and we got it free.
Actually it will, and does. My very old rotary phone, pulse code and all, metal dial and all, works fine incoming and outgoing. So too the DSL, Netflix, Prime, torrents etc...even my Republic Moto X, with automatic wi-fi offloading of cell voice, text, SMS and data all via that ballsy little POTS line that's been supporting squirrels since my parents were kids.
Bought the Tablet the week of release and paid around $250.00 w/handsome flip cover. It's fits in my suit pocket so it actually goes to meetings. Great screen - easy to read, displays AV content pleasingly (charts, pics, NetFlix etc), good sound. Has page numbers! With format-shifting Calibre I can load any content out there and the expandable memory let's me add all I need. Mine's nearly two years old so the idea of "doing it again" is basically moot. Technology marches etc...I'd buy something up to the 2013 minute now, like the new Nexus 7 with faster page loading maybe, but I have no need to replace my Nook. It's still doing what I paid it to do in '11. It's bulletproof. Battery holding up...It's a real GLU, a great little unit.
"And just how strong is the Model S roof, which is secured with aerospace-grade bolts? It broke a testing machine that was pushing down on the roof with the equivalent of the weight of four cars."
Four cars? Pshaw. Forty years ago my Volvo could bench press 6.
http://imgur.com/kmdoVYR
Written like a true geekster. Look, shopping isn't particularly about distribution...that may indeed be what selling is about (although I doubt it), but shopping is a whole nuther animal. When I'm stuck behind my tesla 19" wonderwindow for hours, I often lunge at any excuse to get out of the home office. If that means heading to Trader Joes for some fresh ciabatta bread (squeezed by me to be sure) or a taste of that new sauce the nice lady hands me I'm winning on two levels. I'm out of the house and in control of buying and perusing. Bumping into somebody cute is icing on the cake. I can't do any of that from my desk. Certainly for many commodities online shopping has real merit, and it's possible that by chipping away at the margins Amazon may render less enlightened establishments vulnerable, but the breathless prose of the writer is more wishful thinking than anything truly predictive.
http://www.zdnet.com/mega-to-fill-secure-email-gap-left-by-lavabit-7000019232/
They can barely keep their shelves stocked as it is. They should nail the basics before botching a line extension.
select "quit asking me," or better yet, install noscript. solves lots of ongoing issues.
First an initial ''charge complete,'' (the point, warned Tesla, where anything more shortens battery life), then a 2 mile detour to Manhattan.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/automobiles/stalled-on-the-ev-highway.html
http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/the-charges-are-flying-over-a-test-of-teslas-charging-network/
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/10/automobiles/stalled-on-the-ev-highway.html http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/the-charges-are-flying-over-a-test-of-teslas-charging-network/
as a politician in a small northeastern city yours is i think the best reason for strongly supporting our public libraries in two critical areas; keeping the hours of operation as liberal as possible, especially during what may be generally difficult financial times, and keeping the facilities technologically up to date. your story is a reason to continue doing so, a primer on the results and, really, an inspiration.
- js.
I'm jumping on the first decent tablet that fully renders free, OTA broadcasts - like HD radio and local HD TV - to watch on those increasingly gorgeous screens. If they added shortwave and public service bands to their chip I'd buy two.
Did they inspect his bags before he left?
Interesting article for its limitations but it misses what I think is the real trend - multi purpose devices.
On Black Friday I was all set to purchase some sort of consumer streaming machine when I stumbled across a Sony display at Walmart featuring a Blu-Ray player that also connected to the web via LAN and streamed video content for what I thought was a reasonable 99 dollars. After a little research back home I found a really good deal: a Sony 3D Blu-Ray player (BDP-S580) from Best Buy that also streams dozens of additional internet channels, some free (the 3 Stooges!) via both LAN and inboard Wi-Fi, with resolution up to 1080p, and plays 3D Blu-rays as well. The 109 dollar unit also included 2 USB ports for outboard content and a browser although it doesn't yet support flash. Hook up was a cinch even if Wi-Fi synching did take some time. It's stable however and I haven't had to redo anything in three months of operation including the occasional power outage.
I watch NetFlix and downloaded movie files on my living room TV almost every evening and it's just a much better experience over staring at a desktop PC or laptop which I'd done for years (cord cutter here). NetFlix looks beautiful by the way.
The easy to use device is a game changer for me (no doubt it passes the baby sitter test). I only wish I had it ten years ago.
- js.
...once it's rooted and open. Even then, these consume-er devices hold little interest (so far anyway - I used my iTouch for about a month). But if it's walled? Forget it.
- js.
I have 2TBs. I'm twice as arty.
Google is the modern equivalent of a huge, integrated television network, perhaps what in the past might have been a combined NBC/CBS.
It's pricey output, the things it spends its money on, from Google Maps to search to Google + to bandwidth are today's equivalent of tentpole programming like Ed Sullivan, Bonanza, The Tonight Show, Roots etc,. Its product of course, is viewers, us in other words, who are bundled and sold to advertisers in essentially the same fashion the TV networks did in the sixties.
Surely at this point in time this can't be up for debate or even news.
We "watch" Google all day long. Sometimes for hours, sometimes for moments. The fact that we interact a bit more with it doesn't alter the business equation or the reality of our relationship with the company.
- js.
He damn well better demand an investigation of News Corp. too. Only fair, O'Reilly.
i've noticed it depends on the definition of "features" and the newness of the movie. back catalog dvds have everything, but i'm not that into most of it like director's commentary and endless, behind the scenes self congratulatory fluff about how brilliant they all were to have been able to pull off this impossibly difficult film. i really do like the alternate language tracks, subtitles, audio options and chapters and these are almost always on the discs, even the new ones, while none of it is available in the stream, with the possible exception of english for the hearing impaired on a minority of content, which itself is a minority of catalog dvd titles. so it's discs for me from now on. then there's amazon prime, so much more than movies but $17/year cheaper than netfix's streaming only option.
It'll be full DVDs for me. Menus, x-tra features (RIPPABLE! - ahem) various languages & subs for the hearing impaired etc. Never streamed that much anyway. I'll stick to discs-by-mail, thanks.
Yes, and it's called WASTE. Came out in '03 and I've been "running" a decentralized mesh non-stop ever since.
lol. right.
me too! that and the oxygen-free sata cables i got from sandia labs keeps the bits pristine, the music minty fresh.
So slitting a goat's throat's ok but walking around w/a live chicken is beyond the pale apparently.