Really? someone would be so unwilling to remove their (turned off) glass that they would rather miss the movie? If thats true then there's a much deeper problem than the theater rules here.
See thats another benefit to using mythtv to record OTA. If someone wants to see a show I can put the show on a USB or something for them, or I can allow them access to stream stuff from my backend via the net.
One of the big reasons commercial streaming sucks is that you can't save/store it, which also means no watching where there isn't 4G/Wifi/Internet, and/or paying through the nose just for the connection to watch, then paying again to stream the media itself, (e.g at airports or on a long flight).
I dont pay a cent to anyone for TV. I installed linux and mythtv on old PC and only watch recorded shows it got over-the-air. mythtv even has auto ad-skipping. I watch what I want when I want. What you can get for free is actually pretty good. PBS is especially great.
I do agree that since the internet being widely available, the whole model of having to either watch or record something at a set time should have become an anachronism....Except that to stream something current over the internet is often ridiculously expensive. On PSN at least, its like $2.30 or so per episode of most popular current shows, which IMHO is ridiculous. I dont like UFC but I noticed to stream one UFC fight was $44. And you had to watch it within a set time. Laughable.
I'll stick with my free OTA HD broadcasts that haven't had the crap compressed out of them thanks. Even though most internet-streamed stuff is nominally HD, it gets so over-compressed that it still ends up looking like old analog TV.
>> Same goes for a DVR, where you have to both know about a show before it airs and set up the DVR to record it.
Not since the 90's. I just type in program titles and keywords (e.g. the name of my home town) I'm interested in into my mythtv box and it records matching shows whenever they air on any channel. I haven't actually set up a recording for months.
I think it would actually be good for both Linux and OSX. I also think people would move on from office fairly quickly if they ever got to actually experience anything else.
>> physicists slammed a beam of high-energy electrons, left over from other experiments...I was wondering what was inside all those carboard boxes under the stairs.
Hey I'm all for the free market economy. I know Microsoft unfortunately won't ever just gio bust and die but if they did:
* Lots of other smaller companies and innovative startups that Microsoft are actively keeping down will now get a shot at a more level marketplace.
* A massive patent portfolio would open up thus removing a very large damping effect currently in place around the entire sofware industry.
* Software tech especially OS's will probably suddenly make a noticeable leap forward (for the above reasons)
* Windows finally going away will be a strong opportunity/motivator for more awareness and acceptance of Linux on the desktop.
* The net quality of work and therefore respect that Software Engineers get will noticeably increase because the crappiest code hackers most often seem to be the ones that don't know anything other than Microsoft Tools/APis. They will all finally have to get a clue or find another career.
"Mr. Musk is a brilliant man, and Tesla is an innovative company. We can all respect that," says Jim Appleton, the president of the New Jersey Coalition of Automobile Retails. "But he doesnâ(TM)t get what it takes to do business in New Jersey."
Translation: Musk won't pay off all the useless parasites represented by Jim Appleton and all the corrupt government officials like Governor Rick Snyder the required under-the-table money to do business in their state.
Some, sure, but exact (ly the) same? no. Of course there are some guys who have no clue about technical stuff too, but i don't beleive the divide is even slightly as strong or numerous as it is with most women.
Its a fact that men and women's brains are psychobiologically different, Independent of upbringing, wealth, social class etc. Women are, on average, significantly better at skills relating to communcation, and men are, on average, significantly better at skills relating to 3D spatial awareness and to a lesser degree, logic. This has been proven time and again.
No matter how much some groups live in denial of these differences, or try and impose their idea of "political correctness" on us all, It is clear that most men are actually hardwired mentally to be better at engineering than most women. I don't see that living in denial of that is healthy.
I beleive women already have the same or better opoortunity than men to enter Engineering if they want. There are already plenty of financial support structures available only to women for the study of engineering. There are none that are only avaialble to men. I therefore don't see that spending even more effort in trying to coax more women into engineering is necessary or beneficial, especially as the reason for the bias is most women are apparently disinterested in the whole field in the first place, so its actually their own choice thats keeping them out. I certainly disagree with tilting the playing field to artificially benefit/encourage women more than men working in engineering, which some clueless morons apparently believe is the right way forward.
There are plenty of professions where women massively outnumber men, such as nursing and teaching. I don't see anyone worried about "fixing" those.
Your story is very cool, but you realise that you in no way represent the typical US female right?
For every woman like you there's probably 1000 that can't and don't even want to try to think logically about anything, much less attempt to understand or deal with anything even slightly technical. In fact most seem to think that being interested in tech or even just sci fi is a socially undesireable character flaw.
Sorry but I just can't live without my 16 channels of cheezy 90's spanish soap operas and multiple HSN clones:)
Joking aside, OTA kind of is like that at least here in Phoenix. That said cable was no better, which is why I cut it and saved like $60/month, and haven't missed a damn thing.
Thank god for PBS (the one broadcaster apprently not exclusively catering to inbred retards), and mythtv to help filter the rest of the crap.
As a cable-cutter who primarily gets video as OTA HDTV I for one was confused (for a second) by their use of the term "Digital Video".
What might have been better would be to call it "streaming video" or some such, to better indicate that the article is actually web-specific only.
Also, the "digital" part is pretty much redundant these days anyway, as there is no analog TV anymore (except maybe a few holdouts on cable), so pretty much all video is now digital. Saying "digital video" has basically become analogous to saying "electric TV".
>> is that really so different than leaving it to a corporation with closed source?"
Yes its COMPLETELY different.
Can there be exploitable bugs in open source? Of course. That remains true for all software, open or not. It is incredibly naive to imagine that anyone could effectively predict every potential future use of any product, especially a complex system.
Not only are exploits less likely in opensource in the first place (beacuse of the larger numbers of eyes looking at the code) but detection is faster (same reason) and also patches are released very quickly in community projects. For comparison look at Microsofts ongoing track record on even consciously leaving known exploits unpatched, in comparison to the speed that patches for Heartbleed and Shellshock got pushed out.
Furthermore unlike closed source, it is very unlikely that there could be anything added to an opensource project that is intentionally malicious or even morally questionable, and then remain undetected for long. Apart from anything else, It would be too easy to see which user put it there and make that information public.
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Really? someone would be so unwilling to remove their (turned off) glass that they would rather miss the movie?
If thats true then there's a much deeper problem than the theater rules here.
Here in AZ its acutally illegal for any public establishment to not provide you with free water if you ask for it.
Actually Its the screen backlight that bugs me the most.
oooh thats a cool idea!
Its nice but as far as I can tell, there's literally no game out or coming that will stretch one 980GTX, let alone 3, so why do/buy this?
yeah same here but thankfully its cox.
I'm surprised the monopolies commission aren't already all over the "single ISP availability" thing.
See thats another benefit to using mythtv to record OTA.
If someone wants to see a show I can put the show on a USB or something for them, or I can allow them access to stream stuff from my backend via the net.
One of the big reasons commercial streaming sucks is that you can't save/store it, which also means no watching where there isn't 4G/Wifi/Internet, and/or paying through the nose just for the connection to watch, then paying again to stream the media itself, (e.g at airports or on a long flight).
>> Time Warner Cable's results have been buoyed recently
I'm amazed that anyone chooses Time Warner for internet. Their ongoing record of blatant customer/internet abuse is truly astounding.
I dont pay a cent to anyone for TV.
I installed linux and mythtv on old PC and only watch recorded shows it got over-the-air. mythtv even has auto ad-skipping. I watch what I want when I want. What you can get for free is actually pretty good. PBS is especially great.
I do agree that since the internet being widely available, the whole model of having to either watch or record something at a set time should have become an anachronism. ...Except that to stream something current over the internet is often ridiculously expensive. On PSN at least, its like $2.30 or so per episode of most popular current shows, which IMHO is ridiculous. I dont like UFC but I noticed to stream one UFC fight was $44. And you had to watch it within a set time. Laughable.
I'll stick with my free OTA HD broadcasts that haven't had the crap compressed out of them thanks. Even though most internet-streamed stuff is nominally HD, it gets so over-compressed that it still ends up looking like old analog TV.
>> Same goes for a DVR, where you have to both know about a show before it airs and set up the DVR to record it.
Not since the 90's.
I just type in program titles and keywords (e.g. the name of my home town) I'm interested in into my mythtv box and it records matching shows whenever they air on any channel. I haven't actually set up a recording for months.
I think it would actually be good for both Linux and OSX.
I also think people would move on from office fairly quickly if they ever got to actually experience anything else.
>> physicists slammed a beam of high-energy electrons, left over from other experiments ...I was wondering what was inside all those carboard boxes under the stairs.
Hey I'm all for the free market economy. I know Microsoft unfortunately won't ever just gio bust and die but if they did:
* Lots of other smaller companies and innovative startups that Microsoft are actively keeping down will now get a shot at a more level marketplace.
* A massive patent portfolio would open up thus removing a very large damping effect currently in place around the entire sofware industry.
* Software tech especially OS's will probably suddenly make a noticeable leap forward (for the above reasons)
* Windows finally going away will be a strong opportunity/motivator for more awareness and acceptance of Linux on the desktop.
* The net quality of work and therefore respect that Software Engineers get will noticeably increase because the crappiest code hackers most often seem to be the ones that don't know anything other than Microsoft Tools/APis. They will all finally have to get a clue or find another career.
Having to wait for someone to serve you?
Thats fine.
I for one wouldn't want any Microsoft products even if they were giving them away.
"Mr. Musk is a brilliant man, and Tesla is an innovative company. We can all respect that," says Jim Appleton, the president of the New Jersey Coalition of Automobile Retails. "But he doesnâ(TM)t get what it takes to do business in New Jersey."
Translation: Musk won't pay off all the useless parasites represented by Jim Appleton and all the corrupt government officials like Governor Rick Snyder the required under-the-table money to do business in their state.
Please someone dowmod the troll that posted the "fucking troll" post.
Some, sure, but exact (ly the) same? no.
Of course there are some guys who have no clue about technical stuff too, but i don't beleive the divide is even slightly as strong or numerous as it is with most women.
Its a fact that men and women's brains are psychobiologically different, Independent of upbringing, wealth, social class etc. Women are, on average, significantly better at skills relating to communcation, and men are, on average, significantly better at skills relating to 3D spatial awareness and to a lesser degree, logic. This has been proven time and again.
No matter how much some groups live in denial of these differences, or try and impose their idea of "political correctness" on us all, It is clear that most men are actually hardwired mentally to be better at engineering than most women. I don't see that living in denial of that is healthy.
I beleive women already have the same or better opoortunity than men to enter Engineering if they want. There are already plenty of financial support structures available only to women for the study of engineering. There are none that are only avaialble to men. I therefore don't see that spending even more effort in trying to coax more women into engineering is necessary or beneficial, especially as the reason for the bias is most women are apparently disinterested in the whole field in the first place, so its actually their own choice thats keeping them out. I certainly disagree with tilting the playing field to artificially benefit/encourage women more than men working in engineering, which some clueless morons apparently believe is the right way forward.
There are plenty of professions where women massively outnumber men, such as nursing and teaching. I don't see anyone worried about "fixing" those.
My pre-coffee reading is terrible.
I scanned this as:
First Evidence of extra solar panels Discovered In 1917
Your story is very cool, but you realise that you in no way represent the typical US female right?
For every woman like you there's probably 1000 that can't and don't even want to try to think logically about anything, much less attempt to understand or deal with anything even slightly technical. In fact most seem to think that being interested in tech or even just sci fi is a socially undesireable character flaw.
>> The claim that women are not interested in technology or computing is just false.
No it isn't. All your analogy does is confirm that exceptions exist.
Sorry but I just can't live without my 16 channels of cheezy 90's spanish soap operas and multiple HSN clones :)
Joking aside, OTA kind of is like that at least here in Phoenix. That said cable was no better, which is why I cut it and saved like $60/month, and haven't missed a damn thing.
Thank god for PBS (the one broadcaster apprently not exclusively catering to inbred retards), and mythtv to help filter the rest of the crap.
As a cable-cutter who primarily gets video as OTA HDTV I for one was confused (for a second) by their use of the term "Digital Video".
What might have been better would be to call it "streaming video" or some such, to better indicate that the article is actually web-specific only.
Also, the "digital" part is pretty much redundant these days anyway, as there is no analog TV anymore (except maybe a few holdouts on cable), so pretty much all video is now digital. Saying "digital video" has basically become analogous to saying "electric TV".
>> is that really so different than leaving it to a corporation with closed source?"
Yes its COMPLETELY different.
Can there be exploitable bugs in open source? Of course. That remains true for all software, open or not. It is incredibly naive to imagine that anyone could effectively predict every potential future use of any product, especially a complex system.
Not only are exploits less likely in opensource in the first place (beacuse of the larger numbers of eyes looking at the code) but detection is faster (same reason) and also patches are released very quickly in community projects. For comparison look at Microsofts ongoing track record on even consciously leaving known exploits unpatched, in comparison to the speed that patches for Heartbleed and Shellshock got pushed out.
Furthermore unlike closed source, it is very unlikely that there could be anything added to an opensource project that is intentionally malicious or even morally questionable, and then remain undetected for long. Apart from anything else, It would be too easy to see which user put it there and make that information public.