Great selection, no commercials? The only real drawback is the lag time, but between the library and Netflix DVDs just about all my video needs are met.
I use it where it's available. All privacy concerns aside, it's considerably faster than a card (open app, hold up phone, it dings, that is all) and more secure with the one-time-use CC numbers. No receipts to sign, no card to pull out and put away, and faster than waiting for the chip reader to do its thing.
You missed my reply to myself, in which I stated I am perfectly willing to donate where I feel it's suited, just not subscribe to a service. But my real question was whether something like Ampache's user base is dropping because of Spotify.
I wonder how this is affecting demand for open-source streaming software like Ampache - or the support other Internet radio stations e.g. SomaFM or Radio Paradise. Spotify seems really popular, from what I hear. Not being willing to pay to stream music, I'd like to hope that the other music sources remain very available.
These are really cool gadgets but it would be nice if the Germans went back to making cars that lasted half a million miles and were serviced more easily, cost be damned. The S-class W126 sedans were luxurious, also had gadgets, and most of those gadgets still worked at 200k miles. But I suppose that's not the lifecycle of a luxury car these days.
Not here - I use the headphone jack constantly in my car, for my stereos, and oh yeah, for headphones. A phone without a jack is a phone I am not buying.
Between Netflix DVD service and the local library, I already have far, far more content that I want than I can watch anyway. It's just slower. I can see the appeal maybe for mobile devices but for me it's not worth the cost or hassle to track X number of streaming services.
The only real value of the Roku to me is the remote with the headphone jack. This is pretty ingenious and is the reason I haven't switched to the Raspberry Pi I have running Kodi on the other input with wireless mouse/remote/keyboard/thing. I would have to customize the remote to have the keys work consistently and get some kind of bluetooth headphone setup working to compare to the ease of the Roku.
I can't remember how long it used to take, but I do remember starting Gentoo kernel compilations in the evening on my Inspiron 2600 back in the day and it would be done in the morning.
I don't see many folks mention how they are subsidizing the company's infrastructure costs through power/utility usage and real estate. I understand some portion of that can be written off on taxes, but it's a non-trivial amount especially if as someone mentioned one builds on a dedicated addition or structure. What is the difference in cost to the employee of working from home?
Urbanspoon was pretty useful in new cities, to see what was around. Then Zomato came along, and things really sucked (it's funny that I can't remember now why it started to suck, because I got angry and deleted the app so quickly - i think the results changed to favor partners and it was a lot harder to search by genre, also maybe they required an account). I'm more surprised Zomato had 17 million users.
Reddit is already generally a toxic echo-chamber of superficial snowflakes CERTAIN that their opinion is the most important one. This will make it even worse.
The value of Reddit is in the focused subreddits -/r/askhistorians, etc., where the discussion is heavily moderated to be on-topic and to a standard. This change sounds like a horrible idea and will either go completely unnoticed by users because that's not how they use Reddit or will kill it off because the promoted profiles suck all the traffic from the specific subreddits.
Two G4s, one bootlooped and the other quit connecting to the cell network. They were both the international unlocked versions - LG would only replace them with the locked US version so while they did replace them, the replacements were locked to my carrier with all its bloatware, uninstallable Facebook apps, etc. And AT&T apparently used a different wireless charging system than everyone else, so now my wireless charging back doesn't work any more either. LG had a real competitor here with the G4, a beautiful, functional phone, but failed miserably because of quality control.
> If I can't get it in lossless, I don't listen to it at all
that's pretty limiting, seems to me.
but enjoy your upper range while you can. It will disappear as you age. I used to be able to hear CRT televisions when they were on, that slowly left me as I got older.
...between 128k and 192k files. I can't tell the difference between anything much above 192k and 320k. I have a vintage Marantz amplifier and decent speakers, and even with classical I can't tell any difference between a CD and 320kbps. So more power to Spotify if they can convince people they are audiophiles and require lossless compression, which (protip) is already digitally sampled at 44.1khz anyway.
Amazon already handles payments for people who sell on Amazon. I can even make donations to third parties who participate in Amazon's services. Why would they want to accept Paypal too, unless just to allow people to spend their Paypal balance which they are foolish enough to keep at Paypal?
Yeah mine failed. They extended the manufacturer's and purchase warranty to cover it although I expect those are all expired now. I am waiting to hear back on the replacement of my original phone since I purchased it out of the country. It was a defect of one of the earlier batches, and the problem was fixed in the later versions as far as I know (my replacement has been fine).
Slashdot Mirror
I remember reading Slashdot really early on with his editorial hand at work. RIP
Great selection, no commercials? The only real drawback is the lag time, but between the library and Netflix DVDs just about all my video needs are met.
I use it where it's available. All privacy concerns aside, it's considerably faster than a card (open app, hold up phone, it dings, that is all) and more secure with the one-time-use CC numbers. No receipts to sign, no card to pull out and put away, and faster than waiting for the chip reader to do its thing.
You missed my reply to myself, in which I stated I am perfectly willing to donate where I feel it's suited, just not subscribe to a service. But my real question was whether something like Ampache's user base is dropping because of Spotify.
I should clarify, I meant I support SomaFM/RP with donations but not with a subscription fee.
I wonder how this is affecting demand for open-source streaming software like Ampache - or the support other Internet radio stations e.g. SomaFM or Radio Paradise. Spotify seems really popular, from what I hear. Not being willing to pay to stream music, I'd like to hope that the other music sources remain very available.
Correct me if I am wrong but I don't think Windows applies microcode.
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise... That was a fun moment in Fight Club when I recognized the references to the Reader's Digest articles.
These are really cool gadgets but it would be nice if the Germans went back to making cars that lasted half a million miles and were serviced more easily, cost be damned. The S-class W126 sedans were luxurious, also had gadgets, and most of those gadgets still worked at 200k miles. But I suppose that's not the lifecycle of a luxury car these days.
I appreciate the reasonable response!
No source checking and very little editing of their crowd-sourced articles. I have not seen this claim reported by any legitimate sources.
Not here - I use the headphone jack constantly in my car, for my stereos, and oh yeah, for headphones. A phone without a jack is a phone I am not buying.
Between Netflix DVD service and the local library, I already have far, far more content that I want than I can watch anyway. It's just slower. I can see the appeal maybe for mobile devices but for me it's not worth the cost or hassle to track X number of streaming services.
The technology is interesting and useful, but cryptocurrency value is just due to the Beanie Baby effect.
The only real value of the Roku to me is the remote with the headphone jack. This is pretty ingenious and is the reason I haven't switched to the Raspberry Pi I have running Kodi on the other input with wireless mouse/remote/keyboard/thing. I would have to customize the remote to have the keys work consistently and get some kind of bluetooth headphone setup working to compare to the ease of the Roku.
I can't remember how long it used to take, but I do remember starting Gentoo kernel compilations in the evening on my Inspiron 2600 back in the day and it would be done in the morning.
I don't see many folks mention how they are subsidizing the company's infrastructure costs through power/utility usage and real estate. I understand some portion of that can be written off on taxes, but it's a non-trivial amount especially if as someone mentioned one builds on a dedicated addition or structure. What is the difference in cost to the employee of working from home?
Take the risk if you like, but these are just pump and dump schemes and Slashdot should know better.
Urbanspoon was pretty useful in new cities, to see what was around. Then Zomato came along, and things really sucked (it's funny that I can't remember now why it started to suck, because I got angry and deleted the app so quickly - i think the results changed to favor partners and it was a lot harder to search by genre, also maybe they required an account). I'm more surprised Zomato had 17 million users.
Reddit is already generally a toxic echo-chamber of superficial snowflakes CERTAIN that their opinion is the most important one. This will make it even worse.
The value of Reddit is in the focused subreddits - /r/askhistorians, etc., where the discussion is heavily moderated to be on-topic and to a standard. This change sounds like a horrible idea and will either go completely unnoticed by users because that's not how they use Reddit or will kill it off because the promoted profiles suck all the traffic from the specific subreddits.
Two G4s, one bootlooped and the other quit connecting to the cell network. They were both the international unlocked versions - LG would only replace them with the locked US version so while they did replace them, the replacements were locked to my carrier with all its bloatware, uninstallable Facebook apps, etc. And AT&T apparently used a different wireless charging system than everyone else, so now my wireless charging back doesn't work any more either. LG had a real competitor here with the G4, a beautiful, functional phone, but failed miserably because of quality control.
> If I can't get it in lossless, I don't listen to it at all that's pretty limiting, seems to me. but enjoy your upper range while you can. It will disappear as you age. I used to be able to hear CRT televisions when they were on, that slowly left me as I got older.
...between 128k and 192k files. I can't tell the difference between anything much above 192k and 320k. I have a vintage Marantz amplifier and decent speakers, and even with classical I can't tell any difference between a CD and 320kbps. So more power to Spotify if they can convince people they are audiophiles and require lossless compression, which (protip) is already digitally sampled at 44.1khz anyway.
Amazon already handles payments for people who sell on Amazon. I can even make donations to third parties who participate in Amazon's services. Why would they want to accept Paypal too, unless just to allow people to spend their Paypal balance which they are foolish enough to keep at Paypal?
Yeah mine failed. They extended the manufacturer's and purchase warranty to cover it although I expect those are all expired now. I am waiting to hear back on the replacement of my original phone since I purchased it out of the country. It was a defect of one of the earlier batches, and the problem was fixed in the later versions as far as I know (my replacement has been fine).