Removable battery, SD card, AND a headphone jack. They apparently kept all this for the G5, so that is good news, and hopefully the G6 will be the same.
You can run Plex just fine without a subscription. I run the backend locally on my media server with the Myth plugin and the frontends on Roku and on my phone. It pesters you to create a subscription but you can skip that and just set it up without one. Then I VPN to watch content remotely, without going through the Plex cloud or whatever it is.
One of the best games ever. I actually got hold of Alec Kercso in the late 90s and had a short discussion with him about Starflight, he said while developing it he had a great feeling of being a small ship in a huge universe, something no other game that I know of has really done since. In fact Minecraft is the only other game I can think of that I've played where you can really feel lost and scared in a big place.
Watching Netflix on a phone - maybe my eyes aren't good but I can't tell much of a difference between DVD quality and 1080p or whatever anyway. DVD is juuust fine. But can't you downgrade that quality on Netflix settings anyway?
It does take a little setup to get Apache etc. running, but you can still do all that with MythWeb etc. (and all that functionality i hear is getting added into Myth base soon). Plex has a plugin too.
The one thing I haven't figured out yet is getting the Plex plugin to play back with 5.1 sound - it's there in the recording but doesn't make it through Plex for some reason.
Basic Myth installs really easily on most distributions now, not just Ubuntu. I've run it on Opensuse for ages, just installs via Yast and setup is pretty simple. There are other cards for OTA that install without fuss too, the pcHDTV cards still do as far as I know (I have one).
From where will we obtain any given movie or TV show we want to watch that is not Netflix/Amazon/etc. original content? Right now the Netflix DVD service still has by far the widest selection - things like all the old British shows, old movies, all the stuff that is really desirable to watch but no longer is worth the cost to license it. I tried to find a copy of the 1960 version of the movie The Time Machine - only available via DVD from Netflix. Are we going to see a resurgence in the DVD service?
FYI the Sony SBH50 or whatever has replaced it will pair to two devices - I think you can even combine the inputs from both devices. It's pretty handy.
And the numbers actually meant something back in the day at least for Mercedes and BMW. A 280SE was the 2.8 liter Super body with fuel injection (Einspritz), so the midsize sedan, unless qualified with an option like the 280SE 4.5 or the 450SEL 6.9, which happened to be a totally different production line than a standard 450SEL. A 300D was the 3.0L diesel, not super or long, so the small sedan, and a 450SL was the 4.5 liter Super Light (sports car). my favorite was a 500SEL (5.0L Super Einspritz Lange). It all made perfect sense.
Another vote here for f.lux, especially when working late hours. It does help reduce my eyestrain considerably. I also use Twilight on my phone, a little bit more battery usage but it helps as well. Easy to turn off when watching videos, etc. for normal color reproduction.
Between the Netflix DVD service and the local library, it's the only way to get the non-mainstream shows I like to watch - old old BBC shows, all sorts of kids' movies, old series out of print, etc. The streaming is nice sometimes too (and the original content so far has been great), but the real meat of Netflix for me hasn't changed since I started - it's the availability of just about everything on DVD.
I was on hold with the local library to renew a book, and someone turned on the TV nearby and I saw the news. When the librarian came back online I asked her if they had a TV there, and she replied,"No, why?" I told her the Challenger appeared to have exploded during launch, and she said,"That's terrible, and that teacher was on it too wasn't she." I said yeah she was, and there was a pause, and then we went back to renewing my book.
All day it was the news, Dan Rather trotting out shuttle models and pointing to them, and the same clip of the explosion right after they switched cameras, played endlessly. I had grown up with the shuttle program and it was pretty traumatic.
Yeah I am going to root it but it's a SIM-less Sprint phone, so totally useless other than to practice. I had an S4 mini after that, wasn't the best phone. I have a G4 now, I hear CM is coming out soon for it. I actually like it a lot, it's just big.
My Galaxy S3 is still plugging along and is a far better phone than its contemporary iPhone counterparts. The Samsung software is another story but I don't use those apps.
Hobbling???? I just upgraded TO an 8350 from a Athlon 5200+ (which did pretty much everything I asked of it, including MythTV and watching Netflix in Virtualbox). I don't know what to do with all these cores now.
> I would've wanted a bit more elaboration on some of his answers
That's what I thought too, then I looked at the original post and only about 20 people responded (really surprising). So there wasn't much interest and perhaps he felt it wasn't worth the effort.
I've always imagined fleets of tiny, relatively inexpensive autonomous vehicles exploring the oceans, sending their data back to be aggregated and mapped. Are there any projects of this sort happening?
I have relatives in the Netherlands and the houses over there are built much more sturdily than the usual stick-built home in the US which doesn't have much structure to block wi-fi signals. However even in my thin-walled house the signal from my router barely reaches to the end of my back garden, so I expect anyone who would want to use it would have to stand on the street directly in front of my house.
I've got a TI 99/4a system if you're interested. I think it is missing the video cable. PEB with drive, interface cards, rubber-cup modem, lots of software.
Electronic ignition? Perhaps the timing was being retarded due to the knock sensor going off on the lower-octane fuel. My oilhead BMW runs ok on low octane but I can definitely tell a mpg difference on the higher octane the manual says it needs.
I have no idea what I am talking about but what if you got a Linux box with 8 sound cards, configured 8 instances of Amarok to play, one on each output, and set up your playlists acccordingly?
Cable companies want above else for you to use their hardware and their services (DVR, cable box, etc) and are still fighting tooth and nail to cripple competing services on every front.
Well, too bad for them that they can't force me to subscribe to cable. I've even gone so far as to pull out the janky wiring from multiple cable installs over the years in the house I purchased.
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Removable battery, SD card, AND a headphone jack. They apparently kept all this for the G5, so that is good news, and hopefully the G6 will be the same.
You can run Plex just fine without a subscription. I run the backend locally on my media server with the Myth plugin and the frontends on Roku and on my phone. It pesters you to create a subscription but you can skip that and just set it up without one. Then I VPN to watch content remotely, without going through the Plex cloud or whatever it is.
One of the best games ever. I actually got hold of Alec Kercso in the late 90s and had a short discussion with him about Starflight, he said while developing it he had a great feeling of being a small ship in a huge universe, something no other game that I know of has really done since. In fact Minecraft is the only other game I can think of that I've played where you can really feel lost and scared in a big place.
came to say this...hurt my eyes to see discrete and discreet mixed up so freely.
Watching Netflix on a phone - maybe my eyes aren't good but I can't tell much of a difference between DVD quality and 1080p or whatever anyway. DVD is juuust fine. But can't you downgrade that quality on Netflix settings anyway?
It does take a little setup to get Apache etc. running, but you can still do all that with MythWeb etc. (and all that functionality i hear is getting added into Myth base soon). Plex has a plugin too. The one thing I haven't figured out yet is getting the Plex plugin to play back with 5.1 sound - it's there in the recording but doesn't make it through Plex for some reason.
Basic Myth installs really easily on most distributions now, not just Ubuntu. I've run it on Opensuse for ages, just installs via Yast and setup is pretty simple. There are other cards for OTA that install without fuss too, the pcHDTV cards still do as far as I know (I have one).
From where will we obtain any given movie or TV show we want to watch that is not Netflix/Amazon/etc. original content? Right now the Netflix DVD service still has by far the widest selection - things like all the old British shows, old movies, all the stuff that is really desirable to watch but no longer is worth the cost to license it. I tried to find a copy of the 1960 version of the movie The Time Machine - only available via DVD from Netflix. Are we going to see a resurgence in the DVD service?
FYI the Sony SBH50 or whatever has replaced it will pair to two devices - I think you can even combine the inputs from both devices. It's pretty handy.
Looks like an electrical arc? pretty impressive boom.
And the numbers actually meant something back in the day at least for Mercedes and BMW. A 280SE was the 2.8 liter Super body with fuel injection (Einspritz), so the midsize sedan, unless qualified with an option like the 280SE 4.5 or the 450SEL 6.9, which happened to be a totally different production line than a standard 450SEL. A 300D was the 3.0L diesel, not super or long, so the small sedan, and a 450SL was the 4.5 liter Super Light (sports car). my favorite was a 500SEL (5.0L Super Einspritz Lange). It all made perfect sense.
It's a shame Apple and Samsung dominate - I really like my LG G4. The last iPhone I liked was the 3GS, and Galaxy lost me when I couldn't add storage.
Another vote here for f.lux, especially when working late hours. It does help reduce my eyestrain considerably. I also use Twilight on my phone, a little bit more battery usage but it helps as well. Easy to turn off when watching videos, etc. for normal color reproduction.
Between the Netflix DVD service and the local library, it's the only way to get the non-mainstream shows I like to watch - old old BBC shows, all sorts of kids' movies, old series out of print, etc. The streaming is nice sometimes too (and the original content so far has been great), but the real meat of Netflix for me hasn't changed since I started - it's the availability of just about everything on DVD.
I was on hold with the local library to renew a book, and someone turned on the TV nearby and I saw the news. When the librarian came back online I asked her if they had a TV there, and she replied,"No, why?" I told her the Challenger appeared to have exploded during launch, and she said,"That's terrible, and that teacher was on it too wasn't she." I said yeah she was, and there was a pause, and then we went back to renewing my book. All day it was the news, Dan Rather trotting out shuttle models and pointing to them, and the same clip of the explosion right after they switched cameras, played endlessly. I had grown up with the shuttle program and it was pretty traumatic.
Yeah I am going to root it but it's a SIM-less Sprint phone, so totally useless other than to practice. I had an S4 mini after that, wasn't the best phone. I have a G4 now, I hear CM is coming out soon for it. I actually like it a lot, it's just big.
My Galaxy S3 is still plugging along and is a far better phone than its contemporary iPhone counterparts. The Samsung software is another story but I don't use those apps.
Hobbling???? I just upgraded TO an 8350 from a Athlon 5200+ (which did pretty much everything I asked of it, including MythTV and watching Netflix in Virtualbox). I don't know what to do with all these cores now.
That's what I thought too, then I looked at the original post and only about 20 people responded (really surprising). So there wasn't much interest and perhaps he felt it wasn't worth the effort.
I've always imagined fleets of tiny, relatively inexpensive autonomous vehicles exploring the oceans, sending their data back to be aggregated and mapped. Are there any projects of this sort happening?
I have relatives in the Netherlands and the houses over there are built much more sturdily than the usual stick-built home in the US which doesn't have much structure to block wi-fi signals. However even in my thin-walled house the signal from my router barely reaches to the end of my back garden, so I expect anyone who would want to use it would have to stand on the street directly in front of my house.
I've got a TI 99/4a system if you're interested. I think it is missing the video cable. PEB with drive, interface cards, rubber-cup modem, lots of software.
Electronic ignition? Perhaps the timing was being retarded due to the knock sensor going off on the lower-octane fuel. My oilhead BMW runs ok on low octane but I can definitely tell a mpg difference on the higher octane the manual says it needs.
I have no idea what I am talking about but what if you got a Linux box with 8 sound cards, configured 8 instances of Amarok to play, one on each output, and set up your playlists acccordingly?
Cable companies want above else for you to use their hardware and their services (DVR, cable box, etc) and are still fighting tooth and nail to cripple competing services on every front.
Well, too bad for them that they can't force me to subscribe to cable. I've even gone so far as to pull out the janky wiring from multiple cable installs over the years in the house I purchased.