I sort of suspect that's where things will have to go anyway. Spotify is operating at a loss and "we'll make it up on volume" is one of the oldest lines in the book. They either will have to drop the free tier entirely or restrict it to the point most people don't really want it unless they want to become another brand for the.com bust books.
I'm trying to figure out the benefits here. I have amazon prime so I get free music already. Sure I can't listen to the white album at work...
Why can't you? You don't even need Prime. They have a web based player for songs in your library of purchased MP3 -- so if you bought the White Album in that format you could.
Built in 2009, hardware cost: about $900 originally.
Currently: Gigabyte X58/1366 socket (can't remember the exact model now) Processor: Core i7 920 (Bloomfield) -- runs stock speed but is undervolted to 1.005v 6 GB DDR3/1600 running in tri-channel configuration Geforce GTX 670 graphics card (this is actually an upgrade for me from January)
WD Caviar Black - 1 TB -- Boot Drive
Storage drives
WD Caviar Black - 640 GB (this was the original boot drive when I built it) Samsung - 1 TB Seagate - 2 TB
Optical drives:
Lite-On DVD burner w. Lightscribe support Pioneer BD burner
OS: Currently Windows 8.1, originally Windows XP x64
Case: Antec Nine-Hundred Power Supply: Antec TPQ-850
Monitor: Samsung T240HD (this is a 1920x1200 monitor with TV tuner functionality and component vid inputs) (separate purchase)
I'm not much of a gamer, and the system was built for my hobby of video processing/encoding, so I focused on putting money in the CPU and graphics were less important. I only had the one smaller Caviar and the DVD burner. But as HD video becomes more popular, storage needs grew. I do play games occasionally and have an account on Steam, I originally had a Radeon HD4830/512 for the graphics card and it worked fine. I had to upgrade recently because of the high video processing requirements of MadVR and a friend gifted me a copy of Transistor last Christmas (the system requirements needed a card with at least 1 GB of VRAM). I actually bought the GeForce second-hand from the same friend for a good price (it's an RMA replacement he'd only used for a few months himself before upgrading to a GTX 970).
I might build a new rig this year. I don't really have a processing emergency or anything, but I want to see what Skylake offers. I'd like a system that isn't so large and runs cooler. I have an NCASE M1 in a box here for the next system when I do it, and I already have a small FreeNAS server running I want to transition all the video storage to in the future so I don't need all the spinning drives in the PC. Will likely go to an SSD and 16 GB RAM for the next build.
What's racist about a story about changing driving rules in an African country? Did the poster say what country it was, or what the ethnicity of the Minister of Transportation was. Or are you making the assumption everyone in Africa is black?
The bandwidth caps are so low that at 5G speeds you'd blow through your monthly allotment in seconds.
If the carriers want to impress anyone, then increase capacity enough that you can raise the caps or remove them entirely and offer unlimited wireless internet... at speeds you can handle.
Thi$ i$ a good po$t.
Obviou$ly the rea$on for the cap$ on mobile data is a lack of capacity to $ervice moden $mart phone u$age. I'm $ure, once infa$tructure i$ built out, we will $ee a return of unlimited data plan$, and at $peed$ of at lea$t 3G for all u$er$.
I don't want to live in the same world that you do... The one where people don't know how to use their computers, so instead they SUE other companies!
Sounds like you've never worked a helpdesk job. The ones where you deal with people who run "Internet-based businesses" but don't really how how to use their computer or understand how things like their Internet access, email, web hosting, or search engine results work.
I use both, but I feel media player classic has the inferior UI. VLC in full screen hides the UI elements intelligently, like Netflix does. I couldn't figure out a way to do this in media player classic.
Uh, are you sure you were in full screen mode in MPC? (alt-enter) Playback controls only appear when your mouse is at the bottom of the screen. Move your mouse up from the bottom, and they disappear instantly. They're easier to hide than VLC, actually. VLC shows them whenever you move your mouse, whereas with MPC you can move you mouse on screen during playback without the controls appearing until you take it to the bottom.
Pro Tip I learned yesterday: You can just drag it onto the little up-arrow.
Hey, that is pretty easy... Except I just checked the settings. Doing it that way changes the icon to "Only Show Notifications" mode -- not "always hide icon and notification", so it could still pop-up (if it was a well-behaved icon I mean, ignoring that Microsoft is overriding the setting anyway).
There is no way to dismiss the icon and stop it. I am not going to upgrade, not with the subscription model they seem to be moving to. How do you get rid of this icon?
I was fine with just going into the advanced settings for the System Tray and setting the icon to be one of the always hidden ones, so I wouldn't have to see it all the time, but even that doesn't work. Windows changes the setting back on it's own.
For contrast, imagine an audio of the person talking while the video shows graphs and charts illustrating or bolstering the talking points, or showing the action being described (as in voiceover showing a 3-alarm fire in a datacenter), or showing an animation clarifying the speaker's voiced description.
Whoa there, bud. That sounds like proper use of Powerpoint you're implying there!
I read that headline as "Scientists Discover Swedish Escape Extinction Through 'Virgin Births'" and thought I was about to read something truly interesting about pre-historic Nordic humans surviving during the Ice Age.
Where is the line between having a spirited discussion on how an administrator can lack common sense...and providing their contact details (regardless of how public they may be) to a public forum?
The contact details exist for the express purpose of allowing people to contact them, and you're saying we shouldn't post them because folks might contact them? They can always take them down if they don't want people emailing them.
You're also assuming this is a real personal email account and not a general "bulk mail" contact address that's really handed by someone else.
To give a counterexample, I was driving down a long hill that I have driven daily for 20+ years. At the bottom of the hill, right before it went around a curve, I saw cars hitting their brakes, and knew there was probably a traffic jam around the corner, so I started slowing down.
There was a truck driver pretty far behind me, and he didn't bother slowing down until he came around the curve, saw the traffic jam, locked his brakes, and ran off the road, and blamed me for the accident.
I don't know why it would be necessary for you to defend yourself in this to begin with. It's his responsibility to maintain a safe following distance. If he can't come to an emergency stop behind you without running off the road, it's his fault for either following too closely or driving too fast. It doesn't sound like he hit you, so I wonder how you got ensnared in this at all. I would have driven away (I'm not involved in the accident so I don't have an obligation to stay there and have someone try to blame their mistakes on me).
Slashdot Mirror
Yup, Microsoft and Facebook -- it's like a marriage made in Hell. Or data-mining Heaven, depending on your point of view.
I sort of suspect that's where things will have to go anyway. Spotify is operating at a loss and "we'll make it up on volume" is one of the oldest lines in the book. .com bust books.
They either will have to drop the free tier entirely or restrict it to the point most people don't really want it unless they want to become another brand for the
I'm trying to figure out the benefits here. I have amazon prime so I get free music already. Sure I can't listen to the white album at work...
Why can't you? You don't even need Prime.
They have a web based player for songs in your library of purchased MP3 -- so if you bought the White Album in that format you could.
Built in 2009, hardware cost: about $900 originally.
Currently:
Gigabyte X58/1366 socket (can't remember the exact model now)
Processor: Core i7 920 (Bloomfield) -- runs stock speed but is undervolted to 1.005v
6 GB DDR3/1600 running in tri-channel configuration
Geforce GTX 670 graphics card (this is actually an upgrade for me from January)
WD Caviar Black - 1 TB -- Boot Drive
Storage drives
WD Caviar Black - 640 GB (this was the original boot drive when I built it)
Samsung - 1 TB
Seagate - 2 TB
Optical drives:
Lite-On DVD burner w. Lightscribe support
Pioneer BD burner
OS: Currently Windows 8.1, originally Windows XP x64
Case: Antec Nine-Hundred
Power Supply: Antec TPQ-850
Monitor: Samsung T240HD (this is a 1920x1200 monitor with TV tuner functionality and component vid inputs) (separate purchase)
I'm not much of a gamer, and the system was built for my hobby of video processing/encoding, so I focused on putting money in the CPU and graphics were less important. I only had the one smaller Caviar and the DVD burner. But as HD video becomes more popular, storage needs grew. I do play games occasionally and have an account on Steam, I originally had a Radeon HD4830/512 for the graphics card and it worked fine. I had to upgrade recently because of the high video processing requirements of MadVR and a friend gifted me a copy of Transistor last Christmas (the system requirements needed a card with at least 1 GB of VRAM). I actually bought the GeForce second-hand from the same friend for a good price (it's an RMA replacement he'd only used for a few months himself before upgrading to a GTX 970).
I might build a new rig this year. I don't really have a processing emergency or anything, but I want to see what Skylake offers. I'd like a system that isn't so large and runs cooler. I have an NCASE M1 in a box here for the next system when I do it, and I already have a small FreeNAS server running I want to transition all the video storage to in the future so I don't need all the spinning drives in the PC. Will likely go to an SSD and 16 GB RAM for the next build.
More appropriate headline: "TSA Fails"
Post it on Facebook.
What? Everyone's always talking about how once your give your information to Facebook they'll keep it a million years.
What's racist about a story about changing driving rules in an African country? Did the poster say what country it was, or what the ethnicity of the Minister of Transportation was. Or are you making the assumption everyone in Africa is black?
Who's racist now?
The bandwidth caps are so low that at 5G speeds you'd blow through your monthly allotment in seconds.
If the carriers want to impress anyone, then increase capacity enough that you can raise the caps or remove them entirely and offer unlimited wireless internet... at speeds you can handle.
Thi$ i$ a good po$t.
Obviou$ly the rea$on for the cap$ on mobile data is a lack of capacity to $ervice moden $mart phone u$age. I'm $ure, once infa$tructure i$ built out, we will $ee a return of unlimited data plan$, and at $peed$ of at lea$t 3G for all u$er$.
I don't want to live in the same world that you do... The one where people don't know how to use their computers, so instead they SUE other companies!
Sounds like you've never worked a helpdesk job. The ones where you deal with people who run "Internet-based businesses" but don't really how how to use their computer or understand how things like their Internet access, email, web hosting, or search engine results work.
I use both, but I feel media player classic has the inferior UI. VLC in full screen hides the UI elements intelligently, like Netflix does. I couldn't figure out a way to do this in media player classic.
Uh, are you sure you were in full screen mode in MPC? (alt-enter)
Playback controls only appear when your mouse is at the bottom of the screen. Move your mouse up from the bottom, and they disappear instantly. They're easier to hide than VLC, actually. VLC shows them whenever you move your mouse, whereas with MPC you can move you mouse on screen during playback without the controls appearing until you take it to the bottom.
Pro Tip I learned yesterday: You can just drag it onto the little up-arrow.
Hey, that is pretty easy...
Except I just checked the settings. Doing it that way changes the icon to "Only Show Notifications" mode -- not "always hide icon and notification", so it could still pop-up (if it was a well-behaved icon I mean, ignoring that Microsoft is overriding the setting anyway).
There is no way to dismiss the icon and stop it. I am not going to upgrade, not with the subscription model they seem to be moving to. How do you get rid of this icon?
I was fine with just going into the advanced settings for the System Tray and setting the icon to be one of the always hidden ones, so I wouldn't have to see it all the time, but even that doesn't work. Windows changes the setting back on it's own.
Apple has a replacement product: The Beats Suppository XS.
For contrast, imagine an audio of the person talking while the video shows graphs and charts illustrating or bolstering the talking points, or showing the action being described (as in voiceover showing a 3-alarm fire in a datacenter), or showing an animation clarifying the speaker's voiced description.
Whoa there, bud. That sounds like proper use of Powerpoint you're implying there!
For me, "cord cutter" still means people who drop all PSTN phone service and just use cell phones as their only number.
I read that headline as "Scientists Discover Swedish Escape Extinction Through 'Virgin Births'" and thought I was about to read something truly interesting about pre-historic Nordic humans surviving during the Ice Age.
>I do think it is too early for another Tron sequel though. If they had made one one year after the last one it would have been ok but not now.
You think it's too early for another Tron sequel to occur, and suggest it should have happened at an earlier time instead?
Yes, a video of a piece of metal bending... and returning to its original shape.
Bending... and returning to it's original shape.
Just keep watching... after another 9,999,998 times we think it might do something different.
Did something change in the late '50s (like material or manufacturing laws) that resulted in poorer quality nibs after that point?
Looks like you're the next group to get your jobs outsourced.
BlueBerry
That's still a smartphone (even if it is running Windows Phone).
Not bad on the battery specs for a smartphone, though.
Where is the line between having a spirited discussion on how an administrator can lack common sense...and providing their contact details (regardless of how public they may be) to a public forum?
The contact details exist for the express purpose of allowing people to contact them, and you're saying we shouldn't post them because folks might contact them? They can always take them down if they don't want people emailing them.
You're also assuming this is a real personal email account and not a general "bulk mail" contact address that's really handed by someone else.
To give a counterexample, I was driving down a long hill that I have driven daily for 20+ years. At the bottom of the hill, right before it went around a curve, I saw cars hitting their brakes, and knew there was probably a traffic jam around the corner, so I started slowing down.
There was a truck driver pretty far behind me, and he didn't bother slowing down until he came around the curve, saw the traffic jam, locked his brakes, and ran off the road, and blamed me for the accident.
I don't know why it would be necessary for you to defend yourself in this to begin with. It's his responsibility to maintain a safe following distance. If he can't come to an emergency stop behind you without running off the road, it's his fault for either following too closely or driving too fast. It doesn't sound like he hit you, so I wonder how you got ensnared in this at all. I would have driven away (I'm not involved in the accident so I don't have an obligation to stay there and have someone try to blame their mistakes on me).
/insert Admiral Ackbar image: IT'S A TRAP!