I use the Radium app for iOS to listen to real radio stations from around the world for free. My current favorite is "SuomiPop", a Finnish Pop and Rock station that plays what sounds like some pretty generic pop, but in Finnish!
Some people are embarrassed by how they look and will not want to ever post video of themselves. I am one of these people and barely tolerate posting photos, and even then only the handful of photos that show my "good side". Who the hell wants to be inundated with video spam from companies you follow anyways? Facebook is trying really hard to force me to deactivate my account there.
With regards to cheap Windows 8/10 devices (tablets & netbooks) Microsoft is to blame. Microsoft limits OEMs to a maximum of 2GB of RAM and 32GB of eMMC storage in order to purchase reduced price licenses of Windows.
I was rather shocked to see a YouTuber I had respected (Darbin Orvar) do a video shilling for one of these boxes and posting an Amazon referral link in her comment section. Considering she used to work at Facebook I figured she would be intelligent enough to realize the "free movies" including such recent films as "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" were nothing more than illegal streaming sites with an RSS feed or similar feeding the poorly designed Android app on the box. Suckers born every minute, I guess.
I taught myself how to code thanks to the manual that came with the Timex Sinclair 1000. In the back of the manual were sample code projects, I went through those and the logic of BASIC programming just clicked in my 5-6 year old head. My Elementary school also had 2 books in the library with sample code projects that I checked out and went through. By the time we got a 286 in the house I was creating my own projects, mostly text-based RPG's since I was big into D&D at the time. By middle school I got into graphic design, and by High School 3D modeling (POV-Ray, Lightwave, and 3D Studio). Entirely self taught, by the time I got to college I knew more than any class could teach. There was a new class offered my 2nd year for this new-fangled thing called "Java" but I figured it was just a fad.:/
I'm probably the only person on Slashdot that remembers Bullwinkle's in Santa Clara, CA (they closed in 1996). They would remove the plastic wrapper off their frozen pizza right before your eyes and stick it in the oven to be heated. A thin piece of cardboard, thin veneer of ketchup, a few sprinkles of chalky mozarella and a couple slices of the thinnest pepperoni on Earth. The animatronic show preceded by a dancing water fountain was worth it though.
The apartment complex I have lived at for over 8 years now once asked tenants to submit positive reviews on an apartment rating website. There were no threats or b.s. about it being in rental contracts, just an honest call for some reviews to try and boost their ranking after a disgruntled individual had opened several fake accounts to push their rating below where it had historically been. Only a handful of tenants bothered to submit reviews but they were at least honest about some of the downsides to the place and the rating went back up to where it had averaged before. If you take the time to read many of the reviews that are out there for apartments you will begin to notice patterns that clearly indicate someone hit financial difficulty then got bitchy about management not letting them live there for free, or people that have mental health issues and can't deal with the slightest noise during the daytime. Then, of course, there are the racists that assume any person of color is on Section 8 and somehow responsible for any and all litter or crime in their neighborhood. Heaven forbid someone have young children.
If you like bugs, viruses, and wear a tinfoil hat then stick with Windows 7, on the other hand if you don't like those things and don't believe Microsoft to be the Grand Poobah of the Illuminati then definitely upgrade to Windows 10. The only actual downside to Windows 10 are the forced system updates which can reboot your system without your consent if you don't pay close attention to the update settings.
I wish I had mod points today to mod parent up. Backspace, a text entry key, should have an option buried in the Accessibility menu for the few retards on this planet that need to use it for navigation instead and be restricted to being a text removal key as it was originally intended.
My parents are over 65 years old, my Dad a retired Sr. Electrical Eng. III who worked at Applied Materials and my Mom a (still working) computer lab educator (teaches kids computers). Neither of them will shop online, they outright refuse to give their credit card information to anyone. They are fine with email and browsing websites but have this mentality that credit cards are only for emergencies and should never be used for convenience. They still pay for groceries with a checkbook and for any store that does not accept checks they pay with cash. When I moved from CA to IL my Mom decided she wanted to buy me a winter coat so she mailed me a check and emailed me a link to the coat she wanted me to buy for myself. The closest they have ever come to shopping online was a brick-and-mortar store had a kiosk where shoppers could locate what they wanted and pay in-store with a check. LOL, meanwhile, I'm currently expecting 8 packages this week from 4 different websites (mostly Amazon).
Doom came out while I was in high school, a computer nerd with only 1 friend that also loved playing computer games, it was the game that took over my life for 3 years. From playing the Alpha, found on a local BBS, to buying each iteration of the shareware version until I eventually found someone to swap games with long enough to make copies of their full version of the game. There were eventually 2-3 books released that were over an inch thick, filled with tutorials for creating your own levels and came with a CD filled with 100+ levels and other mods the publisher had copied off the Internet. I bought one of the books and my friend bought another. We kept competing to see who could make the best level and spent many nights just going through each of the free levels that had been included one-by-one.
I would load my heavy desktop (horizontal) computer, a 486 DX2/66 with 1MB of RAM, into the back of my Mom's Nissan Pathfinder along with an equally heavy 14" VGA monitor and other accessories, just to drive half a block down the road to unload the computer and bring it up into my friend's room. We used a null modem serial cable for a few months until I used money from my first job to buy a "Network In A Box" kit that came with 2 10Base2 cards, cable, and T connectors. It was missing the terminator caps which we didn't figure out until a week later. When the Gravis Gamepad came out I saved for 3 months just to buy it and played Doom I/II exclusively with that until I wore the buttons out.
One of the great things about that time was it helped open our minds to other games. We became so obsessed with playing multiplayer that we scoured BBS's and eventually websites seeking out other games that had multiplayer as well. We would play almost non-stop, only taking bathroom breaks, and to sneak out to go to the local 7-11 to get snacks. When the Sun came up that was our signal to finally go to sleep.
When Doom3 was released I bought the boxed version and kept it sitting on a shelf for 2 years until I could finally afford to build a powerful enough computer to run it at Ultra settings. When Doom came out for Xbox360 I played through the entire thing on Nightmare up until Episode 4, I got stuck at E4M2 with only a few shotgun shells and 35% health remaining. Tried many times to get past that but eventually lost my save after my 4th RROD. With Doom 2016 I've been taking my sweet time savoring every minute of the gameplay. They finally brought back the speed and visceral thrill of the first game. If I have any complaint with the new game it is just that they made it too easy. Simple things like the rails along ledges make it "too safe".
This is the stupidest thing ever, I don't need search built-in to a keyboard! The keyboard ONLY appears when I am trying to type something in to a field, the last damn thing I need is to hit a button and be taken away from what I am trying to do! What someone NEEDS to do is make a keyboard for iOS with a number row visible at the top at all times the keyboard is up.
Just sayin': trying to justify your claim by citing Gawker is like trying to validate the existence of Big Foot because you saw him on the cover of The Inquirer in a grocery store checkout line.
I am extremely excited for this and have been bugging fast food places for over a decade (via their receipt surveys) to do this. There is nothing more frustrating then sitting down to enjoy your meal only to find they got your order wrong. This gas been happening to me at Wendy's in particular the last 2 months. It's like they completely forgot to train people what "only ketchup" means when ordering a burger.
My concerns, however, are that these kiosks will not allow for full customization and there will be no smartphone app to order from either. Ideally, I would want an app on my phone that let me fully customize an order and to pay for that order using ApplePay for increased security. I've tried using Taco Bell's app a few times for ordering food but they require you to manually enter your credit card info each time and the staff were never trained how it works. They're #2 on my list of places that consistently screw up my order. Just last week I ordered a #7 and they gave me a #2?!?!?!? That's what you get for hiring illegal immigrants.
Youtube already replaced television. You should have cut the cord a long time ago and joined the new paradigm. Netflix is not the best replacement since the content is stale and licensed outside of the few products Netflix funds which have niche appeal. Youtube content is constantly changing and being updated several times a second with new videos. The only problem faced is finding the content that appeals to you.
For people that need traditional media there are always Crackle, PBS, HBO Now, Hulu, iTunes, Vudu, Amazon, Google Play, and of course Netflix. Not to mention others that have been wising up like Showtime.
Although I am happy to see Cruz drop out I am even more happy to see Carly Fiorina get taken out with him. She was a bigger threat to the middle class than Cruz. Now we just need to get Trump elected to shake up Washington and get this country refocused on internal growth.
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I use the Radium app for iOS to listen to real radio stations from around the world for free. My current favorite is "SuomiPop", a Finnish Pop and Rock station that plays what sounds like some pretty generic pop, but in Finnish!
"Park" is not a parking brake.
Some people are embarrassed by how they look and will not want to ever post video of themselves. I am one of these people and barely tolerate posting photos, and even then only the handful of photos that show my "good side". Who the hell wants to be inundated with video spam from companies you follow anyways? Facebook is trying really hard to force me to deactivate my account there.
With regards to cheap Windows 8/10 devices (tablets & netbooks) Microsoft is to blame. Microsoft limits OEMs to a maximum of 2GB of RAM and 32GB of eMMC storage in order to purchase reduced price licenses of Windows.
I was rather shocked to see a YouTuber I had respected (Darbin Orvar) do a video shilling for one of these boxes and posting an Amazon referral link in her comment section. Considering she used to work at Facebook I figured she would be intelligent enough to realize the "free movies" including such recent films as "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" were nothing more than illegal streaming sites with an RSS feed or similar feeding the poorly designed Android app on the box. Suckers born every minute, I guess.
I taught myself how to code thanks to the manual that came with the Timex Sinclair 1000. In the back of the manual were sample code projects, I went through those and the logic of BASIC programming just clicked in my 5-6 year old head. My Elementary school also had 2 books in the library with sample code projects that I checked out and went through. By the time we got a 286 in the house I was creating my own projects, mostly text-based RPG's since I was big into D&D at the time. By middle school I got into graphic design, and by High School 3D modeling (POV-Ray, Lightwave, and 3D Studio). Entirely self taught, by the time I got to college I knew more than any class could teach. There was a new class offered my 2nd year for this new-fangled thing called "Java" but I figured it was just a fad. :/
I'm probably the only person on Slashdot that remembers Bullwinkle's in Santa Clara, CA (they closed in 1996). They would remove the plastic wrapper off their frozen pizza right before your eyes and stick it in the oven to be heated. A thin piece of cardboard, thin veneer of ketchup, a few sprinkles of chalky mozarella and a couple slices of the thinnest pepperoni on Earth. The animatronic show preceded by a dancing water fountain was worth it though.
The apartment complex I have lived at for over 8 years now once asked tenants to submit positive reviews on an apartment rating website. There were no threats or b.s. about it being in rental contracts, just an honest call for some reviews to try and boost their ranking after a disgruntled individual had opened several fake accounts to push their rating below where it had historically been. Only a handful of tenants bothered to submit reviews but they were at least honest about some of the downsides to the place and the rating went back up to where it had averaged before. If you take the time to read many of the reviews that are out there for apartments you will begin to notice patterns that clearly indicate someone hit financial difficulty then got bitchy about management not letting them live there for free, or people that have mental health issues and can't deal with the slightest noise during the daytime. Then, of course, there are the racists that assume any person of color is on Section 8 and somehow responsible for any and all litter or crime in their neighborhood. Heaven forbid someone have young children.
If you like bugs, viruses, and wear a tinfoil hat then stick with Windows 7, on the other hand if you don't like those things and don't believe Microsoft to be the Grand Poobah of the Illuminati then definitely upgrade to Windows 10. The only actual downside to Windows 10 are the forced system updates which can reboot your system without your consent if you don't pay close attention to the update settings.
Dear "Anonymous Coward", discovering WHY the Earth orbits the Sun is not as impressive as discovering THAT the Earth orbits the Sun.
Signed,
6-digit Karma Whore
As I recall, things have gotten so bad there that the President sent the police to raid warehouses to "liberate" some 2,500+ rolls of toilet paper!
Source: http://globalnews.ca/news/6027...
They don't even account for improvements in measuring devices.
I wish I had mod points today to mod parent up. Backspace, a text entry key, should have an option buried in the Accessibility menu for the few retards on this planet that need to use it for navigation instead and be restricted to being a text removal key as it was originally intended.
My parents are over 65 years old, my Dad a retired Sr. Electrical Eng. III who worked at Applied Materials and my Mom a (still working) computer lab educator (teaches kids computers). Neither of them will shop online, they outright refuse to give their credit card information to anyone. They are fine with email and browsing websites but have this mentality that credit cards are only for emergencies and should never be used for convenience. They still pay for groceries with a checkbook and for any store that does not accept checks they pay with cash. When I moved from CA to IL my Mom decided she wanted to buy me a winter coat so she mailed me a check and emailed me a link to the coat she wanted me to buy for myself. The closest they have ever come to shopping online was a brick-and-mortar store had a kiosk where shoppers could locate what they wanted and pay in-store with a check. LOL, meanwhile, I'm currently expecting 8 packages this week from 4 different websites (mostly Amazon).
Doom came out while I was in high school, a computer nerd with only 1 friend that also loved playing computer games, it was the game that took over my life for 3 years. From playing the Alpha, found on a local BBS, to buying each iteration of the shareware version until I eventually found someone to swap games with long enough to make copies of their full version of the game. There were eventually 2-3 books released that were over an inch thick, filled with tutorials for creating your own levels and came with a CD filled with 100+ levels and other mods the publisher had copied off the Internet. I bought one of the books and my friend bought another. We kept competing to see who could make the best level and spent many nights just going through each of the free levels that had been included one-by-one.
I would load my heavy desktop (horizontal) computer, a 486 DX2/66 with 1MB of RAM, into the back of my Mom's Nissan Pathfinder along with an equally heavy 14" VGA monitor and other accessories, just to drive half a block down the road to unload the computer and bring it up into my friend's room. We used a null modem serial cable for a few months until I used money from my first job to buy a "Network In A Box" kit that came with 2 10Base2 cards, cable, and T connectors. It was missing the terminator caps which we didn't figure out until a week later. When the Gravis Gamepad came out I saved for 3 months just to buy it and played Doom I/II exclusively with that until I wore the buttons out.
One of the great things about that time was it helped open our minds to other games. We became so obsessed with playing multiplayer that we scoured BBS's and eventually websites seeking out other games that had multiplayer as well. We would play almost non-stop, only taking bathroom breaks, and to sneak out to go to the local 7-11 to get snacks. When the Sun came up that was our signal to finally go to sleep.
When Doom3 was released I bought the boxed version and kept it sitting on a shelf for 2 years until I could finally afford to build a powerful enough computer to run it at Ultra settings. When Doom came out for Xbox360 I played through the entire thing on Nightmare up until Episode 4, I got stuck at E4M2 with only a few shotgun shells and 35% health remaining. Tried many times to get past that but eventually lost my save after my 4th RROD. With Doom 2016 I've been taking my sweet time savoring every minute of the gameplay. They finally brought back the speed and visceral thrill of the first game. If I have any complaint with the new game it is just that they made it too easy. Simple things like the rails along ledges make it "too safe".
This is the stupidest thing ever, I don't need search built-in to a keyboard! The keyboard ONLY appears when I am trying to type something in to a field, the last damn thing I need is to hit a button and be taken away from what I am trying to do! What someone NEEDS to do is make a keyboard for iOS with a number row visible at the top at all times the keyboard is up.
Just sayin': trying to justify your claim by citing Gawker is like trying to validate the existence of Big Foot because you saw him on the cover of The Inquirer in a grocery store checkout line.
I am extremely excited for this and have been bugging fast food places for over a decade (via their receipt surveys) to do this. There is nothing more frustrating then sitting down to enjoy your meal only to find they got your order wrong. This gas been happening to me at Wendy's in particular the last 2 months. It's like they completely forgot to train people what "only ketchup" means when ordering a burger.
My concerns, however, are that these kiosks will not allow for full customization and there will be no smartphone app to order from either. Ideally, I would want an app on my phone that let me fully customize an order and to pay for that order using ApplePay for increased security. I've tried using Taco Bell's app a few times for ordering food but they require you to manually enter your credit card info each time and the staff were never trained how it works. They're #2 on my list of places that consistently screw up my order. Just last week I ordered a #7 and they gave me a #2?!?!?!? That's what you get for hiring illegal immigrants.
LOL, Java is written in C
In fact here's an old Slashdot story covering the comparison between Windows 10 and Windows XP on an old netbook: https://hardware.slashdot.org/...
$38 (32-bit) or $49 (64-bit): http://www.amazon.com/Windows-...
Also plan on 2 days to install the 200+ Windows Updates.
Youtube already replaced television. You should have cut the cord a long time ago and joined the new paradigm. Netflix is not the best replacement since the content is stale and licensed outside of the few products Netflix funds which have niche appeal. Youtube content is constantly changing and being updated several times a second with new videos. The only problem faced is finding the content that appeals to you.
For people that need traditional media there are always Crackle, PBS, HBO Now, Hulu, iTunes, Vudu, Amazon, Google Play, and of course Netflix. Not to mention others that have been wising up like Showtime.
Free from Xfinity since 2010. =D
Needed for building all these things in the first place.
Ace up the sleeve = Obama can pardon her before leaving office as a final middle finger at the far-right Republicans.
Although I am happy to see Cruz drop out I am even more happy to see Carly Fiorina get taken out with him. She was a bigger threat to the middle class than Cruz. Now we just need to get Trump elected to shake up Washington and get this country refocused on internal growth.