Wow. That Slashdot summary was almost English. But it least it showed a fundamental lack of understanding of how the legal system works./s/.'s offshored "editors" strike again.
A little known fact is that you can AirPlay to an Airport Express and it'll output digital PCM to whatever's on the other side. I have a bunch of them feeding into different stereos all over the house, for cheap whole-home audio. Pretty good for a $30 device (used).
And by "little known," you mean specifically listed on the box, in the manual, in iOS, in iTunes, and on Apple's website?
Speaking of used Airports, a great place to get them cheap is Goodwill. I know a guy who picked up a lot of four for $20.
But you also forgot these items that Apple discontinued: - Floppy drives - Apple-branded rechargeable AA batteries - Apple-branded DVD-ROMs - Apple-branded dialup modems (The last one was built into the original iTit Airport) - Apple-branded scanners - Apple-branded digital cameras - Apple socks (iPod cozies) - Apple-branded printers
Fortunately, the Wintel equivalents will live forever in discount Chinese websites thanks to Microsoft lemmings.
Or something that can be set up in under two minutes.
Or something that doesn't require flashing your router's firmware.
Or something an average person or their parents can use, and not some L33t haxxorz wanna-be kludge.
I have a Time Capsule, and its wifi signal extended through THREE AirMacs across my property. ("AirMac" is the old Japanese branding for Airport Express.) They all work perfectly. All the time. The only time they've been reset is when the power went out a few years ago. And setting the whole thing up was accomplished in under 30 minutes.
You can set up an AFP share on a FreeNAS server and point Time Machine to it. You might need to configure user permissions for the machines to access the dataset they back up to
Assuming you're posting from the U.S., get over it. Christmas is a holiday recognized by the federal government. If you choose not to enjoy it, that's your business. But it's not culturally insensitive. You're just culturally intolerant/oversensitive.
Translated: "Step right up, folks, and buy some stock! You want to be a part of this miracle company that's going to change everything forever! We're buzzword compliant and going to revolutionize the world, just like every other company that's come before us! How are we different? We managed to get through the outsourced overseas/. BS filter with our astroturf advertisement! So, step right up and have a swig of tonic!"
Well, to be completely accurate Apple bugs the hell out of you until you upgrade. I have an old iPhone that I use to run a small radio station, and thanks to wifi sync I go months without ever looking at it in the equipment closet. But once there's a new version of the OS, that alert will pop up every chance it gets, whether I want to upgrade right now or not. And the upgrade choices on the alert are usually "Upgrade Now" or "Upgrade Tonight"
It's because/. was outsourced to.in a while ago. You can see it occasionally in the grammar used in the headlines and descriptions. Occasionally, catastrophically.
For a long while now it's been Slashdot: News from India, stuff the Americans.
The purpose of a summary is to communicate information. The article summary failed at its primary (and only) mission by including, without explanation, non-English words in an English language summary.
Sorry, Indians. Article summary is a FAIL. Maybe "do the needful" and learn that there's a difference between knowing a language and mimicking a language.
Yes, there is a certain large segment of Chinese men who will carry pink phones. Anything that makes them seem more "western" than their perceived domestic competition.
What I'd like to know is if there's a way for Slashdot's submitters and editors to bring us stories like this one with out the condescending anti-US attitude. I've read that/. is outsourcing a lot of its editorial duties, but that shouldn't lead to alienating the site's majority audience.
It's typical Silicon Valley misogyny that makes it acceptable to call the pointing device a "clit" or a "nipple."
Turnabout is fair play, so that means it's a penis. A tiny tiny penis. Like the ones sported by those who like to relate it to a portion of the female anatomy.
Since when has reason had anything to do with navigating the London tube system?
And why do so many cities use nautical themes for their stored payment cards? London: Oyster Hong Kong: Octopus Seattle: Orca Montreal: Opus San Francisco: Clipper Bolton: Squid Merseyside: Walrus Wellington: Snapper
when I was about 12yrs, I went into a high end audio shop at the time
What's an audio shop?
The masses today have no idea what you're talking about and no connection to your experience. It's just golly gee swell that you had that slice of life, but it is completely irrelevant in 2016.
Your sarcasm detector is broken. He was making fun of you for implying that people connect IoT devices "directly" to the internet. Which simply doesn't happen.
Anyone who thinks this is a password problem either doesn't have many IoT devices in their homes, or was into IoT at the very beginning, and doesn't know how current devices work. I have close to 30 IoT devices in my home and have only had to deal with a password once, and that was for a cloud-based lightbulb that is so old it's no longer made.
IoT devices for the home these days never expose the user to the password. They generally scan a QR code on the device itself or connect through a wireless connection that requires proximity.
Moreover, arguing about things like passwords doesn't answer the OP's question. Try to stay on topic.
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You're not very good at math are you? Perhaps you should review ratios.
DVD: $56 million in profit on $99 million in revenue is a 56% margin.
Streaming: $560 million in profit on $11.7 billion in revenue is a 4.7% margin.
Netflix's DVD business has an order of magnitude greater margin than its streaming business.
Only a fool walks away from that kind of business.
Wow. That Slashdot summary was almost English. But it least it showed a fundamental lack of understanding of how the legal system works. /s /.'s offshored "editors" strike again.
A little known fact is that you can AirPlay to an Airport Express and it'll output digital PCM to whatever's on the other side. I have a bunch of them feeding into different stereos all over the house, for cheap whole-home audio. Pretty good for a $30 device (used).
And by "little known," you mean specifically listed on the box, in the manual, in iOS, in iTunes, and on Apple's website?
Speaking of used Airports, a great place to get them cheap is Goodwill. I know a guy who picked up a lot of four for $20.
Apple still sells wired keyboards.
But you also forgot these items that Apple discontinued:
- Floppy drives
- Apple-branded rechargeable AA batteries
- Apple-branded DVD-ROMs
- Apple-branded dialup modems (The last one was built into the original iTit Airport)
- Apple-branded scanners
- Apple-branded digital cameras
- Apple socks (iPod cozies)
- Apple-branded printers
Fortunately, the Wintel equivalents will live forever in discount Chinese websites thanks to Microsoft lemmings.
Unless you wanted an Airport router.
Or something that works.
Or something that can be set up in under two minutes.
Or something that doesn't require flashing your router's firmware.
Or something an average person or their parents can use, and not some L33t haxxorz wanna-be kludge.
I have a Time Capsule, and its wifi signal extended through THREE AirMacs across my property. ("AirMac" is the old Japanese branding for Airport Express.) They all work perfectly. All the time. The only time they've been reset is when the power went out a few years ago. And setting the whole thing up was accomplished in under 30 minutes.
You can set up an AFP share on a FreeNAS server and point Time Machine to it. You might need to configure user permissions for the machines to access the dataset they back up to
I think you just proved his point.
Seen on a Nevada plate recently:
GOBK2CA
Assuming you're posting from the U.S., get over it. Christmas is a holiday recognized by the federal government. If you choose not to enjoy it, that's your business. But it's not culturally insensitive. You're just culturally intolerant/oversensitive.
Translated: "Step right up, folks, and buy some stock! You want to be a part of this miracle company that's going to change everything forever! We're buzzword compliant and going to revolutionize the world, just like every other company that's come before us! How are we different? We managed to get through the outsourced overseas /. BS filter with our astroturf advertisement! So, step right up and have a swig of tonic!"
Well, to be completely accurate Apple bugs the hell out of you until you upgrade. I have an old iPhone that I use to run a small radio station, and thanks to wifi sync I go months without ever looking at it in the equipment closet. But once there's a new version of the OS, that alert will pop up every chance it gets, whether I want to upgrade right now or not. And the upgrade choices on the alert are usually "Upgrade Now" or "Upgrade Tonight"
> with each company providing 40 percent of the overall project cost
So, the six companies are going to contribute 240% of the project's cost? I guess they're already expecting overruns.
They're called "peds" and have been around in America since at least the 1960's, when I first saw them.
Don't let your very limited life experience define your world.
It's because /. was outsourced to .in a while ago. You can see it occasionally in the grammar used in the headlines and descriptions. Occasionally, catastrophically.
Set up a cron job to send this comment to yourself when you're 60.
"Surprisingly, this got past Google's ad quality control service"
Actually, it's not surprising if you've ever had to deal with Google's ad quality control service. It's worse than Dell support in the 90's.
If /. didn't outsource so much of its editing to Thirdworldistan, the 80286 mis-transcription would have been caught.
It's one of the reasons I've gone from visiting several times a day to maybe every other week.
For a long while now it's been Slashdot: News from India, stuff the Americans.
The purpose of a summary is to communicate information. The article summary failed at its primary (and only) mission by including, without explanation, non-English words in an English language summary.
Sorry, Indians. Article summary is a FAIL. Maybe "do the needful" and learn that there's a difference between knowing a language and mimicking a language.
Yes, there is a certain large segment of Chinese men who will carry pink phones. Anything that makes them seem more "western" than their perceived domestic competition.
What I'd like to know is if there's a way for Slashdot's submitters and editors to bring us stories like this one with out the condescending anti-US attitude. I've read that /. is outsourcing a lot of its editorial duties, but that shouldn't lead to alienating the site's majority audience.
Perhaps I'm just daft. Please explain to me why calling it a penis is wrong, but calling it a clit is fine.
Also, if you think "a clit basically is" a penis, then I recommend revisiting eighth-grade biology class.
It's typical Silicon Valley misogyny that makes it acceptable to call the pointing device a "clit" or a "nipple."
Turnabout is fair play, so that means it's a penis. A tiny tiny penis. Like the ones sported by those who like to relate it to a portion of the female anatomy.
Not so funny now, is it?
Since when has reason had anything to do with navigating the London tube system?
And why do so many cities use nautical themes for their stored payment cards?
London: Oyster
Hong Kong: Octopus
Seattle: Orca
Montreal: Opus
San Francisco: Clipper
Bolton: Squid
Merseyside: Walrus
Wellington: Snapper
What's an audio shop?
The masses today have no idea what you're talking about and no connection to your experience. It's just golly gee swell that you had that slice of life, but it is completely irrelevant in 2016.
Your sarcasm detector is broken. He was making fun of you for implying that people connect IoT devices "directly" to the internet. Which simply doesn't happen.
Anyone who thinks this is a password problem either doesn't have many IoT devices in their homes, or was into IoT at the very beginning, and doesn't know how current devices work. I have close to 30 IoT devices in my home and have only had to deal with a password once, and that was for a cloud-based lightbulb that is so old it's no longer made.
IoT devices for the home these days never expose the user to the password. They generally scan a QR code on the device itself or connect through a wireless connection that requires proximity.
Moreover, arguing about things like passwords doesn't answer the OP's question. Try to stay on topic.
Hint: IoT devices generally don't power down for months or years. Survival is maintained through propagation.