Exactly. It's one of those cases where the deals Netflix signed with the studios basically say that "You will not allow this video to play on hardware that does not support HDCP" or something. Since there's no way for Netflix to know whether your AirPlay-compatible device isn't just some box that collects the video, they could held liable.
That was something that made me chuckle from the summary:
Windows "tries to serve a variety of markets...cramming in a scattered array of features" [...]
And Linux is far less bloated because it tries to serve one market:
Servers.
Linux totally rocks for servers. For Desktop? Well, you can use a linux desktop to develop linux software. You can use a linux desktop to administer linux servers. But for everyday business tasks? Well, you can sort of do it if you really know what's going on with file formats and file systems and things like that and you don't mind devoting some time and effort to making sure that everything works with everyone else, etc.
The one probable old-wives-tale I heard was that there were people who had a real problem with switching to DST because “what happens if you die?”
In the spring, you set your clocks ahead, essentially losing an hour of your life. If you make it to autumn, you get that hour back. But if you die before autumn, that’s an hour of your life that you lost.
I’ll admit, it does sound like something someone in Indiana would say...
Our study will show they occur during all times of the day.
...and we’ll keep playing with the numbers until it does.
I mean, if the CDC is studying this—and that’s not a bad thing—shouldn’t they wait until after the study is completed before telling us what it showed?
Well, it’s all about what market you’re talking about.
My issue with Apple is mostly around their rules regarding in-app purchases and subscriptions. If you want sell stuff or subscribe to stuff via your app, Apple must get it’s cut of that money.
The best example of this is with the Kindle app. When it first came out, you could buy books in the app. Apple said “No.”. Then they just directed you to the website where you could buy books. Apple still said “No.”. Amazon’s only choice was to have Apple handle all the processing of the order and give them 30% for doing so.
Another example is with streaming music services. You can sign up for Apple’s streaming service inside Apple Music. But if I sign up with a different service, I either have to do it outside the app or pay more to do it inside the app because Apple has to manage it and the company must pay Apple to do it. There is no choice.
I mean, before I plunk down $35,000 for a car, I’d like to try it out first. Maybe take it for a test drive or something. And I don’t even want to think of the issues of financing that purchase and then deciding I don’t want the car...
I dunno. From everything I’ve heard about the story, it sounds pretty good. I’ll definitely go see it.
Actors play roles but they are not that person. Watch actors discuss their characters and they refer to them in the third person. So I don’t really care what Kurt Russel’s views on immigration are or Dennis Hopper’s views on income inequality. If they’re playing an interesting character in an interesting movie, I’all go see it.
So I’ll write an app that will apply the brakes and slow any scooter within Bluetooth range to 5 MPH. No more worries about getting hit by some idiot on a scooter.
Now if I could do the same thing to e-bikes and cars, we’d have a winner!
In a very real sense, the files do not exist on the phone in any meaningful way until the passcode is entered [...]
One could argue that, at the quantum level, the files both exist and do not exist and it is the action of unlocking the phone that causes the files to exist.
In theory, we want our assistants to know us well enough to be able to anticipate things. Yes, I want my assistant to pour a fresh cup of coffee for me when I come downstairs in the morning. And I don't want to have to have CS Degree in order to do this.
The problem is in the realms of security. I don't want my assistant sharing my coffee preferences and/or wasting my time by letting me know that some other brand of coffee is on sale this week and it's just as good as the coffee I drink now and why don't I order that?
Depending one where you are, there may be other options.
Check the train schedule where you live. I used to work about 35 miles from home (if I drove on the freeway). I'd bike a couple of days a week to the train station, 15 miles away. I'd take the train in and then bike the last mile or two. Total time way about an hour-and-a-half, versus 45 minutes or so on the freeway.
No shower at the office? Sponge bath. Wash your cycling clothes in the sink and hang them up. Problem solved.
As for the family, you really can't teach your kids how to cross the street? You have to drive them two miles? Hell, when I was a kid, I used to run more than two miles a day. And, no, I didn't live in a city.
You should check out Let Grow and give your kids some independence and get yourself off the "must cater to the kids" treadmill.
My brother-in-law got a couple of them for Christmas. I did try ordering creamed corn, but he didn't link it to an Amazon account with purchase capabilities.
At the moment, he just uses it to stream various radio stations. At some point, he wants to put the outside light switches on it.
Seriously, when the missions were being cancelled, there was some talk of landing on the far side as something new and different. But that's all it was.
Uh...yeah, it does. But not very often. I remember there being an earthquake when I was kid growing up in Vermont. I thought the furnace was starting up...
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Mountain Dew?! Oh, man, this is going to be tough...
Granted, I prefer Mello Yello, but it's almost impossible to find in bottles around here.
Let's see...
For $6.99 a month (or $69.99 a year)? Yeah, I'd do that...
Exactly. It's one of those cases where the deals Netflix signed with the studios basically say that "You will not allow this video to play on hardware that does not support HDCP" or something. Since there's no way for Netflix to know whether your AirPlay-compatible device isn't just some box that collects the video, they could held liable.
That was something that made me chuckle from the summary:
Windows "tries to serve a variety of markets...cramming in a scattered array of features" [...]
And Linux is far less bloated because it tries to serve one market:
Servers.
Linux totally rocks for servers. For Desktop? Well, you can use a linux desktop to develop linux software. You can use a linux desktop to administer linux servers. But for everyday business tasks? Well, you can sort of do it if you really know what's going on with file formats and file systems and things like that and you don't mind devoting some time and effort to making sure that everything works with everyone else, etc.
The one probable old-wives-tale I heard was that there were people who had a real problem with switching to DST because “what happens if you die?”
In the spring, you set your clocks ahead, essentially losing an hour of your life. If you make it to autumn, you get that hour back. But if you die before autumn, that’s an hour of your life that you lost.
I’ll admit, it does sound like something someone in Indiana would say...
Our study will show they occur during all times of the day.
...and we’ll keep playing with the numbers until it does.
I mean, if the CDC is studying this—and that’s not a bad thing—shouldn’t they wait until after the study is completed before telling us what it showed?
Well, it’s all about what market you’re talking about.
My issue with Apple is mostly around their rules regarding in-app purchases and subscriptions. If you want sell stuff or subscribe to stuff via your app, Apple must get it’s cut of that money.
The best example of this is with the Kindle app. When it first came out, you could buy books in the app. Apple said “No.”. Then they just directed you to the website where you could buy books. Apple still said “No.”. Amazon’s only choice was to have Apple handle all the processing of the order and give them 30% for doing so.
Another example is with streaming music services. You can sign up for Apple’s streaming service inside Apple Music. But if I sign up with a different service, I either have to do it outside the app or pay more to do it inside the app because Apple has to manage it and the company must pay Apple to do it. There is no choice.
Exactly.
My car won’t go faster than 130 mph because they discovered that around that speed, the back-end has an annoying habit of leaving the ground.
Somehow, I survive with this limitation.
I’ve never encountered this, frankly. The fastest I’ve driven was 120 mph on an empty highway in Utah.
Except that you actually have to pay for it.
I mean, before I plunk down $35,000 for a car, I’d like to try it out first. Maybe take it for a test drive or something. And I don’t even want to think of the issues of financing that purchase and then deciding I don’t want the car...
I dunno. From everything I’ve heard about the story, it sounds pretty good. I’ll definitely go see it.
Actors play roles but they are not that person. Watch actors discuss their characters and they refer to them in the third person. So I don’t really care what Kurt Russel’s views on immigration are or Dennis Hopper’s views on income inequality. If they’re playing an interesting character in an interesting movie, I’all go see it.
My G goes to 11.
[...] having a working colony of humans off-world is good against the possibility of some major catastrophe on Earth.
Unless, of course, that catastrophe is the Moon crashing into the Earth.
Actually, I kind of like the idea...
So I’ll write an app that will apply the brakes and slow any scooter within Bluetooth range to 5 MPH. No more worries about getting hit by some idiot on a scooter.
Now if I could do the same thing to e-bikes and cars, we’d have a winner!
In a very real sense, the files do not exist on the phone in any meaningful way until the passcode is entered [...]
One could argue that, at the quantum level, the files both exist and do not exist and it is the action of unlocking the phone that causes the files to exist.
Or not. I know nothing of quantum mechanics...
...I was crazy for buying that flamethrower. Well, my railroad switches are working just fine...
I love the use of stainless. It's so much more forgiving, and people who know how to work with it are a dime a dozen.
Not to mention, the effect on the flux dispersal.
In his defense, rodents aren’t too keen on big open spaces where they can be picked-off by birds.
Which would be great, if only the Chinese had access to the International Space Station.
In fat (ha ha) years, the government was giving the stuff away.
I do not like green eggs and the gubment cheese...
Aye, there's the rub.
In theory, we want our assistants to know us well enough to be able to anticipate things. Yes, I want my assistant to pour a fresh cup of coffee for me when I come downstairs in the morning. And I don't want to have to have CS Degree in order to do this.
The problem is in the realms of security. I don't want my assistant sharing my coffee preferences and/or wasting my time by letting me know that some other brand of coffee is on sale this week and it's just as good as the coffee I drink now and why don't I order that?
Depending one where you are, there may be other options.
Check the train schedule where you live. I used to work about 35 miles from home (if I drove on the freeway). I'd bike a couple of days a week to the train station, 15 miles away. I'd take the train in and then bike the last mile or two. Total time way about an hour-and-a-half, versus 45 minutes or so on the freeway.
No shower at the office? Sponge bath. Wash your cycling clothes in the sink and hang them up. Problem solved.
As for the family, you really can't teach your kids how to cross the street? You have to drive them two miles? Hell, when I was a kid, I used to run more than two miles a day. And, no, I didn't live in a city.
You should check out Let Grow and give your kids some independence and get yourself off the "must cater to the kids" treadmill.
My brother-in-law got a couple of them for Christmas. I did try ordering creamed corn, but he didn't link it to an Amazon account with purchase capabilities.
At the moment, he just uses it to stream various radio stations. At some point, he wants to put the outside light switches on it.
Actually, I believe it's in Soviet Russia where the speaker-assistant overlords welcome YOU. North Korea has the best speaker-assistant overlords.
No, it's true! I saw it in a movie!
Seriously, when the missions were being cancelled, there was some talk of landing on the far side as something new and different. But that's all it was.
- The ground doesn't wiggle.
Uh...yeah, it does. But not very often. I remember there being an earthquake when I was kid growing up in Vermont. I thought the furnace was starting up...