My first and only Android experience is my GS3. I love it and think it is a great device. So many cool apps, so powerful, easy to use, phone sounds great, etc; However, with that being said, yes, the way the device came pre-loaded with Sprint garbage was atrocious. And how these devices tie in to Google...
First off you can't realistically use an Android device unless it is at least rooted.
If its not rooted and you can manage apps and permissions, then you are a sitting duck for crapware, etc;
Secondly, and only after the difficult process of rooting was accomplished did I realize that rooting alone is just a first step.
The only real way to use an Android device is with some modded ROM such as Cyanogenmod.
The absolute filth that is pre-loaded onto the phone company supplied devices(my experience is only with Sprint and Samsung GS3) defies description(actually I did just describe it...)
Yet, it is amazing how many people I see running pre-loaded stock Android devices and blissfully are unaware of any of the security issues, etc;
I hadn't been to www.streamingsoon.com for a while. Well, I just went there and lo and behold NF has shut down Andrews' access:
Netflix has decided to make changes to its Application Programming Interface (API). These changes include eliminating the database (called the OData catalog) that Streaming Soon uses to inform you of new and upcoming content on Netflix. You can read more about it here.
Sadly, this means the end of the line for Streaming Soon, unless Netflix reactivates this database. If you would like to send an e-mail to Netflix about this, please direct it to publicapi@netflix.com
Thank you for your support over the years. It has been a pleasure enhancing your Netflix experience.
That sucks...
Hopefully they will allow it again in the future.
I really get tired of the beating NF has taken regarding several of their decisions(yea, I know ONE was vaer-wee wee todd id).
However, I've always directed my wrath at the CUNTENT PROVIDERS
Also, personally I don't get watching anything on a small screen. When I sit down to watch something from NF I watch it on a 52" lcd and enjoy that. I don't get this "culture" of watching quality films or television on a small screen, especially when it requires an OS that requires something else to stream and watch the video.
DON'T
GET
IT
The way I read that snippet from Forbes is this:
Big Data will allow Google, Facebook, China, the NSA(The Data-Industrial Complex), etc to monitor and control where we work, for how much, what we know, what we read, what we eat, what we listen to, where we go to school, etc; etc;
It really is brilliant in how it is being implemented via "social" networking and the increasing acceptance that privacy is lost. Convenience and the addiction to FOMO(Fear of Misssing Out) have turned modern society into crack heads on a global scale.
Forbes and the cheerleaders for Big Data are "easing us in" to the new Police State. As the years tick by and more and more people are using things like Google Glass, "social" networking and the pressure to cave in to it's reach into our private lives, our private thoughts, the amount of data that will be generated on each person will explode.
As we sit here, "dossiers" are created for each of us that would make the most ardent Stasi agent blush. That is Big Data.
Much of what you bring up as shit are some of the reasons I got back into D&D after almost 15 years away from it(playing exclusively PC games). I still play PC games and have fun with them but to be honest, nothing beats the camaraderie and comedy of table top RPGing.
Oh, and BTW, the last time I watched a pirated copy of a film was 1999 when Episode 1 came out.
I pay full price for films I really want to see at a theatre.
Nobody told Christopher Nolan how awful the last Batman film was with like, 90 minutes of pure pablum.
Nobody told Peter Jackson how awful The Hobbit, episode 1 was with like, 2 hours of pure cgi wanking.
Nobody told JJ Abrams how completely ridiculous the screenplay to Star Trek was by... AGAIN!!! using time travel... and Spock Prime(Spock Prime? What is that, where you get your time travel even faster?)
We have entered a new realm here, a realm where directors ruin films that could be great, but end up ok, or passable.
Why?
Because they can't help themselves, and there is an "Emperor Wears no Clothes" mindset with these guys.
You have described the problem accurately as I understand it. There is no middle ground anymore and too many are told they should have a degree when they should really learn a trade/skill. College is the new HS.
It seems to me that someone can write a decent sentence and paragraph if they read regularly. If someone reads well written articles, columns, stories, histories, novels, etc; then that person will usually have an "inherent" ability to write a passable sentence, paragraph, argument, etc;.
You can now get the fuck off my lawn as I lament the fact that(gots to have some exaggeration and hyperbole) no one reads anymore:
Unless it is a few pages or less, and more likely 140 characters or less.
A young relative of mine who is is college right now complained about how much reading they had to do for classes. I asked if they ever read on their free time for fun, you know, even something like "Harry Potter". They said no. I have since discovered that this is the norm for the Gen Y and Z folks. Reading on your free time is now considered very anachronistic and unhip.
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Google would get a firesale price if they wanted to purchase UTOPIA.
Google, buy UTOPIA!
Pebble Bed Reactor?!?
Pffttt....
Didn't you hear were in the midst of a Natual Gas Revolution!
I would carry my phone in my pocket but my dongle usually gets in the way.
My first and only Android experience is my GS3. I love it and think it is a great device. So many cool apps, so powerful, easy to use, phone sounds great, etc; However, with that being said, yes, the way the device came pre-loaded with Sprint garbage was atrocious. And how these devices tie in to Google...
First off you can't realistically use an Android device unless it is at least rooted.
If its not rooted and you can manage apps and permissions, then you are a sitting duck for crapware, etc;
Secondly, and only after the difficult process of rooting was accomplished did I realize that rooting alone is just a first step.
The only real way to use an Android device is with some modded ROM such as Cyanogenmod.
The absolute filth that is pre-loaded onto the phone company supplied devices(my experience is only with Sprint and Samsung GS3) defies description(actually I did just describe it...)
Yet, it is amazing how many people I see running pre-loaded stock Android devices and blissfully are unaware of any of the security issues, etc;
Yea, but then you wouldn't get the discount at The Microsoft Store.
Are you talking about RIM? Sure sounds like it.
started shipping ghastly craplets designed to vaguely resemble a start menu. I just don't get it.
"ghastly craplets"
That is too good!
Yea, but you've got Cable Cars, Fog and an enchanting elf sized door
Thats because its a series of tubes.
So what you're really saying is that we need a Tokyo Style Firebombing to get us some decent internet?
Netflix has decided to make changes to its Application Programming Interface (API). These changes include eliminating the database (called the OData catalog) that Streaming Soon uses to inform you of new and upcoming content on Netflix. You can read more about it here. Sadly, this means the end of the line for Streaming Soon, unless Netflix reactivates this database. If you would like to send an e-mail to Netflix about this, please direct it to publicapi@netflix.com Thank you for your support over the years. It has been a pleasure enhancing your Netflix experience.
That sucks...
Hopefully they will allow it again in the future.
Exactamundo.
I really get tired of the beating NF has taken regarding several of their decisions(yea, I know ONE was vaer-wee wee todd id).
However, I've always directed my wrath at the CUNTENT PROVIDERS
Also, personally I don't get watching anything on a small screen. When I sit down to watch something from NF I watch it on a 52" lcd and enjoy that. I don't get this "culture" of watching quality films or television on a small screen, especially when it requires an OS that requires something else to stream and watch the video.
DON'T
GET
IT
The way I read that snippet from Forbes is this:
Big Data will allow Google, Facebook, China, the NSA(The Data-Industrial Complex), etc to monitor and control where we work, for how much, what we know, what we read, what we eat, what we listen to, where we go to school, etc; etc;
It really is brilliant in how it is being implemented via "social" networking and the increasing acceptance that privacy is lost.
Convenience and the addiction to FOMO(Fear of Misssing Out) have turned modern society into crack heads on a global scale.
Forbes and the cheerleaders for Big Data are "easing us in" to the new Police State. As the years tick by and more and more people are using things like Google Glass, "social" networking and the pressure to cave in to it's reach into our private lives, our private thoughts, the amount of data that will be generated on each person will explode.
As we sit here, "dossiers" are created for each of us that would make the most ardent Stasi agent blush.
That is Big Data.
Democrats: With Lube
Republicans: Without
Much of what you bring up as shit are some of the reasons I got back into D&D after almost 15 years away from it(playing exclusively PC games). I still play PC games and have fun with them but to be honest, nothing beats the camaraderie and comedy of table top RPGing.
Oh, and BTW, the last time I watched a pirated copy of a film was 1999 when Episode 1 came out.
I pay full price for films I really want to see at a theatre.
So which film are you apologizing for? Please, indulge me.
Nobody told Christopher Nolan how awful the last Batman film was with like, 90 minutes of pure pablum.
Nobody told Peter Jackson how awful The Hobbit, episode 1 was with like, 2 hours of pure cgi wanking.
Nobody told JJ Abrams how completely ridiculous the screenplay to Star Trek was by... AGAIN!!! using time travel... and Spock Prime(Spock Prime? What is that, where you get your time travel even faster?)
We have entered a new realm here, a realm where directors ruin films that could be great, but end up ok, or passable.
Why?
Because they can't help themselves, and there is an "Emperor Wears no Clothes" mindset with these guys.
Mod way up.
You have described the problem accurately as I understand it. There is no middle ground anymore and too many are told they should have a degree when they should really learn a trade/skill. College is the new HS.
It seems to me that someone can write a decent sentence and paragraph if they read regularly. If someone reads well written articles, columns, stories, histories, novels, etc; then that person will usually have an "inherent" ability to write a passable sentence, paragraph, argument, etc;.
You can now get the fuck off my lawn as I lament the fact that(gots to have some exaggeration and hyperbole) no one reads anymore:
Unless it is a few pages or less, and more likely 140 characters or less.
A young relative of mine who is is college right now complained about how much reading they had to do for classes. I asked if they ever read on their free time for fun, you know, even something like "Harry Potter". They said no. I have since discovered that this is the norm for the Gen Y and Z folks. Reading on your free time is now considered very anachronistic and unhip.
Nice BÖC sig there.
Thats why they call it two-factor authentication.
Unless of course it's multiple-realm authentication...
Sometimes the penis will be used without it being removed...
dongle hangin!
You win Eric.