The only movie I can think of that I really enjoyed the theater experience "recently" was Gravity in IMAX because that was probably the only way to really experience the movie. Avatar probably would have been a better visual experience but I was in the first couple of rows and it wasn't so awesome (beyond the lousy script).
I can't think of anything else I've seen that I left and said it was a great decision to go see it in theaters. Not that it was a bad experience - I've seen a lot of movies in theaters in the last year but they were usually mostly empty because of when and where I go (always early matinees and now a dumpier theater) and that is great. However, I get that experience at home too with all the perks of being at home.
Maybe Hollywood should find ways to cut costs so I can watch something at home in an affordable capacity and still make the money they would like.
And yet it's all just talk until you actually start getting serious about serving places. Six current cities and four upcoming cities is not a serious business. 12 potential cities? That's great. I've read they primarily select cities based on where dark fiber is already heavily available, which is fine from a cost point, but it doesn't necessarily get them customers.
Besides, I'm likely to pass unless I can get something between the "free" and $70/month plan cause 5 Mbit isn't enough and 1 Gbit is way more than I need. The only perk would be competitors offering lower rates to fill the gap. I hate Comcast but I imagine they're more likely to meet me in the middle and that fine by me. And given Google isn't touching New England with a pole of any size, I don't expect to see any better service any time soon.
Amazon's selection isn't amazing but it's good enough for a single person with a job and other hobbies to keep them occupied. It has kept me from bothering with getting a Netflix subscription since I finished grad school (my friends had them).
I've seen a number of movies I wanted to see through Prime, watched all of Justified, watching Star Trek TOS, caught Orphan Black, and a couple other random things here and there. I often found my experience with Netflix was spending 10-15 minutes just trying to find something to watch because I often couldn't find things I intended to look for.
The problem is really content owners just not wanting to make their shit available to people outside of their own platform. Once I get my finances in a place I like, odds are I have Netflix, Prime, and HBO Now. To me if your stuff isn't on one of those, you might as well consider it worthless.
Imagine the people they have in their circles. Think about the people you have in yours. How many people kiss your ass and tell you how great you are on a daily basis? I think that's all there is to it.
I say I'd buy some property that gives me privacy, build a lab to tinker, and live a life of leisure. But that might all change as your social circles change from getting wealthy. Bumping elbows with other CX level people doing "good" things and you feel like you have to keep up.
And even then, Civil War wasn't all that great. Winter Soldier blows it away simply because the script was tighter. Civil War seemed like an excuse to get from action point to point so we could have the heroes fight each other.
Yea. It's like people have forgotten Fordism in the quest to maximize shareholder value. Hell, I have disposable income and I don't spend money on bullshit.
Yea. You'd think you could combine the benefits of smart building design with the perks of AC/heat and have a very comfortable place year round that's energy efficient. But apparently we've decided that's generally foolish for some reason. Boggles my mind.
Boston's late train leaves 12:30 am. Has cut a couple of nights short for me as I would prefer to not use Uber/Lyft and instead my unlimited metro pass.
Now there's a lot of cost problems here with the metro and those need to seriously be addressed. Inefficiencies and bad union negotiating are likely killing the budget as is infrastructure neglect. I have no idea if politicians have any considerations for seriously fixing these problems.
Sure. But society also requires compromise to function and that means people can't always get what they want. Otherwise you can't make any decisions at all without unanimous support and that seems overwhelmingly stupid.
I live by myself and I make all the decisions in my household (well short of stuff to the place I rent). Say I get roommates or have a significant other move in, now my needs aren't the only ones. Perhaps that means I can't lounge naked on the couch or I have to compromise on decor. Suppose later I get married and have kids, now the kids also have needs that require compromise. No one is going to get what they want every time (and kids are most often likely to lose anyways). One could scale that up from a household to a number of households to represent society. At what point does that break down?
In the US, it's my view that we have too much Federal government and would prefer much more control passed down to states and cities/towns/counties. Trade/treaties, military, ensuring government at all levels treats people equally, interstate concerns, etc (this is somewhat broad I suppose but it's meant to focus on big picture things) should be the Feds domain and other things left to the states/cities/towns/counties. But that's due to people from different parts of the country and even states having different opinions and views on things. Plus you're more likely to be invested on certain things with your neighbors than some strangers much further away.
Yep. Lots of reasons to disavow a democratically voted referendum
Hell, if you didn't vote in something you thought was important and then don't like the outcome, you deserve no right to bitch about the outcome. Clearly some folks didn't think it was a serious enough issue to go do so and now have slackers remorse. Tough. Elections can have consequences. This should be an example to anyone too smug to think "there's no way (candidate you don't like) could win" or "clearly (issue I care about) is going to happen" and stays home instead of voting.
Now I think it's silly to have made this a simple majority decision and that any action should have required a 2/3 vote but I'm not British so that's not my decision.
Well yes and no. We still need claims adjusters. Ideally self driving cars will have an accident rate lower or much lower than humans already. Given the reduction in accidents, you would need far less claims adjusters for auto. BLS says that's 315,300 jobs in 2014 (but not distributed among accident types). And I agree, we will see impacts in legal as well.
But don't forget traffic cops and the revenue that citations bring municipalities. And the body shops that repair damaged cars. And driving professions. It will be interesting how this impacts all these segments of the economy and what the ripples are.
I didn't know that. I'd observed that signals didn't quite sync between a tv in my dad's house with a DVR and one with a converter box and didn't know why. Learn something new every day!
Now I wonder why my Uverse boxes in different places in a house weren't synched. Perhaps because it's run from a central hub to other receivers.
Meh. It's not worth the concern of figuring out what in my library works on Linux and what doesn't. And I have every setup fine on my Win7 box with no updates.
I feel like an easy plug would be to get PewDiePie and other streamers using SteamOS and Linux (as silly as I think the whole streaming culture is). Get a big name to release a gotta have with full Linux support. Heck, have the streamers to some Linux indie gaming plugs (I don't know what's all . That just might be something that will get younger folks into using Linux via Steam and really kick developers into releasing more games for Linux and manufacturers providing actual driver support.
Because I'd be quite peeved to make the switch and find a less than meaningful percentage of games don't work. I'm willing to understand that some older things might not work but it would be super awesome if SteamOS has an easy Windows emulator to fix that (maybe it does).
you probably want something extra for each dependent a family has
No. That just encourages people to have kids to get more money and already happens under the existing benefits programs. I do not want more kids to useless parents under the guise of more money. Either you work to cover your children's expenses, you sacrifice your perks for them, or you go to jail for neglect.
Yea, that was my thought too. Unless they seriously build out capacity, I have zero reason to pay out the nose for that kind of data.
Besides, phones keep getting thinner and thinner so where is the battery life going to be coming from? I don't plan on being chained to a power outlet to use 22 gigs. Utterly bonkers.
You can't get an Amazon Fire stick? It has a Netflix app. That's my solution. Also have my gaming PC hooked into it if I want to use the Netflix site or stream something from someone with ads.
Never hook up anything to the internet that should have no reason to be!
I've used Newegg on and off since 2006 to buy parts for my machines but I haven't upgraded any of them recently beyond a GPU in late 2014. Always enjoyed the experience but I wasn't a fan of their becoming another Frys.
I'd be curious how much space such an installation might require and how easy it is to add capacity. I imagine adding more cars or putting more weight per car is probably pretty cheap in comparison to other options.
I wonder what argument NIMBYs will to try to shitcan it some places.
I would speculate that odds are Colorado goes Democrat only because I assume that the Republicans would come after legal weed hard and my impression is enough of the population is happy with legal weed.
If the Republicans wanted less than snowball's chance at winning, they should have pushed a Kasich/Rubio ticket. Kasich is clearly popular in Ohio and Rubio might have remained popular enough in Florida to pick up 47 EC votes. I think Trump makes them a tossup but who knows. This season has been bonkers.
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I love f.lux. Honestly, I'm getting to the point where I might just prefer a f.lux setting for permanent darkness over having it rise and fall.
The only movie I can think of that I really enjoyed the theater experience "recently" was Gravity in IMAX because that was probably the only way to really experience the movie. Avatar probably would have been a better visual experience but I was in the first couple of rows and it wasn't so awesome (beyond the lousy script).
I can't think of anything else I've seen that I left and said it was a great decision to go see it in theaters. Not that it was a bad experience - I've seen a lot of movies in theaters in the last year but they were usually mostly empty because of when and where I go (always early matinees and now a dumpier theater) and that is great. However, I get that experience at home too with all the perks of being at home.
Maybe Hollywood should find ways to cut costs so I can watch something at home in an affordable capacity and still make the money they would like.
And yet it's all just talk until you actually start getting serious about serving places. Six current cities and four upcoming cities is not a serious business. 12 potential cities? That's great. I've read they primarily select cities based on where dark fiber is already heavily available, which is fine from a cost point, but it doesn't necessarily get them customers.
Besides, I'm likely to pass unless I can get something between the "free" and $70/month plan cause 5 Mbit isn't enough and 1 Gbit is way more than I need. The only perk would be competitors offering lower rates to fill the gap. I hate Comcast but I imagine they're more likely to meet me in the middle and that fine by me. And given Google isn't touching New England with a pole of any size, I don't expect to see any better service any time soon.
Amazon's selection isn't amazing but it's good enough for a single person with a job and other hobbies to keep them occupied. It has kept me from bothering with getting a Netflix subscription since I finished grad school (my friends had them).
I've seen a number of movies I wanted to see through Prime, watched all of Justified, watching Star Trek TOS, caught Orphan Black, and a couple other random things here and there. I often found my experience with Netflix was spending 10-15 minutes just trying to find something to watch because I often couldn't find things I intended to look for.
The problem is really content owners just not wanting to make their shit available to people outside of their own platform. Once I get my finances in a place I like, odds are I have Netflix, Prime, and HBO Now. To me if your stuff isn't on one of those, you might as well consider it worthless.
Imagine the people they have in their circles. Think about the people you have in yours. How many people kiss your ass and tell you how great you are on a daily basis? I think that's all there is to it.
I say I'd buy some property that gives me privacy, build a lab to tinker, and live a life of leisure. But that might all change as your social circles change from getting wealthy. Bumping elbows with other CX level people doing "good" things and you feel like you have to keep up.
Those kinds of people don't not work anymore. Odds are she moves onto another company and tries her hand at politics.
And even then, Civil War wasn't all that great. Winter Soldier blows it away simply because the script was tighter. Civil War seemed like an excuse to get from action point to point so we could have the heroes fight each other.
Yea. It's like people have forgotten Fordism in the quest to maximize shareholder value. Hell, I have disposable income and I don't spend money on bullshit.
Yea. You'd think you could combine the benefits of smart building design with the perks of AC/heat and have a very comfortable place year round that's energy efficient. But apparently we've decided that's generally foolish for some reason. Boggles my mind.
Boston's late train leaves 12:30 am. Has cut a couple of nights short for me as I would prefer to not use Uber/Lyft and instead my unlimited metro pass.
Now there's a lot of cost problems here with the metro and those need to seriously be addressed. Inefficiencies and bad union negotiating are likely killing the budget as is infrastructure neglect. I have no idea if politicians have any considerations for seriously fixing these problems.
Sure. But society also requires compromise to function and that means people can't always get what they want. Otherwise you can't make any decisions at all without unanimous support and that seems overwhelmingly stupid.
I live by myself and I make all the decisions in my household (well short of stuff to the place I rent). Say I get roommates or have a significant other move in, now my needs aren't the only ones. Perhaps that means I can't lounge naked on the couch or I have to compromise on decor. Suppose later I get married and have kids, now the kids also have needs that require compromise. No one is going to get what they want every time (and kids are most often likely to lose anyways). One could scale that up from a household to a number of households to represent society. At what point does that break down?
In the US, it's my view that we have too much Federal government and would prefer much more control passed down to states and cities/towns/counties. Trade/treaties, military, ensuring government at all levels treats people equally, interstate concerns, etc (this is somewhat broad I suppose but it's meant to focus on big picture things) should be the Feds domain and other things left to the states/cities/towns/counties. But that's due to people from different parts of the country and even states having different opinions and views on things. Plus you're more likely to be invested on certain things with your neighbors than some strangers much further away.
Yep. Lots of reasons to disavow a democratically voted referendum
Hell, if you didn't vote in something you thought was important and then don't like the outcome, you deserve no right to bitch about the outcome. Clearly some folks didn't think it was a serious enough issue to go do so and now have slackers remorse. Tough. Elections can have consequences. This should be an example to anyone too smug to think "there's no way (candidate you don't like) could win" or "clearly (issue I care about) is going to happen" and stays home instead of voting.
Now I think it's silly to have made this a simple majority decision and that any action should have required a 2/3 vote but I'm not British so that's not my decision.
Well yes and no. We still need claims adjusters. Ideally self driving cars will have an accident rate lower or much lower than humans already. Given the reduction in accidents, you would need far less claims adjusters for auto. BLS says that's 315,300 jobs in 2014 (but not distributed among accident types). And I agree, we will see impacts in legal as well.
But don't forget traffic cops and the revenue that citations bring municipalities. And the body shops that repair damaged cars. And driving professions. It will be interesting how this impacts all these segments of the economy and what the ripples are.
I didn't know that. I'd observed that signals didn't quite sync between a tv in my dad's house with a DVR and one with a converter box and didn't know why. Learn something new every day!
Now I wonder why my Uverse boxes in different places in a house weren't synched. Perhaps because it's run from a central hub to other receivers.
Firefox -> NoScript. Never turn on the one from Turner on CNN and videos won't play.
If you want to watch one, give it temporarily permissions.
I haven't had any playback issues but I've noticed it runs my laptop pretty hot. Does this get resolved as well or is this entirely different?
Meh. It's not worth the concern of figuring out what in my library works on Linux and what doesn't. And I have every setup fine on my Win7 box with no updates.
I feel like an easy plug would be to get PewDiePie and other streamers using SteamOS and Linux (as silly as I think the whole streaming culture is). Get a big name to release a gotta have with full Linux support. Heck, have the streamers to some Linux indie gaming plugs (I don't know what's all . That just might be something that will get younger folks into using Linux via Steam and really kick developers into releasing more games for Linux and manufacturers providing actual driver support.
Because I'd be quite peeved to make the switch and find a less than meaningful percentage of games don't work. I'm willing to understand that some older things might not work but it would be super awesome if SteamOS has an easy Windows emulator to fix that (maybe it does).
you probably want something extra for each dependent a family has
No. That just encourages people to have kids to get more money and already happens under the existing benefits programs. I do not want more kids to useless parents under the guise of more money. Either you work to cover your children's expenses, you sacrifice your perks for them, or you go to jail for neglect.
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You'd think everyone was in a rush going to save someone's life that's critical at the hospital.
Yea, that was my thought too. Unless they seriously build out capacity, I have zero reason to pay out the nose for that kind of data.
Besides, phones keep getting thinner and thinner so where is the battery life going to be coming from? I don't plan on being chained to a power outlet to use 22 gigs. Utterly bonkers.
You can't get an Amazon Fire stick? It has a Netflix app. That's my solution. Also have my gaming PC hooked into it if I want to use the Netflix site or stream something from someone with ads.
Never hook up anything to the internet that should have no reason to be!
Did the exploding vape article have any links for burn units? If so, someone pass it on to BitZtream cause I think they need it.
Any suggestions for a good Newegg replacement?
I've used Newegg on and off since 2006 to buy parts for my machines but I haven't upgraded any of them recently beyond a GPU in late 2014. Always enjoyed the experience but I wasn't a fan of their becoming another Frys.
I'd be curious how much space such an installation might require and how easy it is to add capacity. I imagine adding more cars or putting more weight per car is probably pretty cheap in comparison to other options.
I wonder what argument NIMBYs will to try to shitcan it some places.
I would speculate that odds are Colorado goes Democrat only because I assume that the Republicans would come after legal weed hard and my impression is enough of the population is happy with legal weed.
If the Republicans wanted less than snowball's chance at winning, they should have pushed a Kasich/Rubio ticket. Kasich is clearly popular in Ohio and Rubio might have remained popular enough in Florida to pick up 47 EC votes. I think Trump makes them a tossup but who knows. This season has been bonkers.