I recommend using a computer to play your DVDs. Using a normal third party player, not the crapware one that came on a disk with the player.
Then you can skip all that shit. And these days most screens support HDMI, so you don't need to watch on a different screen or a different audio system, you just run the HDMI cable from the computer to the TV or video receiver. Done.
Even just using vlc as the player works great. They play games with the "next chapter/next title" type controls, so don't use those; just lean on the "skip forwards 30 seconds" button.
Took my family to see the new Power Rangers movie yesterday at my local Cineplex Movie Theater. Haven't been there in almost a year.
There was a grand total of 6 people in there, including my family of 4.
I remember when I was in 5th grade and Power Rangers came out on TV. In 6th grade I read in the newspaper that elementary school violence increased [some large percentage] following the start of the show. Not surprising; the one time I watched it, they seemed to just be attacking anybody that was on the wrong team, I couldn't even tell who the "good guys" were supposed to be!
I'm 40 years old now. I'm totally not surprised there was "nobody" there to watch that movie. I would also expect a Gummy Bears movie to flop. Interesting, but not timeless like the smurfs. Transformers have a unique shtick, so they can do it easy. When kids play with transformers toys, the role-playing makes use of this transformation capability. It makes the experience feel unique, and creates depth and attachment to the story. When kids play with Power Rangers toys, it is the same as playing with GI Joe: it is just a generic action figure, and you role play any sort of action-movie type scene. So they grow up, and they remember playing with their Power Rangers toys, but there isn't the same personal fondness.
What I remember about GI Joe from when I was a kid: They're fun to use with firecrackers! You can blow off a leg and usually reattach it, and if not, nobody is crying over it. If you blew up your brothers GI Joe, you just give one of yours and he's happy. No character attachment at all. Power Rangers are the same.
If no information about anything actually came out, and you only have one rumor, does repeating it breathlessly on cable newsvertainment really count as "found out over the last couple days?"
If nothing happens and the story is developing over time anyways, you're probably playing the children's game "telephone" and not actually learning anything about current events.
Nobody here cares about your blathering. Slashdot is already full of alt-wrong neckbeards and educated liberals. And guess what? No news worth arguing about happened the past week. Drink another 32oz soda and think it over.
Pro tip: Not everybody writing words for a living is a journalist. Many of them are copywriters. Even at a traditional newspaper they employ more copywriters than journalists! According to wikipedia, they're a product database and review site that also does podcasts and internet TV shows. They also republish content from SB Nation, which is a sports journalism site.
Pre-internet this sort of content would just be a "magazine," it would not be categorized with news. It is just entertainment.
Plus, as in size. As in, I'm not fat I've got big bones.
It is presented as a plus because they presume we're all sugar addicts keeping it in the closet, and so it is a major convenience to be able to scarf 5000 calories in the dark where nobody gives you funny looks. They're assuming you already don't care about diabetes, early death, or smelling "that way."
To understand bragging rights, come to terms with the assumptions above. Then it makes sense. "Bragging rights" as in, "oh yes, I saw that awful campy movie 27 times while it was in the theater and now if you try to watch it in front of me I'll say all the lines 3 seconds before the actor does. And if you make a reference to the movie, I will regurgitate all the dialog from that scene, followed by the dialog from 3 other scenes that I like better." Surely you've met this guy? Look to your left, look to your right, this is slashdot and at least one of the people sitting next to you is a neckbeard.
We have multiple local places like this, it is very popular. Kicking people out who are disruptive is as a big a selling point as the beer service. The reality is that people are mostly eating during the start of the movie, or just snacking. And people are more likely to buy a burger or pizza or finger food, I'm not sure why people presume it would be a bunch of knives and forks clinking away like a steak house. Surely somebody is eating the steak, but they most likely ordered it before the movie started and they're not eating it the whole time. Most of what is ordered after the movie starts is snacks.
People who think drinking wine would be noisy probably didn't understand that the TV show they were watching with wine snobs making funny noises was actually just a low-brow comedy program.
I really don't understand why stuffing your face with popcorn and sucking soda through a straw would be presumed to make less noise than eating a burger. I do guarantee that the decibels saved by kicking out assholes is a larger number than the decibels generated by knife clinking.
People go for the first time, and then the whole next week they're telling all their friends how much nicer it is and how much quieter it is. It is obvious what the answer is, and the answer is it is quieter.;)
It mostly serves as a reminder, "If the movie is good, remember to be cool and tell your friends to download it."
Like those "D.A.R.E. to keep kids off drugs" shirts. Which kids wear them? If you have 10 kids wearing the shirt, 2 of them are wearing it because they got in trouble for drugs and are forced to publicly repent. 2 wear it because their older sibling does drugs and isn't nice anymore. And the other 6 are high as a kite and think the shirt is the funniest thing in the world. When I was in school, all the "stoners" had the DARE stickers and the fried egg T-shirts. "This is your brain on drugs" "heh heh look my brain has the munchies, bad!"
Unless you're seriously knee-deep in ADD/ADHD, the mind moves on when you want it to.
It seems a lot more likely that I'd get distracted on the way to the mall/theater than just turning on a screen and watching the movie.
For an ADD child it makes sense, not because they get some benefit from watching the movie but because it just might be easier for the parent to finish the movie in the theater.
Keep in mind that most ADD people can hyper-focus on things they find interesting. They are more likely than average to be able to sit through a 5 hour movie if they really find it interesting, or binge-watch 40 hours of a TV show in a week. It is the routine/boring stuff that they have trouble staying focused on. If they're distracted watching a movie at home, they probably also don't really care what happened in that movie.
So a person with serious ADD/ADHD who has to watch a movie in order to write a review of it, maybe they should watch it in the theater. Otherwise, probably not useful to them.
In your own house there's always something else to do next. the mind moves on.
This should serve as an indication that the selected media is boring and such a waste of time that not even you find it interesting.
What an awful sort of existence where you have to pretend it is fun just to excuse the fact that it doesn't interest you.
The fact is that many of the movies available are so boring, if I put it on a screen at home I'd be more likely to sit on the kitchen floor re-reading soup labels than to actually watch it. The answer isn't to watch it where there is nothing to read, the answer is to turn off the screen and do something else.
Golly, they know what they're doing, so that guantees success and forecloses analysis! Wowsers, Batman!
Nobody is ever wrong, nothing is ever contested, and everybody always wins. Why? Because their lawyers had experience. Duh.
roflcopter
Also, Apple never lost a court case, right?
Maybe instead we should just assume that everybody on slashdot knows that Apple spends a lot of money on lawyers, and sometimes they break the law and get in trouble. For example, price fixing in e-books. Other times they get away with it. Often, they settle cases and leave us to infer for ourselves what did or didn't happen.
You may find that when people express ideas that are different than you expect, that they just looked at a different aspect of the situation than you did. There is no guarantee that everybody with a different focus or conclusion is a moron.
And how much experience has Samsung had with that? None. In their own Exynos chip, they have only designed the core for Exynos 8 and Exynos 9. Prior models used ARM standard cores.
So in your story, Samsung doesn't have experience with chip design because after using other people's designs for a long time, they designed their own, and then the next model they again designed their own. So, you're admitting that you know that they do in fact have experience at doing the thing you claim they are too inexperienced to do.
I'm not going to provide any other analysis of what you said, because you simply contradict yourself in a way that shows you don't even understand what you said. So of course it is unlikely that you even understood what I said.
Pedant comes from words meaning to lead to knowledge, (that means a Greek slave who leads children to school, aka crossing guard) and I think it is quite common for vigilantes to be driven by a desire to "teach" or coerce a community into changing some practice or behavior. So perhaps most vigilantes are already doing it pedantically.
That's not a bug, it is a feature. It helps the idiots to know I'm not interesting enough to be worth pestering.
When I rent a yurt in the State Park, which is just like an RV parking spot but with a canvas house, the GPS takes me from home all the way to the park, including useful lane change warnings, tells me which turns to take inside the park, and guides me right to the correct spot. And if I didn't have that, they gave me a map when I checked in.
And at night, it is way quieter than a hotel room, because it has different people. "Twats."
Most of the "nice" hotels I've stayed in, I'd have had a better night in a barn with the right sleeping bag.
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I recommend using a computer to play your DVDs. Using a normal third party player, not the crapware one that came on a disk with the player.
Then you can skip all that shit. And these days most screens support HDMI, so you don't need to watch on a different screen or a different audio system, you just run the HDMI cable from the computer to the TV or video receiver. Done.
Even just using vlc as the player works great. They play games with the "next chapter/next title" type controls, so don't use those; just lean on the "skip forwards 30 seconds" button.
The only real reason is because movies come out there first.
If you were more knowledgable, you'd know that the above reason is not even true.
If you were more knowledgeable, you'd have reasons to believe you know whatever you think you know. But, you don't.
Took my family to see the new Power Rangers movie yesterday at my local Cineplex Movie Theater. Haven't been there in almost a year.
There was a grand total of 6 people in there, including my family of 4.
I remember when I was in 5th grade and Power Rangers came out on TV. In 6th grade I read in the newspaper that elementary school violence increased [some large percentage] following the start of the show. Not surprising; the one time I watched it, they seemed to just be attacking anybody that was on the wrong team, I couldn't even tell who the "good guys" were supposed to be!
I'm 40 years old now. I'm totally not surprised there was "nobody" there to watch that movie. I would also expect a Gummy Bears movie to flop. Interesting, but not timeless like the smurfs. Transformers have a unique shtick, so they can do it easy. When kids play with transformers toys, the role-playing makes use of this transformation capability. It makes the experience feel unique, and creates depth and attachment to the story. When kids play with Power Rangers toys, it is the same as playing with GI Joe: it is just a generic action figure, and you role play any sort of action-movie type scene. So they grow up, and they remember playing with their Power Rangers toys, but there isn't the same personal fondness.
What I remember about GI Joe from when I was a kid: They're fun to use with firecrackers! You can blow off a leg and usually reattach it, and if not, nobody is crying over it. If you blew up your brothers GI Joe, you just give one of yours and he's happy. No character attachment at all. Power Rangers are the same.
If no information about anything actually came out, and you only have one rumor, does repeating it breathlessly on cable newsvertainment really count as "found out over the last couple days?"
If nothing happens and the story is developing over time anyways, you're probably playing the children's game "telephone" and not actually learning anything about current events.
Nobody here cares about your blathering. Slashdot is already full of alt-wrong neckbeards and educated liberals. And guess what? No news worth arguing about happened the past week. Drink another 32oz soda and think it over.
Surely it would be an improvement over 10, but I think maybe they overran the boundary when they hit 1.
Hey new guy: Never click on the story. If you think the summary is [redacted], the story is guaranteed to be worse!
Planet Payola.
Pro tip: Not everybody writing words for a living is a journalist. Many of them are copywriters. Even at a traditional newspaper they employ more copywriters than journalists! According to wikipedia, they're a product database and review site that also does podcasts and internet TV shows. They also republish content from SB Nation, which is a sports journalism site.
Pre-internet this sort of content would just be a "magazine," it would not be categorized with news. It is just entertainment.
If you're a teenager, that's a plus, but adults can just watch the movie and do that when they get home.
It is true that in math, 1/2 + 1/2 = 1. However, that does not mean that 1/2 of an armrest + 1/2 of an armrest means you get to use one armrest!
And if somebody did let you have one of them, be thankful. It was not any mathematical certainty!
Plus, as in size. As in, I'm not fat I've got big bones.
It is presented as a plus because they presume we're all sugar addicts keeping it in the closet, and so it is a major convenience to be able to scarf 5000 calories in the dark where nobody gives you funny looks. They're assuming you already don't care about diabetes, early death, or smelling "that way."
To understand bragging rights, come to terms with the assumptions above. Then it makes sense. "Bragging rights" as in, "oh yes, I saw that awful campy movie 27 times while it was in the theater and now if you try to watch it in front of me I'll say all the lines 3 seconds before the actor does. And if you make a reference to the movie, I will regurgitate all the dialog from that scene, followed by the dialog from 3 other scenes that I like better." Surely you've met this guy? Look to your left, look to your right, this is slashdot and at least one of the people sitting next to you is a neckbeard.
Bad news, the house with the free beer comes with his mom, too.
So, about 5k on audio/video gear, and a few times that much in audiophile nonsense, and some home remodeling thrown in because, golly, dunno.
Turn off the lights while you watch the movie and you won't even know if the speakers are built-in or freestanding.
We have multiple local places like this, it is very popular. Kicking people out who are disruptive is as a big a selling point as the beer service. The reality is that people are mostly eating during the start of the movie, or just snacking. And people are more likely to buy a burger or pizza or finger food, I'm not sure why people presume it would be a bunch of knives and forks clinking away like a steak house. Surely somebody is eating the steak, but they most likely ordered it before the movie started and they're not eating it the whole time. Most of what is ordered after the movie starts is snacks.
People who think drinking wine would be noisy probably didn't understand that the TV show they were watching with wine snobs making funny noises was actually just a low-brow comedy program.
I really don't understand why stuffing your face with popcorn and sucking soda through a straw would be presumed to make less noise than eating a burger. I do guarantee that the decibels saved by kicking out assholes is a larger number than the decibels generated by knife clinking.
People go for the first time, and then the whole next week they're telling all their friends how much nicer it is and how much quieter it is. It is obvious what the answer is, and the answer is it is quieter. ;)
It mostly serves as a reminder, "If the movie is good, remember to be cool and tell your friends to download it."
Like those "D.A.R.E. to keep kids off drugs" shirts. Which kids wear them? If you have 10 kids wearing the shirt, 2 of them are wearing it because they got in trouble for drugs and are forced to publicly repent. 2 wear it because their older sibling does drugs and isn't nice anymore. And the other 6 are high as a kite and think the shirt is the funniest thing in the world. When I was in school, all the "stoners" had the DARE stickers and the fried egg T-shirts. "This is your brain on drugs" "heh heh look my brain has the munchies, bad!"
Unless you're seriously knee-deep in ADD/ADHD, the mind moves on when you want it to.
It seems a lot more likely that I'd get distracted on the way to the mall/theater than just turning on a screen and watching the movie.
For an ADD child it makes sense, not because they get some benefit from watching the movie but because it just might be easier for the parent to finish the movie in the theater.
Keep in mind that most ADD people can hyper-focus on things they find interesting. They are more likely than average to be able to sit through a 5 hour movie if they really find it interesting, or binge-watch 40 hours of a TV show in a week. It is the routine/boring stuff that they have trouble staying focused on. If they're distracted watching a movie at home, they probably also don't really care what happened in that movie.
So a person with serious ADD/ADHD who has to watch a movie in order to write a review of it, maybe they should watch it in the theater. Otherwise, probably not useful to them.
In your own house there's always something else to do next. the mind moves on.
This should serve as an indication that the selected media is boring and such a waste of time that not even you find it interesting.
What an awful sort of existence where you have to pretend it is fun just to excuse the fact that it doesn't interest you.
The fact is that many of the movies available are so boring, if I put it on a screen at home I'd be more likely to sit on the kitchen floor re-reading soup labels than to actually watch it. The answer isn't to watch it where there is nothing to read, the answer is to turn off the screen and do something else.
If you wait until the movie is finished and then go back and check she's more likely to laugh at you than get mad. Just an idea.
Golly, they know what they're doing, so that guantees success and forecloses analysis! Wowsers, Batman!
Nobody is ever wrong, nothing is ever contested, and everybody always wins. Why? Because their lawyers had experience. Duh.
roflcopter
Also, Apple never lost a court case, right?
Maybe instead we should just assume that everybody on slashdot knows that Apple spends a lot of money on lawyers, and sometimes they break the law and get in trouble. For example, price fixing in e-books. Other times they get away with it. Often, they settle cases and leave us to infer for ourselves what did or didn't happen.
You may find that when people express ideas that are different than you expect, that they just looked at a different aspect of the situation than you did. There is no guarantee that everybody with a different focus or conclusion is a moron.
And how much experience has Samsung had with that? None. In their own Exynos chip, they have only designed the core for Exynos 8 and Exynos 9. Prior models used ARM standard cores.
So in your story, Samsung doesn't have experience with chip design because after using other people's designs for a long time, they designed their own, and then the next model they again designed their own. So, you're admitting that you know that they do in fact have experience at doing the thing you claim they are too inexperienced to do.
I'm not going to provide any other analysis of what you said, because you simply contradict yourself in a way that shows you don't even understand what you said. So of course it is unlikely that you even understood what I said.
Nobody is going to care that other units are per month. You have to normalize units before you can compare things. It is just a basic fact of life.
Even worse are the people who confuse the style guide their teacher taught from with "rules" of English.
You can have my rainbow-powered-unicorn-rocket when you pry it from my cold dead... monitor!
I just want to know which slashdot user it is.
I'd say Cowboy Neal, but it wasn't the cheesypoofs factory so he probably wouldn't try that hard.
Maybe it was Kurt 'The Pope.'
Pedant comes from words meaning to lead to knowledge, (that means a Greek slave who leads children to school, aka crossing guard) and I think it is quite common for vigilantes to be driven by a desire to "teach" or coerce a community into changing some practice or behavior. So perhaps most vigilantes are already doing it pedantically.
That's not a bug, it is a feature. It helps the idiots to know I'm not interesting enough to be worth pestering.
When I rent a yurt in the State Park, which is just like an RV parking spot but with a canvas house, the GPS takes me from home all the way to the park, including useful lane change warnings, tells me which turns to take inside the park, and guides me right to the correct spot. And if I didn't have that, they gave me a map when I checked in.
And at night, it is way quieter than a hotel room, because it has different people. "Twats."
Most of the "nice" hotels I've stayed in, I'd have had a better night in a barn with the right sleeping bag.