It's true 1080p isn't mind blowing at that size, but try watching a 70" TV in standard def. At least with HD, you can get an acceptable image on a larger screen these days.
yeah the alternative is to continue using Skype until some far off date in the distant future when MS MIGHT decide to make it windows only. Considering the ill will this would create among windows users that can no longer talk with non windows users, I'd say you have little to worry about. Can you imagine the stink? "MS is blocking my calls to grandmaaaa!" Not likely. So, unless you have some MS hatred that keeps you from using anything they provide, keep using Skype until you have reason not to...
i know you joke, but for me that's been the question since maybe 2003. They all do phone stuff, which honestly is the least used feature for me. What else can you do for me without costing as much as a laptop? I spent years going through a couple of phones a year trying to find what was basically a small computer that happened to make calls and was repeatedly disappointed by most phones. For all its faults, the iPhone was a game changer and made the other manufacturers wake up. Now that I've gone Android, I've finally gotten what I always wanted. More cores? Bring it on...
Weird, my Captivate upgrade went without a hitch. Can't say I'm thrilled with Froyo, lots of bluetooth issues since I upgraded. Considering it's Samsung, I probably will never get a fix.
they are all designed to wear out. We usually throw on a DVD each night when we go to bed. We would set the sleep timer on the TV so it would power off, but the poor DVD players had no such option. They'd finish the movie, then spin the disk all night long displaying the menu. Inevitably, they'd burn out. We've probably gone through 7 or 8 dvd players in the bedroom. When we decided to throw a blu-ray player in there we did what we SHOULD have done from the beginning. We got a timer for the outlet and set it to kill the power for 5 min every night at 1 AM.
Would I have paid more for a dvd player with bomb proof internals, sure. Unfortunately, we tried a range from $25 dollar cheapies to a $200 one and there was never any rhyme or reason to how long before failure. The shortest time was about 3 months, the longest probably 2 years for a midpriced one we got at Frys.
So, in the end we've found a way to stop eating players (that and watching a lot of netflix helped) . HOWEVER this could have all been avoided with a few lines of code to add a sleep timer, or to turn the thing off if it's been sitting at the root menu for more than an hour would have gone a long way and I was always frustrated that no DVD player seemed to have this. Of course, the faster it dies (without being TOOO soon and ending up a warranty item) the faster you pay to replace it...
After investing plenty of money in blu-ray players that stream netflix, a PS3 that can stream netflix and a couple of roku boxes that can stream netflix, I'm not about to spend more. Netflix's big coup, I think,is that they very quickly got it on a ton of gadgets that connect directly to your TV. It's going to be hard to compete if you have a dedicated device because the difference in content just isn't compelling enough for a lot of people to switch AND buy more gadgets.
Now you might see a channel on ROKU, or a new app for PS3, but for all my netflix blu-ray players, unlikely.
i bought my PS3 (fatty) because at the time it was one of the best blu-ray players available AND was cheaper than stand-alone models. Might as well get a game console thrown in. I got mine cheap (defintiely a loss leader) and bought 1 game. 1, which i failed to even play more than a couple of hours. Just decided to stick with PC gaming. So yeah, the effort to entice me with a cheap console never paid off with game sales.
gotta love these topics. full of posts that basically boil down to:
"I'm too cool for 3d, i won't come out and say it, but i'm a snob and look down my nose at the masses seeing jackass 2 in 3d, REAL connoisseurs see it in 2d"
"5/10/15% of people can't see it, so it's a scam, the rest of you are out of luck, stop the cameras now"
"I'm cheap, yet I ignore the 2d version playing in the same theater so I can complain about 3d (that I won't see) costing me more."
"Get off my lawn"
We get it already. Hey if it's not for you, then don't see it. No one is twisting your arm and making you see a 3d movie or buy 3d hardware for home use. Yeah it can be gimmicky, but it can be amazing too.
50,000 titles available for streaming, 154 of them are sci-fi. mostly really crappy sci-fi at that. sure there's Blade Runner and a couple of other classics, but mostly it's the bottom of the barrel older movies and the new stuff is "mega shark vs giant octopus". Occasionally better things like Dune appear, but usually only for a limited time. I guess it doesn't matter that much since i have a huge sci-fi dvd collection, but it's sad to see it so under-represented.
are you serious? we're still holding it wrong too, aren't we? why should i have to turn off a useful function because some nosy company with no need for this information is collecting it? why is the fault never with Apple? pathetic. so glad i ditched my iPhone, now if i can get my wife to do the same.
yeah i was going to say the same thing, i have my galaxy S and i'm looking at the iPhone it replaced. yeah, it's rectangular and shiny. wow. that's so original. i guess if you are only looking at a screen facing image then it kinda sorta looks similar, but from any other angle, it just ain't so.
I was thrilled to get flash on my android phone and still am. I don't give a crap about flash video or games, what I DO care about is that menus and navigation finally work on sites that I had to give up reading on my iPhone. yes, i still used my desktop for them, but it was inconvenient.
Expecting a flash app or game to run well on a mobile is just delusional. I'm sitting here on a quad core pc w/ 6 gb of RAM and a nice video card and my wife can slow things to a crawl loading farmville/cityville/cafeworld in tabs on facebook.
wait a sec here. You may not know that ATT will not sell you a smartphone without a dataplan. Additionally, they required having the plan to maintain phone service. Not sure if this is still in effect, but it was as of last year.
Give me a break. If you want to blame anyone for this kind of thing, blame the anti-nuclear fear mongering crowd. They have so tainted the perception of nuclear power that practically the only reactors used are older, less resilient and more dangerous designs. What if we were all still driving cars from the 60's and 70's? Would you be surprised that they were less safe? No one is going to build a safer, more efficient reactor when they have to get a trillion dollars in insurance first and spend 10 years and millions of dollars playing political and PR games to find a place to put the damn thing and THEN have to build it in the boonies, raising operating costs and transmission losses.
The irrational "what if" doomsday crap overshadows more real dangers to health, national security and the economy that comes from using fossil fuels for power. We might actually have the infrastructure for an electric car system if we had dirt cheap nuclear power to create all that electricity, but as long as that juice comes mostly from coal and natural gas, it will probably remain a niche market.
So anyway, you can point that finger at yourself. Without your paranoia, we could have built new reactors and mothballed these old things years ago.
No contradiction, the RoE is a procedure that must be followed. My main point was that lasers are neat, but the neatest weapons system in the world makes no difference if you can't or won't use it. Current close-in systems are just as effective as lasers if you use them.
so why is this a troll? seriously, cry baby politicians in DC are looking for pennies under the couch and arguing ideology when there are piles of wasted money in pet projects.
On another note, is the navy seriously suggesting that current close-in weapons systems are so useless that we need lasers? I mean the idea is cool, but come on. Small vessels getting close enough to do serious damage seems more of a failure of procedure than a failure of weapons. Unless you're willing to shoot any old fishing boat that gets too close, it doesn't really matter what weapon you have. The time spent making a decision is more of a problem than blowing them up.
So i notice in the article that this is a deal between CBS and Netflix. I might actually try some CBS shows in gratitude. You do nice things for your audience and they might do nice things for you. imagine that.
without question The Net. I cringe when i see it on the tube. Even at the time it came out I cringed. On the OTHER hand it's the first movie I can recall seeing with Sandra Bullock in it, so not a complete failure. mmmmm Saaaandra.
in this thread, people defending their right to be asshats online with no repercussions. Also, if we're lucky we'll see how this somehow relates to an evil corporate conspiracy to scam said asshats out of their money.
There are two options here, it was deliberate or it was not. If it was deliberate, well I'm just going to say that some of you haven't been to other forums such as World of Warcraft where the flaming and douche-baggery can make the thing almost useless at times. If it was not deliberate, then this one whiny gamer needs to suck it up and wait out his ban. Had he not gotten himself banned in the first place he wouldn't have a problem. If you're going to behave in a way that might get you banned be prepared for unexpected consequences.
Forum trolls respond to very little. Banning from forums doesn't stop them from coming back for more when it's over. Maybe banning them from their games might actually work.
On a side note, I swear the constant use of EULA's, TOS's and other consumer contracts is contributing to the decline in personal accountability. "Well you didn't SAY I could be banned for XYZ so you can't ban me". It's never about right or wrong, it's always can I get away with it or not.
it must really suck to be a beck/rush style republican and live in fear of EVERYTHING. no wonder they need all those guns. everything is a threat to these people. it's just sad.
and i'm just going to add, you're getting to granular with culture. I'm not talking about eating tex-mex or lefse. Yes, they have different customs, but that kind of crap has no bearing on whether or not someone will commit murder. when i say they are the same culturally, i mean they both share the same "we are american" worldview and many of the same values.
whatever chief... let's recap... someone posts that the difference in murder rate between ND and TX is due to death penalty policies. I reply that it's more likely due to 4 times as many people living in TX. Someone else replies that Monaco and Singapore have higher pop. density but lower murder rates. I reply that's great but culturally they have nothing in common with ND and TX, or even each other. Now people are in this pissing match about whether ND and TX are culturally the same. My point originally and still is that ND and TX are virtually the same when compared to Monaco or Singapore.
Anyway, it must be awesome for you to be able to tell where people live based on/. posts. Still posting from Dallas, and used to spend summers with family in ND and SD. So maybe your sniffer is out of tune...
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It's true 1080p isn't mind blowing at that size, but try watching a 70" TV in standard def. At least with HD, you can get an acceptable image on a larger screen these days.
yeah the alternative is to continue using Skype until some far off date in the distant future when MS MIGHT decide to make it windows only. Considering the ill will this would create among windows users that can no longer talk with non windows users, I'd say you have little to worry about. Can you imagine the stink? "MS is blocking my calls to grandmaaaa!" Not likely. So, unless you have some MS hatred that keeps you from using anything they provide, keep using Skype until you have reason not to...
i know you joke, but for me that's been the question since maybe 2003. They all do phone stuff, which honestly is the least used feature for me. What else can you do for me without costing as much as a laptop? I spent years going through a couple of phones a year trying to find what was basically a small computer that happened to make calls and was repeatedly disappointed by most phones. For all its faults, the iPhone was a game changer and made the other manufacturers wake up. Now that I've gone Android, I've finally gotten what I always wanted. More cores? Bring it on...
Weird, my Captivate upgrade went without a hitch. Can't say I'm thrilled with Froyo, lots of bluetooth issues since I upgraded. Considering it's Samsung, I probably will never get a fix.
they are all designed to wear out. We usually throw on a DVD each night when we go to bed. We would set the sleep timer on the TV so it would power off, but the poor DVD players had no such option. They'd finish the movie, then spin the disk all night long displaying the menu. Inevitably, they'd burn out. We've probably gone through 7 or 8 dvd players in the bedroom. When we decided to throw a blu-ray player in there we did what we SHOULD have done from the beginning. We got a timer for the outlet and set it to kill the power for 5 min every night at 1 AM.
Would I have paid more for a dvd player with bomb proof internals, sure. Unfortunately, we tried a range from $25 dollar cheapies to a $200 one and there was never any rhyme or reason to how long before failure. The shortest time was about 3 months, the longest probably 2 years for a midpriced one we got at Frys.
So, in the end we've found a way to stop eating players (that and watching a lot of netflix helped) . HOWEVER this could have all been avoided with a few lines of code to add a sleep timer, or to turn the thing off if it's been sitting at the root menu for more than an hour would have gone a long way and I was always frustrated that no DVD player seemed to have this. Of course, the faster it dies (without being TOOO soon and ending up a warranty item) the faster you pay to replace it...
yeah no LG here, I have a samsung w/ netflix and blockbuster and some other brand with netflix and vudu, whatever that is.
After investing plenty of money in blu-ray players that stream netflix, a PS3 that can stream netflix and a couple of roku boxes that can stream netflix, I'm not about to spend more. Netflix's big coup, I think,is that they very quickly got it on a ton of gadgets that connect directly to your TV. It's going to be hard to compete if you have a dedicated device because the difference in content just isn't compelling enough for a lot of people to switch AND buy more gadgets.
Now you might see a channel on ROKU, or a new app for PS3, but for all my netflix blu-ray players, unlikely.
oh come onnnnn. how is this flame bait and 50 people saying I HATE 3d is not. bah humbug...
i bought my PS3 (fatty) because at the time it was one of the best blu-ray players available AND was cheaper than stand-alone models. Might as well get a game console thrown in. I got mine cheap (defintiely a loss leader) and bought 1 game. 1, which i failed to even play more than a couple of hours. Just decided to stick with PC gaming. So yeah, the effort to entice me with a cheap console never paid off with game sales.
gotta love these topics. full of posts that basically boil down to:
"I'm too cool for 3d, i won't come out and say it, but i'm a snob and look down my nose at the masses seeing jackass 2 in 3d, REAL connoisseurs see it in 2d"
"5/10/15% of people can't see it, so it's a scam, the rest of you are out of luck, stop the cameras now"
"I'm cheap, yet I ignore the 2d version playing in the same theater so I can complain about 3d (that I won't see) costing me more."
"Get off my lawn"
We get it already. Hey if it's not for you, then don't see it. No one is twisting your arm and making you see a 3d movie or buy 3d hardware for home use. Yeah it can be gimmicky, but it can be amazing too.
50,000 titles available for streaming, 154 of them are sci-fi. mostly really crappy sci-fi at that. sure there's Blade Runner and a couple of other classics, but mostly it's the bottom of the barrel older movies and the new stuff is "mega shark vs giant octopus". Occasionally better things like Dune appear, but usually only for a limited time. I guess it doesn't matter that much since i have a huge sci-fi dvd collection, but it's sad to see it so under-represented.
are you serious? we're still holding it wrong too, aren't we? why should i have to turn off a useful function because some nosy company with no need for this information is collecting it? why is the fault never with Apple? pathetic. so glad i ditched my iPhone, now if i can get my wife to do the same.
yeah i was going to say the same thing, i have my galaxy S and i'm looking at the iPhone it replaced. yeah, it's rectangular and shiny. wow. that's so original. i guess if you are only looking at a screen facing image then it kinda sorta looks similar, but from any other angle, it just ain't so.
I was thrilled to get flash on my android phone and still am. I don't give a crap about flash video or games, what I DO care about is that menus and navigation finally work on sites that I had to give up reading on my iPhone. yes, i still used my desktop for them, but it was inconvenient.
Expecting a flash app or game to run well on a mobile is just delusional. I'm sitting here on a quad core pc w/ 6 gb of RAM and a nice video card and my wife can slow things to a crawl loading farmville/cityville/cafeworld in tabs on facebook.
wait a sec here. You may not know that ATT will not sell you a smartphone without a dataplan. Additionally, they required having the plan to maintain phone service. Not sure if this is still in effect, but it was as of last year.
Give me a break. If you want to blame anyone for this kind of thing, blame the anti-nuclear fear mongering crowd. They have so tainted the perception of nuclear power that practically the only reactors used are older, less resilient and more dangerous designs. What if we were all still driving cars from the 60's and 70's? Would you be surprised that they were less safe? No one is going to build a safer, more efficient reactor when they have to get a trillion dollars in insurance first and spend 10 years and millions of dollars playing political and PR games to find a place to put the damn thing and THEN have to build it in the boonies, raising operating costs and transmission losses.
The irrational "what if" doomsday crap overshadows more real dangers to health, national security and the economy that comes from using fossil fuels for power. We might actually have the infrastructure for an electric car system if we had dirt cheap nuclear power to create all that electricity, but as long as that juice comes mostly from coal and natural gas, it will probably remain a niche market.
So anyway, you can point that finger at yourself. Without your paranoia, we could have built new reactors and mothballed these old things years ago.
No contradiction, the RoE is a procedure that must be followed. My main point was that lasers are neat, but the neatest weapons system in the world makes no difference if you can't or won't use it. Current close-in systems are just as effective as lasers if you use them.
so why is this a troll? seriously, cry baby politicians in DC are looking for pennies under the couch and arguing ideology when there are piles of wasted money in pet projects.
On another note, is the navy seriously suggesting that current close-in weapons systems are so useless that we need lasers? I mean the idea is cool, but come on. Small vessels getting close enough to do serious damage seems more of a failure of procedure than a failure of weapons. Unless you're willing to shoot any old fishing boat that gets too close, it doesn't really matter what weapon you have. The time spent making a decision is more of a problem than blowing them up.
So i notice in the article that this is a deal between CBS and Netflix. I might actually try some CBS shows in gratitude. You do nice things for your audience and they might do nice things for you. imagine that.
without question The Net. I cringe when i see it on the tube. Even at the time it came out I cringed. On the OTHER hand it's the first movie I can recall seeing with Sandra Bullock in it, so not a complete failure. mmmmm Saaaandra.
in this thread, people defending their right to be asshats online with no repercussions. Also, if we're lucky we'll see how this somehow relates to an evil corporate conspiracy to scam said asshats out of their money.
There are two options here, it was deliberate or it was not. If it was deliberate, well I'm just going to say that some of you haven't been to other forums such as World of Warcraft where the flaming and douche-baggery can make the thing almost useless at times. If it was not deliberate, then this one whiny gamer needs to suck it up and wait out his ban. Had he not gotten himself banned in the first place he wouldn't have a problem. If you're going to behave in a way that might get you banned be prepared for unexpected consequences.
Forum trolls respond to very little. Banning from forums doesn't stop them from coming back for more when it's over. Maybe banning them from their games might actually work.
On a side note, I swear the constant use of EULA's, TOS's and other consumer contracts is contributing to the decline in personal accountability. "Well you didn't SAY I could be banned for XYZ so you can't ban me". It's never about right or wrong, it's always can I get away with it or not.
it must really suck to be a beck/rush style republican and live in fear of EVERYTHING. no wonder they need all those guns. everything is a threat to these people. it's just sad.
8.25% sales tax actually.
and i'm just going to add, you're getting to granular with culture. I'm not talking about eating tex-mex or lefse. Yes, they have different customs, but that kind of crap has no bearing on whether or not someone will commit murder. when i say they are the same culturally, i mean they both share the same "we are american" worldview and many of the same values.
whatever chief... let's recap...
/. posts. Still posting from Dallas, and used to spend summers with family in ND and SD. So maybe your sniffer is out of tune...
someone posts that the difference in murder rate between ND and TX is due to death penalty policies.
I reply that it's more likely due to 4 times as many people living in TX.
Someone else replies that Monaco and Singapore have higher pop. density but lower murder rates.
I reply that's great but culturally they have nothing in common with ND and TX, or even each other.
Now people are in this pissing match about whether ND and TX are culturally the same.
My point originally and still is that ND and TX are virtually the same when compared to Monaco or Singapore.
Anyway, it must be awesome for you to be able to tell where people live based on