Comment It's called "saturation". (Score 1) 199
See also "GameStop Closing 200 Stores".
See also "GameStop Closing 200 Stores".
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Are authors required to fact-check themselves?
In 2007, I caved and bought Apple's original iPhone.
Having a fully functional web browser on a mobile device was too tempting, and as someone with a lousy sense of direction, I wanted the maps. So that winter, I paid AT&T $600 for the iPhone with a two-year contract. For a while, I relished being among the privileged few to live in the future.
That special feeling faded about six months later when Apple released the second-generation iPhone. Not only did the new model connect with 3G, a much faster cellular technology at the time, but it started at just $200 with a contract. Ouch.
The iPhone launched in June 2007 with a 4GB model at $499 and an 8GB model at $599.
In September 2007, they killed the 4 GB model (people were buying the 8GB model over the 4GB model by around 5 or 10 to 1) and they reduced the price of the 8GB model to $399. They gave anyone who paid $499 or $599 a $100 store credit.
In July 2008, they introduced the 8GB 3G at $199 (with contract).
So his claim of "about six months" to go from $599 to $199 would have been at least ten months -- September 2007 to July 2008 -- and that ignores the $100 credit.
But he didn't pay $599 EVER. He says he bought it in "winter" at the "end of 2007", so let's call that December. That's still about 8 months until the 3G launched, and no way did he pay $599 at any point in December. The iPhone had been $399 for 3 months by that point. So either his dates are wrong, or he actually went from $399 to $199 at any point after September. But that's not nearly as dramatic of a story, is it?
No matter which way you slice it, he's somewhere between "exaggerating" and "totally wrong".
> There's nothing special or magical about 24fps...
> Even NTSC's 30fps... would have been laughed at all the way back in Quake 3's era.
*sigh*
There's more to it than you know. When you FILM something at 24 or 30fps, you are taking ACTUAL PHOTOGRAPHS of the real world, and if something is moving, each frame will capture a bit of blur, which looks realistic when played back at 24 or 30fps.
When rendering individual frames for a game, THERE IS NO MOTION BLUR. (This is being worked on but it's not in wide use yet and may not be for years.) 24 or 30 *PERFECTLY SHARP* frames per second looks VERY DIFFERENT from 24 or 30 frames per second with natural, real-life, embedded analog blur. That is why games go for as many fps as possible. 24 or 30fps it totally adequate for filmed content.
Believe it or not, there IS logic at work here. The TSA checker can tell that it's empty, but if a guy stands up in a plane and holds it aloft, will everyone on the plane know it's empty? Will the terrorist allow people to inspect his grenade to confirm that it's genuine? It's the same reason you can't bring a realistic plastic replica gun.
If you can't get 100% of your content from one place, it will NOT be one-stop shopping.
"This is going to be the one place for the media that matters most to you..."
How clever of you to assume that you're going to just HAPPEN to license all the content that I want. I'm pretty sure it will be full of 90% of shit I DON'T care about, and 2/3 of what I want to watch will be in the 10-25% that you DON'T have. Just like everything is now. The most desired content is ALWAYS the hardest for any player to get a license for.
"Netflix originals in particular will likely not be available any time soon."
You don't say? Well, luckily hardly anybody wants to watch Netflix's highly-regarded, immensely popular shows.
Here's another short list of content that will never arrive on Plex: https://www.titlemax.com/disco...
But other than that, yeah, sounds like it'll be a fucking gold mine.
> The good news is when you need a new number...
... the good news is you won't need to worry, because there is no number printed, engraved, or displayed in any way on the card itself. It's only stored electronically, and you can generate new numbers with the app as needed.
The physical Apple Card, of course, has no number. The app displays the last 4 digits of the card number that is on the mag stripe of the card only, you never see the full card number.
Instead, Apple provides a virtual card number and virtual confirmation code (CVV) for the card in the app. You can use this for non-Apple Pay purchases online or over the phone. This number is semi-permanent, meaning that you can keep using it as long as you want.
But you can hit a button to regenerate the PAN (primary account number), providing you with a new credit card number at any time. This is great for situations where you are forced to tell someone your credit card number but do not necessarily completely trust the recipient.
https://techcrunch.com/2019/03/28/how-apple-card-works/
Imagine how Facebook and YouTube would have fared under AOL's amazing leadership! You think they're big NOW, just imagine how much EVEN HUGER they would have been with a giant dumb company like AOL setting their direction!
Hint: it would probably involve videos and friend requests arriving in your snail mail on floppy discs.
I'm sure Zuck lies awake at night thinking about what could have been...
I bought a G4 Mac Mini the day it was introduced (early 2005) and it's been on 24/7/365 (except for power outages) ever since. It still work, I still use it, and it's still on all the time. It's used for random server things. The fan bearing eventually started wearing out and it went from being nearly silent to just pretty quiet.
I bought a refurbished unibody i7 Mini (2012 model) in late 2013 and it, too, has been on ever since. I used to put it to sleep every night but after a short while I started using it for random server things so it, too, started staying on 24/7.
For laptops, starting with a white G3 iBook in 2003, I've only ever used sleep and wake. Early laptops (the iBook, a white MacBook, a 2007 MacBook Pro from work) used to routinely go 3 to 6 months between reboots. Current MacBook Pros from work usually get rebooted every 1-2 months.
The one I'm sitting at right now: 15:25 up 29 days, 17:17, 5 users, load averages: 3.01 2.47 2.31
Alternate take: Enterprising individuals save local tax dollars by cleaning up after other worthless companies that are behaving like assholes. The scooter rental companies COULD take care of their own shit, but they don't, so now anyone else is free to do so. If they don't like the cleanup company's terms, too fucking bad -- they should have dealt with their own mess.
Although the rectangle design we all know was ultimately chosen and adopted by pretty much every hardware manufacturer since Apple first put USB ports into its computers in 1998, Bhatt acknowledges that there may have been a better way.
My company had a Compaq Presario 3020 in 1996 that had USB, but it wasn't a problem because nobody made USB peripherals until the iMac popularized the connector two years later.
A favorite old saying: "In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is."
From the summary:
Gizmodo first reported a year ago that a wide variety of U.S. government sites were misconfigured, allowing porn bots to create links that redirected visitors to sites with colorful names like "HD Dog Sex Girl" and "Two Hot Russians Love Animal Porn." Among those affected was the Justice Department's Amber Alert site, links from which apparently redirected users to erotic material.
Gizmodo first reported a year ago that a wide variety of U.S. government sites were misconfigured, allowing porn bots to create links that redirected visitors to sites with colorful names like "HD Dog Sex Girl" and "Two Hot Russians Love Animal Porn." Among those affected was the Justice Department's Amber Alert site, links from which apparently redirected users to erotic material.
In a distressing world full of constant change and upheaval, the quality of Slashdot's editorial team is a soothing constant. I was worried when Taco sold out, but it looks like my fears were unfounded.
CEMETARIES!!! There's another idea whose time has passed! Saving all the dead people up for one part of town?! What the hell kind of a medieval, superstitious, religious, bullshit idea is that?! Plough these motherfuckers up, plough into the streams and rivers of America; we need that phosphorous for farming! If we're going to recycle, LET'S GET SERIOUS!!!
— George Carlin, 1992
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