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Comment Re:Is there a difference? (Score 1) 131

Probably because it sucks.

Lockscreen widgets were removed, and background apps close when inturupted.

I've had two moto X's, and under 4.4 there were fine, but with 5.0 when I play music or a podcast with navigating, about 50% of the time and instruction is voiced, my music/podcast app closes. Other notifications can do similar, but much more rarely.

I can prevent this by putting the music/podcast app in front when I lock the screen, but then navigation arbitrarily shuts down.

Comment Re: In other words (Score 5, Interesting) 318

I really hope they don't do pre show ads, hbo does it, and it's a huge pain.

It's doubly a pain to see the same ones when binge watching.

I understand why hbo does this, they need to alert you to new content to keep you interested, but Netflix already does this on the home screen. They don't need to do ads, even for content I want to know about, before I watch something (I'm fine with it afterwards).

Comment Re: Good Grief (Score 1) 39

I am thinking about it.

I have my hbo go through someone else right now, but I would prefer to go legit.

I currently have Netflix and hulu. I suspect hulu will lose out here, as with the daily show change, I question whether I'll want to keep paying (there were a couple shows I watched as they aired last season, but the back catalog overlaps immensely with netflix).

I'll probably make a list of criterion movies I wanna watch, burn through them, and cancel hulu. Netflix has decent original content, and will likely keep my money. This is going to really put the pinch on them I suspect though.

Hbo moved quicker than I thought, I really thought it'd be another year until this happened, or the price would be punitively high.

Comment Re: data caps (Score 1) 39

I suspect those people don't overlap with would be cord cutters.

The people I know that do this like having the throw away channels for the background, because it doesn't take attention. They don't wanna pick a show, they wanna tune to channel x and tune out.

By the time something similar is offered, hopefully ipv6 (ok, I lol a touch as I type that) will fill the need (it has multi cast I think).

Comment Re: OK, we've seen this before (Score 1) 379

It's actually why they codified it. They found it was a technique effectove teachers taught, and how people do it in their head.

I personally think it gets too much focus, it doesn't work for everyone, and different tricks work for different people, but I assume most people that struggle woth getting it are not "math people". I also don't think teaching math people techniques to everyone is necessarily going to work.

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