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Comment Re:Why? Because obvious bad movies are obvious (Score 1) 192

Then Rogue One came out, and I was very pleasantly surprised... enough so that I decided to give The Force Awakens a try when that came out. But TFA gave me that sinking feeling again, just like TPM had years before.

Raeally? That's interesting because TFA came out in 2015 while Rogue One came out a whole year later in 2016.

Yes, because once a movie is no longer playing in theaters there is absolutely no way to go back and watch it? Yeah, that must be it...

Comment Price is completely off IMO (Score 1) 177

Their 17.99$ family plan price point is completely off base IMO (Canadian prices). Considering that for much less than that, I can get Netflix family plans, Spotify family plans and Disney+. You can even get all the perks of Amazon Prime for much less. Yet, 17.99$ a month just to not have ads, and watch stuff offline (which you can do with one of hundreds of browser plugins) and have access to a limited music selection, a price point that's considerably higher than your 'competition'? No thanks. Offer it to me for 5$/month or less and I MIGHT think about it. Until then, it isn't worth it for me or my family.
 

Comment 24/7 (Score 1) 304

My desktop PC stays on 24/7. No sleep or hibernation mode. Just on all the time. Overnights I run backups to my NASes, antivirus checks, windows updates, etc.. The only time that it gets turned off is when I leave the house for more than 2 days. My laptops I only power on as needed.

Comment Re:I have never held a blu-ray in hands (Score 1) 83

There's advantages and disadvantages to both.
Sure, services like Netflix have tons of choice, but they rotate their selection. Or movies get pulled to be put on a competing service (IE: Disney+). Heck, even some movies that people bought the viewing rights to on iTunes were pulled, so you could no longer watch the movie that you paid for. There's also the odd time that the internet might go down. With physical media, you never have to worry about where to watch it, what service to register to or if it will get pulled. You'll always have access to that content. And you can do like a lot of folks, rip the movie, put it on a NAS, and get the best of both worlds.

Comment Re:Piracy? (Score 1) 252

"Put 1-4 screens to watch behind the same ISP service"
So when I take my phone/table to Starbucks, to a hotel, to a friend's place, I would be locked out from using Netflix that I pay for simply because those places are probably on different ISPs? Heck, assuming that my cellphone service is with another provider other than my ISP, this would also lock me out from streaming over a cellular network. Your reasoning makes 0 sense.

Comment Re:I'm having a very hard time being empathic on t (Score 1) 225

I have a couple of videos on Youtube that have classical music in the background, the music being under Creative Commons/Royalty Free releases. I've probably received 10-12 DOZEN copyright claims /DMCA takedown/content claim requests from Youtube for dozens of companies claiming copyright to the music, often at the same time for the same piece of music. I dispute, win my dispute, but a few days later another claim would come in. So I just gave up.

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GNOME Internet Radio Locator 1.6.0 Released (gnome.org) 35

Longtime Slashdot reader ole writes: GNOME Internet Radio Locator 1.6.0 is now freely available for GNOME systems. The 1.6.0 release is a stable release with Internet radio stations from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, England, Scotland, France and Belgium, as well as U.S.A., Canada, Mexico and Guatemala, mapped for GNOME Maps and city text search interface with auto-completion for 76 world cities that are featured in this release. You may download the 1.6.0 release of GNOME Internet Radio Locator here and download packages for Fedora 28 and 29 on x86_64 here

Comment Youtube just plain sucks for DMCA takedowns (Score 5, Informative) 121

I have a couple of videos that use classical music that falls under Creative Common licenses. Every week I get a warning from Youtube saying that some company is claiming that I infringe on their copyright. I contest and always win... Then repeat again the following week, sometime from the same 'company' for the same song! I've so far had about 40 different companies claim copyright on songs that are not theirs. It's beyond frustrating. Youtube's process is clearly broken.

Comment Vic20 (Score 1) 857

My first was a Commodore Vic20, complete with tape drive and hooked up to an old 14 inch black & white TV. I remember writing my own version of 'extended DOS', and hours typing in pages of peeks and pokes from the back of computer magazines to program in some games or application.

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