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Comment Re:Video over LAN (Score 1) 85

Never really made it off the desktop?

This thread is about such a "made it off" release, plus a previous version has been on iOS for quite a while. I've been using it for a year or two on iOS.. (I use it to watch documentaries and news shows faster than realtime, just like how I listen to podcasts.)

Comment Re:Cash is so much better. (Score 1) 186

I get so sick and tired of seeing people use some sort of a card or device to pay for small purchases. It's never as quick as cash is.

Ridiculous. It's way quicker to pull the card out, swipe it, and put the card back in... than it is to pull cash out, figure out the right amount of bills, wait for change, get change (INCLUDING ANNOYING COINS), put bills back in wallet, put change in pocket..

It's faster AND cheaper (due to cash back) to use my credit card. Yes, prices are theoretically higher overall, but at each individual purchase, it's the same price.. and as I said, more convenient to use a card.. Will be EVEN more convenient when my preferred card (which has the best cash back for restaurants) supports Apple Pay.

Comment Re:The Zynga business model (Score 1) 101

I *think* I have all of the "spam FB" stuff turned off. The only times I have them post to FB is the direct "get me access to more levels" stuff, and I specifically pick the people who have sent the same kind of thing to me. ...though I don't see how this relates directly to spending money.. Plenty of things _want_ to spam to FB. Heck, one grocery store has a "share & save" program to get some very good deals (sometimes free items, very often 50% off)... and whenever I do it, I always change it to share to "only me" every single time, so I'm not spamming FB.. but I still get the deal.

Comment Re:grandmother reference (Score 1) 468

This is no different from what happens on Steam all the time. I remember buying Left 4 Dead in a store for less than it cost to buy it on steam. The retail copy contained a steam code so it was effectively the same game.

Amazon successfully gets me to look at the $5 albums they have on sale every month. (That's a bit lower than the average I paid for the vast majority of my CDs, most bought through CD clubs long ago.) Strangely though, sometimes the CD version, _even including AutoRip_, is even less than that. So they get me to look at the "oh that's cheap" $5 version, then on their own site, I find an even cheaper version, Prime applicable, that ALSO includes the digital version!

Comment Re:And we are back to them again... (Score 1) 60

NES and SNES carts had special purpose chips on them to help page the address of the ROM inside the main CPU's memory space

What does this mean? Do you mean basically bank-switching ROMs? (Very very very very rough analogy -- manual VM.) That way, you could get more than 64K of ROM on a NES..

If so, not sure what you mean by it on the SNES though. The 65816 has a 16 meg address space.. None of the SNES cartridges were anywhere near that, were they?

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