Comment Re:Get out while you can (Score 1) 54
Apple has crapped on their TV-connected product line, though, by cheaping it out so hard that it's now pathetic.
Apple has crapped on their TV-connected product line, though, by cheaping it out so hard that it's now pathetic.
Ah yes, the infamous "pretty good" of non native scaling on LCD screens.
I would have hoped that they would have LCD-aware scalers on these chips by now, but I'm not a registered developer so I can't download docs to find out.
I'm not suggesting that you can live high on the hog. Although what I would suggest is not having three kids if you don't have some kind of financial security lined up. After just one unplanned child I'd be off to the snip snip.
So why can't Android just use fucking Samba?!
Because you haven't downloaded the 'Samba Filesharing for Android' app yet. Did you even look?
I prefer my backups to be reliable and private, thank you.
Privacy is a valid concern. However...
Although hard drives do occasionally tell me "Hey, you've got a week to get your shit off me, ner ner!", at least they can't help it.
I've had HDDs give me warning, and I've had HDDs fail without any warning. People have gone to their backups and found them unreadable. People have lost their tape drives, bought another one, and found out that their old tape drive was fracked and creating tapes that no other drive could read. It takes a tiered backup solution to be more reliable than Google, who will almost certainly give you months of notice before they take down a service.
I agree with calm down, but I also agree that it's stupid. When you put your text in monospace, what you are saying is "I am a special snowflake, so you should read this text even though it is more difficult than if I didn't set a special style that I only use because I am a hipster." So if that's how you want to come across, by all means, keep setting your comments in monospace. If you've set a flag that makes all your comments enter in monospace, then you're an extra-hipster.
He is pointing out that google are renowned for dropping services for business reasons. Often with little or no warning.
When has Google ever dropped one of their services without providing months of notice to the unpaying users first?
Pretty useless for Kodi because it can't bitstream lossless audio (runs on a closed ecosystem and requires licensing to do so).
You really don't think that's going to be solved by the community?
Also can't handle 23.97 output (converts to 24fps) so there's judder.
You mean XBMC can't just slow everything down by a fraction of a percent?
There are lots of other cheaper devices which can do the job better.
Name one.
As far as Netflix 4k streaming goes, you need HDMI 2.0/HDCP 2.2 support, and if you have that you almost certainly have Netflix 4k streaming built into your 4k TV already.
I don't buy display devices with networking built into them. That's stupid.
This looks like a bigger, beefed-up version of an Ouya.
If it's halfway competent and doesn't try to lock you into using their shitty store and launcher, then all it will need is a real recovery to be everything the Ouya wasn't.
I bought Ouya, it was unremitting shit and didn't even work right, so I took it back. I won't preorder Android hardware again (I didn't kickstart, just preordered Ouya from a store, so I could return that POS) but I will give this machine a go if it reviews well.
You should be able to afford to raise a family on half of that, even in the Bay Area... unless you keep buying new cars, bought a house you couldn't afford... and generally just represent the kind of person who the people who grew up in the area you moved into despise.
It also made them a lot more sensitive to the manufacturer, however. Underfunding a project almost certainly led it to being a disaster (the N1 rocket being a classic example). They generally were willing to sacrifice performance for ease of production and quantity - it was very much a widespread phenomenon.
A friend of mine once served as a translator for the military during one of the late mutual nuclear disarmament treaties (don't remember which one). She described them as pretty much a scam, in that both sides wanted to get rid of their old weapons anyway and it gave them an excuse to put funds toward development of new, treaty-compliant weapons. But anyway, they were allowed to inspect any area small enough to contain a "treaty limited item". To figure out whether they could inspect it, the teams were equipped with sophisticated laser measuring devices - if it determined that the space was large enough, they could inspect it. The Russians were really impressed with it. They sent their teams over with... a stick. If the stick fit, they could inspect it.
Another example she mentioned was driving licenses. You know, if you get stopped in the US, they take your license, run your number through their computer, it connects to remote databases, they look up past offenses, they register a new one, etc, and give you your license back. In the USSR it was much simpler: the officer took your license and punched a hole in it. If you had too many holes, they kept it.
I know it's such a stereotype that the Russians preferred low tech solutions vs. the US, but she said that the stereotype was totally well deserved.
13% of Proton launches (46 of 355) have ended in failure - it's not a very impressive record.
Because if there's one thing Russia is famous for, it's QA
Absolutely true. Soyuz too has had tons of third stage failures. It's something that just keeps biting them.
Considering the joke that the legal system of the US has evolved into, I have a hard time making an informed decision whether this is the right or the wrong thing to do.
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