Ebert is right, the prices for both tickets and snacks have gotten too high. He forgot to mention that there's about 15-20 minutes of trailers, commercials and other stuff before the start of the movie you have to sit through. I mean I am there for the movie - so play the movie!
The local theater here sells their tickets at the snack counter to try to tempt you but it takes too long to get through the line so I quit going.
I have been streaming netflix through the wii since they started offering the service. I have not played a game on it since. The bad thing is, I have several games still in the original wrappers just sitting there and others that were only played a couple of times. When my income tax money comes through, I will be purchasing a cheap computer to stream through. This way I could stream everything - no matter the site. I already have a computer on another tv and it paid for itself in 3 months after I had cable turned off. In the meantime, the wii works great but when it is replaced, who knows what will happen to it... I'm just not into gaming anymore. That is the life of a gaming console to me though sometimes I wished I still had the atari 2600 and non-tech games it had.
and to think I was just reading about the number of call centers in the philippians recently bypass the number in india. Will they be passing our personal financial information on to terrorists??? I mean at$t is using call centers in the philippians. That to me is scarey, especially after the recent attack from there.
"More Filipinos - about 400,000 - than Indians now spend their nights talking to mostly American consumers, industry officials said, as companies like AT&T, JPMorgan Chase and Expedia have hired call centres here, or built their own. The jobs have come from the United States, Europe and, to some extent, India as outsourcers followed their clients to the Philippines."
I wonder if either one uses the same password on other non facebook accounts. If so it could get interesting...
only two things is keeping me from being 100 percent linux - netflix and iphone. Until they become linux compatible, I am stuck with windows and dual booting.
I wonder how long it will be before the announcement that they are merging blogger and blogspot into google+
firefox has lost its way. It has become a resource hog. I have been considering switching to chrome since it has all the same addons I regularly use on firefox. I do have it installed and I do use it every now and then, especially on websites that becomes unresponsive with firefox. The only reason I am still using firefox is I am hoping the next update will get better but...
I am glad the law was overturn. It was an extremely bad one where parent could not be friends with their own kids. And before someone says they could see their kids at home - based on the law, if the teacher was divorce and the other spouse had custody, the teacher could not be friends with their own kids on facebook or any other social media. The same goes with grand kids, god children, family friends etc. The law was just too broad. The law of unintended consequences was in effect.
As far as the new one where they say let the school decide on policy, that will get interesting, though I think it is better since school policy can make exceptions and is more flexible than a state law.
since you are roommates, your computer will most likely get searched too to make sure none of the downloads were ever on your computer. So if he downloaded and you watched from your computer, then you are in trouble too.
what if the teacher was a godparent, grandparent or other relatives? what if the teacher is a non custodial parent? Could also be scout leader, sunday school teacher, neighbor, etc... and there are other examples as to why kids have teachers as friends. The law was way too vague.
to me, disclosures should only be required if they are getting any type of compensation from the company - directly or indirectly. But then I think the rule should apply to everyone, not just celebrities.
the rate everything is going digital, pretty soon I won't have anything to read when on the porcelain throne.
Most new linux users don't know there is a difference between Gnome and KDE. They don't know the difference between evolution and thunderbird. They don't know the difference between libre and open office. and I can go on. They just pick a distro, install and use it. That is why I do not see how old arguments can put an end to linux desktops. What will end the linux desktop will be the actions of the popular distros,
One of the biggest problems with the linux community was all the different distros. It made things very confusing and if you picked the wrong one to install, it could either be a nightmare or make you a believer. Then came ubuntu. It was doing good and turned a lot of windows users into linux believers until the last update. The last update turned linux into a nightmare for many because of unity. It just plain did not work on a lot of computers. Then there were those who did an upgrade and lost their installed programs because the latest ubuntu decided to change default programs. IMO, when you do an upgrade, you leave the install programs alone and just install the os upgrades. Actions like this is what will turn users off from linux and this is what I believe will kill the linux desktop.
I just would like to know how the average user who streams or download movies knows whether or not it is legal. So many sites have both legal and illegal content including hulu and youtube. How are people supposed to know. It seems the studios and their representatives are preying on the ignorance of the online community to supplement their income. It is not right and it is most certainly not fair.
The difference between reality and unreality is that reality has so little to recommend it. -- Allan Sherman
