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Comment But of course... (Score 4, Interesting) 35

I had this offer for DirecTV for $35/month for 3 months and a free 4K appleTV. Used it twice. Once to get my $160 appleTV for $105. The second to get another one and sell it for $120. Basically never used the service itself which was COMPLETELY USELESS. Most channels had GARBAGE and you could not skip the commercials (if you came back to the channel after surfing away, you got hit by the commercial again... ah, the beauty of streaming). So it is Netflix, Tubi or TPB for me and that's it. (But I have been considering subscription for Mubi... seems an interesting idea.)

Comment Re:Repetition Is the Key to Learning (Score 1) 39

Studying is not necessarily the learning of a particular skill, but the training/exercising of the mind. Like running on a treadmill is not useful in the sense of going somewhere but for the exercise itself. Perhaps you should consider you may not know all the facts before simply dismissing the opinion of someone who clearly has more experience and knowledge of teaching than you do.

Comment Lets cut the crap... (Score 1, Insightful) 428

Lets cut the crap... republicans and conservatives are traitors to the country and people and are morally repugnant. Highest proportion of pedophiles? Republican, ultra-religious senators. Who passes laws most likely to harm our soldiers? Sure... republicans. Who else? Who reduces funding for mental health for veterans? Again. It is a pity that 40% of americans are completely retarded and keep voting for these crap.

Mod me down if you want, but it is the truth.

Comment Back to iOS after 4-5 years on Android... (Score 1) 145

In the end, it was too painful to deal with Samsung and Android. The system was as unstable as a Windows Vista machine. And got tired of waiting for an OS update. After ditching my iphone 3G back in the day for the freer Android, I find myself back with an iPhone 6s+. Supported with the latest OS how many years after the phone was released? Yes, quite a lot. And iOS is pretty stable. Not as flashy and not as configurable as Android, but good enough. Went from a phone that crashed every 2-3 days to a phone that has months of uptime.

Comment Re:That makes zero sense (Score 1) 169

Oh, gee... not looking at mountains 10 miles away? You know that 1m is as close to infinity as 10 miles?

Now for what is really important: any distance MUCH BIGGER (i.e., 10x) than the normal short distance focus length (25 cm) is for all practical purposes in optics a "focus at infinity".

Do you understand now?

Comment GOOD! (btw, bands, I've NEVER bought any ticketmas (Score 1) 67

This is really good news. TIcketmaster needs to die a painful death. And this will be good for bands too. I personally have never bought anything through ticketmaster or any scalper or anything crazy like that. $1-2 in "fees" is OK, anything more just to be the man-in-the-middle and produce NOTHING of value is not. So I just don't go to these shows. I assume I am not the only one, no? Sure, lots of suckers out there, but still... perhaps you are missing some 20% of possible attendees.

Comment Re:Surface 4 is a POS (Score 1) 126

And at the same time my ipad and my macbook air constantly do wi-fi updates and all and never ever would drain 60% of the battery being sleep overnight. Neither does my iphone, or my android tablet or my android phone. Sorry, it is just MS cr4p. And yes, all drivers are up to date. Nice design (the kickstand is cool) but otherwise horrible machine.

Comment Surface 4 is a POS (Score 3, Informative) 126

Really. It is. New machine, battery lasts barely 3-4 hours doing SIMPLE stuff (windows has the worst power management possible). Even in SLEEP MODE it manages to deplete a battery from 100% to 40% overnight (did I mention that windows has the worst power management possible?). Touch interface and pen randomly stop working (requiring a reboot). To top it off, machine fell from 20 cm to a wooden floor and the screen shattered, costing hundreds of $ to repair. MS had always complained that windows was unreliable because they worked with so many brands and models, but they can't even get their own sh*t to work.

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