Current Mood: procrastination
Technology good: summer has barely begun, but I've got an really powerful central a/c unit all to myself. My [old] apartment has a shitty window unit that barely keeps the living room cool, much less my room. My current room for the summer...I can make it downright chilly. I am thankful for that.
Technology bad: I think I may have damaged my speakers? My nice [relatively] new ones. Yesterday I was rocking out something fierce, and some of the higher notes have a really odd twine to them (it's hard to describe). Temporary solution: turn down the volume, which I will have to do soon anyway once the building gets more occupied. Also, note to self: do not listen to offensive songs when building gets more occupied. Possible but unlikely long term solution: buy newer, more powerful speakers?
Technology good: I am borrowing Jenny's roommate's mini-fridge for the summer. I'm trying to cut down on the number of things I own, so this doesn't count against me. While it is not a necessity, it's a nice thing to have sometimes. :D I miss my full apartment kitchen, dirty dishes and all.
Technology bad: No car. 95% of the time, not a problem, 5% of the time, a really big problem.
Technology good: Future apartment has a DVR and cable TV. This means that I should never miss out on my favorite shows again.
Technology bad: I'm gonna watch so much TV...
Technology good: Maybe I'm just more web savvy, but I don't know how much longer DVRs are needed. Seriously, I remember 6 months ago trying to find old TV episodes online was basically torrenting, hoping like hell somebody was hosting it for free on some obscure site, or watching it in 8 parts on YouTube before it was removed. Maybe the writer's strike really did something, but now there's much more accessible content online for TV - sites like TVLinks or Hulu, (or even more legit sites like NBC.com) and I really don't mind the ads. I really don't. So help me god, though, if it has to buffer excessively, or keeps skipping and freezing, or something like that, I'll go right back to finding better, ad-free solutions.
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ReplyDelete1) My fridge, not Jennifer's.
ReplyDelete2) Having a car after not having one for a long time: 90% of the time, doesn't even matter. 10% of the time, just makes whatever I'd do anyway a bit more convenient. 100% of the time, costs me a lot more money than the nothing I spent when I didn't have one.
3) http://www.hulu.com/about Hulu's totally legal.
Technically a DVR will lead you to watching more TV, but since you can watch a show in 2/3 the time by skipping commercials, it can even out.
ReplyDeleteI would pay for a suck-free video-on-demand service, where "suck-free" involves no ads, high quality, and a selection of nearly everything that's ever been recorded. This will make TV networks as we know them obsolete, but that's a feature, not a bug. Currently Netflix is the closest solution I'm aware of, but it suffers some latency problems due to using mail trucks as their layer 3.
But Paul, if they start sending those vast amounts of data through they internets, you have to understand, that those tubes can be filled, and if they're filled...
ReplyDeleteNetflix DOES have quite a few movies available for "Instant Watching" whenever you want on your computer, and you get some hours' worth of that on any regular Netflix plan.
ReplyDeleteJamie: You do have a point: the U.S. Postal Service is like a truck you can dump stuff on.
ReplyDeleteLuckeyfrog: Somehow I don't think Microsoft has any plans to port its DRM junk to Linux, which pretty much rules that out. But considering that out of 106 discs in my queue right now, a whopping 6 of them are available for streaming, I don't know how much use I'd get out of that anyway.
Not as though that DRM accomplishes anything besides annoying users -- it's fairly trivial to rip video from a DVD, after all.
@Jenny: sis pointed out that yes, Hulu is leagal. My mistake. Also, Jenny pointed out that it's your fridge. My mistake.
ReplyDelete@Paul: that assumes you're fast forwarding. I meant it will enable/encourage more tv watching through ease of viewing.
I would also enjoy (and pay a princely sum for) a very high quality streaming tv service, if the selection was very vast.