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Didn't a lot of Siri stuff only work in a few countries at launch? Could've been that. There's some talk at The Verge of the A10 CPU in the new iPhone besting some (older) Core i CPUs for single thread execution in GeekBench, but I have no idea if the Geekbench mobile CPU benchmark is...

There was puke involved, though I promise I was awake for the whole damned thing. I've basically been sleeping ever since. Today is the first day my side isn't killing me.

Did Kubo and the Two Strings even get a theatrical release in the USA?

I passed a kidney stone on Thursday. It was a healthy 4mm.

Chris Pratt assures that it will at least be charming, even if it doesn't have the star power of the 1960 version. Also, if it gives any visibility at all to the Kurosawa films, that's only a benefit to the moviegoing public. A better question in my mind is who in the hell thought an IMAX remake...

This is for a kid who specifically wants a tablet. I feel like it's really short-sighted to buy a new device that only has 1GB RAM, particularly if you are someone who plays games since it sucks pretty deeply to find that the OS auto-closed your game so you'd have enough RAM to open all of your...

Amazon has the Shield K1 back in stock at $200, but only for Prime members. I wonder if they got the end of someone's supply or if there's a new product on the way. I'm having a really hard time finding a good-fit 8 - 10" tablet suited for what probably amounts to a dedicated Minecraft device. I...

Ghost Rider looks a lot cooler than I thought he would on Agents of SHIELD. He's also got a pretty cool Bear McCreary leitmotif, something that hasn't been done much on that show. Also, nine days to Luke Cagemas.

The proposed new forum software looks really nice. I like the fancy previews.

I wore my pirate hat and eye patch but no one got it. They just thought I had problems with my eye again.

I'm under the impression that every printer manufacturer screws with non-OEM cartridges at least a little. The big issue with Brother (laser) printers seems to be shorter indicated life on generic toner cartridges, for example.

Probably. At least Hangouts doesn't require a Google account. I've had people tell me, with a straight face, that they had to buy an Apple device because of Facetime.

Arrr you ready, kids? I cant Hear you!

The major issue with music curation by ID3 tags is the fucking Album Artist tag. That is a dumb tag. Album Artist is most often used for performer and duplicated in the Artist tag, while systems often ignore the composer tag or don't deal with a mismatch between those three fields very well.

Well this got a laugh out of me. And then I thought about it and, yeah, that'd probably make them a lot cooler, if you're in to that sort of thing.

I have at least four ways to access music in my home so I can stream it, but Plex is ALSO hopeless with metadata for my music, even when I tell it to prefer ID3 tags over online data. Basically the only way I get fully correct information is by browsing a filesystem and playing stuff directly...

There also needs to be a dividing line between what's personal and what's professional. One of the reasons SMSes piss me off (besides the fact that everyone thinks I want to be married to my phone for always and forever) is that I don't want to get them from customers. I don't want to give out...

The BD Extra on Civil War is fantastic, for what it's worth. Oh wait I guess this isn't on the BD. Oh well. Just watch it. It's funny. Luke Cage launches in two weeks by the way.

If you go in to Settings, you can give Windows a 12 hour window in which it will not reboot or install updates. Unfortunately, you can't give it less than 12 hours when it CAN.

I've also seen Homegroups get really slow but ony when they're actually using the Homegroup namespace for the data transfers. Never seen it impact normal SMB.

I'm guessing you'll see sub-$200 1TB drives around Xmas 2016, but this is technically an Enterprise drive, and those don't usually come so cheap.

First thing is that this does not sound familiar, but have you tired running SFC or swapping in a different NIC and/or the network port the thing is running on? I'm guessing that if you're using a desktop machine for a file server, you don't have anything too serious going on with the network...

It's widely used here too, but I have no idea why, since data plans are ubiquitous and a sizable fraction of messages will be either longer than 160 characters or contain binary data.

I don't think the value proposition for $10/month for commercial-less Youtube (which I already have anyway) + 20% of the uploaded music makes as much sense. The overall cost of Prime + Prime Music is about the same but the value is skewed massively in Amazon's favor with all of the crap-ton of...

I have a fully integrated Google Voice number. My carrier is Sprint. I can have that. However, in a wider point, I don't think anyone else should use SMS and I'm doing what I can to discourage it.

Yeah, but compare that to the Nexus 7, which was the game changer precisely because it was a quality, affordable product. If I'm going to blow $500 on a high end tablet, it's going to at least come from a company that hasn't been allergic to external storage for the last four years.

I broke down and added Prime Music to the list of crap I'm paying Amazon to have. It's $2/month vs $10 for Google and I'm OK with that part. I'm also OK with the 250,000 song limit. Here's what's not OK: 1. Like Google, Amazon uses its metadata instead of mine. This, again, is terrible and...

And just a follow up to my comments about the Shield Tablet: The cheapest ones on Amazon are now $350 with some knobs wanting up to $700 for one. There was a post on Slashdot this weekend that Huewei is planning to build a "Nexus 7 replacement" but ALSO that Google is dropping the Nexus...

Palemoon is a thing that exists.

I have my emails filtered so I get appropriate notification noises on my devices and can IFTT things if need be. I really don't want to break that.

I won't accept SMS messages. They're limited to a single device and can be wonky about delivery, especially between cell providers. Certain whitelisted senders can send them to me but I see and reply to them as email.

I'm pretty sure they'll go in after it if you want...

I'm pretty sure they'll go in after it if you want...

You could just spend $120 and get them a 24" something-or-other. I've definitely had machines where oddball resolutions like 1650 and 1440xwhatever needed driver updates to be supported by Windows XP and Vista, but I haven't seen that on anything newer. Sounds like something isn't plugging and...

I spent 20 minutes this morning explaining Hangouts - a thing that was already on everyone's phone - to people who couldn't agree on a message system. I guess I can understand never using Play Books or Play Music since we have so many options for those things (although they're also good...

Why does no one use Hangouts? It's on every Android phone and a client exists for everything. Why do I need kik, Whatsapp, Snapchat, Facebook Messenger, Skype, an SMS client, or - god forbid - Facetime?

We can and will dig up a post from 10 years ago for a reply to a topic that's been around that long. iPhones have definitely been sucking since 2009 so that makes perfect sense to me.

No one can see me out there. I have a whole bunch of plants blocking anyone's view. My legs actually got a little tan. I'm proud of myself.

I have decided to celebrate US Labor Day by not doing a damned thing. It's very nice outside and I have sat on my balcony and read a book. I have not put on pants. At some point, I will decide that I am hungry and I shall have to do something, but the longer this can be avoided, the more I will...

A Pi with OSMC loaded on it DOES make a pretty good music player. Stick it someplace with speakers and run it through your remote software of choice. I'm using one in my bathroom and my kitchen now instead of BT audio receivers and I kind of like that setup better. I still wish I could find some...

We've talked about this before, but there aren't many games that manage to do scary well to any great extent. Doom (the first one) did it and I think a case can be made for System Shock and the original Alone in the Dark. There's tons and tons of horror movies. Why is it so hard to make a video...

There's some trailers and gameplay footage for something called "Agony" on Youtube that I'm very deliberately not linking and should not be watched while you're at work. I'm not convinced the game will be any fun but it looks like H.R. Giger and Clive Barker decided Doom's hellscapes were too...

Wouldn't two of them just make two mono sources?

I get mine from SmartBuyGlasses.com. The people I talk to are in Texas. I have no idea where they grind the lenses but I can't complain.

I eat protein bars or get a salad or sometimes chicken nuggets from McDonald's. Maybe once every couple weeks I'll go to the ridiculously cheap and good Mexican hole in the wall and get steak tacos, but that's kind of a treat.

On the subject of pro-level gamers: I popped in to Mechwarrior Online on Sunday while showing someone while showing someone what their new PC could do. I played one random match and promptly got in a drop with a dude who got 10 out of 12 kills in the match (in a Jenner, one of the smallest...

Do cases ever help? Ever?

I suppose the maddening thing is that the Echo won't talk to most Google services, in particular Youtube and Google Music. There's a Google Home box, but THEN I have crap tons of purchased music on Amazon and THAT won't work. Apparently this thing will at least talk to Google Now, Siri and Alexa...

G4. It's out of warranty. I believe it fell victim to a known issue (early G4s had a boot loop issue and mine was a launch day phone) but Sprint Service says they don't have to do shit unless I want a new phone. I can buy a mainboard for the phone for about $120 or I can get a refurbished phone...

I went in to Chicago yesterday since I didn't particularly have anything else going on. I was planning to take pictures around the Tribune Buiding/Chicago River and down by Millennium Park. I wasn't doing anything but listening to my headphones and walking, but over the course of about 15...