mattdotc

>this is what "sponsored content" should be

I disagree. I don't mind sponsored content if it is of high quality and is interesting, but only if it is clearly labeled as being a paid advertisement and I know from the outset.

Your awareness of this fact will affect your judgement and how you interpret what you've read.

Also, if you're not police, you shouldn't be taking evidence of a crime for your own homebrew investigation. Call the cops and wait there until you see them dismantle the skimmer if you're so concerned about others.

>Would you refuse to buy headphones that have an integrated amplifier and dac and a USB connector.

If those headphones don't unplug from the amp to allow me to use a 3.5mm stereo jack. Yes.

>or would you refuse to buy a dedicated amp/dac with which you could use any headphones?

I would not refuse that.

I try to avoid buying products which have non-standard connectors that limit connectivity with other devices.

I only buy headphones with a standard 3.5mm stereo jack because I have a ton of different devices and I don't want to limit myself to audio devices which only have a USB port or Bluetooth chip. That's just silly in my eyes.

If the headphones have a stereo jack then my opinion of them might be different, but still dependent on their quality.

>USB-C headphones, which Apple might not be willing to make.

And I, as part of a seemingly and disappointingly small subset of users, will refuse to ever buy.

Excellent, thanks a bunch!

There are lots of alternative engines for the games as well. I have to re-research them every time I get an urge to play, so I, too, would be interested in anyone with an opinion one way or another to chime in with their preferred approach.

That's a reasonable reaction, but take a look here http://nintendoeverything.com/punch-out-has-a-22-year-old-se...

The subject of the interview suggests that there are lots of yet-undiscovered Easter eggs in the game.

Just check out his twitter account. If he's "just trolling" I suppose he's really dedicated.

Chances are he didn't. Verified dumps are all over the internet.

However, a sufficiently motivated individual can create cartridge dumpers with hardware like Arduino and a broken Game Boy (to harvest the socket for convenience). The cartridges for most/all game systems are widely understood by this point thanks to the efforts of reverse engineers.

Of course there are also pre-built dumpers available through various sources. They are not unique to the present-day. Even when the SNES and Game Boy were still selling on shelves, there were devices created specifically for copying cartridges to alternative storage such as floppy disk or custom cartridges.

Data point 2: Works for me.

Do you have any content blockers enabled? Perhaps they're interfering.

>If it isn't why are people spending over $3/cup when McDonald's and others has $1/cup coffee?

I can't speak for every Starbucks customer out there, but I always assumed the reason is that it's a status symbol.

To some degree, they want to be seen with the cup. They haven't tried the competitors, so they assume Starbucks must be very good to justify the price. If they really enjoyed coffee for coffee's sake, they'd probably be going to an independent shop for their drink.

I think Starbucks' coffee isn't terrible, but I definitely prefer to brew it myself or spend the same amount at a smaller cafe, preferably if they roast their own beans.

Another Nick Farmer associate here from RU; not a fraternity brother, although he did try unsuccessfully to recruit me.

He's a very inquisitive guy, wide range of interests, very hard-working. He deserves this success, for sure. I've been watching the media fanfare unfold since he started promoting the show earlier in 2015 and it's been very exciting for me to see the show explode in popularity after its release.

Which wasn't really free if I remember correctly. You had to buy or crack it. Also, I don't think the performance really compared on consumer desktop hardware. As annoying as dual-booting was, it was the way all of my hobbyist friends and I preferred back then.

edit: grammar

Do you have another computer to try that on or perhaps start your browser without add-ons?

I use Firefox as my main browser and read nytimes.com every day. I haven't experienced any of those behaviors, nor am I able to replicate them.

I actually agree with most of what you're saying, with the exception of the interpreted implication.

I am ~30 years old with the collector's gene. I've always had an interest in collecting things: from backyard rocks to bugs and frogs, to stamps, coins, and books, to videogames, cassette tapes and CDs, and eventually - like you said - MP3s (and TV, movies, and more games).

Getting into vinyl was my escape from the ridiculous cache of music and media I had acquired from the likes of Napster, Kazaa, Soulseek, DirectConnect, and torrent sites like Oink. It was a numb feeling to have all that music and no possible way to really appreciate it all. And even though I frequently attended local acts' shows and some larger concerts, I did feel a bit guilty that I wasn't paying for any significant part of my collection.

In 2006, I was among this new wave of vinyl hipsters. Yes, I had recently learned about the loudness wars, and I had known about the claims of warmth and other less-than-scientific reasons for why 'vinyl is better.' I have always been a skeptic, and although I was curious to see for myself, I never bought into any of that stuff beyond that maybe there were some album releases that had crappy digital mastering for CD but much better vinyl mastering.

I got out my dad's old Pioneer table and whatever good music I could rescue from his collection. I replaced its belt. I was buying used vinyl at the last record store in my area and chatting with the regulars, learning about new bands from personal recommendations rather than a shotgun approach of downloading whatever was in the top 10 for that day on a torrent site.

I liked having big artwork and big liner notes to read.

This new popularity has been great for someone like me who enjoys new music and old. Someone who has a certain affinity to owning stuff. But it also sucks sometimes to preorder a record and then get a flimsy record that sounds terrible. I still maintain my digital collection which is a superset of my vinyl collection, but that doesn't mean I still don't like to listen to my vinyl on the weekends. I buy it because I do like spinning it.

I do have my own opinions about certain new interested parties in the medium. I also realize that this makes me a hipster. I didn't mean to imply that there is no substance behind it, but I can understand that interpretation without the above details. I do, however, agree that there is now a not-insignificant superficial element to this current wave of buyers and I think this is why there are companies out there trying to take advantage of these less-informed buyers.

It is only my opinion, but I think anyone that gets into vinyl because they happened to see it at Urban Outfitters is probably among this uninformed set. I mean, look at this thing[1]. A hardcore music fan would never want to listen to their music on those built in speakers, and an informed shopper would never spend $170 on that garbage, because they would realize that they could get a much better entry level table for near the same price. The people that are buying that gear are doing so because they want to project a cool image. And right now, vinyl is cool.

[1]http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.j...

I feel this is more true now than ever. Now that the vinyl resurgence has hipsters everywhere picking up cheap turntables and their favorite albums at Urban Outfitters, there's tons of companies out there trying to make a quick buck off the fad.

There's no guarantee that the repress of your favorite album is sourced from the original masters. I have found that the process of finding information on the lineage of a given pressing to be hit or miss. Sometimes the only surefire way is to wait a while and see what the community thinks of a given new release.

You've been spending too much time on the command line ;)

Is there a niche genre you'll be focusing on? I tried to set something up like that for zombie-horror films about 10 years ago, but once I had started college it became too much work to get and create enough content for me to stay motivated.

The only thing I did get around to doing was setting up a store with affiliate links. Go figure.

In October, I also triggered the machine for having a suspicious back.

The cause? I was in Hawaii, wearing a backpack. If you didn't know, their airports are mostly open-air. Of course, Hawaii is pretty warm and it was humid, so I was sweaty on my shoulders where the straps were.

Win for security (theater).

A long time ago I saw someone post that support was able to turn off this feature on the account. No idea if that is true.

The confusion/misdirecting part for me is that I would expect to hold down a 'Seek' button to seek through the track.

However, as a user, I was just trained to recognize the 'Seek' button as 'Next' or 'Previous' track.

So there are conflicting messages in their design. Why would I want to hold down the 'Next Track' button to seek ahead in the song? I would never think to do that.

You're right, it does seek if you press and hold. Thanks for that info.

I don't meant to shoot the messenger and this isn't directed at you, but this behavior makes no sense and is not intuitive to anyone who's ever listened to music on a CD (which is still A LOT of people).

I couldn't care less about scrubbing; I'd do that with the little progress bar because it's quicker and more precise than guessing how long to hold a button. I really just hate that one arrogant (or ignorant) person/group decided to change the meaning of a well-understood symbol as if they were the decider for everyone else.

Is iTunes responsible for this trend I'm seeing more of where the Seek Forward/Backward (Fast-Forward/Rewind) symbol is being used in place of 'Next Track' and 'Previous Track?'

All other complaints aside, this, to me, is iTunes' worst offense. I don't know if there was some official standard ever, but it was at a very minimum an unofficial standard for DECADES. Now some asshole designer has decided to muddle and confuse everyone by redefining the symbol. This idea has infected PowerAmp on Android now, too.

I have not seen anyone discussing this before (but I haven't looked very hard). I refuse to buy into this new definition. Am I the only one bothered by this? I can't take a music application seriously if it can't get the symbols right.

Another subsonic user here...for a very long time as well. You'd have to have a very good product to get me to switch.

I donated years ago to the project and I'm grandfathered into the 'premium' app.

Good luck with that. My alma mater did exactly this to those who refused to pay up.

Perhaps laws are different there.

They might eventually send your information to a debt collection service.

Hope saving a few hundred dollars is worth the potential hit to your credit score.

> if the host seems dishonest or the place isn't as described/shown, you can still check-in to an hotel.

When I am traveling - for business or pleasure - the last thing I want to do is scramble to figure out where I will sleep that night. I value my time too much, especially for a pleasure trip, to go through that kind of ordeal.

Also, you can save money if you pay in advance for your hotel. You won't have time to even comparison shop if you're rushing at the very very last minute.

So, I wouldn't say the risk is overrated, but instead that people can stomach different amount of risk.

I like to be well prepared and have firm plans on my trips, but I know other friends will just book the first things they find and figure out what they're doing when they get there.

Took me a few attempts. You will know when your success was accepted because you'll see a message stating so.

>I was impressed how everything rendered without a glitch on Chrome

Well, to be fair, this is a modern website composed of artifacts from the Geocities archive. This page would be a beast if it were implemented with techniques of the era.

Looking at the source for the page, the author seems to be lazy loading the assets and then dynamically placing them in the page with CSS.

We've definitely come a long way.

I have a hard time trusting either Glasswire and Antilogger without seeing the source (especially since you mentioned possible backdoors in the same breath as your recommendation).

Your first link looks like it's just a pack of local policies, so I suppose there's some value, if that's the case, for people who don't want to go through with learning how to set that up.

Hey, just saw your response a few minutes ago, and shortly thereafter I received a message from your service.

Thanks!!