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magnifier661 said:
Fine but the other shit does right? You said that nothing can stream correct?
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No, I said that Apple's cloud offerings were not strong.

I did not know DirectTV could stream outside of your home, but again that isn't Apple based. Of course things can stream right on apple products, I said I stream content on Amazon via my ipad, as well as music...and netflix.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
Yeah, but I'm physically tied down. Say I take my ipad on the road, I can't watch ANY of the apple content streaming, I have to download it and then watch it.
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When I do road trips, I load movies on my iPad and watch them at the airport while waiting, then the plane. Last trip, to the east coast, I watched the whole Godfather trilogy.

I get about 3 movies without having to recharge.

For mobile devices, they charge you per gigabyte of download. You can get near that watching a single movie; or more depending on the quality. Listen to a song, it's typically between 5 and 20 megabytes. You pay $10 to listen to roughly 50 songs. You'll save money by downloading to your local storage.
 
Denny Crane said:
When I do road trips, I load movies on my iPad and watch them at the airport while waiting, then the plane. Last trip, to the east coast, I watched the whole Godfather trilogy.

I get about 3 movies without having to recharge.

For mobile devices, they charge you per gigabyte of download. You can get near that watching a single movie; or more depending on the quality. Listen to a song, it's typically between 5 and 20 megabytes. You pay $10 to listen to roughly 50 songs. You'll save money by downloading to your local storage.
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I have unlimited data. I have a lot of content and am kind of sporadic with what I want to see.
 
Denny Crane said:
When I do road trips, I load movies on my iPad and watch them at the airport while waiting, then the plane. Last trip, to the east coast, I watched the whole Godfather trilogy.

I get about 3 movies without having to recharge.

For mobile devices, they charge you per gigabyte of download. You can get near that watching a single movie; or more depending on the quality. Listen to a song, it's typically between 5 and 20 megabytes. You pay $10 to listen to roughly 50 songs. You'll save money by downloading to your local storage.
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Interesting. I mean it's justified if you are streaming. They gotta have the bandwidth to supply all users with streaming service.

I didn't know cloud or amazon charges per gigabyte
 
magnifier661 said:
http://m.blogs.computerworld.com/18056/amazon_cloud_drive?mm_ref=https://www.google.com/
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Cloud player is only $20 a year. I don't use it for file storage, I use dropbox. And cloud player songs I buy on amazon download into my itunes on my computer with no problem.

http://lifehacker.com/amazon-mp3-is-78-cheaper-than-itunes-on-average-1349096059

Gym- have Wifi. Hotels- have wifi. I can download it too onto my device, which is fine as well. Its just more flexible.

from what I've seen and heard, Itunes in the Cloud is an absolute clusterfuck.
 
I can also STREAM all my music at work, just by opening my browser and logging into my amazon account. Can't do that with Itunes.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
I can also STREAM all my music at work, just by opening my browser and logging into my amazon account. Can't do that with Itunes.
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I play all my music at work. I use iTunes as well. You can register up to 8 computers to one account.
 
magnifier661 said:
I play all my music at work. I use iTunes as well. You can register up to 8 computers to one account.
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Again, that's not cloud computing. I can do this on any computer in the world, no need to download anything or have to use itunes.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
Cloud player is only $20 a year. I don't use it for file storage, I use dropbox. And cloud player songs I buy on amazon download into my itunes on my computer with no problem.

http://lifehacker.com/amazon-mp3-is-78-cheaper-than-itunes-on-average-1349096059

Gym- have Wifi. Hotels- have wifi. I can download it too onto my device, which is fine as well. Its just more flexible.

from what I've seen and heard, Itunes in the Cloud is an absolute clusterfuck.
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I haven't had a single problem. I set each device to automatically download any new purchase and playlist and it's ready the moment I click.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
Again, that's not cloud computing. I can do this on any computer in the world, no need to download anything or have to use itunes.
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So you are fine having any device in the world access to your passwords and personal information?

I'd rather have my iPad and play at any wifi network and not worry about that mess. Don't need other devices to know my shit
 
magnifier661 said:
So you are fine having any device in the world access to your passwords and personal information?

I'd rather have my iPad and play at any wifi network and not worry about that mess. Don't need other devices to know my shit
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Its naive of you to assume they can't get it off a wifi network.
 
I'll take this Presidente-Mags pissing contest as an opportunity to update you all on the Chromebook experience four months in.

I fuggin love it. Suits my needs perfectly and above all the thing just performs without a hitch. Only real limitation I've experienced so far is that I can't really work on my resume on google docs because its formatted so intricately that when you try to convert it to google docs it fucks the whole thing up. More formal word docs are fine though. Its no powerhouse but its plenty functional for me and a hell of a lot more enjoyable to use than Windows.

My cousin just gave my mom a tower running Ubuntu. We now have an Acer Netbook running Windows 7, Ubuntu desk top, and Chromebook. Quite a weird collection of computers.
 
Run BJM said:
I'll take this Presidente-Mags pissing contest as an opportunity to update you all on the Chromebook experience four months in.

I fuggin love it. Suits my needs perfectly and above all the thing just performs without a hitch. Only real limitation I've experienced so far is that I can't really work on my resume on google docs because its formatted so intricately that when you try to convert it to google docs it fucks the whole thing up. More formal word docs are fine though. Its no powerhouse but its plenty functional for me and a hell of a lot more enjoyable to use than Windows.

My cousin just gave my mom a tower running Ubuntu. We now have an Acer Netbook running Windows 7, Ubuntu desk top, and Chromebook. Quite a weird collection of computers.
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Can you play itunes content on your chromebook?
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
Its naive of you to assume they can't get it off a wifi network.
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They must have your password and know what to look for. When you get on a strange device; you have zero protection.

Did you also read the disclaimer that any information you have they can share when they see fit?
 
Run BJM said:
I'll take this Presidente-Mags pissing contest as an opportunity to update you all on the Chromebook experience four months in.

I fuggin love it. Suits my needs perfectly and above all the thing just performs without a hitch. Only real limitation I've experienced so far is that I can't really work on my resume on google docs because its formatted so intricately that when you try to convert it to google docs it fucks the whole thing up. More formal word docs are fine though. Its no powerhouse but its plenty functional for me and a hell of a lot more enjoyable to use than Windows.

My cousin just gave my mom a tower running Ubuntu. We now have an Acer Netbook running Windows 7, Ubuntu desk top, and Chromebook. Quite a weird collection of computers.
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Fuck I apologize man: didn't mean to hijack your thread. Good for you man!
 
Run BJM said:
I'll take this Presidente-Mags pissing contest as an opportunity to update you all on the Chromebook experience four months in.

I fuggin love it. Suits my needs perfectly and above all the thing just performs without a hitch. Only real limitation I've experienced so far is that I can't really work on my resume on google docs because its formatted so intricately that when you try to convert it to google docs it fucks the whole thing up. More formal word docs are fine though. Its no powerhouse but its plenty functional for me and a hell of a lot more enjoyable to use than Windows.

My cousin just gave my mom a tower running Ubuntu. We now have an Acer Netbook running Windows 7, Ubuntu desk top, and Chromebook. Quite a weird collection of computers.
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have you tried Quickoffice? You get 15GB of Google Drive space I believe if you install on your phone.
 
magnifier661 said:
They must have your password and know what to look for. When you get on a strange device; you have zero protection.

Did you also read the disclaimer that any information you have they can share when they see fit?
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My parents computer at home isn't a strange device. Or my brother's chromebook.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
My parents computer at home isn't a strange device. Or my brother's chromebook.
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So, my daughters or sons laptop isn't either. You are advocating any computer or device in the world. How many people have more than 8 computers?
 
Run BJM said:
I'll take this Presidente-Mags pissing contest as an opportunity to update you all on the Chromebook experience four months in.

I fuggin love it. Suits my needs perfectly and above all the thing just performs without a hitch. Only real limitation I've experienced so far is that I can't really work on my resume on google docs because its formatted so intricately that when you try to convert it to google docs it fucks the whole thing up. More formal word docs are fine though. Its no powerhouse but its plenty functional for me and a hell of a lot more enjoyable to use than Windows.

My cousin just gave my mom a tower running Ubuntu. We now have an Acer Netbook running Windows 7, Ubuntu desk top, and Chromebook. Quite a weird collection of computers.
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I don't know if it'll work with a chromebook, but maybe Quickoffice (it's now part of Google) would work. On a phone/tablet, you can open/edit MS documents and keep the formatting. Or at least that is what I think it is for. I downloaded it because it had a promo giving extra Google drive storage, but haven't tried it out yet.
 
magnifier661 said:
So, my daughters or sons laptop isn't either. You are advocating any computer or device in the world. How many people have more than 8 computers?
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That includes your phones and ipads, doesn't it?
 
porkchopexpress said:
Haha, beat me to it. Is it actually good? I just wanted the extra free space.
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I just wanted the free space too. I noticed today that I was using 11GB out of my 15 free....the fuck. Turns out I had the autobackup saving full sized images of my camera photos...need to clear that shit out.
 
My daughter has her own account. To access that account on my iPad; all I need to do is go to my system preference and add the account and password. All of her files, music, videos and photos are accessible. All I need to do is download them. I can only make changes if I know the password.
 
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