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I don’t understand why cities and countries still pursue the Olympics.
The usual reasons: helps them get reelected, grift opportunities, blatant bribery, etc
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I don’t understand why cities and countries still pursue the Olympics.
Not a criminal law expert here, but wouldn’t just the content of that article be enough to bring bribery and obstruction charges against those people??
Salt Lake City is an interesting case; it hosted in 2002, so its facilities are in good condition and upgrading will be relatively cheap. The airport is new and damn nice, and SLC itself has grown a lot in the past 20 years, so it both needs and can better support long term stuff like upgraded public transportation and extra housing. Hosting could genuinely be profitable.I don’t understand why cities and countries still pursue the Olympics.
Speaking of hardware products getting fucked by their apps...From NYT Wirecutter:
After careful consideration, we no longer recommend the Sonos multiroom audio platform as the best overall choice. Sonos recently rolled out a major update to its control app that had a ton of problems, leaving its customers with a much less intuitive experience than they had before. While the company is slowly addressing some of the major issues with the new app, this is not the first time Sonos has hurt customer trust through poorly executed changes.
That said, Sonos still makes great speakers that work well within other wireless control platforms like AirPlay, Spotify Connect, and (in some cases) Bluetooth. So we are not discounting Sonos products entirely. We just no longer hold up the company’s own ecosystem as the best way to interact with the system.
Still want to try SonoPhone. My speakers are relegated to airplay only which works but defeats the purpose of the multi-room platform.![]()
The Best Multiroom Wireless Speaker System
The Sonos multiroom music platform offers great-sounding speakers, supports the widest variety of streaming services, and is easy to set up and use.www.nytimes.com
Speaking of hardware products getting fucked by their apps...
We ponied up for the $$$ Snoo smart bassinet for the baby. IMHO it is a pretty cool piece of tech and if it works for your baby, it can totally be worth it (yet to be seen how well it will work for us, but so far I'm impressed).
But somewhere in between the time where we put in the order and when it shipped, they did a big "fvck you" to everyone. Killed the dedicated Snoo app and moved everyone to the "Happiest Baby" app (that is their app for tracking other things, giving you tips, etc). Supposedly for the Snoo users, the new app is a much worse expereince.
And to make matters worse, to access all of the published features of the Snoo, you have to have a "Happiest Baby Premium" subscription. Conveniently, if you buy the Snoo direct from them (or rent it), you get a premium subscription that will last you long enough for one kid...but if you buy secondhand (or keep it for subsequent children), you are fvcked into paying $20/mo if you want to be able to fully utilize the hardware you paid an obscene amount for.
I think it is also going to really hurt the resale market on them (which is probably their ultimate goal...but is a big financial hit to any parents that planned on capturing dat residual value)...3rd party used units are inferior to the tune of at least $120 in subscription fees over the use period...plus a lot of bad press and word of mouth over this BS.
IMHO, worth an FTC complaint. They advertised features when they sold the hardware and then put them behind a paywall after the fact.
That happens to us as well. One room is randomly not listed about 20% of the time. It returns just as randomly, sometimes 30 sec later, sometimes 30 min. That didn’t happen before the update.That is good info, thanks! But now I’m questioning if I have another problem (like myself) because a lot of my my problems (drops, speakers disappearing from system, inability to control playback) occur while using AirPlay
Branson, Missouri. I was there for a wedding and man that place sucks. Great scenic views of nature and the Ozarks but the place is a Christian Las Vegas for Trumpers.
From an n of one, someone I know who had one was unhappy because the baby was a good sleeper in the snoo, but he was terrible after transitioning out. She felt that the snoo just delayed the showing through the night issue.
We've been fortunate that our daughter had sheriff through the night basically since day 1 with only a few random days.
We got screwed by the same phenomenon with snoo on our Miku monitor. They promised lifetime use of the app with sleep monitoring and alarms. They went bankrupt and acquired and not you have to pay since obscene amount to get anything but the love video feed.
We explicitly picked the not expensive camera to avoid the fee figuring we could reuse on subsequent kids.
we got the generic knock-off graco version - worked fine for 1/4 the price.Speaking of hardware products getting fucked by their apps...
We ponied up for the $$$ Snoo smart bassinet for the baby. IMHO it is a pretty cool piece of tech and if it works for your baby, it can totally be worth it (yet to be seen how well it will work for us, but so far I'm impressed).
But somewhere in between the time where we put in the order and when it shipped, they did a big "fvck you" to everyone. Killed the dedicated Snoo app and moved everyone to the "Happiest Baby" app (that is their app for tracking other things, giving you tips, etc). Supposedly for the Snoo users, the new app is a much worse expereince.
And to make matters worse, to access all of the published features of the Snoo, you have to have a "Happiest Baby Premium" subscription. Conveniently, if you buy the Snoo direct from them (or rent it), you get a premium subscription that will last you long enough for one kid...but if you buy secondhand (or keep it for subsequent children), you are fvcked into paying $20/mo if you want to be able to fully utilize the hardware you paid an obscene amount for.
I think it is also going to really hurt the resale market on them (which is probably their ultimate goal...but is a big financial hit to any parents that planned on capturing dat residual value)...3rd party used units are inferior to the tune of at least $120 in subscription fees over the use period...plus a lot of bad press and word of mouth over this BS.
IMHO, worth an FTC complaint. They advertised features when they sold the hardware and then put them behind a paywall after the fact.
What happened to the future we were promised?
Salt Lake City is an interesting case; it hosted in 2002, so its facilities are in good condition and upgrading will be relatively cheap. The airport is new and damn nice, and SLC itself has grown a lot in the past 20 years, so it both needs and can better support long term stuff like upgraded public transportation and extra housing. Hosting could genuinely be profitable.