The Beaver and Krause soundtrack is available on Google Play and thanks to having a subscription, I'm listening to it right now. It's a really cool and eclectic collection of music.
Interestingly enough, there's a piece called "Aurora Hominis", which is just a slightly altered version of Strauss' "Thus Spake Zarathustra".
The difference I see today vs. yesteryear is that the populace at-large is doing less critical thinking about how news should be ingested.
I don't know what you mean by "yesteryear", but the number of sources for news is increasing exponentially. 50 years ago, you had the big 3 networks and the newspaper, and that was it. Regardless of what you thought about the source, your choices were extremely limited. I think it was about 50 years ago that widespread distrust of the media started to become a thing.
Nowadays the number of sources is orders of magnitude bigger and it's difficult or impossible to chase down everything you read to determine what facts are real and what aren't. Te duplicity in the media, whether it be some crank loner writing a blog or the most established news sources has also increased exponentially. Everything is propaganda and facts are nearly irrelevant with respect to the goals that practically every medium that claims to be news.
Perhaps people are thinking less critically, but those of us who do try to think critically (at least I am) are left thinking it's nearly impossible to sift through the noise to find the signal.
Yeah, I quit collecting comics (mostly Marvel) around 1992. They were too expensive for the value you got, and there were too many forced, artificial ways of driving sales without adding value (crossover stories that went on for dozens of issues, but went nowhere). When you're selling a product designed for kiddies and a professional thinks they're too expensive, you're doing something wrong.
I miss comics, but everything I've seen and read about the industry since then makes me glad I quit.
We dont want to see your ascii art, or your smiley faces, or all the other ways that you are just a script kiddie.
And the trade-off is simply that your post looks like a Jackson Pollack painting if you aren't using pure ASCII. How many posts on/, look like line noise whenever there's an apostrophe? How does this happen and why? Why is./ the only site where this happens.
I refuse to pay for CBS out of principle. I don't want to support the fragmentation of online streaming. I'd rather go without than steadily pay more and more until my streaming costs are higher than what cable used to be.
That and the fact that their new Star Trek show is garbage.
Does referring to it as "grey sources" make you feel better about the piracy you engage in?
Does referring to it as "piracy" make you feel better about the theft (actual deprivation of something) that excessive copyright terms commits upon society?
Does calling it society make you feel better about the cess pit of human misery that is humanity?:p
Does calling it a "cess pit of human misery" make you feel better about not being able to get a job with a master's degree in Folklore and Mythology, and your girlfriend leaving you for a guy that plays the saxophone?
(p.s. Not attacking you personally, I just thought it was funny.)
I made the comment years ago that Microsoft's main business was maintaining their monopoly. Even though their monopoly has been seriously weakened, I don't think much else has changed. Most of the front-end changes made since Windows 7 have been to benefit Microsoft, not their users.
Windows 7 could use the "Windows Classic" theme, the only good-looking and most usable skin ever created for Windows. Windows 8 and later are too sophisticated to do what Windows could do 20 years ago.
No, it's because the average non-technical person can easily understand what Jobs and Musk have accomplished. With Torvalds, it's not so obvious. The average non-technical person has no idea what "Linux" is.
I don't have Google Speaker this, Alexa that, Smart ass wiper, etc, etc ad nauseum. So please explain how/why I'm not in a good position?
My Smart Ass-WIper got hacked by the Russians and replaced the TP with sandpaper. How did it get sandpaper? They hacked my Alexa to order it. You're right. You are in a good position.
The problem is two-fold. First, when Moore's Law was in full swing, two or three years was a long-enough time span for PCs to be radically better, so it was natural to want to upgrade. Nowadays, the advances aren't quite as fast, and a 5-year-old computer isn't as obsolete compared to a current model. People are keeping computers longer for that reason, and that's good.
But the biggest problem is that Microsoft's biggest competitor to Windows has, and always will be, the previous version of Windows. They have to force people away from old versions, because that's the only way to get most customers to upgrade, since they aren't replacing their machines every 24-36 months like they used to.
This wouldn't be an issue if a majority of users didn't prefer Windows 7 to any version that came after it. That's the real problem. Microsoft's changes to Windows for the last 5 years or so are mostly for their own benefit, not customers'. I've talked to, and helped, plenty of non-technical users of Windows 10 and I've never heard any of them say anything positive about it compared to previous versions. In fact, as a Windows user for almost 30 years, I find certain aspects of configuring Windows 10 harder than any previous version, and its interface is the ugliest and least usable one since Windows 2. Saddest of all, Windows 10 is so sophisticated that it cannot support the "classic" UI that every version from Windows up through Windows 7 supported, and the only one I've ever liked. You know, the look and feel that was more or less perfected 25 years ago on machines with 1/1000th of the horsepower of today's machines. Yeah, that one. They can't do that any more.
It is perfectly reasonable for Microsoft to drop support for Windows 7 in the near future. It is completely unacceptable that they have refused to release a version of Windows since then that people prefer.
Trust me.... there are many fans who will not see episode 9 as long as TLJ is canon.
I'm an old fart (who agrees with you). You're probably an old fart, too. I think the audience that expects good story-writing has largely aged out of relevence to the people making these films. If that weren't the case, we wouldn't see the fact that most films appear to have been written by an eight-year-old with ADD.
Sure, Marvel has done a great job overall, and is continuing to do so, but they've had, what, 5 Transformers movies so far, and there's no sign of those stopping any time soon. It yet another triumph of style over substance. Be happy you got "The Winter Soldier" and move on. Forget Star Trek and go see "Arrival", if you haven't. The might have killed a bunch of the franchises we grew up loving, but there's still good stuff out there.
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NIMBYs have far, far, too much power in this country.
Actually, it's not so bad in most parts of the country. San Francisco is just one (perhaps the most) pathological example.
The Beaver and Krause soundtrack is available on Google Play and thanks to having a subscription, I'm listening to it right now. It's a really cool and eclectic collection of music.
Interestingly enough, there's a piece called "Aurora Hominis", which is just a slightly altered version of Strauss' "Thus Spake Zarathustra".
Mozilla: If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a user's face - forever.
The difference I see today vs. yesteryear is that the populace at-large is doing less critical thinking about how news should be ingested.
I don't know what you mean by "yesteryear", but the number of sources for news is increasing exponentially. 50 years ago, you had the big 3 networks and the newspaper, and that was it. Regardless of what you thought about the source, your choices were extremely limited. I think it was about 50 years ago that widespread distrust of the media started to become a thing.
Nowadays the number of sources is orders of magnitude bigger and it's difficult or impossible to chase down everything you read to determine what facts are real and what aren't. Te duplicity in the media, whether it be some crank loner writing a blog or the most established news sources has also increased exponentially. Everything is propaganda and facts are nearly irrelevant with respect to the goals that practically every medium that claims to be news.
Perhaps people are thinking less critically, but those of us who do try to think critically (at least I am) are left thinking it's nearly impossible to sift through the noise to find the signal.
Yeah, I quit collecting comics (mostly Marvel) around 1992. They were too expensive for the value you got, and there were too many forced, artificial ways of driving sales without adding value (crossover stories that went on for dozens of issues, but went nowhere). When you're selling a product designed for kiddies and a professional thinks they're too expensive, you're doing something wrong.
I miss comics, but everything I've seen and read about the industry since then makes me glad I quit.
Yeah, She-Hulk dates back to the late 70s, and was an attempt to make a new and interesting character based on the Hulk, not some SJW nonsense.
We dont want to see your ascii art, or your smiley faces, or all the other ways that you are just a script kiddie.
And the trade-off is simply that your post looks like a Jackson Pollack painting if you aren't using pure ASCII. How many posts on /, look like line noise whenever there's an apostrophe? How does this happen and why? Why is ./ the only site where this happens.
I'm glad you like it. I watched the first episode and thought it was one of the stupidest things I've ever seen.
I refuse to pay for CBS out of principle. I don't want to support the fragmentation of online streaming. I'd rather go without than steadily pay more and more until my streaming costs are higher than what cable used to be.
That and the fact that their new Star Trek show is garbage.
Does referring to it as "grey sources" make you feel better about the piracy you engage in?
Does referring to it as "piracy" make you feel better about the theft (actual deprivation of something) that excessive copyright terms commits upon society?
Does calling it society make you feel better about the cess pit of human misery that is humanity? :p
Does calling it a "cess pit of human misery" make you feel better about not being able to get a job with a master's degree in Folklore and Mythology, and your girlfriend leaving you for a guy that plays the saxophone?
(p.s. Not attacking you personally, I just thought it was funny.)
I ran the audio version of this noise-reducing software on Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music" and ended up with a telephone dial tone.
This is Microsoft. Their only innovation these days is the number and variety of sharks they jump.
I made the comment years ago that Microsoft's main business was maintaining their monopoly. Even though their monopoly has been seriously weakened, I don't think much else has changed. Most of the front-end changes made since Windows 7 have been to benefit Microsoft, not their users.
Windows 7 could use the "Windows Classic" theme, the only good-looking and most usable skin ever created for Windows. Windows 8 and later are too sophisticated to do what Windows could do 20 years ago.
Transliteration is fine, but I can't find Peking or Bombay on a map any more!
No, it's because the average non-technical person can easily understand what Jobs and Musk have accomplished. With Torvalds, it's not so obvious. The average non-technical person has no idea what "Linux" is.
Yeah, I hear those, too. I always thought they were glitches because they happen on the Roku, but I've never noticed them on my tablet.
That's awful. I do use Facebook a lot, but I never installed it on my phone, and don't want it.
Shhh... I wanna see if anyone is dumb enough to try the drill on their Iphone.
I was going to, but I wanted to charge it up in the microwave first. Now it doesn't work. Maybe it just needs to cool off first.
I don't have Google Speaker this, Alexa that, Smart ass wiper, etc, etc ad nauseum. So please explain how/why I'm not in a good position?
My Smart Ass-WIper got hacked by the Russians and replaced the TP with sandpaper. How did it get sandpaper? They hacked my Alexa to order it. You're right. You are in a good position.
The problem is two-fold. First, when Moore's Law was in full swing, two or three years was a long-enough time span for PCs to be radically better, so it was natural to want to upgrade. Nowadays, the advances aren't quite as fast, and a 5-year-old computer isn't as obsolete compared to a current model. People are keeping computers longer for that reason, and that's good.
But the biggest problem is that Microsoft's biggest competitor to Windows has, and always will be, the previous version of Windows. They have to force people away from old versions, because that's the only way to get most customers to upgrade, since they aren't replacing their machines every 24-36 months like they used to.
This wouldn't be an issue if a majority of users didn't prefer Windows 7 to any version that came after it. That's the real problem. Microsoft's changes to Windows for the last 5 years or so are mostly for their own benefit, not customers'. I've talked to, and helped, plenty of non-technical users of Windows 10 and I've never heard any of them say anything positive about it compared to previous versions. In fact, as a Windows user for almost 30 years, I find certain aspects of configuring Windows 10 harder than any previous version, and its interface is the ugliest and least usable one since Windows 2. Saddest of all, Windows 10 is so sophisticated that it cannot support the "classic" UI that every version from Windows up through Windows 7 supported, and the only one I've ever liked. You know, the look and feel that was more or less perfected 25 years ago on machines with 1/1000th of the horsepower of today's machines. Yeah, that one. They can't do that any more.
It is perfectly reasonable for Microsoft to drop support for Windows 7 in the near future. It is completely unacceptable that they have refused to release a version of Windows since then that people prefer.
Direct democracy? Has there really been a direct democracy since ancient Greece?
"The Phantom Menace" didn't ruin one of the most iconic heroes of the last half-century of pop culture. "The Last Jedi" did. Full stop.
Trust me.... there are many fans who will not see episode 9 as long as TLJ is canon.
I'm an old fart (who agrees with you). You're probably an old fart, too. I think the audience that expects good story-writing has largely aged out of relevence to the people making these films. If that weren't the case, we wouldn't see the fact that most films appear to have been written by an eight-year-old with ADD.
Sure, Marvel has done a great job overall, and is continuing to do so, but they've had, what, 5 Transformers movies so far, and there's no sign of those stopping any time soon. It yet another triumph of style over substance. Be happy you got "The Winter Soldier" and move on. Forget Star Trek and go see "Arrival", if you haven't. The might have killed a bunch of the franchises we grew up loving, but there's still good stuff out there.