I guess this means I've been living under a rock, but this hasn't been on my radar to watch at all yet. Are the first three pretty good? Are they adequately carrying on the legacy?
My background: I grew up watching TOS, was at first excited and then bored by TNG and the rest of the Berman series, and had my interest renewed by Abrams' films, which I believe are reviled primarily by Berman "endless meetings" era fans, and not first-run TOS fans. That said:
Star Trek Continues (TOS-C?) is, so far, surprisingly good. The sets, costumes, tools, and effects are easily equal to TOS Remastered. But besides that, the plots are interesting and after you get over different people playing the characters, it's like episodes of TOS that for some reason you hadn't seen yet.
Wife and I both loved them, and my 20 year old daughter, who grew up watching TOS Remastered, has given it her conditional seal of approval.
Something we all agree on is that there needs to be more episodes. Daughter holds back full approval only because there hasn't been enough so far to have an informed opinion.
I left my phone at home by accident Saturday, and had to borrow someone's phone to make a call. Oh, hey, a Windows phone -- the first I've seen in the wild that wasn't on a TV show. I commented "Hey, it's a windows phone" and she responded "I needed a phone and it was the cheapest one they had." Ok, then. Could Windows be the new Symbian? (Would that necessarily be a bad thing?)
My understanding is that many corporations just recently moved off XP to Win7. That's probably going to be fine for a number of years. I understand that Microsoft needs to release something in the consumer space for marketing reasons, but what does 10 accomplish other than as advanced field beta testing for the next corporate version?
I might run 10 on a test machine just to see what we're in for, but I plan to run 7 on my workstation for as long as practical. 7 was a nice bump from XP, 8 was nasty, 7 is where it's at for now.
Ok, wait. Home internet is not too slow for backup. Gigabit switches are about 30 bucks. Had he rsynced his files to a different machine instead of having the hard drive locally mounted, he'd still have his backups.
I'd like to posit that backups to multiple hard drives aren't just for rich folks either. A terabyte hard drive is less than $60 on Amazon. If you have more than a terabyte of critical information, you really need to think about your backup architecture.
I make part of my living from photographs, have over 90,000 photos on a separate drive. Part of my overhead is three other drives for backup. Two onsite, not attached to the computer except when backing up, and one geologically distant in a friend's fire safe. The most recent onsite drive gets swapped for the offsite drive every few months.
Only you can decide how much your data is worth. If it's valuable, it needs backed up.
Shrug. Even the worst of dictators generally make the trains run on time. But I agree, decrying something positive from an otherwise odious administration merely makes one look foolish. Intellectual honesty requires giving credit where due. On the surface, this looks like a good thing.
> steam had apparently deleted everything owned by my user recursively from the root directory. Including my 3tb external drive I back everything up to that was mounted under/media.
All together now: This is why we disconnect our backup drive when we're not backing up the system!
I believe part of Apple's success in GUI design is the realization that KVM is a different paradigm from Touch, and the GUI on primarily-KVM platforms needs to follow different rules as GUI on primarily-touch platforms. You can do interesting things (multitouch) with the touchpad on a KVM machine, but the GUI still needs to do basic things a certain way.
> More and more, I'm finding myself working at places where I really don't have to use a Windows UI if I don't want to.
I've seen this more and more often too, not only at my company, but also vendors more often being equipped with a macbook rather than a Windows laptop. (I've yet to see any vendor come in with a Surface.)
At a conference I attended less than a year ago, every room was equipped with an AirPort and most presenters were using Macbooks.
It seems that the more Microsoft tries to force the issue, the more people they drive away. I dunno, maybe we're talking economies of scale here, and the number of people forced to upgrade their Windows boxes still outnumber the people chucking it all for Apple, Android or (less likely) Mint. But I suspect that forcing people to give up an OS they like for an OS they don't like is not a sustainable business model.
(a) Our company just moved to Windows 7 from XP a few months ago.
(b) I'm still in the process of migrating friends and family off XP to windows 7. (One of them got ahead of me, installed Windows 8, hated it, had to backrev to 7.)
(c) Realistically, I know that there are some militant 8 affectionado out there, as there have been for every screwball release Microsoft has ever shat out, including ME and Vista, but again, realistically, Microsoft doesn't have a replacement for Windows 7 at this time. 10 might be viable, but it's not out yet. So it seems counterproductive to cut 7 loose now.
I predict Microsoft will retreat from this position.
That high pitched gibberish when you rewind a reel to reel tape recorder.
I was going to say, the sound of a needle being dragged across a vinyl record -- it was used as a sound effect long after people no longer knew what it meant -- I remember that some company got flack for using it in a commercial, when people thought it was the sound of a zipper unzipping instead. But I guess with vinyl making a comeback, the sound is becoming mainstream again.
You said "bars". If the kids want to watch too, too bad.
Pretty much [1], but what's the solution? I don't follow sports so I don't have all the information, but I remember wife saying that even when we had DirecTV and wife paid some ungodly amount for the football season ticket package, it still missed some of the games, notably on Mondays.
[1] although at least in our area, there are sports "bars" that have family restaurant sections that also have TVs. I know this because, like I said, wife is a serious sports nut, and on game days we can't go out of the house unless we are driving immediately to some place that has the game on. I am not kidding.
To be a valid streisand effect, the name of this article should have been "Kirby Delauter's Facebook Rant Threatens Media For 'Unauthorized' Use of His Name". Just sayin'.
"May" actually result in high prices and worse services? Of *course* it'll result in high prices and worse services, when the cable companies are *forced* to do anything. What you think, they'll go "ok we've learned our lesson, we're going to play nice now".?
The real answer is to starve them out. Use alternate services whenever possible. Don't give in to cable. If there's a series you want to see, wait for netflix or hulu. Or lower your expectations for TV-brain-to-mush time. I'm not a "kill your tv" person but TV just isn't important enough to put up with cable in any fashion.
Yes, having a backup set that predates infection is the only solution as far as I can see, regardless of how you back up your data.
I have too much data (tens of thousands of photographs -- I do photography for a living) to "back up to a thumb drive". I back up to a regular Desktop hard drive, temporarily inserted into one of those USB "drive toasters". The drive is then marked with a sharpie and put away somewhere safe. Assuming I'm not infected at the time of backup, and I don't do something stupid like insert an uninfected recent backup into an infected machine, I should be ok.
...flac is free (hence the name) and there's no additional cost to decoding it vs mp3, no licensing issues. Mass producing high quality audio components is a known thing. All you really need is a lot of storage (flac files tend to be large) and 128 Gbytes, although it sounds big compared to, oh, an ipod, it's not a lot of storage compared to commonly available storage devices these days For that price I'd expect at a minimum a terabyte SSD.
It sounds like Sony is trying for boutique pricing ala Apple. The problem with that is that Sony doesn't really have the mindshare to pull it off. They may be betting that the young over-entitled will buy it just *because* it's the most expensive music player currently available. But those same over-entitled individuals wouldn't be caught dead with something that says "Sony Walkman". I don't see the market.
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Yeah, they just got their own version of Keeping up with the Kardashians.
Are you sure it wasn't the Cardassians?
I'm pretty sure that would be an improvement.
Yeah, they just got their own version of Keeping up with the Kardashians.
Never? Really? Wow. There should be a special Achievement just for that.
> only for it to be a hackneyed reference to a reddit meme so old that it's practically dust?
Well, it *was* coming from 5.5 billion light years away. They can't be expected to be up on the latest memes.
> I would go so far as to say a studio would do worse because they'd want to interject some new concept.
Cue the precocious kid and annoying pet...
I guess this means I've been living under a rock, but this hasn't been on my radar to watch at all yet. Are the first three pretty good? Are they adequately carrying on the legacy?
My background: I grew up watching TOS, was at first excited and then bored by TNG and the rest of the Berman series, and had my interest renewed by Abrams' films, which I believe are reviled primarily by Berman "endless meetings" era fans, and not first-run TOS fans. That said:
Star Trek Continues (TOS-C?) is, so far, surprisingly good. The sets, costumes, tools, and effects are easily equal to TOS Remastered. But besides that, the plots are interesting and after you get over different people playing the characters, it's like episodes of TOS that for some reason you hadn't seen yet.
Wife and I both loved them, and my 20 year old daughter, who grew up watching TOS Remastered, has given it her conditional seal of approval.
Something we all agree on is that there needs to be more episodes. Daughter holds back full approval only because there hasn't been enough so far to have an informed opinion.
8 is also an even number. By skipping 9, did Microsoft beat (or at least change) the curse, or have they released two sucky versions in a row?
I left my phone at home by accident Saturday, and had to borrow someone's phone to make a call. Oh, hey, a Windows phone -- the first I've seen in the wild that wasn't on a TV show. I commented "Hey, it's a windows phone" and she responded "I needed a phone and it was the cheapest one they had." Ok, then. Could Windows be the new Symbian? (Would that necessarily be a bad thing?)
My understanding is that many corporations just recently moved off XP to Win7. That's probably going to be fine for a number of years. I understand that Microsoft needs to release something in the consumer space for marketing reasons, but what does 10 accomplish other than as advanced field beta testing for the next corporate version?
I might run 10 on a test machine just to see what we're in for, but I plan to run 7 on my workstation for as long as practical. 7 was a nice bump from XP, 8 was nasty, 7 is where it's at for now.
Ok, wait. Home internet is not too slow for backup. Gigabit switches are about 30 bucks. Had he rsynced his files to a different machine instead of having the hard drive locally mounted, he'd still have his backups.
I'd like to posit that backups to multiple hard drives aren't just for rich folks either. A terabyte hard drive is less than $60 on Amazon. If you have more than a terabyte of critical information, you really need to think about your backup architecture.
I make part of my living from photographs, have over 90,000 photos on a separate drive. Part of my overhead is three other drives for backup. Two onsite, not attached to the computer except when backing up, and one geologically distant in a friend's fire safe. The most recent onsite drive gets swapped for the offsite drive every few months.
Only you can decide how much your data is worth. If it's valuable, it needs backed up.
Good point. And reaction to this could be a good indication of what members of the GOP should be de-elected by conservatives.
Shrug. Even the worst of dictators generally make the trains run on time. But I agree, decrying something positive from an otherwise odious administration merely makes one look foolish. Intellectual honesty requires giving credit where due. On the surface, this looks like a good thing.
> steam had apparently deleted everything owned by my user recursively from the root directory. Including my 3tb external drive I back everything up to that was mounted under /media.
All together now: This is why we disconnect our backup drive when we're not backing up the system!
I believe part of Apple's success in GUI design is the realization that KVM is a different paradigm from Touch, and the GUI on primarily-KVM platforms needs to follow different rules as GUI on primarily-touch platforms. You can do interesting things (multitouch) with the touchpad on a KVM machine, but the GUI still needs to do basic things a certain way.
> More and more, I'm finding myself working at places where I really don't have to use a Windows UI if I don't want to.
I've seen this more and more often too, not only at my company, but also vendors more often being equipped with a macbook rather than a Windows laptop. (I've yet to see any vendor come in with a Surface.)
At a conference I attended less than a year ago, every room was equipped with an AirPort and most presenters were using Macbooks.
It seems that the more Microsoft tries to force the issue, the more people they drive away. I dunno, maybe we're talking economies of scale here, and the number of people forced to upgrade their Windows boxes still outnumber the people chucking it all for Apple, Android or (less likely) Mint. But I suspect that forcing people to give up an OS they like for an OS they don't like is not a sustainable business model.
(a) Our company just moved to Windows 7 from XP a few months ago.
(b) I'm still in the process of migrating friends and family off XP to windows 7. (One of them got ahead of me, installed Windows 8, hated it, had to backrev to 7.)
(c) Realistically, I know that there are some militant 8 affectionado out there, as there have been for every screwball release Microsoft has ever shat out, including ME and Vista, but again, realistically, Microsoft doesn't have a replacement for Windows 7 at this time. 10 might be viable, but it's not out yet. So it seems counterproductive to cut 7 loose now.
I predict Microsoft will retreat from this position.
That high pitched gibberish when you rewind a reel to reel tape recorder.
I was going to say, the sound of a needle being dragged across a vinyl record -- it was used as a sound effect long after people no longer knew what it meant -- I remember that some company got flack for using it in a commercial, when people thought it was the sound of a zipper unzipping instead. But I guess with vinyl making a comeback, the sound is becoming mainstream again.
She goes to sports bars on Monday night.
You said "bars". If the kids want to watch too, too bad.
Pretty much [1], but what's the solution? I don't follow sports so I don't have all the information, but I remember wife saying that even when we had DirecTV and wife paid some ungodly amount for the football season ticket package, it still missed some of the games, notably on Mondays.
[1] although at least in our area, there are sports "bars" that have family restaurant sections that also have TVs. I know this because, like I said, wife is a serious sports nut, and on game days we can't go out of the house unless we are driving immediately to some place that has the game on. I am not kidding.
If there's a series you want to see, wait for netflix or hulu.
Fat chance of either service getting Monday Night Football.
True. That's always been problematic. In our family it's my wife who's the sports nut. She goes to sports bars on Monday night.
Wouldn't this guarantee that seven billion people see the cartoons in question?
To be a valid streisand effect, the name of this article should have been "Kirby Delauter's Facebook Rant Threatens Media For 'Unauthorized' Use of His Name". Just sayin'.
This.
"May" actually result in high prices and worse services? Of *course* it'll result in high prices and worse services, when the cable companies are *forced* to do anything. What you think, they'll go "ok we've learned our lesson, we're going to play nice now".?
The real answer is to starve them out. Use alternate services whenever possible. Don't give in to cable. If there's a series you want to see, wait for netflix or hulu. Or lower your expectations for TV-brain-to-mush time. I'm not a "kill your tv" person but TV just isn't important enough to put up with cable in any fashion.
Yes, having a backup set that predates infection is the only solution as far as I can see, regardless of how you back up your data.
I have too much data (tens of thousands of photographs -- I do photography for a living) to "back up to a thumb drive". I back up to a regular Desktop hard drive, temporarily inserted into one of those USB "drive toasters". The drive is then marked with a sharpie and put away somewhere safe. Assuming I'm not infected at the time of backup, and I don't do something stupid like insert an uninfected recent backup into an infected machine, I should be ok.
It sounds like Sony is trying for boutique pricing ala Apple. The problem with that is that Sony doesn't really have the mindshare to pull it off. They may be betting that the young over-entitled will buy it just *because* it's the most expensive music player currently available. But those same over-entitled individuals wouldn't be caught dead with something that says "Sony Walkman". I don't see the market.