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You know you wanna watch it because... Pirates. I was surprised how well done it is. Wish it wasn't over as a series.

I watched this over the weekend and I gotta say it was pretty damned good. I mean it wasn't high cinema or anything but it was very entertaining and gave a lot of the backstory. Made me wanna go and install the game again. As soon as I turn on my PC I will probably do so. I do hope they make at least a second season and that it doesn't take as long to come out as The Wheel of Time second season did. Thanks for the heads up on this one pal.

Same thing they did with Windows 7. I mean for corporate enterprise clients it makes sense in some instances but for the average home users, not so much. MS is clawing for as many dollars as they can get all while trying to figure out how to push forward their primary goal which is to make the Windows OS a subscription service. The issues they are having is the tied the current iteration of Windows to hardware TPM that only newer machines have. In the economic climate we are in right now many folks are not going to drop the cash to purchase a new PC and the users who only need lower end PCs aren't going to give MS the fee for updates past the EoS date as it will, if they follow suit with Windows 7, cost as much as a low end big box store PC. The Windows 7 extended support package for corporate customers was 50-200 dollars per device, however you had to have the Enterprise version of Windows 7 running on the PC. If you wanted to extend your Pro version it was more. It was dependant on how many PCs you were extending the updates for as to which price tier you fell in. regular old Home versions of the software could not be extended even if it was being used in a business environment. I can see no one in the private market extending the service / patch plans for a PC at their homes and the only way to force the upgrades would to make the OS non-functionable past a certain date which would open MS to a huge lawsuit. Heck small businesses dont upgrade their OS software or hardware until forced to and then lose it when they get pricing to do so. I had a client last week that we provide IT services to including local and cloud data backup to. Their backups were failing so I rode over to their office only to find that the local backup was running to a removable disk but no longer replicating to the cloud. Why you ask? Because the OS on their server was friggin Small Business Server 2011! That went EoL Jan. 14th 2020 and the latest update for the client that replicated the backups would not run on the ancient OS. Some folks will never learn. I sent them a quote to replace the server since it was old as sin as well, the firewall that died (the simply plugged the internet feed straight into the switch and didn't call anyone.), and access points because for some strange reason the Wi-Fi they were using would not allow access to their data on the domain. (They were using the Wi-Fi from the Spectrum router.) I wish them luck with this but yeah, I hope they dont expect much.

You and me both brother.

And remember the old adage, If its too loud, You are too old!

This is awesome! Now to get something other than cable at my house and install 10GB networking components throughout. Of course by the time that happens I'll be too old to care. Also changing the name of all my characters to LoPing will take forever.

Hooray! They have made interior vinyl siding! Yeah for in a garage this would be awesome, for inside my house fuggetaboutit. With the interior design it looks like it would be pretty good for acoustics due to the baffled design if it was used as a top layer over a different substrate so use in a home studio might be good as well but as a replacement for sheetrock on the interior of a home, nahhh. The inability to easily patch for an invisible repair is my biggest issue. I can replace a section of sheetrock with a patch, mud, sand, and paint and you will never know a hole was made in it this stuff a patch would stand out like a framed picture. Also if there was a fire this stuff will eventually act just like gasoline. Sheetrock is for all intents and purposes a fire barrier which is why building codes for businesses require sheetrock to the roof in certain areas to act as a fire wall to reduce the spread of fire in attic / drop ceiling areas. So all in all the stuff has a place and a purpose but as a drywall / sheetrock replacement it just fails in a lot of important areas.

These look pretty damned good. Im really excited for some of them. Oh and a new PotA prequel movie! I'm a HUGE fan of the old PotA movies with Charlton Heston and when they started the latest round and went more into the backstory instead of trying to recreate the originals I was way onboard. These flicks add so much more to the universe. Oh and Who ya gonna call? Yeah not nearly as good as the first ones but the last one was ok and captured a lot of the originals humor and feel. At a minimum they are at least original. If we could erase the Ghostbusterettes we would be on solid footing.

Well to be honest most of the lyrics they use are original or a rough interpolation of the originals but even the original the lyrics changed from place to place. That's the cool thing about old blues music, you could go see Lead Belly play that song on a Monday and by Wednesday you would hear a whole different set of lyrics for it even though the music was the same. I really dig old school blues music. It's where most rock gets its beginnings and soul from and if you listen you can see it. Here's another old school one I'm sure you will immediately know the artist who covered it.

Oh snap! Bam a lam! Good stuff there. And the original:

Oh snap! I loved that book! I hope it's really close to the book version cause if it is, it's gonna be awesome. Heck i may have to pony up for Apple + for this one. I wish someone would make a live action of the The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant series of books by Stephen R Donaldson. Not Sci-Fi, Fantasy, but still a great series of books, 10 in all.

It is very interesting yet one has to ask, why? I understand what they want however there is one major rub. You have to man nuclear power stations else bad things tend to happen even very small ones. As has been shown numerous times here on Earth when they are manned accidents happen . I'm sure a nuclear accident on the moon will go over well with the rest of the world. Also you dont just switch on a nuclear power station. They have to ramp up and with no form of storage any power not used is simply wasted. They also need to be cooled, and while I'm sure there are ways to accomplish this water is the best we've come up with here on Earth and currently that is something that is in rather short supply on the Moon. I grew up, as did many of us our age dreaming of a lunar spaceport with spaceships coming and going just like in our favorite Sci-Fi shows. As I have grown up and learned more I now see how challenging of an undertaking that would be making it very unlikely to happen in our lifetime much less our kids lifetime. You simply can't get the materials needed to do something like this up there cheaply enough to make it a reality as awesome as that would be. One also has to ask why given the fact that pretty much every nation with a space presence is shooting for much farther than the moon. I mean really when was the last time we sent anyone to the moon? The answer is December 7th 1972. Given the massive defunding of NASA by our government and the general apathy towards space exploration these days I would say a better solution would be to outsource these types of things to third party contractors and let them foot the bill for making a manned moon station a reality. We could then devote what little budget NASA is now given to furthering space exploration. I really hope that someday a lunar station is a reality. It would make space exploration so much easier and more cost effective yet the cost of construction of such a base would be astronomical. Who am I kidding I'm gonna keep on dreaming of it being a reality cause I'll never see it but I can imagine it.

As always you make it seamless. Hell, if you hadn't said anything I doubt we would have known. Thanks for keeping our little corner of the web alive and well Larry.

Neither did I. How ya been doin Tombo?

That's really cool. I've been watching a lot of documentaries on Netflix recently and its amazing the progress we as a species have come up with just in our lifetimes. I know we all joke about "I remember back when" or "want to confuse a kid hand them a rotary phone." type things but I can remember way back when having to call the phone company and have them change the telephone line from pulse dialing to tone dialing to be able to use my new modem. (The original 300 baud modem was pulse dialing and my new blazing fast 1200 baud modem was tone based. Yeah, I've been at this a while.) Modern cell phones are over one millions, yes million, times more powerful than the computers used in the Apollo space missions. It's really staggering just how far weve come in the last 50 years. Can't wait to see what this group of hairless apes come up with next.

Yep. Hoping they have a Baldur's Gate 3 kinda launch and game.

I for one hope they instead up the quality on release and go back to a more classic BF feel. Yeah like thats gonna happen. Hey, a guy can hope right? Next Battlefield game aiming for “most realistic destruction effects in the industry” - Dexerto WWW.DEXERTO.COM A new job posting for the next Battlefield claims the game is aiming to provide the most realistic destruction effects in any video game.