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Submission + - Babylon 5 Reboot Being Helmed By Original Creator J. Michael Straczynski (variety.com) 1

Jaegs writes: According to many sources and the Babylon 5 creator/writer/director/producer himself, J. Michael Straczynski (JMS) The CW—partly owned by the original Babylon 5 producer and rights holder, WarnerMedia—will be rebooting the popular franchise. JMS will be writing and executive producing the series. Per JMS:

[W]e will not be retelling the same story in the same way... There would be no fun and no surprises. Better to go the way of Westworld or Battlestar Galactica where you take the original elements that are evergreens and put them in a blender with a ton of new, challenging ideas, to create something fresh yet familiar. To those asking why not just do a continuation, for a network series like this, it can’t be done because over half our cast are still stubbornly on the other side of the Rim.

The last part refers to the recent passing of Mira Furlan (Delenn), as well as the untimely deaths of other primary cast members after the conclusion of the original run of the series: Richard Biggs (Dr. Franklin), Michael O'Hare (Jeffrey Sinclair), Jerry Doyle (Michael Garibaldi), Stephen Furst (Vir Cotto), Jeff Conway (Zack Allan), and Andreas Katsulas (G'Kar).

Comment Re:Teach me like I am a toddler. (Score 1) 62

While I think a lower rate would be more reasonable, many just assume Apple takes 30% of sales as pure profit. While I'm confident there's a health profit margin in there, that 30% covers:

- hosting/delivery mechanism and fees
- credit card transaction fees
- SDE/SDK
- access to a billion active iPhones and millions of customers: https://www.theverge.com/2021/...
- ad revenue and marketing opportunities

And probably a myriad of other things I'm not thinking of.

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Comment a welcome change, but... (Score 1) 67

...they both still fall behind Apple.

I know there's a lot of Apple hate around these parts, but my (kid's) iPhone 6S—released in 2015; five-and-a-half years ago—is still getting FULL iOS updates, not just security updates. Sure, not all of the new features work on the phone due to hardware changes over the years, but it's still leaps and bounds better than any Android device I've owned—yes, I'm looking at you, Samsung—perhaps short of my Nvidia Shield.

Comment Re:For lots it's their main computing device (Score 4, Interesting) 99

That's how I "rationalized" it: $1/day—over three years—for something I use constantly. I'm on year four. Like computers, phone tech just does not change as rapidly as it once did, so investing in a quality phone over a longer period of time makes sense to some.

The main selling point over an iPhone that's two or more years old is 5G, which is not nearly as widespread as 4G and is still a battery drain for not much gain. Sure, they have faster processors/graphics now, but my four-year-old iPhone X handles everything I want it to do just fine, and I've only had to replace the battery in it, which was covered under AppleCare.

And with Apple providing major OS updates to (nearly) six-year-old hardware—iOS 14 supports the iPhone 6S; Samsung and others don't even approach this—it makes even more sense to invest in an iPhone on a multi-year basis.

Finally, iPhones have better resale value. Up until my most recent phone, I was nearly able to offset the entire purchase of a new iPhone by selling the old one.

Comment Roku + PiHole (Score 3, Interesting) 84

You'll want to use PiHole/AdGuard Home if you use a Roku, though, as it likes to phone home A LOT. When I last checked, PiHole had blocked 5000+ hits to Roku domains (giga.logs.roku.com and scribe.logs.roku.com). At the time, I had one Roku and three Fire TVs, the latter of which constituted fewer than a tenth of the hits the single Roku had.

Comment one-way trip (Score 4, Interesting) 229

IIRC, Musk's plan is for a one-way trip, which reminds me of one of my favorite episodes of From the Earth to the Moon, "Spider:"

ENGINEER 1: "We put a man on the moon as soon as possible."
ENGINEER 2: "Just get him there."
ENGINEER 1: "We can keep sending supply ships."
ENGINEER 2: "Until we figure a way to get him back!"

LEAD ENGINEER: "Well. That's... That's... No. I'm sorry, gentlemen. There is no way on God's green Earth we would ever do anything like that."

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