I wish someone would claim the rights to web slideshows, and make everyone take 'em all down. I have been unable to find a more vacuous space waster on the web than the current abundance of slideshows. I'd almost rather watch cat videos..... (no flames please, I did say 'almost')

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Scientific consensus is an group of scientists agreeing on a proven theory or the proof of a theory.

Political consensus is a group of people ganging together to push their opinions on others.

The latter has a negative connotation which Mr. Crichton is using to taint the former.

In my experience, the QA process for those add-ons is not nearly as good as the QA process for the FireFox browser. As a result, the functionality reclaimed by using those add-ons is usually problematic, at best.

The bug-fest called Classic Browser theme, or something like that, which reinstates the functional UI that Australis removed, is what convinced me to leave Firefox in the dust and start using Pale Moon as my browser of choice.

Well, there's your problem. Most of the analog on cable nowadays originated as digital, and it was converted to analog at the cable company's head end. Then it travels through the cable system, being degraded at each active device along the way. By the time it reaches your house, the signal has been processed so much, anything resembling high frequency video information has been smeared out of existence.

When I spoke of analog broadcasts, I meant exactly that, i.e., a broadcast received over the air from the television station transmitting it. I have also been fortunate enough to live in the reception area of New York City, one of the two network origination points for network shows (the other is L.A.). So there is little, if any, signal degradation from the network's network.

In the second hlaf of the 80's, I went with a S-VHS VCR that had Hi-Fi capability (20-20,000 Hz, with an excellent s/n ratio). You're correct, the picture can be "good enough". But regular VHS or even S-VHS is no where near the ability of analog broadcast. Not Even Close.

For starters, luminance resolution for analog broadcasts (when a comb filter is used) can extend to 5MHz or even higher. Luminance resolution with a VHS recorder tops out with a resolution around 1.5MHz, on a good day. Then add in all the shortcuts used to reduce the quality of the color to fit on the VHS tape format, and you have a very limited color spectrum.

It's a shame analog TV broadcasts have been phased out, if they weren't I'd suggest you view one on a high quality TV. I suspect you'd be surprised at what was capable with that system.

VHS was never even close to "broadcast quality" (even at the "2 hour" speed). I had S-VHS, which was markedly better than VHS, and even that was still a significant step below "broadcast quality". And I used the "2-hour" speed for S-VHS. VHS just sucked, plain and simple.

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Methinks the quality of your tapes has not deteriorated anywhere near as much as you think, but your frame of reference has moved as you've bceome accustomed to newer technology.

Not all offices have the same version of MS Office installed throughout the office. I've been at companies that have had three different versions of MS Office installed, and they did have issues with exchanging documents. The easiest solution was just to tell everyone to "save as an old MS Office format" when a document needed to be shared.

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Moving form office to office, I've found that LibreOffice does better than MS Office at properly importing office documents from various versions of MS Office. YMMV.

Earlier this week I removed ComputerWorld from my bookmarks. They just went through a site redesign, and the page content has dropped dramatically, plus there's an automatic slideshow scrolling horizontally on the top of your screen as you're trying to focus on and read something else on the page.

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Smart rings?

If I were to jump upon a standard for testing software, the fact that it is "internationally agreed" is way down on the requirements, yet it seems to be mentioned as the main feature here.

Not instantly, first you have to get to the phone store.

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But nit-picking aside, this is an incredibly stupid idea.

That's debatable. If the phone is as critical to your life as you say it is, taking the only phone you have on a raft is stupid, ziplock or not. As you found out, stuff happens, even to things in ziplock bags.

Of course, that depends upon the altitude of the drones.

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If they're flying at 50 feet, there is a definite issue.

So the question becomes, how high do the drones have to fly before the issues they raise become moot?