... or until recently they showed up on Redbox, until that chain's demise. My plan while Redbox still existed, was I'd wait till any movie I cared to see (which were VERY few) came out in the Redbox, I'd then rent it and rip it to my Emby media server. Mostly, since Redbox imploded, there hasn't been any movies that i'd care to see. As an aside, there is one movie that I'd go see in a theater IF Spielberg made a sequel to Close Encounters of the 3rd Kinf... I remember seeing that movie first run in 1977 at a theater that has been one of the 60s-70s Cinerama theaters.. I walked out of that theater after the movie with my mind totally blown.. Imagine a sequel that returns Roy Neery to the middle of LA instead of the wilds of Wyoming and the government trying to say its swamp gas..

...and yes, space is hard. It's a slogan that's used at work (even if not everyone at the company always believes it). A big problem that I've seen over the years is not acknowledging how specialized some technical roles are in actuality to get things right. In these roles you have to be able to program and also know the science behind what you're trying to program. A software developer, even a great one, won't cut it if they don't know (or can't quickly self-teach) graduate-level GIS /photogrammetry/astrophysics/geodesy (depending on the application). Another problem is that because there such few people that can fill these roles, a lot of things like Agile methodologies is mostly wasted overhead. Who cares about the groups' "fist of five"? The only option that matters is that one person sitting over there, because they are the only one that have the expertise on even have a opinion worth listening to. Finally, managing aerospace is hard too. Every some number of years we will get new upper management from other well-known high-tech companies that swoop on in with big promises, become shocked at how tech debt some of the scientific code bases are in production, go all-in to finally "fix it", get slapped hard by reality, and leave the company with their tail between their legs. So yeah, space is hard.

Oh good grief, Instead, take a bigger look at what's happening in higher education in general right now. How about lowering TUITION, THAT's the real bubble that's bursting. Occam's razor.

I spent a 20+ year career as a sysadmin/"windows janitor", and seeing now how more evil MS has become in the last few years, I'm so damn glad I moved my home systems over to Linux when I retired in 2010. MS has removed the gloves and is making no bones about f--king with those poor folks who, for whatever reason STILL uses anything from MS.. They have my pity..

What do you mean, Kind of????? They're a capital letter BULLY.. I can't imagine anybody desperate enough to work for them. As not buying from them, sure you can find items you need elsewhere, but their convienience is hard to avoid...

My primary browser is FF, but there are a few websites I go to that FF doesn't render properly, a couple that gives you a blank white page, for those I use Brave.. I don't like Brave enough to use it all the time, but it covers nicely the sites that FF shits the bed on..

I suspect there are a LOT of us out here who, if a commercial is too stupid, or too repetitive or is just too f-ing annoying (like those ENDLESS drug commercials), we make sure we NEVER buy their product/use their service... My mute control gets a real workout when I watch tv..

You and me both.. I escaped that insane asylum back in 1996. Why not call it what it is? That being Commiefornia...

What do you think will happen if Putin gets more pissed off than he already is, and lobs a few nukes at Kiev? And then Ukraine lobs the couple of nukes they grabbed when the USSR fell on Moscow?

Holy Schitt.. THAT was hilarious!! Damn, in some ways, we've come sooo damn far, and other ways, we've gone backwards.

Some of us out here have more than one brain-cell to rub together and refuse to spend the large sums of cash that the latest-greatest phone costs.. Ever since I bought my first smartphone some years ago, I have ALWAYS bought one a few years old, used, from either eBay or other source, and go with a PAYG contract-less carrier. Right now, my phone is a $150 Pixel 4a 5G on the Tello MVNO, where I pay $25/mo for unlimited talk/text and 35Gb of 5G data, and if I run out of that, I get a reduced speed connection till the next top-up.

Is that ALL Pixel phones?? As in as far back as a Pixel 4a 5g??

They're everywhere.. MS must pay well for all the Windows shills that regularly appear..

Its true you have to jump through hoops NOW to get this sewage on YOUR computer, but just wait till they jam it down everyone's throat who STILL use Windows.. Then see about "shadenfreude"....

At the risk of being accused of being gross...

Chocolate pudding shit...