It has always mattered if the actors mumble. Boosting the volume of the mumbling only gets you so far because the single is bunk at the source.

But yet it's not (entirely) the actor's fault. Ultimately it's the director's responsibility. They should direct against this in the first place, and should it happen anyway either retake the scene or get it fixed it in post with ADR. Even if they didn't notice on the set it should be clearly seen as a problem in the dailies. The fact they're consistently missing all these checks and opportunities just tells me the directors aren't simply dropping the ball...but they WANT the mumble, they're DIRECTING the actors to mumble, they consider this to be a FEATURE rather than a bug.

They're wrong. And stupid. But that's Hollywood. Mumbling dialog is a fad that hopefully doesn't last long.

I'm sure there's plenty of blame to go around: directors, actors, dialog/sound editors, etc, but the issue is very real and has been infecting content more and more for years. It's really annoying and stupid to have to stop, rewind, throw CC on, and rewatch a scene because some possibly critical bit of dialog was mumbled into nonsense.

A feature like this could be a great pushback against artist's inane "artistic license" choice. It's like they forgot what medium they're working in or what they're doing it for.

That Amazon message is very different. It's basically telling you (days or weeks in advance!) that there's a serious hardware failure and the underlying hardware needs to be pulled from service.

It's literally as simple as a reboot to move to new hardware. You can even catch the notification easily with a CloudWatch Alarm and trigger the purpose-built auto-recovery action to do it for you the moment the instance goes into that state. Or use an AutoScale group and it'll just cycle the hardware out for you w/o any downtime or manual action. TMTOWTDI

If you aren't living by the motto, "Everything Fails, All The Time", then you're simply doing Cloud wrong. To be fair, even if you're entirely on your own physical hardware in a datacenter...you're still Doing It Wrong if you aren't counting on your hardware to always be failing all the time.

High frequency trading is entirely about subverting any remaining myth of the market or even less so-called "investing".

What absolutely needs to happen is a flat transaction tax on any and all transactions, obliterate this entire train wreck of a financial vehicle from the entire economic equation. Simply out of basic fairness, why do I get charged 10% sales tax when buying a candy bar but not if it's a share of Apple?

A simple 1% tax on transactions would overnight return the stock market to a system for investment rather than clever hacks to milk the real economy. If you don't think your stock is going to grow at least by 1%, you simply shouldn't buy it. An extremely modest 1% transaction tax would instill that sanity into the basic fabric of the marketplace.

Yep, but you forgot the punchline: All that zero-tolerance leftwing angst on social issues demonized allies while simultaneously throwing away hard fought ground on hard issues. Respecting pronoun choices was far more important than food on the table or not going bankrupt by medical bills. The result of all that is Trump in the White House and everything that brought about.

Why the requirement of a single node? Why are you baking in a MASSIVE anti-pattern into your DB requirements from the get-go? One that artificially makes scaling difficult and expensive, one that makes HA far less A? All with zero upside for anyone save the hardware vendors balance sheets?

And PostgreSQL's PL/pgSQL is a close and highly effective match for Oracle's PL/SQL.

Honestly, the only legitimate reason for swallowing Oracle's BS is if you're running Oracle's applications. For absolutely anything else you could possibly do, you should be fired as grossly incompetent for selecting to hobble your company with Oracle.

Much agreed, I too go to NewEgg's search first and salute their anti patent troll actions.

And then after I find what I want to go buy it on Amazon.com.

Sure, some see that as a dick move. But I look at places like BestBuy who have not only acknowledged that people do that, but embraced it: BestBuy is now more of a "show room" where they make a large chunk of their money simply renting the demo space to products, knowing full well most folks will actually buy online. They don't care, they don't need to, they've already paid the rent with just demoing the products. Want to check out the newest carpet cleaning robots hands on? BestBuy has a half dozen of the latest models, some including little carpet areas to run around in, it's great. Figure which one you want (Samsung, trust me) and then scan the barcode and buy it on Amazon. It's a win, win, win!

NewEgg will die sooner rather than later if it can't figure out a similar model. So far they've just tried to copy the "market place" of Amazon, which has only made their acclaimed search feature suck by filling it with white noise. :/

Modest inflation isn't an accident of over estimation, it's a feature created intentionally to limit hording and currency speculation.

Serious question: Why do so many computer geeks actually believe every computer user 'lessor' than them doesn't use applications more specialized than a web browser?

I'm sure that Chromebook will be great for updating your resume...after you're fired for crippling the company as practically no enterprise applications will run on those toys. Alternative applications are either non-existent, not nearly functional enough, too expensive, require costly retraining, or most often some combination of those faults.

The reality is there are very, very few legitimate use cases for Chromebooks et al in most enterprise environments. At best as they could serve as a thin client for desktops hosted in the cloud (AWS Workspaces, etc), but that just pushes your desktop management problems into the cloud...it doesn't do much to actually solve or eliminate those desktop management needs.

1) A LOT of workstations include not just data, but a lot of specific configuration. That's especially true of those used in the medical field where they're used to control equipment, but it's also very true for any user more advanced than an office drone. Simply re-imaging them won't get them anywhere remotely close to a functional state.

2) Simply saving to network/cloud drive won't save you from ransomware; They'll simply encrypt every NAS/cloud storage the user has access to. Often it can greatly exacerbate the problem because if/when a server attached to that NAS gets infected...it can encrypt the entire company's data at a much, much faster rate than local PCs and doesn't need to infect all those individual machines or wait for them to be powered on. Cloud storage is even worse in this regard, because access keys can be jacked and the storage reached externally by bot clusters.

Also, NAS is dead...long live hybrid solutions. Panzura, StorSimple, etc. Still, it requires massively upgraded networks, both LAN and WAN connectivity, to adequately replace local storage with remote for hundreds or thousands of users.

A much more legitimate response would be something like AWS WorkSpaces, but again local machine controllers often won't be able to use those solutions.

3) Who the hell uses My Documents? Despite MS pushing it for ages, real world usage shows almost everyone (especially non-power users) saving everything to their desktop.

4) Ditch MS Office, haha that's funny. Clearly, you don't work in any company larger than a few dozen employees.

s/encryption keep/encryption key *sigh*/

So if you physically rotate the drives...how is that "automatic"?

More importantly, keep in mind some of the ransomware running around is sneaky, running transparently for weeks or months to ensure that whatever backups are being made have rolled passed their maximum retention and all the new backups are actually encrypted. After a common retention period like 3 months, the malware pulls the plug...deleting the local encryption keep and throwing up a ransom note. "Oh, but I have week's worth of backups, I'm fine!"...until you realize all those backups are also encrypted...

*puts on flameproof suit*

And that crazy flow-chart of decisions that need to be worked through before it's even worth investing time into a given distro enough to learn it well enough that you know why it's not actually going to work for you after all and you need to start the whole asinine process over again... It's precisely why Linux of any flavor makes for a horribly sad excuse of a desktop.

The real flow chart is much simplier than you're describing: If what you want to do is dick around with your OS all day, then by all means run Linux as your desktop. If you're anyone else whatsoever (you know, someone who's actually productive or even just wants to play video games and watch p0rn), then don't run Linux. Windows or Mac, even Android, but not Linux.

Hell, for 99% of "Linux users" I kid you not, Windows + Cygwin makes a massively more functional "Linux Workstation" than any Linux distro on earth: All the "it just works" hardware drivers, games, software, etc with nearly all the power of a real Unix shell environment as well as very solid cross-talk between the two (unlike Window's new Ubuntu subsystem, such crap...). Ok, ok so I'm exaggerating a bit: It's no where near 1% of Linux desktop users that wouldn't be far, far better off running Windows + Cygwin because only a tiny fraction of 1% are doing any deep systems level programming on the Linux kernel that might justify having an actual Linux workstation.

This "invention" is identical to what movie theaters have been doing with screens since the first talkies replaced silent films. Why does it deserve patent protection?

It reminds me of their "innovative" magnetic power plug...that was technologically identical to the magnetic plugs on electric frying pans dating back to at least the 1940s.

Everything old is new again...

You don't go into an intro woodshop class and hand the students physics exercises. Why would you intro computer engineering by throwing dry computer science at them? Are you trying to chase good kids away from computing professions??

The biggest mistake educators make with computers has been thinking they have piss all to do with math or science. Sure, at a fundamental level they aren't about anything else. But at a fundamental level my morning omelet is all about particle physics, so yah. :/

The reality is day to day software engineering has massively more in common with shop classes and "maker skills" than it ever does with math or "science". Just like most machinists are just trying to cut and weld steel into things rather than invent a new alloy, most software engineers are just trying to cut and paste code into new program shapes rather than invent a slightly more efficient sort algorithm. Sure, there's a teeny, tiny minority of egg heads doing amazing work on graphic card drivers to make my FPS better in Fallout 4, and I'm very grateful we have them, but the other 99.89% of programming in the world isn't anything so deep.

If you want to jump start kids on software engineering, buy a few cheap Arduinos, LEDs, maybe a few servos, and go nuts. The first for loop that makes an LED blink or a servo wave and they'll be hooked for life...not to mention learn more about actual software engineering then you'd ever have done with the comp sci/math tactic.