It's also the only way to get the bonus features -- commentary by the cast and crew, deleted scenes, and sometimes the "making of" features are interesting, like when there is lots of CGI or spectacular stunts.
I'd drop my DVD subscription in a heartbeat if
* You could stream bonus features.
* You could stream old movies.
* They'd make their streaming site useful.
I've found the best way to clear my mind before sleep is read something completely unrelated to anything else that requires no subsequent thinking. Sometimes owner's manuals for some new simple gadget. But the best by far is the short stories in Peck's series of Bad Boy stories. He wrote them for his Newspaper in the 1880s to increase circulation. They are 3-4 pages, a 5 or 10 minute read, with delightful illustrations. The Bad Boy is a teenager always getting into trouble, like putting signs in the grocer's produce -- "Cabbage the cat has slept in, 5 cents". The bad boy's father is a drunk, his mother is a saint, the grocer is a cheat, the preacher is a hypocrite. The bad boy lines his father's had with limburger cheese. He wraps a card deck in his father's pocket handkerchief and soaks it with rum so his church speech goes haywire. My favorite is when he learns the grocer has rigged a darning needle beneath a hole in the counter where the bad boy sits, with a string to pull and stab the bad boy. The bad boy puts a piece of wood in his pocket and sits down. While the grocer is leaning down to see what is wrong, the bad boy gives up his seat to the preacher who has just strolled in, the preacher gets stabbed, and the bad boy leaves as they are rolling around the floor.
They are not politically correct by any means, but they were in a family newspaper in the 1880s.
There are probably thousands of similar books. Find any collection of 5 minute reads, none with cliffhanger ends. Nothing does better at separating daytime thinking from nighttime nothing.
I remember discovering you could muck with the add tables to use any base less than 10. I don't remember now how the multiplication tables were organized and whether they could also be changed to different bases.
We did have 1311, but I don't remember address 00796 particularly.
A friend and I had a contest to see who could get the most instructions on one punched card. I won with, I think, 120, overlapping data and instructions. It typed THIMK over and over on the console typewriter. One sense switch changed the speed, another halted it. It was THIMK because the M was the halt instruction.
IBM 1620 Mod I (CADET -- Can't Add Doesn't Even Try) with 20K of BCD memory. Then a CDC 6400, a Univac SS 90, a 1620 Mod II, and an XDS 940 (supposedly a 930 modded as the 940 prototype). All were great fun, fantastic learning machines.
Glad to know that gravity, Newton's equations, Maxwell's equations, supply and demand curves, the laws of thermodynamics, and so much else is completely worthless.
But wait -- can YOUR statement be applied to anything? Oh my!
What is
Hype.
"So why this hype? Because the cryptocurrency space, at heart, is simply a giant ponzi scheme where the only way early participants make money is if there are further suckers entering the space. The only âoeutilityâ for a cryptocurrency (outside criminal transactions and financial frauds) is what someone else will pay for it and anything to pretend a possible real-word utility exists to help find new suckers."
The only pain in the ass is when I update the
You could have the
Ah yes, the disgusting and false refuge of Chinese (and Russian) apologists and propagandists to the worst abuses of authoritarians: âoethe US does it too.â
These abuses are not âoeallegedâ; they are happening, and they are not based on dubious âoeresearchesâ [sic]:
https://www.propublica.org/art...
There is a genocide happening in Xinjiang; one that is erasing an entire culture, language, religion, and history of a people.
https://www.nytimes.com/intera...
"Friendly reminder: Slashdot continues to allow users to post comments and stories anonymously as an "Anonymous Coward." This is something that's been criticized since its inception, but it's something we think is important and plan to continue for the foreseeable future."
I do indeed approve this policy. It is a fine policy.
When Google killed Reader, I did, and never looked back.
What if this was planned by Apple all along, and this is how they "prove" to the FBI, NSA, and everybody else that it's a bad idea? What if they left some hints for these hackers?
I don't think Steve Jobs had that kind of devious mind (I could be wrong), but Tim Cook
Thanks for the name. Looked him up on Wikipedia, and
"He strongly felt that people working on the programme (notably Williams, script editor Douglas Adams and star Tom Baker) had stopped taking the show seriously: it was parodying science fiction, rather than presenting serious storylines. He also believed that Williams had allowed Baker too much influence on the show's direction, rather than confronting Baker over his increasingly comedic acting style. Nathan-Turner, together with new script editor Christopher H. Bidmead, decided Baker's creative influence needed to be reined in."
Yep, that's the new guy I hated so much.
Goes on to say he was the last producer for the first series. Gosh, I wonder why it got canceled when he was so proud of taking all the fun out.
I sort of want to agree with you, but I gave up on this most recent Doctor after, I think, the second DVD from Netflix; the first was atrocious, I kept opening a book while the shows were playing, and hoped the second DVD would be better. It wasn't. Plot holes, logic holes, and the way-too-woke nonsense (Guns are filthy, it's so much honorable to kill en mass; oh he's just having a bad day and is not really horrible).
I haven't watched one since. So I sort of feel like I have no right to write down my opinion, or agree with yours. But I will anyway
Not the actor's fault. This was down to the producer / writers / somebody in charge. I felt the same way when Tom Baker's last season was handled by a new guy, who bragged about taking all the fun out of it, no more of that! this is a serious show! And bragged about making Tom Baker wear makeup, IIRC. But this one is much worse.
From: Dr. Tara C. Smith
I've also seen this misrepresented already. "SARS-CoV-2 RNA was identified on a variety of surfaces in cabins of both symptomatic & asymptomatic infected passengers up to 17 days after cabins were vacated on the DP but before disinfection procedures had been conducted"
Say it with me: *viral RNA doesn't necessarily mean live virus was present.* Now you're going to see "coronavirus can live on surfaces for 17 days!" over and over, but we don't know that based on this study and for those using live virus, it's much shorter.
Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer
