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Comment Re:Raises hand (Score 1) 32

No, forwarding doesn't work either. For both reply and forward, all you get is the dividing line and the header info of the original message (sender, recipient, date, etc).

Switching to new Outlook works, but then that comes with the bunch of other issues that makes me stick with legacy Outlook. That said, the previous update to this broken one also seems to have resulted in a bunch of missing emails, even after rebuilding my profile in a different folder and verifying that I can see them in new Outlook and in the browser via OWA. An older version of Outlook on a different Mac that can't be upgrade due to it running on Big Sur has no such problems. I think Microsoft just aren't testing legacy Outlook properly anymore and rolling back to known older versions is difficult with their continuous delivery approach (or at least I don't know where to download the installers from for older versions).

Comment Re:They need to stop sucking before they add featu (Score 1) 24

You can't switch to an older version? That's what I did with Lightroom when they introduced a bug with GPU rendering.

I'm not going to replace an old but perfectly good Mac so that I can install even newer versions. It's disgraceful that they charge a monthly fee to customers who can't upgrade and won't fix bugs they introduced. Where's the value in that?

It's their pricing model that's killing them more than anything. It made them rich for a bit, but they've successfully pissed off every one of their users in the process.

Comment Re:The speed of light (Score 1) 102

We don't understand dark matter, don't understand black holes due to not understanding physics in that realm (no unified theory), don't know how to interpret quantum theory. We know that entangled quantum particles act in synchrony over arbitrary distance without any signal between them being transmitted at all ... there's a lot we don't know (including not knowing the full extent of what it is that we don't know).

Even if did know it all, what if the thing traveling has a lifetime of millions or years, or in an AI, maybe traveling at near light speed?

Science simply is not in the business of saying what is impossible - it is in the business of predicting what happens in an experiment where we have an adequate theory. When the prediction is wrong you revise the theory.

Comment Re:For real or for the marketing? (Score 1) 102

Obviously he wouldn't know unless has had personally seen them.

One of the alien rumors is that Nixon wanted to impress his buddy Jacky Gleason and showed him some proof of aliens, and presumably if that did happen then the military would have learnt their lesson (as the public did) about the untrustworthiness of politicians and presidents, and kept them out of the loop in the future. I would not be surprised if the president is kept out of the loop on the most secretive black projects. You'd have to be an idiot to tell Trump something and expect him not to leak it.

Comment Re:Everything we know about physics (Score 1) 102

The universe is too big for anything that is extremely unlikely to nonetheless have occurred billions/trillions of times, and for all we know there may have been (or still be) multiple forms of life in our own solar system that have independently arisen. We have barely started looking.

As far as advanced life that may be trying to contact us, or at least be detectable by another civilization close-enough by, there are all sorts of reasons why we may not have detected it, such as making a whole bunch of wrong assumptions about what to look for, at what power level, etc.

Comment Re:No reason to keep it secret (Score 1) 102

Who knows the motivations for keeping things secret (which they certainly have been doing, regardless of what the UFOs are) - it may be more about potential military secrets rather than spooking the public about the existence of aliens.

Even if the military suspects this is foreign (not alien) military tech that they don't understand, and can't replicate, that could also be seen as reason not to tell the public.

Comment Re:Aliens = God (Score 1) 102

The whole premise of the movie is that aliens are real, and that the evidence has been covered up ... It could be made into a good movie without being true, but wasn't!

It's inconceivable that life doesn't exist elsewhere in the universe, whether it has visited us or not. Given that humans have gone from gaslight and horsedrawn buggies to electricity, radio and space travel in about 100 years, it's would be expected that another species who started this technological journey sooner than us (even a 1000 years earlier, but could be 100 million years or more) would be a lot more advanced, and may well have tech that appears like sci-fi to us, just as our tech would have looked like black magic to someone like the romans.

Comment Re:After Close Encounters, am I surprised? (Score 1) 102

Who knows. Some of the UFO reports are certainly intriguing - air force pilots recounting flying objects seemingly disobeying the laws of physics with massive acceleration, changes of direction, etc.

The thing with science is that it only predicts what you've previously observed and understood - it doesn't say what's impossible. Imagine discovering quantum behavior like entanglement at arbitrary distances for the first time - science fiction stuff that turns out to be true. Some of the UFO reports certainly sound like science fiction - we can't understand them - but that doesn't mean they are not true.

Comment Just saw the movie last night ... (Score 1) 102

It's a long movie - 2.5 hours, and the time went by quickly enough, so somewhat entertaining at least, but I was hoping for something much better.

What spoiled the movie other than a lame single-dimensional plot (it's basically a chase movie - government hunting down a leaker) are (mild spoiler alert) :

1) It's utter reliance on a magical alien device that gives whoever holds it a bunch of superpowers.

2) Some really poor CGI of bug-eyed aliens (their only appearance for maybe 1-2 min out of 2.5 hour movie)

What would have made a better move would have been to cut the magic and make it more believable, much more focus on the cover-up - what the government was actually seeing/collecting/studying etc, maybe more like a documentary than fantasy. MUCH more effort should have been put into the CGI, and the aliens could have been a bit more imaginative, not just bug-eyed air-breathing humanoids.

Comment Re: I'm wetting my pants now (Score 1) 66

This just seems so short-sighted. You spend a bunch of money familiarising with the code knowing that youâ(TM)ll be forced to do it again after youâ(TM)ve forgotten it. This is an opportunity to eliminate an unnecessary upgrade step. Each step of course will risk new and different regressions. Never mind that people donâ(TM)t find working on old code and tooling very motivational.

Iâ(TM)m not so au fait with the Java world anymore, but in C++ land, there are some serious benefits from using new compilers in terms of code speed and better language features and compiler errors/warning they help you write better code. Every time we upgrade, the compiler finds something in our 25 year old code base that shouldnâ(TM)t have worked!

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