...start randomly moving their mouse around, and clicking all over the screen as they were reading this?

I wish I had points to mod this up. Nicely done!

I have an Xbox One. Sometimes, twice in the same month, it'll download a 4.7 GB update. That's almost 2/3 of the 15 GB they're proposing, without me even doing anything past turning on a console and hitting ok.

I notice you didn't throw specific criticism at Rogue One. I agree with you that Disney doesn't understand Star Wars, but I liked Rogue One anyway. It almost felt like Disney accidentally made a good one.

Dammit, I wish I had mod points. But what's the down-mod for "too funny and made me spray my beer" ?

Just coming back here to say thanks for your insightful comment. I'm a bit of an extreme music lover, and I think about these things a lot more (I suspect) than most people, so well considered opinions are always appreciated.

Well, I'm starting to wonder about that. My evidence is only anecdotal, but I keep finding it everywhere. My step son (19) and his friends seem to spend far more time mining older music than listening to new stuff. They're more likely to sit around listening to Led Leppelin albums than anything current. If I walk into a music (instrument) store, I'm almost 100% sure to find some kid sitting there picking out Hotel California, and some other kid trying out an overdrive pedal by mashing out a bunch of AC/DC riffs. Hell, I've overheard groups of kids discussing the upcoming ABBA reunion. When I go to shows these days, the highest turnout of young people seems to be at things like Fleetwood Mac, Journey, Def Leppard. At the clubs, it seems like the best way to get people (of all ages) to hit the dance floor is by playing a 90s Prodigy track, or Blue Monday. The "kids" eat it up.

I love a lot of music, and I'll go see anything. I just went and saw Logic (with Kyle and NF), and I'll probably going to see Childish Gambino in a few weeks. But whenever I go to things like that, I don't see the same level of adoration from the kids. It's more like a casual fun time with the flavor of the week.

When you hear teenagers saying the opposite...asking why 20th century music was so much better, it's kind of odd. I suppose there's always been that segment of youth that tries to be cool, and seem cultured by digging into history. But these days it seems to be the norm, rather than the exception.

Just my random observation...

Sorry, I meant to say his award was for the Blipverts episode. I saw the movie from the UK, and agree it was better in a lot of ways. I did some digging though, and confirmed that Doug's award was for the American version of it. I have the series from when they released it on DVD a few years ago, and I can't help loving it, despite how ultra-cheesy so much of it was.

He also won an Emmy for sound editing on Max Headroom, in 1987. Specifically based on the Blipverts pilot episode, which I watch all the time, as it's my favorite hour of TV ever made. Going to watch it again now. RIP Doug, and thanks!

One other aspect of it is, she was a female CEO. One of the few prominent onece. If you throw her in jail, especially considering that it would be for actions that everyone knows are standard operating practice in business, then you turn this into an ugly gender issue.

The narrative will become: "The Patriarchy prevents women from becoming CEOs, and punishes them for emulating their male counterparts when they do."

Just watch...

192 kbps? Are you kidding? I can tell the difference almost instantly, and I've proven it in blind tests over and over. Now, I'll admit, I'm only very slight better than pure chance at guessing 320 kbps, but even then, I know that if I ever accidentally load up an album in mp3 instead of FLAC, about 10 - 15 minutes into listening to it, I'll start to feel like something's not quite right about the sound, and I'll end up checking and realizing what happened. OGG at Q10 (variable bitrate that goes up to 640 kbps, averaging 500), I've never been able to discern, except once my ears caught a tiny artifact on something where the original source had tape hiss and a high pitched shaker in the percussion.

I find it's psychological. Whenever I've demonstrated the "impossible ability", I've always described what I heard as the dead-giveaway that I'm listening to an mp3. The other people around will suddenly hear it to and go "oh my god, I hear what you're talking about! How did I never notice that before?! It's awful!"

That's kind of how I do it too. Bonus points: Upload pictures after changing the geoloc EXIF data to some crazy place like Timbuktu (16.775833, -3.009444) that corroborates the other fictional elements in your timeline.

I've found value in FB. After many years of not giving a crap at all, I set up an account 4 years ago. I only have about 70 friends, and almost all of them I know in real life. I chose people who share and post things that are of interest to me...creative people who post pictures, audio and video of their works in progress, that kind of thing. My FB feed is actually fun to scroll through, and I find out about things I probably would have missed otherwise. My account has maybe 3 or 4 slip-ups where an image of me was uploaded and/or tagged. Other than that, there's no link to my real name, what continent I actually live on, or anything like that. It merely seems like there's this one city in a far-away country that I have a connection to, and visit several times a year for some reason. Apps? Nothing like that. My FB usage is limited to an isolated browser I only use for that.

Most of the "junk" that FB puts into my feed is related to things in Iceland, New Zealand, Costa Rica... so it seems to be working.

Of course, I failed as a dev. My comment doesn't compile. Alas, I can't edit it properly. The fixes for the compiler are:
"that harsh of a standard" and
"Every character must be right."

Maybe I've been working too much this weekend, and drinking the whole time. Who knows?

This is the problem I see: Developers are inherently held to a higher standard than everyone in a dev shop. Their code must pass the parser, the compiler, and execute properly. This means not a single typo. No errant semicolons or brackets. Every character must me right. Nobody else has that harsh or a standard. I've seen high level PR and corporate releases that have typos in the first sentence. Cringe-worthy stuff. Even the New York Times and Washington Post issue articles with typos in the headlines, daily. The world has become so sloppy, it's unforgivable. But developers can't get away with this, or the compiler craps out. So by inference, it's assumed that their flawless, meticulous attention to detail is universal, and not subject to question. Hence it falls further and further upon them to do their own internal code reviews, correction of flawed requirements, QA, documentation, and everything else around the code they write. Of course, because everyone else is too lazy and sloppy to produce the same level of results. I'm in a dev shop now where the dev coders are on the hook for everything from requirements to post-deployment support, and everything in between. It just happened because they're they only people with any attention to detail, and pride in what they do, and any thought beyond putting in 8 hours a day of work and collecting a paycheck. Welcome to the brave new world.

This is true of a lot of old hardware. Not just computers. Never trash a TR-808 drum machine, or a Technics 1200 turntable, for example.