I want to live in a world where I can stream music via a phone sized device instead of lugging around hundreds of CDs. I want to live in a world where I can read what I want off of an eReader instead of devoting hundreds of square feet of my home to bookshelves and books. I want to live in a world where I can stream content to my TV instead of managing a DVD/BluRay/whatever-else-is-next collection. I get that other people like owning physical media. I used to be that way but personally I had unhealthy habits where collecting looked a lot more like hoarding. So instead of spending hundreds of dollars on media these days I spend about $50-$60 with music streaming, Kindle Unlimited, and whatever TV streaming I'm doing that month. And my house is clean. And my entire collection can for the most part come with me wherever I go. And I miss some things sometimes, but overall I'm a lot happier and I spend a lot less money per month on this type of entertainment. I own plenty of things myself. Music, movies, and television just aren't in that classification anymore.

I was the dummy who got a Pentium. Mine was probably slower than a DX100 because I opted to find one with VESA local bus. I didn't understand the technical hoops a Pentium board had to jump through to support VLB. It was a major step up from my 386SX though and at least I could enjoy my ludicrous gibs at a decent speed and screen size.

I spent a lot of time writing Delphi code back in the early 2000's. I didn't particularly like it but I didn't hate it either. I do like some of its conventions like having an actual assignment operator. I don't like how wordy it is. It always felt like I was doing way more typing than I should be. But hate? I don't get it either.

In my area Amazon does a lot of their own delivery, especially on same day or next day Prime. Out of the 12 things I've bought from them using their own couriers only 8 ever got to me. USPS, FedEx, and UPS have all been 100% during that time. I think maybe Amazon should focus on actually getting to my house before they worry about whether or not I'll let them inside.

I do the same thing with subscriptions. I subscribe to watch what I want to see and then drop them. This isn't cable or satellite with their equipment fees and/or yearly contracts. I subscribed to Showtime for Twin Peaks. I just dropped that one. It worked out to about $1.50 per episode and I got to watch it as soon as each episode started airing on Showtime. I'll probably do the same with Discovery. I do Hulu for prime time network TV season. I have Sling for college football season as it's the cheapest way to get ESPN. With more and more streaming options and everyone wanting a larger slice of the pie, I think this behavior will soon become the norm. Either that or people will keep one service full time like Netflix/Hulu/etc and skip around for others.

This seems like legit news for nerds. Most of the posts do. I see a post about cyber attacks, a post about Amazon's suggestions algorithm going awry, this post, the obligatory FOSS post (this time pertaining to patents), Apple's latest portable touchscreen Next cube isn't selling, and so on. Maybe the problem is that you're just not excited by the news anymore. It seems to be a pretty good cross section of news for nerds and stuff that would matter to nerds.

Can't speak for everyone but an exclusive is what got me. This is my first Playstation console. I owned an xbox 360 and had no intention of ever buying a Playstation until Street Fighter V was announced as a PS4 exclusive. Not everyone is going to go out and buy a new console (and mod their fight sticks) just to play Street Fighter V. I have no illusions V is why PS4 is outselling xbox one. But the more exclusives a console can carry, the more chance their is for this sort of thing to happen.

I'm surprised that Star Trek did not occur to you. I'd classify Wrath of Kahn as great, especially compared to The Motion Picture. But that was also due in large part to an amazing performance by the villain.

Yeah, QA is where you need to start. Our company has a mix of in-house and contract developers, but ALL code goes through QA. If it doesn't meet acceptance criteria and pass all tests, it's not complete.

I've found that upper floors and specialty libraries (science, law, etc) are the place to go when looking for a quiet place to study. Our science library even had soundproof booths you could reserve.

Orson, stop telling our secrets.

My common sense is tingling.

Two characters from Star Wars were completely and totally awesome: Han Solo and Darth Vader. Han wasn't in the prequels at all. Vader got maybe 5 minutes of screen time and IIRC Vader doesn't even force choke someone, threaten people, or do any other badassery in that 5 minutes. He just whines and breaks stuff. The decision to bring back just about everyone in the Star Wars universe except for its two resident badasses is just as terrible as all of those Police Academy movies that happened after Steve Guttenberg said "Fuck it. I'm outta here." Tackleberry is cool but he can't carry a movie.

JJ Abram's whole life is about time travel: Theorizing that one could time travel within his own lifetime, JJ Abrams stepped into the Quantum Leap accelerator and vanished... He woke to find himself trapped in the past, directing movies that were not his own, and driven by an unknown force to change history for the better. His only guide on this journey is Jerry Bruckheimer, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only JJ can see and hear. And so JJ Abrams finds himself leaping from movie to movie, striving to put right what Uwe Boll once put wrong, and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home

I just hope they get the right Ronald P Moore. Despite what James Callis says, the Ronald P Moore in the Portland phone book is NOT the same one who did Battlestar Galactica.