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Nobody walked out their door without a hat back then.

I must be the only person on Earth who isn't into comics. I'm not sure I've even seen an entire comic/superhero movie since Batman Forever with Val Kilmer. I think I saw most of The Dark Knight. I probably should watch some of them. They are on cable tv all the time. Do I need to know...

Mark Papermaster... That's a name I haven't seen/heard before.

Don't you mean,"Huang in there everyone?" ;) Pull up a stock market chart for the last decade+ and it's pretty clear the market ran up too far, too fast over the last couple years. There's no way that parabolic rise was sustainable. Even after the latest plunge, in which the DOW is down ~15%...

I appreciate this kind of post. Even though my laptop is too old and crappy to play any games, I've managed to gradually accumulate older games on Steam/Epic, etc., for free/cheap, because of the links shared here. At some point I'll build a new system and I'll be able to play them. Thanks, [H].

Yes, this laptop has integrated intel graphics. I also just learned that the system will also not play any audio, either, after waking from sleep mode. When I click on "listen live" on a radio station website, nothing plays. When I go into my audio settings and do a sound test, there's no...

I am running a recently-installed copy of Windows 10 on a new ssd, on a 10-year-old laptop. The last few days I've noticed that when my system wakes up from sleep mode, videos no longer play correctly. Videos embedded in Twitter start running, but stutter badly and keep starting over after...

My old laptop is dying and one of these days I'd like to get back into modest gaming (after a LONG absence). However, I'd want a mid-range card, but I won't spend more than $200 for any component. All I could get for <$200 now is a 1050.

I have a 10-year-old HP laptop. A few months ago, I began to hear a noise. I would describe it as a scratchy, staticky, whisper. For quite a while I assumed it was the hard drive. The drive is also going bad and causing problems, so that made sense. However, recently, clues have turned my...

The guys on CNBC this morning were shocked that anyone would turn down the offered deal.

One of my neighbors has had Dish for years, but just in the last week they took their dish down and put up an antenna in its place.

What's with the candy cane stripes on their windmills? They look awful.

I enjoyed TLJ. I go in not expecting too much, though, and I know none of the new Star Wars movies will feel like the originals or be as good as Empire. Yeah, some of the criticisms are justified. There was a bit of cheesiness and contrived story, and the writers sometimes seem to pull stuff...

The first two seasons of TNG are actually my favorites. There's just something about the stories and style I like.

I wouldn't mind keeping DST permanently. If we used standard time year-round, our June sunrise would be at 4:30am, which would be a waste of good sunlight. I'd much rather keep the 8:45pm sunset. We then don't really gain anything by falling back to standard time in winter.

It's a space herpe.

I'm not a big movie theater guy. The last two movies I went to see were the last two Star Wars. Still, I thought it might be a cool experience to go see BR at the $6 4pm showing yesterday. Ultimately, I decided I didn't really want to sit in a theater for 3 hours. Perhaps I'll rent it...

Outside of some of the cheesy early episodes, I really like the first two seasons of TNG. Season two may actually be my favorite. I even like Doctor Pulaski. I am also a fan of Voyager, which clearly isn't widely popular among ST fans. I didn't see an episode of Voyager for about ten years...

This season of Doctor Who had an episode about this. Members of a new world colony wore patches on their backs that displayed their current emotional state. It all went bad when the colony's robots killed everyone who didn't smile.

HP apparently offered a free upgrade to Windows 7 when it was released, but this laptop was originally purchased for my Dad and I was not aware of the upgrade offer until after it ended.

I wish they'd give those of us stuck with an old Vista laptop a free upgrade to Windows 10. If they really want to get people off the old shit, I'd be happy to help them out.

I'm not a gamer(just a net browser) but the old core2duo-era HP laptop I'm using still runs Vista. Apparently, there was a window following the release of Windows 7 during which HP offered a free upgrade for Vista systems, but I didn't know about it so I missed the window and was permanently...

So this McAfee guy is a white walker?

Here in Iowa Mediacom just upgraded their network to Gigabit. Their 1 Gbps service comes with a 6 TB cap and costs $140. That doesn't interest me, though. We have three people in the house, but only do basic browsing with some occasional streaming. Most months we don't even exceed 100 GB...

Count me among those who did not realize Tarkin was CGI. I'm sure it helped that I was not familiar with Peter Cushing.

I liked it, more than I liked TFA. The absence of all the jedi/sith/light-side/dark-side stuff gives this movie a different feel, which I liked. Regarding the CGI characters, I honestly did not even notice one of them. I thought to myself, "Wait, wasn't this guy in the original SW film?", but...

I rarely go to movies (only about seven over the last 17 years), but I've never run across most of the problems others complain about. When I do go I choose the discount $ show and don't buy any food or drink. The last movie I went to was Star Wars: The Force Awakens. I went to the 5pm show...

I don't tweet anything, but I follow people who have info and commentary I want to see/read. It is a great tool for weather geeks like me.

I watched TNG, DS9, and Voyager back in the day. I hadn't seen any of them since Voyager ended many years ago, but BBC America, which airs blocks of TNG almost every day, was added to our cable lineup this year so I've been binge-watching it all summer. Any time Star Trek comes up as a topic...

If MS included Vista in the free upgrade, I'd probably do it for the old laptop I'm currently using as my main system.... but they didn't :(.

I live in suburban Iowa. Everything except sparklers is "banned" here, but people still get the good stuff from out of state and set it off. Last night I saw more fireworks set off in my immediate area than ever before. I live next to an open field within the suburban area and one of my...

I'm not feeling this one at all.

I also feel that, while the movie is not without flaws, I enjoyed it. I tend to feel that way about most movies.

If there is a failure in 5-7 years, would a suitable replacement motherboard even be available for sale anymore (for something like a haswell pentium)? Or by that time would it just be easier to build a new modern budget system, which wouldn't be able to use the old oem license that was tied to...

I'd like to build a budget system for my mom. Should I get the oem windows 10 or spend the extra $ for the retail flash drive version? The plan is to have this be a long-term system, which means the oem version should be fine. However, if the motherboard dies in five years, post-warranty...

I was just checking out Vantec's site and found a FAQ page for my adapter. Unfortunately, it says this sata to usb adapter cannot be used as a boot device. It appears I'll have to pick up a new sata dvd drive.

And any modern basic mobo (H81/H110, etc) will have the usb boot option in the bios?

Today I remembered I have a much newer Vantec CB-ISATAU2 SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter that I've used a few times to get data out of an IDE hard drive in a dead computer. It says it works with 5.25" optical drives. Would it be possible for me to use this adapter to connect an IDE dvd drive to a...

I have an old 'Abit Serillel 2' IDE to SATA adapter. Would this thing work to connect an IDE DVD drive to a Haswell/Skylake motherboard, or would it likely be incompatible? I'm putting together a new build that needs an optical drive, but the drive will very rarely be used. I'd have to buy a...