Friday, December 14
Daily News Stuff 14 December 2018
Tech News
- If you edit video, you can do a lot worse than picking up the Humble Vegas Pro Even More Creative Freedom Bundle
Terrible name, but for $1 you get Fastcut Plus (entry level), and for $25 you also get Sound Forge Audio Studio 12, Vegas Movie Studio 15 (both current versions of their mid-range tools), and Vegas Pro 15 Edit and Vegas DVD Architect, the previous versions of their high-end tools, normally priced at... Well, right now you can get Vegas Pro 16 for $299. Which is more than $25.
Not included in the bundle is Acid, which is my favourite of the Sonic Foundry/Sony Creative Software/Magix range.
Also, if you're quick, they're giving away Lego The Hobbit free right now.
- If you need site monitoring with SMS alerts, like, for example, you run a blog platform that has a memory leak that pops up from time to time, StatusCake is offering 25% off paid plans right now. They also have a pretty good free plan if you don't need SMS alerts, but that's not 25% off.
- Gigabyte's R161 is a liquid-cooled overclocked server based on Intel's high-end desktop CPUs. (AnandTech)
Two questions: First, why? And second, at least it's not called the R101. Yes, I realise that's not a question.
- This 65" monitor is 10" larger than existing 55" monitors. (AnandTech)
- ADATA announced the XPG Gammix S11 Pro SM2262EN. (AnandTech)
A cat? Maybe a dog?
- AMD's new video drivers deliver up to 39% better performance in Battlefield V. (PC Perspective)
If the frame rate improves 39% in a game that nobody plays, does it make a sound?
- The first Ryzen 3000 family benchmarks have leaked. (Tom's Hardware)
Except that these aren't the big new 7nm desktop Ryzen 3000 parts, these are the 12nm Ryzen laptop refresh parts. (There were no first-generation laptop parts, so the numbers are a bit screwy.)
- Etsy's internal documentation is carved in stone. (Code As Craft)
Tiny, adorable, organic stone, lovingly individualised just for you and smelling faintly of lavender.
- The latest Bitcoin email scam comes packaged with its own little bomb threat. (Bleeping Computer)
I suspect the FBI will be taking this one a bit more seriously than the average "we hacked your laptop camera" spam.
Social Media News
- So the twatwaffle-in-chief responsible for Europe's abominable new copyright laws has said ha ha fuck you and removed the critical amendment that got the legislation through the EU Parliament. (Tech Dirt)
Between America's FOSTA/SESTA, the European Articles of Intellectual Serfdom, and Australia's Asinine Internet Insecurity Act, it's really been a race to the bottom lately.
- Tumblr is back in the app store having shed 95% of its users and 130% of its content. (Tech Crunch)
- Journalists hired as face checkers by Factbook are upset that they aren't being allowed to peddle their usual lazy, disingenuous lies. (The Grauniad)
Video of the Day
The thing Chris Chibnall missed entirely in the current season (just ended) is that Doctor Who isn't about politics but about smiling psychopaths committing exocide.
Picture of the Day
In the grim dark future there is only 1950s Burger King. There's one like that on the way from Sydney to Melbourne. Or was, haven't done that road trip for a while.
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Liquid cooling in a server with those mini jet-engine fans? Wow, I hope it comes with an inch of foam noise insulation. (also, blah blah no ECC blah blah).
I love how "The key selling feature of the M4K651XDB display is naturally its size that is 10 inches larger compared to 55-inch LCDs found in Japan and some other countries" implies that still other countries use 55-inch LCDs that aren't 10 inches smaller than this one. I like Anandtech's articles but they really, really need an editor, because nearly all their writers love purple prose.
Never been a fan of John Simm's The Master--he was more of a buffoon. Now Missy, there they proved that gender-swapping doesn't have to be lame. She oozed mayhem & evil like the Masters of old.
I love how "The key selling feature of the M4K651XDB display is naturally its size that is 10 inches larger compared to 55-inch LCDs found in Japan and some other countries" implies that still other countries use 55-inch LCDs that aren't 10 inches smaller than this one. I like Anandtech's articles but they really, really need an editor, because nearly all their writers love purple prose.
Never been a fan of John Simm's The Master--he was more of a buffoon. Now Missy, there they proved that gender-swapping doesn't have to be lame. She oozed mayhem & evil like the Masters of old.
Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, December 15 2018 01:38 AM (Q/JG2)
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I had the opposite response: I thought John Simm worked out great and was nicely integrated into the season, while Missy was handled so clumsily that by the time her identity was revealed I was already sick of her. In retrospect, they were each good matches for their Doctor (except for post-resurrection super-cannibal Simm, until he calmed down at the end), but a full season with Derek Jacobi would have been awesome.
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Posted by: J Greely at Saturday, December 15 2018 02:26 AM (tgyIO)
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I guess you could say Simm fit into his season; after all, Tennant's doctor was fairly goofy, too.
I thought Missy was much more in the mold of the character as portrayed by Anthony Ainley or Roger Delgado: a urbane veneer over a thug.
I thought Missy was much more in the mold of the character as portrayed by Anthony Ainley or Roger Delgado: a urbane veneer over a thug.
Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, December 15 2018 02:57 AM (Q/JG2)
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We were upgrading Jira tonight (which was surprisingly painless, apart from the obsolete plugin that we had just paid to renew...), so I had a few hours to kill, and watched The End Of Time. Even with Super Cannibal Master Simm, it was vastly more entertaining than the entire current season. And the previous one.
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Posted by: J Greely at Saturday, December 15 2018 06:23 PM (tgyIO)
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