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  1. I use Windows 7 on my desktop and 10 on my Surface Pro 3.  Can't say I'm happy with 10 as it's in a perpetual bata stage, but it is better than 8 at least, which is what my Surface came with initially.  

    I've messed around with Linux ever since the the early Slackware days.  I've used pretty much every major distro at one time or another, but none of them have the range of software I'm interested in.  I also find support too fragmented to be very useful.  Still, I'm glad it's still around and I'll probably play around with it again sometime, just to see what progress it's made.  Unfortunately, I don't expect the same from the support perspective.

  2. 9 hours ago, cuteycindyhoney said:

    I always thought that the ships, the Eagles, were wonderfully thought out. I loved the modular design of them. you could swap out cargo pods for passenger pods with full life support. The control cabin could also be put onto totally different bodies.  

    Agreed.  In an interview with Gerry Anderson, he said one of the goals of 1999 was to be as accurate as possible with respect to how ships would look and fly, how lunar gravity would behave, building construction, that would exist in 1999.  Too bad none of it came true, except for the gravity thing.

    As for the Eagle itself, I still consider it one of the best sci-fi ships out there, because of its realistic approach to design and flight characteristics.  In fact I had a metal model version when I was a kid. 

    This one, in fact: 6832961482_afaf1cb266.jpg

  3. Let's say your at your favorite eatery, enjoying your meal and gazing out the window.  In the distant sky you see a dark speck appear and as you watch it gets closer, and bigger, until it becomes a football field-sized UFO.

    How would you react?  What would you do?  Run?  Take pics?  Jump on social media?  What do you think you'd actually do?

  4. On 2/22/2018 at 12:46 AM, Pr0m4NV14 said:

    The cheesy Batman television show with Adam West.

    Unfortunately, he's a bit too old for that kind of role.  Can you think of a contemporary actor that might fit the cowl?

     

    On 2/22/2018 at 12:53 AM, ThunderCrush said:

    Although I am young I know quite a bit of oldies. XD I'd love to see a remake of The Greatest American Hero

    Loved that show.  If they did it again, I'd like to see a more dramatic version.

     

    On 2/22/2018 at 1:46 AM, cuteycindyhoney said:

    How about another cool old sci-fi show?

    "Space 1999"
    Or how about "UFO"?

    Abosolutely.  I have both in my DVD library.  Course they'd have to call it Space: 2099, or 2199 given our current space program's progress.

    Little trivia on 1999: It was the first TV show that showed ships actually landing on the ground.  Doesn't sound like much today, but back then, it wasn't easy to do.

     

    20 hours ago, Narcissus said:

    Battlestar Galactica was a fantastic show, but the new one they made was absolute unwatchable crap. Richard Hatch had a great project to bring back the series and funded it out of his own pocket to present to the studios, but they went with the decidedly un-Galactica trash we ended up with instead.  

    Ah, a pony after my own heart.  I was also NOT a fan of the new BG.  Hatch's version made so much more sense.

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  5. I heard on the radio today that Netflix is rebooting Lost In Space.  For you youngins, it was an old TV show from back in the '60s.  A new pilot came out in 2004 but wasn't picked up as a series; you can watch this on YouTube.  There's also a movie that came out in '98.

    The DJ asked the listeners, what classic TV show would you like to see come back as a new series, and I thought I pass that along here.  So what would you like to see come back?  Me?  I'd like to see a new Green Hornet series.  I really liked the original that came out in the mid-sixties.  It starred Van Williams and Bruce Lee (his first TV role).  It was made by the same folks that produced the Batman series, but GH was a bit more darker and dramatic.  I also saw the GH movie and really liked it, even though I think it bombed in the theater, and would like to see the same kind of characterizations.

    I also though Time Tunnel would be cool, but time travel's been done to death.  Than I thought, how 'bout Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, but that's already been done as SeaQuest DSV.

  6. On 2/5/2018 at 11:38 AM, ultrairongorilla said:

    To this day, my favorite episode of Friendship Is Magic is still Twilight's Kingdom. The Perfect Pear is my favorite regular episode though.

    No problem @Sparklefan1234;).

    Can you differentiate the two?  What do you mean by "regular"?

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