Overview

We talk briefly about our weekend, which includes a talk that Stephen gave. this leads to a long discussion on education and whether its working and what we can do to fix problems.

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Transcript

Stephen: Oh, there we go. Oh, there we go. Had to give myself a reminder as to what I need to talk about today.

I got my Harry Potter shirt on cuz it’s close to Halloween, which is wizard.

Alan: Let’s see, let’s get that. I got yeah. Okay. Sometimes I forget. I, despite having a, honestly like a 12 port USB thing I sometimes have to swap cables because something require going directly into the back of the mini instead of going through, even though the USB thing is powered and everything, there’s just some shenanigans going on as to whether it detects signal correctly.

And so often I have to swap between. The camera and microphone that I use for our sessions and my relatively new super it’s not, I no longer use the super drive. It’s been slightly superseded by a guy I got from other world computing, cuz it’s supposed to handle every kind of blue Ray, every kind of DVD, Moe type stuff.

But what I’m discovering is it doesn’t handle everything hardware wise. It does, but there’s multiple DVD players out there. But now that we’ve gone on to blue Ray and blue, remember it used to be, you had to know whether it was plus or minus back in and that kinda stuff. It seems that now based on protection and based on format though, I thought there really was one standard.

But as any number of places say, we’re standard, but then we added a few enhancements and if you don’t have those things, so besides QuickTime, which is a pretty standard handles everything thing for the Mac. I have VLC media player, which really is an open source one that seems to handle everything, but you have to go download specific AACS libraries and a config file, depending on what language you are.

So it’ll display menus correctly. And even though I follow the directions, go to the right places, put those libraries, put those files into the right libraries on my machine. I couldn’t watch the next DVD in the Dexter series because the AACS is acting up somehow. It doesn’t like how I have it configured.

So I just, I hate getting to that weird point of it should just work. And yet now they’re starting to differentiate between things. And even though I’m willing to do the research to look things up when you do it, just like it says, and then it doesn’t work. I don’t wanna troubleshoot the troubleshooting.

I don’t wanna have to keep taking deeper