9 minutes ago, eglz1 said:

I've read that physical media is making a bit of a comeback. The problem with having content you paid for on somebody else's computer is that if something happens to that somebody else's computer that you have zero control over, wave bye bye to your investment. I had a minor brush with this sort of thing. I was using an email service that was supposed to be well regarded for its privacy. I think this was during the Edward Snowden affair and some Feds wanted the operator of this email service to decrypt certain users accounts even though he had promised not to do so as part of the service agreement. The sysadmin knew such a letter was on its way but had not yet received it. He wiped the servers securely, everybody's emails were irretrievably gone with no notice. I use Thunderbird so had a copy of the emails from that service. If I hadn't had that I'd have been in a bit of a pickle. This tale is to illustrate why having physical copies can be a good thing.

Does 23andMe come to mind?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-happens-to-dna-data-of-millions-as-23andme-files-bankruptcy#:~:text=The genetic testing company 23andMe,about their heredity and genetics.

 

13 minutes ago, Waiting4Someday said:

The new owners (15% share?) need to start making their $ back from this cash cow.

Two ways to make $ back … distributed profits and/or capital appreciation.  The NFL historically has had minimal of the first, and lots and lots of the latter.  Some cost cutting can improve the bottom line but do harm to good will and as a result capital appreciation.

10 minutes ago, eglz1 said:

The Eagles also have some big contracts coming up - Carter, Q, DeJean among them. Howie may be hoarding his pennies a little in preparation.

That may be true, but not on behalf of the owners he isn’t.

6 minutes ago, mattwill said:

Does 23andMe come to mind?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-happens-to-dna-data-of-millions-as-23andme-files-bankruptcy#:~:text=The genetic testing company 23andMe,about their heredity and genetics.

 

Oh boy. My wife had a relative into genealogy bigtime. Couldn't wait to get their DNA into databases to learn about their ancestry. We didn't share her enthusiasm.

2 minutes ago, eglz1 said:

Oh boy. My wife had a relative into genealogy bigtime. Couldn't wait to their DNA into databases to learn about their ancestry. We didn't share her enthusiasm.

Looking forward rather than backward is almost always a better focus.  Leave the looking backward to historians and academics.

10 hours ago, Freshmilk said:

True.  But I see them taking an interior lineman in the first 3 rounds.  Our depth is thin. Dickerson and Jurgens recovering, Steen got hurt last TC, and Green is a project.  As the roster currently stands an injury to any of Dickerson,  Jurgens, or Steen and it is problematic.  Or if Jurgens and/or Dickerson aren't ready to start the season.  Interior OL is a need.

Color me confused at your comment as it applies to G.  Eagles lost Becton, the only IOL loss.  The other loss was Fred Johnson, who had played some G but was an OT for the Birds.  They ended the season with 11 OL.  While I have said the biggest hole is back up C, G really is less of a need.  

Raptors up by 21 on the Nets in the 2nd Period.

Assuming a Sixers loss, a Raptors win puts them up on the Sixers by three full games, two full if the Sixers win. Three games up with nine games to play should put the Sixers into the lottery with at least the sixth most ping pong balls.

25 minutes ago, eglz1 said:

The Eagles also have some big contracts coming up - Carter, Q, DeJean among them. Howie may be hoarding his pennies a little in preparation.

Canceling Christmas parties and firing the pep band seem like low hanging fruit recommended by an efficiency consultant. I don’t think this $ intermingles with the player budget. Do the cheerleaders get paid? They might be next.

13 minutes ago, mattwill said:

Looking forward rather than backward is almost always a better focus.  Leave the looking backward to historians and academics.

Generally true. The only reason I can think of to look back a couple generations is health. It's good to know about any genetic propensities so as to keep a closer than normal eye out for it/them. Do I care what % German, what % Irish, what % French I am? No.

1 hour ago, bpac55 said:

Eagles just cleaning house

 

 

Lurie continues to be cheap.  Everything has pointed towards him having money issues, from selling part of the team to selling snow to free agency to this 

 

Eagles.

1 hour ago, mattwill said:

Looking forward rather than backward is almost always a better focus.  Leave the looking backward to historians and academics.

Learning is better than guessing.

😂

Where is Haz with the 76ers news?

3 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

Where is Haz with the 76ers news?

They lost and anyone in the area won free nuggs. 
 

Win/Win

5 hours ago, VaBeach_Eagle said:

Hypothetical sort of question...

Suppose you were to donate money to a website and your donation qualified you for a 'gift'. Which 'gift' would be better for you to receive. A series of Blu-Ray discs contained in disc cases,  or a large capacity thumb drive that contained all of the contents of the Blu Ray discs?

 

Interesting.  What connectivity for the thumb drive as both are old school tech but a thumb drive is probably more likely available to access longer.  That said, aren’t the digital recordings on Blue Ray superior to for what we store on a thumb drive?  But does that even matter.  My lean is to the thumb drive. 

Genealogy funnily enough has led to the biggest technological innovation in DNA to solve crimes that maybe we've ever seen. Genealogy databases have been invaluable to solve hundreds of homicides and rapes across the country and I believe within the next couple years some more high profile cases will be solved using it. Like JonBenet Ramsey and the yogurt shop murders case.

23andme isn't the database law enforcement uses though. They use a public one not private one.

43 minutes ago, BigEFly said:

Color me confused at your comment as it applies to G.  Eagles lost Becton, the only IOL loss.  The other loss was Fred Johnson, who had played some G but was an OT for the Birds.  They ended the season with 11 OL.  While I have said the biggest hole is back up C, G really is less of a need.  

I don't agree.  As I said, if one of Dickerson/Jurgens/Steen go down I don't think they currently have a suitable back up at G.  We have a bunch of linemen as you said, but I don't think we have quality behind the starting interior OL.

1 hour ago, mattwill said:

Does 23andMe come to mind?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-happens-to-dna-data-of-millions-as-23andme-files-bankruptcy#:~:text=The genetic testing company 23andMe,about their heredity and genetics.

 

I already send my stool to the government once per year so they can figure out if I need a colonoscopy or not.  I’m not too worried what else they’re doing with it.

4 hours ago, mattwill said:

I don’t even have a single pc/laptop drive other than the hard drive that came with the MacBook laptop.  With over 110,000 images currently in the Photos app, that 2 TB hard drive ran out of space several years ago and all the images reside in the cloud with only a stub (pointer) actually on the laptop.

Why?  I ask this a lot about photos. Do you really look at that many photos?  I guess my super camera on my phone is wasted on me.  I mostly use it for sending photos to my red head dream to ask her it she wants me to buy this or that.  Sure a photo of family or friends every once in a while but otherwise I long ago decided to not view the world through a viewfinder.  When we die, our family can’t wade through all the media and end up just trashing it. (Been there, done that.) While I will share a photo in the moment on occasion, my view is that it is a great big beautiful world that absent being presented by a professional photographer or videographer, is best seen IRL. And trust me, my photos would never be considered professional.   I doubt I have .5% of the images you have.

That said, thinking of professional videographers filming things, I have thoroughly enjoyed the Tom Hanks narrated Americas.   Now here’s the funny thing.  My folks, children of the Depression and adults before television, really didn’t embrace TV, especially my Dad.  He rarely watched fictional TV but on Sundays, he enjoyed Bonanza.  Right before that was the Wonderful World of Color/Disney.  Now this is before VHS, DVRs and way before on demand streaming.  We watched what was available at the time on broadcast TV.  So my sister and I were able to see WWD before Bonanza. I always enjoyed the "nature” episodes, basically nature documentaries.  Well the Tom Hanks narrative is so spot on to what those shows presented that it gives me goosebumps. Kind of takes me back.  

2 hours ago, mattwill said:

Does 23andMe come to mind?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/what-happens-to-dna-data-of-millions-as-23andme-files-bankruptcy#:~:text=The genetic testing company 23andMe,about their heredity and genetics.

 

I am worried that my proof that I am more Neanderthal than 77% of you will disappear with them.   I say that in jest but my Ancestry data if lost would hurt despite my saved GED.  

For those who are interested. 

1 hour ago, Sack that QB said:

Genealogy funnily enough has led to the biggest technological innovation in DNA to solve crimes that maybe we've ever seen. Genealogy databases have been invaluable to solve hundreds of homicides and rapes across the country and I believe within the next couple years some more high profile cases will be solved using it. Like JonBenet Ramsey and the yogurt shop murders case.

23andme isn't the database law enforcement uses though. They use a public one not private one.

I really don’t give a flying F if someone gets my DNA info. I doubt anyone on the dark web wants to know that I am genetically predisposed to cilantro tasting like soap.

  I just read a fascinating article about this archeologist at Catoctin Furnace that has been using DNA from bodies at a slave cemetery found there.  She is literally tracing to living persons.  Way cool.   Probably fascinating for whoever gets the DNA info from 23 and Me. 

1 hour ago, Freshmilk said:

I don't agree.  As I said, if one of Dickerson/Jurgens/Steen go down I don't think they currently have a suitable back up at G.  We have a bunch of linemen as you said, but I don't think we have quality behind the starting interior OL.

I disagree.  I like Keegan a lot.  I also suspect the Birds like Kinnard.  And they do like Toth.  Not permanent starters and all can be improved on but as back ups. More concerned about swing tackle and very concerned about a back up C.   Now any back up C needs to be a back up guard, hence exposing and losing McMahon but note some of the IOL they brought in have potential as Cs.  Versatility is key.