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That would be another good notion. You can't have a structure where teams are incentivized to run these guys 100% max effort every pitch because you only expect them to get 15 or 16 outs. Maybe decrease the number of minor league options so teams can't swap out tired arms so often? I don't know, but they have to do something soon!

Barco HDR Projector Pilot Program Launches at CinemaCon (EXCLUSIVE) VARIETY.COM Jerry Bruckheimer, Joe Kosinski are testing Barco's new HDR projector. Barco announced its pilot program at CinemaCon. I went to the HDR by Barco demo at CinemaCon, and I want to be fair to Barco because the demo was in a ballroom that had nothing more than black curtains as the walls. The ceilings were close to white in color, so really reflecting a lot of light back on the screen. That being said, the colors on the material shown were stellar, as were the peak whites. A massive upgrade from Barco's SDR projectors. The area that I still was not super impressed with was the black levels, not really close to what I see in a Dolby Cinema install. But I will allow for the possibility that the apparent elevated black level is largely the result of the poor viewing environment. I really think Barco would have been better off building a blackout box and setting up the theater inside of that, but that might have been hard to get fire marshal approval from in a short week convention time frame. But overall, a great move forward and they aren't quite done with the tech. The first test units will hit theaters later this year and then retail installs Q1 of 2025. The other BIG news is that Barco developed their own box to connect to various color timing software, like Davinci Resolve, that helps colorists create SMPTE standard REC 2020 HDR outputs that are initially automatically rendered shot by shot by the Barco box and then can be manually tweaked by the colorist. This will be huge as getting Dolby Vision certification is a long and costly process, whereas this will be relatively inexpensive and should lead to substantially more films being finished in HDR. The REC 2020 HDR standard is also...standard, so any company that makes an HDR-capable projector in the future will be able to utilize these same DCP files. A big win for consumers, much like the ending of Dolby's grip on object-based audio with the standardization of IAB tracks over the proprietary Atmos format.

Spencer Strider officially out for the season with a UCL bracing procedure. I don’t know how you fix the issue of pitchers throwing harder and at max effort all the time. Only sorts of things I could imagine would be requiring starters to throw a minimum 100 pitches every game. You would necessarily have to pace yourself more, but that seems like something everybody would hate…

These are all articles penned by people who think understanding the dominant technological paradigm of their youth is what makes one tech savvy. This is what every generation thinks about subsequent ones. What ends up happening is the tech doofus kids eventually become the managerial class and replace technology with what makes them comfortable, then the next generation comes along that grew up with a new paradigm and now they are the tech doofus kids who don’t have the right skills. Rinse and repeat. Like, I guarantee some boomer manager threw their hands up in frustration when dealing with a young whippersnapper who did know how to use a word processor but didn’t know how to change the ribbon on a typewriter. Those who grew up during the PC revolution needed to know more about the basic functionality mostly because the tech was kinda trash and didn’t work particularly well. Improvements in reliability and stability of both hardware and software has rendered many of the skills we learned less important today than even a decade ago. But people are slow to recognize the declining value of their own skillset and instead poo poo the kids for developing a different skill set relevant to the world they actually live in. That being said, it is still highly frustrating working with gen z kids when something on a windows device isn’t working right and nothing makes me feel more like a grumpy old man.

There is certainly a fair emotional response to a situation that is unfair in a vacuum, that one group gets something while another group doesn’t. But in this particular instance it misses a larger issue that the system of higher education finance is itself unfair on a fundamental level. Spending more time with kids who are trying their hardest to improve their lives through education as I walk with my own children through their college career, I have an even better sense of just how little the average person understands how to pay for college, or what the expected value of a particular degree will be. How do you make rational economic decisions when so much is obfuscated, even more so when you are largely talking about 18-22 year olds who barely understand the basics of personal finance? Getting a college education does not have to be prohibitively expensive, but it has been for many people through a combination of ignorance and predatory behavior. The federal government played a large part in making this system, they ought to do more to fix what they broke. Debt forgiveness shouldn’t be the end of the process, but it is one proper step to take.

Ippei is @Brian if he had a rich guy bankrolling him

Todd Phillips was on hand this week at CinemaCon to introduce the trailer and said he thought it was odd that people were calling it a musical as he wouldn’t describe it that way. He said he didn’t think it was terribly different from how the first film was built around a lot of music, though they leaned a little more into it after they signed Gaga up.

For good reason. There will always be somebody else coming along who can do what you currently do better, or the same but cheaper. The longer you stay the same the more likely it is that a competitor will surpass what you are offering. You don’t need to reinvent the wheel all of the time, but you do need to provide compelling reasons to choose you over the next firm. This is why large firms love to create roadblocks to competition entering the market. It gives a longer timeline before they need to elevate their game. Certainly does not preclude management from pursuing poor strategies to improve, but they absolutely should be trying to do so.

Trevor Story is a shortstop

Chamber Valdez was scratched from his start yesterday with elbow soreness (siiiiiiggggghhhhhhhh), so the Astros call up an absolute nobody despite having some good AAA arms. The kid gets one out, gives up 5 runs, and it pulled with the bases loaded and the score 5-2 in favor of the Rangers. The Astros then proceed to throw 8.2 IP if scoreless ball by the bullpen, who have to this point cost the Astros 5 wins, and the offense explodes for 8 unanswered runs. The AAA call up, Henley, will likely never pitch in the MLB again, but can forever say he was a big leaguer. He will probably leave out his 135 career ERA out of the story 😂

Sorry @Nokra there is no such thing as NSFW when you’re the boss. Well, not until the lawyers come to depose you in a workplace harassment suit, I guess

The Astros are averaging a staggering 1 hit given up per game in their wins this season. Unfortunately, that is because they only have three wins, lol. They have had a lead or been tied in all but two games in the 7th inning, but have been very uneven offensively and the bullpen has been a trainwreck. But Ronel Blanco followed his no-hitter with 5.2 IP of no-hit ball tonight, ending the day with 6IP, 1 hit, and 0 runs. What a GREAT call by Astros GM, Dana Brown, who round the third day of his first spring training with the club told the coaching staff to begin stretching him out because he has starter stuff. One of Brown's real strong suits in Atlanta was minor league player development, and I'm happy to see that it has translated to his time so far in the Astros org.

Hope you are having a good time. Had some flight credits that were about to expire so the wife and I ran down to Cancun for a couple of days last week. I love being less than two hours away from the Caribbean part of the Mexican coast. Lots of nice places to spend time in the country, but this is my favorite ❤️ NSFW Please mark your NSFW content as such. - Nokra