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Betamax (or just Beta) was a smaller magnetic cassette tape that could only record at one speed. VHS had 3, but almost no one used LP. It had better quality and cost more money. The real killer was that there was some conflict where the Beta format did not want to be used by the porn industry and there's a theory that porn was the top type of movie that you wanted delivered to your house instead of going to a theater. Beta equipment lasted for years after VHS, because newsrooms used it for their live shot cameras due to the size and quality.

TV has this sad tendency of trying to be counterintuitive (let's have a gal be the scientist / computer nerd!) then turn it into a cliché by doing it everywhere. The ratings really suck. They should have called this show "The Slingshot." Plus, the show ends just as Lee Pace could have done some post-Guardians press for HACF.

The worst part is she asked Monet to call her that. With that name (It's her real first name from what I could tell) she needs to just stick with Dr. Schwartz or possibly "Pepper."

I kind of identify with Gordon. A good engineer can design almost anything, but it has to be something. The way Joe changed his mind might drive me crazy, too.

I think each couple is getting an edit to make them different types of couples. Vaughn and Monet are supposed to be the couple that have sex but don't have any communication. You have a point, Ohwell, because we started out with a lot of Vaughn's "I like ass" stuff.

The Betamax people made a point of describing what kind of VCR they had. It was the Macintosh of VCRs. You can get some VCRs at electronic stores or department stores, but they usually come with DVD players, too. I don't think brand matters much anymore, because they're basically all made in the same place sin China now. Get the extended warranty. Cameron was being paid $40,000 a year. Gordon complained it was more than what his wife made. Of course, she only made it for about 4 months.

Vaughn was seriously passive aggressive tonight. I think Monet is hanging around just to figure out what his damage is. Cortney and Jason are kind of boring because they are still playing house. Jason talks about his mother, but we still don't know how much time it takes to help her with everything. Doug and Jamie now have these lame manufactured crises. Jamie missed a Sunday baseball game. Big deal. If Doug has the same job as his siblings, I'm beginning to wonder how real that job is. Maybe he's just working at a family business. It's kind of interesting Jamie is already talking about babies. Given the success of this show, I think there's about a 98% chance FYI will be filming a reunion special a week or so after the last episode airs. Expect Vaughn not to show up.

Very informative, Pollock and your English is quite good. I watched the casting special On Demand again, now that I know who's who. In this show they introduced more of the final 50. Maybe a dozen or so had segments. They also had a few fake-out pairings, like Jamie and Jason. Interestingly enough, they didn't have a clear reason why those two weren't right for each other. Also, that group in the beginning where a bunch of them high-tailed it out of the room? None of the 6 were in that group. Doug had stubble in early interviews as well. Maybe he just wanted to shave for the wedding. They seemed to need 3 matches for the show because there were a couple of potential back up couples from what I could tell in case someone got a severe case of the Jamies.

Valium was for housewives. The husbands liked it because it made them quiet zombies. The men just drank.

I had a TI99/4A around the time they were being slashed in price. They native output was a 5-pin DIN connector (similar to a Commodore 64) with composite video and audio. It also came with a huge RF converter so you could connect it to the back of your TV. As long as Channel 3 or 4 was empty on the dial, you could use the TV as normal. For about 5 years I had an old Commodore monitor. It was designed for the 2 video and 1 audio outputs from the back of the computer (luma and chroma). I didn't think the picture was significantly better, but it also had front panel composite jacks. I used a VCR to drive it and that monitor was my TV for years.

I think the best part of the season recap was referring to Hunt as "Holt" because who really cares who these people are?

Where are you reading about the Dutch version? I'll admit I didn't search too hard or anything. I have to say that from Twitter alone, Doug and Vaughn seem the same as they do on the show.

Joe is such a narcissist that he needs to be loved by literally everyone. Had they shown the Giant at COMDEX with Camer-Windows, Joe might have stuck around a few weeks longer. Then there would be some review calling the interface clunky and the writer would figure out that "How are you, Joe" added $300 to the cost of the Giant. Joe would blow up at Cameron and set his Porche on fire or something. Then Gordon would invent the Little Giant that was cheaper, faster and just ran DOS. Instead of being an IBM guy, Joe really is like a low-rent Steve Jobs. Joe wasn't gong to be happy after he discovered the Mac. It had all the bells and whistles that a salesman would love. Macs had a lot of innovative features, but they lagged behind in "killer apps." Macs were always more of a sales job and Joe would have been happier selling that than another IBM clone. I think next season Cameron should invent some strong-ass biker meth and Joe could sell it.

I forgot about the "killer app" thing. I think the term has been around for a while, but not in 1984. Computers barely had applications as it was. Next season, Cameron should invent Facebook. That would make about as much sense.

I have to say that I'm not on pins and needles about a renewal of this show. I knew Joe was going to burn down all the Giants in the truck as soon as I found out there was a truck. Better yet, we never find out what the consequence of that was. I guess they had more in the pipeline. It seems Gordon has turned Gekko so he's now out of ideas. Donna has a lot more crazy then she let on in episode 1. Maybe she can steal Cameron's company away next year. Now, if they could just find a way for Joe and Cameron to die, preferably in a way that exonerates Bosworth, they'll have themselves a real Season 2.

I think those shows have some kind of stipend. I heard it being mentioned on Big Brother's live feed the other day. MAFS is similar because they are being filmed almost all their waking hours, I'm sure. I just wonder how much vacation time they ate up for the show. I still wonder if this show was produced with FYI in mind or they were pitching it to multiple channels. I imagine the budgets are pretty tight. Usually, channels like VH-1 and E! focus their shows around rich people so they don't have to make things look expensive on their own.

I was watching the first episode last night and the sexpert was talking about both Doug and Jamie both using the term "late bloomer" to describe themselves. That part makes sense, as they are the least casual about sex. Now, it seems to put them ahead in terms of relating to each other. They still have the most interesting banter, what they show of it. Money and Vaughn just have the most drama-filled fights. I actually see major trouble ahead for Cortney and Jason. Cortney comes off as kind of a flake and I'm starting to think her family didn't show up at the wedding because they didn't want to enable another bad decision. As far as the "marriage is different" argument. I can see that TV shows treat it differently. They have no problem revealing when the couples had marital relations because they're married and it is more socially acceptable even though they only met a few days before.

So, I've read in the forum so far about some of the entertainment industry connections with the contestants, plus what I'm watching in the matchmaking episode. I'm not sure about Monet, except that she works in fashion and that's not her legal first name. With the others: Jamie: Bachelor (Pad) Doug: Wannabe Comedian Vaughn: Model Cortney: Burlesque performer Jason: Amateur wrestler I don't know if this makes the show automatically fakety-fake. The people who self-select to be a on reality show, especially one that marries them off, are going to tend to be performers to some extent. The "experts" even pointed out that Cortney and Jason's costume adventures were a sign of compatibility. Plus, none of these people are especially famous and I have a hard time thinking any of them really expect to become real-world famous out of this digital-tier cable show.

One of the major temptations of the show is putting words in the mouths of characters from 1983 that are a window into 30 years from then. We know what "computers" are now, but much of it was inconceivable back then, even by people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. Home computers were a novelty at best. Modems connected small computers with slightly bigger computers and anyone on what we call the internet now was doing it with a hard line to a mainframe.

I bailed on Mad Men after about the first (half) season. The hook they had was the knowing references to what life was like in the 60s. I still remember the bit about the kid playing with a plastic bag and the mom not worrying about him suffocating, but ruining a good dry cleaning bag. For me, the crazier subplots about Don and his weird secret life wore me down. This show is a little different. Sure, they have 80s clothes and hair, but the show is like a computer programmer, focused on what happens in the computer lab. The show is getting better for me, not worse. Joe is kind of a Don Draper here, but I think he is actually aware he can be replaced and the rest of them could get along.

I think they are coder monkeys because they are early in their career. What they are actually doing is writing the programs or code that lets the computer talk to various devices like printers and disk drives and other computers. It's the kind of thing that lots of people can do if they can write programs, but it is long and boring stuff that has to be done.

That's standard fare for reality show contestants. They exist in this time warp where it didn't happen if it didn't air. I actually though Jamie did well evading the question about having sex. I have to say I feel a little creepy because I can't wait to hear about when Jamie lets Doug get his swerve on.

I bet that reveal is going to be part of the show. I'm still a little surprised by the "we had sex" admissions so far. The shows I watch usually never flat out state that.

I think the clean room approach means that Cameron could see the list that Joe and Gordon made, but she could not use or even get near an IBM with that BIOS chip. She had to write an algorithm or program that duplicated all the responses from all the inputs, but she had to write it in a way that would take up less space than just writing a bunch of "if this then that" statements. The thing that they treated like a hot potato in the early episode was IBM's specification book that essentially had all the BIOS information in it. If Cameron used that at all, IBM had a case for a lawsuit. From what I understand now, this was not really the case. IBM had already published a lot of this information for manufacturers of peripherals and such.

Jamie seems to be a woman who's really pretty but can't stay in a relationship because she's got a steamer trunk full of neuroses. It's also why I think there's a lot more "real" out of her than other reality stars. During the wedding she had a nice smile plastered on but abject terror in her eyes. The walls do really seem to be down as far as physical contact with Doug, though. I notice Jamie is also ending a lot of her sentences to Doug by using his name, like "I know that, Doug." I don't know if that shows anything about the relationship, except that it seems like a "real" thing. Then there's the other couples. One has about 10% conflict. The other has about 80%.