4th June, 2019.
Hmmm …
I have to say, I’m a bit of an Apple fanboy, I really am.
So the company’s announcement — at this year’s World Wide Developer’s Conference — of its new Mac Pro was …
Well, lets just say it caught my attention shall we?
However good or bad Jonny Ives’ narration is!
The price caught my eye, too.
The baseline model costs some $5, 999: roughly £4,700.
Fully loaded?
Well … the figures I’ve tell me buying a couple of minis would be cheaper.
The cars, I should add.
For my computing needs? It’s using a fourteen pound sledge hammer to crack a nut.
But I wouldn’t say no to one, if you were offering.
~≈∑≈~
The other thing that DID catch my eye … ?
Was Apple’s announcement … about iTunes.
It looks like Apple are to replace the app on the Mac platform with the release of macOS 10.15 Catalina.
With Podcast, TV and Music apps.
I’m … concerned, to say the least.
I — like many of us — have a large music collection: and could prefer to keep it.
How will it be affected by the planned move? Will it be wiped? Unusable? Work with the planned Music app? Will I be able to buy music on the Music store, or just stream it?
There’s issues, there.
I’ve got a few movies and TV shows I’ve bought from the store. Will they still be accessible? Will I still be able to watch them on the AppleTV? Will I be able to buy, or rent more? Will the cash left in my account still be accessible?
More to the point?
My media collection includes a lot of
mp4 and m4v files from back-up DVDs and blu-rays.
Will I still be able to play then on my AppleTV, with the replacement software?
Or will I have to use the AppleTV version of
VLC?
I don’t know.
That’s why I’m a little concerned.
~≈∑≈~
At any rate … tonight, I’ve been able to able to sae I’ve had a longish day: in Basildon Hospital: returning a bit of kit used for an overnight test.
Got myself back home …
Had dinner …
Look, it’s not I’m addicted: I’ve just got a dose of ambient train music, right now!
~≈∑≈~
Episode 8 — Tiempo de conquista/Time of conquest — opens with A group of Spanish soldiers attack a beach in the Yucatan: and slowly working their way towards a Mayan village.
And through the village.
Only for the squad’s leader to be stopped in his track by a (Spanish) priest protecting the Indians.
And the appearance of the head warrior: who speaks fluent Spanish.
~≈∑≈~
Back at base?
Pacino and Alonso (Hugo Silva and Nacho Fresneda) are getting their latest set of orders.
The priest we see in the opening Teaser? Is Jerónimo de Aguilar (Jorge Suquet): one of the men responsible for translating the Mayan languages for Hernán Cortés.
A priest who’s gone missing and who the team have to locate.
With the help of the only person who may have an idea: Gonzalo Guerrero (Miguel Ángel Muñoz) … the man who’s gone distinctly native: and who led the resistance to the earlier invading Spanish force. A force led by Gaspar de Entrerríos (Paco Manzanedo).
Alonso’s grandfather …
~≈∑≈~
Now … it’s late, again …
And my eyes really want to shut.
But, again, El Ministerio del Tiempo’s knocked out a great little episode.
Tiempo de conquista show’s us the genuine jeopardy facing Alonso and Pacino, showing us the emotional impact of Amelia’s loss*, showing two friends and workmates both doing their job under gruesome circumstances …
And passionately arguing.
Good?
Lord, yes … !
Lord, yes … !
El Ministerio del Tiempo is that!
* I have to saw, Nacho Fresneda played a blinder in Tiempo de conquista. We KNOW Alonso can — indeed, does — get passionate about the moral standards soldiers of Spain should have, how and why its empire is being built. But ALSO … ? You get to see his emotional side, on meeting his long dead grandfather: realising Gaspar isn’t quite the hero a small boy was told about … and only showing it very small ways. Fresneda’s restraint is quite something …
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