Watch the video, get the download or listen to John Denver – Rocky Mountain High for free. Rocky Mountain High appears on the album Greatest Hits. Discover more. John Denver - Rocky Mountain High music CD album at CD Universe, ROCKY MOUNTAIN HIGH heightened John Denver's profile as. John Denver - Rocky Mountain High Rocky Mountain High John Denver RCA LSP 4731 Released: August 1972 Chart Peak: #4 Weeks Charted: 53 Certified Gold: 12/30/72 There he is on the screen of your color TV: blond, bespectacled, and peach-faced -- the sight of him makes you want to adjust the hue, because John Denver's flesh tone is just a shade too flesh-tones. He's the balladeer for the masses, sweet-voiced, ingenuous, and completely devoid of human characteristics. He seems sincere enough, but it's hard to sense any character in anything he says or sings. Seeing Denver in his frequent TV appearances over the last couple years suggested this inherent blandness, listening to any of his five previous albums confirmed it. Whenever there was a possibility of something real happening, Denver's nightclub-folky voice and delivery would effectively douse the spark. Original album advertising art. Click image for larger view. So if all that is true -- and there was little doubt in my mind that it was until just now -- what's going on here? This Rocky Mountain High record must be by some other John Denver, because it's a crisp, muscular album with compelling singing and some of the most powerful acoustic guitar-dominated arrangements I've heard on record. Denver may well have tired of hearing himself on the radio interminably crooning and 'When I come back, I'll wear your wedding ring,' and decided to cut loose just once in his successful, determinedly modulated career. The key is those arrangements. More than anything, Denver needed some hard edges -- some arrogance, meanness, smelliness, some unspeakable aberration -- anything that would dirty up his act. Changing his style to include any of these humanizing elements would not only be wrecking a good thing commercial-wise, it would also be extremely hard on the credibility. So instead of overtly toughening himself, Denver has surrounded himself with toughness in the form of biting instrumental tracks. The complement includes the acoustic guitars, keyboards, bass, and drums currently fashionable for the recordings of singer-songwriters from Denver to Rod Stewart, but there's a difference here. The sound is echoed, treble-boosted in the manner of a Dave Edmunds-type neoclassicist rock 'n' roll mix, underplaying the mellow middle of the acoustic guitar's sound and exaggerating its jangly top end. The technique is ridiculously simple in theory, but it produces almost miraculous results for Mr. 'Prisoners' is the key song in terms of Denver's new approach. Two acoustic guitars and electric bass kick it off with strident tones set into a march tempo like something from the first Byrds album: it's immediately compelling. Denver's voice has to battle with these sharp-edged, cutting notes and chords for the dominant sonic position, and the struggle adds some spunk to his voice (that, and a little treble boost on the vocal). He sounds no nastier than usual, but his singing resounds with what could pass for real tension and edginess, and this is without a doubt the strongest thing Denver's ever put on record. 'Prisoners,' which, incidentally, has been released as a single under the title, 'Hard Life, Hard Times (Prisoners),' is the culmination of a fast-moving, carefully structured side of songs that includes Denver's typical choices of Beatle and John Prine material plus a fake folk sing (Steve Gilette's 'Darcy Farrow') and old and new original tunes. The Beatle song, the much-recorded 'Mother Nature's Son,' is particularly intriguing: instead of going in the expected 'isn't it tranquil out here in the woods' direction that the melody and lyrics more than suggest, Denver fills the song with intended or intuitively summoned irony. Again, the guitars jangle edgily; even more surprisingly, they refuse to resolve the melodic progression at the end of the second line of each verse, and their refusal leads to a sudden lurch in the movement of the song rather than the expected smooth transition. Denver has to work to keep the track from tumbling out of control -- it never quite tips over completely, but the struggle produces plenty of anxiety, transmogrifying the song in the process into something sinister, an oblique refutation of the lying-in-the-grass-letting-the-world-go-by mentality intended by the writer. The second side is taken up mostly with something called 'The Season Suite'; surprisingly, even that has enough jangling urgency to keep it mildly interesting. I doubt if I'll ever be inclined to play 'Season Suite' again, but that other side will be hard to resist, it all works so well. I went back to the earlier five LPs to see if I could find foreshadowing of this kind of sound or tone or sense of drama on any of them -- after all, they were all produced by the same team of Denver and Milt Okun, and they all contained the same instrumentation -- but there was nary a clue. Maybe it all came to him in a dream, I can't figure it at all, but the guy has finally made an album that's really worth owning. - Bud Scoppa, Rolling Stone, 10/26/72. Bonus Reviews! Denver grows as a writer and performer with each new package, and he keeps topping himself, as witnessed with this exceptional program. Along with his current chart single, 'Goodbye Again,' his 'Rocky Mountain High,' 'Mother Nature's Son,' and a superb 'Season Suite' are highlights. Powerful material and performances. - Billboard, 1972. John Denver belongs to that slowly diminishing corps of folk veterans who have succeeded in remaining both active and accessible in their music. Like his peers, Denver continues to work within a strongly melodic and generally restrained style. His vintage is further reflected by the emotional ground of his works, that being a durably positive romantic sense of social awareness: the nascent social idealism of the early '60s lives on in Denver's mercifully sane, compassionate response to emotional and political themes in his music. Still, Denver's earnest delivery, while gaining no small measure of popular acceptance, may appear, at times, to thwart a more complex detailed contemporary perspective. He can't be faulted for his idealism, for such mellow lyricism will always have power, but that warmth remains somehow distant from the more sobering realities of other, more thoroughly urbanized writers. With Rocky Mountain High, Denver finds himself working with a variety of old musical hands: Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert return briefly for a new reading of Denver's 'For Baby,' and there is even a reunion with his partners from the Mitchell Trio ('Prisoners'), while instrumental support includes two veteran folk instrumentalists, Eric Weissberg and Paul Prestopino. Throughout, production is handled with appropriate restraint. Milt Okun was certainly in the forefront of contemporary folk producers during the early '60s, and his command of acoustic presentation remains exemplary, placing elements with a sure clear sense of balance, which always supports Denver's gentle vocal style without overpowering its restrained emotions. Denver's's chiming 12-string and Mike Taylor's various guitars are again ornamental, rather than dominant, accenting lines but still placing the weight very much on Denver's presentation of lyrics. The songs themselves raise a few questions, however, ranging from credible, comfortable themes of love and loss to somewhat more ambitious attempts at essentially poetic styles. It is in the latter category that Denver is most obviously taxed, and his 'Season Suite' consequently emerges as only partially successful in its familiar treatment of the persistence of change and constancy alike in seasonal metamorphosis. The 'Suite' itself is really a loose grouping of variations on two basic themes, with self-affirmation the unifying emotional impulse for the work. If the piece does hang together nicely, its very subtlety may well lead some listeners to question the need for such a large form to present those ideas. Still, Denver's professionalism makes the journey worthwhile. His covers range from a brisk, rolling interpretation of 'Mother Nature's Son,' which abandons McCartney's subdued, dreamy pastoral feeling for a down-home country flavor, to a properly tender reading of the Steve Gillette-Tom Campbell gem, 'Darcy Farrow,' a tune which belies its contemporary source through its authentic sense of detail. Despite those minor problems, the album does succeed in creating a sure, yet gentle, unity of spirit and technique. And, judging from Denver's progress to date, we can hope to have his warm, positive personality at hand for some time. - Sam Sutherland, Words & Music, 12/72. Propelled by the title track, Rocky Mountain High became John Denver's first Top Ten album. Though Denver still couldn't figure out how to fill out an entire album without covering his betters (in this case, old favorites The Beatles and John Prine), he and his steady backup musicians, bassist Dick Kniss and guitarist Mike Taylor, were evolving an exuberant folk-country sound that would prove enormously appealing over the next few years. The album contained one of Denver's finest ballads, 'Goodbye Again,' as well as one of his better old songs, 'For Baby (For Bobbie).' - William Ruhlmann, The All-Music Guide to Rock, 1995. Known as a songwriter through Peter, Paul and Mary's hit reading of his 'Leaving On A Jet Plane,' Denver had begun to find his own voice on the previous year's album Poems, Prayers And Promises. For this, the follow-up, he reunited with trusted collaborators Richard Kniss and Mike Taylor for a collection that simply consolidated its predecessor's success. While he was still dependent on a few covers -- notably John Prine's 'Paradise' and The Beatles' 'Mother Nature's Son,' which was to remain part of his live set up until 1975's in-concert double album Denver was beginning to show greater confidence in his own material. The album is full of beautifully crafted acoustic songs that celebrate the solitude of Denver's beloved Colorado mountain wilderness. 'Goodbye Again' stands as one of his more popular ballads. The album peaked at Number Four in the US in 1973, picking up a platinum award on the way. But a relatively poor showing in the country charts, where it struggled to Number 40, illustrated Denver's problem appealing to both a country audience and pop music fans -- who could at times revile his wholesome sincerity. As of 2004, Rocky Mountain High was the #99 best-selling album of the 70s. - Hamish Champ, The 100 Best-Selling Albums of the 70s, 2004. Buying Options. 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A1 Rocky Mountain High Steel Guitar – Written-By – *, 4:41 A2 Mother Nature's Son Written-By – 2:26 A3 Paradise Fiddle – Guitar [Dobro] – Written-By – * 2:20 A4 For Baby (For Bobbie) Backing Vocals –, *, Written-By – * 2:58 A5 Darcy Farrow Mandolin – Written-By – *, * 4:22 A6 Prisoners Backing Vocals –, Organ – Written-By – * 3:38 B1 Goodbye Again Backing Vocals – 3:36 Season Suite B2 Summer 2:54 B3 Fall 1:42 B4 Winter 1:37 B5 Late Winter, Early Spring (When Everybody Goes To Mexico) 3:57 B6 Spring 3:03. • Rights Society: BMI • Rights Society: ASCAP • Matrix / Runout (Side-1 Label): BPRS-5155 • Matrix / Runout (Side-2 Label): BPRS-5156 • Matrix / Runout (Side-1, stamped [Var.1]): BPRS 5155 11S I A2 • Matrix / Runout (Side-2, stamped [Var.1]): BPRS 5156 5S I A7 • Matrix / Runout (Side-1, stamped [Var.2]): BPRS 5155 2S I A1 • Matrix / Runout (Side-2, stamped [Var.2]): BPRS 5156 2SI B1 • Matrix / Runout (Side-1, stamped [Var.3]): BPRS-5155-1S H • Matrix / Runout (Side-2, stamped [Var.3]): BPRS-5156-1S H.
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Then you also get the collage section, which does what it says on the tin: a very simple and easy way to create a collage with pre-set layouts. The new design section is also great value: it comes with heaps of pre-set designs for all social media platforms and more, including banner ads, with image backgrounds and text overlays that you can edit at your leisure. I really like this tool: it comes with many handy options and the interface is very intuitive. A bit like Canva, but without the bloat. Thumbs up for Fotor. • GOOD FOR: Basic photo-editing tasks as well as filters, borders, stickers and text (at a price); for collages and social media graphics. Great, easy to use interface. • NOT SO GOOD FOR: This is not a semi-pro alternative to Photoshop; rather, a quick, easy and cheap all-rounder. • WORKS ON: Desktop browsers. • ONLINE OR OFFLINE? • PRICE: Free, with ads. Certain features need the upgrade: $39/year or $8.99/month. – Free online image resizing and compressing tool If all you are after is a very simple resize-and-compress for your images, perhaps after downloading them from your phone or from a stock photo agency, then Jpeg-Optimizer is a no-frills, quick and easy option that will get it done for you in a split sec. You have the chance to resize as well as compress. So this comes in handy for the other, fancier alternatives we have seen so far, which don’t actually offer a blazing-fast optimisation option. Start editing with one of the fancy tools and then head over to Jpeg-Optimizer to quickly re-size and optimize it for web. • GOOD FOR: Resizing and compressing images • NOT SO GOOD FOR: Anything else. • WORKS ON: Desktop browsers. • ONLINE OR OFFLINE? • PRICE: Free, with ads. – Online free alternative to Photoshop Wo-hoo! Look at all the lovely image editing tools in ipiccy! Ah, how great. Another brilliant and FREE online tool that substitutes Photoshop! I am truly impressed by the choice of editing tools in ipiccy. In the picture mode, the left-hand side toolbar comes with the basic editing suite – resize, crop, rotate, flip, exposure, colour, hue & saturation – as well as more advanced tools such as cloning, curves, background erase and more. It’s got blending modes! As well as layers. The icons at the top allow you to switch from Picture mode into another wide array of editing tools (including skin corrections) effects, frames, filters, bells and whistles. You can save the final result to your computer, or enable your own personal online storage. One caveat: it doesn’t work so well on Chrome for Mac, the tooltip disappears. Totally fine on FireFox. It’s a Flash-based program, so it won’t work on your iOS device. • GOOD FOR: Some serious photo editing as well as messing around with your photos, on a clean and very intuitive interface. A few cool, Photoshop-like features such as blending modes. • NOT SO GOOD FOR: Social media graphics are probably quicker to create in another program. • WORKS ON: Desktop browsers. • ONLINE OR OFFLINE? • PRICE: Free, with ads. – Desktop and online photo editing alternative to Photoshop You’re going to start thinking that I like everything, because I’m about to say that SumoPaint is another excellent online application that will make you forget Photoshop exists. It’s not my fault: SumoPaint is just great and I won’t pretend otherwise. The project dates back to 2008 and now has 20 million unique users worldwide! I guess they’re doing ok with the ads, then. It’s also a serious educational tool, used in schools’ clouds and by Google Edu, as well as having a whole community of SumoPaint artists around it. The interface is extremely similar to Photoshop: in fact, it reminds me of the golden days of Photoshop 5.5, when the Adobe program was still (relatively) un-bloated and a breeze to use. You get all the basic editing tools that you would expect of a serious image editor, as well as the wackier features that no online photo manipulation tool can do without. What’s not to like? You can upgrade to the paid version to get rid of the ads and unlock a host of other features, such as high-res cloud storage, dedicated help desk, unreleased Sumo apps, and more. At $40 annually, it’s a bargain. • GOOD FOR: Proper photo editing as well as whacky features. Cloud storage for your images. • NOT SO GOOD FOR: Social media graphics are probably quicker to create in another program. • WORKS ON: Desktop browsers and desktops. • ONLINE OR OFFLINE? Both. • PRICE: Free, with ads. Upgrade for no ads and a host of features: $4 monthly, $11.50 quarterly, $22 semi-annually, $40 annually. And old favorite alternative to PS, another old favourite: it’s much simpler than most of the apps we’ve seen so far, and, refreshingly, much less like Photoshop. It’s a great app to use on the move when you need to send out a quick social media message from a photo you’ve just taken. There is the usual arsenal of basic photo retouching and editing tools that we are now used to expect. Plus, the indispensable set of overlays, frames, textures and themes that make the happiness and delight of serial social media posters. Unlike the other tools we’ve seen, PicMonkey is better on phone or tablet than on desktop. PicMonkey can be for free; however, as is often the case with this type of app, certain features need the upgrade to a paid plan. It’s cheap, anyway, with prices starting at €5.50 a month. • GOOD FOR: Posting to Instagram and other social media platforms on the move. • NOT SO GOOD FOR: We’ve got spoilt by now! So, don’t expect too much from PicMonkey. Stick to social posting from your phone, and use one of the other tools we’ve mentioned when you need to carry out more ‘professional’ photo editing or design task. • WORKS ON: Desktop browsers; Android, iOS. • ONLINE OR OFFLINE?: Online. • PRICE: Free, with upgrades starting from $5 a month. You can do it You don’t need to run a costly subscription to Adobe Photoshop to be able to carry out a wide variety of photo work. Photoshop is a huge program with an extremely steep learning curve. It also handles animation and 3D rendering, which means it occupies up a lot of room on the hard drive, as well as taking a huge toll on RAM. It’s not that intuitive and Adobe developers seem to relish getting rid of beloved features or changing the behaviour of tools at each new release. It’s great to think that the days of Adobe’s domination in the digital world of image manipulation are finally over. Unless you need to create an extremely complex image composite or any other hi-end professional image, you do not have to use Photoshop in 2017. But, it would be great to hear what you think? What is your favorite alternative to Photoshop. Let us know in the comments. And, be sociable, and share this post with your friends. Microsoft's announced they'll (as well as Windows Server 2008 R2, 2012, and 2012 R2). Instead they'll have monthly 'cumulative' rollups of each month's patches, and while there will be a separate 'security-only' bundle each month, '.' This has one anonymous Slashdot reader asking what's the alternative: We've read about the changes coming to Windows Update in October 2016. But what happens when it's time to wipe and reload the OS? Or what about installing Windows on different hardware? Admittedly, there are useful non-security updates worth having, but plenty to avoid (e.g. How does one handle this challenge? Set up a personal WSUS box before October to sync all desired updates through October 2016? System images can work if you don't change primary hardware, but what if you do? Or should one just bend the knee to Microsoft.? Should they use AutoPatcher? Switch to Linux? Or just disconnect their Windows boxes from the internet. Leave your answers in the comments. How do you plan to handle Microsoft's new 'cumulative' Windows Updates? ++ Linux user since more than 5 years. But unfortunately thats not a solution for everybody. I've been a Linux user for over 20 years and have watched it grow into something that could be a solution for a lot of people. You're right, not everybody; I've often said in these forums that if you need or want to run Windows, go run Windows. I'm not here to try to make you change. But the need to run Windows is, I think, often quite overstated. It's certainly the case when you have some mission-critical software that simply can't be replaced. It's true if you want to do certain classes of gaming. And sometimes it's true when you need 100% document compatibility with entities that insist on Microsoft Office. My quibble is that there are many who want to run Windows but say they need to run Windows, when they very likely don't. If it's a want rather than a need, fine, go for it, but don't claim that your choice is truly based on Linux's inability to perform. My quibble is that there are many who want to run Windows but say they need to run Windows, when they very likely don't. A good rule of thumb is that if you have to run Windows because of old mission-critical software then it is probably easier to get it going under Wine than on Windows 10. Microsoft used to keep new versions compatible, but not so much anymore. They have broken the compatibility so much that pretty much all old games sold on gog.com is wrapped with dosbox, even those that worked fine on XP. >My only lack of understanding in this matter is why so many people aren't capable of understanding more than one Operating system. I think it's less laziness than the efficiency of familiarity, combined with the fact that 'alternative OSes' historically presented a far more different UI than has become the case with many today. Consider driving a car that had replaced the steering wheels and pedals with joysticks or something - a functionally trivial change in a modern fly-by-wire car, but your ability to maneuver the vehicle effectively is going to be considerably compromised by your unfamiliarity. Yes, 80% of the time that may not matter, but that last 20% is going to be constantly cropping up with irritating reminders of your incompetence until you have a few thousand hours of familiarity under your belt. And long after that you've achieved basic competence, the differences are liable to generate pro-active interference with each other, assuming you still drive normal vehiecls as well While an unfamiliar operating system is generally less personally dangerous, the difficulties are still quite frustrating. Even something as ubiquitous as the file load/save dialog often presents a considerably different interface between operating systems, with many non-obvious differences in how you configure and leverage bookmarks and other non-trivial navigation aids, on top of the differences in file system organization conventions. Or heck, take the MacOS file manager with it's drop-down folder heirarchy menu from the title bar - beautiful idea, I sometimes find myself missing it on other platforms, but completely non-intuitive, and until you learn of it it's pretty much impossible to navigate up a folder heirarchy. What makes it worse is often the differences seem to be added purely for the sake of being different - take the window min/max/close buttons on MacOSX and Ubuntu, which for some reason they decided to put on the left instead of the right which everyone has been made familiar with over the last couple decades. When switching OSes you now need to retrain your 'muscle memory' on how to close windows, and if you use multiple OSes on a regular basis you probably end up momentarily confused on both. And to what end? Even if there's some grand philosophical reason to the change (and I've never heard one), the end result is that they made OS migration that much more difficult for the sake of a tiny functionality change. The majority of my difficulties with switching between OS's is the occasional typing Ok sorry but you just lost the interest of 1billion people without finishing that first sentence. What is that? The only time a Windows user types dir is when a scammer calls them up and offers to help 'fix' their computer. The people who type dir are sys admins and power users. They aren't the ones that won't learn another OS, and chances are they already know multiple anyway. So its a bad thing being a power user? Regardless, I've put a lot of people on Linux, and they are closer to the stereotypical Granddma we talk about. Email, web, and the occasional word processing. My whole comment was in the differences between interfaces. As in many cases, not much. My wife hit her stride on Linux Mint instantly after she refused to use W8 after a month. Her previous computer was a W7 machine. Ideas: (partly a re-post from [slashdot.org]) 1) Autopatcher and WSUS Offline Update: Use [autopatcher.net] until Microsoft begins its new system of hiding even more completely what it is doing with its updates. [slashdot.org] said to use WSUS Offline Update, another community driven solution. Apparently Microsoft approves of WSUS Offline Update. This is from the Microsoft web site: [microsoft.com] [microsoft.com] 2) Windows on an isolated network: Don't allow any Microsoft operating system to have a connection to the internet. Use Linux on a separate computer on a separate network for internet connections. Use Bluetooth to communicate between the Windows OS network and the Linux network. For Microsoft, convincing people that Windows is buggy is profitable. An article I wrote last year, [futurepower.net], makes the point that Microsoft fixed 319+828+459=1,606 bugs in Windows XP since Windows XP SP1 was released. Now Microsoft says Windows XP is still too buggy to use. We have 16 computers running Windows XP and haven't had any problems. And software does not have an 'end of life', it continues to do what it always did. Do secret government agencies pay for vulnerabilities? Why do Adobe Flash and the Windows operating system have so many vulnerabilities? Do Adobe Systems and Microsoft sell vulnerabilities to secret government agencies and fix them when they are publicly discovered? Get serious about recognizing abuse. Quoting [slashdot.org], with modifications: We've seen Microsoft's continuous stream of lies and incompetence. Including a number of 'bugs' and 'mistakes' that appear deliberate. I keep a Windows system around for minor software that needs it AKA 'games'. Other than games, the very important thing that keeps Windows on my personal system is TurboTax. Like pretty much any other US Taxpayer that has a tax situation too complex for form 1040-EZ and doesn't want to pay ~$150 for H&R Block or ~$300 for a certified CPA. I hired a CPA once and $50 per year TurboTax did a better job! Before anyone says Wine, its a non-starter. TurboTax uses a bunch of.Net features that don't work 100% right on Wine like WPF. Unfortunately the Mac version is absolute garbage, so. What can't you hook to a Mac? Film Scanners, CT scanners, Drones, printers, cameras. All hook to my various Mac boxes. Possibly some POS hardware dingy who's software was last coded when Visual Basic 4 was hot but not much else. I run the full Adobe suite, Maya, Modo, various Autodesk programs (sigh) on the Mac. I can finally hook to the network at work. Recently, I've dropped Parallels because I just don't need it anymore (and Parallels' business model pisses me off). Don't know about your world. It's the all or nothing approach. Previously, you could read the patch notes (such as they were) and make an informed decision as to whether to 'patch ASAP', 'test thoroughly, then patch', 'whenever', or 'not required (e.g. Telemetry/GWX crap)' on a patch by patch basis. Other than the paucity of real data and Microsoft's far too frequent attempts to slip a turd in there, that's really not all that different from any other patch system, on any other OS - unless you are compiling from source that you have looked personally diff'd and examined the changes, you are still trusting your patch provider to do the right thing; binary packages on *nix are no different from binary.msu or.exe files on Windows Update in that respect. Now, while you can still defer the installation, you don't have that per-patch flexibility. That could potentially mean that you have to choose between breaking something critical to you (e.g. The USB webcam borkage of the recent Windows 10 update) and leaving your system exposed to some critical and remotely exploitable vulnerability instead of just patching the critical hole and waiting for Microsoft to fix the USB webcam issue. Yes, when it works, the new approach will be simpler, easier for everyone to manage, and will no doubt help alleviate some of the problems with Windows Update's seriously broken version control mechanisms, but Microsoft's track record on 'when it works', has been pretty dire lately. It's also much easier for Microsoft to slip something nasty in there, again something their track record on has been pretty dire of late. Frankly, I'm all for this latest brain dead move by Microsoft. Those that have a bit of technical nous can figure out some viable approach to patch management and additional security layers easily enough (they shouldn't have to, but still), while many of those that don't are inevitably going fall foul of a series of future USB webcam style screw-ups in the future. Same result in both cases; more pain for using Windows and a greater chance that alternatives will be considered, and anything that disrupts the Microsoft monoculture is fine by me. My wife's photography business currently runs on Windows 7. We can't accept the risk of Microsoft screwing up her production environment (Photoshop + Lightroom). For now, we're going to stop installing Windows updates, and cross our fingers. Once that starts seeming too risky, I'll look into moving Windows into a VM with limited Internet access, or we'll migrate to using a Mac for the photo editing. Neither option is appealing. I haven't yet figured out how difficult it will be to get monitor color-calibration right if Windows is running on a VM inside Linux. And sufficiently powerful Macs are painfully expensive. I'll be curious to see if Microsoft's overall strategy from the past year is going to pay off for them. They're literally driving previously satisfied customers into their competitors' arms. My wife's photography business currently runs on Windows 7. We can't accept the risk of Microsoft screwing up her production environment (Photoshop + Lightroom). For now, we're going to stop installing Windows updates, and cross our fingers. Once that starts seeming too risky, I'll look into moving Windows into a VM with limited Internet access, or we'll migrate to using a Mac for the photo editing. Neither option is appealing. I haven't yet figured out how difficult it will be to get monitor color-calibration right if Windows is running on a VM inside Linux. And sufficiently powerful Macs are painfully expensive. I'll be curious to see if Microsoft's overall strategy from the past year is going to pay off for them. They're literally driving previously satisfied customers into their competitors' arms. Mac release updates that break functionality with Photoshop/lightroom digital negatives/importing all the time. Be prepared for even worse support than windows, and ridiculous problems where your recommended solution is to buy a new license. Not to nit-pick but how is Apples update process any different from the model M$ is moving to? You get what they give, when they want to give it to you and how they choose to dish it out. I too like Apple's UI it is quick, slick and keeps several of my extended family members happy, while Windows 7 and 8 work for others that I haven't been able to pry from the platform. I have windows 10 working because I was curious and I know that eventually I am going to have to support it for someone. Other family membe. Its like you've never heard of backups. FFS, your wifes photography business sounds like it runs on one windows 7 computer. A windows update that toasts your 'photo editing environment' is less likely than a variety of hardware failures. I'm sure, since you are clearly so conscientious about the reliability and accessibility of this environment, that you have a proper backup solution in place. In the unlikely event of an update fiasco. Roll back, and carry on. For a large enterprises, where it actually makes sense to lab test an update before rolling it out this doesn't work. But for 'your wifes photography business' I can't really figure out what you are trying to accomplish. And EVEN the enterprise guys can still lab test before letting the cumulative update through to production. And hold it up if there is an issue. (Although its less clear how they resolve a problem.) But that is a whole other situation. Its like you've never heard of backups.. We actually do have a pretty decent backup regimen for the photographs themselves, including online, nearline, and offsite tiers. The photographs are irreplaceable. However, Windows is not my day-job OS, and I need to be economical with the time, energy, and number of neurons I spend babysitting that OS. I can institute such a backup policy if necessary, but the more Microsoft makes it necessary, that more likely I am to just switch to a platform that's more reliable and is easier to rebuild. However, Windows is not my day-job OS, and I need to be economical with the time, energy, and number of neurons I spend babysitting that OS. So what were you doing up until now? Reading each KB article? Vetting each update on a test system? I dont' really see that based on you response, so how on earth does THIS cumulative update model really change anything for YOU exactly?!! Meanwhile, a dead simple off-the-shelf backup software packages for windows suitable for a single system seems like a perfect solution. For example.this is pretty much exactly what you seem to need.but choose any you like. My wife's photography business currently runs on Windows 7. We can't accept the risk of Microsoft screwing up her production environment (Photoshop + Lightroom). As a matter of interest why has the risk profiled suddenly changed for you? Have you been running your machine unpatched for years? Do you think there's something magically worse about a cumulative update vs installing 10 single updates? Did your computer melt into a puddle when you installed the Windows 7 sevice packs? The cumulative update process still gives you the option to defer updates as it does in Windows 10 so that any issues are fleshed out before the update gets pushed to you. Now a few more quest. Appy app apps guy is right - the future in everyone's mind is Apps, not some LUDDITE desktop application or 'pre-App web app' -- but I think Microsoft is really dismissing how much legacy code is out there and is broken by various updates. I do systems integration work with an end user desktop focus, and there are _so many_ crappy IE-only, ActiveX or Java applet or Flash or Shockwave (!) monstrosities lurking in corporate IT shops everywhere. Most of it isn't even in-house developed - it was written by really expensive consultants who want another few million to modernize it. It will be very interesting to see how they pull this off - whether there will be an exception for Enterprise, etc. 'Cumulative updates might help with this - because the bugfix will be incorporated into the next month's cumulative update meaning getting the bugfixed version will be straightforward.' The problem comes not from the cumulative bug fixes, but the applications that, for one reason or another, rely on the buggy behavior. Concrete example - Microsoft has for some time now made IE updates cumulative for the very same reasons they're citing here -- better testing, etc. Since then, I have had more than one inciden. It is so sad to see it come to such a painful end. I actually bought Windows 1.0 in my youth and have had a machine running a Windows version ever since. I did manage to skip the most disastrous versions (ME, Vista, Bob and friends) and as a result had a pretty good run. By Windows 7 it had finally become a stable workhorse OS that, for a time, served me well as its owner and master. With Windows 8.x and then 10 it became evident that Windows as an OS no longer served me as its (paid and rightful) owner but instead answered to an increasingly malevolent master who was working against my will and interests. Its aim was nothing other than to harvest and sell me, my identity, my movements, my thoughts, my keystrokes, as a product like any other meat based commodity. I knew I could not in good conscious willingly give myself over to such abuses. I concluded that Windows 7 would be my last Windows and in my personal view was THE last Windows as I knew the product all these years, with the things that came after no longer sharing a common purpose with those that came before. While corrupting the Windows brand was bad even more nefarious was to take the Windows 7 the I own now away from me. The tried heartily to wear me down with deceptive pop-ups and then with malicious corrupting patches but, through great effort, I diligently thwarted them all. Now it seems the end has come, my paid copy of Windows 7 Professional will be corrupted by force or left to wither and be ravaged by wild dogs and the NSA in what I personally view to be a heinous crime against all humanity. As a long term Microsoft customer, the sentiment I now associate most with the company is betrayal. I will apply all the patches that the vendor supplies in an automated way where possible and where not, as soon as is practical. While it is true that a vendor could screw up a patch, it is also true that my hard drive could die, malware could get on my system, an other hardware or software problem could corrupt my data, or I could just screw up and delete data myself. To protect myself from any of these occurrences, I keep regular backups. I take these backups at a frequency similar to the amount of data I am willing to lose in the event of any failure (including 'evil' actions on behalf of my OS vendor.) For me the frequency of backups is generally daily. Note that I use the term OS vendor instead of Microsoft here, this because I run several computers with several operating systems (Microsoft, Linux(s), others) and I have had them all screw up a patch. Since I have chosen not to write or personally review the source code for all the software I use (because I don't have that kind of time), I choose to outsource that work to several vendors, one of which is Microsoft. Yes, there are risks to running software from Microsoft (or any other vendor), Microsoft may not have my best interests in mind. However their software meets my needs and I have made the calculation that the value the software provides outweighs the risks. I will apply all the patches that the vendor supplies in an automated way where possible and where not, as soon as is practical. While it is true that a vendor could screw up a patch, it is also true that my hard drive could die, malware could get on my system, an other hardware or software problem could corrupt my data, or I could just screw up and delete data myself. To protect myself from any of these occurrences, I keep regular backups. I take these backups at a frequency similar to the amount of data I am willing to lose in the event of any failure (including 'evil' actions on behalf of my OS vendor.) For me the frequency of backups is generally daily. Note that I use the term OS vendor instead of Microsoft here, this because I run several computers with several operating systems (Microsoft, Linux(s), others) and I have had them all screw up a patch. Since I have chosen not to write or personally review the source code for all the software I use (because I don't have that kind of time), I choose to outsource that work to several vendors, one of which is Microsoft. Yes, there are risks to running software from Microsoft (or any other vendor), Microsoft may not have my best interests in mind. However their software meets my needs and I have made the calculation that the value the software provides outweighs the risks. Security only for servers, with one or two full rollups per year (in low demand periods, with full en-garde vendor support). And full rollups monthly for desktops, but in waves, over one or two weeks, starting with less critical groups, and moving onwards in the criticality (Or, artenatively, with canaries in each and every group, and moving onwards to the rest of the respective teams). And all this backed up (pun intended) with full backups (Baremetal recovery ones right before 'em patches). Yes, there are risks to running software from Microsoft (or any other vendor), Microsoft may not have my best interests in mind. However their software meets my needs and I have made the calculation that the value the software provides outweighs the risks. I think what you're missing is that your calculation is rapidly becoming inaccurate. In the past, Microsoft had to make sure that their software met your (the customer's) needs or they would lose that customer. Their best interest was to prioritize the best interests of their customer base, because they would then keep buying Windows-based computers which is where the revenue came from. Now that the market has shifted, they are placing their interests before that of the customer, and the value of the OS is thus diminished. What people are talking about is not the status quo you refer to that has been true for a few decades, rather it's the status quo that seems to be coming which looks much different. It's one in which you are not the customer to which the software needs to provide value, you are the product. The software will be providing value to the actual customers of Microsoft, which are likely those who want to advertise to you, sell to you and monitor you. I still consider Windows 7 as the best OS Microsoft ever made. As far as updates go I completely disabled them after the update gate fiasco. If you feel like me and had to disable windows updates because you can't trust them not to update your entire operating system then it's probably best to part ways, like a psychotic girlfriend that spies on your every move. Trust is a two way street. Once you break that trust the relationship can never be the same. Time for me to go back to Linux. As unrefined as it is, at least they're trying to do good things for their users instead of exploiting them. I'll never run a Mac OS or Google OS for the same reason. Microsoft didn't just cross the line, they got in a spaceship and flew light years past it at ludicrous speed. >'Ask Slashdot: How Will You Handle Microsoft's New 'Cumulative' Windows Updates?' I run Linux and have for decades. That is how I handle dealing with Microsoft. Of course, that doesn't do most people much good.but people allow themselves to be slaves to Microsoft. The stunts Microsoft has pulled over the last several years shows they are just as controlling, unreasonable, and manipulative as ever. There is never a better time to move away from MS-Windows. Linux is just as robust as ever, it has a lot of great applications, lots of support structure, and more and more business software is finally moving to be cloud based and/or web-front ended so the clients can run whatever they like. Change is never easy, though. Microsoft hotfixes were never 'individual' in the first place. There are two servicing branches for Windows. GDR is what used to go out on Windows Update. LDR is for changes that are considered more risky, and is a superset which also contains GDR changes. All changes are cumulative, per binary. Once you install an LDR fix, that binary stays on LDR branch until a service pack is applied. At service pack time, GDR and LDR branches are merged. There's no such thing as an 'individual' Microsoft patch. All binaries are patched cumulatively; the only question is what cumulative version you have installed for a given binary. All that's changed is that they don't want to actually document bugs that are fixed in the hotfixes in detail, and they want to force everyone to more or less the same patch level, because 90% of the time, customers having problems are running old bits that aren't being tested by Microsoft any more. There's an ongoing religious argument over 'patch to the latest' vs 'don't touch it to keep it stable'. But in truth, if you hit a new, unfixed bug, and Microsoft created a new hotfix for you, or even if you just install the latest security update, you were always forced to accept all the cumulative changes between the patchlevel you were at, and the new hotfix you are installing. It's just that at the moment the heavy handed 'force em to patch' faction has the upper hand at Microsoft now. I still use Windows 7. It is what my company uses and I have to maintain a certain degree of compatibility. I also create content, both for myself and for the company I work for. I've avoided MS updates for years simply because Microsoft has proven time and time again that they cannot be trusted, and guess what. Everything still works. My non-Microsoft applications do not mysteriously uninstall themselves after an update, the driver for my printer/scanner does not suddenly stop working because it is not 'th. Windows is a monolithic mess, and managing patches for it has always been difficult. A lot of these patches require newer updates anyway, so it's just easier to delay, test, and then iterate mass-deployment rather than manage on a per patch basis. In the past, I'd just wait for the service pack and install that when the time came rather than dealing with the individual updates, unless I really needed a fix RTFN. Then MS killed the service packs. I guess this is a return to that, with more frequency. You say that all high and mighty like you haven't managed 80,000 computers who run dozens of combinations of software where our customers demand 99.97% uptime YET DEMAND no ransomware and security for HIPPA and PCI credit processing compliance! We CANNOT RUN some updates. IE 6 uses TLS 1.,0 and it breaks the clients 17 year old app so that security patch can not work. We use App-v to run the ancient app as one example. How is this an improvement? We have one guy whose sole job is mostly just testing patches a. High and mighty? I just said that in my experience testing and updating 1 service pack a year is a lot easier than queuing up a half dozen 'batch tuesdays' worth of patches to test every month. The other nice thing about them is they weren't forced. Obviously, my solution for win10 only works well for personal machines, or maybe a small office. Overall, I agree with your post, but good luck managing all those patches. Don't be angry with me. Be angry with microsoft, and possibly the vendors of whatever. If you don't trust the vendor, then it's time to look at someone else's products. That being said, we are talking about Microsoft here. Many people disagree with their decisions, but they are more or less reliable. Their marketing may be agressive, but they aren't going to go to the point of breaking a product on purpose. They are going to test their patches to the best of their ability, and they are a large enough firm to have the means to do it well. Yes, there will be problems for some users. That is to be expected. Unlike many vendors, Microsoft has relatively little control over the hardware their product is used on or the software that is used on their operating system. So do take precautions like doing regular backups and be prepared to restore those backups if you end up being an edge case where things break. While you can possibly do better than Microsoft, you can certainly do worse. Easy for you to say. Home users rarely are impacted except for a few scattered Windows 10 users with funky old drivers from updates. What this shitstorm is going to hit is the enterprise. Where a patch can be devestating, but security and being up to date also is a must. Just imagine 100 applications and 70,000 computers all with different needs filled with very old quirky shit taped up where customers still demand we use IE 6 for much of it. We have a hack to get it to work under Windows 7 with Citrix. Back in the days of XP SP1 I bought a laptop. It wanted to install a 'security update' right away, but I put it off. Wanting to get comfortable with my new computer and my new operating system first. I also used a live Linux CD on the computer a lot.And if you recall, these were the days that Microsoft was particularly vocal about their hatred for Linux. After about a month I finally told Windows that it could install the 'Security Update'. I didn't notice any obvious change in Windows, but I did see one big change with my laptop, it could no longer connect to the Internet when I ran my live CD! I checked everything. The CD was still the same and still had the proper CRC checksum. I made another CD anyway but, as expected, the results were the same. After a lot of work I finally tracked down the problem. The laptop NIC, like all modern NICs, had a small eeprom on it that stored the MAC address (that's how they can mass produce NICs that all have unique MAC addresses). And it turns out that there is plenty of extra space in the eeprom not needed for the MAC address, and the NIC used that space to store start up configuration settings, and mine were now set to values that made no sense and kept the NIC from working properly. Interestingly, XP ignored how the NIC was configured and reconfigured it as it wanted so that the device would work. But Linux, which worked fine on the computer for a month, didn't suspect that anything was wrong and tried to use my hardware as it was configured. Once I understood this I was able to run:Linux again. It was a pain, I had to manually issue some commands every time I booted the CD, but I was able to work around the problem. Eventually Linux code was changed to not trust configuration settings and configure the NIC in the same way that Windows did and I no longer had to manually reconfigure the NIC on every boot. I'm a cautious computer user. I have a decent hardware firewall and I also use a good software firewall (not one from Microsoft). So now I was in a position where the only malware that had ever done me harm was a Microsoft Windows Update. It wasn't too hard to figure out how to not experience another problem like this one. I've never accepted a software update from the malware provider who screwed me since then. I never will. I have had no malware experiences since then. So how I'll deal with the new update policy is to leave my Windows settings just as they are and not let Microsoft break anything else. My main box has been Linux. It is a lot more hassle to run Windows stuff under Linux, of course, but the writing was on the wall when Windows 10 seemed so sketchy. When I found out that the telemetry updates had been pushed MONTHS prior and then went live for 7 and 8, that was what made it clear to me that I must switch sooner: that was hugely disingenuous. I dual booted for awhile to get stuff switched over, and now my box's Microsoft code is DLLs for WINE. What I COULD do, if I was inclined to keep a Windows partition around, is to grab just the security updates, and use those. That's probably what most slashdotters who give a fuck will do. I just don't give a fuck. I just can't ever keep up with the endless update debt of Windows, and fighting that seems almost impossible. It's this huge list of everchanging clusterfuck, and if I'm going to have to sysadmin my shit, it may as well be on an OS that isn't actively trying to fuck me over. I'd much rather prefer the accidental breakage of New Bullshit than the deliberate breakage of Known Hostile Entity. At work, our Linux boxes obviously don't care about this, and our Windows boxes are Somebody Else's Problem, but those are Enterprise, so who cares anyway. But I'll just use Fedora. It is said, Windows users will put up with anything. Well, I won't, which is why I'm not a Windows user. As a counter for all the MS hate around here and all the Linux fans who think it will be taking over the world someday soon. Windows 10 works just fine, I have it installed on over 20 computers, I've installed it on many more, it works very well. I used Windows 7 the other day, it felt old all of a sudden, amazing when it felt so new just 7 years ago, but it is now out of date and the idea of staying on Win 7/8.1 is just not reasonable anymore. Yes, you can use Linux if you want to, it has a purpose, but it won't be replacing Windows as the mass market desktop OS, well. Something else might, OS X could if Apple would licence it for use on other computers besides Macs, but really there isn't anything else for the mass market. I still use Windows because so much of my essential software will only run on Windows. I have a string of Unix qualifications dating back many years. I have a couple of Linux machines and periodically try new releases, but I always seem to run into some major problem. However my main dislike of Linux is what I perceive as the childish users and flakey implementations. Really garish screens with dragons, blood, skulls and the like. This whole thread is such a good example. The original OP asked a. > Windows 10 works just fine if you don't care about being spied on. When even MS admits they [forbes.com] then you've just admitting to being MS's bitch. But I guess you have no respect for yourself since MS sure doesn't have any for you. Only a complete idiot blindly trusts Microsoft. The rest of us actually have a pair and don't allow MS to pretend they own our computers, nor our network connections. > I used Windows 7 the other day, it felt old all of a sudden, /sarcasm I used the wheel the other day. It felt a few thousand years old. It is now out of date and is just not reasonable anymore -- oh wait, it works. Ah, that explains it -- just another dumb hipster who thinks ' Ooh, shiny!' Is somehow more magically stable then something that has been around for a while. Windows 10 == more lines of code == more bugs, but keep on being a shill because Windows 7 works just fine for those of us using it. But I don't expect an apologist to understand why Microsoft's forced upgrades on Windows 7 and Window 8 users leaves a bad taste with customers and users start looking for alternatives. I run windows 7 because I use my PC for gaming. By the time win7 is no longer supported by the latest games I expect steamOS/linux to have caught up on gaming performance/compatibility and I can leave microsoft forever. I refuse to use win8.x or win10 and I highly doubt microsoft will ever make a good OS (like XP or 7) again. From October I will be disabling windows update and manually downloading the monthly security-only updates from microsoft. I will be using WSUS offline and PortableUpdat. So I had messed around with various distributions of linux over they years (and frequently work on linux/unix/solaris systems at work) but had never taken the full plunge for my personal daily driver until a couple of months ago. I had take the Win10 upgrade from the win7 that had original shipped, and didn't have any issues with drivers/etc. But something kept bothering me. It started with not being able to control when updates occurred, I'd be in the middle of something and windows would decide that right now was when it had to update. There isn't much the torques me more than being interrupted when trying to hack out some code. Then I was trying to boot a newer linux distro off a thumb drive and found the startup process wasn't letting me get to the bios to choose the boot device, which I found out was due to the computer being in some sort of hibernate state even though I told windows to shut down. Apparently in order to improve boot times Win10 actually puts the system in a hibernate like state when you shut down, unless you hack the registry or use a special parm on a shutdown command. TL;DR I got fed up with it and switched to Ubuntu-MATE, and replaced the hard drive with a SSD. Booting from cold no takes 15 seconds including entering the password. > Windows haters can do the same, in case it's over fake 'security concerns' w.r.t. Windows 10, in which case, they need a one-way trip to Guantanamo Bay in order to learn what REAL invasion of privacy is. Fucking children. You should probably look into what you agreed to send Microsoft in the EULA (hint: everything you ever do, say, everyone you know, who you communicate with, the contents of those communications, etc etc etc). But keep going with that amazing comparison. You could write ad copy: 'Microsoft Windows: It's better than being detained indefinitely and tortured in a military prison on a communist island!' That you have to compare a long term detainment and part time torture camp to the OS you bought and paid for shows just how Windows users will put up with anything. Ludicrous comparison to compare something you buy and pay for with indefinite detention. July 3, 2014 January 24, 2016 Fated To Love You: Episode 1 by Good news, everyone: Fated To Love You is soooooooooo fun. For a show surrounded by such high expectations for its remake, I’m happy to report that this adaptation is vibrant, funny, and stays true to its roots. In fact, I don’t think I’ve laughed out loud this much in a while. Honoring fans of the original by being the remake they dreamed of while also offering something fun and new for viewers who just want to have a good time, Fated To Love You has a good head start in becoming the kind of romantic comedy that’ll leave you in stitches and refreshed for the summer. As for the ratings: You’re All Surrounded continued to lead the pack with 10.7%, Joseon Gunman followed with 8.0%, and new kid on the block Fated To Love You premiered with 6.6%. SONG OF THE DAY K.Will – “오늘부터 1일 (Day 1)” [ ] Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version. Explore Boss, March and more! Fated To Love You - 2014 Korean drama It's the Korean version of the same title Taiwanese drama. Watch U Prince The Series The Foxy Pilot 2016 English Subtitle is a Thailand Drama Hawk a young graduate of the Faculty of Engineering begins working as a pilot at the world s most. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. EPISODE 1 RECAP A young woman walks barefoot among lush vegetation, and then the camera cuts to a close-up of hair products. Wait, are we watching a commercial before we get to the show? Dipping her hair in water, she works it into a lather, takes a whiff and then reels in disgust. The director calls cut on the ruined take, and the model (cameo by Clara) throws a fit on set, complaining about how she can’t use a body double and how this “measly shampoo” could ruin her hair. Noticing the disgruntled staff, however, she gives into another take and has her stylist bring in her luxury foreign-import shampoo. Just then, someone snaps their fingers and a voice calls out, “Hold it.” A man in an expensive-looking suit saunters into the set, handing off his swanky accessories to the bewildered crew, and moves the model off-camera. His stare remains unwavering as he peels off his jacket and throws it at the staff, then scoops up some water and pours it over his head. After working the shampoo into his hair, he dunks his head into the water before flipping his hair backwards, showering the camera with soapy water droplets. But he’s just getting started—he rips the front of his shirt and exposes his chiseled abs, all the while rattling off lines at the camera. Picking up the “measly shampoo,” he bursts into hearty laughter, then tops off his performance with a moan. “Ah, refreshing.” Now this is what I call a shampoo commercial. *fans self* After that perfect take, the director wonders who their impromptu model is. He’s none other than our hero, LEE GUN ( Jang Hyuk), who introduces himself as the CEO of Jangin Chemicals, aka the company that produces this “measly shampoo,” which is, in fact, their best product. It’s clear that Gun takes great pride in his company’s products and how they’re advertised to their potential customers, and he tells his right-hand man, MANAGER TAK ( Choi Dae-chul) to rescind the model’s CF endorsement deal. Mention of that effectively has her singing a different tune, as she coquettishly asks if there’s a way to smooth things over, say, over dinner. He declines—he has no need for an expensive diva who doesn’t value authenticity. It’s kind of great how Gun struts out of there like a boss, and now he can finally turn his attention to the source of Manager Tak’s panic: Grandma’s been called into an urgent meeting by the Jeonju Lee clan elders. And that’s where we meet Gun’s grandmother, WANG BOK-SOON ( Park Won-sook), who asks for the clan elders’ patience, promising to marry off her grandson within the year. But the restless elders are fed up with hearing those same words year after year, and demand a written guarantee this time. (A little context: Gun belongs to the Jeonju Lee clan, whose notable descendants include King Taejo, who founded the Joseon Dynasty. These clan meetings are typically reserved for males, where discussion topics can touch upon lineage, land, and so on.) There’s a lot of pressure on Gun to get married and produce a male successor—as the only male descendant in the past nine generations, there’s also the unlucky notion that the males in his family line have never lived past their thirties. Basically, time’s a-tickin’. Before Grandma can speak to her grandson’s defense any further, Gun appears himself, in dry clothes and perfectly-coiffed hair. After saying his greetings, Gun boasts of his company’s greatest achievements, through which the clan elders have been able to enjoy their rather luxurious lifestyles thus far, he notes. Then Gun declares his future marriage plans: His sweetheart will soon return to Korea, and he vows to hold a wedding by the fall. Judging from Grandma Wang’s astonished expression, this sudden announcement seems to be news to her. And as Gun bends down to put his words in writing, he asks Grandma if he did a good job. We’re finally introduced our heroine, KIM MI-YOUNG ( Jang Nara), who we see run into her workplace, carrying coffee and breakfast in both her hands. A friendly male employee offers a helping hand and fixes her lopsided glasses for her; he even shows some flirtatious interest in our timid heroine, saying how the wonderful smell isn’t coming from the coffee. He wonders why Mi-young’s always the one running errands, but it doesn’t seem to trouble her. His concern, though, puts her in a giddy mood, and as she delivers the food and drinks to her co-workers, we hear her in voiceover telling us about that one person in the office everyone knows—the person who can’t say no even if they’re busy and accepts every request without getting so much as a thank you. That person in this office is Mi-young, who gets flooded with menial tasks and favors from her co-workers—they even come in post-it form. Just listening to her never-ending inbox is overwhelming, and Mi-young breaks the fourth wall with the acknowledgement that her name is as ordinary and plain as her looks. She likens her existence to a post-it note—necessary but not valuable to anyone, a pushover and can be easily thrown away. And her computer monitor is filled with them. At least there’s one person in this office who can’t stand to see Mi-young be used like an office rag: her law-firm hoobae and friend JI-YEON, who barks at Mi-young to stand up for herself. Ji-yeon’s a good friend, too, emphasizing the power of saying “no” to others and telling her friend to practice at night. Aw, they’re cute. Mi-young gets her first opportunity to exercise this lesson when she declines her boss’s request. She has to will herself to stand firm, but then gives into his guilt trip a few seconds later. Ji-yeon lets out a heavy sigh. After the clan meeting, Grandma Wang asks her grandson what made him sound so confident earlier. She practically jumps up and down with excitement like Gun to hear that his longtime girlfriend is coming back to Korea—for good this time. Manager Tak is the party-pooper who asks, “What if she doesn’t accept your marriage proposal?” Gun tells him to just make preparations, since he’ll be doing the whole proposal thing on his own. He then bids a boisterous goodbye like a little boy to his grandmother. On her errand, Mi-young briefly stops to admire diamond rings in a jewelry store window. Inside, Gun isn’t happy with any of the store’s selections, so the employee asks him to describe his special lady. He paints an angelic picture of his ladyfriend: a graceful ballerina who expresses herself with her body like a poet uses words; someone who makes him feel like the world is at peace and wonderful. “She’s a special woman,” Gun says, grinning. Why do I get the feeling that the reality will be vastly different than his imagination? On a plane, a male passenger describes his sketch of a young lady as his younger sister, whose face he can’t remember clearly. And from the way he describes the familial separation to how he was adopted in America to failing at finding his sister every time he visits Korea, one might be led to think that he’s using his sob story to score a girl. That could be what his neighbor thinks, too, as her timely remarks to his cheesy moves are strangely in sync with the movie she’s watching with her headphones on. She breaks into a satisfied smile when the girl leaves. The man, DANIEL ( Choi Jin-hyuk) asks if she’s upset that he didn’t flirt with her instead, but she chirps back that he’s not at all her type. Ah, so this must be KANG SE-RA ( Wang Ji-won), Gun’s longtime girlfriend and ballerina. As Gun practices his proposal to Se-ra outside, Mi-young rushes forward to save a toddler from wandering into danger. In her haste, she bumps into some children carrying bouncy balls that spill onto the ground, and she grabs hold of the closest solitary body—Gun’s. Like an elegant dance, they spin around a few times before falling backwards. The music swells as the candies she bought and his ring fly up into the air and cuts out when they fall to the ground. But then Gun’s eyes grow wide to see the ring go rogue and roll down the escalator. It stops at a dog pen, and Gun cowers in fear. He barks at Mi-young to retrieve it, and she scrambles to chase it down until it finally ends up next to a sleeping Rottweiler. Gun whispers at her to get it, citing his fear of dogs. But she’s scared, too, so he hoists her over the fence as she inches forward but then one wrong move wakes the dog up. As they run for their lives from the barking dog, Gun wonders if this is the end for him, just like his ancestors who met their ends around his age. “Like my ancestors before me, will I be unable to escape fate?” Deciding that he can’t die here, Gun looks to a determined Mi-young next to him: “But who’s she? She’s fast really fast!” As she charges ahead of him, Gun tries (and fails) to hold her back. Hahaha, his strained voice-over cracks me up. Unfortunately for them, the two find themselves at a dead-end, putting them face to face with the dog. Swallowing his fear, Gun breaks into nervous laughter and bravely takes his jacket off, intending to wield it against the animal. The dog comes at them, Gun swings, and asks hesitantly, “Did I kill it?” Then he looks back to see the dog licking at Mi-young’s pocket, trying to get at the lollipop. She can only whimper until the owner finally comes running and explains her pet’s love for cherry-flavored things. Gun belatedly asks about his lost ring and beams to see it on her finger. It isn’t long before his senses kick in, though, and he angrily pulls it off her index finger and tears into her for wearing it before its intended recipient. She says it’s a relief that they found it at all, but Gun launches into a full-on rant about how this entire ring-losing-dog-chase thing was her fault. Not listening to a word she says about how she couldn’t have known the dog was vying for the candy, he storms off, cursing and flailing. Mi-young’s more astounded than angry, and merely sighs. Mi-young’s absence at the office all goes unnoticed apart from Ji-yeon. In celebration of the law firm’s 10-year anniversary, one employee will get to stay at a posh Macau resort for free (but still have to pay for airfare). Mi-young turns out to be the lucky winner, and she squeals to Ji-yeon that they can go together. But like the good friend Ji-yeon is, she says she should take her non-existent boyfriend to things like these and Mi-young glances at that friendly male employee. HA, Manager Tak has prepared a full-on powerpoint presentation for Gun’s proposal, and the two share a good laugh over how it will take place at the Macau resort (the same one Mi-young is traveling to), since that’s where he and Se-ra first met. Aw, that’s super cute. Gun’s face hardens when Manager Tak notes how lonely Gun’s been ever since he lost his parents at a young age. “Who says so? I’m not lonely!” Gun snaps. But they’re soon back to acting like little boys when the conversation turns to the soon-to-be engaged couple’s romantic night together. They’re so busy laughing that they register Se-ra’s arrival two seconds too late, leaving them to scramble to shut off the projector. Suspicious, Se-ra immediately puts Gun in a headlock, asking if he’s been up to no good in her absence. He agrees to tell her, nearly gagging. Pfft, I love how those five seconds say everything about their relationship. She lets go and then smiles sheepishly to hear that Gun was planning a trip for them. She asks if he isn’t happy that she surprised him by coming early. He says he is, adding that he had this grand romantic gesture planned for her arrival. Se-ra jokes to come back tomorrow, but he pulls her back into a hug: “I’m never going to let you go anywhere again, my love.” Mi-young calls home to invite Mom on that Macau vaycay. How appropriate that the seaside restaurant is called “Mom With Three Daughters”? It’s cute how Mi-young speaks to her family in her countryside accent, and Mom passes on the offer, to the two older unnis’ pouting. Just when Mi-young wonders if she should sell her winnings, she gets a text and runs out. It’s that friendly male co-worker, Lawyer Min, who takes her out for a sensational dinner. He’s both pleasant and attentive on their date, and he wastes no time to gauge her interest in him. After briefly seeing Daniel at a club as a DJ, we cut back to Mi-young, who musters up the courage to send a few texts to Lawyer Min. She gets nervous when he doesn’t immediately respond, but then both women squeal when he calls Mi-young “honey,” a sure start to a relationship. Ji-yeon nudges her friend to invite him on that trip to Macau, and runs on ahead on their way back from lunch. Mi-young has to yell to get Lawyer Min’s attention, though she softens when he says he missed her. Uh oh, first red flag? She blushes at his advances, and when he basically invites himself on her trip (in banmal, at that), she giggles. It turns out Gun’s trip to Macau is also to secure a business deal with the resort, but he also takes time out to make sure all the marriage proposal prep is in order for Se-ra’s arrival that evening, from the gondola ride to the banners, to the string quartet. Little does he know that everything isn’t picture-perfect, because we see a pair of men trailing behind him, referring to Gun as their “island’s enemy.” We’ll come to know them as PRESIDENT PARK and MR. CHOI, both of whom are affiliated with an island-based soap factory currently in dire straits because of Jangin Chemicals. As for Mi-young, she’s both excited and a bundle of nerves upon her arrival in Macau. She’s nervous about spending a night with a man, but Ji-yeon tells her not to worry since Mi-young’s with the man she likes, so her body is sure to follow.*wink wink* But this wouldn’t be her first time, would it? Mi-young hangs up before giving an answer, and that’s when Lawyer Min finally shows up, sort-of-but-not-really guilty about making her carry all the luggage. Why, someone might think that he made her carry it all. But good ol’ Mi-young brushes it aside, and they hop on a bus together. We’re briefly introduced to a mysterious woman in all black telling someone over the phone that she’s putting her life on the line for this mission. It’s President Park she’s speaking to, and he’s come up with some half-baked plan that somehow involves the aforementioned mysterious Miss Kim and feeding Gun a spiked drink. But the second part of that plan goes awry, because that water bottle falls into the indoor stream and bobs along with the current. On the bus, Lawyer Min teasingly gripes that he offered to go Dutch on this trip, but she insisted on paying for everything. In exchange, he promises to take care of her tonight and places his hand over hers, to her alarm. “Don’t be embarrassed,” he whispers. “Just imagine it.” Mi-young and Lawyer Min settle in their hotel suite (Room 2006) and try to think of what to do next. She rattles off a list of activities, but doesn’t pick up on how his eyes light up at the mention of a casino. He tells her to rest while he takes a look around. Lawyer Min heads straight for the casino, where he runs into the elusive Miss Kim. Mi-young sets off looking for her date, and when she sneezes unexpectedly, she worries that she might be catching a cold. Mi-young sits down by a fountain to give her feet a break, unaware that Gun is sitting on a bench nearby. She can hear him, though, and cranes her head to see who’s speaking, but can only see the back of his head. So she sits and listens as Gun practices his heartfelt proposal, thanking Se-ra for returning to Korea and taking this trip with her, even though he knew coming back to Korea wasn’t a happy decision for her. He knows it might be selfish of him to propose, but instead of being a man at the prime of her career, he wants to be the man who shares in both the good times and the bad with her. “Could I do that? I love you, Se-ra. Will you marry me?” he finishes. And then Mi-young sneezes. Gun whirls around at the sound, and Mi-young grabs the bottle floating in the fountain before she hides behind a plant and downs it, none the wiser. COMMENTS Oh sweetie, didn’t your mother ever tell you never to pick up unidentifiable objects? Given the sky-high expectations for the Korean remake of a most-beloved Taiwanese romantic comedy, I was fully prepared for either possibility when it came to Fated To Love You: this show would disappoint me or be awesome. And I’m so glad that it’s the latter. It could be that I could use a good dose of lighthearted humor and entertainingly zany characters after six months of melodramas and wannabe medical-political-spy-thrillers, but I think it does say something if a show can appeal to me in the first few minutes like Fated did, even if I was confused whether we were watching a drama or a CF at first. And, well, Jang Hyuk’s abs are a bonus. Even though I’ve only seen a few episodes of the original, I could tell that the premiere covered a lot of narrative ground and introduced us to lots of characters in its rollcall, perhaps to the point where I thought we could hold off on a few minor ones in the first hour. And while I wouldn’t be able to point out all the similarities and differences between the Korean and Taiwanese versions, I could feel enough of the show’s original charm in this adaptation that will hopefully appeal even to the purist of fans. But even in the face of the many expectations that come along with any remake (be it from drama-to-drama or manhwa-to-drama), I prefer to take any drama adaptation as a separate entity that stands alone, if only to generate different kinds of expectations for the show’s trajectory. I think Fated did a fair job of tying in original character and narrative elements while injecting some fresh life into the reboot and integrating that back into the story. For instance, I liked how Gun’s lineage (how fitting that a chaebol would belong to an imperial family line?) played a great part into the importance of carrying on the family name. Moreover, I thought it was a great turn that his longtime sweetheart Se-ra isn’t the dainty, graceful ballerina he imagines in his head, but a no-nonsense girl who speaks her mind. Which then makes an extremely naive and dim heroine like Mi-young a little too dated by modern dramaland standards. She’s someone you want to knock some common sense and self-esteem into, but if I know Jang Nara, I know that she’ll be able to make Mi-young into a winning heroine we’ll want to root for. If anything, I’m glad that Mi-young has such a solid and good friend in Ji-yeon, who’s there for there both at the workplace and at home. As for Gun, I initially wasn’t expecting such a ridiculously hilarious character out of our hero, but I love Jang Hyuk’s portrayal here. We can see the adoring relationship he has with his grandmother, the bickering one with his right-hand man, and the loving one he has with Se-ra. Jang Hyuk’s spot-on comedic timing had me in stitches multiple times in this episode, and I love that there’s a sense of security in his character’s backstory, as evidenced by the tiny moments of insight from Manager Tak. In fact, the show does such a good job of dropping hints for what’s to come that I actually feel both excited and assured as we proceed with each episode, which I hope will be like little drops of heaven. RELATED POSTS • • • • • • • • Tags:,,,. I loved this first episode! Thank you for recapping. I thought I would hate Jang Nara's character, but she's lovely. This is the second role of Jang Hyuk that I liked, the first one his drama with JN before. His character is a little bit naive, a little quirky, a little drama queen. So interesting and it suits him. Not enough CJH to judge whether I'll like his character or not, but that plane scene was funny. I thought I'd also hate the second female lead, but I loved her first scene with JH and CJH. So excited for the second episode tonight! BTW, I got bored with the original version's first episode and fast-forwarded that a lot. I don't even remember how it ended. I really liked this! I've been in the market for a good comedy, and this seems like it will fit the bill. I'm sure it will have some tragic elements at some point, but as long as it ends well I'm good. Having never seen the original, I have nothing to compare it with, so I came into it with no expectations. I really like the leads and the seconds -all charismatic and interesting. That hair commercial scene was pure gold; I wonder if they were parodying those old Clairol Herbal Essences ads? I loved how in the scene between Gun and Mi-Young, Gun's hair seemed to fly upwards more and more as he got angrier. The actor is very good at using physical gestures as well as delivering dialogue well. Thanks for the recap! I might be in the minority here, I'm one of the few who didn't like it that much. I mean I didn't hate it and I was laughing throughout the episode, but it didn't really make me want to continue watching the show. This show seems too wacky and ridiculous to me which is weird because the Taiwanese show was far stranger the the Kdrama, but Taiwan does wacky really well and I'm not used to Kdramas being that way. The male lead isn't a complete ass like Ethan's character (even though I did love the ass Ji Cun Xi) but why is he so weird. I feel like it's the norm nowadays for the male lead to be an eccentric weirdo in dramas so it has kinda lost it's appeal to me. Why couldn't he be a normal nice guy (Haha yeah I know) who is not a douche or a crazy guy. I still like him though and he hasn't completely gotten on my nerves so that is a plus. I love the female lead though, she's really adorable and soooo pretty IMO. She looks just like the Joe Chen and even though she's kind of a push over she has a quality that just makes me love her. She's not annoying or awkward like kdramas make most characters like hers so I have no problem watching because of her. I can't wait until she grows a backbone though and stick up for herself. Can I also say one more thing? I love love love that the female lead has a work friend in this version of Fated to Love You since the only friend Joe's character had in the original was Dylan. That's a BIG thumbs up in my book. So far I'm not compelled to watch this while it's airing and might just wait until it's over so I can marathon it. Maybe episode 2 will change my mind who knows. I love love love that the female lead has a work friend in this version of Fated to Love You since the only friend Joe’s character had in the original was Dylan. That’s a BIG thumbs up in my book. I haven't watched the episode yet, but I picked up on that difference from the recap and was happy, because I really like seeing female friendships in dramas. In the Taiwan version even the female lead's mother and sisters weren't very nice to her at first, so I'm glad to see that it seems that she will have more supportive relationships in this one. I think it was okay but not at all what I was expecting. I'm wondering about Jang Hyuk's portrayal of Ji Cun Xi because he seems to be over the top and eccentric. I do like him in some of the scenes, albeit being small, where he is not over-acting because it shows a bit more into his character. Hopefully, I will grow to like him as the drama progress. I had some doubts about Jang Nara being cast as our beloved post-it girl but I must say she won me already. Her portrayal is similar to Joe Chen but she adds a quality to her character that makes you root for her right off the bat. I also like that she has a best friend at work - that was lacking in the Taiwanese version, and they seem cute together. I'm still reserving judgement on Se Ra and Jin-Hyuk but I remain hopeful that the next episode will be better. Jang Nara is doing a lovely job of capturing the spirit of the original Chen Xin Yi with her Mi Young. I thought it was a nice touch that she spoke directly to the camera about being a sticky note girl--it's like she's such a doormat that she has to break the fourth wall to be heard. That being said, it was also nice to see that she does have a friend who encourages her to stick up for herself. I don't remember there being a character like that in the original, so that's a nice addition. I'm still a little unsure about Jang Hyuk's Lee Gun, mainly because he seems to deviate more from Ethan Ruan's Ji Cun Xi and that makes his trajectory as a character a bit more unclear. And the fact that he's scared of dogs means no Baby Ji:( One last thing, did anyone else notice the Chuno OST in the scene where Lee Gun whips off his jacket to 'fight' the dog? Nods to actors' previous dramas always tickle me, and the contrast between his characters in Chuno and this drama made it all the more funny. Thanks for the recap.:) Having watched and enjoyed the original Taiwanese version of Fated To Love You, the Korean version is off to a very nice start. I laughed all the way through the first episode of the Korean version and really liked it more so than I did in the original Taiwanese version. Definitely fond of and looking forward to the main cast of 'The Two Jangs' (Jang Hyuk & Jang Na-Ra), Choi Jin-Hyuk, and Wang Ji-Won. Already the Korean version of FTLY has changed some things for the better (i.e. Best friend at work, mall scene, dog chasing scene, etc.). These changes were a welcome surprise and helped update the drama to make it feel fresh. Hopefully the Korean version will continue being different but somehow similar. At times the Taiwanese version had way too many over-exaggerated moments particularly by second and third tier side characters. This drama is the the copy of a Taiwanese drama called fated to love you also. The first episode of this drama and that is totally the same. They are some changes made though but the changes are not so severe for ppl to notice the difference. Talking about the first episode the is one Taiwanese drama entitled drunken to love you in which the story line is something similar with this. I really appreciate korean writers whom write their own story line and don't copy other japanese or taiwanese drama story line. Too much dramatic slow-mo for my taste. Also, does anyone else think Gun's laugh sounds *exactly* like Cha Seung-won's rather manic laugh in 'Greatest Love'?? Maybe my memory's playing tricks. But quibbles aside, it was fun and sunny episode. I adore the heroine so far (and covet her wardrobe), and can see myself really enjoying this drama. I don't know the original storyline at all so am excited to see how this might unfold. Only worry right now is that Mi-young will find herself permanently steamrollered by Gun. Se-ra seems to be able to stand up to him better at this point actually! I have to say, I was pleased. It was a great start, to this drama and I can't wait to see the rest. I would have liked to see the comic relief in Manager Tak instead of Gun, especially in moments where he should be a bit more serious, but that's the biggest flaw I saw (and it's not really a flaw, it's a matter of me getting used to Gun being funny). I love Na Ra unnie's character and the way she is working the character, it's making me see heroine in a different way. I loved Xin Yi (TW version), but I think Mi Young is a better character. Here's to hoping it keeps being this good and that you guys recap it!;). You know, K-dramas show characters being adopted overseas a lot but you never see their adopted families. They never even show them talking on the phone. Like when the character goes back to Korea the family ceases to exist. When my (adopted) cousin moved to the Netherlands, you better believe my aunt was on the phone with him constantly. When he got into a relationship she was on the plane. Because that's what families do. So they've made it so that Choi Jin-hyuk's character was adopted overseas and I promise you his adopted family will never be mentioned. I'm glad we're getting recaps for this one!! I actually really like it so far, and I was interested the moment he did his CF scene bahaha. Actually, I skipped ahead a little bit at the beginning because I thought it WAS a CF that didn't get edited out. I didn't think I'd like his character bc I didn't want to watch another chaebol, but actually, he's not bad. He's not an annoying chaebol at least. And although he might be a little over the top, I still laughed and enjoyed it. I was so happy that I actually liked the lead that I forgot Choi Jin Hyuk is our second lead!! I'm shipping him and the second female lead together - they'd make an awesome couple, I think. While I'm not a fan of the quiet, doormat female lead character, I have faith that she'll find her spunk soon enough. I only watched maybe 2 or 3 episodes of the original, so I don't really have anything to compare it to. I'm excited to add another fun drama to my roster (assuming episode 2 goes just as well)! Glorious day, Joseon Gunman, and now FTLY! I'm a happy girl! I think despite my best efforts I managed to get my hopes up and I was disappointed quite a bit with this first episode. I'm sure it has to do with the fact that I saw the original Taiwanese version and it's my favorite Taiwanese drama to date. Regardless, I was really looking forward to the Korean version because I was looking forward to a more mature and serious version, with some nice comedy thrown in of course, it's not like I was hoping for a drab and depressing version. I don't feel it needs to be a carbon copy version, but at LEAST capture the spirit of the original. Saying that, I feel like Mi Young was spot on. I think Jang Nara is doing a great job. But Lee Gun is ridiculous. I'm sorry, I'm not saying the actor is bad. I wouldn't mind some goofiness, but it's like a completely different character altogether. Like a complete parody of the character and other than being a CEO of a company who promotes soap, or in this case shampoo, and being pressured to continue the family line, I feel that's where the comparisons end. I realize that it's just the first episode, but it's just such a contrast that it's distracting for me. I feel the other characters are pretty spot on too and I think that's why Lee Gun is so jarring and not in a good way. Also, I'm pretty sure that's not Macau.that's Las Vegas lol But I'm willing to suspend belief since I'll assume it was cheaper to film there than in actual Macau. I mean, if that's really Macau, then damn does it look like a near copy of Vegas! Lastly, that ending. Who does that? Sloppy poor plot device smh Having said this though, I'm reserving final judgement until I see more, but it's off to a rocky start for me. I'm a big fan of the TW version and was iffy about a remake. But the moment the Jangs were confirmed for a reunion here, my heart was all in. I'm swept off my feet with the first episodes! JNR is spot on, just as adorable and likable. I'm sure if anyone felt unsure about this version, it'd be pertaining to our hero. I admit it'll take more than the first episode to get used to him, but I'm open for this character adjustment. I take it as a more 'updated' Cun Xi to fit the times of Kdramaland. What a surprise though, I must say. (That haunting laugh! I think it'll help more if you take gummimochi's advice and watch it separate from the original. I like the little changes but also appreciate the original elements kept. The charm from the original is definitely here too, but feels refreshing at the same time. One thing I'm not liking, though, is the tough and rough image of supposed ballet dancer Se Ra. Not sure if she's supposed to come off that way, but I don't see her as graceful or elegant. Maybe that's the point though?-- That only Lee Gun sees her this way, which makes sense since he's different here too, and a total weirdo. XD But, I can't wait for more Choi Jin Hyuk screen time! Superb start! Thanks for recapping. I haven't seen the TW version so I have no idea what to expect from this drama. But I'm loving this to bits. JNR was spot on for this role. She is adorable and believable as the super nice girl who can't say no. And I'm glad that JH's character is not the stereotype chaebol. He may be arrogant but they gave him some quirkiness seems out of place but makes him interesting and a fun watch. And their chemistry is just awesome. I've watched ep 2 and I can't wait to see ep 3 next week. Lee Gun (Jang Hyuk) adalah presiden dari sebuah perusahaan kimia yang memproduksi barang-barang rumah tangga. Dia memiliki seorang pacar penari yang sangat dicintai. Sementara itu, Kim Mi Young (Jang Na Ra) bekerja sebagai sekretaris di sebuah firma hukum. Panggilan akrabnya adalah 'Post-it' (sticky note/ catatan lengket). Dia mendapat julukan karena ketidakmampuannya untuk mengatakan tidak untuk apa yang diminta rekan-rekan mereka. Dia mengumpulkan tugas karena mereka mengambil keuntungan dari kebaikan dia dan sedikit karakter. Suatu malam, keduanya mabuk dan melewati malam bersama-sama. Kemudian, dia menjadi hamil. 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