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  1. I hope this is a short trial. Last thing we need is for ElonGate to be long and drawn out.
    13 points
  2. Reality is the new satire.
    8 points
  3. Firefox 71.0

    Tbh I dont know why Mozilla cant post the release notes when they post a new release.
    4 points
  4. 4 points
  5. And the first 1000 sold come with a free 8-ball of coke.
    4 points
  6. Halo: Reach is now available on PC and Xbox One

    Well there goes my free time.
    3 points
  7. YouTube updates policy on scripted violence in video games

    An uncharacteristically smart move. Did YouTube accidentally hire somebody that's not a total idiot?
    3 points
  8. O&O ShutUp10 1.7.1405 [Update]

    Brilliant. I use it after all of my W10 installations.
    2 points
  9. I'm all for free speech, but insinuating someone's a pedophile when they're not isn't the kind of speech I want to protect. It's for the same reason I'm against idiots who make false rape accusations, as it's incredibly damaging to someone's reputation, even if the accused is innocent. I may not like the guy Elon was an ass to, but he should've acted better just the same. Hopefully if anything holds up against him, it won't be too bad. You see this country is run by two different systems... The republican system, can call names to everyone and insult everyone in public and never or most of the time, they never go to court. The democratic system, if they call someone a name, they immediately suffer the backlash of the other system. Don't know if I explain clearly or not but Republicans always can insult, call names, lies and still never suffer any consecuences. What the hell are you talking about? It has nothing to do with party politics. Stop trying to make some weird political point out of it!
    2 points
  10. I can assure you that if someone with the media reach the Musk has called me a pedophile, I would absolutely spin their ass to court immediately
    2 points
  11. Interesting, but why not take the iOS approach? Just remember Bluetooth's state from the last time Airplane Mode was used, if Bluetooth was off, turn it off again, if it was on, leave it on. It may be a more simplistic approach, but it avoids situations were the user might be using Bluetooth devices not listed. The FAA (at least in the USA) allows both WiFi and Bluetooth to be used in flights, so why should airplane mode turn those off if you have already chosen to turn them on? Maybe we need a new mode called Radio Silence that shuts everything off, that way Airplane mode can be tuned to meet the specific needs of a flight without disabling more than needed. In that case, Airplane Mode could even be geo aware and use the regulations of whatever county you are in at the time it is enabled.
    2 points
  12. It also comes with a free digital copy of "Narcos"
    2 points
  13. A app/game can be Win32 and be UWP. It's not like UWP means it's one thing only. People need to understand that UWP isn't only stuff like WinRT specific. Hell, even steam could push you a UWP game, or any store could.
    2 points
  14. I'll wait for the El Chapo phone.
    2 points
  15. Nice but I will never buy another Pixel again.
    2 points
  16. Watched the video, now whats this phone you are talking about ;-)
    2 points
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  18. No it was not legal. Crimea has been part of Russia for centuries. Stalin merged it with the Ukraine during the Soviet era. Crimeans never wanted to be Ukrainian. They voted to go back home. Just because it ###### off the Europeans doesn't mean it was illegal. Couple of Ukrainians I met told me "we are Russian, we speak Russian. I am not sure why we are called Ukrainians". Ahahahaha! their not Ukrainians then NO Ukrainian in their right mind would EVER call themselves Russian. Also there were more Pro-Ukrainians that weren't allowed to vote than Pro-Russians that voted, it was strong-armed. You know that Ukraine existed for 18 years to date, right? Are you ######ing high? Ukraine has existed far longer than 18 years. Obviously you are, independence in 1991 subtracted from 2019 gives you 18. 2019-1991 = 28 not 18. Jesus, please stop already, you can't do even a simple math so I doubt you can comprehend complicated political situation on Ukraine.
    2 points
  19. Lyrics website Genius sues Google over stolen lyrics

    I read most of the complaint Genius filed. It's absolutely brilliant. A little contradictory in places, but brilliant. Basically Genius aren't happy that Google puts lyrics in an information box yet apparently does no work to transcribe the lyrics themselves. The lyrics box, artist information boxes and YouTube links push the search result for Genius right down the page. Genius aren't happy that Google are promoting their own services first. The complaint then goes onto say that Genius use a combination of straight apostrophes (') and curly apostrophes (‘) in some lyrics. If the straight apostrophes are treated as dots and the curlies as dashes then, in morse code, they spell out the word 'REDHANDED' and this particular combination of apostrophes has been found in numerous sets of lyrics shown in Google's Information box without credit (or royalties) given to Genius. Clever sods. Genius aren't happy they they have to pay to licence the right to display lyrics from publishers AND have invested in building and maintaining the transcription collaboration platform, while Google have done neither and are basically ripping them off.
    1 point
  20. I love the Xiaomi brand. I have the MI A2 android one phone... One of the best phone I ever own.
    1 point
  21. The Big Wrestling Thread!

    1 point
  22. It is blocked in Edge based on the provided image. I just realized I didn't add a proper explanation of the image means, I'll get to that right now.
    1 point
  23. Did Elon deal with this in a civil human face-to-face sorta way? No, he (a man in a very public position) accused an innocent guy of pedophilia. That sorta ###### is uncalled for, can stick and absolutely harm a business. Elon should say sorry and walk away? And let’s not forget: > “Bet you a signed dollar it’s true” as a response to it all > Then later when asked about it, he responds “Stop defending child rapists”
    1 point
  24. Google and Apple highlight the most popular content on their platforms

    Meanwhile, the windows store continues to languish.
    1 point
  25. So if you went on the news for something then someone with a lot of influence, let's say trump, blurts out "Brandon H is a kiddy f**ker" you'd be okay with that and the ramifications of that? You wouldn't at all be bothered? Wouldn't care that you're suddenly going to get targetted or attacked for a false accusation?
    1 point
  26. This meets the legal definition of defamation in the US (a lie designed to harm the reputation of another, spread publicly), and defamation is not protected under the first amendment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_defamation_law). Elon even doubled-down at the time, and implied that pedophilia was the reason Unsworth was even in Thailand to begin with - which kind of makes the usual defense of 'so outlandish, no one would possibly believe it' nonviable. Elon is likely going to lose this one.
    1 point
  27. Bad effects application - probably NVIDIA not really bad effects... it's the result of a longer exposure in low light conditions... going by the lights on in the pic I'd say late evening or early night probably with a 1+ second exposure and maybe a ND filter also Look again... look again at what? that's exactly what that picture is Look again. You’re still missing one pretty obvious giveaway... do tell what that is? everything I see matches a low speed shutter... even the odd sharper line near the shore matches what you get with lights near a water surface... on the other side of the bridge it appears to be rougher but that also can happen with a slow speed shutter depending on which way the water is moving before hitting an obstacle The water beyond the bridge is utterly unaffected by shutter speed. It’s a post-edit. ah dont be so fast to stay that... look at it closer... the "unaffected" artifacts all line up with bridge piers... if you have slower and faster lines of water you will get that effect even with shutter speed lower... honestly go try it, you will get something similar to that it will make slower water appear darker and the fact it lines up with the piers hints at this I know little about the Thames river, but going by the picture I assume it flows right to left Ah, so what you're saying is "The water there was moving slower so would be less affected by a longer exposure"? water speed and turbulence will affect the darkness of the water and you can see that at each of the piers
    1 point
  28. December security patch brings some Pixel 4 features to older Pixels

    What would you be looking at instead, I'm wondering as I've been contemplating of getting a Pixel Before this Pixel 3 I had Galaxy S8 and before that the S6+edge. The Pixel feels like a downgrade from the S8 (smartstay, face unlock etc only the two things I used the most, now not available to me). Plus gestures as previous comment pointed out.
    1 point
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  30. Firefox 71.0

    There were not when I posted obv... I just dont know why they dont post the update and release notes at the same time given they will know whats in the new build they have sent out. Its not like those notes are complex. The poster who posts these things tends to jump the gun on releases and posts them before the site is updated. This isn't the first time.
    1 point
  31. I own the pixel 2 and it has been the best smart phone I've ever owned. That said, my next phone is likely going to be the iPhone 11 Pro.
    1 point
  32. The "Escobar Fold" sounds more like something Pablo would do to people who wronged him
    1 point
  33. Brother of drug lord Pablo Escobar launches a $349 foldable smartphone

    Exactly http://www.royole.com/us/flexpai
    1 point
  34. "For those not in the know, mini LEDs have a few advantages over OLED display, some of which include high dynamic range, better color rendering performance, improved efficiency, and local dimming. It also does not suffer from OLED specific issues such as color burn-in." You need to fact check/correct this information, some things are a bit off in what can currently be delivered. Maybe the source is conflating current technologies for comparison. For example, OLED has full sub-pixel level local dimming. With that said, some of the micro/mini LED technologies are promising, and could help bring visual quality features we left behind with CRTs. If this happens, a lot of GPU post processing effects could in theory go away, also with features in displays that make motion 'jarring' even at 240hz rates due to how OLED works to compensate for smearing, also with techniques in LCDs like black frames and tricks that are needed to display black. (A fun rabbit hole is how LCDs and AMOLED work in general and the techniques used in the displays. Also a comparison of CRTs that technically still provide a superior image.) -BTW Until we move to better display technologies, higher refresh rates and higher resolutions are worthless beyond 144hz and 4K. This also means we need color and light processing in game engines to jump, like we are finally getting with DXR and the evolution of these technologies. If things don't have photo realistic materials and accurate lighting, even at 10000dpi, they will never look good or real.
    1 point
  35. Star Citizen crowd-funding reaches $250 million

    I don't mind what fools spend their money on. I insist on pointing out the foolishness to help those who have yet to be fooled. This game is an absolute con job and I will insist that it is until we have a 1.0 release; when's that? Perhaps people just don't know what $250,000,000 is capable of. More than this, in a shorter amount of time. It's a quarter of a billion dollars. It's 2,500 years of a $100,000.00/year job. Twenty-five hundred years. I know you really want this to succeed, you're very excited and you want to discourage people like me pointing out the obvious, but this was, is and always will be... a scam. If you found enjoyment in this tech demo, than awesome. But let's not pretend it shouldn't be FAR more than that.
    1 point
  36. Star Citizen crowd-funding reaches $250 million

    The problem is that they keep adding things as a way to get more money yet nothing is final. It's turning into a big complicated, yet nice looking, mess at this point. Full disclosure - I bought into this a few years ago. Back when I was younger and dumber. George P is correct. The "game" itself is nothing more than a giant tech demo with pieces that are loosely cobbled together to form a kind-of cohesive whole. But there's nothing really fun there except some skirmishing. A normal developer (not even a game developer, but any software dev) will have a target feature set and design and iterate to that end in code. The reason that people call this "game" a pyramid scheme is that the feature set of yesterday suddenly requires new features that need development before the game can be completed. Most games complete their existing features and release a 1.0 product and then grow that product with obvious advances, but not this game. If you tell Chris Roberts that you want to poop in a zero-G toilet, he'll assign 30 coders, artists, modelers, and animators to make sure that's the best looking poop you've ever seen in a video demo that will then take a year to reach the game, and delay production by a quarter or two. And that's just the idea he hears today. Don't give him a new idea tomorrow. Yes I'm bitter. I like the concept of this "game" but Chris has a big ego and has no idea when to draw the line and no one telling him to stop. And everyone is an apologist for the game because it is still slow as molasses for the most part unless you have an ultra-modern machine. Not to mention that every 2-3 years they have to re-tool the entire engine because it's out of date. And that in turn sets the schedule back. Don't give them any money, force them to release a product, force Chris to learn some control and boundaries. It could be a great game, even if it starts small and iterates. The combat is pretty much everything I liked from Wing Commander and a really engaging space dogfight sim. That alone could be the game. But no, they want Doom and Minecraft fanatics as well. /endrant
    1 point
  37. AMD's 7nm Radeon VII GPU is selling for just $499

    What? I am not sure if mean what it sounds like you said. If you are saying that you wish AMD will someday be able to emulate nVidia hardware, no, that will never happen, ever. There is no point. High cost to develop and test, poor performance, no value added. If you are talking about the software model, AMD just came out with RDNA, which is their attempt to remove some of the overhead that has held them back in the past. However, they are unlikely to ever simply reverse engineer nVidia's model. They are going to want to keep some level of backwards compatibility with Vega so new consoles can run last-gen titles.
    1 point
  38. wow its great news for us...thank you for this information.
    1 point
  39. It is bollocks. Apple, like most companies, is a company that follows the local laws. If a country says "Winnie the Pooh" is banned, then no company will willing to break this law, and the fat-ass bear will kick the bucket. I don't know when or why people started thinking that companies are freedom warriors. Are people stupid or what?
    1 point
  40. No it was not legal. Crimea has been part of Russia for centuries. Stalin merged it with the Ukraine during the Soviet era. Crimeans never wanted to be Ukrainian. They voted to go back home. Just because it ###### off the Europeans doesn't mean it was illegal. Couple of Ukrainians I met told me "we are Russian, we speak Russian. I am not sure why we are called Ukrainians". Ahahahaha! their not Ukrainians then NO Ukrainian in their right mind would EVER call themselves Russian. Also there were more Pro-Ukrainians that weren't allowed to vote than Pro-Russians that voted, it was strong-armed. You know that Ukraine existed for 18 years to date, right? Are you ######ing high? Ukraine has existed far longer than 18 years. Obviously you are, independence in 1991 subtracted from 2019 gives you 18. Try your math again (hint it equals far more than 18) and still, it's been independent far longer.
    1 point
  41. No it was not legal. Crimea has been part of Russia for centuries. Stalin merged it with the Ukraine during the Soviet era. Crimeans never wanted to be Ukrainian. They voted to go back home. Just because it ###### off the Europeans doesn't mean it was illegal. Couple of Ukrainians I met told me "we are Russian, we speak Russian. I am not sure why we are called Ukrainians". Ahahahaha! their not Ukrainians then NO Ukrainian in their right mind would EVER call themselves Russian. Also there were more Pro-Ukrainians that weren't allowed to vote than Pro-Russians that voted, it was strong-armed. You know that Ukraine existed for 18 years to date, right? Are you ######ing high? Ukraine has existed far longer than 18 years.
    1 point
  42. No it was not legal. Crimea has been part of Russia for centuries. Stalin merged it with the Ukraine during the Soviet era. Crimeans never wanted to be Ukrainian. They voted to go back home. Just because it ###### off the Europeans doesn't mean it was illegal. "Crimea has been part of Russia for centuries." - one of the many lies repeated by brainwashed russkies. Do you know how Crimea became "always primordially Russian"? Until 1783 there were no Russians in Crimea. The composition of the Crimean population in the 1770s was: 454,700 people (92.6% of Crimean Tatars, 4% of Armenians, 3.1% of Greeks, 0.3% of Crimean and Karaites). Indigenous population consisted of Crimean Tatars who lived there for centuries. In 1783, the Russian Empire occupied Crimea and immediately began destruction and expelling of indigenous people from Crimea and started to import Russians. With Russians came Ukrainians. In 1944, Russia forcibly expelled the last native Crimean. In 1948, the USSR adopted a decree on renaming Crimean areas from Tatar names to Russian. So, in *165* years, Russia took homeland from the Crimean people and Crimea became "primordially Russian." In 1954, the Crimean region was transferred from the Russian SFSR to the Ukrainian SSR. In 1956, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR issued a decree and allowed the return of the Crimean Tatars to their homeland. In 1979, the population of Crimean Tatars slowly began to grow (0.5%). Until 2014, their population grew to 13%. In 2014, Russia returned back, started persecution of natives and started to make Crimea into "always primordially Russian" territory again. Russians remind me Germans during the war. Their citizens are spreading destruction, occupy territories, support state terrorism and corrupt dictator, who is incapable to make country prosper (despite being 2% of World population sitting on 30% of all World natural resources) and think that they are the "good guys" because of the state TV propaganda.
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  43. The people of Crimea (mainly descendants of Russians) voted to be annexed to Russia. Russia decided that it's ok, you are welcome in Russia. However, and suddenly, democracy does not work, and if you say otherwise, then you are a pro-Putin (or Nazi). Was the election rigged? Well, nobody has proved that it was rigged. In any case, nobody cared about Crimea, especially Ukraine. But, it was in the way of a big project to transport gas to Europe and everybody when bananas about it (everybody = Germany), including the son of Biden. Of course, IT IS ILLEGAL TO RESEARCH IT. So help me out. A country votes that something a region of its country is doing is illegal. Yet because Crimea voted, that makes it legal ? 🧐 Do local votes supersede Ukrainian law? Honest question, I don’t know. Ukraine elected a president democratically, then, he suffered a coup d'etat (illegal but the EU says it was legal because it was the will of the people). And while everything was cooking, Crimea decided to move out of Ukraine, and again, the will of the people. However, this time it is not considered legal because it lacked the procedures and red tapes. Ukraine is a mess thanks to Europe. So, what is doing the US army here? Don't be silly. The mess on Ukraine is mostly because of Russia, not because of EU. You mean what is doing Russia army there?
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  44. I don't really see the problem here either. We have US companies and international entities that walk on eggshells for China. Hell, why are we using "Chinese Taipei" in the Olympics for that matter? Did we all just agree to appease China? lol If the maps are only represented this way to Russia, so be it. Seems everyone here has mixed opinions as it is; if Russia is the only one to see it this way, then it's no harm, no foul.
    1 point
  45. where are the drone geeks of neowin?

    Just ordered my Mavic Mini. Will post photos and my review when I have it
    1 point
  46. They care about the profits and that's everything they should care about. And look where rampant capitalism has taken us
    1 point
  47. Apples action prove that money is more important than whats right.
    1 point
  48. Mmm, nope. One the biggest reasons to getting a thinkpad is the keyboard. This is poo.
    1 point
  49. The stated "weeks" battery is rather false if you look at the detailed info on Huawei's webpage. If you do anything more advanced with it, it lasts the same or even less than Apple Watch 5. Also, functionality of GT2 is, like any other "smart" watch highly limited compared to Apple Watch 5. Or any Apple watch for that matter. App support is generally pretty bad with other watches. But they are cheaper and more watch like in terms of shape/design than Apple's stuff.
    1 point
  50. Terminator: Dark Fate

    That was how I felt about it, too. Despite everything the action in the first two movies was grounded in reality and that added an element of tension to them that no Terminator movie since then has reproduced.
    1 point