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  1. Auto pilot is not auto pilot, and needs to be marketed as such.
    6 points
  2. Tesla Model 3 on Autopilot crashes into two cars in Connecticut

    Guess what - cars without Autopilot do the same thing, and at much higher rates. This will be another article boosted through Media by big auto that hates the idea of people buying intelligent electric vehicles without going through a dealership and a slimy car sales person.
    6 points
  3. Court rules in favour of Elon Musk in “pedo guy” defamation case

    He asked for $190m because someone called him a Pedo?! LOL Glad the Jury didn't set a dangerous precedent with this one.
    4 points
  4. Microsoft is killing off the Office apps for Windows 10 Mobile in 2021

    As long as the apps themselves continue to function on my Lumia, i'm fine.
    3 points
  5. My guess would be Zhaoxin CPU's. The KX-6000 specifically. Zhaoxin is a fabless company so they'll still be relying on fabs such as TSMC perhaps. China has a vast amount of local tech companies that produce the processor, memory and computer towers itself without the need of american technologies. China has also their own supercomputers as well. China is pretty much self sufficient in that aspect.
    3 points
  6. Infinite? While the gameplay is more of the same, the story itself is totally worth it.
    3 points
  7. Tesla Model 3 on Autopilot crashes into two cars in Connecticut

    These people always blame autopilot when they get into a crash. Luckily all this data is recorded, so time will tell if the driver lied. Regardless, they'll find the root cause and continue to improve the technology. It's still lightyears ahead of having a dangerous human operator that kill 10 million people every year.
    3 points
  8. Ghostbusters (2020)

    3 points
  9. HDMI streaming cable

    It's not streaming, you're just sending a video signal (albeit digitally encoded rather than analogue over VGA). Don't be suckered into any high-end gold-tipped nonsense. And "clearest" means nothing anymore really - because the signal is digital it will either show or wont. Personally, I've just used crappy ones that come free with consoles or satellite boxes and never had an issue.
    3 points
  10. Court rules in favour of Elon Musk in “pedo guy” defamation case

    Musk is a dick, but 190 million was a silly number.
    3 points
  11. My guess would be Zhaoxin CPU's. The KX-6000 specifically. Zhaoxin is a fabless company so they'll still be relying on fabs such as TSMC perhaps. China has a vast amount of local tech companies that produce the processor, memory and computer towers itself without the need of american technologies. China has also their own supercomputers as well. China is pretty much self sufficient in that aspect. Yes, they do have kinda "working" desktop processors, they just happen to suck @ss. What an absolutely idiotic comment
    2 points
  12. Generally business would rather not allow the customer to realize it has options. Now they get to explore those options and I am confident they will. The question is how long before this move adversely affects R&D in the US. China and its 1.3 BILLION people is one HUGE market to lose.
    2 points
  13. Containerized Win32 apps? Dear Microsoft, how about you stop being so hostile toward Win32 and just let it be? Btw Windows 10X is DOA. The only place where Windows 10 will continue lingering is desktop. Windows only made sense on Desktop from day one.
    2 points
  14. GOG's Galaxy 2.0 launcher is now, at long last, in open beta

    Now I just need friends. How much do they run for these days on Ebay?
    2 points
  15. Tesla Model 3 on Autopilot crashes into two cars in Connecticut

    I don't think it will go that far but most likely Tesla will issue another warning to owners that full attention is required when driving a Tesla. Just because you have automatic driving capability that not attention is required. Use common sense owners of Tesla cars!
    2 points
  16. HDMI streaming cable

    As others have said, there is zero difference in actual transmitted quality in any HDMI cable. Digital is either on or off, and there's no in-between. You can buy a $2 cable from Monoprice and it would be identical in function to a massively overpriced Monster cable. Anything from Monoprice or Amazon will be perfectly fine. There is a HDMI spec that has to do with bandwidth and resolution, so if you have a 4K TV, you may want to make sure you don't get an old cable, but again it has nothing to do with quality of the signal: https://www.hdmi.org/spec/index
    2 points
  17. It’s more cutting edge and more likely to support newer tech, yeah. Debian is great for stability but it suffers for it in some places as you can see.
    2 points
  18. Oh yeah... One of my favorite series.
    2 points
  19. Good news, he told me he tried late last night, Fedora 31 live and the live version without installing the OS was able to recognize WIFI device and able to connect to it. He is happy now... LMAO!
    2 points
  20. I hope they pack a better battery this time
    2 points
  21. It will end up blending into your peripheral vision. Did that happen for you? I'm a bit OCD and I would probably ALWAYS see it. If the status bar is black wouldn't you never see it at all? unless you have a full screen video/game open. That's where I would expect the hole punch to become a bit annoying.
    2 points
  22. They always do. But this is why Apple always chooses these offbeat resolutions, just so they can have a window of a few months before competing monitors come out with the same panel at 1/2 the price or so.
    2 points
  23. You know every time I see deals like this, I always think will this company be out of business in 3 months.
    2 points
  24. Users on Windows 10 version 1809 are starting to be moved to 1909

    I find it interesting that people will offer technical opinion, based on their expertise, without the realization that someone with actual expertise can achieve the same goal more easily and with a better outcome. (I feel sad for the 5 people that hit like on this.) Seriously, if someone is recommending staying on old builds or pushing LTSC to average users, shouldn't they be able to write a script or web search and copy a script? Especially, when using old builds and screwing with LTSC creates far more work than maintaining an install/update script. (Even if you had 100 PCs and didn't know how to use other deployment features provided by Microsoft, a script is faster and offers more options in what to keep and remove.) Also the 'complaints' about perceived bloat come from myth, at best insignificant, or are no longer relevant. For example: Cortana sucks so much CPU RAM (/s) - it is exactly ZERO unless the user enables it, and ZERO again if they ever choose to disable it. I bet that ZERO RAM/CPU use is a killer on anything slower than an 8086. FFS. Then there is the 'horrible' Store and UWP Apps... Even when being actively used with hundreds of Apps to maintain, the Store and keeping everything updated consumes almost a full minute of CPU processing time on average in a 24hr time period. If that is killing performance, you might have other problems. Much of this still comes from people that seem to think Windows works like other OS technologies, and just having something sitting on the hard drive is the same thing as running or requiring the loading of lower level processes even if the software isn't active. (If Windows NT worked like OS X or Linux, an argument for removing unused features would be valid; however, Windows NT is quite different, and applying rules of optimization based on older OS models is a waste of time.) In perspective... Something as heavy as the full WSL being installed/enabled consumes ZERO CPU time and ZERO RAM when not running. Yet people still think something like Cortana left disabled is 'bloating' their system. Really? ----- Also, I haven't even touched on the features, software and hardware support and performance differences in the newer builds. Just the new kernel adjustments, and other mitigation optimizations bring a huge jump in performance on most CPUs, adding to the partially active reptoline changes in 1809. There are also the specific AMD scheduler and core priority changes in 1903, with additional optimizations in 1909. A PSA... Unless your PC is a Kiosk or a specialized interface or appliance, or going to be used on the ISS, there are very few 'real' reasons to use or mess with the LTSB. Seriously, save time and money and just find a script to rip out whatever crap your 'expert' friends said was bad. But also keep in mind, that 99% of the mythic 'evil crap' consumes nothing but a few MB of space on the HD, and in 2019, if a few MB is a storage issue, your hard drive might be too small.
    2 points
  25. 256GB SSD in a 6000$ workstation?
    2 points
  26. JDART? Isn't that the Java dynamic symbol analytics framework?
    2 points
  27. My guess would be Zhaoxin CPU's. The KX-6000 specifically. Zhaoxin is a fabless company so they'll still be relying on fabs such as TSMC perhaps. Doubtful, I think Loongson would be the likely winner given that they already have a huge market share in china.
    1 point
  28. GOG's Galaxy 2.0 launcher is now, at long last, in open beta

    People need to get outside and play. Go fishing. Put a boat on the water. Explore nature, Fly a Drone, travel to a foreign land and meet people, etc. Too much emphasis on artificial means of entertainment.
    1 point
  29. Great graphics in the post.
    1 point
  30. GOG's Galaxy 2.0 launcher is now, at long last, in open beta

    Ebay is full of counterfeit friends, I wouldn't risk it.
    1 point
  31. Tesla Model 3 on Autopilot crashes into two cars in Connecticut

    Auto pilot is not auto pilot, and needs to be marketed as such. From Wikipedia: “An autopilot is a system used to control the trajectory of an aircraft without constant ‘hands-on’ control by a human operator being required. Autopilots do not replace human operators, but instead they assist them in controlling the aircraft.” It's not self-driving. AutoPilot does exactly what it says it is. It’s driver assist at best. That is correct. Tesla does not dispute that. It's not full self-driving technology and the driver is supposed to pay attention and keep their hands on the steering wheel. How about Tesla calling it driver assist to appease the masses into avoiding them thinking it’s more than that?
    1 point
  32. He did apologize. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/s...s/1019472152796381185" rel="external nofollow">https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1019472152796381185" rel="external nofollow">https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1019472152796381185 Seems like another case of frivolous law suits if anything. ...and Musk went on to hire a private investigator (a convicted felon and scammer) to dig up dirt on Unsworth. After receiving erroneous information from the "investigator" ... he sent an email to Buzzfeed, in part ... “I suggest that you call people you know in Thailand, find out what’s actually going on and stop defending child rapists, you #####,” he wrote. “He’s an old, single white guy from England who’s been traveling to or living in Thailand for 30 to 40 years, mostly Pattaya Beach, until moving to Chiang Rai for a child bride who was about 12 years old at the time.” All of that post-dated his "apology" tweet. Yes...Musk is totally an idiot there and went too far. Unless I'm misunderstanding though, that's not what the lawsuit was about - it was about a twitter spat, not an email or the lengths Musk went to prove that guy was some kind of "pedo" (the later being just evidence). If anything, he may have had a better chance at a harassment lawsuit actually.
    1 point
  33. HDMI streaming cable

    Echo what Human.Online said, I wouldn't bother with a brand. A generic cable will work.
    1 point
  34. I scrolled to comments to say exactly this! Without a GOOD battery, this is all useless.
    1 point
  35. My Apple Card is ready.
    1 point
  36. Blue Origin Aerospace (updates)

    1 point
  37. I find it interesting that people will offer technical opinion, based on their expertise, without the realization that someone with actual expertise can achieve the same goal more easily and with a better outcome. (I feel sad for the 5 people that hit like on this.) Seriously, if someone is recommending staying on old builds or pushing LTSC to average users, shouldn't they be able to write a script or web search and copy a script? Especially, when using old builds and screwing with LTSC creates far more work than maintaining an install/update script. (Even if you had 100 PCs and didn't know how to use other deployment features provided by Microsoft, a script is faster and offers more options in what to keep and remove.) Also the 'complaints' about perceived bloat come from myth, at best insignificant, or are no longer relevant. For example: Cortana sucks so much CPU RAM (/s) - it is exactly ZERO unless the user enables it, and ZERO again if they ever choose to disable it. I bet that ZERO RAM/CPU use is a killer on anything slower than an 8086. FFS. Then there is the 'horrible' Store and UWP Apps... Even when being actively used with hundreds of Apps to maintain, the Store and keeping everything updated consumes almost a full minute of CPU processing time on average in a 24hr time period. If that is killing performance, you might have other problems. Much of this still comes from people that seem to think Windows works like other OS technologies, and just having something sitting on the hard drive is the same thing as running or requiring the loading of lower level processes even if the software isn't active. (If Windows NT worked like OS X or Linux, an argument for removing unused features would be valid; however, Windows NT is quite different, and applying rules of optimization based on older OS models is a waste of time.) In perspective... Something as heavy as the full WSL being installed/enabled consumes ZERO CPU time and ZERO RAM when not running. Yet people still think something like Cortana left disabled is 'bloating' their system. Really? ----- Also, I haven't even touched on the features, software and hardware support and performance differences in the newer builds. Just the new kernel adjustments, and other mitigation optimizations bring a huge jump in performance on most CPUs, adding to the partially active reptoline changes in 1809. There are also the specific AMD scheduler and core priority changes in 1903, with additional optimizations in 1909. A PSA... Unless your PC is a Kiosk or a specialized interface or appliance, or going to be used on the ISS, there are very few 'real' reasons to use or mess with the LTSB. Seriously, save time and money and just find a script to rip out whatever crap your 'expert' friends said was bad. But also keep in mind, that 99% of the mythic 'evil crap' consumes nothing but a few MB of space on the HD, and in 2019, if a few MB is a storage issue, your hard drive might be too small. When you get burned on forced upgrades as well as updates that brick something you tend in an IT environment to resist change. Windows 7 just works. I need other things for me personally that 7 can't do like Hyper-v but you see the argument of install and forget. It just always works. Change for the sake of change is expensive. Especially if you are Book keeper Sue who just processed receivables in Excel and Quicken at work and prints out forms and uses a website in chrome to upload receipts. No reason for her to upgrade
    1 point
  38. I’ll be surprised if Fedora doesn’t work. If it doesn’t, then I doubt any distro has drivers.
    1 point
  39. The good news is that if someone gives you one of these, you can dual boot into Windows and use it to everything computers can do! I'd take one if someone bought me one, but I'd build a box to hide it in.
    1 point
  40. My first thought too. Also being in the same article as that Nordvpn deal does it no good. A thing you don't know if you should trust, nest to a thing you definitely shouldn't trust.
    1 point
  41. The takeaway from this comment is how hilarious it is that you thought this was a machine for gamers. As for it being ugly, how often do you look at your computer tower instead of just...using it? Your comment is hilarious too. "how often do you look at your computer" are you kidding me ? this is what you came up with to justify the ugliest design that a trillion dollar company can do? You sound exactly like Apple : "if you have reception issues you're holding the phone the wrong way " This computer is not ugly YOU just don't have to look at it. Most laughable thing about this machine is not just the looks the 256GB SSD in a 6000$ workstation is the punch line of the joke.
    1 point
  42. Users on Windows 10 version 1809 are starting to be moved to 1909

    You present this like other people have no choice. Microsoft has never 'truly' forced updates on anything. Even with the push for non-technical users to always be updated, this has never been forced. Windows 10 RTM users could flip a couple of registry keys and still be running the original bits from 2015 with zero updates. So stay on whatever version you are on, Microsoft doesn't care. It costs them money for you to update, so you are also saving them a few dollars. MS actually gives a crap about average users and security, which is why updates are on purpose harder to turn off permanently for average users. Also when there is a large number of PC with security risks, it causes a lot of harm. i.e. WinXP systems not being updated were the cause of over 99% of all virus and malware outbreaks in the 00s. Curious if similar beliefs carry over... Ever heard of 'herd protection/immunity'? Are you an anti-vaxxer?
    1 point
  43. He did apologize. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1019472152796381185" rel="external nofollow">https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1019472152796381185 Seems like another case of frivolous law suits if anything. ...and Musk went on to hire a private investigator (a convicted felon and scammer) to dig up dirt on Unsworth. After receiving erroneous information from the "investigator" ... he sent an email to Buzzfeed, in part ... “I suggest that you call people you know in Thailand, find out what’s actually going on and stop defending child rapists, you #####,” he wrote. “He’s an old, single white guy from England who’s been traveling to or living in Thailand for 30 to 40 years, mostly Pattaya Beach, until moving to Chiang Rai for a child bride who was about 12 years old at the time.” All of that post-dated his "apology" tweet.
    1 point
  44. Still one of the of the most awful looking PCs about. I would honestly rather have RGB everywhere and I hate RGB!
    1 point
  45. Remember that apple has an 80% idiot tax
    1 point
  46. XviD Codec 1.3.6

    What year is this?!
    1 point
  47. Hands on with the reborn Motorola razr

    The foldable phone is an idea that was way overdue. Ever try to put one of those monstrous 6" long phones into a pants pocket (and expect it to remain there or remain usable after you have sat on it)? Doesn't fit. The original Razr v3 way back when (I had one) was a superlative idea then and is a superlative idea now.
    1 point
  48. 1 point
  49. YouTube hints at a completely different approach to YouTube Rewind 2019

    Hey there, fellow kids, mega corporation knows what you like!
    1 point
  50. So it will be anything but Winnie the Pooh.
    1 point