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  1. A Surface Studio 2 needs to borrow/use the modular idea from the new Surface Hub 2X and allow for it to be upgraded with a future "cart" like the hub. MS would make a good chunk of money selling upgrades and people wouldn't rush to replace the whole thing, which would save them money. Then you can hold off and do a whole new Surface Studio 3 the year after that, or 2 years, with a upgrade cart in the middle.
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  2. Not reported on Neowin but other tech sites have reported that millions were affected by the latest Facebook data breach too. So if you use that crap called Facebook and you don't have two-factor setup, get after it.
    1 point
  3. Funny thing is, the russian federation is the biggest threat there and the threat is only getting more control over people and the things they claim to protect. Also, the iron curtain has been coming down for some time again, this is just one part of it. Sneaky sneaky, doing it with small increments so people wouldn't notice it and would get used to just another restriction.
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  4. ASUS is sending the ROG Phone II to the development community

    It would be great to have them work with Harmony OS while they are at it.
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  5. The best Android apps for your new smartphone

    personally using Launcher 10 because I liked the WP launcher https://play.google.com/store/...dev.launcher10&hl=en_US
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  6. Microsoft has some exciting Xbox and Surface hardware coming in 2020

    They are dead on arrival. They'll probably sell a few during the launch hype, then they will be on the scrap heap. You'd be a fool to become an early adopter. Some people never learn though and keep wasting money on Microsoft mobile tech. I'm unsure what Microsoft can do with the Surface laptop line-up. The latest releases were massively disappointing and the 15" Surface Book was an under-powered piece of very expensive junk. The Surface Pro X design is what the Surface Pro 7 should have been. Instead Microsoft saved their best for the worst possible internals. Microsoft need to step it up in 2020.
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  7. LOL, This mentality is the exact reason why they do this. Keep saying that and in a couple of years, you too will be screaming at the prices. They do this not because they need to, as they suggest, they do this because they believe they can get away with it. But when we have people thinking like that, "oh it's ok, it ain't that bad", they do get away with it all the time. I only have NETFLIX but its usually on and off. There's way too much free content online to give my money to these cash grab apps.
    1 point
  8. Google adds achievements to Stadia, with some limitations

    I agree, I don’t get it either. I was initially excited about game streaming because you could have the latest gaming hardware without even having to buy it. My guess is that services like Stadia may take over after 5Gbis mainstream. You might want to check out the limitations of 5G and also check out how the math works out. The only 'partially' viable 5G that currently exists, is the data expansion of the 700Mhz band by TMobile, and the speeds are much better than advanced LTE. The nanometer 5G is one of the dumbest technologies in telecom history.
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  9. Google adds achievements to Stadia, with some limitations

    Streaming ONLY is the problem. This is where the service and 'promises' become a con. Tech people will know what they are signing up for, the other 99% of the population will not. The infrastructure is just not in place yet for FULLY STEAMING gaming purchases. This doesn't even dig into the bandwidth caps that many users will be unaware, especially when their 4K game streams eat through a month's allocation in a day or two. If Stadia had a local/physical way to play content, then I would also be all for it to succeed. Even freaking Netflix lets people download content, because of the connection limitations, and it isn't trying to shove a larger video stream in realtime.
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  10. Google adds achievements to Stadia, with some limitations

    why are you so mad? you need a life No anger in anything I said. I’ve been laughing at Stadia since it was announced and continue to do so . if that makes you happy by saying you are not angry with a smiley, sure. but we all know inside you are just angry because your favorite console have an additional competitor. what is it? is it xbox or PS or Nintendo? I don't even play games anymore and I've been laughing at Stadia since they announced it too... there is just too many issues, their ideas to combat latency is ridiculous using machine learning to predict what you will do... might as well have the game play for you (not sure if they implemented that one yet or not)... am I angry too?... streaming gaming just isn't ready yet, I've been laughing at the idea since it first showed up years ago on other services because we just aren't there yet... until everyone has fiber internet with <5ms latency it will never be the same as local gaming you better laugh at microsoft too because they are the worst with streaming and Stadia is miles better. we never know people are angry from the inside because its not their fav console and i laugh at them seeing how pathetic people have become. Worst at streaming? Ok, you are just making stuff up now. 1) Microsoft's streaming is in beta. 2) It also works with Consoles and PCs, so people can still play their content locally. 3) It is an 'additional' feature for users that want to game from a phone or away from their PC/Console. 4) Worst? Microsoft uses a higher quality and faster encoding codecs. Even if connected to a 10Gbps wired connection, Microsoft's streaming would still be faster based on the codec differences alone. 5) Google sold people a pig in a poke, and there is a big difference between 'owning' content that you can play away from home and owning content you can only play over a streaming connection.
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  11. Cemu emulator 1.16.0c publicly released, brings Vulkan support

    patreon members just get it a week early or something.
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  13. Google adds achievements to Stadia, with some limitations

    why are you so mad? you need a life Spotted the proud owner of a stadia founder edition. Repressed buyers remorse.
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  14. I'm giving the surface duo and neo about a 5% chance of selling ok... I honestly can't see those catching on
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  15. Sling TV's Orange and Blue package and base services get price hikes

    Today's streaming services are tomorrows cable companies.
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  16. Google adds achievements to Stadia, with some limitations

    There are a lot of fundamental flaws with the idea of game streaming and none of them can really ever be addressed unless we somehow invent time bending technology... which I'm sure will have it's first application applied to fixing latency issues in video games. There's also the problem with game ownership and how publishers will use this as the ultimate walled garden. If loot boxes and all the other crap is bad now then it will only get worse when there are no other options.
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  17. Google adds achievements to Stadia, with some limitations

    why are you so mad? you need a life Spotted the proud owner of a stadia founder edition.
    1 point
  18. Google adds achievements to Stadia, with some limitations

    I agree, I don’t get it either. I was initially excited about game streaming because you could have the latest gaming hardware without even having to buy it. My guess is that services like Stadia may take over after 5Gbis mainstream. That's the dream but the reality is that we are never getting that hardware for free, we end up subsiding it by paying more for the games and paying a monthly fee. If you do the maths and say buy 6 games per years over say 3 years, you would save by buying those same games on the PC or consoles that you could build a PC gaming rig for around £700 or you could buy 2 consoles. Stadia looks cheap on the surface but the cost of the games is where they really get ya and the services ends up more expensive than what we already have with PC and console gaming whiles giving us no control over what we do and giving us worse quality. The only time I find Stadia makes any sense is for gamers that rarely play games and even then that is on the free 1080p tier, for others, it works out more expensive. It boggles my mind how some people seem to think Google was buying the hardware for them to use out of the goodness of their hearts when you end up paying for it by other means.
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  19. Google adds achievements to Stadia, with some limitations

    why are you so mad? you need a life No anger in anything I said. I’ve been laughing at Stadia since it was announced and continue to do so . if that makes you happy by saying you are not angry with a smiley, sure. but we all know inside you are just angry because your favorite console have an additional competitor. what is it? is it xbox or PS or Nintendo? I m sensing more of a fear inside you than anything else in the original post
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  20. All of the C2R versions allow you to customise. https://config.office.com/ https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/office2019/deploy You can exclude applications in the config.xml. I set up some digital signage machines at work which only required PowerPoint and was able to exclude everything but in the config.xml. The C2R system is far superior to the legacy installers once you get used to them. Patch management is far superior.
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  21. Squadron 42 is the story part. I’m not sure how the online game will be handled at this point. Hopefully it’s more fun than Elite Dangerous.
    1 point
  22. It's just an open game environment in which there is no end, it will keep expanding and getting bigger... Main goal is to explore the universe.
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  23. Boeing Starliner Orbital Flight Test (OFT)

    "Hope somebody has double checked those times." 👍 🙃 😅
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  24. Cemu emulator 1.16.0c publicly released, brings Vulkan support

    Major update to a fairly unique emulator. Seems reasonable to me. How many other Wii U emulators are there?
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  25. Doesn't the first line give it away? "The Wii U emulator..."
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  26. Google adds achievements to Stadia, with some limitations

    It's not so much it can't do it as in the long run it likely can but what incentive would Google or any other have in doing that as it would be mighty expensive to offer that level of quality, and we only have to look at how expensive games are on Stadia now whiles offering sub-standard gaming which is even worse than this gen of consoles.
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  27. Google adds achievements to Stadia, with some limitations

    Well I have to admit, I do feel sorry for those suckers that got sucked in with Stadia once they see the cost of how much games are. It's no wonder Google doesn't show us the price for games unless we sign up, it's not a pretty sight lol, the irony being that gamers on that service are subsidizing the hardware by paying more for the games then PC and console gamers pay.
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  28. Google adds achievements to Stadia, with some limitations

    why are you so mad? you need a life No anger in anything I said. I’ve been laughing at Stadia since it was announced and continue to do so . if that makes you happy by saying you are not angry with a smiley, sure. but we all know inside you are just angry because your favorite console have an additional competitor. what is it? is it xbox or PS or Nintendo? None of the above? Lol. Something is really wrong with you. Stadia isn’t a competitor to anything.
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  29. Google adds achievements to Stadia, with some limitations

    As mentioned, people hate exclusives, and the concepts of streaming are hard for people to accept. People are just getting used to digital ownership (or "ownership", depending how critical you want to be). Buying a game from a streaming service is a challenging idea, since you own nothing in the process. I still don't fully sign on to video and music streaming, much less gaming. There are also debates about how much money is saved in the process - if you maintain your subscription, you'll easily outpace the cost of a console in a generation, and that kind of pricing can be predatory. The entire concept has been presented poorly. They promised 60 fps high quality, which isn't delivered. They promised mobile gaming, which is questionable when you're streaming several gigabytes of data a week on it with moderate usage. Plus, it is just really early in the development process. Most gamers don't think that the tech is there are Google has clearly released an early dev platform lacking most features (like achievements) they expect people to pay for the privilege of testing for them.
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  30. Google adds achievements to Stadia, with some limitations

    I don't want to see an exclusive on it, so I want its demise.
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  31. Google adds achievements to Stadia, with some limitations

    The sooner this fails the better. Preferably leaving a crater sized loss of money so the idea doesn't come up for at least another 10 years. If this takes off it will be the end of perpetual game ownership and having the freedom to play when you want, how you want, and for however long you want. And preservation will be a thing of the past. So imagine Game A, A Stadia exclusive, is available for only 5 years. So 6 years later you have a hankering to play Game A. But you can't - all because the majority bought into Stadia and didn't care about the long term consequences of playing games in such a strict walled garden where content can be whisked away or heavily altered (censorship, removal of music to avoid paying further royalties, etc) without warning. So all you're left with to scratch that itch is watching old Twitch or YouTube playthrough videos. Compare that with some NES game you spent playing in your childhood. Now - over 3 decades later you can still play those in a myriad of ways because the content was stored on some media that could be copied and preserved. Preservation of games should not be yet another thing sacrificed at the altar of instant gratification and convenience. I hope this fails so spectacularly that it makes any investor laugh at the prospect of ever investing in another attempt again. Efforts should instead focus on things like Steam Link and similar - where the consumer has the local copy of the game data and streams it from a device that they are in control of and thus the consumer is the arbiter of content availability. The only thing that makes this possible end of days regarding preservation palatable is that I find the vast majority of AAA games to be garbage. And indie developers will likely still release things that you play locally (or stream from a device or server you control). This is one time I am glad the internet infrastructure in the U.S. is in such a horrid state that many people are still subject to data caps. That is a safeguard against this getting popular enough to make PC gaming and local play game consoles no longer profitable. With walled garden video and music streaming services preservation is still possible as the content can be captured -- usually bit for bit. But that isn't going to be possible with games that are exclusive to corporate-controlled server based streaming. Perhaps if they guaranteed to release a local copy of exclusive games once they are removed from their service it would be more acceptable. But I wouldn't trust any public traded corporation to adhere to such a promise.
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  32. Google adds achievements to Stadia, with some limitations

    why are you so mad? you need a life No anger in anything I said. I’ve been laughing at Stadia since it was announced and continue to do so . if that makes you happy by saying you are not angry with a smiley, sure. but we all know inside you are just angry because your favorite console have an additional competitor. what is it? is it xbox or PS or Nintendo? I don't even play games anymore and I've been laughing at Stadia since they announced it too... there is just too many issues, their ideas to combat latency is ridiculous using machine learning to predict what you will do... might as well have the game play for you (not sure if they implemented that one yet or not)... am I angry too?... streaming gaming just isn't ready yet, I've been laughing at the idea since it first showed up years ago on other services because we just aren't there yet... until everyone has fiber internet with <5ms latency it will never be the same as local gaming
    1 point
  33. Google adds achievements to Stadia, with some limitations

    why are you so mad? you need a life No anger in anything I said. I’ve been laughing at Stadia since it was announced and continue to do so .
    1 point
  34. Google adds achievements to Stadia, with some limitations

    First achievement should be called “Got suckered into Stadia”.
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