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  1. Goretsky & Brandon H. become Supervisors

    Please welcome our latest Supervisors Brandon H & Goretsky. They round out our new look Supervisor team!
    5 points
  2. Apple reportedly holding its iPhone 9 event on March 31

    iphone 9 eh? yeah that's not confusing to an average person... 7,8,X...... oh look 9!
    5 points
  3. Goretsky & Brandon H. become Supervisors

    Goretsky is one of the nicest members on this site.
    4 points
  4. IMO GOG is hands down the best game store out there for users. Not only it doesn't allow any kind of DRM, IINM it's the only store that allows you to download offline installation files for the games and keep them as backups, with no limitations. I don't even have to install their client. Unfortunately the side effect of their DRM-free policy is that most publishers do not put their latest titles there.
    4 points
  5. Apple reportedly holding its iPhone 9 event on March 31

    Rumored name. These folks writing articles love to do this for clicks, and to stir the pot.
    3 points
  6. Patch My PC Updater 4.1.0.4

    always a useful tool to keep on hand
    3 points
  7. Tesla ordered by court to halt work on German gigafactory

    This factory and forest aside, can you please explain what your plans are with the millions of tons of toxic waste with the dead Lithium batteries after they wear off? It's a tricky question that Musk always dodges. Yes, you can (kinda) recycle Lithium batteries, too bad the process costs around 5 times more than mining it, so in essence no one on Earth is doing it. And the process also emits greenhouse gases by the way. The US is all about Tesla now, Musk this, Musk that, Made in Murrica, such green, so innovation, but in reality, it's just a different, somewhat "better" form of pollution. Someone's definitely clueless in this case, but curiously it's not the green league this time. I am pro hydrogen and I don't think an electric car is green than a regular car. However, the use of electric cars is the "poster girl" of the green movements. The Green League is not complaining if the battery is recyclable (or about Murica) but about the forest and water. The forest is not a reserve and the water, if they can process the water, then they could comply with the law. You basically just evaded his actual questions... Germany being woke? No, more like actual, valid questions that Musk obfuscates, just as you have.
    3 points
  8. Yeah, that's pretty embarrassing. I was hoping to switch to the Edge betas last autumn, but still no history sync... I believe the appropriate term is 'lol'.
    3 points
  9. Analyst predicts Samsung Galaxy S20 will sell less than the Galaxy S10

    DUH! Who wants to pay THAT much for a phone, that will be DISCOUNTED in 9 months. Phones (flagships) don't mean what they once did. Now, it's a tricks & gimmicks, in an attempt to keep pushing the price higher & higher.
    3 points
  10. Samsung Galaxy Z Flip's ultra thin glass could just be plastic

    All that is fine except glass does not puncture, it shatters and as we clearly saw in the video, the screen punctures right through, damaging the pixels beneath.
    3 points
  11. Samsung Galaxy Z Flip's ultra thin glass could just be plastic

    Then how about people don't buy Samsung's cutting-edge overpriced phones? Let the folding displays fade away. There will be other foldables which use a hinge.
    3 points
  12. Microsoft fumbles another Windows 10 security update, removes it

    Haven't trusted Windows Updates in quite a while now.
    3 points
  13. Goretsky & Brandon H. become Supervisors

    I'm not gonna lie, I kind of wanna get warned by Goretsky.
    2 points
  14. Goretsky & Brandon H. become Supervisors

    Congratulations Brandon H and Goretsky!
    2 points
  15. well one could also say "look at the your phone app" but i think the name is very unprofessional.
    2 points
  16. Patch My PC Updater 4.1.0.4

    Great app The one bug I've always reported but has yet to fix is this. If you have a list of apps but see one it wants to update but realize you don't need it anymore, so you uninstall it. After uninstalling an app you click rescan on patchmypc. It disappears on the right but stays checked on the left. I can't count how many times I miss it on a large list of apps and have Said app, get reinstalled. I just bumped the old bug report on his forum to tell him it's still not fixed.
    2 points
  17. Tesla ordered by court to halt work on German gigafactory

    This factory and forest aside, can you please explain what your plans are with the millions of tons of toxic waste with the dead Lithium batteries after they wear off? It's a tricky question that Musk always dodges. Yes, you can (kinda) recycle Lithium batteries, too bad the process costs around 5 times more than mining it, so in essence no one on Earth is doing it. And the process also emits greenhouse gases by the way. The US is all about Tesla now, Musk this, Musk that, Made in Murrica, such green, so innovation, but in reality, it's just a different, somewhat "better" form of pollution. Someone's definitely clueless in this case, but curiously it's not the green league this time. I am pro hydrogen and I don't think an electric car is green than a regular car. However, the use of electric cars is the "poster girl" of the green movements. The Green League is not complaining if the battery is recyclable (or about Murica) but about the forest and water. The forest is not a reserve and the water, if they can process the water, then they could comply with the law. Petrol extraction and refinery both also comply with the law, that doesn't mean they're pollution-free. I've been saying for a while that all Hydrogen needs is a Musk-level showman that makes it cool, nothing more. And I also hate the term "electric car", because both BEV and FCEV are electric. While Musk's trying hard to defy physics, FCEV semis are already doing the heavy lifting in Cali. FCEV buses are all around in the Netherlands and China. It's bound to take over anything battery has to offer, at least in commercial use cases, because the energy density is 100 times higher. Musk is an engineer so I must assume he simply pretends to not know this fact. And the thing is, since he's invested so heavily in battery tech, he's no longer fit to answer questions on the matter.
    2 points
  18. Starlink V1.0 Launch #4

    ...or it could have been something similar to CRS-16 where it had a problem and aborted the landing. Only time will tell ... I'm sure Elon/SpaceX will give an explanation soon.
    2 points
  19. This factory and forest aside, can you please explain what your plans are with the millions of tons of toxic waste with the dead Lithium batteries after they wear off? It's a tricky question that Musk always dodges. Yes, you can (kinda) recycle Lithium batteries, too bad the process costs around 5 times more than mining it, so in essence no one on Earth is doing it. And the process also emits greenhouse gases by the way. The US is all about Tesla now, Musk this, Musk that, Made in Murrica, such green, so innovation, but in reality, it's just a different, somewhat "better" form of pollution. Someone's definitely clueless in this case, but curiously it's not the green league this time.
    2 points
  20. Samsung Galaxy Z Flip's ultra thin glass could just be plastic

    That explains it, it's a laminate which is a fancy way of saying glass sandwiched between plastic. Automotive glass is similar with the glass on the outer layers. High speed windscreens such as on trains often have an anti-spalling layer on the inside face that can easily be damaged by items left on the dashboard. It shouldn't surprise anyone that works with optical fibres that glass does bend, but it has a minimum bend radius. It then goes to say that the THINNER the glass, the smaller the bend radius which is what you need for a folding display. The warping around the front facing camera kind of confirms this. Some tweaking is required to put the glass as the outer layer. Maybe gen 3 will find a happy medium, thicker glass, smaller bend radius.
    2 points
  21. Microsoft fumbles another Windows 10 security update, removes it

    Second choice is worse. One can defend against the supposed security risks with WIndows-7. One can't defend against MS's stupidity with WIndows-10--made much worse with their claimed much improved security and stability.
    2 points
  22. Facebook cancels San Francisco summit due to coronavirus fears

    uh how?... seriously if someone is going to say something is racist explain how
    2 points
  23. Microsoft fumbles another Windows 10 security update, removes it

    I’m done with Windows 10 completely. This is what happens when Microsoft scrap their QA division and put the responsibility on Insiders, who don’t even get to test the security updates. Fed up with this constantly buggy mess of an OS.
    2 points
  24. Apple reportedly holding its iPhone 9 event on March 31

    It's highly unlikely that they will call it iPhone 9, read the article, it says 9, or SE2 or whatever they might call it! how about definitely not Nine. Article is incorrect
    1 point
  25. Tesla ordered by court to halt work on German gigafactory

    Have you ever saw a battery plant? Not one that puts a nice finished product together? “They are cleaner” would be something nobody says that either works or lives near one. The emissions offset takes about a decade to break even when compared to a IC car. It’s a toxic, destructive process. Not to mention that most Tesla’s are leased, for only a few years, hardly that 10 years it’ll take to offset. They are just as polluting as regular cars, just that instead of the emissions produced via fuel combustion, it’s emitted during battery construction, as well as charging (coal, gas, nuclear power sources). I see you're conveniently not including petrol/oil refining and shipping in the equation of creating an ICE car. Also, most Tesla cars are less than two years old so it's a little early to predict how long they'll be used for. Their batteries will most likely outlast the car. https://cleantechnica.com/2018...may-last-for-500000-miles/" rel="external nofollow">https://cleantechnica.com/2018...-may-last-for-500000-miles/ https://www.industryweek.com/t...es-massive-carbon-footprint And you missed the point about 10 year turn around and leasing. That lessee is going to go and lease another new car, lets just say a Tesla, now they are using yet another battery that produces a ton of emissions during creation. All for another 3-4 year lease, repeat process. This has nothing to do with battery durability, but the actual turn around time for a hybrid/electric car to offset the emissions created during it's construction, which is about 10 years of an ICE car burning fuel. Tesla's are not clean cars because they run on electric, far from it. It doesn't make sense to SCRAP a 3 year old car, electric or ICE. Surely they would sell it used? Anyway, the battery isn't entirely useless once it's end-of-life for the car. It's still good enough for home energy storage, like Tesla Powerwall.
    1 point
  26. Set tabs aside. Tab previews.
    1 point
  27. Tesla ordered by court to halt work on German gigafactory

    Have you ever saw a battery plant? Not one that puts a nice finished product together? “They are cleaner” would be something nobody says that either works or lives near one. The emissions offset takes about a decade to break even when compared to a IC car. It’s a toxic, destructive process. Not to mention that most Tesla’s are leased, for only a few years, hardly that 10 years it’ll take to offset. They are just as polluting as regular cars, just that instead of the emissions produced via fuel combustion, it’s emitted during battery construction, as well as charging (coal, gas, nuclear power sources). I see you're conveniently not including petrol/oil refining and shipping in the equation of creating an ICE car. Also, most Tesla cars are less than two years old so it's a little early to predict how long they'll be used for. Their batteries will most likely outlast the car. https://cleantechnica.com/2018...-may-last-for-500000-miles/
    1 point
  28. It's probably because Samsung will actually work with MS so this stuff works like it should while trying to get it to work with Googles stuff is a one way street. And who knows if Google won't just do something silly at some point that breaks any integration MS does only to turn around and say "oops".
    1 point
  29. What's wrong with your s9? Not to mention the fact that a 2 yr old phone has used up a goo deal of it's battery's limited number of discharges. Which is why they seal in the batteries.
    1 point
  30. So something between Google Keep and the mac Dashboard? Let's see.
    1 point
  31. The dual screen device doesn't fit in your pocket, they're not competing for the same market. The Samsung device is about convenience (although still slightly bulky, a very 1.0 device), the MS device is being pushed with a productivity message. But I wonder if by the time the dual screen device comes out, people won't want it because they'll be looking for a foldable screen device that will work well with all existing apps. MS will really have to work hard to make a use case for their device and to get developers on board. agreed. i am sure the foldable screens are the future. once they become better, people will surely want them rather then the dual screen phones
    1 point
  32. Samsung Galaxy Z Flip's ultra thin glass could just be plastic

    All that is fine except glass does not puncture, it shatters and as we clearly saw in the video, the screen punctures right through, damaging the pixels beneath. So what are you saying then? It's not glass laminate or sandwich or whatever you are calling it. It's most likely a silicon dioxide based polymer which is why they are calling it "glass".
    1 point
  33. Tesla ordered by court to halt work on German gigafactory

    Also, if a company owns a forest then it earns green bonds. If the company cut down a tree, then it must replant it elsewhere to comply with the law. If the company plant a tree, then it also earns a green bond. Rinse and repeat and it could produce unlimited green bonds and earning money in the process. The Kyoto Protocol was a useless joke and the Paris Accord is even more stupid.
    1 point
  34. The dual screen device doesn't fit in your pocket, they're not competing for the same market. The Samsung device is about convenience (although still slightly bulky, a very 1.0 device), the MS device is being pushed with a productivity message. But I wonder if by the time the dual screen device comes out, people won't want it because they'll be looking for a foldable screen device that will work well with all existing apps. MS will really have to work hard to make a use case for their device and to get developers on board.
    1 point
  35. This factory and forest aside, can you please explain what your plans are with the millions of tons of toxic waste with the dead Lithium batteries after they wear off? It's a tricky question that Musk always dodges. Yes, you can (kinda) recycle Lithium batteries, too bad the process costs around 5 times more than mining it, so in essence no one on Earth is doing it. And the process also emits greenhouse gases by the way. The US is all about Tesla now, Musk this, Musk that, Made in Murrica, such green, so innovation, but in reality, it's just a different, somewhat "better" form of pollution. Someone's definitely clueless in this case, but curiously it's not the green league this time. I am pro hydrogen and I don't think an electric car is green than a regular car. However, the use of electric cars is the "poster girl" of the green movements. The Green League is not complaining if the battery is recyclable (or about Murica) but about the forest and water. The forest is not a reserve and the water, if they can process the water, then they could comply with the law.
    1 point
  36. Tesla ordered by court to halt work on German gigafactory

    It’s literally tree farm forest that was destined and grown for logging. Along with Tesla having to replant any tree they cut down its German law. Absolute nuts stopping this.
    1 point
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  38. Tesla ordered by court to halt work on German gigafactory

    This happens when you pick a woke country. Anyways, the Green League is clueless, the should have purchased the forest. Now, Tesla could chop down the forest without breaking the law because it owns it.
    1 point
  39. Awesome. Keep pushing the boundaries, Samsung.
    1 point
  40. Dipsylalalpo moves to the Supervisor Group

    Congratulations to @dipsylalapo. Due to his exemplary modding abilities he has been moved up to the Supervisor Group ㊗️
    1 point
  41. no thanks, once i had a laptop with an AMD instead of a CPU and will never make this mistake again, same goes for an ATI instead of a GPU (this was a different laptop from one with AMD). last time i used pc with the single core celeron (very long time ago) so will not argue in that regard Yup, always make sure the laptop you buy has a CPU.
    1 point
  42. Microsoft fumbles another Windows 10 security update, removes it

    I don’t know what’s worse: dealing with potential security risks using windows 7 or dealing with Microsoft’s stupidity with windows 10.
    1 point
  43. Microsoft fumbles another Windows 10 security update, removes it

    This is what happens when unsupervised children are allowed to run amok without any kind of meaningful adult supervision. Apparently, this new business model seems to be the norm in the high tech industry. Too bad that WIndows-7, created under MS's former business model, was replaced by a less than worthy successor.
    1 point
  44. The Big Wrestling Thread!

    I can't speak to AEW but as far as WWE shows go, NXT has been on point and as of the new year even RAW has been better. Smackdown still needs work but I think we're going to get there also. The issue is the silly Saudi Arabia show screws things because it forces them to come up with fan "dream matches" that don't fit in with any of the current story lines they might have going. They should move that show to a later date where they're a bit more free to book matches not between the rumble and mania.
    1 point
  45. Facebook cancels San Francisco summit due to coronavirus fears

    Makes sense why Pelosi leaves the area a literal SH1 T hole. Great way to spread decease and infection quickly
    1 point
  46. This entire "outbreak" is starting to feel over hyped. The flu kills 500,000 a year, and we aren't canceling events or quarantining flyers from having the flu. Not sure why we're trying to prevent the inevitable when CDC says going to be here at least until next year.
    1 point
  47. Why so much Google junk dependency in the news comment section?

    Locking Thread I think this thread has run its course. We at neowin do not condone Ad or Script blocking. We can't stop you if you choose to do so, but if things on the site break in the process then we will not be able to assist you to get around that. As stated, Neowin uses CDN resources from Google for many of its live scripts to function in a simple manor.
    1 point
  48. Dipsylalalpo moves to the Supervisor Group

    Thanks all! Edit - ooh shiny new badge!
    1 point
  49. Why so much Google junk dependency in the news comment section?

    google provides more than analytics; they provide live updating directories for web developers for fonts, APIs, jquery libraries ect. ajax is part of jquery and it's essential to many of this site's live scripts such as FPN comments section and the mini-spy none of those listed in your post are analytics they are those that I mentioned by blocking all of google you're blocking more than just ads and analytics
    1 point