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  1. NASA chooses SpaceX to land next Americans on the Moon

    The money is being spent, taxed, and recycled through the economy on Earth. SpaceX is employing thousands of people in Brownsville and McGregor TX, California, Washington State, Michigan (the tank domes for Starship are pressed here) and other states, and most aren't engineers - there are welders, laborers and dozens of other job descriptions the area needed desperately. Additionally, SpaceX is sponsoring STEM programs in their schools, working with the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley on astronomy projects, etc. etc. On the Moon they'll be doing advanced science, setting up a research station with Europe, Japan, Canada, and other nations. Much of it'll be medical, but also environmental and Earth observation (which includes climate science.) So, not so useless as some may think.
    8 points
  2. Retail $999, but you can buy it for $2.000 😔 The scalper bots will finish sales 10 minutes after launch. But who cares, sold is sold...
    6 points
  3. It's one of these quantum phenomena - a product that becomes out of stock before it even goes into stock...
    5 points
  4. Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12GB reportedly priced at $999, launch in May

    Out of stock Edition Series.
    4 points
  5. MPC-BE 1.5.7

    My default player for the past few years, I just love the Seekbar thumbnail preview, to quickly scan through videos is invaluable!
    4 points
  6. People can and do post fake Geekbench results to trigger these types of rumors. It seems highly unlikely with Intel going after Apple for their ARM transition, if they were still working together on new machines. And the idea also goes against apple’s stated goal to transition to ARM by next year.
    3 points
  7. I think at this point, though it was widely known already, there are 2 sides to these things: Smart: if you're selling something and some absolute idiot actually buy it and you actually manage to 'scam' (and let's be clear, these are a complete scam) someone out of money Complete idiot: if you buy anything related to these systems
    3 points
  8. NASA chooses SpaceX to land next Americans on the Moon

    how do you know moon missions wont improve lives on earth? a lot of life altering science has come from space missions via NASA, ESA, Russian programs
    3 points
  9. Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12GB reportedly priced at $999, launch in May

    If it was quantum, it'd be both in stock and out of stock at the same time.
    2 points
  10. Huawei MateBook X Pro review: A great PC with a WFH deal-breaker

    The left shift key is more of a dealbreaker than the webcam.
    2 points
  11. It's cool but if the rest of the system can't communicate at the same speeds then what use is this?
    2 points
  12. How to view mobile version of websites on desktops

    If using Firefox then just CTRL+SHIFT+M, ez.
    2 points
  13. How to view mobile version of websites on desktops

    I feel like anyone who would want to do this, already knows how.
    2 points
  14. I've been having to explain that for more than 15 years. Latencies are expressed in number of clock cycles. So if the number of Hz doubles, each clock cycle takes half as long to complete. Therefore a latency of 40 at 5000 Mhz will be strictly equal (in absolute time, i.e. nanoseconds) to a latency of 20 at 2500 Mhz. The RAM mentioned in the article, at CAS 40, will have lower latency than original DDR1 at CAS 2.
    2 points
  15. Just to be clear, when it said "16 cores", it means that half of those cores are Atom cores.
    2 points
  16. No, please let's not dumb sh*t down any more than it already is. The dumbing down of crap is annoying me. HP smart for printer install is a perfect example. Give me the fracking offline printer installer, but nope, gotta use HP smart. Microsoft even dumbed down deleting files. God forbid it actually asks you if you want to delete something, that would be too complicated. So let's turn that off and if you want it you can turn it back in. The end result, is someone could have 20 files selected, press delete and if they weren't paying attention, would never know they just sent 20 files to the recycle bin. That was one of the more moronic moves Microsoft made. Let's not hide the file path. F*ck stupid people. The file path is USEFUL and should be on by default. ...In your (not-so-humble) opinion! The file-path is redundant and wastes space! Its redundancy is orthogonal to a minimalist and fluent design concepts!! How many indicators are supposed to exist to remind me that I'm at the "HOME" location? Left-hand panel/window title/top tab/file path/status bar... anything else? Should the voice assistant also remind me?!?!?! You're crapping on the Recycle Bin?! It's simply a series of file system flags as to whether an asset is included/excluded from standard browsing; it exists on *literally* every major file system on the planet! As a matter of fact, it's so simple, Microsoft copied Apple Mac OS for the implementation (they called it the Trash Bin). You're crapping on user-configurable options?! Like display of Quick Access and Tags and confirmation windows upon deletion (and subsequently whether to throw things into Recycle Bin or delete from file-system out-right). Srsly?! God forbid the UI/UX is configurable! ... ok ok, i'll get off your lawn ... What do you gain by hiding the full path? The display of the full path (e.g. "c:\users\blah\music\blah\blah"), smart paths (e.g. "My Music > Country > Johnny Cash"), or singular folder (e.g. "Johnny Cash") are all user-configurable options... but the biggest gripe are HOW MANY TIMES it's presented! An efficient UX should limit the confusions (and thereby limit the potentials for programming bugs) of the users. It's not like this UI has 5 visual options for creating a new folder, opening the recycle bin, accessing the settings, or any other set of functions... then WHY are there 5+ displays of the folder name?!?! Similarly, Windows 10's File Explorer presently has a few bugs/features which are everybody's gripe -- like opening the USB key folder upon insert (e.g. U drive, supposing that's the default behavior configured), also adding the U drive to your list of storage devices in My PC, also stubbing out a new left-panel U drive path (akin to a remote storage option like GDrive or OneDrive)... 3 things, all at once. That's bad UX design. Try moving files to/fro this new device, and there's no syncing between your tree view folder expansion and the remote storage folder (so items get highlighted differently and you lose track of which folder is open)... this is terrible UX design. To improve the UX design, simply minimize the number of instances to visually represent -- cut down from 5+ to maybe 2. The UX design in the mockups will get difficult when considering that every TAB may represent DIFFERENT file system locations, but the tab title won't represent the full path! So there's bound to be confusion (and UX disconnects) to indicate where the user is navigating. PS: I'm not advocating against the option for full paths; rather, in this mockups, there are too many location indicators to allow the full paths to be most effective. If implemented as-is, this UX would get confusing and its redundancy would become super apparent. If nothing else, I'm suggesting a re-think to accommodate for the Tab-driven UX (which Mobius makes a great point [to re-think the entire Explorer concepts]). What the hell are you talking about? Being in a media folder is a very rare case. Meanwhile, I will frequently work with folders that are named the same but have different content. Only having the folder name in the Path Bar would be really, really useless for me. Being overly simplistic is not a good idea.
    2 points
  17. I'll be shocked if Apple releases a new iMac with Intel, Actually, it won't happen. The iMac is the flagship company defining/market segment defining, every day normal person at home computer and its the perfect candidate to get a new Apple Silicon chip.
    1 point
  18. NASA chooses SpaceX to land next Americans on the Moon

    Tesla space buggy?
    1 point
  19. MSI......I wouldn't buy their cards...ever! So this is why they cancelled every single one of their 3080 orders.......so how are they going to make 3080Ti then...with the 3080 cards they made and didn't send to any retailers?? I wouldn't trust them as far as I could throw them! Nvidia 3000 series cards an absolute joke....MSI are also scalpers too!!
    1 point
  20. Since they can't make enough of the cards they have now why try to release a Ti version so soon? Are they stuck with a bunch of botched 3090 GPUs that they're probably looking to sell off as 3080 Tis now? I'll never be able to get a 3070 let alone anything higher at these kind of rip off prices.
    1 point
  21. Yay, more nVidia cards you can't actually buy for love, nor money. Mostly money.
    1 point
  22. Right under the shipping picture in the article, there chief. "The report says that the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti will also come pre-installed with the mining limiter that was introduced alongside the RTX 3060."
    1 point
  23. More. 3080s are going for over 2K on eBay. *cries in 980ti* I'm still rocking a 770
    1 point
  24. Huawei MateBook X Pro review: A great PC with a WFH deal-breaker

    What's the deal with Windows 10 Home? Surface Book comes with the Home version as well. Why aren't OEM's using Windows 10 Pro? It can't just be a cost thing... can it??
    1 point
  25. MPC-BE 1.5.7

    Hardware acceleration video playback works fine with the x64 version. Pretty much all (if not actually all) graphics card of the last decade support gpu decoding. What is this hardware are you talking about?
    1 point
  26. We know they're going to do the bigBIGGER idea with Alder lake, but for the high end workstation and server level chips they could just do all full "bigger" cores and not have any Atom level. We don't know details yet. The half atom half bigger core option could be something more for laptops and normal desktops. I haven't seen any rumors/leaks of what the different SKUs for 12th gen will be. yes. he's probably right. there is evidence of a 16-core, 24-thread Alder Lake-S part floating around. It'll be interesting if they put smaller atom type cores in chips meant for the high end and servers though on the other hand they're using ARM cores in servers more and more so maybe it works out. I always saw them doing that more for mobile to better take on the battery advantage ARM gives you over x86 without the performance hit when emulating legacy apps. Guess we'll see once Intel puts out the SKU list so we know core counts and speeds etc.
    1 point
  27. NASA chooses SpaceX to land next Americans on the Moon

    A post borne out of ignorance. Perhaps you've forgotten that many of the advancements you now take for granted came directly from the space programme. Things designed out of necessity to solve certain challenges in space, and things that have come directly from research performed in space. Plus, as DocM said, it's not like this money is just being sent to the moon and lost. It's spent here on earth into our economies. Then, finally, consider the fragility of human life here on Earth. We're destroying our planet bit by bit, and as a single plant species this is a somewhat dangerous thing to do. Having a base and eventually a colony on the Moon is the first step to having a base and then a colony on Mars, and perhaps beyond. Thus reducing the prospects of human extinction dramatically.
    1 point
  28. NASA chooses SpaceX to land next Americans on the Moon

    Starship HLS differes from the creed version for exploration and earth point-to-point passenger & cargo transportation in that it uses a cluster of small thrusters mounted near the crew cabin to land. This prevents rocks and other debris from being kicked up and damaging the vehicle, which would happen using the powerful Raptor engines in the tail.
    1 point
  29. Show us your PC Setup - Bonus points for RGB

    It has been an exceptionally long time Since I have posted one of these, I wouldn't say its RGB, its all Purple Specs: CPU :Ryzen 9 3950X RAM: 64GB DDR4 3200 Storage: 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo Plus Graphics Card: Nvidia 3090 FE Cooler, NZXT Kraken Monitor: Samsung Odyssey G9 (49in Curved Ultrawide 5120x1440) Chassis: NZXT H510 Mobo: Gigabyte X570 Pro Wifi (ITX) I started with an NZXT H1 chassis but they were a fire hazard. Also pictured is a purple 3D printed nut and bolt I use for Sag stability on the graphics card. I have also created a vinyl skin for the window of the Kirin Tor logo from World of Warcraft.
    1 point
  30. Here's how the new Edge Canary compares to stable Edge on Android

    No extensions yet.
    1 point
  31. Because Intel is working on Dedicated graphics cards, they have to start somewhere, remember people, software can make or break hardware.
    1 point
  32. No, please let's not dumb sh*t down any more than it already is. The dumbing down of crap is annoying me. HP smart for printer install is a perfect example. Give me the fracking offline printer installer, but nope, gotta use HP smart. Microsoft even dumbed down deleting files. God forbid it actually asks you if you want to delete something, that would be too complicated. So let's turn that off and if you want it you can turn it back in. The end result, is someone could have 20 files selected, press delete and if they weren't paying attention, would never know they just sent 20 files to the recycle bin. That was one of the more moronic moves Microsoft made. Let's not hide the file path. F*ck stupid people. The file path is USEFUL and should be on by default. ...In your (not-so-humble) opinion! The file-path is redundant and wastes space! Its redundancy is orthogonal to a minimalist and fluent design concepts!! How many indicators are supposed to exist to remind me that I'm at the "HOME" location? Left-hand panel/window title/top tab/file path/status bar... anything else? Should the voice assistant also remind me?!?!?! You're crapping on the Recycle Bin?! It's simply a series of file system flags as to whether an asset is included/excluded from standard browsing; it exists on *literally* every major file system on the planet! As a matter of fact, it's so simple, Microsoft copied Apple Mac OS for the implementation (they called it the Trash Bin). You're crapping on user-configurable options?! Like display of Quick Access and Tags and confirmation windows upon deletion (and subsequently whether to throw things into Recycle Bin or delete from file-system out-right). Srsly?! God forbid the UI/UX is configurable! ... ok ok, i'll get off your lawn ... I'm not crapping the recycle bin I'm crapping not confirming you want to delete a file when pressing delete, so you don't delete something you didn't mean to. Sure it's in the recycle bin and can still be recovered, but if you didn't know it was in there and emptied the recycle bin then you would delete it. Right click - Properties... (Display delete confirmation) Been there long time, maybe even was in Win95. If it something worth complaining about, it is also worth a simple search to see if there are settings or ways around what we see as a problem. PS Can also configure Recycle Bin size defaults per drive. We all know there is a toggle to re-enable it. that's not the point. We're talking about your average joe non-tech savvy person that probably only uses windows for work and doesn't actually know their way around the system. These are the types that aren't even going to think about it being possible to change things and are prone to the accidental deletion without realizing that we're talking about. Why was the default changed in the first place? It doesn't seem like a logical change and no other platform has followed suit on this either. Started in Windows 8 yep and I didn't understand the point of the change of default back then either personally. I don't either. I mean, its certainly an option I would turn off because I don't want nags but in cases like my family, hell yeah nag them! Too many times I get calls of recovering deleted data. You would turn that off? You wouldn't want to be notified that you are about to delete something? it terrifies me at the thought of using a computer with the delete confirmation dialog box turned off.
    1 point
  33. Some of the differences are more visible in motion, there are some new animations and such.
    1 point
  34. Alder Lake-S will be the 12th gen mainstream desktop chips built with the Alder Lake architecture. This slide shows they also plan to offer a W680 chipset which will offer more workstation features than the other 600 series chipsets. The Z690 chipset may not have DDR5 which personally could have been a big step to get ahead of AMD for once. However it also shows a W580 chipset for Rocket Lake, which hasn't been released yet. Perhaps they dropped it at the last minute because it would be a bad idea to advertise an 8 core chip as a workstation product. Especially when it loses in workstation tasks to the 5800x, nevermind the 5900x or 5950x. Alder Lake-P is the codename for the mobile chips with the Alder Lake architecture.
    1 point
  35. Mouthwatering? This is what we had before directx and powerful GPUs... Simplified, colorless, flat, boring. This is Win3.1 with lipstick.
    1 point
  36. At this point, it may be time to start referring to RAM clock speed in Ghz. 10 Ghz and use one decimal place if needed. it's unlikely that anything of the order of 10 Mhz would make much difference anyway.
    1 point
  37. Apple and partners create Restore Fund to fight climate change

    Population growth is not an issue, the issue is energy intense lifestyles. Despite climate change awareness, more people seem to be flying and having more cars per household. I agree the energy intense lifestyle is an issue, but surely it's both? Even if we reduce our energy intense lifestyle but our population keeps increasing, you still end up using more resources overall eventually. Plus everyone wants "the best" these days, try tell them they can't have it and they all act like three year old's having a breakdown in a supermarket. So we have to manage peoples expectations on their lifestyle, ESPECIALLY at the top end, as well as population. Those currently in poverty will also have to come out of poverty, which uses more resources again, so a leveling out so to speak is the only way to do that, with a stabilisation/reduction in population too. Sure, but a complicating factor here is that population control measures almost always affect the so called "Global south" most, and the poorer ones among them at that. Many studies and calculations show that we do have more than enough resources for everyone. The problem is distribution. Sure, individuals in developed countries like the US consume a lot of resources. But they also waste a whole lot. Think food waste. So much perfectly consumable unexpired food is wasted and by simply adjusting laws and behavior around food waste, we could make a huge difference. What would it take? Public education campaigns (although they will invariably be unnecessarily politicized). Lawmaking. Incentives. As far as population stabilization goes, we're already headed in that direction. In my experience (I'm closely aware of the "ground game" in some highly populated places), the best way to reduce population growth rates has been education (including sex education), giving people opportunities to lift them out of poverty, and free and easy access to contraception - there are still people who think they *have* to have babies if they want to have sex. And all of that can be done without an explicit focus on population control. That would just be a nice side effect. Everyone wins.
    1 point
  38. And a lot of the kinds of users that hang around sites like this would love that. People have been lamenting the demotion and eventual loss of fileman.exe since Windows 95. You can't find a thread about file explorer without at least one eventual mention of Directory Opus or Total Commander -- two of the most dated looking pieces of software out there. I think Dopus looks just fine, and besides I'll take functionality over "pretty" any day. https://i.imgur.com/vUS5OcP.png
    1 point
  39. Anything would be better. The one they have now is so, so bad. Just getting operations with multiple files selected to occur in a predictable order is impossible. Operations interrupting and cancelling your file selections. The left bar populating and scrolling all over the place when you open a new window so you have to wait before you click on anything. The new files appearing in the current folder, will they appear at the bottom or will they appear in order? You never know. It's just terrible for productivity. What a piece of garbage. Who uses this? But $10 says they replace it with something that strips away keyboard functionality so you have to Tab all over the place to do anything like with Photos. It's insane how they target the power user for some use cases but completely disregard for so many others. The Windows 10 UI/UX is a compete ****show.
    1 point
  40. And a lot of the kinds of users that hang around sites like this would love that. People have been lamenting the demotion and eventual loss of fileman.exe since Windows 95. You can't find a thread about file explorer without at least one eventual mention of Directory Opus or Total Commander -- two of the most dated looking pieces of software out there. Agreed. I'm old and I love Directory Opus in comparison to Windows File Explorer.
    1 point
  41. Love this game but they need to start adding actual content besides cosmetics. Would love to see more Tall tales or maps.
    1 point
  42. No, please let's not dumb sh*t down any more than it already is. The dumbing down of crap is annoying me. HP smart for printer install is a perfect example. Give me the fracking offline printer installer, but nope, gotta use HP smart. Microsoft even dumbed down deleting files. God forbid it actually asks you if you want to delete something, that would be too complicated. So let's turn that off and if you want it you can turn it back in. The end result, is someone could have 20 files selected, press delete and if they weren't paying attention, would never know they just sent 20 files to the recycle bin. That was one of the more moronic moves Microsoft made. Let's not hide the file path. F*ck stupid people. The file path is USEFUL and should be on by default. ...In your (not-so-humble) opinion! The file-path is redundant and wastes space! Its redundancy is orthogonal to a minimalist and fluent design concepts!! How many indicators are supposed to exist to remind me that I'm at the "HOME" location? Left-hand panel/window title/top tab/file path/status bar... anything else? Should the voice assistant also remind me?!?!?! You're crapping on the Recycle Bin?! It's simply a series of file system flags as to whether an asset is included/excluded from standard browsing; it exists on *literally* every major file system on the planet! As a matter of fact, it's so simple, Microsoft copied Apple Mac OS for the implementation (they called it the Trash Bin). You're crapping on user-configurable options?! Like display of Quick Access and Tags and confirmation windows upon deletion (and subsequently whether to throw things into Recycle Bin or delete from file-system out-right). Srsly?! God forbid the UI/UX is configurable! ... ok ok, i'll get off your lawn ... What do you gain by hiding the full path?
    1 point
  43. No, please let's not dumb sh*t down any more than it already is. The dumbing down of crap is annoying me. HP smart for printer install is a perfect example. Give me the fracking offline printer installer, but nope, gotta use HP smart. Microsoft even dumbed down deleting files. God forbid it actually asks you if you want to delete something, that would be too complicated. So let's turn that off and if you want it you can turn it back in. The end result, is someone could have 20 files selected, press delete and if they weren't paying attention, would never know they just sent 20 files to the recycle bin. That was one of the more moronic moves Microsoft made. Let's not hide the file path. F*ck stupid people. The file path is USEFUL and should be on by default. ...In your (not-so-humble) opinion! The file-path is redundant and wastes space! Its redundancy is orthogonal to a minimalist and fluent design concepts!! How many indicators are supposed to exist to remind me that I'm at the "HOME" location? Left-hand panel/window title/top tab/file path/status bar... anything else? Should the voice assistant also remind me?!?!?! You're crapping on the Recycle Bin?! It's simply a series of file system flags as to whether an asset is included/excluded from standard browsing; it exists on *literally* every major file system on the planet! As a matter of fact, it's so simple, Microsoft copied Apple Mac OS for the implementation (they called it the Trash Bin). You're crapping on user-configurable options?! Like display of Quick Access and Tags and confirmation windows upon deletion (and subsequently whether to throw things into Recycle Bin or delete from file-system out-right). Srsly?! God forbid the UI/UX is configurable! ... ok ok, i'll get off your lawn ... I'm not crapping the recycle bin I'm crapping not confirming you want to delete a file when pressing delete, so you don't delete something you didn't mean to. Sure it's in the recycle bin and can still be recovered, but if you didn't know it was in there and emptied the recycle bin then you would delete it. not to mention things like storage sense auto empty the recycle bin on occasion now.
    1 point
  44. What do you mean? Drives are there, all the existing special folders, path, breadcrumb etc Okay. As a user, go ahead and show me where the directory is located. Oh, I know you can see Pictures / Wallpapers in the demo pictures, but in actuality, that directory is a "Symbolic Folder" and doesn't really exist. The real path to the file is "C:\Users\Username\Pictures\Saved Pictures". The problem with the symbolic directories is that documents are listed there constantly that don't physically reside there. The number of user machines I've had to pull files from is astounding and due to poor File Managers on Mac and Pinned / Favorite directories on Windows, people don't know where their files are. Period. Ever since Windows 10, storage management has been a godawful mess when dealing with users as they do not know or care where they save things, they just hit "save". It goes to a download folder (that gets cleared whenever a file cleanup happens), a Documents folder (that doesn't exist), or their desktop. It's sad that the desktop is, organizationally, the best option, and this UI is further enforcing the "I dunno, search for it" school of thought that has made things so poor for both I.T. and users (even if they don't know it). This (and UI design like it) is designed for looks, not utility. It functions terribly the deeper you need to go and serves to enforce bad habits. However, I'm certain it is the road UX will travel down because people are very lazy and would rather have the OS think for them instead of having to do it themselves. "It just works" until someone has to actually do something technical, then "it just sucks."
    1 point
  45. Mouth-watering user concept of Windows 10 File Explorer has Reddit salivating

    NO. There is such thing as "too much simplicity". Nautilus also does this crap. Which is why I install Nemo on any Linux installation using Gnome 3. I just avoid GNOME like a plague.
    1 point
  46. No, please let's not dumb sh*t down any more than it already is. The dumbing down of crap is annoying me. HP smart for printer install is a perfect example. Give me the fracking offline printer installer, but nope, gotta use HP smart. Microsoft even dumbed down deleting files. God forbid it actually asks you if you want to delete something, that would be too complicated. So let's turn that off and if you want it you can turn it back in. The end result, is someone could have 20 files selected, press delete and if they weren't paying attention, would never know they just sent 20 files to the recycle bin. That was one of the more moronic moves Microsoft made. Let's not hide the file path. F*ck stupid people. The file path is USEFUL and should be on by default.
    1 point
  47. that's not a bug, it's a new feature.. No.. Really.... You can turn the extra whitespace off in the options>view settings.
    1 point
  48. Concept: get rid of the ribbon Microsoft: Yeah right
    1 point
  49. They never allow these things to breathe a bit. For some users it just takes time trying out new stuff. And if it isn't integrated across devices then it becomes even less of a feature.
    1 point
  50. Hoping the removal un-fubars Task View animations and Peek at... shadow placements.
    1 point