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  1. Any crypto coins that use empty space in savings accounts?
    11 points
  2. It sounds like they're just coming up with anything to push more hardware sales. All this different crypto out right now but aside from Bitcoin which is the big one and used a lot. Are they other ones as used really? Personally I'm looking at Eth and mining on the side since I leave my desktop on all the time anyway. There's like 20 others though that are dirt cheap and it feels like they're just there to take up space.
    4 points
  3. Download the Surface Laptop 4 Wallpapers

    Very much digging my Surface Laptop 4. Got the black 32GB Intel to replace my gen 1 Surface Book. Big speed improvements with my dev environment and wifi is a huge improvement as well. I'm quite sure there are better laptops for my workload, but I really do love the 3:2 screen and surface keyboard so it was a nice upgrade for me.
    3 points
  4. Another scam for the suckers that the Chinese will use to siphon money away. The actual solution here is to stop feeding these worthless pyramid/Ponzi schemes.
    2 points
  5. These cards are bound to fail. The moment crypto crashes, these will become landfill as they cannot even be used for gaming.
    2 points
  6. I’d like to personally see price as a con. Just doesn’t seem that you get all that much for over $2,000 now. My opinion, but would like to see dedicated graphics, twice the storage, and at least 2-in-1/Touch screen for that price. I’d pay maybe $1500 for it, and I imagine we could likely find it for that price on the typical Dell sales + Honey coupon codes or something. Big fan of everything else they have going on for it overall though.
    2 points
  7. ...and yet, it still beat out the latest gen CPUs from Intel
    2 points
  8. wait, something like this is actual legal? In most countries it's illegal(criminal) to sell a product higher than marked price, even on ebay/blackmarket. As far as I know - yes it is not illegal (nor should it be!!!) To resell at higher price if there is a demand. That is the basis of market economy. If someone is willing to pay it is their choice. Market sets the price. I am not sure which country you are from but I dont want to be in a place where government can mess with private affairs like that. I am surprised Nvidia did not just officialy raise their prices - everyone else is doing it. It they raise prices themselves they will get the cash - not random re-sellers You are describing capitalism as unfettered capitalism, and they are very different. I know the Right/Reps like to paint USA Capitalism as unfettered Capitalism in the context of the US, but this is not true. Read up a bit on the purposeful limits of capitalism in the USA, how it has gone off the rails over the past 30+ years post Reaganomics. Also grab some historical context. (For example, Socialism was a response to Unfettered Capitalism - and by modern design is to work with Capitalism.) A viable/healthy market MUST be regulated. If not we get crap like this and inflation and supply side monopolies etc. Notice we don't have hyper inflation in the US, even with GDP hitting debt, as we have mechanisms (regulations) to shift the market at the Federal level. The era of Reaganomics and lack regulation in the USA needs to have a stake put in its heart, it never worked, ever, ever, ever. Pick any study, pick any historical reporting - the numbers do not lie, it just doesn't work, and never will. (The Milton Friedman/Reaganomics model was also created from racism, as the intent was to deny help to any brown minority in the USA. Go read what Lee Attwater and other said about this when they were describing the model and messaging, and how to code things. Read what prominent Republicans said of it at the time, the ones that didn't have racist interests, like George Bush Sr. The only economic 'booms' or significant growth the US has seen over the past 30 years comes from Clinton's push back with the famous tax bill that zero Republicans voted for, and helped create the 90s economy, most of it prior to the dot.com boom - which also was possible because of that Tax bill and also from Gore's Internet legislation to commercialize the internet. The only other positive boom we saw since 1990 was the tiny Obama stimulus - which should have been repeated several times, but was blocked by Republicans. Not an argument or anything, just some things to consider. Also, you 'do' want to live in a country where the market is regulated, just as it ALWAYS has been in the US, even though the regulations have been laxed a few times, like the Oil barren years and the post Regan years. (Both nearly destroying the US economy. )
    2 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. I suspect that's the UK keyboard that he received. I'm sure it has a US keyboard style too.
    2 points
  11. 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.
    2 points
  12. 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
    2 points
  13. 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.
    2 points
  14. Dell Latitude 7320 review: The ultimate work from home laptop

    $2,149 "ultimate work from home" laptop with 4-core processor and 256GB SSD? Hard pass!
    1 point
  15. Internal connection between two PCs seems to max at 50 MB/s

    Even wired gig wouldn't give you that.. More like 113 to maybe 115.. Keep in mind there is overhead.. Even gig is more like low to mid 900's - 940ish I would say it best you could possible see.. Just like you don't see 100, or even 10.. Just some advice, would never run a "server" wireless.. Not like servers move about much This is good advice "Always do wired unless you can't".. Unless the device is mobile, if it has a wired interface, you should do everything you can to wire it.. >Windows Settings shows a link speed of 866/866 Mbps While that is a good PHY connection, real world is not close to that.. Best say 60% of that - normally more in the 50% range.. So lets call it 400ish - so 400/8 = 50MBps.. So yeah if your seeing 50ish over wireless 867 PHY.. that is good performance and expecting any more than that is pretty much dreaming.. This is pretty much pegging a 1gig connection That is s 2.something gig file.. pulling from my nas to my pc over 1gig wired.. You can see its pretty flat line at like 113MBps Now here is the same file from the same nas to the same PC via 2.5gig connection.. So clearly the HDD and the SSD involved where not a bottle neck limiting it to 113.. I see upwards of 280MBps via this connection.. Quite possible someone streaming something off plex at the moment.. Oh yeah - 3 people streaming, movies they watching could be off the same volume I was pulling the test file from, etc.. But yeah gig is going to be about 113MB.. If your seeing over 100MB I would see your normal.. Pretty much any sort of somewhat recent hardware should be able to do 100MBps over gig.. But 120.. No not really possible..
    1 point
  16. YAY! Just what we need ANOTHER new coin.
    1 point
  17. 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? Exactly, sometimes I see my GPU fans spinning with video playback, so it must be working. MPC-BE has a GPU indicator to show if it's working unlike any other players
    1 point
  18. up to 26 https://www.neowin.net/news/nv...-dedicated-mining-hardware/" rel="external nofollow">https://www.neowin.net/news/nv...-dedicated-mining-hardware/ What a ripoff, my $999 3080 does 104 MH/s.
    1 point
  19. Pc won't boot with GPU plaugged into the PCIe slot

    Not really sure TBH but could be a faulty motherboard. Like either the PCIe slot is the problem or maybe the BIOS isn't recognizing dedicated graphics. Could be something else too.
    1 point
  20. ...and yet, it still beat out the latest gen CPUs from Intel Not the point. Nobody want to buy dated hardware. the point is performance. The AMD 4000 series is still fantastic. In cinebench, the processor in the Surface laptop 4 was rivaling the desktop class 1700X. I owned a Ryzen 1800X desktop back in the day and that was a beast machine so to imagine a Surface Laptop 4 running toe to toe with a 15W mobile processor against a 1700X 95W desktop processor is amazing. The performance delta between the 3000 series and the 4000 series is bigger than between the 4000 series and the 5000 series. You too, missed the point. when you sit at a computer doing something, you can't tell what's new and what's "old". you can only tell performance. Yeah and? I won’t buy machines with last gen hardware and I’m sure I am not alone. Why would I want to pay the same as I would for latest gen and leave performance on the table? Who cares if AMD is faster than Intel, that’s not at all relevant to using older hardware. That, my friend, is the point. yeah, stick to buying labels and spec sheets. the rest of us care about performance. Now that’s just silly. You know full well zen3 is better performing than zen2+. I guess your money means less to you than mine does to me. Oh well, just goes to show who the wiser shopper is. Would you also go out and buy a last year model car for the same price as a new model that is faster, for the same price? From what you just said, I believe you would. There's no logic in anything he says. If im paying current gen prices, I want current gen hardware. Simple as that. It's why I avoided Macbooks for a long time and neowin users were up in arms over Apple doing it, but now forgive Windows PC Vendors.
    1 point
  21. Pc won't boot with GPU plaugged into the PCIe slot

    Yeah I was going to ask about power supply in general - no specs mentioned.
    1 point
  22. NASA chooses SpaceX to land next Americans on the Moon

    The Moon by 2024 is a FAR more realistic goal than Musk's pie in the sky ambitions for Mars by then. Now they just need to figure out how to stop Starship exploding whenever they launch one! I hope they name the first base, Koenig Base. ;)
    1 point
  23. Honor Band 6 review: A smartwatch disguised as a smart band

    Strap is swappable BTW. Please correct.
    1 point
  24. NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

    Lori Garver was once #2 at NASA
    1 point
  25. NASA chooses SpaceX to land next Americans on the Moon

    I'm thinking a modded Cybertruck or Cybervan (a likely future project; Musk mentioned a Tesla Van)
    1 point
  26. wait, something like this is actual legal? In most countries it's illegal(criminal) to sell a product higher than marked price, even on ebay/blackmarket. As far as I know - yes it is not illegal (nor should it be!!!) To resell at higher price if there is a demand. That is the basis of market economy. If someone is willing to pay it is their choice. Market sets the price. I am not sure which country you are from but I dont want to be in a place where government can mess with private affairs like that. I am surprised Nvidia did not just officialy raise their prices - everyone else is doing it. It they raise prices themselves they will get the cash - not random re-sellers
    1 point
  27. It's one of these quantum phenomena - a product that becomes out of stock before it even goes into stock...
    1 point
  28. Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12GB reportedly priced at $999, launch in May

    Out of stock Edition Series.
    1 point
  29. Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 12GB reportedly priced at $999, launch in May

    Yeah, good luck finding one at $999, in fact good luck finding one available at all.
    1 point
  30. More. 3080s are going for over 2K on eBay. *cries in 980ti* I'm still rocking a 770
    1 point
  31. 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.
    1 point
  32. 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...
    1 point
  33. 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
  34. 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
    1 point
  35. How to view mobile version of websites on desktops

    If using Firefox then just CTRL+SHIFT+M, ez.
    1 point
  36. 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!
    1 point
  37. NASA Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS)

    😃
    1 point
  38. Best free anti-malware software?

    Hello, Anti-virus and anti-malware software are actually the same thing. They are marketing terms used to brand a product in order to promote it to a particular market segment. Several years ago, I wrote a guide to evaluating anti-virus software on Reddit's r/sysadmin subreddit. I have revised it a couple of times since then, mostly recently last month, and it can now be found on the Spiceworks IT community as one of their HOWTO's: https://community.spiceworks.com/how_to/155722-evaluate-antivirus-software Perhaps you will find it of use. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky
    1 point
  39. 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
  40. Which is neat...but considerably slower than File Explorer. Try opening C:\Windows\SysWOW64 in this app. I can only imagine LOL.
    1 point
  41. If Ballmer were in charge, then those 2 paths were quite plausible. Today? Not in the slightest! (Maybe a huge long-shot with SAP, but only because MSFT has tons of $$ in foreign accounts which would not result in any US taxation should it be used for SAP acquisition... but strategically? They don't need that dead weight.)
    1 point
  42. At one point long ago there were rumors/talks about buying Salesforce, iirc. There's no need to bother now, that was before they went in on Azure and there was a business need, I don't see it anymore.
    1 point
  43. Here’s what to expect: Not a lot. 😆
    1 point