RedEye knows....

RedEye9 wrote on Mar 10, 2022, 10:50:
If I were to guess, Your box is probably slooow, infected, runs hot, crashes a lot and and uses a sketchy, free, iffy OS.
RGB would fix the above and allow you to game at frameS per second versus frame a second.

Hell, I was modding lights into my PC's back in the 90's.... super bright blue LED's....

To bad I haven’t been able to play with mine. FedEx keeps delaying delivery for one reason or another. First was weather related…. We had rain. Then it was left at depot. Then mechanical issue….

Cutter wrote on Feb 13, 2022, 19:28:
Seeing as the "free market" is incapable of getting these shortages and profiteering under control it's long past time for government to step in and fix it.

How do you propose this to work? Considering most of the electronics are made overseas (China), where they will close entire districts with one case of Covid, nothing is going to be done. The gov can do nothing about the shortages when the company is in a foreign country.

And even when some are going to be made here (Intel fabs), they want an astronomical amount of dollars in concessions from the feds, state, and local governments to build there. Basically, they want the taxpayer to fund the building of a multi-billion dollar factory, while they make all the money. Sound familiar (sports stadiums)?

One thing that could be done, but won’t, is dealing with the scalpers legally. As these are private individuals selling them, and they are not considered a life need (fuel, food, toilet paper), price gouging laws do not pertain.

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Least they will. The other crafts that are in geo orbit usually don’t, once they become inoperable. Hell, there are still craft (both from launches and mishaps) from the 70’s still orbiting, that no longer work.

Simon Says wrote on Feb 9, 2022, 22:46:

Not disposable as in knowing they aren't built to last long, they didn't even bother to include a de-orbit protocol to prevent space trash.

Starlink's sattelites are just the worst type of to have running around low orbit.

And where did you read this? Facebook?

Because Elon and multiple other Starlink officials (including ON their launch streams) have stated that as the craft comes to its EOL operation, they will be ACTIVELY deorbited, to burn up during re-entry. The re-entry time can be as little as a few hours to a day. That sounds like a deorbit protocol to me.

Not sure if they really would have to worry about antitrust. There are still a couple of bigger gaming companies, even after this buyout. Tencent, being one. Which also has a decent stake in Act/Bliz.

Can only wait and see.

Most of Nilaus's tutorials are good. I enjoy his streams as well.

It is a lot of fun! I’ve played it several times this weekend at PAX West.

Really looking forward to it and Dead Fury. Elements is also coming out next year, all published by Apogee. Scott Miller (founder of Apogee in ‘87) and I have had talked a lot about these games and old school as well.

jdreyer wrote on Aug 4, 2021, 21:09:
If there's anyone that can afford to delay a game...

Amazon can….

WaltSee wrote on Jul 31, 2021, 18:38:
Even if someone is able to secure the trademark if nVidia let it lapse, without the original principals of 3dfx there's nothing to see here, imo.

According to the research I did, nVidia let the trademark lapse in 2008 and was cancelled for CONTINUED USE NOT FILED WITHIN GRACE PERIOD, UN-REVIVABLE.

I really hope this doesn’t happen. Norton still sucks with all the memory and crap it uses, while avast is decent. I can see Norton getting rid of the free version of Avast and making everyone pay for it.

JTW wrote on Jul 7, 2021, 14:41:
More than once I shut off the TV when his bullshit started. Think he'll sue me? Or just the remote control manufacturer?

Both. He gets his rocks off doing so.

Shit…. Now he’s gonna sue me too.

I’ll keep waiting for my omnidirectional treadmill with quadraphonic pressure-sensitive underlay and the haptic suit.

Kxmode wrote on May 3, 2021, 21:03:

The thing is, everybody charges 30% and has since the '80s at least! Microsoft, Nintendo, Sony all charge 30% for their respective platforms. That's just the price of doing business on a proprietary branded platform. It's not just the platform. A company also pays for the brand name they sell their product on and access to the userbase who buy products for that platform. Epic didn't say anything until Fortnite made them billions. Now they want to "change the world," or so they claim. That's not going to happen after they violated Apple's TOS agreement. Out of the gate, Epic took an arrow to the knee. That doesn't sound like a person thinking each step. It sounds like a person wildly swinging at success, hoping to reach it before their 15-minutes of fame dies (and with Fortnite's number waning, Epic's 15-minutes is almost up).

Epic charges 12%.they started that in 2017/18, iirc. Microsoft announced they will be going to an 88/12 split as well, starting July 1.

It makes me wonder if Discord was using it as leverage for investment injections. While I’m glad they will stay independent, there were a few things that bothered me about it.

1. MS’s track record with acquisitions. And if any company was to grab em up, I still would of rather it BE MS, than any other.

2. If MS did gobble em up, what would Apple’s response be? We already see a pissing match between the two with Apple blocking MS apps. Not to mention the recent controversy with Apple telling Discord to block NSFW content on iOS.

On another note, I was seeing people talk about how MS will just do a hostile take over. I made the comment that it couldn’t happen, considering Discord is a privately held company and doesn’t trade stock. Of course, I was flamed. Lol

I doubt it would be. They would put all the focus on Epic games / studios. Keeping competition out.

Blue,

I have. I lived in a condo complex that was doing that here in Washington. I knew, as a hunter, that geese are covered under the migratory bird act. And I found through the dept of wildlife that the HOA did NOT have permits, nor ever did. The Fish & Wildlife Department investigated and found the board was oiling the eggs to keep them from hatching. the board even went as far to say “its private land, we can do what ever the hell we want.”

The HOA was fined $250,000. They never did it again.

Love all the hyperbole. I have 1gig service at my home and my speed tests always are around 1100-1200. Uploads could be better, only 50-60. The unlimited does cost me $11/month, but it’s worth it to me.

Btw, most who say they don’t get anywhere near that are more than likely using wifi. Which won’t get near those speeds. Being a network guy myself, there are environmental, hardware, and configuration aspects that come into play. My phone for example will do 340 (Samsung Galaxy), but my wife’s does Does barely 200 (iPhone).

And the more wireless devices around, be it other AP’s, IoT’s, or interface causing devices (microwaves), slower it will be.

This is unsettling. Because it now sets a precedent and can open the possibility of artists suing you for just having “their” work in a photo or video. I also do not recall signing a disclosure that I had no legal rights to the artwork I had put into my skin. Even the designs I didn’t create myself.

Will we see game companies go after tattoos of game characters.

Oh shit.... I can see the trolls buying up the rights to abandonware games now.