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    Steven Spielberg Is Gunning to Make Sure Netflix Never Has Another Oscars Contender

    Best formula for winning picture of the year is to, in some form or another, make a reference back to the movie industry. I felt “The Shape of Water” was just an OK movie but, because they could say it was a nod to Creature from the Black Lagoon, blah blah, it got the nod. Hugo? I thought I...
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    NVIDIA and AMD Are Shipping Fewer GPUs as Retailers Sit on Inventory

    Very similar here. I recently upgraded from an almost 10 year old i940. Went with an AMD 2700 I got on a good deal. New motherboard, new memory, new nvme drive, new case. The only things I didn’t change were the PSU (~2 year old seasonic) and the GTX 1060 graphics card. No compelling reason...
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    NVIDIA and AMD Are Shipping Fewer GPUs as Retailers Sit on Inventory

    It’s like they expect people to not have a memory of previous prices. When I got my GTX 1060 2.5 years ago, they decided to push the price of a mid-range card past the ~$200 mark. The MSRP for a 6GB model was something like $249 but it was relatively easy to find card for $10-30 less than that...
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    Flarex 16 GB 3200 CAS 14 memory $179.99 at Newegg

    Of course many deals are coming fast and furious right now, but I figured I would point this one out. The Samsung B die 3200 CAS 14 memory has been very resistant to coming down in price. It has largely stayed above $220 for the 2X8 kit regardless of brand. Right now Newegg has G.Skill Flarex...
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    Crypto Hangover Could Take Blame for NVIDIA's Potential GeForce RTX 2060 Delay

    Pretty crazy that 1060 cards are only now selling for their prices that I paid 2 years ago. Feel fortunate that I got in while prices were reasonable. I am currently assembling a new rig but one of the parts I’m definitely migrating for now is that old 1060 (that and a pretty young Seasonic...
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    NVIDIA Releases Firmware Update For Displayport 1.3 and 1.4

    Glad they finally addressed this. I have a Gigabyte 1060 6GB model hooked up to an Acer Predator 27" G-sync monitor. With my old monitor hooked up by DVI, I never had boot issues. As soon as I hooked up the Acer using Displayport, I started to run into random black screens (no signal) when...
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    Congress Has Questions About Meltdown and Spectre

    I can see the questions now, "How does spectre affect the series of tubes that is the internet? If I see ghosting on my monitor, does that mean I've been infected? Is this a friendly ghost (Casper) or an unfriendly ghost (poltergeist)? Can we simply have a priest conduct an exorcism on Intel...
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    Thief Movie Producers Say a New Thief Game Is in the Works

    Ooops, I used the wrong word in my original post. I should not have used "protagonist" but, instead "antagonist" or maybe villain. I really, really enjoyed Stephen Russell's work as Garrett and was disappointed when they dropped him for the most recent version. I did not like the voice he...
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    Thief Movie Producers Say a New Thief Game Is in the Works

    Thief: The Dark Project/Gold is probably one of my favorite games ever. For the time, it's graphics were behind the curve as it was only 8-bit, but they did a pretty good job of dithering, etc. to give a sense of a wider palette. What really mattered, though, was the game play. You could tell...
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    Peter Molyneux: Kinect Was a "Disaster, Trainwreck"

    It's too bad if Kinect goes away. Some people have figured out innovative ideas for using them. Geography/geology departments have used them to create real-time projection models of topographic maps on 3D surfaces (for example).
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    Apple Hires Amazon’s Fire TV Head to Run Apple TV Business

    Yup, and I like that the Roku is largely agnostic when it comes to different content providers. It does not push me to Apple. It doesn't push me to Amazon. I decide. And, yeah, Roku has some pretty good hardware if you buy in at that level. Heck, I even bought my parents a roku express for...
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    3D and Curved Screen TVs Fade Away

    I guess I'm a weird one that actually likes 3D sometimes (not always) if the movie actually benefits from it. LG has really been the main one that has promoted the passive approach that doesn't require the expensive shutter glasses and I prefer that. I have a ~5 year old Panasonic TV that is...
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    Laser printer for college student - Xmas gift

    One small caveat that I remember from installing my HL-2270DW Brother printer is that you select its connection method when you set it up the first time. In other words, while it may have the connections for ethernet, USB, and WiFi, it only can be set up to use one of those at a time. To...
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    Laser printer for college student - Xmas gift

    Honestly my little Brother has been rock solid for the years I've owned it. I would say it's graphics/photo quality is just fine for everyday use. I printed my college dissertation on it and nobody complained about the quality. If you were highly interested in super fine grayscale photos or...
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    Laser printer for college student - Xmas gift

    Well I have a Brother HL-2270DW and have used it for 4-5 years. It has wifi and does duplex printing. If you like using generic toner replacements, there are some really cheap ones out there, though I really do prefer buying the Brother cartridges (high capacity often ~$45). You may be able...
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