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Unless I am mistaken- Planet earth 2 on Netflix is not in HDR, just 4K. The blurays however have HDR+4K.

I watched it on Friday evening, and I was surprised at the paltry audience. It's a slow burn, but the movie stays in your mind because of its exquisite set pieces, Ryan Gosling's acting and the beautifully crafted cityscapes. Slightly unrelated, but I am glad moviepass exists now- I have been...

The gaming "improvement" is basically hogwash: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/242845-now-know-microsofts-upcoming-game-mode-windows-10-will

BFG division is my favorite one in the ost:

It's precisely because of the lower bundle rates that a lot of people go with cable subscription. Google fiber has no such promotion, and as a result the number of cable subscribers is in single digit percent range: Google Fiber Has Only 54,000 TV Subscribers, and Sign-Ups Are Slowing About 50k...

Everyone here has that sentiment- the homeowners had the HOA contact google to try and get the dates- but no dice- atleast they got the fiber installed. They lay down the fiber outside my house a few weeks back. I have the option of getting gigapower now but no way that i am getting myself tied...

The same could be said about watching TV/movies or reading books as a hobby after you retire. Aside from the amount of mental focus and physical tolerance required to sit and do any of these activities at length, at that age- there is also the question of getting bored doing just one type of...

I have this on my 2015 Camry and frankly I am impressed with how well it works. I initially had it on a setting where it brakes when the distance to the car in front is pretty large. It once stopped the car several feet before the car in front when he slammed on the brakes suddenly. Lowering the...

1nm would be the absolute theoretical limit for feature sizes- since atomic distances are in that range. Realistically, Quantum tunneling puts the minimum Si based transistor feature sizes to around 5nm. We will hit that almost certainly as soon as they move out of 10nm feature sizes.

Close to what has happened in Raleigh/Triangle. TWC has bumped up everyone in the google fiber area to ~10x their original speeds (TWC Maxx as they call it) so they don't lose their entire user base en masse once fiber comes around. The triangle being heavily tech savvy is especially on the...

The biggest issue with having less than 3gb or so RAM with today's high resolution screens and heavy applications is how much they enter into the swap territory when the amount of free RAM is reduced to less than 200mb. Couple that with the horrible or barely acceptable flash card speeds we see...

Chromecast uses sub ultrasonic frequency to link a mobile device when they are not connected to the same wireless network. The technology here wouldn't be all that different, Chromecast links with a unique pin- the advertising platform would have the same tech behind it. Most people can't hear...

A lot of large companies use private clouds- AWS and public cloud services are only useful if you are going to be small-medium sized. As soon as you reach into the heavy computation/ Petabyte sized databases spread across multiple nodes, most public cloud services don't cut it. And that is one...

Just built a skylake based system about a fortnight back since I got this nice little deal from newegg: ASRock Z170 Extreme7+ Motherboard + 16GB (2 x 8GB) CORSAIR Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 (PC4 24000) Desktop Memory $309.98 All together the price came to about 1200$ (https://pchound.com/ZyHcvy/)-...

Yeah- that is one issue. Non-specific binding for biological species and background fluorescence are big issues when using fluorescence. These metamaterials do however improve the SNR in these cases (due to coupling) in addition to the red shifting helping in certain cases (using UV to excite...

That is true; in addition you can only resolve objects within half of the wavelength of light used to image them. However metamaterials made to work using either plamonics or photonic waveguides overcome this shortcoming by coupling the said EM field to the surface, and raising the overall wave...

This is very true, even giants like Oracle are doing this with their giant DB softwares.

The upgrade only allows for a in-place OS replacement. You can still go back to Windows 7/8 with the original key but they do not give a free license key with this promotion. One would have to buy it from retail for that luxury.

That's how e-beam scanning works- SEM, TEM etc rely on this and electron-photon interactions are well known.

I got it as a kit with other essential components. Its running great even without overclocking though I did run into issues with my func mechanical keyboard attached to it (perhaps because of the onboard storage on the keyboard not playing well with the boot config file on pi). We should see...

This. Every single time.

I think there is 1 Windows server to about 500 linux ones in the organization i work in- good thing I only have to manage the linux ones, I really cant deal with Windows on servers.

I use that as my primary router- works wonderfully with ~25 devices I have at home. Merlin custom fimware might help things since it is extremely well built and stable.

Can confirm, I work in the RTP area and it is absolutely wonderful. Everything is so close to wherever you live in this area that it makes life much easier.

Well, someone has to manage all those servers being bombarded with holiday traffic. Plus manage outages.

Yes and no- the poor are really poor- but the rich are extremely flush with cash. There is a big divide between the two and it doesnt help that a lot of the rich folks get their said money from less than honest ways. One way or another it isint a huge deal for a lot of the rich there to buy a...

It's how science works- no matter how "obvious" the hypothesis you need to test it rigorously with a statistically significant number of data points and draw your conclusion based on the double blind results which then have to lie within the predetermined error bars. Hearsay doesnot work when...

The statement wouldn't be that hilarious if the mobile phones had more than a handful of interesting games that are not emulated/ported. Even with the ported games, touch based control is often cluncky and terrible and very few publishers have sufficient reason to make games exclusive to Shield...

Retinal detachment often occurs in late stage myopia when the eye elongates so much that the retina can no longer remain attached to the surrounding tissues causing the tearing. While it is possible for a person to have these issues by constantly straining the eye by staring at close proximity...

You are forgetting how powerful the attachment to a system becomes once everyone in your circle of friends and family start using it. India is a prime example of such a market- and the cost after a year of service, $1 or about Rs.50 is basically nothing for an individual who already owns a...

I wondered why my grooveIP would not connect over the morning. This explains it.

Amazon Prime with a student account makes my life so much easier. Six months of free membership followed by 39$/ year for 2 day shipping and all the other perks is absolutely wonderful.

I wonder what Google's strategy is going to be once they set it up in KC. I can only hope they expand the network outwards and get Columbia, MO sometime soon.

Futurama's anti robot propoganda movie is in order: http://vimeo.com/12915013

Just beat the game with a galactic readiness of 4700. The game is good, you are more emotionally invested in the game than the previous two but it is not as strong as the second one. ME2 is still the best of the three in my opinion. The real kicker is the ending though, depressing yes, but...

This would wonderfully replace my old 8800GTS..

This reminded me of the TED demonstration by Pranav Mistry a few years back on his sixth sense system.. kinda neat to see it being fully developed.

Precisely my thoughts, a few decades down the line I guess.. Also the eyeborg documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW78wbN-WuU&feature=player_embedded

Apple getting ready to sue them over design and naming issues in 3..2..1..