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    Critics Of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” Blast New Film

    Movie makes a ton of money... and critics refuse mostly refuse to slam anything. So the internet hipsters turn into a version of In Living Colors Men on Films... Haaattted it. lol It is a good star wars film... not sure what some people where expecting. In case people don't remember...
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    “Star Wars” Heading For Box Office Record Of $215 Million-Plus In US

    For me all the main ones did. The only ones choices I questioned where at least in this film minor... I do hope Phasma gets something to do in 8 though. How depressing that they had Gwendoline do so much PR for the screen time she was given in this one... and ya the choices they had her make are...
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    “Star Wars” Heading For Box Office Record Of $215 Million-Plus In US

    You can go through every one of the movies and find a ton of holes. The way I judge the quality of the Star Wars movies and even other movies that are the same type of swashbuckling style tale... is by looking at the choices made by the characters. Cause the stories are going to have holes and...
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    “Star Wars” Heading For Box Office Record Of $215 Million-Plus In US

    Episode VIIIs Rian Johnson also gave us Looper... if they choose to go the bit darker road as Lucas did with Empire he may be the perfect choice over JJ. For 9 Colin Trevorrow does give me pause... he did not a bad job with J. World. 8 is locked down and already in production 9s director...
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    “Star Wars” Heading For Box Office Record Of $215 Million-Plus In US

    Movie was fantastic. I would also rank it in the top 2-3, far better then any of the Lucas prequels which can now be forgotten. As a middle age man I remember the first run... and like many I watched it and thought ya this is great but perhaps not a classic... then I looked to my left and...
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    Cable Company Posted Names Of Overdue Customers On Facebook

    Manitoba Tel (MTS) was privatized almost 20 years ago. (most of us didn't want that to happen... but if you elect cheating morons that junk can happen, Filmon our Premier at the time now sits on the MTS board I think that says it all ) :) Still MTS has been pretty competitive, I would still...
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    Official World of Warcraft Movie Trailer

    Doesn't seem so. Its funny how many young folk seem to think Blizzard invented a world instead of simply riffing on Tolkien. Ditto for D&D and 101 other Dragon and Fantasy worlds.People should enjoy them for what they are... and that would be Fan Fiction.
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    E-Ink Touchscreen Computer That Wraps Around Your Arm

    If they really can hit that price point "less expensive then the least expensive apple watch" These things will sell like crazy. Anyone that has used a kindle knows eink is the perfect screen for a watch device. If you want to watch video break out your phone... its not like if your using a...
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    Star Wars Battlefront Official System Requirements

    Since the dawn of the PC the hallmark of bad programming was shoddy usage of memory addressing. 16gb recommended, clearly this game is poorly coded. 4x the system ram of a current gen video card, so clearly it isn't textures they need to cache... should never need to cache more then 1gb of audio...
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    Snowden: I'd Go To Jail To Come Back To The U.S.

    So you would have turned yourself in for 3 or 4 years of torture before they gave you the needle right. I think by fleeing he has not only shone a light on the going ons in the documents he leaked. He is also shining a light on the anti whistle blower culture in the US gov. Had he turned...
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    Steve Jobs' Widow Reportedly Tried To Block New Film

    If you where worth 100+ million I'm sure you would be a workaholic. ;) Really though he kept busy... for years he taught computer classes to school kids, without taking a salary. He founded CL9 in the 80s after his apple days and gave us the first universal remote. In general hes just been...
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    Star Citizen Departures?

    So they are just streamlining. Makes sense. :) If I had to guess... they are streamlining, so as to make the books as attractive as possible to the sucker publishing studio Roberts is trying to con into purchasing CIG.
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    Star Citizen Departures?

    Its not a case of if it turns into vaporware. It is vaporware plain and simple. The only real question I have ever had, is this. Is Roberts a knowing scam artist... or just one of those guys who can't help but dream too big. Back in the freelancer days with the MS mess I sat on the dreamer side...
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    Star Citizen Departures?

    I have been telling people since this started not to trust Chris Roberts with a dime. People are silly. The WC games only happened because no one let Chris have anything to do with $. He still almost sunk Origin Systems. His movie making where always nothing but taxable income dumps, I mean did...
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    France Upholds Ban On Uber Using Non-Professional Drivers

    The question of the Amount of a Fee is hardly the issue. This isn't some third world country. I can't go and buy an old bus... and start driving around as many people as I want with my regular old drivers licence and basic (not commercial car insurance). Its regulated for a reason... if in...
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    France Upholds Ban On Uber Using Non-Professional Drivers

    Uber was always going to be in trouble when the legal issues started going to court. As much as everyone wants these guys to win because they like the idea of spending less money on things... They industry they are trying to get in on is regulated almost everywhere. Being just like a cab company...
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    Taser Impacts Bare Skin At 28,000 FPS

    Same goes for Canada, to carry one police have to get hit with it. No they are not really in any danger, cause in general the force tends to hire people that are healthy and not often high on junk doubling their heart rates. (at least not when they get tazed anyway lol)
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    3 Year Old Comic Predicted The iPad Copying The Surface

    It should be interesting to see how many years it takes for apple to fall to the same point they where at with scully in the driver seat. I have a feeling Jobs would have belittled the Apple employee that first suggested copying the surface until they blew there brains out or something. I am...
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    Ashley Madison Offers $500k Bounty

    As a psychiatrist I can tell you that studies that conclude what you are suggesting are complete and utter BS. If you do a web search on the subject the first 10 pages are going to be 90% BS links created by groups such as the one you linked to. They are NOT referencing actual proper peer...
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    Hackers Finally Post Stolen Ashley Madison Data

    Clearly its 95% men... because their email harvester targets men, and they pay for emails of more men. As others have said women looking to cheat don't really need AM. Most men had a hard enough time winning the first girl over. lol AM knows men are more likely to open their wallets, Its the...
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    AMD Accuses NVIDIA's Gameworks Of Being 'Tragic' And 'Damaging'

    As they realized it was woefully uncompetitive. Really there is only one option for a third high end GPU company. That would be Imagination Technologies, they would hardly be new though... videologic was one of the first to produce 3d hardware. They would be the only company with the tech to...
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    AMD Accuses NVIDIA's Gameworks Of Being 'Tragic' And 'Damaging'

    Markets change no doubt there. The fact that the masses use there phone for basic internet stuff, hardly means they are not running windows on there laptops. All the people using those new devices are not running out and buying macs. Sure apples computer sales are up compared to where they...
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    AMD Accuses NVIDIA's Gameworks Of Being 'Tragic' And 'Damaging'

    I guess he posted either from a linux box, or from his ipad. :)
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    AMD Accuses NVIDIA's Gameworks Of Being 'Tragic' And 'Damaging'

    What company would that be ? Seriously who has the money to develop these something like a GPU from scratch. The only other companies that could even hope to do something like that spend their time creating mobile tech. Unless you think there is a second coming of PowerVR on the horizon. lol...
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    AMD Accuses NVIDIA's Gameworks Of Being 'Tragic' And 'Damaging'

    The last card I bought was nvidia after a long line of AMD/ATI. I used to buy into the "Ati junk software" line. I found the catalyst suite to be sluggish and over complicated. After switching to nvidia though I really really miss ATI. My next card won't be another nvidia even if they are 20%...
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    White House Responds To 'Pardon Edward Snowden' Petition

    If you sign a NDA with an employer, you can still disclose evidence of criminal activity. I guess that doesn't count if your employer is public.
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    Are Time Travelers Stealing Our Stuff?

    Yes it was called Millennium. Which was based on the book Millennium by John Varley. The movie was a pretty close to the source material. As always the book is better. To sum up yes the future is your standard dying world, they take plane crash victims right before the end, replace them...
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    Norton Antivirus Doesn't Like Microsoft Edge

    Microsoft can't be seen as anti commerce. If they gave us extendz us nasty users would all install ad blocks. :) I am sure edge is an upgrade from IE... only the illiterate run IE. For the rest of us I doubt we where planning on running the MS browser. Never mind anything from the largest...
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    Canadian Judge Rejects Request For Injunction Against Uber

    The taxi boards do exist for a reason. After a rash of taxi cab driver shootings here in Winnipeg a few years back they made it law that taxis had to install shields. They also make sure that taxi drivers are held to a standard in order to get a taxi licence. A speeding ticket or two and anyone...
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    Computing At The Speed Of Light

    When we see all the parts shunk down, it will be clear that Nishikado could see the future. lol
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    Chase Bank Now Issuing Microchip Debit Cards

    These types of things just make the rest of the world shake there heads. As others have said we have been using this in Canada for over a decade. I have also been using a tap card for at least 3 years now. Anything under 20 bucks or so I just tap my card on the reader. I remember arguing with...
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    Netflix Subscriber Numbers Are Way Up

    Neither of those are nearly as popular as media would like people to believe. Believe it or not people that pirate a lot of stuff still pay for Netflix. I admit to pirating tons of new release stuff. I don't feel bad about it in the least. The entertainment industry produces so much crap, no...
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    “HBO Now” Coming This Spring For $15 Per Month

    Yes and you will see plenty of complaints about quality. Cause there not a streaming company. All the power to them if they can make it work... but this is really really after the fact. Had they tried to do this a few years ago, before companies like Netflix became a 60 million...
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    “HBO Now” Coming This Spring For $15 Per Month

    Its not like it would be outside of there current practices. As it is HBO doesn't offer to run a cable into my house, they sell there services to my cable company who sells it to me. Or tries to anyway. Its not about being a cheep skate if you think there content is worth $15 a month then by...
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    Samsung Talks To BlackBerry About $7.5B Buyout

    Black Berry is ripe right now... and to be honest 7.5B is dirt cheap. This isn't about handsets to play a Samsung verison of brick breaker on. Its about 40k+ patents. A ton of them very very lucrative backend security patents. Being in the wireless sector around the time RIM was birthed. I...
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    Back by Popular Demand: Vinyl Records

    Super Audio CD and DVD-A both got a good push at one point and just never really caught on in a big way. I think the main issue is every format that has ever been thrown at as has tried to dominate and become a standard. With both of those digital hi quality standards pretty much dying it...
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    Court Orders Google To Reveal Avengers Trailer Leaker

    I wasn't aware they sold trailers. Not sure how this falls under federal law. I mean what exactly are they claiming the "damages" are here. With the logic that sends has this junk wasting a federal courts resources. I would say considering the leek has created more press for them then they would...
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    Google Designing Its Own Server Chips?

    More high end players will be good for us long term. Goggle may never ship anything in volume, the threat though could push some competition. This could also be part of a long term plan to go after lower end markets. If they get the right licence deals they could do an end run at some point...
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    Researchers Teleport 10,000 Bits of Information

    Einstein does allow for faster then light information transfer... "spooky action at a distance". He couldn't solve all the math and he never agreed completely with Quantum mehcanics... The cool thing about experiments like this one... is the potential to discover unexpected results that will...
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    Holy crap, it worked! Dead video card, resurrected!

    After trying a thousand things to get my 5770 to stop artifacting... I decided tonight that I would try this crazy oven junk before throwing it at the wall. 365 degrees 8 minutes 2 liters of sweet later... Boom working video card. :) As crazy as this is... it works well... none of...
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