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    Switch to Linux

    I'm gonna be a little more serious: I strongly advise any PC owner to have a Linux bootable media option available and up to date...and HANDY...for those times when Windows melts down on you. Linux bootable media, whatever the distro, can help you get back up and running, or at least allow...
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    Is it really worth going to Window 10 from Windows 7

    Bit of a lame joke, that, though it is my only currently working OS...but that was really in response to Deadjasper's comment/re-hash of the old joke about Linux "breaking through at any moment." No, I don't currently think Linux and gaming VR are going anywhere soon, though I do believe they...
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    Is it really worth going to Window 10 from Windows 7

    It's the future tonight for me anyway. I built a hot gaming PC last summer and threw on Win 10/64. Which worked pretty much flawlessly until this last Saturday, at least as a bootable OS. But on Saturday I got a "PAGE FAULT" error, and automatic repair couldn't fix it. So I tried the...
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    YouTube Cracks Down on Far-Right Videos as Conspiracy Theories Spread

    Exactly. If the principle "I disagree with what you say but will defend to the death your right to say it" holds BOTH ways...and ALL ways...then all must sign onto it. With their sacred honor (and of course their lives too). It's real, not a concept. And it makes real demands of all of us, IMO
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    Scientists Have Developed Glass That Heals Itself When You Press It Together

    This could be really important for submarines (and no, I'm not kidding). Glass is considered a prime building material for deep sea submersibles (I think it's currently used for sonar sensors which go well below 20,000 ft.). A self healing variety--obviously it would be better if it could be...
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    MIT Wants to Replace Desk Lamps with Glowing Plants

    Suppose I use the plants to make a salad and end up like <<< that? Who do I sue?
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    Bridge Constructor Portal Coming December 20th

    Poor man's version here: https://www.coolmath-games.com/0-cargo-bridge
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    Nitro Concepts S300 Gaming Chair Build

    I'm currently trying an alternative experiment: The standing desk. This happens to be a built in arrangement, and it just happens to be the right height for my elbows (50"), and so far, even with one bad leg, I kinda like it. It's inspired by an oil-and-gas attorney we know from south...
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    It’s Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists Say

    On the subject of proofs: IMO author Bill Bryson offers up a sort of "layman's mathematical proof" that there really must be an intelligence behind "life as we know it" in his bestseller "A Short History of Nearly Everything." The first few pages of the chapter "The Rise of Life" (p...
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    It’s Mathematically Impossible to Beat Aging, Scientists Say

    One of my very favorite movies encompasses something of that very theme: "Bicentennial Man" (Robin Williams). Also one of the very rare cases in which the screenwriters add something (romance) to an already good book that didn't even address any of that part of life at all.
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    Is AR Eyewear Ready For Consumers? Are Consumers Ready For AR Eyewear?

    I scanned that article without finding any real definition of AR, and without one it's pretty difficult to discuss. Any links to where it might be laid out more clearly? ---- As an aside (related to VR, not AR), it's amusing to me that so many folks who couldn't get on board with the idea...
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    Gabe Newell’s $5.5bn Net Worth Puts Him in US’s Top 100 Wealthiest

    Never met him, but his little sister was in my little sister's wedding (nice gal--you can tell they are siblings). She was behind on the rent a while back and asked him for a loan. No loan...but he solved the problem: "He just bought my whole building," she said. :D
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    The Duke, Xbox’s Biggest Controller of All Time, Will Be in Stores Soon

    Not being much of a console peep, this Duke thing is entirely new to me (never tried it), but I can see one thing right away: The "axis" line on the ABXY buttons seems to come not straight "down" the pad, but instead along a line laid perhaps ten degrees off to the right...maybe more outside...
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    Porsche’s Mission E Will Hit the Streets in 2019

    Interesting style point there on the front lid--that center section (slightly raised) reminds me right away of the original 911, except that on the original car the same section was slightly recessed (and there was an air intake across the back, so it made some sense)...
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    NASA Doesn't Have the Money to Land Humans on Mars

    Dunno about him, but we had a guy in another forum a few years back who was positively raving about the twin towers being brought down by deliberately planted explosives (that wasn't the point of contention though). He had seen something on you tube which convinced him...and apparently was...
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    NASA Doesn't Have the Money to Land Humans on Mars

    ....And in other news: Tom Hanks buys two recently re-discovered apollo-era computers...which are--significantly--missing their tapes* (!)...and announces a new movie project entitled: "Capricorn One, Re-done".... [* when asked about this, Hanks replied: "Trump has them. I'm sure he has...
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    NASA Doesn't Have the Money to Land Humans on Mars

    I was born in '60, and most of what we think of as "space exploration" has happened during my own lifetime. What gives me pause is how much of our collective resources--particularly the easily accessible fossil fuels--we've used up in order to build up our civilization (such as it is) and to...
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    NASA Doesn't Have the Money to Land Humans on Mars

    True. What I actually meant was a hope that the level heads would keep from using the big, BIG weapons that might wipe us all (winners AND losers) out at the same time. But you are right: The level heads also have to win for it to matter.
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    NASA Doesn't Have the Money to Land Humans on Mars

    You make a good point when you note that our unmanned explorations have piggybacked, somewhat, on manned programs--certainly they have piggybacked on the public enthusiasm for manned exploration (people might have rooted instead for R2D2 as "The Martian"...or maybe not), so sustaining that...
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    NASA Doesn't Have the Money to Land Humans on Mars

    War--conflict--is just one aspect of it, and yes, conflicts will be coming. That's what we do, I suppose. Just one thing we do.... Assuming more level-heads prevail, however, it might be that future conflicts are shorter, and maybe more-decisive, both. At least that seems to be one trend...
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    NASA Doesn't Have the Money to Land Humans on Mars

    The moon is potentially more "cost-effective" because it's close and cheaper to get to (much lower boost costs), but also closer in terms of time (to get there and back). Time to make changes to the overall approach, to the myriad plans, to all the systems and subsystems and technologies which...
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    How Did Audi Make the First Car with Level 3 Autonomy?

    Makes me wonder what a laser scanner in my lower grille could do for my libido. :D
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    NASA Doesn't Have the Money to Land Humans on Mars

    This is no surprise. While I'm all for the colonization of Mars and the outer planets during the next few thousand years, realistically the move outward should begin with the colonization of the moon first, a much more practical--read "cost effective"--goal. NASA should focus on that first...
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    ASUS ROG Poseidon GTX 1080 Ti Platinum Edition Part 1 @ [H]

    Monday, ok then. I was about to stroll down to Microcenter this AM, but I can wait through the weekend. Meantime I'm wondering...just as a thought exercise...what a WB fit onto a Lightning Z (with its LN2 bios/voltage tweak switch) might unleash. Any thoughts?
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    What's your fallback card?

    Old one: MX440. New (old one) is a 580...that's GTX 580, which I used to race online last night for the first time in five years. Worked fine with my 1920 x 1080P projector (DX9). Gonna need more horsepower to drive a Pimax 4K HMD though....
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    i7 7700k $280 at Microcenter (in store only)

    Good to know, thx Archaea. I was considering open-box on a GTX 1080 Ti, but I think I'll skip it now.
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    Windows 10's Share Has Grown by Just 5 Percent in a Year

    Well, I can tweak it for FOV with lens zoom or by moving the projector case itself (as well as in the software), but I'll ballpark it at 60"-70" horizontal for the moment--as it happens I'm rebuilding the cockpit setup again this week, so those are older, baseline numbers. Viewing distance...
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    Windows 10's Share Has Grown by Just 5 Percent in a Year

    I'm not a touchy-feely guy either. Moreover, my "desktop" when I'm race-or-flight simming is a fabric projection screen (I use a projector which throws a big, closeup image), and I can--barely--reach the center of it with one outstretched arm. No touch possibilities there. I did use the...
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    Young Men Are Playing Video Games Instead of Getting Jobs

    Interesting that you bring up Rod Stewart. He's a hobbyist too in his spare time. Has been for years, but he's a model railroader, not a gamer. Can't grab a link, but google will turn up quite a few pics on the subject. Pretty impressive work.
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    James Cameron Is Still Very Bullish on 3D

    I'm clearly in the minority, because I love the idea of 3D, and particularly 3D gaming/simming. For me, until the arrival of VR, that meant 3D projection. VR is 3D, but more importantly it's 3D viewed LIFESIZE. It's THE BIG PICTURE. The big, wide--FORCED big and wide because it's...
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    Honda Halts Japan Car Plant after WannaCry Virus Hits Computer Network

    I calls yer Type R and raises yuh a Nissan Puke...er...Juke.
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    What's your fallback card?

    MX440. Seriously, and there is no fallback about it because I'm typing this on it right now. It's the only thing I have working until I get my new build finished this weekend. The card that's going into THAT is a six-year old MSI NGTX580 Lightning, which should get me driving again...
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    MSI GeForce GTX 1080 Ti GAMING X 4K Video Card Review @ [H]

    Yeah, nice review indeed, and really timely for me because the (only slightly used*) Pimax4K HMD I will try to drive it with arrived about 16 hours ago (Monday). All the rest of the parts are now here (new i7-7700K build on a MSI Z270 XPower Gaming Titanium motherboard). Samsung 4K...
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    Microsoft's Project Scorpio Named Xbox One X Priced $499.99

    I'm logged in using a Linux Live CD (and a very old PC), so I can't play most of the associated announcement videos, and I can't find written info on it: Does the new One X sport any unusual video connectors, or is it HDMI (presumably 2.0)? I have to wonder generally if they are assuming...
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    Microsoft's Project Scorpio Named Xbox One X Priced $499.99

    Someone at Microsoft missed a marketing opportunity, methinks. Had they called it the "Xbox X One" (instead of the Xbox One X) they could have said: "...this Box... ...goes to eleven."
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    Sony Exec on Backwards Compatibility: Highly Requested, but Rarely Used

    A little company called Warthog authored a title: "Richard Burns Rally*" way back in the day, and ported it to both the original Xbox and to Windows. It's still very much in my thinking today and is really the one legacy sim I most want to get and keep running on my new PC (I still say it's...
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    Intel Core i7-7700K $10 Off

    Got mine at MC too--$323 with tax. It was worth the trip as I got to spend time fondling a lot of keyboards too. Most of the rest off Newegg.
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    A Look at Project Scorpio's Development Kit

    I'm trying to catch up with this whole VR thing, so I could have missed it, but: Do we know already if Scorpio is supposed to power screens only or also 4K headsets (not the Pimax 4K necessarily, but maybe the next Rift and Vive)? It looks like one or both of those will be using this 4K...
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    VR Gaining Traction in the HardForum

    That is true, and for flight-sims in particular VR would probably be the preferred method, which is the biggest reason I'm interested. For racing (wheelbuttons typically used for look-left/look-right) the benefits are less obvious--in racing you spend most of your time focused on the area...
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    VR Gaining Traction in the HardForum

    Dunno about him, but I've tried both, and while I expected to be more wowed by the Vive, it was the Rift that left the better impression...which is why I advise anyone considering a purchase to demo if they can at a Microsoft store (both), or at a local Best Buy (Rift). On that point: I...
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