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Ok, what the heck is a pewdiepie? I am terrified to even google it for fear of getting some reprehensible disease or infection.

Bingo! I have never connected my television to any network. Never will. It is the first question I ask when looking for a new television, "Does it require an Internet connection to function?"

They have their ways...... Are you paranoid now? Yes? My work is done. :)

OpenGL is the goto API for Pro adapters due to its efficiencies in dealing with hundreds of millions of vertices per object. DirectX sucks for that. Using DX for Pro video card support would be silly. It is not designed for that. Now, understand I do not like DirectX. It has been gaining...

What works in practice is not the same as what is on paper. The idea each video card manufacturer can provide a highly optimized version of OpenGL or Vulkan is not what really happens in practice. Every implementation has a different twist to it due to interpretation of the specification...

The last game dev ship I worked for looked into Vulkan, but was not comfortable with it for the same reasons they were not confortable with OpenGL. Inconsistency of support was the big concern. With DirectX you can compile to a specific release of any given major release. You cannot do that...

There seems to be some confusion about this. I read it to mean Blizzard has a D3D12 client library they can ship with thier games as Microsoft does not appears to be doing a general release of DX12 support for Windows 7. I understand why Blizzard would want it. Now they can pick one API to...

Took them long enough.

Just got through rolling back 22 systems to Windows 7. The owner was not a happy camper. I am goping to quote, as best I can, what he had to say. "These systems are appliances which help our business run smoothly. When they cannot be relied upon, it hurts everything. We need to be able to...

The human body is not to be seen.... Shot, knifed, axed, burned, sliced, diced, or any other method of tissue destruction is okay, as long as the body squirting blood is covered in clothing.

Maybe they will learn that artifically driving prices up, to increase profit margins, is not a good long term strategy for moving product. Hehe, nah,..who am I kidding?

Well, may not be easy-peasy,....just had to toss it in there. Yes, I have lost some of those battles and walked out as well. Won most of them though.

You always have a choice. It may not be a good choice, but there is a choice. Me? I would have fought tooth and nail against going to cloud services. Failing that, I would have quit. Easy-peasy.

It really is a simple matter of not purchasing anything that is associated with Alphabet/Google. Tada! As long as our privacy laws are as loosy-goosy as they are, then that seems to be the only option available. Just stop supporting those companies.

Hmmm. Wonder how this will impact the Russian game companies and their games?

Bah. I finally wrote a program to generate passwords for me based on the URL, login, and the month. It will generate the same password for each site for that month. When the login fails,I know it is time to change the password. Every site has a different password.

Way to go! Not a FireFox or Chrome user, but I like that they are doing this.

Hehe,....good.

3D audio positioning is what it says. You can pinpoint sources from the sound in 3D space. The farther away they are the softer they are. If tthey are to your right or left, you will hear the audio from the right or left and everything between. Exact positioning based on the source of the...

Unfortunately, there is not way to know how a game dev will use an API. All I am saying is there is no excuse for a game not having true 3D sound positioning. It is there and easily obtainable. No need for any Dolby/DTS for any game. It actually takes more effort to implement that than it...

Exact location is done. Reflection is limited, but done. As to whether or not it is detectable on your headset has another set of factors involved (sound card, headset design...). They are using the FMOD sound system. Go read about it and see what it is capable of and the list of games with...

Whoa! This is not going to bode well for Intel. Time to dump Intel and buy some more AMD stock. The fact he thinks 2018 was an outstanding year is the best indicator of a failure in progress.

Hehe,....good.

I think I have had my cheap little flip phone for over 10 years now. It is on its second, or third battery. I see no reason to switch. Phones are stupid expensive today.

Always thought "gaming laptop" was a contradiction of terms.

If a game, today, does not have true 3D positional sounds with full dynamic range, then the developer is simply lazy. There is no excuse for not having that level of support. The API has been available for over 15 years. The API is no longer supported, but it is still there in Windows 10...

That is not true of all games. Hell, even old Aces High has true 3D positional sounds. You do not need any encoding/decoding scheme for games. The old DirectSound API has supported true 3D positioning for as long as I can remember. You configure your speakers in Windows, then the rest is...

Optimistic bugger, aren't you? :) Yes, it is easier and is far more efficient for games to output true 3D audio tracks. Like you, I do not see the value in this at all.

Sounds scammy to me,..but then again,...a fool and his money....

I used to have a gaming console, but only bought one game for it. Only reason I had it was for the Bluray player. Never liked gaming on consoles due to the controls. I am thinking I am at the bottom of usage, these days. I was not too surprised by that, but I was surprised by the amount...

Hehe,...good.

LOL! Nicely played.

We have the Roku set to 720p, but we only watch zero to a couple hours of television a week, tops. EDIT: I forgot, we use a Tablo fo local channels and so some of what we watch is also from that which does not count against the streaming data.

Yep, I thought Microsoft was dumping Edge.

Holy crap! We averaged just over 6GB/month in 2018 and I am going to guess most of that is streaming television shows. I thought we were excessive in our use. WOW!

WOW! 2.6 billion (I cannot fathom a word that is not positive here). I am continually stunned by the (and again, I just cannot come up with a positive word) of people. One clue, and I'll make it easy....M-O-N-E-Y. As long as (just can't find positive..DOH!) people keep supporting Facebook...

About the acceleration. I have a friend who owns an S and he said you can flog it for about 30 minutes before it goes into cool down mode where it accelerates at about the pace of a Prius. He also said during that 30 minute flogging you can use almost half of your charge up. It is a lot of...

Probably due to the failure to obtain a patent for the wheel.

WTG Illinois! Not as far as I would like to see it taken, but it is a step in the right direction.

Crazy,..just crazy.