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    The Witcher | Official Teaser | Netflix

    Yes it is a trope, but Cavill is genuinely a fan of the games and video games and MMOs in general. The stories about him completely ignoring the original call for the Superman role because he was playing WOW are pretty old at this point.
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    The Witcher | Official Teaser | Netflix

    Meh, isn't like she really even shows up for the first couple books. The prevalence of Triss in the games is the largest deviance from the books.
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    The "Bones" Ruling Exposes Corporate Greed in the Streaming Era

    For a top tier show, that actually pretty reasonable. Netflix paid over $100 for Friends licensing rights and Hulu reportedly paid $160 mil for Seinfeld.
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    The "Bones" Ruling Exposes Corporate Greed in the Streaming Era

    The actual books that the show is based on are somewhat decent and have good science. IIRC, the author Kathy Reichs gave a talk at my HS in the 90s which was pretty interesting.
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    Amazon Air Cargo Plane Operated by Atlas Crashes in Texas, Killing 3 on Board

    120k lbs is the max rated payload for a 763ERF. But with parcel packages, which is what Amazon loads onto them, tend to be fairly non-dense. Every items is on average going to be at least 50% air/foam as part of the packaging which weighs almost nothing. There is a little under 16k cubic ft...
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    Amazon Air Cargo Plane Operated by Atlas Crashes in Texas, Killing 3 on Board

    A pilot with knowledge of the Altas-Amazon operation (AKA he used to fly them) commented on airliners.net that they usually are between 20-60k lbs payload as they bulk out extremely fast (which makes sense).
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    Amazon Air Cargo Plane Operated by Atlas Crashes in Texas, Killing 3 on Board

    That's what D check are for. They basically take the plane down to raw sheet metal and go over every inch of it.
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    Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron to Face Revenue Drops in Q1 2019

    DRAM has always followed a feast/famine sequence. demand goes up, prices go up, process improvements/new fabs/new competitors come in, prices freefall, consolidation happens, prices stabilize, demand goes up, rinse and repeat. This has been going on for 40 years at this point.
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    Amazon Air Cargo Plane Operated by Atlas Crashes in Texas, Killing 3 on Board

    Eh? Wind from Philly to Charlotte has nothing to do with wind in Houston. Wind is highly unlikely to have played any roll. Likewise, it is highly unlikely for cargo shift to play much if any role. The cargo containers are fairly light (even when full, they volume out generally well before...
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    "World War Z" Studio: Epic Exclusivity Is "the Best Deal for Players and Developers"

    Yes, Yes, Yes, david cage junk, david cage junk, meh, yes.
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    "World War Z" Studio: Epic Exclusivity Is "the Best Deal for Players and Developers"

    Someone would have to be blind and deaf to make the statement you are making. There has been rather significant push back repeatedly every time this happens and even when they aren't exclusive because the consolization dumbs things down.
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    "World War Z" Studio: Epic Exclusivity Is "the Best Deal for Players and Developers"

    Also Epic's store doesn't really do jack. Steam has an almost 2 decade long track record of protecting their users investments, supporting their users, and responding to their user's needs. There are plenty of fly by night stores like epic's that have popped up over time that no longer exist...
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    "World War Z" Studio: Epic Exclusivity Is "the Best Deal for Players and Developers"

    Hey guess what, late movers have to compete with incumbents and don't get a pass for bad software. Epic is a bad store that has significant issues. Steam works. You know why no one actually cares what Steam was like when it released? Cause that was closer to TWO DECADES ago than ONE DECADE ago.
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    "World War Z" Studio: Epic Exclusivity Is "the Best Deal for Players and Developers"

    It works It has features Its features work It has support It has a community Those also work stuff actually working is kind of a big deal EPIC launcher is a POS without any features that barely works and should never of been released in the state it is in. Origin is a complete POS that breaks...
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    Samsung Quits Blu-ray Player Market

    20% would be at best ~$2. No record company was selling CDs for >$10 on average (the rest of wholesaler/distributor and retail markup). ZooTV was basically financial suicide but they still managed a reported 5% return. Their largest issue was the overhead costs for that show which were and...
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    Password Manager Vulnerabilities Exposed

    Well yeah. One issue that exists is the Windows secure entry form doesn't have a way to scrub at will. That's the primary issue with for instance 1Password4. I do think its far beyond time for computer architecture to design security from the ground up, but retrofitting that into existing...
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    Password Manager Vulnerabilities Exposed

    What you want simply isn't possible. If given direct memory access, you don't have any secrets left. And in the majority of cases they can only read the password when you actively decrypt the password to use it.
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    Intel Confirms that FinFET MRAM is Production Ready

    Um, you are comparing a sub-array to a multi-array part. The Intel design is basically 10Mb/mm^2. Larger memory devices are always made up of smaller sub-arrays replicated to achieve the required capacity. The existing 256mb everspin part is likely in the range of 25-50mm^2 which would put it...
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    Samsung Quits Blu-ray Player Market

    Even in the days where music was all physical, even mega stars with extremely good deals weren't making much more than $2 per sale all up (including all rights). New artists were lucky to clear $1 per CD.
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    Samsung Quits Blu-ray Player Market

    Actually, it is unclear if redbox is breaking any laws in unbundling the digital copy from the physical copy. Softman Products v Adobe is the closest case I can find where Softman was unbundling the adobe software collection and selling it individually. In that case, the court ruled in favor...
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    Samsung Quits Blu-ray Player Market

    For musicians, the money makers are the same as they've always been, shows and merch. The shifting trends have primarily hit the record labels instead of the musicians (as musicians always made crap from actual music sales, basically they were lucky to make $1 per CD in general). There are...
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    Boeing 787-9 Twin Jet Dreamliner Hits Top Speed of 801 MPH

    Actually, a 747 has a higher Mmo than a 787 (.92 vs .89). The 747 wings have more sweep and the upper deck ends up being an aerodynamic aid at high speed as well. In fact, of commercial airliners, the 747-400 has the highest Mmo of all planes except the Concord and TU-144, both supersonic...
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    Boeing 787-9 Twin Jet Dreamliner Hits Top Speed of 801 MPH

    No, it didn't breech Mach 1 in any sense. The 787 can't structurally go much beyond Mach .9 without significant issue. A 787 at Mach .95+ is basically uncontrollable and will stall.
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    Boeing 787-9 Twin Jet Dreamliner Hits Top Speed of 801 MPH

    No, they'll just use vastly different routing. The fact that they were even so far south was because of the tail wind. The GC route would of put them over the northern part of the Hudson Bay/Labrador sea in northern Canada. The routing that they took was at least 500 miles LONGER than the GC...
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    Samsung Quits Blu-ray Player Market

    That's not how compression quality. While UHD BD is better quality, the increase in quality is on the order of 25-30%. Compression quality vs bitrate is a sigmoid function and streaming quality is basically already on the second knee.
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    Visa, Mastercard Mull Increasing Fees for Processing Transactions

    Unlikely. Payment networks are actually pretty difficult from a financial and technical standpoint. There is a reason that Apple Pay et al are just layers into the standard MC/Visa network.
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    Samsung Quits Blu-ray Player Market

    Um... You actually have it backwards. BR tied its design to MPEG2 primarily and until several years in, all media was MPEG2 since the VC-1/AVC authoring systems weren't really there for BD. HD-DVD was the one that was pushing the advanced codecs and most HD-DVDs ended up using AVC and had...
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    Samsung Quits Blu-ray Player Market

    The issue with disks playing is almost 100% down to the ridiculous copy protections system*S* that BD has.
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    Samsung Quits Blu-ray Player Market

    Newsflash, the same is true with BD as well. BTW, by your own admission, you have lost all legal rights to any disk on your plex server.
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    Metro Exodus Has Stuttering Issues

    Just putting this here.... Well Cohh's save is now fubar because of a state bug in the game. If the game saves while in a melee takedown, you can no longer interact with anything. Oh yeah, there is one 1 save file too, no versioning....
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    Metro Exodus Has Stuttering Issues

    1 computer restart, and it was fixed. It didn't involve multiple restarts. I literally suggested be reboot at the beginning because it was the same issue he was experiencing while playing Sunless Skies this last week with a 1080ti. In that case, like this one, a reboot immediately fixed the...
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    Metro Exodus Has Stuttering Issues

    Or you could of actually not jumped the gun. He had stuttering issues days ago with Sunless Skies. After much twiddling, he finally rebooted the computer, no more issue. And same thing happened today then finally rebooted and all fixed The issue had NOTHING to do with Metro.
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    The Army's Next-Generation Rifle Will Be "The iPhone of Lethality," Officials Say

    Modern bullpup have the same functionality built into their designs. Take a look as the TAVOR for example.
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    The Army's Next-Generation Rifle Will Be "The iPhone of Lethality," Officials Say

    It has rather significant parts commonality. Whether the differential between DI and SSGP disqualifies it is really a matter of debate.
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    The Army's Next-Generation Rifle Will Be "The iPhone of Lethality," Officials Say

    M110 is based on an AR. SR-25/Mk 11 is based on an AR.
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    3M Demonstrates PC With Submersion Cooling

    No to use your analogy it is: hey we used to have these great tires that did a lot of cool stuff but caused people to die due to the VX nerve off gassing, we now have a new solution that does all that great stuff that doesn't kill people.
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    The Army's Next-Generation Rifle Will Be "The iPhone of Lethality," Officials Say

    All modern bullpups are ambi. Yeah auto-target is only really useful for DMR/Snipers (added bonus is that it is the same use case that it is being developed for in the civ market: first shot hit probability). For infantry, digitally linked scopes/sights are a much more useful advance...
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    3M Demonstrates PC With Submersion Cooling

    The whole point is yes, they did stuff like this in the past with Flourinert, but there are significant reason why it is no longer a viable product to use for these types of things, the Cray-2 issues being a case in point.
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    3M Demonstrates PC With Submersion Cooling

    Flourinert has some substantial issues with these types of applications including decomposition into highly toxic chemicals not to mention the ozone and global warming issues with it. Novec is a much refined application of the concept behind Flourinert. There were issues that developed with...
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    3M Demonstrates PC With Submersion Cooling

    boiling point depends on the specific Novec fluid used. 7000 - 34c 649 - 49c 7100 - 61c 7200 - 76c
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