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Sorry, I have no info beyond the rumors that have been reported like https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/news/nand-flash-memory-shortage-projected-to-continue-into-2018/

You tempted me. I figure $100 less (after shipping) than the current Amazon price is a pretty damn good deal, and if the NAND shortage continues into 2018... Edit My order got canceled too :(

I never asked for this?

If you want to check whether a statement or correction is factual, like really check it, you have to find the original, primary sources and then evaluate them yourself.

Oregon Trail. Dysentery.

I think a fair advantage of Apple over Android is the length of time for security updates. If my Nexus 5 still received security updates, I would keep using it until it breaks. Its specs are still competitive today. I'm kind of pissed that if I go with Apple, I have go with a Plus model because...

I played The New Order 2 years ago, so my memory might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it was either openly stated or implied in the background newspaper clippings that Nazis took over America (and everywhere else). The New Order was great, awesome soundtrack, good balance of stealth and kill 'em...

I wanted to build a new PC last month, since my desktop is now over 6 years old. But video cards, SSDs, and RAM are all overpriced now. So I guess I won't be buying anything until next year.

Now you're changing the topic. Of course I'm not going to "store my wealth in the yuan," but that's not because of "devaluation." That's because I don't live in China, don't plan to live in China, don't do business in China, and don't plan to do business in China. I wouldn't store my wealth in...

Yep, it's closely controlled. I called it a managed float.

It's pretty simple, actually. If yuan devaluation means I can buy less with 1 USD than I used to, then you simply don't know what "devaluation" means. Insert Inigo Montoya quote here.

Sorry, the yuan has not been pegged to the dollar since 2005. http://money.cnn.com/2005/07/21/news/international/china_yuan/ http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/22/business/worldbusiness/china-no-longer-to-peg-currency-only-to-dollar.html Again, all you have to do is look at the chart...

If the CNY is being devalued, I should be able to buy more CNY with 1 USD than before. Instead, it's the opposite: I'm able to buy less CNY with 1 USD than before.

No, they don't. https://finance.google.com/finance?q=USDCNY&ei=8NS7WZDZJpKN2Aafm7DICw Devaluing the CNY means 1 USD can buy more CNY. On January 20, 2017 (Trump inauguration), the exchange rate was 1 USD = 6.8765 CNY. Now it's 1 USD = 6.5444 CNY. The trend has clearly been downward this year.

I hear you. I was in college when the first iPhone came out, but I was a very, very late smartphone adopter, so I still see mine the way you do: it "makes calls, sends and receives texts and other useful stuff."

Not liking Trump doesn't mean Stone and Parker (or anyone else) are "leftists."

Yeah, I'm not sure the author of that article knows what "diminishing marginal returns" means.

Sadly, I'm not aware of any. I'll take a flagship that has a semi-user removable battery like the Nexus 5. I have a tendency to, uh, break stuff and even I successfully replaced the battery on mine.

Waiting for iPhone 8, Pixel 2 to be released and for all the reviews to be out. After that, I'll pick one and wait a few more months until the prices drop.

I think you've wildly overexaggerated your case here by grouping DNF together with Skyrim and Fallout 4. People may bitch about Skyrim and Fallout 4 - speaking for myself, I think Emil Pagliarulo is a terrible writer - but just look at the "negative" Fallout 4 reviews on Steam. Many of them are...

I doubt that. Valve still enjoys a (in my opinion no longer deserved) sterling reputation among many in the gaming community. They have many diehard fans who will defend nearly everything they do. I believe that the cases where they've faced serious backlash are cases where it was almost...

You're basically saying that these cases are not exactly the same, therefore they are not related. Two things don't have to be exactly the same to still be related. But once again, if Valve is concerned that it is not in their financial interest to expend resources internally to finish HL3...

StarCraft 2 was announced in 2007, 9 years after Brood War and 3 years before release. I wouldn't call that a silent launch. Brood War didn't exactly end on a cliffhanger, but IIRC, Jim Raynor did say he would get his revenge. And there was that easter egg with Zeratul finding out that "Samir...

I'm not talking about a mod or even a paid mod. I'm talking about Valve licensing out HL3 to another group to finish the series. As I understand it, you're arguing that Valve has no financial interest in finishing HL3 because it would cost a lot, might not sell well, so why risk it, especially...

As an anecdote, Starcraft 2 was released 12 years after Starcraft 1, and it sold well enough to warrant 2 expansions. So there's at least one counterexample to the "it's been too long, no game can live up to that kind of hype." Also, for those who argue that it's not in Valve's financial...

I still have a Nexus 5. Recently replaced the battery, but I'm in the same boat. Waiting for Pixel 2, iPhone 8 to be released, then comparing them to Note 8 and Essential Phone.

I said what Raymon Carter did wasn't OK in response to your rhetorical question, "so this is ok?" I said that in my original deleted post, and I said that in my modified repost, and I've said it one more time in this reply. My only qualifier is that you have no evidence, by your own admission...

What excuses have I made? I asked you for evidence that the arsonist Raymon Carter is a part of the "alt-left." Instead of providing evidence, you go with the tried-and-true "do my work for me" trick. Yes, my original deleted post said "Is that" (referring to whataboutism) "all you people can...

No, I don't know that's your point because I don't know you. You are trying to draw some sort of equivalence between an organized event called "Unite the Right" and an arsonist named Raymon Carter. What evidence do you have that Raymon Carter is part of this so-called "alt-left"? No straw man...

No, it's not OK, and neither is "whataboutism."

Sounds to me like you consider yourself a "true National Socialist." Apparently that quote is sourced to Adolf Hitler, though the accuracy of the sourcing is questionable. Since history is written by the victors, why am I not surprised that we don't find it in the history books? I am also not...

After having discussed racial issues here before, I am not surprised that so many here can't condemn the Nazi wannabes in Charlottesville, VA without pulling the "whatabout" card. I have no problems with "white pride" in and of itself. Thing is, I'm not aware of any "white pride" group that...

If this is racist, then so is every game that lets you pick your character's race like Fallout 4 etc. I am not sure if the people complaining about this complained about those games. In general, I am against redefining racism so that it's either so trivial that everything counts as racism or so...

I don't think James Cameron is to blame for the last 3D fad. Avatar was at least actually shot in 3D. Like others have already pointed out, a lot of the bad 3D films were actually shot in 2D and converted to 3D as a money grab.

I bought it on sale in 2014 for $3.99. Solid 10 hour game, worth playing if you like FPS games.

12 pages and we're up to 2 people who are explaining-not-defending Tami Barker and acknowledge that the comment was racist. That's partially what happened here. If Tami Barker had stopped at, "If you think 4 people and 2 dogs [and] getting a room [for] $50 a night on big bear mountain during...

The second message thing is a red herring. Even if it were one cough continuous message, it still would not matter to these people because then they would go back to arguing that this is all just a contractual dispute. Because they've deluded themselves into thinking that Non-racial Reason +...

And when you average wages by gender, you see a higher wage among men. This has also been seen time and time again. Does that mean there's a gender pay gap? No. Because a simple average of wages by gender doesn't take into account age, education, experience, occupation, etc. This is obvious to...

Sigh. You've confused yourself by confusing the independent and dependent variables. The dependent variables are robbery and wages. The independent variables are race and gender. The guy I blocked tried to argue that a simple average of robbery statistics (dependent variable) by race...

Good. Oh, so those two "yeses" were both fake. Too bad. Look, it's very simple. In this country, it is against the law to deny public accommodation to someone on the basis of race (and color, religion, national origin). That's part of Title II of the Civil Rights Act...