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    Shigeru Miyamoto Warns the Games Industry That the Free-To-Play Model is Too Greedy

    Warframe is one of my favorite games and it is FtP. The have done a good idea of making upgrades balanced between you can grind for them or pay for them. I grind for most..but sometimes I just pay the small payment and get the pile of platinum do do other upgrades. The old model of a single...
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    Chris Hook to Lead Discrete GPU Marketing at Intel

    With Nvidia pushing the GPP they should be out....
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    Obsidian: RPG Genre Can’t Evolve Because Players Are “Resistant to Change”

    Good job telling your customers they are Luddites...great way to continue selling your games....
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    AMD and Nvidia Must Do More To Stop Shortages and Gouging

    AMD and Nvidia can talk all they want but behind the scenes they love this..it is $$$ in their pockets and the investors are loving it. Shrout can talk about this...but again the GPU folks are making them as fast as they can...enjoy the wave...it sucks for gamers right now..but that's the breaks.
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    AMD Adrenalin Driver Is Causing DirectX 9 Games to Be Unplayable on PC

    One of many reasons I run Nvidia cards.
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    There Is a 40% Chance Apple Will Acquire Netflix, according to Citi

    Apple would be foolish to buy a company that is constantly loosing money.
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    UPS Pre-orders 125 Tesla Electric Semi-trucks, Largest Order Yet

    There is not the infrastructure to support the charging of these things for one. also how much of the total payload is used up carrying those battery packs? This is purely a feel good, pr move..nothing to do with sound practices. here's another take on the tesla semi...
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    Intel to Slap Hardware Lock on Management Engine Code to Thwart Downgrade Attacks

    Whch means that when new security holes are found..your system is permanently screwed. Nice job intel.
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    Petition for the Resignation of FCC Chairman Ajit Varadaraj Pai

    Becasue it is BS...NN is all about cost shifting from the youtube, facebook and others their network transport costs to the end users not themselves. https://www.etc-md.com/archives/4896
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    Autonomous Drone Versus Human Piloted Drone

    That's not AI. True ai would have been able to fly upwards on it's own..map the course and then fly it with accuracy and speed..all by itself. Having the maps pre-loaded just means it was able to sense it's location along the path and not run into anything else.
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    Did Elon Musk Create Bitcoin?

    Musk is not worried about burning money because he doesn't have to make any. Between the gov't payments he gets and the well from the investor community..he has no reason to be concerned. Once those streams dry up Tesla will implode..and fast.
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    Linux Pioneer Munich Confirms Switch to Windows 10

    part of the problem is munich tried to build their own Linux distro AND implement it....bad move. While it is too late they should have gone with either Redhat or ubuntu...then they would have had true suport from implementation to user support...something they did not have building their own...
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    Google Collects Android Users’ Locations Even When Location Services Are Disabled

    ANYU cellphone can do this by using triangulation from three towers for a good match...if they can get 4 it's nearly a gps level match. Nothing to see here to be honest. Apple does it too i bet.
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    Massive US military Social Media Spying Archive Left Wide Open in AWS S3 Buckets

    This is not just a governmental thing..there have been multiple disclosures..one of the many reaons having your data on the public cloud is not a good idea.
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    Why Google is Terrified About Alexa and What it's Doing in Response

    Google is waaaaay behind here. If you have a Gsuite account google's assistant doesn't work with your account..but alexa will. google has made several boneheaded moves(they they stubbornly refuse to correct). As long as they continue with this type of behavior they will flal further behind.
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    Fukushima Disaster: Robot Finds Possible Melted Nuclear Fuel

    there is a site i have been following that has MUCH more details than what is being released by "authorities". MIght want to check this site out..fukishima was much worse than what is being reported: http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/
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    Firefox Can Now Open a Ridiculous Number of Tabs in Seconds

    I would like to see the specs on his machine as right now FF stil chokes on 98 tabs here at my place. FF yes uses quite a bit less ram but in my instance i do not care about ram usage. My own informal findings as of june are on my site: https://www.etc-md.com/archives/4873 Here’s the basic...
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    Uber CEO Travis Kalanick Resigns Under Investor Pressure

    Uber is on it's way down as it has been fully converged and the SJW's are infesting that company.
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    Encrypt and Lock Your Phone - Go to Jail

    under what system of law? It is not here in America.
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    Intel Crosses an Unacceptable Ethical Line

    https://semiaccurate.com/2017/03/27/intel-releases-consumer-m-2-xpoint-ssds/ optane doesn't have 1/10th the endurance Intel originally claimed.
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    Apple Reimagines the iPhone as a MacBook Touchpad

    This would fit apple's desire to have everything center around the phone..which they are determined to make totally irreparable anyway.
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    Microsoft's Web Services Have Been Hit with a Major Outage

    Or the folks who have installed office2016 outside of office365. That is still available...you just have to know hwere to look as MIcrosoft makes it very hard to find.
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    Two-Thirds Of Companies Pay Ransomware Demands

    I ahd a client get nailed by ransomware. It took out the NAS and the onsite usb backups. Luckily he listened to me and invested in an encrypted offsite cloud backup. Instead of loosing everything it took him down for a day to redownload everything after I stripped the computers cleaned. I...
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    Comcast Charges Customer $1500 For Data They Didn’t Use

    This is one of many reasons I have business class. do not have to worry about these stupid meters, I get to always deal with Americans...that's just two reasons..:)
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    North American Businesses Reluctant To Adopt Windows 10

    Plus application testing..dealing with incompatibilities..device replacements..etc etc etc. The costs of migrating to a new Operating system are for more tangible and much greater than simply re-imaging the machine.
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    North American Businesses Reluctant To Adopt Windows 10

    Part of it is the applications businesses run. I have one client that is forced to run Windows 7 because her audiology software has not been updated by the manufacturer for anything beyond Windows 7 yet.
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    North American Businesses Reluctant To Adopt Windows 10

    Windows 10 is not having good adoption because of MIcrosoft's heavy Handedness when it comes to the pro version. You are loosing more and more controls(via the disabling of various group policies) over the os unless you pony up for the Enterprise version. Windows 7 is still supported until...
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    Don't Send An Email If You Can Pick Up The Phone

    In business I do plenty of correspondence over e-mail. I myself find it faster to talk voice. I also would rather talk to somebody than over e-mail. I guess that makes me old school..:)
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    How To Refuse Microsoft's Windows 10 Update

    w10wiwi leaves all other updates fine..it only removes and hides the windows 10 upgrade garbage.
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    How To Refuse Microsoft's Windows 10 Update

    there's an even easier way. Jsut use the windows 10 when i want it and it runs and uninstalles all of the nagware...:) Windows 10 when I want it - Home Page
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    Banishing 'Get Windows 10' Nagware Isn't As Easy As You Think

    they could...and folks would figure it out...MS isn't going to win this one..:)
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    Banishing 'Get Windows 10' Nagware Isn't As Easy As You Think

    Thee is a little program windws 10 when i want it. http://win10wiwi.com/ if you do not want to give them your e-mail i also have hte program available at my site: http://www.etc-md.com/resources
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    BlackBerry To Buy Rival For $425M

    blackberry has the number one mdm suite around. They do not sell well in the united states because most folks do not know what security really is but overseas they sell very well. Our media is just wanting to push apple and google but as usual they aren't telling the whole story.
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    FCC Votes To Protect Net Neutrality, Reclassify Broadband

    this is going to cost us BIG TIME. this type of regulation only extends monopolies not breaks them up.
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    Enermax iVektor Luck Draw - 3 Cases up for grabs!

    ease of component installation
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    Windows Blue Update Leaks Out

    another example of backwards we have to use the keyboard to start? That's a decade back.
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    Galaxy 6 Weeks of Christmas GPU Giveaway! Week 3

    this would rock in my wife's box..:)
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    AMD Radeon HD 7970 CrossFire Bundle Lucky Draw

    this would be a great upgrade for my system..:)
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