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Comment WindowsMR and headset sales this black friday (Score 1) 154

Windows MR works with SteamVR now, and with the Samsung Odyssey plus on sale everywhere for 230 bux, people are buying it like crazy.
Its cheaper because you dont need external sensors, but its also not as accurate, but accurate enough for most pc games.

I decided to pick one up at this price, and Its rather good, not perfect, But for a 200 dollar headset, I don't expect it to match my sync gaming monitor.

Right now, Great for watching Blueray 3d movies, 3D 360 Content on many video providers, make sure you have 4k video enabled on the streams (including youtube vr) Its like sitting in a theater, and it has good headphones included.

But still has some of the common issues, god rays, slow blacks (not a problem on higher end vr headsets) MVR works mostly on SteamVR. No screen door, but the lenses do reflect light.

I'd say at a 200 dollar price point, people will jump on. But 1500 bux for a high end headset not counting the high end gpu, thats a road block for people.

I hear flight sims, driving games and watching videos are the sweet spot for these devices.

Comment Same thing happening in the US (Score 3, Informative) 124

I've seen numerous stories of out of state people buying rural farms to retire on, then complaining about neighboring farms are loud and smell, then jump straight to suing the neighboring farms.

There is an area north of Spokane WA on highway 2, lots of cattle farms, but developers learned they could split the farms into 20 acres plots for mc' mansions and sell to out of staters (Mostly Californians), They even put in high-speed internet to these rural 800K+ homes, paved drive ways to the dirt roads, Average homes on small plots still go for 150K starting, Quite the sight to see BMW's and Mercedes behind tractors on dirt/gravel roads.

This is happening everywhere in the USA as house prices are so high, and people sell for a major profit to retire in smaller rural farming towns.

Comment I dont even goto movies anymore, Bluray instead (Score 0, Redundant) 233

Last few big sci-fi blockbusters I went too had crying kids, noisy people eating, caughing. My friend who was with me told the guy to stop coughing or get it got so bad. Many people checking phones and lighting up the area. And if you live in a big city, the standing in line for an hour for an Imax, and getting in and out of the parking on the weekend. Why?! Its not relaxing at all.

The best theather solution I've seen is the more expensive recliner theaters, less people, never see kids there, reserve your seat, smaller crowd, and not in the main shopping centers, so easier to get and out of.

But really, I'd rather just rent or buy the bluray, watching it on your own big screen tv, can pause for restroom breaks, no expensive drinks and settling for the flavors they have. (No diet cherry coke in theaters,really?)

Whats really annoying, I'd pay full price to watch it at home on release day, but no, they want you to goto the theaters. They lose money, I'll redbox it or torrent due to hollywoods bad business model.

Comment Re:When did groupthink get promoted? (Score 1) 135

At work, I support clearcase, doors, doors ng, jazz, etc for our engineering departments. My god the bugs that even ibm cant fix. Jazz let go of their main devs and have in some cases 1 person who knows the code.

IBM is a shit show for their produts, they aquire and fire, dont ever use IBM. I'm very sad that Redhat is now owned by IBM.

Comment Interns are treated like shit (Score 1) 242

I've seen interns being treated so unfairly, because they are not employees they are given horrible busy work, degrading work.

How much of the bad bosses is it gender related, or just normal abuse?

And even in larger fortune 500 companies, we have had tons of women interns, they got treated the same as men, the bosses dumped on them too.

Comment Modern browsers suck for sysadmin support (Score 4, Interesting) 56

I'm so tired of logging into network/server hardware all day and both firefox and chrome bitch about certs and give me no way to "permanently accept" certificates.

Make them secure, but stop stripping out my choices to remember settings. Make a special setting, but stop removing features!

Comment Re:That black book is a bitch (Score 4, Interesting) 273

Court records also report Trump banned Epstein from his Maralago Club because Epstein sexually assaulted a girl at the club. The released court records also say Trump never has sex with the women.

Trump wont pardon Epstein.

Hate Trump all you want, but dont spread lies.

Youtube

YouTube Under Federal Investigation Over Allegations it Violates Children's Privacy (washingtonpost.com) 48

The U.S. government is in the late stages of an investigation into YouTube for its handling of children's videos, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing four people familiar with the matter, a probe that threatens the company with a potential fine and already has prompted the tech giant to reevaluate some of its business practices. From the report: The Federal Trade Commission launched the investigation after numerous complaints from consumer groups and privacy advocates, according to the four people, who requested anonymity because such probes are supposed to be confidential. The complaints contended that YouTube, which is owned by Google, failed to protect kids who used the streaming-video service and improperly collected their data. As the investigation has progressed, YouTube executives in recent months have accelerated internal discussions about broad changes to how the platform handles children's videos, according to a person familiar with the company's plans. That includes potential changes to its algorithm for recommending and queuing up videos for users, including kids, part of an ongoing effort at YouTube over the past year and a half to overhaul its software and policies to prevent abuse.

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