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Comment Re:Please quit conflating TV's and monitors. (Score 4, Informative) 207

Football and soccer would look GREAT on an 80 inch 4k TV. It will change how the games are shot, so you can really get a sense of what everybody is doing instead of following the ball so closely.

Football is shot at close angles specifically to tell a narrative; they will not and are required not to show the full field during a play. This is the view that coaches get on a closed loop. It is available to the public, but only 4 hours after the game ends and you have to pay a special subscription to get it.

Comment Re:Hold on there .... (Score 4, Informative) 182

That's a long post by an AC, for sure.
 
It is a UK company that licensed the Chinese to manufacture unlimited copies. This is how all ARM chips are manufactured, under license. ARM Holdings does not have any manufacturing capacity outside of basic R&D.
 
The chips are so cheap because they're produced en masse, there's nothing shady going on here, besides the fact that the country put up the capital to kick start the project. Which isn't illegal anywhere. Mexico's petroleum industry was nationalized in the 1970's and it's worked out quite well.

Comment made by a company called "Allwinner" (Score 4, Insightful) 182

Allwinner is the Intel of ARM chip these days, they're a Chinese National ARM chip manufacturer, they produce in volumes that allow them to get the chip in under $7 for the dual core models. The quad core models are pretty competitive as well. They're in pretty much every Hobbyist robotics kit (check out the PC Duino) and are quite reliable, and have been for years... I won't disagree that it's a silly name, but they did win basically the entire (all) of the low end Android market. So it's pretty accurate. Nobody else can compete on price.

Comment Re:World's worst projector? (Score 2) 44

It's perfect for doing a webex/gotomeeting for a small business in a medium-dark conference room. I wouldn't buy a bunch of these for a large enterprise, but they're perfect for a small business of 5-6 people who use a conference room at least on a weekly basis, but don't want to invest in something more intensive.
 
Seems to project a 4' (48") image just fine:
 
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8a_82So4jE

Comment Re:You know what I want? (Score 0) 124

He's asking for a free copy of windows to play vidya games on, not the opinion of some KVM spergelord on how it performs it's intended task of running VMs.
 
Currently installing KDE for Windows (apparently that's a thing), then I will see if I can get steam and direct X on here.
 
KDE for Windows installer link for those who are curious - http://download.kde.org/stable/kdewin/installer/kdewin-installer-gui-latest.exe.mirrorlist

Comment Re:You know what I want? (Score 1) 124

Have you tried installing Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2 (which is FREE), and then back in to it? It doesn't come with anything except powershell, task manager and a set of network drivers and features like NIC teaming, Storage Spaces, etc. and of course the Hyper V role installed.
 
As an exercise in futility I managed to get bbLean installed (explorer.exe shell, since the OS doesn't come with one), which allowed me to get Google Chrome and Steam installed, before I ran out of interest trying to get DirectX installed.
 
I think if you installed Cygwin you could get DirectX installed properly, or maybe just follow one of those "Gaming on Windows Server 2012 R2" guides. It's possible, but the artificial divide between server and desktop "class" drivers makes things more difficult.

Comment Re:What about reliability? (Score 2) 113

That sounds about par for the course. Before the brand was purchased, they saw a 5% return rate across all of their drives, as high as 15% for specific models. What junk. I was shocked when I heard that they had been bought and rolled in to another company. It's going to be hard to overcome that kind of terrible reputation. There's a reason why no OEMs include OCZ drives in their offerings.

Comment Re:No kidding (Score 1) 125

The average person has trouble diagnosing network problems on their home PC; programming a computer to do things it doesn't already do, or even scripting a sequence of events is beyond most people who aren't already in IT. Putting together a dashboard for ten or twelve of our critical processes is so far beyond most people in our company that the old one wasn't able to be maintained and I'm having to write a new one from scratch. Being able to see how things are put together, then rearranging them to meet your needs can be taught, but as a natural gift is actually rather rare, which is why we never got around to mechanical computers until the last 120 years or so.

Comment Re:Contracting? (Score 1) 477

Modern video compression is so good that 90% of users can't tell the difference between 720 and 1080p unless they were personally involved in the purchase of the display. Especially standing over 10' away.
 
Clearly the average user cares more about convenience over ultimate video quality, otherwise Sony wouldn't be announcing lower than expected demand for Blue Ray impacting their profits, and Netflix consistently announcing higher profits, earnings and customer base.

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