So Epic will not offer their games to you via the Apple app store, as they don't want to pay the 30% Apple tax. I imagine many other app providers will also stop offering their apps via the Apple play store. You won't have a choice to use the Apple store anymore as most apps aren't there but on some other repository that will devolve into something like the Android shit fest of infected spyware apps. That's how you are forced not to use the Apple store. No thanks. If you want that, don't buy an iPhone. Buy an Android phone.

So, business as usual then ?

In the article they specifically state that QLED is their way forward. So, no they will not kill that. Apparently Samsung really wants people to think that QLED isn't LCD which of course is.

So basically you are waiting for the new Vive pro Eye ? To bad HTC pricing is so high.

I have a Vive pro with a wireless modules which uses WiGig. And it works perfectly. The delay is negligible and you don't see the difference with a tethered headset. The only drawbacks are that WiGig doesn't penetrate anything so the screen goes grey when you block the line of sight your body and the battery only lasts about two hours so if you play a lot you need two and be prepared for an interruption after about two hours.

That's already done. The Microsoft datacenter a few miles from here delivers warmth and CO2 to the nearby greenhouses. See https://investinnhn.com/invest...

Iridium satellites cost about $5 million per piece. So your cost estimate is about 10 times to high. Launching and operating will cost a pretty penny too but if the system supports about 10 million subscribers the cost of a subscription will be in the same order as a dsl or cable subscription.

The i7-7700k runs at a turbo frequency of 4.5GHz. Thats 10% faster than the maximum frequency of the X1800. The rest of the performance gain is better IPC. However the i7700K also has a TDP of 91W which is almost the same as the 95W TDP of the X1800. If intel doubles that chip it will melt down unless they scale back the clock speed. And you wind up with something that performs less than the i7-9600 which performs at about the same level as the X1800. So nope, not going to happen any time soon. What I'm wondering is what will happen with the release of the 4 core Ryzen processors. Will the reduced power requirement allow AMD to up the clockspeed to a level where they beat the i7-7700K ?

Ferroce isn't harmeless https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and viologen isn't a nice substance either http://www.sigmaaldrich.com/ca...

Why do you think demand cannot be sustained ? Bitcoin is a payment system. If you want to use it you need to purchase some bitcoin. The amount of bitcoin is largely irrelevant. You purchase for a certain value. If the value keeps going up you just get less bitcoin for the same value. But you can still use it for transactions for that value. Bitcoins are basically infinitely divisable. The current minimum amount of 1 satoshi can easily be subdivided.

When you think of bitcoin only as an investment vehicle it's true that is has no value. The value is generated by trade in the form of transactions.
 

The measurements were not done on the ground or with GPS assistance. The payload of the Sentinel-1 satellite they used is the CSAR radar. That radar does automatic distance/altitude mapping of entire swaths. I'm just amazed by the precision.

Wow, mapping a buildings from space with millimeter accuracy. From an orbit 693km high. That's an accuracy of 1:100,000,000 while flying 24,000 km/h.. Crazy. And then imagine the capabilities of really good US satellites aren't even known because classified.

The ESA link to this story: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Observing_the_Earth/Copernicus/Sentinel-1/Satellites_confirm_sinking_of_San_Francisco_tower

The Merlin engines of the Falcon 9 use RP-1/liquid oxygen as fuel. If the new Glenn uses liquid hydrogen/liquid oxygen as fuel that would explain the size difference.

That's not true. I still compile custom kernels and I know a few others that do so too. However to do so is a choice these days and you better have a very good reason to do so because distribution provided kernels are perfect for 99% of the use scenarios. I have a very good reason: I think it's fun. I'm weird that way.
Plus I create custom hardware. But many times even that is not really a reason for compiling a custom kernel with the user space driver options.

When an friend an I got started with Linux he wanted to remove his Slackware install from a dual boot PC. For fun he ran rm -rf / on that install. We had a good laugh when the message scrolled by of the OS trying and failing to remove files from the CDROM. That was until he realized that he had mounted his Windows partition too. It didn't fail to remove files there :-)