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Nice TV. OLED have no disadvantage other than being new and expensive as well as early models having low refresh rate. OLED's have been having connection issues with the new PS4. Did you have to patch yours? I didn't think you had to sign in to PS network to play movies. Maybe you're more concerned about keeping them away from your Playstation?

Corrected. What I meant to say was the PS4 Pro doesn't include an Ultra High Definition Bluray player which as of today is into the hundreds of dollars. They are also one of the 1st things you buy after you buy a 4K television, otherwise your left to the mercy of what you can stream.

Let's try to figure out honestly where consoles are headed. There is a certain amount of videogame consoles that have been in demand since pong. The market share has grown since pong of course but at least since NES was king, there has always been a certain amount of user base in each generation. A generation being a major jump in technological advances. I made a graph of the consoles from the 90's that had success. Many were cut from this exhaustive list because they failed to sell enough or there were simply too many to fit in a graph. This is a time vs sales graph. The amount of sales are total worldwide sales. The total sales of Xbox One are estimated by Nvidia as of August 31 2016. Since Microsoft had a deal on Xbox One S betwen June and December 15, the total sale is expected to rise significantly. More accurate reports are expected mid December. Playstation 4 is at 47 million worldwide sales as of December 5th 2016. I deducted an estimated 3M units of the more recent release of the Playstation 4 Pro from the plane old PS4. The block in purple is generation 8 and yellow is generation 9. I put Playstation 4 Pro in generation 9 because it is a significant technological advancement. It was released November 10, 2016. The Xbox One Scorpio is to be released by end 2017. I also made a graph which judges the relative power of the system by what native resolution and framerate is output. If this is indeed Sony's answer for a home console for the next few years, how will it do against the much more powerful Xbox One Scorpio when it arrives? Playstation 4 Pro doesn't include an UHD Bluray player but Xbox One S does. Will this matter? Is Nintendo's Next console going to average the sales numbers between Wii U and 3DS or will it get DS numbers?

You wont get a good seal unless at least 10 mm squared wide of material are together. Thickness is irrelevant except certain instances. This perpendicular arrangement will bond poorly. You would need a brace inside or build the material out in layers until you get the thickness you need. Now I can lay another piece perpendicular and it would bond nice.

I only read the newspaper when Im doing a shutdown for 6 weeks each year and I don't read the comics but instead glance over them. The comics to me are so dry I could die of dehydration. They also seem like they are written for a 90 year old. If I have time to kill I would likely read Garfield, Hagar the Horrible and if it was still in print here, I would also read Family Circus. Besides this, I don't think a public newspaper would appeal to my senses.

I like hearing about computer builds. Humans have the upper hand in tasks that require strategic planning, decision-making and multitasking. To choose the right parts for anything with a chip in it, you need to decide on 3 things; Needs - The most important thing. Your goal, what is it you do with this computer? Price - The next thing is budget. Pretty self explanatory. Sacrifices - Most people need to sacrifice performance to meet budget but it could be wattage, acoustics or design choices. Some more tips with the acrylic sheets. If you slowly heat the plastic with a torch, you can make nice curves with it. When you weld these acrylic pieces together, the parts must be polished flat and at least 10 mm of material to bond. 12.5 is better. Sometimes I have to hold pieces by hand for 5 minutes before I can leave it set. After a table saw cut I'm left with a nice edge but it should be glazed with a MAG Torch. This will polish the surface. Acrylic sheets can be a foot thick and still transparent.

LOL, dude. Who doesn't have a gaming PC? I have mine hooked up to my plasma TV in my mancave. My thing is, 1080p is good enough for most people. Everything else is for you goofy looking nerds.

I don't play online much but I met a diverse bunch of people including the elderly playing Diablo 3. Also when the Wii came out, the media was covering stories of retirement homes having Wii Sports setup so the residents got exercise.

It won't completely and utterly fail. This is because youth as well as some adults will always enjoy Nintendo's brand of family friendly games. To get perspective on the graphics capability of the switch, imagine the power of the wii u which was a 900 P while the PS4 and Xbox One where mostly 1080P The Switch upgraded the graphics chips so they are the equivalent of the Wii U but it all fits in a nice little handset. Kinda like how Advance was a SNES and Gameboy was an NES It would be interesting if it supports homebrew?

Give him some time, he's only been here a year and he's playing in a league where the talent has become tremendous since the 1980's. The best line on Edmonton is when McDavid is on. The other team has learned to stay farther back when defending cause he'll stun ya if you're sleeping. This would be okay. I would also accept Blades of Steel and Hit the Ice.

VR helmets combined with other augments could be used for erotic games. If they can make programs real enough that people can have an enjoyable sexual experience then there might be a market for it. Holograms would be better because nothing is attached to your head. *Explicit sexual language Warning*

In videogame hockey there's no pulling punches with me. I like to pick team Canada and play against Team USA. After I get tired of winning, I like to build a team and play an entire season. I haven't done that since NHLPA 95 on Genesis.

The Nintendo version of Double Dragon 2 was always inspirational and linear for me. It would start with the title song then the opening Billy's girlfriend is punched in the bread basket and carried off by gang members revealing a needless panty shot. I give credit to Jimmy though. It would be hard to watch Marion with his brother without ever revealing the love he has for her.

Which hockey team do you cheer for? Do you judge teams by points, goal differential, hometown rivalries or with complexities like Sam Rothstein from the movie Casino? Me, I follow Edmonton Oilers this year as well as Winnipeg Jets. I think Oilers will at least make playoffs this year. They have a good chance with their rookie captain Connor McDavid. He has all the attributes of the two legends Bobby Orr and Wayne Gretzky. Lacking only in experience but he aint shy and he is one of the fastest on the ice as well as having a wicked shot. The rest of the team needs to rise for the occasion when this guy is on the ice and Edmonton will be back in the spotlight.

Thanks. This was a learning experience with thermo plastics for me. Now that I know how this stuff works, my next project is going to be dial controllers for Arkanoid, Tron, Sprint style games. Or possibly a minimalistic custom keyboard with Cherry MX keys that are labeled for my special needs. How do you plan on designing you're desk?

I like the idea of drag and drop like anyone but If I had to upload say 50 GB's of my collection of scans, this would take about 10 days @ 0.5 Megabit per sec meanwhile my internet is crippled. Worse case scenario It would time out after 3 to 4 hours or give some other type of error. In this case I "never" get done. Meanwhile I could have converted these all in about 84.4 minutes and have it bit perfect and "guaranteed" errorless. The PDF file seems superior but I wonder if there is another way. Perhaps a program that behaves as a sequential jpeg viewer such as CDisplay with it's own character recognition. Something for archival purpose. Or perhaps something for $1.99 at the app store.

I said I don't like 3d in my television. It raises the cost and detracts from more important features imo. I never even tried VR since 1991. Cotroling my VR headset with computer programs and games is more interesting to me. People need glasses to read and drive. I like to wear headphones when I'm walking. When I want to watch television I don't want to worry about putting 3D glasses on. Trying to bully people into wearing you're 3D glasses is laughable at best.

I downloaded a PDF from Kiwi's site here. http://www.oldgamemags.com/3do-mag/ It was something like 70 pages. It took approximately 2 minutes to find all the text. My 6700K bounced between 20 and 40% My SSD ran 0.1% and my Graphics card did nothing. I hit ctrl+f and searched for a string of words buried deep and it found them every time. 2 minutes very easy, don't need a powerful computer. Just setup a script to do this auto

First you need Adobe Acrobat Pro. Not Reader Open a PDF file with just raster images. Open Tools Open Recognize Text If Recognize text isnt there it may be turned off. Pull the little window down in this same tool cluster and turn the option on Select "in this file" Select "Edit" change primary OCR language to English US change PDF Output Style "Searchable Image Exact" This leaves the image intact but adds a layer of searchable text underneath After completion there may be some words unconverted Under Recognize Text click Find First Suspects It will show a raster image of a word it was unshure If it is spelled correct, click Accept and Find If it is misspelled, insert it yourself then click accept and find.

Do you always tape people in the bathroom like what was done in this video? Just wondering cause I know Ive said some stupid shit.

I have read these magazines for a decade through the 90's and I was never offended. It seems like if you were in charge of the magazine it would end up so politically correct that nobody would buy it.