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HDMI cables are still subject to electrical interference, they're still copper A good cable will have ferrite's on the end to help reduce it. The only thing that is free of interference would be optical.

Yes, Microsoft NO LONGER pays OEM's to preinstall their software. That was part of the agreement they made with the DOJ during a previous anti trust case. Now they do it with proprietary API's and bundled software to maintain the advantage they gained unfairly. I haven't seen anyone argue against the action with Google. We just want to see the same treatment given to other companies, namely Microsoft, that also throttles competition, but some people like to turn a blind eye to companies they favor.

If having a free alternative available means that there can't be a monopoly, as you say, then why is Google being investigated? No one is forced to use Google's search engine. Search engines are free, and there are many others.

Double Fine, inXile, and Obisidan, are all game studios that previously released games for Linux prior to being purchased by Microsoft. Double Fine is still working on Pychonauts 3 but it's believed that this will be the last game for Linux, if it isn't canceled like the Linux version of We Happy Few was canceled after Compulsion Games purchase by Microsoft. InXile's Linux release of Wasteland 3 has been delayed with an unknown release date. In the past it usually leads to cancellation, but Wasteland 3 is being published by Deep Silver, not Microsoft. Then there is this Microsoft first-party games will now remain exclusive to Microsoft’s platforms Microsoft isn't the first software company and it didn't invent the operating system. For one, Apple has been making PC's longer than Microsoft has been releasing OS's and UNIX is older than Microsoft is.

Yes I've heard of Chrome OS. Chrome OS is a walled garden Linux distro based on Gentoo Linux. The problem isn't Microsoft buying the game studios. The problem is that now the game studios only develop for Microsoft OS's. Except for Microsoft buying Linux software developers and then only releasing those products for Windows. You don't see the conflict there? Does the existence of other search engines kill any search engine monopoly argument against Google?

If Lisa Su or Jensen Huang started a Twitch channel, would the discussion not involve the products they sell? Or if Tom Cruise started a channel, would we not talk about his movies? It's just natural to talk about her politics since that is the only thing that makes her famous.

Considering that the only thing that is significant about this person being on Twitch is that she's a politician, what else are we suppose to discuss.

Listing every console sold since the beginning of time is not OS market share. Most of those devices are no longer in use. Oh and the Xbox game pass isn't available for Linux. Not allowing Game Pass on Linux is a strategic decision. No one would have to use Windows anymore. It's not a coincidence that the game companies they bought were Linux developers. What? They have over 90% of the desktop market and do everything possible to lock applications to Windows. Yet Google has the same market share in the search space and is being investigated for it. The only reason why Microsoft gets away with it is, people think that they need Windows. They are controlling the market by buying developers of competing OS's, what better way to eliminate a growing threat then to buy up software developers of that OS. If it was all about growing their game portfolio, why did Microsoft stop developing for other platforms? It's to maintain control of the OS market. If Nvidia started buying game companies and locked the games to only work on Nvidia GPU's everyone would be screaming blooding murder. But when Microsoft does it no one has a problem.

Yes it was. It still works with that battery. I just don't want to risk burning my house down. I didn't use it for anything other than crunching WCG 24hrs a day while it sat on my kitchen counter. That was the second battery, I never bought a third....it was time to let go.

I don't know about a laptop, but this is what happens when you crunch World Community Grid on a phone. ?

That's a little hard to do when you start a thread about a politician that leans towards Communism.

What do you mean? They just bought multiple game studios that developed Linux games that now only release games for Microsoft operating systems. How is Microsoft "not that way" They're maintaining their market dominance by buying developers of competing OS's. This is what Southern Oil did to spur the creation of antitrust laws. What is Sony's and Nintendo's market share in the OS space compared to Microsoft?

Could be, but people said that about Turing also.

Twitch is now part of her campaign strategy. Politicians are always campaigning for re-election. The #1 priority of every politician is to get re-elected. She's trying to get them while their young and impressionable. Hopefully it doesn't work.

Microsoft is still just as anti-competitive as ever. Just look at all the multi-platform game developers they've bought recently that now only release for Microsoft platforms.

This isn't really a new thing. Google also pays Mozilla to make Google the default search engine in Firefox, it's never been a secret. The deal is necessary for Mozilla to survive.

That's the way it used to be. In the early 2000's tech was progressing so fast that new cards would be released in a year or less. I had a ATI 9700 Pro, in less than a year it was replaced by the 9800 Pro.

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I would have thought Nokia would have been the natural choice anyway, they're in Finland.

Those are the 10 cores, mine are only 8.

I'm hoping to replace my dual Xeon E5-2670 system. I can gain performance and save on electric.

I was a little shocked by the price. I paid $299 for my 1700X a couple months after launch, now that's the price of the 5600X which is only 6 cores. How does the 16 core/32 thread have the same TDP as the 12/24 and the 8/16?

I'm not waiting. I have a new case, radiators, water block and cable sleeving just dying to be used in a new build. Plus this segfaulting 1700x needs to be put out to pasture.

They need to work on OpenCL. ROCm, the open source OpenCL driver, doesn't support all their GPU's and doesn't work with all applications. The proprietary OpenCL driver that does work on all AMD GPU's and with all applications isn't installable on all distros. It's one of the reasons why I removed my Radeon VII and reinstalled my 1070ti FTW. I gave up some gaming performance, but gained functionality.