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  1. Article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2016/05/09/battlefield-1-is-the-most-liked-trailer-in-youtube-history-infinite-warfare-the-most-disliked/#3bafaf2135c2 Wikipedia Most disliked YouTube videos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_disliked_YouTube_videos Wikipedia Most viewed in 24 hours: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_viewed_online_videos_in_first_24_hours In less than a week Battlefield 1 has become the most liked videogame trailer on YouTube ans Call of Duty Infinite Warfare has become the most disliked trailer on YouTube topping the Ghostbusters reboot which sits at 768k dislikes. The Battlefield 1 trailer also has taken 15th place for number of views in 24 hours after its launch accumulating 15.6 million views in 24 hours. At the current time Call of Duty has ~1.3 million dislikes to only 268k likes and 14.5 million views, a far cry from its most viewed video the "Suprise" live action trailer for Black Ops 2 at 42.5 million views and 217k likes. Meanwhile Battlefield has ~1.1 million likes with only 20k dislikes and 20.3 million views, topping it's own "Fishing in Baku" 17 minutes of BF4 campaign gameplay with 19 million views ad 266k likes to become Battlefields most watched YouTube video. From my point of view this is insanity. In less than a week these two respective game franchises have both broken records. I was told by some EA/DICE Employees before the London Event that the Battlefield trailer would "break the internet" but I honestly didn't expect the outcome we see today. One thing I will say though is that though I do believe the Call of Duty trailer is worse than the Battlefield trailer the Call of Duty trailer certainly doesnt deserve all the hate it is getting. As a DICE employee said to me As Paul Tassi mentions in his article We will have to see if Call of Duty will dethrone Justin Bieber's "Baby" as most disliked video at 6 million dislikes. It has only been a week and the count is already 1/6th the way there.
  2. IT is now back kind of grooveshark.io is a clone site that someone just put up
  3. DRSQUIRRELBOY12 -Username, Favorite videos: https://www.vessel.com/videos/MI7F0u2H8 and https://www.vessel.com/videos/JYZEYDYx0 I hope I get the SSD lol
  4. We receive infared light from the sun all the time. I have security cameras that use infared LEDs to light up the viewing area. Flying on an airplane exposes you to 30X the background radiation on the ground, but people don't quit flying. also if the beam was interrupted by a person wouldn't it shut off? What about tanning beds or just being in the sun? you receive IR light from both of them, in fact almost every lightbulb emits some IR light. A laser is just focused light, you would be more likely to burn yourself which would be unlikely with this system than to give yourself cancer. It is not like this will be constantly on spamming IR light everywhere. IR Light is not very dangerous.
  5. I dont believe they were using it as a charge while you are walking around type system. Just a set it somewhere and it does it without intervention. as if it was hard to plug in a cable, well USB, nah type C is coming lol. It just seems a little more lazy but it makes some sense to me. I am not defending the practicality, I just thought it was a cool news story lol
  6. Wouldn't it be narrow because he is excluding more results by only allowing certain things for example if i say "people" it could be anyone, if I was "Blue Eyed People" There are less people with blue eyes than there are people.
  7. We wouldn't want our PCs going radioactive now would we. On topic; I wonder if there could be any safety concerns with this tech. I doubt it as they would have some safety features to prevent anyone from accidentally having laser eye surgery at work. I still think this is safer than the induction charging.
  8. What? Please elaborate. I'm afraid I don't understand what his race has to do with the search. If you want to search for people of different races and post the screenshots to prove a point feel free to help further the discussion by doing so.
  9. I agree with you, I personally don't agree with this 100% but I do know of Military weaponry that is similar ( Directed Energy Weapons). I put that paragraph into this thread/post/whatever to lead into the story. Anyway those views and any of WinBeta are not necessarily tangent to my own, just getting that out there.
  10. I think the reason is because Hardline could probably be a DLC for Battlefield 4. Granted it has a bigger difference than from BF3 to BF4, I may not get Hardline and instead just stick with the military scenerio based BF4, because, well, I like flying jets (#4 in my state) and I dont know how jets will fit into a cops vs robbers game. like seriously, I know our police has become more militarized but I doubt they would have A-10s for chasing criminals.
  11. Original Article from WinBeta.org; Enter Microsoft: Apparently Microsoft Research (out of China) has invented a way to charge your phone anywhere in a room without cables or charging pads. Instead they have a device that detects your device using a (built in, I assume) kinect, locks on, and sends a beam of focused infrared light onto your device. But how does the device get charged? To me, It seems like the largest hurdle to overcome is getting device manufacturers to start incorporating photo-voltaic cells into their devices. The final thing you may ask yourself is how does the device tell the charger that the battery is done charging or other possibly relevant information such as if the laser is actually cooking the phone and needs to be turned off? Microsoft Researches idea is to use a blinking LED to relay the info, although, I could see Bluetooth or WiFi as being being equally effective. This whole idea may in itself sound crazy, but then I read this: And if that doesn't get you excited for this new technology, I don't know what will, although after I calmed down I started to be a little skeptical as I find it hard to believe it could ever be as efficient as wall chargers. But hey we can still hope. Thoughts: I think that this concept is a fantastic Idea but I would like to see more testing go into this technology to ensure its effectiveness and safety. I don't think this will be widely adopted into homes anytime soon, where I can see this tech shine is in the business sector where people bring their phones (which may have business information on them thus being used a lot throughout the day leading to a low battery) to meetings. You could install this into a meeting room and be able to keep all your employees devices charged while saving wall outlet space for laptops and old tech that doesn't use this method of charging. To resolve the conflict of multiple devices in a room I am sure Microsoft could implement a model or prototype with multiple lasers. Perhaps the biggest hindrance to this is the fact that in order for this to become widespread, you have to have an install base of companies incorporating photo-voltaic cells into their devices, and consumers/businesses purchasing those devices. If Microsoft can accomplish that, this technology may be widespread very soon. Source: http://www.winbeta.org/news/future-becomes-little-cooler-microsoft-research-wants-charge-your-phone-lasers
  12. FOX News is basically conservative news and msnbc is essentially liberal news although not as bad a s FOX News is. I watch The Daily show and Last Week Tonight for all my news, I think it's sad that i trust Comedy Central News more than the mainstream media. I liked that TYT Video and it takes a lot for me to like one of their videos. not that they are bad but they are not always my favorite news network.
  13. That's interesting, I wonder if that is still going on. Correct me if im wrong but what I got out of the article is that Bing used IE and the Bing Desktop app to determine what people were searching for on google and clicking on once they did their search, then when you searched for that same thing on Bing, it would put what you clicked on in Googles results into it's search results because they thought it was relevant to you because you clicked on it. Interesting.
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