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I started a thread about this some seven weeks ago, after finding SODIMM to DIMM adaptors on eBay for less than $5 each.  I asked if anyone had any info and I was met with some pretty stupid responses.  Actually, let's go over some of those responses shall we?
 
"They don't." -MagnesiumPC
 
He really supplied firm backing for his opinion here.
 
"lmao that's not even a DDR3-style desktop connector. Looks a LOT more like regular DDR lmao lmaoooooo" -tmcclelland455
 
This guy doesn't seem to actually know what DDR3 looks like, but whatever.
 
The general concensus I received was that this was snake oil.  It would never work.  It's fake.  The photos are fake.  Don't bother.  I Googled a LOT and could not find a lot of information on them at ALL.  So I'll explain my use case.  I have 2x4GB of DDR3 SODIMM memory sitting in a package that was pulled from a laptop two years ago.  The laptop was upgraded to 2x8GB.  I was rebuilding my server and I could have spent about $50 to get 8GB of DDR for my server or I could pay $12.19 CAD with free shipping and I could use these SODIMM sticks in a desktop board.  I would save money AND recycle existing memory that was otherwise unused.  I liked this even though people thought it was bullshit.  So, about 7 weeks later they have arrived.  Free shipping from eBay from China tends not to be fast.  You get what you pay for...
 
Here are the SODIMMS in the DIMM adaptors that will 100% totally not work:

 
 
 
And here they are installed in an old Gigabyte P67A-UD3-B3 motherboard.  There is enough room that these adaptors will fit in all four slots without getting in the way of each other, not that that matters because they will never work.  If you're curious, there's an i5 2300 under that cooler.  It's a shame though, because this machine will surely not POST in this configuration.

 
 
Here is the computer failing to POST.  Ignore all this 'BIOS' you see, and the report on the CPU and the 8GB of detected RAM.  It's just confused and THINKS it POSTed with all memory detected.  It totally didn't POST.

 
 
Since it didn't POST, this is absolutely is not CPU-Z reporting on the specific model of the RAM which matches the RAM from the photo.  What actually happened was the SODIMM adaptors blew up my TV via the HDMI cable and somehow this is how the pixels got stuck.  Crazy, right?

 
 
 
In conclusion, yes, you can TOTALLY run laptop SODIMM memory via a very cheap adaptor in a desktop build.  Also, some people on tech forums have no idea what they are talking about but are sure something will not work just because they never heard of it and it sounds silly to them.  Frankly, SODIMM has less pins but some of the pins on DDR3 DIMMs are only used for ECC, some are 'N/C' or 'No Connection' and serve no purpose, and others are redundant and the SODIMM adaptor just has less redundant connections.  If you think about it, this makes PERFECT sense.  There are desktop boards with low powered mobile CPUs on them but have full DIMM memory slots.  There are also motherboards with desktop CPU slots but have SODIMM memory slots (A lot of ITX boards for example). So there's no real argument that they wouldn't work, excluding manufacturing defect, other than the belief in voodoo or evil spirits that control weather your computer works or not.

This is actually wrong.  BluRay only supports 16:9 aspect ratios or 4:3 aspect ratios in SDTV.  (Yes, Bluray CAN store 480p video and remain within spec).  Any movie you see on Bluray that is WIDER than 16:9 is using black letter boxing, and wasting pixels on that black letter boxing, to do so. A lot of players may not crop this and thus show your content both letterboxed and pillarboxed on a 21:9 display.  Though if the player supports CROPPING, you can crop out those useless black pixels and fill the frame of your display, but the actual source resolution of the content will never be more than 1920 pixels across.  There is no 'Anamorphic' 21:9 support for BluRay where a 21:9 film would be 'squeezed' into a 16:9 video and then stretched back out during playback, resulting in every pixel being used for imagery.
 
My guess was, no one anticipated home theater screens wider than 1920 pixels when locking down the Bluray standard so it didn't make sense at the time.  Though in our modern era of 4K, an 'anamorphic' 21:9 HD bluray would have some benefits by increasing the actual number of pixels used for the image instead of dedicating some to black.

It's the highest efficiency 10 000 BTU window air conditioner I could find.  And it's a wifi powered IoT one no less and even works with Google Assistant and Alexa.  By June the Russians will have this thing will be mining cryptocurrency and running DDoS attacks for sure!

Eh, Via Rail's The Canadian is really not cheaper than flying by a long shot.  It's a long distance configured train with Budd coaches and sleepers.  It's a lovely way to see Canada and I intend to take that train, sleeper class, one day from Toronto to Vancouver some day and then hang around while annoying @GabenJr and their wife, but if one wants to just GET to the Vancouver area from elsewhere in Canada, you'll save a LOT of money on a plane.  From a utilitarian view, you want to take a plane at least if travelling across Canada just 'Point A to Point B'. You want to take the train to SEE Canada along the way.
 
Obviously, I can't speak for Amtrak.

Welp, there's your problem.

As I sit here at work reading this, literally working on visual effects on TV series for major networks, let me assure you of this; 60fps sucks for movies and dramatic TV and it's never going to happen.

Yeah, compression is really about optimizing for things that are the same, be they flat areas or things that only change a bit between frames (A gross over simplification of lossy compression but still) so noise, highly detailed textures or rapid changes and such are going to benefit the least.
 
This is a major reason I only Remux my anime discs.  Because I want it to look as it does on the disc itself rather than inuring additional loss by recompression.
 
Personally though for VIEWING I see hugely diminishing returns on anything beyond 1080p.  I've watched The Force Awakens at 4K on my 65" TV and honestly, side by side with 1080p and I could not tell the difference from the couch.  I'm sure if I got my nose to the screen I could see a difference but that's not how I actually watch my TV.
 
And again, gaming, since it's so much sharp and in focus not to mention aliasing that goes on, yeah 4K makes GAMES look better. 

Here's the critical problem when you try to argue about 'resolution' in a movie.  A lot of a movie is just blurry.  Like, let's look at this random shot from Pete's Dragon (Fun fact: The overtime I did on this movie bought me a new queen size bed in cash! :3)
 
Movies are shot with lenses and only a certain depth is actually in focus, things fore and aft of the focal point goes out of focus. The background outside the truck is well out of focus.  The truck cab is out of focus.  The passenger is out of focus.  The steering wheel is out of focus.  While Karl Urban's face and torso are mostly in focus, even parts of his arms and hand are out of focus.  This does not change if you go from 1080p to 4K, or to 8K or anything higher.  This is blurry BY DESIGN.  A lens with a specific focal length and aperture width was chosen for this aesthetic effect.  And most movies are like that.
 

 
How about the CG dragon itself?  Ah, right, motion blur.  Even the computer render is simulating the shutter speed of a camera and motion is blurred.  The render even simulates depth of field so parts of the dragon are out of focus.
 

 
Movies are not video games, where everything is in focus and crisp and sharp.  They are soft and organic and you will see HUGELY diminishing returns as resolution goes up on the viewing end.
 
But there is one thing that compression really helps: Grain.  Analog film has grain and so does a digital camera's sensor.  In VFX we literally have different film stock and cameras profiled so we can replicate their grain when adding elements or making changes but ensuring the grain is consistent throughout a shot. We're going to use The Walking Dead as an example.  Why  It's grainy.  The Walking Dead, a series which I have NEVER worked on, is shot on 16mm analog film as the production team wants a certain effect.  This results in a LOT of noise.
 
Well this looks like crap, don't it?  I don't mean the grain, grain itself has CHARACTER but video compression optimizes for smooth details.  We can already see where the grain is causing a lot of compression artifacts because this grain is changing with every frame and it's noisy and it is a LOT more information to fit within the data stream.  This is the cost of that, the grain.   A higher bitrate will go a LOT farther here than more resolution.  And look, GLen in the BG here isn't even in focus anyway, he's slightly out of focus even in this wider shot.
 

 
There is a reason why the vast majority movies today, projected on GIANT theater screens, are only 2K and you aren't crying 'I CAN SEE THE PIXELS'  Because you get hugely diminishing returns from a viewer experience as resolution goes up beyond 1080p.

Oh my god, no.  BluRay does NOT use anything lossless and it doesn't use anything even CLOSE to lossless.

The BluRay standard allows for three possible compression codecs: MPEG2, VC-1, and H.264.  MPEG2 has not been used since the early years and you still see the occasional VC-1 disc out there but for the most part every made today and the MAJORITY made ever, use H.264 since it's the most efficient.  It most certainly does not use 'some kind of lossless codec'.

"We saved a tonne of money vs a traditional set up!"
"How much did you spend on the robot?"
"Uhh, well... Let's see... Development, materials, fabrication, labor, debugging, replacing the first Burst machine after the robot accidentally ripped it to scrap metal...  ...Uh oh."

The Matrox Millenium G200 series is from 1999.  Though it and the 4XX series did continue on for a while in servers like yours.  That said, driver support is discontinued, you're going to be stuck with whatever basic driver is built into Windows.  Really, it's a server, 1024x768 should get the job done for doing configuration on a server.
 
HOWEVER, Suprermicro ALSO has used the G200eW on some boards and they SEEM to have a Win 2012 driver.
 
ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/driver/VGA/Matrox/Nuvoton/G200e/Windows/Win2012/
 
I obviously can't tell if this should work but theoretically, a G200eW is a G200eW, no matter what board it's built into.

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ITT: Someone has to be educated about how a billiard table is not just an Ikea desk covered in felt. 
 

ITT: Someone has to be educated about how a billiard table is not just an Ikea desk covered in felt. 
 

It's the highest efficiency 10 000 BTU window air conditioner I could find.  And it's a wifi powered IoT one no less and even works with Google Assistant and Alexa.  By June the Russians will have this thing will be mining cryptocurrency and running DDoS attacks for sure!

Generating ad revenue for a pirate operation doesn't mean you're not pirating.  ...It just makes you stupid enough to consume ads for pirated material that you could have just pirated for FREE and WITHOUT ADS elsewhere.

His fish is sick, so he's leaving work to take move into an underwater fish hospital in the tropics until it recovers.

1) As I said, $130 was the ASKING price and I haggled down to $105
 
2) It's not a card it is an animation cel.  As in it is one of the actual pieces of celluloid that had the art carefully painted onto it and was then layered over other celluloid sheets, such as the background. to make a complete image and then photographed to make a frame of animation.  It quite literally is a piece of the animation process that has been resting in a bag for some 19 years since that episode was produced.  I imagine you think it is card because there is a piece of cardboard behind the celluloid sheet to protect the paint on the back and to allow you to act as a background on an otherwise transparent medium.

So what do I do literally after blowing through $1000 at Anime North last weekend?  Why I start buying more anime garbage of course.  Why not?
 
I got the Princess Princess Premium art book for $24 on ebay.  Though it's going to come by the slowest shipping possible and take 1-2 months to turn up.  But squeeee, a whole artbook of Tsuda-san's crossdressing manga boys. <3
 

Generating ad revenue for a pirate operation doesn't mean you're not pirating.  ...It just makes you stupid enough to consume ads for pirated material that you could have just pirated for FREE and WITHOUT ADS elsewhere.

I'm honestly confused by this product.  What does it really offer that you couldn't just throw on teh Android store and have accessible to phones, set top boxes and even some Smart TVs?  It doesn't even LOOK like an Atari, it just VAGUELY resembles one and has wood grain.  Nintendo's 'Mini' offerings fed well into nostalgia by offering what was a scaled down replica of their childhood game console where as this only vaguely invokes the styling.  It just kinda seems like a wood grain NUC.

Both KissManga and KissAnime are pirate sites.

Canadians: Oh look, the Americans only just now heard of Phoenix. :V

Canadians: Oh look, the Americans only just now heard of Phoenix. :V

Canadians: Oh look, the Americans only just now heard of Phoenix. :V