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A friend's dad bought one of those 3 color projectors from government surplus when I was a kid. Can confirm it took a very, very long time to get them adjusted. And you still got some fringing/artifacting because they weren't perfectly aligned across the entire surface. You sort of had to pick your poison and couldn't have it be too big. I can also confirm that projectors were the way to play 4-player games on consoles. Having a chance to play them on a large auditorium's setup was damn fun.
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It's been so long that everyone forgets the Control Panel has been slow & laggy the entire time. It's never been a smooth experience. And, man, if you had a weak card that didn't load something properly, even into the late 2010s, was it a chore to try to fix anything. I never had too much of an issue with the interface itself (it was functional enough), but the hanging and the lag. It was like playing a shooter at 2 FPS. If you had something you had to tweak a few times to figure out the issue, enjoy the hanging and the frustration. (In some ways it was worse back when it was in the same design as everything else, so then it just came across as incredibly incompetent coding.)
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Mozilla laying off ~60, adding AI to Firefox.
Taf the Ghost replied to Brinstead's topic in Tech News
"AI" has become "In the cloud" of this era. They're adding a better, more robust Search Feature. That's all this era of "AI" is for the end user. I used to like AI stuff a lot more when it was applied to interesting tasks. We've enter the phase of "we're adding this feature because Google's click through payments aren't good anymore". -
While I'd agree with this thought, I imagine Xbox's first question would be "and, on what node is that going to be?". haha
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I'm going to take this as Xbox has in the last 6 months put out the design layout they'd like for their next console stack to the few companies that could possibly probably provide the core hardware. I think this got out because someone at Intel was just happy to be included in the list. Still not sure where Intel would get the tightly packaged GPU that'd be needed.
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Sam Altman seeking 5-7 TRILLION in backing for Open AI CPU Creation
Taf the Ghost replied to tkitch's topic in Tech News
I mentioned if he wanted to make an entirely new Fab industry. That'd require building a completely parallel system that, even with licensing, would need to invest R&D to the tune of a trillion USD. Duplicating the most advanced supply chain of the most advanced production lines in Human History is really, really expensive. A big build out of new Fabs over a decade would cover most of that first 1 Trillion USD. -
Sam Altman seeking 5-7 TRILLION in backing for Open AI CPU Creation
Taf the Ghost replied to tkitch's topic in Tech News
As dumb as this sounds, if he really wants to make another entire silicon fab industry, that's actually what it would cost. -
Anything that goes negative against atmospheric pressure was always never going to be worth the trouble as a large scale project. But the fact people were even trying was just a sign of the massive amount of money being thrown at new technology in that period. Near 0% interest rates does stupid things to investment ideas.
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China announces rules to limit spending on video games
Taf the Ghost replied to djksm's topic in Tech News
While a loss of Gacha games isn't bad, collapsing an industry has major knock-on effects to the rest of the industry. Especially with some of Tencent's holdings around the globe. -
China announces rules to limit spending on video games
Taf the Ghost replied to djksm's topic in Tech News
Umm... did China just kill most of their gaming industry overnight? -
I'm a little surprised some version of "Bubbling" hadn't shown up sooner. Human visual information processing fills in information, so if you have the camera in such a way as not show any clothes, the mind will fill in the rest. That's what set off this entirely hilarious current cycle of things.
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Lucid dream startup says people can work in their sleep
Taf the Ghost replied to Anders155's topic in Tech News
It strikes me more like a bad The Matrix ripoff concept. Minus the fact this seems like VC funding bait that'll blow up, like nearly all of the rest of them. -
Nvidia is ‘no longer a graphics company’
Taf the Ghost replied to Fasterthannothing's topic in Tech News
Jensen has been attempting to make Nvidia something closer to IBM (more older than current) for the better part of 2 decades. He's finally gotten there. Maybe.