Taf the Ghost

A monopoly or near monopoly can actually create a very efficient market. The issue isn't really the monopoly part, it's either how they got there or what they end up doing. The primary issue is you always have to hire people and abusing power is a people problem. Which is the reason countries with representative governments have anti-trust laws.

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.

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.)

"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

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.

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.

As dumb as this sounds, if he really wants to make another entire silicon fab industry, that's actually what it would cost.

You ever picked up a buddy from an airport named Jack? I'd avoid shout "Hi" to him. While I can appreciate dark humor, there's a time & place for it, even if you thought your comms are secure. Clearly, they weren't.

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.

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.

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.

All the News that's fit to generate today.

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.

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.

Good question, though I can see reasons it wouldn't be covered. It's not a test for medical reasons but information gathering purposes. Still, I've never seen a company operating as a function of dystopian movie plot is a good idea. And given the massive amount of marketing money spent always raised a bit too many red flags. It's not as bad as the Fake Meat industry, but the non-anonymized data like this a pretty terrible thing. Oh look, it'll now be completely out in the wild.

Government regulations. The ISPs basically wanted to double dip for bandwidth costs. At the consumer and the data provider end. Probably more focused on extracting money from Netflix. Naver might also be launching a competitor to Netflix soon, which will likely get preferential treatment. It's far more a case of overly protectionist economics more than anything else.

I see someone in Intel Marketing had to come up with something. Fairly impressive how bad it is, but, well, they got ad copy out!

While interesting... just say no.

How many keyboards do you have installed? Could delete those and use the refresh function, then install it. I'd also look up info on your keyboard to see if there's a special driver for it. There's also a small chance your keyboard is actually operating like a spyware device and that's actually the issue. But that's long down the list of things.

If a PSU is going, the graphics driver is normally the first thing to crash under load, unless the system crashes. You could upgrade your PSU if you truly want to, but it's more likely a driver first, keyboard issue second or the controller/connector on the board third.

Well, test it in different USB slots, if available. If there's really only 1 slot it can work in, you need to test it on a different computer. It could be your USB 3 setup (connector, traces or even controller) isn't functional and you didn't know until you tried the keyboard. Could also try re-installing the USB drivers. If the keyboard has special software, that might also be the culprit.

@aaronisnotded what drivers have you tried reinstalling? And how is the keyboard connected? Do you have anything externally connected via USB that might be on the same USB connection path?

What is the actual damage? Because there's actually not a lot that should produce that much smoke unless you truly ignited something on the board or in your PSU. Also, realistically, you have to do a dry cloth wipe down and still give the iso time to dry. Though, realistically, something should have shorted and the PSU should have cut out, unless you ignited something on the surface rather than bridged connections. Pictures help a lot.