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Yeah, I’m just glad the popularity of streaming sites keeps eyes off the torrent scene.

It took me longer than I’d like to admit to realise this was satire. Pretty good read, TBH.

How would that even work? Like, small segments in immersive VR? That seems… very specific.

Yes exactly. They did this in theatres where small sections of the movie would be in 3D. There’d be a blinking icon to tell you when to put your 3D glasses on.

The problem with 3d anaglyphs is that there’s a tradeoff: To get the depth information across, there’s a big loss in colour reproduction. It’s fine as a gimmick, but doing the whole movie that way probably isn’t the best idea.

VR headsets just have a different set of tradeoffs (hot, sweaty and isolating ;) which make them basically equally undesirable for a good viewing experience.

The idea behind having only sections in 3d is that you only accept the tradeoffs when they’re most worthwhile.

It’d actually be kinda cool if there were movies with supplemental VR. That is, mostly 2d but with VR headset sections. I know they had this in the theatres in thr past with red/blue VR glasses, but it’d look so much better with a good VR headset.

The issue is that it’s a bit of a hard sell within an already limited market segment. You’d need to already have a largeish TV, and then also a 3D headset on the same PC.

I’d think most VR enthusiasts would have their VR on either a standalone unit or on a gaming PC, not on their HTPC.

As you’ve said, watching an entire film in VR is kinda ass.

Just embrace being horny on main. :) Unless you’re American. Then instead of you coming, they’ll be coming for you in the next 4+ years.

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Yep, agreed. It’s the potential for exploitation that’s the main issue.

Don’t get me wrong, Vanguard is BS, and I quit playing riot games because of it. However, simply having low level access isn’t sufficient to classify it as spyware, otherwise drivers would be spyware. I still haven’t seen any evidence that it currently does anything nefarious with that access, which means it’s quite unlikely it’s being used for mass surveillance.

To me, there are 2 problems: 1) It could be used for targeted attacks, and the likelihood anyone would find out is much lower than in a widespread surveillance scenario. 2) It could be used to deploy a massive bot-net.

I think the US reclassification here is precautionary in nature.

I mean, there’s always been speculation that Vanguard is spyware. There’s absolutely no need or justification for always-on cheat detection.

Yep. And just to be a little more precise, since the distinction is a bit subtle: an emulator typically involves translating byte code so that you can run a binary on different hardware. A compatibility layer translates OS calls so that a binary can run on different software.

In the latter case, the binary still runs, as is, directly on the CPU because it’s compiled for the same instruction set architecture (x86_64, in this case).

It’s true. All the hamster furries run in big wheels to keep the tube pressure up and the packets flowing.

You could do a semi-automated system where you have all your currently airing in RSS, but still need to manually start them. It’d at least save you from having to go searching every time.

For currently airing/weekly stuff, you can use RSS to get all the episodes as they come out. Just make sure your search is only getting the episodes you want before you add it to your client. That means asides from the show title, also add the sub group and bitrate if they release more than one.

It’s a tiny bit more work to set up, but once it’s done, episodes just show up as they come out. :)

If anything, Intel’s lack of transparency should speak volumes. They’re hoping to just mostly ignore the problem until it blows over. I still think it’s more severe than they’re letting on, but only time will tell. They’re in full damage control mode right now.

Anyone who gets scared off of buying Intel CPU’s until they see how this plays out is making a sound decision IMO. Consumers shouldn’t accept this kind of behaviour.

On the flip side, this could also make for some potentially good deals on unaffected SKUs.