Nvidia DELAYS RTX Launch!?
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·2019-05-06
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wow look at this weather beautiful day for tech news
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i don't need this
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thanks james happy monday to all although i can't
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blame you if your spirits are a little dampened if you've been waiting to get your hands on the new flagship graphics
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cards from NVIDIA who announced on their official forum that the GeForce rtx 2080
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ti would be delayed yeah i'm very angry fortunately the wait
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shouldn't be super long as general availability has only been pushed back
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one week to the 27th of september or 10 days from today no reason was given for
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the delay but with supply of the new flagship card already super scarce
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scarce i would have said constrained okay
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super constrained it isn't terribly surprising however the rtx 2080 non-ti
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remains on schedule for general release on september 20th so the wait will be
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very short if you really feel compelled
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to be an early adopter let's just hope the reason for the delay
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is supply and not issues with the rtx tech because i don't want to spend one
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more minute of my life without ray tracing when i'm on my deathbed stop i
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don't wanna although it's been widely known for a while that samsung is
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working on bringing a foldable smartphone to market which is also
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something that we all need in our lives asap right now yep well a new challenger
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has suddenly appeared huawei has reportedly thrown its hat into the ring
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they don't just want to release their own device but they also want to beat samsung to the punch it's continuously
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been looking like samsung would be the first out of the gate but rumors have
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been swirling that huawei's foldable phone could appear as soon as early next
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year with huawei ceo richard yu confirming that such advice is less than
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a year away he went on to discuss the possibility of a fold-out device that
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could serve as a replacement for a traditional pc monitor
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a little far-fetched though we may have to wait a while to see how that story
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unfolds can you imagine having a pc where the
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monitor just falls out oh we have that that's a laptop oh
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well if you're a sucker for retro gaming you'll probably be interested in these
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first glance they look nearly identical to the original nes controllers from the
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course this also means they won't be compatible with every switch game as
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some need the additional buttons and analog sticks and infrared sensors and
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vehicles attachments
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for games they're meant to be used with a library
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of 20 nes games that will soon be appearing on nintendo switch online and
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they aren't cheap either with two of them costing 59.99 usd the d stands for
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dollars james the the same price is an entire nes classic but i somehow have
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little doubt enough people will still be lining up to fork over their money
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it's time for quick bits there's an old saying that you'll catch more flies with
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honey than with vinegar i've never heard it but and ah damn it i need to do that
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again there's an old saying that you'll catch more flies with honey than with
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vinegar i've never heard it but apparently Linus no not our Linus but
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the creator of Linux Linus created Linux yeah no not not our Linux not our Linux
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the other one the creator of Linux Linus finally appears to have gotten it as
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Linus torvalds has stated he's taking a break from maintaining the Linux kernel
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and apologize for his vulgar tirades against other Linux developers tolvard's
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torovalds
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torvald's behavior has been infamous in the Linux community for some time even
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dismissing politeness as an american concept
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really though like manners weren't a thing before 1776
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apparently were you there no that's when america that's when america
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broke out from pangaea some amazon employees might be in hot
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water after reports revealed that some of them were accepting bribes from
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amazon marketplace sellers to delete negative reviews and pass along
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reviewers contact information the bribes are reportedly more prevalent in china
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due to workers having lower salaries it's unclear how many marketplace
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sellers have engaged in bribery but it may explain why some of their shipping
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costs are so darn high but there's some better news on the
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amazon front too especially for residents of the windy city
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the first amazon go location outside of seattle just opened up in the chicago
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loop that's what the windy city refers to
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as part of a larger push to get the cashier-less stores into more major
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urban markets unfortunately it's not open on weekends but i bet they could
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still make a killing during the lunch hour if they started offering grab-and-go deep dish pizza
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is that a chicago thing this deep dish is that i thought new
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york had the pizza i'm perplexed i
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that's i'm the constant state of perplexity 15 european countries and
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dependencies along with washington state in the us have signed off on a
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declaration to crack down on illicit gambling centered around video games
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specifically the loot box problem the declaration also stated the game
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developers are responsible for making sure their features do not run afoul of
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gambling laws and although the statement does not have the force of law it's a
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signal we may see a number of jurisdictions pass actual restrictions
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well that sound sounded like a wrap with similar effects to each other in
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the near future imagine telling someone 10 years ago that governments were
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legislating how you unlock content NVIDIA games i just thought that was
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i just thought that was interesting you know
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and if you live in the u.s keep an eye on your smartphones for a presidential
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alert on wednesday october 3rd as fema will push out a national emergency alert
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test the idea and it's a great idea is
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to give the president the ability to reach the entire country quickly if
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there's a major event of national impact but the white house hasn't indicated
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whether they might also use the system to send out particularly spicy tweets i
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hope this comes at like three in the morning you up
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that's our show for today so come back on wednesday for more spicy tech news
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that won't give you heartburn unless you have a bad reaction to eating
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