atomicbocks

This is largely because Xbox only exists because Bill Gates liked video games. Ballmer also liked video games and had been around under Gates so he was willing to float Xbox through the 360 era but the whole thing came out of Gates’ obsession with getting Microsoft into the living room in the late 90s. It was at least the 3rd attempt after Web TV/MSNBC and TiVo. The people who are left at MS don’t know how to deal with a passion project and only know how to take money out of things, this is the result.

It was a publicity stunt by his employer, a news network, to pay for a Japanese person to go to Mir.

Wait until you find out what they did to Ceres!!!

Only ED-Beta was capable of that and it wasn’t released until after TNG was on the air.

The GameBoy Advance had a 240x160 resolution and they released video carts for that. I wasn’t saying it was too low to see faces, just commenting on the technical details of TNG, etc.

TNG and DS9 (and early Voyager) episodes were mastered to Beta tapes which had a best case functional resolution of 280p. This is why the TNG Blu-ray’s took so much effort and why they haven’t done Blu-ray’s of DS9 or Voyager, there aren’t film masters to scan they have to be recreated from the original negatives.

I’m not doubting they exist, it sure looks cool. I’m just doubting it would stand up to a couple years where I’m from, and I don’t think that you would even need to stand on that to install solar panels anyway.

… that thing wouldn’t protect your car from shit where I’m from… that wouldn’t even protect your car from the sun except at like noon.

My parents just bought and installed a small off the shelf carport, it has its own built-in gutter system and the ability to hold 100s of pounds on its metal roof. Nobody is covering cars with plexiglass, that would literally defeat the purpose of having shade.

Where are you designing these that they don’t need to support hundreds of pounds of snow or rain, or stand up to hail?

Surely the React interface developed in just 6 months by a team consisting only of graphic designers and running in Edge Webview 2 on top of Windows 10 can’t be that bad…