Nope, it really is that slow. The WSJ video states 5-10 minutes for a shirt, or 3-6 hours for a 40 shirt bin.
Definitely a first-gen product, but hopefully in 10 years, they'll be a third the size and 3-4x the speed (fast enough to keep up with the washer/dryer).
Apparently it can fold t-shirts, button down shirts, pajamas, towels, and shorts/pants in a mixed load. No mention of dresses in there... most of those get hung up anyway.
Side note, long pressing the gear on the Google keyboard gives you the option to reduce its size and move it to the left or right so you can use it one handed on a larger phone. An extremely useful feature.
Jesus, what did they do? Specifically design that thing as a lever to break itself or your USB-C port?
That long-ass "stem" has absolutely no purpose except to make this thing more dangerous to have in your computer if you might move it or be around anything that might move.
How about the Asus Zenpad S 8? https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Ze... 8" IPS Display (2048 x 1536) with ASUS TruVivid technology for better visual experience Intel Atom Z3530 Super Quad-Core, 64bit, 1.3GHz 2G RAM, 32G Onboard Storage 5M/2M Dual Camera; 1 x microSD Card slot, support up to 128GB SDHC Android 6.0 Marshmallow
Powered by the NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor, featuring a 192-core NVIDIA Kepler GPU and 2.2 GHz quad-core CPU. Full HD 1080p, 8-inch display, and dual-front facing speakers for incredible video and sound. MicroSD slot provides expandable storage up to 128 GB.
I bet the cell manufacturers don't pay more than $4-5 for the current Lipos in our phones in bulk. That would be more like $6-7.50 for a LiFePo4 cell. But it would have to be 25-30% larger for the same capacity as well.
No idea why NO manufacturers are willing to do this though.
KDE is still my DE of choice for Linux machines. They lost their way around the 4.0-4.6 release, but KDE 5 has been quite good for me.
Dolphin is much better than it used to be as well. When that came out I was in the Konqueror4Life group, but honestly, they've done a very good job with it. For instance, in Konq I would have to head up to the menus to load a profile to emulate midnight commander, but in Dolphin they've conveniently put a split button right on top. And you can still add extensions easily with the download new services menu. It's a simplified version of what I used from Konq, but there's still more to it than I ever use. Still don't like it as much as Konq? Well, you can still use Konq for file management, they didn't take that away.
Same with things like the K menu. They've spiffed it up, but I don't really like the fancy new sliding/scrolling thing. No problem, right click->alternatives->pick your behavior.
Or the Control panel. Don't like it icon based? Configure->tree view.
I like KDE mainly because I can set it up EXACTLY how I like it, not how someone else does. And they don't seem overeager to go for the lowest common denominator by throwing out things people like.
For consumer products, recall participation by consumers is often as low as 10%, for cars the numbers are 15-70%, depending how much publicity the issue has received.
For instance, for the GM ignition switch recall that was all over the news for a LONG time, GM has been touting a 70% participation rate. That means 30% of the cars which could lock your steering wheel at speed and kill you are still on the road in that state in spite of a free fix from the manufacturer.
Wow, what a waste of space. They could have used that space to put in... a headphone jack.
I mean, my phone has a standard dinky vibration motor setup inside, but the slight vibration on hitting the capacitive home button works perfectly for feedback.
Apple takes away the headphone jack (truly useful) and puts in... a fancier vibrator? I'll leave the jokes about that to your imagination.
Just because it's a product, on Slashdot, doesn't mean it's an advertisement.
Someone finally making an ultraportable with solid Linux support out of the box (and the hardware IS different from the Windows version, for example the wifi card they swapped has excellent open source driver support) is certainly relevant to MY interests.
You pretty much describe my Android FF performance experience in one shot.
It also gets into some kind of javascript loop a lot where it will stop responding.
And of course there's the dreaded blurry scrolldown thing. Something with the way it caches the rendered page, you scroll down and everything is blurry and you have to sit there and wait 5-20 seconds for it to suddenly render it properly.
I also have a "low" 2 gigs of RAM (Nexus 5).
Oh, and my favorite pet peeve: in the tab list if you close the bottom-most tab, the "undo" popup covers the close button on the next tab if the title is under a certain length. So when I close two related tabs, I find myself closing then reopening the last tab I just closed with annoying regularity. Possibly one of the dumbest UI choices I've ever seen.
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You know, or just buy a different brand because Android.
We aren't all limited to one handset manufacturer.
Why live forever at your current age, when you could live forever at a younger one?
*Some cause some side effects to society
NOx gases react to form smog and acid rain as well as being central to the formation of tropospheric ozone.
--Wikipedia
6 hours is 360 minutes.
It can fold a pile in minutes... 360 minutes :)
Nope, it really is that slow. The WSJ video states 5-10 minutes for a shirt, or 3-6 hours for a 40 shirt bin.
Definitely a first-gen product, but hopefully in 10 years, they'll be a third the size and 3-4x the speed (fast enough to keep up with the washer/dryer).
Apparently it can fold t-shirts, button down shirts, pajamas, towels, and shorts/pants in a mixed load. No mention of dresses in there... most of those get hung up anyway.
Like car dealerships!
It's already out, it's called the Model X.
SUV is the new minivan and has been for 15 years.
Side note, long pressing the gear on the Google keyboard gives you the option to reduce its size and move it to the left or right so you can use it one handed on a larger phone. An extremely useful feature.
More here:
http://www.howtogeek.com/25343...
In the past, we've been adding more CO2, each year-on-year, than in each previous year.
Now, we have three consecutive years where we are adding the same amount, not more than each previous year.
Total atmospheric CO2 is still increasing, but the increase has stopped being a curve and is currently a straight line.
The Razerblade Stealth doesn't have an SD card slot either, or ethernet built in (just on the world's largest dongle).
"The Macs will eventually ship with only 1 USB port, with Apple telling customers to just get adapters, etc. "
Hasn't this already happened?
https://www.cnet.com/news/how-...
Jesus, what did they do? Specifically design that thing as a lever to break itself or your USB-C port?
That long-ass "stem" has absolutely no purpose except to make this thing more dangerous to have in your computer if you might move it or be around anything that might move.
https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Ze...
How about the Asus Zenpad S 8?
https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Ze...
8" IPS Display (2048 x 1536) with ASUS TruVivid technology for better visual experience
Intel Atom Z3530 Super Quad-Core, 64bit, 1.3GHz
2G RAM, 32G Onboard Storage
5M/2M Dual Camera; 1 x microSD Card slot, support up to 128GB SDHC
Android 6.0 Marshmallow
Or the Nvidia Shield K1
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017...
Powered by the NVIDIA Tegra K1 processor, featuring a 192-core NVIDIA Kepler GPU and 2.2 GHz quad-core CPU.
Full HD 1080p, 8-inch display, and dual-front facing speakers for incredible video and sound.
MicroSD slot provides expandable storage up to 128 GB.
They don't really seem to be 4x as expensive (though the capacity loss is real).
For instance, a 30 second search on Hobby King:
Turnigy 2200 mah 3S Lipo pack, $10
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobby...
Zippy 2100 mah 3S LiFePO4 pack, $15.60
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobby...
I bet the cell manufacturers don't pay more than $4-5 for the current Lipos in our phones in bulk. That would be more like $6-7.50 for a LiFePo4 cell. But it would have to be 25-30% larger for the same capacity as well.
No idea why NO manufacturers are willing to do this though.
KDE is still my DE of choice for Linux machines. They lost their way around the 4.0-4.6 release, but KDE 5 has been quite good for me.
Dolphin is much better than it used to be as well. When that came out I was in the Konqueror4Life group, but honestly, they've done a very good job with it. For instance, in Konq I would have to head up to the menus to load a profile to emulate midnight commander, but in Dolphin they've conveniently put a split button right on top. And you can still add extensions easily with the download new services menu. It's a simplified version of what I used from Konq, but there's still more to it than I ever use. Still don't like it as much as Konq? Well, you can still use Konq for file management, they didn't take that away.
Same with things like the K menu. They've spiffed it up, but I don't really like the fancy new sliding/scrolling thing. No problem, right click->alternatives->pick your behavior.
Or the Control panel. Don't like it icon based? Configure->tree view.
I like KDE mainly because I can set it up EXACTLY how I like it, not how someone else does. And they don't seem overeager to go for the lowest common denominator by throwing out things people like.
Yes, this poor guy's mundane detail probably just cost him his life.
Brutal.
Opera jumped the shark for me :(
Vivaldi is what I'm browsing from (from the actual makers of Opera, not the Chinese company).
Just to further clarify:
For consumer products, recall participation by consumers is often as low as 10%, for cars the numbers are 15-70%, depending how much publicity the issue has received.
For instance, for the GM ignition switch recall that was all over the news for a LONG time, GM has been touting a 70% participation rate. That means 30% of the cars which could lock your steering wheel at speed and kill you are still on the road in that state in spite of a free fix from the manufacturer.
I bet Samsung's rate for this phone is 40-50%.
Can I run stuff with 3d acceleration? Like games?
Wow, what a waste of space. They could have used that space to put in... a headphone jack.
I mean, my phone has a standard dinky vibration motor setup inside, but the slight vibration on hitting the capacitive home button works perfectly for feedback.
Apple takes away the headphone jack (truly useful) and puts in... a fancier vibrator? I'll leave the jokes about that to your imagination.
It has more powerful hardware (i5 vs i3, 8gb RAM vs 4gb) and an more expensive wifi card with good OSS drivers?
Windows 7/8 don't (and won't) have full support for Kaby Lake.
So your only option for Kaby Lake-based systems aside from Windows 10 is... Linux.
Just because it's a product, on Slashdot, doesn't mean it's an advertisement.
Someone finally making an ultraportable with solid Linux support out of the box (and the hardware IS different from the Windows version, for example the wifi card they swapped has excellent open source driver support) is certainly relevant to MY interests.
Sam
You pretty much describe my Android FF performance experience in one shot.
It also gets into some kind of javascript loop a lot where it will stop responding.
And of course there's the dreaded blurry scrolldown thing. Something with the way it caches the rendered page, you scroll down and everything is blurry and you have to sit there and wait 5-20 seconds for it to suddenly render it properly.
I also have a "low" 2 gigs of RAM (Nexus 5).
Oh, and my favorite pet peeve: in the tab list if you close the bottom-most tab, the "undo" popup covers the close button on the next tab if the title is under a certain length. So when I close two related tabs, I find myself closing then reopening the last tab I just closed with annoying regularity. Possibly one of the dumbest UI choices I've ever seen.
I use Firefox on Android.
It is a Crap browser with a capital "C" there. Inferior to Chrome in every way but one: you can install plugins.
uBlock Origin on Android? Yes, please.
I know, I know, I should root and install a system-wide blocker... but rooting is a hassle :-/