I meant the phones, to be clear. And it's sad their suckness are spreading to Android phones (batteries, sacrificing key features for other features people didn't asked for, jagged screens, etc). Hopefully there are still enough concurrency so someone will keep making decent enough phones.
In FPS games, VR is known to cause motion sickness, because the vision is moving but the body isn't, so the mind get confused. But in a 6DoF game like this one, the body wouldn't be moving at all even in a "real ship", so would this game still cause motion sickness in VR? I ask this because I think this game is BEGGING to be played on VR...
These liquid-state speed bumps will never survive real world conditions. Solid-state ones, since well designed, work just as well. They need to be sufficiently long (> 1.5 m) and have a sinusoidal shape. But looks like they're hard as hell to build and made of solid gold, because they're f*king hard to find.
But it should not be their decision but left at the hands of consumer.
I think this is the key of the discussion. It's not about throttling or QoS - it's about who controls it, and how.
It would be far better if Verizon offer a "QoS panel" where they even would left some throttling on by default, but leave in the user's hands the option to control it or even turn it off. The company would transform a big problem in an useful feature, especially in limited data plans, where the customers would actually want to control their own data usage.
Because I really can't live without the "queue" feature. I usually play my lists in random mode, but sometimes I'm in the mood for certain musics, so I just select them in the list and put them in the queue. After those are played, it goes back to random mode. Ah, and I can configure keyboard shortcuts for doing that pretty quickly and easy, so it doesn't break my "flow".
Some time ago I even did searched another player with similar feature but couldn't find. Any suggestions?
There are much more appliances that would benefit a lot from this kind of technology, like remote controls, wall clocks, wristwatches (non/lightly smart), e-readers, all kind of sensors, etc.
Oh no! This is the Spaguetti Monster of that church everyone thought was created for mockery, BUT NO, THEY WERE RIGHT ALL THIS TIME! WE'RE ALL DOOMED!!!
Looks like the workaround we used to use in FM radios back in the day, when reception was poor: a piece of steel wool in the antenna works like a charm!
I think this one differentiate from the rest in two aspects: first, this one looks much more production-ready than all the others I heard about (TFA says "has more charging cycles, supports fast charging, and isn’t prone to catch fire"). It may be necessary improve mechanical strength (the glass electrolyte can be too brittle for real world applications), maybe voltage or current throughput... what do you think? And second, this one is from the man that did it once before. For me, it's good enough (^^).
I bought a LG X Power to my mother as a gift some months ago. She couldn't be happier. I found it's a great phone for non-techies. All the positive points you mentioned are true.
1.5 GB of RAM means swapping between two apps is slow as hell. The phone is slow as hell because the CPU sucks.
Weird, the model I bought have 2 GB RAM, and has great performance. She uses a reasonable number of apps, and never closes them (just hit home), and everything runs smoothly.
720p.
OK for non-techies.
"too hot"
Never happened.
The only downside I have is about the camera. It has a just-OK quality, worst than most flagship phones, and the camera app has no option to change resolution, among other missing things.
I'm hoping 3D cinema are next to go. Yes, it was fun in Avatar and all, but nowadays it only makes everything fuzzy and dark. The last movie I watched in 3D was "Star Wars Rogue One", and I had no option for 2D (movie theaters here in Brazil are doing this dirty practice). In some scenes it was so dark I could barely see anything... I liked the movie, but 3D almost ruined it for me.
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IRS should just open-source it.
I meant the phones, to be clear.
And it's sad their suckness are spreading to Android phones (batteries, sacrificing key features for other features people didn't asked for, jagged screens, etc).
Hopefully there are still enough concurrency so someone will keep making decent enough phones.
They Suck.
Or transparent Faraday cages.
Knowing how to use things like slide rules still expands the mind, even if you never use them in practice.
Better expand the mind with things that will be used, not obsolete stuff.
In FPS games, VR is known to cause motion sickness, because the vision is moving but the body isn't, so the mind get confused.
But in a 6DoF game like this one, the body wouldn't be moving at all even in a "real ship", so would this game still cause motion sickness in VR?
I ask this because I think this game is BEGGING to be played on VR...
Then you're not the in the target public, just don't buy it.
... Overflow.
... the gargantuous, shark-shaped, zombifying alien AI!
Looks like He answered YES to all prayers in his computer again.
These liquid-state speed bumps will never survive real world conditions. Solid-state ones, since well designed, work just as well. They need to be sufficiently long (> 1.5 m) and have a sinusoidal shape.
But looks like they're hard as hell to build and made of solid gold, because they're f*king hard to find.
But it should not be their decision but left at the hands of consumer.
I think this is the key of the discussion. It's not about throttling or QoS - it's about who controls it, and how.
It would be far better if Verizon offer a "QoS panel" where they even would left some throttling on by default, but leave in the user's hands the option to control it or even turn it off. The company would transform a big problem in an useful feature, especially in limited data plans, where the customers would actually want to control their own data usage.
Ostensibly, it's a number ( in fact it's a homonym of googol, coined to mean 10^100)
Actually it's a mispelling of the word "googol" (http://graphics.stanford.edu/~dk/google_name_origin.html).
Because I really can't live without the "queue" feature. I usually play my lists in random mode, but sometimes I'm in the mood for certain musics, so I just select them in the list and put them in the queue. After those are played, it goes back to random mode. Ah, and I can configure keyboard shortcuts for doing that pretty quickly and easy, so it doesn't break my "flow".
Some time ago I even did searched another player with similar feature but couldn't find. Any suggestions?
There are much more appliances that would benefit a lot from this kind of technology, like remote controls, wall clocks, wristwatches (non/lightly smart), e-readers, all kind of sensors, etc.
Oh no! This is the Spaguetti Monster of that church everyone thought was created for mockery, BUT NO, THEY WERE RIGHT ALL THIS TIME! WE'RE ALL DOOMED!!!
...the company is ready to roll out a version of Windows 10 with extra """""security features"""""
FTFY.
Looks like the workaround we used to use in FM radios back in the day, when reception was poor: a piece of steel wool in the antenna works like a charm!
How they dare! City mayors must send them back to the traffic jams where they belong!
I think this one differentiate from the rest in two aspects: first, this one looks much more production-ready than all the others I heard about (TFA says "has more charging cycles, supports fast charging, and isn’t prone to catch fire"). It may be necessary improve mechanical strength (the glass electrolyte can be too brittle for real world applications), maybe voltage or current throughput... what do you think?
And second, this one is from the man that did it once before. For me, it's good enough (^^).
I bought a LG X Power to my mother as a gift some months ago. She couldn't be happier. I found it's a great phone for non-techies. All the positive points you mentioned are true.
1.5 GB of RAM means swapping between two apps is slow as hell. The phone is slow as hell because the CPU sucks.
Weird, the model I bought have 2 GB RAM, and has great performance. She uses a reasonable number of apps, and never closes them (just hit home), and everything runs smoothly.
720p.
OK for non-techies.
"too hot"
Never happened.
The only downside I have is about the camera. It has a just-OK quality, worst than most flagship phones, and the camera app has no option to change resolution, among other missing things.
The Death of the Clickbait, that's what this story is.
It's omitted in TFA, so I bet it have the same shitty lifetimes as all the other "revolutionary" new battery types that never ever reach the shelves.
I'm hoping 3D cinema are next to go.
Yes, it was fun in Avatar and all, but nowadays it only makes everything fuzzy and dark.
The last movie I watched in 3D was "Star Wars Rogue One", and I had no option for 2D (movie theaters here in Brazil are doing this dirty practice). In some scenes it was so dark I could barely see anything... I liked the movie, but 3D almost ruined it for me.
Like we always did with our glasses?