This is something I don't think Microsoft really gets.
*Proceeds to write a list of things that user thinks is missing that Windows 10 still has*
Seriously just because you can swipe from the right to get up an action center, or long touch the screen to bring up a menu that is more spaced than when you right click doesn't mean the OS is any less keyboard and mouse driven.
Your list of complaints look perfectly served by Windows 10.
*posted from a windows 10 PC using a keyboard and mouse while thoroughly confused about what it is you're complaining about.
Well, it is somewhat arbitrary. Nvidia tends to release the fastest cards first, within a few weeks.
Precisely my point: You haven't seen the range of cards released in this generation so how do you know which one is high / mid / low range if you're only going by price without seeing the price *range*.
But to return the question, what exactly makes a product high end to you?
I gave a rough definition of what I consider high-end: A product without mass market appeal with a technical sub feature that is unique and not widely used. Given that NVIDIA have come out and said that they will be releasing non-raytracing cards, given AMD have said that their next generation will not support raytracing, and given that all leaks point to a second xx60 series card being released alongside the RTX 2060, I currently consider the entire RTX line high-end.
I fully agree the GTX 1060 was mid-end. However I also acknowledge that this card is about to be split in two, one for a niche gamer and one which will almost certainly be more affordable.
It's a live action anime adaption from a Japanese Manga. Though I use the terms "live action" quite loosely for what seems to be the worst case of uncanny valley CGI ever produced. *shudder*
What is connecting to a surgical center? A fancy city fibre? Where is it? In a nice city hospital serving a population of Chicago? In a mobile platform dragged to Namibia? At the arse end of the Scott Base Station in Antarctica?
If the station was as "fixed" as you say it is, your surgeon is not likely to be be operating quite so remotely from you.
No. Apple was pummeled for not giving users a choice in the matter.
Also no not every phone shuts down with high CPU usage on old batteries. Only ones that were designed up near the current limit of a good battery in the first place. Apple is wonderfully over represented here primarily because it produces high performance phones.
By the way your argument sounds familiar. The iPhone 4 also didn't have a problem because a blackberry was also able to drop calls when Steve Jobs held it wrong on stage.
Isolated virtual machine running Windows XP behind 3 firewalls installed only in RAM, and when you're done throw out the RAM sticks. Alternatively burn the building down. Safety first.
I remember a lot of articles around the time they confirmed the Higgs Boson that the practical limits for physics by smashing things had been achieved, that future discoveries required so many orders of magnitude more energy that building a collider that is 10x or even 100x the size of the LHC wouldn't produce any new meaningful results. That same article (which I can't find now) said that explore the next stage of particle physics would effectively need a collider spanning around the equator and would never be buildable.
Can someone with more knowledge on this say what they intend to actually use this thing for?
And yet you have a small portion of the final release to make your claim on. The logical extension of your steps are: The RTX2070 was a "low end" card up until last week. The GTX1080Ti was magically demoted from high end to "mid tier" due to the release of faster products.
but if a GPU has only half of the computing power of the top model, I usually consider it midrange
Do you include the Titan in your arbitrary definition? I guess the RTX2080 is midrange too.
Raytracing appears not (yet?) to make for outright superior graphics.
That is quite obviously wrong in every way both in theory and in practice when you look at the actual results. The remaining valid question is if the obviously superior graphics are worth the performance hit and cost of the new hardware.
Except that they *haven't* handled it "just fine for years". If it had been, then "idiots" wouldn't have been going around saying that they needed to micromanage their device.
No they literally have. "idiots" saying that people need to micromanage the device kind of says it all. Only "idiots" say that. The reality is there are plenty of articles out there and studies that show killing background apps actually consumes MORE battery due to the OS unloading it from cache as a result. But like a lot of IT things when dumbed down to a level where lifehacker.com will write a shitty article about it, actual logic does not apply.
There are plenty of examples of random apps that run uncontrolled background processes that utterly destroy battery life.
Yeah random apps do. Usually those loaded with malware. Pretty much never any of the apps you find the majority of devices actually running. Surprise!
Having background processes killed automatically is the expected result of developers not doing a good enough job of handling the process management themselves.
Except developers do this just fine. Just because bitcoin mining malware exists do you expect windows to kill every process that isn't currently showing an icon in the taskbar? No that would be as stupid as it sounds.
Why is it that iOS doesn't have this problem?
iOS DOES have that problem. There's just as many articles and false advice about closing shit on iOS as there is on Android. Hell the whole practice of turning half the features of your phone off for perceived battery life started with iOS as did the notion of having to manually close apps from the task view.
Know why people don't micromanage apps on iOS? They can't, and let's face it there's less actual malware on the App Store. But the sad reality is you pick a random phone on the street and you're almost certain to not find a background task running where killing it would somehow benefit the battery without actively removing a function the user depends on, save for occasional malware.
Now when was the last time you defragmented your RAM? Programs for that exist so it must be necessary to do right?
This summary does a very good job at making a $2 per month price increase appear very dramatic.
I see you've taken the boiled frog approach. At what point does the continuous slow increase in price to justify the constant production of content no one wants while at the same time gutting the movie library available start being dramatic to you? Are you happy for a $2 price increase for every 200 movies removed from the library?
Netflix seems to forget the reason it exists is because people were fed up from every fucking cable company locking down and producing its own content.
Only in China would anyone even dream of doing something this idiotic.
Animal testing before human testing? Remote surgery which has been something that has been explored globally for 20+ years? Using wireless for situations where wires aren't available? Testing wireless before rolling it out?
Help me here, I'm struggling how conducting a technology PoC is so incredibly "idiotic".
This cannot be reiterated enough. Those people comparing a casting choice to a mechanic such as respawning as in a lot of the comments here have most fundamentally and colossally missed the point.
Also excuse double post but AMD have already stated Navi won't do ray tracing. Even when they come out I wouldn't expect NVIDIA to move their pricing on a "unique" product.
And yet the RTX line includes a feature set that is a premium currently only capable of being used in 1 game and doesn't have a competition. You are hung up on model numbers completely ignoring that the RTX 2060 is NOT the replacement for the GTX 1060. There's a lot of evidence to show that a GTX1160 is coming out.
How many additional models do they need to release for your arbitrary "one or two models below" to be considered high end?
The pricing wasn't NVIDIA's issue. The performance was. You could see that from the onset with their dishonest benchmark comparisons. When your first benchmark released shows obvious dishonesty you know the turd is about to be announced and don't really care about the price.
while they're playing a game where you can not only survive getting shot in the head, you can even keep fighting.
People will tend to love realism provided it is fun. Aesthetically there's a lot of realism in the game. There's also a lot of fun, such as the fact that you come back to life and get to play this game more than once.
Equating a purely aesthetic design decision with one of a core gameplay mechanic required to make something fun is absolutely asinine. You'll find most players are perfectly happy with more than 1 life, but would also like their guns to somehow behave and look like they would in real life. Likewise a tank spawning out of thin air is quite agreeable, whereas one would expect they don't drive like a Ferrari and can still be destroyed with a decently placed mine.
Hollywood needs to move on from the superhero genre entirely.
Hollywood is a big place which churns out lots of big movies. If the couple of superhero movies that come out every year is troubling to you I suggest you actually look at yourself and how it is you actually find out which movies are being released.
Rotten tomatoes: Movies released this week: 5, zero superhero movies. Upcoming movies: 32 movies to the end of feb, zero superhero movies. https://www.rottentomatoes.com...
They also tried to avoid copy and paste, and any form of multitasking. That doesn't make it right.
Once you allow apps to run in the background, more and more apps want to do that and the bottom line is that the phone is busy all the time and sucks your battery dry and nobody knows why.
Except that's not the issue here. There are many legitimate reasons to have to run in the background. There's also the reality that Android manages this just fine. The problem is the users thinking because they see something they expect that there is automatically a drain on their system. Then after spending an entire day in a low service zone, or staring at their own screen they see their battery hasn't lasted and then attempt to find a witch to drown.
Marketing this incorrectly has resulted in an expectation for a shiny interface that says it's doing some killing (along with the many apps that you can download for this purpose, stupidly enough many of which will offer a widget which... runs in the background).
It's user ignorance, driven by media, causing marketing departments to ask engineering for stupidity.
There are no hacks needed. There hasn't been for 5+ years. Now don't forget to defragment your RAM so your computer runs faster.
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NO cellphone is worth $1500!
Ironically no one sells a cellphone anymore. Who the hell uses a cellphone anyway. I prefer to talk into a pocket computer.
This is something I don't think Microsoft really gets.
*Proceeds to write a list of things that user thinks is missing that Windows 10 still has*
Seriously just because you can swipe from the right to get up an action center, or long touch the screen to bring up a menu that is more spaced than when you right click doesn't mean the OS is any less keyboard and mouse driven.
Your list of complaints look perfectly served by Windows 10.
*posted from a windows 10 PC using a keyboard and mouse while thoroughly confused about what it is you're complaining about.
Well, it is somewhat arbitrary. Nvidia tends to release the fastest cards first, within a few weeks.
Precisely my point: You haven't seen the range of cards released in this generation so how do you know which one is high / mid / low range if you're only going by price without seeing the price *range*.
But to return the question, what exactly makes a product high end to you?
I gave a rough definition of what I consider high-end: A product without mass market appeal with a technical sub feature that is unique and not widely used. Given that NVIDIA have come out and said that they will be releasing non-raytracing cards, given AMD have said that their next generation will not support raytracing, and given that all leaks point to a second xx60 series card being released alongside the RTX 2060, I currently consider the entire RTX line high-end.
I fully agree the GTX 1060 was mid-end. However I also acknowledge that this card is about to be split in two, one for a niche gamer and one which will almost certainly be more affordable.
It's a live action anime adaption from a Japanese Manga. Though I use the terms "live action" quite loosely for what seems to be the worst case of uncanny valley CGI ever produced. *shudder*
Your connecting a surgical center, not a phone.
What is connecting to a surgical center? A fancy city fibre? Where is it? In a nice city hospital serving a population of Chicago? In a mobile platform dragged to Namibia? At the arse end of the Scott Base Station in Antarctica?
If the station was as "fixed" as you say it is, your surgeon is not likely to be be operating quite so remotely from you.
No. Apple was pummeled for not giving users a choice in the matter.
Also no not every phone shuts down with high CPU usage on old batteries. Only ones that were designed up near the current limit of a good battery in the first place. Apple is wonderfully over represented here primarily because it produces high performance phones.
By the way your argument sounds familiar. The iPhone 4 also didn't have a problem because a blackberry was also able to drop calls when Steve Jobs held it wrong on stage.
Isolated virtual machine running Windows XP behind 3 firewalls installed only in RAM, and when you're done throw out the RAM sticks. Alternatively burn the building down. Safety first.
I remember a lot of articles around the time they confirmed the Higgs Boson that the practical limits for physics by smashing things had been achieved, that future discoveries required so many orders of magnitude more energy that building a collider that is 10x or even 100x the size of the LHC wouldn't produce any new meaningful results. That same article (which I can't find now) said that explore the next stage of particle physics would effectively need a collider spanning around the equator and would never be buildable.
Can someone with more knowledge on this say what they intend to actually use this thing for?
So, where do i go if i want a browser with flash support.
The STD clinic. Your computer is infected.
My "steps below" are mostly based on performance
And yet you have a small portion of the final release to make your claim on. The logical extension of your steps are: The RTX2070 was a "low end" card up until last week. The GTX1080Ti was magically demoted from high end to "mid tier" due to the release of faster products.
but if a GPU has only half of the computing power of the top model, I usually consider it midrange
Do you include the Titan in your arbitrary definition? I guess the RTX2080 is midrange too.
Raytracing appears not (yet?) to make for outright superior graphics.
That is quite obviously wrong in every way both in theory and in practice when you look at the actual results. The remaining valid question is if the obviously superior graphics are worth the performance hit and cost of the new hardware.
Except that they *haven't* handled it "just fine for years". If it had been, then "idiots" wouldn't have been going around saying that they needed to micromanage their device.
No they literally have. "idiots" saying that people need to micromanage the device kind of says it all. Only "idiots" say that. The reality is there are plenty of articles out there and studies that show killing background apps actually consumes MORE battery due to the OS unloading it from cache as a result. But like a lot of IT things when dumbed down to a level where lifehacker.com will write a shitty article about it, actual logic does not apply.
There are plenty of examples of random apps that run uncontrolled background processes that utterly destroy battery life.
Yeah random apps do. Usually those loaded with malware. Pretty much never any of the apps you find the majority of devices actually running. Surprise!
Having background processes killed automatically is the expected result of developers not doing a good enough job of handling the process management themselves.
Except developers do this just fine. Just because bitcoin mining malware exists do you expect windows to kill every process that isn't currently showing an icon in the taskbar? No that would be as stupid as it sounds.
Why is it that iOS doesn't have this problem?
iOS DOES have that problem. There's just as many articles and false advice about closing shit on iOS as there is on Android. Hell the whole practice of turning half the features of your phone off for perceived battery life started with iOS as did the notion of having to manually close apps from the task view.
Know why people don't micromanage apps on iOS? They can't, and let's face it there's less actual malware on the App Store. But the sad reality is you pick a random phone on the street and you're almost certain to not find a background task running where killing it would somehow benefit the battery without actively removing a function the user depends on, save for occasional malware.
Now when was the last time you defragmented your RAM? Programs for that exist so it must be necessary to do right?
This summary does a very good job at making a $2 per month price increase appear very dramatic.
I see you've taken the boiled frog approach. At what point does the continuous slow increase in price to justify the constant production of content no one wants while at the same time gutting the movie library available start being dramatic to you? Are you happy for a $2 price increase for every 200 movies removed from the library?
Netflix seems to forget the reason it exists is because people were fed up from every fucking cable company locking down and producing its own content.
Only in China would anyone even dream of doing something this idiotic.
Animal testing before human testing?
Remote surgery which has been something that has been explored globally for 20+ years?
Using wireless for situations where wires aren't available?
Testing wireless before rolling it out?
Help me here, I'm struggling how conducting a technology PoC is so incredibly "idiotic".
This cannot be reiterated enough. Those people comparing a casting choice to a mechanic such as respawning as in a lot of the comments here have most fundamentally and colossally missed the point.
Also excuse double post but AMD have already stated Navi won't do ray tracing. Even when they come out I wouldn't expect NVIDIA to move their pricing on a "unique" product.
And yet the RTX line includes a feature set that is a premium currently only capable of being used in 1 game and doesn't have a competition. You are hung up on model numbers completely ignoring that the RTX 2060 is NOT the replacement for the GTX 1060. There's a lot of evidence to show that a GTX1160 is coming out.
How many additional models do they need to release for your arbitrary "one or two models below" to be considered high end?
The pricing wasn't NVIDIA's issue. The performance was. You could see that from the onset with their dishonest benchmark comparisons. When your first benchmark released shows obvious dishonesty you know the turd is about to be announced and don't really care about the price.
so why so much hate on that point?
Don't worry there's enough hate to go around.
1. Poor choice of operation.
2. Crap game decision.
3. Stupid casting decision.
4. Main character portrayed as a Mary Sue.
while they're playing a game where you can not only survive getting shot in the head, you can even keep fighting.
People will tend to love realism provided it is fun. Aesthetically there's a lot of realism in the game. There's also a lot of fun, such as the fact that you come back to life and get to play this game more than once.
Equating a purely aesthetic design decision with one of a core gameplay mechanic required to make something fun is absolutely asinine. You'll find most players are perfectly happy with more than 1 life, but would also like their guns to somehow behave and look like they would in real life. Likewise a tank spawning out of thin air is quite agreeable, whereas one would expect they don't drive like a Ferrari and can still be destroyed with a decently placed mine.
Can you show me how many soldiers in WWII respawned? because that's the message EA was trying to push with BF V...
Sorry but strawman. A core mechanic required to make a game playable is quite different from an aesthetic choice about realism.
It's an unrealistic game!
But is it supposed to be? For an unrealistic game they certainly put a lot of effort into realism.
Sure, but I prefer to use the internet and not micromanage it.
Hollywood needs to move on from the superhero genre entirely.
Hollywood is a big place which churns out lots of big movies. If the couple of superhero movies that come out every year is troubling to you I suggest you actually look at yourself and how it is you actually find out which movies are being released.
Rotten tomatoes:
Movies released this week: 5, zero superhero movies.
Upcoming movies:
32 movies to the end of feb, zero superhero movies.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com...
The Avengers was crap.
And yet viewers and critics thinks it's awesome.
But I get it. Everyone here is batshit-crazy except for me and thee, and I'm not quite sure about thee either.
...that Apple tried to avoid to begin with in iOS
They also tried to avoid copy and paste, and any form of multitasking. That doesn't make it right.
Once you allow apps to run in the background, more and more apps want to do that and the bottom line is that the phone is busy all the time and sucks your battery dry and nobody knows why.
Except that's not the issue here. There are many legitimate reasons to have to run in the background. There's also the reality that Android manages this just fine. The problem is the users thinking because they see something they expect that there is automatically a drain on their system. Then after spending an entire day in a low service zone, or staring at their own screen they see their battery hasn't lasted and then attempt to find a witch to drown.
Marketing this incorrectly has resulted in an expectation for a shiny interface that says it's doing some killing (along with the many apps that you can download for this purpose, stupidly enough many of which will offer a widget which ... runs in the background).
It's user ignorance, driven by media, causing marketing departments to ask engineering for stupidity.
There are no hacks needed. There hasn't been for 5+ years. Now don't forget to defragment your RAM so your computer runs faster.