Here in Sweden I enjoy a proper unlimited plan. Sure it's about $60 a month, but I regularly use 100-200 GB monthly with no issues at good speeds (10-20 mbit). I can also purchase additional data sim cards for ~$3 / piece monthly that connect to the same plan, which is a reasonable price. I have one for the wife, one for a 4g router in the summer house, one for an overnight apartment I stay at for work sometimes. It's sooo worth it not having to worry about usage at all.
Had the same issue on my phone. Turned out to be a collection of pocket lint in the connector. After using a needle to pull out some dust from the connector it stuck securely and charged fine again.
I've been trying linux on my Macbook Pro (2015) the last month or two, and I can only agree. It has a ton of quirks. I was getting a bit tired of doing some scripted fixes for all kinds of weird errors, bad webcam quality, random 100% cpu worker threads that needed some/sys/ fiddling and whatnot. Forget changing BIOS stuff:). I felt that if linux needed this much hands-on fixes, it wasn't really for me.
But then I installed it on another desktop PC I wasn't using. Really none of the above issues appeared, everything worked flawlessly. With the macbook pro current hardware (touchbars, no ports, overheating issues, crappy keyboard and such) I wouldn't recommend anyone using a macbook for linux, there are plenty of better options available.
Worth noting is that is scored 88 in DxOMark, which puts it in a split first position together with Samsung Galaxy S7. Seems they really delivered on the camera: http://www.dxomark.com/Mobiles
I've seen some nice advances in the field lately, like the ones in this TED talk. I understood that this was a first implementation of this technology, but you're saying it's more the old "wire a low resolution light sensor directly to the optic nerve and see what happens" that people have been doing for years?
How true. I was involved in a project to create a "rich multimedia application" for WebOS back just before they killed it. Some usage of hardware just made the entire thing a nightmare. Built in video playback, for example - Took 2+ seconds to load a short video clip, screen flickered while you did, video playback didn't care about device orientation, and the controls were limited to "play" and "stop" (no pause, no seeking, no looping and so on.. well you COULD loop a clip, if you didn't mind another 2 seconds stall/flicker when the video restarted). Similar issues surfaced on most other hardware interfacing we tried as well.
Maybe it could have been fixed in later versions, but overall it just felt terribly unpolished. Good ideas, bad implementation.
I don't use apple products because I don't believe in their "walled garden" philosophy.
I hear this argument a lot, and it still doesn't make sense. iOS has a walled garden approach, sure, but the majority of Apple products are Macs. We're not discussing iPhones here.
OS X have major parts of the OS as open source, you have as much "tinkering" control over your computer as most other linux flavors, you are free to download and install software from where ever you want, Apple has no control of what you can run or can remotely uninstall / block or in other ways control what you do, there are great (free) tools and API-documentation for development and so on. Where exactly is this tightly controlled walled garden?
Smoke + a few projectors? Wasn't this done in something like the 50's?
I like this approach more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfVS-npfVuY
Basically, they use lasers to excite atoms in the air in the room, creating small glowing plasma balls as pixels. Not by far ready for any commercial use (seems to be able to "draw" someting like 20 pixels per second), but at least it's "true" 3D projected in mid-air without smoke or mirrors.
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Here in Sweden I enjoy a proper unlimited plan. Sure it's about $60 a month, but I regularly use 100-200 GB monthly with no issues at good speeds (10-20 mbit). I can also purchase additional data sim cards for ~$3 / piece monthly that connect to the same plan, which is a reasonable price. I have one for the wife, one for a 4g router in the summer house, one for an overnight apartment I stay at for work sometimes. It's sooo worth it not having to worry about usage at all.
Had the same issue on my phone. Turned out to be a collection of pocket lint in the connector. After using a needle to pull out some dust from the connector it stuck securely and charged fine again.
I've been trying linux on my Macbook Pro (2015) the last month or two, and I can only agree. It has a ton of quirks. I was getting a bit tired of doing some scripted fixes for all kinds of weird errors, bad webcam quality, random 100% cpu worker threads that needed some /sys/ fiddling and whatnot. Forget changing BIOS stuff :). I felt that if linux needed this much hands-on fixes, it wasn't really for me.
But then I installed it on another desktop PC I wasn't using. Really none of the above issues appeared, everything worked flawlessly. With the macbook pro current hardware (touchbars, no ports, overheating issues, crappy keyboard and such) I wouldn't recommend anyone using a macbook for linux, there are plenty of better options available.
If you're wondering, this stands for Pen Pineapple Apple Pen Internals.
Worth noting is that is scored 88 in DxOMark, which puts it in a split first position together with Samsung Galaxy S7. Seems they really delivered on the camera: http://www.dxomark.com/Mobiles
I've seen some nice advances in the field lately, like the ones in this TED talk. I understood that this was a first implementation of this technology, but you're saying it's more the old "wire a low resolution light sensor directly to the optic nerve and see what happens" that people have been doing for years?
How true. I was involved in a project to create a "rich multimedia application" for WebOS back just before they killed it. Some usage of hardware just made the entire thing a nightmare. Built in video playback, for example - Took 2+ seconds to load a short video clip, screen flickered while you did, video playback didn't care about device orientation, and the controls were limited to "play" and "stop" (no pause, no seeking, no looping and so on.. well you COULD loop a clip, if you didn't mind another 2 seconds stall/flicker when the video restarted). Similar issues surfaced on most other hardware interfacing we tried as well. Maybe it could have been fixed in later versions, but overall it just felt terribly unpolished. Good ideas, bad implementation.
I don't use apple products because I don't believe in their "walled garden" philosophy.
I hear this argument a lot, and it still doesn't make sense. iOS has a walled garden approach, sure, but the majority of Apple products are Macs. We're not discussing iPhones here. OS X have major parts of the OS as open source, you have as much "tinkering" control over your computer as most other linux flavors, you are free to download and install software from where ever you want, Apple has no control of what you can run or can remotely uninstall / block or in other ways control what you do, there are great (free) tools and API-documentation for development and so on. Where exactly is this tightly controlled walled garden?
Smoke + a few projectors? Wasn't this done in something like the 50's? I like this approach more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfVS-npfVuY Basically, they use lasers to excite atoms in the air in the room, creating small glowing plasma balls as pixels. Not by far ready for any commercial use (seems to be able to "draw" someting like 20 pixels per second), but at least it's "true" 3D projected in mid-air without smoke or mirrors.
Indeed, things usually take a turn for the worse when a pissed of Jean Claude Van Damme comes knocking on your door.