Why do you think what you have to say is so important that I should drop everything and talk to you immediately? If I answer your call someone better be dieing.
This is a long-long-long way off with even mainstream high-end components if it ever happens at all. My point above was that if you have enough space in your RAM to store everything you need then your RAM is too slow or expensive. There will always be a faster bus or a new DDRx standard that's bleeding edge and would cost too much to support the increasing file sizes needed for modern programs. A cascade of buses decreasing in speed and cost will always be more efficient. The good news is that the time you wait *now* to move something between RAM to the CPU cache (another buffer in the cascade) will *eventually* be equal to the time you wait to move something from storage to RAM.
are we finally going to bridge that gap between storage and RAM so that everything is finally moving at bus speed or is that still the fevered dreams of ultra-systems-on-a-chip?
Why would you want that? There's multiple levels of busing for a reason. If you can access main storage at the same speed as RAM then either:
A) your main storage is too expensive or
B) your RAM is too slow
Either of these situations is ripe for optimization.
If some pre-existing "screen sharing" app were to suddenly incorporate a way to purchase applications and games to be remotely accessed by the screen sharing app, Apple would take a similar stance.
You mean like opening a browser within the screen sharing app and buying something that way? Is VNC banned on iPhones?
TFA shows a nice graph of their hardware sales by year. It's interesting to note that smartphone sales dominated until around 2015. Incidentally, 2015 was the year they came out with their first flagship phone featuring a fingerprint sensor (Xperia Z5). Smartphone sales started declining ever since. I wonder if it has anything to do with their moronic decision to limit fingerprint sensor functionality to the EU market only. It will be interesting to see how the Xperia XZ2 does considering it's the first flagship they've made to have a globally functional fingerprint sensor.
Same, in the past couple years my USPS guy has gotten in the habit of just not delivering on Saturday and then lieing on the tracking info so it shows "attempted delivery" or whatever bullshit.
Except in direct sunlight or at an angle at which point it reflects a certain greenish hue even when the screen is off. So much for the deep blacks.
when I use my OLED in bed at night, it's vastly superior to IPS.
At night your brightness would be on basically minimum at which point a good LCD will get pretty much completely black as well. LCDs are better than people give them credit for. Far too much hype over OLEDs which are far from perfect.
The lack of wireless charging is a deal breaker for me.... I used to be able to throw it into the car dock, have it start charging and launch Android Auto automatically.
Would have to be plugged in (charging) for android auto anyway...
Technically "disabling it" doesn't make the screen shorter, it just keeps the status bar background black around the notch. You don't get your full statusbar back, but yeah it's a stupid thing to complain about either way.
Aireon plans to use a constellation of 66 Iridium Communications. Next satellites... Iridium has 50 in orbit already... Iridium plans to launch five additional satellites on May 22 from California, completing its full network later this year.
I'm not sure you understand the issue then. It wasn't CA that people had a problem with, it was Facebook selling user data wholesale to external parties. This is vastly different than Google's business model and vastly more of a privacy problem. Facebook should have done the analysis for CA internally and only sold them the anonymized results.
Given the above reality... What does protest quitting Google do?
It shows management that if they want to keep their employees happy (regardless of US foreign policy realities), they might want to avoid military contracts.
And even if it did slow or shut down the US development of AI enhanced weapons, that would only give one of the other major powers an advantage. And since literally every single one of those powers is if anything more questionable in its ethics regarding war... What are you really doing here?
So they get an advantage when it comes to selecting targets in the middle of a desert to drone strike. Let them have it.
I get it. We don't live in an ideal world. This world has war. We kill each other on occasion. But that isn't going to stop. Idealism is a sad substitute for sound foreign policy.
Well then as long as there's war somewhere on earth we might as well blow up some Syrians.
I know that if I were sent into the fires of a war, I would want the best weapons my country could supply for me.
Good thing it's UAV operations we're talking about and not real pilots then.
I want to live in peace and security. And the only way that is going to happen on this planet short of submitting to enslavement... is to be formidable.
We're already extremely formidable when it comes to actual national defense. I think you're confusing that with foreign intervention. Are you really afraid the Ruskies are going to fly their drones to the US and take over due to their incredible AI that we didn't develop first? You sound like one of those people who keep like 8 assault rifles at home for "self defense, just in case". Living your life in fear can be more mentally damaging (and expensive) than taking a risk on someone robbing you (or invading your country).
It sounds like you don't really understand gambling addiction. It's a mental condition similar to alcoholism. I don't think we should outright ban it (or alcohol), but it's naive to dismiss those negatively affected by it saying "meh, no one put a gun to your head".
The problem is that there are very few good unlocked phones and they are very difficult to research. It is a major barrier.
Almost every carrier locked phone has an unlocked version you can get quite easily. Walk into best buy, find the phone you like, and if best buy doesn't sell the unlocked version (they probably do) then go buy it online.
I found the Huwaei phones which are great but you won't be able to get those in the US soon. These phones made it very simple. They are feature/spec parity with the flagship phones and are built very well. They work internationally and in the US.
No surprise they got banned. The two major carriers are very powerful in Washington DC.
You have no idea what you're talking about. By that logic OnePlus is next in line to get banned.
What? Lineage is basically stock android. Why is that not "mom-friendly"? Install F-droid on lineage and you're done. You answered your own question but kept on bitching.
So why don't you use eBay instead of Amazon? As a consumer I prefer Amazon because I don't want to deal directly with small businesses like yours. This is based on my experience buying from eBay vs Amazon. I think you may not be giving Amazon enough credit for the value they're providing to you.
I agree that Better Call Saul and Stranger Things are great Netflix shows, but The Expanse is actually a great Syfy show. Not sure where you got that one from.
He's not a businessman (or didn't start out as one) and "his idea" wasn't even his. He was a novice programmer who was doing work to implement someone else's idea and decided to just run with it himself. It was a smart move, but so far the only one I've seen from him.
2) Samsung is overpriced and underperforming. All of their products also come stocked with oodles of bloatware that can't be removed. Samsung has followed the trend of removing the headphone jack and SD card slot.
Sorry what? Their latest flagship is priced at just over 700 dollars. The pixel 2 XL started at 850, the iPhone X over 1000. Everyone expected it to be more, but it's pretty reasonable actually. You can easily mod (remove bloat from) the Exynos versions of the galaxy phones that are sold most everywhere throughout the world. The snapdragon variants for the US are locked down due to carrier agreements. Samsung has definitely not followed the trend of removing the headphone jack and SD slot. Not sure where you're getting that from since it's quite objectively 100% false.
This idea that we should have our email addresses all at sites that record, monitor, and sell our emails is preposterous. Back in 1998, many of us predicted that everyone would have their own server in their home that ran their web site.
Except that people don't have the desire, know-how, hardware, stable connection etc.. to run their own servers. It's valuable to just let Google do it. The problem isn't centralized email/websites, it's Facebook's business model specifically. They should have done what Google does and refused to hand over their users' data to anyone. You want to use that data for political analysis? Great, we'll do the analysis for you (for a hefty fee) and hand over the anonymized results. This is how Google approaches targeted ads. I'm not sure why they keep getting lumped in with Facebook.
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Why do you think what you have to say is so important that I should drop everything and talk to you immediately? If I answer your call someone better be dieing.
No waiting to move data from storage to RAM.
This is a long-long-long way off with even mainstream high-end components if it ever happens at all. My point above was that if you have enough space in your RAM to store everything you need then your RAM is too slow or expensive. There will always be a faster bus or a new DDRx standard that's bleeding edge and would cost too much to support the increasing file sizes needed for modern programs. A cascade of buses decreasing in speed and cost will always be more efficient. The good news is that the time you wait *now* to move something between RAM to the CPU cache (another buffer in the cascade) will *eventually* be equal to the time you wait to move something from storage to RAM.
are we finally going to bridge that gap between storage and RAM so that everything is finally moving at bus speed or is that still the fevered dreams of ultra-systems-on-a-chip?
Why would you want that? There's multiple levels of busing for a reason. If you can access main storage at the same speed as RAM then either:
A) your main storage is too expensive or
B) your RAM is too slow
Either of these situations is ripe for optimization.
If some pre-existing "screen sharing" app were to suddenly incorporate a way to purchase applications and games to be remotely accessed by the screen sharing app, Apple would take a similar stance.
You mean like opening a browser within the screen sharing app and buying something that way? Is VNC banned on iPhones?
TFA shows a nice graph of their hardware sales by year. It's interesting to note that smartphone sales dominated until around 2015. Incidentally, 2015 was the year they came out with their first flagship phone featuring a fingerprint sensor (Xperia Z5). Smartphone sales started declining ever since. I wonder if it has anything to do with their moronic decision to limit fingerprint sensor functionality to the EU market only. It will be interesting to see how the Xperia XZ2 does considering it's the first flagship they've made to have a globally functional fingerprint sensor.
Same, in the past couple years my USPS guy has gotten in the habit of just not delivering on Saturday and then lieing on the tracking info so it shows "attempted delivery" or whatever bullshit.
The black on an OLED display is BLACK
Except in direct sunlight or at an angle at which point it reflects a certain greenish hue even when the screen is off. So much for the deep blacks.
when I use my OLED in bed at night, it's vastly superior to IPS.
At night your brightness would be on basically minimum at which point a good LCD will get pretty much completely black as well. LCDs are better than people give them credit for. Far too much hype over OLEDs which are far from perfect.
The lack of wireless charging is a deal breaker for me. ... I used to be able to throw it into the car dock, have it start charging and launch Android Auto automatically.
Would have to be plugged in (charging) for android auto anyway...
Technically "disabling it" doesn't make the screen shorter, it just keeps the status bar background black around the notch. You don't get your full statusbar back, but yeah it's a stupid thing to complain about either way.
Aireon plans to use a constellation of 66 Iridium Communications. Next satellites ... Iridium has 50 in orbit already ... Iridium plans to launch five additional satellites on May 22 from California, completing its full network later this year.
I'm not sure you understand the issue then. It wasn't CA that people had a problem with, it was Facebook selling user data wholesale to external parties. This is vastly different than Google's business model and vastly more of a privacy problem. Facebook should have done the analysis for CA internally and only sold them the anonymized results.
I wouldn't pay for it otherwise. There's plenty on YT I watch but I wasn't bothered by ads before because I have my adblockers active.
Why not pay for the content to remove the ads (you can still keep your ad blocker)? That's how the videos are funded.
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Wont' work, he said he wants some half-decent threads.
Given the above reality... What does protest quitting Google do?
It shows management that if they want to keep their employees happy (regardless of US foreign policy realities), they might want to avoid military contracts.
And even if it did slow or shut down the US development of AI enhanced weapons, that would only give one of the other major powers an advantage. And since literally every single one of those powers is if anything more questionable in its ethics regarding war... What are you really doing here?
So they get an advantage when it comes to selecting targets in the middle of a desert to drone strike. Let them have it.
I get it. We don't live in an ideal world. This world has war. We kill each other on occasion. But that isn't going to stop. Idealism is a sad substitute for sound foreign policy.
Well then as long as there's war somewhere on earth we might as well blow up some Syrians.
I know that if I were sent into the fires of a war, I would want the best weapons my country could supply for me.
Good thing it's UAV operations we're talking about and not real pilots then.
I want to live in peace and security. And the only way that is going to happen on this planet short of submitting to enslavement... is to be formidable.
We're already extremely formidable when it comes to actual national defense. I think you're confusing that with foreign intervention. Are you really afraid the Ruskies are going to fly their drones to the US and take over due to their incredible AI that we didn't develop first? You sound like one of those people who keep like 8 assault rifles at home for "self defense, just in case". Living your life in fear can be more mentally damaging (and expensive) than taking a risk on someone robbing you (or invading your country).
It sounds like you don't really understand gambling addiction. It's a mental condition similar to alcoholism. I don't think we should outright ban it (or alcohol), but it's naive to dismiss those negatively affected by it saying "meh, no one put a gun to your head".
Well shit, you should write them a letter and tell the devs to quit working on stuff that doesn't impact you specifically.
The problem is that there are very few good unlocked phones and they are very difficult to research. It is a major barrier.
Almost every carrier locked phone has an unlocked version you can get quite easily. Walk into best buy, find the phone you like, and if best buy doesn't sell the unlocked version (they probably do) then go buy it online.
I found the Huwaei phones which are great but you won't be able to get those in the US soon. These phones made it very simple. They are feature/spec parity with the flagship phones and are built very well. They work internationally and in the US.
No surprise they got banned. The two major carriers are very powerful in Washington DC.
You have no idea what you're talking about. By that logic OnePlus is next in line to get banned.
If Amazon offered Prime without it, at a savings of $20 or $30 or more, fuck yeah, I'd sign up for that "Prime Lite".
Which is exactly why they don't. They sign you up for something you want and then try to get you hooked on things you didn't think you wanted.
What? Lineage is basically stock android. Why is that not "mom-friendly"? Install F-droid on lineage and you're done. You answered your own question but kept on bitching.
So why don't you use eBay instead of Amazon? As a consumer I prefer Amazon because I don't want to deal directly with small businesses like yours. This is based on my experience buying from eBay vs Amazon. I think you may not be giving Amazon enough credit for the value they're providing to you.
I agree that Better Call Saul and Stranger Things are great Netflix shows, but The Expanse is actually a great Syfy show. Not sure where you got that one from.
He's not a businessman (or didn't start out as one) and "his idea" wasn't even his. He was a novice programmer who was doing work to implement someone else's idea and decided to just run with it himself. It was a smart move, but so far the only one I've seen from him.
Tell that to Microsoft when they hand over the data you gave to them. There's (now) consequences for Microsoft if they don't comply.
2) Samsung is overpriced and underperforming. All of their products also come stocked with oodles of bloatware that can't be removed. Samsung has followed the trend of removing the headphone jack and SD card slot.
Sorry what? Their latest flagship is priced at just over 700 dollars. The pixel 2 XL started at 850, the iPhone X over 1000. Everyone expected it to be more, but it's pretty reasonable actually. You can easily mod (remove bloat from) the Exynos versions of the galaxy phones that are sold most everywhere throughout the world. The snapdragon variants for the US are locked down due to carrier agreements. Samsung has definitely not followed the trend of removing the headphone jack and SD slot. Not sure where you're getting that from since it's quite objectively 100% false.
This idea that we should have our email addresses all at sites that record, monitor, and sell our emails is preposterous. Back in 1998, many of us predicted that everyone would have their own server in their home that ran their web site.
Except that people don't have the desire, know-how, hardware, stable connection etc.. to run their own servers. It's valuable to just let Google do it. The problem isn't centralized email/websites, it's Facebook's business model specifically. They should have done what Google does and refused to hand over their users' data to anyone. You want to use that data for political analysis? Great, we'll do the analysis for you (for a hefty fee) and hand over the anonymized results. This is how Google approaches targeted ads. I'm not sure why they keep getting lumped in with Facebook.