I left my professional camera at home and took these shots at dinner with my iPhone 7 using computational photography and blah blah blah...
Vic Gundotra has a professional camera only because the cost ($5k+) is nothing to him, not because he needs it or knows what to do with it. It's safe to conclude that Gundotra is an untalented amateur at best. Most probably, he has no clue what an f-stop is, or how shutter speed affects focus and why. There is just no comparison between what you can do with a decent camera (e.g., 5D3) vs a handset. Sorry, it's true. The cell phone has weight and availability advantages and that's it.
Ahem. Bloated nerd jail hubcap, more like it. Competes (perhaps unfavorably) with the world's ugliest yacht.
(No I'm not joking. Trust me, that scow was actually built to Steve Jobs' specifications. Obviously you need to sail it right, because the first breaking wave that hits one of those windows is going right through it as if it wasn't there.)
C was never awful, It is and has always been a wonderful language.
Well, except of a smattering of abominations here and there such as zero terminated strings, a few operator priority gaffs, some nutsoid syntactic ambiguities, macro language designed to make you slit your wrists, and missing almost everything you need for large scale software engineering.
Why use the new language of the month when C has been around for decades, is welll understood and does exactly what we want?
You get 1 out of 3: C has been around for decades. It is not well understood in the sense that the average programmer who thinks they have mastered it is actually a hazard to security and reliability. C certainly does not do what we want, on many levels. Just picking one off the stack: generic programming in C is a pathetic fuckfest.
Rust is hardly "of the month". The same genius is behind it who developed the direct ancestor of Git.
as much as I detest MS and Windows, I'm still tied to it because the FOSS apps are really nice, but not quite good enough
Whatever works for you - some people just seem ok with hitting themselves on the head with a hammer. For the vast majority of casual office suite users, Libreoffice is in fact good enough. Actually, Libreoffice is better in many subtle ways. Have you ever noticed how seriously cut and paste sucks in Excel?
What kills Libreoffice is bloat and feeping creaturitis.
Nothing "kills" Libreoffice. It is a staple feature of any Linux installation, widely used on Windows, and a credible threat to Necrosoft's cozy monopoly.
Don't come with spyware. The real purchasing decision should be which phones allow rooting without blowing an efuse or disabled marketed functionality. If you can unlock the phone via usb and adb and maybe a password and it doesn't do anything funny, it is a good phone. Everything else should be treated as suspect.
Right. It just goes to prove, the only viable path forward is verifiable, user modifiable open source.
Loss leader? I'm wondering if these low priced phones are actually subsidized by the Chinese government. How nice it would be if a similar priced phone could be offered with verifiable open source firmware. (Ok, from here in just call me Captain Obvious.)
I typically have at least a few hundred open. 1691 doesn't seem unreasonable at all. Needless to say, Chrome can't handle anything remotely like that... try dropping two zeroes. For me, this alone makes Firefox clearly superior to Chrome.
Yes, quite unconscionable of Google to not credit the source of by far the most important (and most reliable) component of their proprietary platform, don't you think? Or don't you.
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the highly questionable financial arrangements of the Clinton foundation
Citation needed.
Oh wait, there is no shortage of fake citations about that.
"The "signal" that propagates from the real world into a camera is more complex than you can possibly understand."
Yeah dude it's like fuckin' magnets!!
Something like that. You understand Maxwell's equations of course?
there is a potential chance that he is being subjective here
To tell the truth, the words "bias" and "agenda" spring to mind.
the person they're quoting is claiming that the platform itself is what makes Android behind Apple in photography
Gundotra? Isn't he the fired former tinpot dictator of Google's Android division? No chance of sour grapes there, no siree.
If it causes the signal to be recorded or reproduced inaccurately, it's a defect.
The "signal" that propagates from the real world into a camera is more complex than you can possibly understand.
I left my professional camera at home and took these shots at dinner with my iPhone 7 using computational photography and blah blah blah...
Vic Gundotra has a professional camera only because the cost ($5k+) is nothing to him, not because he needs it or knows what to do with it. It's safe to conclude that Gundotra is an untalented amateur at best. Most probably, he has no clue what an f-stop is, or how shutter speed affects focus and why. There is just no comparison between what you can do with a decent camera (e.g., 5D3) vs a handset. Sorry, it's true. The cell phone has weight and availability advantages and that's it.
gundrota.credibility--;
big new beautiful office
Ahem. Bloated nerd jail hubcap, more like it. Competes (perhaps unfavorably) with the world's ugliest yacht.
(No I'm not joking. Trust me, that scow was actually built to Steve Jobs' specifications. Obviously you need to sail it right, because the first breaking wave that hits one of those windows is going right through it as if it wasn't there.)
C was never awful, It is and has always been a wonderful language.
Well, except of a smattering of abominations here and there such as zero terminated strings, a few operator priority gaffs, some nutsoid syntactic ambiguities, macro language designed to make you slit your wrists, and missing almost everything you need for large scale software engineering.
C is a MANLY language.
I cee.
Me? I write in C.
Hang yourself up on a hook in a museum right next to the Underwood typewriters.
Why use the new language of the month when C has been around for decades, is welll understood and does exactly what we want?
You get 1 out of 3: C has been around for decades. It is not well understood in the sense that the average programmer who thinks they have mastered it is actually a hazard to security and reliability. C certainly does not do what we want, on many levels. Just picking one off the stack: generic programming in C is a pathetic fuckfest.
Rust is hardly "of the month". The same genius is behind it who developed the direct ancestor of Git.
How about "Shiny"?
Forgettable. "Rust" is not forgettable.
Mozilla's only remaining "successful" product is Firefox.
Give it a rest, anonymous cuck. Never heard of Thunderbird?
aoo is just better
In September 2016, OpenOffice's project management committee chair Dennis Hamilton began a discussion of possibly discontinuing the project, after the Apache board had put them on monthly reporting due to the project's ongoing problems handling security issues
as much as I detest MS and Windows, I'm still tied to it because the FOSS apps are really nice, but not quite good enough
Whatever works for you - some people just seem ok with hitting themselves on the head with a hammer. For the vast majority of casual office suite users, Libreoffice is in fact good enough. Actually, Libreoffice is better in many subtle ways. Have you ever noticed how seriously cut and paste sucks in Excel?
Microsoft employee = fake news.
What kills Libreoffice is bloat and feeping creaturitis.
Nothing "kills" Libreoffice. It is a staple feature of any Linux installation, widely used on Windows, and a credible threat to Necrosoft's cozy monopoly.
Don't come with spyware. The real purchasing decision should be which phones allow rooting without blowing an efuse or disabled marketed functionality. If you can unlock the phone via usb and adb and maybe a password and it doesn't do anything funny, it is a good phone. Everything else should be treated as suspect.
Right. It just goes to prove, the only viable path forward is verifiable, user modifiable open source.
It doesn't need to be sponsored by the Chinese government...
But it probably is, notwithstanding your other valid points.
Loss leader? I'm wondering if these low priced phones are actually subsidized by the Chinese government. How nice it would be if a similar priced phone could be offered with verifiable open source firmware. (Ok, from here in just call me Captain Obvious.)
I typically have at least a few hundred open. 1691 doesn't seem unreasonable at all. Needless to say, Chrome can't handle anything remotely like that... try dropping two zeroes. For me, this alone makes Firefox clearly superior to Chrome.
Today's flagship phone is tomorrow's lower tier phone, so why waste money?
How much do they need to talk about it.
Enough to avoid being perceived as intellectually dishonest. Of course it's a bit late for that, but it didn't have to be this way.
Yes, quite unconscionable of Google to not credit the source of by far the most important (and most reliable) component of their proprietary platform, don't you think? Or don't you.
The top of the line iPhone and Galaxy phones are in the $900 range while the Pixel 2 XL is rumored to be in the $800 range.
I'm not paying $800 for a phone because I'm not an idiot.