How do you top this? To which mystical lands can your courage possibly take you now? Only one thing left to take away. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you: The New Macbook With No Screen.
Love is not the word that comes to mind, more like "greatly appreciate" and "depend on". And I greatly appreciate that Mozilla foundation is getting behind it again. Thunderbird would have done ok as an independent, 100% volunteer project but having some properly paid fulltime engineers on it makes a huge different to how fast broken things get fixed, never mind new functionality.
After Kmail got assassinated by a hit squad of misty eye junior coders with "vision", Thunderbird was really the only workable option, even in the darkest days. Eventually Mozilla foundation recognized that Thunderbird users weren't going away and they sensibly got behind it again, while at the same time pulling out of some of their genuinely idiotic adventures. Starting to look a bit like sane governance now.
Thunderbird works with Exchange via imap without any plugin. The free Lightning plugin gives you calendar. Exquilla gives you full Exchange compatibility, and used to cost money but is now free.
You can buy an iPhone and replace it every year, selling your current version for $150-200 less then itâ(TM)s purchase price.
Really? Great strategy if it works, let's see what ebay has to say about that... oh right, you're full of crap: iPhone 7 msrp $650 now going for $275 on eBay. iPhone 8, msrp $700, not even a year old, going for $450. Face it, the kind of person who wastes money on Apple products wants to waste it on new ones.
Phones from Google only guarantee OS updates for two years and security patches for three years.
Right, that's one reason I swore off Google phones. Google, out of anybody, ought to be concerned about supporting loyal users and has the infrastructure to do it, but they just don't give a shit. From now on, whoever keeps those updates coming is going to get my loyalty, other things being equal.
A thousand dollar phone better last six or seven years (even if you have to drop it off at a service center every couple years to have the battery replaced).
Then for the last four years it will be worse than the mid tier phone that you can get for half the price. See how this game just doesn't work out? If not, let's be clear: you bought the flagship for status, but for most of the time you own it the message you broadcast is: "I heated up my credit card to get this on release day and now I can't afford to replace it".
At some point if phones get 16GB RAM, 8-core cpu, GPU, SSD I could just use my crappy and outdated desktop as a thin client to the phone
Not sure what point you are making but if you are trying to say that phones are getting more powerful than desktops, then just no. Mine current one runs 8 (full size) cores with SMT for 16 threads, 32 GB ram, 512 GB M.2 system disk, 12 TB raid for archive, and that is really only mid-tier for a workstation as of today. My next build will roughly double all of that and still not be particularly high end.
Your phone has a huge bottleneck that it will never get be rid of: heat dissipation. Try to run a compile on it, say, and it will throttle immediately. See how hot it already gets, just decoding video.
Xcode is an IDE with a compiler toolchain, not a 3D app. I show up in the conference room with that laptop because that is the laptop I use at work to get work done.
Try suspending it out of respect for the others in the conference. Anyway, you're lugging around a museum piece, admit it. And I ssh into a real machine for heavy compiling, if that's the bottleneck. BTW, WTF is Xcode doing with your compute power? You are also hobbled by crap software, I'm starting to get it. I wonder if XCode implementation is as crap as the html your Mac posts.
Anyway, display efficiency keeps improving. OLED with 100 lumens per watt. [cnet.com] That's a lot, ever pointed a 100 lumen flashlight in your face? The real issue is just as I said, your laptop is a dinosaur.
Wrong again...
Nobody will ever convince you that your museum piece is a museum piece because you wear that big black apple on your sleeve. Remember when people used to lug those gigantic Dell machines into meetings? That's what you look like to the guy across the table.
Right, still impressive as I said, and to be fair the headline was "former pros" and the article goes out of its way to note the progression from casual players up to the current ex-pros. Reaction time is a huge part of Dota and a huge advantage for a bot, also noted in the article.
Showing up in a conference room with a firebreathing 15" display and running 3D apps means that you plan to ignore the presenter. Why stop there? Just walk in with a minitower under your arm.
Anyway, display efficiency keeps improving. OLED with 100 lumens per watt. That's a lot, ever pointed a 100 lumen flashlight in your face? The real issue is just as I said, your laptop is a dinosaur.
They're putting insanely good processor technology inside phones and it's got to cost.
It's been that way through the entire history of computing, it's called Moore's law. Historically the cost actually went down with each process shrink because volumes went up. For the 7 nm node starting to come on line right now, you can have your choice of lower cost or more CPU power. Personally, I'm leaning more to lower cost these days, which tends to go together with longer battery life. I just don't feel a compelling need for the equivalent of a warehouse of Cray 1's in my pocket. I want that in my workstation for sure, but I just don't have the use case for that on my phone. Maybe somebody else does.
It's not like a flagship phone is going to break the bank, I just feel I'm looking like a bit of an idiot doing that, especially knowing how the halflife of a flagship is less than a year now, then I'm just hanging on to a second tier phone because dropping that much dough on again each year for no reason just makes me look like a drooling moonie.
Demoed my mid tier Moto G6+ to a new owner of Google Pixel, the immediate reaction was, looks the same, does the same, I wish I had bought the same. Sure, you can see differences if you squint. A single data point, but...
I bought the Nexus phones when they were stylish and cheap. Google decided to go all carriage trade on me, I said goodbye Google.
Those are hardly professional players, that is a team of casters who never practice together. It is doubtful that any of them could get onto even a second tier team today (well, moon, but then again maybe not). Still an impressive benchmark for AI and top tier pros are sure to get beaten sooner or later too, but what is the point of misrepresenting what actually happened?
When is Linux going to work properly on X1 Tablet Gen3? launched in Feb, still trackpoint/buttons not working, suspend not working.
Looks like patches have been available for some time, some discussion here. Maybe just not landed in your distro yet. Make sure your bios is updated to current and check around to see which firmware packages you need. If you still have issues then get on a forum, Slashdot isn't ideal.
Sweet. I also notice that many or most enthusiast motherboards are shipping with Windows-independent bios updaters now. This suggests the Linux component of the enthusiast segment is signifcant. Another motivation would be, you see no end of forum posts about people bricking their motherboard because of running the bios update with the Windows utility.
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How do you top this? To which mystical lands can your courage possibly take you now? Only one thing left to take away. Ladies and gentlemen, we give you: The New Macbook With No Screen.
Love is not the word that comes to mind, more like "greatly appreciate" and "depend on". And I greatly appreciate that Mozilla foundation is getting behind it again. Thunderbird would have done ok as an independent, 100% volunteer project but having some properly paid fulltime engineers on it makes a huge different to how fast broken things get fixed, never mind new functionality.
After Kmail got assassinated by a hit squad of misty eye junior coders with "vision", Thunderbird was really the only workable option, even in the darkest days. Eventually Mozilla foundation recognized that Thunderbird users weren't going away and they sensibly got behind it again, while at the same time pulling out of some of their genuinely idiotic adventures. Starting to look a bit like sane governance now.
Thunderbird works with Exchange via imap without any plugin. The free Lightning plugin gives you calendar. Exquilla gives you full Exchange compatibility, and used to cost money but is now free.
my $400 will not do the stuff that I would like to do
Mine will, it's a Moto G6+. I suspect you're going to be seeing a whole lot more of that.
You talk about sub 300usd phones as ifthey are cheap. Few years ago that was expensive.
Different planet? Even the last candybar I bought was considerably more than that, admittedly a flagship, but your memory seems to be selective.
You can buy an iPhone and replace it every year, selling your current version for $150-200 less then itâ(TM)s purchase price.
Really? Great strategy if it works, let's see what ebay has to say about that... oh right, you're full of crap: iPhone 7 msrp $650 now going for $275 on eBay. iPhone 8, msrp $700, not even a year old, going for $450. Face it, the kind of person who wastes money on Apple products wants to waste it on new ones.
Phones from Google only guarantee OS updates for two years and security patches for three years.
Right, that's one reason I swore off Google phones. Google, out of anybody, ought to be concerned about supporting loyal users and has the infrastructure to do it, but they just don't give a shit. From now on, whoever keeps those updates coming is going to get my loyalty, other things being equal.
I'm one of the idiots who buy a high end phone, and then keep it until it stops working. I'm perfectly happy.
Sure? Been there, towards end of life it gets really crappy.
A thousand dollar phone better last six or seven years (even if you have to drop it off at a service center every couple years to have the battery replaced).
Then for the last four years it will be worse than the mid tier phone that you can get for half the price. See how this game just doesn't work out? If not, let's be clear: you bought the flagship for status, but for most of the time you own it the message you broadcast is: "I heated up my credit card to get this on release day and now I can't afford to replace it".
At some point if phones get 16GB RAM, 8-core cpu, GPU, SSD I could just use my crappy and outdated desktop as a thin client to the phone
Not sure what point you are making but if you are trying to say that phones are getting more powerful than desktops, then just no. Mine current one runs 8 (full size) cores with SMT for 16 threads, 32 GB ram, 512 GB M.2 system disk, 12 TB raid for archive, and that is really only mid-tier for a workstation as of today. My next build will roughly double all of that and still not be particularly high end.
Your phone has a huge bottleneck that it will never get be rid of: heat dissipation. Try to run a compile on it, say, and it will throttle immediately. See how hot it already gets, just decoding video.
Isn't everybody on Slack now?
inhuman absence of any indecision
That, too, is reaction time.
Xcode is an IDE with a compiler toolchain, not a 3D app. I show up in the conference room with that laptop because that is the laptop I use at work to get work done.
Try suspending it out of respect for the others in the conference. Anyway, you're lugging around a museum piece, admit it. And I ssh into a real machine for heavy compiling, if that's the bottleneck. BTW, WTF is Xcode doing with your compute power? You are also hobbled by crap software, I'm starting to get it. I wonder if XCode implementation is as crap as the html your Mac posts.
Anyway, display efficiency keeps improving. OLED with 100 lumens per watt. [cnet.com] That's a lot, ever pointed a 100 lumen flashlight in your face? The real issue is just as I said, your laptop is a dinosaur.
Wrong again...
Nobody will ever convince you that your museum piece is a museum piece because you wear that big black apple on your sleeve. Remember when people used to lug those gigantic Dell machines into meetings? That's what you look like to the guy across the table.
Right, still impressive as I said, and to be fair the headline was "former pros" and the article goes out of its way to note the progression from casual players up to the current ex-pros. Reaction time is a huge part of Dota and a huge advantage for a bot, also noted in the article.
Showing up in a conference room with a firebreathing 15" display and running 3D apps means that you plan to ignore the presenter. Why stop there? Just walk in with a minitower under your arm.
Anyway, display efficiency keeps improving. OLED with 100 lumens per watt. That's a lot, ever pointed a 100 lumen flashlight in your face? The real issue is just as I said, your laptop is a dinosaur.
They're putting insanely good processor technology inside phones and it's got to cost.
It's been that way through the entire history of computing, it's called Moore's law. Historically the cost actually went down with each process shrink because volumes went up. For the 7 nm node starting to come on line right now, you can have your choice of lower cost or more CPU power. Personally, I'm leaning more to lower cost these days, which tends to go together with longer battery life. I just don't feel a compelling need for the equivalent of a warehouse of Cray 1's in my pocket. I want that in my workstation for sure, but I just don't have the use case for that on my phone. Maybe somebody else does.
It's not like a flagship phone is going to break the bank, I just feel I'm looking like a bit of an idiot doing that, especially knowing how the halflife of a flagship is less than a year now, then I'm just hanging on to a second tier phone because dropping that much dough on again each year for no reason just makes me look like a drooling moonie.
Demoed my mid tier Moto G6+ to a new owner of Google Pixel, the immediate reaction was, looks the same, does the same, I wish I had bought the same. Sure, you can see differences if you squint. A single data point, but...
I bought the Nexus phones when they were stylish and cheap. Google decided to go all carriage trade on me, I said goodbye Google.
Those are hardly professional players, that is a team of casters who never practice together. It is doubtful that any of them could get onto even a second tier team today (well, moon, but then again maybe not). Still an impressive benchmark for AI and top tier pros are sure to get beaten sooner or later too, but what is the point of misrepresenting what actually happened?
Most I know who run Linux also run Windows in a duel boot function anyway.
Is that the one where Linux and Windows fight to the death with rapiers?
When is Linux going to work properly on X1 Tablet Gen3? launched in Feb, still trackpoint/buttons not working, suspend not working.
Looks like patches have been available for some time, some discussion here. Maybe just not landed in your distro yet. Make sure your bios is updated to current and check around to see which firmware packages you need. If you still have issues then get on a forum, Slashdot isn't ideal.
Sweet. I also notice that many or most enthusiast motherboards are shipping with Windows-independent bios updaters now. This suggests the Linux component of the enthusiast segment is signifcant. Another motivation would be, you see no end of forum posts about people bricking their motherboard because of running the bios update with the Windows utility.
Marketing axiom.
My laptop is a 15" MacBook Pro, so no, it isn't.
Well it kinda is, because Apple basically went Wintel. But that is a niggle, I will grant you that Apple is also selling museum pieces for laptops.
I have to have two charging cables in each of our cars at all times because mine uses Micro-USB while her phone uses USB-C.
I know, right? But USB-C is so much better, I can handle it. Just grab a handful of these to tide you over.