The entire notch exists because Apple is introducing Face ID with the iPhone X, a replacement for Touch ID that uses infrared cameras to scan your face and log you into your phone. Apple’s camera array is significantly larger than the single sensor on the Essential Phone, making the cut-out a lot bigger as a result. Apple definitely could have avoided this, either by creating a device with a slightly larger top bezel to accommodate the camera array, or by using a black background across the status bar to hide it.
What kind of 'definitive answer' to an incredibly stupid idea not founded in physics would you require?
According to this article, your opinion may not be the definitive answer.
In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will begin the helium-burning process, turning into a red giant star. When it expands, its outer layers will consume Mercury and Venus, and reach Earth. Scientists are still debating whether or not our planet will be engulfed, or whether it will orbit dangerously close to the dimmer star. Either way, life as we know it on Earth will cease to exist.
The sun will expand into a red giant, burning away the inner planets and Jupiter will become the new Mercury in 4B years. From 4B to 8B years, the Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy will merge together. All the fun astronomical stuff will take place after we die.
James P. Hogan wrote Code of the Lifemaker about a alien spacecraft that crash landed on Saturn's moon, Titan, and, due to damage from the crash, built self-replicating robots that evolved into a sentient lifeform. A million years later, humans show up and the robotic society goes to hell. The original purpose of the spacecraft was to drop off self-replicating robots to mine for resources and ship back home.
Except you're not doing an apple-to-apple comparison. An Intel i3-8100 processor for $129, a small form factor (SFF) motherboard with sodimm slots is $200, and 8GB DDR4 2666 sodimm is $60. That's $389 and doesn't include the SFF case, PSU and PCIe storage. Don't forget Apple's profit margin. The $799 base model price is quite reasonable.
Hopefully that's an upgradable NVME drive in there as well.
Nope. That's not upgradeable. However, the Mac mini works fine with external storage. I usually keep a clean Mac OS install on the internal drive, clone it to an external drive, and boot off the external drive for day-to-day usuage.
On most of my motherboards, I've done multiple CPU upgrades. Either for speed (Socket 7/A/940) or core counts (AM2/3). The one exception was the Pentium 2 with the Slot 1 connector, which had a dead end upgrade path and I later sold to a friend to fund my next upgrade.
when my favourite brand of potato chip is gone i just reach for some other brand.
What if switching to a different brand of potato chips required switching out your living room chair and TV? The last motherboard I had that could take processors from different manufactuers was a Socket 7 from the 1990's.
Most intelligence agencies would kill to know the breakfast menu of the president of the United States.
Most intelligence agencies would find it easier to read the Business Insider:
In fact, he usually doesn't eat a morning meal. Back in 2016, Trump told People, "Oftentimes I skip breakfast. But usually my favorite would be bacon and eggs — bacon medium and the eggs over-well."
Read CaptainDork's comment history. Count the number of times you ragged him for being a 72-year-old man. Count the number of times he and creimer commented on each other's comments. I made the mistake of commenting on one of CaptainDork's story submissions. That's how I got stuck with YOU!
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Amazon is competing with Apple for multiple headquarters. More like the terrible two's than master and apprentice.
The entire notch exists because Apple is introducing Face ID with the iPhone X, a replacement for Touch ID that uses infrared cameras to scan your face and log you into your phone. Apple’s camera array is significantly larger than the single sensor on the Essential Phone, making the cut-out a lot bigger as a result. Apple definitely could have avoided this, either by creating a device with a slightly larger top bezel to accommodate the camera array, or by using a black background across the status bar to hide it.
https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/14/16306298/apple-iphone-x-screen-notch
American cab drivers are too busy dealing with the cab company, Lyft and Uber to teach their future replacements.
As the executionor told the black man in Blazing Saddles : "Everyone is equal in my eye."
Before the Tower of Babel, it was all Akkadian.
Some have argued with me that an expanding sun would just push the planetary orbits outward
FTFY — You took my comment out of context. I'm a fan of the earth shall burn, baby, burn! But I'm open minded enough to consider counter arguments.
Stick to unboxing Chinese plastic toys.
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What kind of 'definitive answer' to an incredibly stupid idea not founded in physics would you require?
According to this article, your opinion may not be the definitive answer.
In approximately 5 billion years, the sun will begin the helium-burning process, turning into a red giant star. When it expands, its outer layers will consume Mercury and Venus, and reach Earth. Scientists are still debating whether or not our planet will be engulfed, or whether it will orbit dangerously close to the dimmer star. Either way, life as we know it on Earth will cease to exist.
Some have argued with me that an expanding sun would just push the planetary orbits outward. I haven't seen a definitive answer either way.
The sun will expand into a red giant, burning away the inner planets and Jupiter will become the new Mercury in 4B years. From 4B to 8B years, the Milky Way Galaxy and the Andromeda Galaxy will merge together. All the fun astronomical stuff will take place after we die.
I'm not Chris and my karma is excellent.
I don't have any ebooks. Maybe you're thinking of someone else?
James P. Hogan wrote Code of the Lifemaker about a alien spacecraft that crash landed on Saturn's moon, Titan, and, due to damage from the crash, built self-replicating robots that evolved into a sentient lifeform. A million years later, humans show up and the robotic society goes to hell. The original purpose of the spacecraft was to drop off self-replicating robots to mine for resources and ship back home.
I got $30 from Amazon and $10 from Apple when they went to court over ebooks. That was my biggest class settlement payday to date.
How do the authors propose to distribute those six-and-a-half-cents? Via a postcard check, with $0.20 of postage?
The lowest class settlement postcard check I ever got was for $0.23.
1100 npm packages
What does the Node.js package manager got to do with Redhat Linux?
It's good to know that our elected representatives can be bought and paid for on Facebook.
Except you're not doing an apple-to-apple comparison. An Intel i3-8100 processor for $129, a small form factor (SFF) motherboard with sodimm slots is $200, and 8GB DDR4 2666 sodimm is $60. That's $389 and doesn't include the SFF case, PSU and PCIe storage. Don't forget Apple's profit margin. The $799 base model price is quite reasonable.
Hopefully that's an upgradable NVME drive in there as well.
Nope. That's not upgradeable. However, the Mac mini works fine with external storage. I usually keep a clean Mac OS install on the internal drive, clone it to an external drive, and boot off the external drive for day-to-day usuage.
On most of my motherboards, I've done multiple CPU upgrades. Either for speed (Socket 7/A/940) or core counts (AM2/3). The one exception was the Pentium 2 with the Slot 1 connector, which had a dead end upgrade path and I later sold to a friend to fund my next upgrade.
when my favourite brand of potato chip is gone i just reach for some other brand.
What if switching to a different brand of potato chips required switching out your living room chair and TV? The last motherboard I had that could take processors from different manufactuers was a Socket 7 from the 1990's.
Some editors will substitue a blog post or news article with a properly written PR to save time on their end.
Most intelligence agencies would kill to know the breakfast menu of the president of the United States.
Most intelligence agencies would find it easier to read the Business Insider:
In fact, he usually doesn't eat a morning meal. Back in 2016, Trump told People, "Oftentimes I skip breakfast. But usually my favorite would be bacon and eggs — bacon medium and the eggs over-well."
When did AI's become to legal to beat the crap out of attorneys?
Bloomberg violated the first principal of good journalism: if it bleeds, it leads. Motherboards don't bleed.
Read CaptainDork's comment history. Count the number of times you ragged him for being a 72-year-old man. Count the number of times he and creimer commented on each other's comments. I made the mistake of commenting on one of CaptainDork's story submissions. That's how I got stuck with YOU!