Can you give me a product link or pitch or something? I feel like you're talking out your rear end. I don't find any products on Amazon that differentiate themselves as quartz screen protectors, except a few that are using quartz as a branding term, and then say (tempered glass) in the description. Are you talking about future product development?
I dunno why one should make protectors from quartz. Tempered glass is already cheap and highly scratch resistant. Heck, many claim that Corning's gorilla glass used in most phones makes protectors totally pointless. Fused quartz is indeed very good for temperature fluctuations...of the kind seen when one is using blowtorches on test tubes. And flame exposed windows, sure. I've never heard any credible claims of cracking a screen or protector by...what, going into a walk in freezer too much? Battery getting hot on a cold day?
I'm not a materials expert, but I'd also think fused silica or quartz would behave dangerously if they did break. Tempered glass with the right additives is specifically supposed to break in a safe fashion.
I sometimes wonder how much it would've cost for a rival to have a couple dozen bad batteries slipped in at the factories. I'm betting the answer is "almost nothing."
Maybe two years ago I was suggesting a customer get a tempered glass screen protector and he says "No, I have a self-healing screen protector. Paid forty bucks for it." He pulls out a phone with a nasty-assed plastic screen protector that was just covered in gouges and bubbles. I couldn't think of anything to say that wasn't insulting, so I just smiled and said "Ahhh."
The line doesn't perfectly fit, but what came to mind was the quip "Suspension of disbelief does not mean hanging it by the neck till it is dead."
Just in case any folks here are unaware, use glass or use nothing.
You might want to check your math before you throw any stones there buddy.
A better criticism would be to say that I can get 3% back on a store card without needing prime at all, so I'd actually have to spend $4950 a year to break even vs the non prime card. I almost spend that much with them, but not quite. What kicks in is the aforementioned no rush shipping bonus, which I more than make up the difference from. Plus there's the formal prime benefits, like the two day shipping for the occasions where I actually need something fast.
For many activities I won't argue that amoled is nothing valuable. When one is out and about checking messages and consulting websites for product reviews, what's the point? For long term media consumption, especially of text, it's a balm for the eyes. I tried out an iphone 6+ for a while, but reading on that thing...I went right back to my Note 4.
I loved that fingerprint sensor though. Being able to unlock financial apps with a touch was delightful, and is a highly desirable feature for me now. Maybe placement is more of an issue if you use it for more than just waking up the phone.
Amoled for me is about reading, yes in a darkened room. Reading white text on a black background for four hours straight makes amoled non-optional.
I am very much NOT in any Samsung products. I hate their guts. Blocking cases with their lameassed curved screens, flooding their phone bodies with glue, Bixby...just everything about Bixby. Spyware televisions. My Note 4 is the last Samsung phone I plan to own.
The shell materials? Ceramic can describe anything from flower pots to shuttle reentry tiles. It's a fancy sounding replacement for a glass backing to enable the wireless charging. I'm...almost lazy enough to be interested in that, but not quite. Titanium sure...if it's good quality nitinol it would certainly prevent frame warping if you drop it hard enough to shatter it. Just nip on down to your local mall and they'll replace the...oh, right. No one is replacing the damn screen. Fancy material names that do nothing.
Audio jacks let one charge the phone while watching video when one is sick in bed. This has come up for me.
Fingerprint sensor is about how one holds a phone. I hold mine in one hand resting on my pinky. Pushing toward myself to hit a sensor is going to lead to bad times. I'm clumsy, and I have shaky hands. I admit it, best to head that one off at the pass. Fingerprint sensor goes on the front or I don't buy your phone.
If this came across as hostile, sorry, I just haaaate the current phone market. Only thing that is even close to good on the market right now is the moto z play and it is....inelegant.
The stated philosophy of no crapware is all well and good, but let's see what I can google for specs. Hmm. Screen is not amoled. Fingerprint sensor on the damn back. No audio jack. No microsd. Not waterproof. Seven hundred bucks. Not to be nasty, but a lack of crapware on a crap phone is not much of a selling point.
I hate voice assistants with a passion, but unlike touchscreen desktops I do think they have a real chance of becoming useful and popular. We have enough sci-fi with talking computers that I think people already have a feel for the times where they might be more useful than a display based system. Except for Google assistant. Try calling that thing up with a sore throat, it's some beautiful negative reinforcement I tell you. That glottal abortion "OK Google" will be left unnamed in the dumpster it was born into.
I think the automation of crap jobs is the first real sign that a post scarcity society is possible. Unfortunately it's looking certain we'll navigate the changes to labor about as horribly as the historical Luddites and their opponents did. At least we have free porn now.
Amazon torques me off from time to time, but as of right now they're simply too good for me to go anywhere else. The store card is 5% back on all purchases, and they tend to already have the best price, or a good price factoring in not having to go for a drive in a rural area where the grocery store is 20 minutes away. On top of that no rush shipping bonus is usually good towards ebooks that I'd be paying for anyway, so that's like an extra buck off almost every purchase. Even ebay sellers rarely compete well vs Amazon except for ultra cheap stuff straight from Hong Kong. Their only real failure is they are incompetent at vetting reviews, and that forces me to vet every single product on fakespot.com.
I don't know much about what it means by 'points above treasuries', is there a reason they say it like that? I mean, my savings account is like 1.15% interest. Hell, my video card is like 60% apy.:)
Might be going offtopic, but I thought anyone could see the future if they ate spice till their eyes turned black. The problem was that such people tended to create serious problems by going for selfish ends, short term gains, and stifling potential by avoiding risk.
Psionics are traditionally allowable in soft sci-fi, for about the same reasons ftl travel is. Without them you're pretty much limited to predictive or novelty sci-fi. I'm not saying those are be bad, don't spread any rumors that I don't like Primer, but it's still hard to have an epic scale without them. Maybe Dark Sky Legion.
Memos and internet posts are at most putting a disposable pamphlet on a shelf, not standing in front of a crowd and yelling. I hate that stupid "our forums are a podium" argument, and I especially hate when people think going viral deserves an unapologetic firing. I for one can work with religious people who think I'm going to hell, people who love their countries and hold mine in contempt, people who won't shut up about their wealth, and even people who don't think mullets are cool. Those who stayed home were demoralized in the sense that they were miffed and felt like expressing such in the most passive-aggressive way possible. It is....very unfortunate that they opposed sexism by behaving so sullenly. Women is not an adjective.
No, it doesn't make it better. This is the same species of excuse that companies use to deny pensions: Just point out in performance reviews the day to day policy violations that every employee in every company engages in to actually do their jobs. In this case, just find a couple of places where his language steps over the line a little because he didn't pay a proof reader to go over it. Write a ten page memo about the very real challenges faced when one growing up in...say...hispanic culture and I bet I could find a reason to fire you under google's company policy.
From what I've read, the TDP of AMD's current chips is very acceptable, perhaps even better than Intel's given they measure it differently. Time will tell, but it seems like you won't eat ten times the cost savings of the AMD chip in terms of electrical waste with this lineup. I just wish the chipset supported nvme raid.
There was an article a while back about Ultima Online gold being worth more than the Viatnamese Dong. Of course, that was more about an increase in the value of fantasy currency, whereas this is about the bolivar becoming a fantasy currency. Also everyone says the Dong has been performing well. It has consistently grown as it matures.
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Can you give me a product link or pitch or something? I feel like you're talking out your rear end. I don't find any products on Amazon that differentiate themselves as quartz screen protectors, except a few that are using quartz as a branding term, and then say (tempered glass) in the description. Are you talking about future product development?
I dunno why one should make protectors from quartz. Tempered glass is already cheap and highly scratch resistant. Heck, many claim that Corning's gorilla glass used in most phones makes protectors totally pointless. Fused quartz is indeed very good for temperature fluctuations...of the kind seen when one is using blowtorches on test tubes. And flame exposed windows, sure. I've never heard any credible claims of cracking a screen or protector by...what, going into a walk in freezer too much? Battery getting hot on a cold day?
I'm not a materials expert, but I'd also think fused silica or quartz would behave dangerously if they did break. Tempered glass with the right additives is specifically supposed to break in a safe fashion.
I could pretend that my point remains valid, but yeah, I did think it was an unanswered question and maybe industrial sabotage.
I sometimes wonder how much it would've cost for a rival to have a couple dozen bad batteries slipped in at the factories. I'm betting the answer is "almost nothing."
Maybe two years ago I was suggesting a customer get a tempered glass screen protector and he says "No, I have a self-healing screen protector. Paid forty bucks for it." He pulls out a phone with a nasty-assed plastic screen protector that was just covered in gouges and bubbles. I couldn't think of anything to say that wasn't insulting, so I just smiled and said "Ahhh."
The line doesn't perfectly fit, but what came to mind was the quip "Suspension of disbelief does not mean hanging it by the neck till it is dead."
Just in case any folks here are unaware, use glass or use nothing.
You might want to check your math before you throw any stones there buddy.
A better criticism would be to say that I can get 3% back on a store card without needing prime at all, so I'd actually have to spend $4950 a year to break even vs the non prime card. I almost spend that much with them, but not quite. What kicks in is the aforementioned no rush shipping bonus, which I more than make up the difference from. Plus there's the formal prime benefits, like the two day shipping for the occasions where I actually need something fast.
For many activities I won't argue that amoled is nothing valuable. When one is out and about checking messages and consulting websites for product reviews, what's the point? For long term media consumption, especially of text, it's a balm for the eyes. I tried out an iphone 6+ for a while, but reading on that thing...I went right back to my Note 4.
I loved that fingerprint sensor though. Being able to unlock financial apps with a touch was delightful, and is a highly desirable feature for me now. Maybe placement is more of an issue if you use it for more than just waking up the phone.
Amoled for me is about reading, yes in a darkened room. Reading white text on a black background for four hours straight makes amoled non-optional.
I am very much NOT in any Samsung products. I hate their guts. Blocking cases with their lameassed curved screens, flooding their phone bodies with glue, Bixby...just everything about Bixby. Spyware televisions. My Note 4 is the last Samsung phone I plan to own.
The shell materials? Ceramic can describe anything from flower pots to shuttle reentry tiles. It's a fancy sounding replacement for a glass backing to enable the wireless charging. I'm...almost lazy enough to be interested in that, but not quite. Titanium sure...if it's good quality nitinol it would certainly prevent frame warping if you drop it hard enough to shatter it. Just nip on down to your local mall and they'll replace the...oh, right. No one is replacing the damn screen. Fancy material names that do nothing.
Audio jacks let one charge the phone while watching video when one is sick in bed. This has come up for me.
Fingerprint sensor is about how one holds a phone. I hold mine in one hand resting on my pinky. Pushing toward myself to hit a sensor is going to lead to bad times. I'm clumsy, and I have shaky hands. I admit it, best to head that one off at the pass. Fingerprint sensor goes on the front or I don't buy your phone.
If this came across as hostile, sorry, I just haaaate the current phone market. Only thing that is even close to good on the market right now is the moto z play and it is....inelegant.
The stated philosophy of no crapware is all well and good, but let's see what I can google for specs. Hmm. Screen is not amoled. Fingerprint sensor on the damn back. No audio jack. No microsd. Not waterproof. Seven hundred bucks. Not to be nasty, but a lack of crapware on a crap phone is not much of a selling point.
I hate voice assistants with a passion, but unlike touchscreen desktops I do think they have a real chance of becoming useful and popular. We have enough sci-fi with talking computers that I think people already have a feel for the times where they might be more useful than a display based system. Except for Google assistant. Try calling that thing up with a sore throat, it's some beautiful negative reinforcement I tell you. That glottal abortion "OK Google" will be left unnamed in the dumpster it was born into.
I think the automation of crap jobs is the first real sign that a post scarcity society is possible. Unfortunately it's looking certain we'll navigate the changes to labor about as horribly as the historical Luddites and their opponents did. At least we have free porn now.
Guys, I think I perfected the pathway to create psilocybin via...aww man, my microscope melted again.
Thank you for your explanation.
Amazon torques me off from time to time, but as of right now they're simply too good for me to go anywhere else. The store card is 5% back on all purchases, and they tend to already have the best price, or a good price factoring in not having to go for a drive in a rural area where the grocery store is 20 minutes away. On top of that no rush shipping bonus is usually good towards ebooks that I'd be paying for anyway, so that's like an extra buck off almost every purchase. Even ebay sellers rarely compete well vs Amazon except for ultra cheap stuff straight from Hong Kong. Their only real failure is they are incompetent at vetting reviews, and that forces me to vet every single product on fakespot.com.
I don't know much about what it means by 'points above treasuries', is there a reason they say it like that? I mean, my savings account is like 1.15% interest. Hell, my video card is like 60% apy. :)
A variable is here. It is a number. "A positive integer between two and four." It is very dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Might be going offtopic, but I thought anyone could see the future if they ate spice till their eyes turned black. The problem was that such people tended to create serious problems by going for selfish ends, short term gains, and stifling potential by avoiding risk.
Psionics are traditionally allowable in soft sci-fi, for about the same reasons ftl travel is. Without them you're pretty much limited to predictive or novelty sci-fi. I'm not saying those are be bad, don't spread any rumors that I don't like Primer, but it's still hard to have an epic scale without them. Maybe Dark Sky Legion.
That makes me uncomfortable! I demand you be banned or I won't post here anymore!
Woman isn't an adjective.
Memos and internet posts are at most putting a disposable pamphlet on a shelf, not standing in front of a crowd and yelling. I hate that stupid "our forums are a podium" argument, and I especially hate when people think going viral deserves an unapologetic firing. I for one can work with religious people who think I'm going to hell, people who love their countries and hold mine in contempt, people who won't shut up about their wealth, and even people who don't think mullets are cool. Those who stayed home were demoralized in the sense that they were miffed and felt like expressing such in the most passive-aggressive way possible. It is....very unfortunate that they opposed sexism by behaving so sullenly. Women is not an adjective.
No, it doesn't make it better. This is the same species of excuse that companies use to deny pensions: Just point out in performance reviews the day to day policy violations that every employee in every company engages in to actually do their jobs. In this case, just find a couple of places where his language steps over the line a little because he didn't pay a proof reader to go over it. Write a ten page memo about the very real challenges faced when one growing up in...say...hispanic culture and I bet I could find a reason to fire you under google's company policy.
I admit I should be careful when saying "Highest End", so what I meant was the Ryzen Threadripper 1950X.
I read multiple sites saying 180 for AMD's highest end chip. What's your sauce?
From what I've read, the TDP of AMD's current chips is very acceptable, perhaps even better than Intel's given they measure it differently. Time will tell, but it seems like you won't eat ten times the cost savings of the AMD chip in terms of electrical waste with this lineup. I just wish the chipset supported nvme raid.
There was an article a while back about Ultima Online gold being worth more than the Viatnamese Dong. Of course, that was more about an increase in the value of fantasy currency, whereas this is about the bolivar becoming a fantasy currency. Also everyone says the Dong has been performing well. It has consistently grown as it matures.