Fair call, makes sense, how hard is a Note 7 flat edition then? Seriously. Bastard decision by some goon. Reminds me of the gloss finish laptop displays, it's bloody awful but it's the cool new fad.
I've whined about this across multiple sites in the hopes some fuckwit from Samsung reads it, (chances 0.01%) but if they are going to up the pace on the S8 then for goodness sakes make an S8+ edition in 5.7" or larger.
Some of "Note fans" myself included, like the big phone, I couldn't give a shit about the stylus. I know some people do, great, let them keep the Note series. For me though, give me that cubic half an inch (??) more battery please or processing speed. The Pen in my Note 2 and Note 5 is effectively useless to me.
Oh and the Note 7?I would've got one, except you stubborn assholes insisted on a curved display ONLY, yeah real smart move there, aesthetrics over usability. Light reflecting off the corners. Accidental palm press of the corners Image being distorted around the corners Slightly less real estate. More difficult to protect the screen with a glass or plastic protector Did I mention the accidental presses?
Seriously curved is a stupid gimmick. Saved me over $500 US though. I got a used Note 5 unlocked in ridiculously good condition for about $380 US.
Bonus points: The ONE TIME Apple fans are a little disillusioned over headphone jacks, Samsung bone it up REAL bad. Honestly as a Samsung fan, good. I heard Apple is playing second fiddle to Samsung lately, I hope Apple give them a pounding so they get their idiot heads in order.
I saw someone on twitter ask Benson Leung to test but he doesn't have a Note 7 USB-C cable.
USB-C being a real mess of a standard, it'd be great if people followed it to the letter but so far the past 2 or 3 years has been a shambles of risk and potentially fried devices.
I'm very close to 40. When I was a kid I watched reruns of ToS on TV and some of my dads VHS tapes he got suckered into buying at $30 a pop from some subscription, with only 3 eps per tape. I loved it and I enjoyed sporadically watching TnG as it aired. Eventually I became a dumb angsty later teen and thought Star Wars was what's cool and Trek was dumb / lame.
As I've gotten older (well 20 years later) and every god damned movie and TV show has taken on a "dark edgey tone" and I've finally started to not give a shit if someone calls me a dork! or nerd! I can accept Star Trek as god damn cool, because it was so out there, it's camp, it's silly, it's great. The humour can be fantastic and the nerdiness I don't need to feel ashamed about. When Star Trek is funny I laugh with it, when it's bad I laugh with it "oh that silly old Star Trek!"
At the core of Star Trek though is that Roddenberry philosophy of an almost utopian future. I can respect that, more and more as I age. As I see the world around me slip in to eventual chaos, the environment becoming a disgrace, capitalism, greed and globalization becoming more intense, the world is becoming a very very dark place and I think it's not going to end well, Star Trek is a welcome, fantasy relief of what would happen if almost all humans all did the right thing, for humanity and the universe not just for themselves.
Heck when I see a 1966 show talk in metres and kilometres and not have smoking on the show despite the lost potential revenue from product placement because that's how it would be in the utopian future, I can see why Gene is so lauded as a visionary. A great show that I'm finally proud to say I'm a big fan of.
Furthermore they didn't add fucking wireless charging (WHAT?) that would've solved this issue. It's ridiculous.
If they were smart, the wireless mat would charge the phone and then you plug your airpod headphone things into their case, into the bottom of the phone and the *phone itself* will charge your headphones for the day.
You are absolutely correct, everything you outline is WHY I got into console "plug, play, forget" simple gaming. I was sick of reading, tweaking and testing. Now I'm still going to have to read articles to see things which make me pang for an upgrade.
I like knowing I own the best possible (for that platform) for 4 to 7 years, it's great. No stress, no fuss. Sure game X might be barely diff on the new model but perhaps game Y will have significant frame drops on the old model or it'll have really noticeable graphics improvements on the new model.
Based on this move by Sony and MS I've done the unthinkable and sold my PS4 (finally got rid of it last week) I'll play the giant pile of games I skipped on my PS3 and ignore the PS4 for the time being, perhaps there will be a "game of the year" edition console eventually. Either way I'm saving money being a generation behind.
Really loved the Itaipu damn engineering documentary I saw years ago, might be Build it Bigger or MegaStructures or something - big god damned damn, pretty impressive. (Isn't the Chinese one now operational and bigger or no?)
Do I give your post recognition for being mostly on point, or do I completely freak out at another example of one of those very weird uses of "anymore"? Sorry it's too jarring. Stop that, you're doing it wrong.
Anymore is only interchangeable with nowadays SOMETIMES not all the time.
It needs to be faster and more stable, that's it. That will solve things. Chrome (with a single tab) is quite damn fast, really fast and generally quite stable.
I quite dislike Chrome for other reasons but it is fast. I have a fresh install of FF Nightly on here, on a fresh install of Windows, hoping to get some snappy performance, last night at only 10 tabs this thing dropped to atrocious levels of speed, the fluctuations in performance is crazy. I've got 4 cores and 16GB use it wisely, use as much as you like as far as I'm concerned but when I click something, damn well make it react, instantly.
"Apple, Samsung Capture All Of Industry's Smartphone Profits"
Who is "Industry's" What company is "Industry"? If you said "the Industry's" I could assume you meant the smartphone industry since that was the topic but just "industry's"?
"Apple, Samsung Capture All Of the Smartphone Industry's Profits",.....solved.
From my understanding this guy is correct. The rumours go, that the guy who did the shooting deliberately smashed to pieces his personal phone and left his WORK iphone in his drawer / house or something.
I imagine law enforcement would want to check the thing but it was always likely to have very little on it.
Oh one more thing, it's fucking ironic that I only watched TnG finally for the first time 18 months ago and the whole time I felt sorry for Wil and thought "man he's really not that bad at all, people just wanted someone to hate on"
GGautoblock script (and similar "share my list") items are frankly, ridiculous.
Once you're flagged on such things, you're in it for life, perpetually shared as a "harasser" to people across the internet, regardless what your initial infraction was.
I replied to a 'famous' satirical tweeter (The Riker Googling account) who was making a joke about Wil Wheatons sex tape, I CC'd will in on my joke, my _first ever tweet to Wil_ if I recall I said "I loved one night in Wheaton" or "I loved one night in Crusher" something like that.
BAM Wheaton who is seemingly ashamed as fuck of his past as Crusher (mostly due to Trek fans giving him a hard time as a kid) not only blocked me but of course added me to his list of 11,000 blocked accounts, which he actively promotes sharing.
I am now blocked by tens of hundreds of people I don't know, for reasons _they don't fucking know!_ but apparently I'm in Wheatons "toxic" list. What if we have something in common and I would have stumbled across them to discuss something? We clearly have an interest in Star Trek. What if I make a product they'd like that they miss out on (and I miss their sale) because I'm blocked by them
ALL due to the mentality of groupthink "share my list, share my list!!!!! omg *THESE* people are bad!!!"
Nope, GG Autoblocker and similar 'bad people' list sharing services are utterly ridiculous and if you look at Wheatons pinned tweet you'll see dozens of cases of other people responding to strangers / him disappointed that they too are now branded as bad and can't talk to a heap of people.
Someone has already pointed that out to me and I've accepted it could be total rubbish. This doesn't particularly negate the rest of my post at all. (Also, I didn't accuse the guy who pointed it out to be anything either to boot)
Certainly possible he's full of shit, totally. Regardless things happen on both sides of this which is total dogshit lies but it seems only one side is apparently infallible, which is ridiculous.
Regardless of your stance on the situation itself, my point was that it revealed to me just how the media work, they all seem to copy each other,run with the groupthink and any analysis,questioning, critical opinions, in almost ANY capacity are discarded as "hate speech" and the person branded as not with listening to.
I don't particular want to reference it either, specifically due to dismissive replies like yours. however it did appear to be the awakening bell for a large quantity of quantity of people to at least try and investigate things and not blindly trust everything written.
Ever since gamergate my concepts of fair reporting, harassment, he said she said have been seriously adjusted. There was totally horrible people, saying horrible things, but it seems only one side of the story is ever reported, making people more and more jaded and cynical of the media.
Stories such as Linus specifically having to avoid spending any time with females one on one as he's been "targeted for take down". Situations of outright false claims against people, proven clear and still people write incorrect articles about them, deliberately.
This story may well be correct, however in the very very least, I will no longer blindly leap into "condemn them, silence them!!" mode as is intended. I am particularly skeptical when a "harassment policy" is put in place too, as those have been going a general indicator of people "meddling in the name of righteousness " regardless if there was even a problem in the first place.
Be wise and if you read the article at least try to find multiple sources and preferably the other side of the story. At least GG taught me take stuff on the Internet with again of salt finally.
P.s off topic , I used to see posts whining about how awful Slashdot mobile is, I thought the people were exaggerating. They aren't, it's a warcrime.
As someone who is well past 20, I also thought, what the fuck? Do they really call it a side hussle? Generally a side hussle sounds dodgy to me. Either I'm out of the loop and that's the lingo the young folk are using, or alternatively, it's a load of bullshit written by a journo who thinks they 'get' young people.
Apple should adopt the 2.5mm Blackberry (and one of the Nintendo products?) smaller headphone jack.
Start a trend, get it moving, I don't mind us all ditching 3.5mm over the next decade for a smaller, essentially identical jack if that's what's needed. Ditching it entirely though is stupid.
Also this ridiculous headphone standard (start / stop / vol up / vol down) needed to be bloody universal, the fact it wasn't is criminal.
Shouldn't you pretty much always over-compensate and install capacity for more renewal than regular plants? Plus seriously consider diversifying power generation methods? (Solar / Wave / Solar tower etc?)
I assume they didn't do one of these things, because mathematically and logically, once you get to a certain point with renewable energy, it should reach a point where it's not only paying / paid for itself but existing infrastructure subsidises the new stuff coming in.
I'm desperately trying to let go of my materialism or at least reduce it. It's difficult but I'm getting there. There's so many "bargains" so many 2 for 1s so many "must have new things" it's endless and maybe it's my imagination but since I've been an adult it's gotten worse, about 20 years, around the same length of time as the internet really.
A much bigger pool of "joneses" to compete with for a start, globalisation reducing the cost of producing goods (for other consequences) and of course the spreading of information and product ideas much faster.
The core essentials are going up (housing, utilitities, medicine, transport, decent quality healthy food) the cheap bullshit frivolous garbage is getting cheaper and it's all non recyclable shit, dug up from the ground that should save the middle man and go direct to the garbage dump.
We're fucking the planet for it too, we're super ultra combo fucked and there's no getting out of it. Within 30 years, things are going to be massively different.
Less customers to buy stuff though, because more and more and more and more people are either jobless or have less disposable income due to this bullshit and it keeps going on and it's starting to get bad.
I'm convinced we're on the tipping point, real close to it. The division between the rich and the poor is about to be truly exposed soon.
Your money has less buying power than it used to, we can get $6 toasters now but if your son needs an operation it's $100,000. A house is ridiculously expensive but you can get a meal at a fast food place for $2.
Certain goods haven't gotten more expensive, it's that other goods have slowly gotten cheaper. Cheap chinese goods, or goods which were over priced to begin with.
Globalism is causing issues, inflation is causing issues. You need only look at the 60s and 70s families with 1 breadwinner for the household yet a reasonable house and vehicle was purchased with that income, maybe a TV and what have you.
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Fair call, makes sense, how hard is a Note 7 flat edition then? Seriously. Bastard decision by some goon. Reminds me of the gloss finish laptop displays, it's bloody awful but it's the cool new fad.
I've whined about this across multiple sites in the hopes some fuckwit from Samsung reads it, (chances 0.01%) but if they are going to up the pace on the S8 then for goodness sakes make an S8+ edition in 5.7" or larger.
Some of "Note fans" myself included, like the big phone, I couldn't give a shit about the stylus. I know some people do, great, let them keep the Note series. For me though, give me that cubic half an inch (??) more battery please or processing speed. The Pen in my Note 2 and Note 5 is effectively useless to me.
Oh and the Note 7?I would've got one, except you stubborn assholes insisted on a curved display ONLY, yeah real smart move there, aesthetrics over usability.
Light reflecting off the corners.
Accidental palm press of the corners
Image being distorted around the corners
Slightly less real estate.
More difficult to protect the screen with a glass or plastic protector
Did I mention the accidental presses?
Seriously curved is a stupid gimmick. Saved me over $500 US though. I got a used Note 5 unlocked in ridiculously good condition for about $380 US.
Bonus points: The ONE TIME Apple fans are a little disillusioned over headphone jacks, Samsung bone it up REAL bad. Honestly as a Samsung fan, good. I heard Apple is playing second fiddle to Samsung lately, I hope Apple give them a pounding so they get their idiot heads in order.
I dunno I'd be tempted to have not told anyone about that. It'll be closed off in no time now.
I saw someone on twitter ask Benson Leung to test but he doesn't have a Note 7 USB-C cable.
USB-C being a real mess of a standard, it'd be great if people followed it to the letter but so far the past 2 or 3 years has been a shambles of risk and potentially fried devices.
I'm very close to 40.
When I was a kid I watched reruns of ToS on TV and some of my dads VHS tapes he got suckered into buying at $30 a pop from some subscription, with only 3 eps per tape. I loved it and I enjoyed sporadically watching TnG as it aired.
Eventually I became a dumb angsty later teen and thought Star Wars was what's cool and Trek was dumb / lame.
As I've gotten older (well 20 years later) and every god damned movie and TV show has taken on a "dark edgey tone" and I've finally started to not give a shit if someone calls me a dork! or nerd! I can accept Star Trek as god damn cool, because it was so out there, it's camp, it's silly, it's great. The humour can be fantastic and the nerdiness I don't need to feel ashamed about. When Star Trek is funny I laugh with it, when it's bad I laugh with it "oh that silly old Star Trek!"
At the core of Star Trek though is that Roddenberry philosophy of an almost utopian future. I can respect that, more and more as I age. As I see the world around me slip in to eventual chaos, the environment becoming a disgrace, capitalism, greed and globalization becoming more intense, the world is becoming a very very dark place and I think it's not going to end well, Star Trek is a welcome, fantasy relief of what would happen if almost all humans all did the right thing, for humanity and the universe not just for themselves.
Heck when I see a 1966 show talk in metres and kilometres and not have smoking on the show despite the lost potential revenue from product placement because that's how it would be in the utopian future, I can see why Gene is so lauded as a visionary.
A great show that I'm finally proud to say I'm a big fan of.
Furthermore they didn't add fucking wireless charging (WHAT?) that would've solved this issue. It's ridiculous.
If they were smart, the wireless mat would charge the phone and then you plug your airpod headphone things into their case, into the bottom of the phone and the *phone itself* will charge your headphones for the day.
You are absolutely correct, everything you outline is WHY I got into console "plug, play, forget" simple gaming. I was sick of reading, tweaking and testing. Now I'm still going to have to read articles to see things which make me pang for an upgrade.
I like knowing I own the best possible (for that platform) for 4 to 7 years, it's great. No stress, no fuss.
Sure game X might be barely diff on the new model but perhaps game Y will have significant frame drops on the old model or it'll have really noticeable graphics improvements on the new model.
Based on this move by Sony and MS I've done the unthinkable and sold my PS4 (finally got rid of it last week) I'll play the giant pile of games I skipped on my PS3 and ignore the PS4 for the time being, perhaps there will be a "game of the year" edition console eventually. Either way I'm saving money being a generation behind.
Really loved the Itaipu damn engineering documentary I saw years ago, might be Build it Bigger or MegaStructures or something - big god damned damn, pretty impressive. (Isn't the Chinese one now operational and bigger or no?)
Do I give your post recognition for being mostly on point, or do I completely freak out at another example of one of those very weird uses of "anymore"? Sorry it's too jarring. Stop that, you're doing it wrong.
Anymore is only interchangeable with nowadays SOMETIMES not all the time.
It needs to be faster and more stable, that's it. That will solve things.
Chrome (with a single tab) is quite damn fast, really fast and generally quite stable.
I quite dislike Chrome for other reasons but it is fast.
I have a fresh install of FF Nightly on here, on a fresh install of Windows, hoping to get some snappy performance, last night at only 10 tabs this thing dropped to atrocious levels of speed, the fluctuations in performance is crazy. I've got 4 cores and 16GB use it wisely, use as much as you like as far as I'm concerned but when I click something, damn well make it react, instantly.
"Apple, Samsung Capture All Of Industry's Smartphone Profits"
Who is "Industry's" What company is "Industry"?
If you said "the Industry's" I could assume you meant the smartphone industry since that was the topic but just "industry's"?
"Apple, Samsung Capture All Of the Smartphone Industry's Profits" ,.....solved.
From my understanding this guy is correct. The rumours go, that the guy who did the shooting deliberately smashed to pieces his personal phone and left his WORK iphone in his drawer / house or something.
I imagine law enforcement would want to check the thing but it was always likely to have very little on it.
Oh one more thing, it's fucking ironic that I only watched TnG finally for the first time 18 months ago and the whole time I felt sorry for Wil and thought "man he's really not that bad at all, people just wanted someone to hate on"
He's become a preachy little shit.
GGautoblock script (and similar "share my list") items are frankly, ridiculous.
Once you're flagged on such things, you're in it for life, perpetually shared as a "harasser" to people across the internet, regardless what your initial infraction was.
I replied to a 'famous' satirical tweeter (The Riker Googling account) who was making a joke about Wil Wheatons sex tape, I CC'd will in on my joke, my _first ever tweet to Wil_ if I recall I said "I loved one night in Wheaton" or "I loved one night in Crusher" something like that.
BAM Wheaton who is seemingly ashamed as fuck of his past as Crusher (mostly due to Trek fans giving him a hard time as a kid) not only blocked me but of course added me to his list of 11,000 blocked accounts, which he actively promotes sharing.
I am now blocked by tens of hundreds of people I don't know, for reasons _they don't fucking know!_ but apparently I'm in Wheatons "toxic" list.
What if we have something in common and I would have stumbled across them to discuss something? We clearly have an interest in Star Trek. What if I make a product they'd like that they miss out on (and I miss their sale) because I'm blocked by them
ALL due to the mentality of groupthink "share my list, share my list!!!!! omg *THESE* people are bad!!!"
Nope, GG Autoblocker and similar 'bad people' list sharing services are utterly ridiculous and if you look at Wheatons pinned tweet you'll see dozens of cases of other people responding to strangers / him disappointed that they too are now branded as bad and can't talk to a heap of people.
Screw Wheatons insecurity and fuck those lists.
Someone has already pointed that out to me and I've accepted it could be total rubbish. This doesn't particularly negate the rest of my post at all. (Also, I didn't accuse the guy who pointed it out to be anything either to boot)
My point still stands entirely.
Certainly possible he's full of shit, totally. Regardless things happen on both sides of this which is total dogshit lies but it seems only one side is apparently infallible, which is ridiculous.
https://www.google.com.au/sear...
I actually heard it on here.
Regardless of your stance on the situation itself, my point was that it revealed to me just how the media work, they all seem to copy each other,run with the groupthink and any analysis,questioning, critical opinions, in almost ANY capacity are discarded as "hate speech" and the person branded as not with listening to.
I don't particular want to reference it either, specifically due to dismissive replies like yours. however it did appear to be the awakening bell for a large quantity of quantity of people to at least try and investigate things and not blindly trust everything written.
Ever since gamergate my concepts of fair reporting, harassment, he said she said have been seriously adjusted. There was totally horrible people, saying horrible things, but it seems only one side of the story is ever reported, making people more and more jaded and cynical of the media.
Stories such as Linus specifically having to avoid spending any time with females one on one as he's been "targeted for take down". Situations of outright false claims against people, proven clear and still people write incorrect articles about them, deliberately.
This story may well be correct, however in the very very least, I will no longer blindly leap into "condemn them, silence them!!" mode as is intended. I am particularly skeptical when a "harassment policy" is put in place too, as those have been going a general indicator of people "meddling in the name of righteousness " regardless if there was even a problem in the first place.
Be wise and if you read the article at least try to find multiple sources and preferably the other side of the story. At least GG taught me take stuff on the Internet with again of salt finally.
P.s off topic , I used to see posts whining about how awful Slashdot mobile is, I thought the people were exaggerating. They aren't, it's a warcrime.
As someone who is well past 20, I also thought, what the fuck? Do they really call it a side hussle? Generally a side hussle sounds dodgy to me.
Either I'm out of the loop and that's the lingo the young folk are using, or alternatively, it's a load of bullshit written by a journo who thinks they 'get' young people.
Apple should adopt the 2.5mm Blackberry (and one of the Nintendo products?) smaller headphone jack.
Start a trend, get it moving, I don't mind us all ditching 3.5mm over the next decade for a smaller, essentially identical jack if that's what's needed. Ditching it entirely though is stupid.
Also this ridiculous headphone standard (start / stop / vol up / vol down) needed to be bloody universal, the fact it wasn't is criminal.
Shouldn't you pretty much always over-compensate and install capacity for more renewal than regular plants? Plus seriously consider diversifying power generation methods? (Solar / Wave / Solar tower etc?)
I assume they didn't do one of these things, because mathematically and logically, once you get to a certain point with renewable energy, it should reach a point where it's not only paying / paid for itself but existing infrastructure subsidises the new stuff coming in.
Sad to see something like this botched.
I'm desperately trying to let go of my materialism or at least reduce it. It's difficult but I'm getting there.
There's so many "bargains" so many 2 for 1s so many "must have new things" it's endless and maybe it's my imagination but since I've been an adult it's gotten worse, about 20 years, around the same length of time as the internet really.
A much bigger pool of "joneses" to compete with for a start, globalisation reducing the cost of producing goods (for other consequences) and of course the spreading of information and product ideas much faster.
The core essentials are going up (housing, utilitities, medicine, transport, decent quality healthy food) the cheap bullshit frivolous garbage is getting cheaper and it's all non recyclable shit, dug up from the ground that should save the middle man and go direct to the garbage dump.
We're fucking the planet for it too, we're super ultra combo fucked and there's no getting out of it. Within 30 years, things are going to be massively different.
Less customers to buy stuff though, because more and more and more and more people are either jobless or have less disposable income due to this bullshit and it keeps going on and it's starting to get bad.
I'm convinced we're on the tipping point, real close to it. The division between the rich and the poor is about to be truly exposed soon.
Your money has less buying power than it used to, we can get $6 toasters now but if your son needs an operation it's $100,000. A house is ridiculously expensive but you can get a meal at a fast food place for $2.
Certain goods haven't gotten more expensive, it's that other goods have slowly gotten cheaper. Cheap chinese goods, or goods which were over priced to begin with.
Globalism is causing issues, inflation is causing issues. You need only look at the 60s and 70s families with 1 breadwinner for the household yet a reasonable house and vehicle was purchased with that income, maybe a TV and what have you.