AMD / ATI got a huge influx of sales thanks to BitCoin mining 3 or 4 years ago, it lasted for 12 to 24 months, sales figures perked up, manufacturing probably had to be increased, cost of procurement of components maybe slightly dropped - all kinds of factors, due to an artificial increase in sales. When mining with GPU's became a poor option, sales returned to normal, just for gamers. Many high end used cards hit the market, further reducing sales.
This was positive and negative for AMD - so if a power company goes and spends an inordinate amount of money increasing production, for something which may well dry up, then it's a risk which they are factoring in. In some ways, yes it's unfair but it is logical. Also, the market will bare what can or can't be charged / paid. They'll either deal with the rise in cost or walk.
It's how you write it, not what you write. This place, like many will often give a +5 to a long post, almost regardless of the content. I've posted here over a decade with a heap of +5's.
Add some passion and swearing and your opinion is magically invalidated. Regardless I stand by the post entirely.
"But, more important than that: Google definitely should put more pressure on manufacturers and carriers to keep the phones' OS updated for longer."
Totally completely agreed. I don't know how to program but god damnit I wish there was a way the fundamental crap underneath could be updated, without needing approval from HTC / Samsung / LG AND then local carriers as well, it's ridiclous.
Apples system is simply better in that regard. My iphone 5s is right up to date, it's an older phone and unlike some claim, it's still performing well to boot. Whereas my Galaxy Note 2? Updates have completely died (admitedly it's a bit of an old phone now, but much newer phones get ignored too)
It'd be nice if the unskinned version of Android was available for all handsets. Even though I actually don't mind TouchWiz, be nice to have that option. Honestly, in my opinion, Google / Android has done very little positive in the past 18 months. Most of the changes have frankly, been poor / annoying / too similar to apple.
"For example, many users are frustrated by Samsung's TouchWiz skin"
Are they? Are you sure about this? Have you seen the sales numbers for Samsung devices? What percentage of users actually even KNOW what the hell TouchWiz is? How many of those whining about TouchWiz have actually USED a Samsung phone for more than 20 minutes?
It's not perfect, but considering what stock google looked and felt like for the first few years (actually most of them) it's VASTLY superior. Handy shortcuts like swipe left on a name to dial, swipe right on a name to SMS them The dialler menu didn't look bland, blank, non shaded, no dividing lines to differentiate where buttons begin an end. Totally flat, bullshit "clean" look, utterly awful. This was their in call screen at one point http://www.iwillfolo.com/wordp... Look at it. LOOK NO fucking text labels, what does what? The hangup button is DIRECTLY TOUCHING all the other buttons you may want to press while on call. It'S HUGE and easily accidentally hit. Did I mention the lack of dividing lines for the buttons? and again, no text labels? What does what? You can GUESS for most but with text you KNOW. Utterly atrocious.
No TouchWiz isn't an abomination at all, it's got a couple of small issues but it's vastly superior to the stock google experience, HOWEVER nerds on forums love to parrot what other clued up nerds say. It's literally "cool to hate TouchWiz" The amount of people I've seen bag touchwiz who own an Apple phone or HTC and never a Samsung is mind boggling.
This is very similar to the HTC and Apple dipshits saying "Samsung plasticky yuck yuck!!!" "Samsung feels cheap!" these morons don't own a Samsung phone -but Samsung changed their phones for these dipshits, despite them never owning a Samsung or being happy with their HTC. Well congrats fuckstains, now ALL the phones are the same, metal body, super rigid, easier to crack. All my plastic based Samsungs have been super light, marginally flexible and less likely to take damage when dropped due to less inertia, slightly more give. But all phones are the same now and the goons who got their way won't change, they were Apple / HTC fans in the first place.
So help me fucking god jesus christ lord in heaven if you assholes whine about the physical home button and I lose that, I'll go ballistic. Can we at least keep that? Please? I do NOT want a button I can't put my finger on, without it recognising it as a press.
Can I just say, thank you to slashdot / members of slashdot, specifically you. I'm INCREDIBLY FUCKING SICK of seeing articles on the internet about something unique, interesting, bad, good, whatever - where you'd expect some more information / pictures but there's nothing goddamn provided.
Fuck the internet is filled with copy and paste lazy bullshit, thanks for digging up some actual info.
Can someone set me straight here, I'm not a science man but if I'm reading that right, the difference in power generated between the old ones and the modern ones seems vastly improved, are those old ones quite inefficient?
Regardless if Schedkdkkhkhrelli or whatever his name is a tool, does/. use "Pharma Bro" in a headline now? I HATE to be an ageist dick, but which sub 25 y/o redditor copied and pasted shit they saw there, here?
I actually follow some idiotic entertainment news but I don't expect it here. You've also not said who Ghostface toolbag is and why they are 'beefing' (Note: we don't care) but you could've at least explained the purchase of the album, you didn't even do that.
We don't care. Someone post some of the following things PLEASE
Major security exploits. Upcoming linux kernel improvements Upcoming android improvements. SSD and storage technology leaps / improvements. Renewable energy articles. Self driving car articles. How to code guides. Future of working in tech, how to deal with outsourcing. Hell, even "list of underrated, surprisingly cool utilities and programs, for Windows even" would be better.
Here's some random Windows bullshit from me to make up for this atrocious article. Duplicate Cleaner Pro is still the best dupe file checker I've found (the UK one) Firefox Nightly still isn't particularly fast for a multi-threaded version of Firefox. If you use Firefox nightly, be prepared to also run dev / nightly builds of your plugins, otherwise odd bugs occur (yet surprisingly FF nightly is shockingly stable) Paint.NET is surprisingly good for a free graphics app. "Remove empty directories" is good for cleaning up empty directories on your drive Display Fusion is still without question the best multi-monitor app out there, if you thought Ultramon was useful, you ain't seen shit. FreeNAS 9.3 is still humming along nicely for me, boy do I wish someone would release a 6+ TB SSD which is cheap though, spinning disks are hot and noisy (and I mean a semi- cheap one, even if it's slower)
That's all I got, it's better than fucking Martin SHSKSSKHSKRELLI articles.
A HUGE amount of Americans have absoloutely no idea in any level of how expensive and difficult it is to maintain a quality, low to mid bandwidth cellphone network, no CONCEPT at all.
I've been seeing angry fist shaking posts about it for over a decade, "they have the audacity to charge me more than $10 for unlimited data!?!?!!?" kind of ridiculous bullshit.
Obviously companies will try to squeeze you where they can but the amount of dumb shit people do on their phone in the US is mind boggling. I'm surprised ATT is making any money with the grandfathered iPhone unlimited plans just milking many MANY gbs a month of data across their network
They seem to think that it's exactly the same as a cabled network (fibre / dsl) for maintenance and upgrades, no goddamn idea.
The initial AMD Fury card was a bit of a disappointment, I mean it is quite fast for it's size and it's also quite fast for only 4GB memory onboard, but it didn't thrash the nvidia 980Ti it competes with, despite being a newer technology with more memory bandwidth. I haven't investigated (nor do I care to) as to/precisely/ why, but it may be the AMD GPU itself is simply not powerful enough to use that bandwidth effectively or the 4GB holding it back due to texture size.
*THAT* being said, that's phase 1 of HBM, phase 2 is about to kick in this year for both AMD and nvidia and premium video cards will be utilising this technology in the high end for certain.
The other thing that's frequently mentioned when these are brought up is that this on chip (or is it on package?) memory is going to be utilised in some of AMD's mid tier APU chips (the CPU / GPU combined ones) which should make some onboard video surprisingly damn good in the coming future. Perhaps not dedicated GPU good but may compete well with low to mid tier dedicated GPU's now.
Also for compute functions for scientific stuff or whatever people use all that number crunching stuff with dedicated GPU's for, this will be far better. (Apparently it's similar to Intel Xeon Phi or some such? (Knights landing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I guess ultimately what has enabled this technology to exist is stacking ram (?) since they can fit 4GB of memory inside a single, very small chip. (Here you can see the existing stuff, 1GB in a single chip, the 4 smaller chips around the GPU) https://www.google.com.au/sear... soon to be 4GB in presumably the same physical space and 8GB shortly
It looks to me like stacked ram is the future in many things (SSD capacity booming due to this) It's all pretty exciting for the future of bandwidth, 1TB/s is pretty nice and I imagine it'll only go up from there. (I read some theories recently about 'stacking' CPU's too, although the heat may become an issue? but if they can lay out 48 layers of memory inside a chunk of silicon, why not lay out multiple processors) however that's for the smart people to figure out. Please read the replies to this post as I don't follow as closely as I used to and several pieces of information here might be slightly off.
I've read many many posts indicating that for low bitrate stuff, 265 is doing very well but for the higher end stuff, it's only marginally better than 265 (more like 25%) That's an approximation, I don't recall the exact figure, but I do recall it being significantly less than 50%
This is pretty disappointing, perhaps other tweaks and improvements will be eeked out over time, but as it stands, I can't see a 3TB movies folder being recompressed to 1.5TB with the same quality at this point in time. (I know that would be lossy to lossy and stupid, that's not the intention of the post)
To my knowledge this update shouldn't be touching machines on a domain? It's not even about the IT group being bad, it simply isn't (supposed) to target domain attached machines.
I just checked a couple of the machines on a small domain I manage, no sign of the files on the workstations.
I'm getting nagged on my HP Microservers (N36, N40, N54L) and I know for a fact if you don't have the latest BIOS update on them, the network card doesn't work. I know someone who's done it and I've seen the "why doesn't server 2012 work on my HP Microserver" articles.
I sure as shit hope these things don't auto install this thing.
This is an actually interesting article. 1, people ACTUALLY genuinely working on large optical disks (instead of another "theoretically, we could do 1TB discs!" post, which I've been seeing for a decade 2, some kind of fairly cool optical disc changing system - aren't you interested in the file system? What about redundancy? The article indicated it's significantly lower power. What about long term reliability.
Any sign of the bruises / beating? When did it occur? I'm curious wtf happened and when it happened Also, nothing on his web page, did someone revert it? Anyone got a cached copy?
Have you people never heard of soaking things? Time and water heals all wounds - or at least makes cleaning dishes dead easy.
I realise dishwashers are a lazy device, I get that, I wish I had one - but if you want it done right, soak the ass nasty dishes properly before hand or,... shock horror,................... rinse them right after using them! No nee d to even soak then
Further to this, companies like Apple are considering re-engineering the bloody 3.5mm standard headphone socket, just to make the phones, sub 7.5mm.
We get it, we like a lighter, sleeker phone, WITHIN REASON. I don't want to be a typical hardware neckbeard who says "Make it an inch thick and last a week!!" but just once, just ONCE when they figure out a way to shave 1 or 2mm off a phone, I wish they would and then put it right fucking back with battery. I am FINE with a phone 9mm or less, if the thing lasts 36 SOLID hours even. This 12 hour thing is a joke (with actual usage)
Since Laptops and Mobile phones became more popular (sorry, "cell phones") these articles have been at least 5/year for over a decade.
I am under the impression batteries now, ARE much better than a decade ago for storage density, but I have no idea if a SINGLE piece of "milestone huge improvement" technology from these articles were used or not.
I know your post is a very common theme in these news articles but... yeah I'm completely sick of them at this point, "WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO HAVE AMAZING BATTERIES, LEAPS AND BOUNDS AHEAD!!!... one day...."
After a decade of this... cmon now people, just stop.
It's all quite straightforward. The Judge demanded that they ensure the penalties fit the crime basically - and they were unwilling to do so, so he threw it out.
That could be totally wrong, I didn't read the article, I read some twitter summaries (yeah, I know) but that's the jist I got from it. Reasonable enough, very surprising and fantastic someone applied some common sense.
So I'm a bit of a Firefox loony, maybe visible from my post history.
I've been a "hardcore" web browser, ever since using NetCaptor (a shell replacement for Internet Explorer which offered tabbed browsing, IIRC the first tabbed browser) Anyhow, I like Chrome performance but GREATLY dislike my ability to customise it, specifically tab control (which tab will the app go to if I close the current tab, left or right? will a new tab open in the foreground? what if I middle click a URL, foreground / background?)
I've loved FireFox for years, but the 32bit builds are frankly, unstable dog shit for me, crash extremely regularly. I switched maybe 12 to 18 months back to WaterFox, some dude compiling up the 64bit code of FireFox and packaging it. It runs exactly the same as FireFox for me, all plugins work and it virtually never crashes. Problem is, as an "extreme" browser (anywhere from 30 to 300 tabs open at a time) FireFox / WaterFox can get slow. REALLY slow, CTRL-TAB to change tab? Can take.5 to 3 seconds. Clicking some buttons can be slow to react. Generally after a few seconds of switching into a tab though, it responds/mostly/ ok (Don't even think about Flash Video in a tab though, I just put that into Chrome and drop it on to a second monitor) I just checked, I currently have 393 tabs open (working on getting this down) of all the things I'm currently reading / researching etc.
So to get to the point,..... I was hoping that E10s (Electrolysis, multi-threaded Firefox) would fix my problems, when it finally got better. I installed said nightly builds and I have to report that sadly. The performance difference between WaterFox and standard 64bit FF Nightly 45 (with E10s) virtually identical to one and other. I've confirmed E10s is on and being a nerd but without programming skills, I kind of blindly, optimistically figured, hey, latest builds, 64bit official, e10s, I bet if anything nightly might be less stable but fast as hell! Not in the slightest, it really is virtually identical:/ the one surprising thing I'd say is it's stable as heck for me. I notice almost no different between WaterFox and Nightly 45. Note: I did try this, with and without my plugins to make FF nice and usable.
For what it's worth, my #1 plugin I can't live without is Tab Mix Plus. That fine control on tab behaviour and the fact I'm an extensive keyboard shortcut guy, makes the browser far, far more usable for me. I'd say I browse between 4 to 12 hours a day, every day.
Please note, I do COMPLETELY realise that running in excess of 30 to 50 tabs is ridiculous, but back 6 years ago, I could do this under FF32 and while it was unstable, the performance of the primary UI for FF was fine. All I want the damn code to do is HIGHLY prioritise the current tab in front of the user and HIGHLY prioritise the ability to switch tabs, preferably the ones nearby (left, right of the active tab) - the process of going between them shouldn't be slow. Considering I've got 4 threads at my disposal here, it's a bit of a shame.
At least it's stable and at least I can control the behaviour and look, how I like. I think Googles stubborn attitude towards Chrome is ghastly, personally.
Honestly, I'm not sure how that post should be classed as flamebait? The guy is quite clearly being a complete troll in the thread, deliberately comparing apples and oranges?...
I can't tell if you're joking or not, but this is a huge Apples / Oranges comparison if ever I've seen one. In 18 months your link would be as foolish as someone advocating a tape drive, instead of a hard disk for a desktop computer.
Also: nothing stopping you using magnetic disks, I have 6 of them in my house operating right now - but 0 of them in my laptop, PS4, PS4, desktop, HTPC.
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AMD / ATI got a huge influx of sales thanks to BitCoin mining 3 or 4 years ago, it lasted for 12 to 24 months, sales figures perked up, manufacturing probably had to be increased, cost of procurement of components maybe slightly dropped - all kinds of factors, due to an artificial increase in sales.
When mining with GPU's became a poor option, sales returned to normal, just for gamers. Many high end used cards hit the market, further reducing sales.
This was positive and negative for AMD - so if a power company goes and spends an inordinate amount of money increasing production, for something which may well dry up, then it's a risk which they are factoring in.
In some ways, yes it's unfair but it is logical. Also, the market will bare what can or can't be charged / paid. They'll either deal with the rise in cost or walk.
It's how you write it, not what you write. This place, like many will often give a +5 to a long post, almost regardless of the content. I've posted here over a decade with a heap of +5's.
Add some passion and swearing and your opinion is magically invalidated. Regardless I stand by the post entirely.
"But, more important than that: Google definitely should put more pressure on manufacturers and carriers to keep the phones' OS updated for longer."
Totally completely agreed. I don't know how to program but god damnit I wish there was a way the fundamental crap underneath could be updated, without needing approval from HTC / Samsung / LG AND then local carriers as well, it's ridiclous.
Apples system is simply better in that regard. My iphone 5s is right up to date, it's an older phone and unlike some claim, it's still performing well to boot. Whereas my Galaxy Note 2? Updates have completely died (admitedly it's a bit of an old phone now, but much newer phones get ignored too)
It'd be nice if the unskinned version of Android was available for all handsets. Even though I actually don't mind TouchWiz, be nice to have that option.
Honestly, in my opinion, Google / Android has done very little positive in the past 18 months. Most of the changes have frankly, been poor / annoying / too similar to apple.
"For example, many users are frustrated by Samsung's TouchWiz skin"
Are they?
Are you sure about this?
Have you seen the sales numbers for Samsung devices?
What percentage of users actually even KNOW what the hell TouchWiz is?
How many of those whining about TouchWiz have actually USED a Samsung phone for more than 20 minutes?
It's not perfect, but considering what stock google looked and felt like for the first few years (actually most of them) it's VASTLY superior. Handy shortcuts like swipe left on a name to dial, swipe right on a name to SMS them
The dialler menu didn't look bland, blank, non shaded, no dividing lines to differentiate where buttons begin an end. Totally flat, bullshit "clean" look, utterly awful.
This was their in call screen at one point
http://www.iwillfolo.com/wordp...
Look at it.
LOOK
NO fucking text labels, what does what?
The hangup button is DIRECTLY TOUCHING all the other buttons you may want to press while on call. It'S HUGE and easily accidentally hit.
Did I mention the lack of dividing lines for the buttons? and again, no text labels? What does what? You can GUESS for most but with text you KNOW.
Utterly atrocious.
No TouchWiz isn't an abomination at all, it's got a couple of small issues but it's vastly superior to the stock google experience, HOWEVER nerds on forums love to parrot what other clued up nerds say. It's literally "cool to hate TouchWiz"
The amount of people I've seen bag touchwiz who own an Apple phone or HTC and never a Samsung is mind boggling.
This is very similar to the HTC and Apple dipshits saying "Samsung plasticky yuck yuck!!!" "Samsung feels cheap!" these morons don't own a Samsung phone -but Samsung changed their phones for these dipshits, despite them never owning a Samsung or being happy with their HTC. Well congrats fuckstains, now ALL the phones are the same, metal body, super rigid, easier to crack.
All my plastic based Samsungs have been super light, marginally flexible and less likely to take damage when dropped due to less inertia, slightly more give. But all phones are the same now and the goons who got their way won't change, they were Apple / HTC fans in the first place.
So help me fucking god jesus christ lord in heaven if you assholes whine about the physical home button and I lose that, I'll go ballistic. Can we at least keep that? Please? I do NOT want a button I can't put my finger on, without it recognising it as a press.
Can I just say, thank you to slashdot / members of slashdot, specifically you.
I'm INCREDIBLY FUCKING SICK of seeing articles on the internet about something unique, interesting, bad, good, whatever - where you'd expect some more information / pictures but there's nothing goddamn provided.
Fuck the internet is filled with copy and paste lazy bullshit, thanks for digging up some actual info.
Can someone set me straight here, I'm not a science man but if I'm reading that right, the difference in power generated between the old ones and the modern ones seems vastly improved, are those old ones quite inefficient?
Regardless if Schedkdkkhkhrelli or whatever his name is a tool, does /. use "Pharma Bro" in a headline now?
I HATE to be an ageist dick, but which sub 25 y/o redditor copied and pasted shit they saw there, here?
I actually follow some idiotic entertainment news but I don't expect it here. You've also not said who Ghostface toolbag is and why they are 'beefing' (Note: we don't care) but you could've at least explained the purchase of the album, you didn't even do that.
We don't care.
Someone post some of the following things PLEASE
Major security exploits.
Upcoming linux kernel improvements
Upcoming android improvements.
SSD and storage technology leaps / improvements.
Renewable energy articles.
Self driving car articles.
How to code guides.
Future of working in tech, how to deal with outsourcing.
Hell, even "list of underrated, surprisingly cool utilities and programs, for Windows even" would be better.
Here's some random Windows bullshit from me to make up for this atrocious article.
Duplicate Cleaner Pro is still the best dupe file checker I've found (the UK one)
Firefox Nightly still isn't particularly fast for a multi-threaded version of Firefox.
If you use Firefox nightly, be prepared to also run dev / nightly builds of your plugins, otherwise odd bugs occur (yet surprisingly FF nightly is shockingly stable)
Paint.NET is surprisingly good for a free graphics app.
"Remove empty directories" is good for cleaning up empty directories on your drive
Display Fusion is still without question the best multi-monitor app out there, if you thought Ultramon was useful, you ain't seen shit.
FreeNAS 9.3 is still humming along nicely for me, boy do I wish someone would release a 6+ TB SSD which is cheap though, spinning disks are hot and noisy (and I mean a semi- cheap one, even if it's slower)
That's all I got, it's better than fucking Martin SHSKSSKHSKRELLI articles.
A HUGE amount of Americans have absoloutely no idea in any level of how expensive and difficult it is to maintain a quality, low to mid bandwidth cellphone network, no CONCEPT at all.
I've been seeing angry fist shaking posts about it for over a decade, "they have the audacity to charge me more than $10 for unlimited data!?!?!!?" kind of ridiculous bullshit.
Obviously companies will try to squeeze you where they can but the amount of dumb shit people do on their phone in the US is mind boggling. I'm surprised ATT is making any money with the grandfathered iPhone unlimited plans just milking many MANY gbs a month of data across their network
They seem to think that it's exactly the same as a cabled network (fibre / dsl) for maintenance and upgrades, no goddamn idea.
The initial AMD Fury card was a bit of a disappointment, I mean it is quite fast for it's size and it's also quite fast for only 4GB memory onboard, but it didn't thrash the nvidia 980Ti it competes with, despite being a newer technology with more memory bandwidth. /precisely/ why, but it may be the AMD GPU itself is simply not powerful enough to use that bandwidth effectively or the 4GB holding it back due to texture size.
I haven't investigated (nor do I care to) as to
*THAT* being said, that's phase 1 of HBM, phase 2 is about to kick in this year for both AMD and nvidia and premium video cards will be utilising this technology in the high end for certain.
The other thing that's frequently mentioned when these are brought up is that this on chip (or is it on package?) memory is going to be utilised in some of AMD's mid tier APU chips (the CPU / GPU combined ones) which should make some onboard video surprisingly damn good in the coming future. Perhaps not dedicated GPU good but may compete well with low to mid tier dedicated GPU's now.
Also for compute functions for scientific stuff or whatever people use all that number crunching stuff with dedicated GPU's for, this will be far better. (Apparently it's similar to Intel Xeon Phi or some such? (Knights landing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I guess ultimately what has enabled this technology to exist is stacking ram (?) since they can fit 4GB of memory inside a single, very small chip.
(Here you can see the existing stuff, 1GB in a single chip, the 4 smaller chips around the GPU) https://www.google.com.au/sear... soon to be 4GB in presumably the same physical space and 8GB shortly
It looks to me like stacked ram is the future in many things (SSD capacity booming due to this)
It's all pretty exciting for the future of bandwidth, 1TB/s is pretty nice and I imagine it'll only go up from there.
(I read some theories recently about 'stacking' CPU's too, although the heat may become an issue? but if they can lay out 48 layers of memory inside a chunk of silicon, why not lay out multiple processors) however that's for the smart people to figure out.
Please read the replies to this post as I don't follow as closely as I used to and several pieces of information here might be slightly off.
I've read many many posts indicating that for low bitrate stuff, 265 is doing very well but for the higher end stuff, it's only marginally better than 265 (more like 25%)
That's an approximation, I don't recall the exact figure, but I do recall it being significantly less than 50%
This is pretty disappointing, perhaps other tweaks and improvements will be eeked out over time, but as it stands, I can't see a 3TB movies folder being recompressed to 1.5TB with the same quality at this point in time.
(I know that would be lossy to lossy and stupid, that's not the intention of the post)
To my knowledge this update shouldn't be touching machines on a domain? It's not even about the IT group being bad, it simply isn't (supposed) to target domain attached machines.
I just checked a couple of the machines on a small domain I manage, no sign of the files on the workstations.
I'm getting nagged on my HP Microservers (N36, N40, N54L) and I know for a fact if you don't have the latest BIOS update on them, the network card doesn't work. I know someone who's done it and I've seen the "why doesn't server 2012 work on my HP Microserver" articles.
I sure as shit hope these things don't auto install this thing.
Haha Facebook jokes..........
This is an actually interesting article.
1, people ACTUALLY genuinely working on large optical disks (instead of another "theoretically, we could do 1TB discs!" post, which I've been seeing for a decade
2, some kind of fairly cool optical disc changing system - aren't you interested in the file system? What about redundancy? The article indicated it's significantly lower power. What about long term reliability.
Nope, facebook jokes instead, this isn't reddit.
I'd say that line was sourced directly from Wikipedia.
From the FreeBSD entry.
"FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system "
Any sign of the bruises / beating? When did it occur? I'm curious wtf happened and when it happened
Also, nothing on his web page, did someone revert it? Anyone got a cached copy?
Have you people never heard of soaking things? Time and water heals all wounds - or at least makes cleaning dishes dead easy.
I realise dishwashers are a lazy device, I get that, I wish I had one - but if you want it done right, soak the ass nasty dishes properly before hand or,... shock horror,................... rinse them right after using them! No nee d to even soak then
You'd be amazed at how many Americans don't travel to Europe either because it's too much hassle.
Yeah, having to get a passport in itself seems too difficult for most Americans.
Further to this, companies like Apple are considering re-engineering the bloody 3.5mm standard headphone socket, just to make the phones, sub 7.5mm.
We get it, we like a lighter, sleeker phone, WITHIN REASON. I don't want to be a typical hardware neckbeard who says "Make it an inch thick and last a week!!" but just once, just ONCE when they figure out a way to shave 1 or 2mm off a phone, I wish they would and then put it right fucking back with battery.
I am FINE with a phone 9mm or less, if the thing lasts 36 SOLID hours even. This 12 hour thing is a joke (with actual usage)
Since Laptops and Mobile phones became more popular (sorry, "cell phones") these articles have been at least 5/year for over a decade.
I am under the impression batteries now, ARE much better than a decade ago for storage density, but I have no idea if a SINGLE piece of "milestone huge improvement" technology from these articles were used or not.
I know your post is a very common theme in these news articles but ... yeah I'm completely sick of them at this point, "WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO HAVE AMAZING BATTERIES, LEAPS AND BOUNDS AHEAD!!! ... one day...."
After a decade of this... cmon now people, just stop.
It's all quite straightforward. The Judge demanded that they ensure the penalties fit the crime basically - and they were unwilling to do so, so he threw it out.
That could be totally wrong, I didn't read the article, I read some twitter summaries (yeah, I know) but that's the jist I got from it.
Reasonable enough, very surprising and fantastic someone applied some common sense.
So I'm a bit of a Firefox loony, maybe visible from my post history.
I've been a "hardcore" web browser, ever since using NetCaptor (a shell replacement for Internet Explorer which offered tabbed browsing, IIRC the first tabbed browser)
Anyhow, I like Chrome performance but GREATLY dislike my ability to customise it, specifically tab control (which tab will the app go to if I close the current tab, left or right? will a new tab open in the foreground? what if I middle click a URL, foreground / background?)
I've loved FireFox for years, but the 32bit builds are frankly, unstable dog shit for me, crash extremely regularly. .5 to 3 seconds. Clicking some buttons can be slow to react. Generally after a few seconds of switching into a tab though, it responds /mostly/ ok (Don't even think about Flash Video in a tab though, I just put that into Chrome and drop it on to a second monitor)
I switched maybe 12 to 18 months back to WaterFox, some dude compiling up the 64bit code of FireFox and packaging it. It runs exactly the same as FireFox for me, all plugins work and it virtually never crashes. Problem is, as an "extreme" browser (anywhere from 30 to 300 tabs open at a time) FireFox / WaterFox can get slow.
REALLY slow, CTRL-TAB to change tab? Can take
I just checked, I currently have 393 tabs open (working on getting this down) of all the things I'm currently reading / researching etc.
So to get to the point,..... :/ the one surprising thing I'd say is it's stable as heck for me. I notice almost no different between WaterFox and Nightly 45.
I was hoping that E10s (Electrolysis, multi-threaded Firefox) would fix my problems, when it finally got better. I installed said nightly builds and I have to report that sadly. The performance difference between WaterFox and standard 64bit FF Nightly 45 (with E10s) virtually identical to one and other.
I've confirmed E10s is on and being a nerd but without programming skills, I kind of blindly, optimistically figured, hey, latest builds, 64bit official, e10s, I bet if anything nightly might be less stable but fast as hell!
Not in the slightest, it really is virtually identical
Note: I did try this, with and without my plugins to make FF nice and usable.
For what it's worth, my #1 plugin I can't live without is Tab Mix Plus. That fine control on tab behaviour and the fact I'm an extensive keyboard shortcut guy, makes the browser far, far more usable for me. I'd say I browse between 4 to 12 hours a day, every day.
Please note, I do COMPLETELY realise that running in excess of 30 to 50 tabs is ridiculous, but back 6 years ago, I could do this under FF32 and while it was unstable, the performance of the primary UI for FF was fine.
All I want the damn code to do is HIGHLY prioritise the current tab in front of the user and HIGHLY prioritise the ability to switch tabs, preferably the ones nearby (left, right of the active tab) - the process of going between them shouldn't be slow. Considering I've got 4 threads at my disposal here, it's a bit of a shame.
At least it's stable and at least I can control the behaviour and look, how I like. I think Googles stubborn attitude towards Chrome is ghastly, personally.
Honestly, I'm not sure how that post should be classed as flamebait? The guy is quite clearly being a complete troll in the thread, deliberately comparing apples and oranges? ...
We're comparing SSD vs HDD (!!!) They are completely different technology.
I can only assume you don't own an SSD, regardless, you're wasting my time. More power to you, enjoy.
I can't tell if you're joking or not, but this is a huge Apples / Oranges comparison if ever I've seen one.
In 18 months your link would be as foolish as someone advocating a tape drive, instead of a hard disk for a desktop computer.
Also: nothing stopping you using magnetic disks, I have 6 of them in my house operating right now - but 0 of them in my laptop, PS4, PS4, desktop, HTPC.