You just traded my interest, for lack of interest.
Don't follow some idiot fad from Apple. Possible the most ubiquitous plug across the entire planet and you omit it?
Power varies in shape, voltage across the planet. USB? I dunno, it might rival the audio jack, maybe for install numbers.
I don't want to charge headphones, I don't want to use USB-C headphones, I want to use the plethora (plethora!) of headphones I have, I want to be able to use/dirt cheap/ crap spare ones in my work drawer or work bag. I want to be able to pay $5 at the airport for a crap pair when I forget mine at home before a fight.
I have no interest in bluetooth / wireless audio. I LIKE the cable.
I can't read comments to stuff like this anymore, or imagine away fantastic things.
It's very likely something exceedingly mundane and or probably the FBI over reacting to something. Example, they discovered aliens? Oh no! Shut it down! It's not like any other obs towers exist on earth...
(Etc)
It'll be fairly basic stuff. Man be lovely it was some kind of Melancholia scenario but I doubt it.
I used to own an iPhone and I know some elements of being in the Apple ecosystem is good. I also believe them, when they claim they focus on security more than others. They (appear) to care about backdooring devices.
What I am sick of is _die_hard_ classic Apple fans, utterly stuck in the little Apple box, incapable of logical and rational thought. I thought these zealots had died out, alas I was wrong.
You can't bring up the headphone jack thing without some idiot shouting at you how archaic it is, or how it's not needed "progress" "courage" "backwards tech" and other such things. For what may be, one of the most ubiquitous connections on the entire planet.
On the same note, I try to bring up, time and time again, how I can sit at my PC (Linux/Windows/Whatever) open up a web page and I can remotely "deploy" apps to my phone, if it's charging in the bedroom, if I forgot it at work, or even I can do it to my dads phone if I have his credentials, saving me talking him through the play store.
You think Apple fans like this idea? Almost every time I bring it up, some idiot defends the App stores inability to be navigated via the web. Often citing "security issues" (yet you can log in and PURCHASE a $1000 phone on their site, with the same credentials) Why, in 2018 can we STILL not remotely install an App on iphones or tablets from the app store?
I'm on holiday, there's a fan-damn-tastic deal for an ipad game or app, I see it on twitter, but my ipad is back home or in the hotel. Think I can grab that app quick, while it's cheap?
Nope. Been able to with Android since at least 2010. Ridiculous.
Extreme Apple fans (and the prices, but more the fans) are what make me stay away from them. "Apple did it, it must be right!"
If I got about $100 for every battery breakthrough article, another $100 for every "future of storage, 1 quadrillion bytes in your thumbnail!", I would probably have more than enough money, to buy myself enough batteries and hard drives, to never, ever care again.
At least 5 to 20 of these articles a year for the time I've been using the internet (20+ years)
I don't know that there's a lot of these people but they do exist, for certain yes. The 'watching big bang theory' is the kicker, once someone admits watching that, you know they're very unlikely to be a 'proper nerd' for lack of a better term.
Considering they only have partial skills in technology then, we can likely guess, if they work in the industry, they're probably higher on the ladder than us and paid more though:/ like most management / consultant types.
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 in Australia is now: $1499 AUD RRP for the base model $1799 AUD for the 8GB / 512GB model. That's $1079 US / $ 1294 US
The base iphone X is $1579 AUD and upgraded is $1829 AUD That's $1136 USD / $1316 USD. (Admittedly unlike ridiculous America, we DO include taxes in our list prices, no counter shock, ever. Thank goodness)
Back when I first got into smartphones, the premium level Samsung was about $700 to $900 AUD, that's $650 US which is a lot of money, but if you've got a job, love your gadgets, that's not too bad.
Now, admittedly, I do have to wonder if some of these increases don't tie back to inflation in general (ever since 2008 / 2009 a LOT of money printing has occurred world wide) but I can't be sure.
If my wages had gone up on the same trajectory as phones, I probably would have no issue, dropping nearly $2000 on a premium toy that I love to play with. However, wages have */virtually been unchanged at all/*in the last decade, at least in my country.
Interestingly, some companies do appear able to offer fairly close to top of the line phones at semi-reasonable pricing (down in the $1100 for flagship models) like One Plus etc. It's still gone up, but it's not $1800.
Yep me too, the "computer guy" and the amount of calls I've had for "please build me a new PC" or "please fix my PC" has dropped incredibly so.
People are more than happy with an iPad / MacBook / Phone or heck even just buying their own Windows 10 laptop somewhere which/generally/ seems to 'just work'
It's actually kinda crappy, because I used to be able to wrangle myself a free / heavily discounted PC upgrade out of it every 9 - 24 months at most. It's getting longer and longer now.
Just watching youtube, netflix, browsing is very very easy now. Microsoft is going away in the home space, slowly. Times are a changing.
Unfortunately, the extreme left, the same extreme left that is pushing 'sane lefties' to the center, has really tried to redefine hate speech in the past 3 to 5 years online.
If you were to say something genuinely horrible like:
"I think all homosexuals are mentally deranged and should be exterminated, I emplore people to go out and murder one today!" I'd be pretty comfortable saying, that's some pretty shitty, unkind and genuine hate speech.
However, the modern day definition could be something like:
"I disagree, " (you'll need to be white, or male but in doing so, you're clearly committing an act of hate speech by disagreeing with someone....)
Also something as horrifically controversial as "I don't think our current immigration policy is really thought out, we're suffering with impacted public services, wage stagnation, job shortages, general crowdedness and I think we should consider reducing to a more sustainable level" - that one will definitely get you called a racist here in Australia unfortunately....
So I ask,... can we/actually/ define hate speech here please?
Some great tunes in the games, but utterly disgraceful that they have to 'patch out' music every 10 years. (GTA San Andreas 4 or 5 years ago, GTAIV maybe a year or so ago?)
Appalling licensing deals, just a disgrace. I'll assume it's the music industry, being shit-heels.
Firstly, their definition of "7nm" is actually, about the same as Intel 10nm, it's stupid marketing lies and speak.
Secondly, Intel themselves are stuggling like total crazy to achieve 10nm reliably.
So, to answer your question, yeah, I think Moores Law is very very close to dead if not dead. Just go look up benchmarks for processors designed 5 years ago, they're still viable now.
If you compare frequency, IPC, core count, relatively, you'll see the amount of progress we've had in the past 5 years is, atrociously bad, very, very bad. This is why mom / pop PCs built even up to 7 years ago, just need 2 more sticks of ram, the dust blown out and an SSD with a Windows re-install, they'll be fine for another 5.
It's over, no more bleeding edge, insane fast PCs. Just very very small burps forward.
I get the impression the costs are slowly creeping on this thing and the features kinda stagnant.
Firstly, to my knowledge, it's STILL 100Mbit networking isn't it? Routed through USB somehow? For most Pi functions, this isn't going to impact people, but if you are an American / European running a Pi and using it as a regular speed test unit https://www.google.com/search?...
You'll see that anyone with a particularly beefy internet connection will be limited. Also the CPU is almost good enough to perform light level NAS functionality now. Again, that ethernet letting you down.
Plus it runs quite warm. Plus there's starting to be several x86 micro PCs which are coming dangerously close in price but able to do, quite a bit more.
The POE hat should be built in and a reasonable passive cooler.
> we lost the ability to browse applications for our phones on a desktop system
Been complaining about this to a hardcore Apple fan friend of mine and he refuses to back down. Posted it on Reddit before, the Apple fans attacked me and just outright blinders on and defense mode.
For.F.Sake!
My ipad is in the lounge charging, 4 rooms away, I see a tweet for a cool app I'd like to buy, why the can I not click the god damn link, log in to the web based app store and buy the @#$^ing thing?
It is literally one of the 5 or 10 reasons I switched to Android, I was blown away (in 2010!) that you could load apps on to your phone, from your PC. Mind blowing.
As for the rest of your post, I agree entirely. Amazon and Newegg have very good refinements to drill down to precisely what you're looking for but the App store on both Google and Apple are pretty awful things to deal with.
I want to support the underdog but AMD is not delivering in the GPU market at all.
Also these GPUs are for crazy well off people / young IT kids in their early jobs, living at home and blowing lots of spare money on their PC. I know, I used to do this stuff.
"Normal" gamers won't consider these cards and "normal" gamers probably still have a 1080p display.
You could buy a used 1070 card in a few months for probably $400 US and get 60% of the performance of this card for 35% of the price.
AMD isn't an option, they're just not producing a cool running, efficient, fast, well priced GPU right now.
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You just traded my interest, for lack of interest.
Don't follow some idiot fad from Apple. Possible the most ubiquitous plug across the entire planet and you omit it?
Power varies in shape, voltage across the planet.
USB? I dunno, it might rival the audio jack, maybe for install numbers.
I don't want to charge headphones, I don't want to use USB-C headphones, I want to use the plethora (plethora!) of headphones I have, I want to be able to use /dirt cheap/ crap spare ones in my work drawer or work bag. I want to be able to pay $5 at the airport for a crap pair when I forget mine at home before a fight.
I have no interest in bluetooth / wireless audio. I LIKE the cable.
Nope, no sale. I will not.
I can't read comments to stuff like this anymore, or imagine away fantastic things.
It's very likely something exceedingly mundane and or probably the FBI over reacting to something.
Example, they discovered aliens? Oh no! Shut it down! It's not like any other obs towers exist on earth...
(Etc)
It'll be fairly basic stuff. Man be lovely it was some kind of Melancholia scenario but I doubt it.
I used to own an iPhone and I know some elements of being in the Apple ecosystem is good. I also believe them, when they claim they focus on security more than others. They (appear) to care about backdooring devices.
What I am sick of is _die_hard_ classic Apple fans, utterly stuck in the little Apple box, incapable of logical and rational thought. I thought these zealots had died out, alas I was wrong.
You can't bring up the headphone jack thing without some idiot shouting at you how archaic it is, or how it's not needed "progress" "courage" "backwards tech" and other such things. For what may be, one of the most ubiquitous connections on the entire planet.
On the same note, I try to bring up, time and time again, how I can sit at my PC (Linux/Windows/Whatever) open up a web page and I can remotely "deploy" apps to my phone, if it's charging in the bedroom, if I forgot it at work, or even I can do it to my dads phone if I have his credentials, saving me talking him through the play store.
You think Apple fans like this idea? Almost every time I bring it up, some idiot defends the App stores inability to be navigated via the web. Often citing "security issues" (yet you can log in and PURCHASE a $1000 phone on their site, with the same credentials)
Why, in 2018 can we STILL not remotely install an App on iphones or tablets from the app store?
I'm on holiday, there's a fan-damn-tastic deal for an ipad game or app, I see it on twitter, but my ipad is back home or in the hotel. Think I can grab that app quick, while it's cheap?
Nope.
Been able to with Android since at least 2010. Ridiculous.
Extreme Apple fans (and the prices, but more the fans) are what make me stay away from them.
"Apple did it, it must be right!"
Well, not much besides 1 or 2 times in the early years, nothing as a teen.
Considering I'd rather go to jail or something than publically speak, I think they should probably try and help kids with this.
I remember the C3D one, I was still at my first job I think, over 18 / 19 years ago.
Purple lasers or some ridiculous thing.
If I got about $100 for every battery breakthrough article, another $100 for every "future of storage, 1 quadrillion bytes in your thumbnail!", I would probably have more than enough money, to buy myself enough batteries and hard drives, to never, ever care again.
At least 5 to 20 of these articles a year for the time I've been using the internet (20+ years)
Could have sworn I heard a story about a guy who had home made porn backed up on his one drive, account terminated for violations?
That's actually not true, the frogs are only gay for pay.
How about slashdot stop being entirely backwards with that shit instead?
I don't know that there's a lot of these people but they do exist, for certain yes. The 'watching big bang theory' is the kicker, once someone admits watching that, you know they're very unlikely to be a 'proper nerd' for lack of a better term.
Considering they only have partial skills in technology then, we can likely guess, if they work in the industry, they're probably higher on the ladder than us and paid more though :/ like most management / consultant types.
Samsung Galaxy Note 9 in Australia is now:
$1499 AUD RRP for the base model $1799 AUD for the 8GB / 512GB model.
That's $1079 US / $ 1294 US
The base iphone X is $1579 AUD and upgraded is $1829 AUD
That's $1136 USD / $1316 USD.
(Admittedly unlike ridiculous America, we DO include taxes in our list prices, no counter shock, ever. Thank goodness)
Back when I first got into smartphones, the premium level Samsung was about $700 to $900 AUD, that's $650 US which is a lot of money, but if you've got a job, love your gadgets, that's not too bad.
Now, admittedly, I do have to wonder if some of these increases don't tie back to inflation in general (ever since 2008 / 2009 a LOT of money printing has occurred world wide) but I can't be sure.
If my wages had gone up on the same trajectory as phones, I probably would have no issue, dropping nearly $2000 on a premium toy that I love to play with. However, wages have */virtually been unchanged at all/*in the last decade, at least in my country.
Interestingly, some companies do appear able to offer fairly close to top of the line phones at semi-reasonable pricing (down in the $1100 for flagship models) like One Plus etc. It's still gone up, but it's not $1800.
Yep me too, the "computer guy" and the amount of calls I've had for "please build me a new PC" or "please fix my PC" has dropped incredibly so.
People are more than happy with an iPad / MacBook / Phone or heck even just buying their own Windows 10 laptop somewhere which /generally/ seems to 'just work'
It's actually kinda crappy, because I used to be able to wrangle myself a free / heavily discounted PC upgrade out of it every 9 - 24 months at most. It's getting longer and longer now.
Just watching youtube, netflix, browsing is very very easy now. Microsoft is going away in the home space, slowly. Times are a changing.
Unfortunately, the extreme left, the same extreme left that is pushing 'sane lefties' to the center, has really tried to redefine hate speech in the past 3 to 5 years online.
If you were to say something genuinely horrible like:
"I think all homosexuals are mentally deranged and should be exterminated, I emplore people to go out and murder one today!"
I'd be pretty comfortable saying, that's some pretty shitty, unkind and genuine hate speech.
However, the modern day definition could be something like:
"I disagree, " (you'll need to be white, or male but in doing so, you're clearly committing an act of hate speech by disagreeing with someone....)
Also something as horrifically controversial as "I don't think our current immigration policy is really thought out, we're suffering with impacted public services, wage stagnation, job shortages, general crowdedness and I think we should consider reducing to a more sustainable level" - that one will definitely get you called a racist here in Australia unfortunately....
So I ask,... can we /actually/ define hate speech here please?
Were it not for GTAIV.
Some great tunes in the games, but utterly disgraceful that they have to 'patch out' music every 10 years. (GTA San Andreas 4 or 5 years ago, GTAIV maybe a year or so ago?)
Appalling licensing deals, just a disgrace. I'll assume it's the music industry, being shit-heels.
You're right, however,.......
"Gigabit Ethernet over USB 2.0 (maximum throughput 300 Mbps)"
Compare the speed of ONE of your cores at the SAME frequency as the 5 year old CPU. You'll not only find little has changed there.
Now compare the qty of transistors, per square mm, and little has changed there either.
My argument is in 0 ways bogus whatsoever.
Please tell me how I can access the App store, via the web, on my PC and purchase an application, then send it to my iPad.
Because I've been able to do this on Android for over 7 years, maybe as long as 9.
You Apple fools defenders are not playing with a full deck.
Just stop, you're wrong, so stop. You are literally incorrect here.
How is transistor density increasing when they are having extreme difficulty shrinking the processes?
The whole point of this discussion...
Firstly, their definition of "7nm" is actually, about the same as Intel 10nm, it's stupid marketing lies and speak.
Secondly, Intel themselves are stuggling like total crazy to achieve 10nm reliably.
So, to answer your question, yeah, I think Moores Law is very very close to dead if not dead. Just go look up benchmarks for processors designed 5 years ago, they're still viable now.
If you compare frequency, IPC, core count, relatively, you'll see the amount of progress we've had in the past 5 years is, atrociously bad, very, very bad.
This is why mom / pop PCs built even up to 7 years ago, just need 2 more sticks of ram, the dust blown out and an SSD with a Windows re-install, they'll be fine for another 5.
It's over, no more bleeding edge, insane fast PCs. Just very very small burps forward.
I get the impression the costs are slowly creeping on this thing and the features kinda stagnant.
Firstly, to my knowledge, it's STILL 100Mbit networking isn't it? Routed through USB somehow? For most Pi functions, this isn't going to impact people, but if you are an American / European running a Pi and using it as a regular speed test unit
https://www.google.com/search?...
You'll see that anyone with a particularly beefy internet connection will be limited.
Also the CPU is almost good enough to perform light level NAS functionality now. Again, that ethernet letting you down.
Plus it runs quite warm.
Plus there's starting to be several x86 micro PCs which are coming dangerously close in price but able to do, quite a bit more.
The POE hat should be built in and a reasonable passive cooler.
And this is a prime example of the Apple mentality right here.
> we lost the ability to browse applications for our phones on a desktop system
Been complaining about this to a hardcore Apple fan friend of mine and he refuses to back down. Posted it on Reddit before, the Apple fans attacked me and just outright blinders on and defense mode.
For.F.Sake!
My ipad is in the lounge charging, 4 rooms away, I see a tweet for a cool app I'd like to buy, why the can I not click the god damn link, log in to the web based app store and buy the @#$^ing thing?
It is literally one of the 5 or 10 reasons I switched to Android, I was blown away (in 2010!) that you could load apps on to your phone, from your PC. Mind blowing.
As for the rest of your post, I agree entirely. Amazon and Newegg have very good refinements to drill down to precisely what you're looking for but the App store on both Google and Apple are pretty awful things to deal with.
Please don't take this the wrong way,...........
but ummm I suspect you're one of the few, by a long shot. (You've got a 5 digit ID for a start,....)
I want to support the underdog but AMD is not delivering in the GPU market at all.
Also these GPUs are for crazy well off people / young IT kids in their early jobs, living at home and blowing lots of spare money on their PC. I know, I used to do this stuff.
"Normal" gamers won't consider these cards and "normal" gamers probably still have a 1080p display.
You could buy a used 1070 card in a few months for probably $400 US and get 60% of the performance of this card for 35% of the price.
AMD isn't an option, they're just not producing a cool running, efficient, fast, well priced GPU right now.
Yeah but maybe massive depopulation and fucking the economy is *what's needed to ensure we fucking survive as a species* you clod.
I've opted for the 'no children' route, personally. What have you done?