Way to make it about yourself! The article isn't about Indians on H1-Bs taking your coding jerbs but about non-tech salaries for people living in the Valley (as in the physical place) not keeping up or even falling over time.
Sometimes it pays off to RTFA or even just the summary, doesn't it.
I haven't really considered fingerprints to be a very secure to begin with, due to the possibility of copying the prints or even just some goon forcefully pushing your thumb into the scanner. Still, it was "good enough" for most cases and to CYA from the corporate overlords who require the phone to be locked. This just makes it completely useless against any professional attacker and maybe even Joe Blow the phone thief, if the method can be reasonably easily replicated.
A silicone molding works on TouchID and I assume other capacitive scanners. It might also be possible to lift a print off a shiny surface with a bit more luck/skill/equipment too: https://youtu.be/2u4ZLGsw1zo?t...
This is nothing like the Olympics. The issue there is that you build a bunch of expensive stadiums and other crap that nobody ever uses again but it requires a lot of expensive maintenance so it either continues to drain money or just decays into a wasteland.
The argument is, I think, that the present value of Amazon and their employees' future investments, tax payments, and spending outweighs the incentive the city provides. So if they want more funding for schools and other stuff, well, that's how you get the money to do it. The calculations might be wrong, but I kind of doubt it, the HQ will be dumping a ton of money in to the local economy.
Ev cars are full everytime you get in them in the morning.
Theres no getting in the car with the fuel light on. For most people and most usage cases a daily range of 450km is more than enough. It doesnt really matter if it takes 6 hrs to charge if youre asleep.
Wait what? How the hell does that happen?
I get what you're saying but you know it's not magic, right. You'll need the have the charging station installed and a place where to install it, which many people without their own garages don't have. And of course you also need to pay actual money for the electricity.
You can usually choose an exit row seat with huge legroom for a small extra charge. And many airlines offer a Premium Economy or equivalent Economy++ class, e.g. BA's includes more space and a quieter, smaller cabin in theirs for example: https://www.britishairways.com...
Is it vaporware when BMW has been shipping EVs since 2013? They're pretty niche so far but I see more of them in Europe than Teslas. At this point the EV drivetrain should be pretty straightforward (thanks to Tesla for pushing some development there too) so yeah once mainstream manufacturers get in pop switch over, it wouldn't be very pretty for Tesla since they'd have significant manufacturing, supply chain and quality expertise advantages.
Any idea how it compares to H.265 in terms of quality/compression rate? I haven't followed video codecs too much recently now that almost everything is pretty much good enough, but was quite impressed when I tried 265 on a few videos. If there's something comparable but without the licensing headaches, that's even better.
Here's a secret: it's always like that. I think people, especially Americans who don't have much experience, imagine that public transport will magically take them between any two points cheaper, faster and more comfortably than a car. Usually you'd be happy to get any two of those. Outside of urban areas not even that.
Like even in Hong Kong, which you'd think was small enough, public transport is great around Kowloon or HK Island but for something like Sai Kung you'd probably want a car already.
This is not to shit on public transport though, I think it's very important to have a decent system (and for everyone else to use it:D) to reduce congestion and protect the environment and help people who aren't able to drive themselves like children, disabled or poor people.
Can you really? I mean maybe you can in your particular case, but from my experience most people can't do anything other than hold onto their stuff and stare blankly into the distance. Best case you see people shitposting on facebook or looking at cat pics on their phones.
But commuting sucks. It just becomes a routine you have to do like brushing your teeth and taking out the garbage. Heavy traffic of course just makes it worse. Sadly, as good as public transport can be for a lot of reasons, it's not much fun either and in many cases won't save you any time.
I now live 10 minutes walk to the office and it still kind of sucks when it's very cold and/or rainy. On those days I can just stay in and work from home though:D
Supposedly the phone was in a case to obscure the pre-production model design. Maybe that's BS and it's really as thick as a brick of course. We'll see soon enough.
I'm sure joining two phones together would have a few use cases but frankly I think that would be more pointless than this. On the other hand, plenty of people use flip covers with their phones and this would could essentially work the same way if the tech is good enough. Normally the screen would be protected by the back of the flexible display, and you'd open it the same way you open a flip case to access the screen. Everything would stay on one half of the display until you fully extend it. The only limitation really is that you can't flip the cover 360 degrees behind the phone or store credit cards inside.
The Nexus 7 was 7" and that was pretty popular. Although with a large phablet like the Note9 I there's probably not much of a need for it. Still, someone might prefer a device with more compact dimensions, and perhaps they'll make them in different sizes.
According to Ars, Samsung "disguised the elements of the design" with a case. Or maybe it's just a clunky early prototype and they didn't want to admit it, who knows. If it actually ends up being such a brick, I doubt anyone would actually want it though.
Do you have particularly fat hands or something? I have a Note9 too and this hasn't been an issue at all. It's just a bit slippery.
I don't particularly like the notches aesthetically but there isn't really any harm from them either as the OLED can simply be disabled in that top row. I am a bit confused though over how they're intending to fit everything into those tiny cutouts. Right now the top bezel on the Note9 has the speaker, the selfie camera, notification led, iris scanner led and proximity sensor. The iphone notch is large enough to still fit all that, but the ones shown would only fit a single camera. The Essential phone did that but they probably just didn't have all these features.
That's exactly what I've found too. Between a >5.5" phone and a laptop, there are very few scenarios where a tablet would do the job better. And even when it would, it's hardly worth it overall.
I wouldn't even agree with your "movie in bed" scenario - a laptop is way better since it has a built-in stand. Just put it on your belly and there's no need to hold it in your hands or screw around with flimsy tablet stands.
I won't deny that there are use cases for tablets of course. Like reading comics maybe (which I don't do because I'm not 10) - sure it's better than either a phone or a laptop, but would you buy and carry it around in addition to your phone, which you always carry, and a laptop, which you bring to work? A few people would, but not that many, hence the sales numbers.
What I'm narrowing down as an additional device to fill the gap between the phone and a productivity laptop is a convertible 2-in-1 device. The Surface IMO fails due to the floppy keyboard thing, an the Cube Mix Plus I bought last year isn't quite there either - it's a bit heavier and bulkier than it needs to be due to its cheapness (under $300 on sale) and detachable keyboard design. Still, I love travelling with it. With the keyboard and decent performance I can process my photos in Lightroom, VPN to work in case of emergencies, play some real games (yes it runs Crysis) or ditch the keyboard and read the travel guide or something.
What I think would be perfect is something in the form factor of the Yoga Book but with a real keyboard, even at a cost of an extra mm of thickness. If you haven't seen it in person, the size is pretty mindblowing, it's the same thickness and weight as the MixPlus but including the "keyboard" part, which I use 90% of the time anyway. Then you have a real, if tiny, laptop most of the time, and a slightly heavier than normal tablet for the rare occasion when it's useful.
I do that because there's no other choice but frankly this sucks. A 10ah pack like that is around two to three times the size of my phone, doesn't fit/is too heavy for a suit pocket, and you have to tether it to your phone awkwardly with a cable to charge for at least half an hour or more. A spare battery on the other would fits even in a shirt pocket and could be swapped in like 15 seconds.
Samsung is the one vendor still keeping most of these features around. The latest Galaxy phones (well at least Note9) has dual sim/SD card support, headphone jack, wireless charging, is waterproof, etc. The only missing thing is the IR transmitter I think. Some of the limitations are due to Google's fuckery with Android, mainly to do with SD card access.
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Way to make it about yourself! The article isn't about Indians on H1-Bs taking your coding jerbs but about non-tech salaries for people living in the Valley (as in the physical place) not keeping up or even falling over time.
Sometimes it pays off to RTFA or even just the summary, doesn't it.
I haven't really considered fingerprints to be a very secure to begin with, due to the possibility of copying the prints or even just some goon forcefully pushing your thumb into the scanner. Still, it was "good enough" for most cases and to CYA from the corporate overlords who require the phone to be locked. This just makes it completely useless against any professional attacker and maybe even Joe Blow the phone thief, if the method can be reasonably easily replicated.
A silicone molding works on TouchID and I assume other capacitive scanners. It might also be possible to lift a print off a shiny surface with a bit more luck/skill/equipment too: https://youtu.be/2u4ZLGsw1zo?t...
This is nothing like the Olympics. The issue there is that you build a bunch of expensive stadiums and other crap that nobody ever uses again but it requires a lot of expensive maintenance so it either continues to drain money or just decays into a wasteland.
The argument is, I think, that the present value of Amazon and their employees' future investments, tax payments, and spending outweighs the incentive the city provides. So if they want more funding for schools and other stuff, well, that's how you get the money to do it. The calculations might be wrong, but I kind of doubt it, the HQ will be dumping a ton of money in to the local economy.
Ev cars are full everytime you get in them in the morning.
Theres no getting in the car with the fuel light on. For most people and most usage cases a daily range of 450km is more than enough. It doesnt really matter if it takes 6 hrs to charge if youre asleep.
Wait what? How the hell does that happen?
I get what you're saying but you know it's not magic, right. You'll need the have the charging station installed and a place where to install it, which many people without their own garages don't have. And of course you also need to pay actual money for the electricity.
You can usually choose an exit row seat with huge legroom for a small extra charge. And many airlines offer a Premium Economy or equivalent Economy++ class, e.g. BA's includes more space and a quieter, smaller cabin in theirs for example: https://www.britishairways.com...
They should absolutely take $1000 preorders for a $15K car that will ship in 2020 but then deliver a $40k car in 2025 instead. Like Tesla.
Is it vaporware when BMW has been shipping EVs since 2013? They're pretty niche so far but I see more of them in Europe than Teslas. At this point the EV drivetrain should be pretty straightforward (thanks to Tesla for pushing some development there too) so yeah once mainstream manufacturers get in pop switch over, it wouldn't be very pretty for Tesla since they'd have significant manufacturing, supply chain and quality expertise advantages.
Any idea how it compares to H.265 in terms of quality/compression rate? I haven't followed video codecs too much recently now that almost everything is pretty much good enough, but was quite impressed when I tried 265 on a few videos. If there's something comparable but without the licensing headaches, that's even better.
I'd worry more about getting creamed by some drunk guy on the subway, to be honest!
Here's a secret: it's always like that. I think people, especially Americans who don't have much experience, imagine that public transport will magically take them between any two points cheaper, faster and more comfortably than a car. Usually you'd be happy to get any two of those. Outside of urban areas not even that.
Like even in Hong Kong, which you'd think was small enough, public transport is great around Kowloon or HK Island but for something like Sai Kung you'd probably want a car already.
This is not to shit on public transport though, I think it's very important to have a decent system (and for everyone else to use it :D) to reduce congestion and protect the environment and help people who aren't able to drive themselves like children, disabled or poor people.
Can you really? I mean maybe you can in your particular case, but from my experience most people can't do anything other than hold onto their stuff and stare blankly into the distance. Best case you see people shitposting on facebook or looking at cat pics on their phones.
But commuting sucks. It just becomes a routine you have to do like brushing your teeth and taking out the garbage. Heavy traffic of course just makes it worse. Sadly, as good as public transport can be for a lot of reasons, it's not much fun either and in many cases won't save you any time.
I now live 10 minutes walk to the office and it still kind of sucks when it's very cold and/or rainy. On those days I can just stay in and work from home though :D
Supposedly the phone was in a case to obscure the pre-production model design. Maybe that's BS and it's really as thick as a brick of course. We'll see soon enough.
I'm sure joining two phones together would have a few use cases but frankly I think that would be more pointless than this. On the other hand, plenty of people use flip covers with their phones and this would could essentially work the same way if the tech is good enough. Normally the screen would be protected by the back of the flexible display, and you'd open it the same way you open a flip case to access the screen. Everything would stay on one half of the display until you fully extend it. The only limitation really is that you can't flip the cover 360 degrees behind the phone or store credit cards inside.
The Nexus 7 was 7" and that was pretty popular. Although with a large phablet like the Note9 I there's probably not much of a need for it. Still, someone might prefer a device with more compact dimensions, and perhaps they'll make them in different sizes.
According to Ars, Samsung "disguised the elements of the design" with a case. Or maybe it's just a clunky early prototype and they didn't want to admit it, who knows. If it actually ends up being such a brick, I doubt anyone would actually want it though.
Maybe just buy the S8 Active then and stop complaining about things you don't seem to understand?
Do you have particularly fat hands or something? I have a Note9 too and this hasn't been an issue at all. It's just a bit slippery.
I don't particularly like the notches aesthetically but there isn't really any harm from them either as the OLED can simply be disabled in that top row. I am a bit confused though over how they're intending to fit everything into those tiny cutouts. Right now the top bezel on the Note9 has the speaker, the selfie camera, notification led, iris scanner led and proximity sensor. The iphone notch is large enough to still fit all that, but the ones shown would only fit a single camera. The Essential phone did that but they probably just didn't have all these features.
That's exactly what I've found too. Between a >5.5" phone and a laptop, there are very few scenarios where a tablet would do the job better. And even when it would, it's hardly worth it overall.
I wouldn't even agree with your "movie in bed" scenario - a laptop is way better since it has a built-in stand. Just put it on your belly and there's no need to hold it in your hands or screw around with flimsy tablet stands.
I won't deny that there are use cases for tablets of course. Like reading comics maybe (which I don't do because I'm not 10) - sure it's better than either a phone or a laptop, but would you buy and carry it around in addition to your phone, which you always carry, and a laptop, which you bring to work? A few people would, but not that many, hence the sales numbers.
What I'm narrowing down as an additional device to fill the gap between the phone and a productivity laptop is a convertible 2-in-1 device. The Surface IMO fails due to the floppy keyboard thing, an the Cube Mix Plus I bought last year isn't quite there either - it's a bit heavier and bulkier than it needs to be due to its cheapness (under $300 on sale) and detachable keyboard design. Still, I love travelling with it. With the keyboard and decent performance I can process my photos in Lightroom, VPN to work in case of emergencies, play some real games (yes it runs Crysis) or ditch the keyboard and read the travel guide or something.
What I think would be perfect is something in the form factor of the Yoga Book but with a real keyboard, even at a cost of an extra mm of thickness. If you haven't seen it in person, the size is pretty mindblowing, it's the same thickness and weight as the MixPlus but including the "keyboard" part, which I use 90% of the time anyway. Then you have a real, if tiny, laptop most of the time, and a slightly heavier than normal tablet for the rare occasion when it's useful.
I do that because there's no other choice but frankly this sucks. A 10ah pack like that is around two to three times the size of my phone, doesn't fit/is too heavy for a suit pocket, and you have to tether it to your phone awkwardly with a cable to charge for at least half an hour or more. A spare battery on the other would fits even in a shirt pocket and could be swapped in like 15 seconds.
Samsung is the one vendor still keeping most of these features around. The latest Galaxy phones (well at least Note9) has dual sim/SD card support, headphone jack, wireless charging, is waterproof, etc. The only missing thing is the IR transmitter I think. Some of the limitations are due to Google's fuckery with Android, mainly to do with SD card access.
Panty remover is literally correct, no need for sarcasm. The panties are removed, together with the girl wearing them, form your house immediately.
Too true! I've been lucky enough to not have blown up or crashed anything so far, but the mere possibility definitely keeps you on edge.
Trump calls Putin after finishing his KFC dinner to bitch about how everyone is mean to him?