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  1. Re:Just another "me too!" on New Nokia Smartphones and Tablets Are Coming in Late 2016: Company Executive (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    The camera's mega-pixel count did sound high, but those numbers are nearly meaningless w/o the quality optics and image sensors to make those huge images actually look good.

    Earlier they made(?) and used sensors with high pixel count even though you could save the pictures at a lower resolution, but it still gave better details (also normal CCD processors doesn't catch all colors per pixel but the colors in a grid even though the final resulting image has all colors in one pixel so the output data doesn't match the input data there and with a higher original resolution you shrink the errors there relative the output pixel / get better averages.)

    I don't know if someone else (one?) did use a similar camera solution. I don't know if they actually developed the sensors themselves / had them made for them and if so if they still do.

    At-least from a historical perspective it could be the case that their camera was one of the very best / the best used in a device of that kind.

    I think I would say the iPhone 5 have a better quality image than the Lumia 1020 here:
    http://www.technobuffalo.com/w...
    Maybe lower dynamic range here?
    https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qaV5N_Z...

    5s doing well here too:
    http://www.windowscentral.com/...

    I remember some images back when were I thought the Nokia phone was better though, was it against iphone 4 and some pre-Lumia phone?

    Here, Nokia N8 vs iPhone 4:
    http://mynokiablog.com/2010/10...

    White balance seem better on the iPhone 4 than the Nokia N8:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Place of origin matter in that if it's a rebranded Chinese phone with Nokia software or so then it can't really beat what it is based on in hardware and differ from what others have access to whereas if it was Nokia made it could be both worse and better. It at-least leave room for the possibility of it being special/different/better (Then again the likelyhood of Nokia releasing a better phone than Apple or Samsung considering R&D funds available ..)

  2. Re:Just another "me too!" on New Nokia Smartphones and Tablets Are Coming in Late 2016: Company Executive (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    In order for a new phone / tablet to stand out in the ever-growing crowd of smart devices it needs to be truly different. The rumored specs listed could be for any device!

    Maybe not the camera.

    But yeah, it's not going to be just random Chinese phone with Nokia brand? Like Blackberry does? Actual hardware from Nokia?

  3. Re:FreeBSD on the desktop! on New FreeBSD 11.0 Release Candidate Tested By Phoronix (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Seeing at the dates more like 3.x-4.x. It was a short period.

  4. Re:FreeBSD on the desktop! on New FreeBSD 11.0 Release Candidate Tested By Phoronix (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought PC-BSD was a different project which used FreeBSD code. Then again OS X is of course even more different.

    The time I used FreeBSD it was (2.x-4.x, possibly 5.x at some time.)

  5. Re:FreeBSD on the desktop! on New FreeBSD 11.0 Release Candidate Tested By Phoronix (phoronix.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Kinda already is on the desktop and consoles through OS X and Playstation.
    Just like Linux already is mainstream like crazy through Android.

  6. Re: not playing the "buy it before its finished" m on No Man's Sky Launches On Steam and GOG and It's Off To A Rocky Start (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This is why I never buy PC games. The console games work fine the PC ports suck.

    And that is why all the pros play CS:GO on the PS3.

    Also Terraria on Nintendo 3DS and so on.

  7. Re:Autopilot is a glorified cruise control on Tesla Owner In China Blames Autopilot For Crash (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually I think he was joining up on motorway.
    Likely had line assist and a car in front of him or something and a lorry/truck on the side when it merged and his car drew into the truck or something. Or maybe that's some Tesla or other story. I know one of his cars was a Mercedes but I don't know if that's the one it happened with. He drive a lot in his work as he sell / boss over people who sell garage ports for some region of Sweden.

  8. Re:Autopilot is a glorified cruise control on Tesla Owner In China Blames Autopilot For Crash (usatoday.com) · · Score: 2

    I think my friend had some sort of automatic Control, like keeping phase with the car in front of him or whatever it was. Anyway he also hit another car if I remember correctly and I would assume he blame the system which didn't do what it's supposed to do.

  9. Re: Smart on Iran Bans Pokemon Go Over 'Security Concerns' (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Yep, the polytheists got it going on!

    Life may not revolve about how everything you may enjoy in life is a sin and how you should dedicate your life to being dead then at-least.

    Sad to ruin life.

  10. Re:Smart on Iran Bans Pokemon Go Over 'Security Concerns' (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    The Muslims were just fine altering the Kaaba in the first Place.

    At-least it would be more real, more purposeful, more peaceful and allow more people to join in.

    The problem for the Iranian religitards is of course that people may find out how fun life may be when you're not a brainwashed monotheist who spend your whole life with one thing where that thing is a complete obsession with what to do when you're not living any longer.

  11. Re: "some users have lost their money" on Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex Says It Was Hacked, Roughly $60M Stolen (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok.
    And the users are stupid enough to let them keep their money obviously?
    Otherwise it sound like they lost THEIR money and now have to find a lot of new bitcoins so they can give the value back to the people they owe.

  12. "some users have lost their money" on Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex Says It Was Hacked, Roughly $60M Stolen (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    What?!

    The users upload their wallets to the site and keep them there?
    It doesn't use real bitcoins?

    If they were only offering the trading then how can someone have THEIR money stolen? Isn't it THEIR bitcoins and whatever other currency which they use as an intermediate / medium for faster transactions if any which was stolen?

  13. Re:Reliability on 8TB Drives Are Highly Reliable, Says Backblaze (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Only Seagate and HGST (was willing to?) provided the volumes they needed / wanted (seem weird) I think was the claim the last time this was posted.

  14. Re:'No Man's Sky' has porn? on Chased Off of YouTube, Leaked 'No Man's Sky' Footage Runs to Pornhub (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Infinite, procedurally generated porn? Count me in!

    Only time we'll ever see some white or even asian male on black female porn?

    I was thinking about throwing around the sexes too but then we'd end up with what sounds like the usual stuff anyway.

    Pornography is so very racist. Black men fuck everything, White men fuck white people and asians, asians fuck only asians.

  15. Re: This is Trump's America realized! on US Military Using $600K 'Drone Buggies' To Patrol Camps In Africa (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "Surely we wouldn't be stupid enough to develop Skynet!" .. except in the west the definition of a terrorist is the person who act without authority of the group who think they should be in power and be the only ones able to use force of violence.

    So.. here we have the drones who will act against humans and try to stop any human using violence .. Now, what if the humans started to attack the machines?

  16. Ha ha ha! Russian elections! Oh wait, you were serious.

    I don't know how Trump consider himself relative Putin but I'm not sure he's got the upper hand.

    Anyone who's willing to vote for Trump would likely had been willing to vote for Putin too. Coming from Sweden I'd vote for all of Trump, Putin and Hitler if I had a choice but sadly I don't.

  17. Re:This is Trump's America realized! on US Military Using $600K 'Drone Buggies' To Patrol Camps In Africa (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Policing the world so he can prove how much of a big shot he is. Expect more of the same when he gets elected. Nothing but a third world dictator bully.

    For all I care he's free to take out my current rulers & government at any time he want.

  18. You can't turn off Microsoft in Windows ? News at 11. JUL.
    (Just Use Linux=)

    Yeah! Just install Ubuntu.

    (There's a joke in here somewhere.) .. or you could use Android!

    (Actually now there's two.)

  19. Re:Has Nintendo not heard of smartphones? on Nintendo NX Is a Portable Console With Detachable Controllers, Says Report (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 1

    Except that there's only room for one device in your pocket, so which is it going to be?

    My underpants has this extrapocket in the front which is empty so I'll just put it there.

    Maybe it's not even pocketable? That would solve your issues. The Lynx, GameGear (and see how they sold ..) but yes, the GameBoy too wheren't pocketable and that worked well anyway.

    Personally I don't have a smartphone or a tablet (those aren't pocketable either.)

    If I were given the choice of an iPad or a similair but more gamey Nintendo NX for the same price (not entirely impossible?) then I'd pick the Nintendo NX.
    VS a cheaper tablet maybe not. Then again I still don't have that damn $400-500 tablet to watch my comic books which I buy in bundles because I think that's way too much for watching comic books. $400 for a gaming system isn't necessarily too much though I've got a shit-ton of games on Steam and wouldn't want to have full-price titles (though I'd be totally fine with having Nintendo titles!)

    If it was smartphone sized and worked like that too, which I guess isn't the perfect form factor for gaming and unlikely (?) then I would had picked a Nintendo NX phone over another Android phone with similar specs and price any day too because .. it would say Nintendo and it would run Mario games!

  20. Re:Has Nintendo not heard of smartphones? on Nintendo NX Is a Portable Console With Detachable Controllers, Says Report (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 1

    The "free" applications is what pull in the most money so "free" is kinda an exaggeration.

    Accessible for everyone? :)

  21. Re:Fuck my old reply on Valve Threatens Counter Strike Gambling Sites (hngn.com) · · Score: 1

    Because the /. story is written by someone who don't know how CS:GO work and make up how he think it works.
    There are only weapon skins in CS:GO. There is nothing else.

    Why just make shit up on the spot? (Then again there is in TF2 and maybe there are TF2 gambling sites too? I don't know why there couldn't be, because there are no pro scene for TF2 right now?)

  22. A open-source password manager (and generator I believe?)
    http://keepass.info/

    For lots of OSes: http://keepass.info/download.h...
    With lots of plugins: http://keepass.info/plugins.ht...

  23. Fuck my old reply on Valve Threatens Counter Strike Gambling Sites (hngn.com) · · Score: 2

    The CS:GO skins doesn't let you change the look of your character (except for the weapon) and no other items than the weapon. CS:GO skins are weapons (with stickers) only.

    Team Fortress 2 mean-while let you change other parts of your character beyond weapons.

    Also Team Fortress 2 alternative weapons / skins / items may actually change how the weapon work. In CS:GO it's all just cosmetic and doesn't influence game-play at all.

  24. One weapons on Valve Threatens Counter Strike Gambling Sites (hngn.com) · · Score: 1

    The CS:GO skins doesn't let you change the look of your character (except for the weapon) and no other items than the weapon. CS:GO skins are weapons (with stickers) only.

    Team Fortress 2 mean-while let you change other parts of your character beyond weapons.

  25. Re: Who gives a fuck? on NVIDIA Drops Surprise Unveiling of Pascal-Based GeForce GTX Titan X (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    Then again DX12 dual Nvidia cards doesn't seem to work in Hitman and Rise of the Tomb Raider (but does in Ashes of Singularity.)

    I assume eventually more games will have support but dual cards isn't the best and I'd suggest he just wait and upgrade to a single Volta card instead.