Interesting article, but weren't these phones preproduction models and mockups?
From how the author describes the vendors' phones at the conference, these are preproduction models and mockups. That's why the stupid "notch" was not handled well by the software.
Whipslash, I'm more concerned about the DDoS allegation. To my eyes, it's too much of a coincidence that/. would experience a DDoS attack during the very same period of time a rehost is being done.
I'm concerned about the DDoS allegation. To my eyes, it's too much of a coincidence that/. would experience a DDoS attack during the very same period of time a rehost is being done.
I love TiVo and still use it, but they're still subsisting off the DiSH Network judgments.
Their business model over the past decade was to earn money by enforcing their patents. While I am not against the protection of intellectual property, I do have mixed feelings when a company's business plan is little more than enforcing your patent portfolio rather than your company continue to be an innovator, like the innovator TiVo was almost twenty years ago.
He's either lying or is misinformed. All of the WiFi/BlueTooth chipsets in all iPhones have the FM feature. The part in the iPhone 7 and 8 are made by Murata and feature Cypress chipsets can't be had without FM on them.
The real reason is less interesting. The FM radio needs a reasonably long antenna to work, so wired headphones are required. Market research supposedly showed that nobody wanted to have an FM radio in their mobile phone.
Pretty much every mobile phone sold since the late 1990s has had a fully implemented, but disabled, FM radio chipset but no provisions for an antenna and no way to turn it on.
This is the reason. The consumer parts aren't rated for a 100% 24-hour-a-day duty cycle. This has a risk of overheating and fire, both of which will, undoubtedly, be claimed under warranty by that customer who runs it at 100% duty cycle for 24 hours a day.
nVidia is merely protecting themselves from undue expense from customers who deploy their consumer, non-100%-24-hour-a-day-duty-cycle parts in a 100%-24-hour-a-day-duty-cycle. Such customers will eventually experience a part that failed or caught fire, and worse, the fire had caused significant other damage that nVidia might be found liable and have to pay for.
What happened with the OLED screen on the iPhone X, anyway?
I own two Samsung Galaxy S phones, the S3 and the S5, which both have OLED screens, and neither of them have any burn-in. A recent report noted iPhone X burn-in within 16 hours.
What the heck is Apple doing wrong, here? My Samsung Galaxy S5 phone with OLED screen has been powered on continuously since the Fall of 2014. My older S3 has been for longer than that.
And, everyone seems to have forgotten that Lindows was one of the first Linux distributions that had an app store that actually worked and was rich in variety with many commercial products offered.
Lindows, Linspire, and Freespire were excellent desktops. The layout was natural, the theme was beautiful, and they went out of their way to make damn sure that the fonts were rendered correctly.
Lindows was excellent and it wasn't because of its gimmicky name. I'm the last one to respect gimmicks, but this was a truly good desktop OS with a lot of effort and technology put into it. They even developed their own control panel and administration system and did a good job of unifying the entire Linux desktop that was aligned with we now call a unified "design language."
It's too bad Freespire didn't survive the Xandros acquisition.
Not really. That worked well in the past on the Windows Subsystem for Linux model, but this implementation is in native Windows, using native Windows crypto libraries.
It doesn't involve the WSL model at all.
That means remote access to PowerShell primitives without bothering with the extra layer of WSL.
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Interesting article, but weren't these phones preproduction models and mockups?
From how the author describes the vendors' phones at the conference, these are preproduction models and mockups. That's why the stupid "notch" was not handled well by the software.
Whipslash, I'm more concerned about the DDoS allegation. To my eyes, it's too much of a coincidence that /. would experience a DDoS attack during the very same period of time a rehost is being done.
But then you need to run nodejs
Nobody should be tortured that way.
Reminds me of the old GSM Encryption debacle.
This is going to be good!
I'm concerned about the DDoS allegation. To my eyes, it's too much of a coincidence that /. would experience a DDoS attack during the very same period of time a rehost is being done.
All of those passport checkers may as well have stayed home for the past ten years.
Nice try, but the upgrade does not delete the Windows 7 installation.
That's why we have SSH and PGP keys on GitHub.
Well, Wal-Mart has its own cloud service, too.
They even wrote about the Atari founders' shenanigans in books published decades ago about Atari.
They might as well rescind everyone's awards just to save face, I mean, stay safe.
I love TiVo and still use it, but they're still subsisting off the DiSH Network judgments.
Their business model over the past decade was to earn money by enforcing their patents. While I am not against the protection of intellectual property, I do have mixed feelings when a company's business plan is little more than enforcing your patent portfolio rather than your company continue to be an innovator, like the innovator TiVo was almost twenty years ago.
He's either lying or is misinformed. All of the WiFi/BlueTooth chipsets in all iPhones have the FM feature. The part in the iPhone 7 and 8 are made by Murata and feature Cypress chipsets can't be had without FM on them.
Not exactly. The iPhone 6 and earlier used a WiFi/BlueTooth chipset that featured an FM radio. In the iPhone 6, at least, it's the Cypress CYW4339.
It's almost like there is a lot more variety in the mobile phone market than you realize.
Now that the Active line has OLED screens they're really good phones.
The real reason is less interesting. The FM radio needs a reasonably long antenna to work, so wired headphones are required. Market research supposedly showed that nobody wanted to have an FM radio in their mobile phone.
Pretty much every mobile phone sold since the late 1990s has had a fully implemented, but disabled, FM radio chipset but no provisions for an antenna and no way to turn it on.
More importantly, have they fixed the vibration ripple effect?
Thanks for that information.
My comment is from articles like this:
https://arstechnica.com/gadget...
This is the reason. The consumer parts aren't rated for a 100% 24-hour-a-day duty cycle. This has a risk of overheating and fire, both of which will, undoubtedly, be claimed under warranty by that customer who runs it at 100% duty cycle for 24 hours a day.
nVidia is merely protecting themselves from undue expense from customers who deploy their consumer, non-100%-24-hour-a-day-duty-cycle parts in a 100%-24-hour-a-day-duty-cycle. Such customers will eventually experience a part that failed or caught fire, and worse, the fire had caused significant other damage that nVidia might be found liable and have to pay for.
What happened with the OLED screen on the iPhone X, anyway?
I own two Samsung Galaxy S phones, the S3 and the S5, which both have OLED screens, and neither of them have any burn-in. A recent report noted iPhone X burn-in within 16 hours.
What the heck is Apple doing wrong, here? My Samsung Galaxy S5 phone with OLED screen has been powered on continuously since the Fall of 2014. My older S3 has been for longer than that.
And, everyone seems to have forgotten that Lindows was one of the first Linux distributions that had an app store that actually worked and was rich in variety with many commercial products offered.
Lindows, Linspire, and Freespire were excellent desktops. The layout was natural, the theme was beautiful, and they went out of their way to make damn sure that the fonts were rendered correctly.
Lindows was excellent and it wasn't because of its gimmicky name. I'm the last one to respect gimmicks, but this was a truly good desktop OS with a lot of effort and technology put into it. They even developed their own control panel and administration system and did a good job of unifying the entire Linux desktop that was aligned with we now call a unified "design language."
It's too bad Freespire didn't survive the Xandros acquisition.
It's good that it's back to life once more.
It kind of reminds me of the later years of Zapata Oil company.
Thanks, I posted this without enough comment to avoid baiting this kind of comment.
Congratulations, you've taken the bait. He didn't really discourage its use, just that he was suprised that so many people still used it.
Not really. That worked well in the past on the Windows Subsystem for Linux model, but this implementation is in native Windows, using native Windows crypto libraries.
It doesn't involve the WSL model at all.
That means remote access to PowerShell primitives without bothering with the extra layer of WSL.