I agree that graphics are already good enough for most people.
Maybe you haven't heard, but there's this little thing called VR that all the kids are talking about.
VR is the latest thing in consoles, and it absolutely DOES need a lot of HP, and realism is very important. I think it's past the point where we need to question whether it will be a thing or not. It will. And releasing a console that isn't VR-ready is going to be a real tough sell when the other two Big Boys are building their platforms around the concept. Whether it's going to be a thing or not, it's what every consumer is going to be thinking about for the next 6 months.
What is important is, the portable tablet thing they just showed can at least run games ported straight from their own console.
So your criteria for success is that it can run ports of the software from Nintendo's last-gen console, that was already under powered compared to the competition?
Quite right. That's why I made a point of calling out concerns other than graphics regarding horsepower, since I agree that graphics are already good enough for most people.
Agreed. The graphics on the hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads already in peoples hands are good enough as well. That's the problem. Hardware-wise, this is going to be on par with an i-device. So Nintendo is again playing the game of selling us last-gen hardware in hopes that their software catalog is going to buoy their sales.
Their software catalog counts for a lot, but when it comes to consoles, it's a spec war. Just look at what's going on w/ Xbox and PS.
Sounds you like you haven't. If you had, you'd know better than to leave expensive electronic gadgets within reach (let alone GIVE them to the toddler to play with).
Agreed. I really meant that they put some effort into the design this time as opposed to the typical black slab of plastic. It's a good looking phone but doesn't differentiate between the tens of other good looking phones in its market segment.
It's not made by Google, it's made by HTC. And they just rejiggered the HTC 10. http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_10... [gsmarena.com]
It's designed by Google and manufactured by HTC. Just because it looks sort of similar to another HTC phones means nothing. The specs are different. The internals are different. It shares about as much w/ the HTC 10 as it does with any recent generation smart phone.
I thought the whole point of the nexus devices was that they were reasonably priced (at first at least). Clearly, it's not the case any more (some could say it hasn't been for at least a year).
Nexus is dead. It existed to show manufacturers how to sell good-enough phones for cheap. That's now a solved problem. There are dozens of manufacturers building good, cheap Android phones.
Now the other side of problem. Manufacturers can't figure out how to compete on the high-end with the likes of Apple. Enter Pixel, a premium smart phone with a metal, glass body up to 128GB flash, high end processor and screen, eye popping design, and an industry leading camera. It also has 2 years free customer support (think: AppleCare). And the price tag to go along with all of that.
Yes I don't claim to be an expert, only anecdotal evidence.
I know that if I config my phone to use the "xfinitywifi" access points, it really messes things up. When I'm driving, it will "roam" onto these resulting in me having really poor or no connectivity. Whatever Google is doing, it doesn't seem like Comcast has it yet.
Someone with more experience with the family court system than you.
Do you see anything at all wrong with assuming you know more than every stranger you run across on the internet? Maybe, just maybe it's what makes you so abrasive.
Also, since you seem quite slow: A legal guardian taking their child back isn't kidnapping.
Easy big fella, I never said that. You are are hyped up from your own reading between the lines. The only thing I said was 1) taking a child for which you do not have custody is kidnapping (duh much?) and 2) having a felony kidnapping charge will complicate your life, including future efforts to gain custody of the minor you previously kidnapped.
Go on, I dare you.
Nah. I see your comments on almost every article. You're a troll. You are boring me now, bye.
Calm down tough guy. I *suspect* that if you had already lost custody, as in this case, that kidnapping the child wouldn't help you get custody back. That's all I said.
Source: common ******* sense.
you are an "outsider" with no knowledge of the situation
Ok. What's not likely is not one but a group of people that are accomplished enough to achieve medical PhDs and attain posts at BCH would lock a child in a room and almost kill her to make $1,000 / a day, not for themselves, but for the hospital they work for and at the same time ruining their careers and open themselves up to criminal prosecution.
Like almost everything, the truth is somewhere in the middle. There probably was some neglect or mistreatment by the parents. One or more of the Drs probably did overstep their bounds. We like to see things black or white, good and evil, but that's almost never the case.
So leaving their child medically abused was better than breaking a bad court order?
So you take your child. Now what? Go on the run? Live out of your car for the rest of your life? Get caught, then permanently lose custody along with felony kidnapping on your record? Seems like a good plan.
If by "own child" you mean the child for which you have sole legal custody, then yes you are right. If you meant the child you provided either the sperm or egg to create, then you are most certainly wrong. Most kidnappings are perpetrated by parents without (sole) legal custody.
This whole notion of offloading cell traffic onto Wi-Fi is flawed.
Wi-Fi wasn't made for roaming. That explains why when you are sitting in your car outside your work your phone happily remains connected to work's Wi-Fi router but you get zero throughput. Wi-Fi also cannot do seamless handoff between routers the way mobile data can.
Regardless, I never connect to Wi-Fi hotspots. Their throughput is either swamped by other users or throttled by QoS. Either way, the only reason to connect to Wi-Fi is for high-bandwidth operations. If it can't handle that there's no point. Not to mention the latency is always awful compared to my mobile data connection.
NOTHING. YOU HAVE TO COMPLAIN. Otherwise all they know is their sales have dropped. ABSOLUTLEY NO IDEA WHY.
I didn't say don't complain, I said you have to ALSO not buy. Complain all you want as long as you actually take some action.
Are you really so naive that multi-billion dollar corporations don't survey their users? You think they are just going to sit in their board room "Duh! I see sales go down! Uh oh!".
Yep, sounds like you got a few wedgies from the jocks when you were younger. Well, so did I. However, my son plays soccer and it makes a big difference in his life. Professional sports is one thing, but the vast majority of athletes struggle in silence without TV coverage or fans, with almost no wanking at all. Almost all Olympic athletes fall into that category.
If they can't make money on the sale, why does that mean customers must give up their privacy unwittingly?
It doesn't. DON'T BUY THE PHONE.
It's not that they can't, but that's not their business model. You don't get to define their business model. You get to not buy their product if you don't like it. Buy a phone that meets your criteria. You may get less phone. It may cost you more money. But I'm sure your privacy means more to you than those things right?
You mean from the Google Store? Google doesn't make hardware (well, I heard they made the Pixel C). The contract companies like HTC, LG, and Samsung to make phones that are Google branded. They supply the software. The profits from the sale go to the hardware company, not Google.
Regardless, Nexus devices are priced for slim margins to begin with and never sell at quantities that would get them economies of scale. You think they make bank by selling Nexus phones devices for hundreds less than Samsung, HTC, and Apple?
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In my official capacity as an ex- Sony employee and a 5-digit Slashdot UID holder: You're a f**king idiot.
No coincidence I guess that you treat your fellow readers like Sony treats its customers
I agree that graphics are already good enough for most people.
Maybe you haven't heard, but there's this little thing called VR that all the kids are talking about.
VR is the latest thing in consoles, and it absolutely DOES need a lot of HP, and realism is very important. I think it's past the point where we need to question whether it will be a thing or not. It will. And releasing a console that isn't VR-ready is going to be a real tough sell when the other two Big Boys are building their platforms around the concept. Whether it's going to be a thing or not, it's what every consumer is going to be thinking about for the next 6 months.
What is important is, the portable tablet thing they just showed can at least run games ported straight from their own console.
So your criteria for success is that it can run ports of the software from Nintendo's last-gen console, that was already under powered compared to the competition?
Quite right. That's why I made a point of calling out concerns other than graphics regarding horsepower, since I agree that graphics are already good enough for most people.
Agreed. The graphics on the hundreds of millions of iPhones and iPads already in peoples hands are good enough as well. That's the problem. Hardware-wise, this is going to be on par with an i-device. So Nintendo is again playing the game of selling us last-gen hardware in hopes that their software catalog is going to buoy their sales.
Their software catalog counts for a lot, but when it comes to consoles, it's a spec war. Just look at what's going on w/ Xbox and PS.
Sounds like you've never been around a toddler.
Sounds you like you haven't. If you had, you'd know better than to leave expensive electronic gadgets within reach (let alone GIVE them to the toddler to play with).
My proof is that no one outside out geek circles even knows what it is. But that's probably a conspiracy of some sort.
It wouldn't be hard to do better than Kodi.
it's just hard to do
Duh? We all know it sucks. What's actually hard is fixing it. Fix that, Apple.
Agreed. I really meant that they put some effort into the design this time as opposed to the typical black slab of plastic. It's a good looking phone but doesn't differentiate between the tens of other good looking phones in its market segment.
No, it really doesn't.
Yes it does. This is fun isn't it?
Doesn't seem to have optical image stabilization
They spent around 5 minutes talking about the OIS and showing examples of it in the keynote.
It's not made by Google, it's made by HTC. And they just rejiggered the HTC 10. http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_10... [gsmarena.com]
It's designed by Google and manufactured by HTC. Just because it looks sort of similar to another HTC phones means nothing. The specs are different. The internals are different. It shares about as much w/ the HTC 10 as it does with any recent generation smart phone.
I thought the whole point of the nexus devices was that they were reasonably priced (at first at least). Clearly, it's not the case any more (some could say it hasn't been for at least a year).
Nexus is dead. It existed to show manufacturers how to sell good-enough phones for cheap. That's now a solved problem. There are dozens of manufacturers building good, cheap Android phones.
Now the other side of problem. Manufacturers can't figure out how to compete on the high-end with the likes of Apple. Enter Pixel, a premium smart phone with a metal, glass body up to 128GB flash, high end processor and screen, eye popping design, and an industry leading camera. It also has 2 years free customer support (think: AppleCare). And the price tag to go along with all of that.
Yes I don't claim to be an expert, only anecdotal evidence.
I know that if I config my phone to use the "xfinitywifi" access points, it really messes things up. When I'm driving, it will "roam" onto these resulting in me having really poor or no connectivity. Whatever Google is doing, it doesn't seem like Comcast has it yet.
Someone with more experience with the family court system than you.
Do you see anything at all wrong with assuming you know more than every stranger you run across on the internet? Maybe, just maybe it's what makes you so abrasive.
Also, since you seem quite slow: A legal guardian taking their child back isn't kidnapping.
Easy big fella, I never said that. You are are hyped up from your own reading between the lines. The only thing I said was 1) taking a child for which you do not have custody is kidnapping (duh much?) and 2) having a felony kidnapping charge will complicate your life, including future efforts to gain custody of the minor you previously kidnapped.
Go on, I dare you.
Nah. I see your comments on almost every article. You're a troll. You are boring me now, bye.
Calm down tough guy. I *suspect* that if you had already lost custody, as in this case, that kidnapping the child wouldn't help you get custody back. That's all I said.
Source: common ******* sense.
you are an "outsider" with no knowledge of the situation
And, who are you now?
What's more likely?
Ok. What's not likely is not one but a group of people that are accomplished enough to achieve medical PhDs and attain posts at BCH would lock a child in a room and almost kill her to make $1,000 / a day, not for themselves, but for the hospital they work for and at the same time ruining their careers and open themselves up to criminal prosecution.
Like almost everything, the truth is somewhere in the middle. There probably was some neglect or mistreatment by the parents. One or more of the Drs probably did overstep their bounds. We like to see things black or white, good and evil, but that's almost never the case.
So leaving their child medically abused was better than breaking a bad court order?
So you take your child. Now what? Go on the run? Live out of your car for the rest of your life? Get caught, then permanently lose custody along with felony kidnapping on your record? Seems like a good plan.
You can't kidnap your own child.
If by "own child" you mean the child for which you have sole legal custody, then yes you are right. If you meant the child you provided either the sperm or egg to create, then you are most certainly wrong. Most kidnappings are perpetrated by parents without (sole) legal custody.
Did the parents still have sole legal custody?
I'd rather have pistols at 20 paces, myself....
I'd rather you have pistols at 20 paces as well. Let the nuts shoot each other.
This whole notion of offloading cell traffic onto Wi-Fi is flawed.
Wi-Fi wasn't made for roaming. That explains why when you are sitting in your car outside your work your phone happily remains connected to work's Wi-Fi router but you get zero throughput. Wi-Fi also cannot do seamless handoff between routers the way mobile data can.
Regardless, I never connect to Wi-Fi hotspots. Their throughput is either swamped by other users or throttled by QoS. Either way, the only reason to connect to Wi-Fi is for high-bandwidth operations. If it can't handle that there's no point. Not to mention the latency is always awful compared to my mobile data connection.
NOTHING. YOU HAVE TO COMPLAIN. Otherwise all they know is their sales have dropped. ABSOLUTLEY NO IDEA WHY.
I didn't say don't complain, I said you have to ALSO not buy. Complain all you want as long as you actually take some action.
Are you really so naive that multi-billion dollar corporations don't survey their users? You think they are just going to sit in their board room "Duh! I see sales go down! Uh oh!".
Yep, sounds like you got a few wedgies from the jocks when you were younger. Well, so did I. However, my son plays soccer and it makes a big difference in his life. Professional sports is one thing, but the vast majority of athletes struggle in silence without TV coverage or fans, with almost no wanking at all. Almost all Olympic athletes fall into that category.
If they can't make money on the sale, why does that mean customers must give up their privacy unwittingly?
It doesn't. DON'T BUY THE PHONE.
It's not that they can't, but that's not their business model. You don't get to define their business model. You get to not buy their product if you don't like it. Buy a phone that meets your criteria. You may get less phone. It may cost you more money. But I'm sure your privacy means more to you than those things right?
You mean from the Google Store? Google doesn't make hardware (well, I heard they made the Pixel C). The contract companies like HTC, LG, and Samsung to make phones that are Google branded. They supply the software. The profits from the sale go to the hardware company, not Google.
Regardless, Nexus devices are priced for slim margins to begin with and never sell at quantities that would get them economies of scale. You think they make bank by selling Nexus phones devices for hundreds less than Samsung, HTC, and Apple?