if they managed to develop faster polishing machines so it wouldn't take months to create each smartphone's screen, it could be viable for phones, and it might help with durability, but it sure as shit wouldn't help with weight
and Samsung or Apple would be tempted to make the whole thing out of it since it's more durable than most opaque materials they use in smartphones today
@JourneymanGeek I'd still buy it, but the weight of the material would push the phone's weight far beyond the densities that people are used to when dealing with common objects
we just don't ever actually hold or lift objects that have that much mass per volume
neither do I, but this is a rather extreme form of ceramic material we're talking about
the weird thing is that it's translucent or opaque when they first take the stuff out of the "kiln" (1500 C furnace)
it's not a "glass" at all until they have polished it using polishing tools that make a fingernail file seem as abrasive as running an M1 Abrams tank's track over your tongue at 5000 rpm
it doesn't start to look transparent until they've peeled off just enough atoms to hit the light waves at just the right point in their wave pattern
I polished glass once in shop class at school.... I remember the polishing wheel was very very smooth to the touch, and yet at high speed it could do a remarkable job to turn scratchy, foggy glass into clear glass
it does not exist, people only think of these things when it is to late. Do Ham radio guys have a frequency they would intend to use in a blackout emergency kind of thing?
Yea, you can see the use of old school long range RF being applied in some post movies. but there are sooo many frequencies, a person could spend the entire year looking for something like SETI
I was on vacation in Spain a couple weeks back, random taxi we got in, dude was a HAM radio freak, chatter and buzzing the whole time, hes communicating with all sorts of people about so much weird stuff.... taking notes and stuff
that was his hobby while driving the cab
maybe actually thats the perfect hobby for that line of work
lots of people could jump off the grid easily, many neighbors around here have enough solar already to run the whole neighborhood , in a highly conservational way.
run to the nearest big corporation building, grab all cisco ip phones, some switches, a server, solar power it and your small post-apocalyptic community has phones
now you just need to connect to the next nearest small settlement
it only takes about 3'x3' of solar collection space to have simple LED lighting , small screen entertainment and some sort of wi-fi running. leaving burning up or freezing (heaters and AC), and food storage a bit of a problem.
@Erik pull off a few "dish" parabolias off some houses and setup a well aimed jump for longer distances (say every 20mi)
If the net went down, there would be millions of available man-hours to exploit to get it running again :-) think how much can get done without netflix and youtube :-)
heck if it wasnt for computers (and the bugs especially) we could be on another planet by now.
I have 5 slots for harddrives in my computer.
How can I achieve the optimal setup for read performance.
The system should preferably tolerate one disc loss without loosing data. (of course the disc should be replaced.
The disc space requirement is roughly 1TB, no less, but we assume unlimite...
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@Boris_yo Would they have one with a little more adventure a little less running? I need one that says "walk casually to your next destination, as to not arouse any zombies"
@Psycogeek Zombies Walk? This could be a neat idea for developer - learn to walk sneakily to not attract zombies. Smartphone sensors know when you sneak properly and when not. When done wrong - Zombies Run application takes control and user must run again.
Perfect, also you could have it know how long it has been since you had a bath/shower to know how easily spotted you will be (not smelling like a rotting corpse).
@Boris_yo I have bought it, because I thought it was a cool idea, but it includes actual physical exercise. so far it's been five wasted dollars, who'd've thought... .___.
Even then, the way Samsung has handled this so far stinks of "no one's working on it" more than "too many regulations to cope with"
Other manufacturers had no problem
Makes me wonder if Samsung has a single guy working on each country's release sequentially.
@ThatBrazilianGuy The other difference is, computers are more open. Even if there is no officially working driver, you're free to install a potentially-broken OS update and try to fix it yourself. Worst case, you can reinstall. No bricking.
Phones? I'd love to do that, but that's a great way to void a warranty.
> The x86 PC is a platform. Chips not only share the same instruction set, but they connect to standard controllers and peripherals using standard buses and interfaces.
@Bob the vertical speed indicator, derived from the pitot tube readings, was stuffed; but the altitude measurements were still accurate.... they could see their plane falling at 10,000 feet per minute... any sane pilot would want to get lift in that situation, not minimize lift by reducing air speed and putting the nose up
which is also why Intel's new phone SoCs have a massive advantage already
(but a disadvantage in experience and maybe instruction set)
> Nobody really knows how Apple managed to design and ship an ARMv8 chip so quickly. But it did, and is milking the marketing for all it's worth by claiming to offer the first desktop-class 64-bit chip for its phones and tablets.
wouldn't be surprised if Cookie and his gang of profiteering hipsters announce next year that they are intentionally reducing performance of Macbooks, Macbook Pros and iMacs, and somehow spin this as a good thing
@allquixotic All these idiots claiming their phone/tablet is as powerful as a laptop or, god forbid, desktop... come back when you can have 1000+ tabs open without something crashing (I'm aware that's mostly RAM, but show me an ARM tablet with 8 GB of RAM)
As it is, ARM chips are good for power efficiency and, therefore, distributed workloads. They're pretty useless in sequential performance when compared to typical Haswell processors.
@Bob "get the real iPhone experience with iPhone-like performance on your Mac Pro! Now a quad-core ARM64 capable of doing anything an iPhone can do, for only $15,000 in the Mac Pro!"
"FY2015 Mac Pro now shipping with enhanced trash can form factor so you are more likely to mistake it for something to spit loogies into!"
it's very good at detecting data dependencies, and it's becoming smarter about how to just execute things in parallel (sometimes speculatively, sometimes after figuring out the dependencies)
I've become attached to Samsung's hardware menu button and context/back buttons independent of the main screen :\
@DarthAndroid Well, I can rule out Apple, and Nokia is barely in the running :P
I had a slight preference for Samsung, but far less now with this update debacle. Oh, and that KNOX BS.
Not really looking for a new phone immediately, but I like to have my eye on one, in case of sudden need for replacement (read: magic smoke gets released)
@allquixotic Oh yea, MicroSD support will be a requirement for me.
Well, not a hard requirement, but a would-very-much-prefer-it
I'm sure the 3 GB of RAM will be fully consumed by both backwards-compat 32-bit libraries (for the tons of apps that never update) and 64-bit libraries for the new platform
> The new graphics engine will prove useful, since the upcoming iPhone is rumored to employ a much higher resolution (somewhere between 702p and 1080p) for the 4.7” screen size.
I have 5 slots for harddrives in my computer.
How can I achieve the optimal setup for read performance.
The system should preferably tolerate one disc loss without loosing data. (of course the disc should be replaced.
The disc space requirement is roughly 1TB, no less, but we assume unlimite...
