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If they had just kept the pricing at roughly the same level as the Nexus phones instead of giving it "premium flagship" pricing they would have blown every other Android phone out of the water.
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Collateral Damage posted:If they had just kept the pricing at roughly the same level as the Nexus phones instead of giving it "premium flagship" pricing they would have blown every other Android phone out of the water. It still does. The pricing is justified given the level of hardware/software refinement in it. I've owned nearly every Nexus, the Pixel is on a whole different level.
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Mar 10, 2017 20:56
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Collateral Damage posted:If they had just kept the pricing at roughly the same level as the Nexus phones instead of giving it "premium flagship" pricing they would have blown every other Android phone out of the water. It's a premium flagship device though? I understand the argument that Google should have stayed in the upper-middle market like the Nexus stuff was, but the Pixel isn't that and expecting it to priced as such is dumb.
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Mar 10, 2017 20:57
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Aaargh shithouse firewalls that randomly break OSPF and need rebooting to fix, gently caress you gently caress you I want to launch you into a compactor.
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Mar 10, 2017 21:04
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So I work in a office straight out of the 70's Ancient IBM line printer, hole in the wall from where the exhaust fan used to be (from back in the good old days when you could smoke in your office), 1970's Sears AC unit in the wall, mis-matched desks, chair from elementary school, green carpet that matches the wallpaper... They've been on a remodeling kick. So they come in and paint the walls and drop ceiling some light gray color, put in new carpet, and get the cheapest desks they can find from Herman Miller or Steelcase, whoever gives them a better deal that month. As a bonus they are going to insulate that wall on the left and get us a new combination heat/cooling unit because it's either 30 degrees or 90 degrees in here. I met with the furniture guy, and this was the layout I wanted, along with what we currently have. Green - workbench for setting up PC's or whatever Red - desks Blue - meeting table of sorts, or a place for contractors to sit while they are here  The goals were: intern/helpdesk guy can sit by each other since they work with each other and do similar things, and they need the work bench for setting up PC's and stuff like that. Manager/system analyst can sit by each other. Everyone is facing the door (on the right in the picture, can't see it) so you can greet people that come in, instead of having our backs to the door. It was approved, we were waiting to get everything installed. Then the owner's wife came in with carpet samples.  did you see your layout? yea, I talked to the furniture guy and that's what we came up with oh well I just changed it all todaySo this is what we're getting.  Bah. No work desk, intern desk (on the right edge) and 1 other desk are the only ones that face the door. Bah.
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Mar 10, 2017 21:07
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Your office is a loving dump
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Mar 10, 2017 21:41
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Collateral Damage posted:If they had just kept the pricing at roughly the same level as the Nexus phones instead of giving it "premium flagship" pricing they would have blown every other Android phone out of the water. A phone with "premium flagship" stats but budget price would indeed be awesome...but that kind of hardware is expensive. My last 2 smartphones were Nexuses, and their performance, and battery life, was pathetic compared to the Pixel.
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Mar 10, 2017 21:45
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Not saying they should sell the Pixel at Nexus 5 prices, but it's almost twice the cost of the Nexus 6P and that's pretty stiff.
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Mar 10, 2017 21:58
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Collateral Damage posted:Not saying they should sell the Pixel at Nexus 5 prices, but it's almost twice the cost of the Nexus 6P and that's pretty stiff. Except that's not true. 32gb Nexus 6p launched at $499 32gb Pixel launched at $649 XL $769 So, the pixel is a 23% premium and the XL is a 50% premium over the 6p. Nether of those are anywhere near double the cost.
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Mar 10, 2017 22:09
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skooma512 posted:poo poo like this is why went to the iPhone. At least Apple doesn't let Verizon mess with it like they do with Androids. Seemed like the only people who got mess with Android's rom was Verizon. I got a company provided iphone and my galaxy 6 has been sitting in a drawer since I started using it. Oh well.
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Mar 10, 2017 22:27
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bull3964 posted:Except that's not true. The insane battery life alone is worth that 23%. I had every Nexus, and the batteries on them were all hot garbage. The pixel I don't even plug in some nights, and it's fine. I just connect it when I get in the shower and by the time I'm out it's 100% and off I go.
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Mar 10, 2017 22:34
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Jerk McJerkface posted:The insane battery life alone is worth that 23%. I had every Nexus, and the batteries on them were all hot garbage. The pixel I don't even plug in some nights, and it's fine. I just connect it when I get in the shower and by the time I'm out it's 100% and off I go. You just twigged my interest.
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Mar 10, 2017 22:36
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tactlessbastard posted:You just twigged my interest. Get this, I have a 1.5 hour train to and from the city that is all phone screen on, and it's still not an issue.
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Mar 10, 2017 22:46
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In case anyone is wondering what the difference is between what Google is doing with the Pixel as opposed to Nexus: Nexus was a hardware target for AOSP. AOSP, by its nature, had broad hardware compatibility. This means that while AOSP was built to run on Nexus devices, the Nexus images were not very device optimized. They used the same public interfaces to the hardware that anyone could build against. Android for the Pixel used the same way the OEM like Samsung uses it. ASOP is used as a base, but the image is very device specific and optimized. Instead of using a public API to access hardware, they might interface at the driver level (for example.) One example of this would be encryption. On a Nexus device, encryption is accelerated using ARM's Neon extensions as that's something that would be in every ARM chipset that met a minimum spec. It's a software solution (even though it is accelerated.) With the Pixel, there is no restriction with putting a hardware specific optimization in place. So, the SD821's hardware accelerated encryption was used and we finally have an Android device that has minimal performance penalty for encryption. So, a Pixel is much much closer to an iPhone in execution than anything that has come before it in the Android space.
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Mar 10, 2017 22:50
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poo poo that's pissing me off: my S7A updated to 7.0 and now the portrait to landscape screen transition is completely hosed up with a lot of lag and misrendered screens and the Samsung keyboard has completely forgotten all my custom words.
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Mar 10, 2017 22:56
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tactlessbastard posted:poo poo that's pissing me off: my S7A updated to 7.0 and now the portrait to landscape screen transition is completely hosed up with a lot of lag and misrendered screens and the Samsung keyboard has completely forgotten all my custom words. Factory reset usually helps. Please do the needful and revert
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Mar 10, 2017 23:01
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TIL if a message is over a certain size barracuda will let it through regardless of how many links to Chinese diet pills it contains. 
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Mar 11, 2017 00:31
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A Pinball Wizard posted:TIL if a message is over a certain size barracuda will let it through regardless of how many links to Chinese diet pills it contains. Barracuda Help Text posted:Messages bigger than the size specified here will not undergo body scans. Spammers are less likely to send very large messages. The default value is 256000 bytes (250kB). Haha, all they need to do is include a lovely jpeg signature and it automatically gets through the spam filter. Great!
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Mar 11, 2017 00:35
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A Pinball Wizard posted:TIL if a message is over a certain size barracuda will let it through regardless of how many links to Chinese diet pills it contains.
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Mar 11, 2017 00:36
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Jerk McJerkface posted:Get this, I have a 1.5 hour train to and from the city that is all phone screen on, and it's still not an issue. Where in the world did you move to? I thought you were coming from Union? Also chiming in with love for the Pixel. The difference between it and the 6 is night and day. The rapid charging capability is EXTREMELY useful.
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Mar 11, 2017 02:42
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Tigren posted:Haha, all they need to do is include a lovely jpeg signature and it automatically gets through the spam filter. Great! That is loving absurd. What is the max size you can set for that?
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Mar 11, 2017 03:48
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I'm pretty sure it counts images and attachments differently, and that they're just talking about the body of the message. The reason it has a size limit is that it can run out of memory/processing power and it'll just let things through in order to not crash the service or hold up mail delivery for everything else. Failing open on spam is a pretty good idea comparatively.
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Mar 11, 2017 04:03
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Volmarias posted:Where in the world did you move to? I thought you were coming from Union? Nope. Bergen county. Njt all the way.
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Mar 11, 2017 04:35
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A Pinball Wizard posted:TIL if a message is over a certain size barracuda will let it through regardless of how many links to Chinese diet pills it contains. I bet they thought the guy that came up with that idea in 1998 was a genius.
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Mar 11, 2017 07:04
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Sickening posted:Is this a phone worth having? What is SA's hot take on it. I've got the PixelXL and I absolutely love it. Everything about it is smooth. I don't miss any of the bells and whistles. I will be pissed af if they get rid of the headphone jack in the Pixel 2
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You guys have convinced me to get a Pixel XL. I still have a Note 3, and its getting rather slow and crashy. Im also looking at Google's mobile phone service. I'd be paying about what I am now with AT&T for both the Pixel and the Google phone/data service combined. Anything I should know before making the switch? Being able to travel outside the US without horrendously overpriced fees is very alluring as well.
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If you're looking to save some money the oneplus 3 has Android 7, is really nice, and is a bit cheaper than the pixel.
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Mar 11, 2017 08:32
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If the Huawei Mate 9 Pro is available in the US now, it is probably the best android phone for the price. http://www.gsmarena.com/huawei_mate_9_pro-8396.php And for people worried about battery life, it has a 4000mAh battery.
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MANime in the sheets posted:You guys have convinced me to get a Pixel XL. I still have a Note 3, and its getting rather slow and crashy. Im also looking at Google's mobile phone service. I'd be paying about what I am now with AT&T for both the Pixel and the Google phone/data service combined. Anything I should know before making the switch? Being able to travel outside the US without horrendously overpriced fees is very alluring as well. I'm using it (although work is paying all the bills). A friend of mine has a saying, "two turkeys don't make an eagle", which is somewhat true. It's been generally very good, but there are certain places where both T-mobile and Sprint get bogged down during rush hour, and your data will be less than excellent. That said, it's only a few places, and that's more an artifact of their carriers than of Fi itself. I still have an iPhone with T-mobile, but that's for other reasons (free femtocell for my apartment with poor reception among others) Volmarias fucked around with this message at 15:51 on Mar 11, 2017 |
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Mar 11, 2017 15:34
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Part 3 is out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WueXBCE8vo
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I was half expecting him to nail into a power or plumbing line. Edit: of loving course he rices out the rack at the end of it, there is no facepalm big enough for this. Sheep fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Mar 12, 2017 |
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Mar 12, 2017 01:47
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10 seconds in and he's wearing socks with sandals how does this man manage to be terrible at everything.
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Mar 12, 2017 01:58
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I'm not going to check, but his videos are all monetized, right?
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Mar 12, 2017 02:05
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anthonypants posted:I'm not going to check, but his videos are all monetized, right? Of course, and on top of the usual Youtube stuff there's also always a 30 second bit promoting something at the start or end of every video. I half think he does dumb poo poo deliberately (like pull everything out of the rack to clean it and not install this dusty dirty insulation at that time, but rather after everything is re-installed and being used) to make more "interesting" content.
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Mar 12, 2017 03:18
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It was fun watching his minor transformation from Chipper Tech Bro to Unimpressed Blue Collar Misanthrope through continually loving up and hurting himself
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Mar 12, 2017 03:46
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The noise isolation seems pretty poo poo too, not just with the dust. I wonder if a proper solution would've really been much more expensive.
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Mar 12, 2017 03:49
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Rudager posted:Of course, and on top of the usual Youtube stuff there's also always a 30 second bit promoting something at the start or end of every video.
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Mar 12, 2017 03:56
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I'm glad part three is out, I've been following along at work to clean up our racks and so it's been a rough week waiting. Gonna be sick when we get those RGBs though
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Mar 12, 2017 03:59
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anthonypants posted:Gosh, I wonder how he has money to do all this dumb poo poo. Oh well, better keep watching and sharing his videos. Why should I care if he get's paid, it's hilarious to watch.
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It's pretty much how 95% of channels on YouTube stay afloat. Do something embarrassingly stupid, get people to share the videos going "look at this moron", collect ad money.
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