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SRQ posted:are you kidding me the macos take on applications being self contained is so many leagues beyond the stupidity of windows "installing" stuff that it's laughable. I'm talking about Step 1: click install Step 2: it show you an arrow and text that says to drag one icon onto another icon Just make the process step 1 only.
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Salt Fish posted:I'm talking about you know you can put the app wherever you want, right?
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Salt Fish posted:I'm talking about they have that! it’s called the app store
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DuckConference posted:https://www.anandtech.com/show/13392/the-iphone-xs-xs-max-review-unveiling-the-silicon-secrets/4 i'm very impressed you chose to compare to a dogshit midrange chip, but apple is delivering like 80% of the performance of intel's best single-core performance in a cellphone chip, no less. which is necessarily compromised to fit into that crappy power and packaging envelope maybe their desktop arm effort will actually be good and cool
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Salt Fish posted:It only has 2 usb C ports so I have to haul around a backpack full of dongles defeating the point of having a laptop in the first place. i was considering buying a windows pc when the new nvidia cards came out. then i thought what about the apps i use. for example opening pdfs. theres nothing like preview. the options are acrobat reader (worse and might have spyware) and foxit (worse and might have spyware) so i kept my old mac
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Whatever stock thing W10 includes by default has so far suited all my pdf needs.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i'm very impressed that's what I was trying, badly, to say. intel's process advantage is gone and arm vendors (well, mainly apple) are eating away at their uarch advantage. windows has the huge installed base of x86 chips and huge body of existing x86 software keeping it from going to any other arch, and datacenters will look at the LOE on porting to arm and decide it's not worth it, but apple absolutely is willing to impose a new architecture on their 3rd party devs if they think it's worthwhile for apple. my take is that being able to capture the value of the chip design and keep that gross margin up up up will make that worthwhile. they just need a 50w chip good enough to beat intel on some cherry-picked benchmarks
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:i'm very impressed power is one thing, but the packaging situation is pretty good, for one the a12 has 3x the transistors of that skylake, and for the other the memory is on-package (relieving pin-out issues), so outside of power they are not exactly constraining themselves not to mean it isn't impressive, just that some of the ingrained ideas of mobile processors don't really hold anymore Cybernetic Vermin fucked around with this message at 09:49 on Nov 4, 2018 |
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poty posted:i was considering buying a windows pc when the new nvidia cards came out. Chrome and Edge both read PDFs.
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Kevin Mitnick P.E. posted:my take is that being able to capture the value of the chip design and keep that gross margin up up up will make that worthwhile. pretty sure this is the first and maybe only goal of all custom silicon efforts under uncle timmy.
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tk posted:Chrome and Edge both read PDFs. do they let you fill in form PDFs and save it (preview does)
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e: nm
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Salt Fish posted:I'm talking about there's probably a five page technical reason for it, but it i'm certain it boils down to tldr; your os is a pos.
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Laslow posted:why can't i doubleclick an rpm file and have it just work? This but a video phone call in 2018
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Laslow posted:why can't i doubleclick an rpm file and have it just work? This is what I get when I doubleclick an RPM: 
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Salt Fish posted:This is what I get when I doubleclick an RPM: sweet ux design
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Here is a UI challange mini-game. Take a screenshot of the OSX "detect displays" button in the Displays config menu.
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Salt Fish posted:Here is a UI challange mini-game. Take a screenshot of the OSX "detect displays" button in the Displays config menu. if it didn't detect it when you plugged it in it sure as poo poo wouldn't detect it if it had that button
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ADINSX posted:This but a video phone call in 2018 FaceTime is flawless though?
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Laslow posted:why can't i doubleclick an rpm file and have it just work? it used to "just work" that way, but then idiots would go download random rpms from the internet and break their systems very badly so they made it stop working, because it was a dumb idea (why would you ever want to manually install an rpm?)
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Salt Fish posted:Here is a UI challange mini-game. Take a screenshot of the OSX "detect displays" button in the Displays config menu.  what do i get
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pram posted:
you really ought to get yourself a 4k or 5k monitor
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4k owns and it's hilarious that windows still sucks at well everything but in this case scaling
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im waiting for a color accurate 4k screen that isnt $1500
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SRQ posted:4k owns and it's hilarious that windows still sucks at it's gotten a lot better on windows. macos still is the king though
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Sniep posted:is a 2070 good it's also not good enough for 4k and way overkill for 1080p so it's kind of pointless. unless you got one of those 1440p monitors, which is a bullshit half-step like having one of those 900p monitors in 2006 , which is sort of dumb in it's own way.
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what about RTX the ray tracing poo poo has anyone proof of concepted that yet - is there like, a demo, or something? (There's none on nvidia's own demos page)
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Sniep posted:what about RTX id like to see what the cost would be to do raytracing on the 10x0 series
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Sniep posted:what about RTX
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i mean they're right that a raytracer that simulates physical light transport is the highest quality lighting engine you can get, and having dedicated hardware built for it is a big step forwards on the other hand people have been writing real-time raytracers since the commodore 64, this is just doing it with a shitload more ray bounces and at much higher resolution i wanna know what the heck happened to Brigade -- they were on this path 5 years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abqAanC2NZs
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i wanna get a 4k monitor but i play a lot of older games and emulators and i think stretching them to a 4k monitor would be fucky looking maybe not though idk i havent looked into it too much some of the games have hacks to get higher resolution, but even with that some of the engines just cant handle 4k. at least i dont have to worry about having a powerful enough video card with old games
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Samuel L. ACKSYN posted:i wanna get a 4k monitor but i play a lot of older games and emulators and i think stretching them to a 4k monitor would be fucky looking scaling works pretty well at high dpi i wouldn’t sweat it
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:scaling works pretty well at high dpi yeah i kinda figured it wasnt as bad as i thought it might be some games ive had lots of trouble with even at 1440p, like recently with the original first 2 hitman games for example. and then even when they run fine at 1440p sometimes the hud doesn't scale and you end up being unable to read it then again the first hitman game has other issues beyond running. like, for instance, it's not good
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i don't have a 4k monitor, but shouldn't scaling a game to 1920x1080 be trivial on one? so if your hardware doesn't have the grunt to do your game on 4k you could just set the resolution to 1080, couldn't you? or does this introduce other problems
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i'd imagine that's the ideal situation, since each pixel just becomes a 2x2 group (you can literally do nearest-neighbor scaling) and 1920x1080 is quite good and sharp anyway
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:i don't have a 4k monitor, but shouldn't scaling a game to 1920x1080 be trivial on one? so if your hardware doesn't have the grunt to do your game on 4k you could just set the resolution to 1080, couldn't you? or does this introduce other problems i don’t know, op. hope this helps
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fart simpson posted:i don’t know, op. hope this helps dont sign i guess
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Sagebrush posted:i mean they're right that a raytracer that simulates physical light transport is the highest quality lighting engine you can get, and having dedicated hardware built for it is a big step forwards if by much higher resolution you mean a couple of rays per pixel then I guess. lomarf
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