Boon

seen this a long time ago

Ehh Ubisoft trying to save face. 

Source
 
Comparing Mantle and OGL (and D3D11), Mantle's major advantage over OGL is that it provides a much friendlier programming paradigm for devs coding for DX. In order to take advantage of OGL's low-level optimizations, you'd have to do a lot of stuff that's just really different from the DX paradigm, which would significantly increase development time by a significant amount.
In contrast, Mantle provides a lot of familiarity with its paradigm. Apparently the shader code, which is something I presume takes a lot of effort to program, can be freely interchanged between DX and Mantle, and the low-level features of the upcoming D3D12 API bears an uncanny resemblance with Mantle's syntax. (firagabird)
 
^^ This pretty much somes everything up. Mantle could be the next thing, and the linux community is going to love it!
 
EDIT:
AMD drivers are more better on Linux then NVIDIA. So here is a video that I like to share
 
 
thanks tiger for getting the vid
 
 

256-bit bus with 8GB VRAM...yeah I'll pass on that Nvidia.

Take a look at the 10TB+ storage thread. http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/21948-ltt-10tb-storage-show-off-topic/
 
25% of us on the list are using RAID 6
To me, Raid 50 doesn't seem as beneficial as RAID 6. Say you set up 2 RAID 5's, 3 disks each, then you use RAID 0 and join the 2 RAID 5's. If 2 disks on one of the individual RAID 5's fail, then you lose the entire array. Wheras with RAID 6, you can lose 2 drives, and still maintain the data integrity. You just can't lose a third disk.
 
With RAID 50, I also don't think you will be able to expand the array like you mentioned in the first post.
I haven't done any googling, just some thoughts of mine, if it turns out I'm wrong don't hold it against me

You've disappointed me.

More like "70% off games I've already played"
 
Nice try origin.  Your sales won't make you any less terrible.

Because a higher pixel density is not really needed. It's not as if people wouldn't be able to surf the web on a 720p screen. Battery life is more important to me.
   
Because it would mess up their entire OS. Also, I don't see why black bars are such a huge deal to some of you guys, when you're watching your movies on a tiny screen anyway.
 
   
If you load it up with all sorts of widgets and apps maybe, but so does your PC, if you never do a clean install with only the stuff that you actually use.
I've had my Android phone for more than 3 years now and thanks to the improvements that came with 4.0 and 4.4 and the smart guys over at XDA, it now feels faster than ever.
 
On the other hand... many Apple users complained after installing IOS 6 and 7 onto older hardware. I am aware of that, because I use both IOS and Android every single day.

I can't even bother to read threads about phones because most if not all people bitching have used 1,2 maybe 3 different phones and they instantly become mobile experts.

Bullshit, something in whatever you're writing that on came from China.

You have gone well off topic of my argument in the first place, that the Price vs Performance factor is definitely in favour of Motorola in this case.
 
 
Perhaps base your 'claims' on some fact before you go calling bullshit on everyone else.
 
1. You still have not provided any evidence to support your claim that the Trulimnos Display is crap, let alone can prove that the LG panels are any better anyway (btw, you didn't answer that one either). Let me just remind that these type of panels or used in televisions TODAY, so I would base your claims on fact next time.
 
2. Your statement about 3GS' and other Flagship phones are opinion, not fact. You can't account for every persons choice, only what you see. This is probably a biased view based on your stance towards Apple as well.
A friend of mine from work uses an iPhone 3G, not by choice, but from the fact that his iPhone (5, 4 or w/e) screen was smashed and was being repaired. This is no support for your theory about long lasting quality, rather it is mostly people who keep their previous phone as insurance that they lose their current one. Take a photo of someone in public using a 3GS to support your claim, it would be the first thing you supply as some form of evidence in your argument. Don't just make outrageous claims that you cannot back up with some fact.
 
3. 'You people'? How dare you. We should be calling you, 'you people' to be honest. I would just like to let you know that iPhone's are one of the most expensive, standard model, phones on the market, compared to any other android flagship phone (I'm talking averages, not specifics. If you used a Trimmed Mean to represent this comparison in price, it would blow Apple out of the ballpark entirely in this example).
 
 
This is not the point though. The point is that Apple don't even offer the option for a higher resolution like ALL other flagship phones do. I think LAwLz has explained this point well enough in his last post. If we agree that "X is good enough", progress does slow and WHY would Apple change things if their users are happy with what the have? They can just keep charging the same price for each new iPhone with the same screen resolution (not that they aren't doing that now). The battery in an iPhone isn't even 2000mAh.... Apple are really just cutting corners and are trying to force their users to own multiple chargers in order to keep their phone on 24/7 (Don't forget, a legitimate Apple Charger and Cable will cost over $50). Just look at Misanthrope's post, the Samsung Note II had a longer endurance than an iPhone 5s. There are more facts here so far than you have provided in any of your argument's in any post's.
 
 
 
I could say the same about you based on your rebuttal. You have not based of your claims on any facts, rather anecdotes. This is clearly not a reliable measure, as stated by LAwLz that even humans have their own deficiencies that we can not always take into account when giving our own opinions (particularly with sight).
 
 
Once again, you are just using your personal life experiences and are not describing any details (aka facts) in your argument. What do you think is happening? Since you are such a 'tech enthusiast', I would have expected some more details rather than hot air. \
 
 
 
You're basing your opinion on KitKat from the Samsung derivative OS on the phone, obviously since you haven't helped your relative and flashed the phone to a vanilla version. And wtf are you on about with '4 years software support'?
 
Legit, Apple have had the same fucking UI since 2008. I'll put up the screenshots if you would like, but it's a waste of time for myself to even bother.
 
 
 
iCloud? If you bought an Apple product in particular just to use iCloud, then you may as well fork out $3000 and buy a Titan Z to have 4K gaming with PhysX, or the same with 780Ti Sli. w/e. it's the same principle regardless. This is propietray and some people are simply lazy or don;t like change. Shit some people in life don't even like challenges and just want to walk down easy street 24/7.
 
 
Either you only know one person in life, that being your relative with the GS4 (which BTW I never recommended or said was any better than an iPhone), or you are just stating the obvious feature that Apple cannot compete with in this scenario. Have you ever considered that some people don't like simplicity and would rather be 'stimulated' in life sometimes? Sometimes you need to just learn new things to live in modern reality, otherwise, you get left behind with the sheep.
 
Also, did you ever consider that people switch to android because they are annoyed by the restrictions of iOS?
 
 
Well, I don't like to be called a douche bag just as much as the next guy, you obviously have taken the TITLE CASE wording as 'yelling' rather than a 'dramatization in writing'.
 
Please don't question my intelligence either, I enjoy physics more than enjoy putting Apple fan boys in their place. Did i say that other phones are invincible? Sure didn't! But my $350 Z1 sure can take quite a beating compared to the average iPhone 5s. Let alone it is rated at IP58. Apple is only now only about to introduce waterproof technology in their new line of iPhone's, to keep up with the rest of the flagship phones. Do you see Apple doing anything extra (in terms of hardware, not apps or faps), that other android flagship phones have to adapt? Try listing one, go on. Retina display, yeah right....

Oh, and Apple was probably the last company to do anything about stopping people from cracking their screens. They love extra revenue where ever they can pick it up.
http://www.treehugger.com/gadgets/iphone-users-have-spent-6-billion-broken-phones.html
 
 
My own claims? What claims are you making? that ~300ppi is the max you can see from 10-12 inches away?
 
Is your iPhone still in tact at this point as well?
 
The idea of regret comes from the fact that you are disagreeing with LG's statements that 'Retina Display' definition is a fat, whopping load of Apple pie. It isn't a standard by anyone's means but Apples, and anyone else silly enough to believe such fairy tales. Just because Job's said so doesn't give it factual base whatsoever. 
 
 
On a final note,
 
1. You have compared Samsung in so many references that it wasn't even warranted to do so in the first place. Where, in any of my post's, did i refer to a GS4/5. I am not defending Samsung at all either. I am however saying that you can obtain a very similar value from a Motorola Moto G as you do from any iPhone, for the general, non-exorbitant consumer. The Moto E is due to hit the market soon, and it will be just as REALISTICALLY priced as the Moto E. 
 
2. 'Retina Display' definition, is only something Apple have endorsed. I would not call it 'scientific' by any means. There are hundreds of criticism's over the claim that the human eye can only see around 300ppi at about 10-12 inches. Job's said it to make people fap harder.
 
3. Apple's net worth is so big, how can you substantiate that Apple is offering the best quality for their phones while maintaining the highest profit margin of any smartphone in the market, let alone the quantity that are bought. Please provide some fact here before you even approach this one again.
 
PS - I forgot that you insulted me earlier for purchasing the Z1 instead of a Z1s (first off, they're pretty much the same damn phone. I'm not a fan of the Apple tactic of prefixed 'i's or suffixed 's')'.
Next time, consider the demographics of the poster. Australia does not have T-mobile. Also, I buy my phones outright or second hand in order to exploit better phone deals with 'secondary' carriers.

Do you even know who manufacture the iPhone panels?
 
And also do you even know what kind of specs the Triluminos display offers before you go making that statement?
 
I have compared this in real life, and I honestly disagree with you entirely there. That is a matter of opinion and not fact. I bought this phone as it has more than the capabilities that I will need in a phone for the next three years, let alone it was only one month old and was nearly half the price of a brand new model. (unless Dev's stop patenting every fucking thing they make, in particular Apple. Apple Patent Lawsuits are destroying innovation imo)
 
Even if i considered an iPhone, i'd be extremely lucky to get anything in as close to the condition my Z1 is for less than $500.
 
 
I think if you would have a look at the Price vs. Performance analysis between these two phones, I think you would find yourself terribly wrong for a start.
 
The iPhone would obviously cream the Motorola in every other aspect, the point I was making is that you don't have to surrender $1000USD every time a new iPhone comes out, because really they only cost probably a fifth of that in materials. R&D, marketing and all that other bs does not account for the remaining overhead on the phone. Were talking Apple here, God damn fucking Apple, a company that is worth more than most developed countries. Do you think they got to this position by being ethical and actually selling phones valued near their cost? The few excuses Apple give for not having 1080p screens are concepts such as 'Retina Displays'. Why don't they just call it RetinaX ffs, LG have just about debunked this one for us all here.
 
 
Are you honestly using this as some kind of 'pro' for going with an iPhone? You must be off your chops to think Apple aren't doing this.....
 
(and have been for a longer time than android flagship phones)
 
 
 
Well I'm not the bloke here mate. I'm not IT illiterate or biased towards simplicity vs control. Obviously you're the bloke in this situation since you are talking about the iPhone as if you work for Apple or sell their products on late night infomercials. (I'm guessing that it was infomercials and you hit the jackpot selling iPhone's and moved to UAE to live it up! )
 
 
Are you from Mars? You're starting to scare me with these claims. Most people stick with iPhones because they are IT illiterate or biased towards change, particularly from iOS to android for the IT illiterate (they simply won't do it because they can't find their "iApplications", just take the 'i' out of everything >.>). I know for a fact there are millions of people who own an iPhone and are unable to turn a desktop computer on/off. That consumer is also getting jagged by all of the other streams in which Apple generate proift. The main one notably would have to be the cables and chargers for iPhones. You could just about buy a Motorola Moto G for the price of 2 charger packs and two cables, Apple brand. The Moto G would probably come charged as well! (well it definitely shouldn't, but for the lol's)
 
*REAL LIFE - JUST BOUGHT AN IPHONE 5 ON DAY ONE FOR $1000 - NEK MINUTE - DROPPED ON THE FLOOR FROM ABOUT HALF A METRE, SHATTERED SCREEN, $200 REPAIR FROM SHOP OR FACE VOIDING WARRANTY IF I DIY*
 
Does that not strike you as more of a reality for iPhone quality? Let alone long lasting.... Try find someone who still uses a 3rd gen iPhone, and isn't using it because they just broke their next-gen version by dropping it (before Apple went to a sapphire screen). At least they created a derivative of the phone for a premium price which offered a sapphire screen.
 
 
 
At the end of the day, you are making just excuses for Apples shortcomings in terms of their products and are trying to defend it by stating the colour of a Z1 is 'washed out'. Either you own an iPhone and are regretting it by reading this article or you work for/are paid off by Apple somehow
 
Why pay more for less.

1, You guys are full of shit. The limit is about 600ppi for average vision (20/20). They teach this to optical engineers during their schooling school, this is a verifiable proven fact. 
 
Also GSMArenas battery testing is uttershit. They set brightness at 50% which heavily penalizes brighter phones and helps the dimmer phones. Samsung is consistently among the least bright and iPhones are consistently among the most. http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/graph8004/63479.png

1) Battery degrades over time
 
2) This is a standardized test they run precisely because battery is greatly impacted by usage, even seemingly routine days can change usage drastically if Wifi is suddenly not available, if the user runs a more intensive app even for just a few minutes, etc.
 
No disrespect or anything, I do believe you guys when you say that you personally don't get as good numbers, but I just never really put much weight into anecdotal data vs actual controlled tests.

No, anecdotal evidence is worthless. Sorry but it is. It's like trying to convince someone that the Galaxy S 5 is better than the iPhone because you like the blue color of the case more than the gray iPhone.
It doesn't matter what *you* think if there is scientific evidence that says the opposite. Scientific evidence is worth more than anecdotal evidence because humans are easily manipulated and makes errors all the time.
 
Those are not even anecdotal evidence, they are just opinions.
It doesn't matter what your friends could or couldn't see because they might have below average vision, the test might not have been in the optimal scenario and/or they might not even have known what to look for.
 
 
 
That is very, very untrue. Try reading some of the more complex Kanji on a screen with low PPI. It's pretty horrible compared to a high PPI one.
Also, we should always try to improve things. Once we start going "X is good enough" progress slows down. People said 1GHz CPUs were overkill and they didn't see the point in going over that (this was for desktops by the way, not phones). Yet here we are, where anything less than a dual core at ~3GHz is considered pretty bad, and it would have been an order of magnitude better than what was considered overkill just ~15 years ago.

Not silly. People (hipsters and people that don't actually know what good sound quality is) buy them like they're a necessity. Apple wants to make more money. Beats are a way to make money. Apple buys Beats. End of story.

Dr. Dre is only the richest because Snoop Dogg spent all his money on weed.

Scientific results are worth more than anecdotal stuff.
There are far too many variables at play to just do a simple "do you see the difference" test. Things like color accuracy, reflectiveness of the screen, brightness, color balance, size and a bunch of other things all factor in when doing a "do you see the difference" test. In terms of pure PPI however, there is a difference.
 
Your personal experiences are colored though. Anecdotal evidence is always colored. That's why it is less valuable than scientific results.
 
 
From what I've heard talking to some developers, iOS doesn't have any scaling. Everything is mapped to specific pixels which is why they always have such difficulties increasing resolution (break compatibility like with the iPhone 5/black bars, or quadruple the resolution and just make each pixel into 4 pixels).
They were really short sighted when they programmed it that way, and they are suffering from it now. That's why we might never see a 16:9 or 16:10 device using iOS. They either have to do some very major changes to the underlying OS or break compatibility with all apps (as in, add black bars).

Do you even know who manufacture the iPhone panels?
 
And also do you even know what kind of specs the Triluminos display offers before you go making that statement?
 
I have compared this in real life, and I honestly disagree with you entirely there. That is a matter of opinion and not fact. I bought this phone as it has more than the capabilities that I will need in a phone for the next three years, let alone it was only one month old and was nearly half the price of a brand new model. (unless Dev's stop patenting every fucking thing they make, in particular Apple. Apple Patent Lawsuits are destroying innovation imo)
 
Even if i considered an iPhone, i'd be extremely lucky to get anything in as close to the condition my Z1 is for less than $500.
 
 
I think if you would have a look at the Price vs. Performance analysis between these two phones, I think you would find yourself terribly wrong for a start.
 
The iPhone would obviously cream the Motorola in every other aspect, the point I was making is that you don't have to surrender $1000USD every time a new iPhone comes out, because really they only cost probably a fifth of that in materials. R&D, marketing and all that other bs does not account for the remaining overhead on the phone. Were talking Apple here, God damn fucking Apple, a company that is worth more than most developed countries. Do you think they got to this position by being ethical and actually selling phones valued near their cost? The few excuses Apple give for not having 1080p screens are concepts such as 'Retina Displays'. Why don't they just call it RetinaX ffs, LG have just about debunked this one for us all here.
 
 
Are you honestly using this as some kind of 'pro' for going with an iPhone? You must be off your chops to think Apple aren't doing this.....
 
(and have been for a longer time than android flagship phones)
 
 
 
Well I'm not the bloke here mate. I'm not IT illiterate or biased towards simplicity vs control. Obviously you're the bloke in this situation since you are talking about the iPhone as if you work for Apple or sell their products on late night infomercials. (I'm guessing that it was infomercials and you hit the jackpot selling iPhone's and moved to UAE to live it up! )
 
 
Are you from Mars? You're starting to scare me with these claims. Most people stick with iPhones because they are IT illiterate or biased towards change, particularly from iOS to android for the IT illiterate (they simply won't do it because they can't find their "iApplications", just take the 'i' out of everything >.>). I know for a fact there are millions of people who own an iPhone and are unable to turn a desktop computer on/off. That consumer is also getting jagged by all of the other streams in which Apple generate proift. The main one notably would have to be the cables and chargers for iPhones. You could just about buy a Motorola Moto G for the price of 2 charger packs and two cables, Apple brand. The Moto G would probably come charged as well! (well it definitely shouldn't, but for the lol's)
 
*REAL LIFE - JUST BOUGHT AN IPHONE 5 ON DAY ONE FOR $1000 - NEK MINUTE - DROPPED ON THE FLOOR FROM ABOUT HALF A METRE, SHATTERED SCREEN, $200 REPAIR FROM SHOP OR FACE VOIDING WARRANTY IF I DIY*
 
Does that not strike you as more of a reality for iPhone quality? Let alone long lasting.... Try find someone who still uses a 3rd gen iPhone, and isn't using it because they just broke their next-gen version by dropping it (before Apple went to a sapphire screen). At least they created a derivative of the phone for a premium price which offered a sapphire screen.
 
 
 
At the end of the day, you are making just excuses for Apples shortcomings in terms of their products and are trying to defend it by stating the colour of a Z1 is 'washed out'. Either you own an iPhone and are regretting it by reading this article or you work for/are paid off by Apple somehow
 
Why pay more for less.

I'm guessing that you either own an iPhone or work in design/arts field of some kind, but that is a legitimately crap excuse for having a low pixel density.
Samsung is becoming more like Apple in terms of it's phones, so i wouldn't use a GGS5 as a primer example for comparing here. I'm not defending it's colour saturation whatsoever, but I wouldn't buy a samsunug myself. I managed to pick up a Sony Xperia Z1 for $350 off ebay in almost new condition, because the bloke wasn't used to an android OS and was going back to an iOS phone. His loss, my very large gain
However I cite this comparison (from phonearena) between a Motorola Moto G and an iPhone 5s.
http://www.phonearena.com/phones/compare/Motorola-Moto-G,Apple-iPhone-5s/phones/8208%2C7710
 
I'm not saying that the screens are the same in anyway, but consider the cost of these two phones and the fact that the specs are so similar, a rational person would buy the Motorola Moto G on those facts.

I refuse to believe these people are that stupid. They are just paid well to humiliate themselves in front of everyone except the people who are dumb enough to believe it. That there are people that dumb though is kind of sad.

I don't know why people hate on manufacturers which provide a higher pixel count...IT'S EVOLUTION OF THE MARKET!Why the hell wouldn't you want evolution?The only downside of 1440p on phones right now is the lack of content for it.

i have!  so way back when i was a kind my aunt was an area manager for a big company and she had a carphone like that, i remeber ringing my nan on it when we were going to visit here i was like 8
 
yeah but that business and to be honest most companies do either by force or just as general progression.  TBH apples bigest gripe in phones for me is the shitty 's' branding it should be l for lazy, how much of a cop out is it "lets just do some basic upgrades and call it the 5s yeah us!" and it would seam that other major phone devs are following suit

I'd rather use this