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Oculus founder says no Mac support coming until Apple builds 'good' system with better graphics
In terms of specs - the PS4 VR delivers a1080p resolution, with only half of that - 960x1080 - to each eye. It supposedly runs at 120fps (again, 60 in each eye), but I'm not sure how the PS4 is going to do that considering it hardly outputs at 30fps stable in most games at 1080, and most run at 720p or 960. The oculus has a resolution of 2160 x 1200, with 1080x1200 going into each eye, so it's got about 25-30% higher pixel density. It also has a global refresh of 90fps. The PS4 VR also has some kind of co-processor, the details of which have not been fully disclosed by Sony, and it's about half the size of the existing PS4 (photo). The occulus lacks this, and plugs directly into the PC with HDMI/USB.redraider11 said:Not sure why Oculus needs such high end graphics cards to work. Sony has VR that will utilize the PS4.
Really, it depends what you're trying to play. If you're playing the first 1990's Doom or Quake in VR, it'll run on any old toaster of a PC without difficulty. If you're playing something must more modern, then it'll be a hell of a lot more taxing. PS4 games play well on the PS4, but it won't pump out nearly as much visual fidelity as what a $2000+ gaming PC will be able to.
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85% of mobile device failures occur on Android, with Samsung leading the way
ericthehalfbee said:Please provide me with a list of manufacturers and the actual reported sales numbers (or shipments if you wish) for each.
Instead f shouting about how you don't like a source because it disagrees with you, do you have a source to counter them?
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LG, Samsung head to market with new Android flagship candidates
maestro64 said:Actually the only NAND today that has endurance of 100K cycles is SLC which is not used in phone or SD card, they all use the lower cost MLC and it is more like 1500 cycles and heading to about 300. Also the faster you write to the card the worse the endurance becomes. I spent a lot of time with my job working with the technology and know the downside since we were consider using to for real time video recording, NAND does not hold up and it has nothing to do with the camera or ESD. The point about MircoSD cards is the fact they are not the same quality of the NAND Apple is using inside the phone. The lowest quality NAND is used in SD and MircoSD cards, that is a fact. Yeah you can get better quality going to Class 10 certify SD cards, but consumer are not going to spend the money they going to use the cheapest memory they can find and expect it to work flawlessly. This was the issue we ran into, could not guaranty the consumer would spend the money and buy the right SD cards to guaranty performance.
Lastly, there is no NAND memory support 312 Mbytes/sec do you know how much data that is 2.4Gbits/sec. Most HD video is only streaming at 10 to 20 Mb/s That is Mbits/sec not Bytes. even if you meant bits not Bytes. Also it not the read speed that is the issue it is the write speed, and writing is far slower than reading and it get worse with time as the device is used over and over again the wear leveling algorithm slows things down even further.
>the only NAND today that has endurance of 100K cycles is SLC which is not used in phone or SD card, they all use the lower cost MLC and it is more like 1500 cycles and heading to about 300.
Try closer to 10,000 and up. True though, and SD cards tend to be MLC, sometimes TLC. CompactFlash and SD/SDHC cards are designed to transparently map out cells that go bad, or in some cases when they reach a predefined limit, to increase longevity. They're rated at 10-year odle data retention.
>Also the faster you write to the card the worse the endurance becomes.
I heard this myth years ago when SSDs were just becoming a thing, there's no evidence for it being the case. Are you referring to garbage collection? In which case yes, lack of it does cause very bad performance degradation. If you're curious, iOS doesn't support TRIM and Apple only introduced it for 3rd-party SSDs with El Capitan.
>you can get better quality going to Class 10 certify SD cards
Class is nothing to do with quality of the NAND, it's speed. You can get some mighty shit class 10s, but the faster are currently the UHS class 1 and 3 (which is confusing, I know, considering Class 2 was previously the slowest)
>The point about MircoSD cards is the fact they are not the same quality of the NAND Apple is using inside the phone.
Apple uses MLC for its NAND in iPhones, and from the 6 and owards some used TLC. I don't think Apple considers it something worth talking about, as it's likely to make little difference to the end user and if you only use your phone a year, it's not likely to make a difference either way. If you jailbreak your iPhone, you can check your bits per cell and determine if it's TLC or MLC. Apple does not use SLC, and has little reason to. It's enterprise-class, with the longest data retention and looking at Amazon, 32GB SLC SSDs still cost upwards of $300.
>there is no NAND memory support 312 Mbytes/sec
Absolute bull. The reason SATA3 became a thing was to break the 3.0Gb/s cap, and many consumer SSDs are reaching into the 500MB/s and above.
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LG, Samsung head to market with new Android flagship candidates
AppleInsider said:
(typically topping out at 40MB/sec
{...} may frequently fail within a year when forced into use as always on computer storage.
Where the hell do you people find this blatantly false information? Yes, memory cards are slower than internal NAND - but they're not that slow. A modern class 10 will pull more than double that. And besides, the S7 is supporting UHS-II MicroSDX specifically to counter this problem supports speeds far higher still (up to 312MB/s on paper), speeds compatible to onboard NAND. It'all cost you, though - an extra 128GB will cost $120.
And as for the failure rate, they carry the standard of 100,000 read-writes and wear-leveling to counter longevity being a problem and fall below the 0.17% failure rate of conventional NAND. The biggest killer of SD cards in general (and a reason which puts that number up, admittedly) is god-awful camera OSs that rampantly corrupt the cards, or static electricity discharge through handling abuse.
Yes, Android isn't the world's slickest OS but it's also not quite bad enough to randomly decide to corrupt a memory card. I'd just be very picky about where I source them, there's been some right stinkers released over the years (Sandisk, I'm looking at you)
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Donald Trump says Apple should back down in San Bernardino case
sog35 said:Giving the FBI an encryption key is the same thing as giving the FBI a master physical key that can open every single door on the planet.
Do you want the FBI to have a key they can use to open your front door anytime they want?
Or open your car anytime they want?
Do you want the FBI to go into your house while you are at work?
That is EXACTLY what the FBI wants from a digital perspective.
There are other ways to find out who these terrorist are working with. The FBI needs to find a better solution that does not compromise the privacy and safety of the innocent.
All lock manufacturers in the US are required to manufacture a skeleton key and submit it upon request to the government. This is a bad analogy.
Digital security cannot be handled in the same fashion as physical, laws are outdated and need to modernise to deal with modern technology. Apple is absolutely right to stand up in this fight. It's not just Apple vs. the Government - it's all companies, and the very privacy of the nation's people vs. the government.
