General Chat Thread

[VegetableStu]

so while LTT plays with black 2.0, Hardware Canucks did a piece with a pair of headphones with binaural mics in them.

Interesting that Dmitry did this thing with swapping stereo direction where our left hears his right when the camera faces him from the front (like mirroring)

 

[Kmpkt]

I love how much the matching Sennheiser mic costs (2400 USD). Not sure if you're going to see a lot of adoption of the relevant technology at those prices, which kinda makes the buds moot.

 

[AleksandarK]

mini-itx.com got updated after a long time. See who wrote it.

 

[VegetableStu]

nice! (also congrats on the new user banner!)

Now on LEGO: Star Wars 8 spoilers ._. Going through their catalogue and half of them are "hang on I don't remember this happening in SW7 oh dammit"

 

[jtd871]

I stopped caring about Star Wars after Ep2 (blech). I don't regret it.

 

[AleksandarK]

nice! (also congrats on the new user banner!)

Now on LEGO: Star Wars 8 spoilers ._. Going through their catalogue and half of them are "hang on I don't remember this happening in SW7 oh dammit"

Thank yoh very much.

As far as Star Wars. I am big fan. Until ep5 it was very exciting and interesting. Now it is not that exciting, but good enough.

 

[EdZ]

I stopped caring about Star Wars after Ep2 (blech). I don't regret it.

Give Rogue One a go. Like the latter half of the original Star Wars, it's essentially a WWII movie mash-up iiiiiin spaaaaace.

 

[jtd871]

Maybe. Hard sell as we all know "how it ends": the plans are delivered to the Rebel Alliance (thanks to the sacrifice of many Bothans, and all the theater-goers who sat through Jar-Jar Binks), who then succeed in destroying the Death Star (twice!) while also, in passing, taking care of Jabba the Hutt and Boba Fett (in a sweet twofer), Darth Vader, an entire Super Star Destroyer, oh, and Emperor Palpatine [who seemed to be rather 'out of training' for a Force user - other than the whole lightning from his hands thing (moral: don't let your duties and perks in the C-suite keep you from doing the little things that helped put you there in the first place)].

 

[EdZ]

the plans are delivered to the Rebel Alliance (thanks to the sacrifice of many Bothans

Wrong movie (that was the second Death Star).

 

[Phuncz]

After watching Rogue One in the theater, the most prominent idea in my mind was that it was the best Star Wars experience of all of them. I'd highly recommend if you didn't watch any of the movies after the classic trilogy.

 

[VegetableStu]

I might have spent waaaay too much time on this.

 

[AleksandarK]

I might have spent waaaay too much time on this.

Apple should hire you.

Jokes aside, it looks really nice. Time well spent.

 

[Phuncz]

Nice workon that mockup !

On a tablet, screen edges make sense to hold because of the size. You can grip a phone with a single hand just from the sides and rear, but for a 10" tablet it's not comfortable, especially for longer periods of time. So I'm not sure we'd see one like this anytime soon.

 

[VegetableStu]

Yeah on the same hand it'd be an extremely breakable screen compared to the others when dropped on the sides.

But on the other I'd guess Apple will figure out a way or guideline to detect non-cursor finger interactions when it comes to gripping the iPad on the active area near the borders. If there's already a 80% confident (just throwing a number) palm rejection for the iPad pro...

Also LOL THAT SCREEN ESTATE

 

[EdZ]

A design like the Lenovo Yoga tablets might work, where the batteries (and thus most of the mass) are stored in a 'grip' along one back edge.

 

[VegetableStu]

Yeah that makes a lot of hand-sense. It'd be a very un-apple thing to do, but hey they outed that humpback battery cover...

In other not-so-news TIL of AFOX and this B250 mini-DTX board O_O

 

[BirdofPrey]

A design like the Lenovo Yoga tablets might work, where the batteries (and thus most of the mass) are stored in a 'grip' along one back edge.

Would you have it set as a grip for landscape or portrait mode?
It would make using your tablet in the other orientation awkward.

 

[AleksandarK]

I finished the course for android developer. It was pretty cool. Learned the basics and it wasnt hard at all.

Now thinking about learning something else. I am thinking about something from Computer Science. Do you guys reccomend some area from CS?

 

[VegetableStu]

was procrastiworking on a list of mATX boards, and I kinda question my notion about mATX with only one x16 Lane socket. Is my possibly irrational view of oversized ITX boards unfounded?

(for context: I kinda prefer x8x8 board than a x16x1x1x4 PCH board just because of being able to plug two higher-bandwidth cards)

 

[onlyabloke]

Hey, fellas. Long time no see.

Plans to build my SFF PC are starting soon, so I figured Id pop back in and see whats up.

How is everyone?