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Bravo, a wonderful app indeed. I just see so many uses for it. And it is priced just right for it to pick up quickly.

The app design is just wonderful - minimal and quite intuitive. Good luck!


Well, an interesting and yet humbling, depressing read.

What a way to start my morning.


That feeling isn't depression, it's hubris leaving your body.


Content consumption? I am reading this on my bed, on my iPad Pro.


Impressive! While it doesn’t utterly destroy Intel, AMD does offer a MUCH better price/performance ratio. Things have gotten much more interesting indeed. Intel’s dominance is being called into question. As a result, we all profit.


On the other end ARM is also nibbling at Intel with AARCH64 chips that are closing on lower-end Core performance and building in server and high-end workstation grade features like virtualization.


Yep. And nvidia and amd are hurting Intel in terms of servers which are moving in many cases towards GPU for acceleration.

Very interesting times in Silicon.


Yeah, and AMD is the only company who can offer a high performance GPU together with a high performance x86 CPU. And APU's with HBM of course. Looking forward to what they can achieve now that they seem to be back (although most of the financial success probably lies with the server CPU Naples).


They seem to be planning something like http://www.computermachines.org/joe/publications/pdfs/hpca20...

Something like that could be a monster for HPC & ML type tasks. Provided AMD gets their software and tooling up to par; Nvidia doesn't rule HPC/ML because their GPU's are leaps and bounds ahead of AMD, but because CUDA is..

If so, might explain why they went with a (relatively) gimped vector FPU for Zen compared to Intel offerings (particularly the soon arriving Skylake Xeons with 512-bit wide SIMD).


One can hope that in the long run we'll see more things with a SPRI-V back end and more libraries in that space to put AMD and NVidia GPUs on more equal footing.


It offers much better price/performance ratio if the seriously multi-threaded use scenarios matter for you (that is where you compete with Intel's seriously overpriced >$1000 chips).

It seems that in common use (web browsing, office, gaming), fewer but stronger cores still shine and even the fastest Ryzen is slower and more expensive than Intel's offering.

So it really depends. A lot.


Well...for the time being. When the R5 and R3 get released in Q2, we will have 6 and 4 core versions with higher clock speeds so that might help a bit. Plus based on the pricing, I'm gonna bet a 4 core ryzen will be a bit cheaper than a 4 core kaby lake.


No it doesn't. Chips much slower than Ryzen aren't struggling with those common usecases at all. All you're doing is losing 8C/16T and spending the same amount or more to do it.


Good question, I wonder if anyone’s tried this before. It would be invaluable if that were the case.


I have opted to have 3 gmail accounts with various names; 1 outlook, 1 yahoo account. Every email sent to my gmail is forwarded > outlook > yahoo. I use 2 other gmail accounts for newsletters and etc. I am sure at least 1 company will remain free to access data! BTW thanks for the thunderbird tip.


I've tried and yes, you can.


Absolutely, this. They feel their platform is now legitimized, as evidenced by Trump supporters marching through colleges shouting "white rule", klansmen walking around in klan garb... daily reports of Muslims being harassed in schools, streets and elsewhere. Although Trump won't institute any overtly racist policies, he will also not oppose the racists who supported him. This, In their minds gives them the legitimacy to operate in the open. We've already seen this start.


Very profound. Thank you for sharing.


Interesting premise - will give it a whirl. Just FYI - typo in the page "We are still investigating how we can build the pest possible product”


when you try it, make sure you have some whiskey nearby. It's a pretty damn painful experience seeing what users actually do when they use the site without supervision compared to a beta tester you might sit next to.


ha! Considering our target audience is around 65 years old, I’d make it a double.


Very intriguing. The price point of this device notwithstanding, my interest is piqued. I am a big fan of their DxO Optics application on my Mac.

The only thing that stands out as a disappointment is the battery life. The battery of my iPhone is ho-hum at best. And to now worry about the quick battery drainage on the camera too?

For it to replace a DSLR for the casual photographer, DxO One needs to offer user swappable batteries/longer battery life.


Not just DTA, but FireGestures, Easy DragToGo, and all the amazing extensions that made me stick by Firefox even though most of my colleagues left for Chrome. It is a sad day.


It's a sad day for me because I use FireGestures entirely for their wheel gesture "[Popup] List all tabs" that allows me to scroll between my tabs from anywhere on the page. It's a strange feature that I've only been able to find in FireGestures (and wish I could find as a stand-alone extension).

I use DTA! with AntiContainer quite frequently.

Palemoon doesn't (properly) support Tab Groups, so I refuse to use it. The add-on is broken and doesn't restore tabs if the browser crashes.

I feel like my only option is to disable FF updates and hope I never get bit by a security issue. As GNU IceCat doesn't work on my machine. Or learn how to compile from source and maintain my own personal fork...

(And before anyone suggests it, using Aurora/Web Dev version is not an option for me. I've already been there, tried that.)


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