Jeez. Things must be bad if they're even skimping on artist's concepts now :-(

You can't blame China for this one. China has five stars, not three, and most of 'em look like yellow dwarfs to me.

(ffs that was unintended and truly beyond the pale)

But the hardware itself isn't even such a great step up from the previous prototypes/devkits, for example, the field-of-view seems to be lacking.

Besides, Linux support has been dropped and Windows 10 is now required.

Sounds like you've got it twisted, sir. They used Steam and, in the end, they let Valve off. Which is also a waste of energy, of course, but the difference is in the direction of entropy. I can readily illustrate this with a paint analogy: when you watch the stuff turn from wet to dry in front of your own eyes you'll say, ah I'll just turn it back later, but NO sir, this same process is NOT reversible, no matter how long you keep staring.

Am I reading this right? That the man who wrote "Watch Paint Dry" is not able to muster the patience to set a release date barely three days into the future? Those zero-day vuln'ers never cease to amaze...

I use adb from my PC so I hit the same limitations as with other busybox-based embedded systems: creative scripting tends to get awkward or impossible and even basic stuff like sleep and grep is gimped. Testing latency is all I've ever had to do on these machines though, so there's cron to kick off some periodic profiling and tracing. Not that it helps much for repeatable audio latency test, but hey, that's a Dalvik-based smartphone for you.. So far I've never bought one and I don't like any of them for calling or messaging.

That's not bad. Not bad at all.

Just need to make sure that those O-Poetterings can withstand the cold.

I couldn't agree more, these convoluted summaries are confusing me on a periodic basis. I mean, this whole subject is no less than orthogonal to fast fourier transforms. That CEO they're quoting? He's not even trying to save phase.

I hear you. Try this: the next time some insensitive clod brings up that played-out prat just tell them about autocorrelation.

No surprise there, considering that a "pinboard" is common Dutch slang for one of them ol' wooden shithouses.

Thank you kindly, sir. I nearly thought that TFS had gotten it twisted and misspelled Inverse Fast Fourier Transform again. Oh, and um.. I'm not joking when I say I've been hacking up cronjobs from my phone's busybox bash shell since the first day I've had a smartphone, but, ehm... could you just tell me how long I actually have to keep this shit up for until I turn into "a real man" already, you insensitive clod?!

Neither the summary nor TFA has a link to the actual paper. Insensitive clods, the both of 'em.

I'm with you, but only if you change the name to GNU/Pollo and let me paint a headless chicken on the front.

I'm waiting for those phones to start packing better DACs and ports but it looks like they're heading the other way instead. Amazing what's integrated on them phone SoCs but how the analog audio is still barely on par with any old MP3 player (that is, without buying a seperate digital-to-analog converter to schlep around).

And yes, lighter and thinner does not sound comfortable for my kinda paws. I already tend to get my wig twisted when holding and typing one-handed, what with that slick glass lacking any heft or grip, all rounded corners and subtle input-lag.

Fair enough.. should be a simple "git pull" then, but still, I'd urge anyone to think twice before pulling: can you handle it? Maintaining that forking big ball of mud?