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by Breakthrough 14y ago
"It's about build quality. About vendor support. About durability. I can't be the only one disappointed that there aren't many options if those are the things you value." That's fine, and that's perfectly acceptable. Unfortunately, I thi
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
"The new Dell Ubuntu laptop is the only thing I can think of as a reasonable alternative to what Apple's doing." Maybe you should get your head out of the gutter and realize a laptop isn't deemed "good" because it's an alternative to "wha
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
You have absolutely no concept of the difference between "leverage" and "extortion", the latter of which is exactly what you described. Last I checked, not only is extorting your customers bad for business, it's probably illegal. That bei
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
All I see in both of the two parent comments is: [INSERT BASELESS SPECULATIVE CLAIMS HERE FOLLOWED BY LACK OF ANY REFERENCES WHATSOEVER]
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
As I paraphrased the article for my parents, "It's like buying a car with the hood welded shut."
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Editorial: "How piracy changed my life"(neowin.net)
248 points by Breakthrough 14y ago|229 comments
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
I agree, poor choice of title... That being said, a throughput of 1 burger every 10 seconds is pretty impressive given the final product. By fast food standards, maybe not so quick, but look at the ingredients they're using - I'd argue the
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
Ah, sorry, I meant now , in the current state. I wonder if they just shut them down (the routers), or blocked all incoming connections from the outside...
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
I swear I just thought the same thing to myself.. Very concisely written, but it's written both interesting and well . Not to mention it's always welcome to see large companies like this share vital information with the public [+1 inter
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
Yes I did. On my 32-bit Xubuntu machine, I called `sudo apt-get install kdevelop`, and it has informed me that I require 99.0 MB worth of archives, and that it will take up ~330 MB of disk space after everything is installed. For some rea
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
I personally don't feel like downloading all the hundreds of megabytes of KDE runtimes just to fire up an IDE for a test run (this is on Xubuntu).
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
And this is exactly why I wonder who decided 16:9 was better than 16:10 for laptops/tablets/etc... Even just that little bit of extra vertical space makes it so much more comfortable in portrait mode (when I rotate my computer monitor, whi
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
I'm having a tough time understanding what compelled SEC employees to bring a laptop to such a convention. "We dodged a bullet this time." More like the SEC employees tried to fire at us, but missed. This isn't about policy. This is about
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
cough I had a feeling... cough I'll just leave this here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4793620
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
I find it kind of funny that all of the tools live online... Not in a bad way, just a kind of "at the end of the day, this thing I'm building has to serve real people over this thing we call the internet" as opposed to doing everything with
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
Do you honestly think one of the largest players in this market (and arguably, the smartest) would release a tablet that's heavier, hotter, and with worse battery life than an Ultrabook? Have you even looked at the specifications of the Su
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
I thought that initially, but they mention in the article "2 terabits of daily bandwidth", which I assumed to be a metric of per unit-time. Furthermore, I found a graph detailing internet usage per user per month for various countries [1].
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
"Dotcom says that the company will consume 2 terabits of daily bandwidth, which in perspective is more bandwidth in a day than the entire country uses right now." I'm fairly certain that a country with more than 2.6 million people on the
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
Don't forget about Notepad++ (Windows only though) and Sublime Text (best text rendering I've seen yet), which I'd argue are also valid comparisons - yes, even to Vim/Emacs. That being said, I did have a quick look through the Textadept man
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
This. I just got some major deja-vu, since I don't think this is the first time someone's tried to troll a major corporation over "storage size claims" (and really, what kind of consumer would ever do his or her own research on a product w
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
+1 for pointing out the fallacies of human nature... I totally agree, this is probably the most dangerously evil assumption in the underlying Bitcoin implementation. One I would argue is a necessary evil.
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
Totally agreed, but I think it's worth pointing out that you could technically "own" the Bitcoin "printing press" if the $BTC distribution is skewed drastically to a particular majority (who could then corrupt the protocol/subsequent block
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With Sinofsky gone and Start8 selling well, will MS add the start menu back?(news.softpedia.com)
17 points by Breakthrough 14y ago|77 comments
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
Muhuhahaha ( evil laugh ), and my parents thought I was crazy when I told them there was a new digital currency you kept in files, that had no inflation, was (almost) completely anonymous, and - get this - that it was real and traded on act
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
I've been looking for something like this for a while... I'm writing an application that I want to have run on PCs as well as my Raspberry Pi (using Python preferably, although C++ is always an option), and eventually, I'd love to be able t
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
Same here. Long gone are the days of me queuing up the song I want to attempt to jam to, then having to find the tabs somewhere (I just play once in a while for fun, I can't read chords), and struggle through it... This seems like an intuit
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
Ah yes, this brings me back to the microcomputer engineering class I took before finishing my undergraduate degree. We had to design a fairly simple 16-bit processor, and I remember deciding to go with a microcoded approach - but you have
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
Well, thank you for having the decency to post this, and try to find another name in a peaceful manner (even though you do believe you're using the Holden name under fair use - a discussion I don't particularity want to get into). Also, th
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
I have a friend who works at the research institute beside the university hospital, and he told me they basically ask a set of questions, while taking a series of measurements via the fMRI machine. They then compare the expected responses
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by Breakthrough 14y ago
I don't follow your logic... Without those different languages, you wouldn't have anything to translate in the first place. If anything, this type of technology promotes independent and different languages, as it makes it so much easier

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