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by DCKing 12y ago
Again, I didn't say larger phones are better. If you tried a larger phone for a while and didn't like it, good for you. What I'm pointing out is that you cannot honestly say "I don't like large phones" without
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by DCKing 12y ago
> Addendum - Fundamentally, I see my phone as a minor utility/convenience item. I use it for occasional tasks like making dinner reservations, finding cheap gas, ordering takeout, finding ATMs, tracking runs, checking weather foreca
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by DCKing 12y ago
When talking about "what consumers want", the opinions of the people in your office really shouldn't indicate that much. Especially not if they just started using their big phones two weeks ago, and still need to get used to
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by DCKing 12y ago
Well, again, I get the feeling that you're perhaps unknowingly defining "innovation" to mean "improving the things I like". For one, I do think that these larger phones bring about new use cases that leave room for
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by DCKing 12y ago
We shouldn't use screen size as our only measure though. The iPhone 6 is a 4.7", but is quite a bit bigger than the 4.7" Moto X 2013, and about equal in size to the 5" Nexus 5 [1]. Apple uses a bit more bezel on their ph
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by DCKing 12y ago
> Its simply too large for the average user. > Why can't smartphone manufacturers understand that a longer battery life is whats lacking in mobile devices? I think it's quite bold to speak in such factual terms when talking
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by DCKing 12y ago
Is there any evidence that lower resolution screens imply an increase in battery life? You'll find people saying this all the time, but you'll also find that it's mostly based on armchair reasoning. I'm willing to accept
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by DCKing 12y ago
It's true that you use a 5" phone differently than a 3.5" phone. But a 5" phone comes with a lot of advantages of its own, which you might find hard to recognize if that's not what you're using. > All I need
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by DCKing 12y ago
> Can anyone explain to me what the fetish is with pushing the same amount of pixels as a freaking 27 inch display (which, by the way, I've always considered gorgeous)? I mean, does anyone actually notice the difference? Because if
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by DCKing 12y ago
I sympathize with the general sentiment, but it misses the point. Linux + ext kernel modules + e2fsprogs is tested daily by developers of many Linux distributions. There's really no problem with verifying that some module works. Furthe
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by DCKing 12y ago
> Say there is an exploit in the OS ext* implementation, if ext* is not included in userland, then it will be subject to far less testing, so the exploit is less likely to be discovered. If you want to mount an external ext* partition yo
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by DCKing 12y ago
> The way I look at it is that if ext* support is left in the system, it still needs tested thoroughly. Could you explain why? Especially 'thoroughly'. > It feels that mentioning security as part of the reason was just tryin
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by DCKing 12y ago
> If the worry is that ext* support widens the attack surface Clearly, security is not the worry. The worry is that they have to lose time, effort and code simplicity on making te files app work with ext* systems. Additional code com
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by DCKing 12y ago
The title of this article is needlessly inflammatory. Can some mod change it? ChromeOS is not dropping support ext* at all; its files application that is meant to be used with external drives is. That's a pretty huge difference. I
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by DCKing 12y ago
"Mobile DRAM" isn't just LPDDR3. Many cheaper phones use LPDDR2 or something else and Qualcomm's new high end chips slated for Q1 2015 support LPDDR4 memory. Although it makes sense if this about LPDDR3, as I think every
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Move Fast and Break Things(xkcd.com)
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by DCKing 12y ago
Ah, I falsely remembered hearing quotes on a sample return mission to be $20 billion, and was factoring in estimation errors and profit incentives. Mars should be the first goal, I think. IANAP, but I think Jupiter's moons and Mercury
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by DCKing 12y ago
This should be really interesting to do with public key cryptography. Generate an RSA private key and corresponding 32+ kbit RSA public key. Send off the private key to Mars, and afterwards publish the public key. Award €50 billion to the
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by DCKing 12y ago
The most expensive element you can currently send to Mars is platinum [1], which would equate to a value of roughly €10 million. All other things you could send either decay quickly (plutonium) or otherwise devalue over time (micro sd cards
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by DCKing 12y ago
It's a false claim that there is GHz rat-race in the Android world. There is one Android SoC maker of note, and that is Qualcomm, who achieved total dominance of high end smartphones by anticompetitive behaviour. Just because Qualcom
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by DCKing 12y ago
I don't think your first thought is relevant for all of this. It has been quite clear for quite some time that mobile payments was not a technology problem but a policy problem. The technology was not just ready for it with the release
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by DCKing 12y ago
The whole premise of this article is so wrong. If Jobs were alive we wouldn't have had this presentation in the first place. First up, under Jobs phablet iPhones would have been out of the question. He would have flat out rejected thos
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by DCKing 12y ago
I've seen this discussion come by many times, and every time I had to get my eyebrows back from the back of my head when reading the responses. I get what the technical differences are between systemd and alternative solutions. That is
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by DCKing 12y ago
It doesn't seem to be completely identical. The way I intepreted is that the information fed to Glances is 100% dependent on the apps on your phone. Android Wear gets fed information both from apps and Google Now. As an example, se
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by DCKing 12y ago
These were my thoughts too when watching the presentation. The ironic thing here is that Android Wear seems to be the simpler solution . Android Wear is an extension of your phone - a way to process information on your wrist. Apple Watch s
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by DCKing 12y ago
There are no "two versions of Android". That's an unnecessary confusion of the situation. There is Android, which is a complete open source operating system tailored for touchscreen devices. It is completely open source and i
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by DCKing 12y ago
At first I was inclined to have the same reaction to this news, especially concerning early rumours about this. Having read some more on it however, I now realize that it is somewhat of a knee-jerk reaction. From what I read, Apple Pay is t
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by DCKing 12y ago
> First thing do you know arabic? Second have you read the Quran translation if you don't know arabic? Third, have you gone through all the verses personally in the Quran that "define" "God"? Why do you ask me th
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by DCKing 12y ago
I have to say that by now you have insulted me, decent conversation, and reason by many things in your reply. You have great talent for making arrogance and ad hominems sound polite and subtle, which is something I can strangely appreciate
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by DCKing 12y ago
> I point this out because I, in my short life, have seen people paint Islam with a brush that is really a reflection of the elements of their own society they are oblivious to. And this is not a comment about you in particular, but all

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