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by JVIDEL 14y ago
TL;DR: don't be like the old farts from Xerox that discarded PARC's Alto and the mouse as a novelty.
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
I agree partially and really this wouldn't be a bad article at all if it wasn't for the link-bait title they used.
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
I always find that the most talented people are relatively pretty down to earth given their accomplishments, while the higher the mediocrity to the position the more arrogant a person is, like a middle manager who only got the job because h
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
This is great news for Linux users everywhere and basically to anyone who has tried to convince casual users to switch. But to MSFT this is suicide: even if Office remains the leading suite with a Linux version every company out there can s
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
Haha man they can't sell any WP8 over here so they send them to Africa in hope of getting them hooked to Windows like they did to the rest of the world, after all the number of PC users there is really low and people all over the continent
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
Well I think the senator should be more worried about those amalgamated automatons roaming around our steppes, breaking our penny-farthing bikes and soiling our women's petticoats. These godless contraptions are invulnerable even to the sen
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
I learned a lot of CS on my own before college, and yet my first semester was quite a ride, even other guys who came from schools with a strong computer background had some trouble.
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
So recovery takes at least 12GB of those 64? I would like the option to transfer it to a thumbdrive or an extHDD and get all that space back. Still that leaves about 29GB for the windows install, and that TBH is a bit insane, 29 for an OS?
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
Same here, although things do look promising for gaming outside Windows.
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
I would like to point out that the Space Age futurism the author rants so much about wasn't made by the, and I quote, "techno-autistic" guys. Most of the futuristic crap from 50 and 60 years ago was the product of some uninformed scifi auth
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
Great post, too bad the comments section is already full of syrian trolls trying to derail the subject from freedom of speech to some bullshit conspiracy from "the empire" against syria. Guess they still give access to those who are loyal
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
Compared to a similar ultrabook its not that expensive, the problem is that for the average joe on a store its a $999 tablet surrounded by $200-500 tablets. Maybe MSFT should have released a surface hybrid laptop-tablet instead. The kicksta
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
Actually a lot of poor countries don't qualify because there are already too many of their citizens living in the US, legally or illegally. That's the "diversity" part, and the list includes many rich countries too.
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
TBH I used to take these warnings very seriously, but after the ominous "RIP good times" not only did everything keep going as usual but there were even more wantrepreneurs getting funded and valuations got even frothier. As many have said
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
If you already have kids then you can't qualify.
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
Easy: if you want to be immortal you have to be sterilized too. And you can't adopt nor rent a womb. There, no overpopulation problem.
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
Bad example, that's a Ferrari GTO, it would sell for hundreds of thousands even if it was at the bottom of a lake. And fashion means nothing, just that you read fashion blogs. The guys who invented the internet in the late 1960s wore 1950 d
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
Is it that bad? I remember someone that lived there said the place had changed a lot. Still if it's that bad then it should be cheaper too, weird how it doesn't shows on that map.
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
Given current costs its possible that the N4 is being sold at cost rather than at a loss, but again this is a halo phone meant to show how good Android can be, just like car companies launch halo supercars that are hardly profitable but mak
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
I remember someone telling me that certain areas around/near Palo Alto were considerably cheaper, yet all I see is red/dark-red. Was that BS or is this map wrong?
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
I agree about the limits, but the problem is not urbanistic, in fact afaik the French tried to make a techhub in the nineties by offering great offices for cheap and it didn't work. What limits other hubs are taxes and legislation: a guy I
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
I was going to write the same thing: it's really really difficult to get clients when your pitch is "I can increase your revenues" because the average client wonders if you can deliver on your promises. But when you talk about saving mone
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
IBM didn't want clones, it created the PS/2 to make a PC that couldn't be reverse engineered and cloned by the competition, but even then it was too late. If IBM could they would have banned all clones, but as I said before OEMs weren't inf
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
>the PC platform had only succeeded because IBM opened it up to clones It didn't, the team behind Project Chess used off-the-shelf parts to cut down on costs and dev times so the end product was also easier to reverse engineer. A compan
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
I wonder how long is this going to last. Lately I been hearing more about startups that provide tools and services to make apps than about startups that make actual apps . I think that might be a sign that this gold rush it's on its last l
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
OP makes a number of mistakes about the past. For starters it wasn't Portuguese conquistadores who descended on South America 500 years ago but the Spanish. The Portuguese had more important operations in Asia at the time. It wasn't until
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
You are joking right? the first thing I did when I got a palm pilot when I was kid was look everywhere for hacks and apps to do stuff that it couldn't do out of the box. If I were a kid today the first thing I would do is jailbreak my iPad,
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
It seems like a chicken and the egg problem but it really isn't: there's far more support for HD res than there is HD hardware out there. Go to any etailer and check 1080p on laptop options: from 300 models you get 50 at best. There's very
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
I don't know what's more insane: the N10's 2560 x 1600 screen or how hard is to find a laptop with a measly 1080p screen for twice the price of that tablet. The N4 is bonkers too. Sure there are other phones with HD screens now, but with a
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by JVIDEL 14y ago
The thing about AMD is that for every advantage it has two or more disadvantages. For example, Trinity rocks but the number of laptop models available with it is staggeringly low and in most cases you have to make due with lowend specs like

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