Mythbusters

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by Mythbusters 14y ago
I guess the PC roots showing is actually the intent of the design. I have used Windows 8 and I can only imagine how much it will feel natural on a device like this. The metro UI invites touch interaction and the older office like apps will
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
Of course xbox has been made with such a model but I'd agree that it never has that price pressure that surface has.
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
I don't agree that there really is a big learning curve really. The training you need is about a few minutes with the computer to know to take your mouse to corners and the sides. Once you know the patterns its basically training your muscl
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
It depends on what kind of machine you are using. If you are using a desktop then yes a touch screen is not a very ergonomic way to use your computer but then the mouse is not going anywhere. You can use that to do everything a touch would
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
Quoting the relevant part of what he said: “I probably would have taken an engineering job…[and] always had a lot of respect for Microsoft,” he said. “A lot of people from Harvard went to work there.” Read more at http://venturebeat.com/20
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
Apple has always proudly sold its products at a premium so I am not surprised. They will market it out with some snappy music and celebrity footage.
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
Lack of any details on surface is sad but that is the game that Apple has played for many years. From what I have read about it, it seems the most viable product if you have productivity in mind.
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Nobody has handled it, yet initial Surface US pre-orders sold out?(theverge.com)
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
I use Hotmail as my primary. Hate gmail UI. Yahoo is really the one I'd like the most but I have been using Hotmail since ages and love the skydrive integration.
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
I don't get why a rapid release cycle is important at all?
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
classic HN algo. if anything related to Microsoft, trash it.
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
Guessing here but I think they have different SLAs. Microsoft probably spends more time testing and releasing something akin to the chrome stable release channel.
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
Signing the software is still different than getting it approved by Microsoft. I am guessing it's done by third party certificates? I still don't understand what the concern is? The model you described is the app store model and though I pa
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
so that they can eat Google's lunch?
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
I'm sure they would if they could. Amazon is not a member of OHA so google has nothing to enforce that ban with.
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
Actually I think Google's openness is a quasi. Otherwise you wouldn't see them blocking the acer phone.
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
so are you saying its better to let download a (not so commonly downloaded) binary than to warn about it? Thank god you don't work on security software
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
what if the ad network has an incentive to not do it?
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
There's a link somebody posted below about how it works: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/05/17/smartscreen-17... It's a reputation system for downloads. Sure its something a antimalware can do as well but given that most software/
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
There is a reason they haven't forked because there is a value in the ecosystem. What they have done is that the have starved Google of the revenue it makes out of android and that is where the opportunity is for major device makers which I
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
Are these savvy users the majority of the kindle users? Sense and Motoblur are but very thin skins on android. Nothing like a end to end experience that Amazon has developed. No wonder majority of people hate these quick hacks.
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
The way android is used by Amazon is essentially how apple used unix core to get the basics right when creating a new software platform. A smart move obviously. What surprises me is how none of the big android players have not seen an oppor
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
This HN. What did you expect?
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
concur. The dev tools and plug-ins that FF has are unbeatable. But then that is not what my mom/dad care about as much. So they still use IE.
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
SmartScreen is basically a reputation system. If not enough people have downloaded it and it's not known as a threat yet, it chooses to do the default thing and blocks it. That is probably what causes the behavior you referred to. But would
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
I think he is referring to the photos that they displayed on the day it was revealed. The pictures are there on nokia site and are equaly impressive. http://www.nokia.com/global/products/pureview/
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
This one compares it to iPhone 4s, but the difference is day and night here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFhhBJ1URCg
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
Seriously. Mapping on Nokia is stunning with offline driving directions and all.... How do the iSheep keep up with such mediocre product?
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
Quality control is for the wimps
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by Mythbusters 14y ago
What is equally sad is that people put up with this substandard implementation of a core smartphone functionality. That Nokia 920 looks more and more appealing at this point of time with Navteq maps an OIS enabled camera, the two most used

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