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by aceperry 12y ago
That's an amazing story. I had no idea how screwed up Radio Shack's management was. I knew they didn't have much business sense, but this is required reading.
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by aceperry 12y ago
I always call the store to confirm if the website is correct. And half the time, they don't have in stock what the website claims. That may be why the employees are so eager and helpful in looking for the part.
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by aceperry 12y ago
It's a shame. RS doesn't really have much anymore in the way of electronics components, but they have some parts which cater to the arduino/maker community which helps when in a pinch. I really missed being able to get just
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by aceperry 12y ago
Very nice pic from your Canon A610. Fully agree about P&S cameras today. I wouldn't run down the quality of today's top of the line phones, they're very good.
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by aceperry 12y ago
Not being sarcastic. The cyanogen guys don't have the support such as early releases, drivers, etc that LG and the other manufacturers have.
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by aceperry 12y ago
Damn that's quick! These guys are fast.
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by aceperry 12y ago
You mean javascript right? :-)
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by aceperry 12y ago
The top end smartphones have cameras that are at least good enough to replace casual point and shoot cameras. Their excellent quality is worlds apart from the new Nokia phone's camera. While the vast majority of people use smartphone
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by aceperry 12y ago
The inexpensive feature phones have much better battery life, less expensive than the cheapest smartphone, and are probably more rugged/durable. They do get the job done as a phone and a few other things. If you don't have much
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by aceperry 12y ago
Pretty sure whatsapp is on that platform.
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by aceperry 12y ago
I don't think it has a touchscreen. Didn't see them touching on the video.
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by aceperry 12y ago
I think it's Symbian, series 30+.
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by aceperry 12y ago
The new Nokia model numbers keep getting smaller, along with the shrinking feature set and capabilities. They really are aiming for the low end/budget demographic. Although I wonder if the subsidies will help or hurt sales in the low
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by aceperry 12y ago
Yeah, kind of new to this. Not to the internet though.
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by aceperry 12y ago
Nice writeup, especially if you already learned this stuff a while ago. I suspect that if you're not familiar with the x86 architecture, you'd be lost very quickly.
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by aceperry 12y ago
LOL, more downvotes? That's bad form.
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by aceperry 12y ago
"I'm sure if everyone switched to Linux today, they'd start by talking about how much faster it is and within a few years be complaining about how the same system is slow and unreliable" Not at all. Linux isn't win
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by aceperry 12y ago
No justification for the downvotes? I'll chalk it up to fanboism.
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by aceperry 12y ago
"There's big ticket improvements for performance" Unfortunately, the improvements were negated by the lame ass UI, which thankfully Microsoft will be ditching.
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by aceperry 12y ago
Must be lots of windows fanbois here, otherwise I'm not sure why I got downvoted. Really, they may not want to hear this, but Windows 8 really sucked. Microsoft knows it, and that is why they're running away as fast as they can
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by aceperry 12y ago
"Windows 8 wasn't all that bad" That's funny, because ALL of the non-technical regular people that I know of hate windows 8. A lot of them downgraded to Windows 7.
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by aceperry 12y ago
Great post, mirrors my experiences as well. I hadn't thought of how great package management was on linux, there are many systems and the ones I've used work very well. Installing software on Windows is positively scary. You can
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by aceperry 12y ago
This is the best explanation of linux in terms of where it sits with respect to other operating systems. I've had a pretty similar experience as yourself with linux on laptops. Sometimes there are surprises, especially when upgrading
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by aceperry 12y ago
Absolutely, windows is still a disaster. For developers working with open source technologies, windows is a difficult platform to use. I was attending a workshop on Angular.js and rails where I had the misfortune to have brought my window
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by aceperry 12y ago
It's interesting to hear about OSX crashing. I didn't think that was common. I've been a linux user for the longest time, and have always had to tweak something to get it running the way that I wanted to. That doesn't
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Ownership of Yosemite park names in dispute(mercurynews.com)
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by aceperry 12y ago
I'm tempted to do something like that. One thing you should be wary of is not leaving anything that can be taken off easily. If they don't take the bike, they might steal your lights or something small instead. Make sure that e
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by aceperry 12y ago
It's mostly younger people ride bikes, but because of the availability of bike lanes and public bike racks, more and more people from all incomes are riding bikes.
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by aceperry 12y ago
I really have to wonder about the amount of time to setup your own servers. I like to setup and tweak hardware for fun. But the time and starting costs seems way too much compared to spinning up a few instances to get something going quic
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by aceperry 12y ago
The author shows a lot of love for his laptop.

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