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by bhauer 10y ago
Chrome's address bar is almost obsessed with considering everything you type into the bar being a Google search.
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by bhauer 10y ago
> MS's version does seem to be the ugliest though, mainly because of the horrible color picks. For whatever it's worth, Windows 10 is one of my favorite looking user interfaces, especially with its dark theme. I am not sure
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by bhauer 10y ago
> On the desktop, laptop, phone, or embedded environment, the JVM is heavy. I'll half-agree with respect to phones and embedded environments since those are wildly variable and may include extremely low-specification platforms. Bu
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by bhauer 10y ago
Yes. The whole "Are you looking for a business computer or a consumer computer" initial decision point is one of the most offensive aspects of the Dell site.
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by bhauer 10y ago
It's probably a trivial matter, but is anyone else confused as to why the color red is cited throughout the article? Presumably the color of the peppers has nothing to do with the findings. Right?
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by bhauer 10y ago
Awesome changes. One suggestion: In the Control Center™, I would recommend using the past-tense for the current state. E.g., Receive Notifications Allowed X Access Your Location Allowed X Maintain Offline
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by bhauer 10y ago
The full-screen IE11 experience on early-generation Surface models was fantastic. Yes, IE11 had a meager JavaScript engine and several rendering quirks, but it was exceptionally quick at plain HTML, CSS, SVG. It used GPU acceleration for
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by bhauer 10y ago
This thread was/is about desktop computers—workstations or gaming PCs, at least up to the root comment about an i7-6700K. Apple's workstation and gaming machine offerings are widely acknowledged to be significantly under-powered a
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by bhauer 10y ago
I keep thinking that it's a good time for Microsoft to make another push in that space—a decent Surface Phone might at the very least re-capture a small foothold. There appear to be a lot of people disillusioned with iOS and Android t
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by bhauer 10y ago
I do not want to downplay that we have a lot of improvement to do on contrast and brightness before we can match an actual window to the outdoors, but vegabook specifically called out his ability to resolve pixels on his 40-inch 4K. Resolu
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by bhauer 10y ago
I picked up a Surface Book on launch day. i7, 16 GB, 512 GB. As others have pointed out, there were several software glitches for a few months after launch. Ultimately, the software problems have been worked out. For me, the ultimate def
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by bhauer 10y ago
I can't wait for the traditional centralized cloud to fade out. I've been anticipating a model I call PAO [1] for several years—personal application omnipresence. By that I mean applications that run for you personally and are a
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by bhauer 10y ago
I miss Firebug for a very specific, perhaps even idiosyncratic, reason. As someone with a huge amount of screen real-estate but nevertheless a strong desire for applications to be tidy in their use of that space, there was a behavior of Fi
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by bhauer 10y ago
A good point. If there were one major organization that I feel comfortable sending telemetry data to, it may be Mozilla—the only organization that makes respect for their user's privacy a paramount concern. (I more or less instinctive
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by bhauer 10y ago
Exactly. It's easy to opt out, as long as you're paying a bit of attention when you first start up Firefox. It's easy to opt-out later if you are comfortable navigating the preferences dialogs. If anything, I am interested
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by bhauer 10y ago
Axigen's free e-mail server is pretty solid and easy to set up.
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California to adopt first U.S. energy-saving rules for computers(reuters.com)
7 points by bhauer 10y ago|3 comments
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by bhauer 10y ago
Okay. Again, that's my point. Bluetooth has a undeserved/outdated bad reputation for adversely affecting audio. I contend that, all else being equal, I could not distinguish a modern Bluetooth wireless headphone from a wired hea
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by bhauer 10y ago
> I imagine they've sorted most of that out by now. I think they have. Giving some leeway to my bluetooth Motorola headphones since they are super-aural, to my ears—and I feel I am fairly picky—they are not significantly worse th
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by bhauer 10y ago
That's actually my point. I believe modern Bluetooth headphones are indistinguishable from equivalent non-Bluetooth headphones. If you can tell whether headphones are Bluetooth or not—the other components being equal—then you have par
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by bhauer 10y ago
I could buy a dozen of the Motorola wireless headphones I use and I expect the results would be consistently satisfying. In fact, a couple years back I did buy two spare pairs that are new in box in case I ever lose my current pair. At $2
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by bhauer 10y ago
I would agree that old Bluetooth devices (especially those from around 2005 or earlier) often sounded poor. But modern Bluetooth devices (say 2009 onward) have generally sounded fine/great. I would go so far as to say that if you&#x2
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by bhauer 10y ago
That's cool with me. A sense I have picked up from your reply and another message in this thread is that Apple is attempting to evolve the definition of "wireless headphone" to require no bridge between the two ears. I thin
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by bhauer 10y ago
Motorola S305: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002BH3I9U They're from ~2009 or thereabouts. Traditional headphone form factor. Works great for my use case (pedestrian commutes to and from the office).
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by bhauer 10y ago
The other two from that message that I didn't mention were auto-mono and a carrying case. Are those the other features you're referring to? Auto-mono: I guess I see some people listening in only one ear sometimes, but that's
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by bhauer 10y ago
I can't speak for the other guys above, but I must have missed something. I am baffled why this particular set of wireless headphones has received as much press as it has. It seems so overblown that I have to wonder if people with iP
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Uber employees secretly tracked politicians and celebrities, lawsuit claims(theverge.com)
33 points by bhauer 10y ago|10 comments
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by bhauer 10y ago
Many confuse hardware differences (low-DPI versus high-DPI screens) with operating system differences. Windows has had sub-pixel text alignment and LCD-oriented anti-aliasing ("ClearType") for, what, a decade? Text on my 267-DPI
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by bhauer 10y ago
Agreed. Though I have no idea what motivates other people, and opinions vary, so I can't say the decision to go back to Apple is wrong. I am surprised that for all of the online ordering we do in today's society, so many people u
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by bhauer 10y ago
This announcement provides a bit of credibility to the suspicion that Microsoft has been wanting to make a "Surface Phone" device for some time, but was delaying until the right pieces were in place. It is possible they had been

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