bsphil

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by bsphil 15y ago
Just looking at the screens I've seen, I can't help but shake my head. Mind you, I haven't seen many. Inconsistent sizes of those "desktop" boxes, no coherent organization (there's a picture here, then an icon, then the time, then a diffe
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by bsphil 15y ago
Love how quick people are to assume that Microsoft would just be scrapping the memory dump and error log entirely. Come on folks, you should know that's unintuitive and unnecessary to the average user. Don't get caught up in assuming your
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by bsphil 15y ago
The traditional PC (even... the desktop!) isn't going anywhere for a long time.
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by bsphil 15y ago
Never ceases to amaze me how the cheapest HDMI cable in any brick and mortar store I've ever seen is $30. You'd think if people found out that a store would sell them for just $10-15 that people would flock there due to the relatively chea
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by bsphil 15y ago
Look at the trade data, one person made a large selloff that triggered a cascade of automated responses. That, of course, could only happen if that person was hoarding BTC. Maybe he read that article and decided to cash out as a result.
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by bsphil 15y ago
Some buildings are even literally made out of garbage - a wire frame encasing garbage covered in a thin layer of plaster.
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by bsphil 15y ago
Even the most mundane things become news if Apple does them.
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by bsphil 15y ago
I'd have a hard time believing that style would be the main consideration if it's going to be a work laptop. Though I suppose to be fair, the OP never specified.
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by bsphil 15y ago
Hipsters and overpriced consumer electronics?
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by bsphil 15y ago
Another person thinking Apple invented app stores?
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by bsphil 15y ago
It seems like you almost purposefully make poor purchasing decisions just to get yourself fired up about how much more you like Apple PCs.
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by bsphil 15y ago
"No interest categories are associated with your ads preferences so far." Google has nothing on me, apparently.
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by bsphil 15y ago
Oh, algorithms.
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by bsphil 15y ago
Windows 7 laptop. 23" external monitor for when I'm at home.
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by bsphil 15y ago
My deepest condolences. I can't imagine what you must be going through.
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by bsphil 15y ago
bsphil - I even have an invite but Google hasn't allowed me in yet. Anyone else dealing with that problem? I've been trying the invite link for two days now and it keeps saying that they've reached their capacity even for people with invi
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by bsphil 15y ago
PowerPoint isn't necessarily bad, but 95% or more of the people that use it do a terrible job.
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by bsphil 15y ago
Still can't seem to find an invite.
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by bsphil 15y ago
Same for Firefox/Win.
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by bsphil 15y ago
How many peripherals do you have? I've never thought of that as "so time consuming", but maybe I just don't plug/unplug that much.
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by bsphil 16y ago
Keyboarding was by far the most useful class I ever took in high school, even more valuable than all of my 8 AP classes together. Nothing has proven more useful on a day-to-day basis.