cooldeal

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by cooldeal 14y ago
I meant the DLL hell that is made fun of, in Windows and seen as a bad thing. It was fixed in Windows by having 'Side by side' assemblies (SxS). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side-by-side_assembly The user does not see any problems except
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>Why are most open source programs dynamically linked again? To save on bloat of shipping multiple redundant libraries with every app and to guard against the perceived 'DLL hell' in Windows(which was fixed a decade ago). Ironic that e
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>There is a strong case for someone paying developers to create a free alternative to Windows to commoditize desktop operating systems, thereby attacking Microsoft's revenue stream. See Ubuntu bug number 1. https://bugs.launchpad.net/u
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>Apple wins a one time only $1 billion payment Do you seriously think Apple will go away with the one billion payment? Aren't they trying for injunctions on imports etc. along with ongoing licesing fees? Just today they added Galaxy S3
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by cooldeal 14y ago
A few crucial differences,unlike the other projects you mentioned, Android development happens behind closed doors, no outside patches are ever accepted, and an OEM is specially picked for exclusive early access to a new release and the oth
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Linux dominates on the routers too, but people still spend most of their time using laptops and desktops. Android/GNU/Linux? What? Locked bootloaders, closed source drivers? You're angering RMS.
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>Does anyone remember netbooks? How they used to have Linux? That was when Linux had a real chance. >If you don't think Microsoft is directly responsible for this, you are an absolute idiot. What about netbooks? Vista was too bloate
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by cooldeal 14y ago
>Windows is horrible to use, everything is poorly designed Without qualifiers, that statement is meaningless. Perhaps you mean it's horrible for some devs? (Millions of others are doing just fine with Visual Studio). For regular users
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Looking at only the earnings reports and comparing profits is meaningless. If you follow the Gruber link it shows that Amazon's net profit is only $7M. That does not mean Amazon is having trouble making any money. It's that it's costs of ex
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Anyone know how much of Apple's profit is from the iPhone(the original point of comparison in the article)?
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by cooldeal 14y ago
M$? Really? I thought HN and seasoned OSS developers were above this kind of petty name calling and sneering.
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This is my next: Windows 8(theverge.com)
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Building personal trust with UEFI Secure Boot(mjg59.dreamwidth.org)
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Google+ for iOS opens URLs in Chrome, how soon until all Google apps do that?(thenextweb.com)
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Windows 8 will boot without UEFI or secure boot. So this will not make any difference to Apple.
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Funny how it seems the only people in the comments here who seem to be complaining about the all caps menu(which can be turned off with a registry setting) are people who don't appear to be using VS on a regular basis, if at all.
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Apple-Samsung patent lawsuit: iPad design stolen, decade-old tablet(bgr.com)
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by cooldeal 14y ago
See, even you managed to write many more words than him. It's not just that one post linked which is bad, it's a whole series of posts especially about Google and Android full of smugness, snark and sneering designed for his target audience
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Still, don't you think it's a bit disingenuous to pick on the upper part of the range and totally ignore the lower end of the range? One could easily write a comment on the same lines, "Wow, just 520g, and you thought the iPad was light".
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by cooldeal 14y ago
Where did you get 2.6lb from? By converting 1200g which the article explicitly says is probably a laptop? The relevant part of the article: All devices will have a diagonal screen size between 10.1 and 11.6 inches, weigh between 520g and 12
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by cooldeal 14y ago
I think Windows RT/Windows 8 tablets have proper user accounts. Hopefully they will come with a guest account as well. Not sure if the new apps know how to deal with multiple users and their data.
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Groupon (GRPN) Shares Tumble After 2Q Results (istockanalyst.com)
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by cooldeal 14y ago
It's funny that there are a lot of people who think doing the below is okay, but copying some GUI elements is not. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p5akC0fNzZQ/Tfdnlsy7e0I/AAAAAAAAAY...
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Microsoft Details Windows 8 Touchpad Gesture Support(microsoft-news.com)
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Collaborating to deliver Windows RT PCs - Building Windows 8(blogs.msdn.com)
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How YouTube Will Escape Google's New Pirate Penalty(searchengineland.com)
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Apple sold 5.7M tablets in U.S. last quarter, court docs show. Samsung sold 37K(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
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Apple sold 5.7M tablets in U.S. last quarter, court docs show. Samsung sold 37K(tech.fortune.cnn.com)
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FTC hits Google with $22.5 million fine for Safari tracking (news.cnet.com)
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New Pulse.me Running On IE10 Shows The Power Of The Web(microsoft-news.com)
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