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by curt15 10y ago
One indicator of a company's confidence in its product is how much money they are willing to bet that it works correctly. For typical consumer products such a bet comes in the form of a warranty. Although this doesn't answer your
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by curt15 10y ago
>This, I think, overestimates how much most users currently care about security. The media has failed to inform the lay public about this issue. Users could be made to care about security with the right messaging. Your average user may n
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by curt15 10y ago
>Looks like it only works on the older Android 4 Jellybean software (and some Android 5 Lollipop) and below, so mostly concentrated in Asia where there are lower-end phones. But devices running Android 5 and below "only" compri
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by curt15 10y ago
Are iPhones significantly more functional without cloud connectivity?
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by curt15 10y ago
The EU, with its (ineffectual and many years too late) forced browser ballot, would probably disagree though.
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by curt15 10y ago
Apple created its own dilemma of having to choose between RAM or battery life when it decided to reduce the battery capacity.
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by curt15 10y ago
Is Ubuntu substantially lighter on system resources than macOS? I used a MBP for a few years during the OS X Lion/Mavericks era, and the system struggled on a 4GB/500HDD machine whereas a comparably specced Linux laptop would just
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by curt15 10y ago
I've always wondered whether Apple takes its website "down for maintenance" before a product launch out of necessity or simply to build excitement.
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by curt15 10y ago
I remember Amd's K10 series being hyped to high heaven before release (something like 40% faster than Intel's competitors) only to be a major letdown.
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by curt15 10y ago
This comment simply attacks the source while doing nothing to actually refute its arguments.
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by curt15 10y ago
How does Hanlon's Razor explain the surreptitious nature of the firmware? "Little is known about the Ragentek firmware. BitSight researchers said code in the firmware goes out of its way to conceal the presence of the underlying b
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by curt15 10y ago
Apple's 10 hour battery life estimate assumes that you are just browsing the web. If you want to do "pro" activities put the CPU/GPU under any sort of sustained load, the smallness of the battery will become apparent ver
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by curt15 10y ago
Bash has its warts too. Treating everything as strings can cause headaches when filenames have spaces. As a long-time Linux user who recently learned some powershell, I find Bash rather primitive after getting accustomed to an environment w
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by curt15 10y ago
I actually like Windows from a technical point of view. However, as a private consumer how do I buy the Enterprise edition that gives me full control of my system? Even with the "Professional" edition Microsoft is still in the dri
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by curt15 10y ago
Amazon has been providing drop-in replacement implementations of Google APIs (for proprietary Google services) for some time now. For instance: "The Amazon Maps API offers interface parity with version 2 of the Google Maps API. Most cl
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by curt15 10y ago
Is there any official documentation of what exactly is reported? For instance, what does Windows send to domains like ad.doubleclick.net? It's rather curious that Microsoft builds such extraordinary defenses against the user interferin
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by curt15 10y ago
Are the 5k displays actually Apple's? It would be a strange move to exit the monitor business if they actually pioneered some new display technology.
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by curt15 10y ago
When was the last time you took a walk and came back to your Apple computer threatening to restart in 10 minutes to update itself? This happened to me several times in Windows 10 ever since the Anniversary update which removed the option to
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by curt15 10y ago
But will AT&T's 1GB throughput run into an artificial data cap? The faster the connection, the easier it is for the customer to overshoot any given data limit and get charged overage fees.
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by curt15 10y ago
One wonders how many of those users would flee if mail forwarding were restored.
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by curt15 10y ago
Any word on what's happening with "Snappy Personal"? That's their desktop build composed entirely out of snaps with an A/B system partition format. They have been really quiet about it for the last few months. They
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by curt15 10y ago
Google is offering financing plans for the unadulterated pixel: "Some people buy devices from a carrier because they don't want to pay the full unlocked price up front, but this year Google is also offering financing plans that ar
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by curt15 10y ago
Apps on iOS have to hardcode every other third-party handler that they want to work with besides Apple Maps. If an app presents you with open-with options for maps, that's because the developer took the trouble to add extra codepaths f
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by curt15 10y ago
There is no search functionality in the hangouts app either. What other messaging apps lack the ability to search conversations? Google's own SMS messenger app implements search beautifully.
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by curt15 10y ago
Google has been making noises about Android for Work for a while. To get businesses to start taking Android seriously, Google needs a flagship line of devices with business-class software support, especially in terms of security patches. Ev
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by curt15 10y ago
This exactly, and I'm referring especially to security patches. Nexus devices are the best among Android but still pale in comparison to iOS. Google Play Services can't patch vulnerabilities in the core system libraries or the ker
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by curt15 10y ago
Unless they pledge iphone-class software support, I can't think of any announcements that would really move Android forward.
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by curt15 10y ago
I'd be surprised if Android tablets have any significant uptake in business or education settings. Not only do they generally lack software support in terms of security updates (imagine connecting your desktop PC to the internet withou
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by curt15 10y ago
What are domains like adnexus.net and ad.doubleclick.net doing in that list of blacklisted hosts? Has MS ever disclosed what information is being sent there?
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by curt15 10y ago
Doubt it. I would imagine that many lay users associate "free" with low quality. "Open" on the other hand has positive connotations.

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