eckyptang

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by eckyptang 14y ago
Probably shitty battery which is the thing that kills viability of a device.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
I know this is purely anecdotal, but everyone I've seen recently who has bought a tablet, bought a laptop within 6 months or switched back to their old laptop and got rid of it. I'm still not convinced by the tablet hype. The star trek wow
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by eckyptang 14y ago
It's actually very good and always was. There were no extensions that were browser specific. These were, if you check out output out, simply commented out metadata and custom prefixed CSS rules that allowed it to be imported back into Word
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by eckyptang 14y ago
I'd tell them to piss of if they asked that. It's their job to fix it without losing your data.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
ChomeBook wouldn't work even in the suburbs of London, UK. We have frequent mobile network and Internet outages. If you need to rely on the device, sorry but it's local apps + synchronisation or bust. Centralised computing works fine if you
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Like all those closed incredibly hidden evil standards that they publish here for interoperability? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc313105(v=office.12...
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by eckyptang 14y ago
I'd like LibreOffice if it wasn't so clunky. It's entirely lacking polish and quality control. It has potential, but it's not there yet.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
This kills it for me as well. Also it's incredibly slow and glitchy even on Chrome. Considering Office costs me less than 10GBP a month over 3 years, and works entirely offline, Google docs doesn't cut it.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
There is one: Excel (Live) or Excel (Desktop). Try it if you haven't already by creating a Windows Live account and visiting http://skydrive.live.com and clicking the Create button at the top. You can do Word, OneNote, Excel and PowerPoin
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Which makes the things easier to nick... Club individual on head, yank thing, run away.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
I think all it proves there is a fine line between following a religion and being mentally ill.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
I work with a lot (80+ developers) in the Microsoft ecosystem. I haven't found a single one who is enthusiastic about Windows 8. Most are looking rather worried as yet again the rug has been pulled from underneath them. They got burned with
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Yes I've trialled Windows 8 heavily for our environment and installed about 50 "popular highly rated apps". They are all simply put: shit. Flakey, broken, hard to use, slow, huge, not useful and poorly integrated and nothing inbetween. Even
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by eckyptang 14y ago
I'd agree. It doesn't feel finished yet. I think the OEMs will be all over it customising it which is going to ruin the experience.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
I'd rather be using Lynx on a 1200 baud modem. I was far more productive back then without the distractions of hacker news etc.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
I'm old enough to remember reading this reposted on usenet (or was it gopher) at the time. Cue discussion about how gopher was much better as it already did images. Little did we know back then...
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Yes you have to be careful with being messed with on a train. Whilst drunk and unconcious on a train, a friend of mine had a penis drawn on his head in bic biro (this was UK, London, Kingston loop)
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by eckyptang 14y ago
That's the first thing I thought of as well and I'm not ashamed to say I found it slightly funny. On a more serious note, this is really a "how to get your stuff stolen" hat.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
This is why we need application sandboxes at kernel level. Selinux for example.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
This is normal for Oracle and has been for at least 20 years. They are too busy milking people for new contracts rather than looking after their existing customers.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
It's akin to a sit in protest. I think it's adequately placed.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
That used to work with ISA cards in the late 80s for me :) It made the corrosion worse in the long run but it worked good enough for a bit. A friend of mine used spit as solder flux as well once. Worked quite well.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
I disagree. They will either hang themselves with x86-64 or make it a success as it is now. They won't go near ARM as a mainstream CPU.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Ah that broken model which assumes that moral reasoning has a relation to moral action, which it clearly doesn't for the majority of the population of this rock...
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by eckyptang 14y ago
It's all about trading the social contract against risk of punishment. It's so absolutely unenforceable that more people break the social contract than adhere to it.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
It's all crazy. Absolutely batshit crazy. People hide behind it all the time and defend it as well. In your example, it is why people buy the plants from someone else. It is purely risk mitigation. It allows them to break the implicit contr
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Considering morality is founded on a fear of someone doing to you what you did to them, then yes. This is a fairly basic interpretation of the golden rule but it stands up to the majority of counterpoints.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
It's fine. The bedrock abstraction (usable languages etc) is higher than the hardware. The hardware we don't care about. It's disposable. In fact, you can drag pretty much anything you can do from the Pi onto another platform and carry on.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
There is no social contract either. It evaporates in a moment's notice when you break the speed limit or download an mp3.
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by eckyptang 14y ago
Some thoughts on this: You have no obligation to conform to these laws at all. You are not born into a contract. A contract is a piece of paper which you can use to wipe your bum with if you wish. You can in theory do what the hell you like

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