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by gnaffle 14y ago
Here's the thing: On most laptops, most things will work "OK enough" under Linux. But there always seems to be some kind of small issue. And even when it works, it often stops working after an upgrade. Like my Toshiba that worked well until
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by gnaffle 14y ago
I don't think this is the reason. I think the main reason was that many of those companies were invested in their own platforms, so most likely every new technology or project would be evaluated in terms of "how does it fit with our existin
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by gnaffle 14y ago
For the time being, I think there are enough Squeezebox users out there that will be able to fix the Perl problems. After all, the Squeezebox server is Open Source, and you're not dependent on any online services from Logitech to make it wo
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by gnaffle 14y ago
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6324/the-iphone-5-performance-... - or do you think benchmarks are irrelevant? Also, Apple claims it's the fastest _iPhone_ ever. I haven't seen any claim from them that it's the fastest phone ever.
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Is it wrong to point out that you would have had better options if manufacturers made this bundling optional? And that the range of options seem to decrease over time? (Eg. you can't buy Windows RT and install it on an iPad).
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by gnaffle 14y ago
How does that article explain why there is no 'post-pc' era? All it explains is how customers have failed to understand what Windows RT isn't. Whichever way you put it, the trend today points to people spending more time using their smaller
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Agreed. Wouldn't it be better to show off all the awesome stuff you can do with it? The only think they really show is that you can swipe in the Metro display.
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by gnaffle 14y ago
While they weren't invented out of the blue, I don't think most of them come from meticulous observation of trends and market research. Rather I think what happens is that some technology matures, and then some people that are familiar with
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by gnaffle 14y ago
While that may be true for specialty hardware like 3D graphics cards, don't forget that the server market will likely be alive and well, leading to faster and cheaper servers. So while you might not be able to get a silent, high end desktop
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by gnaffle 14y ago
While I'm worried about this happening eventually, I think Gatekeeper is a sign of the opposite. If Apples intentions were to make it like iOS, they wouldn't have bothered introducing that, they would have pushed everyone into the App Store
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by gnaffle 14y ago
The problem though, is that owning the consumer market gives iOS and Android a tremendous advantage in terms of revenue, app selection and mindshare. That robust enterprise software is, in many cases, already there for iOS with apps such as
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Why not number one plus? http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20065265-17.html
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Do you honestly believe that "most users" use GMail and Hotmail? Most users use an ISP, but lots and lots of companies host their own mail, sometimes for good legal reasons. It would be interesting to know if Microsoft sells more Exchange l
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by gnaffle 14y ago
That's right, I forgot that they had a push for the Lumia a while back, and maybe it's still ongoing. But even so, the sales have been low.
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by gnaffle 14y ago
- I'm not American. I don't upgrade my phone every year, but when I do the old one usually gets handed over to a family member. I think this is quite common, although some may sell it for a price depending on the age of the phone. - Turning
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by gnaffle 14y ago
The sales representative isn't always honest, but he _will_ try to push whatever model the carrier is interested in pushing. Right now, carriers are interested in pushing Android since that ecosystem is aligned with the carriers interests (
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Agreed. It's too late now, and it's very sad to see. If they had gone all-in on Meego a few years earlier, or chosen it instead of WP7 and made it run Android apps out of the box, maybe they would have had a fighting chance.
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by gnaffle 14y ago
I think the burning platform analogy he provided was perfect. Nokia has now jumped from the platform and are floating in the ice cold North Sea water with a life jacket on, and the big question is whether the rescue boats will make it there
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Guess what, there is already a phone that works wonderfully for people who only wants to call people, send a few texts and occasionally browse the web. It's called an iPhone and my parents have one. They perfectly fit the use case you're de
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by gnaffle 14y ago
OK. I think the lack of an agitator might be the reason for the poor performance, rather than energy or water conservation (unless your washing machine is a top-loaded rotating drum type, since they work the same way as front loaders).
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by gnaffle 14y ago
OK, I'm curious what kind of model you have. Is it a top or front loaded? Mine (front loaded) has a pre-wash (2 hour program) or "soaking" mode for extra dirty clothes (4h), and I can select temperatures from 0-90 degrees celsius, but most
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by gnaffle 14y ago
I couldn't find anything to back up the claim that the appliances have to use 10% less energy and water each year. Do you have any documentation to back that up? You'd think this would show up in product reviews after a while? Doesn't you
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by gnaffle 14y ago
I think it's certainly possible to make an intentional decision to train/brainwash yourself into believing in something.
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Copying can be good and bad. I think most people would say that a copy that beats the original would be good. A knock-off or plagiarism would be bad. It's bad for the original creator, but long term it's probably bad for the copy-cat as wel
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by gnaffle 14y ago
I didn't tell you to look at the first Google hit, did I? But if you're going to voice your opining, I do expect a minimal amount of effort to educate yourself. You can easily find reports hosted by for instance NASA, and to discredit those
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Actually, many routers have easily predicable WPA2 passwords. Based on the MAC address or the access point name, it is often possible to deduce the default key (which many/most people don't change).
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Sure, wireless makes them much more usable, but claiming this is the reason for its success is just as silly as saying laptops weren't successful before Wifi (hint: they were!). Without cellular data the iPhone would still be a killer devic
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by gnaffle 14y ago
The supporting technology was available in 1996: https://www.msu.edu/~luckie/seahorse.html Apples innovations wasn't in "the basic idea", it was in lots of implementation details that make that basic idea into a usable product. If you don
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Who had invented Trinitron before Sony? Or are you saying that Sony copied the basic idea of a television, so that makes it impossible for them to have contributed any innovation to the space of TV sets? If you read the history, the inventi
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by gnaffle 14y ago
Of course, all of what you say is true. But I think it's difficult to quantify quality differences like that. For instance, when watching the movie Jiro Dreams of Sushi, I had a hard time thinking that a sushi meal could be worth more than

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