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by jpxxx 14y ago
And thus a million server blades evaporated into the night, taking my precious opinion with them. Reboot your fucking phone and try again.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
This is Next Level Shit. This is absolutely next level execution. The responsiveness is incredible and it immediately falls through to a well-formatted search result if it can't give you a soundbyte or a Knowledge Graph result. Unit convers
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Absolute truth. The more obscure the piece of software in the Apple kingdom, the worse it is. Their OS X server product alone is so unbelievably ratty it single-handedly defeats the notion that Apple doesn't ship garbage. Apple's best code
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by jpxxx 14y ago
I'd be interested to know if you can un-bind the two fused drives back into a SSD and HDD.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Agree so much. Apple ID hell is a Real World Problem and I suspect making real changes to how it all works would take some herculean efforts - daunting even for Apple.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
I'm pretty good at being wrong. :) What do you think?
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Because Apple's mentioning their product in the same breath as iPad. It strongly argues that Apple is financially/strategically concerned enough with that form factor to risk mentioning the existence of competition. I'm not sure why, given
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Yeah, but customers don't know that. "iPad" is the Kleenex of tablets. The only reason the Galaxy Note gets a pass is because it's still mentally categorized as a big telephone.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Good point. :)
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by jpxxx 14y ago
There is no obvious reason this product isn't going to sell in huge quantities. Less conceptually fragile, less expensive, more portable, same software stack, same media stack, same OS, same UX, same premium experience, same monstrous manuf
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Google should be delighted. I've yet to find a "normal" who is aware that anyone else sells "iPads". And Amazon doesn't count, they sell "Kindles". No amount of competitive marketing seems to have brought the two product families into compe
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by jpxxx 14y ago
There's a world of difference between "Configure with NVidia GTX 8800 or NVidia GTX 9500+ OEM Edition?" and "Do you want black or white?"
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by jpxxx 14y ago
So Sweden tortures. Cute.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
This passes the smell test. All signs are go for Apple to make an extra couple billion dollars this Christmas. The 7" form factor clearly has value to customers over the predominant 10" form factor. Every review of them touches on how much
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by jpxxx 14y ago
I love how the most prominent app on the official store's homepage is a blatantly copyright-infringing Sonic the Hedgehog game. http://grab.by/gRs8
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Weird future moment: a 21st century industry titan has to use puppies, kitties, and children to sell a machine that freely dispenses the sum total of humanity's knowledge.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
And thus the word 'bullied' fades further into meaninglessness. Also: this linkbait is linkbait, and the source article doesn't actually claim Apple had anything to do with manipulating the IEEE or modifying the EPEAT technical standard, an
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Disregarding whatever is happening with that metaphor - All that's being put forth here: vertical touch has a different ergonomic profile, potentially a negative one, and it hasn't extensively been deployed in this industry until now. The s
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by jpxxx 14y ago
I utterly agree. I've found hospital IT staff to be negative, extremely unskilled, and openly hostile to even the most benign questions or requests. And I can't remember any other context where staff feel it's acceptable to hang up the phon
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by jpxxx 14y ago
A medical record-keeping package was installed at a site of mine recently. Their technician's first step: disabling all firewalls and then sharing the C:\ drive of every workstation out across the LAN. Not only for basic functionality, but
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by jpxxx 14y ago
I agree with all that. It will definitely be interesting to see how Windows 8 shakes out: there's no larger real-world test that can be run.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Disclosure: friend of the author and article submitter Let's say there are three use models for Windows 8: -- pure tablet mode (horizontal touch only) -- pure desktop mode (keyboard and mouse+trackpad only) -- hybrid mode (vertical touch
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Windows 8: Hardware That Will Physically Hurt(techsociotech.com)
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I've no doubt it's a great phone, and those are all good features. But it's late, it's not shipping today, it's only on one carrier in the USA (odd considering capturing the American premium smartphone market was the whole rationale for 'Bu
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Its not hate. I've used Lumias and they're just fine. The design is certainly a wonderful breath of fresh air. But their new flagship is still two months out, its not even priced yet, has poor carrier support (domestic AND global), a fourth
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by jpxxx 14y ago
From an American persoective, yes. Nokia was a titan everywhere but in American smartphones. They owned the low end, the owned the high end, and they owned everywhere in between. Now they have completely lost the script on smartphones and a
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by jpxxx 14y ago
It's prett easy to hate on this analyst and his strident, obsessive tone, but he's right on the money. Nokias financials have gone from fine to apocalyptic in short order and they are now burning cash at a crazy clip with no evidence of any
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by jpxxx 14y ago
You mean Apple too. :] They've licensed ActiveSync for iOS since 1.0 I believe.
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by jpxxx 14y ago
Yes. Next?
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by jpxxx 14y ago
I hear how passionate you are on this issue and I understand the enthusiasm. I'm not here to strangle the baby in the cradle. But my concerns are real. Granted: Fusion energy is a conceptually simpler process that is virtually impossible to

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