khedoros1

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1. 1921.▲
   by khedoros1 10y ago

   > here's nothing I can see about laptops that make the lack of tactile feedback a bigger concern than it is for other devices. Agreed, there's nothing about it that makes it a bigger concern for a laptop than other devices. Tou
2. 1922.▲
   by khedoros1 10y ago

   Tactile feedback isn't a compelling argument against touchscreens on laptops and desktops? The touch interface on my phone and tablet compromises some of the usability of the input to gain a ton of flexibility and portability. Laptops
3. 1923.▲
   by khedoros1 10y ago

   > Does anybody really miss any of those things? Yes? I take it that you don't? I have a few hundred CDs, DVDs, and Blu-rays that I like having access to. Generally, I'll access a floppy once, and just store an image on a USB dr
4. 1924.▲
   by khedoros1 10y ago

   We'll have to wait for @everybooleanrepresentation to get that fancy.
5. 1925.▲
   by khedoros1 10y ago

   It seems like it would be better in the short term (don't have to learn the bindings), but worse in the long term if it's something you do often (no way to find the keys' edges without looking every time you press the key, wi
6. 1926.▲
   by khedoros1 10y ago

   Culture just tends to be arbitrary, in the details. If you don't care about potential social consequences, then feel free to ignore the parts that you find absurd.
7. 1927.▲
   by khedoros1 10y ago

   I jump on the app when it first comes out, before they add all the extra permission requirements. I've got half a dozen ancient apps on my phone that I stopped updating when I felt like they were overreaching the permissions I think th
8. 1928.▲
   by khedoros1 10y ago

   I opened the "web" link under the story headline in an incognito/private window and clicked the nytimes link. No account, registration, etc.
9. 1929.▲
   by khedoros1 10y ago

   This is me, too. People react with astonishment when I dive into a new technology, pick it up quickly, and become productive. Interviews are hell, though (and worse than they used to be). I can't sleep the night before a big one, and I
10. 1930.▲
    by khedoros1 10y ago

    > If its obvious that gratitude is good why can't we simply adopt it in an instant. Humans are creatures of habit. You don't change behavior by flipping a switch; we aren't wired that way.
11. 1931.▲
    by khedoros1 10y ago

    Everyone doesn't "need" it. It'll just be nice. As you point out, most people don't "need" anything more than a tablet, and those aren't exactly known for their high levels of connectivity. > It is
12. 1932.▲
    by khedoros1 10y ago

    It's a neat, but very niche, piece of technology. It's not dominant, in any sense of the word. It might be in the future, but it's not a sure thing. The fact that you can find hardware that supports it isn't interest
13. 1933.▲
    by khedoros1 10y ago

    Some of the other comments are that a 2G tower tells a phone whether it's allowed on or not, but that the phone doesn't have any verification in the other direction. That's just the design of 2G cell networks. It's not a
14. 1934.▲
    by khedoros1 10y ago

    Meh. It'll happen, or it won't. The market's volatile and fickle.
15. 1935.▲
    by khedoros1 10y ago

    I'll welcome TB 3.0 ports, in addition to what I have. Expanded functionality is always nice.
16. 1936.▲
    by khedoros1 10y ago

    When my current machine dies, hopefully >5 years from now, I'll have the opportunity to evaluate new machines based on my current needs and where the market's at then. The company that gets my money will be the one that matches
17. 1937.▲
    by khedoros1 10y ago

    We're obviously at different places in life. I'll always go for the larger storage options, for reasons of time and convenience. The cost is reasonable, and I'll get the benefits for the entire time that I have the hardware.
18. 1938.▲
    by khedoros1 10y ago

    > What laptop does have Ethernet, infiniband, USB-A/B/C, thunderbolt 2.0, miniDisplayPort, MiniUSB, MicroUSB, RS232, Centronics, PS/2, VGA, EGA, PCMCIA, SCSI, eSATA, S-video, etc? Yes, "every" port is ridiculous.
19. 1939.▲
    by khedoros1 10y ago

    You can still get discrete hardware that does a lot of that: offload of decoding compressed audio, adding effects, 3D positioning calculations, hardware equalization, etc. Most people don't bother; I think that having a "real&quot
20. 1940.▲
    by khedoros1 10y ago

    And for that reason, xyproto's post is trivially true, in the practical sense. Hardware today doesn't implement any compatibility mode that would be useful to original DOS-era programs. Dosbox provides that compatibility mode, act
21. 1941.▲
    by khedoros1 10y ago

    My sound hardware seems to have the bare minimum of ADCs, DACs, and headphone detection pins to get the audio signals in and out. The drivers that do all the heavy lifting, decoding, conversion, etc on the CPU. Why do the decoding on compar
22. 1942.▲
    by khedoros1 10y ago

    > And, no, my time as someone who plays video games is much cheaper than today's SSD storage. Flash storage is cheaper than it's ever been, and my time means more to me than it ever has. If I could spend a few dollars to have m
23. 1943.▲
    by khedoros1 10y ago

    I carry an iPhone issued by my employer and a personal Android phone. You're absolutely correct about the feel of the device itself, smoothness of the software, etc. It's a very pleasant device to use, and I do use it every day,
24. 1944.▲
    by khedoros1 10y ago

    To me, "drone" has some different connotations. It usually seems to mean either: - Ability to operate out of the pilot's line of sight (through streamed cockpit video or autonomous operation) - A lazy term for a multi-rotor (
25. 1945.▲
    by khedoros1 10y ago

    It displays them on the touch bar, but it doesn't replicate the functionality of the physical keys. That's a mix of positive and negative attributes; the balance of whether it's a net gain or net loss is completely subjective
26. 1946.▲
    by khedoros1 10y ago

    Well, you understood the distinction that I was making, and I think it's a useful one to make. I'm aware of soft keys and virtual keyboards (it's been hard not to be, for a big chunk of my life). Physical/soft/virtu
27. 1947.▲
    by khedoros1 10y ago

    Assuming you've got an internet connection available for both of your devices, sure. As an example: I've got a work-supplied iPhone that I use for photos of office activities, sometimes. All the file-sharing sites are blocked on t
28. 1948.▲
    by khedoros1 10y ago

    Well, I can (or I could on a personal one, as opposed to the work-supplied one I carry). I like being able to install software from outside of an app store without modifying my firmware, worrying about updating my device, losing my warran
29. 1949.▲
    by khedoros1 10y ago

    For a number of years, a lot of developers considered Apple hardware to be the best-available dev machine (powerful hardware with nice design, good connectivity, pleasant but powerful OS? Nice). I think that it was a result of coincidence
30. 1950.▲
    by khedoros1 10y ago

    If the emphasis is on "keys", then those images don't refute the comment you replied to.