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by likpok 17y ago
Look at how much crap they got and get over the Ribbon, something which almost all of the people who use it regularly love. Changing things that people are invested in is hard. They don't like change, and don't like it when you force it upo
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by likpok 17y ago
Every release of windows ever has doubled the system requirements. Except this one. So it should (depending on OEM crapware, etc) be a bit snappier.
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by likpok 17y ago
I've used both. They just don't feel quite the same for aimless web browsing. Maybe it's because with a trackpoint my fingers don't leave home row, but I find that it isn't that much better (especially on some link-heavy sites)
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by likpok 17y ago
If you get a good zshrc, it Just Works, without much additional effort. Admittedly, I mostly use those parts of zsh which are similar to most other shells, but which it does better (argument completions, some directory stack, etc).
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by likpok 17y ago
Better than win+r for run is just hitting windows which brings up the start menu. With the new start menu, this is similar to Quicksilver and Katapult and all those other things. If you use zsh (and you really should. It is better than bash
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by likpok 17y ago
For basic web browsing I find that the mouse model is pretty hard to beat (I use vimperator).
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by likpok 17y ago
It does. .msi installers act as atomic packages like other systems. Windows doesn't have a centralized system, nor does it enforce the use of msis. But they exist and provide a very nice way of managing resources. The issue with a central
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by likpok 17y ago
Depends what you mean by 'standards'. 7 & 8 support more of CSS 2.1 than the other browsers. I believe support for CSS3 is lacking because they didn't want to write to a draft, and then have to support no-longer-standard extensions when
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by likpok 17y ago
Why do you need the all-directional layout? It seems that you could just do the Bing thing, which has the infinite scrolling without the flash.
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by likpok 17y ago
I prefer wombat. It's a gvim only scheme (unless you know a guy who interpolated it for 256 color), but it is veeeery nice.
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by likpok 17y ago
Vista doesn't have nearly the security problems of the XP and before systems. Things like not running as root and integrity levels changed the security landscape. In addition, I believe that in between XP and Vista they rewrote much of the
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by likpok 17y ago
I belive that was the original reasoning, and thus led to the Java generics behaving a little weirdly. Then other decisions forced them to change the bytecode anyway , but they never fixed generics.
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by likpok 17y ago
Sort of, for well-defined functions (for some definition of well-defined). I remember seeing an example in analysis which showed that it was possible to get some nonintuitive behavior in functions.
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Functional Sieve of Eratosthenes [pdf](cs.hmc.edu)
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by likpok 17y ago
I remember seeing a video that talked about the physics of boxing, specifically rolling with the punches. It clearly works, people who roll are hit much less hard. However, a champion boxer hits at ~90MPH. You can't jerk yourself back fast
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by likpok 17y ago
I agree. It seems that the result of this is that Microsoft cannot make a better product (by adding value) rather than helping consumers.
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by likpok 17y ago
Arch is related to Gentoo in that both offer rolling updates and try to keep you on the bleeding edge. They differ in that Gentoo is a primarily source-based system with binary packages bolted on and Arch is a primarily binary-based system
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by likpok 17y ago
And the Debian people make sure that the backporting goes smoothly. I used to run arch. Forget to update for a few weeks, and you could almost guarantee a broken system when you tried. It was even worse with Gentoo.
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by likpok 17y ago
Preferring OSX to XP is somewhat of a no-brainer at this point, as XP is about 10 years old. A fairer comparison might be the Win7 RC (perhaps, I don't know about breadth of driver support).
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by likpok 17y ago
Why not just buy the standalone OS? You are not forced to buy the upgrade, and if you are reinstalling that much, it'd probably be worth it.
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by likpok 17y ago
Moreover, this only applies to the European SKU's. OEMs can still install IE.
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by likpok 17y ago
I used to use K&R, but then I discovered a useful fact that in Allman, you can comment out blocks very easily. This lets you play around with control flow in a simpler way than is possible in K&R et al.
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by likpok 17y ago
Furthermore, lead-acid (car) batteries are extremely easy to recycle (and are valuable; you almost always get a trade-in discount).
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by likpok 17y ago
However, hydrogen will not pool like gasoline. If it doesn't ignite, it will just fly off into space. This mitigates some of the risk (i.e. if there is an accident, a fuel leak will either kill you quickly, or it won't)
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by likpok 17y ago
IIRC, Microsoft fixed a lot of the security issues with Vista/7. Modern Windows is a very different creature from old Windows, and even has features that many other OS's are missing (privledge levels).
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by likpok 17y ago
I rarely if ever talk through FB chat, even after setting up the facebook plugin. It's much less reliable than GTalk (even AIM beats it out), so I try to default to other means.
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by likpok 17y ago
I remember seeing an interesting study somewhere (sorry, don't have the link) that found that (IIRC in elementary school) segregating the better students did not help them. It only made the poorer students perform worse. I think that there
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by likpok 17y ago
I believe that some of the non-US stuff is not entirely done. In the US, it works great.
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by likpok 17y ago
I believe the TV ads started today (Wednesday), so would not explain the entirety of the graph.
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by likpok 17y ago
Because wolfram alpha was a launch. Bing was a re-branding. So Bing gets all the traffic that MS already had, while trying to carve out a little more of the rest of the pie. Thus, you should expect to see different launch patterns.

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