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by nextparadigms 14y ago
Yeah, when I see these comparisons about "percentage" of free space, I find them pretty ridiculous, because they compare the iPhone or the iPad at 16 GB, and say it's like 80%, and then the Surface at 64 GB. If you're going to compare it li
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
This is what I like about the world focusing more and more on renewable energy. You get more billions of dollars being invested in the technologies to make them better and cheaper, and you get more scientists focusing on the problems, and c
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
LLVM seems to support 64 bit ARM, now, too: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTI4O...
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
Google also offers "prizes" in the same way at Pwnium.
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
Sorry, but what did you expect? I thought the search engine was great, but search engines like that only survive as long as they are "underground" and not too many people know about them...at least not too many regular people. Putting it he
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
It will probably be like 4.9" or 5.1" just to be "different".
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
I don't think the $900 tablet that makes you pay for 64 GB of storage, but only allows you to use 23 GB is really what people are waiting for.
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
I think it's a little sad that the most "modern" IE Microsoft can put out is still like 2 years behind Chrome in HTML5 features. Chrome 10 had more HTML5 features 2 years ago than IE10 has today, and the Blackberry 10 browser is actually ev
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
And push IE10 to XP, which is still like 40% of PC's out there.
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
What is the benefit for developers anyway? They get a bit more subscribers this way? But don't they lose like almost all control over those accounts to Facebook?
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
We're getting into the speculation game again. I don't think this is healthy for Bitcoin. Let Bitcoin grow at its own pace instead of promoting articles that say Bitcoin is now at $18..and now at $20..and now at $24. If you keep doing that,
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
I don't think US intends to anyway. The lobbying in Washington is too strong to allow dramatic cuts in the programs that use the biggest part of the budget. I'm honestly surprised many countries are naive enough to lend to US anymore. At th
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
They've certainly used Office as a major selling point of Surface RT. So there's at least some conflict in the message they are sending there. Is Office meant for tables or not? If yes, then why haven't they made it more touch optimized?
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
How do you "deeply integrate touch" if the UI still doesn't look touch-ready? Seems like they skimped on a pretty important.
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
> What's interesting now is that Apple, BlackBerry and Microsoft now offer integrated hardware/software platforms. It's become similar to the way the console market has been between Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft. You forgot Google. They h
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
From the videos I've seen before, I think BB10 handled "real multi-tasking" the best among all modern mobile OS's. Even Ubuntu for phones seemed to lag a little between switching apps. But with BB10 entering a new app seemed instantaneous.
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
Yes, I think it has a better chance as the 3rd platform because of the larger user base of Blackberry loyalists, and and interface that looks a lot more like previous Blackberries, iPhones and Android phones, than WP which is radically diff
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
Has Firefox implemented Web Audio by now?
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
They've also been very happy to give data away even without warrants, about some Wikileaks supporters: http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2012/11/09/skype_gav...
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
For video-calling there aren't that many except Jitsi, but I suspect there will be more encrypted WebRTC web apps soon. For mobile there's SilentCircle, but it's $20 a month or something.
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
Why can't they just use Google's method for the Chromebooks? I think it allows to easily install any other OS as soon as you physically disable the bootloader with a switch on your laptop.
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
So basically Boeing chose to use the cheaper kind of batteries, instead of the more secure kind. I imagine isolating thousands of tiny cells is quite a bit more expensive than isolating much larger ones.
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
So you're saying Elon Musk shouldn't have said this? Then how do you explain this? http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/30/business/boeing-aware-of-b... If anything they should be called out for it.
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
That makes sense.
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
Certainly better than letting Microsoft control the company. That would guarantee they're stuck in the "PC world" forever, for better or for worse.
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
What? Where do they do that? If they did, then that's pretty crazy. How can they say the "bridge can support 5 tons", but it would only support 1? That would destroy the bridge when some large vehicle tried to pass over it.
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
It's misleading.
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It's not the user's problem that the OS takes up that much space. The user is already paying for the license. He shouldn't have to pay twice (that 40 GB of SSD space is pretty expensive).
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
If the OS takes up 50 GB, 100 GB or 500 GB, that's Microsoft's problem. They shouldn't pass it on to the consumer, and they shouldn't advertise a device as a 100 GB device, if only 50 GB is available to the user. If the OS does take up 50 G
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by nextparadigms 14y ago
How did Apple set the precedent for that? If you're referring to iOS devices, then they definitely did not set the precedent there. PC manufacturers have advertised total space, not free space, for ages.

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