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by nivla 13y ago
Wait but isn't this the purpose of the chirping sound when the crossing signal comes on? Far more effective and serves more than one person. However I realize it may not work on people who are both blind and deaf.
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by nivla 13y ago
7 million+ units [1].. Grant not big as Android or Apple but if everyone was to follow your ideology, Firefox OS or Ubuntu OS will never make a dent in the market. This will not only lead to duopoly but eventually end up hurting the consume
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by nivla 13y ago
>As far as i can tell i still can't purchase a system without windows unless i build it myself. Well the good thing is we are not living in 1996 either. You can purchase any of the below devices and none of them run Windows: [1] Chromeb
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by nivla 13y ago
I think they will make you go through the account reset sequence just like when you lose your password.
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by nivla 13y ago
I agree. I love the idea of TOTP. It is not tied to a specific vendor or app and it doesn't require a internet connection to work. The only issue I found was there is no way to change the default timeout of 30 seconds and 30 seconds maybe m
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by nivla 13y ago
I find that very hard to believe atleast based off my experience. How else are you supposed to do USB boot ups? Almost all OS I installed recently has been through USB Drives and not to mention I use a USB keyboard to key into the BIOS.
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by nivla 13y ago
Both. They did get a foothold from the acquisition of NAVTEQ but a lot of missing features such as real-time traffic, street view and satellite imagery needed to be integrated. This was completed with the help from Bing. The offline maps is
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by nivla 13y ago
>By the way, Nokia is going down for the same reason. Given that Nokia was able to adapt enough to come up with Nokia Maps [1] (Decent mapping app with free offline maps), Nokia Music, Intuitive camera apps; I must disagree with that s
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by nivla 13y ago
Similar to the desktop market, I think the tablet market is too saturated to change the game. You can only play catchups now.
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by nivla 13y ago
Well I would love an official Youtube app for my Windows Phone but Google doesn't make one and has no intention of. Can I blame Google?
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by nivla 13y ago
Yes, In the mobile world everyone is playing catch up with Apple. In the desktop world everyone is playing catch up with Microsoft. In the search world everyone is playing catch up with Google. In business you play catch up with the industr
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by nivla 13y ago
>The whole page is a great example of black-hat marketing. You mean similar to the Marketing tricks we now see everywhere? The use of $X.99 or $X99.99 to subconsciously trick your brain into seeing a lower price point The use of bold
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by nivla 13y ago
Neither IE nor the IE experience was ugly for that time, the time when they decided to introduce ActiveX. Infact, it was the hip browser. I used to remember being on Netscape (my fav/default browser) and unable to browse most modern sites a
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by nivla 13y ago
>"controversial"? I am seeing this exact same headline everywhere. I think you may be misreading it. The title says "conversational" not "controversial".
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by nivla 13y ago
Thank you for providing the sources. Looks like you were right (except the few days part). It only affect a subset of users which explains why it went unnoticed for me. May have been related to the transition of Hotmail accounts but regardl
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by nivla 13y ago
>Outlook.com was down for several days When did that happen? Any source?
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by nivla 13y ago
Yes I feel uncomfortable enough with my current Kinect that I have it disconnected until needed. However, thinking about it, Siri and Google Now isn't that far either. The leap towards this technology was eventually bound to happen and is u
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by nivla 13y ago
>I really enjoyed how they were distancing them selves from Microsoft the whole time I don't think there was any need to be alienated from the brand Microsoft (No recent Microsoft PR blunders I could recall). Its just that Xbox has beco
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by nivla 13y ago
>No more console restrictions for me ever again. But that doesn't solve the issue with exclusiveness of games.
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by nivla 13y ago
I used to think like that but now I am finding myself increasingly relying on Xbox as an entertainment system and that despite having built a dedicated XBMC pc. Maybe its the general availability of Apps (Amazon Video, Xfinity, Netflix) or
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by nivla 13y ago
>I didn't get a chance to read the comments on the Mayer article (feel free someone to reply a HN link). Here you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5738455
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by nivla 13y ago
No, whether people like it or not is also part of the point. If you like a product, you are more likely to recommend it to someone, and word of mouth does wonders for adoption. If the actual count for adoption of Windows phone had been goin
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by nivla 13y ago
Yet they have an official chrome browser app for Windows 8.
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by nivla 13y ago
>Face it Microsoft: Windows Phone is a dismal failure. So did a smart guy say once about Apple. I went from being a hardcore Android fan to just falling in love with my Lumia phone. Everyone I know who has a windows phone has been happy
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by nivla 13y ago
I think it has more to do with not having access to the API to display those ads. I have strayed from Google ever since I got a windows phone. Found decent replacements for most of their services, however Youtube is one thing that has and m
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by nivla 13y ago
I miss the pre-iphone era where your devices din't require registration with the manufacture to be used/updated/upgraded. Sad to see even desktops and laptops moving towards that direction.
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by nivla 13y ago
That brings up a good question. With newer laptops and monitors being touch, how long do we have left before touch display become the norm? Is Microsoft trying to have a solution before the problem?
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by nivla 13y ago
Thats news to me. I din't know someone with a higher karma gets a better voting rank. Reminds me of what Digg wanted to achieve and it backfiring.
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by nivla 13y ago
I am confused, I thought SmartScreen was for downloaded files and website visted through Internet Explorer. What does it have to do with emailing links? Also as far as I understand, SmartScreen only sends in the hashes/part of the hashes to
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by nivla 13y ago
Yup sorry, that is what I meant to write: "should not".

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