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by nivla 11y ago
For us techies, sure, but I wonder how many average joes have written off IE? For them the 'e' logo is and always have been the door to the internet. Now since Microsoft is planning on bundling both the new and the old browser in
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by nivla 11y ago
Its wasn't that they were totally oblivious to the fact that junk/crapware were bundled with their OS, it was that they couldn't have a say in it because then that would be deemed as an anti-trust violation. Antitrust laws ar
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by nivla 11y ago
> Windows 8 showed how easy it is to get the hybrid approach wrong On the contrary, a lot of people do find the hybrid approach very useful especially once they are accustomed to it. When travelling I take my Surface Pro instead of my la
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by nivla 11y ago
>"Since its inception, Amazon has refined and expanded AWS while competitors including Microsoft and Google have tried to replicate its success with similar projects. Those companies have only recently started to deliver basic servi
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by nivla 11y ago
I know a handful of Lumia phones that come built in with it. I have been using one for about 2+ years and must say its extremely convenient. No more fiddling plugging in or tugging on cables. When you are not holding your phone you put it d
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by nivla 12y ago
Thank you for the link. It was a simple and yet detailed. Wish more companies took time to explain parts of their privacy policy. However my concern is more to do with thinking as an outsider. I have toyed with idea of a company that requir
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by nivla 12y ago
Recently I have been getting cautious about Cloudflare. I do use them and like them a lot, also enjoy reading their technical blogposts. However from a privacy stand point it makes me feel uneasy. Cloudflare is just everywhere now: HN, Stac
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by nivla 12y ago
>or hacker news Its because HN defaults to https. Https rendering of a site seems to be unaffected by this bug.
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by nivla 12y ago
I believe it has a lot to do with not shifting with the urbanization. The mindset of most people in India still remains from the earlier times. Think about it, in a rural environment, like a farm land or the woods, would you still look for
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by nivla 12y ago
Well, had Microsoft not sold their "share" of loan to AAPL, they would have held a good chuck ~ 18.1 million shares [1]. Based off the AAPL splits, today those shares would have been 10 times more in count and 100 times more in pr
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by nivla 12y ago
>Microsoft eventually hired him to shut him up. Well i don't buy that part. When I first came across sysmon/regmon/procmon, I found it to be an amazing piece of work. An extremely small free standalone program that gave yo
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by nivla 12y ago
PocketSphinx/CmuSphinx [1] is your best bet. I have combined it with raspberry pi to voice control my TV, Xbox360 and the lights. Its not very accurate, but if you limit it to a small set of keywords, you are going to be fine. [1] htt
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by nivla 12y ago
I always wondered this about Xbox one, how much of the processing is done locally? Given that it relies on a beefy dedicated device (Kinect) for audio/visual processing, has it got to a point where it doesn't need a central server
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How One Line of Text Nearly Killed Toy Story 2(mentalfloss.com)
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by nivla 12y ago
Ignoring files are easy but ignoring selective lines? Wouldn't that conflict with the file's hash in Git's database?
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by nivla 12y ago
> "have you stopped beating your mother yet?" Really? You couldn't think of a better example to compare my comment to? >yet you're already rushing to what you apparently think is an inevitable conclusion. (e.g. Who
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by nivla 12y ago
If there is any truth to this article, then things are going to get really bad for Google. This with other recent complaints may prove that Google may be stepping beyond the gray areas of a monopoly. A good lobbying may delay the process bu
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by nivla 12y ago
Not if you are good at lobbying... [1] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142412788732387420...
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by nivla 12y ago
But that would require JailBreaking and voiding the warranty. An even more interesting question would be can we install iOS on an Android device without breaking the warranty? or are we in a state where all hardware warranties are determine
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by nivla 12y ago
Kudos to Microsoft Research. It is very impressive especially given that it was an actual long distance live demo. Although that funny Blooper from Vista's speech recognition [1] will always remain stuck in my mind. I am guessing this
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by nivla 12y ago
No I brought the surface knowing the spec but hoping they would add it in the next few iterations, which they haven't so far. Not having a GPS and 4G is pretty much the only reason I am not going to upgrade to the Surface Pro 3. These
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by nivla 12y ago
I was talking about MS have the right idea but failing to go though with it. MS Courier concept was introduced well before the iPad, suggesting someone there believed that it was going to be the future but they ended up killing it before th
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by nivla 12y ago
Yes all companies make "tiny screwups" but with MS its becoming a pattern with new lines. The gripe I have is because even after shelling out $1200 on a Surface Pro it din't have a GPS or a 4G that already all phones and low
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by nivla 12y ago
I doubt it, the surface team actually does regular AMA's after a product launches. They do listen to criticisms and manage to correct most of them in the next iteration. If you watched the keynote event, Panay talks about it, especiall
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by nivla 12y ago
>nivla: "Seriously, I am starting to believe that these tiny screwups are their signature." >Maybe it should be a rule that these folks below post their own product for review. Umm... that is exactly what I am doing. I own a
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by nivla 12y ago
>and it seems like the company as a whole (including the Surface lines) has absolutely no idea where it wants to be in five years I think they know exactly where things are going to in the next five years, yet they will try their best to
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by nivla 12y ago
>Surface Pro 3 is only good for one target market: designers. Actually its also good for people who travel a lot and needs to get things done on the way. I am one of those people. >Surface is also too expensive if you want a decent am
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by nivla 12y ago
>The Surface costs more than the average laptop and tablet it is supposed to replace. Not necessarily for an i7 machine in the form factor, but yes based on the average its too much to invest into. >And God forbid you want or need pro
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by nivla 12y ago
Yes, its a PC like every other and they have to follow their own requirements for Windows 8 (to give the option to disable Secure Boot). I have done it (with Ubuntu) but keep in mind touch & wacom support on most linux OSes are still fi
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by nivla 12y ago
The N-Trig only has 256 levels of pressure, while the wacom has 1024 level. So it sure doesn't stack upto the old wacom digitizer. However its interesting to compare it to the human hand which can only recognize 32 levels of sensitivit

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