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by nivla 12y ago
>Microsoft is trying to target a demographic that doesn't exist Well it does exists, its just a small niche for now and the price does play a huge role into it. I am one of the target because I travel a lot and can't be bothere
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by nivla 12y ago
umm its a statement based on my observation and not a fact... I can only make an assumption on what goes around me. If you want to believe that iPad is the tablet that replaces the enterprise workload and would replace the desktops in the c
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by nivla 12y ago
How many MS fanboys do you think there are on HN? If there were any considerable, this MS pro post like any other wouldn't get flagged off from the frontpage in less than 8 hours. >why don't you go ahead and regurgitate a Micro
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by nivla 12y ago
>It's my preference to use a laptop on lap Gotcha. Here is that video on Youtube if you are still interested [1] [1] http://youtu.be/ZfvhKBp-Chw?t=42m
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by nivla 12y ago
OR maybe Hacker News 2014: where people grew up to look past their fanboism and review a product for what it is.
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by nivla 12y ago
I use adsense and let me say sadly there isn't a better alternative to it, its simply the best paying ad network out there. However it is also the only business related service that puts me into constant state of stress. Here is my com
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by nivla 12y ago
>Perhaps someone will make a counterweighted and braced keyboard like they have for iPad to solve this problem. Did you watch the video I posted above? He does show the feature where the top of the keyboard can be folded and magnetically
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by nivla 12y ago
>As far as I can tell the surface pro 3 is still not lap friendly Huh? Din't they demonstrate that on the video? he was using it on his lap at multiple angles and including his legs stretched. If they missed that part watch it here[
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by nivla 12y ago
He/she is referring to dynamically adjusting the characters size (its line wrap) when resizing the window. You can even resize the command prompt to fullscreen but the lines wrap to 105 characters by default.
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by nivla 12y ago
Yes, the same reason why Google can't avoid making its apps for iOS: "Monopoly". Windows holds a monopoly in the desktop and there is no way Google can't ignore that. Now with the announcement of "Universal apps&quo
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by nivla 12y ago
I am fine with it. The are alternative for most Google products. Personally, the only thing I miss is Youtube, which ironically MS made best version out there (No ads, downloadable video and worked without crashing) before Google forced the
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by nivla 12y ago
Ha I am on my first gen Surface, still within its original warranty and there is already two versions out. A a techie it sure is a bummer since I want the latest and the greatest. However, it still doesn't undermine the usefulness of t
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by nivla 12y ago
I have both the touch and type (mechanical backlit keyboard) covers. The difference in weight between the two is barely noticeable so trust me the way the scale is tipping over, it wouldn't make much of a difference with the substituti
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by nivla 12y ago
>Why would you buy some clunky classic notebook when you can get a Surface 3 for virtually the same price? Well one of the reasons why I got my first gen Surface Pro was because none of the OEM's were making a similar product. Did y
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by nivla 12y ago
From a business perspective I agree with you, that was huge leverage which could have boosted the sales of Surface considerably. However, from a consumer point of view, nahh that falls into the grey area of a typical monopolistic behavior.
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by nivla 12y ago
You are comparing apples and oranges. Linux is a OS and more specifically a kernal and surface is a brand of tablet. Yes million is pretty remarkable given most people wrote it off as DOA.
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by nivla 12y ago
Ohh the irony of them being a "Link removing service". I wonder how it would have affected the credibility & guarantee of their service had you told them no.
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by nivla 12y ago
>In general, if you weren't trying to create spam links, then it's very unlikely that any of this is an issue for you and the burden isn't on you to fix it. So if Bing wants to rank Bing.com higher than Google.com on the k
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by nivla 12y ago
You are right, those too. I would also recommend Sandboxie[1], not sure on its effectiveness but the convenience to just right click and run apps in its own sandbox is huge. Does anyone know an open source alternative to it? [1] http:/
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by nivla 12y ago
OR they could have just used the string from EICAR test file [1]. Since I don't use bitcoin, let me ask, does everyone have to download the whole blockchain to their computer in order to mine or receive/sent the coins? Wouldn&#x27
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by nivla 12y ago
Nah I will stick with MSE because the alternative for me is not to use an antivirus. If you ever want to know how to bring a 8-core i7 to its knees, install Norton. MSE is the only antivirus that is lightweight, stays out of your way and th
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by nivla 12y ago
Honestly, are there people (techies) who buy Gold membership at the regular price? Everytime my renewal rolls around, I search and find them around $30-$35 online. Also with Xbox One doesn't MS allow one membership to be shared among f
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by nivla 12y ago
When company X that the hivemind dislikes makes it to the news, they are often criticized with not open sourcing their product Y. When they finally open source it, they are met with "Too late!". Sometimes there is no winning with
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by nivla 12y ago
>they then proceeded to let it stagnate for the better part of a decade... That is one of the side effects of being on top without the worry of competition AKA being a monopoly. Despite Chrome being my favorite browser, this is one the t
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by nivla 12y ago
>The other thing that killed NetScape Communicator is that it had been costing $70 per copy. Remember... people used to pay for browsers. Yes but mine came free with the ISP's installation floppy diskettes, which was very cool of th
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by nivla 12y ago
I wouldn't go as far back as 1995. I remember using Netscape those days and IE was considered the "hip & modern browser" just like we do now for Chrome. It was the best viewed in IE days and since there were no real stand
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by nivla 12y ago
>You can't DM someone that you don't follow. Twitter already exposes all the text of non-protected accounts to advertisers for their contextual ad products. I agree but think about it this way. I follow Starbucks because I like
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by nivla 12y ago
Well look at it from the spammer's side, you just made things easy for them, now instead of blasting out millions of spam, they can now concentrate on people who actually spend money online (and may have an impulse nature given they ar
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by nivla 12y ago
Wow that is a new twist to privacy I din't see coming. Let the world know what you are buying and what could possibly go wrong. How long until advertisers or spammers pull in automated scans for tweets with #AmazonCart and start delive
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by nivla 12y ago
I could think of a few scenarios where I wouldn't prefer using the keyboard/mouse: * Controlling 3D models. * When doing presentations. * When watching a movie/video on fullscreen. * Cooking by following a recipe on the compu

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