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by pvidler 14y ago
Yes, but you do generally need a case anyway -- modern glass screens are reasonably sturdy, but they can be broken. The surface has a case that doubles as a keyboard, but if you need the kickstand without a keyboard you have to remove it en
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by pvidler 14y ago
Based on the end of the post, they might well have 'won', given the special mention in the article. "P.S. There might, in fact, be more than five primes out there. There might, after all, have been special shipments to rogue recipients. You
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by pvidler 14y ago
> The landing page looks nice, but it really doesn't tell me anything about the product. Agreed. I'd never heard of Greplin or Cue and all I got from this site was 'just some sort of calendar app'. Still don't know what either one act
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by pvidler 14y ago
That's just battery life... wait until we see what the heat will be like! Seriously, even my Macbook Air gets hot under mild load -- the only reason I tolerate it is because it sits on a desk. Fans and vents on a tablet... I just can't see
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by pvidler 14y ago
> but I think they should do it more vigorously and reject every single shitty app, and ban those developers Easy to say, but hard to do with the volume of app submissions. That's the trouble with a large-scale process that must be carr
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by pvidler 14y ago
I hate excel. For some reason, it has become the standard for creating any grid-based documents, even though the table support in word would often be far superior when equations aren't needed. I hate the lack of smooth scrolling, especiall
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by pvidler 14y ago
Agreed. One of the first things you learn as a parent is that all children are different and not all the advice that gets heaped on you will work. (Though the advice givers are usually certain that it will). In fact, the constant advice a
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by pvidler 14y ago
> the way they hold their value even after a couple of years is simply awesome. Agreed -- I just sold my 2007 MBP and got enough back to buy a new iPad (retina version). That's more money than most brand new low-end Windows laptops go
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by pvidler 14y ago
> Most programmers will not need to write code in C. But they'll still be better and more versatile programmers if they know the language. I agree, although I'm not sure C should be the top priority for someone that will never need to a
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by pvidler 14y ago
Accuracy is not the issue -- the jot pro stylus seems very accurate to me. The real problem is lag, which so far prevents me from doing any handwriting on the tablet. From what I can tell, lag is an issue for all the tablets right now?
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by pvidler 14y ago
The difference is that Windows 8 is an upgrade that will replace older versions entirely. Apple's users who didn't like iOS could stick with Mac OS X, but getting back to old-style Windows from Metro looks tricky (if it can be fully achiev
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by pvidler 14y ago
ICs have their hardware 'configuration' effectively in the metal layers, which are not so susceptible. The configuration is the biggest concern, as this is essentially the processor (or whatever the circuit is) itself. RAM used by a proce
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by pvidler 14y ago
Can you offer proof that those are both false? The China claim I grant you — especially as the actual claim was 99% (I somehow missed this in my initial reading). The stuxnet thing is trickier. To make use of this remotely you (or a stuxne
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by pvidler 14y ago
Except that it wasn't a lie, as the original article didn't make these claims. Only the HN headline -- which wasn't in the original article -- and this new article contain sensationalised claims ('bogus story', for example). You could argu
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by pvidler 14y ago
Actel devices are often used because they use flash memory for the configuration, which makes them usable in situations where RAM may be untrustworthy for something so important (e.g. where you can get bit-flipping due to ionising radiation
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by pvidler 14y ago
Yes, I missed it too. I should probably read the verge more often, but their site design is just too beautiful to miss by putting it in my RSS reader. Ironically, the result is that I hardly ever remember to go there.
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by pvidler 14y ago
A little off-topic, but I'm curious: which apps are yours?
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by pvidler 14y ago
It's true that the websites would have driven most of the sales, but still interesting that the response was better than when Apple featured the app (which is also a big deal). I suspect the one-day-only nature of the sale might have helpe
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by pvidler 14y ago
Thing is, the .com.au version worked fine in Safari this morning, but the .co.uk version tells me I need a more modern browser this afternoon. So it's not just being limited to browsers that are technically capable of running it.
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by pvidler 14y ago
Europe does use the metric system, it's presumably the developer that doesn't (in terms of countries, just the US and sometimes the UK?). Really, supporting metric and imperial should be trivial — minutes rather than hours. The issue I see
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by pvidler 14y ago
From the link: "Photoshop is required to use CSS Hat." From their main site: "CSS Piffle. No more photo editing software for web design!" Eating their own dog food?
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by pvidler 14y ago
Looking at the front page, I didn't really experience the problems you describe. I had just two issues: 1) The photos of the candy should really near the top and visible without scrolling -- 'candy' is not a term I come across often, so I
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by pvidler 14y ago
That's interesting, but in viewing the presentation the text is almost unreadable in Safari -- too much space between some letters, while others overlap. If it works in Chrome, Firefox and IE... what's Safari doing wrong here? Oddly I just
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by pvidler 14y ago
iTunes has user ratings and reviews, although they seem to be read-only on the Apple TV (I believe you need iTunes to write your own). You can't sort by user rating, which is also a problem in the app stores. Netflix on the Apple TV has gen
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by pvidler 14y ago
They also use less space (depth -- imagine a MacBook air with an old-style keyboard), probably weigh less and are much easier to keep clean. I prefer them for that last point alone. Non-chiclet keyboards get filthy and are a nightmare to fu
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by pvidler 14y ago
It doesn't seem to work in Safari with click2flash, either. Possibly because click2flash doesn't actually disable flash, it just requires a click -- but there's nothing to click on.