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by rlu 14y ago
Were you honestly unable to type faster than 10wpm after using it for a week? I find that....odd to believe (not saying you're lying - I just find it strange). How fast can you type normally? On my regular desktop keyboard I type at an aver
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by rlu 14y ago
I don't really agree with this article at all. For one thing, as people have already pointed out here, making coclusins based on companies' plans just does not make much sense. 1. Do people really and honestly think that companies will aban
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by rlu 14y ago
I can type on my lap with touch cover just fine. Not quite as fast as when on a desk but I think that is true (for me) even with normal laptops. I think it just has to do with the angle that your arms/hands are in. I was also a little skept
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by rlu 14y ago
Well neither mine nor my friend's experience the problems that he was having.
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by rlu 14y ago
You're right. However, given that your problems other than the kick stand are rather odd bugs specific to you (haven't seen anyone else have the problems you had with Mail and saving in Word) would you not consider perhaps getting the devic
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by rlu 14y ago
I think the point (directed to you and parent) is that it is for BOTH. That's the whole idea behind "no compromise solution". You can be playing Angry Birds or be browsing the Metro Hacker News app (hypothetical, I don't think there is one
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by rlu 14y ago
What do you think it's competing against? Certainly not a Kindle... Is the $600 price a steep one? I'm not sure. It's the same price as the iPad and not only can you consume/play with it, but you can also do work. This has the potential of
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by rlu 14y ago
No idea. If I wanted to program on this I'd wait for the pro. Though I suppose you could remote into a desktop from WinRT devices? Lol..
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by rlu 14y ago
I'd also argue that non-metro IE is significant. Browsing immersive internet with a mouse keyboard is frustrating so it's nice I won't need to do that with the Surface.
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by rlu 14y ago
Also worth mentioning that it has an SD slot. I personally got the 32gb with a cyan cover and plan on buying a 32gb sd card to add on to it.
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by rlu 14y ago
You can: * get it with a keyboard for the same price as an iPad of the same storage * get it without a keyboard for $100 less than an iPad of the same storage. Seems fair :D
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by rlu 14y ago
Eh, in a way it kind of does? What I mean is I think of it as "you can pay less without" because if you get it WITH the keyboard then it matches the iPad price. If you get it without, it undercuts iPad by $100. I think that's fair.
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by rlu 14y ago
Exactly. If anything this is more lenient than most other mobile browsers
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by rlu 14y ago
It's probably fair to assume that the desktop won't be going away soon by the fact that they've improved it on Win8 (there are a lot of non-metro improvements in Win8 - surprised?). If the desktop were there right now purely temporarily t
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by rlu 14y ago
I agree with your thoughts about having an archive to look back through in many years to come. I'm in college right now and I can imagine in a few years looking back the messaging history (i.e. private conversations) will seem funny. I dunn
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by rlu 14y ago
I feel like on a normal day, my Facebook news feed is filled with more positive posts than negative ones. I don't see people whine that often. This shouldn't be surprising - don't people want to put their best foot forward on facebook? Sure
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by rlu 14y ago
I was just about to comment asking whether Apple engineers actually did this. For sure this is some cool stuff, but I think it'd be a bummer to say "I work at Apple" and then in response to "oh cool, what do you work on?" say "I work on the
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by rlu 14y ago
I learned that the threshold was actually simply poverty level which would be significantly under 70k
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by rlu 14y ago
Honestly to me, burn in seems completely unacceptable for a computer so expensive.
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by rlu 14y ago
Any modern version of Windows will show up here as "Windows NT". I think you should be able to determine the correct version through the user agent string. "Windows NT 6.2" is Win8, 6.1 is Win7, 6.0 is Vista.
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by rlu 14y ago
I don't have one of these compuetrs so I don't know how it works but by reading the article it seems to me like you need to supply a password to the software which is then stored in almost plain text. The assumption the article is making
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by rlu 14y ago
Like others have said it is pretty central. With that said, it isn't very difficult to create a local account. I believe there is a button which takes you to a non-live account set up page, though there is an "are you sure? live accounts wi
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by rlu 14y ago
He certainly brings up good points but he completely ignored the fact that the Zune was never aggressively marketed. Is it fair to say that the Zune may have done far better if people even KNEW how it was better than an iPod? A lot of non-t
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by rlu 14y ago
The whole point is to have devices in the near future which act as a tablet and then can convert into a laptop or even desktop if it gets docked to a large monitor and keyboard. Metro mainly for touch, desktop mainly for mouse/keyboard. One
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by rlu 14y ago
Couldn't have said it better myself!
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by rlu 14y ago
Also wasn't there some controversy a few months ago (perhaps march? random guess) where someone lost their google life because of some adwords dispute? I think the issue got resolved because he was lucky enough to be a nerd which a blog tha
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by rlu 14y ago
just...no. http://www.neowin.net/news/what-the-hell-is-microsofts-lost-...
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by rlu 14y ago
I work for Microsoft so I don't think I can go into too much detail but.. >"If you were on a team of 10 people, you walked in the first day knowing that, no matter how good everyone was, 2 people were going to get a great review, 7 were
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by rlu 14y ago
what a disgusting read
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by rlu 14y ago
Ditto. Sidenote: SkyDrive's "fetch" feature is awesome. Can grab any file on my computer even if it isn't in my skydrive folder.

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