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by scholia 10y ago
Your loss. I trust Windows 10 a lot more than Android, and I use that as well ;-) The future is more-or-less-continuous updates based on telemetry. That's how Google and Facebook work as well. Microsoft will never go back to a 3-year u
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by scholia 10y ago
What are you running: Windows Home with no AD?
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by scholia 10y ago
Windows 7 did get a majority of the Windows market. Windows 10 will get a majority of the Windows market. In fact, in some areas -- the USA and the UK, for example -- Windows 10 overtook Windows 7 late last year, on StatCounter's n
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by scholia 10y ago
World has moved heavily into mobile, touch-screen operations, use of sandboxed apps from online stores, AI assistants, cloud integration, biometric security etc etc. Windows 10 has moved heavily into mobile, touch-screen operations, use of
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by scholia 10y ago
There's a lot in the Control Panel. The more you move to the new Settings app, the more complicated Settings gets. And if Microsoft didn't provide all those settings, or dropped the whole Control Panel, there would be a tornado of
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by scholia 10y ago
How many have you bought? The last time I bought a non-touch laptop -- last year -- I quickly realised my mistake, took it back and paid more for one with a touch-screen. Anything without a touch-screen just feels horribly broken and out of
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by scholia 10y ago
> Because you can't buy something else from the PC industry? You can, but it doesn't run MacOS or Final Cut Pro. > If there is pent up demand, it's because Apple has been treating their costumeira much better than ev
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by scholia 10y ago
Not entirely convinced. The cheesegrater Mac design let you upgrade on the fly... I certainly agree about the scale problem, but Apple has never really competed in that market. You could easily buy 1,500 Dells but the graphics department on
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by scholia 10y ago
I'll buy one if they are cheap and include a sim slot. It would basically be a smartphone with Windows desktop software (mostly Office in my case) running on an 11.6-inch screen...
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by scholia 10y ago
The Core M in the MacBook is already down to 4.5W. How much lower would the ARM go, while delivering the same performance? Speculation welcome ;-)
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by scholia 10y ago
There will certainly be ARM-based laptops running Windows 10. Have you looked into that? They are different from the Surface RT (Windows on ARM) machines because the also run traditional x86 apps (not just a port of Office).
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by scholia 10y ago
> MS tried it, and that was pretty much a disaster. Do you mean the Windows Runtime subsystem? How is it a disaster?
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by scholia 10y ago
They could,. Unfortunately, it requires a huge investment and needs a lot of highly skilled staff, who are currently working on its mainstream product. Also, when you've done your new chip design, you still have no hardware devices and
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by scholia 10y ago
It wasn't intended to be a niche product. That was just how it ended up....
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by scholia 10y ago
Yes. In fact, the Newton was the reason ARM was formed as a separate company. The chip design was originally done by Acorn (using VTI tools). When the ARM operation was spun out of Acorn under joint ownership (Acorn, Apple and VTI), they ch
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by scholia 10y ago
> It would come down to whether there's money to be made in the area, and I suspect most serious gamers build their own systems. Spot on. The ultra-performance professionals and the big-spending gamers often do their own builds an
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by scholia 10y ago
There was pent-up demand from people who had been holding off buying the old model....
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by scholia 10y ago
> Well, one reason is that touch screens for desktop OSes suck They work perfectly well on desktops like the Surface Studio, where you can bring the screen down to a drawing board angle. They also work well with a "desktop OS&quot
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by scholia 10y ago
Macs cost more so why would that be a bad thing? iPad sales were down by 22% in the last quarter and are roughly half what they were at the peak. As someone has pointed out, the iPad sales chart is looking like the iPod's, except it mi
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by scholia 10y ago
No, I've been reading real news. You should try it. > They can call me racist, sexist, I don't care anymore, because I've seen the lies they repeat and the bullying tactics. Trump is the biggest bully around, and the big
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by scholia 10y ago
Yes, because everything I've said is provably true. This is not a matter of opinion, it's a matter of fact. Didn't you look at the audiences (and flags) in Trump's rallies? Didn't you hear him attacking Mexicans as
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by scholia 10y ago
The left hasn't been doing that. Not at all. The right has played the angry white racist card, and the majority of Trump's supporters trend towards the racist end of the spectrum (as shown in a YouGov poll in The Economist). Trump
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by scholia 10y ago
The Liberals have frequently not been in power, as Nixon, Ford, Reagan and two Bushes show. However, Trump broke all the rules when running for President (by, for example, crudely insulting opponents and by being a pathological liar) and he
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by scholia 10y ago
It's actually Noughts and Crosses ;-)
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by scholia 10y ago
And then gotten criticized for being unethical....
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by scholia 10y ago
Put crudely, name and brand recognition. People view familiar things more favorably than unfamiliar things. If you've heard of it, you are more likely to buy it. If it has been on TV a lot, you've heard of it -- even if you didn&#
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by scholia 10y ago
Can I assume you don't get 150 emails a day? Or maybe you just have clever filtering that blocks the junk ;-)
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by scholia 10y ago
> I will check email 3 times a day. When I come in, around lunch, and before I leave. Is this a problem? Was going to say exactly that. Works for me too. I'm amazed more people don't do it. I use a mail client set up so I&#x2
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by scholia 10y ago
Firefox was out four or five years before Chrome appeared. When it started, it was competing against an aging IE6. I don't think it has never kept pace with Chrome. Or if so, not for very long. Even if the products had been equally goo
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by scholia 10y ago
One of the problems is that kids in the top streams in highly-selective schools do very well. The kids at the bottom often don't so as well, and sometimes become problem cases. These same kids -- who are very bright -- would be stars &

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