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by scholia 10y ago
Having multiple users certainly increases the need. However, my experience is that speed increases bring diminishing returns. Going from dial-up to 2Mbps ADSL was a huge jump, and ADSL2 also made a big difference. However, for a single user
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by scholia 10y ago
You can get 80 meg broadband from BT Infinity with fibre to the street cabinet, so you might need to offer more than 100+. G.fast extends the fibre closer to the house but I suspect it's not very cost-effective unless the take-up is hi
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by scholia 10y ago
> We're talking about 3 different technologies here I'd be interested to know why we aren't talking about four different technologies, with the fourth one being wireless. You can roll out fast broadband to large areas
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by scholia 10y ago
> We need some more Telecom competition here in the US to improve their services The US tried that and it didn't work. Specifically, The US Justice Dept broke up AT&T into a bunch of "Baby Bells", which spent hundred
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by scholia 10y ago
Sure, but the market cap is a projection of future profits, not the actual size of the business.
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by scholia 10y ago
See my comment below...
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by scholia 10y ago
You're not forced to use Cortana, but it's an integrated AI-based assistant, like Google Now or Siri. Bing provides the back end and stores personalization info for cross-platform use. You can use your browser of choice in Windows
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by scholia 10y ago
OK, how do I use Google Now in Firefox or Edge on Windows?
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by scholia 10y ago
QUOTED You can change the default search engine to any site that uses OpenSearch technology. In Microsoft Edge, first go to the website of the search engine you want. Then, select More actions (...) > Settings, scroll down, select View
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by scholia 10y ago
Lack of save in Edge seems especially bizarre in view of IE's past. There were years when I used copy URLs from another browser to IE just to save them in mhtml (before extensions provided that on other browsers).
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by scholia 10y ago
No, there's no connection, as far as I know. Facebook bought the Atlas Advertiser Suite from Microsoft. However, Microsoft outsourced its non-Bing ad sales business to AOL, along with 1,200 staff. http://fortune.com/201
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by scholia 10y ago
It's the third biggest internet company by search ad revenue, behind Baidu but ahead of Yahoo. However, it's a very long way behind Google and Facebook by ad revenue. https://www.emarketer.com/Article/Micros
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by scholia 10y ago
Cortana is partly a cloud-based AI service, which is somewhat like Siri and Google Now, and it works with Bing. Does Siri give you any choice about using Safari? Does Google Now give you any choice about using Chrome?
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by scholia 10y ago
Not really. Microsoft has almost no ad business. Most of its ads are actually sold by AOL. Are you complaining about actual paid advertisements, eg for beer, or the "suggestions" that you can turn off?
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by scholia 10y ago
Extra info: there may be some confusion here because the above announcement is about tablets/2-in-1s/laptops NOT smartphones. The headline is (with my emphasis): "ARM-Based Windows 10 Portable PCs!? Hell Yes!" So if yo
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by scholia 10y ago
You appear to have overlooked the fact that OEMs can already make Intel-based smartphones and tablets, using Windows 10 for free. One smartphone example is the Asus ZenPhone, and there are plenty of tablets. How many have you bought? How
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by scholia 10y ago
No, it wouldn't. Microsoft's long term preference is to move to sandboxed apps downloaded from the Windows Store. If you're running Windows 10 on a smartphone with an Intel chip then you're potentially leaving yourself o
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by scholia 10y ago
Not at all. The apps were being developed for Windows Runtime. You shouldn't confuse that with the old Win32 API used by traditional Windows software. The only advantage of having an Intel processor would be for the old-style tradition
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by scholia 10y ago
You're worrying about ill-informed speculation about a hypothetical product? ;-)
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by scholia 10y ago
Initial development was on the Intel i860XR RISC processor, switching to the MIPS R3000 in late 1989, and then the Intel i386 in 1990. Later it ran on DEC Alpha, PowerPC, Itanium, x86-64 and ARM. (Wikipedia) If you have developed a portabl
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by scholia 10y ago
> So a single application is going to need to cope with a 4" touchscreen display with no keyboard or mouse as well as a multi-monitor setup without touch, but with a keyboard and mouse. Yes, it reflows. You use the app when it&#x2
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by scholia 10y ago
> ever need data that's in a win32 app while you're mobile Your data is assumed to be in the cloud, or on your SD card. If not, you do what we did roughly 20 years ago from (pre-smartphone) PocketPC handhelds: used RDP. This
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by scholia 10y ago
Clearly a long-term plan because Microsoft wouldn't have been able to do it so quickly. Also, Intel did not leave Microsoft in the lurch: Intel left Intel in the lurch. It made no difference at all to Microsoft, which already had Windo
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by scholia 10y ago
Microsoft is in mobile: it already has dozens of apps on both iOS and Android. It really doesn't care whose phone you use, it just wants you to use its apps to access your data on Azure. If your data is in OneDrive, you can access it u
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by scholia 10y ago
They don't: there are different UIs for different screen sizes. Your data is in the cloud (eg a Word Document in OneDrive on on Azure) and you can access it from a full desktop program on a PC or Mac, from an app on iOS or Android, or
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by scholia 10y ago
> I think Linux beat them both to the point... many years ago. Nope. Windows NT was written to be cross-platform. It wasn't even developed on an x86 processor. And NT development started at the end of the 1980s, before Linus even
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by scholia 10y ago
> I must say that I'm surprised that MS didn't give up on Continuum after Intel hosed them by cancelling their Broxton smartphone x86 chip. MS might just be throwing good money after bad. Intel didn't hose Microsoft, it
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by scholia 10y ago
Maybe an early adopter problem, unless they've upgraded the checkout stations to current technologies? The UK ones are mostly quite recent seem to work fine (though I have no experience outside London).
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by scholia 10y ago
Yes. My main supermarket (a former Safeway in the UK) has one person looking after 20 self-checkout stations. I guess most of us have learned the system by now..... Self-checkout works well for half a dozen items in a hand basket. If you ha
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by scholia 10y ago
All the supermarkets I use already push you to self check-out stations....

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