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by scholia 10y ago
And Twitter. All the main porn companies and a lot of porn stars have Twitter accounts, and regularly post clips from porn videos.
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by scholia 10y ago
> 1995 - circa 2014 Microsoft launched CodePlex for open source development in 2006, and it had released some bits of code before that. Microsoft also started releasing .NET source code in January 2008 under its MS-RSL license [1], so
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by scholia 10y ago
You're probably right, but if so, Apple is taking a short-sighted view. We're moving on from product and platform wars to ecosystem wars, and the core feature of Apple's ecosystem is all Apple software and hardware working to
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One option is to use premium rate phone lines, That way, people pay for support via their phone bills. It's far from perfect but it might be better than nothing...
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If Apple still feels the need to have a system for real professionals, then it has a choice: (1) upgrade the Mac Pro on a regular basis or (2) go back to a tower system. The Mac Pro has proven to be a bit of a disaster, because it hasn&#x27
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by scholia 10y ago
A ThinkPad P-series workstation takes four disk drives: two SSDs, one HD, and one DVD. It has four RAM slots so you can have 64GB. Low-end CPU is an Intel Core i7-6820HQ but you can upgrade to a Xeon. It's a highly configurable, profes
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by scholia 10y ago
I used to get about 10 hours of battery life from my IBM ThinkPad 240X [1] running Windows 2000 way back in 1999. I did this by using the extended battery (which stuck out from the back), and by buying two of them. On long trips, I just swa
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by scholia 10y ago
I'm not familiar with the ThinkPad T460, but the T560 has two batteries. If you need longer life, upgrading the second battery from 47WHr to 72WHr costs an extra £12.
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by scholia 10y ago
Curiously enough, the new MacBook Pro 15 isn't smaller and isn't lighter than, for example, the Dell XPS 15. That's why Apple's launch compared it with previous MacBooks, not with the rest of the industry. I think it&#x2
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> I'm transitioning who I can onto similar setups and moving away from the laptop-as-the-main-computer setup. They just aren't good enough for it. Beefy desktops also have much better ergonomics (unless laptops are used on a
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by scholia 10y ago
Dell XPS is a high-end consumer brand, like Apple. They can be used by professionals but they're not really pro designs. Dell's professional brands are Latitude, OptiPlex and Precision. If you want a power-user workstation, you co
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by scholia 10y ago
True. Unfortunately, Apple discontinued its tower, and that leaves you with two out-of date systems -- the Mac Pro and the mini -- that are not designed to be upgradeable. This is a problem with proprietary systems like Apple, where you hav
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by scholia 10y ago
That's a great summary. Apple could also have brought out a new expandable, upgradeable cheesegrater tower for the many pros who need real power.
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Laptops outsell desktops by roughly 1.5 to 1. Although sales are still in decline, around 113 million desktop PCs were sold in 2015. Most of those probably went into businesses. Roughly 700 million desktop PCs have been sold over the past 5
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by scholia 10y ago
(1) Desktop clients used to be faster and more efficient than using a web interface, and probably still are in most cases. However, Gmail is impressively snappy so I don't think it applies in that case. (2) You can do things with a des
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by scholia 10y ago
Good point. And we have no way of knowing what Google's internal format looks like...
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Oddly enough, it was really easy to set up a custom domain on Gmail: I did it. However, Google stopped offering that service for free, which will stop most ordinary people from using it...
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Plus you may be able to get your new email address to import all your old Gmail. Outlook.com does this, if you want...
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> I guess periodic backups of your cloud accounts will soon be considered a good practice. It has been good practice for a couple of decades. Of course, getting people to follow good practices is another matter....
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> transform an email box as a storage and backup place ... and lots of people consider having their life stored there. That might be viable if Google had kept its promise about users never having to delete their emails. As it is, the t
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by scholia 10y ago
Did they ever do repairs? Upgradability also includes repairability. If you have a fleet of Dell Latitudes or ThinkPads, for example, you give users a "new" one for a broken one, and you can often repair it by swapping in parts fr
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by scholia 10y ago
> And who decides which experts get to join the consensus, and which outside sources that proffer corrections should be listened to? A lot of them are academics. They're not bozos dragged in off the streets. The approach isn'
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Which dung-heap is that?
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You seem to be missing the bits I highlighted: We find that the buyback led to a drop in the firearm suicide rates of almost 80%, WITH NO SIGNIFICANT EFFECT ON NON-FIREARM DEATH RATES. There was a more rapid decline in firearm deaths bet
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> they may be neutral today, but that's hardly a guarantee they'll be neutral tomorrow. Doesn't work like that. Politifact takes a consensus of people who are experts in the topic, and its answers are subject both to pee
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Yeah, I understand that Americans are in love with the idea of killing thousands of people a year and there is very little chance of them being rational about it. When people's lives are at stake, I'll settle for the correlation,
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> Yup. A lot of media organizations endorsed Clinton over Trump. Pretty hard to endorse Trump, given that he's a crooked racist and narcissist, a sexual predator, a pathological liar, and wholly unqualified for any public office.
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Australia did it, and hasn't had any mass shootings in 20 years since it opted to remove guns. You can argue about how much of the change is due to whatever, but the fact is that Australia has seen a dramatic decline in gun-related hom
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by scholia 10y ago
Things may be about to get much, much worse, because Trump is an obvious threat to America's First Amendment rights: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/our-first-ame...
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They cover a lot, and they covered several with reference to Trump's ties to Russia. See below for some examples. Either way, it's certainly true that Trump repeatedly praised Putin, quoted Russian propaganda, disbelieved US intel

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