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by scholia 10y ago
If you're Verified, you have access to a Verified Twitter stream, which means you can avoid seeing anything from people who are not verified. This provides a civilized version of Twitter that is mostly populated by smart and funny peop
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by scholia 10y ago
> Milo's tweets weren't anywhere NEAR harassment level. Trolling a famous person on twitter is not harassment and brigading. Milo had tens of thousands of flying monkeys to troll and harass people on his behalf. He knew this
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by scholia 10y ago
MacBook Air was designed for portability. Heat and CPU throttling mean it's not really suitable for use as a workhorse.... And, of course, if you really want a serious, long-lasting workhorse, then you want a proper tower desktop. Appl
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by scholia 10y ago
With the new Anniversary Update you can set Active Hours when Windows 10 won't attempt any updates at all....
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by scholia 10y ago
American men were third tallest in 1914 and 37th tallest in 2014. The growth in the height of American men is the same as Mali, and similar to Burkina Faso. Senegal did better. Shouldn't the world's richest nation be doing better?
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by scholia 10y ago
Agreed. It would also have filled the hole for school testing, which is what generated sales of Chromebooks....
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by scholia 10y ago
True. However, Microsoft thought users would be OK with Microsoft Office (bundled free with Surface RT) and sandboxed tablet apps. Windows RT threw out the good parts of backwards compatibility, but it also threw out the bad parts: viruses
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by scholia 10y ago
Your timescales are well out: this was the 1980s. > By the end of the 1990s, schools were buying awful PCs from RM, when they could have gone to (eg) Dell and got much better hardware for much lower cost. Why were they still buying stuf
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by scholia 10y ago
Which bit is not true? It's certainly true that the UK government subsidized the cost of computers in schools, and Acorn got the largest benefit from that scheme. > In fact Acorn paid the BBC a commission on every machine sold for
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by scholia 10y ago
RM supported PCs, and PCs were what schools wanted. Also, the hardware was only a part of the whole RM infrastructure. Considering the UK government subsidized the cost of Acorn computers in schools, and considering it got massive amounts o
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by scholia 10y ago
Windows NT was written to be cross-platform, and it was actually developed on RISC chips -- hence the HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer). Unlike Linux, it wasn't written on and for an x86 processor.... At one time, commercial Windows NT
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by scholia 10y ago
I have Windows PCs with anything from 2GB to 8GB, and I'm just about to upgrade one to 12GB, so I'll have a look when I get some free time. However, the browser putting a cap on RAM usage would seem a sensible approach....
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by scholia 10y ago
To have a chance of joining the EU, Turkey had to implement EU rules, and prepare for the free movement of people. It was nowhere near doing that. The following is quoted from https://fullfact.org/europe/turkey-likely-j
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by scholia 10y ago
On a Mac, as far as I know, Safari uses the smallest amount of memory. (It's the only browser I've used on OS X for a while.) I'm surprised to see Firefox taking up 3.5GB of RAM. On my Windows 7 PC, it takes about 1GB after a
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by scholia 10y ago
Agreed. There's no way Turkey can get into the EU, first, because it will never meet EU rules; and second, because any other EU member can veto it. In this case, Greece probably would. Quoted from https://fullfact.org/e
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by scholia 10y ago
Yes, it cancelled the Broxton and SoFIA SoCs, which were targeted at mobile phones, presumably because these are low-margin businesses where Intel wasn't making any money. However, it's still in the Atom business, so there's
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by scholia 10y ago
> Boy were they unpopular though They were popular in Europe, where they were cheap. In fact, in the UK, the 512K Atari ST with mono screen and mouse was slightly cheaper upgrading a 128K Mac to 512K (£750 vs £800). The Atari ST was sl
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by scholia 10y ago
> Ataris were never really that good for gaming either Atari practically owned the gaming business with its home games consoles, and its first home computers -- the Atari 400 and 800, launched in 1979 -- were the best games machines ar
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by scholia 10y ago
That was what generally happened. Microsoft Word (for DOS) never got much traction, while Word Perfect (for DOS) mostly replaced WordStar (on CP/M and DOS). Word (for Windows) started to take over after Windows 3 came out in 1990.....
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by scholia 10y ago
"He made the mistake of bringing in a [singular] venture capitalist" and it didn't work out. This isn't "murdered by VC's". "Microsoft Word ate the remains" is still wrong ;-)
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by scholia 10y ago
That's a very kind offer. I used to visit San Francisco a couple of times a year, but now I'm semi-retired, I may not make it for a decade ;-)
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by scholia 10y ago
It's an initial defeat for the new prime minister, who previously complained about the vast number of major UK companies and utilities being taken over by foreigners. As we know from experience, this usually leads to profits and UK job
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by scholia 10y ago
Apple was instrumental in splitting ARM from Acorn and, I seem to recall, owned 40% of it at launch. (It used an ARM chip in the Newton.) However, Apple owning ARM might well encourage other companies to use Intel or other chips....
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by scholia 10y ago
To be fair, it's based on a very limited amount of experience, but it has been consistently bad experience. Neither of us is American but we've eaten Chinese food in China, Hong Kong, Malaysia and the UK, among other places.
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by scholia 10y ago
That may well be true but it's hard for tourists to find them. My experience of "Chinese" food in San Francisco is that it's appalling, and in New York, my Chinese wife wasn't even willing to try it. Fortunately, to
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by scholia 10y ago
> As for Gmail... I would rather swallow my tongue than let them near my emails (not saying much considering I use Microsoft at the moment, I know) Understood. I was one of the first adopters for Google Search and then Gmail, but my im
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by scholia 10y ago
You really think that repricing stuff gets you from roughly $20 billion to $70 billion in the PC market?
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by scholia 10y ago
They're still doing Windows 10 for smartphones and there are other hardware suppliers besides Microsoft. The OS is free, after all. Whether the Surface phone will make any difference is open to doubt, but it might ;-) As an Android u
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by scholia 10y ago
Bit too much Ballmer bashing. He made plenty of mistakes so he's an easy target for the ignoranti, but the adoption of open source, the move to the cloud, the writing of Android and iOS apps etc all started under Ballmer. Ballmer also
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by scholia 10y ago
Microsoft killed the old one and replaced it with new stuff -- Windows New Technology -- long before Apple did. In fact, when Apple was shopping around for a new OS base, Windows NT was one of the options that Apple considered. (Didn't

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