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by scholia 9y ago
> however most people I know working in 3d, digital illustration or video work all use windows machines now. You can stick really fast processors, tons of RAM and one or two Nvidia graphics cards in a very cheap tower. If only Apple so
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by scholia 9y ago
(1) Superfish isn't a Chinese company -- it was founded in Tel Aviv and moved to Palo Alto; (2) Superfish wasn't installed on ThinkPads; (3) it wasn't on Lenovo laptops for long: they uninstalled it and apologised.
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by scholia 9y ago
Agreed. My anecdotal experience is that the number of low quality sites has increased dramatically. I put this down partly to the "freshness" algorithm. You get shown the most appalling crap on the grounds that it appeared within
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by scholia 9y ago
iOS market share in the UK is generally over 40% and has approached 50%. http://uk.kantar.com/tech/mobile/2017/april-great-britain-sm...
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by scholia 9y ago
Android market share in Europe is around 75%. When you have a monopoly market share, you get treated differently, as Microsoft found. Otherwise, Google wasn't found guilty of anything to do with software or apps. It was found guilty of
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by scholia 9y ago
Unix ;-)
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by scholia 9y ago
Why? The company has reported declining revenues for 21 quarters -- more than five years -- is shedding tens of thousands of staff, doesn't generally pay high wages, has no market-leading products, and has a less sexy image than Apple,
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by scholia 9y ago
I have no idea, but a quick Google turns up lots of stories like this: http://www.deccanchronicle.com/world/america/040417/shock-to...
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by scholia 9y ago
Do you know Numbeo? https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?cit...
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by scholia 9y ago
Depends if you mean in the City of London, in Greater London, "on the tube" or "inside the M25" ;-) Apparently you can get a 2-bedroom flat in Bexley for £150,000.... The 10 cheapest places to buy in London: where to fin
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by scholia 9y ago
Do really good American developers actually want to work for IBM? Serious question....
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by scholia 9y ago
Very interesting! "This is an edited extract from A Book Of Silence, by Sara Maitland, published by Granta on November 13 at £17.99. To order a copy for £16.99, including UK mainland p&p, go to theguardian.com/bookshop or call
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by scholia 9y ago
You can get news feeds as a web page in various places such as Dave Winer's River of News http://radio3.io/rivers/ Light, ad-free and totally trustworthy ;-)
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by scholia 9y ago
CNN is a decent news organization. It may not be the best, but it's a very long way from being the worst....
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by scholia 9y ago
Yes. In particular, Google's search were much better for ordinary users who didn't do complex searches....
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by scholia 9y ago
Original article (with interesting comments) https://web.archive.org/web/20070715031943/http://battelleme...
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by scholia 9y ago
There's a good (old) talk where Stanford's Christopher Gardner researched different diet books with 311 women. The Battle of the Diets: Is Anyone Winning (At Losing?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eREuZEdMAVo T
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by scholia 9y ago
The point of the story is as follows: > PDF is not portable on digital screens. It doesn’t scale. It’s not comfortable to read PDF files on a mobile or ebook readers Arguing that PDFs are good for printing out, or better than some othe
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by scholia 9y ago
"The floppy shuffle" as we used to call it. It's why I'd never willingly buy a system with only one drive. The floppy shuffle on the original Mac was a particular nightmare....
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by scholia 9y ago
Sorry to say that I don't know. I think only the mods can change titles and URLs...
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by scholia 9y ago
Many moons ago, I wrote a story for Red Herring magazine(I think) about European attempts to create their own versions of the Valley, so I'd thought about some of the issues. If I had to redo it now, your talk would make it a better ar
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by scholia 9y ago
Thanks for the YouTube link: I enjoyed your talk.
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by scholia 9y ago
The link goes to Slashdot. The article is at Backchannel (on Medium) https://backchannel.com/steve-ballmer-says-tech-firms-should...
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by scholia 9y ago
Apple posted its first full-year iPad sales dip in fiscal 2014. Unit sales slipped 4% that year, while revenue fell 5%. The sales declines accelerated thereafter. In fiscal 2015, unit sales plunged 19% and revenue dropped by 23%. In fiscal
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by scholia 9y ago
iPad sales are down by half (in unit terms) compared with its peak. Android tablet sales are down as well. From his previous remarks (Why would you buy a PC? etc), Tim Cook seems to want everyone to move to iOS, and the neglect of the Mac l
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by scholia 9y ago
Lots of us really like the 2-in-1 concept and find it incredibly useful. Last time I bought a non-touch laptop, I quickly realized my mistake and took it back for a touch-screen model. Otherwise, the long-term plan is to transition between
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by scholia 9y ago
> First time I used an IBM PC I thought it was awful. It was a great business machine, though obviously you needed two floppy drives or, in my case, the massive 10 megabyte hard drive in the PC/XT. You got a really great keyboard
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by scholia 9y ago
Which simply avoids the issue I raised. How long has Linux been going?
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by scholia 9y ago
Microsoft has already shown Photoshop running in the emulation and it boots OK. Don't know how much load it will carry but it will run.
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by scholia 9y ago
There's nothing to stop any company from making its own laptops with ARM processors, designing them to run Linux, and pre-installing Linux. You could do it yourself. Maybe this is your chance to become rich and famous. Not sure why you

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