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by scholia 11y ago
He sounds like a cool guy. He did an interview on Soundcast /r/retrogaming Podcast Episode 05: Howard Scott Warshaw Talks Programming And Psychology https://soundcloud.com/retrogamingreddit/rretrogaming-podca
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by scholia 11y ago
> The Vostro is their entry-level business line... The soho bit was what Jeff Clarke (1) told me, and he runs Dell's PC business. Yes, I have it on tape ;-) > Optiplex and Precision are desktop brands only There are Precision
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by scholia 11y ago
Thanks. Downloaded dosbox and had nostalgia for lunch ;-)
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by scholia 11y ago
Quick short-term fix is to stand the laptop on a pile of books and plug in a cheap USB keyboard......
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by scholia 11y ago
Nope. Latitude is the entry-level business line, then there's Optiplex, with Precison workstations on top. There's also Vostro, which is the small/home office line. I wasn't making a comment on build quality, just on Del
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by scholia 11y ago
You could simply add a Thunderbolt or USB 3 dock.... Using an external keyboard and mouse solves the ergonomic problems of using a laptop for long periods. (Sad to say, I see very few people actually doing this.) Of course, you don't g
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by scholia 11y ago
XPS is a high-end consumer line. Latitude is an entry-level business line (the consumer equivalent is Inspiron).
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by scholia 11y ago
Crapware is usually found on consumer machines, where installing crapware pays for the OS and reduces the price. Pro machines from Dell and HP generally don't have crapware apart from anit-virus), in my experience. However, they may ha
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by scholia 11y ago
If you are spending more than 3-4 hours per day on your laptop, you should really be using a desktop, for the sake of your long term health....
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by scholia 11y ago
It depends a lot on screen brightness and the power settings. The XPS13 has a bright screen....
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by scholia 11y ago
> Consider that basically the entire consumer banking and insurance industries still use mainframes. It's possible to consider that an artifact of legacy Legacy is certainly a large chunk of it. The vast majority of Fortune 500 co
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by scholia 11y ago
There's a list of photo organizers at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_organizer ACDSee is very good but not cheap. Windows Photo Gallery is great as a free Windows program, but isn't being updated, so I a
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by scholia 11y ago
In the early days of mass commercial computing -- minis and mainframes -- there was a lot of research into workstation ergonomics. Sensible countries even wrote recommendations into law, to protect the health of their workers. Needless to s
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by scholia 11y ago
The spending on pure research is trivial compared with IBM's profits. In its last financial year: "Total capital return to shareholders of $9.5 billion; dividends of $4.9 billion and gross share repurchases of $4.6 billion"
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by scholia 11y ago
He was also extremely successful in some respects, ie he tripled Microsoft's turnover and doubled profits while clearing up the anti-trust mess and operating under the supervision of the US DoJ for a decade. He also started all the t
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by scholia 11y ago
Pretty trivial stuff in the context of an $81.7bn corporation. IBM makes the vast majority of its turnover and profits from closed, proprietary systems, most of which are in decline (it used to be a $107bn corporation). > They're r
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by scholia 11y ago
> basically internet but the wrong way and centralized Actually, Teletel/Minitel wasn't completely centralised. A lot of services ran from their own servers on an X.25 network.... The UK's inferior Prestel service was co
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by scholia 11y ago
OK, thanks ;-)
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by scholia 11y ago
Android version or equivalent?
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by scholia 11y ago
OK, thanks! Can you reset the PIN without knowing the original? If you can't, there's no need to brick the phone...
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by scholia 11y ago
Sad but true ;-) However, you can still get cheap feature phones in the UK. My wife recently bought a Nokia Series 40 to replace one that was stolen. She preferred that to using one of the Android phones or an old iPhone 5 that I no longer
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by scholia 11y ago
> There's a lot of stuff that depends on the secure element - in fact the phone would be quite useless without it. Disclaimer: I don't own an iPhone with Touch ID. However, it seems to me that the phone should still work if y
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by scholia 11y ago
I also think the quality has gone down. But it seems to me it's at least partly deliberate: the quality has gone down because "freshness" has gone up.
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by scholia 11y ago
The original Asus Eee PC was designed for schools and was launched first in the UK by the then leading education supplier, RM. I was there. It had a Celeron inside. It was part of Intel's response to the threat of the OLPC.
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by scholia 11y ago
"Under the terms of the agreement, both companies would benefit. AOL would take over management and sales for the majority of the advertising on Microsoft’s gaming, mobile, and web products. In exchange, AOL would make Bing their sea
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by scholia 11y ago
You realize that Bing ads are actually sold by AOL? Microsoft more or less gave up on the ad businesses in 2012 when it wrote off $6.2bn over its purchase of aQuantive. http://www.informationweek.com/it-leadership/micr
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by scholia 11y ago
> the most innovative area in tech today seems to be consumer-hostile but potentially more profitable business models: privacy-invasive and ad-driven systems Google, Facebook and Android seem to be quite popular with consumers. It cert
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by scholia 11y ago
>The real problem is that there are no killer apps driving a need for faster hardware. Up to a point ;-) The modern web is pretty much a killer app. Opening one tab in Chrome now consumes more resources than Microsoft Word...
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by scholia 11y ago
Yes, as I've already said, that was part of the deal. OEMs could choose to design whatever they liked, or choose to exploit a netbook/nettop design package that provided some discounts on Microsoft/Intel technologies. Net
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by scholia 11y ago
After the Core Duo we got integrated graphics, built-in video (etc) support, and lower TDPs that allowed thinner laptops with longer battery life. Oh, and lower prices. We also got 10-second start-up times via UEFI. There are more things to

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