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by scholia 11y ago
> Also, I assumed Windows 10 Home didn't come with BitLocker anyway. Apparently it's "device encryption" but it's not BitLocker. And while it's optional at the moment, it becomes compulsory in summer 2016.
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by scholia 11y ago
> Wifi is still not a good WAN (municipal) technology. Wasn't WiMAX (IEEE 802.16) designed for city-wide use?
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by scholia 11y ago
Disk encryption is enabled on some shipping machines, which is to say, it has been enabled on the three brand new Windows 10 machines I've used. The OEM is responsible for the installation, so I'd assume this is an OEM choice, b
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by scholia 11y ago
Windows 10 runs on everything from USB thumbdrives to 84-inch Surface Hubs, including smartphones, tablets, 2-in-1s, laptops and desktops. If you remove all the corporate machines (with control via Global Policies) then the majority are pro
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by scholia 11y ago
Probably not going to happen. Windows includes code sourced from too many other companies.....
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by scholia 11y ago
The BBC has just run an interesting TV series where a doctor visits families in their homes and improves their health by changing their diets, and adding exercise. The results are both visible and -- importantly -- measurable. http:/&
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by scholia 11y ago
Which is why I suggested that Apple might put money into TSMC.... On the other hand, having pots of money doesn't actually mean a company can do anything significant in a particular area. Look at all the knock-offs in the Google Gravey
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by scholia 11y ago
See: The Status of Moore's Law: It's Complicated http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/devices/the-status-o...
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by scholia 11y ago
The reality, at the moment, is that Intel may well be the only company that can push the industry forward. Each time you introduce a new processor node, the cost of the fab goes up dramatically, and now we're talking about $14 billion
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by scholia 11y ago
Deleted comment as I was talking about the wrong graph....
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by scholia 11y ago
I'd like to think you're right, but there are plenty of people who seriously believe hateful or frankly stupid things. Which is to say, there are people who are proud of being racist, sexist, creationist or whatever, and service
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by scholia 11y ago
Agreed. Except you left out travel cards ;-) > Frankly, I wouldn't even put the phone at the top of my list of concerns, as at least my phone is on my person, and I have some level of control over it... Well, up to a point. A lot
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by scholia 11y ago
It's funny you consider 2011 vintage, my most recent computer being from 2009 and I find it modern Well, that's because I bought my i5-2500K desktop in 2011. I just chucked in a new hard drive and it's about to get another
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by scholia 11y ago
Thanks! I was perhaps mislead by Wikipedia, since that's where I looked for info ;-)
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by scholia 11y ago
"how frequently a user recharges the phone’s battery, how many incoming text messages they receive, how many miles they travel in a given day or how they enter contacts into their phone — the decision to add last name correlates with
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by scholia 11y ago
> Micromanaging my phone behaviors sounds much more tedious and burdensome. Sounds impossible ;-) I'm sure conclusions can equally be drawn from the way people try to micromanage their phone behaviors....
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by scholia 11y ago
Spam isn't really the problem on big news sites. The mods are policing flame wars, hate speech (racism, sexism, homophobia), insults and libels, trolling, and off-topic comments, among other things. In this context, the Guardian's
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by scholia 11y ago
Except it's a pension fund... Did anybody suggest using some of the money to deliver fiber optic broadband to every home in Norway? Either way, it's a much better outcome than the UK, where governments pissed away the benefits of
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by scholia 11y ago
If you have, say, a 2011-vintage tower, you can do quite a bit to upgrade it: add more RAM (4GB to 12GB or 16GB); add an SSD to replace the HD; add or upgrade the graphics card; add ports via an expansion card etc. Each upgrade can make a s
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by scholia 11y ago
> Sure, there are plenty of situations where that doesn't work, but as the "web as a platform" advances, and as office products on the web advance, the reasons for sticking with installed apps will continue to decline. T
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by scholia 11y ago
Depends what you want to do. RTF can handle the presentation needs of most simple documents, and most word processors can edit RTF files, including WordPad and TextEdit. It's also very easy to convert RTF to plain text.....
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by scholia 11y ago
Agreed, up to a point. But a lot of companies are already using hosted email, and a lot have signed up for Office 365 and/or Google Docs.... https://cloud.google.com/customers/ https://products.office.c
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by scholia 11y ago
>I will be using plain text until something better comes along. Didn't RTF coma along a couple of decades ago?
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by scholia 11y ago
This is true. However, the cloud is part of Office 365's ecosystem play. You get the full-strength Office programs installed locally (Windows and Mac), plus the ability to work in the cloud, plus the mobile apps for Windows, iOS and A
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by scholia 11y ago
Indeed, the history of the development of very large software systems has been littered with disasters. Don't people read The Mythical Man-Month any more? http://www.amazon.com/Mythical-Man-Month-Software-Engineerin...
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by scholia 11y ago
I feel conned. But an honest headline -- Software Development Has Diseconomies of Scale -- wouldn't have sounded controversial....
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by scholia 11y ago
I don't understand why you're arguing about a book you haven't read. > no matter the prestige, they could still be wrong and/or poor researchers and/or poor writers Sure, but those are generalizations, and they
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by scholia 11y ago
No good deed goes unpunished ;-)
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by scholia 11y ago
Actual title: In Defense of Philanthrocapitalism, by James Surowiecki
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by scholia 11y ago
The authors are well beyond PhD level. They are supervising PhD students and post-doctoral fellows. http://sonnenburglab.stanford.edu/people.html

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