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by scholia 9y ago
These Windows 10 laptops are using a Snapdragon 835, which is a smartphone chip that has just started appearing in smartphones. It's just a bonus business for Qualcomm. Whether they take off or not will depend on many factors besides L
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by scholia 9y ago
Yes. My Android phone also has loads of Google-installed crapware. I don't see that there's any material difference.... And Google just tried to get me to sign up for Google Assistant. Ditto.
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by scholia 9y ago
I was following it very closely and didn't see that. It seems to me that if Microsoft was implementing Netscape's additions, Netscape could have implemented Microsoft's. One of the facts of the case is that Microsoft got as c
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by scholia 9y ago
Android is pretend-open. Technically, you have to use Google Play to use the Android name. If you use AOSP then you lose the store and Google's proprietary apps, so you have to build an alternative store and plead for third-arty app su
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by scholia 9y ago
My memory is different, obviously. The IE team took great pains to implement Netscape additions even when they were not standards so that the IE rendering was as good. I never heard of any attempt to make Netscape look worse. That doesn&#x2
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by scholia 9y ago
Exactly right. I moved to Chrome when it came out, and moved back to Firefox a couple of years ago because of Chrome's growing memory-hogging problems and its inability to handle hundreds of tabs.
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by scholia 9y ago
> as part of a campaign where Microsoft was paying web sites to put in stuff that was incompatible with Netscape/Mozilla I'd be interested to see the evidence for that....
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by scholia 9y ago
And except Amazon ;-)
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by scholia 9y ago
Vivaldi isn't open source but you can read the source code, which is better than nothing.... There is some debate inside Vivaldi about making it open source and it would be easy enough to do. I'd guess that it probably doesn'
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by scholia 9y ago
Watson is actually the most heavily-advertized name in the AI game. It's invisible in IBM's financial results, which have now shown declines in turnover for 20 quarters in a row.
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by scholia 9y ago
> I think we tried the roll-back too and that failed. I did a few roll-backs to test the system and they worked perfectly. However, if you're upgrading 400 million PCs, there will inevitably be some errors. This is why we have bac
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by scholia 9y ago
> Even if you are doubtful of 'forced upgrades', you can research for all the evidence yourself. The fact that people claim -- or journalists report -- forced updates doesn't make their claims true. Everybody who deals w
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by scholia 9y ago
> Each Stack — bar Facebook, for now — offers the same awkward bargain: commit wholly & wholeheartedly to our ecosystem, and we will better your life. However, the stacks (ecosystems) need not be mutually exclusive. For example, Mi
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by scholia 9y ago
> Huge companies have the money to coast by in mediocrity for years, and can simply buy assets to fill in gaps in their product line. True, though IBM may now have spent too long coasting by in mediocrity...
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by scholia 9y ago
The most likely scenario is people getting locked out of Gmail https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=locked+out+of+Gmail
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by scholia 9y ago
There were free utilities that blocked the update. Also, for the record, I never saw any attempt at a forced upgrade across three different machines... even though I made no attempt to block them. This makes me doubtful about "forced u
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by scholia 9y ago
I scan RSS feeds of the obvious sites: NYT, WaPo, ZDNet, Ars, Verge etc Otherwise I go to Twitter, HN and The Guardian every day, plus Reddit, Amazon and Facebook every few days (often it's to wish someone a happy birthday). I also lik
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by scholia 9y ago
Average number of pages they read before giving in....
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by scholia 9y ago
It depends how you define significant. Gates has been selling stock and has reduced his shareholding from at least 45% to around 2.5%. While $11.3bn would be a lot for most people, I imagine things look different when you're worth $86b
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by scholia 9y ago
I think it's just evidence of a decrepit IT system. They were caught because they were running Windows XP with inadequate or no anti-virus software. They would not have the problem if they'd been running patched Windows 7. Microso
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by scholia 9y ago
Bill Gates no longer owns a significant amount of Microsoft stock. Ballmer was the largest shareholder the last time I looked. Gates isn't hoarding anything, and in any case, all his wealth is going to charity.
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by scholia 9y ago
Same here. But the price does look good....
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by scholia 9y ago
Have you seen this? http://pgslab.com/ It's billed as a handheld gaming system but you don't have to play games on it. Runs Windows 10 on a 5.9-inch 1920 x 1080 screen. Atom processor. Whether it will lever get ma
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by scholia 9y ago
(1) Windows 10 smartphones currently make cellular voice calls so that feature is already in the mobile version of Windows 10. (2) There's no reason why Samsung or one of the Chinese manufacturers couldn't make a Windows 10 phable
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by scholia 9y ago
The Swiss government spends about the same per head as the US government (and partly that's a currency problem). However, US private spending is much higher, so the total cost of healthcare is higher. The OECD numbers for 2013 put US
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by scholia 9y ago
Google had its own social network: Orkut. It was launched at the same time as Facebook and was initially much more popular. (Facebook membership was restricted to a few US universities.) Google also produced a knock-off of Facebook -- Googl
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by scholia 9y ago
Facebook wants you to see whatever keeps you coming back to Facebook to see more of, ie what you want to see. That's exactly how it maximizes its ad potential. It might have a hypocrisy problem. People will typically claim to like cert
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by scholia 9y ago
That's an interesting question. Windows 10 Pro is running two systems all the time: Win32 and Windows Runtime. UWP apps run in sandboxes under Windows Runtime, not in Win32. Presumably there are some benefits from this, but it depends
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by scholia 9y ago
There are several different versions of Windows including those for Home and Pro users, upgrades to Enterprise and Education editions, a mobile version that runs on ARM-based phones, an IoT version that runs on a Raspberry Pi, and server ve
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by scholia 9y ago
There are multiple ways to lock down Windows, and various schools use them. The problem with AppLocker is that it assumes you have a reasonably sophisticated IT department that knows what it wants and can write rules to achieve it. Windows

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