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by scholia 10y ago
Windows 8 didn't merge the mobile and desktop paradigms, it put the mobile paradigm over the top of the desktop. The apps stuff (Windows Runtime) was actually quite well done for a first try, but it was unfamiliar to Win32 users and go
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by scholia 10y ago
It depends how old you are. If you're 25, that's a horror show. If you're 85, it's pretty normal. By a certain age, most of the people you have known or even met will already be dead. Calculating that age is left as an e
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by scholia 10y ago
Good point ;-)
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by scholia 10y ago
In computing, it also gave us the mip, as in "a one-mip workstation". MIPS came from millions of instructions per second, so a mip would only be "millions of instructions per". In the early 1980s, "a one-mip worksta
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by scholia 10y ago
Vladimir Nabokv was my inspiration ;-)
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by scholia 10y ago
Love this. I used a similar system in the early 1970s before "upgrading" to the first of several FiloFaxes. However, I'd rather read it as a single document than as so many small files...
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by scholia 10y ago
You could assign representatives to cover the area where they were most popular. In fact, given modern technology, you could easily draw the boundaries after the election. If you did, I bet they'd look a lot more "natural" th
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by scholia 10y ago
In my experience, people don't actually have "contradictory definitions of the words being used". If they are mis-using a word, that's simply wrong. But you're welcome to quote me an example from, say, Politifact or
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by scholia 10y ago
When your margins are as thin as they are in the PC industry, even quite a small percentage of returns can devastate your profits.
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by scholia 10y ago
Intel and Microsoft gave discounts to manufacturers who followed the agreed netbook specification, and the spec evolved slightly over time... Anybody who didn't want to follow the spec was free to do whatever they liked.
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by scholia 10y ago
In the UK, RM Ltd launched the original 7in Asus netbook into the education market with two options. (1) Windows XP with normal support. (2) Linux with no support except "reset to factory condition". Dell UK tried offering Linux w
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by scholia 10y ago
Correct. Dell and others also sell Linux on servers. Which suggests to me that there are some other reasons for the failure of Linux desktop PCs, and that you really can't just blame Microsoft...
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by scholia 10y ago
Of course. Do you have a point?
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by scholia 10y ago
You mentioned your Steam library....
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by scholia 10y ago
Yes, it did. The DoJ fixed the price of Windows for all the major OEMs, and all sales had to be made via the same OEM-only website. I don't appear to have a record of how many OEMs that applied to (or else I can't find it), but th
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by scholia 10y ago
No. The actual price of Windows XP ULCPC was $11 to $15, though OEMs could get that close to zero by installing crapware. Sales soon evaporated because the high cost of installing Linux on netbooks -- and the even higher cost of supporting
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by scholia 10y ago
Sales are tiny -- probably around 8 million a year -- and the majority are in the education market. (This is why sales are hard to track.) This isn't a lot for a product launched in 2011. I'll be delighted if you can find an autho
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by scholia 10y ago
"Chromebooks are still largely a US K-12 story." This is for reasons that were unique to US education market. http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/19/11711714/chromebooks-outso...
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by scholia 10y ago
The Steam survey says that 95.97% of Steam users use Windows, and almost 50% use Windows 10. Only 0.8% use Linux. http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey
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by scholia 10y ago
> They liked the idea, but the support overhead wasn't worth it for them. The support overhead killed Linux on Asus and Acer netbooks. That and hardware returns from people who found the operating system unusable.... Outside of Ap
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by scholia 10y ago
> Therefore the main blocker wasn't the bad advocacy or anything of the sort, but the old and crooked stranglehold of MS on manufacturers. The only way to seriously increase Linux desktop adoption is for availability of Linux pre-i
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by scholia 10y ago
New item from the Washington Post's fact checkers: In the 33 days so far, we’ve counted 132 false or misleading claims https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-claim...
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by scholia 10y ago
Well, I pointed out the factual uses. I'm not responsible for other people misusing the term (as Trump does) or failing to understand it. I'll leave you with Politifact: QUOTE: Fake news is made-up stuff, masterfully manipulated t
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by scholia 10y ago
That's not actually true. Try reading some fact-checking sites.
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by scholia 10y ago
> I believe that using the term "fake news" is very unhelpful. True, but it's the term Donald Trump uses to try to discredit sources that are not fake news. This is a matter of fact. > At this point it's effecti
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by scholia 10y ago
You're still missing the point. Facts are facts, whether you agree with them or not.
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by scholia 10y ago
No, they don't. In this case, on your link, the top "related topic" is Donald Trump and the top three "related queries" are "trump", "trump fake news" and "trump news". This is what hap
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by scholia 10y ago
> On the contrary - I read them and am quite familiar with their work. You can look through my comment history Fair enough: I didn't look at your comment history... > but it does have somewhat partisan viewpoint in my opinion
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by scholia 10y ago
No: see Table 1. It's possible to write partizan stories without using false facts. The Other 98% does it. However, the right-wing sources used -- Eagle Rising, Right Wing News, Freedom Daily -- had a higher proportion of false facts t
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by scholia 10y ago
> You should not assume things like that. On the contrary, this is a very reasonable assumption. You appear to be confusing opinions and facts. You also appear to have an uninformed opinion of Buzzfeed News and the journalists it emplo

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