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571.
by seabee 16y ago
> Is it only for people who can't get a £1000 line of credit? Basically, yes, but what credit card do you have that doesn't charge you for a cash advance?
572.
by seabee 16y ago
The universal menu bar approach was taken in Netbook Remix, whether it remains in desktop Unity will be interesting to see.
573.
by seabee 16y ago
What is wrong with the Windows guidelines?
574.
by seabee 16y ago
For at least a year there have been mobile broadband deals that come with a free netbook in the UK.
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by seabee 16y ago
Hopefully immune to social media optimisation, too!
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by seabee 16y ago
Everything I've heard about the Zune HD (the only pure CE 6 device I'm aware of) is positive. Maybe you're getting confused with Windows Mobile 6.5, which is based on an older version. Besides, Windows 7 is of unquestionably better quality
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by seabee 16y ago
HTC Sense shows missed call & SMS notifications on the lock screen. I've found it to be an ideal notification experience, personally. Spam is a problem best solved by removing the offending app. It's not like they can't do worse things
578.
by seabee 16y ago
The 66% ratio is something of a meme in Reddit meta-discussion, and has been for a year or more. (As are complaints of 'why would anyone downvote this'.)
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by seabee 16y ago
Windows (may even be the USB specification itself) will not deliver more than X mA to a device unless a driver is installed to request > X mA OS X obviously is aware of iDevices so it charges without you knowing any wiser. Windows needs
580.
by seabee 16y ago
Same thing ubuntu does with chromium. As far as I can tell it's a problem already solved.
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by seabee 16y ago
The server versions of Windows allow that, it's called Remote Desktop Services (or Terminal Services pre-2008). Way better than using VNC, probably because it hooks all the window control drawing on the server and does it on the client inst
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by seabee 16y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, didn't they also discover that it becomes a serious problem if you use over 90% of your drive space?
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by seabee 16y ago
That is the physical reason I referred to.
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by seabee 16y ago
It's one way to look at it. I'm used to the behavior of the scroll wheel, and also the scroll keys - moving the cursor down will necessarily move the underlying page up to keep it visible, so that equates to 'scrolling down' in my mind. Thi
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by seabee 16y ago
It's worse than that. One finger dragged up moves the cursor up, two fingers dragged up scrolls the window... down? Is it really sensible to be internally inconsistent? It also runs counter to scroll wheels on mice, which has a physical rea
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by seabee 16y ago
if you don't spend time considering your options when it's not your turn, you waste other people's time when it is your turn.
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by seabee 16y ago
I know at least 2 such Apple customers. It's an Apple, it's good enough, and that's all that matters to them; specs are the last things they care about.
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by seabee 16y ago
What's interesting in this case, compared to Mac vs. PC, is how the roles have changed - and I don't mean "Apple is on top", either. On the desktop, the OS that ran on commodity hardware was the dominant force, even though there was no 'dom
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by seabee 16y ago
> Sometimes when I switch to a tab that has been idle for over a hour, I notice it takes chrome some time to render it again. That sounds like paging in effect, which is decades old. Maybe you just notice it more now!
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by seabee 16y ago
...aaand the video demo gets removed. Great.
591.
by seabee 16y ago
You don't think there's a link between dictatorships and repressive regimes? You can see examples of this right now in the news with all these protests going on. I also fail to see why news-based entertainment shows (as is my understandin
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by seabee 16y ago
Once a hacker, always a hacker. For some people knowing the ways you can tweak something makes it quite hard to stop yourself doing it. Sure, he could dump Ubuntu on his computer, but he knows how to poke around and change the settings to g
593.
by seabee 16y ago
Don't forget silly extras you find from time to time (kayak across the Pacific in Maps, 'Undo send' in gmail). How often do you find things like that from large companies?
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by seabee 16y ago
I think those benefits are overstated. You've still got to make significant changes to the interface if you want it to work well on a touchscreen device. And is the backend any more portable from regular C++ > MeeGo compared to iPhone,
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by seabee 16y ago
I can see where he's coming from: it has information on a lot of different topics and it's full of ads, therefore it's an evil content farm. Just like how someone that weighs the same as a duck must be made of wood, and therefore is a witch
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by seabee 16y ago
aka a "false dichotomy"
597.
by seabee 16y ago
Given we've already had a few different iPhones, if the rules are different shouldn't we know already?
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by seabee 16y ago
Well count yourself wrong: http://www.amazon.com/Fingerworks-IGESTURENUMPAD-iGesture-Pa... That thing even let you switch between apps with gestures. The iPod scroll wheel isn't an Apple paradigm either; jog dials for menu selection exist
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by seabee 16y ago
So THAT's why they have 'Buy' buttons on the songs.
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by seabee 16y ago
And the nice thing is it picks up your local files (and even syncs them to your mobile just like the other songs!) It solves the organisation problem very neatly. Piracy will find it hard to compete.

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