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by signal11 11y ago
Apart from Apple, the other company that was doing well at capturing profit from Android phones was Samsung -- e.g. this link from 2012 when the S2/S3 were selling well [1]. I believe the rise of Apple's profit share correlates wi
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by signal11 11y ago
> the Windows 10 updater won't qualify the VM guest for the upgrade I was able to get my VM to qualify. Make sure you have the required hotfixes, otherwise you will not qualify -- KB3035583 and KB2976978 for Win8.1, KB3035583 and KB
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by signal11 11y ago
As another HN thread notes: Piketty mentions that Germany got a lot of their own debt written off after WW2. Germany itself has shirked paying reparations to Greece for all the looting they did (See https://www.youtube.com/w
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by signal11 11y ago
IE11 will be included with Windows 10 for the foreseeable future [1]. This should give site owners time to switch to HTML5. [1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/mt163706.aspx
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by signal11 11y ago
A friend of mine is looking to upgrade from a 256GB MBA to a 512GB or 1TB MBP because he needs to view medical imagery offline (the Retina display also helps). <= 128GB storage is not really adequate for people who work with photos or mu
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by signal11 11y ago
As a non-designer, the new Chrome bookmark manager feels very "heavy", UI-wise, compared to the previous version. I also believe Material's color scheme will feel as dated as Aero in a few years.
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by signal11 11y ago
I love Opera 12, but I believe it's no longer getting security updates -- I can't really recommend it because of that reason.
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by signal11 11y ago
FileZilla has other issues as well: for example, for the longest time they refused to encrypt stored passwords, although the bug's been reopened now so they may change their mind: http://trac.filezilla-project.org/ticke
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by signal11 11y ago
> Briefly wonder if Tatham’s PGP keys are noted in a central registry, such as MIT’s PGP key server. Nope. Putty's keys are on the MIT server if you search for "putty": http://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?se
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by signal11 12y ago
One issue with phones in emerging markets is that they are very storage constrained -- the cheaper models often sell with as little as 2GB of storage. On Android, you can add more storage with SD cards, but some apps (Facebook & Chr
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by signal11 12y ago
Margaret Thatcher (somewhat controversial, I know) had a 2nd-class BS Honours in Chemistry from Oxford, and apparently the first UK Prime Minister with a science degree. [source: Wikipedia]
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by signal11 12y ago
Have you tried the Moka Pot? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moka_pot It's very popular in Italy.
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by signal11 12y ago
For those looking for something similar to breadfruit, jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus) is pretty easy to get in many ethnic shops in the UK. It can be eaten as a (sweet and rather odorous) fruit, but when not quite ripe it's used
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by signal11 12y ago
Another example: Toddlers love iPads. I've talked to new parents who are astonished how easily their 15-month-olds navigate the Youtube iPad app (most of them set up playlists for their toddlers). There's also a huge collection of
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by signal11 12y ago
Another Thinkpad (X230) owner here. Mine has an SSD and works really well, and I get a replaceable battery which I wouldn't with an Air. However -- my wife wouldn't consider buying one because of the quality of the display. I susp
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by signal11 12y ago
Not disagreeing with you, but some browsers on iOS do add useful features even while being webkit skins, for example Mercury Browser on iOS supports adblock lists, which Safari doesn't.
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by signal11 12y ago
The BBC has used Whatsapp to distribute news in India. It was a trial, I believe: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/collegeofjournalism/entries/b2b67...
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by signal11 12y ago
From what I have heard from my Indian friends, this is pretty much how tax inspections in India go too. Crazy.
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by signal11 12y ago
> When the author dies, so should the copyright. But would this not increase the incentive to harm authors? If the author dies, film studios/HBO etc no longer have to pay for movie/TV rights to out-of-copyright work.
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by signal11 12y ago
Some of the complaints about the over-formal language is a matter of taste, perhaps, but it does grate and is not a new complaint (see also: the Kingdom of Nouns rant). However Java developers are learning (or migrating to Scala/Groovy
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by signal11 12y ago
I've been using DirectWrite on Canary as well, and its a huge improvement. Some may even like Chrome's DirectWrite implementation over IE11's, which tends to produce really thick letters for some reason. Here's the same
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by signal11 12y ago
Specifically, that's BT Infinity 2 -- confusingly, BT use Infinity for their fibre-to-the-home product as well, Infinity 3 offers 200Mbps and Infinity 4 offers 300Mbps. Availability is limited to a handful of exchanges, however http:&
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by signal11 12y ago
> Furthermore a Windows installation (the OEM one ordinary people have to go through) can easily take 2+ hours. Windows 8 clean installs are very quick indeed (less than 30 minutes in my experience) due to improvements MS made to the way
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by signal11 12y ago
Another point: India replaced the British monarch with a constitutional figurehead, the President, when it became a republic in 1950. The Indian president is elected by parliament (deliberately, so he doesn't have direct popular suppor