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Dropbox officially launches its own password manager and a secure vault(theverge.com)
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Those channels have millions of subscribers and even more views. Maybe it's insignificant in your view, and that's fine.
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> Making money off of YT videos is peanuts in the grand scheme of things. You said "No one cares about PCs as a business anymore." The popularity of YT videos on new laptops, pcs, etc. seems to suggest that at a non-zero number
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That's an apples and oranges test, and the performance difference doesn't matter. They're for different target markets. I don't think anyone in their right mind considers a Surface as an alternative to an iPad. Just beca
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The early 2011 15" MBP fiasco. Long story short, the logic boards had a design defect that caused them to fail from overheating. By the time Apple decided to address the issue and do a recall, Applecare had lapsed for many owners, who
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>> No one cares about PCs as a business anymore. Is that true? While I get that this isn't scientific proof, there seem to be a lot of Youtubers out there making a decent living off videos of building and reviewing PCs and Macs.
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> Back then Mac software support wasn't nearly as good as it is now It might be a chicken and egg thing though. With the influx of people who wanted Macs on x86 and the halo effect of them spreading the word, the app support got muc
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The Atom-based Surfaces with the Atom x7-8700 - that's the same processor I have in my GPD-Win. It's more than usable for light users. Heck, its built-in GPU outperforms the one in my Surface Pro. While x86 Surface (not-pro) might
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I didn't say there were not any tradeoffs made to support those users with legacy systems. What do you define as a low end Surface line on x86? I have a Surface Pro 1 that I still use to this day. I also have a GPD Win handheld that&#x
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>> their last few transitions being fairly successful. Their last transition is specifically what brought me to the Mac after having been away for a decade. I switched to Mac exactly because they were going x86, because I knew I'
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Man, Aperture was really good, and I loved the fact that if you bought it from the Mac App store, you got to install it on up to 5 computers, which was a bigger deal back then than it is now.
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>> Were developers really caught off guard that they shouldn’t be writing 32 bit software in 2017? Probably not, but end users shouldn't have to suffer because they bought software from bad developers. One reason why IE still shi
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For me, the pinnacle of Windows Explorer UI was Windows 2000. I am such a fan of it that for the many years I was a Mac user, I wished that there was a Finder replacement that was more like Windows Explorer. The change in Explorer I hated t
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That is a great idea. I wish I had thought of that myself (even though I already do something similar with a USB powered cordless phone that stops charging when I sleep my system). One of my use cases is to monitor my surveillance cameras,
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by slantyyz 6y ago
So you're saying if I do a simple PHP status page that is only rendering data from a static JSON file into some HTML (which is basically all I'd use PHP for these days) it requires me to know a pile of edge cases? Does someone ma
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> I think going with an android tablet is fine and headache free. The problem with many tablets is that leaving them plugged can cause batteries to swell, which can end up being a huge headache. I've heard stories of offices that us
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I noticed this has a removable battery, which makes this very interesting to me. What I'd like to know is if it will work with the battery compartment empty on AC power only. I'd like to have "smart" displays wall mounte
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> The problem with PHP is that there's a huge amount you have to know about the corner cases and edge cases that could cause you to write a bug or security flaw into your application. The amount of PHP you need to know to avoid the
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> "that's going to work the way I think it does" I definitely get where you're coming from. But everyone is different, and thinks differently. I did a lot of Rails after PHP, so I like using Coffeescript, even though
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While I am not a fan of (but don't hate) skeumorphic design, I really learned to appreciate skeumorphism in my many failed efforts to get my father (who was in his mid 70s the first time I tried) to learn how to use a smartphone. He do
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by slantyyz 6y ago
Well the bigger impact is that Steve Jobs may not have ever returned to Apple.
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Does anything like Blogger still exist? Blogger was really easy to use back in the day, and even today, I'd choose it over Wordpress. edit: Context: I used Blogger to publish to a paid hosting service via ftp
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> It is possible to make something great with substandard tools. Is PHP substandard though? While it's no longer my cup of tea, I do remember it being fairly stable and performant. Some of the enterprise software I work with, that w
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On the "easier to use" front, there was also iWeb and apps like RapidWeaver.
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> the biggest issue in both cases was heat. I don't think Apple was in any way naive about how hot Intel chips can run under load. It's also not impossible to make a laptop body that can run those chips with decent temperatures
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I would guess that they'd target these to light usage consumers first, i.e., the people who are somewhere in that weird place between ipads (but not pro) and macbook airs. I tend to think that Safari, iPhoto, iMovie iWork, Mail, Calend
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Yeah that pretty much sums it up. The OS ran circles around pretty much any other OS you had running on the same hardware. I remember the OS installing in a crazy short amount of time.
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For all intents and purposes, if you had no exposure to BeOS, you won't really get why this project exists. It is so crazy to think that we could be living in a completely different world today had Apple opted to acquire BeOS instead o
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I'm pretty sure there is no business model. I see Haiku as a labour of love.
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It was bonkers. I could barely play two videos simultaneously on my Pentium in Windows 9x, but I could play four simultaneously on the same box booted into BeOS. The OS was small and fast.

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