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by tanzam75 13y ago
> &hey doubled their surface revenue in the last quarter, they never released last year's surface revenue* They said that Surface revenue doubled sequentially . Sequentially means compared to the last quarter -- not the year-ag
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> I personally ended up using power-line ethernet to replace a lot of the wireless throughout my apartment. ... With the powerline ethernet adapters, OTOH, I just plugged them in and everything Just Worked, much slower peak speed, but n
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> You've been able to buy it installed on a machine offered by a major hardware vendor and publicly offered in their catalog? Yes. You could buy PCs preloaded with Windows XP for the first couple years of Vista's availability
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> It's quite clear that Freshdesk is looking to get acquired by Microsoft. The reason there's a blog post is because Microsoft just acquired Parature. Why would Microsoft want to acquire a different company in the same space
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Windows was originally designed to be DPI-independent. After all, Windows 1.0 had to run on 320x200 CGA adapters -- complete with non-square pixels.
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> It's pretty amazing that Adobe is doing particularly bad. Adobe has historically been bad at playing well with Windows. They like to reimplement large parts of the UI.
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Home Depot and Lowes both sell private-label home automation products. They could buy the equipment from the Chinese and slap their own brands on it.
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Avoiding US companies isn't enough. Even the Europeans cannot manufacture an ITAR-free satellite, because they are not completely self-sufficient. Until last year, you used to be able to buy ITAR-free satellites from Thales Alenia. H
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by tanzam75 13y ago
Speak of the devil -- China just lifted the 14-year ban on videogame consoles today. http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/07/us-china-gamescons...
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Officially, game consoles are banned in China to protect children from their pernicious influence. Unofficially, who knows what the real reason is? It certainly hasn't hurt Tencent, whose market cap is now greater than that of Sony +
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Tencent faces a markedly different environment in China than Snapchat faces in the United States. First, gaming consoles are illegal in China. Second, Chinese people prefer to pirate rather than to buy software. Third, Facebook is blocked
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> In my industry - insurance - I've seen 6 figure sales consultants involved in week long sales processes that make us $200 in revenue a year. That's not "smart" at all. And that's exactly how GEICO and Progres
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> AnandTech is often the only place that measures and reports anything about the screens of computers, tablets, and phones aside from how many pixels they have (color space, color accuracy, etc.). For this alone they are gold. Not the
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> Heck, a Belgium company built both the Belgium fortifications... and the German artillery that eventually breached them! Which fortifications are you talking about? The Germans used Krupp and Skoda siege guns to reduce the fortificat
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> The two primary audio APIs available on Windows have very high latency, to the point where they make tracking with effects virtually unusable. My understanding is that pro audio software on Windows generally bypasses the Microsoft au
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In particular, large enterprises buy a lot of computers CTO (custom to order). CTO is not preconfigured. Also note that this NPD report is for the commercial channel only. If a school bought Chromebooks for every student, then that gets
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> For me, the scariest/most interesting part was that some SSDs had problems with the tests in which power WASN'T interrupted. OCZ drives had that problem. That's not a surprise. There's a reason why Intel and Sams
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I agree. In the kilobyte world, 2.4% may not have been too big of a deal. In the terabyte world, there's a 10% difference between binary and decimal prefixes. That's way bigger than rounding error. We need to start using the binar
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> Microsoft used to strictly control the look and feel of the desktop, so OEMs were not permitted to add a new desktop or uninstallable software. That ended after the antitrust case. As part of the settlement, Microsoft was required to
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Isn't Microsoft also more restrictive when it comes to what parts of Windows OEMs are allowed to customize? It's one thing to swap out PROGMAN.EXE, as HP did with NewWave. But you're not allowed to interfere with the ability
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> Simple layman's explanation (from a layman): lenses spread light out a bit as the light passes through, so the red wavelengths hit the sensor in a slightly different spot than the blue wavelengths. What you've described is
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> Ah Moore's Law. It explains everything. He never said that Moore's Law explains everything. He simply said that Hendy's Law explains why phones will soon has 39-megapixel cameras. Since the Nokia Lumia 1020 is avail
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> They definitely had some capacity issues near the end. On Christmas Eve I saw a UPS driver in a U-Haul truck in my neighborhood then later saw a U-Haul truck pulled up back to back with a UPS truck and they were handing off packages i
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> Ah the joys of "SmartPost". SurePost, since he said it originated at UPS. SmartPost is the competing service from FedEx. Notice that both of them have the word "Post" in it. Thus, not surprising that they hand of
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> UPS just handed my package off to USPS who put a note in my box saying that I could come to a Post Office, wait in a long line, then pick-up my package myself. WTF is this? It's UPS Surepost. Shippers use it for packages that a
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> The internet really just likes to hate on FB for whatever reason. You don't here the same about Twitter, whose stock is outperforming FB despite making less money. I don't know about "the internet," but most of Ha
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> I have to point out the VLS launcher has a seriously weird all-solid-fuel design. I am not a rocket scientist, but, as an engineer, I have to wonder what the hell those rocket scientists knew no other spacefaring country did since nob
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by tanzam75 13y ago
> But where does the FDA get the authority to regulate soap? It's not food or a drug - you don't put it into your body at all. The FDA regulates cosmetics, which, like soap, are supposed to stay outside the body.
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> (I believe a 'rover' is driven by a person) Doesn't have to be. Curiosity is usually described as a "rover." In-between commands sent from mission control, it operates autonomously. Until today, the last rov
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> The Google Lunar XPRIZE, the largest international incentive based prize of all time, aims to do something we haven’t done as humanity since 1973, safely land on the surface of the Moon. That sentence wasn't even correct yesterd

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