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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
It was available with an IPS panel that is good enough quality to be usable, although the TN panel that the base model came with is awful. Fortunately it is extremely easy to swap screens on the X220, and the IPS screens are cheap on eBay.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Those music production apps have the same issue though - most plugins that people want to use don't support Linux, at least not natively and easily. Progress has been made but there is still a long way to go.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
For the record, people absolutely complain about tutorials in video games. The best tutorials aren't tutorials at all. Instead, the game gradually teaches you how to play without explicitly teaching you how to play. Obviously, that tas
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Firstly, Godwin's law obviously doesn't apply to discussions about WW2. Secondly, your assertion that we can't know what Nazi Germany would have done with nuclear weapons is correct, but you seem to be interpreting that as
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
They didn't mention the USSR/Russia at all, just Nazi Germany. Their position is quite obviously that the US having nuclear weapons and the end of WW2 was better than Nazi Germany having them. It has nothing to do with whether o
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
I would really love it if a single person who derides the US for their drone strike casualties would actually back their position up with some data. At a minimum, I would like to know the civilian and non-civilian casualty rates of drone st
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
Yes, but the world of software development is radically different now. Microsoft knows that the cloud is where most of their potential for growth is and they think (correctly, in my opinion) that developer goodwill is going to be important
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
> it's a facepalm to imagine that any dollar they spend isn't in their own long term interest to make money This is true, but "long term interest" for Microsoft means 30, 50, or 100 years from now. People seem to forg
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
> police and intelligence agencies are using the same surveillance tools to solve and deter crimes and prevent terrorism > Cops surveil, that's their job These statements are not equivalent. No one is disputing that cops surveil
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
> Eventually all growth will be captured by a few large enterprises. You can't just assume that a trend will continue in a linear manner forever.
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by wilsonnb2 8y ago
I'm not the person you're asking, but I did coincidentally read this book last night. It's main message is that: 1) The averages person's knowledge of the world is extremely outdated and in most cases blatantly incorrect