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by devx 13y ago
No, you're seeing comparison with the Surface Pro 2, which has same battery size as MBA, and hardware made by Microsoft themselves.
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by devx 13y ago
Which Linux? I'm sure something based on LXDE will outlast everything, while Ubuntu or other Gnome 3-based systems probably won't fare too well. I expect great performance and battery life improvements with Mir and Unity 8, though
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by devx 13y ago
When Windows 7 launched, I had a netbook with XP on it, on which I got about 5 hours on Wi-Fi with just browsing. I put Windows 7 on it, the battery life dropped to 3.5 hours, which is a huge 30 percent decrease. So it's incredible tha
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by devx 13y ago
What worries me more is that Google is increasingly choosing to put brands at the top of the search results. Don't get me wrong, if I'm looking for the Apple website, I should absolutely get Apple.com first in Google, and not a
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by devx 13y ago
Now what? Another $600 million down the drain to fix the problems of the first $600 million?
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by devx 13y ago
I know this is potentially dangerous in the future (I worry more about NSA having direct access to all the phones in the world through Google), but in terms of user experience, I welcome this. In order to have an ecosystem that is "as
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by devx 13y ago
Agreed. I think there was a period of like 5 years soon after they launched it big, where they did almost nothing to improve it or promote it. Same goes for Google Docs. I think only like a little more than 2 years ago they started caring a
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by devx 13y ago
This seems to solve it: IE11 -> Tools -> Compatibility View Settings. Remove check on "Use Microsoft Compatibility lists".
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by devx 13y ago
While this may be a huge improvement in computer power/space occupied compared to today's classical computers, since nature tends to "compute" stuff so much more efficiently than our PC's, it still feels like a pret
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by devx 13y ago
Carmack said we need 5 petaflops for truly realistic graphics. But I'm not even sure if he considered 4k+ resolutions, 120+ FPS and 3D when he said that, because all of those may play a role too in the future if we want "Matrix-li
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by devx 13y ago
Indeed. The Everything Is A Remix series has been great for showing this. The 3rd part actually covers Apple and their "inventions", too, but all are very interesting, and even enlightening : http://everythingisaremi
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by devx 13y ago
I wonder if someone could build a new digital currency that starts let's say at 1 trillion units, and is expanded by 2 percent per year (that 2 percent being split so a slight increase happens every day, so it doesn't happen all a
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by devx 13y ago
China announcing they want a new world currency that doesn't depend on US, and Baidu adopting Bitcoin, I assume.
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by devx 13y ago
How's the crime rate in Miami?
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by devx 13y ago
> One researcher did find D-Wave performed 3600 times faster than a classical device. Well, that was done with the 128-qubit version, right? And now they have one that is 2^384 faster than that one, so we'll see what happens next.
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by devx 13y ago
Will these work with other GPU's? How hard is it to replicate by the competitors? And will all displays have to support 10 different GPU makers for this feature, if there's no standard set?
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by devx 13y ago
Optimus wouldn't have a reason to exist if say Nvidia made their "mid-range" dedicated notebook GPU's to clock at 200 Mhz for "normal use", and then go to 600+ Mhz in games, or other high-end apps. Of course, p
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by devx 13y ago
I'm not sure if you're aware but Carmack is CTO at Oculus now.
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FISA Amendments Act May Soon Be Declared Unconstitutional(techdirt.com)
3 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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by devx 13y ago
> As others have mentioned they have gone all in as an exploiter of their demographic data Oh, and exploit it they will. As expected, a future where "privacy" will become a lot more important, would be the "enemy" of
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by devx 13y ago
If that's true, then that's a pretty "evil" thing of them to do, so I really hope that's not the main reason.
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by devx 13y ago
Samsung has just released version 1.0 of their open-source implementation of ex-FAT [1]. Why aren't they using that? I think it should at the very least work with 64+ GB microSD cards, if not with smaller ones, which I'd be fine w
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by devx 13y ago
Nexus 4 was available for like a few hours at launch, and then it was out of stock for literally 3 months after that, putting a significant damp on its total demand, I think. Google botched the launch big time last year. Hopefully they won&
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Appelbaum: FoxAcid/Quantum "Like the Military Occupation of Entire Internet"(youtube.com)
3 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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Experience Stop And Frisk Thanks To This POV Video(techdirt.com)
3 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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by devx 13y ago
What has led to this situation in Brazil? High wages? Is the situation similar to Australia?
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Google’s Ray Kurzweil on the quest to live forever(www2.macleans.ca)
3 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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by devx 13y ago
I said this here a while ago. Intel had only 2 options, and they are both bad for them: 1) keep going up market, and be disrupted in the most classical way possible 2) compete with ARM on price, which is unsustainable for a company like I
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by devx 13y ago
Hopefully they'll kick Clapper out soon, too (unless they actually intend to act on that lying to Congress felony he committed, repeatedly, over the past few months).
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by devx 13y ago
I think they should consider having it outside of US, or if they think the US Constitution has a good chance of protecting them, then at least have 2 offices (one in US, and one in Brazil), with redundant data between the two. In case one g

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