lunarscape

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by lunarscape 14y ago
His argument seems to boil down to 'give us all your data because any concerns you have are just insane!'. It really irks me to see someone dismiss privacy and security concerns with such derision. It's also not just companies who should be
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by lunarscape 14y ago
This is my favourite response: http://arstechnica.com/features/2012/10/can-you-fix-my-windo... My personal best is 2 calls lasting just over 40 minutes. I was bored at the time and curious about their methodology. I was really impressed b
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by lunarscape 14y ago
" such decisions reflect the desktop Linux market." Agreed. Such decisions reflect Microsoft's unrivaled power to strongarm cash-strapped and desperate vendors into whatever schemes they choose. I hope the EU is watching.
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by lunarscape 14y ago
oops.. linked to first pics I could find. Another review stated the battery was easily removable but iFixIt is probably the better source.
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by lunarscape 14y ago
>pop it in when the old one starts to lose its ability to hold a charge. They can. It's not as bad as you suggest. The battery is not glued in place and can be replaced if you have the correct screwdriver. ( http://www.ifixit.com/Teardo
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by lunarscape 14y ago
If games consoles do well in the next few years AMD will do okay. The Wii U has AMD graphics, the PS4 will and the XBOX successor is rumored to have AMD too.
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by lunarscape 14y ago
"Linux support manages to get them the sort of user who is least concerned with intellectual property laws" How so? In my personal experience it's Windows users who pirate the most software by far. Linux users choose an OS with far fewer co
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by lunarscape 14y ago
I don't understand this reasoning. No one forces you to compile from source or even use the terminal. Likewise no one needs to touch the Windows registry or firewall settings if they don't want to. There's a distro for almost everything and
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by lunarscape 14y ago
Not exactly the same. Samsung's loss against Apple in the US was devastating. It wasn't a clear cut loss for Apple in South Korea. The South Korean court also found against Samsung and banned some of their products.
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by lunarscape 14y ago
Ubuntu + PPAs is another solution.
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by lunarscape 14y ago
"and the UK's main religion is a Atheism" What? The last census (2001, since 2011 results are pending) put Christianity at 72% and "no religion" at 15%. Surveys in 2011 by other groups put Christianity consistently above 60%. Considering th
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by lunarscape 14y ago
I agree. I think they're completely underestimating how strong a first impression that stock photo leaves. I'd wager that in a few months they'll be scratching their heads and wondering why they have so few female members.
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by lunarscape 14y ago
There's also the hardware to consider. They posted a PDF of the schematics but no files or layout. They've promised to eventually but I haven't seen it yet.
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by lunarscape 14y ago
Chrome-only? Doesn't appear to work in Firefox nightly. Edit: Somehow my fault. Works with new profile in FF14. Curiously doesn't work in my standard profile in Aurora or Nightly even with plugins disabled.
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by lunarscape 14y ago
Honest question since I'm confused about terminology: Why is ARMv8 described in places as "backwards compatibility for existing 32-bit software" when some existing instructions will be removed in AArch64?
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by lunarscape 14y ago
Unfortuately I'm pretty sure they're all real reported stories. In one case the man asked to move away from his own children was Boris Johnson, the mayor of London[1], when he was an MP in 2006. Edit: There's more on wikipedia [2]. [1] htt
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by lunarscape 14y ago
And it actually works in non-webkit browsers! Thanks for the link.
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by lunarscape 14y ago
Feminists were also branded as delusional mentally ill people when they started fighting for their rights. Your comment shows exactly why these movements need to exist and the prejudices they have to overcome. Are men fighting for basic acc
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by lunarscape 14y ago
"People already lie to themselves" The most compelling illustration I've seen of this is the McGurk Affect[1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&...
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by lunarscape 14y ago
I'm by no means suggesting that citizen/consumer activism short of violence is useless. In the past the 'Yes Men' and other groups have dragged the 'forgotten' issue of the Bhopal incident back into the news, generated significant bad PR an
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by lunarscape 14y ago
>It provides an effective counter to the millions (billions?) of dollars the oil and gas industry expends in advertising and lobbying. I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic or not. Oil companies continue to exert immense influence over
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by lunarscape 14y ago
>It has little interest in your personal data, but it will hold on to it if you want a backup. I find that statement to be incredibly naive. Personal data has immense value to companies and Apple already has experience in advertising. T
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by lunarscape 14y ago
Wireless is a problem on some (13' 2011 pro for example if I'm not mistaken). Not being able to remap the fn key is also extremely annoying.
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by lunarscape 14y ago
They also had a marketing problem. If they had simply called it "Gmail 2.0" or similar I think people may have used it more. I hope Apache Wave gets more traction. It's promising but I'm doubtful of its progress.
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by lunarscape 14y ago
Since we're throwing around ideas, how about a haptic touch screen? Maybe something like what Senseg offers [1][2]. [1] http://senseg.com/technology/senseg-technology [2] http://tech-reviews.co.uk/news/apple-ipad-3-could-feature-ha...
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by lunarscape 14y ago
People take photos of others all the time without their consent and upload them to public profiles on Facebook.
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by lunarscape 14y ago
Except MS specified that's not allowed on certified ARM devices.
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by lunarscape 14y ago
Not everything is that easy. An example would be NeoOffice for Mac. You have to "donate" to get the binaries or compile it yourself, except it requires 10.4 and XCode 2.5 [1]. [1] http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/NeoOffice_Build_Inst
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by lunarscape 14y ago
Same here. I just used a proxy site I picked at random and it works: http://www.uswebproxy.com
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by lunarscape 14y ago
Eerie indeed given their existing vast bulk of personal data from emails to browsing habits. Now they want to be the portal to the entire web for people via Chromebooks and hold all their data. That makes the cynical part of me glad that

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