oakgrove

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by oakgrove 15y ago
Ha ha ha. And the inevitable mod down for speaking the truth. I almost had to check the URL bar to see if I was on engadget. What a joke site.
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by oakgrove 15y ago
Golden age trilogy is bar none the best hard sci-fi far future trans human sci-fi there is. Highly recommended.
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by oakgrove 15y ago
Wow. The great and storied "hacker news". I came here expecting great discussions on the technology of hmd's and am instead subjected to yet another chapter in the Google soap opera internet hate a thon. What a fucking joke.
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by oakgrove 15y ago
The main difference is Debian isn't quite as user friendly out of the box. Sudo isn't set up for you for example so you'll be in for a surprise the first time you try to use it. Also, Debian isn't quite as pretty. The fonts aren't as goo
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by oakgrove 15y ago
Comparing a web "sync" to an integrated solution like Dropbox? Tell me another one.
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by oakgrove 15y ago
Episode 32432432 in the pissing match between MS and anybody who dares make a dollar in the computing industry. Yawn
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by oakgrove 15y ago
You SERIOUSLY need to remove the tinfoil hat. You and the guy you're conversing with are cracking me up.
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by oakgrove 15y ago
MS keeps SQL server windows only primarily because they want people to buy Windows. Duh. How is that anti-MS? Naive much?
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by oakgrove 15y ago
"75%...drivers...filesystems...it does seem to be getting quite bloaty" Does the code that supports those drivers and filesystems slow the overall system down in any way? If not, how can you call it "bloat"? Bloat in this context generall
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by oakgrove 15y ago
I find compositing to be quite useful on a few scenarios. Hovering the icon over a program in the task bar makes it simple to quickly monitor the operation of a terminal app or what have you whilst reading something in a web browser without
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by oakgrove 15y ago
You have no idea what you are talking about.
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by oakgrove 15y ago
So you're saying you're a "developer" that was using iOS, planned on going to the Nexus and then you just decided to go to windows phone after playing with a Focus S and now after getting your new phone suddenly you're going to start develo
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by oakgrove 15y ago
"I don't know why there complaints about the marketplace." Er, because there are 10 times the apps in their competitors' marketplaces. Yes, wp7 has the low hanging fruit covered but there are many apps that cater to niches that are not pre
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by oakgrove 15y ago
"much of [iOS] is dreadfully ugly" This is complete unadulterated bs. Thank you for a good laugh today.
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by oakgrove 15y ago
"Everything I want to do is within one click or one swipe" I have an HD7. What I quoted from you is not true.
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by oakgrove 15y ago
The comparisons are very appropriate.
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by oakgrove 15y ago
Why would they rip off an OS with essentially no market share and dropping fast from there. Windows Phone tiles are just widgets under a different name.
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by oakgrove 15y ago
"but the only place with a bigger stick up its collective ass is Wikipedia." Slashdot
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by oakgrove 15y ago
It is not the government's job to train a generation of school children to slavishly conform to a particular proprietary product. Teach them how to operate a word processor not how to click the icons in Word which, by the way, will be in a