Does anyone know why the fingerprint reader on the Surface Pro 4 keyboard is only available in the US? http://i.imgur.com/0GfZtzz.png
Educated guess: export controls on encryption used in the fingerprint reader.
New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
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Apple isn't exactly who I would point to as a good comparison. They have plenty of overdesigned pages: http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/
Can't use mouse-scroll on this page, only arrow keys.
I'm able to scroll, but it just move me to the next part of the "keynote," and not down the page.
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ThinkPad is pretty embarrassing; you're supporting a company that decided to MITM all its users traffic to inject advertising using factory-installed malware by trusting the same certificate, whose private key can be extracted from any Lenovo product and trivially used to MITM all the others. Lenovo needs to fail hard and fast. I recognize we'll probably never get those responsible into prison, but at least we can ma…
I support the company that makes the closest thing to a product I want. Reimaging the computer is a lot easier than installing your own pointing stick.
Actually Lenovo preinstalls malware that persists even through complete Windows reinstallations:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/08/lenovo...
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#554The headphone jack position is a deal-breaker.
Agreed - its not in the best location. However if you snake the cord behind the laptop and around the other side it shouldn't pose a problem. The only downside is that it will eat a little bit more of your headphone length. It shouldn't be a deal breaker though.
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Microsoft's server software is actually top-notch and has been for years. Server 2003 was rough, but after that MS really started improving the management tools and allowing a lot more command line via powershell, etc. And in corporate America, Microsoft's Server products are near-ubiquitous. Consider that most of the in-house workflow tools at any company are built in Sharepoint -- and Sharepoint is actually a great…
I think you been living in a Microsoft world for to long. Many companies use far more Linux servers then Microsoft.
For sheer number, you're almost certainly right. But Microsoft products lie at the center of nearly every major company in the form of Active Directory, Exchange, Sharepoint, SQL Server, etc.
Don't get me wrong, I'm a big Linux guy and have been for a long time. If you want to build a product, Linux is definitely the way to go. But for a corporate IT platform providing applications and communications tools to business users? TCO is the name of the game; and while license costs for Microsoft products may be higher, you're going to get a lot fewer support requests because end users are capable of diagnosing and fixing far more issues on Windows/Office than Linux.
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Fetches http://Slashdot.org (`iwr ...`), parses it as an HTML page and extracts all the anchor tags (`.Links`), and selects the href of each anchor tag (`select href`). Since this is the end of the command, the hrefs are returned and printed as an array of strings (so one href on each line).
Including the href="" bit?
Just the values. The same things you'd get by accessing the href property in JavaScript.
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Exactly this ... outside of ThinkPad, many Windows hardware options have been pretty embarrassing.
Yes, and while Thinkpad is excellent, it's not really a 'cool' option. The Surface Book's design (and price point) places it solidly as a competitor to Macs.
My last three laptops have been Thinkpads, but Lenovo seems determined to destroy that brand as well. Microsoft may be the only company selling hardware that is trustworthy.
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Weird keyboard layouts. Shifting the keyboard off-center to include numeric keypad which no one uses anymore. (Gamers? Please stop.) This alone makes one question what exactly they are "smoking". There wasn't a single big Windows laptop on the market that wouldn't fall into this hole of a flaw.
No one uses numeric keyboard? WTF? How’d you enter numbers then, using the number row? A huge issue with non-standard keyboards are international layouts. German layout is already requiring 2 or 3 keys combined to reach {[]}, but on some laptops you need either 3 or 4 keys combined, or often can’t reach it at all. Equally on most mobile bluetooth keyboards. It’s as if no one thought about languages using more than US…
> How’d you enter numbers then, using the number row?
How could anyone possibly enter numbers using the number keys in the number row?
It's almost as if the typical purchaser of laptops isn't entering numbers into spreadsheets endlessly.
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I was really excited about the Surface Book even before they showed that the keyboard is detachable, then I about lost my mind. Holy wow.
How do they prevent the Surface Book from toppling over, given that all internals must be in the screen part? It seems this would either double the system weight (due to counterweights) or require an extra stand in the back.
In mobile devices the batteries has a lot of weight and it looks like the keyboard part has more batteries than the top part:
http://www.technobuffalo.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Micr...
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#560We merged https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10340117 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10340022 hither, since there shouldn't be three stories about this on the front page. Since the live event looks done now, we've picked (what I think is?) the most significant product URL to change to from http://www.microsoft.com/october2015event/en-us/live-event . If anyone suggests a better URL we can change it again.
I really like how this site does that, while other sites flood the front page with 8 threads of the same thing.
like when steve jobs died there was only one top story? i hope this is a new standard and not special treatment for microsoft - it's super helpful to merge the topics and other important threads should be also handled this way.