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"Apple used to be focused on making their devices better, now they're just focused on making them even thinner" - Some guy on Reddit I don't claim to know a whole lot about the design of Windows, but what would be the possibility of seeing them become POSIX compatible at some point?
There's no real underdog now. Microsoft has a pretty consistent track record of looking at other companies making money, and making a microsoft version of that. Bing, xbox, azure, and zune are pretty obvious examples. Surface doesn't seem to fit that mold at all. They're giving every indication of doing something new. I can't think of a real underdog right now. Apple had this sort of desperation to do something good,…
The idea that small startups will usurp large companies in nature industries is folly. Examples like Uber aren't valid because fundamentally it's a different kind of company based on technology. A better comparison would be what are the chances that a small startup, competing in the same market as Uber, will take over that industry or change the landscape dramatically?
For PCs what we have is what we see right now in terms of companies and choices.
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Here you go: # Privacy: don’t send search queries to Apple # Safari defaults write com.apple.Safari UniversalSearchEnabled -bool false defaults write com.apple.Safari SuppressSearchSuggestions -bool true # Spotlight defaults write com.apple.spotlight orderedItems -array \ '{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "MENU_WEBSEARCH";}' \ '{"enabled" = 0;"name" = "MENU_SPOTLIGHT_SUGGESTIONS";}' Also turn off Dictation in System Preferenc…
The fact that such hacks (which really aren't known beyonds developers) are necessary makes a very loud statement.
Microsoft is innovative because you can now purchase a dedicated hardware peripheral for some software feature the touchscreen was designed to replace. Let's completely forget that Microsoft 'upgrades' your OS without your permission, spies on you, embeds ads into the Start Menu, and their OEMs like Lenovo will listen in on everything you do at the hardware level. In my opinion, these are actual reasons a company sho…
I had a MBP a few years ago. I installed the Boot Camp beta. When it went out of beta it locked up with no ability to change the configuration or installed OSs. The solution was to upgrade (30$) to the latest version of OS X. Which meant I lost all the software that came with the laptop since I didn't want to pay for it again. I had an iPod touch. When I was using it on a certain network it couldn't hit the NTP serve…
This doesn't make sense. No device resets its time to 1970 when it can't hit NTP servers.
Microsoft is innovative because you can now purchase a dedicated hardware peripheral for some software feature the touchscreen was designed to replace. Let's completely forget that Microsoft 'upgrades' your OS without your permission, spies on you, embeds ads into the Start Menu, and their OEMs like Lenovo will listen in on everything you do at the hardware level. In my opinion, these are actual reasons a company sho…
> spies on you Enough with this rubbish claim, please. Everyone I've asked to actually substantiate it resorts to angry handwaving. How about you? The telemetry collects crash and feature usage data, the same as macOS and all of the phone OSes does. You want that on because it tells MS where the bugs are. If you turn it off, you don't get to complain about bugs because MS has no idea you encountered any.
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I've been reading all these Mac-related posts lately because I'm very seriously considering getting one. Why, you ask? Precisely because this: > A linux laptop with flawless hardware support. is hardly cutting it for me anymore, and I've used Linux for a very long time (basically, since Be Inc. was still around and BeOS was still being sold, since we're dabbling in nostalgia). You can get a Linux laptop with flawless…
Tried using ubuntu xenial directly from Windows 10? https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/commandline/wsl/install_gui...
The nice part about OS X is (or, at least back when I last used it, was) that it's a convincing enough Unix underneath. As far as I can tell, there is no direct equivalent for e.g. launchd, the *nix-ish frontend isn't really integrated, it's more like an additional layer.
This is ok for what I guess is 99.99% of the people who use Windows and need to use the occasional Linux program/bash script/whatever. I'm in the other category :-).
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I bought the first 13" Macbook Pro with the Thunderbolt port, expecting the whole world to switch to Thunderbolt in a couple of years. It was predicted that there would be Macbooks in the future with only Thunderbolt ports, as it could connect to everything. Guess what, that didn't happen. It became a high-end niche market. Not saying that that's where USB-C will be going but I have a bad feeling about this.
No, USB-C will be standard. What happened to Thunderbolt is what will happen to Lightning. USB-C is here to stay, and they should've put it in iPhone 7 as well.
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When was the last time you took a walk and came back to your Apple computer threatening to restart in 10 minutes to update itself? This happened to me several times in Windows 10 ever since the Anniversary update which removed the option to have windows merely notify the user to schedule a restart (even for the "Professional" edition -- https://gbatemp.net/threads/windows-10-anniversary-update-no... ). Eventually I g…
Just leave notepad open with some unsaved changes in it; it will lock it from rebooting
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As a happy Surface Book user, I don't see how the Surface Studio is niche? I don't use the touchscreen that often, but it's great to have it - why would you ever not want touch to work? And there are some things that are a lot better on a touchscreen. In 5 or 10 years every desktop computer will look like the Surface Studio. At the moment it's a premium product (but so is everything Apple makes).
>why would you ever not want touch to work? If someone doesn't care about touch, then all it means is "I can't wipe dirt off my screen without clicking on things."
Scrolling alone is the reason I will opt for touch display.
I am sure there will be more functions of touch with new future apps. Playing piano is one of them for an enthusiast for cheap.
Office 365 does not support opening CSV files and we're supposed to call them innovative?