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My ideal computer before iPads existed was a convertible 2-in-1 Macbook Air. It will never be manufactured, and therefore, I will never be my main machine.
Ubuntu and Windows are working in unifying them again. Let's see what happens in the future.
I'm writing this in a Dell Inspiron 7000 2-in-1 running Ubuntu, the closest thing I could find to my dream machine.
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Every time I update Windows, or even restart my windows laptop I hope that it'll still work afterwards. Updating has previously killed my dedicated graphics card, which turned out to be a driver issue. With Intel providing 2 nearly identical drivers one of which kills it. A while ago the fingerprint reader just stopped working after a restart. After a full hour of debugging and restarting I gave up. The next day I fi…
The problem here is not Microsoft. I am surface pro 3 owner and i have to say that is one of the best machines i have used. I wouldn't change it for anything. I agree that MS is heading in the right direction. The steps that they are taking are to my opinion great for everyone. I have been a linux user for almost 10 years and windows 10 might be the reason to switch back. We will see. As for the driver issues, that i…
It is fascinating how much the "micro-transaction" model on the iOS platform continues to bury everything else. Spiderweb throwing in the towel I would guess has a lot more to do with their #1 point "Competition on the App Store has risen to a frenzied level." than the others. The top two grossing games - Clash of Clans and Game of War - receive metacritic scores of 74 and 67 respectively. Whereas the most recent Spi…
It's an old-school 2D party-based rpg, it looks dated and they recycle the engine year after year to release more games, as their loyal fanbase is more interested in the new storylines and quests than they are in gameplay updates.
I love spiderweb games, but you could spend millions marketing them and they would still be niche, I don't think the discovery issue is the only challenge here; casual management games are the Call of Duty of mobile gaming.
I admire the developer, but the whole post feels like a cop-out blaming Apple. Too much competition? Let's give up. Engine broke from some change, don't want to try fixing it? Let's give up. Ads cost too much? Not, 'let's stop advertising on iOS', instead, Let's give up. I can understand as much as the next iOS developer that changes that require large workarounds due to software/hardware updates that aren't backward…
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No the 50 million people chose to consume Transformers 2 instead of John Carter, they don't just buy anything the studios shove in their face.
They buy what they are presented with and whats considered popular. How can they know up front whats good and bad? Thats how the movie industry still works that how the music industry used to work. I bet you Netflix show the same tendency of having more people see non-chart movies than if they had to pay for it.
I'm interested to know what changed in 8.3 that broke their game engine. It's supposed to be a minor update, after all.
http://spiderwebforums.ipbhost.com/index.php?/topic/21507-av...
https://twitter.com/spiderwebsoft/status/588809965499850752
The tweet states "The deprecation of UIApplication and UIViewController."
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I have never even heard of the emacs things. Can you explain further?
Many OS X keyboard shortcuts are Emacs-inspired, though they aren't extensible in the way that Emacs is. http://www.cultofmac.com/247681/use-these-emacs-legacy-keybo...
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So how do you do è, ê and ë in OS X? In Windows, it's the French keyboard (a mere Alt-Shift away), and e+', e+{ or e+}, a small price to pay for convenience. You can't get away from double keystrokes. Except for é, which is /.
Just hold e for e view seconds and chose which version you want.
Every iOS update breaks our app, in stupidly unexplainable ways. It takes months of work just to maintain a steady state between app store versions, and I feel that the magnitude of work required to keep up with iOS 7 and now iOS 8 was much worse than going from 5 to 6.
Android is not much better, but I feel that iOS is slowly getting worse and it makes me sad.
Edit: Spelling
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> Things like living in a web browser and a platform neutral IDE (I use IntelliJ for Clojure, Java, Python, PHP, and Ruby) make OS platform less impactful on using a computer. Really? I'd think this would make the remaining things matter more. Things like: - International text input: in OS X, out of the box, é is opt+e, e (or the now even easier: hold down e and choose é from the menu). In Windows, é is alt+0233 or s…
> - International text input: in OS X, out of the box, é is opt+e, e (or the now even easier: hold down e and choose é from the menu) With Linux and Gnome, you can have several keyboard layouts, which are very easy to switch between (much like multiple languages on a phone keyboard). Usually I use the English International layout, one quick change (accessible from the global bar) and I've got all my accents (also spe…
It's the same on Windows