Unrelated to the actual article content, but what kind of website autoplays two videos when loading the page?! One is annoying enough, but to have two videos start simultaneous doesn't even make sense. That is a terrible user experience.
Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 3
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#1923:2 screen ratio is a killer feature. The size (800g, 9.1 mm) is quite unbelievable as well.
Except there's not much point to a 12" portrait tablet. How often do you think you'd be using such a tablet in portrait mode?
I have a huge library of PDFs that I prefer to read on a fast tablet (where I can annotate and so on). This is a big plus for me.
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I am fine with it. The are alternative for most Google products. Personally, the only thing I miss is Youtube, which ironically MS made best version out there (No ads, downloadable video and worked without crashing) before Google forced them to take it out. Interestingly, Google has all its products out for the desktop version on Windows 8.
> Interestingly, Google has all its products out for the desktop version on Windows 8. Comparing Windows 8.x's desktop marketshare with Windows Phone's mobile marketshare might give a clue as to the reason why Google has apps for the former but not the latter.
Yes, the same reason why Google can't avoid making its apps for iOS: "Monopoly". Windows holds a monopoly in the desktop and there is no way Google can't ignore that. Now with the announcement of "Universal apps" by MS, where you write for one windows device and easily port it over for the rest, wonder if things will change.
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#194That's a really nice piece of hardware. I've used MacBook Airs since 2010, but the Surface 3 looks to be strictly dominating in the hardware department. Unfortunately, I don't think Microsoft will convert many OS X devs unless they make some changes to their software. One of the advantages of OS X is that it's a Unix, and lots of Unix software runs on it. It's not hard to compile tools such as nmap, Vim, or steam loc…
You mean like this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Services_for_UNIX ? In my experience Cygwin works better for the "compile software targeted mostly at Linux users" use case, but Microsoft definitely pursued the "make Windows a Unix" approach. Sadly Interix saw limited adoption (probably due to pricing) and has been discontinued, so we're left with the user-space emulation approaches (like Cygwin).
They should really just buy cygwin and make it the default shell keeping powershell as optional. It's time for MS to acknowledge they need to catch up and be a little bit more interoperable with power users from other oses.
cygiwn is one of the first thing i install when I bring up a new windows box.
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#195For reference: Surface Pro 3: 12" @ 2160x1440 => 216 PPI MacBook Air 11": 11.6" @ 1366x768 => 135 PPI MacBook Air 13": 13.3" @ 1440x900 => 128 PPI MacBook Pro 13" (Retina): 13.3" @ 2560x1600 => 227 PPI (Rumor) MacBook Air 12" (Retina): 12" @ 2304x1440 => 226 PPI
Dell XPS 13: 13.3" @ 1920x1080 = 166 PPI
Asus Zenbook Prime: 13.3" @ 1920x1080 = 166 PPI
Lenovo Thinkpad Yoga: 12.5" @ 1920x1080 = 176 PPI
Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro: 13.3" @ 3200x1800 = 276 PPI
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Because that is a huge fuss to do what practically every other app can easily do by dragging the border, including other windows apps. Sometimes you need to change your prompt to be a different size and an annoying 5 step thing is a big fuss
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He/she is referring to dynamically adjusting the characters size (its line wrap) when resizing the window. You can even resize the command prompt to fullscreen but the lines wrap to 105 characters by default.
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I'm rooting for MS. My (not so serious) test for windows is simple: the day I can resize dos command prompt as easily as terminal windows on linux/osx is the day Microsoft I need to seriously consider going back to windows :)
I know you're not being serious, but there are some other terminal apps that are better than the basic DOS prompt. Check out ConEmu, for example. Now, once you've got ConEmu or something like it that will resize nicely and do other things, you'll still be stuck on the crappy DOS-style prompt though. :)
The thing is, if you actually look at how those programs work, they're still actually running cmd.exe and then wrapping that. This leads to all kinds of weirdness...sometimes resizes don't work quite right, color support is iffy and requires yet another wrapper, etc. It's better than nothing, but it's a FAR cry from something like konsole or even generic tabbed xterm.
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Well, the iPad owns the tablet app world, Microsoft didn't have much choice. When [/if] Office is released for many of the differing O/S and hardware versions of Android, I'll agree your description have a point. Edit: Close enough, dragonwriter. I yield the point. (I should have known about this. Also, why is there such a lack of optimized pad sized apps for Android? The phone ones I've seen weren't exactly using th…
> Also, why is there such a lack of optimized pad sized apps for Android? I suspect because Android has had significant smartphone marketshare for longer and only comparatively recently bumped over iOS in tablet marketshare, so developers targetting Android have been largely targetting it for phone apps. Fragmentation and demographics probably still make iOS much more lucrative for tablet apps (as it still is, AFAIK,…
I'm not sure.
A large part of the Android tablets sold are low end models with bad screens, used for Point of Sale (in taxis etc) or minimal web browsing. Not generally used much per day. (Afaik, statistics for web site access generally support that.)
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Is that a mechanical backlit keyboard? Are we comparing apples to apples (no pun intended)?
The point of the comparison isn't to compare the two products against each other, but rather to suggest that the Surface is more power/technology for less weight as a portable device.
Putting two objects on a scale is pretty much the most literal way to compare them. You're being far too generous in your interpretation here.
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#200That's a really nice piece of hardware. I've used MacBook Airs since 2010, but the Surface 3 looks to be strictly dominating in the hardware department. Unfortunately, I don't think Microsoft will convert many OS X devs unless they make some changes to their software. One of the advantages of OS X is that it's a Unix, and lots of Unix software runs on it. It's not hard to compile tools such as nmap, Vim, or steam loc…
Why not just run Linux in a Hyper-V machine? Hyper-v is type 1.