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What’s the killer app for win32?
In the event you are not joking, there are entire industries running on Win32. My industry alone (EDA) is a 100B dollar industry. I'm aware of many others.
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Microsoft introduces Windows 10 X for dual-screen devices
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We also don't need phones. Let's carry an LTE dongle with our laptops. I am glad comments sections don't design products.
I am sad that cellular modems in portables isn't a bigger thing. It was a feature before it's time. Now that the world is far more interconnected than before, it would be more useful that it used to be.
On one hand, I would ask why? I always have my phone with me to use as a hotspot and I usually have my cellular iPad. The iPad can last 24 hours as a hotspot (https://www.imore.com/yup-ipad-air-still-gets-24-hours-batte...)
On the other hand, seeing that I always have my phone with me, I don’t need my cellular connection with my iPad either and I could save that $20 a month.
I do wonder if even T-mobile would be as generous with data with a laptop as they would with a tablet.
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You may want to check out FancyZones https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys/blob/master/src/modul...
Not a full feature i3-like software, but I was amazed how it implements almost all features I like about i3. https://www.workspacer.org/ It was mentioned in a FancyZones thread a few months ago.
Thank you for pointing that out. I have to use Windows 10 often enough to wish for something like that, and had been looking, but FancyZones was the closest I'd found yet.
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> 999 relies on the two screens for the actual purposes of constructing the narrative(s), as well as for the big reveal at the end What does it do with two screens that couldn’t be done with one screen divided into two halves?
The screen being arbitrarily divided into two halves would give away a huge plot element pretty quickly, if you are paying attention, as well as some smaller stuff. You aren't actually controlling Junpei, as you are led to believe for the entire game, at least, not really. You are actually controlling a girl in the past named Akane, who is seeing the world through Junpei's eyes. The trick is that Akane's observations…
That's a gimmick (defined as: An innovative or unusual mechanical contrivance; a gadget.) and hardly proof that dual screens aren't a gimmick . It sounds very creative and may have been well executed, but it's still a gimmick that won't make it into other games.
I played the hell out of my DS, but the second screen was mostly a crappy input mechanism.
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#247I'm liking the direction laptop makers are taking by differentiating at hardware level especially with displays, Asus has multiple dual display laptops and now Microsoft's surface lineup. With WindowsX partnership, this is going to kick off a slew of multi-display computing devices. But as a non-windows user, I'm wondering what these hardware specific Windows changes are going to do to the Linux ecosystem. I'm sure,…
Want to "innovate" in laptop screens? How about giving us our 4:3 laptop screens back? Or (drool) 5:4 ? Most content (web pages, documents, code) is longer than it is wide, so any more square ratio is going to be an improvement over these silly "movie" ratio 16:9 screens. MS's 3:2 ratio screens are an improvement, but.. we can do more! Hell, I'd LOVE a 1:1 screen on a laptop! Imagine a 15" diagonal 1:1 screen, which…
> Most content (web pages, documents, code) is longer than it is wide, so any more square ratio is going to be an improvement over these silly "movie" ratio 16:9 screens. MS's 3:2 ratio screens are an improvement, but.. we can do more!
If you're reading content that's longer than it is wide then why are you telling the browser to be full screen? Practically every desktop environment makes it easy to snap windows to half the screen, even better with a tiling WM.
Personally the only "innovation" I want is a return of the 10" form factor, they also happen to have the aspect ratios you're after.
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Consider this: To gain any information from a screen, you must actually look at it. You can only look at one screen at a time. The entire functionality of a second screen can be replaced with a single button: While that button is pressed, the screen shows whatever else it needs to show. It is true that pressing a button is ever so slightly slower than moving your eyes. But considering all the benefits from saving a w…
This is not true for several reasons: 1) Software screen switching is not instantaneous 2) Moving your head is lower friction than pressing a button (and more likely a key chord) 3) Humans have very good spatial awareness and multiple screens have this affordance that a button would not.
1) False. Software screen switching is easily instantaneous. If you literally have two front buffers which, you must for a dual screen setup... there’s no reason you couldn’t flip between them at the refresh rate of your monitor (which is ridiculous but doable).
Workspace switchers that run on shitty old X can be and many are effectively instantaneous. Not sure about Windows, but I assume something exists.
There’s more to life than Mac OS X.
3) you can still have a spatial layout of workspaces even with one viewport.
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> have you not wanted to replicate multi-screen setup on your laptop (while traveling or when not on your desktop)? P Remember the Thinkpad W701ds? With its retractable second screen, this was a thing of beauty: https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/c_fill,f_a... https://i.ytimg.com/vi/msJwcKy4PQQ/maxresdefault.jpg https://static.bhphoto.com/images/images1000x1000/1276679060... https://live.staticflickr.c…
Genuinely curious, why did these not work? Extremely poor battery life / portability?
Looks like it weighs 20lbs