Wow! I always knew that 747 wings were huge, but this really puts it in perspective for me.
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Microsoft still maintains its "home of the future". I think they update it every 3-5 years or so. Here's a newer one I found on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vsoBsgqoEg. It's pretty funny to see how the set, from what I can tell, is basically identical.
And here's another Microsoft video about the "future of productivity" made back in 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6cNdhOKwi0
Design is great and all, but when you nerf what is/was literally the interface by which you operate a computer, it causes great frustration.
His section about stubbornness didn't resonate with me either. Sounds to me like he's just giving Apple a pass because he likes Apple. That's fine, but we should just be honest about it.
I feel like they should merge the two. The subtitles are a nice touch, but if it could capture the voice of the speaker it would be truly magical.
0:50 over at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBt-013d7Bw
I absolutely agree that cars can be much more fun when set up with different seating configurations.
Windows improvements + cpu improvements in Surface 2 make the experience much, much nicer. No longer do you tap a "new email" icon and wait 2 seconds for the action to register. The fact that it used to behave like that continues to blow my mind.
Go to a best buy or Microsoft store and play around with a Surface 2. You'll see that it's much better than the Surface RT, though I understand if you're reluctant to drop another ~500 dollars on the same brand. At least for now...
I'm actually not familiar with this area at all, but I guess the argument is that the smaller screen size of Surface pro 1 and 2 made it different enough from the Wacom tablets, where as Surface Pro 3 kind of fudges that line.
Again, just repeating what I read on another site. I'm not actually familiar with Wacom devices.
If you can even get that far though, I could see the touch cover not working without some sort of driver that only exists for Windows..?
I think we're lucky to have the resources/money to continue trying and trying and trying at something until we do well. Yes, eventually you might want to cut your losses and give up. But Microsoft doesn't give up on the first try. Or second. Or third.
And you have to admire that.
Always seemed rational enough to me!
edit: and as I post this, my own post is marked as new. For those interested, new posts seem to be denoted by an border on the left
2 parents + 3 kids? Not bad. Not sure what the stance is on doing some "framily" thing where you share it with friends.
Can we stop with the hyperboles and actually be realistic?
Quitting the use of Microsoft services won't really solve anything since, as has been made clear in other HN threads, the policies of other big players allow for the same (e.g. Gmail).
Arguing that "oh but Gmail hasn't actually proven they'll use this tactic" is absolutely absurd. They're saying they can, so nothing stops them from doing it tomorrow. If they really wouldn't ever do so then that clause would not be on any terms that users agree to. Ditto for all other major email providers.
Okay, so next we can say "aha! I'll just stand up my own email service!". Two reality checks...
--First: if you email anyone using a major email provider then you haven't really made much progress. Same even if they email you and you ignore them.
--Second: it seems completely unrealistic that this solution would scale to the entire world. NSA fiasco has proven to me that people value convenience more than privacy. Otherwise this "stand up your own email/cloud" trend would have started last summer. None of my friends (even tech friends) have switched away from gmail or whatever major provider they use.
This situation obviously sucks, but I don't see many reasonable responses to this. We're smart people here. Let's act like it.
Particularly this part: "Someone who has a pending comment will have to wait till it goes live to post another".
Am I seriously expected to keep a "queue" of posts I want to make in Notepad or something?
Seems pretty stupid to me. The way I use HN is to spend 30ish minutes on it by opening a bunch of tabs...reading the articles...and then either posting a root comment or responding to something interesting. I do this for every tab.
Sounds like this breaks my work flow, and I don't understand what the purpose of this part is.
How is this different in your view from targeted ads in gmail? You say "I don't mind having ads be presented to me from past traffic" ... why? How does that offend you less? I understand the difference from a technical perspective, but from an "end user that cares about privacy" perspective it seems the same to me.
FWIW even with this off, I think Skype will still MITM you to check to make sure URLs you link aren't spammy. Messenger did that ages ago and Facebook does it too (try IMing someone a porn website for example). Not sure what Hangout/gmail's behavior is here.
Btw it seems funny to me to use the term "MITM you". It's a chat service. It has servers that route IM and do other things. Of course it's going to be in the middle of you and your friend. Now, if you're upset that one of the many things they do while your IM is in the cloud is see if they can serve an ad for it, then fine. But any chat service that isn't p2p will "MITM you" - that's the entire point.
However, I'm guessing when designing it there were certain assumptions and optimizations that were made given the reasonable guess that the screen's content would not change often.
Is it possible you could somehow do bad things to the device by doing something like this? Maybe akin to red-lining an engine, or ghosting an old CRT, or maybe other things?
Code Reviews? Static Analysis?
/sigh