tomflack

> This is a reminder that even First World nations don't always live up to US standards with respect to freedom of speech.

That made me cringe. A lot. My first-world western country doesn't live up to your "standards" of freedom of speech because we have different standards. We value speech differently.

Another outgoing politician.

Where I work we're a Win7 shop for our MOE, but we do still support XP clients (PhD students generally get quite shitty if you recall their laptops for an upgrade midway through their research) and will do so until the very last day of XP support by Microsoft. It doesn't surprise me at all that the percentage is still as high as it is.

Did you account for wild variations in the same place? In Shanghai I could get decent coffee for anywhere between 3 kuai to 30 kuai depending on where you were.

iPhones have had locking from the start. You are correct about crapware however.

That said this conversation is about unsubsidised, unlocked phones. Not phones bought through carrier channels. Apple are breaking new ground by selling an "unlocked" phone, for an unsubsidized price, but still pushing carrier restrictions on it.

To cause a fuss and make a point about the TSA.

A4 has an aspect ratio of 2:3, not 9:16. The iPad is 3:4 which is significantly closer to A4 than a weirdly tall portrait widescreen tablet (3:5.33333)

There was an exhaustive debate around this a while ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4195208

I don't think it's a helpful comparison to make. The only similarity between the two is the market share - android being open source changes quite a lot.

This video is about another matter and quite old, not the current murder charges.

http://www.reporter.bz/2012/05/investor-john-mcafee-says-gsu... (edit, broken.)

Crapware is predominantly a problem on new PCs, where the vast majority of the population just goes along with it. It needs a strong stand from Microsoft.

Lower house - http://aec.gov.au/Voting/How_to_Vote/Voting_HOR.htm#papers

Senate - http://aec.gov.au/Voting/How_to_Vote/Voting_Senate.htm#paper...

This is how we vote in Australia. I have real trouble seeing any system of computerized voting or punch-card voting as superior having followed the United States' experiences.

What do you guys think? We use preferential-voting, so it's a little different but the idea is solid.

Having worked a helpdesk at a university, I agree 100%. It saddens me when people come in with $400 pieces of junk loaded up with crapware that take 10 minutes for everything to load on startup.

I know how to remove all of that and get a reasonable experience out of the hardware - they don't.

My 13" MBA with every option ticked is a way better "default" computer for them, but they're not willing to or unable to spend the money for whatever reason.

They're talking about links to infringing content (people tweeting file locker links for movies/games) and stuff like people posting photos they don't own.

> I'd say end users would notice and care about the difference between those two scenarios.

You haven't met very many end users, have you?

> Because the cause of the problem is Skype's (and iTunes) poor development, not Windows.

Which is the key factor here. It's not Windows' fault specifically, but it's a problem that occurs when using (very common software on) Windows. To the end user, what's the difference?

> That screenshot you link to is of Skype, and I would not use Skype as a standard example for anything. Even if MS owns it now, it is a poorly designed program by today's standards.

How does this in any way negate it's worth as an example of a problem? It's effectively saying "That problem, it's an invalid problem because I said so."

I wish there was a subheading that read "...and that's OK."

Some will see my attitude as cavalier but a little bit of downtime because of an event such as this isn't the worst thing in the world. After all, the financial markets were closed today weren't they?

I read about the folks at the Trello datacentre hauling 175 kilo barrels of diesel up 17 stories by hand thinking "I hope nobody gets hurt lifting barrels for something as crass as uptime".

> Photoshop and Lightroom aren't available on Linux; Linux is generally still considered a viable option as a Desktop replacement by a lot of people. Anything that used to be Win32 only and is now on OSX or Linux was also "written from scratch", and any product that has had the demand has been able to do it.

Don't move the goalposts: you "what legacy Win32 apps are you actually looking to use?" I responded with some common ones. Let's go simpler then: dropbox is a "legacy" app that you cannot install.

The conversation was in the context of desktop operating systems, you yourself said it: "Is it not true that Linux and Mac OSX are viable for new desktops"

You can debate for hours if linux is "viable" for desktops (Year of the desktop! 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002...) but that just confuses the conversation further. It's impossible to argue that WinRT is.

Why don't we start with Photoshop? Perhaps Lightroom?

Every single App you currently use on Windows is a "legacy app" for Windows RT. They'll all have to be written from scratch.

There is a "sign out" option in iOS skype which does what you're after.

http://i.imgur.com/uOn3Q.png

What does that prove? I doubt you'd get any meaningful number of people on HN willing to roll their own tokens to make it worthwhile lowering the price.

Related: OSX twitter integration seems broken for me? I can't tweet from Safari or other apps.

Android.

And Android (to a lesser extent). While I was in China, I was blocked from buying any apps as paid apps aren't available there. Even dialing a VPN wasn't enough - the phone knew where it was.

With the amount of stuff(TM) that we buy digitally now, this is becoming a huge problem.

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"Because ending all patent protections immediately would be impractical, Boldrin and Levine advocate several transitional steps, such as shortening patent terms. "The aim of policy, in general, should be that of slowly but surely decreasing the strength of intellectual property interventions," they write, "but the final goal cannot be anything short of abolition.""

This makes the idea impossible - sustaining the political will for 15-20 years (a random guess at how long it'd take) to wind down patents. That's 4-5 presidential elections or two-to-three changes of government here in Australia.

Nope.

"Why the f*ck should you care?"

If you want to use the word fuck, use the word fuck. Don't take the cowardly angle of making me think the word while dancing around saying you never actually used it.

Says he in a thread about wifi problems? I'm regretting upgrading and not because of the maps. My work wifi has become completely unreliable.

Anyone else having trouble connecting to corporate networks with a self-signed certificate?