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bywile_e8
@12:29PM
(#49622555)
Attached to: The Challenge of Getting a Usable QWERTY Keyboard Onto a Dime-sized Screen
Take out your smartphone and type it there. If you're trying to do something that takes more than a couple clicks on a smartwatch, you're doing it wrong.
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bywile_e8
@05:03PM
(#49597079)
Attached to: Microsoft Releases Visual Studio Code Preview For Linux, OS X, and Windows
If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
-- Linus Torvalds
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bywile_e8
15 @11:58AM
(#49570437)
Attached to: University Overrules Professor Who Failed Entire Management Class
I've seen a lot of whining about special snowflakes always needing passing grades, but in this case I think the overrule was the correct call. From the Inside Higher Ed write up on it, this is the section that gets me:
Asked if the decision to fail every one of the 30-plus enrollees was fair to every student, Horwitz said that "a few" students had not engaged in misbehavior, and he said that those students were also the best academic performers. Horwitz said he offered to the university that he would continue to teach just those students, but was told that wasn't possible, so he felt he had no choice but to fail everyone and leave the course.
Instead of failing just the students that deserved it and giving appropriate grades to the rest of the students, he decided to fail everyone because the school wouldn't let him quit the course. So several students are doing the work and paying the tuition only to get a failing grade on their transcript because the professor wants to make a point. That's why it's getting justifiably overruled.
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bywile_e8
15 @05:33PM
(#49523807)
Attached to: Study Confirms No Link Between MMR Vaccine and Autism
Is it even about autism anymore? I'm lucky enough to have some family members that are anti-vax and post about it frequently on Facebook, and it's never about autism. Now everything is about "chemicals" and "toxins" and staying natural and how measles didn't kill our grandparents. They've made up their mind, so it won't matter if science shoots down an excuse that was never in doubt to anyone that cared about science. They'll just come up with another excuse that is just as baseless.
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bywile_e8
015 @02:17PM
(#49488237)
Attached to: Cyanogen Partners With Microsoft To Replace Google Apps
Rather than distribute more proprietary services, how about ownCloud for Drive, K-9 Mail for Gmail, OsmAnd for Maps, and F-Droid for an app store? Mozilla and DuckDuckGo provide Free Software search providers for Android, too. With Google neglecting the Android Open Source Project and Cyanogen partnering with Microsoft, the future for Free Software Android as anything but a shell for proprietary software looks bleak.
How much money are those services going to offer Cyanogen to be included? I'm pretty sure at least 90% of the reason for this deal is that Cyanogen Inc needs revenue and Microsoft was willing to provide it in order to increase their toe hold in Android devices. Open is nice, but the Cyanogen people need to pay the bills.
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bywile_e8
8, 2015 @11:42AM
(#49080359)
Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Most Useful Browser Extensions?
Does anyone know if there is a good equivalent to this on Chrome? I've switched primarily from Firefox to Chrome for multiple other reasons, but the one thing I really miss about Firefox is Tab Mix Plus and customizing ctrl+tab most recently used, tab opening at the end, most recent when closing a tab, etc. Everything I've tried works extremely unreliably, and nothing overrides ctrl+tab behavior (I think this is a Chrome limitation, not an extension problem).
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bywile_e8
2014 @11:43AM
(#48392063)
Attached to: New Trial Brings Skype to (Some) Browsers
The best reason I can think of is portability. Visiting your parents and using their computer? No need to install a native app, just open the web page (hopefully in the future at least, this says you still need to install a plug-in). Want to use it on Linux? No need to wait for Microsoft to update the Linux app (if they ever bother to update it), just use a standard-compatible browser to open the web page. Microsoft wants to add features? No need to make sure it works on a bunch of different OSes and versions, just make sure the web page is still compliant with the standards (you still need to make sure the browsers handle the standards correctly, but this should be an easier target).
Not that this is perfect by any means. But nowadays computers perform well enough that most users won't even notice the problems you mention, and the other advantages more than make up for the problems.
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bywile_e8
24, 2014 @03:09PM
(#47987331)
Attached to: Users Report Warping of Apple's iPhone 6 Plus
If the goal of your design is to provide a thin phone made out of a material that provides a premium look and feel, but then users need to put the phone in a giant rubber case to prevent it from breaking, you failed at all the goals of your design.
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bywile_e8
24, 2014 @03:01PM
(#47987225)
Attached to: Apple Yanks iOS 8 Update
But Google doesn't market Android as "It just works"
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bywile_e8
2014 @04:06PM
(#47837721)
Attached to: Moto 360 Reviews Arrive
That's true, but that's a smartwatch problem, not a Moto 360 problem. And a smartphone problem. And a tablet problem. If you're already traveling with electronic devices (and the Moto 360 is useless without at least one), it's just one more charger to pack.
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bywile_e8
2014 @12:07PM
(#47835683)
Attached to: Moto 360 Reviews Arrive
That means you can't have any sleep-monitoring functionality in the watch, and health tracking is the only thing that will get many of us to strap something to our wrists, since watches have been made obsolete by our phones. A 24 hour charge, with a very fast charger or easily replaceable battery is the only way to make this work. Charging one battery while you're using the other, and making a quick swap is probably the best solution with current technology.
I suspect the number of people wanting to strap a device to their wrists for sleep monitoring are a very small subset of the potential smartwatch market. The changes you suggest would hurt the already struggling battery life of this thing, and make it bigger to boot. Given the small number of people that would take advantage of those things for sleep monitoring and the number of sales that would be lost due to the battery and size changes, it wouldn't be worth it.
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bywile_e8
2014 @11:07AM
(#47835073)
Attached to: Moto 360 Reviews Arrive
I've seen a lot of people on this site bash smartwatches if they have less than a week of battery life, and that always seemed like overkill to me. I suspect a lot of people (most?) are like me and take off their watches at night anyways. As such, placing it on a wireless charger dock at night doesn't seem like a problem - as long as the watch has enough battery life to get through the day until I take it off at night. Which is doesn't, according to these reviews. I don't know if I like the look of one enough to buy one anyways, but that would keep me from buying one even if it was better looking.
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bywile_e8
14 @03:47PM
(#47174859)
Attached to: AT&T Charges $750 For One Minute of International Data Roaming
He never said "not evil". He said "typical big company evil", which is still evil, just not as bad as "phone company evil". Besides, as others as mentioned, he's talking about the American T-Mobile, which is a good bit different from the European version.
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bywile_e8
4 @04:38PM
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Attached to: Curved TVs Nothing But a Gimmick
The slight curvature also reduces visual geometric distortion. When you watch a perfectly flat TV screen, Soneira explained, the corners of the screen are farther away than the center so they appear smaller.
I have a 30" computer monitor at work, and while I like it better than my old dual-screen setup, I've noticed this issue with windows placed close to the edges. I wonder if there are curved computer monitors in the works, or if this is just for huge TVs. The main problem mentioned with curved TVs (distorted view for anyone off-center) would rarely be a problem with a screen that usually only has one viewer, and it would fix the edge distortion problem.
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bywile_e8
14 @02:59PM
(#47002539)
Attached to: How Firefox Will Handle DRM In HTML
Or I could have just kept reading to the next line where they say pretty much the same thing.
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