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Comment Re:Overhyped (Score 2, Interesting) 344

How can you over-hype a one-paragraph summary?

Five minutes into the video and I'm still none the wiser as to how this is supposed to be an improvement in the use of my computer, or more comfortable, or easier.

In my opinion, it isn't.

Putting all my apps into a single line and navigating that line is not efficient. I'll stick to Autohotkey which allows me to jump to any of my usual apps with a single keypress.

I found eliminating the mouse as much as possible and finding convenient keyboard shortcuts is the key to efficient computer use. Using a touchpad which is just an other kind of mouse is not the solution. For computer newbies it may be, but not for seasoned users.

Comment Re:Ads (Score 1) 365

Probably only if you use a wave server operated by Google.

But this is acceptable, since they devote their own resources to run it. You can always run your own server if you don't like it.

Comment Re:blame China (Score 1) 199

Let's not. See what offends me about this whole thing is that it's so obivious. If they'd just targeted America, it could have been anyone. But 'whoever' it was had to go and hit South Korea too, at the same time. Who hates both the US and South Korea?

It could be the Martians.

Comment Re:Not long enough (Score 1) 354

Should have been 40 years, idiot. Just bringing the laptop to China is shear stupidity.

Not really relevant. The data can be copied from it just as easily in the US.

Even the " prohibited from sharing sensitive data with foreign nationals" condition is a fluff, since a foreign nation can simply pay a US citizen to get the data.

Comment Re:Hypocrites (Score 1) 414

They'd gladly blab about a kidnapping if it wasn't one of their own. It does, after all, sell newspapers.

True. There is lots of information in newspapers and Wikipedia in general which can get people in trouble. Why select one individual? Where do we draw the line on what should be supressed?

Maybe a committe should be set up to prescreen Wikipedia edits, so they don't harm anyone on the planet...

Comment Re:Caps Lock Idea... (Score 5, Interesting) 586

Just because he doesn't see a reason for Caps Lock out there in his little business world doesn't mean the key isn't highly useful to application developers. I'll point out SQL capitalization standards as just one example.

DELETE FROM my.memory WHERE opinion = his
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COMMIT

Well, if you have a proper editor you don't need to type those keywords in caps, because the editor does it for you automatically.

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