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Comment Re:i must click dem! (Score 1) 98

If you are a Windows Administrator who happens to get dumped with the odd Linux server. Xnote may seem like a good option for a text editor. Not as scary sounding things like.
vi/vim (Ok you got in... Now why can't I type!, or vi short for Virus Infestation)
emacs (This sounds like a Macintosh emulator to me)
nano (Disk Compression tool?)

Windows Admins are use to Notepad being the default text editor. XNote may be a good pick to choose.

There is always Midnight Commander editor (mcedit) for such idiots like me (hate vi, will never touch emacs).

Comment Re:What happened? (Score 2) 422

Well, about 3 years ago I went from a 10 year old 3.4 GHz machine to a new 3.4 GHz machine and the difference was quite obvious. The new one was about 10 times faster, of course it also had double the cores.

1) can I borrow your time machine? Pentium 4 3.4GHz (paper mhz due to shitty arch) was released in 2004, 11 years ago, not 13.

2) 10 years = 55million versus 1.4Billion transistors

Comment WebM/VP8 default? (Score 1) 225

The only reason Im using Flash on YT is Google insistence on forcing VP8 on my old Core2 laptop (intel GPU means no hardware video accel).
h.264 with mplayer plays perfectly in 1080p
h.264 with flash plays perfectly in 720p
VP8 with HTML5 stutters in 720p, and still drops frames in 640x480

If/when they finally remove Flash option I will be forced to script direct mplayer streaming of mp4 files from YT server bypassing their player altogether.

Comment Re:DirectX is obsolete (Score 0) 135

Yes, phone platform with NO API for backing up sms messages will win the market!

" Cliff Simpkins (Sr Product Manager, Windows Developer) responded

Currently, the platform provides a number of SMS Access from a system eventing perspective (as of Windows Phone 8.1), and Windows Phone supports sms backup/restore for consumers as part of the base OS (Settings Backup). What we don’t provide is a backup API."

Currently there is NO WAY of exporting stored messages away from M$ proprietary 3% of the market crap.

Comment inventor ?!?!??!?! (Score 3, Insightful) 171

> [inventor Alex] Kipman ... idea he first pitched to Microsoft, which became Kinect

so he invented Kinect? hmm nope, that would be Primesense cleverly going around earlier patents on structure light (for example Viewpoint Corps US6549288 filled in 1999) by using random instead of striped dot pattern.

maybe Kipman invented original Natal aka Kinect 2 aka time of flight depth camera? hmmm nope, that would be 2 or 3 whole companies M$ bought (3DV, Canesta) spending over 1 Billion dollars before settling on ready to sell Primesense camera in the end.

What exactly did he invent? He is a manager at M$, not engineer.

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