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Postby Divair » Mon Nov 04, 2013 9:52 am

Jogentagana wrote:
Divair wrote:What Windows phone do you have?


Nokia Lumia

Obviously. Which one?
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Postby Jogentagana » Mon Nov 04, 2013 9:55 am

Divair wrote:
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Nokia Lumia

Obviously. Which one?


I belive it is 610. I have had this about 1.5 years. Thinking about buying new Nokia now.
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Postby Norstal » Mon Nov 04, 2013 10:01 am

Vitaphone Racing wrote:What 7-8" tablet has the best GPS function? I'm looking to install a tablet in my car.

I recommend this one:

http://qz.com/142588/on-north-koreas-su ... d-dickens/

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Postby Aeken » Mon Nov 04, 2013 10:02 am

Ainin wrote:
Aeken wrote:I'm curious if RT will ever be popular.

They're probably just going to end up merging it into Windows Phone.

Hopefully.
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Postby Romano-Germanic Empire » Mon Nov 04, 2013 10:06 am

Ainin wrote:
Romano-Germanic Empire wrote:If you don't have a touchscreen Windows 8 is the worst thing ever.

No it's not.

I've tried working on a friends PC that has Windows 8 but no touchscreen. It's been months and he hates it. Point is, in my experience, it's bad.
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Postby Aeken » Mon Nov 04, 2013 10:08 am

Romano-Germanic Empire wrote:
Ainin wrote:No it's not.

I've tried working on a friends PC that has Windows 8 but no touchscreen. It's been months and he hates it. Point is, in my experience, it's bad.

Subjectively, it can be.
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Postby Divair » Mon Nov 04, 2013 10:09 am

Jogentagana wrote:
Divair wrote:Obviously. Which one?


I belive it is 610. I have had this about 1.5 years. Thinking about buying new Nokia now.

Good god that is ancient.

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Ainin wrote:No it's not.

I've tried working on a friends PC that has Windows 8 but no touchscreen. It's been months and he hates it. Point is, in my experience, it's bad.

Been using it since alpha on both touchscreen and non-touchscreen devices. Works perfectly on both. If you don't like it, boot to desktop.
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Postby Czechanada » Mon Nov 04, 2013 11:19 am

When I have time later this week, I will try out Splashtop on my tablet. It would be sick to Olay PC games from anywhere in the house.
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Postby Divair » Mon Nov 04, 2013 12:08 pm

Hey look, a new Microsoft ad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAkn-S8iE4o
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Postby Ainin » Mon Nov 04, 2013 12:48 pm

Divair wrote:Hey look, a new Microsoft ad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAkn-S8iE4o

There's an 11 inch Yoga now?

Huh.
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Postby Divair » Mon Nov 04, 2013 2:55 pm

Completely missed this other ad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1wx1pDWax0

Both are actually quite good. A huge improvement over the previous "artsy" dancing ads. Letting people know why they should get a Surface is a far better method.
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Postby Christmahanikwanzikah » Mon Nov 04, 2013 3:03 pm

Norstal wrote:
Vitaphone Racing wrote:What 7-8" tablet has the best GPS function? I'm looking to install a tablet in my car.

I recommend this one:

http://qz.com/142588/on-north-koreas-su ... d-dickens/

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That's... uh, remarkable. :blink:
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Postby Divair » Mon Nov 04, 2013 3:29 pm

Divair wrote:Completely missed this other ad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1wx1pDWax0

Both are actually quite good. A huge improvement over the previous "artsy" dancing ads. Letting people know why they should get a Surface is a far better method.

Actually, I just discovered a whole playlist of more recent ads.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL ... pWgaOp6com

Why in the hell didn't MS do this from the start? These are so much better.
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Postby Aeken » Mon Nov 04, 2013 3:34 pm

Divair wrote:
Divair wrote:Completely missed this other ad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1wx1pDWax0

Both are actually quite good. A huge improvement over the previous "artsy" dancing ads. Letting people know why they should get a Surface is a far better method.

Actually, I just discovered a whole playlist of more recent ads.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL ... pWgaOp6com

Why in the hell didn't MS do this from the start? These are so much better.

Their PR must've sucked.
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Postby Divair » Mon Nov 04, 2013 3:35 pm

Aeken wrote:
Divair wrote:Actually, I just discovered a whole playlist of more recent ads.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL ... pWgaOp6com

Why in the hell didn't MS do this from the start? These are so much better.

Their PR must've sucked.

But what the hell happened near the end of 2012? Both WP and Surface ads suddenly improved in quality to a degree that it makes it seem like they're from different companies. Did they fire their whole marketing team?
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Postby Aeken » Mon Nov 04, 2013 3:36 pm

Divair wrote:
Aeken wrote:Their PR must've sucked.

But what the hell happened near the end of 2012? Both WP and Surface ads suddenly improved in quality to a degree that it makes it seem like they're from different companies. Did they fire their whole marketing team?

I agree, it's a shocking change. They either fired all of them, or they just decided to be smart.
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Postby Divair » Mon Nov 04, 2013 3:40 pm

Aeken wrote:
Divair wrote:But what the hell happened near the end of 2012? Both WP and Surface ads suddenly improved in quality to a degree that it makes it seem like they're from different companies. Did they fire their whole marketing team?

I agree, it's a shocking change. They either fired all of them, or they just decided to be smart.

And they did this with ~$250 million. I can't wait to see what they'll do with the new $400 million budget.
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Postby Aeken » Mon Nov 04, 2013 3:43 pm

Divair wrote:
Aeken wrote:I agree, it's a shocking change. They either fired all of them, or they just decided to be smart.

And they did this with ~$250 million. I can't wait to see what they'll do with the new $400 million budget.

I can't wait to see more of iOS vs. Android commercials. The wedding and musical ads were absolutely great.
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Postby Divair » Mon Nov 04, 2013 3:43 pm

Aeken wrote:
Divair wrote:And they did this with ~$250 million. I can't wait to see what they'll do with the new $400 million budget.

I can't wait to see more of iOS vs. Android commercials. The wedding and musical ads were absolutely great.

Those seem to attract an absurd amount of attention. Just release 10 of those and we'll be good.
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Postby Ainin » Mon Nov 04, 2013 7:32 pm

Divair wrote:
Aeken wrote:Their PR must've sucked.

But what the hell happened near the end of 2012? Both WP and Surface ads suddenly improved in quality to a degree that it makes it seem like they're from different companies. Did they fire their whole marketing team?

They probably did, in all seriousness. A fresh start for a new face (Metro UI).
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Postby Zocra » Mon Nov 04, 2013 8:23 pm

So...I have this HP Pavilion with Win98 on it. :p
I'm planning on putting SliTaz on it...oh boy this will be neat. 8)
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Postby Czechanada » Mon Nov 04, 2013 8:50 pm

So Splashtop was a success!

I can play Europa Universalis on the toilet.
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Postby Ainin » Mon Nov 04, 2013 8:51 pm

Czechanada wrote:so Splashtop was a success!

I can play Europa Universalis on the toilet.

Congratulations, I guess?
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Postby Aeken » Mon Nov 04, 2013 9:13 pm

Czechanada wrote:So Splashtop was a success!

I can play Europa Universalis on the toilet.

Love that game.
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Postby Lemanrussland » Mon Nov 04, 2013 9:20 pm

Have any of you guys ever used Alpine Linux?

I'm trying it now and am absolutely in love with it. It's basically a grsec/PaX patched Linux (with an SSP patched GCC) with uClibc and Busybox for the userland.

I'm mainly playing with virtualization (VServer right now, going to mess around with Xen next), it would make a great hypervisor because it's so small and is hardened out of the box.
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