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  1. Chump change, should've fined Apple at least $1 billion to get the message across.
    5 points
  2. I can see it now... MPAA "forces" YouTube Music to flag media assets based on known fingerprints, and then YouTube Music invasively removes files from your local music library.
    5 points
  3. Having replaceable batteries would have prevented the problems arising from battery degradation. With Apple's pricing points, their phones can hardly be considered as disposable when the battery dies. At least Europe has gotten a long lead on punishing companies for bad behavior. Pity, the US refuses to do the same.
    4 points
  4. Same here... Isn't it now a company in it's own right?
    4 points
  5. There are some published results online, and most of them seem fairly accurate to what we have found. The speed is often in the margin of error, with Edge besting Chrome most of the time. Chrome has a tiny <1% win in javascript tests, but this is expected as Microsoft adds additional security that Chrome doesn't. As many expected, network usage is lower in Edge, as Chrome sends a ton of encrypted data back to Google, still around 1.5-2GB per week for an average non-cellular user. As with EdgeHTML, Edge does better with Battery, CPU, and can be dramatically better with Memory use in lower memory systems. (Sub 2GB RAM) As most people can see, Edge Chromium performs much better than EdgeHTML on actual sites, due to web developers using Chromium specific code or shoving old IE code to EdgeHTML. Reconstructing similar sites locally, and properly sending the same content as standards, EdgeHTML is faster most of the time. But not enough on modern systems. The painful area is on older, slower systems, where Chromium is a pig in comparison. I'm curious what other users are finding with various tests. wow you probably trash talked chromium compared to legacy edge before edge started using it. now that edge uses it now its much better. you comments are mostly like "As most people can see" and "As many expected" with no proof and taking points right from your ass
    3 points
  6. You guys do realize that this upload of your local music library exists today in Google Play Music? Sheesh...
    3 points
  7. Wouldn't this then make said companies "too close" to the US govt and military?
    3 points
  8. Can't believe it's only 10% better! I can't believe its not butter
    3 points
  9. Meanwhile on every other platform it has already seen price drops, and the switch version probably never will. I guess this is why I don't own many Switch games.
    3 points
  10. Core count and clock don’t matter as much as results do and I reallllly doubt that 2500U comes anywhere close to the 7700k. See below for a faster AMD cpu not holding it’s own. Unless a “tiny bit slower” is sarcasm Which makes sense, it’s a low power CPU and compares to low power Intel offerings. https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/...Ryzen-7-2700U/3647vsm432558 The 2700U barely (and mostly doesn’t) hold it’s own to an 8565U and that’s also notably slower than a 7700k. The 2500U would fare even worse. https://www.notebookcheck.net/2700U-vs-8565U_9314_10082.247596.0.html
    3 points
  11. BleachBit 3.2.0

    Hillary 'the snake' Clinton's wiping program of choice
    3 points
  12. Not really surprising, AMD is destroying intel in every segment of the market at the moment. They just need to pull the same thing they did to intel with nvidia as they have lagged with GPU for too long now.
    3 points
  13. I have yet to experience any UWP application that have been working better than it's Win32 application on any of my Windows desktops. Sure there hasn't been that many, but I have tried to use some but they have all failed to provide me with a good experience: Skype (UWP) compared to Skype (Win32). The GUI just doesn't fit desktop use, everything took up way too much space to make much sense for me on a desktop. The Win32 app just had better optimised GUI for desktop use. Didn't use it for long as I moved away from Skype completely. Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML/UWP) vs Chromium (Win32). I did actually enjoy the look and feel of Microsoft Edge and it's smooth scrolling. But that was pretty much it. Barely any extensions and the few that I used worked horribly compared to Chromium. Rendering issues, the entire browser would lock-up, randomly close and whatnot. Not a great experience other than it's look and feel. OneNote (UWP) vs OneNote 2016. Perhaps the UWP-app I used the most. But I pretty much used it simply because Microsoft claimed that the Win32 was end-of-life and wouldn't receive any meaningful updates or features. The UWP-app worked okay, but having proofing directly tied with your Windows Settings is horrible for people like me who prefer to have everything displayed in English, but I type in Norwegian. It often had sync issues so I had to just disconnect my Microsoft Account and start all over again for sync to work. I started to get used to it but moved back to OneNote 2016 when Microsoft did yet another turn-around and announced that the Win32 application will the one getting development going forward. And man, as soon as I was back using OneNote 2016 I began to understand how inferior the UWP had really been. There is just nothing with the UWP-version that I find superior.
    3 points
  14. I think it's a very speedy browser
    3 points
  15. Good. There needs to be more competition.
    3 points
  16. Microsoft's Edge browser now supports ARM64 in the stable channel

    I'd like to see a re-review of the Surface X, now that it's been out for a little while and the software seems to be more fully "baked".
    2 points
  17. Microsoft's Surface Duo spotted in the wild

    Price will be key here but who knows? I'm willing to bet it'll cost less than Samsungs folding screen device. If I had to bet this could be $1k - $1.2k roughly. And that's insane. For a phone. If that's the price I'm out.
    2 points
  18. How the coronavirus outbreak has affected Wuhan: a bird's eye view

    The Wuhan Clan ain't nutin' to fuk wit!
    2 points
  19. It was one way, the 2nd part of his statement said you get a group of private companies to do it, either way if you're looking to help EU telco companies to compete, it's a valid argument when on the other side China pumps loads of gov money into it's own local companies. Personally you could just give them big gov contracts and pay them well for the equipment to, that's always a option.
    2 points
  20. You guys do realize that this upload of your local music library exists today in Google Play Music? Sheesh...
    2 points
  21. I don't always buy telephony infrastructure, but when I do, I buy it from Scandinavia.
    2 points
  22. 1. You upload music lib to YouTube Music 2. Google detects "illegal" uploads 3. MPAA requires you to pay $5000 per "illegal" song 4. MPAA and Google shares "PROFIT" 5. Plebs lose, patricians win!
    2 points
  23. Eve's next "Surface killer" will have two Thunderbolt 4 ports

    Spy beef, supposedly the products sell decently, however, I never see them around in my very tech savvy area. So who knows! Personally, Windows 10 is what keeps me from buying a Surface laptop. I refuse to use crappy software, on rumored good hardware. you don't ever see surfaces in your area? have you been to a university? it's typically macs for the arts and surfaces for the sciences It really depends. That rule isn’t always the case. In grad school, I even had friends, engineering students, that used laptop/desktops, running Linux. I left grad school not too long ago Sciences: My daughter is currently a medical student at UCLA, so the wife and I are frequently there. Surface devices, rarely seen, Apple devices, all over the dang place. In fact, the iPad is recommended by her professors. They even have specific Apps for iOS. Wife, currently finishing her CRNA (Nurse Anethesist), her study groups/peers...Apple devices/MacBook/iPads, some cheap Windows laptops. I have rarely spotted a Surface. I’d definitely buy one ( I actually like the Surface Laptop), but only If I can easily install Linux, or Windows 10 LTSC. Over a fourth of the people in my class uses some kind of Surface device. There are also a lot of Dell and Lenovo convertibles. It’s pretty hard to do quantum mechanics on a Mac.
    2 points
  24. Eve's next "Surface killer" will have two Thunderbolt 4 ports

    Surface is dead? News to me. Of course it is...Surface revenue was only $1.98B last quarter. Stick a fork in it. /s
    2 points
  25. Eve's next "Surface killer" will have two Thunderbolt 4 ports

    Surface is dead? News to me.
    2 points
  26. Vaio announces a Comet Lake laptop that weighs under two pounds

    it appears to be aimed at business people, you wont believe how many projectors in meeting rooms still have VGA in and no HDMI or DP.......
    2 points
  27. There's no need to kill something that's already dead.
    2 points
  28. Not sure who in these companies thinks, that consumer wants curved edges? A brand which is trying to recover its image wants to release product which is not exactly the preference for consumer? Like do those people even do consumer feedback?
    2 points
  29. No suprise there. The old edge may render faster but the frequent bugs, crashes, missing features, horrid big UI for desktop and slow updates made it a non starter from day 1 for most people. Seems win32 beat UWP again in usability, stability and speed.
    2 points
  30. Metro Exodus returns to Steam on February 15

    After that bait-n-switch they did on Steam, they can choke on a bag of d's! They took Fortnight money, used Steam to build free advertisement, and then jumped ship....I don't pirate, but I hear the fitgirl release was great
    2 points
  31. Whatever makes for better competition in this space. Good news right here.
    2 points
  32. He joins the Titanic.
    2 points
  33. Gears of War head Rod Fergusson departs The Coalition to work at Blizzard

    Blizzard does not exist.
    2 points
  34. OnePlus 8 series could launch in late March or April

    zte axon is better I don't dislike Axon but I've owned 3 OnePlus phones. 3t, 6t and now the 7 Pro. I'm a big fan of the Oxygen OS. I don't plan to get away from it for that reason alone.
    1 point
  35. I would too. Though I really don't understand most of the negativity in the reviews I read. There were two native browsers available on launch - legacy Edge and Firefox beta, both of which work just fine. Sure, mention the state of Chrome and new Edge, but why ding it on slower performance of an emulated browser? To me it seemed a lot of reviewers came across as really just wanting it to be an Intel-based Surface. Very few bothered to mention (much less go into detail) how far Windows on ARM has come since the Windows RT devices. Surface Pro X is sooo much better than the Surface RT/2, in respect to both hardware and software. To be fair, the emulation is hit and miss. Though a lot of the misses I've encountered are games, which is an aspect some reviews didn't even talk about. I expect the emulation compatibility will improve with time and updates.
    1 point
  36. There are some published results online, and most of them seem fairly accurate to what we have found. The speed is often in the margin of error, with Edge besting Chrome most of the time. Chrome has a tiny <1% win in javascript tests, but this is expected as Microsoft adds additional security that Chrome doesn't. As many expected, network usage is lower in Edge, as Chrome sends a ton of encrypted data back to Google, still around 1.5-2GB per week for an average non-cellular user. As with EdgeHTML, Edge does better with Battery, CPU, and can be dramatically better with Memory use in lower memory systems. (Sub 2GB RAM) As most people can see, Edge Chromium performs much better than EdgeHTML on actual sites, due to web developers using Chromium specific code or shoving old IE code to EdgeHTML. Reconstructing similar sites locally, and properly sending the same content as standards, EdgeHTML is faster most of the time. But not enough on modern systems. The painful area is on older, slower systems, where Chromium is a pig in comparison. I'm curious what other users are finding with various tests. wow you probably trash talked chromium compared to legacy edge before edge started using it. now that edge uses it now its much better. you comments are mostly like "As most people can see" and "As many expected" with no proof and taking points right from your ass thank you for calling the user out on this. it happens all the time.
    1 point
  37. How the politic of Japan works: it doesn't.
    1 point
  38. NASA Commercial Crew (CCtCap) test milestones

    there is no way I'd be a passenger on it until more testing has been done successfully.
    1 point
  39. It's not necessarily related to the uwp/win32 nature of the app. Its not.... Legacy Edge, Chrome, and Firefox all use different UI frameworks separate from Win32 -- Edge was not special. Edge used XAML -- through WinRT -- Firefox uses XUL, Chrome uses Chromium UI. WinRT compiles to native code, and is accessible through COM objects in C++ with no need for an interpreter. This has nothing to do with mobile or whatever is supposedly "inappropriate" for desktops. It has to do with having a modern UI capable of being adaptive, including resolution independent. Or specifically "UWP" -- modern Win32 apps wrap themselves in UWP also to use the Windows notification system and one-click install. And there are plenty of apps in W10 built in WinRT for UWP that are quick and responsive. Some people I think are just still having post-traumatic episodes from W8. The out of the box XAML is horrible. Most of the time people see a XAML built UI they think UWP / Windows 8 / Metro 1.0 which is terrible UI for desktop. I think most of the hate towards UWP has been actually against XAML. I know it is now possible to build a decent UI for desktop but it requires tons of works since the default controls are still huge, which huge fonts, huge white space and all the horrible things that doomed Windows 8 / Windows Mobile. At least the new Edge uses a decent UI framework. Also they are looking into to more desktop friendly spacing for menus like Chrome when in dekstop mode I read on the insider blog.
    1 point
  40. Microsoft's Surface Duo spotted in the wild

    i can see how that works. you would fold the phone all the way open so both screens are on the outside. one screen has the camera. the other screen is the viewfinder. and this solves the dual screen problem with current phones in that a lower quality camera is the front-facing camera and the higher quality camera is on the back. with a single camera, you can go for one high quality camera that can be used as a selfie camera and a regular camera.
    1 point
  41. i really like the new edge i just wish it still had some features of the oldd version
    1 point
  42. After the complete and utter failure of Warcraft III: Reforged, I'm pretty much done with them as a company as well. I've got no more faith in them; so many good people have already jumped ship too. Breaks my heart as someone who grew up with their games.
    1 point
  43. Eve's next "Surface killer" will have two Thunderbolt 4 ports

    Spy beef, supposedly the products sell decently, however, I never see them around in my very tech savvy area. So who knows! Personally, Windows 10 is what keeps me from buying a Surface laptop. I refuse to use crappy software, on rumored good hardware. you don't ever see surfaces in your area? have you been to a university? it's typically macs for the arts and surfaces for the sciences It really depends. That rule isn’t always the case. In grad school, I even had friends, engineering students, that used laptop/desktops, running Linux. I left grad school not too long ago Sciences: My daughter is currently a medical student at UCLA, so the wife and I are frequently there. Surface devices, rarely seen, Apple devices, all over the dang place. In fact, the iPad is recommended by her professors. They even have specific Apps for iOS. Wife, currently finishing her CRNA (Nurse Anethesist), her study groups/peers...Apple devices/MacBook/iPads, some cheap Windows laptops. I have rarely spotted a Surface. I’d definitely buy one ( I actually like the Surface Laptop), but only If I can easily install Linux, or Windows 10 LTSC.
    1 point
  44. Eve's next "Surface killer" will have two Thunderbolt 4 ports

    Spy beef, supposedly the products sell decently, however, I never see them around in my very tech savvy area. So who knows! Personally, Windows 10 is what keeps me from buying a Surface laptop. I refuse to use crappy software, on rumored good hardware. you don't ever see surfaces in your area? have you been to a university? it's typically macs for the arts and surfaces for the sciences
    1 point
  45. New tvOS beta hints at a new Apple TV 4K

    A new design of the remote would be welcomed.
    1 point
  46. Vaio announces a Comet Lake laptop that weighs under two pounds

    I was under the impression that the Vaio line was dead...
    1 point
  47. Google Maps gets a new look and features on its 15th birthday

    I just applied the new update (iOS) a few minutes ago, and still have the old interface with 3 tabs at the bottom. All I got was the new icon.
    1 point
  48. New tvOS beta hints at a new Apple TV 4K

    It's truly terrible. We need tactile arrows.
    1 point
  49. New tvOS beta hints at a new Apple TV 4K

    I loathe the remote.
    1 point
  50. YouTube Music for Android gets lyrics integration

    I wish spotify would do this instead of "Behind the lyrics"
    1 point